Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 42910, for John Martin, Connecticut

SERVICE
Martin, John
NUMBER
S 42910
CONTENTS

New-York. 16240 16240
John Martin,
Ontario Co 4 in the state of N. York, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Huntington of the Connecticut line, for the term of three years.
scribed on the Roll of New-York, the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of May, 1818. 1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 6. of Dec r 18, and sent to Micah Brooks, judg East-Bloomfield, Ontario Co. N.Y.
arrears to 4th of Sept: 1819. $: 129.00 emi-anl. all'ce ending 4. March, 1820. 48 16 mo. \frac{4}{30} } 1820. $: 177.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Northam sent to Stephen D. D. ... Letter to ... H. C. M c Schumacher 13 th June 1853. G. Cinnaron 16 th May 1854.

New-York. 16240 16240
John Martin,
4 Ontario Co in the state of N. York, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Huntington of the Connecticut line, for the term of three years.
scribed on the Roll of New-York, the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of May, 1818. 1819
certificate of Pension issued the 6. of Dec. 1818. and sent to Micah Brooks, judg. East-Bloomfield, Ontario Co. N.Y.
arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819. $129.00 emi-anl. all'ce ending 1. March 48. 16 mo. 4/30 1820. $177.06
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Notification sent to Stephen Phelps Esq. etc. letter to, Genl. Mason Hon. Mr. Schumacher 13 th June 1853. G. W. Mason 1 st May 1854.

He died Nov. 4- 1840
A.B

John Martin
Private Ontario County NY to PO
Huntington Gentip Connect. 1 st May, 1818. Nest
Judge must certify, that he is satisfied, the claimant served nine months, at one period on the Continental establishment, during the Revolutionary War?
From an acquaintance with the character and Reputation of the within named John Martin, I have never doubted the correctness of the within declaration, and am fully Sa- tisfied that he served more than nine months at one period in the Contl Est- -tablishment during the Revolu- -tionary War - Bloomfield 21 st Nov - 1819 Micah Brooks

State of New York 2
Ontario County ss: I on this first day May A D 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, personally appears John Martin aged 57 years resident in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States of America in the revolutionary war" passed the 18 th day of March 1818: that he is a citizen of the United States: that on the 31 st day of May A D 1777 at the town of Lebanon in Connecticut, he enlisted into a company of soldiers commanded by Capt. Benjamin Troup attached to the (1 st ) Regiment under the command of Col. Huntington, afterwards commanded by Col. Prentiss of the Connecticut line of the
Continental Army; that he served during the whole term of three years (called the three years service) for which he enlisted: that he received a regular and honorable discharge near Elizabethtown in New Jersey: that he served in the States of New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania: that he was at the storming of Stony Point: And a variety of skirmishes: And this deponent further saith that by reason of his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for support: And further this deponent saith not.
Sworn and subscribed before me this first day of May A D 1818
John Martin
Miah Brooks

State of New York. Ontario County ss
I Micah Brooks a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Said County do certify that it has been proven by the oath of reputable persons to my full satisfaction that the within named John Martin is wholly destitute of property and so reduced in his circumstances as really to need the assistance of his country for support
Bloomfield 14 th May 1819
Micah Brooks
John Martin Private Ontario County copy to JG Hingham Henry Connell 101 May 1818. Hepr
Judge must certify that he is satisfied the claimant has nine months at one period the ten time ten establishment, during the two last years living in
From an agreement with the Plaintiff and Defendant of the within named John Martin I have been admitted the contents of the within declaration and am fully satisfied that the several matters therein mentioned in the several paragraphs are true to the best of my knowledge during the two last years. Bloomfield 21 st Feb 1819 Micah Brooks
State of New York } St. Lawrence County } Clerks office } ss
John Van Epsan
Clerk of the County of Ontario do certify that Micah Brooks was on the day of the date of the within certificate (May 1 st 1818) and also on the day of the date of the above certificate, a Judge in and for the County of Ontario duly Commissioned and sworn and authorized to take the acknowledgement of deeds &c and that the name of said Micah Brooks subscribed to the said certificate is his proper hand writing.
Witness my hand and the County Seal this 28 th September 1819
John Van Epsan Clerk

Case of John Martin
Huntington Stear
C
10246 6 Dec 1819
Wm 20

STATE OF NEW-YORK,
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
On this twenty first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) John Martin aged fifty nine years, resident in the town of Bloomfield in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
Under Captain Benjamin Throop in Colonel Huntington's Regiment in the Connecticut line Commencing in May 1777 and continued to serve as a private in the said Regiment three years and was rightfully discharged in May 1780 - and that Colonel Hark had the Command of the Regiment when he received his discharge -
and that he made application for a Pension on the first day of May 1818 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 16,240 and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.
  one small brass kettle 4.00 one small iron kettle .75 4.75   one spider .75 one trunk $2.00 one small chest .50 3.25   one chest $1 one pail .38 one chair .50 1.88   one pair audrions 3.00 three earthen bowls .37 3.37   six tea cups and saucers .50 one gun $3.00 3.50   five earthen plates .40 one tea pot .50 .90   two bottles .50 six spoons .75 1.25   six silver tea spoons 4.00 one pewter plate .37 4.37   six knives and forks .75 one old axe .50 1.25   $24.52 
John Martin -
And I do further swear and do declare that I am by occupation a farmer and that by means of rheumatism am unable to perform any labour and that my family consists of my wife aged fifty eight years and by means of cancer is unable to work my daughter matilda aged sixteen years
John Martin

Sworn and declared to this 21 st day of August 1820 in open Court before me
W m Rogers a Judge of Ontario Common Pleas
ONTARIO COUNTY, ss.
I, John Van Dusen Clerk of said county, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I farther certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule, is twenty four dollars and fifty two cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 22 nd day of August 1820
J Van Dusen Clerk of the Court aforesaid, in and for said County.

State of New York Monroe County 3 p
On this Fifth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid and duly authorized to administer oaths, Mrs Matilda Yorks who being by me duly sworn according to law says that she resides in the town of Mendon in said County and that she the said Matilda Yorks and Abner Martin, Richard Martin, Sylvia Warkimer and Betsy Richmond are the only surviving children of John Martin deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States on the roll of the Albany agency late of the town of West Bloomfield County of Ontario and State aforesaid, and was pensioned as a private under an act of Congress granting to Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers a Pension, the date of which act is unknown to this deponent.
This deponent makes this declaration on her own behalf and on behalf of the said Abner Martin Richard Martin Sylvia Warkimer and Betsy Richmond for the purpose of obtaining from the Government of the United States any increase of pension due to the said John Martin deceased or to his legal heirs and representatives in accordance with the laws of Congress.
This affidavit is made in lieu of an affidavit of a similar character made by this deponent on or about the 5 th day of July 1852.
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
Matilda Yorks
Geo W. Allen
Justice of the Peace
in & for said County

I hereby certify that I believe that the said Matilda York whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit together with the said Abner Martin, Richard Martin, Sylvia Beckner and Betty Richmond are the only surviving children of the said John Martin deceased
Geo W. Allen
Justice of the Peace in and for Monroe County State of New York

11 that I believe that the said Matilda York
STATE OF NEW YORK, MONROE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE,
I Certify, that Geo. W. Allen Esquire, was, at the date of the certificate of proof or acknowledgment of the an- nected instrument in writing, a
Trustee of the Pease
in and for said county, duly authorized to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said certificate is genuine. And that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and af- fixed the seal of said County, this 8th day of Feb A. D. 185 3
W. B. Williams Clerk.

*** * * From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.42910, it appears that John Martin enlisted at Lebanon, Connecticut, May 31, 1777, and served three years as a private in Captain Benjamin Throop's Company, Colonels Huntington's, Prentiss' and Starr's Connecticut Regiment, he was at the storming of Stony Point, and in several skirmishes.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 1, 1818, at which time he was living in Ontario County, New York, aged fifty-seven years.
In 1820, he was residing in Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, and referred to his wife as aged fifty-eight years, her name not given, and to his daughter, Matilda, aged sixteen years.
The soldier died November 4, 1840.
In 1853, the following were the only surviving children: Abner Martin, Richard Martin, Sylvia Herkimer, Betsey
Richmond and Matilda Yorks.
*** * *
David H. Haines S. 33309 11/9/1861 addressed to Eng. Freeman Aunt Mary B. H. 1861

History to 708-11/2 D.6
Con, Ohio.
H2 910
INVALID.
Rev
File No. H2 910
John Martin Rev Ohio
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 307
[Arrangement of 1870.]
May 18. 1897- Mr. A. P. Marston St. Washington
Feby. 6 "99.
H. L. Morey, Hami
see J. 11907.
1929. G. J. 7-17-12 E. Craig Freeman for Mrs. Mary B. Bishop - see letter in David Holmes D. 33309 aug

Feb: 14. 1853
Affidavit of Mrs Matilda Yorks in be- half of herself and other heirs of John Martin for increase of pension
Hon: A. M. Schenck House of Reps
John Martin James B. Heath Thomas H. Stewart Washington

John Matteson N.Y.
PAID
18 3/4
Commission of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Mendon Monroe Co N.Y.
Mar 21, 1854
Sir
Some years ago or more I sent to the Hon A. M. Schermerhorn, to present to the commission, a claim of Matilda York, for herself and others for a pension on account of the services of her father John Martin late a Revolutionary Pensioner -
The first affidavit was returned on account of not finding John Martin as a Pensioner under the act of 1832. - Another was forwarded, stating mainly the same facts, except that he was a pensioner under some previous act -
This claim Mrs York has never since heard from -

I should like to know if the facts in that affidavit are established whether the children of John Martin will be entitled to any thing and about how much - And what further proof may be necessary for her to make -
Very truly
Yours
Geo. W. Allen

Washington Febr 12 1853
Wm P C Heath Comr of Pensions
Sir
I enclose you an affidavit in the case of the application of Mrs Matilda Jinks, Abner Martin's Mother, which have the goodness to give your earliest convenient attention. It is a case of some standing
Yours respectfully A M Chapman

Free
Old case
The Hon ble John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington City
John C. Calhoun

East Bloomfield N.Y. 22 d Nov 1819
Sir
The enclosed application of John Mar- tin was return to me in consequence of my omitting to certify that I was satisfied in several or — The omission was not because I doubted his having performed the Service set forth in his declaration, but because I considered it useless, as proof by two credible witnesses is required when they are not found upon the Muster Rolls —
Very Respectfully
Your Humble Servt
W Brooks
The Honble J. C. Calhoun Secy of War