Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5597, Littleton Adams, Va.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Va.
Adams, Littleton
Harriet W.
Access
NUMBER
W. 5597
CONTENTS
born in Md.
enl. in Fauquier Co. Va & died there Feby, 1832
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29.628
Virginia
Littleton Adams __ Dec?
of Fauquier in the State of Va.
who was a Pr: in the ___ commanded
by Captain ____ of the Rgt. commanded
by Col. Heth in the Va. 
line for 12 mo: 24 days.
Harriet W. Adams, widow
Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia at the rate of 42. Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Jan: 34
and dec Thomas Hord
Arrears to the 4th of ------------.
Semi-anl. allowance ending ------------.
Died 9 Feby 1834
Amt. due                        {$124.97
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Nath: Rice --- Clerk,
Book E Vol. 6th Page 1.
[??] 5 May 1835 Thos. Hord.
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Va. No. 30.545.
Littleton Adams

Declaration for a pension under the Act of Congress of 7th June 1832 for 18 mos. service.

Admit 12 mo. & 24 days
private - cert. to be issued
to widow Harriet W. Adams. $42.66,
Died 9 Feby 1834
Pension Office
Rec'd 11 March 1834

Thos. Hord
present
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State of Virginia    Fauquier County     To wit--
On this 3rd day of January 1834, personally appeared before me a justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Littleton Adams, a resident of said county and State of Virginia afirs'd[?] aged 81 years and upwards, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed the 7th June 1832. That he volunteered in the minute service in the county of Fauquier in the latter part of September in the year seventeen hundred & seventy five (the precise day of the month not now remembered) and with the sd. minute troops first rendevoused[sic] in the County of Culpepper[sic], and from thence proceeded to the neighborhood of Williamsburg, and was thereabouts detained in sd. service till the 9th December of that year. That the minute company in which he volunteered was commanded by Captain Scott (his Christian name not distinctly remembered, but believed to have been James). Col. Taliaferro (Christian name not remembered) commanded after the troops met together. That at the same period of the year as nearly as he can at this distance of time remember he again went in the minute service & returned home at the same period as above stated (1st December) as nearly as he can state at this time. That on this latter trip he was commanded by Captain Elias Edmonds from the county of Fauquier. That the troops with which he then went proceeded on to Williamsburg and marched into and occupied the ground from which a regiment had been then recently marched for the northern service in the regular Army. That this sd. Elias Edmonds was the same who afterwards became an officer in the regular service. He states that as nea-as he now recollects the place on
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which the troops were encamped as above stated was called Spring Field not more than two or three miles from Williamsburg.
That on the 1st Sep'r seventeen hundred and seventy seven he enlisted as a substitute for one John Davis for the remainder of sd. Davises unexpired term of two years, for which he had enlisted, and served this the remainder of sd. term, and was discharges at Valley Forge in                  Pennsylvania, in March 1778 - and then returned home. He states that one Valentine Peyton was his Captain in the sd. regular service. That besides Gen'l Washington who was at Valley Forge there was one Major Welch and Col. Heth a one eyed man that he recollects. THat there was great scarcity of provisions at that perios in the American Army at that place. That after his return from Valley Forge he was not called into service again until one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, and at that time was voluntarily enrolled with the militia - marched to Fredericksburg, and there drew arms - proceeded thence to Richmond Town - thence to York and there remained until within 15 or 17 days of the capture of Cornwallis, and with other troops were near Williamsburg, and afterward were called to guard some English prisoners, amongst whom he recollects there were many Hessians, which he did to Nolands Ferry on the Patomac[sic] River and was afterwards fully discharged at Warrenton in the sd. county of Fauquier at
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Christmas of that year (1781) and was never called on afterwards. That he was not in an engagement during the time he was in service, though several times he expected one, but from causes which he as a private had no knowledge of, battles which some expected to take place, did not.
That the whole time he was in service was more than eighteen months. He. the said little Adams hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Little Adams [signature]

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesd. Th. M. Ambler [signature]

State of Virginia  Fauquier County   To wit:
And the justice aforesd. hereby further certifies that he had known the above named Littleton Adams for many years, and that his statement is entitled to full faith and credit. That on examination of the sd. Adams I the sd. justice further certifies that it appears that the sd. Adams did serve in the Revolutionary War as set forth in the statement aforesd. and that from bodily infirmity the sd. Littleton Adams cannot attend court. Given under my hand & seal this 3rd Feby 1834.
Th: M. Ambler [signature & seal]

Virginia
Fauquier County to wit:
I Alexander J. Marshall Clerk of the County Court of Fauquier County in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify that Thomas M. Ambler, whose name is subscribed to the preceding certificate, is