Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S, for John Martin, New Jersey
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE New Jersey CONTENTS Martin I John S NUMBER
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1790

Virginia to Ohio

John Martin of Tyler Co in the State of Virginia who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Martin of the New Jersey line, for the term of one year

 Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 of August 1818 

Certificate of Pension issued the 5 of March and sent to A Birchead Tyler County, Virginia

 Arrears to 4th of March 1819               136.77
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 6 Sept 1819    120.00
                                                                  $256.77
 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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John Martin served one year 76 to 77 as appears by roll-
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Virginia Tyler County Court August Term 1818 

Be it remembered that on this 10th day of August 1818 John Martin of said County appeared in Court and made the following declaration on oath, in pursuance of the act of Congress passed allowing pensions to officers & soldiers in the Revolutionary war, who die in indigent circumstances, the said John Martin aged Seventy seven years on oath states that he was Lieutenant in the Continental Army in the year 1776, that he acted as a Lieutenant for two & gave in the regular service, that he was a Lieutenant in Capt William Bond's Company, a part of Col. Martin's regiment of New Jersey that he was in the Battle of Strawberry Hill, Brandywine, Ash Shamp, that he was regularly discharged in the year 1778 owing to debility that from time accident all the evidence's which he had in relation to his commission & service are lost, that the stands in need of the aid of Government for his support. It is also further certified that it appears to the Court for satisfactory evidence adduced that the said Martin is in indigent circumstances stands in need of the aid assistance of the Government for his  support. It is further certified to the will department copy Teste R.S. Birchhead C.T.C. Abraham Birchhead Clerk of the County Court of Tyler do hereby certify that it is a true Copy from the record in my office & further that I have not been furnished with a seal for my office in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 13th day of August 1818  A.S. Bickhead ℗
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John Martin Pensioner 7190
 5 March '19 
Rolls 23 Nov 76 per year 1 Nov 77- LC 11 mo 22 days

Co
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Placed at Athens in the County of Athens and State of Ohio, on the 23 day of October A.D. 1820 before the Honorable Osborn Esquire President, Ebenezer Currier, Silvanus Ames & Robt Linze Esquire his Associates Judges of our said Court of Com: Pleas

 John C. Martin, Pensioner 

District of Ohio, Athens County ss. On this 23d day of October 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for the said district, John Martin, aged eighty one years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said John Martin in the autumn of the year 1776 was appointed, commission and served First Lieutenant in the Company commanded by William Bond in the 4th Jersey Regiment commanded by Ephraim Martin, which was enlisted for 5 months, that after the expiration of the said 5 months the same regiment enlisted during the clear, and actually served as Lieutenant in said regiment and company from the autumn of 1776 aforesaid regularly & continually for nearly two years, to wit, until the Autumn of 1778 when he was obliged to leave the service in consequence of extreme ill health, and received a honorary certificate of discharge under the hand of General Washington which has since been lost by accident, that his said discharge was in the State of Pennsylvania near the Brandywine, That he was in the Battle at the Short Hills in New Jersey, in the Battles of Brandywine and Germantown, also in the Battle of Long Island during the 5 months service aforesaid, of which facts he has not now in his power any evidence except what he has previously exhibited to the Clerk Department.
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that in pursuance of the act of the 1st July 1820 do solemnly swear that was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or received contracts or debts due to me nor have any income other than what is contained in the hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

Schedule of the property of John Martin , one bed sheet, one bed, two pillows, one pair of [shifts-illegible], 2 sheets, one blanket, one covet, two quilts, two sheep. Debts due to no one. From  my age and infirmities I am utterly incapable of labour and have been so for more than four years. I have no property real or personal except what is above mentioned. I have no family but live with my daughter widow who assists me together with my other children who are all married and lived from me more than sixteen years, and I have no means of support except from the kindness of my children who have all large families and are unable to support me without distressing themselves.

John Martin
Sworn to and declared in open Court on the 23rd day of October AD 1820
 H. Bartlett, Clerk
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The State of Ohio Athens County ss. 
I Henry Bartlett, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Athens, County Ohio, Do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records of said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is twenty dollars.

 In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of our said Court at Athens aforesaidthis  4th day of November A.D. 1820 Henry Bartlett Clerk of Athens Com: Pleas
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Ephraim Martin (aged 62 years) of the County of Athens, Ohio being duly sworn, according to law, deposeth and saith that he is a son of John Martin, late a revolutionary pensioner and now about to apply to be [an] instated on the pension list; that the said John Martin his father, is very old & infirm utterly unable to procure any business or labour for his part & is destitute of property of any kind except his clothing and a bed; that he resides with a daughter, sister of this affiant. This affiant further says, that about twelve years ago, his father, then residing in Virginia had tract of 70 or so acres of land, on which he then resided, and being aged & infirm without a family except his wife, this affiants mother, (since dead) agreed with James Martin, a grandson of his, son of the above mentioned daughter, then a minor to live with & serve the said John his grandfather in consideration of which he the said John Martin, proposed & agreed with the said James to give him the said land, to be conveyed when the said James should arrive at full age or should be married. That the said James did in pursuance of the said agreement, live with and serve his grandfather, from the making of the said agreement, for many years and until, in 1820, near his majority, he was married that the said James being desirous of exchanging the said land for land in Ohio, his grandfather, for his (the said James') benefit, sold the land in Virginia, and purchased in 1816, in his own name, (the said James then still being a minor, a quarter of section in the County of Athens, Ohio, for the said James, in lieu of the a land, & with the understanding & agreement that the same should be conveyed to the said James accordingly, in pursuance of said original agreement. That the said land in Va was always after the said agreement & the said James going to live with his grandfather, said John Martin understood to be and known by the sons of said John as the land of the said James, in consideration of his services to the said John and the the sale thereof and the purchase in Ohio, was made at the request of the said James. That the mother of said James having been abandoned by her husband, & left destitute, the


Veteran's Service: New Jersey.
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...the said John Martin, at the instance & request of with the absence (sp.) of the said James, agreed to convey 60 acres of the said qtr. section to the mother of said James, or to someone in trust for her, [crossed out: to preside] instead of conveying to said James, to provide for the support of herself & family. That although the contract with said James was made long prior to the passage of the pension law & the purchase, in Ohio in 1816, the conveyance was delayed by his minority & by accidental causes till [crossed out: some time after the marriage of the said James (illegible)] the year 1826, after his, the said James' marriage.

That in fulfilment of the above mentioned agreements the said John Martin on the 30th August 1820, by deed of that date conveyed to said James Martin one hundred & one acres of the said qty. section in Althens Co.; and by deed of the same date conveyed to Samuel Martin, (a son of this affiant) the remaining 60 acres, in trust, as was understood & agreed, for Susannah Wilson, the daughter of said John Martin & sister of this affiant, before mentioned, to secure the same against the claims & debts of her husband who had several years before left her; but the trust appears not to have been exprop(riated) in the deed, from the want of skill in conveyancing, as this affiant supposes, of the person who drew the deed.

This affiant having resided near his father, during all the period before referred to, & is & has been fully acquainted with the aforesaid facts & agreements, and does know, that the Virginia land aforesaid, was, by his father, for several years prior to the passage of the revolutionary pension law, treated not as his in fact but on the land of the said James; and that the purchase in Ohio, in 1816, was made, as aforesaid, for the said James, & was conveyed to him, and the 60 acres at his instance & request for the use [crossed out: of his father's] mother, as aforesaid, in good faith in pursuance
of the aforesaid agreements, and was not, therefore, as this affiant fully believes, mentioned in his father's application for a pension.

This affiant further says that he has not, nor ever had, any interest or claim whatsoever in or to the said lands, or any part thereof...
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...[duplicate: thereof], nor a right to any advantage or benefit to be derived thirty or therefrom. This affiant thinks proper to add, that his father, the said John Martin, is a man of temperate habits.
s/ Ephraim Martin

Court of Com. Pleas
Athens County
District of Ohio//

This 15th day of July A.D. 1823 personally appeared in open court, Ephraim Martin, who was duly sworn to the truth of the facts stated in the within deposition.
s/ Henry Bartlett Clk
Athens Com: Pleas
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July 22, 1935.

BA-J/ILL
C
John Martin
Ctf. [crossed out: 7090] 7190 - Rev. War.

B. L. Walden
Box 234
Athens, Ohio

Dear Madam:

The data furnished herein regarding John Martin are found in the papers on file in his claim for pension on which certificate #7190 was issued, on account of his service in the Revolutionary War.

John Martin enlisted, date not stated, served five months in the New Jersey militia in 1776, was in the battle of Long Island, was commissioned in the fall of that year, Lieutenant of Captain William Bond's company, Colonel Ephraim Martin's 4" New Jersey regiment, was in the battles of Strawberry Hill, Ash Swamp, Short Hills, Brandywine and Germantown and, because of illness, resigned in the fall of 1778. No relationship between John Martin and Colonel Ephraim Martin was stated.

John Martin was allowed pension on his application executed August 10, 1818, at which time he resided in Tyler County, Virginia; he was then aged about seventy-seven years, date and place of his birth and names of his parents not shown.

In 1820, the soldier was living in Athens County, Ohio, with his daughter, a widow, and referred to other children, all married and who had been living far from him for more than sixteen years, all with large families; he gave no names. In 1823, he was living in Athens County, Ohio, with his daughter, Susannah Wilson; his wife had died since 1811, her name not stated...
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...In 1823, Ephraim Martin, soldier's son, was aged sixty-two years and was a resident of Athens County, Ohio.

Two grandsons of the soldier were named Samuel Martin, son of Ephraim, and James Martin. Samuel was living in Athens County, Ohio, in 1823, no other members of Ephraim Martin's family referred to. James was the son of Susannah Wilson named above, whose husband had abandoned her, and James went to live with his grandfather, the soldier, in 1811 in Virginia, and in 1820, he married; the name of his wife is not shown. James lived later in Athens County, Ohio.

John Martin died May 14, 1837.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.

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Veteran's Administration
Washington, D.C.
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Veteran's Administration
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs,

Will you please send me what data you have on the life and family of the following Revolutionary pensioners:

1. Jeremiah Burnham, died about 1838.
Probably served with Mass(achusetts) reg(iment). Lived in Athens Co. O(hio) in 1820.

2. John Martin . 1st Lieut(enant), in 4th (New) Jersey reg(iment). (Col. Ephraim Martin's reg(iment)). Lived in Tyler Co., Va., & Athens Co., O(hio) 

B.L. Walden
Box 234
Athens, Ohio
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July 22, 1935

BA-J/AWF

B.L. Walden
Athens, Box 234
Ohio

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for the records of the following Revolutionary War pensioners: Jeremiah Burnham, probably served with Massachusetts troops, lived in Athens County, Ohio, in 1820 and died about 1838, and John Martin, 1st Lieutenant in 4th New Jersey regiment, lived in Tyler County, Virginia and in Athens County, Ohio.

The Revolutionary War records of Jeremiah Burnham and John Martin, are furnished herewith.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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July 24, 1933.

BA-J/ILL
John Martin
Ctf.7190 - Rev. War.

Mrs. George S. Dudley
178 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the records of William Parker and John Martin, who served from New Jersey, in the Revolutionary War.

A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office fails to show a claim for pension or bounty land on file made to the United States based upon service of a William Parker who served from New Jersey or applied for pension while a resident of that state.

The record of John Martin is given below as found in the papers on file in his pension claim on which certificate #7190 was issued.

John Martin enlisted (date not stated), served five months in the New Jersey militia in 1776, was in the Battle of Long Island, was commissioned in the fall of that year, Lieutenant of Captain William Bond's company, Colonel Ephraim Martin's 4" New Jersey regiment, was in the battles of "Strawberry Hill", "Ash Swamp", Short Hills, Brandywine and Germantown and, because of illness, resigned in the fall of 1778. No relationship of John Martin to Colonel Ephraim Martin is stated.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 10, 1818, at which time he resided in Tyler County, Virginia; he was then about seventy-seven years of age, the date and place of his birth and names of his parents not shown.

In 1820, the soldier was living in Athens County, Ohio, with his daughter, a widow, and referred to his other children, all married and who had been living far from him for more than sixteen years, all with large families; he gave no names. In 1823, he was living in Athens County, Ohio,...
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...with his daughter, Susannah Wilson; his wife had died since 1811, her name not stated.

In 1823, Ephraim Martin, soldier's son, was aged sixty-two years and a resident of Athens County, Ohio.

Two grandsons of the soldier are named, Samuel Martin, son of Ephraim, and James Martin. Samuel was living in Athens County, Ohio, in 1823, no other members of Ephraim Martin's family referred to. James, was the son of Susannah Wilson named above, whose husband had abandoned her, and James went to live with his grandfather, the soldier, in 1811 in Virginia, and in 1820, he married; the name of his wife is not shown; he lived later in Athens County, Ohio.

John Martin died May 14, 1837.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.

Mrs. Finch read & arranged the family data.
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Adjutant General
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Please send me the Rev(olutionary) War record of John Martin, (only Lieut(entant) N.J.) First Lieut(enant) 4th Battalion of Monmouth Co., N.J. and of
William Parker of Monmouth Co. N.J. He was a private in Forman Reg(iment)

Thanking you, I am yours truly,
s/ Mrs. Geo. F. Dudley
178 Livingston Avenue
New Brunswick, N.J.

June 17, 1933.
Was advised to send this to Director of Pensions and here it is.
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Athens, O(hio)
May, 1.

T.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City

1818
  77
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1741

1823
  84
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This is to inform your Excellency that John Martin, a pensioner under the Revolutionary claim of Athens County, State of Ohio, did in the month of August or September in the year 1820 convey to James Martin one hundred acres of second rate land with improvement thereon, also sixty acres second rate land with improvement thereon unto Samuel Martin, all which land lies in the County & State aforesaid as appears by the official records of said County. The reasons for thus conveying away his property at particular time may easily be conceived.

The conveyance to James Martin is boldly said to be in pursuance of a promise made some years past if this is to be an excuse might not every person who served in the Revolution become a pensioner and government be grossly imposed upon which no doubt it is by hundreds and when detected ought they not to be made examples of?

My motive for concealing my name will easily be perceived.
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Washington City, Dec. 9th 1823

Honorable John C. Calhoun

Sir, 

John Martin, an applicant to be restored to the Pension List, has forewarned to me the enclosed papers for presentation at the office. You will please examine these papers and should the application be granted, I will thank you to forward the certificate to me for enclosure to the application, but if denied, please return me the papers with the reasons of their rejection.

I have the honor to be for(ever) yours & s(ervent),
s/ Sam'l F. Vinka
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Washington City, Dec. 13th 1824

Sir, 

On the 9th day of December 1823 I forwarded to the Secretary of War the claim of John Martin to be restored to the Pension List. On the 13th of the same month of received a note from you stating that the Secretary of War would examine the claim, as soon as his other vocations would permit and that the result would be reported to me.

I am unable to find any subsequent communication from the department, and if any has been received it has escaped my recollection and been mislaid. I will thank you to inform me on the receipt of this whether his claim has been allowed. 

Your early attention to this subject will confer a favor on me.

Yours res(pectfully),
s/ Sam'l F. Vinka
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Suspended. See Caveat within and letters to pensioner and agent, 12 Mar: 1823.
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Suspended pensioner Dec. 21, 1824. See letter to pensioner care of A. Vinton, House of Rep(resentatives)
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Ohio
John Martin, Private, served 1 year from 1777.

1st schedule dated 23rd Oct 1820.
2 sheep & bed & bedding $20.

Schedule under Act 1st March 1823, dated 15th July 1823.
Has property except bed & bedding, the two sheep mentioned in 1st schedule, destroyed by wolves.

Claimant states, that about 2 years ago when residing in Virginia, he had 70 or 80 acres of lands and being old & infirm & having no children living with him, he proposed to & agreed with his grandson James Martin, then a minor to live with and serve him and that he would give him the land when he should arrive of age or become married. That said James lived with claimant until 1820, when he was married. Claimant sold said land in 1816, at the request of his grandson who wished to have land in Ohio instead of it, and purchased a section in that state for his grandson, though (sp.) in claimant's name the grandson being still a minor, but that it was always held as the land of his grandson being before claimant had any knowledge of the Pension Law after the purchase said grandson wished him instead of conveying the whole of the land to him, to convey 60 acres then of to and for the use of his mother who had been abandoned by her husband and accordingly 60 acres were conveyed to Samuel Martin in trust for the benefit of claimant's daughter and 101 acres to said James Martin. Claimant states that although he had till then held the legal title of said land he had for a long time considered it as belonging to his grandson as he had the land some time before it was sold and therefore did not mention it in his schedule in 1820 as he was informed that it was unnecessary to do so. The above statement is corroborated by affidavit of Ephraim Martin. 

A caveat has been exhibited against claimant and filed within giving a statement of the conveyance of the above land to his grand children.

Claimant aged 84, infirm.

Suspension removed. See letter to John Martin care of Hon. Sam'l F. King, H.R.
Dec. 24, 1824
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Deposition of Francis Thomas

1820
  81
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...Pleas at Athens in the County of Athens and State of Ohio on the 14th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty three before the honorable Ezra Osborn, Esquire, President of our Court of Common Pleas of said County & Robert Linzee, Sylvanus Ames & Ebenezer Currier, Esquires, his associates.

John Martin

Be it remembered that on the 13th day of July A D 1823, John Martin personally appeared in open Court & filed his declaration, which reads in the words &
figures following to wit: "Declaration of John Martin (late of the County of Tyler, Va., now of the County of Athens, Ohio) in order to be restored to the pension list, under the Act of the 1st of March, 1823.

State of Ohio
Athens County//
Court of Common Pleas

On this 13th day of July 1823 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record (by express provision of the Constitution & laws of said State) for the said County, John Martin, resident in said County, aged Eighty four years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of the 18th March 1818, the 1st of May 1820 & the 1st of March 1823: That he, the said John Martin, was commissioned a First Lieutenant for the duration of the war (having previously served several months in the Militia) early in the year 1777, in the State of New Jersey in the company commanded by Captain William Bond in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ephraim Martin in the line of the State of New Jersey, on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the corps until the fall of 1778, when (in consequence of sickness) he resigned & was discharged from the said service near the Brandywine (River) in Pennsylvania.

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th of March Eighteen Hundred & Eighteen, and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminished as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th March 1818. And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me; nor have I any other income than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.

I have, at this time, no property of any description, other than my necessary clothing and a bed & bedding. That since the exhibition of my former schedule the following change has been made in my property: Viz, That two sheep, the only property contained therein & which I then had besides my clothing (sp.) & bed have been destroyed by wolves. About twelve years ago, when I resided in Virginia, I had 70 or 80 acres of Land in the now County of Tyler, in that State, and being old & infirm & having no children living with me, I proposed to & agreed with my grandson, James Martin, then a minor, a young lad, to live with & serve me, & that I would give him that land when he should arrive at full age, or be married; accordingly the said James did then commence living with & serving me, & continued so to do until the year 1820 when he was married. The said land in Virginia about the year 1816, I sold at the request of my said Grandson, who wished to have land in Ohio instead of it, some of his uncles being about to remove there, and purchased a quarter section in Athens County, Ohio for my said grandson, though (sp.) in my name, he being then still a minor, but I always held it as the land of my said grandson, and that long before I had any knowledge of the Law for giving pensions to Revolutionary officers & soldiers; and considered myself bound to convey it to him, in consideration of his services under the said agreement...
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...[duplicate: agreement]. After the purchase of the said qtr. sect(ion) in Ohio, my grandson wished me, instead of conveying the whole to him, to convey 60 acres thereof to or for the use of his mother, who had been abandoned by her husband; and in pursuance of the aforesaid agreement with the said James, and of his last mentioned request or agreement, I conveyed to the said James on the 30th August 1820 One Hundred & One Acres of said land or qtr. section, and to Samuel Martin, another grandson of mine, the remainder, about 60 acres, in trust & for the benefit of my daughter, Susannah Wilson (the mother of said James) as was understood & agreed: but although (sp.) I tell them held the legal title of said land, I had for a long time before regarded & treated it as the land of my said grandson James, as I did that in Virginia before it was sold; and therefore did not mention it in my application for a pension
or in my schedule in 1820; as I was informed & advised it was immaterial and unnecessary, the land being really my grandson's or subject to his disposal.

I have no family. I live with my daughter before mentioned. I am in consequence of age & infirmity utterly unable to labor or attend to any business for my support. My occupation has been that of farmer; but now it is with great difficulty that I am able to attend to make this declaration.
s/ John Martin

Sworn to & subscribed in open Court this 15th day of July A.D. 1823.
s/ Henry Bartlett, Clk.

The State of Ohio
Athens County//

I, Henry Bartlett, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County, Ohio, do hereby certify that [crossed out: the] it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said John Martin did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the within declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental service. I also certify that the within & foregoing oath and statements are truly copied from the records of said Court.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of our said Court at Athens in said County this 16th day of August, Anno Domini 1823.
s/ Henry Bartlett, Clk.
Athens Com(mon) Pleas (Court)

John Martin's Declaration
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November 5th 1823

State of Ohio
Athens County//

The deposition of Francis Thomas, who being duly sworn and of full age, deposeth and saith, that he has been well acquainted with the character & conduct
generally of John Martin, late of Virginia (& formerly a lieutenant in the army of the Revolution) for Twenty three years last past, Three years of which time I lived at a distance of ten miles from him, the said John Martin, & during the whole of the aforesaid Twenty three years he has, as far as has come to my knowledge, born the character of a good, honest & working citizen. And further this deponent saith not.
s/ Francis Thomas

Sworn to & subscribed before me this day & date above.
s/ Sam Baker, Justice of the Peace

State of Ohio
Athens County//

I, Henry Bartlett, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County, Ohio, do hereby certify that James Baker, Esq., before whom the above deposition appears to have been taken, was at the time of taking the same, one of our acting Justices of the Peace, duly commissioned and qualified, acting under the authority of this State.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand & affix the seal of our said Court, at Athens, this 28th day of Nov. A.D. 1823.
s/ Henry Bartlett, Clk.
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Sir,

Feeling it my duty as a citizen, I inform you that John Martin of Athens County, State of Ohio, who is drawing a pension has taken fraudulent measures to claim it in conveying 160 acres of 2nd rate land to two of his grandsons, which land he was in possession of at the time of the passage of the late pension act & which other property given away for the same purpose.

s/ a citizen