Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,971, for Joseph Martin, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Can.)
Martin, Joseph Polland,
N. 27,971
Mary A.
CONTENTS
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Libb E. Thurba June 24. 39 Same per 24 Sept 1839
Albany 3130
Mary A. Martin widow of Joseph Martin
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 20 th Feb. 1834 of Clinton Co. in the State of N York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Levan  Lebert of the regt. commanded by Col. Livingston in the N. York line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7. day of June 1839 and sent to D. T. Taylor Rouse's Point, N. Y.
Arrears to the 4th of March '39 240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. " 40.00
$ 280.00
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by D. Brown Book A, Vol. 1

Extrait du registre des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures de la paroisse de Sainte Geneviève de Berthier, Province du Bas-Canada, diocèse de Montréal, pour l'année mil huit cent quarante-huit.
L'an mil huit cent quarante-huit, le sept janvier, après la publication des trois bans de mariage faite au prône des messes paroissiales, entre Joseph Martin fils de feu François Martin dit Pellant et de Geneviève Boucher, épouse et mère de cette paroisse D'une part, et Marie Archange Boucher fille de Guillaume Boucher et de Anne Marie Savard, épouse et mère de cette pa- roisse D'autre part, sans qu'on ait déclaré aucun empêche- ment audit mariage, que celui du troisième degré de parenté dont les parties ont obtenu dispense de Monsieur Jean Brosseau vicaire général de l'archevêque en date du vingt-deux décembre dernier, je soussigné prêtre curé de Berthier, après avoir reçu leur mutuel consentement de mariage leur ai donné la bénédiction nuptiale avec les cérémonies de la sainte église en présence de Michel Boucher et Joseph Aubin seuls témoins qui ont avec les époux déclaré ne savoir signer de leurs
{ signé } Pouget Frère
Nous soussigné curé certifions que le présent extrait est parfaitement conforme à l'original demeuré aux archives de la paroisse de Sainte Geneviève de Berthier, Bas-Canada.
Berthier ce 27 août 1838
affirmed before me at Berthier the 29 th of August 1838
James Cathcart L.C.O. 1 st Justice of the Peace
J. Gagnon curé
We the undersigned Joint Clerk of the Peace for the District of Montréal do hereby certify that the Honorable James Cathcart, of the Parish of Berthier in the said District of Montréal, in the Province of Lower Canada, has for a great many years past been one of Her Majesty's Justices Assigned to keep the peace in and for the said District and still is a Justice of the peace in virtue of a General Commission of the peace issued in and for the said District and in our possession and keeping, as such Clerk of the peace and further that the signature "James Cathcart" subscribed to the documents hereunto annexed is the signature of the said James Cathcart.
Given under our hand & Seal at the City of Montréal this 8 day of September 1838.
William Brehaut Clerk of the peace

1948 Martin
Act. July 7. 1838
Act July 7 th 1838
6962
In Balloting Book p 187 Husband a surcous under act 1828. and 20 Feb. 1834

1968.
I do the person of obtaining the benefits of an act, entitled 'An Act for the relief of Certain Suffering Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution' passed on the 15 th of May 1828. I Joseph Martin of Champlain in the County of Clinton in the State of New York do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war, and continued in its service until its termination, at which period I was a private in Captain Philip Liebert's Company in General Harnes Regiment of the New York line. And I also declare that I was afterwards received Certificates for a reward of Eighty dollars; to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress, passed the 15 th of May 1778.
And I further declare that I was not, on the 18 th of May 1828 on the Pension list of the United States.
Witness My hand, this fifth Day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one.
D. T. Saylor Comr of Deeds
Joseph his Martin Mark
Before me Daniel T. Saylor a Commissioner of Deeds in the County of Clinton in the State of New York personally appeared this day Peter Robarge and Basil Madam of the said County who did solemnly make oath that Joseph Martin by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reported and believed to have been a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution in manner as therein stated. Witness my hand this fifth day of May A.D. 1831 D. T. Saylor Comr of Deeds
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I Roscoe Wilson Clerk of the Court of the County of Clinton in the State of New York do hereby certify, that Daniel T. Saylor before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was, at the time a Commissioner Commissioner of Deeds & duly empowered to administer Oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this Twentieth of May June 1831 R. Wilson Clerk

Before me Daniel D. Taylor a Commissioner of Deeds in the County of Clinton in the State of New York personally appeared this day.
Know all Men by these presents that I Joseph Martin of Champlain in the County of Clinton in the State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint Nathan Webb of Rouse Point Merchant my true and lawful Attorney with Power of Substitution for me, in my name, to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me under the Act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Revolution" Approved 18 th May 1828 as a private in Col Halsey's Regiment of the New York line of the Army of the Revolution. Witness my hand and Seal this fifth day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
Sealed & delivered in presence of D. D. Taylor Commissioner of Deeds
Joseph Martin mark
Before me Daniel D. Taylor a Commissioner of Deeds of the County of Clinton in the State of New York personally appeared this day Joseph Martin whose name is subscribed to the foregoing power of Attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed, and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer or of any attachment, levy or seizure by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to his personal benefit. Witness my hand this fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one.
D. D. Taylor Commissioner Deeds

Before me James W Wood a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Clinton in the State of New York personally appeared this day Nathan Mott a Respectable Merchant at Rouses Point the attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer or of any attachment levy or distress by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed - Witness my hand this Sixth day of June May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one
James W. Wood Judge of Clinton Common Pleas
I Roswell Clark of the County of the County of Clinton in the State of New York do hereby certify, that Daniel S. Saylor & James W. Wood before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn was at the time the former a Commissioner of Deeds, & the latter a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, & duly empowered to administer oaths
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court this Twelfth day of May
June - 1831
R. Wilson Clerk
The several alterations & erasing of "May" & & interlining "June" done before signing & sealing
R. Wilson Clerk

Norwood Point 1 st May '39
Sir
Your letter of the 24 th ult o came to hand last night - and in reply I have to say that when you sent me Mrs Martin's declaration, I understood it was objectionable because it was not taken before a court of Record or before a Judge of a court of Record, and you say it is returned for that reason. I did not suppose therefore it was necessary to return it to the Department again. I make this remark to show that I should have done it had I supposed it was requisite. Herewith is now transmitted the declaration as also Mr Slumb's deposition and they are on the papers that I know of my having which were returned.
Very Respectfully your Obedt
Servt D. S. Layton
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J. L. Edwards
Com d of Pioneers

State of New York } On this twentieth day of September in Clinton County } the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Mary Archangela Martin of the Town of Chazy in said County aged twenty one years who being duly sworn according to law cloth on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7th July 1838. Enitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows" Canadian Refugees. That she is the widow of Joseph Martin, who was a soldier in the army of the United States in the Revolution, and a pensioner when he died of the United States, but she has no documentary proof of his services or of his pensionership, as all those papers, together with his Pension Warrant are at Washington. She therefore cannot refer the Department to any thing which will enable it to refer in conclusively to the widow upon which the pension, was granted, or facilitate the investigation. She further declares that she was married on the tenth day of January 1791 as will appear by the copy of the Record of her marriage herunto annexed, to the said Joseph Martin; and that her Husband the said Joseph Martin died on the twentieth day of February in the year 1834; and that she lived with him until his death, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herunto annexed. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but that the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hun- dred and ninety four, by the time above stated - and that she refers the Department to the documentary evidence in the pension office.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Mary Archangela Martin her mark
Rufus Norton Justice of the peace

State of New York } On this seventeenth day of September in Columbia County } the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Ezra Sherburn who being duly sworn ac- cording to law doth on his oath make the following deposition: That he is personally acquainted with Mary Archibald Martin widow of the late Joseph Martin of the Town of Champlaine in said County, a soldier in the army of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States at his death — and that the said Mary Archibald Martin has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Joseph Martin her husband, and that she is the identical person who has subscribed her name unto a deposition herunto annexed in or- der to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed the 7th July 1838.  entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to eligible widows" known to and subscribed; and that he assisted the said widow in on the day and year above } proving the pay due the said Joseph at written before me — } his death, after the decease of the said Joseph. and that the said Joseph and as testified in the deposition of the said Mary Archibald Martin, to the best of his recollection and belief, and that he saw the  corpses of the said Martin after his death
Rufus Norton Justice of the peace
Ezra Sherburn
As the name of "Rufus Norton Justice of the Peace" is in the Pension Department on the papers of Madame De Toner with the Certificate of the Clerk of Columbia County under his seal of office, that his term of service will continue until 1840 I have supposed it was not necessary for the present officers to insert the form of filing that certificate again. If requisite Mr. Edwards will be so obliging as to let me know it.

To J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commission of Pensions
Sir
Herewith I
since you the papers of the widow of the late Joseph Martin of this place claiming, as said widow, the benefits of the act of Congress passed the 7th July 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pension to certain widows." It should seem that those who took the copy of the marriage of the parties at Bethlem did not ex- actly comprehend the acts of the pension office, which I sent them, and therefore, they, until strictly complied with, delay the widow's claim. Indeed I hesitated about sending them until I was informed by D. C. Hubble Esq. of Ghazy, that he had sent one claim exactly similar. The deposition of Genl. Shubel I presume is sufficient to prove what is requisite on the points to which he deposes. He could not remember the day Martin died, but his assisting the widow in obtaining the pay due Martin as his chieftain I have some knowledge of — Martin's business with the pension office had been transacted thro' C. K. Lewis — but no answer having been returned respecting them, papers she applied to me to assist her — and as I was about to be gone from here a considerable time I referred her to Genl. Hubble, who on writing to the Department, recd the money. I should think be any thing essen- tially wrong in my making out the papers, I hope you will be so kind as to inform me, and I shall endeavor to correct the error. And I beg you to have the goodness also to send me a copy of the instructions of the pension office and the law of the 7th July 1838
Respectfully Sir your Obedt
Servt D. S. Taylor
J. L. Edwards Esq
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It will be most convenient for Madame Martin to receive her pension money at the Clinton County Bank. Plattsburg

Le 7 ème jour de Janvier 1796
Extrait de Mariage
Jos. Martin et de Arch. Boucher

State of New York County of Clinton
ss. On this twentieth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me Thomas B. Walton County Judge of Clinton County and State of New York in open court, Ellen Martin the now wife of John Drake, late a resident of Rouse's Point in the county aforesaid & now a resident of La Bole Canada East aged fifty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" and all prior or subsequent acts, laws & decisions in which the children of the widow of a deceased soldier and pensioner are entitled to the pension vested in said widow by reason of her husband's services in the Revolutionary war & who died before her pension was allowed having made application therefor. That she is the daughter of Mary A. Martin the widow of Joseph Martin otherwise called Pollard, who was a United States Pensioner, and who served as a private in General Haden's Regiment (Canajoharie Regiment) in the New York line in the Revolutionary war, and who received his Certificate of Pension under the act of the Congress of the United States passed or approved 18 th May 1828, for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution - which Certificate of Pension was attached at the time to the Pension Office at Washington when her mother the said Mary A. Martin made her application for a pension as the widow of the said Joseph Martin under the above mentioned act of 1838. That her said Mother's maiden name was Mary Ann Boucher - And she further declares that said Joseph Martin her father was receiving a pension at the time of his death - that he died at Rouse's Point in the county aforesaid on the 20 th day of February 1834

Martha Sanderson
no. 100
from a gun shot inflicted by himself - And she further declares that Mary A. Martin her mother survived him the said Joseph Martin, and that she died at Rouse's Point aforesaid on the twenty ninth day of October Eighteen hundred and forty two; that they were both buried in the Roman catholic grounds at 600. in the town of Champlain in said county of Clinton - That they kept no family records of the births marriages and deaths; that as she is informed and verily believes her said father and mother were married at Berthier in Canada, their former place of residence in early days; that previous to moving to Rouse's Point about twenty five years ago they resided at Berthier aforesaid; after that & until their deaths they resided at Rouse's Point. - That after her father's death her mother aforesaid remained a widow & was never again married. And she further declares that the following named persons are the children of the said Joseph Martin & Mary A. Martin, who are known to be living viz. Basil Martin aged fifty five years, residing at Berthier aforesaid; Julia Martin aged thirty eight years, residing at Berthier, and married to one Baptist Polo. Ellen Martin (the person making this declaration) aged fifty three years. - Catherine Martin who has gone to parts unknown and not heard from for several years past. That the following are the grand children who are known to be living viz. Josette Martin, aged twenty three years, the daughter of Joseph Martin Jr. who is dead. Stephen Martin Nelson Martin, Joseph Martin & Caroline Martin who are minors, the sons & daughter of Nelson Martin who is dead. The first named grand child lives in the Parish of Berthier, & the other grand children reside at Rouse's Point, and had no chosen guardian until application this day made the 28 th  day of December 1852. And the said Ellen Martin aforesaid further declares that from the scattered condition of the children & heirs at law aforesaid, of the said Mary A. Martin widow of the said

the other grand children reside at Rousis Point, and had no chosen guardian until application this day made the 28 th day of December 1852. And the said Ellen Martin aforesaid further declares that from the scattered condition of the children & heirs at law of the said Mary A. Martin widow of the said Joseph Martin, and the great distance they reside apart it is wholly impracticable for all the said children aforesaid to unite and proceed together in the same declaration in order to obtain at one time the annuity or vested right of the said Mary A. Martin to a pension, who applied, but died before the same was allowed or paid out.
Sworn to subscribed before me this 20 th day of January 1852 Thos P. Walton Clinton County Judge
Ellen her Martin mark
And the said Court — hereby declare his opinion after interrogating the above applicant in the matter & eliciting the facts in the above declaration, and from the proofs, exhibits & affidavits, that the said Joseph Martin was a United States pensioner, and that he died the 25 th day of February 1834 at Rousis Point; That Mary A. Martin his widow survived him, & died at Rousis Point on the 29 th day of October 1842; That the said Joseph Martin & the said Mary A. Martin whose maiden name was Mary Archangela Boucher, were married on the Seventh day of January 1791 at Berthier in Canada, from whence they came to Rousis Point to reside, and that he is the identical person mentioned in said declaration; and that she is the identical widow who is now dead, of the said Joseph Martin who was married at Berthier aforesaid. That they kept no family records of the births marriages and deaths and that the persons named in said declaration are the children & grandchildren known to be living & entitled to the pension or vested rights of the said Mary A. Martin, the widow of said Joseph Martin. And the said Court further certify that the foregoing & annexed accompanying papers & proofs contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Ellen Martin aforesaid for the pension her mother was entitled to.
(Copy in Court) Thos P. Walton Clinton County Judge
2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) 10) 11) 12) 13) 14)

State of New York
County of Clinton Bp. Lewis Leprie of Chancery in P. County being duly sworn doth depose and say that he is Curate & Priest of the Catholic Church at 6000 in said Town: and is the Keeper of the Records of said Church since the year 1844. That previous thereto Victor Dugas was Priest & Keeper of said Records. That this deponent has searched the Records of said Church for the death of Joseph Martin & Mary Martin his widow, and cannot find any Records of their death. That deponent has understood that they were buried in the grounds of said Church, & that if any Records was ever made of their burial, it has been mislaid or lost. That previous to deponent's having charge of said Records, they were kept on loose leaves of small books on common letter paper stuck & unstuck together. That since deponent has kept the Records, they have used bound books. And deponent further saith, that as he is informed the said Joseph Martin shot himself, and if such was the fact, it is against the regulations of the Church to make a Records of his burial in said grounds of the Church. Though it is not against the regulations of the Church to allow their burial. And further deponent saith not.
Sworn & subscribed before me this 19 th day of November 1852
John Bullis Justice Peace
L. Leprie

State of New York County of Clinton ss. George Weekes of Rouses Point in said county being duly sworn doth depose and say that he lived neighbor to, or was well acquainted with Joseph Martin (dit Pelland) a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. Said with Mary Martin his wife. That on the 20 th day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty four at Rouse's Point aforesaid, the said Joseph Martin who was the identical pensioner above named, came to his death by shooting himself with a gun. That deponent was present a few minutes after, the occurrence took place, before he had become cold or stiff, and assisted to lay him out; before he was buried at the burials in said town.
Said deponent further saith that Mary Martin his widow died at Rouse's Point aforesaid on the twenty ninth day of October Eighteen hundred and forty two, and buried at the burials aforesaid. Said deponent further saith that the maiden name of said widow Martin, was Mary Annahay Bucker; that she was the identical widow of the said Joseph Martin. Said deponent further saith that they, the said Joseph & Mary kept no family records of the birth, marriage & deaths. And further deponent saith not
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 22 nd November 1852 John B. Miller Justice Peace
George Weekes
State of New York County of Clinton ss. Ezra J. Mearney of Rouse's Point in said county being duly sworn doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Joseph Martin of Rouse's Point aforesaid, who was formerly from Berthier in Lower Canada, a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. Also he was well acquainted with the wife of said Joseph Martin at Rouse's Point, whose maiden

name was Mary Archangé Bourcher the identical widow of said Martin; And deponent further saith the said Joseph Martin (sometimes called Pelland) died of a gun shot inflicted by himself, on the Twentieth day of February Eighteen hundred and thirty four, at Rouse's Point aforesaid and was interred in the Catholic burial ground at Corbe.
That Mary his widow, died at Rouse's Point aforesaid on the twenty ninth day of October Eighteen hundred and forty two, and was buried in the same grounds of her husband at Corbe. That this deponent officiated as master of ceremonies at the funeral of the said Mary Martin, the identical widow of the said Joseph Martin. That this deponent made an entry of her death & the time when she died, at the time, which he has examined in order to refresh his memory, on the precise day that she died. And deponent further saith that the said Joseph & Mary kept no family records, of the births, marriages, & deaths. And further deponent saith as to.
Sworn and Subscribed before
me this Sixth day of December 1852
John Russell Justice Peace
Believe me Sir, &c. I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with George Weeks and Ezra T. Maney who made oath before me to the foregoing depositions and that they are credible persons, and residents of Rouse's Point aforesaid - Given under my hand at Rouse's Point, in said County, this Sixth day of December A.D. 1852.
John Russell Justice Peace

EXTRAIT DU REGISTRE DES ACTES DE BAPTEMES, MARIAGES ET SEPULTURES, faits dans la Paroisse de Ste Genevieve de Berthier
pendant l'année mil Sept cent quatre vingt onze.
L'an mil sept-cent quatre vingt onze, le sept Janvier, après la publication de trois bans promesse de mariage faite au prône des messes de paroisse entre Joseph Martin fils de feu François Martin dit Pellant et de Genevieve Boucher ses père et mère de cette Paroisse d'une part, et Marie Archange Boucher fille de Guillaume Boucher et de Anne Savoye ses père et mère de cette paroisse, d'autre part, sans qu'on ait découvert aucun empêchement au dit mariage que celui du troisième degré de parenté dont les parties ont obtenu dispense de Messire Jean Brassier vicaire général du Diocèse en date du vingt de Berthier, après avoir reçu leur mutuel consentement au mariage, leur ai donné la bénédiction nuptiale avec les cérémonies de la Ste Eglise en présence de Michel Boucher et de Joseph Aubin seuls témoins qui ont déclaré ne sçavoir signer ainsi que les époux de ce enquis (Signé) Pouget ptre
NOUS SOUSSIGNES, PROTONOTAIRE de la Cour Supérieure pour le Bas Canada, dans et pour le District de Montréal, certifions, que l'extrait ci-dessus est en tout conforme à l'original qui se trouve dans le Registre des Actes de Baptêmes, Mariages et Sépultures, faits dans la dite Paroisse de Ste Genevieve de Berthier pendant l'année mil sept cent quatre vingt onze le dit Registre déposé dans les Archives de la dite Cour, dont nous sommes dépositaire.
MONTREAL, le neuvième jour de Novembre mil huit cent cinquante deux
N. H. C. Papineau
PN

L'HONORABLE George Vanfelson un des Juges de la Cour Supérieure pour le Bas Canada, dans la Province du Canada.
A TOUS CEUX QUI CES PRESENTES VERRONT, Nous Certifions que Samuel Wentworth Monk, William Craigie Holmes Coffin et Louis Joseph Amédieu Papineau
Ecuiers, sont Protonotaire de la Cour Supérieure dans le District de Montréal, dans la Province du Canada, que la signature " Monk Coffin & Papineau P. " sonscrite au bas du Certificat des autres parts, est la signature du dit Pro- tonotaire ; et que foi doit être ajoutée à toutes Copies de Papiers, Extraits, et autres Actes quelconques par eux signés et certifiés en cette qualité.
En foi de Quoi Nous avons signé ces présentes et y avons fait opposer le sceau de la dite Cour, a Montréal, ce huitième jour de Novembre mil huit cent cinquante deux
G. Vanfelson
Le 7 ème jour de Janvier 1796
Extrait de Mariage
Jos Martin et Arch. Boucher

Feb: 11-1853.
App d of Mary A. Martin dec d widow of Joseph.
N. York
Act 7 th July 1838.
C. K. Averill
Rouse's Point
Clinton Co:
New York.

See letter to D. J. Taylor Oct. 12. 1838 Nov. 2. 1838
let. to D. J. Taylor 23. Jan. 1839 to Hon. J. Palma 26. " " to D. J. Taylor 14. Feb. 1839 Thurber 11. May 1839
No. 4925
let. to D. J. Taylor 24. Apr. 1839
Letter to C. R. Averill June 10. 1853
Act 1838 N. Y.

WHITEHALL JUL 11 NY.
FREE
Revolutionary Claims
Asbury Dickins Esq. Acting Secretary of the Treasury - Department - Washington

No of orig Payt 1091
1968.
Revolutionary Claims.
See Wid O.W. File # 20,241 Lorina Wid of Joseph Martin, N.Y. Died 1829. Widows = act 1843
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
15 July 1831.
Joseph Martin — of Champlain in the county of Clinton — in the State of N.Y. — has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private — in captain Liberts — 's company, in Col Hazen's regiment of the line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
16 July 1831
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Joseph Martin in the Colo Hazens Regt.
It further appears that Joseph Martin  not is now on the pension list of any — — — agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month
John Hagner Secy
correc- N o 37,198.

Re: 15 July 1831.
Rouses Point July 8. 1831
Asbury Dickens Esq
Dear Sir
Enclosed are papers relating to the claim for Pension of Joseph Martin - which you will please give such attention to as they merit - I would beg to observe that some time in the month of March last I forwarded to the Treasury Department Nicholas Constantinou - Pension Certificate, with his Power to draw the am d due from 4 th March last - In the month of May last also forwarded Louis Poudras Papers & Power with request that the pay due to each might be forwarded to the Post Office at this place but much to my surprise it has never been rec d - nor have I been apprised of the rec d of them at Washington or the reason why the pay was not sent on as requested - Col t McNeil Collector of this District has apprised Mr. Ingham, by letter that the pensioners had acted discreetly in choosing their agents but the latter did not probably reach him before he left the department. you will greatly oblige me by giving me such information on the subject as may be in your power -
Respectfully
Yrs Obed Serv
N Webb

4925 Mary A. Martin
3530
Col. James Livingston Capt. L. S. Lewis
Admitted Private 2 years
D. T. Taylor Esq. Round Point New York

Clinton County Clerk's Office
I Smith Mead Clerk of said County of Clinton do hereby Certify that Henry B. Dickinson Esquire of Champlain is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County duly Commissioned and qualified; that his Commission or appointment is dated July 17 1838 and his Oath of Office filed August 17 th 1838.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County this 12 th February 1839
Smith Mead Clerk

Rouses Point July 14th '39
Sir
I duly recd your letter to the Hon S. P. Hildreth accompanied by Mrs Martin for my declaration pending my stay as having been taken before a Justice of the peace. I am also informed by your letter that you have found that Martin was a prisoner under the act of '28, which I could have told you if I had not supposed you looked under other act, instead of the act of '32. It would appear from your letter, that her declaration before a Justice of the peace will remove the objections to her enjoying the benefits of the act of '32. I have therefore called her before Judge Dickinson, and have procured from the clerk of the County of Clinton a certificate agreeably to your rules, of his official capacity. I have also, to save expense to Mrs Martin, given my own deposition of her widowhood, having known her ever since she came here to live, and the most of the time living within half a mile of me. In your letter I see no other objections but as above. I presume that the accompanying certificate of Mr Dickinsons Judgeship will answer for other officers when depositions are taken before him without any time obtaining a certificate from the Clerk. I have therefore taken the depositions before him in favor of Mrs Lefford whose application has been procrastinated and still is by circumstances beyond her or my control. — Very respectfully Sir your obed Servt D. J. Linton J. L. Greenwood Esq. Clerk

House of Representatives
Jan y 24 th 1839.
Dear Sir from the circumstances stated in this Letter by Judge Taylor (whose veracity is undoubted) particularly from that of Genl. Thumber having having received at the Department the balance of Joseph Marten's Pension after his death. There is no doubt but that he was a Pensioner - Nor is there any more doubt but that the Mrs Marten mentioned in the enclosed Letter is his Widow - Though she may from mis- recollection have varied in her statement from the facts stated in his, now on file. I enclose to your department Judge Taylors Letter as the best mode to put you in possession of all the facts & circumstances bearing on her Case that justice may be done in it.
The object of the enquiry seems to be to know what course it is desired should be adopted in order to remove difficulties to her claim if any are found still to exist - an answer is desired.
Yours Most Respectfully John Palmer

State of New York } On this 17 th day of November in Clinton County } the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the said County Ezra Thurler, who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following deposition: That he personally knew Joseph Martin in his life time some two or three years; that the said Joseph lived a part of that time within twenty roads of this deponent - that the said Joseph was a Canadian and expected to have been a Canadian Refugee Soldier in the army of the Revolution, and that the said Joseph was a prisoner of the United States at his death - and that the said Joseph some time previous to his death (the exact time now not remembered) had some difficulty or delay in obtain- -ing his pension money, and applied to this deponent to write to Washington to know why it did not come as usual - that this deponent did write accordingly and soon received a Treasury draft for the said Joseph, but this deponent does not remember the amount of said draft. And further, that Mary A. Martin, the widow of the said Joseph, applied to deponent after his death to assist her in obtaining the pension money which was due her husband at his death - that this deponent did write to Washington for her pension, and received a Treasury draft for the said widow of thirty eight dollars and five cents, being as this deponent understands, what was due the said Joseph from the 4 th Sept 1833 to the 20 th of July 1834 when the said Joseph died. That this deponent is knowing to the widow of the said Joseph having applied for the benefits of a late law of Congress in part, pension, to D. M. Taylor Esq., and that she is the only person who received the pension money from this deponent which was due the said Joseph at his death, namely, thirty eight dollars and five cents.
Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year above written before me.
Ezra Thurler
Rufus D. Dutton Justice of the peace

State of New York
Clinton County
On this fourteenth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for the said County Daniel T. Gaylord, who being duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following deposition: That he was personally acquainted with Joseph Martin in his lifetime for two or three years, that the said Joseph was a Canadian by birth, and was reported to have been a Canadian Refugee Soldier in the army of the Revolution, and for some years previous to his decease this deponent knew him to be a person of the United States, and was so at his death. That the said Joseph showed to this deponent his pension Warrant and other papers and documents received from the pension department. That the said Mary A. Martin widow of the said Joseph applied to this deponent to assist her in obtaining the pension money due her husband at his decease, and this deponent referred her to Genl. E. D. Hunter; and that she is the legitimate person who has applied to the pension office for the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". Thus the assertion of this deponent, and that she was the reported wife, and now widow, of the late Joseph Martin, and lives now but a short distance from this deponent with her son
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me
Rufus Norton { Justice of the peace
Daniel T. Gaylord

Sir
I have your letter dated the 2 nd instant in relation to the application of Mary A. Martin, widow of the late Joseph Martin for the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7 th July 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" in which you say, "No one named Joseph Martin, according to the description she has given respecting his case, appears to have been pensioned under any law whatever." I must believe it to be the error of the Department, as also the intention of the law, that Widows of pensioned Revolutionary Soldiers who were married after the pass and before the 1 st of January 1794, should enjoy the benefits of the above act; and I entertained the opinion that the deposition of Sarah Sharber which accompanied Mrs. Martin's first declaration, sufficiently identified her to be Martin's widow, of this place, and that Martin was a pensioner of the United States for some years, and was so at his death. Mrs. Martin, when she offered to me to assist her to obtain the benefits of the above act, informed me that she had no papers nor documents of any kind, respecting her husband's pension or service; that she believed they were all sent to Washington when she applied for the pension money due her husband at his death; and she informed the Department so in her first declaration; stating that she was the widow of the late Joseph Martin of this place, and that she was married on the tenth day of January 1791 as was proven by the attested copy of her marriage from the marriage records of the Parish of Iberville in L. S. that he died on the 20 th July 1834 and that she remained a widow then. In her amended declaration she merely answered some questions put by the Department, such as when she lived after her marriage, when her husband applied for a pension; before whom he made his declaration then there can be no doubt she has answered those questions correctly to the best of her knowledge. But as I do not have not been much acquainted with the difficulty which appears to lie in the way, I cannot therefore call her memory to any points for explanation or refreshment. Nor does she or I know anything of the declaration of her husband when applying for his pension. And as your last letter as above quoted seems to indicate that there never was a man by the name of Joseph Martin, a Canadian Refugee Soldier of the Revolution on the pension rolls, I have sent you the inclosed depositions, which I trust will set that matter at rest, and fully convince the De

partments that Mary A Martin, is the widow of the said Joseph, who lived in this place several years, was known to be a pensioner for several years of the United States, and since Martin's death must unquestionably be in the pension office, and will be assigned the amount he annually receives. But I think it seems due for his widow his pension money due at his death $38.00 for 5 months and fifteen days. The above named Joseph Martin owned lot no 156 of 420 acres, and 217 of 80 acres in the Canadian and Novametric Refugee tract of this state, situated in the Town of Chazy in the county of Clinton.
I am, with great respect, Sir your obt Servt
D. T. Taylor
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
1791

Rouses Point
December 26th '38
To J. L. Cummins Esq.
Archangel Sir
On the eighth day of November last I received a letter from you dated the 5 th in relation to the claim of Mary A. Martin to a pension under the act of Congress passed 7 th July, 1838, in which you say "No one named Joseph Martin according to the description she has given respecting his war, appears to have been pensioned under any law whatever." In a former letter you say, that an search on the pension rolls of the name of Joseph Martin, and seem to effect a doubt of the identity of the person, as there appears to be no evidence that any of them were French Canadian Refugees of the army of the Revolution. To satisfy the Dept on that head, on the receipt of yours as above, I immediately procured the depositions of Debs E. Shuler, Austin Woodhull Esq and your own myself, proving that the man who lived here by the name of Joseph Martin was a Canadian Frenchman — reputed to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution — that while he lived here he was a pensioner of the United States some 2 or 3 years, and that he died here. Debs Shuler further testified that he assisted Martin's widow in getting her late husband's pay that was due him at his death, being $38.05 from the 4 th Sept '33 to the 20 th July '34. In addition to this if you will examine the Bounty Land offer, you will find that this Joseph Martin drew Lot No 217 of 80 acres, and Lot No 158 of 420 acres in the Canadian and Noosetown Refugee tract in the state of New York, which lands Martin sold to Debs Benjamin Moore of Ploetsburgh. This, I trust, is sufficient testimony that this Joseph Martin was a Canadian Refugee soldier of the army of the Revolution; that he was a pensioner some years; that he lived at Rouses Point during that time, and that he died here on the 20 th July '34.
The next question is, is the woman who has applied for a pension under the above act of Congress, Martin's widow, having lived with him since his death, and was married after the pass, and before the first of Jan'y 1794. To this I have to say that Mrs Martin informed me on her application for assistance, when and where she was married, and when her marriage record was to be found. She also went to the Post Master at Berkhire, enclosing the instructions of the Dept respecting marriage records, and requested him to

procure an attested copy, agreeably to the instructions of the Dept - as comprising my letter, of the Marriage of Joseph Martin and Mary Archangé Boucher, from the Parish records of Berthier, and I received the attested sent you, after I had sent it to Montreal and obtained the seal of the Court. To this testimony of their marriage I have seen no objections, and conclude them an issue.
Now what further testimony there is wanting that she has not presented, if you have read the de- positions of Wm Thuber, Morehouse and Taylor, showing the above facts, together with his drawing bonds from the State of New York, I have yet to learn; And as the above depositions were sent almost two months ago, and if not miscarried, have doubtless been considered, unless the Dept has been thoroughly with prior business, I hope, Sir, you will find leisure soon to inform me of the the the fate of Mr Martin's application.
I have the honor to be, Sir, very respectfully your Obed Servt -
D. V. Taylor.
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commission of Pensions

Houses Point July 4 th '38
A. L. Lawrence,
Sir
Your letter of the 23 rd ult came to hand on Saturday day night last. in which you say in relation to the claim of Mary A Martin "that the roll of pensioners under the act of June 18 th 1832. furnishes no evidence that Joseph Martin of the County of Clinton; or of the Province of Lower Canada was ever allowed a pension under that act." Then I presume lies the error of your department — There is no evidence sent by me that Martin obtained his pension under that act. Mrs Martin says in her Declaration that her husband came to the County of Clinton in October "tho' before the Cholera Season," and obtained his pension. So when the act of June '32 was passed he was enjoying his pension and living at this place; and I presume by looking under the act of '28 he will be found a pensioner. The next sentence of your letter reads thus "The means of identifying her husband as a pensioner are indisputable." I must admit that I do not punctuate this sentence — unless it means that she must prove that her husband was a pensioner. Now I know of but two ways to prove that fact — By documentary proof such as his papers, Pension Warrants — pension draughts &c and all these are in the pension office over out of her and my reach. Or by testimony by officers & bills by people who saw them evidence of his being a pensioner and certify to that fact; and such testimony I sent you three months ago.

If there is any other "means"  means than the two above mentioned, that can be taken to prove his pension ship, I beg to be made acquainted with it, and I will follow it most cheerfully. I have also proved that this very woman and the money due Martin at his decease, namely from the 4th Sept '33 to the 20 July '34 in amount $38.05 - Now how can Mr Martin receive this money if there was no will and that Martin was a pensioner? If, as I presume, the department keeps a list of the deaths of those pensioners, you will turn to July '34 you will find Martin's death and at this period. I am anxious to obtain a certificate from the Secretary of the State of Martin's clearing lands - this will be attended with considerable expense which might be avoided by Mr Gordon in our minutes as he can give us the information which the Secretary of the State can on that point. I shall know do it and get the very of the information which may appear to me to bear upon the question. I am inclined to think however that all this trouble may be avoided by looking further back than 182.
Yours D. J. Taylor

War Department
Pension Office
Octo 12 th 1838.
Sir,
The papers in the case of Mary A. Martin have been examined and placed on our files. She alleges that she is the widow of Joseph Martin, who was a Canadian refugee, but that she can give no further account of him, and the papers relative to his pension, are at the Seat of government. I have examined our books and papers, and I find that several persons named Joseph Martin were pensioned for revolutionary service. I cannot, however, discover that either of them was a Canadian refugee. In order to a proper investigation of her claim, she must make a further statement relative to her deceased husband. She must state in what part of the Country he resided after his marriage to her; the place where he resided when he applied for a pension; the judge or Court who certified to his declaration; the time when he applied for a pension, and the annual amount of his pension. When such a statement shall have been made, and sworn to before a magistrate duly authorized to administer oaths, and the same shall have been received at

this office, the case will be again taken up and examined.
Let this letter be returned with his statement.
I am, respectfully, Your obt. servt. J. L. Edwards
D. T. Taylor, Esq. Round Point, Champlain P. O. N. York

Rose's Point Sept. 17 th 1839-
Sir
Enclosed are the certificates of Mary A. Martin to obtain her pension. There may be some want of form and possibly some small errors in the papers. if so. I would in her behalf. ask for the proper forms & mode or blank to fill. for it has given her this far much trouble to get the papers in their present form —
I have the Honor to be Very Respectfully your Obedient Servt. Ezra Thresher
Hon. J. R. Poinsett. Secy. of War.

Rouses Point N.Y. Dec 16 Jany
Dear John Paton M. L. Washington

To the Hon. S. Polkin
Housatonic P.O. July 16 th 1839
My Dear Sir,
I am again under the necessity of applying to you in another case of pension. The case is this. A man by the name of Joseph Martin a Canadian Refugee obtained in the Proclamation bond at Housatonic some three years, and died here the 20 th July '34. During his residence here he drew a pension until his death. After his death his widow offered to me to assist her in getting his pension, pay due as his executor being from the 4 th Sept '33 to the 20 th July '34 , and as I could not then attend to it I referred her to Genl. Sherburn, who wrote to the department on the subject and paid for Martin's widow $384.05. After the law of 7 th July '38 in favor of widows of Revolutionary soldiers passed after the war and before the 1 st July 1794, Mrs. Martin offered to me to assist her in obtaining the benefit of that law. She informed me when and where she was married, and when her marriage, Proclamation, records at Boston in L. B. I accordingly sent there and obtained a record under the requisited forms, and then sent it to Mr. Webb to get the seal and attestation of the clerk of the court — took her declaration — proved that she had remained a widow and all other forms as I supposed, to entitle her to the benefit of the above act — sent it to the Pension office — In answer I was told that there were no records by the name of Jos Martin on the pension rolls, but none who appeared to have been a Lunkman; and requested Mrs. Martin to state when they lived after their marriage, when Martin offered for a pension — before whom he made his declaration a Judge or Court, and how many annually he drew. I then interrogated the answer — and in answer I am also told "that it does not appear that her husband was a pensioner." "No our records Joseph Martin, answering to the description she has given respecting his case, appears to have been pensioned under any law whatever." On the receipt of the above I procured the deposition of Genl. Sherburn, Mr. Morehouse, and my own, in all of which was testified that we knew this Joseph Martin to be a Lunkman, and that we knew him 2 or 3 years, during all which time he was a pensioner of the U.S.

and that we knew his widow, and that she was seeking to obtain the benefit of the pension law, thru my co-sister Then upon this I sent about the 12th Nov last, and I then wrote within the 26 D term for an answer, when I wrote again, and stated what I had already proven beyond cavil that this man Martin was a soldier and a pensioner of the Govt. This was sent at the time I wrote you, but I have since no answer. Whether there are communications never arrived — or whether or not I have not been answered — or whether the Dept has not designed to answer me I know not; and I have therefore had recourse to your co-sister's own son, of proof by unquestionable witnesses that Martin was a pensioner — a French Refugee soldier — was known here some 15 years — was known where he lived here — and if the Dept will of answer their records will find his pensionship, and if they will look in the Bounty Land office will find he drew lands in the Canadian and Missouri tract, which lands he sold to Jack Morris — I say if all this with the certificate of his marriage, which has now been questioned, will not satisfy the Dept — then what would it take to raise from the dead. I will however a decision answer from the Dept on the subject. I have been solicited by many to assist them in getting pensions, and when I have had any doubts of the first step of the claim, I have invariably refused to assist them — and when I know the applicant is entitled to the benefit of the pension laws, I don't needlessly give it up. If the Dept will see to prove that Martin was a soldier I can readily do it by persons in this town, who were with him in the Revolution — that he was a pensioner I have proven sufficiently — however, if the man with us wants an answer on that point they can be had. I beg Mr Palmer your kind up so far in business as to call at the Pension office yourself, accept my warm thanks for the D. V.

May I solicit an early attention to this subject.
With esteem and respect Your ob't Servt
D. H. Taylor
— (Signature)
Dear John DeLano,
— (Signature)
Record

File No. 27.971
3131 certificate Rev
OLD WAR WIDOW.
Mary A Martin widow of Joseph Martin Pri, Colo Harzen, N.Y.
Died at Agency N.Y. State
other claim.
, 18
Clerk.
Application filed: , 18
Attorney:
P. O.
Act July 7 1838

Rouses Point. N.Y. May 1 st 1839.
Sir
Mary Anchangel. The Widow of Joseph Martin. a pensioner, has made application. as being entitled. to receive. a pension herself, in consequence. of coming within certain. laws. which provided for. Widows. who were married previous to the Revolutionary war. having terminated.
and as her papers have been long before the department. presented by Daniel S Taylor. and nothing. made known to her. respecting. the matter. She has desired me to. make enquiry. for her. if she can receive any relief. or not.
Hon. J. R. Poinsett. Secy. of War.
I have the Honor to be Very Respectfully. your Obedt Servt Ezra Thresher

Rancho Pt NW free
31 May
Great
Martha
J. L. Edwards Esq Govr of Pensins Washington
D. 6.

Rouses Point May 29th '39
To J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir
Yours of the 24 th came to hand on the 29 th , informing me that Mrs Martin's "original declaration, which you have sent me, and defective as having been taken before a Justice of the peace, must be returned before her claim can be allowed." I accordingly sent it the next day by the return mail nearly five weeks since, and intended to hear nothing of the Department no more on this subject. It is therefore with extreme reluctance I have renewed the correspondence over under the following reasons. Martin's willow has received assistance from her friends under the belief that she would obtain a pension other be able then to provide for herself. The delay has inclined them to believe she will fail in her application, in which event, their assistance will be withdrawn, and she compelled to go to the poor house. Her great nephew and which, and her importunity has induced, to trouble you again. You will therefore confer a singular favor on a worthy old woman by letting me know the fate of her application.
I am respectfully Sir yours.
Obt Let
D. W. Taylor
3
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Boys of Tadoussac.
3

Rouses Point June 19 th 1839.
For Mrs. Mary A. Martin, widow of Joseph Martin. has been a long time. labouring to obtain a pension. Said Joseph Martin. (Deceased. it appears was a pensioner under the act of May 15 th 1828. and it appears from aduices recd. in compliance with the regulations of The Department. She must renew her declaration in a court of Record, or before a Judge of a court of Record, as explained in The 5. th & 6. th Section of the regulations.
The above act & regulations. are not to be obtained, in this vicinity. nor in The County. In consequence of which, the poor Widow. cannot avail herself, of of the benefit. which The law has provided. might I be permitted, to ask, in her behalf for a copy of the law & regulations.
I have the Honor to be very Respectfully. Your Obedt. Servt.
Ezra Thumber
Hon J. R. Poinsett. Secretary of War.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
6962
P. O.
Mary C Martin Joseph
Service: See widow admitted No
Enlisted: 27-9-71, 18
Discharged: REJECTED, 18
Application filed: , 18
Alleges:

Dr. Martin was a Physician Nada act 15 May 1828 . See papers No 1091 , in this book. The Comm. wants the case re-examined immediately J. D. W.

Joseph Martin Pri Siebert Co Colo Hagen Regt Pensioner, act 1828, Can find no other act for above claimant June 16/80. W.H.

on _____ street, in the town or city of _____ _____, and _____, residing at on _____ street, in aforesaid town or city, who, being duly sworn, say that they fully knew _____, who died on the _____, 18____, and who was pensioned as the _____, formerly a soldier (or sailor) in the service of the United decedent left surviving neither widow, nor child under sixteen years of age; that they were well the pecuniary circumstances of said decedent, and know that all property of whatever kind, personal _____ did not exceed in value _____ dollars,

Chazy Clinton 6 th Ny
Dear Sir,
I wish to enquire if G. H. Arvill of Russ point Ny. in acting as agent for Catherine Rouette in procuring a back pension, did finally draw for her, and what amt, also if he drew for any other heirs of the same family. There are other heirs or at least one other heir who is equally entitled to compensation with the said Catherine. Since Mr Arvills return I find it difficult to ascertain what he has done. And as there is another heir equally entitled who has received nothing justice requires that the matter be enquired into. On the receipt of this please to write to me and inform me of what has been done in the premises.
To the Honorable Chas Sherman, L. S. Waldo, Comm ee of Pensions Washington

Mr Averill has Confound a Joseph Martin with the one who served in Hazen's regiment - the latter left a widow who was pensioned & drew the amount of her pension to day of her death - the arrear paid to the child Ellen
Herein was either an Error or was the pension of Hon. L. P. Waldo another Joseph Martin
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I recd. yours of the 10 th inst. informing me that the claim of Ellen Levake one of the children of Mary A. Martin for the vested right of her mother to a pension who was the widow of Joseph Martin a Revolutionary Soldier, is rejected.
The grounds of rejection being that she applied & was admitted to the Pension claimed under the act of July 7. 1838. and paid her pension for five years the full term provided by that act.
To save the delay of an appeal, will you have the goodness to cause a reinvestigation to be made on the suggestion that in all probability from all the records in your department it will appear that the Mary Martin mentioned in your letter is another woman & the widow of an other Martin of a different Regiment & of a different place than Joseph Martin of Hazen's Regiment. I name this fact from having seen the

the papers on file referred to, in the Pension Office and having examined them. When these papers were first brought to me, I was struck with the same belief that she had applied & obtained her Pension: But on investigating the case I found that the Mary Martin in these papers named, was the widow of another Martin who served in another Regiment & the resident of another section of country.
The child of the widow Martin for whom I appear as agent, & her husband Joseph Martin for whom both Canadians; he served his whole term in Haddons Regiment of Canadians, and at the time he was pensioned under the act of 1828, they were residing at Roxbury Point & continued to reside there until their deaths. Previous thereto they resided in Canada.
It was I, who applied for Ellen, for her share ($9.30) annuity of pension last April: the other heirs being scattered over Canada, no power was obtained to draw their shares & it remains to be drawn. The daughter-in-law of the widow of Joseph who resides here, & with whom the old lady died says she never rec d a pension.
I Am Very Respectfully Your obed t Serv t . C. N. Averill

House of Points Apr 15 th '39
To J. L. Edwards Esqr
Com r of Pensions
Sir,
Your letter to the Hon. John Palmer of the 26 th of Jan y last, respecting the claim of Mary A. Martin, wherein you say "That since my last report on the subject it has been discovered that the claimants husband was a Pensioner under the act of May 15 th 1828," was sent to me by Mr. Palmer and received on the first of Feby., together with Mrs. Martin's declaration, which was defective as not having been taken before a Judge of a Court of Record as directed by the rules of your department. On their coming to hand I immediately had the error corrected by having her declaration taken before Henry B. Dickinson one of the Judges of Clinton county, and procured the certificate of the county clerk to that effect, under his seal of office, and forwarded them to you without delay. Some time afterwards I received a letter from you containing the same information, but not mentioning your receipt of Mrs. Martin's last declaration, altho' I had sent it long enough to have reached Washington, I should think, before you wrote me. That in consequence there gave me no disappointment, as I presumed you would receive it soon, if you had not when you wrote — but having now waited two months and a half and having nothing relative thereto, I have been induced to make the inquiry whether Mrs. Martin's last declaration before Judge Dickinson was received yours. Respectfully In Your O bl Serv t D. L. Taylor

Heers - 1828 attract
Mem
75

Pension Office
June 7, 1858
Sir
The name of Joseph Martin is borne on the Albany N. York rolls under the act of May 15. 1828, at $80 per annum.
Please give date of his death, up to what date paid and to whom paid.
J. Burt Esq. Mind And?
J. Cale Ch Clerk
Died 20 th Feb. 1834: Ellen Martini one of the Heirs has drawn her share $9. 30 / 100 — Basil, Julia, and Catharine Martini unpaid. $9. 30 / 100 due to each of the remaining Heirs.
There is some confusion in this report, because the widow of the J Burt above mentioned soldier drew the arrears from Sept 4. 1833 to Feb 20. 1834. There was more than one Joseph Martin & the pay as reported above may have been placed to the wrong Soldier.

State of New York } On this twenty fourth day of October in Clinton County } the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight Personally appeared before the subscribers a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Mary A. Martin of the Town of Champlain in said county, who being duly sworn according to law, did on her oath make and subscribe the following deposition. That her husband the late Joseph Martin as also herself, lived in the Parish of Berthier in the District of Montreal in the Province of Lower Canada from the time they were married until they came to live in the Town of said in the year when she first came here 1832; excepting that her husband was employed the next spring after they were married in the North West Co during the summers for forty years or more, but he always went in the spring and returned in the fall, and remained at Berthier during the winter. And she further declares that the place where he resided when he offered for a pension was at Berthier aforesaid; and that he came to Champlain and Plattsburgh in the month of Oct the year before the cholera season (in her own words) and offered for his pension (1834). But she has no knowledge whether he made his declaration before the court at Plattsburgh in said County or before a Judge of said County, nor does she know of any one who can give any information on that subject. She further declares that he was eighty dollars per year pension, but she was informed during her husband's life time that he was entitled to something like ninety six dollars a year , and that the man who transacted the business for her husband retained sixteen dollars a year for his services. She has been informed that the late Genl Benj Morris of Plattsburgh assisted her husband in procuring testimony of his services.
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Rufus Norton (Justice of the Peace)
Mary A. Martin mark

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commision of Pensions
Sir,
Accompanying your returned letter, as regards, is the deposition of Mr Martin to the questions presented. One of which she is unable to answer, that before whom her husband made his declaration. As the wife knows that he came from Berlin in the month of Oct it is probable it was before the County Court at Plattsburgh, as we held there courts in the forepart of that month. Genl Brigs Moore, an adjutant in Col Hays Regiment in the army of the Revolution, I understand assisted Martin in claiming his pension. And as Genl Moore lived in Plattsburgh, there is another presumption that his declaration was made before the Court. She is unable to say positively what her husband drew annually whether over $80.00, but she understood it was $6.00, and the $16 of it was retained by his agents. I presume the department will be able to obtain the facts from documents on file.
Respectfully, for your Obs Not
D. L. Saylor
3
Plattsburgh 3 (Your letter was directed to Champlain Oct 24 th 1838) Post office, it should have been N. Point.

State of New York } On this twenty day of February in the year Clinton County } of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before me the undersigned one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, Mary A. Martin a resident of the Town of Champlain in the said County of Clinton, aged seventy two years who being first sworn according to law, made on her oath the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Joseph Martin who was a Canadian Refugee soldier in the army of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States when he died. But when the said Joseph entered the said service, how long he remained, or the what parts of the country he mastered or in what battles she does not know. Nor can she give the Department any information as to the papers and documents of her said husband were sent to the Department after his decease. She further declares that she was married to the said to the said Joseph Martin on the tenth day of January in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety one; and that her husband the of said Joseph Martin died on the twenty eighth day of February eighteen hundred and thirty four, and that she lived with him until his death, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz: at the time above stated.
Mary A. her Martin mark
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, and I certify that the applicant appears old and infirm and unable to attend court.
Henry C. Dickinson a judge of the courts in and for the county of Clinton

State of New York 31 On this twelveth day of February in the Clinton County 32 year of our Lord eight hundred and thirty nine personally appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, Daniel T. Saylor a res- ident of the Town of Champlain who being duly sworn according to law deposits on his oath that the following deposition: That he is personally acquainted with Mary A. Martin widow of the late Joseph Martin of the Town of Champlain in said County, who was a pensioner of the United States at his death. That the said Mary A. widow of the said Joseph has remained a widow ever since the death of her said husband which took place on the twentyth day of February eight hundred and thirty four: And that the said Mary A. is the recentered person who has subscribed her name unto a declaration herunto annexed in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 intitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" Sworn to and subscribed on 3 the day and year above written 3 before me. 3
D. T. Saylor
Henry C Dickinson a judge of the courts in and for the County of Clinton

Know all men by these presents that I Ellen Martin wife of John Levake, one of the children of Mary Martin deceased, the late widow of Joseph Martin late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, residing at La Bole Canada East the said widow being entitled to a pension under the act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows" and who applied but died before her application was granted, do hereby constitute and appoint Calvin H. Averill of Rouses Point NY, my true and lawful attorney for me & in my name to receive from the agent of the United States for paying pensions in the City of Washington or City of New York, in the State of New York my proportion of the pension or the amount of Pension that Mary Martin her aforesaid was entitled to receive and which vested in me, on the passage of the said above mentioned, and which is now claimed by me for my proportion as one of the children of the said Mary Martin now deceased.
Witness my hand and seal this 28 th day of January A.D. 1853.
Sealed & delivered in presence of John Bullis
Ellen her + Martin mark
State of New York County of Clinton ss. Be it remembered that on this 28 th day of January A.D. 1853 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Ellen Martin, wife of John Levake, above named and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to her act & deed.
John Bullis Justice of the Peace

Feb. 11. 1853 Ellen Martin Declaration
to Power of Atty. to b. N. Averill of Housatonic Clinton Co. N.Y. to receive her proportion of Pension due to her Mother. Mary Martin deceased. the widow of Joseph Martin late a Revolutionary Pensioner under Act of 1828-1838
N. 21.
Mayo
Seal in presence Call on Deacon in Prothonotary Office.

State of New York County of Clinton 3 d ss.
I C. Demming Vaughan Deputy Clerk of the Court of the said County of Clinton do hereby certify that the annexed papers contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ellen Martin the wife of John Levake for the Pension her mother was entitled by reason of the Revolutionary Service of her husband, and who applied, but died before her application was granted - I also certify that John Bullis whose official signature appears to the affidavits & acknowledgments in the annexed papers, was at the dates therein a Justice of the Peace in the said County of Clinton and authorized to take the same; and that his signature thereto appears to be in his usual hand writing & are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and set my hand hereunto. This second day of February A.D. 1852 1853
C. Demming Vaughan
Deputy Clerk of Clinton Co