Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 10975, Marcus Wackman, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Wackman, Marcus
R. 10975-
CONTENTS
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
10,975
P. O. Marcus Wachman
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____ REJECTED _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: m _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Suspended
See letter to Humphrey Fullerton Wk Reps. Co. Chillicothe P. O. Ohio
17. March 1830

32.871
Marcus Wackman Ohio.
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109.75

State of Ohio Asp County ss Know all men by these presents: That I, [blank] of the County of [blank] and State of [blank] do hereby certify that on this day personally appeared the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instrument and acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes and consideration therein expressed.
Given under my hand and the seal of this Court this [blank] day of September 1834.
Personally appeared the [blank] day of September 1834 in Open Court before the Honorable Frederick Gruber President, and James M'Clusky Isaac Cook & Joseph M'Clusky his associates Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, Marcus [blank] Wachman, 78 years of age of the Township of Liberty in the County aforesaid who after being duly cautioned and sworn according to law, states on his oath that the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed March 3rd 1832, that at the commencement of the revolutionary war, but what year or month he is unable to state at Shawangunk Ulster County New York, he joined a company of Minutemen commanded by Captain Isaac Schuyler, the first Lieutenant of said Company was Abraham Schoonmaker & the second Lieutenant named Peter Roper, that from Shawangunk he marched to Newburg & from Newburg to Fishkill where the company encamped, the principal employment of the company to which he belonged was picking up Tories, that at one time during his service there was about 300 Tories captured in the Dutch Church

who had been taken by him and other company and arrested at Fishkill, Many of the crimes were taken in Dutchess County, New York & some in the State of Connecticut, That he served in the above company about three months when he was discharged at Fishkill, but from time to accident his discharge has been lost, in addition to this, he acted as a militia from five days to two weeks at a time for the space of of seven years in in Ulster County, New York his
Marcus W Wachman
Sworn to & Subscribed in open court Sept. 27 - 1834 Humphrey Fullerton Clerk
To John Brachman, & William W Miller
The undersigned of the County of Ulster State aforesaid do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Marcus Wachman, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declarations, and that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age, that he is generally reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to be a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion.
James Chapman
William W Miller
Sworn to & Subscribed in open court Sept. 27 - 1834 attest Humphrey Fullerton Clerk

I Pleasant Sherman a Clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church residing in the County of Ross and state of Ohio do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Marcus Blackman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and believe him to be 78 years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he lives to be a soldier of the revolution, and that I concur in that opinion
Pleasant Sherman Sworn to & subscribed in open Court Sept 27 th 1834
Humphrey Fullerton Clerk
In the matter of Marcus Blackman for a pension the court do hereby declare their opinion 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 the court further certifies that it appears to them that Pleasant Sherman who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Ross and that John S. Blackman & William H. Miller who also signed the preceding certificate are residents in said County & are credible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit
I Humphrey Fullerton Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in & for Ross County in the State of Ohio do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Marcus Blackman for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 5 th day of November A D 1834 & of this State the 32 nd
Humphrey Fullerton Clerk