Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3721, Adam Fox, Md.
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(3-1776)
Service: Md

Fox, Adam

Number: R. 3721
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434,700
Adam Fox
Indiana
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State of Indiana
Ripley County
This day personally appeared in open court before the court of probate within and for the County of Ripley and State of Indiana now sitting Adam Fox a resident of this county of Ripley and State of Indiana aged seventy 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 this act of congress passed [illegible] the seventh one thousand eight hundred and thirty two that he entered the [illegible] in the State of Maryland in the County of Frederic under the following named officers to [illegible] Captain Voluntino Cregger [Creggan] Lieutenant Levy in the month of October in the year 1779 that he served for the space of two months at Frederic Town in the county of Frederic and State of Maryland [illegible] the [illegible] that he gave a discharge which was signed by Captain Voluntino Cregger [Creggan] which discharge has been lost he knows of no living witness by whom he can prove his services he hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except this present and disclaims that his name is not on the pension book of the [illegible] of any state or territory what ever. Adam [illegible] Fox

Sworn to and subscribed in open court the twentieth day of August 1839 [illegible]

I Meshach Hyatt A clergyman residing in the County of Ripley and State of Indiana and Ninian Beall Resident in the same County and State hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adam Fox who has [illegible] and sworn to the Above Declaration that we believe
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Him to be 75 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 [illegible] [illegible] in that opinion Meshach Hyatt Ninian Beall

Sworn to and subscribed Nineteenth Day of April 1839  C. [illegible] Clk [Clerk]

Interrogators put by this court first which and in what year were you born
answer I was born in the County of Frederic in the State of Maryland on the sixteenth day of July in the year 1764
Second have you any record of your age and if so where is it
Answ my age was recorded in my father's family bible when I left the State of Virginia about thirty years ago [illegible] to take a copy of this family record I have never seen my father since that time
what became of the record 
I do not know I have no record of the [illegible]
Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live
Answer when called into servis I lived in the County of Frederic and State of Maryland from 
[illegible] I removed to the county of Augusta in the State of Virginia where I lived about 27 years from there I removed into the State of Ohio County of Knox where I lived almost five years from there to the county of Hamilton in said State of Ohio from there I removed to the County of Ripley in [illegible] State of Indiana where I now live
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4th how was you called into Servis was you Drafted Did you volunteer or were you A Substitute and iff A substitute for whom - Answer I Entered the servis of the united States as a Substitute for one Henry Reid
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 been (illegible) and the General Circumstances of your servis - Answer at the time that I hired as A substitute I was between fifteen and sixteen years of age I was serving with Col. Joseph Wood in the County of Frederic and State of Maryland and I believe Col. Wood was A Regular officer we met and [illegible][illegible] at frederic town in the county of frederic and State of Mariland for the purpose of Marching to Georgetown on the potomac River to prevent the British troops from Landing at Georgetown But when we got to frederic town we Received word that the British had Retiered from Georgetown the Company that was a frederic town in frederic county and State of Mariland guarding the refugees and [illegible]
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I am as to for varescity and their Belief of your Services as a Soldier of the Revolulition and John Stockwell John Craven & Joseph Stockwell And the Said Court Do hearby Declare their oppinion after the Investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war Department that this Above Named Adam Fox was A Revolutionary Soldier and Served as he States and the Court further certifys that it Appears to them that Meshack Hyatt who has Signed the pre ceding Certificate is A. Clergyman Resident in the said County of Ripley and State of indiana and that Ninian Beall is A credible person and that their statement is Entitled to credit

Morton Craig
Probate Judge

State of Indiana 
Ripley County 
I Conrad Overturf Clerk of the Probate Court of Ripley County do hereby certify that the foregoing con-tains the original procedings of the Said cCourt in the matters of the application of Adam Fox for a pension. In testi mony whereof I have here unto Set my hand and seal of office this 31st day of August A.D. 1839 
C. Overturf Clerk
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Department of the Interior. 
Pension Office.

Old war Div.
[illegible] Ind Ex'r
No. R. 3721
Co. Reg't
Return this letter with your reply.

Washington, D.C. May 7th, 1887

Sir,
In reply to your enquiry of the 30th ult relative to an application for a pension which was made by your father, Adam Fox, as a soldier in the war of the Revolu-tion, I have to State that while he was residing in Ripley County, Inda. he filed an application, in which he only claimed to have rendered military duty for two months - As the law required at least a service of six months for a Revolutionary Soldier to obtain a pension the attorney was informed Nov 30. 1839, that Mr. Fox was not entitled.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner 
Mr. Jacob Fox
74  Gist St
Cincinnati
Ohio
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Cincinnati Ohio
Apl 30th AD 1887
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Sir,
My father, Adam Fox, now deceased served during the Revolutionary War in either the Mary=land or Virginia Troops. He was a native of Maryland but probably served in the Vir=ginia Line. He came West - from Augusta Co. Va, about AD 1808 or 9. Some time between AD 1835 & "42, Stephen Harden of Ripley Co and Representative in Congress I think, filed a claim of some kind for my father so I was told by my mother. My parents are both dead. About the Winter of AD 1858 or 59 I got a letter from an Atty of Wash=ington DC, I think, addressed to my father or his heirs, asking certain questions which I then answered. Since then I have heard nothing from the matter

Please inform me whether such a claim was filed, what was done with it, and its present status and, in short - any proper information on the subject

All or nearly of my papers were destroyed by the Ohio River Flood
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of Act 1883.

Very Respectfully
Jacob Fox
his mark

Attest
Thos W Karr

Address
No 74 (illegible) st
Cincinnati
(illegible)

PENSION OFFICE
USA
MAY
3
1887
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. (crossed out)

3721

P.O. Adam Fox
Service:
Enlisted: REJECTED, 18
Discharged:, 18

Application filed:, 18
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.

Recognized. Contract
Cert. of Dis.  Searched for, 18
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1887 May 7 - Jacob Fox that his father
rendered only two mos service & was not
entitled to a pension for the reason the prior
law required 6 mos
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4
Adam Fox
Indiana

Rejected

Sec let. 28th Nov.
1839 J. Robinson

served less than six months.

3721

Act of June 1832
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The Honorable Mr Comm person
of pentions or
Honorable The Secretary of War
For the united States of America
Washington Citty
District of
Columbia

Received Leter
July 2+

Sept 23

34, 900
Md.
Adam Fox
Oct 32.
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The Honorable Wm Comm person
of pentions or
Honorable The Secretary of War
For the United State of America
Washington Citty
District of
Columbia

Received Leter
Ja/2t y

Sept 23

34,900
Md.
Adam Fox
Oct. 32.
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[illegible] Sept 24 39
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Versailles Indiana September the 19th 1839

Dear Sir Thomas Johnson who was A Soldier of the Revolutionary war and who Resided at the time of his death In the County of decatur and State of Indiana and who Drew a pention for many years before his Death also Ning Bell and William Lippard and Henry Willyard all of whom was Soldiers of the Revolutionary war and Resident in the County of Ripley and State of Indiana Said was In the Receipt of Questions at this this time of there Deaths they have all Left surviving widows to wit Sarah Johnson Agnes Willyard and Christianne Beall and Mary Lippard all of Whom wish to Apply for pentions under and by Authority of the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836 and the 3rd of March 1837 the Said Thomas Johnson Ning Bell William Lippard and Henry Willyard at this time of there Deaths Left an (illegible) of pention Due and in order to obtain this (illegible) was Required to Surrender there pentions Certificate of there Deceased Husbands which Said Certificate I suppose has been Returned to the proper office in order to Enable the widows of Deceaseds pentioners to Identify themselves as the widow of the Deceased it is necessary for them to set out the origional pention Certificate of their Deceased husband and as they must has on (illegible) in this office over which your pensioners (illegible) to me at Versailles Indiana the origional Certificate of the Said Johnson Beall Lippard and Willyard iff it is in Accordance with the (illegible) of your office iff not please send me A Certified Coppy of the same I (illegible)Send the papers of M. Adam Hon who Claims A (illegible) iff the papers are Deficient please point out the Deficiency to me Let me hear from you as soon as Convenient

yours Respectfully
Joseph Robinson