Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20238, for Stephen Markham, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass
Markham, Stephen Dorothy.
W. 20238
CONTENTS

2989 Albany, N. York.
Dorothy Markham widow of Stephen Markham who was a Private in the Revolution
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 29 th day of November 1843 and sent to
Benj. T. Johnson, Rome N.Y.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 109
By W. Briley Clerk.

DECLARATION
to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of New York, } County of Oneida. }
On this 12 th day of December 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas, of said county, Dorothy Markham a resident of Wetmoreland in the county aforesaid, aged 73 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 Stephen Markham late of Wetmoreland who was a Revolutionary Soldier in the army of the United States , and who served according to the best information and belief of this deponent as follows, That he enlisted at Tyrinham , in the county of Berkshire Mass. for the term of three years or during the war, and that in the year 1781. but at what precise day this deponent does not know - That he continued in the service until the close of the war, and was discharged in the summer of 1783 - having served in Captain Summers company , in the American Regiment , commanded by Colonel Knapp of the Massachusetts line of Troops - and this deponent refers to the declaration of her late husband made 10 th March  1829 , but which was never presented in account of his death soon after - and the affidavits of Samuel Davis and Caleb Merrell annexed to said declaration.
She further declares that she was married to the said Stephen Markham in Lee Berkshire Co. Mass on the Twenty seventh day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and Ninety one ; that her husband, the aforesaid Stephen Markham died on the 21 st day of June 1829 .
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service; but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, 1791. viz; at the time above stated, that her maiden name was Dorothy Jordin and she refers to an aged person who
Sworn to and subscribed on } marriage { Dorothy Markham the day and year above written { Dorothy Markham

State of New York Oneida County / 3
Submit Cushman of Westmoreland in said County, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that she is well acquainted with Dorothy Markham within named, who is the widow of Stephen Markham who was a Revolutionary soldier of the United States, and who died at Westmoreland  Berkland in said county on the 21 st of June 1829, and that the said Dorothy Markham has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband Stephen Markham,
Given in open court this 12. December 1838 and the said witness is a man of credibility, truth and veracity —
Submit Cushman
James D. Deyo attm Oneida County —

State of New York
Oneida County ss Lucy Markham of Westmoreland aged 67 Years being duly sworn says. She is well acquainted with Dorothy Markham who is widow of Stephen Markham deceased — and that She was present at Lee, Berkshire Co. at the marriage of said Stephen Markham and said Dorothy  Jorlin — which took place on the twenty seventh day of January one thousand eight hundred and ninety one — and further this deponent says not. Rev Mr Avery of Tyringham was the minister.
Sworn in open Court
Dec. 12. 1891 before
me, J. Dean, Clerk
Oneida County, N.Y.
Clerk's office
Oneida County, N.Y.
ss p: J. James Dean Clerk of the Court of Com. Pleas of the said County certify that the foregoing proceedings were had in open court before the Judges thereof. — Witness my hand & the seal of the said Court, this 12 th December 1891.
James Dean, Clerk.

Declaration of Stephen Markham a Revolutionary soldier for the purpose of obtaining the balance of an acct for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution approved on the 15th of May 1828. I Stephen Markham of Fishkill-land in the County of Poughkeepsie & State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the revolution for & during the term of three years or so long as the war should continue and continued in the service until its termination at which period I was a private in Captain Summers Company in the American Regiment commanded by Col. Knapp of the Massachusetts line and that I continued to the close of the war & was discharged at New York in the summer of 1783 but that this deponent does not recollect of receiving any other certificate than final settlement notes but that he served as during mars man & was discharged as such and I always understood that I was entitled to $80 & also to half pay lands a warrant for which I never have received -
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828 on the pension list of the United States
Poughkeepsie N.Y. Stephen Markham
Attest Benjamin H. Hickcox
State of New York } County of Poughkeepsie } Before me Benjamin H. Hickcox Esq. one of the Justices of the peace in & for the County of Poughkeepsie personally appeared Stephen Markham of Fishkill land in said County who made oath to the said Stephen Markham is the same person above named & that the facts contained in the above declaration are true & I certify that he the said Stephen has a good reputation for truth & veracity Sworn & Subscribed before me this 10th day of January 1829 Benjamin Hickcox Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Onondaga County
We Samuel Davis & Caleb Merrell of the Counties of Onondaga & Onondaga being duly sworn depose & say that we are & have been well acquainted with Stephen Markham in the before mentioned application & was acquainted with him from his earliest boyhood. & was acquainted with him when he enlisted at Springfield in the County of Berkshire in Massachusetts in the year 1880 for three years or during war & that he served during the war and was discharged at the close of the war and that we both of us were enlisted for three years or during the war & both of us served similarly for & during the war and we severally know that the said Markham served until the close of the war when he was discharged.
Samuel Davis
Caleb Merrell
State of New York Onondaga County
Before me Benjamin Hickson one of the Justices of the peace in & for the County of Onondaga personally appeared Samuel Davis of Westmoreland in said County & Caleb Merrell of Manlius in the County of Onondaga who did separately give oath that Stephen Markham by whom the foregoing Declaration was subscribed is generally reputed & believed to have been a soldier in the army of the revolution in manner as therein stated -
Witness my hand this 10th day of Aug. 1829 -
Benjamin Hickson Justice of the peace

I Benjamin Hickson do hereby certify that the foregoing witnesses who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit are men of credibility and truth and veracity - Dec: 1838.
Benjamin Hickson Late Justice of the Peace
Clerk's Office, Onida County, ss.
I James Dean Clerk of the said County, certify, that Benjamin Hickson Esq., was on the 10 th day of Janu- ary 1829 a Justice of the Peace of the said County, duly elected & sworn: - and that the fore- going signatures purporting to be his are genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of office, this 12 th Dec. 1878.
James Dean Clerk.
A160 The Matter of Brother Markham's of Stephen Markham medium 1835.
Mr. Johnson agent to me grouped for Mr. H.
H. P. Hall Senate N.S.

Apr 20.
NY.
Coalbrook
Dorothy - Markham,
Rev. J. L. Edwards Comm Pentons Washington
FREE

Home - Onida - N.Y. April 15 - 1859.
Hon J. H. Edwards Sir -
I enclose the affidavit of Hubbard Pallett Town clerk of Lee Mass. showing that there is no record of marriage of Stephen and Dorothy Markham -
I also enclose the Letter of Secretary Mass. showing that there is no proof there of the service, the records all being at Pennin office -
There are in answer to your letter of March 1 st 1839 - to Hon N. P. Fallows, S.W.
Dorothy Markham an applicant under act of 1838
Return are respectfully requested to the subscriber.
I am very Respectfully Your ob t Servt
Benj. P. Johnson,

V N. York
Dorothy Markham
Lib. to Hon. N. P. Talmadge 1. Nov. '39 to B. A. Johnson 13. Aug. 1839
Act. July 1838

Roy WIDOW, &c.
File No. _____
20238
Dorothea Markham widow of Stephen Markham Pri Rev War
Act _____
March 3 rd H 3
Index: Vol. _____
111
Page _____
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[Arrangement of 1870.]

5763 Albany New York Dorothy Markham widow of Stephen Markham ,
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 21 st of June 1829 of Onondaga in the State of N.Y. who was a Private in the Comp y commanded by Captain Hamer of the Reg t commanded by Col. Knapp in the Mass s line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany N.Y. at the rate of 80 Dollars cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Sept. 1840 and Sept 23. P. Johnson Rome New York Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1840 $ 360.00 Semi-annual allowance ending March 40. $ 40.00 $400.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by Abel Addison Clerk, Book A , Vol. 2 , Page 90

In the matter of Dorothy Markham An applicant to a pension under act 1838
Good proof as by letter of 13. August 1839.
G. B. P. Johnson agent Rome, NY
In Caleb Munick's Papers on roll act 1818

State of New York } Onida County ss
Phineas Dodge of the town of Wales County of Erie in said state being duly sworn deposes & says, That he was well acquainted with Stephen Markham in his boyhood & from that time to some time in February 1781 when this deponent & said Stephen Markham were disvoused at Great Barrington Berkshire County Massachusetts this deponent having previously enlisted into the Continental Army for three years, that there was about 30 recruits that there so disvoused, that it was then & there understood that none of said recruits were enlisted for a shorter term than three years or during the war, that said Ste- phen Markham was one of the said recruits and this deponent further says that some time as he now thinks the fore part of April of the same year the said recruits among which was this deponent & said Stephen Markham marched from Great Barrington and joined the Continental Army at West Point State of New York. That said recruits were there distributed among the different Massachusetts Regts. That this deponent was put into Capt. Holb- rooks Company 4 th Mass. Regt. Commanded by Col. Shepard - That this deponent has now no re- collection to what Regiment or Company the said Markham was assigned to but has no doubt but what he was a regularly enlisted soldier for three years or during the war - and this deponent if he ever had any knowledge has now no recollection when the said Markham left the service -

and this deponent further says that he was well acquainted with said Markham after the Revolutionary war & after he was married to his wife Dorothy who is now living as the widow of said Stephen Markham and this deponent further says that from the best of his recollection & he is quite confident that a Capt Sumner marched said recruits from said Great Barrington to West Point - but as this deponent had but little acquaintance with said Capt. he did not know to what Regt. he belonged - and further says not - Dated at Hintonland in said County of Onida this 8 th of July 1840
Phineas Dodge
Sworn and subscribed this 8 th day of July 1840 before me Wm Roy Jones Judge of Onida Co.
Onida County ss I hereby certify that I have been partially acquainted personally with the above named Phineas Dodge for the last forty years & am well acquainted with his reputation & that he is a person of credibility truth and veracity.
Wm Roy Jones Judge 8c
State of New York, Onida County. ss:
J. Lewis Dean

Clerk of the said County, certify, that Reverend Joseph Grog. was on the 6 th day of July 1840 and still is a Judge of the County Courts of the said County, duly com- missioned & sworn; that I am well acquainted with his hand- writing, and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his, are genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of of- fice this 18 th day of July 1840.
Joseph Dean, Clerk.

State of New York Onondaga County } ss. Caleb Merrill of the town of De Witt in said County being duly sworn deposes and says that he is aged Twenty Seven Years. That he was well acquainted with Stephen Markham - That the said Markham Phinehas Dodge and this Deponent lived together in the same town Tyringham Berkshire County and State of Massachusetts, entitled they enlisted and went into the Army in 1781 - That they all three en- -listed at Tyringham, were inspected, passed muster and marched to West Point he thinks in February or March of the Year 1781. where Markham & this Deponent were put into Capt. Thomas Hunt's Company of Light Infantry of the 9 th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Hovey Jackson & were sent to Ticonderoga until the Spring following when the Regiments were ordered, the 9 th Regiment disbanded & Deponent was transferred to the 2 d Regt. commanded by Col. Thomas Spence & into Capt. Rob- -ert Bradford's company of Infantry - Stephen Mark- -ham was transferred to Capt. Summers Company, but deponent can not now recollect the number of the Regiment or the names of any other officers of the Regiment Deponent says that he frequently saw the said Markham afterwards, on scouts & skirmishes, during the war - That they were both discharged he thinks at West Point soon after the British Troops evacuated New York - Markham and Deponent were enlisted for "During the war" and soon after discharged both emigrated from Tyringham to the town of Paris in the County of Onondaga in the State of New York where the said Stephen Markham resided until his death. - Deponent further says that he is a Pensioner, and when he speaks about of going into the Army he means the Army of the Revolution, and that it was to the best of his recollection in the Autumn of 1783. That he and the said Markham were discharged. -
Sworn before me this 10 th day of July 1840
Caleb Merrill
Geo. S. Loomis Comr of Pensions
I certify that I am well acquainted with the deponent Caleb Merrill and consider him a man of truth and veracity
Geo. S. Loomis

State of New York Onondaga County Clerks Office
ss I, William M. Clarke Deputy Clerk of the said County do certify that George S. Soomis before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn, was, at the date of the same a commissioner of Deeds in and for said County, that I am well ac- quainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the within affidavit and with- in certificate to be his genuine hand writing and signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 11 th day of July 1840
W. M. Clarke Dep. Clerk

✓ Dorothy MacKhan act 103 8.
Hon. John Edgar Percy
Report to Hon. N. P. Tallmadge Senate U.S.

Hon J. Edwards Sir,
I herewith enclose you the pension paper of Dorothy Markham under the Law of 1838.
Widow of Stephen Markham
Who served from
1781. to 1783
Capt Sumner Co., Col Knapp
Regt - See aff. Samuel Davis
Caleb Morrill -
marriage proof. W
Lucy Markham -
Answers are respectfully requested -
I have the honor to be most respectfully
Your ob t Serv t
Henry P. Johnson
Rome. Oneida Co. N.Y. January 22 d 1839.

2787 Aug 1. /43
Dorothy Markham, March 30. /43.
My
Dear Mr. Edwards Com. Kennett Washington

Home July 28 th 1843
Dear Sir
Enclosed find you the paper in case of Mrs Markham Relation are respectfully requested to the publisher
I am most Respectfully (Yours)
Henry P. Johnson

R. Johnson, Esq.
Rome
(Oneida Co.)
N. York

Dear Sir,
All the manuscripts to Rolls subsequent to 1700, (most of those previous,) are at Washington in Persian Office. Of course we have no evidence concerning the settlement of Markham in 1781. Your money is returned, herewith.
Yours &c
John P. Bigelow
B. P. Johnston Esq.

Rome N.Y. July 21. 1840
Am J. L. Edwards
Sir. I herewith enclose you the affidavits of Caleb Merrell and Phineas Dodge , which establish that as you requested the service of the Stephen Markham under Capt Sumner from 1781 to close of the war. The affidavit of Mr Merrell is particular as to the detail of the service, and shows I conceive beyond a doubt that the service was performed as stated - Merrell states that they were both discharged at the close of the war in fall of 83, and moved to Paris one after the other, where Markham resided at the time of his death -
I presume the enclosed will be satisfactory - pursuant to letter from the Department 13 th August 1839.
Please send returns to the Subscriber.
I am Very Respectfully Yours at least Benj R. Johnson,

4160
Dorothy Markham
Ad July 7. 1838
Manned 27. January 1791 Husband died 21 June 1829
Massachusetts List Capt Sumner - 3 years Man -
Admitted Private 2 years $80
B.P. Johnson Esq. Rome New York

Dorothy Markham off no record of marriage

This 22 d day of March 1859
Before me William Porter Esq. Justice of the Peace
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Berkshire, ss.
I Charles Sedgwick, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Berkshire, do certify, that William Porter Esq. Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereunto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Porter and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand; and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine.
Chas Sedgwick CLERK.

See March 20 1859
I Hubbard Bartlett of Lee in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts, do depose and say that I am Town Clerk of the Town of Lee, aforesaid, and after full examination had, do say, that there is not, on the Town Records of Lee, aforesaid, any record of the Marriage of Stephen Marsham & Dorothy Loslin, and that, so far as I can learn, there were no Parish Records, kept distinct from the Town Records, at the time when said Marriage, is stated to have been solemnized.
Hubbard Bartlett Town Clerk
Sworn & Subscribed
this 22 d day of March 1859
Before me William Porter Esq. Justice of the Peace

2787 In the Matter of Dorothy Markham applicant for Pension. act 1943
Wm Johnson
Aunt Home
NY.
80$
2787.

DECLARATION ACT, 1843.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. ONEIDA COUNTY,
On this twelfth  twenty fourth day of April  July 1843, before the subscriber, a Justice  Judge of the Peace , in and for said county, personally appeared Dorothy Markham a resident of the town of Wilmoretown in said county, aged 77  83 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 on the 3d of March 1843, granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the Widow of Stephen Markham who was a Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner of the United States, and who served in Capt Summers Company Col Knorr's Regt. Mass. Line from 1781 until 1783 the close of the war — as will appear from his papers on file at War Office —
and that she received under the Act of July 7th, 1838, a Pension of Eighty dollars per annum; She further declares that she remains a Widow, and has done so ever since the death of her husband.
E. Joslin Witness Pomroy Jones Esq.
her mark Dorothy Markham
The words "Justice" "Peace" & "and Pensioner" & the figures 83 erased and the words "Judge Oneida County Court" inserted before execution of the above
E. Joslin Witness Esq.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. ONEIDA COUNTY,
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above written, and I further certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Dorothy Markham and know her to be the person described in the above declaration, and who was a Pensioner under the Act of July 7th, 1838. I made her mark because she never learned to write Justice on account of the times previous to & during the war of the Revolution
Pomroy Jones Esq. Judge of Oneida County Court
I P.S. Root CLERK OF THE COUNTY OF Oneida do hereby certify that Pomroy Jones Esq. was on the date of the above certificate, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly appointed and qualified, and that the signature above purporting to be his is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name, this 26th day of July in the year 1843 . P. Sheldon Root, Clk.