Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 32., Isaac Adams, Mass Sea Service
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SERVICE
Mass Sea Service

Adams Isaac
NUMBER
R.32.

CONTENTS
native of & enl from Boston, Suffolk Co Mass
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary's Office, Boston, March 18th 1858. 
I Hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestation hereto annexed Chas W Lorton Justice of the Peace for the County of Suffolk - - in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted: and that to acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

In Testimony of which I have hereunto affixed the SEAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH, the date above written. Oliver Warner Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Secretary's Office, Boston, 

I Hereby Certify, That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Isaac Adams is borne on list of Prisoners taken from the Ship Protector, John F. Williams. Commander. Entered the service May 5, 1781, returned from captivity, Aug. 14, 1782, 15 mos 9 days, as Seaman 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. Olive Warner Secretary of the Commonwealth
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I am now Forty Seven years old, and my memory does not enable me to state the services more fully than above stated. 

Witness my hand, this eighteenth day of March A. D. 1858 

Abraham D. Adams

Signed by said in my presence, 
W Lovett JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. 
Co. Suffolk
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APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATE OF REVOLUTIONARY SERVICES, 
Made by the Son of the party who rendered the service. 

County of Middlesex State of Massachusetts Town of Charlestown 

The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office, of the service of Isaac Adams in the war of the Revolution. 

He was a native of the Town of Boston in the County of Suffolk and state of Massachusetts.  

He enlisted from the Town of and Boston in the County of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts in the year 1781 as a Seamen in the Company commanded by Captain John F.  Williams in Sea Service and he served as follows, viz:-- until he  was taken prisoner and came to England 

*Here describe, as fully as may be, the length of service, the rank, &c., of the claimant, or the capacity in which he served, and all other particulars known.
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Hon W. H. Tooch Aply 1
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Pension Office April 9" 1858 

Sir
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the papers which accompanies the enclosed letter of A.D. Adams Esqr I have to state that under existing pension laws no allowance can be made to the heirs of Isaac Adams for his revolutionary services 

Isaac Adams died without being pensioned. The Secretary of the Interior has decided that no magister pension can be allowed the Child of a deceased revolutionary soldier 

D.W. Gooch 
Hon. D.W. Gooch
Ho: Rep
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___Ex'r
INVALID. 
REJECTED
Isaac Adams
P.O. _____
Service:_____

Enlisted: ____,18
Discharged: ____,18 
Application filed: ____,18

Alleges: Claim filed too late to be entered on list of rejected claims printed thefor18521 Attorney:____
P.O.____
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No. 39138
32
Isaac Adams dec'd
Mass

Hon G.W.Gooch Apl 9

Act 7 June 32
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Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41    

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

NAME Adams, Isaac    GRADE Private
LINE New Hampshire
WARRANT NUMBER 2910  ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Apr. 5, 1796
to Oliver Ashley, Assignee

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volume 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates.  Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.