Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6951, for John Martin, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Martin, John
R 695-1
CONTENTS

This claim cannot be admitted. So write to Mr. M c Lean - There is no evidence whatever of his having served in the Continental Army -
Jno. Martin Pa Ohio
This case has been along time on the Carpet & has been returned for proof. Service & comes back without it or any notice of it - but, has an additional declaration, by which it does not appear to me that he served in the Continental Army.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
6957
P. O.
1818 Ohio.
John Martin
Service: Butler Co
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Capt Shadrick - Colo Strong, or Strunk or Straw
Application filed: 4th P.M. 1780, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

16,812
John Martin
John M. Lewis
Ridgeville Ohio.
Recd. 21 Sept. 1821
Worthington City
Hon. Secretary
Ridgeville Ohio Sept 21st

The State of Ohio
Personally appeared before the undersigned judge of the Supreme Court, John Martin, who being duly sworn states, that he is the same person who on the thirty first of March 1920 made the enclosed declara- tion before Judge Melickin to obtain a pension. He further states that he is now able to recollect the captain in whose compa- ny he served - his name was Ball Shadrick ; Ball was lieutenant in the same company. He thinks the Colonel's name was Strong or Straup or Straw. He belonged to The fourth Regiment in the Pennsylvania line. That he entered in the above company sometime in the year nineteen hundred and eighty, for during the war, and served two years and a half - at the conclusion of the war, he was regularly discharged, but has lost his discharge.
Sworn and subscribed } This 27 th August 1921. }
His John Martin mark
John McLean
The above applicant speaks broken  bad english, I have stated the name of the Col. three differ- ent ways, as I could not with certainty, rec- ollect the name from his pronunciation - It is one of the above names.
The applicant now lives on the public charity, he has no property of any kind. I am induced to believe that he did serve in the Revolutionary War, and that he is

entitled to a pension.
As this application is supplementary to the former, it is perhaps unnecessary that the act should be made in open court, and certified as the present law requires. Should the treaty seal be required, it can be forwarded.
John H. Dean

16,812.
John Martin, Butler county, Ohio 31. March, 1820.
The testimony, on oath, of two or more disinter- ested and credible persons, certified as such , by the judge, proving 9 months' service, in continuance on post d Estab t - the line, and colonels' names are required to be expli- -citly stated.
Daniel Millikin, judge, Hamilton, Ohio.
Recd. 15

Free
Calhoun Esq Secretary of War Washington City D.C.
1969

State of Ohio Butler County ss
on this 31 st day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty before me the subscribers one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County personally appeared John Martin — aged 63 years Resident in the said County who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act to provide for certain persons
Entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War that he the said John Martin entitled for the term of During War  the term of the year year Twenty Eight in — in the state of Massachusetts in the Company commanded by Captain Hall in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Thompson in the line of the state of Pennsylvania  Massachusetts or on the Continental Establishment that he continued to serve in the said Wars or in the service of the United States until the close of the war when he was discharged from service in Pennsylvania in the state of — that he was in the battles of Red Bank  Red Bank  Red Bank
and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid
I AM WILLKIN
John his Martin Mark
That it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Martin did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the proceedings Declaration against the common Enemy for the term of nine months at one time on the Continental Establishment and now transmits the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the Directions of the aforesaid act of Congress I am also satisfied that he has the

...from service in Pennsylvania in the
16,8124
John Martin Butler Co. Ohio.
David Wallikin, Jud.
Hamilton Ohio.
Hamilton Ohio 3rd April 1820.
Ex 2. 20.
said

assistance of his country for support
Dan Millikin
Dear Sir
In the foregoing Declaration the that John H. H. is a Frenchman speaks very poor english is quite frail & his recollection quite gone he can not be certain who was his colonel & cannot state with certainty to what line he belonged he says he was in the 4th Regt Penn d tho' he entered in Massachusetts his having been a soldier under Genl Wayne support had not been
Dan Millikin
The State of Ohio
Butler County ss John Reily Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid do certify that Daniel Millikin esquire before whom the within deposition was taken and by whom the within certificate was made was at the time of the taking and making thereof an associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid and to all his official acts as such full faith and credit
In Testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and official seal at Hamilton the third day of April one thousand eight hun- dred and twenty
John Reily