Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23408, Samuel Adams, Continental N.H.
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Service
Continental
N.H.
Adams, Samuel
Sarah
Number
W23408
Contents
enl. at Nelson (then called Parkersfield) Cheshire C. N.H.
and died at Nelson Mar 1, 1837 (widow) aged about 84 years
Soldier died May 19 1832 in Nelson N.H.
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Notification sent July 17th 1820 to
Salma Hale    Keene, New Hampshire
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10. 826
New Hampshire
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Samuel Adams
of Cheshire County in the state of N Hampshire
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cilley of the N. Hampshire line, for the term of three years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 7 of October 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 18 of May 1819 and sent to Nahum Parker Esq  Fitzwilliam NH
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Arrears to 4th of March 1819          $39.48
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1819 48.
4 mo 29 [illegible]                            _______
                                                        $87.48
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
War  
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Round stamp encircling words:
The Natonal Archives of the United States
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Samuel Adams
Cheshire County, N.H.
Private
Col Scammell's Regiment
New Hampshire Line
1781  2 years
7. October, 1818.
on rolls.
Admitted
Nahum Parker, judge
Fitzwilliam, N. H.
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STATE OF NEWHAMPSHIRE.
CHESHIRE SS. 
On this seventh day of October 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, for said County, personally appears Samuel Adams aged 65 years, resident in Nelson in the said County, 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 Samuel on the nineteenth day of March 1781 enlisted in Packersfield now Nelson in the state of Newhampshire in the company commanded by Captain Farwell of the first Regiment in the Newhampshire line in the land service of the United States on the Continental establishment commanded by Colo. Scammel (Scammell) that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the 11th day of April 1783, when he was discharged from service in Newwindsor (New Windsor) state of New York, ['that he was in the battles of' crossed out] having procured Jacob Eastman to serve the remainder of the time of the said Samuel's enlistment which was for three years. And that he previously served, in said Army and in Capt 
Guild's Company Col. Graton's (Greaton) Reg't from 1. Jan'y 1776 to 1 Jan'y 1777 when he was discharged at New York State [illegible] and 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 power of his said services, except an agreement with said Eastman and a furlough signed by Maj'r Scott hereunto annexed.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid. 
/s/Nahum Parker, J.C.C. Pleas
I, Nahum Parker, Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Samuel Adams did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for nine  months on the continental establishment; and that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support, and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. 
October 7th 1818 /s/Nahum Parker, J.C.C. Pleas
I, Salma Hale Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Cheshire, hereby certify, that the Hon. Nahum Parker, whose proper hand is above subscribed, is one of the Justices of said Court, duly commissioned, and that no particular impression is used as a seal by said Court. 
[court seal affixed] In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed a seal in usual form as used by said Court, this 7th day of Octo'r, A.D. 1818
/s/S. Hale
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5267
New Hampshire Concord
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Sarah Adams Decd,
widow of Samuel Adams
who died on the 19 May 1832
of the State of N.H.
who was a private in the ~ commanded by Captain ~ of the ~commanded by ~ in the Revolution for two years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Concord at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 19th day of May 1832 [illegible] March 1 1837.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of Aug 1854 and sent to H. J. Adams
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Arrears to the 4th of Present
Semiannual allowance ending ~
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3}
Recorded by H. R. Weightman, Clerk
Book D  Vol.2  Page 336
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1888
Dc 4
A R Spofford - history [illegible]
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[blank]
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No 1711
Sarah Adams, dec
widow of Samuel
[illegible]
Act 4 July 1831
Alw 2 yrs private  $80 per annum,  
Comm 19 May 1832 & Endg 1 March 1837
payable to
Sarah Barrett, Samuel Adams, Joseph Adams & John Adams only surviving children
H. J. Adams  
[illegible]
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"Marriages."
2 Nov'r 1778 Mr. Sam'l Adams and & Miss Sarah Felt both of Dedham by Rev'd Mr. Chickering Nov. 24 1778"
I, Jonathan H. Cobb Clerk of the town of Dedham County of Norfolk & State of Massachusetts hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the original record of the above marriage in the records of the town of Dedham aforesaid now in my care & custody. 
Dedham June 9 1833 /s/Jonathan H. Cobb Town Clerk of Dedham.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Norfolk County ss. June 9 AD 1833. 
Then personally appeared Jonathan H. Cobb Clerk of the town of Dedham & make solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed in my presence
Before me /s/Waldo Colburn Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
NORFOLK ss. 
I, EZRA W. SAMPSON, Clerk of the Judicial Courts, being Courts of Record, within and for the County of Norfolk, hereby certify that Waldo Colburn Esquire, was at the time of taking the above acknowledgement & now is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Norfolk aforesaid, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified to discharge the duties of said office, and that his signature to the annexed certificate is genuine and true.
[court seal affixed] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth aforesaid at Dedham, this ninth day of June A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
/s/Ezra W. Sampson Clerk.
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State of Illinois
County of McHenry
Be it known that before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly authorize by law to administer oaths, personally appeared Joseph Adams a resident of the. County and State aforesaid, who being just duly sworn according to law states that he is the son of Sarah Adams of Nelson in the County of Cheshire and state of New Hampshire. widow of Samuel of the same place, who was a revolutionary soldier, and that he believes the United States are still indebted under existing law for the pension that was due to the said Sarah Adams under the application was heretofore made, and that he is directly interested as a claimant in the pension for which application  heretofore made as aforesaid and constitutes and appoints Henry J Adams of Cincinnati Ohio his true and lawful attorney with power to examine into investigate and establish the claim for said pension and to do all acts necessary thereto. 
In witness whereof he has on this 20th day of August AD 1853 hereunto signed  his name and affixed his seal. Joseph Adams JA
Signed, sealed acknowledged and sworn to before me this 20th day of August AD 1853
P. Baron Justice of the Peace
In the presence of T H Marshall
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State of Illinois
County of McHenry}ss. 
I Peris Brown Jr a magistrate in and for the county above named do hereby certify that Alexander Willson a resident of Coral in the county and state above named, and Sarah Willson a resident of Coral also in the county and state above named, this day appeared before me, and after being duly sworn each testifyed, that Joseph Adams who this day appeared before me, and made oath as above, is the identical person he declares himself to be, and that his signature above is genuine. And I further certify that the above named deponents are credible persons. 
Given under my hand this 20th day of [blank] August A.D. 1853
/s/P. Brown Jr Justice of the Peace
I [blank] Clerk of the [blank] court of [blank] County, certify that [blank] is a magistrate as above, and that the foregoing certificate purporting to be his is genuine.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office, and subscribed my name, this [blank] day of [blank]
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State of New Hampshire
County of Cheshire}ss
I Geo W Sturtevant Register ['clerk' crossed out] of the Court of Probate holden at Keene in and for said County do hereby certify, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said court that Sarah Adams, widow of Samuel Adams of Nelson in the County aforesaid who was a revolutionary pensioner, died in the town of Nelson in the county and state aforesaid in the  year 1837 on the first day of March
That the said Sarah Adams remained unmarried after the death of said Samuel Adams until her own death and that Sarah Barrett of East Rumford Maine. Samuel Adams of Oswego New York, Joseph Adams of Huntley's Grove Illinois, and John Adams of Madison Wisconsin are the only living heirs of Said Sarah Adams. 
I do hereby further certify that the death of said Sarah Adams was proven by the records of the town of Nelson a certified copy of which is hereunto
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appended, that the fact of her remaining unmarried till her death was proved by the testimony of Nancy Cobb a resident of the town of Nelson in the county of Cheshire and state of New Hampshire and by the testimony of Ira Robbins of the town of Marlow in the county of Cheshire and state of New Hampshire and the number and names of the aforesaid heirs, was proved by the testimony of Nancy Cobb a resident of Nelson in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire by the testimony of Ira Robbins a resident of Marlow in the county of Cheshire and state of New Hampshire
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at Keene this sixth day of September in the year of our Lord 1853
/s/Geo. W. Sturtevant Register
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"Widow Sarah Adams wife of Samuel Adams, deceased March 1st 1837
Nelson N.H. August 20th 1853
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the Record of the death of Sarah Adams as recorded in the town Records of Nelson." 
Attest /s/Charles H. Whitney} Town Clerk of Nelson"
A true copy Attest /s/Geo. W. Sturtevant Register
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[typewritten letter]
April 5, 1939. 

BA-J/ILL
Samuel Adams
W. 23408

Louise H. Sim
215 East 73d Street
New York, New York.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Samuel Adams, who served from Packersfield, New Hampshire.
The data which follow are shown in the papers on file in pension claim, W. 23408, based upon service of Samuel Adams in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Adams served first from January 1, 1776 until his service in January 1, 1777, as a private in Captain Guild's [margin note: 24" Cont. (Mass) This service is given in Mass. Sol & Sailors - his res.-Dedham] company, Colonel Greaton's Massachusetts regiment, from which he was discharged at Newark, New Jersey. In 1778, he resided in Dedham, Norfolk County, his residence at time of this first service not given. He enlisted March 19, 1781, at which time he resided in Packersfield (later called Nelson), Cheshire County, New Hampshire, and served as private in Captain Farwell's company, Colonel Scammell's 1st New Hampshire Regiment, and April 11, 1783, he was discharged at New Windsor, New York.
The soldier continued to reside in Packersfield, New Hampshire, after his service in the Revolutionary War.
Samuel Adams was allowed pension on his application executed October 7, 1818, at which time he resided in Nelson, Cheshire County, New Hampshire; he was aged then sixty-five years. The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given. He died May 19, 1832 in Nelson, New Hampshire.
The soldier married November 24, 1778, Miss Sarah Felt, also a resident of Dedham, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; they were married by Rev. Chickering. Their marriage was recorded in the town
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[typewritten letter]
of Dedham, Massachusetts. he names of Sarah's parents were not given. She died March 1, 1837, in Nelson, New Hampshire. She had lived in the home of David and Eunice White for several years, no relationship to her stated.
In 1853, the only surviving children of Samuel Adams and his wife, Sarah, were-Samuel Adams of Oswego, New York, Joseph Adams of Huntley's Grove, McHenry County, Illinois, John Adams of Madison, Wisconsin, and Sarah Barrett of East Rumford, Maine. The pension which was due Sarah Adams at the time of her death on account of her husband's service in the Revolutionary War was allowed these children. One Henry J. Adams of Cincinnati, Ohio, made inquiry regarding said pension in 1853, but no relationship
between him and the soldier's family was stated.
In 1837, Joseph Robbins was a resident of Nelson, New Hampshire. He had lived as a neighbor to Samuel Adams since 1780, and married a sister of Sarah, Samuel's wife. The name of this sister was not stated she was deceased in 1837.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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[verso]
Genealogical notes made Sept. 1883, Orig N. D. Adams
1911 Feb 14: Hon P. J. McCumber data for Awd.
1917 Mar. 9. Henry Melville advised of cost of copy of 1818 data. AW
1917 Mar. 16. Henry Melville furnished copy of decla - see letters in Levi Wilder Mass. S41335
1939 - April 5 - Hist. to Louise H. Zimm

[recto]
Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 23,408
Sarah Adams wid of Samuel Adams
Priv Rev war
Act July 4th 1836
Index: - Vol. A, Page 4
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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No 1211 N.H.
Susp.. Letter to Hon H. Hubbard Feb 23/37
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.]
1836
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Sarah Adams wid of Sam'l Adams
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
[remainder illegible]
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Mr. Samuel Adams deceased May 19. 1832. 
A true copy of record.
Attest. /s/Oliver P Newell, Town Clerk
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Samuel Adams
Sarah Adam} Act 1818. 
CC has papers
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The Bearer Samuel Adams a Soldier in the first New Hampshire Reg't has leave of absence for one Month from the date hereof He having Procured an able bodied Effective Man to Join Duty During his absence - 
Saratoga Dec'r 12th 1775
/s/Wm. Scott Maj'r Commd't
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[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
These Presents Witness that We Samuel Adams and Jacob Eastman Soldiers in the New Hampshire Regiment have Bargained in the Following manner Viz s'd Samuel Adams being Inlisted for the term of three years from March 19th 1781 & s'd Eastman being Engaged During the War I Samuel Adams by these presents do promise to pay unto Jacob Eastman Afor'd the sum of four Silver Dollars on the following Consideration s'd Eastman having Promised & Engaged to Supply s'd Adams's Place During the Remainder of s'd Adams's Engagement for the term of three years as soon as the s'd Jacob Eastman Obtains a proper Discharge & in Case Either of us fails in the true Performance of ye Above written The Refuser pays unto the party that stands to the Bargain the Sum of Eight Dollars on demand 
/s/Samuel Adams
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Debt Citation Between Samuel Adams and Jacob Eastman
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Received of Mr Samuel Adams the Sum of four Dollars in full of what is due to me on Account of ye within written Obligation 
I Say Received by me this 11th Day of April 1783
/s/Jacob Eastman
Witness my hand 
/s/William Taggert
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No V1711
application for Sarah Adams
wid of Sam'l Adams Cheshire Co
May 1 1819
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I Josiah Robbins aged seventy five years last october depose that I was acquainted with Samuel Adams late of Nelson in the County of Cheshire and State of New-Hampshire deceased from the year 1780 to the time of his decease which was on the nineteenth day of May AD. 1832. - that said Samuel was at the time of his decease a Revolutionary Pensioner under the act of 1818. - That he lived in Nelson aforesaid when he was placed on the pension list. - 
I am also acquainted with Sarah Adams of said Nelson who is the widow of said Samuel. - They cohabited as man and wife from 1780 - when I first knew him untill the decease of said Samuel - and said Sarah has not been married since his decease. - 
In the year 1781, said Samuel went into the Revolutionary service - was hired by the Town of Packersfield, now called Nelson - to make up the quota for the three years service. - and I have always understood that it was for this service that he was placed on the Pension list - for the latter part of the three years I have understood that he hired a substitute
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in his place. - my wife deceased and his widow were sisters, which is the occasion of my having been particularly acquainted with said Samuel and Sarah. - 
Said Sarah Adams is now entirely incompetent to make a declaration, her faculties seem to be entirely gone. - 
I now live in Nelson and have lived there & in the nearest part of the next adjoining town ever since April 1780 - except one years absence. - when I lived in the adjoining town, I lived nearer Samuel Adams than when in Nelson. - 
I always understood from my wife when living, that Samuel and Sarah were married in 1779 - in the fall. - and that she was present at the wedding. - 
/s/J. ROBBINS
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
Cheshire ss. 
February 9, 1837. Subscribed and sworn to Before me
/s/Wm Edwards
I certify that the above deponent is a respectable citizen, and a highly credible person
/s/Wm Edwards Jus Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County ss. 
I Henry Coolidge, Clerk of the Superior Court of judicature, for said County of Cheshire, certify that [illegible] was on the 9th Day of February instant and still is, a justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Cheshire, duly qualified and commissioned; and that his name subscribed to the within certificate is his genuine signature.
[court seal affixed] In witness whereof I have  hereunto set my hand and seal of said Superior Court [illegible] ninth day of February AD 1837.
/s/H. Coolidge, Clerk
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.]
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Certificate of Acknowledgment. - Woodstock Democrat Print. 
STATE OF ILLINOIS,
McHenry County.} ss. I, ENOS W. SMITH, Clerk of the County Court of said County, do hereby certify that P. Brown Jr Esq., whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate of Acknowledgment, was at the date thereof an acting JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, in said County, duly elected, qualified, and commissioned - that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and believe his Signature, above written, to be genuine. 
[court seal affixed] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of my said Office, at Woodstock, this 23rd day of September A.D., 1853
/s/Enos W. Smith County Clerk. 
/s/G. K. Smith Deputy
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Samuel Adams
10826
(Sept'r 1819.)
Pensioner insane
Schedule sworn to by one of the Selectmen - no property. 
Was pensioner insane after his claim was admitted? If so, [illegible] proper to [illegible]
Continue
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State of New Hampshire
Court of Common Pleas
Cheshire ss. On this fourth day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court - being a Court of record for said County proceeding according to the course of the Common Law having a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount & keeping a record of its proceedings Asa Beard of Nelson in said County of Cheshire who being first duly sworn doth on his oath declare that he is one of the Selectmen of said Nelson who are by law overseers of the poor in said town and that Samuel Adams of said Nelson in his declaration made the seventh day of October 1818 obtained a pension certificate No. 10,826 & that said Samuel Adams has no property of any kind & is altogether dependent on said Town for his support & that said Samuel Adams is insane
/s/Asa Beard
Sworn to and declared at Keene in said County on the fourth day of July 1820
before /s/R. Vose Judge of said Court - 
I Salma Hale Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Cheshire, do hereby certify that the aforesaid declaration and oath are truly copied from the record of said Court
and I do further certify that is is the opinion of the Court that the said Samuel Adams has not any property
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this eighth day of July AD 1820
/s/S. Hale
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I Jacob Wheeler of lawfull age do testify and say that Samuel Adams and Sarah his wife did live together as Husband and wife as long ago as the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty and continued to live together as husband and Wife as long as Samuel Adams did live, and they the said Samuel and Sarah were ever considered as husband and wife. And that the said Samuel Adams did enter the Continental Army of the United States some time in the year 1780 or the beginning of the year 1781 and continued in the service of the United States I believe till the close of the war
/s/Jacob Wheeler
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss} The above deposition was subscribed and sworn to this eighth day of February AD. 1837
Before me /s/J. ROBBINS Justice of peace
I certify that the above deponent is a credible witness - 
/s/J. ROBBINS Justice of the Peace 
I John White of lawfull age do testify and say that in the year AD. 1781 Samuel Adams and Sarah his Wife did live together as Husband and Wife and continued so to live as husband and wife till the Death of the said Samuel and were ever considered as husband and wife. And that the said Samuel Adams did engage in ['in' crossed out] the service of the United States as a Soldier for the town of Packersfield now Nelson and entered the Army of the United States in the begining of the year 1781
/s/John White
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss} The above deposition was subscribed and sworn to this eighth day of February AD. 1837
Before me /s/J. ROBBINS Justice of the peace
I certify that the above deponent is a credible person. - 
/s/J. ROBBINS Justice of the peace
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County ss. 
I Henry Coolidge, Clerk of the Superior Court of judicature, for said County of Cheshire, certify that Josiah Robbins was on the 8th Day of February instant and still is, a justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Cheshire, duly qualified and commissioned; and that his name subscribed to the within certificates is his genuine signatures.
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Keene the tenth day of February A.D. 1837. 
/s/H. Coolidge, Clerk
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I Eunice White of lawfull age do testify and say that the Sarah Adams widow of the late Samuel Adams has lived with me and I have taken care of her the said Sarah for more than three years last past that the said Sarah is now and has been for some time past incapable of being made to understand anything more than an infant child of two days old
/s/Eunice White
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss} The above was subscribed and sworn to on the eighth day of February AD. 1837
Before me /s/J. ROBBINS Justice of the peace
I David Kimball of lawfull age do testify and say that I live within a few rods of David White husband of Eunice White who is now and has taken the care of Sarah Adams widow of Samuel Adams late a pensioner of the United States that I am in the house and see the said Sarah Adams almost every day and have for months past And I further say that the said Sarah Adams doth not appear to know or understand any  thing more than a new born infant
/s/David Kimball
State of New Hampshire
Cheshire ss} The above named David Kimball personally appeared and made solemn oath that the above by him subscribed is in his belief just and true this eighth day of February AD 1837
Before me /s/J. ROBBINS Justice of the peace
I certify that the above deponents Eunice White and David Kimball are credible persons. 
/s/J. ROBBINS Justice of the peace
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State of New Hampshire
Cheshire County ss. 
I Henry Coolidge, Clerk of the Superior Court of judicature, for said County of Cheshire certify that Josiah Robbins was on the 8th Day of Feby. instant, and still is, a justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Cheshire, duly qualified and commissioned; and that his name subscribed to the within certificate is his genuine signature.
[court seal affixed] In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Superior Court at Keene this tenth day of February A.D. 1837. 
/s/H. Coolidge, Clerk
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Brief in the case of Sarah Adams 
Cheshire County and State of NH
act 4 July 1836
Claim, ("original," ['or "for increase."' crossed out]
Proof exhibited, (if original.) [blank]
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner at $96 per ann 
Record proof of marriage
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? [blank]
/s/S. Cole
Examining Clerk. 
/s/H. J. Adams
Name and residence of Agent Present
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[handwritten letter]
Washington Jan. 3 1854

Hon. L. P. Waldo
Sir
Some three or four months since I presented some papers at your office connected with a pension claim believed to be due to the heirs of Mrs. Sarah Adams, widow of Samuel Adams (deceased) of Nelson N.H.
Said claim was suspended some years ago for want of evidence of marriage. - That evidence I procured. The original papers were in the office [margin note: they are in claim] and were shown to me last summer, but since then I am told they have "got out of file" and have been assured at the office from week to week that they should be found as soon as time could be commanded to make the search. The case has been deferred in this way some two or three months, and I shall be greatly obliged if you will inform me how the matter now stand, as the parties interested are anxious for a report upon the case 
Yours &c
/s/H. J. Adams
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Samuel Adams
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Rev war
[receipt stamp: Old War & Navy NOV 27 1988 DIVISION.]
[receipt stamp: U. S. PENSION OFFICE. F NOV 26 1888]
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[handwritten letter]
Library of Congress
[logo: LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS COPYRIGHT OFFICE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA]
Washington, Nov. 23rd, 1888.

Sir:
Information is requested concerning a Massachusetts soldier in the War of the Revolution, named Samuel Adams.
He was born in 1755, and died in Nelson, N.H., May 19, 1832. 
The information sought is 
1st Place of birth of this Samuel Adams.
2nd In what regiment and company he served in the Army.
And any other particular such as to pension if drawn by him.
Very respectfully, 
/s/A. R. Spofford
Librarian of Congress. 
Hon. J. C. Black, Commissioner of Patents.
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[typewritten letter]
2
Mr. McCUMBER, CHAIRMAN. 
United States Senate,
Committee on Pension.
February 13, 1911

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C. 

My dear Mr Commissioner:
I beg to enclose you herewith letter from Mr. R. S. Carpenter of Boston, Massachusetts. I am unable to furnish Mr. Carpenter with this information and am therefore referring his letter to you. 
Very truly yours,
/s/P. J. McCumber
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[typewritten letter]
Feb. 21, 1939
215 East 73 Street,
New York City.

Veterans' Administration,
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir, - 

Will you kindly let me have an abstract of the Pension Papers of SAMUEL ADAMS, in 2nd Regiment Continentals, New Hampshire, Town of Nelson (or Packersfield), County of Cheshire, he is in the Pension Roll in vol. 30, N.H. State Papers, p. 240. [margin note: Pve-96.00 per ann. On Roll May 18, 1819 Com. Oct 7, 1818 - age 77 D. May 19-1832] I do not understand from this just what his age was: it says 77, but I don't know at which date. There is a question about his parentage. I should like whatever date there is about children, also.
This is for Mr. John Adams Kingsbury, who is closely connected with the Administration at the present time, under
Mr. Harry Hopkins - he is tracing his ancestry from Samuel Adams - if we could have this information as soon as possible, he would be greatly obliged.
Yours very truly,
/s/Louise H. Zimm
(Louise H. Zimm)
[receipt stamp: RECEIVED FEB 23 1939 MAIL SUB-DIV VETS. ADM READER #12]
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General Accounting Office (Mrs. Hewson) reported by telephone that this Samuel Adams Ctf. No. 10826, died in Nelson, N.H. May 19, 1832, had resided there 40 years; Was survived by his widow, Sarah, who died March 1, 1837, in Nelson, N.H. She had once resided in Mass. The children were paid the pension from May 19, 1832 to Mch. 1, 1837, the period between death dates of their parents, their names: John, Samuel and Joseph Adams and Sarah Barrett. 
/s/MMHF
Apr. 3, 1939
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[typewritten letter]
Rev. War Section.

March 9, 1917. 

Mr. Henry Melville, 
45 Cedar St. Mutual Life Building,
New York, N.Y. 

Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 6" instant, you are advised that the pension declaration of the Revolutionary war soldier, Levi Wilder, Mass. Troops, S.41,335, consists of three pages and the pension declaration of the Revolutionary War soldier Samuel Adams, N.H. Troops, W. 23,408, consists of one page.
Under the provisions of the Act of August 24, 1912, photostat copies of these papers will be furnished you at the rate of fifteen cents a page, uncertified. The proper amount should be forwarded by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Very respectfully.
/s/GM Saltzgaber
[margin note: see his letters in Levi Wilder]
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[typewritten letter]
February 15, 1911.

Hon. P. J. McCumber,
United States Senate. 

My dear Senator:
In response to your letter dated the 13" and received the 14" instant, and the enclosed letter of Mr. R. S. Carpenter of #39 Boyleston Street, Boston, Massachusetts, I have the honor to advise you that for information relative to the payment of the pension allowed the heirs of Samuel Adams, a Revolutionary War soldier, you should apply to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U.S. Treasury Department, citing the following data; Sarah Adams deceased widow of Samuel Adams, Certificate No. 5,267, issued January 26, 1854, under Act of July 4, 1836, at the Concord, New Hampshire Agency.
Very respectfully,
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Commissioner.