Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6967, for Nathaniel Martin, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
Martin, Nathaniel
R6967
CONTENTS

32.509
Nathl Martin
Seneca
June 3 35
Ansapd. See letter 16 Jan 1835 to G. Sarton
Wm Lloyd to G.S. 36
June 6th Seneca of Mar.

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Suspended, See letter 10 Jan'y 1835 to G. Lester. Hon. E. I. Shields, Jan 14 '36
ack 832
Tenn
6967

32.509
Nathaniel Martin Sturminster

State of Tennessee Giles County.
I Herman Lester Clerk of the Court for pleas and quarters sessions held for the County aforesaid do certify that the fore- going contains the Original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Martin for admission. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 4 th December 1834
Herman Lester Clerk
State of Tennessee } Alexander Black Giles County } Presiding Justice of Giles County Court do hereby certify that Herman Lester whose name is subscribed to the above Certificate is Clerk of said County Court and that full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts in such and that his said said Certificate is in due form of Law. Witness my hand and seal the 20 th day of Decr 1834 Alexander Black Presiding Justice of Giles County Court

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879.
69 67
P. O. Nathaniel Martin
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 REJECTED
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____ _____
Re-enlisted: _____ _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____ _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

State of Tennessee } Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions Hick County } November Term 1834
Personally appeared before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, this being the 17th day of the aforesaid month Nathaniel Martin a resident citizen of Hick County in the State aforesaid, aged about 76 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832.
Declarant states that he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1777 and to the best of his recollection in the month of October, that he enlisted under Capt James Perry, he does not know whether he was attached to any regiment or not, he served under Capt James Perry and Lieutenant James Martin, he enlisted for the term of six months when he enlisted he was an inhabitant of a town called Suckoak or Pembroke in the State of New Hampshire he has forgotten the name of the County, he entered the service immediately on his enlistment and left service to the best of his recollection in April the following spring 1778, he was in no battle during the term of his service, shortly after he was enlisted he was marched by his Capt together with about 70 others to a place called Warwick Neck in the State of Rhode Island and was stationed there during the winter and until his term of service expired and was discharged, his principal service during that term was to prevent the British from landing their forces, the number of men being small as above stated he had to stand guard two hours every other night, he recollects the weather was exceedingly cold, This declarant further declares that at the time he entered service he was an indentured apprentice to the shoe and boot-making business to a man by his own name, that when he enlisted he received $8- and that he served out his term of service being six months as aforesaid, and

received a verbal discharge, he further states that Capt Berry told him that so soon as he could draw the pay from the pay master, he would pay him for his services and give him a written discharge. Deponent did not himself draw any more but understood that the man to whom he was bound, who was by the name of the deponent as aforesaid, that he drew it and did not let deponent have any part of it nor did he ever get his written discharge. After he was discharged he returned home to Saco and remained there about three months to the best of his recollection and then he enlisted a second time under one L. Scott a recruiting sergeant whose christian name deponent cannot now remember he enlisted at his usual place of residence in the year 1778 and he marched with sergeant Scott to West Point in the state of New York and there attached himself to Capt Livermore's Company and that Potter was the lieutenant and Kelly the ensign of said company and that George Reed was the Col of the 13 th Regiment in which he served, General Arnold was at West Point at the same time, but Arnold lay on the south side of the River and Col Reed on the north, he states that General Putnam and General Lee were also officers there at that time but the particular rank that each sustained he does not now recollect. Deponent thinks it was late in July or August when he reached the point and continued there until the weather began to get cold and the regiment then removed from the Point to a town on North River called near Windsor about 8 miles distant from West Point. The regiment was in search of winter quarters so that they might get convenient to the road, the North Carolina and Bay troops all moved about the same time and near the same place and there they were instructed by the Commander in Chief Genl George Washington once every week, the troops were permitted to build huts for their protection from the inclemency of the weather and

occupied them during the year of the winter season, deponent was discharged in the year 1779 he does not recollect the exact time of his discharge or entry into service but recollects distinctly that he served his term of nine months for which he enlisted he had a dis- charge in writing but has long since lost it, not expecting that it would be of any service to him. Deponent further declares that whilst he was attached to the service of the United States, he marched through part of Massachusetts, part of Connecticut and part of the State of New York and he further states he has no documentary evidence nor does he know of any living witness by whom he could prove the services above named which he actually did perform. This declarant further states that he never did apply for a pension from his government before and though he is old and needy he had always intended to support himself but he has been much reduced in his pecuniary circumstances, and bodily infirmity still increasing induces him now, though with reluctance to apply for aid. He hereby relinquishes all rights to a pension now or at any time hereafter except the present, and declares his name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court the date above C Nathaniel Martin
Matthew Hill a clergyman and Richard H Allen a Justice of the peace for Giles County, both residing in said County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathaniel Martin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be about 78 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he lives to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed in Open Court the date above William Hill
Directing propounded by the Court Dist. 1 When and in what year were you born?
Ans I was born at Portsmouth Hampshire the 15th September 1708 Dist 2 have you any record of your age and if so, where is it?
Ans I have it at home in my Bible, Dist 3 When were you living when called into service? where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?

Ans (When first called into service I was living in Hancock in New Hampshire when the 2 nd time I heard there was I moved from there to New York from that to Virginia from there to East Tennessee and from there to Middle Tennessee where I now reside.
Q. 4 How long you called into service?
Ans I entered 3 Reg ts & state the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served, such Continental and militia regiments and the general circumstances of your service. Ans Capt. Lawrence Capt. Fry Col. George Read General Putnam General Lee, they were all Continental regiments we were at West Point but we were engaged in no battles.
Q. 6 Did you ever receive a discharge from service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it
Ans (My first tour my discharge was taken by my master in my second I received a discharge from Col. George Read of the 13 th Regiment which has been lost long since.
Q. 7 Did you ever receive a Commission
Ans No I never did.
Q. 8 State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution. Ans I am known to Samuel Ralston Col. Richard H. Allen Thomas Rhea Matthew Safford Allen Smith and many others that could testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution —
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the date above.
Certificate of the Court
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the above interrogatories presented 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 Allen Hill who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Giles and that Richard H. Allen a Justice of the peace as aforesaid is also a resident of the aforesaid County and that they are both entitled to full faith and credit.
A. Black
Robert Read
Thos. Webb