Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21073, John Erwin, New York
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Service New York
Number W. 21073
Erwin, John
Martha
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10,046 R
New York
John Erwin 2nd
in the state of
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Livingston of the New York line, for the term of 5 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of April 19 and sent to [illegible] Shawangunk Ulster Co
Arrears to 4th of Mar 19  83.96
Semi-anl. all's ending 4 Sept 19 48.00
$131.96

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
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Notification sent 2 Mar. 1825 to Hon. H. Craig, 4R
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5091
New York City
Martha Erwin widow of John Erwin NY who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars no Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of March, 1844 and sent to Hon. J. Russell
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 259

Reported
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John Erwin private
20 Ap 1818
Livingston NYK Reg.
1777 to 1783
20th Ap'l 1818 Wanted the Judges certificate of the reduced circumstances of the applicant.
Adm C.
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John Erwin's application
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State of New York
Ulster County }ss.
On this 20th day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ulster and State of New York personally appears John Erwin aged fifty six years resident of the town of  Shawangunk & County of Ulster who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of congress entitled as act to provide for certain persons engaged in te land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War that the said John Erwin enlisted at Ramapo in the State of New Jersey in the Company commanded by Capt. Isreal Smith in the 4th New York Regiment commanded by Col. Livingston in the month of February 1777 that he continued to serve in the said corps until the 3rd June 1783 when he was discharged from service at New Windsor in the State of New York at which time he received his discharge which he hath since lost. That he was in the Battles of Saratoga or Bemis Heights, York Town and in the detachment under General Sullivan sent against the Indians and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
John Erwin
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Sworn and declared before me the day & year aforesaid.
James Kain
I James Kain Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Erwin did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now [illegible] the proceedings & testimony made before me to the secretary of the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of congress.
James Kain

Ulster County
Clerks Office}ss.
I Certify that the above named James Kain is duly commissioned & qualified as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Ulster and that the above signature of his name is of his own proper hand writing with which I am well acquainted. Witness the seal of the said court of which court I am the Clerk. Dated 21st April 1818.
Chas. Tappen Jr.
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I Jonathan Dubois Judge do hereby certify that the said John Erwin is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support.
Jonathan Dubois

State of New York
Ulster County Clerks Office }ss.
I certify that the above named Jonathan Dubois is duly commissioned & qualified as a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County of Ulster & that the above signature of his name is his own proper hand writing and hereby believe and being acquainted with it. Witness the seal of said Court of which I am Clerk. Dated April 7th, 1819.
Ch. Tappen
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District of New York
Orange County }ss.
On this 31st day of May 1824 personally appeared in open Court at a Court of Common Pleas being a Court of record for the said County of Orange in the said district John Erwin aghed sixty three years and eight months resident in the town of Montgomery in the said County of Orange. Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declares that he served in the revolutionary was as follows. [ilegible] In the Second Regiment commanded by Col. Philip VanCourtland in the Company commanded by Capt. Isreal Smith in the New York line. The date of the original application is the 20th day of April 1819. The number of the Certificate is 10,046 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
One horse valued at $30.00
One cow valued at    $17.00
Ten sheep valued at  $10.00
Six hogs valued at     $13.50
Two [illegible] valued at $3.00
One wooden block      $6.00
Six chairs valued at    $1.50
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Ten sheep valued at $10.00 
Six hogs valued at $13.50 
Two [illegible] valued at $3.00 
One wooden block $6.00 
Six chairs valued at $1.50
Pots and pans valued at $2.00
$78.00 Being the probable amount of property owned by me
$106.50 Debts which I owe
$28.50 Balance being the [illegible] Amt.
My occupation a farmer altogether unable to forsee it having three in family "vise" my wife and two daughters residing with me aged as follows my wife is fifty eight years old named Martha my daughter Jane is aged thirty years and my daughter Ann is aged twenty eight years and that myself and my wife and my two daughters are all living with my son Edward who is aged twenty two years by occupation a farmer renting a farm of land of 100 acres and having a family coinsisting of a wife and one child and that myself and  family are depending upon my son Edward for support; who is unable to contribute comfortably to the support of my family, also that at the time it became necessary to make a schedule of my property in order to be continued on the pension roll according to the law of the first of May 1820 I had purchased a farm of land in the county of Courtland and State of New York for which I paid six hundred and seventy five dollars and that I had at that time other property consisting of cows horses sheep amounting in value probably to two hundred and fifty dollars - at a fair valuation which said last mentioned property has been disposed of at various times since that time to pay some few debts and contribute to the support of my family excepting the amount contained in the foregoing schedule and that the farm of land as above mentioned being owned by me was claimed by the heirs of _____ Cunningham and a suit commenced against me and some others who had purchased
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of the same tract some time in the year 1820 in the Court of Chancery in the State of New York and was decided in the fall of the year 1823 by a decree of the said Court in favor of the said heirs of Cunningham and also that a part of the debts I owe as mentioned in the foregoing schedule was for cost of the said suit.
Sworn to and declared on the thirty first day of May 1824 before me in open Court Asa Dunning, Clerk
James Mitchell being duly sworn in open Court says that he is well knowing to the loss of property as within described and that he verily believes the written schedule to be correct and true.
James Mitchell
Sworn to and declared on the 31st day of May 1824 before me in open Court
Asa Dunning Clerk
Orange County ss. I Asa Dunning Clerk of the Court of the County of Orange and Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange de hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Record of the said Court and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in the value of the property exhibited in the foregoing schedule is 78 "Value by the Court" Dollars and _____ Cents. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on the first day of June 1824.
Asa Dunning Clerk per Lewis Dunning Deputy
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9156
Martha Erwin
N.Y.
Act 7, July 38
mg1.d42
Amt.
[illegible]
80$

Henry Wynkoop
Catskill N.Y.
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State of New York
County of Orange } ss.
William Blain of the town of Montgomery, County of Orange and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the present clergyman of the Presbyterian church in said town called Goodwill.
That it appears by the marriage record in possession of deponent (belonging to said church) that John Erwin was legally married to Martha Dorcas on the  twenty first day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred ninety one which is expressed on said record in fair legible figures and letters as follows viz: Married December 21 1791 John Erwin & Martha Dorcas
I William Blain above named do depose and say that I hold the office of clergyman in the above mentioned church. That the foregoing is a true extract from the marriage record of said church and further this deponent saith not.
Sate of New York County of Orange } ss.
On this 25th day of February 1843 before me came William Blain.
William Blain
pastor of Goodwill church
State of New York,
Orange County, } ss.
I Lebbeus L. Vail, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Orange, Do hereby Certify, that Hiram Kain before whom the foregoing affidavit was subscribed and sworn, was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in, and for said County: and further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said affidavit & certificate is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County, the 14th day of April 1843.
Lebbeus L Vail, Clerk
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State of New York County of Orange } ss. William Blain of the town of Montgomery, County of Orange and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is the present clergyman of the Presbyterian church in said town called Goodwill. That it appears by the marriage record in possession of deponent (belonging to said church) that John Erwin was legally married to Martha Dorcas on the twenty first day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred ninety one which is expressed on said record in fair legible figures and letters as follows viz: Married December 21 1791 John Erwin & Martha Dorcas I William Blain above named do depose and say that I hold the office of clergyman in the above mentioned church. That the foregoing is a true extract from the marriage record of said church and further this deponent saith not. 
Sate of New York County of Orange } ss. 
On this 25th day of February 1843 before me came William Blain. 
William Blain pastor of Goodwill church
above  named and was duly sworn and certify that I am personally acquainted with said deponent and that he is the Clergyman as above named.
Hiram Kain Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Ulster } ss.
On this twenty fourth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three before me Jacob Snyder on of the Judges of the County Court in and for the County of Ulster aforesaid personally appeared Martha Erwin a resident of the town of Shawangunk in said County aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed the 7th of July 1838 entitled as Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;
That she is the widow of John Erwin who in the Revolutionary War was a private soldier in defence of his country for which he received a pension at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum which he continued to receive until the day of his death.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Erwin the twenty first day of December in the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety one; that the ceremony was performed by the Rev'd Andrew King clergyman of the Presbyterian church at Wallkill or Goodwill. That her maiden name previous to her marriage was Martha Dorcas or Dorkies and that her husband the aforesaid John Erwin died on the twenty eighth day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty two. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January in the year seventeen hundred and ninety four viz. at the time above stated. She further declares that the annexed proof of her marriage and of the death of her husband
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is all she has procured and which she believes is correct.
For proof of the services of her husband she would respectfully refer to his declaration and proof on file in the war department under the act of the 18th March 1818.
She further declares that ever since the death of her husband she has not intermarried but remains the widow of the said John Erwin as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Martha Erwin
Sworn to and subscribed before me the 24th day of January 1843 and from my personal knowledge of Martha Erwin I believe her deposition entitled to full credit and I further certify that said applicant from bodily infirmity is unable to attend court.
Jacob Snyder one of the Judges of the County Court of Ulster County
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss. Jane Erwin of the town of Shawangunk in the County of Ulster aforesaid being duly sworn saith she is the daughter of John Erwin 2nd late a pensioner of the United States that he died on the twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty two that his widow the mother of this deponent named Martha Erwin that she has understood and believes some called her Martha Dorcas and others spell and pronounced it Dorkies before her marriage with the deponent's father the said John Erwin that her mother is now living in the said town of Shawangunk that she has not intermarried but continues the widow of the said John Erwin 2nd and that she is the identical person named in the annexed application for a pension and further this deponent saith not.
Jane Erwin
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 24th day of January 1843 and I certify that the said deponent is a credible person and her statement entitled to full credit.
Jacob Snyder one of the Judges of the County Court of Ulster County.
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25th Feb'y Hon. James N. Mitchell Shawangunk N.Y.
Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
Pension Office
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Southern District of New York Orange County⎬ss
On this fourteenth day of February in the year Eighteen hundred and Twenty five personally appeared in open Court in the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County being a Court of word John Erwin aged Sixty four years resident in the district of New York aforesaid who being first sworn deposeth and saith that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows- He enlisted in the fall of 1776 under Captain Israel Smith till the close of the War in 1783, when he was discharged, that the company of said Israel Smith belonged to Cpt. Philip Van Curtlandt regiment of the New York line being the Second Regiment thereof. And this deponent further saith that he is the same John Erwin who in the year 1824 - presented his Schedule and affidavit to the War office of the United States dated in said year last aforesaid for the purpose of obtain in his pension to which this is intended to be a supplement and this Deponent further saith that all the property which this Deponent has owned since the Eighteenth March 1818 and which is not contained in the Schedule dated 1824 - above [ineligible] to is Seven Young Cattle which this Deponent sold to a drover of the name of Van Steenburgh for about Sixty Dollars with sixty Dollars was paid in the cost of a suit in Chancery with one Catherine Cunningham relative to a piece of Land which suit was decided against the deponent by which he lost all claim to said property-- said property was purchased from one William Erwin-
John Erwin
Subscribed in open Court the 14th day of February 1825 before me Asa Dunning Clerk 

Orange County ss- Personally appeared in open Court as above of set forth John J Gallation & Abraham Wood who being duly sworn deposed and said that they are well acquainted
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with the part set forth in the above affidavit of the said John Erwin relative to said suit in Chancery having been jointly concerned with him therein and that what he States in his affidavit hereto annexed relative to the loss of said suit and land is true-
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the 14th day of February 1825 before me Asa Dunning Clerk
John J. Galatian
Abraham Wood
Orange County ss - James Mitchell personally appeared in open Court as above set forth in the affidavit of John Erwin hereto annexed who being duly sworn deposed and said that he is well acquainted with the said John Erwin and that he believes that all the property which the said John Erwin has had and disposed of since the Eighteenth March 1818 has been absorbed in the Court of a certain suit in Chancery with one Catherine Cunningham- And this Deponent further saith that he knows of the sale of the ┃
Cattle as set forth in the annexed affidavit by said- John Erwin to Van Steenburgh as the said Edwin has stated and further that the money of said sale was paid to this deponent by said Van Steenburgh and applied in payment of the Costs of said suit- James Mitchell

Sworn & Subscribed in open Court the 14th day of February 1825 before me Asa Dunning Clerk-

State of New York Orange County}ss
Asa Dunning Clerk of the County of Range and Clerk County of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the said County, of any being a Court of Record do hereby certify, that the foregoing oaths are truly copied from the word of the said Court- In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this Nineteenth day of February 1825-
Asa Dunning Clerk of the County of Orange
& Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the Star County of Orange
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Shawangunk 25th Feby 1825
Dear Sir I hasten to send you a supplement to the application of John Erwin for to be restored on the Pension list the original being on file in
your office and hope it may be considered satisfactory yours with respect full Esteem &c

[handwritten signature] James Mitchell

[handwritten signature] John C. Calhoun Secretary at War
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WIDOW, &c.
No. 21075 
Martha Erwin Widow of John Erwin Pri Rev War Act: March 3d 43
dex: -- Vol. A, Page 219
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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7464
New York

widow of John Erwin, Martha Erwin, who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 28th March '42 of Ulster Co in the State of N. York who was a private in the commanded
by Captain---- of the Regt: commanded by Col. Livingston in the N. York line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 - Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th day of
July 1840 and sent to H. Wynkoop Catskill, N. York-

Whole amount due $400.00-

[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Will Stewart - Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2 Page 76
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District of New York Orange County
on the third day of February 1819 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County, personally appears John Erwin - aged fifty eight years resident in the County of Orange in the said District aforesaid who being by me first only [ineligible] according to Law & do on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the late act of Congress Entitled an act to provide for certain persons Engaged in the Land and now [ineligible] the United States, in the Revolutionary War. That he the said John Erwin, enlisted in the Month of January in the year 1777 in Orange County in the state of New York in the Company commanded by Captain Israel Smith in the fourth New York Regiment commanded by Colonel H. B. Livingston for and during the war with Great Britain, and that
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he continued to serve in the aforesaid Company and Regiment until the year 1780 - when the fourth Regiment, was put into the second New York Regiment Commanded by Colonel Philip Van Courtlandt- but I continued in the same Company until the year 1783 when peace was made with Great Britain- then I was Honorably Discharged by His Excellency General Washington - at the Cantonment near New Windsor and [ineligible] in the same District - he further states that he was at the Defeat General Burguine and his Army at Saratoga State of New York in the year 1777- on the Western Expantion in the army under General Sullivan in the year 1779 and at the Defeat of General Lord Cornwallis and [ineligible] Army at York in Virginia in the year 1781 and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his Country for Support - He further States, that he was qualified for pension and the application made out by Judge
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Kanns (who is since dead) some time in the month of April last, but the particular day he cannot now recollect-
[handwritten signature] John Erwin

Sworn and declared before me the 3d day of Febr 1819 Isaac Belknap one of the Judges of Common pleas of Orange County

I Isaac Belknap one of the Judges of the Courts
aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Erwin did serve Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding
Declaration against the Common enemy-
and I now commit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the
Secretary of the department of War pursuant
to the discretion of the aforementioned act
of Congress - the 3d day of Feby 1819

Isaac Belknap [handwritten signature]one of the Judges of Common pleas of Orange County-
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John Erwin.

Let the applicant State the time of having the
service.

The Judge should certify that from his poverty he is in need of the assistance of his country for support & his certificate much be attested by the Seal of the Court
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Joseph Morrell of the County of Orange being
duly sworn according to Law Deposeth and faith that I enlisted John Erwin the applicant for pension in the Month of December 1776 in the month in the month of January 1777- In Captain Israel Smithson com of any in the 4th New York Regiment commanded is by Colonel H. B. Livingston for and during the War of the Revolution, and that I am fully satisfied he did leave faithfully until the peace 1783- [ineligible]not-
[handwritten signature] Joseph Morrell

Sworn to this fourth Day of Feb 7, 1879 before me Isaac Belknap one the Judges of commissioner plead for Orange County
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O
[crossed out 5855]

June 1. 1843
[circular postage stamp] CATSKILL MAY 30 N.Y.
FREE

N.Y.
July 4, 1836
Martha Erwin,

John.

Col. J. L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
War Department
Washington D.C.
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State of New York Catskill May 30th 1843

Dear Sir

Enclosed is an application of Martha Erwin widow of John Erwin for a pension under the act of 7th July 1838 -
The proof of marriage I think will be satisfactory whatever may be your decision you will please direct to me & oblige

Respectfully your most obedient Humble Servant
[handwritten signature] Henry Wynkoop

[handwritten signature] Col. J.L. Edwards
Commr of Pensions
War Department
Washington
D.C.
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[illegible seal affixed to document]

State of New York
county of Ulster
[initials JS?]

I George A gay clerk of the county of Ulster
aforesaid do hereby certify that Jacob Snyder Esqr before whom the foregoing declaration of Martha Erwin and the affidavit of Jane Erwin purport to have been subscribed and sworn, was at the date of the same one of the judges of the county courts of the county of ulster aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature thereto subscribed is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county this 23rd day of may 1843

Geo A Gay clerk
by Richard Keaton dep clerk
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5446
M. Erwin
$80 per an
of Hon Jeremiah Russell
H.R.
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
County of Ulster }ss.

On this fourth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-three before the subscriber, Selah T. Jordan a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Ulster aforesaid
personally appeared Martha Erwin a resident of the town of Shawangunk in said county, aged Seventy fours who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed on the 3d of March 1843, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war:

That she is the widow of John Erwin deceased who in the revolutionary war was a private Soldier for which he received a pension at the rate of Ninety Six dollars per annum, that he died on the twenty eighth day of March 1842 & that she has remained a widow that since will prove fully appear by referance to the annexed proof.

She further declares that she was a Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, and that the annual amount of the pension which she received under the said act was eighty dollars.

She further declares that she is still a widow.
[handwritten signature] Martha Erwin

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written. 

Selah. T. Jordan Justice of the peace

*Certify that the above declarant is personally known to me. To be widow as above described
[handwritten signature]  Selah T. Jordan 
JP

STATE OF NEW YORK,
County of Ulster} ss.

I, George A. Gay. clerk of said county, do hereby certify that Selah T. Jordan Esq. was on
the day of the date of the above jurat and certificate, a Justice of the Peace ---
in and for the said county, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature above,
purporting to be his, is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name, this 15th day of September 1843.

[handwritten signature] Geo. Gay Clerk
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State of New York
Ulster County
Jane Erin of the town of Shawangunk County
of Ulster and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is the daughter of Martha Erwin who is the widow of John Erwin deceased who was a pensioner.

That her mother the said Martha Erwin was a pensioner for five years under the act of 7th July 1838 and is the identical Martha Erwin who is now an applicant for a pension under the late law of Congress for the revolution any services of her deceased husband the said John Erwin & that she has not intermarried but still remains a widow and farther this deponent saith not.

Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day of August 1843 and certify that said deponent Jane Owen is a respectable citizen entitled to full credit. [signature] Jane Erwin

Selah T. Jordan