PENSION State of New York
County of Herkimer
Be it Remembered, that on the Twelfth day of September 1847, personally appeared in open Court, before the Justice of Circuit Court of the 5th Judicial District of this State now sitting in the village of Herkimer in said County, Michael Hartman of the town of Herkimer in said County, aged fifty-four years and upwards; therebeing duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress _____ of June 1832. That he is a son of Adam Hartman who served in the war of Revolution as herein after stated. That his father the said Adam Hartman died on the ninth day of April in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, in the town of German Flatts in said County. The he died leaving him surviving the following named children who are all over twenty-one years of age and that this Declarant is the Administrator of the estate of his father the said Adam Hartman deceased towit this Declarant, Conrad Hartman, Christopher Hartman, Nancy Wilder all of the said County of Herkimer, Jacob Hartman of Jefferson County N.Y., Elizabeth MGinnis who resides in Canada & Catherine Gardner who resides in Ostego County N.Y. And this Declarant further saith that his father the said Adam Hartman was born in Germany & immigrated to this County about the year 1760 when he was about sixteen years of age - and that he took up his residence in said town of German Flatts when he first came to reside in this county towit, about fifteen years before the commencement of the war of the revolution in 1775, & resided in said town & in what is now called the County of Herkimer until the day of his death. That when he died he was over ninety-two years of age. The military Regt. to which he belonged contained the Regiment of militia commanded by Lieutenant Colnel afterwards Colonel Peter Bellinger. The names of the Captains in said Regiment undr whom the said Adam Hartman served this Declarant cannot specify as he ______ ______ . The said Adam Hartman served under several engagements in the Company of Captain Hannes (John) Mark Demouth, as well as in the Militia said Demouth commanded a Company of Rangers. He served under general Herkimer in the Oriskana battle in 1777 also under Colonel Harper & Dubois of the New York State Troops. While he served in Demouth's Company in the year 1780, he was wounded in the shoulder & in consequence of such wound and continued to receive until the day of his death a pension under an "Invalid" Act of Congress is well assured from his numerous conversations had with his father & some of his contemporary soldiers, that the whole period he served for during said war exceeded in the aggregate Twenty-four months.
Signed: Michael Hartman

TITLE: 1840 Census of Pensioners, New York, Northern District
Herkimer County, New York: Pages 87-88
Name of Pensioner for Revolutionary or Military Services: Elizbeth Shoemaker
[*This would be Elizabet Itig Shoemaker, mother-in-law of Michael Hartman]
Age: 81
Names of Heads of Families with whom Pensioner Resided June 1, 1840: Michael Hartman