On 3/7/2012 3:43 PM, Julanne Sharrow wrote: > Am working on the Ephraim Story Martin family and am completly > baffled... > Ephraim Story Martin b 23 Feb 1745 Ipswich d 8 Aug 1833 Springfield VT > Ephraim Story Martin Jr b 10 Jun 1777 Lunenburg d 6 Feb 1842 > Springfield VT > Ephraim Dexter Martin d 1880 Springfield > > WHO would be Ephraim S. Martin d 1850? > On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:33 PM, Joan Bixby wrote: > >> Source, The Brandon (Vt) Post--Thurs. July 11, 1850. >> >> DIED. >> >> In Perkinsville, on the 5th ult., Capt. Ephraim S. Martin, aged 66. >> >> Transcribed by, >> Joan H. Bixby Greetings: -------------- A Sergeant Ephraim Martin appears among Vermont U.S. military pensioners. He received payment continuously from 1818 to 1833, and is shown as dying in 1833. This appears to be the Revolutionary soldier. His pension certificate number 40978 was sent to Judge Heald of Chester. His pension application was attested apparently in Baltimore 14 Apr 1818. He is said to have been aged 74, a resident of Springfield; his then wife Jerusha was age 65. SMOKING GUN? A possibly key item appears in correspondence in the pension file. Quoting the relevant section of a letter from Gertrude P. Rank of Van Wert, Ohio to the Director of Pensions: "From the War Department record we learn that Ephraim Martin was a scout from Moretown, who served in the Vermont Militia in the year 1780 under Major John Barron for six days. The records further show that Ephraim Martin, Jr. was a scout from Moretown, who served in the Vermont Militia in the year 1781 under Major John Barron for three days." This service record does not match that of the Ephraim Martin who was granted a pension. That man served with the Massachusetts Line at the same time. ----------- 1850 U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index: Ephraim S. Martin d. Jun 1850 Windsor Co., VT age 67 Farmer, b. MA ID#MRT197_205342 ------------ An Ephraim S. Martin was enumerated in the 1840 Census of Baltimore, Windsor Co., Vt. a FWM age 50-59; with him were 1 FWF age 5-9, and 1 FWF age 30-39, engaged in agriculture. The record is very clearly written -- all census takers should be so neat! A Horace M. Martin was enumerated on the next line (entries are in no discernible order), a FWM 20-29. There were only 28 households in Baltimore. One of them is that of Jonathan M. Boynton. The Ephraim S. Martin in the 1830 Census of Baltimore is probably the same person as the one who appears in 1840. ------------------------ One Ancestry.com family tree has Ephraim S. Martin b. 3 Aug 1782 in "Lunenburgh, Worchester, MA", d. 2 Jun 1850 Springfield, Vt., m. Susannah Boynton. Evidence for both his birth and his death is the 1850 Mortality Index -- but note that the index supplies only the county as the place of death. The tree shows a Horace M. Martin as a child of Ephraim and Susannah. It also states that Susannah's father Jonathan Boynton d. 1814. It is unlikely that the census record is for her father. ------------------------ It is a negative finding, and so of questionable value, but no Ephraim MARTIN appears in the index to Bartley's "Vital Records of Springfield, Vt." There are a number of reasons why this might have happened. ------------------------ The same thing is true of the index to Hurd's two volume history of Weathersfield, Vermont (in which Perkinsville is located), "Weathersfield Century One" and "... Two". Darrell

there seems to be some confusion over this person on Ancestry these two seem on some trees to be the same person some say 1777 some 1783 for birth one tree says this man was father to Haskell C Martin Born: Jan 1825 Baldwinsville, Vermont, USA Died: 2 Apr 1903 Springfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, USA hope that helps On Mar 7, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Darrell A. Martin wrote: > On 3/7/2012 3:43 PM, Julanne Sharrow wrote: >> Am working on the Ephraim Story Martin family and am completly >> baffled... >> Ephraim Story Martin b 23 Feb 1745 Ipswich d 8 Aug 1833 Springfield VT >> Ephraim Story Martin Jr b 10 Jun 1777 Lunenburg d 6 Feb 1842 >> Springfield VT >> Ephraim Dexter Martin d 1880 Springfield >> >> WHO would be Ephraim S. Martin d 1850? >> On Mar 5, 2012, at 11:33 PM, Joan Bixby wrote: >> >>> Source, The Brandon (Vt) Post--Thurs. July 11, 1850. >>> >>> DIED. >>> >>> In Perkinsville, on the 5th ult., Capt. Ephraim S. Martin, aged 66. >>> >>> Transcribed by, >>> Joan H. Bixby > > Greetings: > > -------------- > A Sergeant Ephraim Martin appears among Vermont U.S. military > pensioners. He received payment continuously from 1818 to 1833, and is > shown as dying in 1833. > > This appears to be the Revolutionary soldier. His pension certificate > number 40978 was sent to Judge Heald of Chester. > > His pension application was attested apparently in Baltimore 14 Apr > 1818. He is said to have been aged 74, a resident of Springfield; his > then wife Jerusha was age 65. > > SMOKING GUN? A possibly key item appears in correspondence in the > pension file. Quoting the relevant section of a letter from Gertrude P. > Rank of Van Wert, Ohio to the Director of Pensions: > > "From the War Department record we learn that Ephraim Martin was a scout > from Moretown, who served in the Vermont Militia in the year 1780 under > Major John Barron for six days. The records further show that Ephraim > Martin, Jr. was a scout from Moretown, who served in the Vermont Militia > in the year 1781 under Major John Barron for three days." > > This service record does not match that of the Ephraim Martin who was > granted a pension. That man served with the Massachusetts Line at the > same time. > > ----------- > 1850 U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules Index: > Ephraim S. Martin > d. Jun 1850 Windsor Co., VT > age 67 > Farmer, b. MA > ID#MRT197_205342 > > ------------ > An Ephraim S. Martin was enumerated in the 1840 Census of Baltimore, > Windsor Co., Vt. a FWM age 50-59; with him were 1 FWF age 5-9, and 1 FWF > age 30-39, engaged in agriculture. The record is very clearly written -- > all census takers should be so neat! A Horace M. Martin was enumerated > on the next line (entries are in no discernible order), a FWM 20-29. > There were only 28 households in Baltimore. One of them is that of > Jonathan M. Boynton. > > The Ephraim S. Martin in the 1830 Census of Baltimore is probably the > same person as the one who appears in 1840. > > ------------------------ > One Ancestry.com family tree has Ephraim S. Martin b. 3 Aug 1782 in > "Lunenburgh, Worchester, MA", d. 2 Jun 1850 Springfield, Vt., m. > Susannah Boynton. Evidence for both his birth and his death is the 1850 > Mortality Index -- but note that the index supplies only the county as > the place of death. > > The tree shows a Horace M. Martin as a child of Ephraim and Susannah. It > also states that Susannah's father Jonathan Boynton d. 1814. It is > unlikely that the census record is for her father. > > ------------------------ > It is a negative finding, and so of questionable value, but no Ephraim > MARTIN appears in the index to Bartley's "Vital Records of Springfield, > Vt." There are a number of reasons why this might have happened. > > ------------------------ > The same thing is true of the index to Hurd's two volume history of > Weathersfield, Vermont (in which Perkinsville is located), > "Weathersfield Century One" and "... Two". > > Darrell > > > > *************************************** > List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm > Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VERMONT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message