Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23508, Samuel Adams, Continental Mass
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE                                                  NUMBER                          
Continental.       Adams, Samuel.          S.23.508
Mass.

CONTENTS
b. at Mendon Mass.
in 1820 aged 66 yrs res. Bangor, Franklin Co. [crossed out] Mass. [/crossed out] N.Y. wife Deborah,
d. Feb.12 {?}, 1838
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Application & proof of 
Samuel Adams for
a pension

Col. H. Jackson's
Massach'ts Regt

1776 - war

11th April 1812{?}

Admitted
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State of New York
Franklin County

ss. Be it Known that on the eleventh day of
April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen before me Cane{?} Andrus Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for County of
Franklin in the State of New York personally appeared Samuel
Adams of the Town of Bangor in the said County and then & there
before me took and subscribed the following oath a affidavit to witness Samuel Adams being duly sworn deposeth{?} and saith that
he is a native of Mendon in the State of Massachusetts
now aged sixty four years and this Deponent further saith that he
is now a resident citizen of the United States residing in the
Town of Bangor in the County of Franklin and State of New            York and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he
stands in need of assistance from his country for support
and this deponent further saith that in the month of April
in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five he this
Deponent entered the army of the United States against the common
ending, that on the fifteenth day of June in the same year
he this Deponent regularly enlisted as a private into a company
commanded by Captain John Popkins in the first Regiment of
artillery then commanded by Col Gridley in which company
Regiment he this Deponent continued to serve all the rest{?}
of January one thousand seven hundred & seventy six
and the Deponent further saith that on the first day of January
in the year one thousand seven hundred seventy six he regularly enlisted as a private into the Department of Artillery commanded
by Genl H. Knox into the company commanded by Capt.
Harry Burbank and this Deponent further saith that he
continued to serve as a Seargant in the said company and
Department of Artillery until two or three months after this{?} decision
an{?} of Lord Corn Wallis in the year one thousand seven hundred and
eighty one when he was transferred into a company of Infantry
commanded by Capt. Fuller in the Regiment commanded by
Col H. Jackson xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx {?} in when in the Massa        Chusetts line of Continental troops in which last mentioned Com
pany Regiment he this Deponent continued to serve as a
Sergeant until the month of June or July in this year of one thousand seven hundred seventy six{?}.
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thousand seven hundred and eighty three when he this De
ponent was regularly Honourably discharged at some point
with leave to wear the usual badge of merit at which
time he this Deponent received a printed discharge a
part of which is hereunto attached and this Deponent saith
that the residue of the said discharge is torn off lost and
destroyed so that no more of it can now be produced.
And this deponent further saith that he served as a
Solder in the revolutionary war against the Common Enemy in
the Army of the United States in the battle of Bunkers Hill
Long Island New York White Plains Fort Stanwix Monmouth
York Town and this Deponent further saith that there
is no person residing in this vacinity by whom he can prove
any of the above mentioned facts relative to his service and that the above is the best and only proof now in his power.
Saml Adams

Sworn and Subscribed before
me the 11th Day of April
1818

Com Andrus Judge
And I the said Com Andrus 
And I the said Com Andrus Esquire do hereby certify
[begin crossed out] that I am personally acquainted with the above ? [end crossed out]
Samuel Adams that the above is the only evidence which
above is the only evidence which
has been exhibited to me in the case except the part of the
discharge hereto annexed and that it appears to my satisfaction
that the said Samuel Adams served in the revolutionary 
war as is set forth in the above affidavit against the
Common Enemy and further that it appears to my satis
faction that the above affidavit is in all respects true

Com Andrus Judge