Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22624, Justus Artman, Continental. New York.
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SERVICE: Continental New York
Artman, Justus or Justice
NUMBER: S. 22624
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28,891
New York  Albany
Justice Artman, decd.
of [blank] in the State of New York
who was a teamster in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded
by [blank] in the Revolute
line for two years.

Increased from $80.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 192 Dollars 00 Cents per
annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
& end 12th February 1838.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of
January 1855 and sent to G.C. Ames, Present.

Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi=anl. allowance ending [blank]

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by G.T. Gelly Clerk
Book H [A?] Vol. 1 Page 114
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9429
Justice Artman
application
to the Board
of War -

Admd.
24 mo Teamster
80$
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 - 
State of New York}
Green County} ss.  On the fourth day of January 1833 personally appeared before me Munson Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State of New York Justice Artman resident of the Town of Hunter In the County of Green and State of New York aged Seventy four years old who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 says that he Enlisted into the Service of the United States at the Town of New Hartford in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut and served under the Several officers hereafter named that he Enlisted on the Tenth day of May In the year 1778 Enlisted under Captain Madison and was immediately thereafter put Into the Company Commanded by Captain Smith in the regiment Commanded by Colonel James Thompson Waggon Master General or of the waggon department In the New York Line or of the Continental department in gineral. That he Enlisted In the said Company for the Term of one year on the said Tenth day of May 1778 and that he continued to do duty in the said Company and regiment untill the Eleventh day of the month of May 1779. And he further states that on the said Tenth day of May 1779 his Time Expired And he further says on the eighth day of May 1779 two days before His first year expired He again Enlisted a second time
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at a place Called Middle Brook In the State of New Jersey Enlisted on the said Sixth day of June 179 Enlisted for one year In the Company Commanded by Captain Boyd In the Regiment Commanded by Colonel James Thompson Waggon Master General of the New York Line or over the Waggon department General and that he continued to do duty in this Company and Regiment untill the fourth day of May 1780 when he was Honourably discharged at Morristown State of New Jersey   And this deponent further says that mentioning the times of his Enlistment and discharges he might be mistaken in one day in one of the times of his Enlistment but Verily believes he Is perfectly correct In the times he has mention that he is old and by reason of his old age and the Consiquent Loss of Memory he might have a mistaken in a day or two but In this case he believes he Is morrally Certain In the pricis [?] days stated   And he further says that this declaration is drawn and swore to for the Express purpose of being more particular In this than was Contained In my former declaration as respects dates and times and he further says that he under this Second declaration a part of the former one which was made by me and sworn too [sic] on the Sixteenth day of august Last 1832 and the same accompanies these proceeding.  And he further says that if he Is not mistaken he served Two years In the said Service for It he claims a pension.
[Signed] Justus Artman
Sworn and subscribed this fourth day 
of January 1833 before me Munson Buel - one Judges of the Court of Common pleas In and for the County of Green State of New York
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State of New York 
Green County ss.    I William V.B. Heermance Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the said County of Green being a Court of record do certify that Munson Buel Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn was at the date of the same a Judge of the said Court and that his Signature thereto Is Genuine. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my Hand and seal of office this 29th day of January 1833 
[Signed] William V.B. Heermance Clerk as aforesaid 

Your Honour will recollect that [illegible] in the Waggon department are Entitled to Ten dollars per month and in 1781 Twelve dollars per month - the same as artificers [Initials illegible]
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Passed June 7 1832 

State of New York 
Green County ss.	 On the Sixteenth day of August 1832 personally appeared before me Munson Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York Justice Artman resident of the Town of Hunter In the County of Green and State of New York aged Seventy four years old who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832 - That he Enlisted In the army of the United States in the year one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight that he Enlisted at the Town of New Hartford in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut sometime in the month of May one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight under Captain Madison and was put into the Company Commanded by Captain Smith In the regiment Commanded by Colonel James Thompson In the New York Line and continued to serve in the said Corps untill sometime in the month of May In the year one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy nine and at that time he again enlisted a second time at Middle Brook in the State of New Jersey Enlisted a few days before his year expired in the Company commanded by Capt Boyd In the regiment Commanded by Colonel James Thompson aforesaid In the New York Line that he Enlisted for one year more and Continued to serve in the same corps under the same officers untill the Tenth day of May 1780 when he was Honourably discharged at Morristown in the State of New Jersey That the officers under whoom he served was Captain Madison Captain Smith and Colonel James Thompson  the time he left the service and was discharged was the Tenth day of May 1780 That he was in no battles that his march was through New Jersey New York and Connecticut and that he relinquishes Every claim whatever to a pension or annuity Except the present and he further declares that his name Is not on the pension
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roll of any agency in any State.
[Signed] Justice Artman
Sworn and Subscribed this Sixteenth day of August 1832 Before me Munson Buel} 
one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas and for the County of Green and} 
State aforesaid}

Judge Certificate
I the said Munson Buel Judge as aforesaid do hereby declare that my opinion is that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he states

Declaration In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832- 
State of New York 
Green County ss.   On the Sixteenth day of August 1832 personally appeared Before me Munson Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York Justice Artman resident of the Town of Hunter In the County of Green and State of New York aged Seventy four years of age who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 - that the said Justice Artman Entered In the service In the army of the United States In the revolutionary War Enlisted sometime about the first of June in the year 1781 Enlisted at a place called Oblong in the County of Duches in the State of New York Enlisted for five or six months In Captain Shepherds Company In Colonel Wisenfells Regiment went from the Oblong through the Country to fishkill from there went to West Point from there to North Castle West Chester County from thence to Peexkill from thence to Albany from thence to John Town somewhere near Utica where we had an action with the Indians and British Continued to stay there untill the last of November 1781 and was there Honourably discharged--was hired to go by Mr Silas Belding  Duches County  That he was In the Battle of Johns Town and and further says that he served under no other officer than above
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further says that he has no documentary Evidence that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can Testify to his services other that those affidavits that accompany These proceedings and he further says that he relinquishes Every Claim to a pension or annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not on any pension Roll of the agency of any State of the United States
[Signed] Justus Artman
Sworn and Subscribed this Sixteenth day August 1832 before me Munson Buel one the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green State of New York 

Certificate of the Clergy - 
We Hezekiah Pettit and Henry Goslee - Clergymen of the Town of Lexington in the County of Green and State of New York do hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with Mr Justice Artman who has Subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy four years of age and that he is reputed and believed In the the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur In that Opinion.
[Signed] Hezekiah Pettit
[Signed] Henry Goslee
Sworn and Subscribed this Sixteenth day of August 1832 before me Munson Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green State aforesaid 

Interrogatories of the Judge to the applicant 
Question 1. Where and in what year were you born
Answer - I was Born in Germany on the 6th day of November 1757 
Question 2.  Have you any record of your age If so where Is It 
Answer - I have no record of my age only from Memory
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Question 3.	Where were you living when called Into Service wher have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live. 
Answer - 	When I first Entered the Service I lived in the Town of New Hartford Hartford County and State of Connecticut from thence I moved to a place called Ninepartners Duches County from thence to a place called Woodstock Ulster County from thence I moved to the Town of Hunter Green County where I have lived for many years and where I now live
Question 4.	 How were you called Into Service were you drafted did you Volunteer or were you a substitute and if a substitute by whom
Answer -	I entered the Service In Every Case by voluntary Enlistment Except In his Last Touer [tour] when he was In Captain Shepherds Company in Colonel Resentfelts Regiment  he was hired To Enter the Service by Mr Silas Belding Oblong Duches County State of New York 
Question 5.	State some of the regular officers who were with the Troops where you served such Continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect and the General Circumstances of your Service 
Answer -	That while the Army Lay at Middle Brook and Bonbrook In New Jersey he remembered General Washington who was The Cause of saving his Life at Middle Brook aforesaid from being drowned  that In Crossing that Streem he was riding through In his Hors fell with him and through the Generals Help [?] his Life was saved  I rember General Green, Colonel Thompson Send me once on an Errand to Him to carry a Letter  I do not remember the names of the officers that I once knew 
Question 6.	Did you Ever receive a discharge from the service and If so by whom 
Answer -	When I Closed my Two Years Service In the regiment Commanded by Colonel James Thompson I received a written discharge from Colonel James Thompson Waggon Master General at the Town of Morristown In New Jersey which discharge was given and dated March 4th 1780  I never had any other written one but [?]
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that discharge I have lost many years ago 
Question 7.	State the names of persons to whoom you are acquainted and known In your present Neighbourhood and who can Testify to your Character and Veracity and their belief of your Services as a Soldier of the revolution 
Answer -	I Live In the west part of Hunter closely adjoining the Town of Lexington  am no better acquainted with any persons than I am with his Honour Judge Burl Reuben Harford Esq Attorney at Law and the Reverend Hezekiah Pettit all of whoom I have been Intimately acquainted for more than thirty years 

Certificate of the Judge- 
I the said Munson Buel - Judge as aforesaid do declare that my opinion Is after the Investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and Served as he States   And I the said Judge do further certify that It appears to me that the Revd Hezekiah Pettit who has signed his name to the preceeding Certificate is now a Clergyman in the Town of Lexington and that Henry Goslee Esqr. of the Town of Lexington who signed his name to the above Certificate with him Is a man of respectability and that they are Persons- Entitled to full Credit as Witnesses In their statements and I do further Certify that It Is My Opinion that the said Applicant by reason of bodily infirmity Cannot Attend Court and I do further certify that Mr Justice Artman the applicant Is a respectable man a man of truth and veracity  And I do further certify that It Is my belief and I believe the general Belief that the applicant served in the revolutionary War as he states   And I do further Certify that when I Examined the applicant on the Interrogatories he was on solemn oath administered to him by me [Signed] Munson Buel Judge as aforesaid

Certificate of the Clerk
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I Certify that I have been acquainted with the bearer Mr John Furbeck for more than twenty years past that he has been a member of My church and congregation that his moral and christian character has all that time been fair and as to truth and Veracity unexceptionable as far as I know
[Signed] Thomas Haliday V.D.M. 
Bethlehem 
August 17th 1832

I Munson Buel Ju[d]ge as aforesaid do Certify that John Furbeck who has subscribed his name who has below made his affidavit Signed his name and swore to the affidavit Is a man of respectability Truth and Viracity. 
[Signed] Munson Buel - Jud[g]e as aforesaid
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Green County ss 	John  Farbeck of the Town of [illegible] in the County of Abany any and now Is In the Town of Lexington In the County of Green and State of New York who on his Oath deposeth and saith that he Is well acquainted with Justice Artman of the Town of Hunter in the County of Green and State aforesaid and has been well acquainted with him for fifty Six yeares and further swears that sometime in the month of May in the year one thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight the said Justice Artman Enlisted at New Hartford in the County of Hartford In the State of Connecticut that he Enlisted for one year In Captain Madisons Company and put into the Company of Captain Smith In the regiment commanded by Colonel James Thompson Waggon Master General and that he continued to serve In the said Corps untill sometime in the month of June in the year one thousand seven Hundred and Seventy nine and a few days previous to his Time being out he Enlisted again at a place Called Middle Brook In New Jersey Enlisted for one year more Enlisted In the Company commanded by Captain Boyd In the aforesaid James Thompsons Regiment and that he continued to serve In said Corps untill the fourth day of March one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty when he had a regular discharge from under the hand of James Thompson Waggon Master General  all this this deponent swears to be true that he Enlisted both of the said Terms with the said Justice Artman In the same Company, and regiment and served the whole of the said Two Enlistments of Two years with him and was discharged with him at Morristown the 4th of March one thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty that they were in no battles 
[Signed] John Farbeck
Sworn and Subscribed this thirtieth day of July 1832 Before me Munson Buel one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas In and for the County of Green and State aforesaid
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State of New York}
Greene County ss.}
I William V.B. Heermanse Clerk of the said County do hereby Certify that Manson Buel Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration purports to have been sworn and the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the date of the same and now is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County and that his signature attached thereto is his genuine Signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this sixth day of September 1832 
[Signed] William V.B. Heermanse Clk -
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Power of Attorney in
the Artman case

[Upside down:]
Justus Artman
NY
act 7 June '32
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
Greene County Clerk's Office. 	
I, JACOB VAN ORDEN, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Sanford Cline before whom the annexed affidavit & acknowledgment was made, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same, and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 24 day of October 1854.
[Signed] J. Van Orden
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State of New York }
Green County} ss.
Justus Artman of said county being duly sworn according to law says that he is a son of Justus or Justice Artman deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act June 7th 1832 New York Agency at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum, and that he is interested in the claim to an Increase of said Pension 
[Signed] Justus Artman
Subscribed & sworn to this 18th day of October 1854 before me
[Signed] Sanford Cline Justice of the Peace 

Know all men by these presents that I Justus Artman of Green County N.Y. do hereby constituted appoint Harvey Heath of Locke N.Y. my true and lawful attorney to prosecute the claim of the children of Justice Artman late of said County deceased to an Increase of the Pension that was allowed the said deceased under the act of June 7th 1832, hereby revoking any power of attorney that may have been heretofore given. Witness my hand and seal this 18th day of October 1854.    [SEAL]
[Signed] Justus Artman 
In presence of & acknowledged before me 
[Signed] Sanford Cline Justice of the Peace
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Affidavit
Artman case
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State of New York}
Green County} ss. 
West Chase and Newton Chase of said County being duly sworn according to law say that they were well acquainted with Justice Artman late & of said county deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7th 1832, and died in said County in the town of Hunter on the 12th day of February 1838, that he left no widow, but left the following who are his only children now Surviving, to wit Sally Jones, Anna Egbertson, Thomas Artman, Eliza Woodworth, and Justus Artman, that they have no interest in the result of the claim of the above named children to an increase of their fathers pension 
[Signed] West Chase
[Signed] Newton Chase
Subscribed and sworn to this 23d day of January 1855 before me and I certify that the above named West Chase and Newton Chase are credible persons, that I have no interest in the result of the claim where this is intended to be used & am not concerned in its prosecution 
[Signed] Luman Whitcomb   Justice of the Peace

STATE OF NEW-YORK, 
Greene County Clerk's Office. 	I JACOB VAN ORDEN, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Luman Whitcomb before whom the annexed Deposition was made, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and duly authorized to take the same, and that the signature purporting to be his I believe to be genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 24th day of Jany 1855.
[Signed] J. Van Orden
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State of New York}
County of Green} ss.
I, Jacob Van Orden Clerk of the County Court holden at Catskill in and for said County do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court , Viz. the testimony of Jacob Egbertson and Benjamin Jones of the said County of Green who appear in Court and whom the Court certify are credible witnesses, that Justice Artman was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of eighty dollars per annum was a resident of the County of Green in the State of New York and died in said County and State on the 12th day of February 1838, that the said Justice Artman left no widow, that his wife Irving died in Hunter Green Co. on the 5th day of December 1818 that said parties lived and cohabited together as husband & wife & were reported as such in their neighborhood for many years before her death, that at his death he left the following who are his only children who survive him to wit Sally Jones, Anna Egbertson, Thomas Artman, Justus Altman, and Eliza Woodworth, and that Justus Artman is the Administrator of the said Justice Artman deceased, and has executed to the people of the State of New York a Bond in the penal sum of one thousand five hundred dollars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this thirtieth day of November A D 1854.
[Signed] J. Van Orden  Clk
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April 29, 1939.

BA-J/CC 
Justus (Justice) Artman 
S.22624

Miss Virginia E. Harris 
1 Sunnyside Drive, 
Yonkers, New York. 

Dear Madam: 
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim S.22624, based upon service of Justus Artman in the Revolutionary War. 
Justice Artman was born November 6, 1757, in Germany, names of his parents are not shown. 
Justus Artman was taken prisoner a few days before the surrender of Burgoyne, length of time in captivity not stated nor any details of capture. While residing in New Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut he enlisted May 10, 1778, served as teamster under Captains Madison, Smith and Boyd, and Colonel James Thompson, Wagonmaster General, and was discharged May 4, 1780. He enlisted about June 1, 1781, in Albany [Note in margin: "I made it Oblong on orig.  It was copied wrong from my reviewed sheet. F"], Dutchess County, New York, served six months as private in Captain Shepherd's company, Colonel Weisenfel's New York regiment and was in the battle of Johnstown.
 In 1832, Justus Artman stated that he moved from Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut to Nine Partners, Dutchess County, New York from there to Woodstock, Ulster County and from there to Hunter, Greene County, New York where he had lived for many years.  
The soldier was allowed pension on his application executed August 16, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Hunter Greene County, New York. 
He died February 12, 1838, in Hunter, Greene County, New York. His wife, Irving died December 5, 1818, in said Hunter; no further data shown in regard to her.
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The following named children survived the soldier: Sally Jones, Anna Egbertson, Thomas Artman, Eliza Woodworth, and Justus Artman.

In 1854, Jacob Egbertson and Benjamin Jones were living in Greene County, New York, their relationship to the family was not stated. 

Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.
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22,624
INVALID.
Revolution
File No.22,624
Justice Artman
Teamster Rev. War
Act: June 7 "32"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 11
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Right side [appears to be carried over to far left side]:
Jan. 24/98 Miss Carne Patterson,
New York City
1939 - Apr. 29 Hist. to Miss Virginia E Harris. cc
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Left side (crosswise) - list of those receiving case information:
[missing] 				Feb. 11, 1833
"	"	" 	Purinum 	"	"	"
"	"	" 	R. Horford Esq."	"	"
"	"	" 	Same		Aprl	6	"
"	"	" 	" 		tenth Aug 1836
"	"	" 	"		June 26, 1837
"		Hon. Z. Pratt		 4 Oct, '37
"		to R. Horford 	1 March '38 }
"		to Pension Agent	"         "      " }
copies for Hon. Z. Pratt, 		April 7, 1838.
Let to Hon. A.C. Hand		Jan 28, 1840

Right side:
New York 2889
Justice Artman
of Green Co in the State of New York
who was a private in the Com co[mmanded]
by Captain Madison of the Reg't co[mmanded]
by Col Thourpe in the New 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 of March, 1834.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of [missing] 1834 and sent to R.
Hartford Livington [illegible]

Arrears to the 4th of March		240.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. 40.00
[=] $280.00

{Revolutionary Claims,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by Dan'l. Boyd  Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 Page 125
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28,891
N.Y.
Justice Artman
act [of?] 1832

Justice Artman
N.Y. 32

Crosswise:
Hon. S.P. Waldo
Commr of Pensions
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New York
Revo.

Justus Artman
Rejected

let to R. Harford
8 June 33; let to same 
19  "    "

Act 7 June '32
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21,891
N.Y.

Let.. George C. Ames Nov 4/54
G.C. Ames 8 Nov. 1854.
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Increase. 
Justice Artman decd 
N.Y. 

Admitted. 
Act 7th June 1832.  
2 years Teamster at $192.-- per annum from 4th March 1831 to 12th Feby 1838, when he died, deducting former payments at the rate of $80. per annum. 

Pay, Justus Artman Admr for benefit of - Sally Jones, Anna Egberton, Thomas Artman Eliza Woodworth, and Justus Artman, only surviving children. 

Certificate to G. C. Ames Esqr. Present.
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NY April 3d
Justice Artman

Crosswise:
 Windham [?] NY}
March 30}

Addressed to:
FREE
Honbl. James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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State of New York }
Green County } ss.  	Justice Artman of the Town of Hunter in the County of Green and State of New York being duly Sworn on his oath deposeth and Saith that he enlisted into the Service of the United States, In the manner that he has formerly stated In his declaration to obtain a pention [sic] that he does not recollect any thing Very particular more than he has formerly Stated In his declaration and affidavits previously Sent on, well remembers that he Enlisted at New Hartford in Connecticut sometime in the month of June 1778 Enlisted under Captain Madison or otherwise Captain Madison Enlisted him and Mr John Furbeck Together for one year  that Captain Madison then took us to the White Plains and Gave us up to Colonel James Thompson Commanding the waggon-department Team Service  It was then said that we were put Into Captain Smiths Company staid a time at the White Plains and then went Into New Jersey with our waggons and teams and there was Imployed in procuring forrage and Carrying baggage for the Continental army Twelve Teams was Called a forage Brigade after our first Year Expired I and Mr John Furbeck Enlisted again In a Company commanded by Captain Boyd under Colonel James Thompson Enlisted at Middle brook In New Jersey as I have before stated In my former declaration that we continued with the army In New Jersey at Morristown and other places, he further says, that although these Captains he has named yet the whole Command Seemed to come from Colonel James Thompson and the forrage master whose name was John Paten  It seemed that they only had the Command  knows Little about Captain's Colonel James Thompson paid them their wages and let them have their Cloathing  this Clerk to the Colonel name was Charles Tompkins who did the business and Colonel Thompson always Signed his name to the same  Colonel Thompson signed my discharges he further says that he cannot certain remember the amount of his monthly pay thinks for certain
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It was Eleven or Twelve dollars per month he further Says that he faithfull Served the time out In the Said Teams Service as aforesaid and further saith not.
[Signed] Justus Artman
Sworn and subscribed this twenty first day of March in year 1835 Before me 
[Signed] Reubin Harford a Commissioner for taking Affidavits In and for the County of Green and State of New York
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Lexington Heights March 21 1835 
Honbl. James L Edwards Esqr.
Sir 
I have this moment returned from Visiting Mr Justice Artman he Is a poor object of pity has Lain upon his bed something more than one year from a shock of the palsey  I have taken his affidavit and are now about Sending It to your Honour without the Clerks Certificate  I am now and have ben a Commissioner for many Years  the Old Gentleman thinks It hard that he has to pay one Quarter of a dollar for so many certificates 
If your Honour should refuse it please to return to me ameedially [immediately] and I shall have the Clerks Certificate to it  Please to send your returns to me
Very respectfully 
Your obt.
[Signed] Reuben Harford
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Know all men by these presents that we Justus Artman as principal and Benjamin Jones, and Jacob Egbertson as sureties all of the town of Jewett Greene County N.Y 
are held and firmly bound unto the people of the State of New York, in the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, Lawful money of said State, to be paid to the said people for which payment well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves and each of us, our, and each of our heirs, executors, and administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these presents: Sealed with our seals, and dated the 28th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four 
Whereas the above named Justus Artman. has been appointed by the Surrogate of the County of Green Administrator of all and singular the goods chattels and credits which were of Justice Artman, late of the town of Hunter in said County of Green deceased Now Therefore the condition of this obligation is such that if the above bounden Justus Artman shall faithfully execute the trust reposed in him as such Administrator, and shall obey all orders of such Surrogate touching the administration of the estate committed to him without fraud or delay then this obligation to be void, otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue
[Signed] Justus Artman (L.S.)
[Signed] Jacob Egbertson (L.S.)
[Signed] Benjamin Jones (L.S.)
Sealed and Delivered in presence of 
J. Van Orden
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Crosswise at bottom:
Copy of Bond
Artman case

State of New York}
County of Green} ss. 	Jacob Egbertson & Benjamin Jones of said County being severally sworn say & each for himself says that he is a freeholder in the said County & with the sum of two thousand dollars over and above all debts owing by him.
[Signed] Jacob Egbertson
[Signed] Benjamin Jones
Sworn & Subscribed before me Nov. 28, 1834
[Signed] J. Van Orden
Clerk of Greene Co.

Greene County ss. On this 30th day of November 1854 before me came Jacob Van Orden  to me known, who being duly sworn deposed & said that he resides in the town of Catskill in said County that he knows Justus Artman, Jacob Egbertson & Benjamin Jones to be the persons described in & who executed the written bond & that he saw each of said persons execute the same & that he subscribed his name thereto as a witness.
[Signed] A.H. Bailey
Greene Co. Judge
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At a Surrogates Court held in for the County of Green at the Surrogates office in Catskill November 30th 1854 
Present - A.H. Bailey Surrogate 
In the matter of the administration} 
of the goods chattels & credits of} 
Justus Artman Deceased} 
On reading & filing the petition of Justus Artman son of Justis Artman late of Hunter, County of Greene and State of New York, deceased,  praying that letters of administration of the goods chattels & credits of said deceased, be granted to him, and on reading & filing the bond executed by said petitioner with two competent sureties, pursuant to NY [?] Statute, ordered that the prayer of said petitioner be granted & that letters of Administration issue in pursuance thereof.

(Copy)
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State of New York
Greene County ss. 	I, Alexander H. Bailey County Judge of the County of Greene, acting as Surrogate do hereby cirtify [sic] that the foregoing are Copies [?] of the order granted, and entered by me in my office, granting letters of Administration of all all and singular the goods, chattels & credits of Justus Artman deceased, late of the town of Hunter, in said County, & of the bond given by Justus Artman the Administrator, appointed in & by said order pursuant to the State in such case made & provided. And that the said copies are in all respects correct & true copies of the originals - 
[RIBBONED SEAL] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of office of the Surrogate of said County this 24th day of January 1855 -
[Signed] A.H. Bailey 
Greene Co. Judge
acting as Surrogate

Crosswise:
The Certificate in this case may issue, 
Recpt to Rev [? illegible]
bond is owe fee Rev [? illegible]
issue of $500.--
[signature illegible]
Jany 26 1855
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State of New York}
Green County} ss. 	Justice Artman of the Town of Hunter In the County of Green and State of New York, on his oath deposeth and saith That He has previously Had his Application made out and Sent on to the Board of War for a Pension for services done the United States during the revolutionary War, And this deponent further says that He Is now Informed by Reuben Harford Esquire that he Has Lately received a Letter from the Honourable James L. Edwards Esquire Commissioner of Pensions in the City of Washington requiring me to set forth In a Supplimental affidavit stating the facts relative to my entering the Team or waggon Service whether by Enlistment as a Teamster or a soldier. In answer to these Questions this deponent on His oath Saith, that In the month of June agreeable to His Statement In his former affidavit and that of Mr John Furbeck In the year 1778 He Entered the service of the United States, Enlisted at the Town of New Hartford in the County of Hartford in the State of Connecticut   I Enlisted at that place for one year Enlisted under Captain Madison Commanding a Team party under Collonel [sic] James Thompson Commander of the Team or waggon department   I Enlisted under Him as a Teamster and not as a soldier, under these said Officers I faithfully served untill my year Expired my duty during this said time was In driving the Teams and taking care of them carrying the Bagage [sic] of the army. After this my year Expired.  In the State of New Jersey I Enlisted again In this same team or Waggon department for one year Enlisted as a Teamster and not as a soldier, under Captain Boyd under the said Col James Thompson Commander of the Team and waggon department  I faithfully served this year out or taking care of the Team and driving them, Carrying the Baggage of the army under the command of these my said officers, and He further says that He Enlisted as a Teamster in both of these years and not as a Soldier neither did he ever Enlist as a solder or Serve as Such but as a Teamster in the Team Service in the waggon department. And He further says that after he Had Served out His Two Year Service In the Team Service he Enlisted once or twice as a Soldier and served for months but this He did not mention at the time he made out his proceedings as he was Informed It would do him no good as he Had faithfully served two Years In the Team Service. 
This deponent further says that Mr John Furbeck who has made an affidavit for him of his services was a German Soldier with Him In Burgoines army  that they were both taken prisoners together  that He both times Enlisted Together In one Company and served together the Two years and were both discharged Together, And this deponent Is Informed that the said John Furbeck Has obtained His Pension almost one Year ago for this Same two Year Service In which I Served with Him and on the Strength of my affidavit of his services.
[Signed] Justus Artman
Sworn and Subscribed this fourteenth day of April 1834 Before me Henry Goslee a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Green and State of New York
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State of New York 
Greene County ss. 	I William V. B. Heermance Clerk of the said County do certify that Henry Goslee Esquire before whom the within deposition was sworn was at the date of the same a Judge of the County Courts for the said County of Greene and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and verily believe that his signature to the same is genuine. 
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand and the seal of the said County this first day of May 1834.
[Signed] William V.B.. Heermance Clerk 
Henry Heermance  Dep'y Clerk
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Dec. 23d 1833
New York State

[At bottom]
And in part [?]
for Dr. Crump

[Crosswise]
Simeon Hurd
Joseph B. Brooks
Justice Artman
Henry Decker

Windham NY}
Dec 14}
FREE

Honbl. James S. Edwards Esqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Lexington Heights Gr. Co. [?] December 13 1833

Honbl. James S. Edwards Esqr 

Sir,
For many years I have had the Honour of addressing you as a Public Officer, In behalf of revolution Claimants and during this lengthy [illegible] I have always Considered it as a part of my duty to treat your Honour with respectfull dignity Yet through the want of a better Information I may Very often have strayed from the path of Legal certitude [?] and trespassed to [illegible] your Honours Indulgense by mayking [?]  freequent Solicitations for Legal Information, In respect to my duties to these Claimants Your Honour has always manifested a readiness to Afford me all the Information that I have Ever Solicited untill your Last Letter to me of the 7th of November In answer to mine of the 2d of the same month respecting the concerns of Mr Joseph B. Brooks, In your Last Letter previous to your Last you Informed me that at present Mr Brook, Could not obtain that he had only four months Credit for Services besides Services performed In too Early Life and therefore cound not recover, In answer to this Letter was mine of the 2d In that Letter I beged Your Honour to take a second Look at his application and see if your Honour had not overlooked one six months Tower [tour] of duty at Horse Neck with some other requests the reason for thus doing was because In my Copy of this proceeding this Six months Campain was Imbodied in his declaration, your answer In your Last to me contained but four Very short Lines Informing me that there was no mistake In the concern, the moment I imforded [?] your Letter I was Sensible that there was Something In My Letter that had Caused your displeasur Otherwise your Honour would have manifested your usual Condiscention In affording me an answer to the request, In my Letter, true It Is that Mr Brooks case has been Long pending before you and you may be tired with Its Labours however I believe the Old Gentleman Is Very Justly Entitled to a recovery if any American Soldier Ever was, he Is a Very poor Honest man and I do most Sincerly Hope your Honor will not withhold any Information that will be for his benefit, now Sir If It Is not traveling too far out of the path of your duty please to give me your Answer to all my Questions, In my former Letter of the second of November last and you will greatly Oblige the Old Gentleman and I would here further ad that on the 19th of June last you wrote me Letter respecting the claims of Mr Justice Artman that In Examining his deposition with that of Mr John Furbeck you discovered no demerritt In his Claim but wished Him to make a Short Supplemental Affidavit respecting his Serving In the Team Service which was ameediately done and sent on about the Last of June Last nothing ben heard from It Since, Mr Ebenezer Johnsons Affidavit were sent on sometime Last August.
I remain Honour'd Sir 
Very Respectfully your Obdt 
Reuben Harford
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State of New York} 
Green County}  ss.	John Furbeck of the Town of New Scotland In the County of Albany and State of New York being duly sworn on his oath deposeth and saith that something Like one or more years Since he made his affidavit before His Honour Judge Buel, In proof of the services of Mr Justice Artman In the service of the United [States] In the revolutionary War. This deponent in Addition to what he Has formerly sworn &c says that he was taken prisoner with Mr Justice Artman some time about two or three days previous to Burgoines being Taken prisoner  that afterward he enlisted at the Town of New Hartford in Connecticutt Inlisted with Mr Justice Artman In Captain Madisons Company for one Year  was put Into the Company of Captain Smith In the Team Service this deponent says that Mr Justice Artman and Himself both Enlisted Into the Said Company and Service as Teamsters and not as soldiers and thier Second Enlistment for one Year they both Enlisted as Teamsters and not as Soldiers  this deponent says that Mr Justice Artman and he served together for the time of Two Years In this Team Service and that this deponent has Obtained his Pension for this same Two Years Service when He Is Informed that Mr Justice Artman has not Yet [received?] His.
[Signed] John Furbeck 
Sworn and subscribed this 26th day of August 1834 Before me 
[SIgned] Rueben Harford a Commissioner In and for the County of Green & State of New York
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David Frayer
Rodger Holcom
Justus Artman
John Furbeck

Crosswise, addressed:
Windham NY}
Jany 19th}

25 [postage]

Honble James S. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington

Upside down:
Jan 24 N.Y.
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Lexington Heights Gr. Ct. S N. York Jany 17th 1837

Honble James L.  Edwards Esqr.

Sir 
For a Number of Weeks past I Have ben Confined to my House and a great part of the time to my bed by Sickness, and still remain Very weak and feeble - 
Your Letter to me of the 28th of Last Month Came to my Hand In time but being Inable to pay any attention to It untill this time on perusing the same I find It relates to the pension concerns of Mr John Furbeck. In this Letter Your Honour mentions that the Services of John Furbeck In Capt Madisons Company in the Year 1778 was not Continental by the returns of the Quartermaster General. If I have a Correct Idea from of Mr John Furbeck and Justice Artmans former declarations and from an affidavit of Mr Artman taken before me as a Commissioner Something Like Two Years Since which affidavit I sent on to Your Honour and the Information I received from Mr Furbeck Some Weeks Since mentioned In my Last Letter to your Honour I should think that the report of the Quarter Master was correct, Messrs Furbeck and Artman Swear that they both Enlisted At New Hartford In the Spring of the Year 1778 Enlisted under Captain Madison that ameediately after their Enlistment they were sent to the White Plains and were there put Into the Company of Capt Boyd, and there did duty In the Team Service under Capt Boyd and not Capt Madison and that they So Continued to doo duty under Capt Boyd untill the Waggon Master Genl James Thompson took them from that Station to his own family [?] department the one to be his Waiter [?] and the other to take Care of his Stores and drive his Baggage Waggon and that They So Continued untill their Year Expired which was at Middle Brook in New Jersey where they again Enlisted for one Year more and Continued in the family of Waggon Master General James Thompson untill their Second Year Expired and then received their Honourable discharges from Genl James Thompson Mr Furbeck wishes your Honour to take a Second Look at that discharge as It Contains Something
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More than Ordinary discharges, I must therefore Conclude that these Two men faithfully Served the Two Years as they have Sworn, and as respects Captain Madison were I allowed to give my Opinion I Should Say that he was only acting as an Enlisting or Recruiting Officer and not otherwise Enlisting men in the Country and then taking them to Camp to Join their Proper Companies 
as Soon as my Health will permit I shall write to Mr Furbeck and Let him know the Contents of your Honours Letter to Me   There has ben Every attention paid to your Honours Letters by Writing to find out Capt Boyd or his Christian name but no Information as Yet received and I Have no Idea that Either Mr Furbeck or Artman Can give your Honour any Additional Information In the Subject,  I do wish If Consistent that your Honour may be Satisfied of the truth of their declarations and Send Me their pensions for their Two Years Service.  Before I close I beg Leave to mention the Cases of Messrs Ebinezer Johnson, Roger Holcomb, and David Frayer, now pending before you, In your Last Letter to me respecting the Claim of Ebenezer Johnson your Honour Mentions that If Mr Johnson Could Shew Why his name was not on the Role he would be Entitled to his pension. If I am Correct, on this Subject Mr Johnson says that If his name Is not on the roll he can give no reason for It  he says he has Sworn that he did this Six Months Service and proved It by Several Witnesses as well as his Two Years Service and that he has further Sworn that he attended on all roll Calls that his name was always Called with others and he always answered to the same Whether His name was on the roll or not that he faithfully Served his Country for more that two Years If any Soldier In America did   Should your Honour wish an additional affidavit from Mr Johnson on any Subject It will be made and Sent on at your request - In your Honours Last Letter to me respecting the Services of Mr Roger Holcomb you mentioned that as there was no pay rolls to be found in the Secretaries Office Boston that he must try to get other Testimony of His Services  Mr Holcomb Is my neighbour
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and I doo know that he has taken all pains to procure Testimony of His Services by Sending a person for that purpose to Boston State who reports that those others that Served with Him are dead and Gone. I do wish that your Honour Could hear this Old Honest Gent Inform you of his Campain of four months to Cherry Valley to guard against the Indians who were committing their Barrties [barbarities?] on the Inhabitants and his other Tower [tour] of duty to the Northward [?] I must think that your Honour would believe Him and give Him His pension as no pay rolls are In the Boston State Office  why may he not recover in his own Oath as many others Have by the rules of your department An Honester Man does not Live In My Opinion. The remaining case of Mr David Frayer he Served four months at the Cross Roads Columbia County three months West Chester County went with prisoners to Exeter hear Boston went three months to the Northward for his Brother who was drafted and three months more to the Northward  his Evidence Is General Tenbrook his Brother and others who have Sworn to his Services - Will your Honor be So good as to write to me as Soon as May Touching Each each of there cases If I am asking too much of your Honour I beg your pardon the reason I press this is because I am Continually Called on to obtain their pensions and at times Tax me with Inattention to their concerns 
remain Hon'd Sir Very 
respectfully 
your Obt.
Rueben Harford 
NB your Honour will See my present Situation by my Writing
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Mr. John Furbeck Says that he and Justice Artman Enlisted at the Town of New Hartford in Connecticut In the Spring of the Year 1778 for one Year in the Team Service Enlisted under Captain Madison went to the White Plains from thence into New Jersey Was then put into Captain Smiths Company Some time Soon after they Each Had a four Horse Waggon Team, which they drove for after forage and other things. He says he thinks this department belonged to the New York or Pennsylvania Lines, General James Thompson was called Waggon Master General of the Team department and Charles Tompkins was his Secretary or assistant. Sometime after this General Thompson had the misfortune to have one of His own Horses Leg broke and Captain Smith told him that I Had one Very fine Horse In my Team and the General requested Captain Smith to come and tell me that He must Have the Horse I Told Captain Smith that I Had taken great pains to recruit the Horse and was Very Sorry to Let Him go. Capt Smith Told me that he Told the General So, on this General Thompson Sent a man to me saying that I must go ameediately to General Thompsons Quarters this allarmed me Very Much fearing the General had sent for me for the purpose of punishing me for not being Welling to Let the Horse go, when I arrived at the Generals, He asked me why I was Unwilling to Let the Horse Come [?] my answer was that he was a Very fine Horse and I Had taken great pains to recruit him and Was Very Sorry to have him taken away. the General then said that I might go to the Continental Yard and pick out any Horse that I pleased but he said to the General that he should not find such a Horse as his there, the General then replied to me Saying that you Set so much by the Horse How would you Like to Come and Live with Him and bring the Horse with him and drive his Waggon then he could have the same Horse to drive he then Told the General that It would please him well, but that If he was to be Seperated from his great friend Justice Artman he Artman would not stay any Longer than his Year and then would Leave him the General then told him that Artman might also Come with him and he went and got the Horse and Artman the one waited on the General and the Other on Mr Tompkins   Artman drove Tompkins Waggon and he the Generals. The General Occupied a House out a side from the Encampment where he and his family resided. The owner of the House where the General and His family Lived went a Journey into the Country and left a Black Girl to take care during his absence, at this Sametime General Thompson was Visitted by Genl Green and two other Officers and While at dinner I was Ordered to draw
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Some Cider and When about Entering the Celler door there was an allarm that the roof of the House was all on a blaze  the General ordered me to run up Stairs and he followed  the fire was mostly on the East Side of the House  the General and Himself Commenced throwing out beding out of the Window In the uper Story  In a bedroom on the West Side the people without Called on us to make his Escape out of the window where the beds and bed Cloaths were Lying. the General Let himself down received to greater Injury than to dislocate his great Toe, that the fire followed him so fiercely that he was Obliged to run to the Stareway down to the Lower Story though the fire and then went out and Jumped to the bottom almost burned to death his Hair and Cloaths almost burned all off and the fall greatly bruised him on the Hand rail  It was afterwards found out that the black Girl Set It a fire  the General Told the black Girl that If she did not Tell the truth Hou [sic] the House got a fire that he would Have her Shot before Night  She then Confessed that She Set fire to a Hoggshead of [Tou?] but did not mean to burn the House  the General With his family then took Quarters for a Short time In a Waggon House   I often went to drive the General Waggon for him to Trenton Philadelphia and Else Where.  We both Enlisted again for one Year More at Middle brook New Jersey was Considered then as belonging to Capt Boyds Company but continued to Live and wait and drive the Generals and Mr Tompkins Waggons as We had done and Wait upon them and Tend their Horses and so Continued untill our two Years Expired and was then both Honourably discharged Together by Written discharges given by General Thompson, which discharge has ben Very Safely kept and preserved Ever Since the War In my desk  Mr Artmans was consumed as he So Informed when his House was burned thirty Years ago - the place where I was discharged was Morristown and not Morrison -
[Signed] John Furbeck  
Copy of a paper he has brought me from home
[Signed] R Harford
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[Addressed, crosswise:]

Windham }
June 21 }
[Postage] 25

Honbl. James L. Edwards Eqr.
Commissioner of Pensions
City  
Washington

Top:
24 June
Luice [?]
In Allentown [?]
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Lexington Heights Gr. Ct. S.N. York June 21 1837 
Honbl James L. Edwards Esqr.
Sir
Your Letter of the 15th of the present month Came to my Hand on the Arrival of Yeasterdays mail Touching the Concern of Mr Joseph B. Brooks. I am fully persuaded that Mr Brooks Has done Every thing in his power to procure Evidence of his Services but he Informed me the other day that It was out of his power to procure any other than what is now before your Honour, he requests me to beg you to respect His own oath of his Services and Send him a pension for the Six months Service at Horse Neck and the four months Service which he performed under Genl Lafaiatt [Lafayette] Should your Honour Not be Willing to Allow him for the other Service which He says he faithfully performed. I Cannot Say any thing more respecting His Case than that mentioned In my Last Letter  I doo Still Say that I doo think that your Honour may safely rely on what he has Sworn too. Something Like two or three months Since I Sent in the procedings of Messrs Roger Holcomb and David Frayer* whose first applications had ben Lost  I have received No Information from your Honour of their arrival. Messrs John Furbeck, Justice Artman and Ebenezer Johnsons Cases are Still peding before you. These persons are daily Calling on me beging me to write to your Honour Stating their want, and praying your Honour to send on their pensions as soon as may be   I Have Informed Every one of them that I Could Not Gratify them In their request well knowing that your Honor must know their Anctiety [anxiety?] and Want and would Send on their Pensions as Soon as they were Acted upon -
Very respectfully
your Obt
[Signed] Reuben Harford

*  ansd [answered?]
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Justice Aetman
N.Y. - act 1832

Geo C Ames
Present
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Washington Novem 6 1834 
Hon L.P. Waldo
Sir
In your report to me of the 4th Inst in the Case of Justis Artman You State "that so soon as a formal Application accompanied with proof of Heirship &c" the claim to increase will be investigated. 
By reference to the paper I filed it will be found that the Application for Increase, under oath was made at the same time that the Power of Attorney was given. I renew therfore the application for the Increase asked for in my communication of the 3d Inst.
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Servt.
Geo. C. Ames
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Washington Nov. 3 1854 
Hon L. P. Waldo 
Sir 
I filed in your office a few days since a Power of Attorney in the case of Justus Artman of New York act 7 June 1832 with a view of obtaining an Increase of the Pension allowed him.
Artman was a Wagoner and served two years under Capt Smith and Captain Boyd, of 
W M Genl James Thompsons Brigade. These were all Officers of the Continental Teamsters - and I ask that the allowance to Artman of $80- p ann. may be Increased to $192 the same as other Continental Teamster shave received- 
The Pension of ___  Ferbeck of New York, who was the principal witness in the Case of Artman, and who served under the same Officers and at the same time has been Increased to $192 p ann. and I ask that Artman may be allowed the same. 
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Sevt
[Signed] Geo. C. Ames
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Breif [sic] in the case of Justice Artman decd 
Green County and State of New York 
act 7th June 1832. 

Claim, ("original" or "for increase.")  ["original" stricken]

Proof exhibited, (if original.) 

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Justice was pensioned under above act at $80.- per annum; It is now proved by the testimony of John Furbeck, who was pensioned for the same service, that he was a Continental Teamster and entitled to $192.- per annum.  Justice died on 12th February 1838, leaving no widow - proved by West Chase and Newton Chase & order of Green County Court. 
Sally Jones, Anna Egberton, Thomas Artman, Eliza Woodworth and Justus Artman only surviving children-- proved by order of Green County Court, West Chase and Newton Chase.
Justus Artman Administrator. Bond $1500.-

(If for increase.) [blank]

Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? [blank]

Name and residence of Agent 
G. C. Ames Esqr. 
Present

Charles H. Rhett. 
Examining Clerk.
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12 Feb 38 [illegible]

See John Furbeck case
N.Y. ad. Act 1832.
Abigail Watt [?] case
PA. ad. 1838
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Justice Artman died 12 February 1838,
paid in full.
[Signed] Robt [?] J Atkinson
Auditor
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Pension Office
8th Decr 1854.

New York Rolls.}
Act 7th June 1832.}  Justice Artman.
$80.- per annum.}.  To what time paid? When did he die?
[Signed] S. Cole
for Commissioner.

R.J. Atkinson Esqr.
Third Auditor.
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[STAMP] Finance Division Bureau of Pensions JAN 12 1898

New York. Jan. 9th 1898
Pension Office
Washington - 
Will you be kind enough to write me the exact date of the paying of the pension due my great grand father John Justice Artman who fought in the War
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of the Revolution from the beginning to the End. The pension was paid to his son Justice Artman of Jewett or Hunter - Greene Co. N.Y. about the years 1854 to 1857 as near as I can learn, and oblige 
[Signed] Carrie Patterson
207 West 130th St.
New York City.

[STAMP] U.S. Pension Office JAN 10 1898
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1 Sunnyside Drive 
Yonkers, N.Y. 
Feb 21, 1939

Veterans Administration 
Bureau of Pensions 
Washington, D.C 

My dear Sirs: 
Would you kindly inform me as to whether a Peter Hull of Fairfield, Conn. and later of Deleware [sic] County, N.Y took any part in the Revolutionary War. He was Bapt May 27, 1759 and married Mary Redfield Dec 17, 1782. His parents were Peter Hull and Ann Dimon. 
Also any likely information concerning a Thomas Harris who appears to have resided in Dutchess Co. will be greatly appreciated. He had a son Peter baptized July 16, 1797 in Tivoli NY. He owned property in Red Hook, N.Y when the town was establised in 1803. He was married to Cornelia Feinhart
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I would also appreciate a copy of the pension record of one John Justice Artman ['A' or 'O' ?" noted above] who enlisted at Hartford Conn. and served as a teamster in the Conn. and New York troops. He was B 6 Nov 1757 in Germany and D 12 Feb 1838 in Hunter, Greene County, N.Y. He married Eliz. Perry 1782.
I would greatly appreciate any information concerning these men and will forward fee required
Sincerely
(Miss) Virginia E. Harris
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April 29, 1939.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
BA-J/CC
Justus (Justice) Artman
S.22624

Miss Virginia E. Harris 
1 Sunnyside Drive, 
Yonkers, New York. 

Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Peter Hull of Fairfield, Connecticut and Deleware [sic] County, New York, of Thomas Harris of Dutchess County New York, and of John Justice Artman, who enlisted at Hartford, Connecticut and served as a teamster in the Connecticut and New York troops and who was born in Germany. 
There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of the Thomas Harris cited above, nor of a Peter Hull. You are furnished herewith the Revolutionary War record of Justus Artmen [sic].
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.