Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 290, Hezekiah Adkins, Va.
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Mr Elias Humphrey
a clergyman residing in the
County of Carle State of Virginia and Elisha McComas of the same County & State aforesaid
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with
Hezekiah Adkins who subscribed & was sworn
to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that Opinion
Elias Humphrey
Elisha McComas
Sworn to and subscribed this day & year aforesaid in open Court.
And the said court is hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories presented by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he states.
And the court further certifies that it appears to
them that Elias Humphrey who signed the preceeding
Certificate is a clergyman resident in Cabell county & that Elisha McComas  who has also signed the same is a resident
in the same county and is a credible person & that their
statement is entitled to credit.
I John Samuel, Clerk of the Court of Cabell County
Virginia do hereby certify that the foregoing contains
the original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of Hezekiah Adkins sent for a pension.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand seal of Office this 11th day of
May 1835 in the 59th year of the commonwealth.
[signed] John Samuels

[there is a Virginia County Court Seal stamped in bottom left corner of letter]
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Cabell C.H. Va
Febu 22nd, 1854

Honl. L P Waldo
Dear Sir

Sometime in the fall of 1852 I empowered one Isaac N Coffin of Washington City to prosecute my claim as the widow of Hezekiah Adkins for services as Revolutionary pensioner and have since frequently written him, but can obtain no information. Will you be kind enough to inform me if he as ever done anything in the premises, it will confer a great [illegible].

Yours Truly

Mary Adkins 
by Thos. Thornburg
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Cabell C., VA
Sept 17th [illegible]

There is living in my County the widow
of a Revolutionary soldier who several years ago made a declaration and sent to the Department in order to draw a pension, nothing was ever heard from the Department, and he shortly afterwards died. The widow is still living and from evidence she believes
she is entitled to a pension & Land. Will you be
kind enough to furnish me with the law and the
necessary forms to enable her to prosecute her
claim.
The name of the soldier is Hezekiah
Atkins. I have no doubt you will find his
declaration on file in the office. Will you
attend to this as soon as your duties will allow you

Yours Respectfully

W. C. Miller