Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44,536, for Nicholas Marriner, New Hampshire

SERVICE
NUMBER
N.H.
Marriner, Nicholas
S. 44,536
CONTENTS

Notification sent September 12th 1820 to Rev. Chauncy Foster, New Hampshire
16093 R New Hampshire
Nicholas Mariner
of Canterbury in the state of N. Hampshire who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Long — of the N. Hampshire line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the roll of New Hampshire at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 17 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd of Dec r 1819 and sent to Hall Burgin Esq r Chichester N. Hampshire
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819 16\frac{10}{30} 132.00
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Dec r 1820 40.00
$172.00
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued Rockingham Co.

Nicholas Marriner claim for a pension 1818
not 9 months on any one period in the continental service.
April 17. 1818
Col. Loring's regiment was not continental after 1776.
Rejected
Admitted.

Nicholas Marriner of Canterbury in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire do testify and declare that in the month of May 1775 I enlisted under Captain Richard Saltridge of Portsmouth in Col o Poor's Regiment for nine months and was in the Army at Winter Hill in the Revolutionary war & I served as a soldier about two months & James M c Gregore Esq r of Londonderry who was a contractor to supply the Army with beef &c - went to General Sullivan & got Liberty for me to Butcher for the Army & I continued there butchering for the Army seven months and some time in the month of August of the next year I enlisted into the Continental service under Capt. Mark Wiggins of Stratham for one year, in the Regiment of Colonel Pierce Long in the New Hampshire line in said Revolutionary war - I served on Adams Island in Portsmouth Harbor three or four months till we were ordered to March to Ticonderoga where I served out the remainder of the year - when our Army left Hubbertstown the British Army forced upon us & almost destroyed the rear guard & killed Col o Francis of Boston who commanded said guard - after I had served out said year I returned home to Greenland - after we heard of the Battle of Bennington General Gates sent home for the Militia to turn out & I volunteered again & went under said Captain Mark Wiggins to Stillwater & was there when Burgoyne was taken & helped guard him to Winter Hill in Massachusetts - I am in the seventy seventh year of my Age, am in reduced circumstances in life

and need the Assistance of my Country for support. I was honorably discharged at the close of both the foregoing terms of enlistment. Though I had no written discharge in either case.
Concord April 17 th 1818 Nicholas + Marriner marks
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss April 17 th 1818 - The foregoing declaration by Nicholas Marriner signed was made & sworn to before me
Hall Burgin } One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for sd County of Rockingham
I Leonard Weeks of Canterbury in the County of Rockingham & State of New Hampshire do testify and declare that in the year 1776 Nicholas Marriner served in Captain Mark Wiggins company in Col. Pierce Long's Regiment in the Continental Army against the common Enemy in the Revolutionary War on the New Hampshire line & that we served in the same company two or three months on Adams Island in the Harbor of Portsmouth & the remainder

of the year we served together at Ticonderoga till our time of enlistment expired which was one year - -
Leonard X Weeks mark
Rockingham ss. April 17 th 1818 Then the foregoing affidavit sworn to before me
Hall Burgin Judge &c as before I hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Nicholas Marner did serve in the revolutionary war as he has stated in his declaration against the common enemy. I further certify that I am satisfied that the said Marner is a lawful pauper in the Town of Canterbury. & I now transmit the testimony & evidence in the case taken & had before me to the Secy of the department of war.
Hall Burgin } one of the Judges } of the Court of common } pleas for sd } county of Rocking- } ham
By order of the Judge Attest L. Hadwick Clerk of said court

Nicholas Maniner
16093
C.M.
March 10 20

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
ROCKINGHAM.....SS.
ON this Eighteenth day July , 1820, personally appeared in open court, John Harvey and  Fullergen , Esqrs. Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Rockingham, being a Court of Record for the said County of Rockingham, having the power of fine and imprisonment, Nicholas Marriner aged Seventy eight years, resident in Canterbury , in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: — viz In August 1776 I enlisted in Captain Mark Wiggins Company in the New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col Pierce Long and soldier and so continued one year was then regularly discharged at Still Water in New York. The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 17th Day of April 1818. The number of my pension certificate is — I have received a pension.
And I do solemnly Swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 8th day of March, 1818; and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provision 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 18th day of March 1818; 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. My occupation is a Labourer I have not — sufficient ability to pursue it and am unable to do a days work
in family residing with me is none Nicholas Marriner Mark
Their capacity to contribute to their support
Sworn to and declared at Concord on the Eighteenth day of July 1820 before John Harvey  Fullergen said court
I, Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truely 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 41 dollars and — cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this 25th day of July , 1820.
P Chadwick Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham.

SCHEDULE
CONTAINING the whole estate and income of Nicholas Marriner (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed, exhibited to the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Rockingham, on the day of July 182 5 , and annexed to his affidavit gath, viz.
  Twenty acres Land -  $ 20.00    One Cow - - -  16.00    Two Sheep - - -  2.00    One Calf - - -  3.00  
his Nicholas X Marriner mark

44 536
Rev INVALID.
File No. 44 536
Nicholas Marriner
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index: —Vol. 3 , Page 308
[Arrangement of 1870.]

I Mark Wiggins of Wolfborough in the county of Strafford and State of New Hampshire of lawfull Age do testify and say that I Your deponent was the first captain in Col Pierce Longs Regiment in the United States service, in the Revolutionary War, and that Nicholas Mariner then of Greenland in the county of Rockingham and State aforesaid, now of Canterbury in the county and State last aforesaid did in the Month of August 1776 enlist into my company for the term of one year and he performed his duty faithfully and entirely to my satisfaction and of the other Officers, and I further testify and say that the said Nicholas Mariner was honorably discharged in August 1777 at Stillwater in the State of New York — I also further testify and say that our commissions were signed by John Hancock President Charles Thompson Secretary of the continental Congress, and I then considered and all the other Officers as far as my information extended considered themselves and their soldiers as on the

continental establishment, and I further testify and say, that the said Mariner while a soldier in my company was never put under arrest or called to account for any improper conduct, but always conducted himself as a correct and faithful soldier while under my command.
Wolfborough June 9 th 1819 Mark Wiggins
Strafford ss I Wolfborough June 9 th 1819
Then the above named Mark Wiggins personally appearing made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed, is just and true
before me Jacob Haines
Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire Strafford ss To all persons to whom these presents shall come Greeting.
Know Ye, that Col Mark Wiggins who has signed the above deposition is now a citizen and resident in Wolfborough aforesaid that he is a man of strict

integrity and veracity, and that to his oath and affidavit full and entire faith and credit is and and ought to be given within and without this State, and elsewhere. Given under my hand at said Wolfborough this 9 th day of June Anno Domini 1819. Jacob Haines Justice of the Peace
State of New Hampshire. Secretary's Office
July 14 th 1819
I hereby certify that Jacob Haines Esq., whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates, was, at the date thereof, to wit on the 9 th of June last, a Justice of the peace within and for the county of Strafford in said State, duly appointed & commissioned and that to his acts and attestations as a magistrate as aforesaid, faith and credit are due.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the public seal of said State on the day of the date hereof.
I am, Sir, your Obedient Secretary Sam l Sparkman

Rockingham
Mendham July 10 th 1849
I hereby certify that the said Mark Wiggins is a juror of perfect truth & veracity.
Hall Burgess
Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said Rockingham