Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 66, Jesse Adams, N.C.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
N.C. Adams, Jesse Unicy
NUMBER
W. 66
CONTENTS
b 1753 in Bute Co. N. C.
res. [illegible] Franklin Co. N. C.
res in 1833 Humphreys Co. Tenn.
d. Dec. 6 1835
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27,650
West Tennessee
Jesse Adams of Humphreys Co. in the State of W. Tenn was a Pr in the Company commanded by Captain Whitley of the R[illegible] commanded by Col Senton in the N. Carolina line for Caswell.

S Mo Pr $26.66.

Inscribed on the  Roll of W. Tenn
at the rate of 26. Dollars 66. Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30th day of Sept and Sent to -
34 [illegible] 

Arrears to the 4h of Sept 34 93.33
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mch '35. 13.33
$106.66

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by John T. Sprague, Clerk
Book C2 Vol. 7 Page 81-
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State of Tenissee Humphreys County } On this day being the 20 of September of 1832 personly appeared before me and [illegible] of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for humphreys County and state of of Tenessee Jesse Adams a resedent of humphreys county and State of Tenissee Aged seventy nine years and being first duly sowrn acording to Law doeth on his The Benefitof the provisions made by the Act of Con
gress passed June the 7th 1832 that to the best of his Recollection he entered the service of the united states of america [illegible] a soldeir in the month of october but he does not recollect the date of the year nor dat of the month he states that he was mustered in to service at Kingston in in the State of North Carolina under Capt John Whitley and Matthew Cullars Leutenant in the Regiment Commanded by Col William caswell and that he marched from Kingstown in the army Commanded by general Aash towards Charlestown to Munks corner in South Carolina from then he marched to the White bluffs in [illegible] of augusta wherein they stationed a few days and from there they march on threw augusta and down near the mouth of Brier Creek in pursuit of the British army and that when theay got to a certain Bridg [illegible] the [illegible] Brier Creek the British has crossed the [illegible] Brier Creek and had taken up the bridge he states that our ary was then stationed in the fork between Brier Creek and the Savannah River until the British army marched [illegible] and came down on the back of our troops and attacked our army he states that he was not in the battle of brier creek himself but was sick and had [illegible] Savannah River with the [illegible] he suposes near eight miles above the army and was marched down the River he believes near four miles when the battle began in the evening of the day he states that he could hear the report of the guns and [illegible] arise from the battle he states  that general Ash
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was defeated in sade battle and left his army and [illegible] on the Savannah River and came to the [illegible] near fork of the same evening of the battle he states the next morning the [illegible] was march on to a place known by the name of the white house when the trops began to Ralley together after their struggles a [illegible]] the sade River he states that theay went from the White house to Bee Creek and from their to the Savannah River agane to the white mulberry of fealds when he states he was taken to the ospital and knew no know of of [illegible] of the army until he was discharged in the mounth of march bbut he does not Recollect the day of the mounth he was discharged but states that he was dis charged for a five mounth tower of July he states that he then Returned home to Franklin County in the state of North Carolina where he remained until the date of 1781 in which date he states he agane entered the service of the united states as an orderly surgent under Capt Nicklas Murphy. he states [illegible] theay collected at