Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40387, for Adam Swager, Pennsylvania
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Service                                        Number

Penn.             Swager, Adam       S.40387
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Contents
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13,139 R
Pennsylvania
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Adam Swager
of Bucks Coy in the state of Pennsylvania who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Miles of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of twenty-one months.
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Inscribed on the rolls of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 26 of May 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28 July 1819 and sent to William Watts Esq. Doylestown, Pa.
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819             $74.57
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 11819   48.00
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                                                             $122.57
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{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March 1818.}

CONTINENTAL

Certification sent July 4, 1820, to Doctor Samuel Moore Doylestown, Pa.
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Adam Swager

13,149

(Sept 1819)

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$12.00 (illegible)
 18.00 (illegible)
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District of Pennsylvania ss:

    On this thirteenth day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas holden in Doylestown for the County of Bucks being a court of record proceeding according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited ,in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings, Adam Swager aged eighty-one years, resident in Bucks County in the said district who being firt 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 on the 18th of March 1818 and (the) first of May 1820.  That he served in the Revolutionary War in the company commanded by Captain Farmer in the regiment commanded by Colonel Miles in the line of the state of Pennsylvania and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818 his certificate numbered 13,149.

    And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner deposed of my property or any part there of with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of congress entitled "An act to prove for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
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                                              Adam X Swager
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Schedule of property.

    I have (illegible) necessary to anything and bedding -

1. Table, 1 tea kettle, 1 iron skillet, small looking, earthenware consisting of pots and four dishes, set of cups and saucers & tea pot, 2 plates, 1 bowl, 4 knives and forks, 2 spoons, 1 basket, 1 frying pan, 2 iron pots, tub and bucket for baking on, six-plate stov, very old and broken, dough trough, 2 chairs old and broken, 1 check reel.

    I have no pensions from the state of Pennsylvania nor from.  There are no debts owing to me, nor have I any income whatever save the pension which I have hither to drawn from the United (contiuned of the next page)
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States, under the act of the 18thday of March 1818.

I am indebted in the following sums:

To Henry Black eight dollars for rent    $18.00
To Anthony Fritz for rent                         10.00

I am by occupation a labourer but by reason of age and infirmities an not able to labour of I have no family residing with me Elenor aged seventy-four years and infirmities as myself.

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                                       Adam X Swager                  
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Sworn to this 30th day of June
A.D. 1820 before William Watts one
of the Judges of the Co. of Common 
pleas of B(ucks) Co(unty)


(Bucks Cou)nty ss:

   I John J. Benezal Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas for the county of Bucks do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said county and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in where of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty dollars.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this seventh day of July 1820.

                                    //s//
                            John J. Benenal Prothon.
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Dama Swager


Pension to commence on 26 May 1818.

(write)
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Bucks Co. District Pennsylvania ss:

    On this 7th day of June A.D. 1819 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the said county personally appeared Adam Swager age near eighty-two years resident in the said county and (illegible) aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War";

    That he the said Adam Swager entitled in the county of Philadelphia in the year 1776 in the company commanded by Captain Farmer of the Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment commanded by Colonel Miles.  That he continued to serve in the said company and other for one year and nine months when he was discharge at the White Plains in New York.  That he was in the Battle of Long Island where he was taken prisoner.  That he made his escape from the British and joined the Army again and served out the time for which he enlisted.  That he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his possession of his said services (except the testimony of Jacob Schively who was his comrade and messmate).   

    Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.

    I William Watts one of the Judges as above said do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Adam Swager did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months and more on the continental establishment and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to  the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the direction of the aforementioned  Act of Congress and I further certify  that the said Adam Swager is a poor and very infirmed man and needs the assistance of his country for support.
  
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                                      Wm Watts
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Bucks County,

   On the 7th day of June 1819 personally appeared before me one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said county Jacob Snively and being by me duly sworn saith that he with the within named Adam Swager enlisted some time in the month of April 1776 in the same company commanded by Captain farmer that he continued as his messmate until the Battle on Long Island where as he understood that said Adam Swager was taken prisoner. That he, this deponent made good his retreat that the Corps in which they served was at that time broken up and the men incorporate in other corps' That he saw no more of the said Adam during the war and further saith not. 
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                          Jacob Shifley
Sworn and declared before me
the day and date aforesaid.
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                 Wm. Watts

    The within named Ada Swager on his oath doth say that he made application some time in the spring of 1818 similar to the within.  That he understands there was some informality in some other application made about the same time before Samuel Hart Esq. Esq. then one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the said district and apprehends. There may have been in (illegible) of which he has heard nothing since and further he saith not.

Sworn and declared before me the 7th day of June A.D. 1819.

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                                         Wm Watts
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Doylestown 29th June 1819

I certify that Adam Sawyer a Revolutionary soldier applicant for a pension under the last Act of Congress.  The application was dated on the 26th May 1818 to was sent to the War Department or rather (illegible) into the post office of this (illegible) by me on the 27th of the same month - which appears by or memorandum made at this time. 
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                                  J.D. Fryland Prothonotary 
Witness my hand & seal of office.
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July 19th 1819
    I have no doubt of the truth of the facts stated in the affidavit of Jacob Schifley as from many other facts related to him of which I had some previous knowledge.  I think him entitled to full credit.
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                                Wm Watts
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40387
INVALID
Revy
File No. 40,387
Adam Sawyer
Priv. Rev. War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 440

{Arrangement of 1870.}