Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,056, for Amos Martin, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Martin Amos
D. 5.056
CONTENTS

... Barton ... Bristol in the State of Mass who was a ... in the ... comm ... Captain ... of the ... comm ... Col Walker in the ... ... for ... cent 90 29 15
Incribed on the Roll of ... the rate of 99 Dollars 66 Cents per an to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of ... 1832 and ...
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 ... Semi-annual allowance ending ... $199.33
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by ... Clerk Book ... Vol. ... Page ...

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Amos Martin
Rehoboth
Bristol Co
Mass
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$99.66.
A Barstow
Taunton
Mass.

BRIEF in the case of  Amos Martin  Rehoboth of Bristol Co  in the State of Mass  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? open court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 77 1/2 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1775 apt 11 Pt Gen. Capt B Morey   " " 8 - " S Colb  Col T Walker   76 8 - " J Redding  Whitney   77 " 42 Sergt " J Mays  Daggett   78 - 6 - " " Colb  Reyes   77 2 1/2 " " Genara  Carpenter   3 - " " Thom  A. Mitchell  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Battle of Rhode Id in Sullivan's expedition  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Norton 
 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living witnesses. Traditional evidence 
 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Defective Time of Service not defined 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. H. B. Blair Examining Clerk.

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts, } BRISTOL, ss. }
At a COURT of PROBATE holden at Taunton in and for said County on the By Adj. twenty ninth day of August, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, before the Honorable HODIJAH BAYLES, Judge of the Probate, &c. for said County, personally appeared Amos Martin a resident of Rehoboth in the County and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged Seventy four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832, make the following declaration.
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That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as hereinafter stated; to wit: under Captain Benjamin Money & Lieutenant David Arnold, on the 19 th day of April 1775. I marched to Concord & Lexington & there served as a volunteer & soldier eleven days. I then enlisted into a company commanded by Silas Cobb. & in Col. Timothy Walker's Regiment & served as a private soldier eight months, & I will state further particulars of my service in my answer to the fifth interrogatory.
and further declares as follows, in reply to the interrogatories propounded by the Secretary of War; to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Ans. That he was born in Rehoboth in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts in the year one thousand seven hundred and fifty four - & on the 13 th day of September of that year.
2. Have you any record of your age; and if so, where is it? I have a record of my age as given by my Father in a family Bible.
3 Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? I was living in the Town of Norton in Bristol County when I was called into service, I have since lived in the Town of New Salem in the County of Hampshire about twenty three years, & I now live in Rehoboth my native Town .
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute, for whom? Ans, I was called out with the militia  drafted at my third campaign of about one month & a half. I generally volunteered, I once went as a substitute (to wit - at Sullivan's Expedition) for Daniel Wild of Taunton now deceased.

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4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? and if a substitute, for whom? Ans, I was drafted  called out with the militia at my third campaign of about one month & a half. I generally volunteered, I once went as a substitute (to wit, - at Sullivan's Expedition) for Daniel Wild of Taunton now deceased
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers who were with the troops when you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service. at the expiration of eight months being the end of my first campaign alluded to above, I was verbally discharged by Capt. Cobb. - I was stationed at a place called Squantum near Boston during this my first campaign. I was called on the 17 th day of June to join the Bunker Hill Battle but did not arrive in season for the engagement & I refer to Benjamin Brannan & Benjamin Cobb, affidavit to prove this my first campaign. I enlisted for a second campaign of eight months in a company commanded by Capt. Dunn Zebadiah Predding in Col. Josiah Whitney Regiment. I do not exactly recollect the day of enlistment but know it was early in the Spring of 1776. I was stationed at Boston & a place called Nantasket, and at the end of said eight months I received received a verbal discharge from my officers, I refer to an affidavit of William Clarke to prove this my second campaign. at my third campaign I was called out with the militia & in a company commanded by Captain Isaac Hodges in Col. John Daggett Regiment I was the first sergeant or clerk of said company we marched to Rhode Island and from there to Warren & then crossed over the river to Tiverton in the State of R.I. I do not now recollect the exact time of this campaign but know we were discharged by our officers in the latter part of the year of 1777 and this campaign was about six weeks & I refer to Rufus Hodges affidavit to prove this my third campaign. I again enlisted in Captain Silas Cobb company & in a Regiment commanded by Col. Danforth Keyes for a campaign of six months.

I was a Sergeant in said Cobb Company during said campaign, I have a warrant from the Col. of said Regiment bearing date August 22 nd 1777 appointing me a Sergeant, which is herewith annexed, I was stationed at a place called Slades Ferry in Massachusetts and along the shores to Little Compton in the State of R.I. I was verbally discharged at the expiration of said six months by my officers. I refer to an affidavit of William Clarke & Benjamin Cobb to prove this my fourth campaign.
I was a Substitute for Daniel Wilde of Scituate at Sullivan's Expedition and Battle I was myself in the Battle on Rhode Island in a company commanded by Ichabod Leonard of said Scituate, & by the request of Captain Leonard I served as a first Sergeant or Clerk of said Company, this Company was in a Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Carpenter. I served at this Expedition six weeks, we then crossed over to Greenwich shores and there was stationed until we were verbally discharged which was in September 1778.
I have no witness to prove the last above service & must depend on my own statement as it is supported in this declaration. I again underlined  underlined  I was a Sergeant in said Company Captain Israel Drow of Norton for three months, I am not quite certain as to the time but think it was in the year 1779 we marched from Norton to Providence & from there to Point Judith in the State of R.I. and our Col. was Abial Mitchell my term of service expired while at Point Judith & I was there discharged by my officers and returned home - I refer to William Clarke's affidavit to prove this last above mentioned campaign.
When I was stationed near Boston in I well remember of seeing Gen Generals Washington, & Putnam, and on Rhode Island I often saw Gen. Lafayette & many other officers whose names I do not now recollect.
I am not able  able to distinguish at all times respecting my service at all times; whether it was continental or not, I suppose we were at some of my campaigns properly called State Troops or Militia, & I think we were partly under continental officers -
I have not been able to find any person who served in Capt. Ichabod Leonard's Company at Sullivan's Expedition -

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6. Were you a Soldier or an Officer? if a Soldier, did you ever receive a discharge from the service; and, if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? if an Officer, did you ever receive a commission, and if so by whom was it signed, and what has become of it? ans. I was a Soldier, I never had a written discharge, I never held any office except that of Sergeant in the Revolutionary war.
7. State the names of the persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution. I refer to the Rev Pitt Clarke a Clergyman of Boston where I lived when I served in the Revolutionary War. There is no Clergyman in my immediate neighborhood and he is the nearest Clergyman to where I live with whom I am acquainted. I also refer to Samuel Wilde of Taunton which adjoins Rehoboth -
And the said Amos Martin doth further declare that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency of any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency of the State of Amos Martin
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
H. Baylies , Judge of Probate.
WE Pitt Clarke a Clergyman residing in North Scituate and Samuel Wilde residing in the same Town of Taunton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Amos Martin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be about Seventy seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Pitt Clarke, Samuel Wilde  H. Baylies Judge of Probate.
AND the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Pitt Clarke who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of North Scituate in said County of Bristol, and that Samuel Wilde who has also signed the same is a resident in said Town of Taunton and is a credible person, and that their ans statement is entitled to credit.
H. Baylies , Judge of Probate.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, } BRISTOL, ss.
I Anselm Bassett Register of the Court of Probate in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application Amos Martin of Rehoboth in said County, for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court the day and year first above written.
Anselm Bassett

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File No. 5056
Ames Martin
Sgt. BW War
Act: June 7" 1832.
Index: Vol. M ; Page 236
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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4- I William Clark of Norton in the County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts, being Seventy four years of age, and I Benjamin Cobb of Mansfield in the County and State aforesaid being Seventy nine  eight years of age. We do testify and say. That we have been acquainted with Amos Martin of Rehoboth in the County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts for a great number of years; and Sgt. Amos Martin  he enlisted under Capt Silas Cobb in Col. Danforth Freyes Regiment, in the fourth  a Campaign. for the term of Six Months. He was Sergeant of said Company and has a warrant from the Col. of said Regt. bearing date the 22 of August 1777. He was stationed at Hades Ferry and along the shore at Little Compton in the State of Rhode Island. The above Campaign was performed in the Massachusetts State Troops under the Continental establishment in the Army of the American Revolution
Dated at Norton Augt 13. 1832 his William Clark mark
Benj Cobb
State Sen. in Mass

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol } ss Before me one of the Justices of the Peace county } within and for the county of Bristol per- sonally appeared William Warke and Benjamin Cobb subscribers to the within affidavit and made oath that the same is true in all its parts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and quality this 13 th day of August D r 1832.
Leonard Justice of Peace

I William Clark of Norton County of Bristol and State of Massachusetts being Seventy four years of age, do testify and say that I have been intimately acquainted with Amos Martin of Rehoboth in County & State aforesaid. That he as a Soldier volunteered in Norton under Capt Israel Saure of said Norton in Col. for one Campaign of about three months. He marched to Providence State of Rhode Island. Thence to Point Judith & there was encamped until he was discharged. The above Campaign was waged in the Army of the American Revolution, in the Massachusetts State Troops Dated at Norton Augt 13. 1832
his William Clark mark

Bristol } Commonwealth of Massachusetts county } ss Before me one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the county of Bristol per- -sonally appeared William Clarke subscriber to the within affidavit and made oath that the same is true in all its parts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscri- -bed my name and quality this 15 th day of August A D 1832.
Coorn t Leonard Justice of Peace

3 rd I Rufus Hodge of Norton in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts being Seventy Three years of age, do testify and say, that I have been well acquainted with Amos Martin of Rehoboth County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts for a number of years that He was called out with the militia as a Soldier under Capt Isaac Hodge in Col. John Daggetts Regt. in the Army of the American Revolution. He was the Clerk of said Company. He was in the service about Six Weeks in the  a  the Campaign, at Rhode Island. He marched to Warren & crossed over the River from thence to Siverton, it was in cold weather, in the Month of December 1778. there we were discharged in the winter of 1779. The above Service was performed in the Massachusetts State Troops. —
Dated at Norton Augt 13. 1832
Rufus Hodge

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol } ss before me one of the Justices of the Peace county } within and for the county of Bristol personally appeared Rufus Hodges subscri- ber to the within affidavit and made oath that the same is true in all its parts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub- scribed my name and quality this 13 th day of August A D 1832. Leonard Justice of Peace

No 1 I Benjamin Braman of Boston in the County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts, being Seventy eight years of age, and I Benjamin -in Colb of Mansfield in the  said County & State aforesaid being Seventy nine years of age, We do hereby testify and say that we have been  are well acquainted with Amos Martin of Rehoboth in said County for a great many years past that the said Martin served as a private Soldier in a Company with us  us in the Army of the American Revolution. That he was mustered under Capt. Benjamin Morey & Lieut David Sturtevant for the defence of the New-England States. He marched to Concord & Lexington on the 19th of Aprie 1775. when the Enemy was defeated and driven back to Boston. Then he did duty eleven days under said officers above named as a Soldier. He then enlisted for eight months under Capt Silas Cobb. & in Col. Timothy Walkers Regt. and continued in the service in the four New England States until the first day of January 1776. He was stationed at Squantum. He was called to march to join the Bunker Hill Battle on said day. I served as a Soldier. The above service was rendered in the first Campaign in the Massachusetts State Troops.
Dated at Boston Aug. 13. 1882 Benj Braman Benj Cobb

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol ss Before me one of the Justices of county the peace within and for the county of Bristol personally appeared Benjamin Braman and Benjamin Lobb subscri- -bers to the within  above affidavit and made oath that the same is true in all its parts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto sub- -scribed my name and quality this 13 th day of August A D 1832.
Ernest Leonard Justice of Peace

I William Clark of Boston in the County of Bristol & State of Massachusetts being twenty four years of age do hereby testify and say that I have been well acquainted with Amos Martin of Rehoboth in the County and State above said, that he enlisted upon Capt. Zebedee Noddings in Col. Josiah Whitney Regt. for the term of eight months, beginning early in the spring, in the second campaign. his time was out late in the fall in the year 1776. He was stationed at Boston and Roxbury, and was discharged at Roxbury. Served as a Soldier, at the above campaign in the Massachusetts State Troops. in the Army of the American Revolution.  Dated at Boston Aug. 13. 1832
William X Clark ment

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bristol } ss Before me one of the Justices of the Peace county } within and for the county of Bristol per- -sonally appeared William Clarke subscribed to the within affidavit and made oath that the same is true in all its parts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and quality. This 13 th day of August D 1832.
Corrnt Leonard Justice of Peace -

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Joseph Martin Present.

By Danforth Keyes Esq. Col. of a Regt. of Foot Raised by the State of Massachusetts Bay
To Amos Martin pub Greetings: By Virtue of the power and Authority given to me by the State. Reposing special trust and Confidence in your Courage, and Good Conduct: I do by these presents constitute and appoint you the said Amos Martin pub to be a Serjeant in a Regiment of foot Under My Command you are, therefore, to discharge the duty of a Serjeant in a Company of said Regiment Commanded by Capt Silas Cobb and Carefully and Diligently to observe, and obey all such orders as you receive from time to time from your Superior officers; and you are to be faithfull in all duties put to you as a Serjeant whereof this is your Sufficient Warrant
Given Under My hand this 22 nd day of August A o one thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven
Consented to By Dan l Keyes Colo. Silas Cobb Capt.