Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45177, Stephen Adams, N. H.
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N H
Adams, Stephen
S45177
enl. in New Ipswich, N H
in 1818 aged 81 yrs & res. Palmyra, Ontario Co., NY
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17, 437
New York                R
Stephen Adams   
of Ontario Co in the state of New York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by   Colonel Reids of the New Hampshire line for the term  of the war.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 17th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of June 1820 and sent to Stephen Phelps Esq, Canandaigua, N York.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820  $180.76
Semi annl.. all'ce ending 4th Sep 1820 $48.00
22 mos 14/30 and 4/31          $229.76
{Revolutionary Claim, Acct 18th March 1818}
Palmyra Continental
Ontario Coty
Died Feb 3 1827 New York
Notification sent June 14, 1821 . Stephen Phelps Esq [illegible] New York
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Palmyra
Stephen Adams
April 17, 1818
New Hampshire line
The Honorable Secry of War
Further evidence of service wanting


Palmyra
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State of New Hampshire
Ontario County
On this 17th day of April, 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared Stephen  Adams aged eighty one years, resident in the town of Palmyra in the county and state aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War that he the said Stephen Adams enlisted in April 1781 in New Ipswich in the State of New Hampshire in the company commanded by Captain Chase of the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment commanded by Col Reed, that he continued to serve in said corps (except three months that he was detached in a regiment commanded by Col. Scammel to Kingsbridge and other places)   until the close of the war when he was discharged from service at West Point in the state of New York, that he was in the Battle at Kingsbridge.  And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.  And having lost his discharge, he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Stephen Adams
Sworn to declared and subscribed this 17th day of April 1818 before me Stephen Phelps, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Ontario and State of New York
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Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario and State of New York do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Stephen Adams did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the proceeding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceeding and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
Stephen Phelps

[illegible]
April 17 1818
Ontario County ss
I Stephen Phelps a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify from satisfactory evidence exhibited before me that Stephen Adams the aforementioned applicant is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance from his country for support.
Canandaigha
July 17 1818
Stephen Phelps
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The Honorable Secretary of War if my claims are allowed will please to forward a certificate thereof to Stephen Phelps [illegible] Canandaguia who is my agent.
Stephen Adams
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Stephen Adams
Priv
Col Reid's New Hampshire Regt
1781 - War
17th Apr 1818 on roll
"Stephen Phelps Esq
Canandaigjua, NewYork"
Palmyra
Ontario Co
N York
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State of New York
Ontario County
Clerks Office

In testimony that Stephen Phelps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificate was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Ontario and that the same is his signature. I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the county seal at Canandaigua this 24th day of April AD 1818.
Hon McNaw, Clerk
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
KEL

July 11, 1929

Mrs. L. M. Ottofy
5228 Vernon Avenue
Saint Louis, Missouri

Madam,

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.45177. it and served until the end of the war as a private in Captain Chase's Company, Colonel Reid's New Hampshire Regiment; was in the battle of Kingsbridge.
He was allowed pension so his application executed April 17, 1818, at which time he was a resident of Palmyra, Ontario County, New York, and was aged eighty one years.
He died February 3, 1827.
There are no data as to his family.
The above noted is the history of the only soldier named Stephen Adams, who served from New Hampshire, that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
Respectfully,
Earl D. Church
Commissioner

Note: Date of death from agency book
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1929 July 11.  Hist. to Mrs. L. M. Ottopy
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45177
INVALID
Revy
File No 45177
Stephen Adams
Priv Rev War
Act: 18th March 1818
Index: Vol 3, Page 5
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Case of Stephen Adams
600

17477
Sept 20
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Con

J.L.E.
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State of New York
Ontario County, ss.
On this twentieth day of February 1821 personally appeared in open Court, (being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said county, and constituted a Court of Record by proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeping a record of its proceedings, and recognized as such Court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,) Stephen Adams aged eighty three years, resident in the town of Palmyra in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
That he enlisted in Ipswich in New Hampshire, he believes in the year 1779 or 1780 in Capt Chase's company in Col Reid's regiment for the term of three years in the New Hampshire line and at the expiration of said war received an honorable discharge from serving a West Point in the state of New York at the close of the war.
and that he made application for a pension on the seventeenth day of April 1815 and that he received a Pension Certificate, No. 17,437.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day f March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, ad that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the  provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,", passed on the 18th day of March, 1818, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed, viz.
No property of any description.  And I further declare and swear that by age and infirmities I have for several years been part labour and have been dependent for support on public charity untill I received a pension.
Stephen (his mark) Adams
Sworn to and declares this 20th day of February 1820 in open court before me,
Micah Brooks
Ontario Common Pleas
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Ontario County, ss

I, J. Van Fosen, Clerk of said county, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said court; and I farther certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is ___________________ dollars and ________cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on the second day of March 1821.
J. Van Fossen, Clerk of the court aforesaid, in and for said county.
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State of New York
Ontario County ss
On the eighteenth day of September 1819 before me , Stephen Phelps, a judge of Ontario Common Plea personally appeared Silas Rawson aged fifty four years, or shall be next month, to me known to be a credible witness, now a resident in Whites Town in Oneida County and state aforesaid who being duly sworn deposith and saith that he is personally acquainted with Stephen Adams whose application for a pension is hereunto attached and who now resides in the Town of Palmyra in said county of and that he became acquainted with said Adams in the year 1782 in the Continental Revolutionary Army that deponent at that time was a private soldier in the three year service in the 6th Massachusetts regiment and in the winter of 1783 was quartered at [illegible] in the stat of New York and that the new Hampshire troops to which the said Adams belonged, was quartered near them and that he frequent saw the said Stephen Adams ding the duty of a private in the Hampshire line, what regiment he does not recollect and that he has frequently seen and conversed with him [illegible] the close of the war. and has no doubt of his receiving an honorable discharge from [illegible] and that deponent has no interest directly nor indirectly [illegible] of said Adams ' application for a pension and further saith not.
Silas Rawson
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid before me,
Stephen Phelps, [illegible]
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This is all the proof this claiment has been able to procure.  I am personally acquainted with the applicant, Mr. Adams and by [illegible] report believe him to be an honest man and who is to old and infirm as to be obliged to live on the charity of the people and having received information from the Pension officer that the N Hampshire rolls were known to be correct induced me to forward the claim for further examination.
Stephen Phelps
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National Society
United States Daughters of 1812
March 12/29
Pension Commissioner

Sir,  Will you kindly inform me if you have any record of my gr. gr. grandfather Stephen Adams [illegible] N H having a pension for service in Revolutionary War?
I find in Henry Adams genealogy a record of his having a pension applied for by Newberry".
He served in Enoch Hale's regiment and enlisted June 19, 1777, marched from New Ipswich N H to Ticonderoga, returned to Ridge July 3, 1777.  He had 3 sons in Revolution, one named Stephen Jr. in Capt  Ezra Town's company.  My ancestor Stephen Adams was born in 1715 in Dunstable N H.  Thanking
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you for this information.
(Mrs. L M)