Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,034, Martin Grant, Mass.

SERVICE
Grant, Martin
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S. 37.034
CONTENTS

37034 INVALID. Rev
File No. 37,034
Martin Grant
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 203
[Arrangement of 1870.]

6180.
Maine
Martin Grant,
Capt Reed private
Massachusetts line - 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 th of Jany 1819 and del d R. C. Vose, Augusta Maine
Arrears to 4th of Sep r . 1818 4 mo 25/30 - 38.66 Semi-ann. all ee ending 4 th March 1819 - 48.00
$86.66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Bowdoin,

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
July 2
1818
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Martin Grant served as a Soldier in Capt. Reed's Company, and Col. Brooks' Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from 10 Feb 1777 to 8 th  Feb 1780, being three years and nearly months.
Alden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Martin Grant, Bowdoin Pr. Col. Brooks, Mass. Reg.
1777 to 1780.
✓
April 10. 1818
Admitted

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Martin Grant  Bowdoin , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Lincoln , in the said County of Lincoln , in the District of Maine, on the eleventh day of April , A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by the said applicant, is hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier  until the end thereof , in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed, this twentieth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Nathan Weston  per C. Root C. C. C. Pleas 2 East Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
A handwritten signature in cursive, likely that of the Clerk, positioned to the right of the attestation text.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.-
I Martin Grant aged eighty four years, a citizen of the United States born in Berwick Maine, now a resident in Roxbury in said District of Maine. Upon oath testify and declare that I enlisted into the United States Army during the revolutionary war upon the Continental establishment, against the common enemy in the month of February 1777. for the term of three years, into the company commanded by Col. John Reed, and regiment commanded by Col. Alden, of the Massachusetts line. I fully served out the period of my enlistment and took my honorable discharge at West Point February 1780. - My discharge is lost and not to my knowledge now in existence - I again enlisted into the Continental establishment in the month of March 1781. for the period of three years, into the company commanded by Col. Watts, and regiment commanded by Col. Bigelow of the Massachusetts line - I fully served out & took my honorable discharge at West Point December 1783. this was my last Continental service - My discharge I have lost and is not now in existence to my knowledge - I was in the battle at the taking of Burgoyne, and at the Battle of Monmouth and in the Indian Country under Gen Sullivan - From my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my Country for support. I hereby relinquish all claim to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge born on any pension list whatever - I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine -
his Martin Grant mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Lincoln J
On the eleventh day of April A D 1818 Martin Grant above named after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed, the same having been first distinctly read to him -
Before me,
Nathan Weston Esq Chief Justice of Court C. Plus, Second Eastern Circuit

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I John Neal of Litchfield in the District of Maine, of lawful age, upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with Martin Grant within named. From his reduced circumstances in life he is need of assistance from his country for support. He sustains the character of a man of truth — And I fully believe that he served as he has within stated
John Neal
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec Co.
On the twenty first day of May A D 1818, John Neal Esq above named, after having been carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, by him subscribed —
Before me
Nathan Weston Jur
Chief Justice C. Court C. Pleas, Second Eastern Circuit