Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28964, Reuben Adams, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Mass. Adams, Reuben S. 28964

CONTENTS
I, July 9,1760 at Medway, Mass [Illegible] res. there at [Illegible], after Rev. res. in N.H. [& VA?], in 1832 res of Lunenburg, Worcester Co Mass.
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H 
March
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15.9[3?]9
Massachusetts

Reuben Adams
Worcester in the State of Mass [who] was a Private in the Company [commanded] Captain Thayer of the Regt [commanded] Col. Thayer in the Mass line for 20 monthly 
[Illegible] 

[Inscribed] on the Roll of Massachusetts the rate of 66 Dollars 69 Cents per [annum] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

[Certificate] of Pension issued the [4th?] day of May 1833 and [Illegible] Groton Mass

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $133.34
Semi-anl. allowance ending [Illegible] ,, 33.33
$166.67

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded by D D Addison [Clerk] 
[Book] E Vol. 2.[a?] Page 2
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Declaration of 
Reuben Adams . _ 

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Worcester - SS.

On this fourteenth day of August. Probate AD. 1832 - personally appeared in open Court before the Court of ["Common Pleas" is crossed out], now sitting at Worcester within and for the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth aforesaid Lunenburg in said County Rueben Adams of aged seventy two years Who being 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 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served herein stated. That is to say 

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In the year 1775 when the army lay at Roxbury Ma  one Isachor Adams who was my Brother and a Soldier [in Capt. David's Company?] [Illegible] Col. Reed's Regt. and being decided to leave the army in the spring he [Illegible] me [Illegible] and his [term?] of eight months and I was [recruited?] into the company as his substitute and there joined for the span of seven months [at?] Roxbury when he was dismissed with the Regt of the 8 [Ne? men?] 

[Illegible] In AD 1776 [He engaged?] to go to Rhodeisl' and for 1. mo. [Capn?] [Name crossed out and replaced with "Saluin"?] . [Name?] of [Illegible] and Col. [Long space] Regt. he [marched?] to North Kingstown & there served out his month and then [enlisted?] for 3 months in Capn [Blank], Company in Col: [Blank] Regiment he continued at North Kingstown [Illegible] [for?] time was nearly out and there he came to Providence, and there completed his three months and was dismissed and then he enlisted again for 3 mo. was in Capn. [Blank] Company [Blank] [Illegible] [Lt.^?] in Col. [Blank] Regt. . . he served out his three months and was dismissed near Providence, and again enlisted for another three months. 

Where he served out the ["last" is inserted into the sentence with a "^"] three months and [Illegible].- He went in 1778 to Rhodeisland at the time of [Illegible] in Capn. [Blank] company in Col. [Blank] Regt. when he served only 2 weeks and was dismissed -

He enlisted in the fall of 1780 to go to the Northern Frontier in the Company of Capn Nathan Thayer of [Illegible] in Col. Eben Thayer Regt. for three months he went to that Frontier [Illegible] when [Illegible] was discovered, [Illegible] [word crossed out and "above" is written], West Point When he lived at Lincoln [on?] Merrimack [Illegible] - New Hampshire his house was burned, and all his papers in it, he was [Illegible] of his service. Officer names and other occurrences [Illegible] life on which he relied, not always committing things to memory, his mind and memory are impaired by [Illegible] not call to mind his officers. [Illegible]. 

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71.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
0.02
3. [Illegible]
[Underline]
20.02
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He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever except, the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, [Blank] Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid The [s]ignature of Reuben Adams. [Ink smudge] Before [Something crossed out] Nath Paine Judge of Probate We In the County of Worcester 

Ebenezer Hubbard a Clergy man residing in the town of Lunenburgh [Blank] in the county of Worcester and David Kilburn of the [Illegible handwriting] hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Reuben Adams who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be 72 years of age, that he is reputed  and believed in the neighborhood , where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed ["The day and year aforesaid" is crossed out] Eben Hubbard Before me Esek Whiting Justice of Peace Worcester [Illegible] [July?] 18th, 1833} David Kilburn 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that Ebenezer Hubbard  who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Lunenburg and that [Jarnicel Cunningham?] is of the same town and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 

I [Blank] Nathl Paine Judge of the Probate for the County of Worcester ["Clerk of the court" is crossed out] of do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains, the original proceedings, of the said Court, in the matter of the application of [Blank] for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seat of office this [Blank] day of [Blank] in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty 

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[Illegible] of David Kilburn

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Worcester Js- Commonwealth of Massachusetts - I Theophilus Wheeler Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester do hereby certify that the foregoing contain the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Reuben Adams for Pension. 

I further certify that Esek Whiting [Regt?] before whom Affidavit [Illegible], were made, in a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Worcester . [Duly conceived?] and [Illegible], and that the signature, [Pertaining?] to be his signature, is genuine in each [Illegible] care - In Testimony where I have hereunto [Illegible] hand and [Word covered by seal] in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty three. Theophs Wheeler Reg. of said Court 

[Seal in bottom left corner]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 

["Middlesex" is crossed out and "Worcester" is written above], to wit, 

At the Court of the Probate begun and holden at Worcester within and for the County of Worcester on the fourteenth day of August A.D. 1832 On the application of Reuben Adams claiming to be a Soldier of the Revolution, the following Interrogatories were propounded to him to wit 

1. Where, and what year were you born? Answer, I was born in Medway [Mass?]. 9th July  AD 1760 

2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it [Illegible] Answer, I have a record of my age

3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Answer, I was living in Medway, [&?] from there I [Illegible] to [Illegible] and in [Illegible] I from there to Hubbard [Illegible] for [Illegible], there to Hartland Where Co. there to Leominster there to [Illegible] in [N. Hampshire?] there to [Compton?] there to [Illegible] [Regiment?] there to Hartland, there to [Volunteering?] where he [Illegible]

4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom? Answer, All my [Illegible] were voluntary  and of my own [Illegible] and under my own enlistment save my first service when I was a substitute for my Brother Isachor Adams 

5. 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 [Illegible] of your service Answer, I served Gen. Washington in New York State Gen Sullivan at Rhodisland - Regt. [Illegible] - 6 did you ever receive any discharge from service? and [Illegible] ? any written discharge. - 

["7" written over "6."] State the names of person to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution? Answer, [Illegible] David Kilburn [Illegible] The signature of Reuben Adams [Illegible] David Kilburn Enoch Adams} both of Lunenburg
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Testimony in the call of Reuben Adams
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I Reuben Adams of Lunenburg in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts [Illegible] and say that [Illegible] I made my declaration before the Court of Probate Court on the [Illegible] day of August [Illegible], I have [Illegible] diligently and with much [Illegible] of my services in the war of the Revolution- and [Illegible] a certificate from the office of the Secretary of State in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the [Illegible] therein [Illegible], which is all the documentary evidence I have [Illegible] then declare that I have [Illegible] the Declaration of Isaac Kibbe and Amos Rockwood as proof of my service in said Army of the Revolution, being all the [Illegible] I have been able to find, all Persons who served with me, having either deceased or [Illegible] to places [Illegible] to me. - 

And I do [Illegible] and say that [Illegible] said declaration, [Illegible], of all my revolutionary services, I am now confident that I served [Illegible] AD 1775, and that I served at Rhodeisland under several Captains and various enlistments ten months at one period commencing in the year AD 1776 and afterwards in AD 1778 at the time of [Illegible] served two weeks of Rhodeisland, and afterwards three months under Capt Nathan Thayer of [Illegible] in said Declaration. In presence of Esek Whiting John [Illegible] Reuben [Illegible] Adams 

Worcester [Illegible] Commonwealth of Massachusetts March 14th, 1833 Personally appeared the above named Reuben Adams, and made solemn Oath, that the above declaration by [Illegible] and true in all its [particulars?] according to the best of my knowledge and belief. Before me. Esek Whiting Justice of the Peace 

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We David Kilburn, Joseph Hartwell William Harris and Lincoln Heywood, 

All of Lunenburg in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do each of us for himself [Illegible] testify and say that we have long known Reuben Adams who [Illegible] the foregoing affidavit with his mark and signature, that he is  considered a man of truth and veracity, whose statements, so far as his memory can serve him, [Illegible] to credit and confidence - that it has been reputed and [believed?] in the Neighborhood where he resides that he served in the war of the revolution and this fact was [Illegible] [doubted?] by anyone, that we have read his affidavit aforesaid and verify believe that he served as therein stated. 

David Kilburn Joseph Hartwell William Harris   Lincoln Heywood 

Worcester Js Commonwealth of Massachusetts [Something is crossed out and "March" is written] 14th 1833. Personally appeared the above named David Kilburn Joseph Hartwell William Harris and Lincoln - Heywood. [Blank] and each for himself [personally?] made Oath before me that the above declaration by them respectively [Illegible], is just and true. And I do hereby certify that the above named David Kilburn Joseph Hartwell William [Harris?] and Lincoln Heywood [Blank] are all well known to me to be [Illegible] entitled to faithful and [Illegible] all [Illegible] and in all places. - 

Esek Whiting Justice of the Peace
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28964 
Revy INVALID. 

File No. 28,964
Reuben Adams 
In Rev War

Act: June [7th?] 32' 
Index: -Vol. 8 , Page [3?] 
[ Arrangement of 1870. ]
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26/33 in the case of Reuben Adams 

Private 20 Month
Capt Thayer's Company 
Col Thayer Regt [Illegible] 

[Illegible] 
Groton. Ms.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By His Excellency LEVI LINCOLN , Esquire,
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over
said Commonwealth.

To all whom it may concern:

Know ye, That Nathaniel Johnson Esqr
is a Justice of the Peace for the
County of Middlesex
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commission
ed, and that to his
Acts and Attestations, as
such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court

In Testimony Whereof, I
have caused the Public
Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this
fourteenth d ay
of February A.D. 1833
and in the fifty seventh year of the Independence of
the United States of America

By His Excellency the Governor.
Edward Bangs Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Reuben Adams
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Secretary's Office, Nov. 10 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
Reuben Adams name is borne on a
roll of Capt. Nathan Thayer company in
Col. Ebenezer's Thayer's regiment of new
levies from the County of Suffolk raised for 3 Mo.
to reinforce the Continental army"
for the space
of 3 months and 6 days from the 14th of
July 1760
Signature of Edward D Bangs  Secy

Ex
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Affidavits
in the call of 
Reuben Adams
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I Isaac Kibbe of Holliston in the County of Middlesex
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of Eighty five years of age
and upwards, do testify and say, that I was well acquainted with
Reuben Adams who lived in Midway, Mass. about forty
or fifty years ago and who is now said to live in Lunenburg in the
County of Worcester

I remember that said Reuben went with
me down to Roxbury near Boston counting in the spring or
summer of 1775 and, I think, he then joined the revolutionary
at that time. I understood that he went down on an alarm
said Reuben at said Roxbury not being myself in any military
detachment and returned to Medway
during the revolutionary war I lived the said
Renter's father in Midway and know or understood from his
family that he served as a soldier in the eight months
service at Roxbury for a considerable time, and afterwards
in divers other campaigns during almost the whole of that
war, but not having been personally engaged in any military
service myself, and unable to state particulars
I have never had any doubt, nor heard any expressed by others
of Reuben Adams having served as a soldier during most of the revolutionary war -
Signature of Isaac Kibbe

Middlesex ss. February 12. 1833. Then appeared Isaac Kibbe, subscriber to the foregoing deposition, and made oath that the statements
therein contained are true to the best of his motion & belief
before me and I certify that the deponent is known to me as a
man of truth & voracity-
Nathaniel Johnson Justice of the Peace
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I Amos Rockwood of Holliston in the County of Middlesex and
Commonwealth of Massachusetts of Eighty one years of age and
upwards, to testify and say that served as a soldier in the revolutionary war in the service of the minute man, so
called, previous to the enlistment for eight months, in the month
of April 1775 at Roxbury near Boston, being called out into that
service immediately after the battle of Lexingtonand
I member
that while engaged at Roxbury on that service, I saw Reuben
Admins then of Midway Mess. but now said to be of Lunenburg
Mass in the due and with the equipment of a soldier with his
give & understood from him that he was then attached to a
company at a little distant from there I was stationed
I had then I have now no doubt that he was serving as a soldier
at that time & for a long time afterwards, but being my dischay
soon after, I cannot state the precise length of time of
I further state that I have always understood that said
Reuben served as a soldier deny most part of the revolution
any war under various different officers, and more has
any doubt that such was the fact-
Amos Rockwood
Middlesex ss. February 12. 1833. Then appeared Amos
Rockwood, subscriber to the foregoing deposition and made oath that the
statements therein contained were true according to the best of his
recollection & belief before me. And I further certify that the
deponent is known to me as a man of truth & veracity -
Nathaniel Johnson Justice of the Peace