Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6956, for John Peter Martin, South Carolina
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
S.C.
Martin, John Peter
Isabella Innes
NUMBER
R6956
CONTENTS
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State of New Jersey
Middlesex County

On this twenty fourth day of October A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before me, Peter P. Runyon as Justice of the Peace in the County of Middlesex State of New Jersey
the Revd. Jacob J. January D.D. who, being duly sworn, deposes that in the year (1814) eighteen hundred & fourteen he was Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Arch W. Philadelphia Pa, and that on the twenty first day of June in said year, he being duly empowered, did unite in the marriage relation John P. Martin and Isabella Innes, that he has this day seen and recognised the original marriage certificate in his own hand bearing date as aforesaid -viz. June 21st 1814, and that he has no doubt of the identity of the applicant in this case, from concurring circumstances.

Sworn to and subscribed before me the 24th day of October 1853

J.J. Janeway

Peter P. Runyon Justice of the Peace

State of New Jersey
County of Middlesex J. Nicholas Moorceu Clerk of the Circuit Court in [illegible] for the County State [illegible] [illegible] eco hereby certify that Peter P.  Runyon Esquire whose genuine signature appears [illegible] is [illegible]
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see his official acts as such and entitled to full 
faith and credit, and that the aforesaid
County Court is a Court of record having
General Jurisdiction
Given under my hand & Seal of 
Office at New Brunswick 
this twenty fourth day of October
AD 1853

N Boozeman Clk
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The National Gazette and Literary Register 
Principles and Men.
Vol. XIII. Philadelphia, Saturday, July 7, 1832. No. 3546.
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Printed and published daily by William Fry, No. 72, South Second Street, Philadelphia. Price, Eight Dollars per annum, payable half yearly, in advance.

Columbo Root—100 bales for sale by T. Deland, Jr. je 21—south wharves, 2d door below Walnut St.

Senna—15 bales—landing and for sale by june 20 Flaes & Williams, 4 Chesnut st.

Yellow bandannas—250 pieces—entitled to debenture—for sale by Fales & Williams, 4 Chesnut st. june 20

Worsted yarms & twine.—10 bales Scarlet, Green, Orange and White Worsted Yarns, 9 do Seaming, Shad and Herring Twine, received and for sale by A. & G. Ralston, 9 south Front street. june 25—

Tennants's Chloride of Lime.—Chloride of Lime, from the manufactory of Tennant, Glasgow, distinguished by the strength and uniformity of his preparations—constantly for sale by F. & C. Yarnall, 39 Market st. 6mo 25-

Water Filters.—Patent portable Filters, for the purpose of rendering the most turbid, stagnant and foetid water of a crystalline brilliancy, depriving it of every noxious ingredient, and rendering it destitute of taste and smell—of various dimensions, for sale by J. S. Lewis & E. Penington, Jr. No. 25 Dock street. je 25:

Sugar.—250 hhds. prime New Orleans and Attakapas Sugars—for sale by W. Jackson & Riddle, 20 south Front street. june 25,

A Mule for Sale—Of 300 Spindles, new, made by Joseph Turner, of Kensington; warranted in every respect a first rate machine. For the purpose of closing an account, it will be disposed of at a reduced value, and on a liberal credit. Rising, Hanna & Co. 35 south Front street. je 23-2w

Saltpetre.—200 bags. E. I. crude Saltpeter, for sale by T. Deland, Jr. S. Wharves, second door below Walnut st. je 26:

Worsted Yarns and Twine.—10 bales Scarlet, Green, Orange and White Worsted Yarns; 14 do fine Seaming Twine; 9 do Shad and Herring do; 1 do Mullet and Gill Nett Twine, for sale by A. & G. Ralston, 9 S. Front st. je 26-

Tortoiseshell, Gum Copal, Cordage, &e. 14 cases E. I. Scraped Copal, 4 do do Tortoise Shell, 1 do Pearl Shell, 25 coils coir Cordage—landing from schr Factor, for sale by T. Deland, Jr. S. Wharves, 2d door below Walnut street. je 26:

Extract of Indigo.—20 casks, just received and for sale by Isaac Lohman, No. 85 South Front street. Directions for Dyers to use the above article can be had on application. june 26.

Molasses.—67 hhds prime retailing Molasses, landing, for sale by T. Deland, Jr. S. Wharves, second door below Walnut st. je 26:

Cotton.—8 bales repacked Cotton, just received in store, for sale by Rising, Hanna & Co. je26:d2w

Oranges and Lemons.—22 boxes Oranges, 20 do. Lemons, this day landing from schr Factor, for sale by T. Deland, Jr., Walnut st. wharf. je 26:

New England Rum.—35 hhds and 22 bbls now landing from schr Sabina, from Portland, for sale by Geo. Burrill & co. S. Wharves, 3d store below Walnut st. je 26:

Railway Iron.—The subscribers have the following assortment of this article, in lengths of 15 feet, with twelve countersunk holes, and the ends cut at an angle of 45 degrees;—1 inch by 1/4 inch, 99 tons; 1 1/4 do, 1/4 do, 20 1/2 do; 1 1/2 do, 3-8 do, 138; 2 do, 1-2 do, 500 do; 1/4 do, 5-8 do, 100. The small sizes are well adapted for branch road and temporary railways. A. & G. Ralston, 9 south Front street. N. B.—Models and Samples of all the different kinds [missing] in this country and England, will [missing, break column]

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William Eaton & Co., Silk Printers, Beg to inform the Wholesale Dealers in Silks, Crapes, &c., that they have commenced the business of Dyeing and Printing said articles, and have connected themselves with Mr. Harris, from London, who is a first rate Dyer and Color Maker, and would respectfully solicit the trade to send a few articles on trial, as they do not hesitate for a moment to challenge the United States, that they will produce such colors and workmanship as cannot be surpassed. W. E. & Co. would also mention, that if a trial should be made, those favouring them will find the goods finished in a style superior to any thing every done in this country, and equal to a London finish, and they will likewise use every dispatch in their power, so as to merit a continuance from those who may favour them with their orders.
W. E. & Co. at the same time respectfully request gentlemen to call at the premises, and view the patterns already finished—Philadelphia Silk Printing Establishment, 108 Filbert, between Tenth and Eleventh streets. june 14--d1m

IM. Madeira Wine.—Ponset's superior Marseilles Madeira, in hhds and qr casks, for sale by S. & W. Welsh, 50 S. wharves. jy 2-6t

Dry Goods.—Blue and yellow nankeens, pantaloon stripes and plaids, seersuckers, black lasting and princetta rouen cassimeres, brown and white drillings, merino cassimeres, rich brown habit cloth, silk and Marseilles vestings, German and English thread gloves, hair cloth and other stocks, super gauze flannels, fancy and mourning ginghams, fancy bdkfs., a large assortment of Hosiery, bobbinett lace and quillings, thread edgings, with a general assortment of other Dry Goods, constantly for sale by Benj. M. Hollinshead, 14 North Sixth street. jy 2.

Havana Segars.—20,000 Prime Havana Segars, received per brig Pegasus, from Havana, for sale by S. & W. Welsh, 50 S. wharves. jy 2-6t

German Claret Bottles.—80 groce German Claret Bottles, for sale by Jackson & Israel, 22 S. wharves. june 30 5t

Newburyport Mackerel.—79 half and qr. bbls. No. 1 and 2 Mackerel. Landing and for sale by Shober & Bunting, 21 south wharves. july 2, d3t

Greek Store.
J. Cerveau respectfully informs his friends and the public that he has removed to No. 201 Chesnut street, next door to the Theatre, where he has just received by the last arrivals, a large and handsome assortment of Fancy Goods, including large Minister Portfolios, Albums, steel mounted Pocket Books, ivory carved card cases, seal do, visiting cards, elegant work boxes with silver pieces, and do with music, gentlemen's dressing cases of different sizes, large morocco Portfolios, small fine morocco work boxes and baskets containing needle case, thimbles, and scissors, brodequin in silver, fine gold do., fine wax beads, ivory handles for parasol, ivory and steel pin cushions, gilt handles for screens, scr[blotted out] with moving figures, pin boxes, toilet boxes, music snuff boxes, ivory Chinese puzzle, porcelain and bronze inkstands, fine hair brushes, teeth do., Cologne water; and an assortment of fine Perfumery, with a great variety of other fancy a[blotted]les.
Also, a large and handsome collection of Plain and coloured Engravings, for scraps; historical subjects, Views of Egypt and Italy, handsomely painted, fancy pieces, caricatures, fashions, &c.
Amusing games, dominos, lotos, chessmen, chess boards, chequer boards, back gammon boards, battledore, graces.
Large magic lanthern, small size do., optics, camera obscura, hobby horses, and a large assortment of French and German Toys, for sale very low, wholesale and retail. may 5--

Two Pipes, 6 half pipes Rochelle Brandy, 6 half pipes Champaigne Brandy, in Custom House Stores, entitled to debenture.
40 cases Chateau Margau, 20 do. St. Estephe Claret, superior quality, just received, for sale by Roland & Ford, No. 205 Market street. june 20--

St. Domingo Coffee.—86 bags St. Domingo Coffee per Fair Play, from Port au Prince, just received and for sale by S. & W. Welsh, [cut off]

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Notice is hereby given that application has been made to the Farmers & Mechanics’ Bank of Philadelphia, for the renewal of Certificate No. 4784, dated 22d March, 1824, for twenty-five Shares of Stock of said Bank—the original Certificate having been either lost or mislaid. May 25:fs 12t

Removal.—Eward Mullins has removed from 23 Minor street, to the Store back of Messrs. Jean’s Dry Good Store, 137 Market street, north side, between Third and Fourth, where he is receiving an assortment of Scythes, Sickles, Cutlery, Edgetools, &c. Per late arrivals, viz: Monongahela, Charles Wharton, and Royal William. M 22. tuths2m

Academia de West Chester.
Esta Institution, dirigida por el Dr. Barber, bien conseido en los Colegios de los Estados Unidos como profesor de Eloeucion; y por Mr. Fuller, graduado del Colegio de Yale, y en la que hai actualmente de 40 jovenes, presenta a los Señores Europa, de las Yslas, y de la America del sur, cuantas facilidades y ventajas pueden desear para aprender las Matematicas, y las Lenguas Antiquas y Modernas. Un Español, natural de Madrid, que habla Ingles con perfeccion, enseña las lenguas Española y Francesa. La Academia posée, para el uso de los discipulos, una libreria selecta de 600 volumenes de los mejores clasicos Ingleses, y dos veces por semana se dan lecturas Sobre Retories y las Ciencias Naturales.
Condiciones. Pension y lavado, con in enseñanza del Ingles, Lenguas Antiguas y Matematicas, &c. $160 al año.
West Chester bien conseido por su salubridad, dista 22 millas de Philadelphia; dos diligencias van y vienen diariamente entre estos dos pueblos. Se daran y se pediran informes. Cualquiera carta, porte pagado, dirigida al Dr. Barger, recivira toda atencion. Ap 26: thstu

Haddonfield Boarding School for Boys—The Subscriber has opened a Boarding School in the pleasant and healthy village of Haddonfield, New Jersey, (six iles from Camden,) in which are taught the several branches of an English Education, viz. Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Geography, Composition, Natural Philosophy, History, and the Mathematical branches. Price of Board and Tuition, 25 dollars per quarter of 12 weeks, payable in advance. Washing and mending 25 centers per week. The usual prices will be charged for books and stationary.
References—Thomas Kite, No. 64 Walnut street; Jas. Dunlap & Co. 55 North Second; John M. Whitall, 79 Market street, Philadelphia; John Gill, Thomas Redman, Haddonfield; Benjamin Cooper, near Camden; Joseph Matlack, Moorestown N. J. Joseph Whitall, Jr. Haddonfield, 4th mo. 9th, june 2—s6tep1

Notice.—All persons indebted to the estate of the late Mrs. Ann Dunkin are requested to make payment, and those having claims against the estate, are desired to present them to WM. Davidson, Executor. June 8th. 1832—je 9-s5t

Seasoned Flooring Boards. For sale on reasonable terms, in quantity of well seasoned Carolina Flooring and Step Boards. 1 and 1 ¼ inches thick, of good quality, clear of sap. Apply to John Pearce, 334 north Sixth street. Je 7-thstu1m
Sea Bathing. The large and convenient Boarding House, opposite Manahawkin, called by the Monmouth, N. J. will be open from the 25th day of June, for the reception of visitors.
The advantages of bathing, shooting, sailing, fishing, &c. are equal to those of any other situation on the coast. The subscriber has spared neither time nor expense in furnishing the bar with choice wines, and other liquors, of a superior quality. In short, no expense nor exertion will be spared on his part, to render general satisfaction to visiters [sic]. For farther particulars, enquire of Charlie Champion, Arch street Ferry; Joseph Burr, Ferry, south side of Market street, or of Edwin M. Budd, Mount Holly. Price of board per week, $6. Hudson Busby.
N.B. The house will be opened through the Gunning season.
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The National Gazette. 
Report Of the Committee of the Philadelphia Medical Society, appointed to investigate the subject of Cholera.
The Committee of the Medical Society of Philadelphia, appointed, in the pursuance of a request from the Board of Health of the said City, “to institute an impartial examination into all the facts in relation to the Epidemic Cholera,” now prevailing in Europe, having carefully examined numerous official and authentic documents in reference to the disease, as it first made its appearance in Asia, and subsequently in various parts of Europe, beg leave to submit to the Society, the following summary, as embracing the most interesting facts connected with the Epidemic, together with such municipal regulations as would be called for, should it make its appearance in our City.
In drawing up their report, the Committee have carefully abstained from indulging in conjectures or speculations, but have restricted themselves to an enumeration of what, from the weight and concurrence of the authorities furnishing the best accounts of the disease, may be received as the best established facts; the details from which these facts are derived, the Committee have avoided inserting, in order not to extend their report to too great a length.
In pursuing their investigations, the Committee have adopted the following arrangement.
The origin and subsequent spread of the Epidemic Cholera.
The character of the localities where it has generally appeared, and where it has produced the greatest ravages.
The description of persons most liable to its attacks.
The influence of Quarantines, and other sanatory restrictions, adopted by various governments, to guard against the introduction of the disease.
The municipal regulations, best adapted to lessen the violence, and to limit the prevalence, of the disease, should it appear in this country.
I. The Epidemic Cholera commenced its destructive ravages in various parts of the Delta formed by the mouths of the river Ganges, in India, during the summer of 1817. Presenting many of the features of ordinary Cholera Morbus, it has still some symptoms superadded, which distinguish it from that disease. The chief of these latter are, the suddenness of the onset, and the rapidity of its course; the extreme exhaustion of the animal powers; the distressing cramps or spasms of the muscles of the limbs and body, which commonly attend it; and, more especially, its strongly marked epidemic character.
Continuing its ravages from the period already mentioned, by the end of 1818 the disease had pervaded nearly the whole of Hindostan, from the Himalayah mountains on the north, to Cape Comorin on the south; and from Bombay and Surat on the west, to Sylhet on the east. In 1819, it broke out in the Kingdom of Arraeau on the east; Penang and Java on the south-east; and in the isles of France and Bourbon on the south-west. The effects of the epidemic were, also, experienced still further to the south and east, over the whole of the Indio-Chinese peninsula. In 1820, it prevailed in Siam, Malacea, the Philippine Islands, the southern provinces of China, and at Guzzerat in India. In 1821 it occurred in Muscat, on the southern extremity of the Arabian peninsula, and again in the Island of Java. During this year, Bushire, Schiraz, and other parts of Persia; Bassora and Bagdad in Arabia; the island Bahrien in the Persian Gulph; and in a south-easterly direction, the island of Borneo, suffered severely from the presence of the epidemic. During the succeeding winter, the disease became dormant in both Persia and Syria, but in the spring of 1822 again revived, and made its appearance, among other places, in Ispahan, Teheran, Tabrie, Mosul, and Diarbeker. By the end of the year, indeed, almost every place of note in Persia had been ravaged by the pestilence. In the spring of the ensuing year (1823), it broke out it Latokia, Antioch, Tortoise, Tripoli, and in other towns along the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, and in the Spice Islands, as well as still farther south, in the island of Timor near New Holland. Previous to the autumn of this year, the disease had prevailed [missing] Asiatic Turkey, from Bassora and Bagdad [missing] Antioch. Egypt, however, escaped [torn page]

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composed , in great part, or entirely, of indigestible articles, and those containing but little nutriment, or possessed of unwholesome properties. The aged and infirm of this class have been among the principal sufferers from Cholera.
2. Persons habitually addicted to the use of spirituous or other intoxicating drinks, have been especially liable to attacks of the disease. Drunkards, and the debauched of every class, have been among the chief sufferers, where-ever  the Epidemic has prevailed, and those who sank the most rapidly under an attack.
3. Individuals exposed to wet, or to damp and cool air, particularly during the night, and especially when badly or insufficiently clothed, exhausted by fatiguing employments, or exercises; by want of sleep, long fasting, intemperance, or other debilitating causes, have seldom escaped the disease. Exposure whilst sleeping, or during a state of intoxication, to the open air, has always proved peculiarly dangerous.
4. Valetudinarians, or persons with broken down constitutions, particularly those subject to affections of the stomach and bowels, are peculiarly liable to the attacks of Cholera.
5. Those under the influence of fear, intense anxiety, grief, and other depressing passions, have been enumerated by nearly all the writers on Epidemic Cholera, as among the most predisposed to the disease. The baneful influence of these causes was exhibited, not only in rendering those who indulged in them more susceptible to an attack, but by their increasing the violence of its symptoms, and accelerating its fatal termination.
IV. In relation to the quarantine and other presumed sanatory restrictions, which have been adopted by the different governments of Europe, as safeguards against the Cholera, your Committee, after a careful and cautious examination into all the numerous facts connected with this branch of their inquiry, would simply state, without advertising to points, the consideration of which it has been thought unadvisable to enter upon in the present report, that all such measures have failed in effecting the grand object for which they were established. In proof of their [illegible], we have the experience of the whole of the portion of Europe where the disease has prevailed. In Russia, Austria, Hungary, and by almost every other government, they have been unavailingly resorted to. By Prussia their effects were tried to the greatest possible extent; her rigorous measures being enforced by no less than sixty thousand of her choicest troops—the result is before the world. So far from proving salutary—quarantine and sanatory restrictions, as they are termed, in addition to the immense expenditure they necessarily involve, have by suspending or interrupting commerce, and depriving of employment thousands of those who are directly or indirectly dependent upon it for their means of daily subsistence, rendered multitudes of individuals and families more favourable subjects of the disease.
As regards the supposed conveyance of Cholera by means of clothing and merchandize, the following facts, contained in the Report of the Central Board of Health of England, may be adduced as strong, if not conclusive testimony.
“There is no question, perhaps, in the whole range of sanatory police, on which so many and such irrefragable facts can be brought to bear as on this; derived, too, from the most authentic and recent sources.
“Many vessels, also, arrived laden with wool and hides, yet not a single case of Cholera occured on board any of these ships outside the Cattegate Sea, nor amongst the people employed in opening and airing their cargoes in the lazaretoos.
“At the hemp and flax wharves, in St. Petersburg, where several thousand tons of these articles arrived during the spring and summer of this year, from places in the interior, where Cholera existed at the time of their departure for the capital, the persons employed in bracking or sorting, and who generally passed the night among the bales, did not suffer so early in the season, nor so severely, as other classes of the general population.
“The same observation holds good with respect to all the rope-walks of St. Petersburgh, and the imperial manufactory of linen cloth and Alexandrofsky, where all the yarn is spun from flax bracked and hackled on the spot.”
The quarantine of persons has proved equally unavailing with that on merchandise. In evidence of this, the fol-[ripped page]

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against the use of such as have been found liable to induce disease.
It may be stated, in general terms, that the food universally recognised as most wholesome, consists of light, nutricious, and easily digested articles; such as beef or mutton, poultry, and game of almost every description, plainly cooked, and eaten in moderation; soft boiled fresh eggs, good potatoes, spinage, asparagus; wheaten bread, when well baked and a day old; biscuits; milk, fresh or boiled; oat-meal, rice, barley, arrow-root, &c. &tc.
The following articles may be enumerated as among the chief of those which have been found liable to induce attacks of cholera. Rich, high seasoned, and greasy food of every description; heavy puddings; pork and fish, particularly salted and dried; fried oysters; lobsters and crabs; cheese, pastry, &c., flatulent vegetables, and especially the watery fruits and vegetables, when too freely indulged in, as green corn, peas, cucumbers, melons, radishes, and the like; as well as all unripe, acid, and decayed fruits.—Every thing, in fact, which is difficult of digestion, notwithstanding it may have been eaten, during ordinary states of health, without occasioning any perceptible inconvenience, should be abstained from.
In regard to drinks, the habitual use of spirituous liquors has been found highly injurious, and malt and vinous drinks, if admissible at all, should be of a good quality, and used only in very moderate quantities. Cold drinks should be taken with great caution, particularly when the body is in a state of profuse perspiration, or exhausted by labor or fatigue: acid drinks, in general, are to be avoided.
Depots of wholesome nutritious food, for the benefit of the indigent, would be useful.
Strict cleanliness of the person and clothing, is an indispensable precaution for the preservation of health. The cleanliness of the person will be best preserved by the use of baths, or ablutions, followed by frictions over the whole surface with a flesh brush, or a coarse towel. The bath and frictions, have the double advantage or removing all extraneous matter from the skin, and at the same time, or promoting the healthy functions of that organ, as well as of increasing the energies of the stomach and bowels, and of the system generally. Upon no class of persons is it more important to urge the necessity of strict cleanliness, than upon labourers and mechanics.
All persons should be cautioned against exposing themselves, when it can be possibly be avoided, to wet, to cold, or to the night air; especially in the localities which have been indicated as those most favourable to the production of Cholera; as well as against frequenting crowded assemblages in confined and heated apartments, and more particularly from subsequent exposure to the night air. Remaining long without food—a diminution of the requisite amount of sleep—and going out in the morning with an empty stomach, are so many causes capable of producing the disease, and against which, therefore, the public should be cautioned.
They whose circumstances compel them to reside in the neighborhood of ponds, or other extensive collections of stagnant water, or in low, damp, and otherwise unhealthy situations, may, in a great degree, lessen the danger to which they are exposed, by the strictest cleanliness; by occupying the driest and most elevated apartments of their respective houses; by retiring within their dwellings, and carefully closing the windows and doors, before night-fall, and by keeping moderate fires when the weather is cool and damp.
3d. Under the head of means adapted to lessen the violence and mortality of Cholera in those attacked, it is not the intention of the Committee to enter into the consideration of its medical treatment. They would, however, remark that the disease has been found to be so far under the control of appropriate remedies, that whilst there has scarcly been an instance of recovery where the subjects of it have been without medical assistance, a considerable proportion of those who have received such assistance immediately after being attacked, have recovered.
In Epidemic Cholera, more perhaps than in any other disease, the chance of a successful termination of the case depends upon the promptitude with which the administration of the remedies demanded, is resorted to: with the loss of a very few hours, the probability of the patient’s recovery will be greatly diminished. It is important, therefore, that proper measures be taken by the public authorities, to secure to the indigent that prompt assistance, which, in the case of the disease appearing amongst us; will be the only means of saving the lives of a large portion of those who shall be attacked.
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The National Gazette. Philadelphia: Saturday, July 7th, 1832.
Fifty-sixth Anniversary of American Independence. The State Society of the Cincinnati of Pennsylvania met in the Comptroller’s room, and among other transactions ordered the subjoined statement of the Washington Monument Fund to be published.
The following named gentlemen were elected officers for the ensuing year, viz:
Caleb North, President.
John Markland, Vice-President.
John Steele, Treasurer.
John Paul Schott, Assistant Treasurer.
Thomas M Euen, Secretary.
William Jackson, Assistant Secretary.
Standing Committe—James Glentworth, John Tolbert, James S. Caldwell, Callender Irvine, Patrick Hayes, Isaac Wayne, Alexander W. Johnston.
The Society met again in the afternoon, at the Congress Hall Hotel, to dinner, favored with the company of several distinguished guests.—The following toasts were drunk during the festivities of the afternoon.
The fifty-sixth Anniversary of our National Independence—millions of freemen consecrate the day of its nativity.
The United States—a peaceful and safe asylum for the persecuted and unfortunate exile from less favoured realms.
The memory of General George Washington—the fairest page in the vast volume of History is that which records his unrivalled fame.
The President of the United States.
The Governor and State of Pennsylvania.
The Army and Navy of the United States—actuated and governed on all occasions by the loftiest principles of honor and patriotism.
Agriculture, Commerce, and Manufactures—may a conviction of their utility ensure their constant and liberal encouragement.
Our fair countrywomen—whose grace and beauty captivate our hearts, whose worth and goodness secure our esteem.
Colonel Aaron Ogden, President General of the Cincinnati—our estimable and respected associate.
The departed Statesmen and Heroes of the Revolution—a halo of imperishable glory encircles their names.
The surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution.
The gallant and unfortunate Poles—whose virtues and heroism we admire, whose cruel and unmerited suffering we deplore.
The Cause of Freedom throughout the world: 
Take, Freedom, take thy radiant round,
When dimmed, revive—when lost, return;
Till not a shrine through earth be found
On which thy glories shall not burn.
Statement of the Washington Monument Fund, published by order of the Society, July 5, 1819.
Report of the Committee for collecting funds for erecting a Monument to the memory of General Washington:—
From subscriptions the Committee has received the nett sum of $3079 76
Interest on the investment of this sum, 496 83 $3576 59
Which is now invested in the name of the Trustees of the Washington Monument in 6 per cent. Stock of the 10,000,000 loan, amounting to $3605.79.—In 1824-5, during the visit of Gen. Lafayette to the United States, collections to the amount of $2522 85 were made in aid of this fund, which was invested in the same manner as the preceding sum. The 6 per cent. stock was paid off by government in 1829; the fund, then amounting to $9633 78, was reinvested in the United States 5 per cent. loan of 1821—$9584 40. Since that period, the quarterly dividends have been invested in the same stock, and at this time, July 4th, 1832, the fund consists of $10,989 18 of United States 5 per cent [ripped page]

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Congress.
The Senate, yesterday, was engaged nearly the whole of the sitting in discussing the details of the Tariff bill. We are obliged to omit the proceedings thereon, for want of room. There was no final decision on the bill.
In the House of Representatives, Mr. Drayton, from a majority of the committee appointed to inquire whether an attempt was made by the late Secretary of War, John H. Eaton, fraudulently to give Samuel Houston, or any other person or persons concerned with said Houston, a contract for supplying rations to Emigrating Indians, made a report with the following resolution:
Resolved, That John H. Eaton, the late Secretary of War, and Samuel Houston do stand entirely acquitted in the judgment of this House, from all imputation of fraud, either committed or attempted to be committed by them, or by either of them, in any matter relating to, or connected with the premises.
Resolved, That all the evidence which was submitted to the committee, together with the journal of their proceedings, be annexed to, and recorded with this report; which report was read, and the documents therewith, ordered to be printed.
Mr. Stanbery, on behalf of himself, and Mr. Isaac C. Bates, of the minority of the said committee, made a counter-report, setting forth, “that in their opinion, Samuel Houston, did attempt wrongfully to obtain the contract referred to in the resolution of the House, for supplying rations to the Emigrating Indians; that the late Secretary of War did attempt wrongfully to give said contract to said Houston, and that this was known to the PResident; and that , as an official transaction, they view it as extraordinary and unjustifiable throughout.”
Mr. J. L. Kerr, of the said minority, submitted a paper containing his views thereof; which reports were read and severally ordered to be printed.
The resolution from the Senate, respecting a day of humiliation, prayer, and fasting, was read the third time.
The question being on its passage, a motion by Mr. Bates, of Maine, to lay it on the table, having been negatived, a motion was subsequently made by Mr. Bell to re-commit the resolution, with instructions, to have it modified, by adding the words “if  he shall think proper.” On which a debate arose of a character too interesting for us even to attempt to condense into the short space allowed by the present outline. We will endeavor to present it hereafter.
In the course of the debate, reference having been made to the letter of th ePresident in reply to an application of the same subject from the synod of  the Dutch Church.
Mr. Williams objected, and made a point of order: which, having been decided by the Chair, (Mr. Polk occupying that seat in the Speaker’s absence,) as being in order, Mr. Adams took an appeal, which was pending, when the House adjourned.

{From the Washington Globe of Friday}
Information has reached the War Department from the head Quarters of General Atkinson, foot of Illinois Rapids, the 23rd June, stating that General ATkinson was to march on that day with the Illinois militia, and about 400 regular troops to attack the Indians who were stationed on Rock River in the neighborhood of the Four Lakes, where they detach small parties of 12, 20, and 40 men to annoy the frontiers and commit depredations—that on the 16th, Captain Snyder’s company of volunteers had a rencontre on the head of Plain river, with a party of 40 or 50 Indians, and killed five, with a loss of three on the part of the whites—that on the same day General Dodge at the head of 21 men, fell in with a party of 11 Sac Indians, strongly posted under the bank of a lake on the Peketalica, and succeeded in killing the whole number, having three of his own party wounded—that about the same time one white man was killed on the Da Paye river, another on the Bureau, and five near the Blue Mound diggings—that General Atkinson expected to be upon the ground at that time occupied by the Indians on the 30th June—and that by employing some of the principal men of the Winnebagoes and Pottawattomies, he had succeeded through the former, in rescuing two females, captured by the hostile Indians, who ahd been restored to their friends.
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Ward. The child was locked in the embrace of the mother.
On Saturday evening their remains were conveyed to this town; and on Sunday morning were interred; The funeral office was performed at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, and the stated service for the dead has seldom worn a more solemn aspect. The church was thronged, and all present seemed to be suitably impressed by a spectacle which was truly one of the most affecting ever witnessed in this place. 
The sympathies of our community, as might have been expected, are strongly awakened by this melancholy dispensation. The deceased were very respectable and worthy individuals; and had, each of them, a circle of friends and acquaintances on whom this calamity has inflicted a severe shock—Mr. Cutler was for many years a resident of this town, and enjoyed the esteem of the whole community; having been intrusted, for a series of years, with several municipal offices.

Jacksonville, (Ill.) June 21.
By a letter received in town the first of this week, intelligence has been received that a party under Col. Henry had a skirmish, in which seven Indians and three of our men were killed. If it be true that the hostile party have fortified themselves, a speedy termination of the war may be anticipated. We shall probably receive some official intelligence before our next paper goes to press.

New Orleans, June 20.
Yesterday evening, after a long month of drought, dust and heat, our city was visited with a delightful shower of rain, which is one of the most agreeable things its inhabitants have been blessed with for some time. The sky bore threatening indications of rain for some days back, which terminated only in passing gusts of wind, with a slight sprinkling of rain. Last evening the clouds became suddenly lowering, the wind from the southwest blew in sudden squalls, whirling the dust in eddies over the tops of the houses, and presently a torrent of rain saturated the parched earth, and continued copiously falling during the night.
One or two vessels, we understand, were driven from their moorings by the violence of the wind, and a few stages broken down. We did not learn of any damage of consequence having been sustained.
In the early part of the day the thermometer ranged as high as 89 in the shade. 
Captain Dudley, of the schooner Wetree, which arrived here last evening from Vera Cruz, which place she left on the 11th instant, informs us that it was currently reported there, that General Santa Anna, with an army of 2500 men, was within three leagues of Jalapa; that the ministerial forces had been reduced by sickness and desertion to about 800 men, and were divided into two divisions; one, under General Calderon, was encamped in Jalapa, and the other was on the National Bridge, between Santa Anna’s forces and Vera Cruz. It was supposed that Santa Anna would first take Jalapa, in which case the other division would be entirely in his power.

Donaldsonville, (Lou.) June 10.
The Prospects of the Planters in this neighborhood, we believe, never were more dissatisfactory. The Sugar Cane, on many plantations, looks like Eastern Shore Corn that tassels when knee high—in some places the discouraged planter had suffered the weeds to hide it. Corn, of which much more than the usual proportion was planted this year, has greatly suffered by the drought, and unless we have rain soon will produce little else than fodder.

Foreign Intelligence. Further Extracts from the London Papers to the 31st May, received at New York.
The three ships of the line, Britannia, Caledonia, and Talavera, which have been ordered to the Tagus, are not, as some papers have stated, under the orders of Sir Pulteny Malcom. They are intended as a reinforcement to the squadron of the Tagus, which is commanded by Admiral Parker. Sir Pulteny Malcolm commands the squadron of evo[blocked by ripped page]. Lord Wm. Russell, accompanied by [ripped page]


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committee was appointed to prepare this document; it consists of M. Odillon Barrot, M. Mauguin, Gen. Lafayette, M. Lafitte, M. Armenia, and M. Comte.

{From the Journal du Commerce, May 29.}
A letter from Le Mans, dated May 26, at four o’clock in the evening, states that a detachment of the 11th regiment of Chasseurs had gone to Brulon the day before, to reconnoitre a large body of Chousans, said to exist in that district, and that a gendarme had ridden in the same night, to inform the authorities that the rebels, five hundred in number, were watched by a few soldiers of the 31st regiment, and some National Guards; but that the latter could not long compete with them, if they were attacked. At ten o’clock on the 26th, the drums of the National Guard beat to arms, and an hour after 500 had met on the bridge of Napoleon, determined to give no quarter to the hedge heroes, and marched off to Brulon. The Chouans, on their approach, fell back on the department of Mayenne, and thence proceeded to the forest of Charnie. The young men of Mans formed into a free corps, and pledged themselves not to return without Chouans, dead or alive. The same night, another band, sixty strong, disarmed the National Guard of the village of Chemire, within a league and a half from that town. It is said that General Clouet is at the head of the 500 Chouans in the forest of Charnie.
Another letter, dated twelve o’clock that night, mentions that 150 young volunteers, with the same number of soldiers of th eline, had sallied out, an hour before, in pursuit of the Chouans who had disarmed the people of Chemire, and that a very brisk fusilade and firing of swivels had been heard in the direction of Ballee.
Some disturbances have occurred at Beziers; and among the persons killed by the National Guards, and the people who fired at the dragoons, was a son of the celebrated Lavelette. A letter from Paris says:
“This is a very serious affair. It will be the policy, and is, I am sure, the desire of Marshal Soult, to punish this outrage. The male inhabitants of Beziers are the most turbulent, the most lawless, and the most Republican portion of the South of France, but how to punish a population of 16,000 or 17,000 will be the difficulty. This occurrence, and some lurking fears of an emeute in Paris have given rise to gloomy sensations within these few days. It is to these riots that the postponement of the tour of the Duke of Orleans (which was to have commenced yesterday) is to be attributed.”
The unpleasant character of the intelligence from the South is stated to have been the subject of deliberation. Respecting the Duchess of Berri’s steamer, we have only one new fact worth mentioning—namely, that a naval ge d’arme of the name of Roux, who had boarded the Carlo Alberto on the third instant, officially reports that at that time there were three women on board. When the vessel was seized at La Ciotat only one was found.
The loan of 40 millions of francs (£1,600,000) for the city of Paris was taken at an interest of 4 ⅞ per cent. by a Company composed of Messrs. Rothschild, Hagerman, and Fould. The Funds rose on the 28th of May and again on the 29th, in consequence of what was deemed the improving aspect of affairs, particularly as respected the prospect of general peace.
The official bulletins state that the deaths by cholera on the 27th, were 17; new cases, 17; recoveries 53. On the 28th, deaths, 10; new cases, 15; recoveries, 32.

{From the Cuplow Morning Post, May 28.}
Tithe War in Ireland.
Only think of what Parson Whitty had done. The moment he discovered that Wellington took office, that instant the meek Divine issued his mild and apostolic orders to have property to the amount of £112, distrained for £34; and to render it mere harassing and expensive, the good Pastor brings [an?] action through the Civil Courts. What more? Why, the very man (Mr. Germaine) who [is?] thus ill treated, is again further insulted, being denied the common and useful knowledge of the day of the sale of his property. What more? The people are brought into town for seven days, day after day, still every day adjourning the sale, thinking the people would be worn out with fatigue, or, perhaps, tempted to violate the peace, from the provocation caused by this delay. What more? Mr. Wat Newton, a Magistrate who had not [cut off due to rip in page]

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Obituary. [drawings of fingers pointing at this section from where it starts and ends]
On the 2d day of June, departed this life, at Baltimore, John P. Martin, Esq. of the city of Trenton, in the 72d year of his age.
This venerable man was a native of North Carolina, but during most of his early years a resident in Charleston, S.C., at which place his father was a clergyman of the Lutheran Church, and one of the first of that communion who emigrated from Germany to the United States. .The deceased entered the army as early as the year 1776, being not sixteen years of age, but, as be was often heard to say, in full vigour of body and almost six feet in height. The struggles of the patriots in South Carolina were, as is well known, peculiarly severe; and young Marin, with a spirit of adventure which marked all his years of strength, threw himself at this gloomy epoch into the most doubtful and perilous services. The camp and the prison, the lonely watch and the mixed combat, all varieties of military toil, witnessed his self-denial and courage; and there are still remaining in Charleston a few who remember his contempt of all selfish ends and personal dangers.
In the year 1777, while cruising against the enemy, he was made prisoner by a British frigate, and carried into New York. After a confinement of five months, he was, in 1778, exchanged at Newport, and sent to Providence, Rhode Island. The horrors of the prison-ship were often alluded to, by Mr. Martin, in his later years; and it is to be regretted that he had not preserved some written memorial for those days of trial. He had only in part recovered from the sufferings of this imprisonment, when he set out, on foot, in utter indigence, to journey from Boston to Charleston. This painful, and as it proved, perilous expedition, he accomplished; not, however, to seek repose at home, for in 1779 he was one of the first to offer his aid in the assault on Savannah, by Lincoln and D’Estaing. In this attack two of his companions were killed by his side. In 1783, he took part in the entire siege of Charleston, and continued in its defence until the surrender. In 1781 he served under Gen. Sumpter, and it is worthy of being mentioned, that both these patriots died upon the same day. In short Mr. Martin was a soldier of the revolution from the beginning to the very consummation of the war; and when, in 1783, he returned home, it was with the honourable but painful memorials of that spirit of sacrifice, with which he had endured and fought. These memorials were disease, debility, almost total blindness, and a deprivation of half the employments and joys of life.
For many years he resided at Lumberton, N.C., subsequently at Mount Holly, N. J., and lastly in the city of Trenton. As might be supposed from what has just been said, Mr. Martin lived much in retirement. Even in the places of his residence, the most interesting traits of his marked character were known only to a few. Yet there were some so strongly impressed that the most casual observer could not but descry and admire them. Such were these: unfeigned faith and charity after the New Testament model, exhibited in visible fruits, simplicity of heart, incorruptible honest, unflaunted freedom in expressing and maintaining what was received as true or right, decision of character in every matter of private or public interested, attempered by that liberality which grows out of copious reading and intercourse, and those sympathies which are cultivated by affliction; a regard for the decorum and courtesies of life, savouring the old school of manners, but relieved by affectionate and unstudied cordiality.
In the decline of life the varied ills which had long been hovering over our lamented friend, gathered more closely, and settled on him, beyond the hope of removal. Mr. Martin was on a journey homeward from Washington, when he was arrested in Baltimore by a disease, which after five weeks of extreme suffering, issued in his death. It was in full accordance with his confession and his life that he prepared for his departure. He died in serene hope of immortal health and the perfect purity, through the mercy of God and the atonement of the divine Redeemer.
This unadorned statement will doubtless fall below the recollections of Mr. Martin’s friends in various parts of the Union. It is, however, the tribute of sincere respect. A.

Letter-Bags at the Merchants’ Coffee-House
Ship Alexander [partially obscure, ?], Brown, Liverpool, July 20
Ship Globe [partially obscure, ?], Dixey, Canton, soon
By ship [?]rouge, Bryson, Hamburg, soon

Port of Philadelphia. Saturday, July 7.
High water, (this afternoon) 10h. 27m.
Brig Lady Washington, Adams, St. Johns, EF., 8, lumber, T. Ridgely.
Brig Pilot, Milton, Boston, 6, mdze, A. C. Barclay.
Brig Swan, Atkins, Boston, 7, mdze, Grant & Stone.
Sp. brig Alta Gracia, Cancela, Mansanilla, 11, cedar, S. & W. Welsh.
Schr Morning Star, Howes, Bangor, 12, lumber, G. & B. Baker.
Schr James & Catherine, Tittemary, Norfolk, 16, mdze J. Dalton
Schr Lucy & Abigail, Newcomb, Boston, 8, salt.
Schr Betsey, Van Hook, Attakapas, 26, sugar and [hole cut out] E. B. Musten.
Schr Little John, Smith, NYork, 3, salt.
Schr Wave, M’Coley, NYork, 3, pork, beef &c. Imlay & Foster.
Schr Jew, baker, New York, 5, mdze. A. C. Barclay
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Walnut Street Theatre.
Last night of Victorine. This evening, Will be presented, the Petite Comedy of How to Die for Love.
Captain Blumenfeldt, Mr. Smith; Capt. Thalwiek, Mr. Wood; Trick, Mr. Roberts; Trap, Mr. Whiting; Charlotte, Mrs. Roper.
After which, A Grand Allegory, in honor of the Great and Glorious Washington.
The entertainments of the evening will conclude with the celebrated Drama called Victorine; Or, I’ll Sleep on it. Alexandre, Mr. Wood; Mr. Bonassus, Mr. Roberts; Michael, Mr. Smith; Victorine, Mrs. Rowbotham; Eliza, Mrs. Maywood.
Mr. Sinclair is engaged for a few nights, and will appear as Masaniello.
Published and for sale by J. Edgard, No. 68, South Fourth street, Dumbarton’s Bonnie Dell, a song composed and sung with great applause by J. Sinclair.

The Committee appointed at the Town Meeting of the National Republicans, friends of 
American Industry, to make arrangements for the celebration of the 4th of July, are requested to meet at Ryekman’s, Independence Hotel, this evening, at eight o’clock. Business of importance to be said before the Committee.

West Chester Boarding School for Girls,
Is located in the borough of West Chester, Chester county, Pennsylvania, 24 miles west of Philadelphia.
As considerable additions have been made to the buildings of this institution during the past year, a larger number of pupils can now be accommodated.
This situation is elevated and remarkably healthy, commanding an extensive prospect of a fertile and well cultivated country. In Philadelphia reference may be made to James Martin, Eli K. Price, or Anthony Bolmar, for further particulars.
Philip Price & Co. july 7 —sw6t

For St. Jago (in Cuba)—The ship Plato, Captain Wise. For freight or passage, having superior accommodations, apply to J. Welsh, 50 south wharves. Jy 7-6t
For Charleston.—The regular packet schr Randoph, I. Ireland, master, is now loading at Girard’s wharf, and will have quick dispatch. For freight or passage apply on board, or to Sloan & Morris, Girard’s wharf. Jy 7-
London Hosiery.—The subscribers have just received an invoice of very superior Cotton Hosiery, comprising almost every variety of men’s, women and childrens. T. J. & A. R. Perkins, S. E. cor. Of 9th and Market street. Jy7—d1w
Fine Sea Island Shirtings.—16 cases 4-6 and 7-8 bleached and beetled fine Shirtings; also, 5 cases do. do. do. do. do. put up in linen folds—now landing from Schr. Jas. Barbour, and for sale by Snelling & Col., 19 South Front st. jy .3t
Wines.—Port Sherry, Teneriffe, Madeira, San Lucar and Catalonia,—of the most ancient brands and choicest qualities,—imported direct and for sale by Robert Adams, 123 Walnut st. jy 7-1m
Preserve Jars and Jelly Cans.—Any quantity of the above may be had at the China Hall, Market st. above Tenth. Jy 7-3t
N.E. Rum.—New England Rum, in hhds and bbls. landing from brig Swan, for salary by J. Miller, Jr. 109 S. Front st. jy 7-5t
Sauterne Wine.—30 hhds landing from ship Allegheny, at Spruce street wharf, and for sale by F. Thorspecken, 31 S. Front st. jy 7-4t
Salt Afloat.—3,000 bushels Eastport Salt, the cargo of Schr. Lucy and Abigail—for sale by A. & G. Ralston, 9 S. Front st. jy 7.

Palm Leaf Hats.
The subscriber will open this day 1 case of super palm leaf hats; 1 do. super white grass cloth round jackets 1 do. super brown do.; also on hand, super brown grass cloths, by the piece or yard; super white do.; super white cartoon for pantaloons, super nankin, window blinds; grass bleached Iron linen, damask table cloths and napkins, all of which are to be sold at reduced prices, at 34 South Second Street, corner of Trotter’s Alley. William Murtha. jy 7,

United States. Eastern District of Pennsylvania.}Set.
Notice is hereby given, That a special District Court of the United States, will be holden at the District Court Room in the City of Philadelphia, in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, on Friday, the 27th day of July inst., at 11 o’clock, A. M. for the trial of an information filed by Henry D. Gilpin, Attorney of the United States in and for the said District, against two packages of Earthenware, marked S [lu a diamond] P No. 5, 6, inserted in the ship Cassander, from Liverpool, for false valuation, &c, and seized therefor, &c.
By order of the Court, FRA’s Hopkinson, Clk. Dist. Ct.
July 7, 1832.

United States,
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State of Connecticut, County of New Haven

On this Tenth day of October A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before me, Jedge of the Probate Court, within and for the District of New Haven, in said County of New Have, the same being a Court of Record, Isabella Innes Martin, aged seventy three years, a resident of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is  the Widow of John Peter Martin deceased, who was a Volunteer (a Private) in on  the German Fusilier Company of Charleston South Carolina, on their expedition to Savannah, and received pay therefor on the 13th May 1776, as per accompanying Transcript from the Rolls of Said Company; that he served with said company on the expedition to Port Royal Ferry, from Sunday Jany. 17th 1779, ntil their return on the 6th March 1779, and received pay therefor, as per Rolls of Said Company;  that he also served with said German Fusilier Company on Guard, at various times in Dec. 1778, and Jan. 1779, as per Transcript from said Rolls; that he served as a Volunteer in the Second South Carolina Regiment of the Line, under Col. Pinkney at the Apault on Savannah, on the 9th October 1779; that he did duty during  the Siege of Charleston So. Ca., as a Volunteer, (in the Spring of 1780), with a Battalion of Artillery of the Line, in an advanced half moon battery; and that after his recovery from the Smallpox, in the Autumn of 1780, he further served until the end of the War, in General Sumpter's Brigade, in a Regiment of State Cavalry, commanded first by Col. Henderson, and afterwards by Col. Wade Hampton, that the whole of his military services were rendered in the American Revolutionary, or War of Independence, ending with the Peace of 1783; that his Honorable Discharge, at or near the
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City of Charleston So. Ca., after the evacuation of that city and the disbanding of the S. Carolina State troops, would have appeared from the Indents of pay to a considerable nominal amount which her deceased husband always averred he had received and sold, (as per Deposition of Daniel Strobel) but that the official Records of said Indents, after searches made in the National and So. Carolina archives, appears to be lost, probably by the burning of Public papers at Washington by the British, in the war of 1812, as was supposed at the Pension office, some years ago.

And the said Isabella Innes Martin further states that though the new claims only the pay and emoluments of a Private soldier, on account of her deceased husband's services in said war, yet that he always averred that he was promoted after the Fall of Charleston to higher rank, and performed the duties thereof in said War, and that she may hereafter present proof, and claim corresponding increased pay.

She further states that she was married to the said John Peter Martin in Philadelphia Pa., on the twenty first day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fourteen, by one Jacob J. Janeway, a clergyman, Pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Arch Street, of which she was a member, and that her name before said marriage was Isabella Innes; that her said husband died at Baltimore Maryland, on the second day of June, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty two (as per the accompanying obituary notice, in the National Gazetteer of Philada Pa, of the date of July 7th 1832, from the pen of the Revd James Alexander, then of Trenton N.J. and now of New York City), and that she is still a widow
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She makes this Declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Pension to which she may be entitled under the "act passed February 3rd 1853, as also the arrearages or allowance to which she may be entitled under the 2nd Section of the "Act of July 4th. 1836, applying to widows of soldiers who died, (as did her husband), between the 4th of March 1831, and the 7th of June 1832, as also the Bounty Land to which She may be entitled under the "act passed Sept. 28th. 1850", or any other act equally or more advantageous to her - Isabella Innes Martin

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year first above written. And I hereby certify that I believe the said Isabella Innes Martin to be the identical woman who was married as aforesaid, and that she is of the age above stated. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court, Oct. 10. 1853
Fred. Gorwell Judge

[Seal in lower left corner]
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Isabella I. Martin widow of John Peter Martin Com.

W. T. Martin Esq. Present.
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Issued first of October 1784 to Mr Peter Martin
late Quarter Master in Thomas's Regiment Sumpters
Brigade state troops for ninety four pounds
sterling being amount pay and bounty land due
him for services in that regiment with interest in 
the same from fifteenth of April 1782 to date 
agreeable to a resolution of general assembly of the 
eleventh day of March last.

                 £   S  D
Principal   94.00.0
Interest      6.11.7

I certify that the above is a true copy of the 
original indent in this office Bk M page 440.

Thos. P. Walker
Deputy Comptroller
South Carolina

This is to certify that after a carefull examination 
of the records in this office it appears that Peter
Martin served as Quarter Master for five months 
in Col Thomas's Regiment, Sumpters Brigade
commencing April fifteenth 1781 and then became 
a supernumerary.

Thomas P. Walker
Deputy Comptroller
State of So. Carolina.



Comptroller Generals Office
Columbia South Carolina
March 6th 1855.

There is no seal used in the office.
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Committee on Pensions,
House of Representatives U. S.,
Washington, D. C.

FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS.
------
Robert P. C. Wilson, Mo., Chairman.
John S. Henderson, N. C.      Charles L. Moses, Ga.
John H. Bankhead, Ala.         Lewis Steward, Ill.
Richard H. Norton, Mo.        Edward Scull, Pa.
William F. Parrett, Ind.          Daniel Waugh, Ind.
Charles Barwig, Wis.             John C. Houk, Tenn.
William A. Jones, Va.            William W. Bowers, Cal.
Frank P. Elliott, Clerk.
D. S. Porter, Special Detail from Pension Bureau.

July 11, 1892

Hon. Green B. Raum
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir:

I have the honor 
to request for the Committee on Pensions
House of Representatives, a report of
the service of John P. Martin late of 
Captain and Quarter Master South Carolina 
Troops War of the Revolution.

Request made by direction of the 
Chairman of the Committee

Very respectfully
Frank P. Elliott
Clerk


H.R. 9463

[date stamp]
[illegible] DIV.
JUL 12 1892
CH [illegible] K
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6956
P. O. [blank]
Isabella J. Martin
Service:  John Peter Martin
S.C. serv.
REJECTED
Enlisted:  [blank date]
Discharged:  [blank date]
Application filed:  [blank date]
Alleges:  [blank]
Re-enlisted:  [blank]
Attorney:  [blank]
P. O.  [blank]
[blank]  Recognized.  [blank]  Contract.
[blank]  Cert. of Dis.  Searched for [blank date]


[notes on right margin]
July 13, 1892  History to Frank
P. Elliott, Clerk of Com. on Pensions,
House of Representatives  JVC
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I have compared this copy with the original which has 
been returned & find it correct - Charles H. Rhett.
Ex Clerk 

Paris   January 31, 1846

Dear Buchanan - 

I am informed that the widow
of John P. Martin the Father of my secretary of 
Legation, proposes to make application to this Congress
for a pension.  I had the pleasure of an intimate 
acquaintance with Mr. Martin for more than thirty years
and a more upright or patriotic man I have never
known.  His services and gallantry in the War of 
the Revolution were frequently the subject of conversation
in my presence when I resided in North Carolina
by those who had partaken with him in the 
perils and sufferings of that eventful struggle.  I fear 
from a conversation I had with him a short time previous
to his death, that he had neglected to procure the 
necessary evidence which would place the claim to a 
pension beyond all question, yet I trust there will be 
found sufficient to justify the favorable action of Congress
on the application.  The interest which I take in the 
welfare of the family of this old and valued Friend
must be my apology for troubling you with the matter, 
and I shall esteem it a great personal favor if you
will lend them your efficient aid in accomplishing 
the object they have in view

Faithfully Your Frd.
William R. King


Hon. James Buchanan
&c  &c  &c

P. S.  John P. Martin was generally known in 
North Carolina by the title of Captain Martin -
W. R. K.
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State of Connecticut
City & County of New Haven ss

Be it remembered that on this fifth day of October AD 1853, I Charles Robinson a Notary  Public dwelling in said city of New Haven in said county of New Haven and duly appointed commissioned and sworn have carefully compared the written instrument with the original letter from the Hon William R King to the Hon James Buchanan of which purports to be a copy and that the same is a correct and true copy thereof

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal at said City of New Haven the fifth day of October AD 1853

Charles Robinson Notary Public
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State of Connecticut.
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By his Excellency THOMAS H. SEYMOUR, Governor of said State.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Know ye, That Charles Robinson was at 
the time of subscribing the within attestation
and now is a Notary Public -
in the said State, duly constituted and commissioned, and 
that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and 
credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court:
that the within attestation is in due form and by the 
proper officer; and that I believe the signature of said
Charles Robinson thereto, to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the public Seal of the State to be hereunto
affixed this 6th day of October A. D. 1853 and in the seventy
Eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By his Excellency the Governor
Tho. H. Seymour

Jno. P. C. Martin
Secretary of State

[seal]
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Washington D. C.
Novr. 22d 53

Sir - 

I have received your letter of 
the 15th inst. stating that the evidence in 
the case of my mother Mrs. J. P. Martin
is deemed insufficient, which decision I 
will make known to her.  I have delayed
this acknowledgement with the 
hope of discovering the Transcript from 
the So. Carolina Rolls lately in my possession, 
but which I have not been able to 
find.  It was furnished me by your
Predecessor some few years ago (Col J L
Edwards) the name of John Martin
occurring repeatedly in several of the 
regiments and that of John P. Martin
where it should be, in Pinckney's Regt.
It is but a month that this paper
was in my hands and was the result of 
search made for the purpose of supporting
this claim - but I deemed the paper on
father proof safe, as it was on Record in 
the Pension Office and would always imply
search & comparison.

I am Sir
very respectfully &c
Wm. T. Martin


Hon J L Waldo
Commissr. of Pensions
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New Haven  Octr 6. 1853

Dear Sir

Allow me to introduce to your 
favorable consideration Mr W T Martin,
who visits Washington for the purpose of
presenting to you the claim of his mother,
Mrs Isabella Innes Martin for a pension
on account of the military services, during 
the revolutionary war of her late husband
John Peter Martin.  Mrs Martin is a native 
of Virginia, but for several years past
she has resided in this City.  She is a lady of 
the highest respectability and enjoys the confidence 
and esteem of all who have had the 
pleasure to make her acquaintance.
I had a conversation with the late Vice
President King when a member of the Senate
in relation to a then contemplated application 
to Congress in her behalf.  He manifested
the same friendly interest which he had before
expressed in his letter from Paris to Mr Buchanan
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but as the marriage of Mrs Martin
was subsequent to the period there
fixed by law, we both found difficulty
in distinguishing her claim from that 
of other widows similarly circumstanced
in that respect.
Mr. Martin will present to you that
original letter of Mr King to Mr Buchanan.
His hand writing is of course too well 
known at Washington to need any 
proof of its authenticity and I trust that 
with the other evidence of the patriotic
services of Mr Martin which it is now in 
the favor [?]  of the family to furnish, it will 
be found to be sufficient to entitle this 
estimable lady to a pension.

I am with such respect
your friend & 
humble servt
R S Baldwin



Hon Loren P Waldo
Comm of Pensions
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Isabella I. Martin
widow of John Peter Martin
Connecticut

Oct 7th June 1832 
& 3d Feby: 1853
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State of New Jersey

I Charles G McChesney Register of the 
Prerogative Court of the State of New Jersey
do hereby certify that Isabella I Martin 
the executrix named in the last will and 
testament of John P Martin late of the 
County of Hunterdon decd. proved the same
before the Ordinary or Surrogate General of 
said State, and that letters testamentary in due form of law were
granted in the 11th day of July AD. 1832 by the said Ordinary
unto Isabella I Martin Executrix as aforesaid.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at Trenton
this third day of February AD one thousand eight hundred and 
forty six.

Charles G. McChesney
Register

[seal]
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I      No.
Isabella I. Martin
widow of John Peter
Martin.
Connecticut.
6956
Letter to 
W. T. Martin 15th Nov. 1853
W. T. Martin 19 Mar 1855

Act 1832
Conn

Act 3d Feby. 1853 also
Act 7th June 1832.
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Hon'ble William L. Dayton
U.S. Senate
Washington
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from Jas. Wilson Esqr to 
Senator Dayton Nov. 24. 45



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William L. Dayton
U. S.  Senate
Washington
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Trenton 24 November 1845

Dear sir, 
I write this for the purpose of introducing to you Mrs. Isabella Martin, widow of John P. Martin a native of South Carolina, but who spent the latter part of his life in New Jersey. It is the purpose of Mrs. Martin to apply to Congress during the coming session, for some compensation for the services, sufferings and losses of her husband during the War of the Revolution. He served both on sea and land and was at all times a most active, faithful and efficient defender of his country, in that trying period - Perhaps few sacrificed more, or went through great sufferings, in that War, than John P. Martin and the members of his family. I had the pleasure of knowing him during the few years he resided in Trenton - He was a man of most excellent qualities of head and heart, and well fitted to be a light and an ornament in any community in which he might live.

I hope that Congress will listen with most respectful attention to any application which may be brought before them by his widow, for he was well entitled to honor and gratitude from his country - and it must be grateful to every just and manly heart to see her requests answered
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in the spirit of kindness and liberality - 

I hope that you will advance her application by every means in your power - 

Mrs. Martin is a native of New Jersey and her husband spent the latter part of his life happily and usefully within our own state. Jerseymen and their representatives may therefore feel more interest in the success of the intended application

Very respectfully
Your Obedt Serv
J. Wilson

Hon. William L. Dayton
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Hon. George Sykes -
House of Reps.
Washington DC


Wm. Martin
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from Governor P. D. Vroom
to the Hon. G. Sykes of N. J.
Decr. 8, 1845




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Hon. George Sykes
House of Reps.
Washington DC


Wm Martin
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Trenton   Decr. 8. 1845

Dr Sir - 

This will be handed you by Mrs. Isabella
I. Martin, formerly of this city - She visits Washington 
on business which will be explained by the petition 
she will show you - She is desirous of obtaining
your kind offices in her behalf and believing
her claim to be highly meritorious I commend her 
to your friendly aid - 
I knew her husband.  He was a most worthy
man - a gentleman of the old school and a 
ardent patriot - I sincerely hope the application
about to be [illegible] may be successful - 

very truly
your friend
P. D. Vroom
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Feby. 28, 1846.

Mr. Agner, 3d Auditor
&
Mr. Edwards, Com. of Pensions,

Gentlemen,

The bearer, Wm. Martin, brother 
of Dr. Martin, so well know here, desires
to examine the signatures of John Peter Martin,
Peter Martin, and John Martin, for the purpose
of verifying his father's name written in the 
signatures, as in the place and circumstances
in which it is found, with a view to some 
compensation for his revolutionary services.
I hope you will find it consistent with
the rules of your office to lend the aid
and facility which the examination might 
require.

Yours respectfully
Thomas H. Benton.
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Memorandum

The Pension office has furnished the South Carolina Archives of Columbia with a copy of the Rolls of the Six Regiments of the South Carolina Continental Line - War of Independence, which copy proves of great service, I understand. In return, it is highly desirable that the Pension office should have a copy of the Rolls, Indent Book, Receipts & c of the Four Regiments of State troops of Genl Sumpter's Brigade now in the State Archives at Columbia. I have recent and reliable information that these important records which are of honorable interest to the State, and of great importance to private claimants and to the public services, are in a deplorable state of confusion. No copy of them has yet been made and they are said to be deposited in a building not fire proof.

In consequence of the strong testimonials that Four of the public officers o f the State have
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given to Mr. James A Black in a printed and public form, as to his knowledge of these paper, and the zeal he displayed in arranging the Records of the Senate of the State, I am induced to express the hope that some authority either State or National and some pecuniary provision may be found, at an early day, that may lead Mr. Black, or some other competent person to engage in the complete arrangement and transcribing of the Rolls of Sumpter's Brigade. Examination and inquiry might lead to the recovery of the Rolls of Marion's command (State Militia) and other records. Mr. Black is favorably known at this office as an industrious and honorable agent of claims. He is recommended by Wm E. Martin Clerk of the Senate, by W. Laval Treasurer, J W Wayne Atty Genl, and by I. B. McCully, Comptroller Genl - all of the State of South Carolina
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Certificate of Marriage
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This is to certify that on this twenty
first day of June, in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and 
fourteen, John P. Martin and Isabella
Innes were united in the marriage
relation by the subscriber.

Jacob J. Janewby, [illegible title]

Philad. June 21st 1814
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On this seventeenth day of 
October A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty
three, personally appeared before me, the Revd. James
W Alexander, (I being a Commissioner of Deeds in and for the City and County of New York) who being 
duly sworn declares that he is now a resident of the city 
of New York, but that in the year 1832 and previous thereto
lived in Trenton New Jersey when and were he was
personally acquainted with the said John Peter Martin and 
with Isabella Innes Martin, then his wife and now his widow,
and that he was an occasional visitor at their house; this 
shortly after the death of John Peter Martin (which took 
place at Baltimore Md on the second day of June eighteen
hundred and thirty two) he, the said James W Alexander 
prepared the obituary notice of said Deceased, in part
from recollections of conversations he had held with the said
John Peter Martin relative to his military service during
the War of the American Revolution, and that he has
this day reperused said obituary notice in the National
Gazette of Philadelphia Penn, of the date of July 7th 1832

[the rest of this page is covered by the following:]

State of New York,
City and County of New York, SS.

I, RICHARD B. CONNOLLY, CLERK of the City and County of New York, and also Clerk
of the Supreme Court for the said City and County, being a Court of Record, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY, That Moses B Maclay before
whom the annexed deposition was taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner
of Deeds, for said City and County, duly appointed and sworn and authorized to 
administer oaths to be used in any Court in said State, and for general purposes; and 
that his signature thereto is genuine, as I verily believe.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal 
of the said Court and County, the 17 day of October 1853

Richd. B. Connally Clerk.
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On this seventeenth day of 
October A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty
three, personally appeared before me, the Revd. James
W Alexander, (I being a Commissioner of Deeds in and City and County of New York) who being
duly sworn declares that he is now a resident of the City
of New York, but that in the year 1832  and previous thereto,
lived in Trenton New Jersey, when and where he was 
personally acquainted with the said John Peter Martin and 
with Isabella Innes Martin, then his wife and now his widow
and that he was an occasional visitor at their house;  then
shortly after the death of John Peter Martin (which took
place at Baltimore Md on the second day of June eighteen
hundred and thirty two) he, the said James W Alexander
prepared the obituary notice of said Deceased, in part 
from recollections of conversations he had held with the said
John Peter Martin relative to his military service during
the War of the American Revolution, and that he has
this day reperused said obituary notice in the National 
Gazette of Philadelphia Penn of the date of July 7th 1832
and that he further has no doubt of the identity of Isabella
Innes Martin, the Present Claimant.

James W. Alexander

Subscribed & sworn to before
me this 17th day of October
AD 1853 by the said James W. Alexander
to me personally well known

Moses B. Maclay
Court of [illegible]

[seal]
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[drawing of the seal of the State of South Carolina]

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.

-------------

BY HIS EXCELLENCY, 
William Aiken
Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the State aforesaid.

TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENT SHALL COME.
Know Ye, That C. R. Brewster Esquire whose
Signature appears to the annexed Instrument of Writing
is a Notary Public & Ex Offo. Magistrate for Charleston District
duly commissioned under the Seal of the State of South Carolina
and qualified to administer oaths &c

THEREFORE, All due Faith, Credit and Authority, is and ought to be had and given to his
Proceedings and Certificates as such.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused to be affixed
the Seal of the State, in the City of Charleston and State aforesaid
the Eleventh day of March in the 
year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Forty Six
and in the Seventieth year of the Independence of the United States
of America.

William Aiken
BY THE GOVERNOR.

Robt. Q Pinckney
Secretary of State.

[seal]
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Received 13th May 1776 of Lt. Peter Bocquet the following payments for duty done by
a detachment of the Fusiliers Company on the expedition to Savannah and Received
in full for the said expedition - £11.10.
Peter Martin

Guard at the old Magazine being part of the Fusilier Company on Wednesday 9th Decr 1778
Peter Martin 

Guard of the Fusilier Company at the Main & Magazine Guard on Friday 1st January 1779.
Peter Martin

Guard of the Fusilier Company at the Main & Magazine Guard on Saturday 9th January 1779.
Peter Martin

Guard at the old Magazine being part of the Fusilier company on Wednesday 9th December 1778.
Peter Martin

Guard of the Fusilier Company at the Main & Magazine Guard on Tuesday 22d December 1778.
Peter Martin

Fusilier Company being ordered to camp at Port Royal Ferry on Sunday the 17th Jany 1779 & Returned to 
Charleston the 6th March 1779.
Peter Martin
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Guard of the Fusilier Company at the Main & Magazine Guard on Tuesday 22d December 1778.
Peter Martin

Fusilier Company being ordered to camp at Port Royal Ferry on Sunday the 17th Jany 1779 & Returned to 
Charleston the 6th March 1779.
Peter Martin

We the undermentioned do acknowledge to have received the undermentioned Sums from Capt.
William Livingston in full for duty done by the Fusilier Company to the 6th of March last - Included,
and received this 17th April 1779.  -  £52.5.
John Peter Martin


The State of South Carolina
Charleston District

Personally appeared before me Joseph
Sampson who being duly sworn did depose and say that the 
above Extracts are true and correct copies made by him from the
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Minute Book belonging to the German Fusilier Company which
is now kept in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas for Charleston District, that the Signature of Peter Martin 
first above made is a correct and exact fac simile of the handwriting
of Peter Martin subscribed to the receipt in the said Minute Book
and the other six signatures of Peter Martin are in the hand
writing of the Secretary of the said Fusilier Company - This 
deponent further deposing saith that the last of the above
signatures, that of John Peter Martin is a correct and 
exact fac simile of the original signature as made by him
in the Minute Book aforesaid, and taken by this deponent from 
said Book - 

Jos. Samson

Sworn to before me 
this 11 March 1846
C. R. Brewster
Notary Public &
Ex officio Magistrate
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Extracts from transcript from So. Carolina Rolls by  J. L. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions 
March 3, 1846
Page 41

Transcript from South Carolina Rolls.
(Extracts.)
-------------------------------------
The 1st South Carolina Regiment commanded by
Col. C. Pinckney.
-------------------------------------
Martin John
Dates of Enlistment     Casualties
7 May 76
Discharged 3d August '78

Martin John P.
Dates of Enlistment      Casualties
12 Nov. 78
Decr. 76
X  X  X  X
The 2nd South Carolina Regiment commdd. by Col. Marion.
Martin John Lieut.
X  X  X  X
The 3d South Carolina Regiment commanded by Col. Thompson.
Martin John 
Dates of Enlistment
1 Feb. 80
24 July 76
Cap. Warley's Co.
Martin John 
Dates of Enlistment
24 July 76
Capt. Felix Warley's Co.
Martin John
Dates of Enlistment
20 Jan. 77
Capt. Goodwyn's Co.
X  X  X  X  X
The 4th South Carolina Regiment or Artillery.
Martin John
Dates of Enlistment
4 Aug. 78
X  X  X  X  X  X
The 6th South Carolina Regt.
Hampton Wade Pay Master.
X  X  X  X  X  X 


Pension Office
March 3d, 1846

I certify that the foregoing extracts are copied from 
a book in this office containing records of the South
Carolina line of the Continental Army.

J. L. Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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Washington D.C. Novr. 8th 1853
at Ms. King's, F & 11th Sts.

Mr. W. T. Martin begs to submit a few remarks in writing by way of memorandum, when the case of his mother, Isabella Innes Martin, comes to be again taken up.

The question of length of service has been raised in the office. Now the testimony of Daniel Strobel recites with much particularity, various services rendered by John Peter Martin, intending from the very beginning to the close of the war. D. Strobel lived in Charleston during the Revolutionary war, was of an age to recollect persons and military operations, was a nephew of the said John Peter Martin, and was always aware when he left, or came back to Charleston, on his various military expeditions. He, Daniel Strobel asserts his positive knowledge of these things, and writes with minuteness as well as warmth as to the various circumstances dates and intent of the services and sufferings of John Peter Martin. Daniel Strobel was advantageously known at the Treasury and State Department of this government as he had been U. S. Consul at Bordeuax in France and at the time of his deposition in this case filled the responsible office of Deputy Collector of New York.

The signatures of Peter Martin on the Fusilier Rolls correspond in part with D. Strobel's testimony and so far confirm it and do not contradict it. John Peter Martin was called Peter Martin in familiar conversation by his relatives in Charleston (see deposition of Sarah R Strobel) and
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is so called to this day (as the present writer well knows) though his said relatives always addressed him as John Peter Martin when writing him.

The obituary of John Peter Martin filed in this case written by the Revd James W. Alexander as he deposes relates arduous and prolonged service. The evidence of Vice Pres. Kiny seems hardly consistent with a mere temporary service. Govr Vroom's interest in the case (see his letter) arose from his personal acquaintance with John Peter Martin. In short, few men, it has always been believed by those conversant with the case, did more so far as personal efforts were concerned, or suffered more or longer, than John Peter Martin.

Finally, as to discrepancy of signature, in part accounted for as above - if any claimant different from the present should ever apply for a pension using the signature of John Peter Martin, or of Peter Martin on said Fusilier Rolls as a basis , and should be able to corroborate it by such evidence as is now furnished, especially such as Danl Strobel's, it is supposed such claim might be deemed satisfactory and just, as well as the present.

The name of John P. Martin will be found in the Pension office in Pinckney's Regiment.

The case is now respectfully submitted for the consideration and decision of the office

Hon L. P. Waldo
Commission of Pensions
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2d. Page 4th.  Collum, Warm bathing



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Mr John Hoff
Near the Center Square
Philad.


with a book
Genl. Duncan
Page 45

[duplicate of page 44 except papers turned a different direction]
Page 46

Mount holly N.J.  29th Oct. 1821.

My Dear Friend.

I herewith send you at length correct Runiford [?]
on warm bathing.  I am sorry so much time has 
elapsed but could not at first lay my hand on the 
papers & at last it escaped my memory.  Again, you
know I rise late in the morning, the flags with
its P[?]  is generally off before I am up & I 
lose conveyances.  You will say "a miserable set 
of excuses".  Be it so.  Poor excuses, like other poor
articles are better than now.  I claim your forbearance
& your Forgiveness.  The House in Locust
Strat my brother would no doubt have informed you
has been offered us at the $200. with $5 for the 
water.  My rent commences 1st Nov. & in all [illegible]
week, Life & Health lasting & God willing hope & 
expect to become one of your neighbors.  I dread the 
Labor & exertions necessary to strike my Tent hereafter
a 7 years Location, especially as it regards Mr. Innes
who is scarely mariable, as also the little ones.  but
the Dye is cast & decamp I must!  Our joint respects to 
the Ladies & yours Jivenals &c.

John P. Martin

Respects to the Gel.
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On this fourteenth day of October A.D. one thousand eight
hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before me, a 
Commissioner of Deeds, in and for the City and County
of New York, Sarah R Strobel who, being duly sworn, declares
that she is the Widow of Benjamin Strobel formerly
of Charleston So. Ca., who was a nephew of the late John
Peter Martin, who was in early life a resident of Charleston
So. Carolina, and afterwards lived at Mount Holly, and Trenton
New Jersey; that she was well acquainted with the said John
P. Martin and has often heard his revolutionary military 
services and sufferings spoken of by his many relatives in 
Charleston and elsewhere, who always familiarly mentioned him
as "Uncle Peter Martin", though his name in full was John
Peter Martin, and that they always addressed him by letter as 
such, that she is also personally acquainted with the Applicant
in this case, Isabella Innes Martin, & likewise knows that the 
said John Peter Martin died at Baltimore Maryland, on 
the 2d day of June 1832, and further states that she, the said 
Sarah R. Strobel, has no pecuniary interest in this claim.

Sarah R Strobel

Sworn before me 
this 14th day of October. 1833

Jas. Harrison
Commissioner of Deeds

[There is another paper that covers the rest of the document, that reads as follows:]

State of New York,
City and County of New York, SS.

I, RICHARD B. CONOLLY, CLERK of the City and County of New York, and also Clerk
of the Supreme Court for the said City and County, being a Court of Record, DO HEREBY
CERTIFY, That James Harrison before
whom the annexed depositions were taken, was at the time of taking the same, a Commissioner
of Deeds, for said City and County, duly appointed and sworn, and authorized to 
administer oaths to be used in any Court in said State, and for general purposes; and 
that his signatures thereto are genuine, as I verily believe.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal 
of the said Court and County, the 17 day of October 1853

Richd. B Connolly Clerk.

[no seal seen]
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On this fourteenth day of October A.D. one thousand eight
hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before me, a 
Commissioner of Deeds, in and for the City and County
of New York, Sarah R Strobel who, being duly sworn, declares
that she is the Widow of Benjamin Strobel formerly
of Charleston So. Ca., who was a nephew of the late John
Peter Martin, who was in early life a resident of Charleston
So. Carolina, and afterwards lived at Mount Holly, and Trenton
New Jersey; that she was well acquainted with the said John
P. Martin and has often heard his revolutionary military 
services and sufferings spoken of by his many relatives in 
Charleston and elsewhere, who always familiarly mentioned him
as "Uncle Peter Martin", though his name in full was John
Peter Martin, and that they always addressed him by letter as 
such, that she is also personally acquainted with the Applicant
in this case, Isabella Innes Martin, & likewise knows that the 
said John Peter Martin died at Baltimore Maryland, on 
the 2d day of June 1832, and further states that she, the said 
Sarah R. Strobel, has no pecuniary interest in this claim.

Sarah R Strobel

Sworn before me 
this 14th day of October. 1833

Jas. Harrison
Commissioner of Deeds


City & County 
of New York SS.

Maria Marsh being duly sworn did 
depose & say, that she resides in the city of New York 
and that she knew the above mentioned Sarah R Strobel 
to be the same person mentioned in the above affadavit.

Mrs. Maria Marsh

Sworn before
me this 14th day 
of October 1833.

Jas. Harrison
Commissioner of Deeds

[seal]
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Original Deposition
Danl Strobel Esqre
New York Aug. 1833.
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Triple

Mrs. Isabella I. Martin
Trenton N J
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I, Daniel Strobel, late consul of the 
United States at Bordenne [Bourdonne possibly] in France, at
present Deputy Collector of the customs
at New York, being now in the sixty 
sixth year of my age, do solemnly swear
that I have been from early youth
intimately acquainted with John Peter
Martin, formerly of South Carolina
but late a resident at Trenton in New 
Jersey, recently [illegible] and with
many of the circumstances in life of late
to the patriotic exertions & sacrifices he 
made & to the services he rendered to 
the cause, during the whole cause of our revolutionary struggles for Independence
and were performed by him without
receiving in return any effectual 
compensation or remuneration. - From 
all which I can solemnly affirm 
as I now can from my own knowledge
that before he was yet fifteen years
old he joined as a volunteer, the party 
under the american general Howe, 
which was ordered to make an infiltration into
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into the (then) British province of east
Florida so early I think as the year
1775 in which expedition proved abortive.
In 1776 He was under armor & at 
his post when Charleston was invaded
by the british land & naval forces
under the circutions [?] of Genl. Clinton and 
admiral Parker & was defeated at 
Sullivan's island.  This signal [single?] defeat 
restoring temporary tranquility to the 
south and a state of repose, whilst his
country was elsewhere engaged in the 
struggle for her liberties, being uncongenial
with the ardor of Mr. Martin's patriotic
feelings, & the extraordinary activity and 
energy of his character, he determined
to seek the enemy on the sea & inflict
what wounds he could upon him on
that [dement?] but in this enterprize
he was unfortunately captured, carried
into New York & thrown into a 
prison ship; on here he remained many
months in great suffering & distress
being often urged & tempted whilst there by 
promises of better treatment & prospects but as often refusing
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of pursuing [?] to catch himself from the 
sacred cause he had embraced.  He was 
finally exchanged (in 1778) and sent to 
Providence in Rhode island, from whence
he proceeded penniless, naked & on foot
towards home, encountering various
perils & all the privations & fatigue
of so long a journey through a country
of which many parts were then but 
thinly settled & some abounding in 
persons who were densely enemies to 
the partizans of the revolution.  He 
reached Charleston however in safety but 
not to remain supine.  The ardour for public
service so predominant in Mr. Martin's 
character was not long afterwards called 
into activity, by an invasion of the 
British from Georgia, which was [furtive?]
in the repulse in the action near 
Beaufort by the Carolina forces in 
which he served.  In the following
spring (1779) a more serious attempt
was made against South Carolina by 
a strong force of the enemy from Georgia
who succeeded in reaching the gates
of Charleston but were compelled to 
retire; and when attacked by the American
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american troops at Stono, Mr. Martin
was one of the detachment sent into 
their rear to attack and harrass them 
on their retreat.  In the autumn 
of the same year (1779) occurred the 
invasion of Georgia, and the attack 
& the careful repulse sustained by the 
combined french & american forces
before Savannah on or about the 
10th of October.  On this occasion Mr. 
Martin & two or three of his ardent
young friends joined as volunteers
the 2d South Carolina regiment of the line 
commanded by Col. Pinckney anticipating
that that regiment would be solicited
to perform the most distinguished
& consequently most dangerous services
and so it turned out for the regiment 
formed part of the portion [?] hope [?] in the 
assault and suffered severely  Two of 
his young friends were shot down, one 
on each side of him, & his own escape
was considered miraculous.  The 
following spring (1780) an invistable [?]
british land & naval force invaded So.
Carolina and laid siege to Charleston.  The
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The defense was obstinate & protracted.  The
service severe to all but Mr. Martin never
contented himself with performing the duties
only of ordinary service, when in his 
opinion his [illegibe -*times] can be afterwards be more
effectually employed with this [illegible] &
disregarding every other consideration of 
incountered personal hardship & danger
he voluntarily attached himself to 
batallions of artillery of the line which
occupied a half moon battery in [illegible]
of the lines; a past of peculiar peril 
& fatigue which he never quitted
day or night until the town was 
surrounded - a period of many [illegible-weeks?].
Hitherto, this after encountering many 
perils he had escaped from personal
injury but near an enemy little
before thought of, siezed him, laid
him prostrate & rendered him a suffering
& an invalid for the rest of his days.
The town had scarcely surrendered when 
he was taken ill with a malignant 
small pox; which operating on a 
system that had so long endured & 
to recently been worn down by the fatigue
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fatigue & hardships he had undergone in
his past during the siege reduced him 
to death's door for several months &
finally deprived him of one of his eyes,
ever after greatly in joining the sight
of the other, and irreparably shortening 
his previously robust constitution but 
the energies of his mind & above all 
his ardent patriotism, survived the 
dreadful trial; for as soon as it 
was understood that some of his 
countrymen under Sumter, Marion
& other heroic leaders were up waging 
in arms in the interior, he continued
to escape and to join them and ever
afterwards & until the Independence 
of his country was recognized by the 
Peace with Great Britain, he continued 
in constant public service under one 
or other of the [illegible] [illegible] of
these days which tried the souls of 
men. - cheerfully supporting the fatigues,
privations & perils which characterized
the war of the South, notwithstanding
his physical infirmities & by which 
those infirmities were greatly aggravated and
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and rendered permanantly afflicting 
for the remainder of his life 
at length a triumphant peace was 
effected, which alone put an end
to the arduous & incessant patriotic
exertions of Mr. Martin; and when 
the enemy had evacuated So. Carolina
he returned to Charleston but destitute
of a single dollar & of even a 
change of clothing (as I well remember 
& corrderly & poorly clad by those in 
which he stood), but apparently
happy, contented & glowing with 
animation at the glorious termination 
of the struggles of his country for his 
liberties in which struggle I verily
believe it would have been difficult to 
have pointed out many of his counterparts
who have more than himself rendered
unremittedly, disinterestedly and 
persevering by all their powers to [illegible]
& serve her cause from the very 
beginning to the entire end of the 
arduous contest. and I do further affirm that for all the services he rendered
and the sacrifices he made towards
promoting an Independence of which is but
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is herein before allowed to, found but
imperfect sketch I have always 
understood and do now verily believe
that he never received any material public
recompense in compensation so that he 
was afterwards obliged to proceed onward
in life & to make his way in it by 
more [illegible] of personal energy & in daring 
alone, whilst the loss of youth and of 
health (both of which he had lain firm 
on the altar of his country) unfettered
him for most of the ordinary pursuits 
of young men, & compelled him to 
chose between difficulties only &  
afterwards to struggle against man 
peculiar disadvantaged aided having 
by his unblemished character for honor 
& integrity, his great energy, industry
& economy, unable himself to infirm in some 
degree his circumstances and to bring 
up his children but unfortunately 
to make but a slander provision for 
them & his widow at his demise.
all which matters are things 
as above set forth are within 
my own knowledge & I am unable to 


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for the papers, securities called "Indents" with which they 
were only in part (I believe) corresponded his next pit [runs off page]
compelled him to part with for a more trifling amount printable [?] m[runs off page]
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to state them thus positively from 
being the nephew of Mr. Martin & 
but a few years his junior & always
very intimately connected with him
particularly in our younger years; 
whereby abundant opportunity for me 
afforded me for becoming well acquainted with the facts 
I now swear to.  

D Strobel

Sworn to before me in the 
City of New York this twenty 
sixth day of August in the 
year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred & thirty three.
Witness my hand & notarial
seal. 

Chas. Oakley 
Not Pub

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