Private Martin Black: Revolutionary War Pension File (S41441), Part 1

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North Carolina

Martin Black,

Private, North Carolina line

In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina

at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on 

the 22nd of April 1818--

Certificate of Pension issued the 20th of October 1818

and Sent to John Lewis Tayler Esq. Judge

Newbern

Arrears of 4th of Sept 1818.....                           35:47

Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819.....    40:--

                                                                              $83:47

Revolutionary claim,

Act 18th March, 1818

Three Years

Continued

Newbern, Craven Co.

Declaration

 United States of America

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State of North Carolina
            Martin Black maketh Oath that he is at this time and always has been a resident citizen of the State of North Carolina. He enlisted as a Soldier in the Continental line of the State of North Carolina during the War of the Revolution. He enlisted at Newbern and was marched with others under the command of Colonel Ben Sheppard as part of the tenth Regiment as he believes to 

Georgetown on the Potomack at 

which 

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place the Soldiers were inoculated for the Small Pox. From Georgetown he marched to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania where the American Army were encamped under General Washington while the enemy were in Philadelphia. He was in the Battle of Monmouth, at the Storming Stony Point and at the Capture of West Point. From West Point he went with the Army to Albany & marched thence in the Brigade of General Hogun to Charleston. He was a prisoner at Charleston with the Army surrendered there but escaped on the seventh day & returned to Newbern North Carolina. From his first enlistment as above mentioned to his return to Newbern, he served three years. After remaining at home a few days he enlisted as a Soldier in Captain Benj Colemans Company as an Eighteen months man in the Continental line of North Carolina, marched to Charleston where he remained with the army there encamped until the Peace, where the Army entered the City as the British evacuated it. & in a few weeks after was discharged. His discharge is long since lost.

            At Valley Forge (during his first term of service) the men were distributed to make up deficiencies in the regiments & he [  ?  ] from the Tenth to the Second North Carolina Regiment, and from the Company Commanded by Silas Sears Stevenson to the Company Commanded by Captain Clem: Hall.

            Deponent believes he is now sixty seven years of age, he is in reduced circumstances, without property & depends on his labor for support. He needs the assistance of his Country, and will surely receive the benefit of the 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.

22^nd April 1818.  Sworn to before me }          

                                                                Martin X Black [his mark]

            John Louis Taylor Ck Jur       }N. Carolina

 Affadavit of Isaac Perkins 

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Isaac Perkins of the County of Craven in the state of North Carolina, aged sixty one years maketh Oath that he knows Martin Black the deponent whose affidavit preceeds—That deponent himself was a soldier of the Revolutionary War, enlisted on the same day with the said Martin Black served with him as stated in the affidavit aforesaid Black until the Surrender of Charleston. They escaped from Captivity at the same time and traveled & returned together to Newbern, after a service of three years & twenty five days, said Black enlisted again, was marched he understood & believes to Charleston & did not return until the peace during this last period deponent was drafter & served in the Militia of the State & has no personal knowledge of Martin Blacks services under his last enlistment.

Sworn to in Open Court & signed                              
Jere^h Brown Clerk
 
United States of America
North Carolina District          I Henry Potter District Judge
of the U States for the Distsrict aforesaid do herby Certify that from the foregoing evidence I am satisfied, that Martin Black, the applicant for pension, there in named did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy for the term of nine months & longer, as stated, in the affidavit.
[--] at Newbern the 27^th April 1818.   H. Potter DJUS[-?-]

                                                    Isaac  X  Perkins [his mark]

 Affadavit of Thomas P. Ives 

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Thomas P Ives of the County of Rowan in the State of North Carolina, but heretofore of the County of Craven in said State maketh Oath, that he has known Martin Black from his (deponents) early infancy. he recollects that said Martin Black enlisted as a Continental Soldier in the North Carolina line & saw him repeatedly mustered as such at Newbern. Said Black was absent from home some years during all which time it was understood & believed & deponent believes he was in the Service of the United States and a Continental Soldier. deponent recollects that said Black returned from Charleston. It was understood he had escaped from the enemy—soon afterwards Said Black (at the instance of a days of deponents neighbors, who were to find one Soldier) enlisted as a Soldier in the Continental line of North Carolina for Eighteen months, & deponent believes served as a soldier until the peace.
22^nd April 1818           N. Carolina                 Tho^s P. Ives
Sworn to before me
John Louis Tayler Ch:Jus.

 

United States of America } United States District Court for the
North Carolina District    }  District of April Term 1818.

I Jer^h Brown Clerk of the United States Dist. Court, for the District aforesaid, do hereby Certify that the foregoing signature was signed in Open Court by the Honorable Henry Potter at the present Term. Given under my hand and Seal of Office at Newbern the day & year above written. Jere^h Brown  Clerk 

Declaration Sworn to and Subscribed 

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District of North Carolina  }    Court of Pleas and

Craven County                      }    Quarter Sessions
                                                       September Session 1820
 
On this 12^th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court the said Court being a Court of record proceeding according to the Course of the Common law, having a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings, and having known of fine and imprisonment, Martin Black who

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being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, in the company commanded by Capt. Clement Hall in the Second Regiment, North Carolina Line, Continental Establishment
That upon a Petition to the Secretary of War, he hath received a pension under the Act of Congress of 18^th March 1818. The number of his pension Certificate being 2749. His original Declaration being forwarded to the War Department date not recorded. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18^th day of March 1815, 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 provision 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 18^th March 1818: and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or security, 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 Old Dutch Oven. No income of any kind.

 

State of No Carolina

Craven County

I, James G Stanly Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

of Craven County do hereby certify

that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is less than five Dollars. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on the 12^th day of September 1820.

JG Stanly Clerk

of the Court of Pelas & Quarter

Sessions of Craven County

 

41441 

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INVALID

Revy

File No. 41.441

Martin Black

Pt Rev War

Act: 18^th March 1818

Index:--Vol. [J?or I], Page 19

[Arrangement of 1870.]

 

10^th Regiment Abraham Shepard Colonel

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Martin Black pt, Stevens Company, enlisted 16^th May 1777, 3 years

State of No Carolina, Secretary’s office 14^th October 1818

This is to certify that the above is a true abstract from the muster roll of the No Carolina Continental line in the Revolutionary War. Given under my hand at Office in Raleigh the date above.

Wm Hill Secretary of State