Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32796, Adam Hamilton, Penn.
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SERVICE                                      NUMBER
Penn.            Hamilton, Adam     S.32796
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Contents
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4,105
Massachusetts Rolls
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Adam Hamilton 
Col. Sinclair Private.    4
Pennsylvania Line - 1778. 1 year
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate if eight dollars per month, to commence in the 3rd April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 2d of November 1818 and sent to John Hooker Pres. Judge Springfield, Mass.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 5 mos.2/30  40.53   
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1819      42.00
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                                                                $88.53
{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
Continued
Chesterfield, Hamps, Mass.
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Notif. sent to S. Stoddard Esq. 12 Dec. 1834
Northhampton, Mass.
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Adam Hamilton's Claim 3 April 

Adam Hamilton (illegible) April 1st.
 
(illegible) for the Penna. rolls 
Not on Rolls.

The Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary of the Department of War.
Washington

Admitted. 
Wm. Boyd.
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Adam Hamilton a citizen of the United States, resident in Chesterfield in the county of Hamshire, being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he enlisted in the town of Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania in the spring previous to Monmouth battle in the army of the United States then called the Continental Army into the company commanded by Capt. Reese in Col. StClair's Regiment in the Pennsylvania Line for the term of one year. That he continued to serve in said company last mentioned for and during said term as a soldier and was in the engagements of Monmouth Battle and at the expiration of said term of service he was honorably discharged from said service but his discharge he has lost so how and where he was given no accounts.  And this deponent further saith that he is in reduced circumstances in life and by reason thereof stands in need of assistance from his country for support. 

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                               Adam Hamilton
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Isaac King, Eliakim Sylvester & Thadeus Baker Esquires being duly sworn depose and say that for many years they have been well acquainted with above-named Adam Hamilton, that he has always been considered a man of integrity & respectability, that he has been for many years a worthy Minister & successful preacher of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that he is an old man whose memory is becoming poor, that they have no doubt in their minds of the deponent's serving in the Amry of the United States against the common enemy at the time and manner as the deponent saith and that full credit may be placed on his testimony that in consequence of misfortunes & (illegible) in his family, the said Hamilton is now in reduced circumstances and is very poor, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support.

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                                     Isaac King
                                     Eliakim Sylvester
                                     Thadeus Baker

I Elijah H. Mills of Northampton, Member of Congress do depose & say that I am well acquainted with the above named Isaac king, Eliakim Sylvester & Thadeus Baker & that they are men of integrity & truth & to whose testimony full credit may be safely given.

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                                   Elijah H. Mills
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Hampshire ss.

   Be it remembered that on the third day of April AD 1812 came before me John Hooker Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in said state which includes the said county of Hampshire, the above-named Adam Hamilton, Isaac King, Eliakim Sylvester & Thadeus Baker on the fifth day of April, the above-named Elijah H. Mills & personally made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by them respectively provided - I do therefore hereby declare that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Adam Hamilton did serve in the revolutionary war as set forth in his affidavit, against the common enemy for more than six months in the continental establishment & I do hereby certify the same & transmit the above as the testimony of the proceedings had therein to the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the seal of the Circuit Court of the county to be hereunto affixed this sixth day of April aforesaid. 

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                                               Jhn Hooker
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.

Hampshire, ss.

At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas at Northampton said county Samuel Howe Judge, present on the twentieth day of November 1821.  Personally appeared, in open court, being a court of record, within and for said county, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: That in the course of the Revolutionary War but the time he does not now remember he enlisted into the Company of Capt. Reese in Regt. Commanded by Col. Arthur St. Clair in the Pennsylvania line and he served until the close of the War in the Company & Regiment aforesaid & was honorably discharged, he served more than a year in said Company & Regiment.
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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, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with the intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an 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," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, not has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following schedule by me subscribed. And my pension was granted to me for the service aforesaid on the 2nd day of November 1818 as by the record in the Office of the Secretary of War will appear - my Certificate being No. 4105. I have a wife aged between sixty & seventy & I have no other family residing with me.  
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                                      Adam Hamilton
Schedule of the Estate of Adam Hamilton of Chesterfield in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, applicant for a Pension under the act of Congress of May 1, 1820, 
Real estate - none. 
One old desk - $5.00
Four old chairs - 2.83
One table - 1.50
One old warming pan - 1.00
One pair of andirons - 1.75
One tea kettle - 1.00
One dish kettle 0.25
One tea pot - 0.75
One pair of flat irons - 0.50
One brass kettle - 2.50 =   $17.18
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                                         Adam Hamilton

We the subscribers testify and say that we have received the property contained in the above schedule shown to us by Adam Hamilton above-named as his property and are of the opinion that the sum set against the respective items are their true value.
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                                            Elisha Witherill
                                           Jonathan King  

Hampshire} ss.
Nov. 5, 1821

   Personally appeared Elisha Witherill and Jonathan King above named and made oath to the truth of the above statement by the subscriber, before one Dyar Bancroft Justice of the Peace & certify that Elisha Witherill and Jonathan King above-named are disinterested and credible witnesses.
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               Dyar Bancroft Justice of the Peace

Sworn to, and declared on the twentieth day of November 1821.
                      Attest, S. Stoddard Jr. Clerk

I S. Stoddard Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule which follows it, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is seventeen dollars and eighteen cents.

   In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twentieth day of November 1821.
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                        S. Stoddard Jr. Clerk of the                  for the County of Hampshire
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32,796
Revy
INVALID

File No. 32,796
Adam Hamilton
Priv.  Rev War

Act: 18th March 1818
Index:-Vol. 8, Page 174

{Arrangement of 1870.}
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(An addressed envelope.)

Free
Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secy. of the War Department
City of Washington

Mass. 145
Recd. 5 Dec. 1821
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Northampton (Mass.) Nov. 20th, 1821

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secy. of War

Sir,

   At the request of Mr. Hamilton I forward you the enclosed copy in relation to his pension - and I am, Sir,
                 respectfully, Your obt. sevt.
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                      S. Stoddard Jr.