Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1629, for Joseph P Martin, Connecticut
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Service
Conn. Continental
Martin, Joseph P.
Nr. 1629
Lucy
B.L.Nt 13.410-100 April 20 1797 (no papers)
B. L. Nt 209-60-55
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9881
Maine
Jos. P. Martin
of     in the state of
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Chandler of the Connecticut 
line, for the term of 6 yrs
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 7 of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of April 1819
and sent to Com Crosby
Belfast ME
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 87.43
Semi-anl all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 48 --
10 Mo 24  4
            30   30     $135.43
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818
continued
Duplicate certificate
[    ] 30 April 1829 and 
sent to W. Crosby Esq
Belfast, Maine.
Papers copd for Land Apt [ ] Maine,
by Mr Orme, Apl 21 1839
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L. W Nichols, Col. 25/51
673
Maine
Lucy Martin
widow of Joseph P. Martin
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private
Ct or Mass Line
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
96 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence on the 
2nd day of May 1850
Certificate of Pension issued the
12th day of October 1850
and sent to 
W. H. Bradbury Esq
Belfast, 
Maine
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
July 29, 1848, Page 6 Vol. A July 29
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155,096 Act May 2 55
June 7 55
Lucy Martin Widow
of Joseph P. Martin pri
Private Col Chandler
CT Line Sappers I Miners

Revolutionary Pensioner

Me July 48-673
Ad 60 ac's Apl 2/56
Dodge
R
Cyrus True Esp
Searsport
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Jos. P. Martin - private
Co. Chandlers Regt. Conn
Line 1777 to 1783 dec: 7th Apr
1818
War Roll

Admitted
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I Joseph P. Martin of Prospect in the county of
Hancock and Destrict of Maine on oath say and declare that I am a natural citizen of the United
States and that I served more than nine months
in the late revolutionary war as a private
and noncommissioned officer.
That on the 22nd day of April 1777 I
enlisted as a private during the war and was
embodied at Pecks Hill in Capt David Smiths
comp in Col. Chandlers Reg in the Connecticut line  and this Reg was often [   ] and commanded by Col. Bushnell, after whose death I was
commanded by Col. Sherman
I served in said
comy untill some time in the summer  following when i was transferred into a comy of Sappers and Miners attached to the [     ] department
and served in said comy till June 1783.
When I was honorably discharged at West
Point - I was at the Battle of Monmouth and
at the takeing of Cornwallis
I am 59 years old I have a large family of children - due to wherein must be elinsable to me for life Law in reduced circumstances
and stand in need of the assistance of my
country for my support.
Joseph P. Martin
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Commonwealth of Massuachusetts.
HANCOCK, ss.
On the seventh day of April A. D. 1818,
before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Third Eastern Circuit, of the Court of
Common Pleas, in said Commonwealth, including the Counties of Hancock, Washington
and Penobscot: Personally appeared Joseph P. Martin
who, being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath made the statement and
declaration by him subscribed, and hereto annexed, in order to obtain the provision made
by the late 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."
And thereupon, I the said Judge do certify that I am satisfied the said Joseph
P. Martin did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in his said declaration
, against the common enemy, and that he has made it appear to me, that he is in reduced
circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Which proceedings and the testimony annexed, being all he has been able to produce,
I now transmit to the Secretary, for the department of War, pursuant to the directions of
the aforementioned act of Congress.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and caused the seal of said Court
to be hereto affixed by Mason Shaw Esquire, Clerk of said
Court for said County of Hancock.
William Crosby Judge
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We, the subscribers, do hereby certify, that Joseph P. Martin of the town of Prospect, who served in the late Revolutionary war, is in reduced circumstances, and stands in absolute need of the assistance of his country for support.
Prospect May 22d, 1818
Jona Dow
Andrew Leach Jr. Selectmen of said Prospect

John Clifford
James Blanchard
Paul Hichborn
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Joseph P. Martin 
9881
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State of Maine
Hancock
On this 7th day of July 1820 Personally appeared before me WIlliam Crosby one of the Judges of the third Eastern Circuit Court of Common Pleas including the Counties of Hancock, Washington and Penobscot being a 
court of record by the laws of said state, with power of fine and imprisonment Joseph P. Martin aged 60 years, resident in Prospect in said county of Hancock, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that be served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit: 
During the war from April 1777 was first embodied in Capt David Smiths company in Colonel Chandlers Regiment in the Connecticut line as a private corporal and Sergeant -
of all which I made declaration before the Honorable William Crosby, on the seventh day of April 1818, and have received my pension certificate therefor, No. 9881 and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen in the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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 income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, ad by me subscribed.
Joseph P. Martin
Sworn to and declared on the seventh day of July 1820 before 
Wm Crosby a Judge of said Court -
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Sworn to and declared on the seventh day of July 1820 before Wm Crosby a Judge of said Court -
(Schedule) I Joseph P. Martin on oath say and declare that I have no real nor personal estate nor any income whatever, necessary bedding and wearing apparel excepted - Except two cows- cis Sheep - one pig - I am a labourer but by reason of age and infirmity I am unable to work - My wife is sickly and rheumatic - I have five Children viz.
Joseph aged 19 an Idiot from birth
Thomas and Nathan 15 twins
James Sullivan 8
Susan 6 - Without my pension I am unable to support myself and family -
Joseph P. Martin
State of Maine
Hancock, third Eastern Circuit Court of Common Pleas July [    ] 1820
I, MASON SHAW, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Third Eastern Circuit, in the County of Hancock and State of Maine, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the 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 fifty two dollars and --- cents.  
Done in open court
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty fifth day of July A.D. 1820.
Mason Shaw Clerk
of the said Court for the County of Hancock.
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Lucy Martin
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 29th July 1848 -
State of Maine - On this third day of September A.D. 1850, personally appeared before the Hon. Joseph Miller Judge of Probate for the County of Waldo - Lucy Martin aged seventy four years who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July 29, 1848, on account of the services of her late husband Joseph P. Martin, who was a private and sergeant in Capt Bushnell's Co. of Sapper and Miners.  She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph P. Martin on the twenty second day of May in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety four; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the 1st of January 1800.  viz at the time above stated.  She further swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a  pension - She refers to the evidence on file with pension office of the services of her late husband who was a pensioner and died on the second day of May 1850.
Lucy Martin
Sworn and subscribed before me, 
Joseph Miller
Judge of Probate
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State of Maine
I Charles Palmer Register of Probate for the County of Waldo certify that Joseph Miller of Judge of said Court, and that he foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed by Seal of Office and subscribed mu name this third day of September 1850 -
Charles Palmer
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155,096
Lucy Martin
Revolutionary War
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State of Maine
Waldo County S.S.
On this twenty seventh day of March A.D> 1855, before me Cyrus True, a Justice of the Peace, duly authorized by law to administer oathes within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Lucy Martin, aged seventy nine years, a resident of Prospect, Waldo County, State of Maine, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the identical Lucy Martin to whom, under the provisions of the Act of February 2d A.D. 1848 a pension of ninety six dollars per annum has been allowed for the services of her late husband Joseph P. Martin, a Private of the Revolutionary War, and late of said Prospect in the County and State aforesaid.  She further states that her pension certificate under the aforesaid Act of February 2d A.D. 1848, is numbered 673, bears date of the twelfth day of October A.D. 1850 and is made payable at the State of Maine Agency at Portland.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land to which she may be entitled under the Act of March 3rd 1855, never having received or made application for Bounty Land under any previous Act of Congress.  In evidence of her marriage and proof of service of her said husband, she respectfully refers to the proof heretofore adduced, now on file in the Pension Office, and upon which her annuity as aforesaid was granted.  That, since being placed on the list of Revolutionary Pensioners, she has not intermarried, but continues the widow of the said Joseph P. Martin.
Lucy Martin
Sworn to and subscribed before me, the day and year first above written, and I hereby certify that I know the said Lucy Martin to be the identical person she alleges herself to be - a pensioner of the United States, and at the date of the execution of this declaration a widow, and that I am not interested in this claim.
Cyrus True, Just. of the Peace
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State of Maine,
Waldo County S.S.
On this twenty seventh day of March A.D. 1855, before me, Cyrus True, a Justice of the Peace, authorized by law to administer oaths within and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Susan M. Greene and Ira Blanchard, residents of Prospect, County of Waldo in the State of Maine, known to me as credible persons, who made oath in due form of law that Lucy Martin, who in their presence has sworn and subscribed to the foregoing declaration, is, to their personal knowledge, the identical person to whom, under the provisions of the Act of February A.D. 1848,  a pension of ninety six dollars per annum has been granted for the services of her late husband Joseph P. Martin deceased, a Private of the Revolutionary war. That since being placed on the roll of Pensioners, the said Lucy Martin has not intermarried, bur remains, and now is, a widow, that they have known her and her said husband, have lived near neighbors to them, and been intimately acquainted with them, for more than thirty years.  They further declare that they are disinterested witnesses.
Ira Blanchard
Susan M Greene
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written, and I certify that the above named Susan M Green and Ira Blanchard are well known to me, and that they are persons entitled to full faith and credit.
Cyrus True, Justice of the Peace
State of Maine Waldo County S.S.
I Nathaniel Patterson Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine for the County of Waldo, do hereby certify that Cyrus True, whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing certificates of Attestation was at the time of the dates of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid in said State, duly commissioned and qualified.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court this 29th day of March A>D> 1855.
N. Patterson Clerk
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Extract from the records of the town of Prospect, Maine:
"This may certify that Mr Joseph P Martin and Miss Lucy Clewley has been legally published, both of this town -
My Joseph Bray Town Clerk Prospect May 21 seventeen hundred and ninety four"
"This day the above named Joseph P. Martin and Lucy Clewley were married by me Benje Shute Justice of the Peace Prospect May 22d Seventeen hundred ninety four"
I certify that the above is a true copy of the records with the exception of the day, which is expressed with the record in fair legible figures as follows:
Prospect May 21 1794
"This may certify that Mr. Joseph P. Martin & Miss Lucy Clewley has been legally published, both of this town.  By Joseph Bray, Town Clerk
Prospect May 22, 1794.
"This day the above named Joseph P. Martin and Lucy Clewley were married by me Benj. Shute Justice of the Peace"
Jotham F. Shute
I Jotham F Shute Clerk of Prospect above named, depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Prospect for the County in the county of Waldo and State aforesaid, that the above is
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a true extract from the records of said town, with the exception above named, as certified by me Jetham F Shute Clerk of Prospect
Waldo Sept 3 1850
Sworn to before me N A Bradbury
Justice

State of Maine.
I Nathaniel Patterson Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Waldo, certify that Nathl. H Bradbury is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this third day of Sept 1850.
N. Patterson
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September 8, 1933

Mr. De Lacey Allen
230 Pine Street
Albany, Georgia

JOSEPH P. MARTIN
W. 1629
BA-J/MMHF:MLB
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter of August 4, in which you
designate the soldier of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812,
whose record you desire, as Joseph P. Martin.
Revolutionary War and War of 1812 data furnished by this
office are obtained from claims for pension and bounty land
which have been made to the United States based upon service in
those wars.
The records of both wars have been searched in your behalf.
The record of one Joseph P. Martin, of Massachusetts, has been
found, who served in the Revolutionary War, for which service
pension and bounty land were granted that soldier, also, his
widow. There is no record of his service in the War of 1812, in
this office. There is no provision of law under which descendants
of soldiers of those two wars are entitled to pension or bounty
land based upon service in either war.
The Revolutionary War record of Joseph P. Martin is given
below as found in claims for pension and bounty land based upon
his service in that war.
JOSEPH P. MARTIN
W. 1629
Joseph P. Martin was a native of this country, the place and
date of his birth not shown, nor are the names of his parents given.
Joseph P. Martin enlisted April 22, 1777, served as private
in Captain David Smith's company, Colonel John Chandler's
Connecticut regiment, served until sometime in 1777 or 1778, when

Did not use Captain Sanford
and Burbank; only stated by wid.
I could not verify what she
said, but found the rest OK
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he was transferred to the corps of Sappers and Miners, served as
corporal and sergeant in Captain David Bushnell's company, Colonel
Gouvion's regiment, was in the battle of Monmouth, the taking of
Cornwallis, and was discharged in June, 1783.

This soldier was allowed pension on his application executed
April 7, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-nine years and a
resident of Prospect, Hancock County, Massachusetts (Maine), in
which state he had resided for more than twenty years; he was
formerly of Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. He was granted
one hundred acres of bounty land, also, for service in the
Revolutionary War. He died May 2, 1850, in Prospect, Waldo
County, Maine.
Joseph P. Martin married May 22, 1794, in Prospect, Massachusetts
, Miss Lucy Clewley, both then residents of said Prospect.
Soldier's widow, Lucy Martin, was allowed pension on her
her application executed September 3, 1850, at which time she was a
resident of Prospect, Waldo County, Maine. (Her age added, omitted before)  She applied March 27,
1855, for bounty land which was due on account of the service of
her husband in the Revolutionary War; she was then a resident of
Prospect, Waldo County, Maine. She was granted sixty acres.

Soldier had a large family of children, the names shown in
1820 were: Joseph, then aged nineteen years; Thomas and Nathan
(twins) aged fifteen years; James Sullivan, aged eight years;
Susan, aged six years.

In 1855, one Susan M. Greene, of Prospect, Maine, made
affidavit that she had been intimately acquainted with Lucy Martin,
soldier's widow, for more than thirty years, no relationship was
stated; no other family data are shown than are given herein.

Should you desire to obtain information in regard to the
location of the land granted for service of this soldier, you
should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, this
city, and cite the following data: Warrant No. 13410, for one
hundred acres of bounty land, issued April 20, 1797, and
Warrant No. 209, for sixty acres of bounty land, issued under the
Act of March 3, 1855.
Very truly yours
---
A. D. 
Assistant to Administrator
-2-
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
12 - 5 - 41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Martin, Joseph P. GRADE Private" in the LINE Sappers and Miners"
Warrant Number 13410
ACREAGE  100  ISSUED April 20, 1797
to Daniel Aaken, assignee
also, B.L. W K. 209.60-55
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are
registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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No 797.
Lucy Martin
widow of Joseph P.
Me.
Act 29.July 1848
Married before 1800
Husd died 2 May 1851
Admd $96 per annum
cam of 2 May 1851
N W Bradbury
Belfast Me
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209
60 acres
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Free
Ni Searsport Me
Sept 7 
Lucy Martin the 29 Jul
Hon. James E. Heath
Com. of Pensions
CIty of Washington 
D.C.
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36
42
432

1658.60
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Maine Roll, Act 18 March 1818
Joseph P Martin pri $8 per month
to what time last paid?
Sept 4, 1849
Pension Office
Cole
To The Auditors Office
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FREE
Revolutionary Claims
To the Hon the Secry of War of the United States
City of Washington
Pensions
Pension Office
21 March [    ]
Applications
new certificates
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State of Maine Co Waldo Belfast Man 12 1829
[  ]
the object of the written inclosures 
papers is [     ] Certificates
[     ] Pensioners were [  ]
to be sent as soon as may be [   ]
[    ]
Wm Crosbe
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FREE
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Belfast (Me) Sept 19, 1850
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I enclose the Declaration etc of Lucy Martin, widow of Joseph P. Martin for pension
Respectfully yours,
W. A. Bradbury
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Hon H Hamlin
U.S. Senate
June 28, 1850
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724
Pension Office
June 28, 1850
Sir
Agreeably to your request I have the honor to transmit the necessary instructions for the guidance of the widow of Joseph P Martin in making application for a pension on account of the Revolutionary services of her husband.  Mr Martin received a pension of $96 per annum, his widow will be allowed the same amount under the Act of 29 July 1848.  The letter of N. G. Hickbone Esq. is herewith returned.

Hon. H. Hamlin
U. S. Senate
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1551096
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Searsport, Maine Apr 9th /55
Hon. J.P. Waldo
Comm of Pensions
Sir
Inclosed are the applications of Benj Tarbell and Lucy Martin for Bounty Land, you will please cause the Land Warrants which may be granted them to be sent to me at Searsport, Maine
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Cyrus True
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COPY
October 25, 1851
Walter Nichols, Esq.,
North Searsport, Maine
Sir: I have examined the claim of Lucy Martin, widow
of Joseph P. Martin, for an increase of her stipend, on the ground, that the
said Joseph, in addition to his service as a private, of Infantry,
served from 1780, as a Sergeant of Sappers and Miners, in a company
commanded by Capt. Bushnel. There is no evidence of such service, either
among the papers filed in the case, or the Records of this office. The
only evidence of his service is found on the Roll of Col. Chandler's
Regt. and there his name is borne as a private, on which grade he appears
to have served until he was discharged. The claim for increase cannot
therefore be allowed, unless on the production of documentary evidence,
that service was rendered in a higher grade than that of a private.
( Niles )
John Wilson
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The certificate of Charles Pond relative to the service of Joseph P Martin in the revolutionary war taken and [  ] bu me
C H Pond Justice of Peace
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Connecticut
I Charles Pond of Milford, in the County of New Haven certify and declare that I am well acquainted with Joseph P Martin of Milford, but for twenty years past or more has resided in the State of Massachusetts that in the years 1777 and 1778 sd Martin served in the revolutionary war in Capt David Smith's Company and in Col John Chandlers Regiment further say not, Milford May 9th 1818.
Charles Pond, Capt
Late Col. R. I Meigs Regt

New Haven County Milford May 9th 1818 Personally appeared Charles Pond the subscriber of the above certificate and made oath to the truth of the same according to law before me
C H Pond Justice of the Peace
State of Connecticut
New Haven County Milford May 13th 1818
I hereby certify that Charles H Pond the Subscriber is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of New Haven aforesaid and resides in said Milford.
New Haven County Milford May 14 1818
David Ingersoll Notary Public
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MRS. RALPH H. CONANT
GENEALOGICAL RESEARCH
10 HIGH STREET
AUGUSTA, MAINE
Aug. 7, 1937.
[stamp] RECEIVED AUG 9 1937
Veterans Administration,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs;-

Please give me the Revolutionary War
record of Joseph P. Martin, d. May 2, 1850, a. 90 y
6 m. 19 ds. He is buried in the Sandy Point
Cemetery in Stockton, Maine.
I would also like any records you may have of
his family.
Thanking you for past favors I remain
Yours very truly,
Ethel Colby Conant
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DELACEY ALLEN
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
230 PINE STREET
ALBANY, GA.
August 4th, 1933.
Mr. A. D. Hiller,
Assistant to Administrator,
Veterans' Administration,
Washington, D. C.

Refer to: BA - J / MMHF: MLB
Dear Sir:
The party whom I wrote you about as being in the
War of 1812 was named Joseph P. Martin, born in Berkshire
County, Mass., November 21st, 1760. I am informed that
he enlisted in the Revolutionary War June, 1776, and was
discharged at West Point June 11, 1783. My informant
thinks his wife's name was Susan. Further that he saw
service in the War of 1812. If you can let me know if
this party has any land rights because of either of these
services kindly let me know.

Yours very truly,

DELACEY ALLEN.
DA:cb
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June 8, 1933
BA-J/MMHF:MLB
Mr. DeLacey Allen
Albany, Georgia
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter addressed to the War
Department, which has been transmitted to this office by the
Commissioner of the General Land Office for further reply
in regard to land and pension granted for military service
rendered in the War of 1812.
From the copy of letter to you under date of April 27, 1933,
from the Acting Assistant Commissioner of the General Land
Office, it is shown that the information you requested was
contained in that letter.
If you have in mind, however, some particular ancestor
of the War of 1812, whose record you desire, a search of the records
of this office will be made in your behalf and a report furnished,
if you will state his full name and all data you have as a means
of identification, such as approximate dates of birth and death,
places of residence at enlistment and after service and given
name of widow.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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1495142 "K" MKH
United States
Department of the Interior
General Land Office
Washington D. C.
[stamp] RECEIVED APR 29 1933

The attached communication has been 
received by the General Land Office and
is referred to answer to the Director of 
Pensions, Veterans Administration , and
the writer so [  ]
D.C. Parrot
Acting Assistant Commissioner

4.26.1933
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ADDRESS ONLY THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
GENERAL LAND OFFICE
WASHINGTON
APR 27 1933
IN REPLY PLEASE REFER TO
1495142 "K" MKH
Bounty land warrant.
Mr. De Lacey Allen,
Albany, Georgia.
My dear Sir:
Your letter of April 17, 1933, addressed to the
War Department, requesting information concerning money or
land bounties to soldiers of the War of 1812, has been
referred to this office for reply.
The act of Congress of December 24, 1811 ( 2 Stat.
669) entitled "An Act for completing the existing Military
Establishment, provided that noncommissioned officers and
soldiers of the War of 1812, when discharged, should have
160 acres of land and additional bounty in cash, such land
to be designated, surveyed, and laid off at the public expense
in such manner and upon such terms and conditions as might
be provided by law.
The act of May 6, 1812 (2 Stat. 728) set apart
6,000,000 acres of land in Michigan, Illinois and Louisiana
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Territories for the purpose of satisfying the bounties of
160 acres promised to said noncommissioned officers and soldiers
of the War of 1812 by the said act of December 24, 1811, as well as
by the act of January 11, 1812 (2 Stat. 671).
Numerous acts were subsequently passed providing
for the issuance and location of military bounty land warrants
on any public lands of the United States subject to appropriation. Such warrants were issued by the Commissioner of
Pensions, now Director of Pensions, Veterans' Administration,
this city. Therefore, your letter has been referred to that
official for further reply.
If you will advise him of the name of the particular
soldier in whom you are interested, and furnish all information
you possess relating to the services of that soldier and
the name of the State from which he enlisted, he may be
able to advise you whether or not a bounty land warrant issued
to such soldier.
If this office is advised of the number of a bounty
land warrant, the acreage involved and the act of Congress
under which the warrant was issued, a description of the land
on which such warrant was located can be furnished, if the
warrant was in fact located.
2
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Warrants cannot now be located on the public lands.
The locating privilege was denied except in the
State of Missouri after the passage of the act of March 2,
1889 ( 25 Stat. 854) and there are now no lands known to this
office to be subject to warrant location in Missouri.
A bounty land warrant may be used as cash to the
extent of its value at $1.25 per acre in commuted, homestead,
desert-land, timber and stone entries and for lands sold at
public auction, except ceded Indian lands, as explained in
inclosed circular No. 1151.
Very respectfully,
[signature illegible]
Acting Assistant Commissioner.
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Delacey Allen Commander
Charles H. Fuller Senior Vice Commander 
Louis A. Falligant Junior Vice Commander
Downtown Business Office
Room 210 Hotel Gordon
Phone 1470

1495142 [stamp]

Albany Post 30, American Legion
Department of Georgia
Regular Meeting [     ] Thursday Night
in[     ]rth
Albany, Georgia
Charles Ballour Adjutant
W.H.P. Purdin Senior Officer
J. Ed. Mercer Historian
Rev. J. A. Godfrey Chaplain
L. W. Smith Finance Officer
R. V. Cherry Sergeant at arms
Dr. Frank K. Neill Post Surgeon

Executive Committeemen
W. M. Wilder
Dr. R. L. Grace
J. W. Bush
Dr. B. E. Carlisle. Camilla
R. L. Heath, Leesburg
DeLacey Allen
C. H. Fuller
Louis A. Falligant
Charles Baddour
J. Ed. Mercer
J. A. Godfrey
L. W. Smith
Dr. Frank K. Neill
W. H  P. Purdin
R. V. Cherry

April 17th, 1933.
War Department,
Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I was asked to find out from you if there has been any award of money or allotment of land to the Soldiers of the War of 1812, and, if so, can the lineal descendants of one of these soldiers still secure either the money or the land if such allotments were ever made.
Thanking you for your attention to this matter, I am
Yours very truly,
DELACEY ALLEN.

[stamp] Administrative Assistant
Apr 19 1933
War Dept.

DA: cb
[stamp] Received A. G. O. Marp 19 1933
[stamp] RECEIVED Apr 20 1933 Old Records Divn.
[stamp] RECCEIVED Apr 22 1933 G. L. O.

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GWS-mvm-ord 
1st Ind.
War Department, A. G. O., April 21, 1933. - To the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Washington, D. C.
Attention is invited to the basic communication.  The writer had been informed of this reference.
James F McKinley
Brigadier General,
Acing The Adjutant General.
By: JW
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1933 Sept 8 Hist. to Mr DeLacey
Allen - MMHT on LB
1937 Aug 19 Hist. to Ethel C. Conant 
I did for MLB

Rev War
Widow &c.
File No. 1629
Lucy Martin
Widow
Joseph P. Martin.
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: July 29, 1848
Index: - Vol. M Page 1
[Arrangement of 1870]
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North Searsport, Maine
September 5th 1851
Sir,
I herewith transmit to you the Declaration of Lucy Martin Widow of Joseph P. Martin in order to obtain an increase of Pension under the Act of July 29 - 1848, her husband having served as a Sergeant in a Company of Sapers & Minors raised from the Army when stationed near West Point in 1780 to the close of the war.
For Further proof the script for 100 acres of Land was granted to Joseph P Martin for his services.
You will please to give her claim an examination and enclose the same to me
Yours Respectfully
Walter Nichols
Hon. James E. Heath 
Com. of Pensions
City of Washington
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August 19, 1937.
copied from MSB's list in her absence
BA-J/ILL
Joseph P. Martin
W. 1629

Ethel Colby Conant
10 High Street
Augusta, Maine.
Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War record of Joseph P. Martin, who died May 2, 1850 and
is buried in Sandy Point Cemetery, Stockton, Maine.

The data given herein were found in pension claim, W. 1629,
based upon service of Joseph P. Martin, cited above, in the Revolutionary War.
Joseph P. Martin was a native of this country, the date and
place of his birth and the names of his parents are not shown.

Joseph P. Martin enlisted April 22, 1777, served as private
in Captain David Smith's company, Colonel John Chandler's Connecticut
regiment until sometime in 1777 or 1778, when he was transferred to the
corps of Sappers and Miners, served as corporal and sergeant in Captain
David Bushnell's company, Colonel Gouvion's regiment, was in the battle of
Monmouth, at the taking of Cornwallis, and was discharged in June 1783.

Joseph P. Martin was allowed pension on his application executed April 7, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-nine years; he was
then a resident of Prospect, Hancock County, Massachusetts (later Maine),
in which state he had resided for more than twenty years, and was former
of Milford, New Haven County, Connecticut. He was granted one hundred
acres of bounty land also on account of his service in the Revolutionary
War.

The soldier died May 2, 1850, in Prospect, Waldo County, Maine.

Joseph P. Martin married May 22, 1794, in Prospect, Massachusetts,
Miss Lucy Clewley; both parties were then residents of said Prospect.

Lucy Martin, the soldier's widow, was allowed pension on her
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application executed September 3, 1850, at which time she resided
in Prospect, Maine. Lucy Martin was aged then seventy-five years;
the date and place of her birth and the names of her parents are
not shown. She applied March 27, 1855, for bounty land which was
due on account of the service of her husband, Joseph P. Martin, in
the Revolutionary War under the Act of March 3, 1855. She was
allowed 60 acres of bounty land on warrant #209.
Joseph P. Martin and his wife, Lucy, had a large family of
children, the names shown in 1820 were- Joseph, aged nineteen years,
Thomas and Nathan (twins) aged fifteen years, James Sullivan, aged
eight years, and Susan, aged six years.
In 1855, Susan M. Greene, of Prospect, Maine, stated that she
had been intimately acquainted with Lucy Martin and her husband, Joseph
P. Martin, and had been neighbors for more than thirty years. No
relationship between them was stated.
If you desire information in regard to the location of the bounty
land granted on account of service of Joseph P. Martin, you should
address the Commissioner, General Land Office, this city, and furnish
that official the following data: warrant #13410-100 cares, issued
April 20, 1797 and warrant #209-60 acres, Act of March 3, 1855.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of
person paid and, possibly, the date of death of Lucy Martin, you should
write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city,
and cite the following Lucy Martin, widow of Joseph P. Martin, certificate
#673, issued October 12, 1850, rate $95 per annum, commenced May 2,
1850, Act of July 29, 1848, Maine Agency.
Very truly yours,
GEORGE H. SHEET
Acting Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
2.
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Declaration
Lucy Martin
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State of Maine
County of Waldo
On this 18th day of August A.D. [no year] before me Walter Nichols, a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, personally appeared Lucy Martin, a resident of Prospect in said County aged seventy five years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the arrears of a Pension due her in right of Joseph P. Martin, that she is the widow of Joseph P. Martin, who was a Private in the Continental Line and a Sergeant in a Company of Sapers & Minors in the Revolutionary War.  She further declares that she has good reason to believe that the said Joseph P. Martin enlisted in the Revolutionary service in Sept. 1777 as a Private "for during the War" and served in Capt. Sanford's Co in one of the Conn. Regts of the Continental Line until the Summer of 1780 when he was transfered to one of the Three Companies of Sappers & Minors raised from the Regular Army at or near West Point and served in one of said Companies, Commanded by Capt. Bushnell, as a sergeant from about the month of July 1780 to the close of the war.
She further testifies that the said Joseph P. Martin was pensioned on the 26th day of April A.D. 1819 as a Private at $96 per annum, that he was entitled to a Pension as a Sergeant under the Act of June 7th 1832 to the pay of a Sargeant from March 4th 1831 to May 2d, 1850, the day on which he died  (over)
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She further testifies that she was married to the said Joseph P. Martin in said Prospect on the 22d day of May A.D. 1794 and for further proof of her marriage she refers the Department to the Proof filed in the Pension Office at the time of obtaining her pension under the Act of July 29th 1848.
She further declares that her said husband having served as a Sergeant from or about July A.D. 1780 to the close of the Revolutionary War in Capt. Burbanks Company of Sapper & Miners and received his Honorable Discharge at the close of the war, she calls on the U.S. for the arrears of his Pension due as a Sargeant of said Company
Lucy Martin
Sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year first written.
Walter Nichols. Justice of the Peace
And I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Lucy Martin and that she is the widow of Joseph P. Martin, who was a Pensioner of the U. States
Walter Michols, Justice of the Peace
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State of Maine
Waldo County
I Nathaniel Patterson, Clerk of the Supreme, Judicial Court within and for the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Walter Nichols whose signature appears to the foregoing Certificates of Attestation dated August 18, 1851 was on that day and now is a Justice of the Peace for and within said County, duly Commissioned and qualified and the signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of our Supreme Judicial Court, within and for said County on this 1st day of September A.D. 1851
N Patterson, Clerk
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State of Maine.
Waldo C on this Eleventh day of March AD 1829 before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, for said County of Waldo, personally appeared Joseph P Martin, of Prospect in d County, who on his oath saith, that he is the same person, who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt David Bushnel in the Regiment commanded by Col Godwin of the Engineers, in the United States service - that his name was placed on the Pension rolls of the state of Maine, that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War, which certificate, on the twentieth day of February AD 1829, at Belfast in [sai]d county, was burnt, with and in the office of Wm. Crosby Esq. of said Belfast
Joseph P Martin
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid
W.G.Crosby  Just Pacis

Waldo
March 11th AD 1829 - I William Crosby on oath say that the aforesaid Joseph P. Martin, is to my knowledge, a Revolutionary Pensioner, and the identical person above described: I further say that the aforesaid Martin's Pension certificate was in my office, on the 20th day of February last, when my office with most of my papers, apong which was said certificate were consumed by fire.
Wm. Crosby
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid, before me
Wm G. Crosby, Just Pac.
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Waldo p March 4th 1829. I hereby certify that the above named Tom. Crosby, is a credible witness, and of man of veracity 0 
E, F. Crosby Just Peac
 
Waldo P March 12th 1829 I Hugh J Anderson, Clerk of the Courts of the County of Waldo, certify that E. F. Crosby is a magistrate as above, and that the forgoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
For testimony whereof I have hereunto afixed by seal of office, and subscribed my name this twelfth day of March AD 1829
H J Anderson Clerk of the Courts of Waldo County