Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20241, for Joseph Martin, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Martin, Joseph
Lovina
NUMBER  W. 20241
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5916.
Albany, New York  
Lovina Martin 
widow of Joseph Martin Con who was a Private in the Revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 30 Dollars and 11 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of August 1844 and sent to C. O. Shepard Arcade, Wyoming Co. N. York 
[Act of March 3, 1843.] 
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 261. 
Rep’d [reported] 
See the case of  Joseph Martin pensioner under Act 1828 died 1829 on N.Y 
Ctf and Reg Vol
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20,016. 
Joseph Martin’s Original & Supplemental Declaration for Pension with affdts &c   
New York
6958
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State of New York 
Washington County. } ss Riel Tracy of Granville in said County being duly sworn saith that he has been acquainted with Joseph Martin the applicant for a pension for thirty & years now last past that he has been and still is a sober honest man and was formerly in comfortable circumstances until he became bound to pay money for other persons which involved him for several years before he sold his farm. That he has been for upwards of twenty years one of the Deacons in the congregational Church in Hartford where he resides of good standing all that time in said Church and is universally where he is known esteemed as a man of integrity that he is now poor and unable to pay all the Debts against him as this Deponent believes and as is generally reputed and he further saith that he has been acquainted with John C. Martin the son of Joseph Martin who is able honest and industrious & prudent man and he is well acquainted with his having worked for James Hopkins as stated in his affidavit and that he let his father have his wages as stated in his affidavit to pay the Debts of his father and that he worked the farm of this Deponent has also in his affidavit is stated and that he sold his father the grain raised thereon to the amount of one hundred Dollars, and he further states that the said Charles Martin at the request of his father in the year 1819 went to work the farm of his father for him under the promise of having the farm of his father after his death that his father was in a weak state of health there so continues
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and he further states that after he became so much embarrassed paying debts where he became bound for others the said Joseph Martin was advised to apply for pension from the government several years before he made his application but which he refused to do believing he should be able to get along with out it and that he had heard him formerly frequently refuse to make application, further saith 
Riel Tracy
Sworn this 19th day Prist Gray of May 1837 Before me 
Slade D. Brown Commissioner to take Affidavits & & Justice of the Peace 
State of New York 
Washington County SS } Moses Cook to being duly sworn saith he is well acquainted with the facts stated in the foregoing affidavit and fully concurs with Mr Tracy in all things by him stated therein - further saith not 
Moses Cook
Sworn this 19th day of May 1827 Before me 
Slade D Brown Commissioner to take Affidavits & and Justice of the Peace 
Isaac B. Clary being duly sworn saith he is acquainted with the facts detailed in the affidavit of the said Riel Tracy above and concurs with him in all things and that the said Priel Tracy is a man of irreproachable character & universally acknowledged a man truth. 
Isaac B. Clary
Sworn on this 11th of May day 1827 Before me 
Slade D. Brown Commissioner to take Affidavits & Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Washington County ss} John C. Martin of Johnsburgh in the County of Warren being duly sworn saith that the next year after he become twenty one years of age he worked with James Hopkins now deceased and received therefrom ninety five Dollars, this being in the year 1817, which money he sent his father Joseph Martin the applicant for a pension.  That the following year he worked a farm of Riel Tracy on shares, and sold the grain he raised on the said farm to his said father to the amount of one hundred Dollars. 
That the first sum with the Interest to 1 Jany 1826 7 yrs is $148.20  
That the second sum to the same time with int. 7 yrs is $149.00
Making the total amount of -  $297.20 
That on the solicitation of my said father at the commencement of 1819 to live with my father to carry on the farm for him, he having become somewhat of feeble health and unable to work but little, there was no written contract nor any price agreed upon which he should allow me, but he engaged me the  same as he should not probably live many years and under the expectation of having the farm sold to Donaldson as mentioned in other affidavits I continued to work for my father until he sold the said farm to Samuel Donaldson, my father being more embarrassed in his circumstances that apprehended from his representations to me I was deceived and for seven years Labour I have rec’d nothing but my clothes and some necessary pocket money and for the money and grain aforesaid I have nothing except the soldiers rights before mentioned at Six hundred Dollars and one Cow and I further state that the Labour was bonafide
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performed, but from the embarrassed situation of my father he has become unable fairly and lawfully to remunerate me. for my seven years Labour as aforesaid, for all which I have taken of Illinois Lands which are of Doubtful value, so that for my Labour aforesaid estimated at $302.80
and the money and grain sold aforesaid being 247.20 
makes the value estimate of the soldiers rights  $600.00  
That I have remained without a family, and without property except said rights in Illinois Lands, and I conceive myself bona fide entitled even to more than I have rec’d my father having become unable to fulfill his promise to me, further saith not
John C. Martin
Sworn this 11th day of May 1827 before me. 
Slade D Brown Commissioner to take Affidavits &c &c and Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Riel Tracy, Moses Cook, Isaac B Clary & John C. Martin & that they are men of fair character for Truth & honesty & are credible Witnesses  
Slade D Brown Justice of the Peace
In the matter of Matter of Joseph Martin
Pension Papers}
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State of New York 
Washington County 
Town of Granville }  this may [unreadable] Amaziah Chappell a revolutionary pensioner a person well known to me as such and made oath before me Aza Northam Esq one of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Washington.  that he was well acquainted with Joseph  Martin of Lebanon County of Windham State of Connecticut in the year one thousand Seven Hundred & seventy six that the the said Joseph enlisted in the company commanded by Capt Levi Wells in Colonel Samuel Willys [Wyllys] Regiment as a private soldier some . time as he thinks in April 1776 and that he the said Joseph served in that Company as a Soldier Nine months or more, and he the deponant served as a private in the same Company at the same time and that he knows that same Joseph Martin is an inhabitant of Hartford County of Washington State of New York at this time. 
March 28th 1826 
Amaziah Chappell 
State of New York
Washington County [unreadable] taken on oath and subscribed to before
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State of New York 
Washington County } ss - This may certify that Samuel Day a revolutionary soldier a person well known to me made oath before me Augustin King or of the Justices of the peace in and for the County of Washington that he was well acquainted with Joseph Martin of Lebanon County of Windham & State of Connecticut in the year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy six that the said Joseph enlisted into the Company commanded by Capt Levi Wells in Colonel Samuel Williss [Wyllys] Regiment as a private Soldier same time as this deponent thinks in April 1776 and that he the said Joseph served in that Company as a Soldier nine months or more  and that he this deponent served as a private the same Company at the same time and that he knows that Joseph Martin aforesaid is an inhabitant of the Town of Hartford in the County of Washington aforesaid. Dated [unreadable] April 19th 1826 
Samuel Day
Subscribed and sworn to before me the 19th day of April 1826 
Augustin King Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Washington County Ss. Lyman Ellsworth of Granville in said County being duly sworn saith he is acquainted with Amaziah Chappel late of Granville aforesaid that he is an old man & has recently removed to the western part of this State and from his acquaintance with him for many years and never having anything against his truth and veracity he believes him to be a credible witness in a Court of Justice and is disinterested in the application of Joseph Martin as I have reason to believe.
Lyman Ellsworth
I certify that on this 8th day of December 1826 Lyman Ellsworth above named personally appeared before me & subscribed the preceding Affidavit & was duly sworn made oath thereto & that I am acquainted with him & that he is a credible Witness & to be believed& I am disinterested in this case.  
Slade D Brown Commissioner &c 
State of New York
Washington County} ss Luther J How of Cambridge in said County being duly sworn saith he is acquainted with Samuel Day a pensioner of the United States residing in Cambridge in said County and that he is a credible witness and to be believed as such in any Court of Justice, and is disinterested in the application of Joseph Martin for a pension as I have reason to believe.  
Luth J How 
Subscribed & Sworn this 8th day of December 1826 before me and I certify that I am acquainted with Luther J How above named and that he is a credible witness to be believed and is disinterested in this case.   
Slade D Brown Commissioner &c
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Washington County. Ss Joseph Martin the applicant for a pension being duly sworn saith that Amaziah Chappell whose affidavit he procured of his services on making his original application has removed to the western part of the State of New York as he is informed & believes, that he at the time of making such affidavit resided in Granville in said County and he knows of no other residing at the nine in said Town of that name.  And that Samuel Day who also made his affidavit resided & still resides in Cambridge in said County at the distance of nearly thirty miles from [unreadable] and that said day is a pensioner of the United State as he informed.  This Deponent verily believes and that both Chappel & Day are the Identical persons mentioned in the within affidavits as he verily believes & has no doubt of that fact. Further saith not. 
Joseph Martin 
I certify that on the 8th Day of December 1826, the above named Joseph Martin personally subscribed appeared before me & duly & made oath to the preceding Affidavit & that I am well acquainted with said Joseph Martin & that he is in my opinion a credible Witness & an honest man the noblest work of God. 
Slade D Brown Commissioner &c
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State of New York 
Washington County } ss I Daniel Stevenson of the Town of Argyle in the County of Washington & State of New York being duly sworn to depose & say that in the month of April last past (1826) Joseph Martin of Hartford County & State aforesaid paid me according to my best recollection & belief one hundred and Nine Dollars being for Notes given me by said Martin for Cash lent about $70 & interest thereon and for goods & wares & merchandize sold & delivered.
Daniel Stevenson
Sworn this 3d day of August 1826 Before me 
Plade D Brown Commissioner duly authorized to take Affidavits &c &c 
State of New York 
County of Washington } ss I Samuel Donaldson of Argyle in the County of Washington and State of New York being duly sworn do depose & say that on or about the 8th Day of January 1826. I purchased of Joseph Martin in Hartford County aforesaid his farm of Lease land of about fifty Acres at Eleven Hundred Dollars which I paid for in Two Soldiers rights situate in the State of Illinois for Six Hundred Dollars which were Deeded by me to John C. Martin at the time aforesaid in consideration of Money due him
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from said Joseph Martin for work & labor done for said Joseph by him and said the remainder of said $1100 in cash partly to said Joseph Martin & partly to others for him, to wit to Alexander Dunham of Hebron Two Hundred and forty Two Dollars & fifty one cents;  to Russell Smith of Hartford Forty Three Dollars and ten cents;  and also Eight Dollars which was due me from Ansel Martin and which I credited to said Joseph, he having assumed & become responsible therefore.  The remainder of said cash I paid to said Joseph & further I was present at Schenectady in the 8th day of February 1826 and saw said Joseph Martin pay James Duane some money for Rent due from said Joseph to him & according to my best recollection & belief he paid about thirty four Dollars. & further said Debts to said Durham Smith & for said Anselin Martin about the 28th of January 1826. 
Samuel Donaldson
Sworn this 3d day of August 1826 Before me 
Slade D. Brown a Commissioner duly authorized to take Affidavits &c
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Before me Slade D. Brown Commissioner duly authorized to take Affidavits &c 
State of New York 
Washington County} ss  I Joseph Harris of Hartford Washington County & State of New York being duly sworn do depose & say that on the 7th day of February 1826 Joseph Martin aforesaid paid me Fourteen Dollars and Sixteen Cents which sum was due me from for Goods Sold & Delivered.
Joseph Harris
Sworn on this 5th of  August 1826 before me 
Slade D. Brown Commissioner duly authorized to take Affidavits &c
State of New York
Washinton County SS} I Richard Hill of Hartford of County of Washington & State of New York being duly sworn do depose & say that on the Month of February or March and last (182) Joseph of Martin of said Town paid me Twenty Two Dollars & Thirty Nine cents which sum
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was due me from said Joseph for services as a Physician.  
Richard Sill
Sworn this 5th day of August 1826 before me  
Slade D. Brown a commissioner duly authorized to Take Affidavits &c
State of New York
Washington County ss}  I Russell Smith of Hartford County of Washington & State of New York being duly sworn do depose and say that on or about the 31st of January 1826  Joseph Martin of said Town owed me the sum of Forty Three Dollars and ten cents which was paid me by Mr . Samuel Donaldson for the said Joseph Martin which sum was due me for Carding Wool dressing cloth &c.   
Russel Smith
Sworn this 5th of August 1826 Before me 
Slade D. Brown a commissioner duly authorized to take Affidavits &c
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In the Matter of Joseph Martin a Pensioner 
to be attached to a certified Copy of supplement [unreadable] 
& affidavits filed in [unreadable] of Clerks Certificate that Brown 
[unreadable]
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State of New York  
Washington County ss}  I John Clarke Martin being duly sworn do depose & say that on or about the 28th of January 1826 Mr Joseph Martin sold his farm to Mr Samuel Donaldson for Eleven hundred Dollars & received in part pay Two Soldiers rights in the State of Illinois and at the time  of said sale said rights were conveyed to me by said Donaldson for of & in consideration of Money due me from said Joseph Martin for work & labor done for him during him the last ten years in carrying on his farm & otherwise & for money laid out & expended by me for him within that time & Also I received of said Joseph Martin one cow in the Spring of 1826 worth Fifteen Dollars as a part of my pay for the services & & money above mentioned & further that said land was sold to said Joseph Martin & received by me for Six Hundred Dollars.  
John C. Martin
Sworn this 5th of August 1826 before me 
Slade D. Brown a commissioner duly authorized to take Affidavits &c
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State of New York 
Washington County Ss}  On this thirty first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty six personally appeared in the Court of Common Pleas in and for County of Washington aforesaid in open Court, the same being Court of Records constituted by the Laws of this State and proceeding according to the court of the Common Law Joseph Martin a resident of the Town of Hartford in said County aged Seventy years and upwards, who being first duly sworn and 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 may 1820, that he the said Joseph Martin Inlisted for the term of Eight months  in April or May being after the Battle of Lexington so called in the year one thousand Seven hundred and seventy five at Lebanon in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Levi Wells in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Samuel Willys [Wyllys] in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental Establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps for Eight months thence next following, and then without quitting the said corps immediately enlisted in the same company and Regiment under the same offices as above for one year and that he continued serve in the said corps for one year next following when he was honorably discharged from the said service in Fishkill or near there in the State of New York, about the month of December one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, which is Lost.   That he has now no other evidence in his power of his said services except the testimony of Samuel Day and Amaziah Chappel his fellow soldiers serving with him in the same Company and Regiment which is herewith  presented to this
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Honorable Court 
And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I 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 any 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 at 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 securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed  and by me subscribed.  
A Schedule or amount of Estate of Joseph Martin the annexed application for a pension named under the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1st May 1820.  
I have no real Estate either in possession remainder or reversion. 
Personal Estate I have no other than the following to wit, 
1 Bedsted two Beds and Beding        $22.97 
One Iron Pot                                          0.50
two Iron Kettles                                     1.00 
one Iron tea kettle                                  0.38 
knives and forks                                    0.50 
one pair Shovel and tongs                     1.00
One pair Iron andirons                          1.75 
one Set tea cups and Saucers                0.38 
One great coat for self             6”        $ 5.51
2 Suits of clothes for self        14.62   
2 Suits of clothes for wife       10.”      53.59
$59.10  
Joseph Martin
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Joseph Martin's original application for pension 1826
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I do further swear that my family consists of my wife aged Sixty four years and upwards and is very feeble and Roxy Ann my Daughter aged twenty Eight years who is a has been sick nearly two years now last past and is unable to Labour any.   
That I am a farmer by occupation and that by reason of poverty and age am unable to support myself and family without the assistance of my Country, or by private or public charity.   That I have never before made an application to Government for pension because I have hitherto been able by to support myself and family, but by reason of sickness myself and family have now become poor and unable to do so. 
Joseph Martin
Sworn this 31st day of May 1826 in Open Court 
P. Shepherd Dep Clk  
I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; I also certify that the Court were satisfied that the claimant served for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental Establishment; and 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 Five Dollars fifty one cent excepting wearing apparel & [unreadable]   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this thirty first day of May 1826 
J. S. Leigh Clk
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Supplemental Declaration of Joseph Martin of Hartford in the County of Washington to obtain a pension as a Revolutionary Soldier. 
Situation of his property on the 18th March 1818 and the changes that 1 have taken place since.  State of New York Washington County ss On the Eighth day of December in the year of  our Lord 1826 personally in open Court of Common Pleas held in and for the County of Washington, being a court of Record as aforesaid, aforesaid, Joseph Martin in the annexed Declaration mentioned who being first duly sworn according to Law doth make the following Supplemental Declaration to the original Declaration hereto annexed to obtain a pension; and on his oath saith that he is the same Joseph Martin in the annexed Declaration named; and that on the 18th day of March 1818 his property consisted of the following Items to wit, 
fifty acres of Leased Land situate in the Town of Hartford aforesaid worth $1100.00
Two Cows worth $15 each                  30.00
Two horses, one worth $70, the other worth $30  $100. 
One old Waggon worth                        15.00  
One set of harness worth                      15.00 
One plough worth                                 30.00 
One harrow worth                                   3.00 
Two axes worth                                       2.00   
Two hoes worth                                       1.00
One old chain worth                                1.00
One Shovel worth                                  $0.50 
Twelve Sheep worth                             $24.00 
$1294.50
Which was all the property I possessed on the 18th March 1818 excepting my necessary clothing and beding and the articles in the annexed original Declaration mentioned.  That since the 18th March 1818 the following changes have taken place. The land aforesaid I sold and conveyed on the 28th January 1826 to Samuel Donaldson of Argyle in the County of Washington for $1100.00 and paid by him in the following manner to wit Two Soldiers rights in Illinois State at $600  and the remaining sum of five hundred Dollars in money which has been paid out as follows to wit To Alexander Dunham of Hebron in said County which
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I owed him for money borrowed of him and the Interest thereon for about three years & which I paid out for my son Ansel Martin which sum to the said Ansel is wholly unable to repay me } $242.51 
To Daniel Stevenson of Argyle in said County which I owed. him for money borrowed and Interest thereon between three and four years, and for goods purchased of him, the money borrowed being seventy Dollars, which sum I paid for my son Ansel Martin's Education attending medical Lectures } $107.00
To Doctor Richard Sill for his services as a physician in my family} 22.39 
 To Russel Smith of Hartford aforesaid for carding wool and dressing cloth for several years}  43.10 
To Joseph Harris of Hartford aforesaid for goods 14.16
To James Duane of Schenectady for rent of the Land aforesaid due on the Lease } 33.92
To Jacob Allen of Hartford aforesaid for goods on account 15.56 
To Samuel Donaldson for cash due him from Ansel Martin for which I had become obligated to pay}  8.00
To Mrs Ide of Hartford aforesaid for weaving 3.00  
To Eli Gifford for dressing Cloth (of Argyle)   5.00
All which amounts to the sum of $496.64 besides the Soldiers rights 
That I owed John Clark Martin for his Labour & services for me for the last ten years in carrying on my farm after he was twenty one years of age he being now thirty one years and upwards to ballance by estimation including Interest from time to time on the ballance due him from year to year the Sum of $615.00 for which the Soldiers rights were conveyed him by Samuel Donaldson at Six hundred Dollars, and I turned out one Cow at fifteen Dollars making the said sum of six hundred and fifteen Dollars } 615.00 
The horse valued at Seventy Dollars was stolen from my stable about two years ago last spring and has
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The horse valued at Seventy Dollars was taken from my stable about two years ago last spring and has never been since found}  $70.00
The horse valued at 30 Dollars was exchanged for another which was sold for about thirty Dollars and laid out for the support my family and myself.  } 30.00
One Cow was sold for twelve Dollars & fifty Cents & the money laid out for the support of my family}   12.50
The waggon harness plough harrow axes hoes chair and shovel have since been worn out and become useless all of which were valued at  40.50  
The twenty sheep he has sold for $24   
$1264.64  
Which being deducted leaves a ballance for which I cannot account of $29.86 
$1294.50
1264.64
$29.86
All which is the best account I am now able to give of the changes of my property and the expenditures thereof, and which I believe to be substantially true and correct.  That I never had any Intention of applying to government for a pension until I found my self too much embarrassed to pay my debts and support my family, my debts amounting to a larger sum than I apprehended with the accumulating Interest thereon which forced me to sell my property as aforesaid. 
Joseph Martin
Sworn this 8th day of December 1826, in open Court, Before me 
J. S. Leigh Clk 
I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of the said Court. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said
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Joseph Martin’s Pension Papers
State of New York Washington County SS I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Washington do hereby certify that Slade that Slade D. Brown Esq before whom the annexed affidavits of Riel Tracy, Moses Cook, Isaac B. Clary, and John C. Martin were made on the Eleventh and Nineteenth day of May last when the same were made, was and still is a Commissioner for taking affidavits to be read in Courts of Record in this State duly appointed and authorized according to Law, and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and that the signature "Slade D. Brown” to the Jurats of the said affidavits is the genuine proper hand writing of said Commissioner. 
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this third  day of September in the year of our Lord 1827 
J. S. Leigh Clk
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State of New York, Washington County ss; I Jesse S. Leigh Clerk of the County of the  Washington do certify that Slade D. Brown Esq. before whom the annexed affidavits of Lyman Ellsworth, Luther J. How, Joseph Martin, Daniel Stevenson, Samuel Donaldson, Joseph Harris, Richard Sill, Russel Smith and John C. Martin were made, was at the several times when the same were made a commissioner for taking affidavits &c. in and for the said County of Washington, appointed and sworn and duly authorized by law to act as such commissioner and further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily believe that the several signatures, “Slade D. Brown" subscribed to the Jurats of the said affidavits are genuine and the proper hand writing of the said commissioner and I further certify that Asa Northum Esq. before whom the annexed affidavit of Amariah Chappell was made, and Augustin King before whom the annexed affidavit of Samuel Day was made, were at the time of making the said affidavits, Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Washington appointed and sworn and duly authorized by law to act as Justices of the Peace and I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature, “Augustin King" subscribed the said affidavit
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of Samuel Day and the signature, "Asa Northem" subscribed to the said affidavit of Amaziah Chappell is genuine and the proper hand writing of the said Justice. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto name and affixed the seal of the said County this 7th day of February 1827  
J. S. Leigh Clk
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State of New York. 
Wyoming County SS: } On this 29th day of July 1843, personally appeared before the undersigned, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Lovina Martin a resident of Arcade in said County, aged Eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7. 1838. Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" and also an act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843, granting pensions to “widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.”  That she is the widow of Joseph Martin, who was a private in the Connecticut line of the Revolutionary Army.  That he enlisted, according to the best of her knowledge and recollection, in the spring of 1775 into Capt. Wells, Company, Col. Willis [Wyllys] Regiment, and served one or two years.  She thinks he was in Bunker Hill battle.   
She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Martin on the 5th day of April in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty three.   That her husband the aforesaid Joseph Martin died on the 3rd day of December 1829. at Granville Washington Co. N.Y.  That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated. That she never received a pension under the act of July 7. 1838. And she further declares that she is still a widow.  
Lovina Martin 
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above  written, before me, 
“widows of” interlined before signing.
Augustus Frank
Judge of Wyoming County Common Pleas 
And I certify that the above applicant Lovina Martin, is unable from bodily infirmity to appear in open court, or even to leave her dwelling. 
Augustus Frank Judge
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State of New York 
Wyoming County} ss
I Nelson Wolcott, Clerk of said  County do hereby certify that Augustus Frank, before whom the within declaration upon oath was made, was, at the date thereof a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in of and for said County, duly qualified and sworn, and authorized by law, to administer oaths and take his affidavits; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the within signature purporting to be his are genuine.   In Witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my Office Seal, at Warsaw, in said County, this 7th day of August 1843 
Nelson Wolcott Clerk
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State of New York 
Wyoming County SS: } On this 3rd day of August 1843. Dimmis Tracy of Arcade in said County being first duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, that she is well acquainted with Lovina Martin, the person who made the annexed declaration, that she has known her for more than fifty years. that she was also well acquainted with Joseph Martin, deceased that she resided in the family of said Joseph and Lovina Martin for several years previous to the year 1794. that during that period she frequently heard them acknowledge each other as husband and wife. That during that period also she had knowledge of said Lovina giving birth to two children which said Joseph and Lovina acknowledged as their own legitimate offspring that she never heard the fact or legality of their marriage doubted. that she distinctly recollects to have seen in the family aforesaid at sundry times prior & to the year 1796, in a family bible a record of the marriage of said Joseph and Lovina to each other, which record this deponent knows to have been in the hand writing of said Joseph, and which record set forth that said Joseph and Lovina were married in the year 1783 but the month and day she does not recollect that she saw the said record in the year 1804, but does not remember to have seen it since.  That she knew said Joseph up to the time of his death which took place as set forth in the annexed declaration of said Lovina and that the said Joseph and Lovina continued to live together as husband and wife till his death and that said Lovina is still his widow. 
Demmis Tracy 
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year first above named and I certify that this deponent is of undoubted character for truth & veracity. 
C. O. Shepard
Commissioner of Deeds
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9501  
State of New York 
Wyoming County ss}  I Nelson Wolcott, Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Charles O. Shepard before whom the within affidavit was taken, was, at the time of taking such affidavit, a commissioner of Deeds in and for said County duly qualified and sworn, and authorized to take the same.  And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the within signature purporting to be his is genuine. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed my official Seal at Warsaw, in said County this 7th Aly of August 1843. 
Nelson Wolcott Clerk
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Washington County ss} David B. Hall of Granville in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he is a son of Rev. Nathaniel Hall former Pastor of the first Congregational Church of Granville from the 4th of October 1797 to July 29th 1820 on which day he died and this deponent further says that he finds on examination of the Church Records found among his Fathers papers after his death the entries mentioned and described in the following Certificates.  
David B. Hall
Subscribed and sworn to David B. Hall this 18th day of January 1844 before me James Hall Justice Peace 
Baptist Damaris the Daughter of Joseph Martin,, 
I certify that the above is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows "August 1st. 1784., August first one thousand seven hundred and Eighty four 
David B. Hall 
“Lovina Martin Received into full communion with this Church”   
I certify that the above is a true Copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed in the Record in fair legible figures as follows August 29th 1784, August the twenty ninth One thousand seven hundred and Eighty four. 
David B Hall 
I David B. Hall above named depose and say that the above are true extracts from the Records of the first Congregational Church of Greenville with the exception above named as before by me. 
David B. Hall
Sworn before me January 5  12th 1844 Silas Hall Justice of the Peace
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I David B. Hall above named further deposes and say that about the year 1887 the above mentioned Congregation at Church was dissolved and That William Marsh Esq. was the Clerk of the said Church at the time of its dissolution and that he now resides in Puttney in the State of Vermont.  And the  deponent further says that the said Records before mentioned appear to be the original Records of said Church and that they have remained with his fathers papers ever since his death and that the above Records embrace the period of time from its organization April 20th 1782 to 1801 with the exception of about five years which are missing.   
David B. Hall 
Sworn before me this 10th Day of January Silus Hall Justice Peace 
I certify that the above named David B Hall is well known to me as a person of truth and veracity and of good general character. 
Silas Hall Justice of the Peace  
I Henry Shipherd Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Silas Hall Esq was on the day of the date of the within and endorsed Jurats and certificate a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly elected and qualified and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 15th day of January 1844
H. Shipherd Clerk
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Martins
Martin
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Revolutionary Claim
Disallowed on account of having transferred property to his son for labor – No mention of Contract produced.
See letter to J. C. Parker Esqr
8th Sept 1827.   Ditto 6 May 1829
Let to C. O. Shepard April 28 1843
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6958
Joseph Martins
REJECTED
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V 9501 
Lovina Martin 
N York 
Suspended 
Let to C. O. Shepard Oct 18 1845 
Let to C. O. Shepard  Nov 22 1845
Let to Hon Albert Smith May 4 ‘44
Let to John Hitch May 31 ‘44
Let to C. O. Shepard June 7 1844
Act July 7 ‘38
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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 20.241
Lovina Martin 
Widow of Joseph Martin 
Pri Rev War 
Act March 3d ‘43 
Index: Vol M   Page 10
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Joseph Martin 
Died 1829 - One son who lived with his father, after his death went to Illinois taking as supposed family bible of record;  died before 1844 
Was in Granville Washington Co NY  in spring 1787,  lived also in Harford same Co & after in Johnsburg Warren Co & is fall 1829 returned to Granville to sit his friends & died there Dec 3d 1829.
had 9 children 
after his death the widow Lavina removed to Arcade Wyoming & States July 1843 - 80 yrs old
Co. NY – Children – Baptised Demaris, Aug 1 1784, 1st Cong Church 
Married April 5, 1783 in Wells Vt. 
Lovina Martin rec’d the full communion with that Church Aug 29, 1784 
Enlisted May 16 1777 into Capt Wells Co. Regt of Col. Wyllys - left Dec 17 1777 
also in 1776 2 mo service in 12th Regt Militia & Co Capt Wells 
Octr 1793 an Indenture between him & Samuel Cook, sold certain lands lot 77 in Hartford 87 acres - with exception of Pine timber, Waterfalls, minerals of gold & silver, reserved to Martin & pay rent 1/8 of Spanish milled Dollars each acre amounting to 1 £ 13 S bd N Y  Currency
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New York 8578 
Lovina Martin 
widow of Joseph Martin and who died on the 3d December 1829 of Wyoming Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Wells Regt. commanded by Col. Willis [Wyllys] in the Conn line for 9 mos & 1 day 
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 30 Dollars 11  Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of August 1844 and sent to C. O. Shepard, Arcade, Wyoming Co. N. York 
Total amount, $ 150.55  
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Book D. Brown Clerk 
Book D. Vol. 1 , Page 169
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Aug 20 1844
[unreadable] N.Y.
Sept 16}
Lovina Martin
NY Wi
5916
43
Free
G. M. Crump Esqr
Pension Office 
Washington D.C.
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Arcade, Wyoming Co. N.Y. Augt 15. 1844 
Sir
In your letter to me of 7. June 1844 touching the case of Lovina Martin widow of Jos Martin - you say "the service of Joseph Martin is admitted for Eleven months & one day." 
On the certificate issued to Mrs. Martin, Aug 2.1844. She is allowed “Thirty dollars & eleven cents per annum.”  
I wish to ask whether 11 mo. 1 day service as admitted by you does not entitle her to more than $30 per annum? I had supposed that two years service, entitled one to Eight dollars per annum in that proportion for less time, If so. 11 months & 1 day would be one $36.00 per annum.  
Of course, there was no intentional [unreadable] on your part. If there is an error. I supposed it was in consequence of one looking the certificate of said from the Comptroller of Court which was in addition to the 9 months proved by Joseph Martin some years ago before his death.   May I ask your attention promptly to this above early day?   
Your Obt Sevt 
C.O. Shepard
G. W. Crump Esqr}
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Pension Office,  May 31st 1844  
Sir
The additional papers in the case of Lovina Martin, widow of Joseph Martin, claiming a pension under the Act of July 7th 1838, have been examined and filed.   
The church record mentioned by David B. Hall should be submitted to the Court and a certificate obtained of its genuineness before it can be received in evidence.  
The service of Joseph Martin is admitted for eleven months and one day. 
I am Sir very respectfully Your Obt Servant 
J L. Edwards 
Troy New York
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9501 
Lovina Martin 
N York 
Act July 7th ‘38 
Adm’d [admitted]  
9 mos 1 day Pri.  
30. 11  
Also Act March 43 $30 6231 
C.O. Shepard Arcade Wyoming
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Arcade, Wyoming Co. N.Y. Augt 15 / 43 
Sir
Accompanying this is such testimony as can be obtained in support of the claim of Lovina Martin, widow of Jos Martin, decd, to a pension. It is very difficult, indeed impossible, in many cases, to obtain direct evidence of marriages which took place so long ago as 1794 or previously, while the fact of marriage may be most undoubtedly and satisfactory shown by indirect testimony, such is the case in the present instance, that Wid. Lovina Martin was the lawful wife of Joseph Martin, decd whose services in the Revolutionary war are proven, there can be no doubt.   It is as well established as any fact can be, which is not directly proven, and I hope the testimony in this case, will be satisfactory to you.  More of about the same tenor might be obtained, tho I presume this writ be sufficient. But record or documentary evidence cannot be found, Diligent effort has been made. The old lady is quite feeble unable to leave the house, tho she may live some time. She has no means of support whatever. She lives with a married daughter who is also pen. The small sum justly due her on account of her husbands service am to very much relieve her present necessities & smooth her path of remaining life.
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But I need make no special plea in her behalf.   You will doubtless decide on her application as the justice between her and her County demand.   
Your early attention & reply to her request is solicited in her behalf. 
Your Obt Sert  
C. O. Shepard
J. L. Edwards Esq
Washington}
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Apl 27 1843
Jos Martin
[unreadable]
NY  [unreadable] 1828
Free
J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D. C.
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Arcade Wyoming Co. N.Y. Apl 21. 1843 
J.L. Edward Esq. 
Sir
I thank you for the pension laws you sent me the other day. but their are some things which I do not fully learn from them and in regard to which I ask that you will give me your opinion &c.
About the year 1820-4. Joseph Martin of Hartford N.Y. applied for a pension under Act Mar.18, 1818, but was denied on the ground that he was worth too much property. The attornies for applicant were Slade D. Brown & John C. Parker each of whom made separate efforts at different times, as I learn. I know nothing of it only what is now told me. 
In Dec. 1829. Mr. Martin died. His widow still lives & now resides in this place. They were married in 1786. The Wid. is old. & has lived on charity for some years. She has not one cent of property left.  What evidence of her husbands services was, or probably can be procured is, it is supposed on file in your office. What I wish in her behalf is that you will say whether the evidence on file of service is sufficient to entitle her as the widow of Joseph Martin to a pension, if not what is wanting & under what act she will draw if at all.  I am ignorant of the proof in the case & the old lady can tell but a disconnected story now that she is so old.  She is really needy & there is no doubt that her husband was a soldier of the Revolution.  Whether she is entitled to a pension however you will no doubt, be able to decide. I hope you will be as generous with the old lady as can be.   
Another case in this - David Shed, who died April 11. 1841. has left a widow, who lives here. He rec’d a pension under the act of 1818.
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up to the 4 Mar previous to his death. His certif is now in my possession.  Does his widow come under the act of March 3 1843. They were married July 11, 1784. 
Your early reply is solicited – 
Very Respectfully 
C.O. Shepard
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State of New York 
Washington County } Roger Halladay of the town of Hartford County aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and says that That he was well acquainted with Joseph Martin and Lovina his wife in the year 1793 and from that time lived within two miles of them in the town of Hartford aforesaid for thirty years and that they lived together as husband and wife in good repute and that they had several children who were acknowledged by them as the legitimate offsprings and that this deponant is not of kin rather to the said Joseph Martin or to the said Lovina his wife and further this deponant saith not. Dated at Hartford this 9" day of August 1843. 
Roger Halladay
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 9" day of August 1843 
C. L. Parker Justice of the Peace 
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Roger Holliday and that he is a man of truth and veracity and is esteemed in the community in which he lives. Dated Hartford August 9 1843.
C. L. Parker, Justice of the peace  
State of New York 
County of Washington }ss  I Edward Dodd Clerk of the said County hereby that J. L. Parker Esq is a Justice of the peace as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine.  Given under my hand and the seal of the said County of this 9th day of August 1843.
Edward Dodd Clerk
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State of New York 
Warren County } Josiah Corbet of Johnsburgh in the County of Warren aforesaid being duly sworn saith that he this Deponent came to Granville in the County of Washington in the spring of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven that he then and there became acquainted with Lovina Martin now the Widow of Joseph Martin deceased.  That he resided in the family of the said Joseph and Lovina Martin the ensuing summer, that they then lived together as husband and wife that they then had two children who were regarded as their legitimate off springs. And this deponent further saith that he resided in the family and a near neighbor to the said Joseph and Lovina Martin in Granville in Hartford in Washington County and in Johnsburgh in Walker County aforesaid nearly all of the time from the above date untill the autumn of 1829 when the said Joseph Martin returned to Granville aforesaid to visit his finds and died there and that during his acquaintance they with them they had in all nine children.  That during all his acquaintance with them he never heard my intimation that they were not lawfully married and he has no doubt they were lawfully married.   And this deponent further saith that the said Lovina Martin removed from Johnsbury the year following the decease of the said Joseph Martin and has since resided as he is credibly informed in Arcade Wyoming County New York. 
Josiah Corbet
Sworn to and subscribed be the same on the 9th day of January 1844 Ira Gleeson Justice of peace.
I hereby certify that Josiah Corbet is well known to me and is a man of truth and veracity. 
June the 7th 1844 
Ira Gleeson Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Warren County ss} I Thomas Archibald Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Ira Gleeson before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the data of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for said County in the Town of Johnsburg in said county and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of the said County this 11th day of June 1844 
Thomas Archibald Clerk
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State of New York 
Washington County} ss  Moses Cook of the town of Hartford in said County being duly sworn deposeth and Saith that he was acquainted with Joseph Martin and Lovina his wife in the year seventeen hundred and ninety three and that they then lived in the Town of Hartford aforesaid and that they then had several children and lived together as husband and wife in good repute and was acquainted with them up to the time of the decease of the said Joseph Martin which occurred in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty nine and that this deponent lived nearly all the time from the year Seventeen hundred and ninety three to the time of the decease of the said Joseph in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty nine within twenty rods of the dwelling house of the said Joseph and the said Lovina.  And that in the year Eighteen hundred and twenty six the said Joseph Martin and the said Lavinia did execute to this deponent a deed of certain lands in which said deed the said Lovina is described as the wife of the  said Joseph Martin and this deponant further says that he is not of kin either to the said James Martin or to the said Lovina Martin and further this deponent saith not.  
Moses Cook
Sworn and Subscribed  this 9th day of August 1843 before me  
C. L. Parker, Justice of the peace 
I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Moses Cook the above deponant and that his reputation for truth and veracity is unquestioned. 
C L. Parker, Justice of the peace
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State of New York 
County of Washington }ss  I Edward Dodd Clerk of the said County hereby that Calvin L. Parker Esq is a justice of the peace as within and that the within signatures purporting to be his are genuine- Given under my hand and the seal of the said County this 9th day of August 1843 - Edward Dodd Clerk
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[stamp] GRANVILLE N. Y. July 23
Geo Wm. Crump Esqr
Pension Office
Washington D.C.
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I Silas Hall, a Justice of the Peace in for Washington County, New York do hereby certify on or about the 9th day of January last past before me was taken, sworn to & subscribed an affidavit or deposition, by David B. Hall of Granville said County, which affidavit contained the following tracts from the records of the "First Congregational Church of Granville,” to wit: 
“Baptised Damaris the daughter of Joseph Martin" which extract, on the said records, is under date of August 1st 1784 - And further, to wit: 
“Lovina Martin received into full communion with this church” which extract, on said records, is under date of August 29th 1784. 
And I further certify that I have carefully examined the said Church records, and from their appearance from uniform common report and belief and from all circumstances concerning them, with several of which circumstances I am personally acquainted I am fully satisfied that said records are what they purport to be - the original and genuine records “First Congregational Church of Granville.” 
Dated Granville July 20th 1844. 
Silus Hall Justice Peace 
[unreadable] Let Esqr Hall  Justice & date the above
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Arcade, Wyoming Co. N.Y. 
July 12. 1844. 
Sir
In your letter to me of June 7th 1844 you say-- "The Church record mentioned by David B. Hall, should be submitted to the Court and a certificate obtained of its genuineness before it can be recd in evidence, in support of the claim of Lovina Martin, widow of Joseph Martin to a pension under act of July 7. 1838. 
By "the court” I suppose you mean the magistrate before whom the deposition was made, so I have prepared such a certificate as I suppose you desire from the magistrate before whom the deposition now on file in your office, was taken & made which I shall send to him for his signature. and request him to mail it directly to you. 
As you have his signature to the affidavit now with you, I have not decreed it necessary to prove the County Clerks of to his - Silas Hall’s - signature to the annexed.   
I should have obtained a new deposition from David B. Hall, but I have learned that he is now from home it is not known how soon he will return.  
As it is intimated in your favor of June 7th ‘44 to me, touching this case, that this of Silas Hall by is all that is wanting to enable you to decide on the application of the said Lovina Martin - allow me to express the hope that you will forward me your decision in this case at the earliest day practicable. Direct to me at Arcade Wyoming Co as usual—notwithstanding this will be mailed elsewhere. 
Yr Obt Servt 
C.O. Shepard
G. W. Crump
Pension Office}
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State of New York 
Washington County} ss Damaris Streeter of Granville in the County of Washington aforesaid being duly sworn saith that she this deponent was acquainted with Lovina Martin the widow of Joseph Martin late of Granville aforesaid deceased, that she knew of the said Joseph Martin and Lovina Martin living together as husband and wife for several years before this deponents marriage and she this deponent was married as the original family Record shows on the twenty first day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety.  And this deponent further saith that she was acquainted with the said Joseph Martin and also the said Lovina before they were married and she further saith she well knew the said Joseph and Lovina Martin as members of the Congregational Church in Granville aforesaid and recollects the said Joseph and Lovina Martin had children Baptized in said Church and that had a daughter named Damaris that she knew of no other Lovina Martin but the reputed wife of Joseph Martin as belonging to the said Church and the further saith that the said Lovina Martin has removed from this County, as she has heard and believes to Arcade in the County of Wyoming State of New York and this deponent saith the was acquainted with the said Joseph and Lovina Martin while they lived in Granville which was a number of years and that she removed to Hartford an adjoining town and lived there a number of yours and this deponent further saith that during all the time she was acquainted with the said Joseph and Lovina Martin they were reputed by all persons in the place of their residence to be lawful Husband and wife and this deponent never heard any intimations to the to the contrary and she has no doubt they were lawfully married from her personal acquaintance with them and the general reputation of that fact.   
Damaris Streeter
Sworn and Subscribed before me  this 10th day of January 1844 
Silus Hall Justice of the Peace 
the word “they” between the 16th and 17th line from the top was inserted before signing Silus Hall Justice of the Peace
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certify that the within named Damaris Streeter well known to me as a person of truth and veracity and of good moral character 
Silas Hall Justice of the Peace  
State of New York 
Washington County ss}  Henry Shipherd Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Silas Hall Esq was on the day of the State of the that within & the certificate hereon endorsed Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly elected and qualified and that the signature purporting to be his genuine 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 15 day of January 1844
H. Shipherd clerk
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J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
[stamp] TROY NY JUN 3
June 5 1844
Mart
D. Crump
FREE
June 4th 1844 the letter redirected to C. O. Sheppard Esq Arcade Wyoming Co N.Y.
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J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comm of Pensions
Washington D.C.
[stamp] TROY NY JUN 3
June 5 1844
Mart
D. Crump
FREE
June 4th 1844 the letter redirected to C. O. Sheppard Esq Arcade Wyoming Co N.Y.
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Troy June 2 1844  
J. L. Edwards 
Com of Pensions 
Sir
Yours of May 31. was duly received, & I regret to see that you do not deem the proof of Mrs Sarah Ostranders marriage sufficient.  Some two or three other individuals are now living who was present at her marriage with Mr Ostrander.  I shall soon forward to the Department the additional proof.  
The enclosed letter was put in the envelope and directed to me, I suppose through a mistake, as I do not know any thing about the matter and never sent such a claim to the department.  
Yours &c John Fitch 
Troy N.Y
J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
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Rec’d Sept 8 1827
Pension office
Sept 8 1827
War Department
Washington
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North Granville Wash Co. N. Y  Sept 3rd 1827  
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Sir
I would not willingly trouble the war department again on the subject of the inclosed application of Joseph Martin after having rec’d your Letter returning them to and in March Last refering and stating the uncertainty of the claim on account of the conveyance of Illinois Lands to the son having obtained additional offer explaining that transaction more fully and the applicant having never [unreadable] to an adjoining County and having been for two terms of our Court unable to attend to make the explanatory Declaration by reason of sickness.  
I am directed to send the papers again with the Explanatory affts. having known him for 30 years that his reputation as a Christian and a man as fair and unimpeachable, [unreadable] looking for pension above, for longer & [unreadable] faithful services under the [unreadable] of the Prince of Peace, that he is only desirous while stationed on this outpost of his Leaders Camp to receive his daily rations. I am induced to comply with his request observing that it may be deemed he has complied with the substance under note of having respect to the situation of his property. Land will appear by affts of his creditors &c.   
Your very humble Servant 
J. C. Parker 
P. S. the below certificate & seal of this day is also aft’d under one of the other certificate by him
JCP
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Nov 20 1843
Arcade NY
Nov 15
NY
Jan 21
S. Martin
Free
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Arcade, Wyoming Co. N.Y. Nov. 10. 1843 
Sir
In your favor of 18 with you say, in relation to the claims of Lovina Martin to a pension, that "the date of the marriage is not sufficiently established.” After some further remarks, touching the importance of well defining the time of marriage. you conclude by saying "If the service was as alleged, under the State of Connecticut. the records in the Comptrollers office will prove the fact, and the certificate of that officer should be produced.”  
I am at a loss to understand whether you mean that the Comptroller  ctf. will relate to the service of Joseph Martin in the War or to the marriage of Widow, Lovina Martin to said Joseph.   The service I had supposed, proved, Indeed, in a former letter, you informed me that nine months service of Joseph Martin was in proof in your office, so no effort to prove service has been made.   If however, as I have the greater reason to suppose you refer to said Comptroller of as to proof of marriage, I wish to say that the marriage is not alleged to have taken place in Connecticut. I think the place of marriage was not set forth in Wid. Martins declaration.
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She says she was married in Wells, Vermont. She has furnished the best proof in her power of the fact of her marriage, and I do not understand you to require more proof on this point. 
You only say the date of her marriage is not sufficiently established.   
In regard to the date permit me to say that she does not claim to have been married before the close of her husbands service & therefore does not claim a pension for life. That she was married however prior to January 1. 1794, is if I recollect right as well proven, as that she was married at all, by the testimony of Dimaris Tracy. Her marriage is set forth to have been I think in April 1783, and that she was married, as she states, is beyond a doubt in the minds of all who know her, she might procure additional proof of a circumstantial character, such as that of Demaris Tracy, or so, but direct documentary or other evidence cannot be found, and you must be aware that direct evidence, in many cases cannot be obtained. While circumstantial proof puts all doubts to rest.
As in this case I have taken the liberty to say thus much under the impression on reading your late letter of 18 Oct. that you had failed to get a right new of Mrs. Martin case and that on a
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review of the evidence you wont see no need of the certif of the Comptroller of Connt for he certainly can know nothing of the marriage, as it did not take place in that state, and as to the service of Joseph Martin, as I said before we had supposed all needed proof now on file with you. And I think you will, on a review of the evidence touching marriage, find sufficient to fix the date between the close of the war and 1. January 1794 if you consider it proven at all which I think you do, from your late letter. 
It does not become me to question your decisions I am well aware, and I have made the foregoing suggestions with great hesitancy, lest I should seem to obtrude my views upon you, but my conviction that you had misapprehended Mrs. Martin's case, is my Excuse, which I trust you will deem sufficient, while I also hope you will re-examine her papers, as soon as convenient, and acquaint me with the result at an early day, which I indulge the hope will yet be favorable to the old lady who very much needs and I believe justly deserves the aid of government on account of services rendered his country by her deceased husband. 
Most Respectfully Your Obt Servt
C. O. Shepard 
J L Edwards Esq. Pension office
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Arcade Wyoming Co. N.Y. Jan. 26 / 44 
J.L. Edwards Esq 
Sir 
Herewith I send you more evidence in the case of Widow Lovina Martin, whose application for a Pension, as the widow of Joseph Martin is now before you, and in relation to which you wrote me under date of 22. Nov. last- In your letter just named you say that Dimaris Tracy's deposition, might claim greater consideration had it not been taken before a person who did not combine the character of “Commr of Deeds & Attorney” 
It was new to me that it was objectionable to the Dept that a magistrate should act as agent or Attorney.  I had always done so, without objection from the Dept. It was more convenient, as I was commissioner of deeds. However my term has now expired, and of course some one else will act as magistrate hereafter.  
You also ask in the same letter. What has become of a record spoken of by Dimaris, Tracy- It was not stated in her former deposition-- nor did it occur to me as in point.  She informs me that it was in an old family bible, which was well nigh worn out at the time of the death of Joseph Martin (in 1829 I think) - His family was then broken up - son who had lived with his father moved to Illinois taking the old bible as is supposed, That you
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has since died the bible cannot now be found.  Mrs. Tracy & others so they tell me testify to this story - was it deemed necessary. I would have them do so. but the additional evidence I suppose will be that sufficient & therefore omit this. The record is doubtless lost by the family of the son who died in Illinois. That family has been applied to, but the widow writes that she cannot find the old bible containing the record.  
By examining the  additional evidence herewith sent, in proof of marriage, and comparing, I think you will find it well connected and I trust satisfactory. Moses Cook, who testifies to the copy of the lease will not let the original lease go as it has never been recorded and he hold lands by virtue of it. The date of the lease is referred to as evidence that M. Cork is not mistaken in regard to the time when he knew Joseph & Lovina Martin as husband and wife as stated in his former deposition on file with you.
Joseph Corbet testifies to his acquaintance with Lovina Martin in 1787 - and is sure about the date as he that year removed to Granville. 
In regard to the proof of same said on the Ctf.  of Gideon Welles Compt of Commr M. Martin of course knows but little
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about the same of her husband - only what she has heard him say much of that she now recollects very indistinctly, imperfectly of course, the proof of said will be irrelevant of her recollection.   She thinks he has told her he was at Bunker Hill battle in 1775 as I think she states in her application.  
I trust that your early attention will be give to Mrs Martin case.  
Some time since I sent you the application of Sarah Shedd, for one years pension under the act of 1843. I have recd no reply - I hope your convenience will admit of attending to her case.
Respectfully &c C. O. Shepard
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Washington March 22. 1844 
Hon. J. L. Edwards Commr of Pensions 
Sir, I [unreadable] C.O. Shepard letter to me which contains all the information I have in regard to the application of Lucy Cadwell & Lovina Martin. If the papers cannot be found therefore contained in this letter, let me know and I will write Mr. Shepard for further particulars. 
Please return the letter with your answer. 
I have the honor to be by respectfully your ob svt
Albert Smith Nov. 
Mr. Shepard lives in the Town of China Wyoming Co. N.Y.
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[stamp] HARTFORD CT DEC 30
L. D. Davis Esqr P.M.
China
Wyoming Co N.Y.
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Comptroller's Office 
Hartford 30” Decr 1843 
On application for evidence of the service of Joseph Martin in the war of the revolution, alleged to have been rendered for about two years, commencing in the spring of 1775 or 1776 in Capt Wells Company, Col Wyllys Regiment, I have searched the rolls & records of this Office and find as follows – 
There is a “Pay Roll of the 8th Co 2d Regt paid by order of the General Assembly Colony of Connecticut May 1777", which company was commanded by Capt Levi Wells, and the Regt was commanded by Col Samuel Wyllys - On this PayRoll is the following entry viz- 
“Joseph Martin, Private, enlisted May 16, Discharged Decr 17 in service 7 Mo 1 Day”. 
There is also on file “A List of the 8th Co in the 12th Regt of Militia in Conn. that marched to West Chester in September 1776” under command of "John H Wells” Capt.On this list appears the name of Joseph Martin". The length of service is not specific. (It was 2 mo.) 
Certified from records 
Gideon Welles Comptr
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Sir
I send you herewith a certificate of two tours of duty of Joseph Martin one in 1775 and one in 1776.  
There is no evidence in relation to his marriage to be proved at this office. You will probably best obtain that from the town in which he or his wife resided at the term of the marriage. 
Very Respetfully 
Gideon Welles 
[unreadable]  were duly recd 
L D Davis Esqr
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This Indenture made this first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and Ninety three between Joseph Martin of the Town of Hartford County of Washington and State of New York Yeoman of the first part and Samuel Cook of the Town County and State aforesaid Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the rents and Covenants herein after mentioned on the part and behalf of the party of the second part his Heirs Executors Administrators and assigns to be paid and performed hath Granted Bargained and sold and enfeoffed and by these presents doth Grant bargain Sell Enfeoff and confirm unto the said party of the second part of all that certain piece or parcel of Land lying on Lot Number Seventy Seven in the Township of Hartford aforesaid Bounded as follows North on Joseph Heaths Land and North line of said lot East on the East line of said lot South on the Highway leading from Hartford to Lansingburgh and West on a Road between Joseph Martin and said Cook containing Eighty seven acres of Land Together with all and singular the rights privileges and appurtenances Thereunto belonging Excepting pine timber and water falls fit for Mill places and Minerals of Gold or Silver which the said party of the first part reserves to himself with free Egress and Regress To have and to hold the said premises with appurtenances unto the said party of the second part his Heirs and assigns to the only proper use and Behoof of the said party of the second part his Heirs and assigns forever upon condition that the said party of the second part his Heirs or assigns shall yearly and Every year pay unto the said Joseph Martin his Heirs Executors Administrators or assigns the rent one Eighth of a Spanish milled Dollar for each and every acre contained in said piece of Land above mentioned in manner following that is to say one Moity or half part upon the first Tuesday of May and the other upon the first tuesday of November which Moriety or half yearly payment is one pound thirteen Shillings and Six pence ament money of New York and if default 1 should be made in the payment of the above sums for the
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the space of Sixty days after any of the days of payment above mentioned that then and from thenceforth it shall be Lawful to and for the said party of the first part his Heirs and assigns into the said farm hereby granted to Enter and Distrain and the distress or distresses then and there found to take drive and carry away and thereof to dispose until the said rent so due and in arrear with the charges of Distress shall be fully satisfied and that if no sufficient Distress shall then and there be found that then and from thence forth it shall and may be lawful to and for the said party of the first part his Heirs or Assigns into the said Farm hereby Granted to reenter and the same to have again Repossess and Enjoy as his or their former Estate any thing in these presents to the Contrary thereof in anywise  Notwithstanding and the said party of the second part for himself his Heirs Executors and Administrators doth  Covenant grant and agree to and with the said party of the first part his Heirs Executors administrators and assigns by these presents that he the said party of the second part his Heirs Executors administrators or assigns Shall and will  truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said party of the first part his Heirs or assigns the respective rents before mentioned and all taxes that now are or may hereafter may be charged on said piece of Land above mentioned and shall satisfy the Quit rent if it should be demanded by Law and all other taxes whatsoever arising by law on said piece of land the said party of the first part for himself his Heirs Executors  Administrators doth Covenant grant to and with the said party of the second part his Heirs and assigns that he the said the party of the second part his Heirs and assigns observing and performing the covenants and payments herein Reserved and Expressed on his and their part to be observed and performed and that at the respective times and in the manner herein described and appointed shall and may peaceably and quietly have hold use and
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Enjoy the said farm with the hereditaments unto him the said party of the second part his Heirs and assigns forever without the lawful hindrance or or molestation of any person or persons whomsoever that free and clear and fully and Clearly and absolutely acquitted Discharged and saved harmless and kept Indemnified by the said party of the first part his Heirs and assigns of and from all manner of Incumbrance whatsoever. In Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto Interchangeably set their hands and seals the day and year above written 
Joseph Martin [seal]
Signed Sealed and delivered  in presence of 
Mr. Peter Bishop 
Copy 
State of New York 
Washington County } 
Moses Cook being duly sworn says that he is a resident of the town of Hartford in said County, and that he has in his possession a lease from Joseph Martin to Samuel Cook of which the above is a true copy and that this deponent is the son of the said Samuel Cook mentioned in said Lease, and that he this deponant was acquainted with the said Joseph Martin and Lovina Martin his wife before and at the date of said lease as stated in his former affidavit and that said Lease has been duly assigned by the said Samuel Cook to this deponent 
Moses Cook
Sworn and Subscribed before me at Hartford County  aforesaid this 13 day of January 1844
Calvin L Parker, Justice of the Peace
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State of New York Washington County, Town of Hartford January 13 1844- 
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Moses Cook the subscriber to the within affidavitt and know him to be of good moral character and of a good reputation. 
C L Parker Justice of the Peace 
State of New York 
Washington County SS} 
I Henry Shipherd Clerk of said County do certify that Calvin L Parker was on the day of the date of the within certificate above written a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly elected and qualified and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 15th March January 1844 
H Shipherd Clerk