Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6974, for Cornelius Martin, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
✓
or Martin, Cornelius Mastin Tamar
R. 6974
New York residence of widow in 1853
CONTENTS

No. 14,941
Yanna Martin. Widow of Cornelius Martin N. York
J. E. Haskell Augt 16. 1853
Act 1838
69 T 2 H 2
July 7. 1838

No.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
6974
P. O.
Tamam Martin
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Perotuhinany Claim of Tamae Martin widow of Cornelius Martin Vermont
Act 1838
Filed 3 June 1833 F. E. Hassler Washington

State of New York Livingston County } p
On the 29 th day of April 1853 per- sonally appeared before me Cornelia Gilt, a Justice of Peace of court of Sessions of the said County of Liv- ingston. Sarah Mattin a resident of the town of Conesville in the County of Livingston aforesaid aged Seventy Eight years who first being duly sworn over- dying to law on her oath makes the following declara- tion in order to obtain the benefits of the provision of the act of Congress passed on the 3 rd of February 1853 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Cornelius Mattin who was a private in the Army of the Revolution as she has she has heard him say and went into the service with his uncle Ethan Allen and served with him a while as his Master he the said Cornelius being at the time he went into the service about fifteen or sixteen years of age. But she can't recollect how long he said he served or how long he was in the Army but recollects he said he was at the battle when General Burgoyne and Army was taken prisoners and continued in service until the close of the War at which time he received a discharge or certificate of the service which he rendered and that he said he consid- ered it of no value and he burned it or de-

Destroyed it - she has heard him tell about an office under whom he served by the name of McKinstler or McKinstrey or McKinsty or some such kind of a name but can't recollect exactly what the name was, nor where he said he served but will recollect that he served until the close of the war and that has always been understood ever since she became acquainted with him - and in the community where he resided.
She further declares that she was married to the said Cornelius Martin on the 27 th day of February (1792) one thousand seven hundred and ninety two - that her husband died the twenty seventh day of June Eighteen hundred and fifty that she was married to him prior to the second of January Eighteen hundred and at the time above stated - She further declares that she is now a Widow -
Tamar her  X  mark Martin
Sworn and habyscribed in the day and year above written Before me and I certify that the above named Tamar Martin is unable by reason of bodily infirmity and decrepitude of age to appear and make her declaration in open court.
Isaac Gibbs a Justice of the Court of Sessions in and for the county of Livingston N.Y.

STATE OF NEW YORK, } ss. LIVINGSTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, }
I CERTIFY, That Senan Gibbs Esquire, was, at the date of the foregoing or annexed affidavit, a Justice of the Peace & Seamen Justice In and for said County, duly qualified and authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe that the signature of said Justice to the Jurat thereto is gen- uine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this 20 th day of May A. D. 1853
Chas Root Dep Clerk.

STATE OF New York County of Livingston } ss.
BE IT KNOWN, That on the Twenty fourth day of April
A. D. 185 2 personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of Peace of the County of Livingston aforesaid  Augustus Clemons and Mary Clemons
known to be credible witnesses, who being duly sworn according to law, doth, each of them, depose and say for himself, that the said Turner Mattin
now present, is, to their knowledge, the identical person named in her deposition, and that her deposition is true, as they verily believe; and that they are each of them acquainted with the said Cornelius Masten
having lived in the same community for years; and that they, both of them, have always understood that the said Cornelius Masten and
Turner Masten were legally married, and it
has always been so understood in the community where they have lived, and that the legality of said marriage has never been
called in question in said community, and that they both of them, positively know that the said Cornelius Masten and Turner Masten
did always cohabit as man and wife. And they both swear that the said Turner Masten is now the widow of the
said Cornelius Masten and, that they are entirely
disinterested.
Augustus Clemons
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year first above written, before me,
Leman Gibbs a Justice of Peace in and for the County of Livingston and State of New York