Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 26,249, for Edward Martin, New Hampshire

SERVICE
SERVICE Continental N.H.
Martin, Edward Susanna
NUMBER _____
W. 26. 249.
CONTENTS

Application and Pension of Edward Martin of Ipswich, Mass. Salem, Mass.
7609 L  Massachusetts
Edward Martin of Ipswich in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Poor of the N Hampshire Line, for the term of Seven Years
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of March 1819. and sent to W m Wetmore Esq. Salem Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th March 1819 $ 87.93 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 48.  $135.43 
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Massachusetts 2791
Susanna Martin widow of Edward Martin who was a Private in the Mass line
for Lyman
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Mar. 1843 and sent to
Josiah Caldwell Norwich Mass
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 6 Vol. 1 Page 48.

✓ Edw d Martin 2
Enlisted Dec r 1775
8 years
Adm d
2 d

State of Massachusetts
I Edward Martin a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Ipswich in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the Month of December in the year of Our Lord One Thousand seven hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the Close of the Revolutionary War
as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain Enoch Titcomb in Colonel Enoch Poor's Regiment till a new arrangement was made in June 1777 from which time I belonged to Captain Rowell's Company in Colonel Hales Regiment and that I left the service on the Close of the war being Honorably discharged and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty eight years. I have not any other evidence in my power to offer than is herewith exhibited my discharge being lost by lapse of time
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Edward Martin
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the Subscriber One of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit, within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice the abovenamed Edward Martin
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court.
Wm Whitmore

1669
Edward Martin
Thomas 19
Bow 25/4 20
John
Ipswich
Mr

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice. Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Edward Martin resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 7669 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Edward Martin late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War.
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
No Real Estate. Personal exclusive of bedding and wearing apparel. One Maple Desk - - - - - 2.00 Two old tables - - - - - 1.00 Six chairs 1.50 - two pots 1 Doli. - - - - - 2.50 one small iron kettle 50 cents - - - - - .50 brockery ware and tin ware - - - - - 2.00 Total 7.50
January 1776 enlisted in Capt. Titcomb's Company Col. Enoch Poore's Regiment for one year in the New Hampshire line and served the whole year. In the first of the year 1777 enlisted in said Titcomb's

Company & Col. Hale's Regiment in the New- hampshire line during the war and served till the peace in 1783 and was then discharged. Was in the battles of Bunkerhill in the retreat from Tyconderoga, the battle of Monmouth at Newtown under Genl. Sullivan - and several skirmishes.
He now resides at Ipswich in Massachusetts - is aged sixty one years, is lame - cannot perform labour. His wife Susanna is aged fifty seven years very infirm and he has no other family - before he was lame was employed as a ship carpenter.
Edward Martin.
Essex ss. July 12. 1820. Then the said Edward Martin made oath that the said schedule and statement by him subscribed are true, before me,
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court.

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Edward Martin do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Edward Martin.
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Edward Martin took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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 value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is
Seven dollars fifty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clk.

I. David T. Kimball, pastor of the first church in Ipswich, in the county of Essex, and state of Massachusetts, hereby certify, that in the record of marriages of said church kept by my predecessor in office, Rev. Levi Dinsmore, the following is a true copy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows — Jan. 28, 1786 Mr Edward Martin to Miss Susannah Hammon, Ipswich. David T. Kimball. Ipswich, Aug. 6, 1838.
I. David T. Kimball, abovenamed depose and say: That I hold the office of pastor in the county, town and state aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said church, with the exception abovenamed, as certified by me — David T. Kimball, Pastor of the First Church in Ipswich. Ipswich, Aug 6, 1838.
State of Massachusetts
Essex County } ss. August 6. 1838. The Rev. D. T. Kimball abovenamed made oath that the foregoing by him subscribed are true before me Josiah Colby Justice of the Peace.

549.
Susanna Martin widow of Edward Mass.
at 7. July 38 5 years
Married in '86
549
Adm'd
2 years pri 80
no deduction
Josiah Caldwell Ipswich Mass.

Declaration -
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress, of the 7 th of July 1838: entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" State of Massachusetts,
Essex County } ss. On this seventh day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared before the Honorable Daniel A. White Esquire, Judge of Probate for said County - Susannah Martin, a resident of Ipswich in the county of Essex and State aforesaid aged seventy five 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 July 7, 1838 - entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" - That she is the widow of Edward Martin, late of said Ipswich and a pensioner of the United States, who was an enlisted soldier for and during the Revolutionary war - That he was born in Ipswich County & State aforesaid in the year 1759 - He enlisted in the service of the United States at Dover in the State of N.H. in January 1777 in Col. Folsom's (or Pitcomb's) Company, in the New Hampshire Regiment then commanded by Col. Hale in behalf of the United States against the common enemy for and during the war. He was appointed Sergeant by George Reid Esq. Lieut. Col. of the 2 d & 8 th H. Regiment on the 1 st of October 1782 - and was honorably discharged by General George Washington at Newburg in the State of New-York on the ninth day of June 1783. By the provisions of the act of congress passed on the 18 th of March 1800 my said husband was made a pensioner of the United States. To his declaration now in the Department of War on which his said pension was granted I respectfully refer for more particulars of the services he performed during the time he was in the service of his country:
She further declares that she was married to the said Edward Martin on the 28 th day of January 1786 - That her husband, the aforesaid Edward Martin died on the eleventh day of December A.D. 1831. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety and - six at the time aforesaid. Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written -
before - D. A. White Judge of Probate
(Susannah Martin)

Rev.  WIDOW, &c.
File No. 26249
Susanna Martin wid. of Edward Martin Prin Mass. Univ.
Act: Mar. 30 1843.
Index:—Vol. M , Page 13
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Massachusetts - 365
let. J. Col. Walker Mt. Reg.
Deborah Martin widow of Edward Martin, decd. 1843.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 Mar '18 and who died on the 11 th Oct 1831 of Ipswich in the State of Massachusetts who was a P.M. in the Comp y commanded by Captain  of the Reg t commanded by  P.M. in the Mass tts line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th day of Nov. 38, and sent and Social Calcutta, Ipswich, Mass tts
Arrears to the 4 th of Sept. $ 200.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 40.00
$ 240.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk, Book A - Vol. 1 - Page 186

State of Massachusetts, County of Essex } ss.
On this seventh day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three, personally appeared before the subscriber, a justice of the peace for and in said County of Essex - Susannah Martin a resident of Ipswich in the County of Essex aged seventy nine years, 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 third day of March 1843 - granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war - that she is the widow of Edward Martin who was a private (or soldier) in said war - and the annual amount of the pension she received under the Act of July 7 th 1838 was eighty dollars.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Susannah Martin
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Josiah Caldwell Justice of the peace.
I, Josiah Caldwell, the abovenamed justice of the peace, do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the widow Susannah Martin the signer of the foregoing declaration, and that she was a pensioner under the Act of 7 th July 1838.
Josiah Caldwell Justice of the peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Essex, ss. Probate Office.
I Nathaniel Lord junior, register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that Josiah Caldwel esquire, before whom the foregoing declaration of Susannah Martin purports to have been made, is a justice of the peace for said county; and his name, subscribed to the certificates thereon, respectively, is his genuine signature, to me well known.
Given under my hand and seal of office this fourth day of September, A.D. 1863.
Nath. Lord Jr.
1863
S. Martin
$80 per ann
Josiah Caldwel Ipswich Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss. PROBATE OFFICE.
I Nathaniel Lord junior register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that
Daniel A. White is judge of probate for said county of Essex, and that his name subscribed to the declaration hereto annexed of Susannah Martin is his genuine signature. I further certify that Josiah Caldwell is a justice of the peace for said county and that his signature to the affidavit of David J. Kimball hereto annexed is genuine.
as appears by the records in said office.
Given under my hand and seal of office, this seventeenth day of August, A. D. 1838.
Nath. Lord Jr.