Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20567, Edward Adams, Mass. N.H Privateer
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SERVICE Mass., N. H., Privateer
Adams, Edward
Patty

NUMBER W20567

CONTENTS
f [filed] at Lincoln, Middlesex Co. Mass, and during Rev. res. there and at Mason, Hillsborough Co., N. H. in 1832 aged 79 yrs. + res. Concord, Essex Co., VE. (Vermont), d. Sept. 7, 1834.
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17.N18
Vermont
Edward Adams of Essex Co. in the State of Vermont who was a Sergt. Comp & Priv in the company commanded by Captain Smith of the  (illegible) commanded by Col. Nixon in the Massachusetts line for 4 mos (illegible) 20.00
3 mos Corp. 11.00
7 mos Private 25.00
$56

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 56 Dollars - Cents (marked thru) per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Aug. 1843 and sent to Petitioner Lunenburg, Vermont.
Arrears to the 4th of March '33 112.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 28.00
$140-
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J M Cuffield Clerk
Book E Vol. 3 Page 50
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Adams 6861
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State of Vermont 
Epson County [now NH]

On this 16th day of Aug. AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Hon. William Gates, Judge of the Court of Probate within and for the district of Epson in the county of Epson and State of Vermont now sitting Edward Adams resident of Concord in the County of Epson & State of Vermont aged 79 years who first being duly sworn according to the law doth on his oath make the following declaration in [illegible] to obtain the benefits of his as of Congress [illegible] June 7th 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated that at the time of the fight at Lexington he was at Nassau in Hillsborough County in the State of New Hampshire that he then belonging to a Company of minutemen so called commanded by Capt. Obediah Parker that he marked to Cambridge in Massachusetts and remained there until the army was organized which was about one month whereas he was dismissed and went to his Fathers in Lincoln in the County of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts and he thinks in Sept AD 1775 he went to [illegible] hill and joined a company of Continental troops commanded by Capt. William Smith in Col. Nixon [illegible] & Gen. [illegible] and served in aid company one month for an Joseph Pierce of said Lincoln and their service in said company for three months as a Sergeant for one Sergeant Elijah Willington and then volunteered or enlisted in a company  for one month after the expiration of the eighth month said he there with about twenty others at the request of Col. Nixon volunteered under the command of Lieutenant Walker Fox three months to go and chop wood for the army at a place called Wood End, near Washburn and in the month of May 1776 he enlisted in the Naval service under Capt. John Foster, Williams & Lieut. Samuel Laha and Wm. - Little, master in the Brigandier Wilkes of 14 guns (he does not know whether she was a private or public vessel) but he cruised under the direction of the board of War, and continued in that service three months where she fell in with three British Frigates one of them the Millforce of 32 guns gave chase from 4 o clock AM to 8 o clock PM. when the Wilkes came on Chattam Beach at Cape C[illegible] and was burnt by the British she having several men killed & more drowned and they escaped by the barges & by swimming.
He thinks it was in the Winter 1777 but cannot be certain as to the time, he enlisted in a company of Massachusetts Militia for the term of three months commanded by Capt. John Hartwell in Col. Dikers [illegible] was stationed at Dorchester served in the month of August 1777 he enlisted in a com... [continued on next page]
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[continued] manded by Capt. Samuel Farrar under Col. Faulkner & Major Woods in the militia [illegible] marched to Bennington Saratoga & Stillwater joined Gen. Gates I was at the taking of Burgoyne that after he had surrendered, his [illegible] went with Burgoyne's men to Winter Hill Charleston that he was asked & engaged in their services about two months & a half. That he was born in  Lincoln in Middlesex County, Massachusetts and has seen the reward of his age there  he residence at the time he entered at Nasau NH after the way he removed to [illegible] aforesaid & from there to Templeton, Massachusetts and from there to [illegible] New Hampshire and about twenty five years ago he removed to Concord in the County of ...
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[sideways] Identy of widow
State of Vermont
Essex County
William Gates clerk of the county court in acting [illegible] second case County of Essex, do hereby certify that Harvey G Fry, before swore the within affidavits [illegible] was on this day of this state thereof a Justice  of the Peace in and for the County of Essex aforesaid duly examined well and qualified said that his signature subscribed to said certificates in his governing signatures.
In testimony which I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of said County and State being in said County this 11th day of December AD 1837 Wm Gates Clerk