Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3489, Abner Adams, Mass.
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SERVICE Mass CONTENTS Adams, Abner Sarah S. Oct. 22, 1749 in Lincoln, Mass. res: at enl. of 1832 Townsend Middlesex Co. Mass of. Feb 13, 1834 NUMBER W. 3489 ●
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8063 Massachusetts Abner Adams Townsend in the State of Mass who was a Sergt in the company command by Captain of the regt command by Col Read in the Mass line for 2 May 10 [illegible] Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 32 Dollars 76 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of May 1833 and sent [illegible]  ┃ test Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1833 $6552 Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 11638 $81.90 Revolutionary Claim, ┃ Act June 7, 1832. Recorded by M Blair Book. Vol. 2 Page 34,
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. County of Middlesex 4 On this seventeenth day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting at Concord -- within and for the County of Middlesex in the Commonwealth aforesaid of Townsend in said County Abner Adams aged eighty three years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say man, that before the war of the revolution he was a met in the Town of Townsen Massachusetts, in a company commanded by Capt Samuel Douglass, and on the 20th April AD 1775 his company marched for Concord in Mass and followed the present of the enemy as far as Lexington that night, & finding that the enemy had retreated into Boston, and having lost many persons disaffected to the Aquacause he was ordered back with a party to seize and confine them all untill further orders, they accordingly took three men by the name of Wallis & sundry other confined and recorded them for a space of one month from the time he left to the me on the 20th of April when the guard was dismissed & he retired to his home - In July 1776 he engaged for five months to Ticonderga, on the of Capt Job Shattuck Pace of Pepperell and Nathan Grant, and Abner Adams Seargent in Col. Son Reads regiment in this campaign he served out his time of 5 months on that further and to be lives that Genl Gates gave him a discharge but it is lost by time and accident In the fall of 1777, he engaged as a volunteer to go & meet gens Benjoynes Army, was in the Company of Capt. James Worley Kendell of Ashby, he proceeded to Saratoga in New York heart the capture of Burgoynes army & tarried untill they marched for Winter hill in Mass when he returned home with his compa my having been about forty days.
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Middleson We Do Before me County in He relinquishes every claim, whatever to a pension or annuity, whatever except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, subscribed the day and year aforesaid In presence of Saml Dana P. Fay Bob Son Sworn [illegible] commonwealth of Massachusetts the David Palmer a Clergyman residing in the town of Townsend in the County of Middlesex and hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abner Adams who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be 83 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood, where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed before me Saml Dana is peace for all [illegible] David Palmer --- Solomon Jewett Jr And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that the Rev. David Palmer who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Taunton in Solomon Jewett Jr is a credible person, and that the Isaactise Register or [illegible] Clerk of the court of [illegible] in and for the County of Middles [illegible] do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Abner Adams for a pension in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this seventeenth August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two -- day of Gauth and I further certify that Samuel Dana Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for all the County in said Commonwealth and the his signature to the above certificate, and also to the Capt on two depositions of Ellen Ball on all his proper signa teres-