Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5064, for Adam Maxwell, Pennsylvania
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Service                                       Number
Penn.         Maxwell, Adam       S.5064
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Contents

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4999
Pittsburgh Agency
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Adam Maxwell
of the State of Pennsylvania who was a pri & Lieut. in the company commanded by Captain Shirley of the Regt. commanded by Captain Pomeroy in the Penna line for:
Private 5 mos.             $16.66
Lieut.    6 mos.               80.00
                                    $ 96.66
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Agency at the rate of 96 dollars 66 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 1st day of February 1833 and sent to Hon, J. Gilmore House Reps.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832            $144.99
Semi-anl allowance 11 Mar 1833        48.33
                                                        $193.32

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832,}

Recorded by Vinal Luce Clerk,
Book D Vol. 2 Page 200

[left side]
Dead
Paid at the Tuscsany under Act of April 6th, 1838 from 4 Sept 1836 to 17 May 1837 Agent notified 9 May 1838.
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11221
Declaration of Adam Maxwell
for benefits of Pension
Act passed June 7, 1832

6 mo. Lieutenant                  80.00
5 mos Private                        16.66
                                              ______
                                               96.66
$96.66 per annum

Hon.  D. Gilmore
                    Ho. Reps
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State of Pennsylvania
Armstrong County} Ss
 On this nineteenth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong County now sitting Adam Maxwell a resident of Buffaloe Township County and State aforesaid aged eighty 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 7th AD 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. To wit: I volunteered in the militia, under General John Proctor in the fall of 1777 or 1778 [words crossed out] does not now recollect which of the years, our Colonel was Pomeroy who commanded regiments; our Major was Alexander Ban, John Shields was our Captain, James Moore was our first Lieutenant and I was [word crossed out] Second Lieutenant. I was living in Westmoreland County when I attached myself to the army. Shortly after I joined the army [?] we marched ^ by our Colonel to Woodbridge, New Jersey which we made our headquarters.. The British had theirs Head quarters at Amboy or Brunswick, about three miles from our station. The headquarters of General Washington were at Morristown New Jersey. Our regiment was not under any of the officers of the United States Army. during our stay at Woodbridge, we had several skirmishes with the British, in preventing them from plundering the farmers; but we [g..mer?] at fighting. On one occasion
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(the day or month this applicant does not now recollect) the British marched such force against us, as compelled us to retreat to Ash Swamp where we were reinforced by General [Measucle?] and then we had some fighting, on the evening of the same day we received an additional reinforcement and after some fighting we forced the British to retreat to their station. [word crossed out] we returned then to our encampment at Woodbridge, where we remained until our term of six months had expired, and then we marched to General Washingtons head quarters to receive our pay & were directed to Philadelphia for our pay  & there received our pay when we were discharged by our Colonel, I then returned to Westmoreland County. My commission as Lieutenant, and my discharge has been lost of destroyed; believing that they would be of no services or use to me.  I took no particular care of them I remember that Captain Alexander Craig, now of Westmoreland was out with force in the service at the battle of Ash Swamp who, I am informed is yet living, but for reason of sickness has (illegible) best of his recollection. I do not now recollect any other persons who were in said company whose statement I can attain.   Before (illegible) to New Jersey in the year 1776 i Was selected by General Charles Camplele & James Barr from the militia ranks and directed to enter the service as an Indian Spy - that there were six in the company - viz.- Capt. Joseph Eagers, Benjamon Leisure, John Leisure, Capt. Jeremiah Loughreys - John Cooper and myself were directed to spy from the waters of Yellow Creek in Pennsylvania to Brackens Elk Licks on the waters _____ thence to Wm. Mason's on the waters of Pleasant Creek and thence up the heads of Pleasant Creek to meet other spies on Buffaloe Creek to give intelligence of the Indian, which was published to the inhabitants.  It was five or six  (next page)
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months in the service as a spy.  I know that some of the before mentioned persons who were not with me as spies are dead and the others I do not know where they reside.

    I thereby relinquish any claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension foll of an agency in any state.
                                               //s//
                                       Adam Maxwell
Sworn & subscribed the
day and year aforesaid.
                 //s//
           Fredk. Rohrer, Pro.

   I John Craig of Buffaloe township, Armstrong County & State of Penna. aged eighty years do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Adam Maxwell whom has sworn to & subscribed the foregoing declaration and believe him to be the age stated by him as the foregoing declaration and recollect that he was a volunteer and a Leiutenant as stated in his application and that my brother Alexander Craig was a volunteer in the same regiment with Adam Maxwell.  That they marched from Westmoreland, I think in the year 1777, intending to join Gen. Washington's Army in New Jersey.  They went away in the fall and returned the following spring.  I often heard my brother Alexander say that Adam Maxwell was at the battle of Ashswamps along with him, Adam Maxwell is reputed in the neighborhood to be a revolutionary soldier, and is believed to be a man of veracity and I believe the facts stated in relation to his being in the service as an Indian spy to be true.  
                                          //s//
                                    John Craig
 
Sworn & subscribed 
           //s//
   Fredk. Rohrer Pro.
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Interrogatories.

1st.  Where and in what year were you born?  Answer.  In Cumberland County, State of Pennsylvania. I was born in the year 1752.

2nd. Have you a record of your age, and if so where is it?
Answer. I have no record of my age, but was informed of it by my parents.

3rd.  Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolution and where do you now live?
Answer. I was living in Westmoreland County, State of Pennsylvania when called into service.  I have live in the counties of Westmoreland & Armstrong ever since the Revolutionary War and now live in Armstrong as stated in my declaration. 

4th.  How were you called into service; were you drafted or did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if so, a substitute for whom?
Answer.  I was a volunteer and not drafted and never was a substitute.

5th.  State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops, where you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer. We were not under any regular officers but in the manner stated in my declaration.

6th.  Did you receive a commission and if so, by whom was it signed and what has become of it?
Answer. I was commissioned a Second Lieutenant, and I received it from the State Government and is post or destroyed as stated in my declaration.

7th.  State the names of persons to whom you are known in your neighborhood to (next page)
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Answer. Captain John Craig, (illegible) Senior Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong County. 

    We Robert Orr & John Reddick a clergyman residing in the county of Armstrong, State of Penna. hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adam Maxwell who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration; that we believe him to be eighty years of age.  That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolutionary war, and that we concur in that opinion.

                                        //s//
                                  Robert Orr
                                        //s//
                                  John Reddick 
Sworn & Subscribed,
the day and year aforesaid.
              //s//
        Fredk. Rohrer Pro. 

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above-named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he stated.  And the court further certifies that John Craig, who signed the said certificate, and Robert Orr, are residents of Armstrong County and that John Reddick who signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman & a resident of the aforesaid county and is a credible person and that their statements are entitled to credit.

                                           //s//
                                    John Young
                                          //s//
                                    Joseph Rankin
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I Frederick Rohrer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Armstrong County, State of Penna. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Adam Maxwell for a pension.

  In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Kittanning this 19th day of Sept. A.D. 1832.

                                         Fredk. Rohrer Proth.
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Treasury Department
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 8th, 1838.

Sir,
   Under the act of the 6th of APril, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States", Elizabeth Maxwell, widow of Adam Maxwell a Pensioner on the Roll of the Pittsburgh, Penn. Agency, at the rate of Ninety six dollars and sixty six cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th September 1836 to the 17th of May 1837, the day of said pensioners death.

                                Respectfully yours,
                                        //s//
                                 Abion K. Parris
                                Comptrller


To the Commissioner of Pensions,
                                        Present
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5064
Revolutionary
INVALID
File No. 5064
Adam Maxwell
Lieut  Rev.  War

Act:  June 7th 1832
Index:-Vol. M, Page 236.

{Arrangement of 1870.)

May 9, '98
Sm. Schall
Chicago, Ills.
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Samuel Brecht Sayle. 
Henry Newton Miller
Samuel McNeal Schall.

Bayle, Miller & Schall,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
501-502 Roanoke Building,
S.E. Cor. La Salle and Madison Streets

Chicago, May 2, 1898

 The Commissioners of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

   Would you inform me what your records show in regard to Adam Maxwell of Armstrong Co, Pa.  I am informed that he rec'd a pension in 1833 or 1831,  Kindly inform me what co & reg. and time of service.

    Thanking your for any information that you may give me.

                                      I am yours truly,
                                      S.M. Schall

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PENSION
   MAY
U.   4    S.
    1898
  OFFICE
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Samuel Brecht Sayle
Henry Newton Miller
Samuel McNeal Schall

Bayle, Miller & Schall
Attorneys and Counselors at Law,
501-502 Roanoke Builsing
A.E. Cor. La Salle and Madison Streets

Chicago April 29, 1898

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

   Would you kindly inform me in regard to the service of Adam Maxwell of Armstrong Co, Pa.  He drew a pension in 1831 March 4 was a private & lieutenant, kindly inform me as to what war he was in name of Co. & Regiment. 
    Thanking you for any information you may give me. 
                         I am yours truly.
                         S. M. Schall

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PENSION
   MAY
U.   2   S.
   1898
OFFICE