Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18681, Amos Adams, Continental Mass.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
Mass.

Adams, Amos

NUMBER
S.18681

carded
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CONTENTS

b. 1747 in Peperell, Mass.
res at enl, Groton, Mass.
res in 1832, Madison, Somerset Co. Me.
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11,418
Maine
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Amos Adams
of Kennebec, Co. in the State of Maine who was a Sgt in the Company commanded by Captain Farwell of the Regt commanded by Col Prescott in the Mass Troops + Continental
15 Mo Sergeant ~ $75.00
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Transcribed on the Roll of - Maine - at the rate of 75 Dollars ~ per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of April and sent to Augusta, Me, 1833  J. Massey, R. C. Vose.
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833
[AMOUNTS RESPECTIVELY]
150.00
37.520
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187.50
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{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J. T. Sprague, Clerk,
Book E Vol. 1 Page Six
Death not on A.B.
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Declaration.
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In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.

STATE OF MAINE,}
SOMERSET COUNTY,}ss.

On this Eighth day of August A.D. 1832, personally appeared before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jun'r, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Amos Adams a resident of Madison, in the County of Somerset, and State of Maine, aged Eighty-five 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 provision make by the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1775 with Captain Zachariah Farwell and served in Col. William Prescott's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: Farwell Captain, Prescott Colonel, that in April 1775 he enlisted and served three months as a Sergeant in [illegible] company and regiment, and was verbally discharged a the end of his term in Cambridge, Massachusetts. That in September 1775 he again enlisted as a Sergeant in Capt. Haskell's company and Col. William Prescott's Massachusetts regiment. That he served two months, and was verbally discharged at Cambridge in February 1776. That in June or July 1777 he again enlisted as a Sergeant in Capt. Lakin's Massachusetts company, but does not remember the name of his Colonel. That in this company he served five months, and was verbally discharged Warwick, Rhode Island, in October or November 1777. That the preceding year in June or July 1776, he enlisted as a Sergeant in Capt. Zachariah Fitch's company and Col. Brewer's Massachusetts regiment. That in this company he served five months, and was verbally discharged at Ticonderoga in November 1776.

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And on the [missing] propounded under the instructions of the [missing] then, he [missing] answers: That he was born in Peperell, Massachusetts in 1747, where he believes his age is recorded. That in 1767 he removed to Groton, Massachusetts, where his home was during his revolutionary services. That in 1787 he removed to Norridgewock, Maine, and in the present year removed to Madison, where he now lives. That his first and second were with the [illegible] army and that in his second service, he was employed in building a fort at Lechmere's Point, Cambridge. That he never took any written discharge. That at the above periods, he enlisted, was not drafted or received as a substitute. That in 1777 he served at Providence and at Warwick in the state of Rhode Island. That in 1776 he served at Ticonderoga and was stationed at Massachusetts, and at that time Epithet, Benedict Arnold was defeated on Lake Champlain. That he cannot state names, particularly the names of his officers That his son Amos Adams [illegible] will testify to his going into the above services. That any of his above at Norridgewock, where he lived forty years will certify to his character for veracity.

He hereby relinquishes every 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.
[SIGNED: Amos Adams]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid, Before
[SIGNED: Nathan Weston, Jr.]
Judge S. J. C.

And that the said Judge does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
[SIGNED: Nathan Weston, Jr.]

State of Maine
April 4, 1833. It has been made to appear to my satisfaction that the above named applicant, by means of age + infirmity, cannot without prejudice to his health appear in open Court to renew his declaration + again to make oath to the same.
[SIGNED: Nathan Weston, Jr.]
Judge S.J.C.
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Amos Adams, Sergeant
Capt. Farwell Co. Prescott Mass. Reg't.
April 1775 - 3 mo ~ as Seg't ----- 3---
Capt. Haskell's Co. Prescott's Reg't
from Dec. 1775 ro Feb. "76 ------ 2---
Capt Larkin's Co. don't know Col.
June or July to Oct or Nov 77 ---- 5---
Capt Fiter Co. Brewer - Mass Reg't
in 1776 --- 5 months ------------- 5---
---------------------- Sept -------- 15---

Claim out 85  years old. certificate Clergyman
Depo - Calvin Russell - + E. D. Bays Cert.

Applicant infirm, Certified by Judge in open Court Apr. 4, 1833

15 mos. Serg't $75-

State of Maine
I, Amos Adams, Jr., aged sixty-six years next January, upon oath certify and declare that I know that my father, Amos Adams, then of Groton, Massachusetts, now of Madison, Maine, went into service at four distinct periods in the War of the Revolution, and that I understand he served each time as a Sergeant. [SIGNED: Amos Adams Jr.]

Subscribed and sworn , April 11, 1832, the deposed being a credible witness.
Before [SIGNED: Nathan Weston, Jr.] 
Judge S.P.C



R. C. Vose,
Augusta, Me.
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State of Maine.
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KENNEBEC, ss. -I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the HON. Nathan Weston, Jun'r, before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge, in the matter of the application of Amos Adams for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 15th day October, A.D. 1832.
[SIGNED: J. A. Chandler] Clerk.
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18681
INVALID.
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File No. 18.681
Amos Adams
Serg't Rev. War
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Act: June , "32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 3

[Arrangement of 1870.]
Gen. notes by N.D. Adams
Dec. 1883.

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June 8, 1900
Miss Mariam Emma Sawyer
Spokane, Wash.
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Oaths of Ths. Heald
+
Edm'd Parker
case of Amos Adams




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Amos Adams
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State of Maine.
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We, Obadiah Witherell, Thomas Heald, residing in the town of Norridgewock in the County of Somerset and Edmund Parker residing in the same town, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Amos Adams who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration; that we believe him to be eighty-five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
[SIGNED: Obadiah Witherell]
[SIGNED: Thomas Heald]
[SIGNED: Edmund Parker]

State of Maine.
Somerset ss.- Sworn and subscribed this fourth day of September A.D. 1832.

Before me,
[SIGNED: Joshua Gould] Justice of the Peace

Joshua Gould, Esq. is a Justice of the Peace, and Obadiah Witherell, Thomas Heald, Edmund Parker are credible persons + their statement is entitled to be believed.
[SIGNED: Nathan Weston, Jr.]
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I Calvin Russell now resident in Moscow in
the County of Somerset, and State of Maine, aged 71 years formaly
of Groton Massachusetts depose and say
hat I was intimately acquainted with Amos Adams formaly of Groton Massachusetts now resident of Mason in the County
of Somerset and date of Maine, in the war of the revolution and that he served as a sergeant in Capt Nathaniel Larkin Company in the militia  in Col. Regiment in the three months in the year 1779. In the state or Rhode Island. I was in the same Regiment and company, and served with him, and know him to be a faithful soldier,  and performed his duty.  
Calvin Russell

State of Maine
Somerset Co. On the ninth day of August 1832
Calvin Russell appeared a witness of good reputation and entitled to belief personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him signed. Before me Joseph Russell Justice. 
[illegible] is a justice. 
Nathan Weston Justice
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Amos Adams
[next two words crossed out]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Ex
Secretary's Office, October 30, 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears
that the name of Amos Adams is borne on a
Pay Roll of Captn Nath. Lakin's company in Col.
John Jacobs regiment, as having been paid for service as a sergeant from Han 15th to November 16th 1779 a period of two months & eight days.
Edward D Bangs, Secy
I further certify that there are no rolls of either
Capt. Hanwell's or Capt. Haskell's companies in Col. Prescott's Regt for 1775 or 1776, or any rolls of Capt. Fitch's company in Col. Brewer's regt for 1776, to be found in this office.

Edward D. Bangs Secy
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Spokane, Wash
May twenty-seventh
Bureau of Pensions:
Will you
please tell me whether or not the
name of Amos
Adams appears
on the records as
having drawn a
pension on a war 
the Revolutionary
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War and whether I am eligible to membership in the D.A.R.
Respectfully yours
(Miss) Marion Entia Savage
#2022 Riverside Avenue
Spokane Wash.
dv was Benjamin Richards a pensioner

[Stamp]
O.W.N. Division
Jun 6 1900
Received
[End stamp]