Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 14915, Andrew Adams, Mass.
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832
State of New Hampshire County of Coos
Lancaster September 5. 1832-
On this fifth day of September A.D.
1832, personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of the Court
of Probate for said County now sitting, Andrew Adams a resident of
Lancaster in the County of Coos & State of N.H. aged ninety seven
years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath
make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the
Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States in the following
named officers & served as herein stated-- to wit. In the year
1775 on or about the nineteenth day of April, he turned out as a
soldier under the command of Capt Joseph Vose, the names of the
other officers he cannot now recollect, & served at Cambridge,
Squantum & other places, until the fourth of March A.D. 1776
when he belonged to the first detachment, who took possession of Dorchester
heights-- While erecting the works on these heights, he received a severe
injury & came near being killed by the fall of a stick of timber
which three were carrying, he in the middle, the forward man
bailing, brought the whole weight on him & crushed him to
the earth This injury has afflicted him to this time-
He served honorably & faithfully until one or two weeks after
the enemy evacuated Boston on the seventeenth day of
March A.D. 1776 - In A.D. 1777 he again turned and on
an express for a few days only. When he first turned out
he resided in Milton Massachusetts & resided there until he
removed to Palmer Massachusetts where he resided about
thirty years. He then removed to Lancaster N.H. where he
has resided ever since. He knows of no one living by whom
he can prove his services aforesaid. He further states, that
in the summer of AD. 1776, he assisted in driving off
a ship of the from near the Light House in Boston
harbour where she was receiving provisions from the Tories
His time of service was about fourteen or fifteen months
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or
annuity except the present & declares that his name is not
on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State
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Sworn to & subscribed the 5th day of Sept 1832-
Andrew Adams
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B. Hunking Judge of Probate
We Haskell Wheelock a Clergyman residing in said Lancaster
and Adeno N. Brackett residing in said Lancaster, hereby certify
that we are well acquainted with Andrew Adams, who has
subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him
to be Ninety Seven years of age that he is reputed I believed, in
the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the
Revolution, & that we concur in that opinion-
Haskell Wheelock Clergyman of Lancaster
Sworn to & subscribed the
5th day of Sept 1832
A N. Brackett Clerk of Sup. Court
 B Hunking Judge of Probate-
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter, & after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant
was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states. And the Court
certifies that it appears to them, that Haskell Wheelock, who has
signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the said
Town of Lancaster, & that A.N. Brackett, who has also signed the same
is a resident in the said Town of Lancaster & are credible persons,
that their statement is entitled to credit-
B. Hunking Judge of Probate
I Jared W. Williams Register & Clerk of the Court of
Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings in the said Court in the matter
of the application of Andrew Adams for a pension
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand
& affixed the seal of said Court this fifth day of September
A.D. 1832 - Jared W Williams
Register &
Clerk of Probate
A true Copy of Record
Attest Jared William Reg Clerk
of Probate
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I Benjamin Adams of Lancaster in the County of 
Coos & State of New Hampshire depose that in the
year A.D. 1775 I knew that my Father Andrew Adams
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left his residence, then Milton Massachusetts, for the
army to repel the British from Boston - This I
think was about the time of the Battle of Lexington
that he remained from house except a few days until after the
British evacuated Boston in A.D. 1776 & the family
understood he was with the army during his absence

State of New Hampshire
Coos ss Scht. [?] [?] 10732
Benjamin Adams

Sworn to in open Court before me
B Hunking Judge [?]
I David Williams Register & Clerk
of Probate for the County of Coos & State
of New Hampshire do hereby Certify that Ben-
jamin Hunking who has deposed the above
Judge Probate is the Judge of Probate for said
County and that the above is his genuine sig
nature.- Fred Williams Clerk & Register of Probate
[?] in testimony of which I have affixed the
seal of said Cour. Jared Williams Clerk &
Register of Probate
18 -51
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Additional & complimentory declaration of
Andrew Adams in order to obtain the benefit
of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
State of New Hampshire January 23, 1833
On the day & year aforesaid personally appeared
in open Court, before the Judge of Probate for
said County of Coos now sitting, Andrew Adams
aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath make the following additional
declaration for the purposes aforesaid. As I have
been told by my parents I was born in Milton, Mas-
sachusetts on the 12th day of August 1735 in the
house of Governor Belcher, whose farm my father
then carried on. I have no other record of my age
than what is contained in my great bible, which
was made by my son Lewis several years ago
& is the record of my family.
the services which
I performed in the war of the revolution, were
performed as a volunteer under Captain Vose
who was in the first of my services in the Militia
of said State, afterwards in the Continental service
& Col. or Major Aitken commanded the regiment.
I have no other recollection of a discharge than a
general one, after Boston was evacuated by the
British in 1776 - As to my [?] for