JAMES MARTIN
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Son of Matthew and Mary Martin of Georgetown District and Williamsburg County, South Carolina. This family lived on land grants on Sampit Creek and Black River.
James Martin served in the War of 1812 with his brother, Stephen Martin. Both brothers enlisted in Captain James Johnson's Company of Infantry at Marion Courthouse on 24 Sept 1814 with service at Cat Island in Major Lovelace Gasque's Battalion, 27th Regiment, until 21 Dec 1814.
After the War, both James Johnson and Lovelace Gasque were near neighbors to the Matthew Martin family in Williamsburg.
James Martin married Mary Britton about 1824. Her father, Thomas G Britton, wrote his Last Will and Testament in 1835, mentioning James and Mary Martin. James Martin died and Mary Britton Martin remarried to James M. Eaddy.
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War of 1812 pension application affidavit of Stephen Martin, brother of James Martin:
State of Georgia, County of Lowndes. On this the sixteenth day of April, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and seventy four, personally appeared before me, a notary public within and for the County and State aforesaid, Stephen Martin, aged seventy five years, a resident of Lowndes County, in the State of Georgia, who, being duly sworn according to the law, declares that he is the identical Stephen Martin who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain James Johnson, in the Regiment commanded by Major Gasque or Gaskey, in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812, that he enlisted at Marion Courthouse, Marion District, State of South Carolina, on or about the fifteenth day of October A.D. on thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for the term of twelve months, and continued in actual service in said War for the term of fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at Georgetown, South Carolina on or about the twenty first day of December, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd, 1855. He also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this April 16th, 1874.
J.C. Wisenbacker
Notary Public of Lowndes County, Georgia
Signed Stephen Martin (X - his mark)
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Son of Matthew and Mary Martin of Georgetown District and Williamsburg County, South Carolina. This family lived on land grants on Sampit Creek and Black River.
James Martin served in the War of 1812 with his brother, Stephen Martin. Both brothers enlisted in Captain James Johnson's Company of Infantry at Marion Courthouse on 24 Sept 1814 with service at Cat Island in Major Lovelace Gasque's Battalion, 27th Regiment, until 21 Dec 1814.
After the War, both James Johnson and Lovelace Gasque were near neighbors to the Matthew Martin family in Williamsburg.
James Martin married Mary Britton about 1824. Her father, Thomas G Britton, wrote his Last Will and Testament in 1835, mentioning James and Mary Martin. James Martin died and Mary Britton Martin remarried to James M. Eaddy.
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War of 1812 pension application affidavit of Stephen Martin, brother of James Martin:
State of Georgia, County of Lowndes. On this the sixteenth day of April, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and seventy four, personally appeared before me, a notary public within and for the County and State aforesaid, Stephen Martin, aged seventy five years, a resident of Lowndes County, in the State of Georgia, who, being duly sworn according to the law, declares that he is the identical Stephen Martin who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain James Johnson, in the Regiment commanded by Major Gasque or Gaskey, in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812, that he enlisted at Marion Courthouse, Marion District, State of South Carolina, on or about the fifteenth day of October A.D. on thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for the term of twelve months, and continued in actual service in said War for the term of fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at Georgetown, South Carolina on or about the twenty first day of December, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd, 1855. He also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this April 16th, 1874.
J.C. Wisenbacker
Notary Public of Lowndes County, Georgia
Signed Stephen Martin (X - his mark)
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JAMES MARTIN
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Son of Matthew and Mary Martin of Georgetown District and Williamsburg County, South Carolina. This family lived on land grants on Sampit Creek and Black River.
James Martin served in the War of 1812 with his brother, Stephen Martin. Both brothers enlisted in Captain James Johnson's Company of Infantry at Marion Courthouse on 24 Sept 1814 with service at Cat Island in Major Lovelace Gasque's Battalion, 27th Regiment, until 21 Dec 1814.
After the War, both James Johnson and Lovelace Gasque were near neighbors to the Matthew Martin family in Williamsburg.
James Martin married Mary Britton about 1824. Her father, Thomas G Britton, wrote his Last Will and Testament in 1835, mentioning James and Mary Martin. James Martin died and Mary Britton Martin remarried to James M. Eaddy.
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War of 1812 pension application affidavit of Stephen Martin, brother of James Martin:
State of Georgia, County of Lowndes. On this the sixteenth day of April, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and seventy four, personally appeared before me, a notary public within and for the County and State aforesaid, Stephen Martin, aged seventy five years, a resident of Lowndes County, in the State of Georgia, who, being duly sworn according to the law, declares that he is the identical Stephen Martin who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain James Johnson, in the Regiment commanded by Major Gasque or Gaskey, in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812, that he enlisted at Marion Courthouse, Marion District, State of South Carolina, on or about the fifteenth day of October A.D. on thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for the term of twelve months, and continued in actual service in said War for the term of fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at Georgetown, South Carolina on or about the twenty first day of December, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd, 1855. He also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this April 16th, 1874.
J.C. Wisenbacker
Notary Public of Lowndes County, Georgia
Signed Stephen Martin (X - his mark)
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Son of Matthew and Mary Martin of Georgetown District and Williamsburg County, South Carolina. This family lived on land grants on Sampit Creek and Black River.
James Martin served in the War of 1812 with his brother, Stephen Martin. Both brothers enlisted in Captain James Johnson's Company of Infantry at Marion Courthouse on 24 Sept 1814 with service at Cat Island in Major Lovelace Gasque's Battalion, 27th Regiment, until 21 Dec 1814.
After the War, both James Johnson and Lovelace Gasque were near neighbors to the Matthew Martin family in Williamsburg.
James Martin married Mary Britton about 1824. Her father, Thomas G Britton, wrote his Last Will and Testament in 1835, mentioning James and Mary Martin. James Martin died and Mary Britton Martin remarried to James M. Eaddy.
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War of 1812 pension application affidavit of Stephen Martin, brother of James Martin:
State of Georgia, County of Lowndes. On this the sixteenth day of April, A.D., one thousand eight hundred and seventy four, personally appeared before me, a notary public within and for the County and State aforesaid, Stephen Martin, aged seventy five years, a resident of Lowndes County, in the State of Georgia, who, being duly sworn according to the law, declares that he is the identical Stephen Martin who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain James Johnson, in the Regiment commanded by Major Gasque or Gaskey, in the war with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812, that he enlisted at Marion Courthouse, Marion District, State of South Carolina, on or about the fifteenth day of October A.D. on thousand eight hundred and fourteen, for the term of twelve months, and continued in actual service in said War for the term of fourteen days, and was honorably discharged at Georgetown, South Carolina on or about the twenty first day of December, A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fourteen. He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the act approved March 3rd, 1855. He also declares that he has not received a warrant for bounty land under this or any other Act of Congress, nor made any other application.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this April 16th, 1874.
J.C. Wisenbacker
Notary Public of Lowndes County, Georgia
Signed Stephen Martin (X - his mark)
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