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This is in the Superior Court Minutes, 1822-1831:
"State of Georgia
Jackson County
on this 8th day of September 1823 - Personally came in open Court (it being the
Superior Court for the State & County aforesaid James Martin sixty six
years of age who being duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of
Congress of the 8th of March 1818 & the 1st of May 1820 that he the said
James Martin enlisted for the term of three years on the 4th of May in the year
1777 to the best of his recollection in the state of North Carolina in company
of Capt. Abram Shepperd in the regiment Commanded by Colonel Abram Shepherd in
the North Carolina line on Continental establishment & that he was
afterwards transferred into the second Regiment commanded by Colonel Patton? at
the Valley Forge 22 Miles from Philadelphia in which regiment served until the
expiration of his time & for eight days after when he was taken prisoner at
the fall of Charleston S.C. on the 12th May 1780 afterwards made his esc!
ape from the British returning home was discharged by Maj Hardy Murfrey the
Major of said Regiment in the state of Virginia near the Pick? Landing on
Mikerey? River that he was in the battle of Monmoth at the storming stony Poine?
Fort & at the seige of Charles Town that he has no other evidence now in his
power except the records of North Carolina at Raughey which he is not able to go
after or procure? copys from - and in pursuance of the act of the first May 1820
I do hereby solemnly swear that I was a Resident citizen of the United States on
the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by Gift sale or
in any other manner disposed of my porperty or any part thereof with intent
thereby 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 during the Revolutionary war Passed on the
18th day of March 1818 that I have not nor has any!
persons in trust for me my property or s?? contracts or Debts due to me
nor have I any income other than what is contained in a schedule hereunto
annexed & by me subscribed - one spinning wheel one pine chest two Pails and
washing tub two Potts one dutch oven one hand saw one Churn
James (his mark) Martin
I further declare that I have no trade by which to make my living except that of
farming which I am unable to so as to procure a Living. I have a wife
Middy Martin who is fifty six years of age & one daughter living with me
Polly who is thirty six years of age
James (his mark) Martin
Sworn to & declared on the 8th day
of September 1823
before
Augustin S. Clayton
Presiding Judge
Georgia
Jackson County
I do hereby certify that the facts contained in the foregoing affidavit were
supported only by the oath of the applicant & that the property mentioned in
his schedule is worth about twenty Dollars
Given under my hand this
8th Sept 1823
Augustin S. Clayton
Presiding Judge"