Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17104, for Daniel Martin, Rhode Island

SERVICE
NUMBER
RJ
Martin, Daniel Bethial or Bethiah
W.17104
CONTENTS

Vermont 18.336
Daniel Martin of Putney, in the State of Vermont who was a Sergeant in the (Co. F) commanded by Captain Field of the Regt. commanded by Col. Hitchcock in the N. J. Ma line for the year
Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 00 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of Sep. 1833. and sent to P. White Putney. Vt.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 33 $ 150.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 34 30.00 $ 180.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by El Brown Clerk Book Q Vol. 3 Page 78

Vermont - 2,737
Bethiah Martin widow of Daniel Martin who died on the 15 th December 1837 of Windsor in the State of Vermont who was a Serjt in the Comp y commanded by Captain Field of the Reg t commanded by Hitehcock in the R. I. line for 12 mos. R. I.
Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 60 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1838. 16 Dec. 1837
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of July '39, as set forth in Claim in Swain, Brattleboro, Vt.
Arrears to the 4 th of Mar. - $73.34 Semi-annual allowance ending 30.00 $103.34
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the }
Recorded by R. Burdick Clerk Book A Vol. 2 Page 39

Daniel Martin's Application for Pension —
Please to return to P. White Petersburg, Va.
12/28/1848 P. O. Box 104

Rhode Island Camp June 1 1875.
Permit Sergeant Martin & 1 Man more to go out of the Camp till Sun Set
Dan H. Hitchcock Col l

STATE OF VERMONT.
County of Windham ss.
District of Westminster } At a Probate Court held at Putney in said District in said County of Windham, being a Court of Record having here a seal & Clerk -
Presiding Hon. Peter R. Tuft Judge
On this Twenty fourth day of July.
A. D. 1832 - Personally appeared in open Court,
Before the said Probate Court, within and for said District & County - now sitting - Daniel Morton a resident of Putney in the county of Windham and State of Vermont, aged eighty years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 - That he entered into the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That he first enlisted and entered the Army of the Revolution in the month of May 1775 and enlisted for eight months in the company under Capt. John Field and in the Regiment of Col. Daniel Hitchcock of the Rhode Island Troops and went to Boston in Mass. or near there, and served as a sergeant in the said company for and during the said term of eight months, and at the close of the term at the request of General Washington he served as sergeant in the company of Capt. James Field in the same Regiment for three months longer and was regularly dismissed at Cambridge near Boston in the month of April 1776 - and that afterwards he volunteered and went out as sergeant in the company commanded by Capt. Briggs - and went to Winter or Newland Jersey & so called in the state of Rhode Island and served one month or more and was dismissed - and afterwards in the same year 1776 he entered the service of the Government and was engaged in boat building at Providence in Rhode Island under Capt. Benjamin Tollenar and immediately after, in the same year, he engaged in the Government service in a cannon foundry and was employed there for the space of five months and was regularly dismissed - And he further says that he has no witnesses to prove his services except Capt. Briggs and Asa Morton.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
To the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, he answers, upon his said oath, as follows:
1. In the town of Rehoboth in Massachusetts in 1751
2. Has no record of his age - Supposes there may be a record in the town of Rehoboth
3. In Providence in the state of Rhode Island - since which year has lived in the town of Putney where he now resides
4. He enlisted voluntarily
5. He enlisted Major Angel, of Hitchcock's Regiment Col. Varnum - Col. Church both from Rhode Island

3. In Providence in the state of Rhode Island - since his death, was his lived in the town of Potter  Potter , where he was residing
4. See indited voluntarity
5. He resided Major Amos, of Slitworth  Slitworth Regiment - Col. Brum  Brum - Col. Church Brum  Brum Rhode Island
6. He received a discharge at the end of the eleven months signed by Lieut. Col. Brum  Brum , which he kept  kept  the  the  of  of he has an original permit to go out of camp signed by Col. Brum  Brum - dated June 12 th 1875
7. John Smith and Ebenezer Parker
Daniel Martin
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Before Peter M. Lapham - Judge
We John Smith  a clergyman , residing in the town of Potter  Potter in said Washington  Washington and Ebenezer Parker  Ebenezer Parker of Potter  Potter in said county  county hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Daniel Martin  Daniel Martin who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be eighty  eighty years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. John Smith  John Smith Ebenezer Parker  Ebenezer Parker
Before Peter M. Lapham - Judge
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 above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them, that John Smith  John Smith who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman , resident in the said town of Potter  Potter and that Ebenezer Parker  Ebenezer Parker who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Potter  Potter in said county, and are  are a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Peter M. Lapham - Judge
Asa Fkeys  Asa Fkeys Clerk & Register of the Probate  Probate Court, within and for the District  District of Washington  Washington aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Martin  Daniel Martin for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty fourth  twenty fourth day of July  July A. D. 1832.
Asa Fkeys

The affidavit of Aaron Martin, aged seventy five years of Brookline in the County of Windham and State of Vermont. Who testifies and says that in the Spring of 1775 he lived in the town of Providence in the State of Rhode Island and was known to Daniel Martin, who then was in said Providence, enlisting and entering the service of the Revolution on the first day of May 1775 in the company of Capt. John Field in the Regiment commanded by Col. Daniel Hitchcock of the Rhode Island State for the term of eight months, as a sergeant in said company and went immediately to Cambridge to join the American Army, and was absent till the first day of October then next following when he returned and went to Cambridge and entered the company commanded by Capt. Miles Talbot in the same Regiment commanded by Col. Hitchcock - and there found the said Daniel Martin, in said Regiment, a sergeant in said Field's company - and was stationed on Prospect Hill, so called, and continued there in said Regiment with the said Daniel, till the first of January, when the said Daniel's eight months' service expired - and then was known to the said Daniel enlisting again for three months longer and remaining as a sergeant in the same company of Capt. Field in the same Regt. of Col. Hitchcock; and in the Spring then next following, immediately after the British evacuated Boston, when Gage marched with a part of the Army for New York, he left the said Daniel Martin behind at the camp on Prospect Hill, near Boston -
over my attestation
State of Vermont }
Windham County ss } August 24 th 1832 subscribed & sworn to -
Before me Phineas White Justice of Peace
I do hereby certify that for many years I have been acquainted with the above named Aaron Martin - and that he is a man of undoubted truth & veracity -
Ph White Justice of the Peace

HARO Bethiake Martin
Yt ael 4 July 36
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Died 15 Dec. - 37. pen: com: 16 Dec. 37
Chapman Swain Esq Brattleboro Yt

State of Vermont } ss Windham County } on this 15th day of March A.D. 1839 personally appeared before the Probate Court of the district of Westminster in said County (it being a court of Record having a Clerk and Seal) Bethiah Martin a resident of Putney in the County of Windham and State of Vermont aged eighty three 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 provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836, and the joint resolution of July 7 th 1838: That she is the widow of Daniel Martin who was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution and to whom a certificate of pension was given and placed on the Roll September 21 st 1833 under the act of June 7 th 1832 the proof of whereof is already in the pension office reference being had thereto.
She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Martin on the fourth day of September in the year seventeen hundred and seventy four (1774) that her husband, the aforesaid Daniel Martin died on the fifteenth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and thirty seven, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Attest Albert M. Allbee      Bethiah her Martin Sworn to, and subscribed on the day and year wherein written Before Ellery Allbee Probate Judge
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said Probate Court at Rockingham in said District on the 27 th Feb  day and year above written 1839.
C. Phelps      Register
The aforesaid certificate made and seal affixed in open court present the said Probate Judge.
Attest C. Phelps Register.

I hereby certify that there is on the records of the Town of Dighton the record of a marriage returned by John Smith Clergeman as follows - September one thousand seven hundred seventy four Daniel Martin of Providence to Bethiah Briggs of Dighton was married
I further certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legable figures as follows (September - 1774)
Jonathan Jones Clerk of the Town of Dighton
State of Massachusetts Bristol County ss
I Jonathan Jones above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk in the Town County and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town with the exception above named as Certified by me
Jonathan Jones Clerk of the Town of Dighton
Sworn before me
John Walker Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Bristol ss.
I James Sprout, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Bristol, do hereby certify that John Walker Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate, is a Justice of the Peace, in said County of Bristol, and duly qualified to administer oaths in
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Taunton, this sixth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy four
J. Sprout

State of Vermont } Windham County ss } Be it known that before the Subscribed a justice of the peace in and for said county personally appeared Jonathan Smith of Putney in said county aged 54 years and made oath in due form of law that he was well acquainted with Daniel Martin of said Putney that said Daniel Martin died on the fifteenth day of December A.D. 1837 and that Bethiah Martin is the widow of said Daniel Martin and still survives him and has not intermarried thereafter with any person since the death of said Daniel Martin
Sworn and subscribed before me this 16th day of March A.D. 1839 And I further certify that the above named Dependant Jonathan Smith is person- ally known to me to be a person of truth and veracity to whose testimony full credence ought to be given Jonathan Smith Ellery Albee Justice of the peace

State of Vermont
Windham County Court Clerk's Office
New Haven April 20 th A. D. 1839
I Marshall Miller, Clerk of said County Court, do hereby certify, that Ellery Allen, is a Justice of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signature within written is genuine
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of said County Court, the day and year above written
Attest Marshall Miller, Clerk

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17104
Bethiah Martin
Widow of
Daniel Martin
Sergt Rev War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. Me , Page 9
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Bethiah Martin
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Miss Maria Swain
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4 July 1836
Front Res.
Chipman Swain Brattleboro
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Danl Martin Vt. Bellows Falls 60 yrs. old at 7 June 32. when last seen?
G. M. C.
15. July 39
Died 15 th Dec. 1837 / joined to that friend 1/18

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Parney Ct. June 8 d 1833
J. L. Edwards Esq. Counsel of Plaintiff.
Sir,
I have the honor again to return for consideration, the Papers in the case of Daniel Martin - The Official character and signature of the Magistrate being duly authenticated - This being a case abundantly proved by inimpugnable witnesses - it was not supposed it came within the regulations, requiring the certificate or affidavit of a Clergyman - which was supposed to be necessary only, in the absence of positive testimony - But as the Blank was printed, providing for such certificate - The names of ten respectable citizens, of the vicinity, who were well acquainted with Mr. Martin and his reputation (as to his Rev. services) in his neighborhood - were requested to certify - that it was not considered required in this case by the Regulations - There was at the time Mr. Martin made his application no clergyman in the town who had resided there but a year or two - of course not acquainted with him or the opinion of his neighbors respecting him - Where there is abundant and ample testimony to prove the services of the applicant what more can be necessary? - In this case it is not possible to procure the certificate or affidavit of a clergyman, - as there is none sufficiently informed to testify -
Very respectfully Your Obedt. Servt.
Dionas White

The affidavit of Asa Briggs of Plymouth in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, who testifies and says that he in the spring of the year 1775 he lived in the town of Providence in the State of Rhode Island, and was then well acquainted with Daniel Martin, then of said Providence, and now of Putney in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, and was knowing to the said Daniel's enlisting on or about the tenth day of May of that same year, as a sergeant, in the company commanded by Capt. John Field, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Daniel Hitchcock of the Rhode Island Line and soon after he enlisted, he was knowing to the said Martin's marching with the Regiment for Cambridge, or the Army near Boston. And a few weeks after, sometime in the month of June, previous to hearing of the Bunkerhill battle, he, deponent enlisted for the term of eight months and entered the company of Capt. Silas Talbot, at R.I. Providence, and immediately marched with the said company, to join the Army near Boston and after staying a few days, at a place called Jamaica Plains, in the town of Roxbury, marched to a place, called Prospect Hill and arrived there ten or twelve days after the Bunkerhill Battle - and there joined the aforesaid Regiment commanded by Col. Daniel Hitchcock and there found the said Daniel Martin, a sergeant, in the company of Capt. John Field in the same Regiment - and continued to serve in said Regiment with the said Daniel Martin till about the first of January 1776 - and then it being the expiration of the said eight months service, the said Martin with deponent, enlisted again without leaving the Camp for the term of eight months longer in the same companies respectively, in the same Regiment - and both remained in the same Camp on Prospect Hill till the expiration of the said term of three months, during all which time the said Martin served as sergeant, in the said Capt. Field's company - and at the expiration of said term of three months, about the 10 th of April 1776 - the said Martin with deponent were dismissed at Prospect Hill and returned together to the town of Providence aforesaid - and after remaining at home five or six days, the said Martin, with deponent, volunteered and enlisted for the term of one month, and entered the company of Capt. Asa Briggs of the Massachusetts militia, not attached to any Regiment - and went to a place called Lancaster or Marlborough Ferry - and continued there to guard the coast and prevent the landing of the British - and after serving there one month - the said Martin with deponent were both dismissed at the same time and returned to Providence together - At this time and previous, the said Martin resided in the same dwelling with deponent's father - and he further testifies, as soon as they returned, (not more than two or three days after) the said Martin entered the service of the Continental fort building, and according to deponent's best recollections, after serving about one month - the said Martin engaged in the service, of a Cannon Foundry in the town of Seekonk in the State of Rhode Island, about the last of May or first of June in 1776 and that he deponent a few days after, not more than three or four days, deponent went to Seekonk and engaged in the same business, and found the said Martin there at work in the Cannon Foundry, under the command or superintending of Capt. Stephens - After remaining a few days at the Foundry, deponent enlisted on board of an armed ship called the Seaman, a Private and left the said Martin employed at the Foundry - And after returning from

a cruise. And said Martin was still engaged at said Sunday - and as the said Deponent then understood the said Martin was engaged for said Sunday for the term of about five months.
Ara Briggs
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 22nd day of
Before Phineas White Justice of Peace
I hereby certify that, for many years past I have been acquainted with Ara Briggs Esq. the above named Deponent, and know him to be a respectable citizen, has been a member of the State Legislature & a Magistrate - and of undoubted truth & veracity.
Phineas White Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont
District of Westminster
I John Briggs Jr. Clerk of the District Court of the District of Westminster in
the District of Westminster in Vermont do hereby certify that Phineas White
who has certified the Oaths to Ara Briggs & Sarah Martin upon the affidavits hereto annexed was on the 2nd day of August 1832 & also on the 5th day of September 1832, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Windsor and was at the time of signing the same a qualified and that his signature to said certificates purporting to be his were his genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 23rd day of June A.D. 1833.
Ara Briggs Jr.
Ara Briggs Affidavit

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Martin, David GRADE Private LINE Sheldon's Cavalry (Connecticut)
WARRANT NUMBER 6228 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Dec. 11, 1789 to — not shown — "Certified July 12 th , 1815"
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.