Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16092, Joseph Adams, N. H.
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N H
Adams, Joseph
Elizabeth
W. 16092
res. at. enlis. Newington, Rockingham Co. N H
d Dec 20 1820
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1883 Augt N [illegible] Adams - history
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Portsmouth N. Hamp. 697
Elizabeth Adams
widow of Joseph Adams, decd.
who died on the 20 December 1820
of Rockingham in the state of N J
who was a Pri & Corpl in the company commanded
by Captain Perkins of the Regt commanded 
by Col. Long N. H. in the N. H.
line for 3 months and 21 days Private
12 mos. Corporal
Inscribed on the roll of Portsmouth
at the rate of 56 dollars 33 cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of April 1837 and sent Wm. B Parker, Portsmouth, NH
Arrears to the 4th of March 1837 $337.98
Semi Anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1837 28.16
$366.14
{Revolutionary Claim 
Act July 4 1836
Section the 3rd}
Recorded by  D D Addison, Clerk
Book A, Vol 1, Page 25
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the Act of Congress of the 4th July 1836.
State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham
On this 8th day of December AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty six, personally appeared before the Superior Court of [illegible] of the state aforesaid now in session at Exeter in said county, Elizabeth Adams a resident of Newington in the county and state aforesaid, aged seventy six years, who being first duly sworn according to law. doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836.
That she is the widow of Joseph Adams who was a corporal in Captain Abraham Perkins' company in Colonel Peirce Long's regiment of New Hampshire troops, in the Revolutionary War,, in which company and regiment he served for one year, commencing in the year 1776 and ending in 1777.
That her said husband afterwards served three months in Capt Daniel Jewell's company in ______________ regiment of New Hampshire troops in the year 1780, after her marriage, and one other term, between 1777 and '80 in some corps of N H Troops, but the names of the officers are not known.
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She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Adams on the eighth day of December AD one thousand seven hundred and forty nine, that her husband, the aforesaid Joseph Adams died on the 20th day of December 1820, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Elizabeth (her mark) Adams
Witness: Thomas Pickering

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before
The Honorable William M. Richardson, Chief Justice
Samuel Green, Jack Parker, Nathaniel G Upham, Justices
It is hereby certified by the court aforesaid that in their opinion the above named Elizabeth Adams has stated truly in her foregoing declaration by her sworn and subscribed in open court and is a person entitled to full faith and credit.
Wm M Richardson, Chief Justice
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County
I Peter Chadwick, Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for the county of Rockingham aforesaid do hereby certify that William M. Richardson is the Chief Justice of said court and Samuel Green, Joel Parker and Nathaniel G Upham are Justices of said court and that the signature of the said William M Richardson to the foregoing certificate as Chief Justice is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this eighth day of December AD 1836.  
P Chadwick, Clerk of said court
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I, Mary Smith of Newington in the county of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire, aged over seventy years, testify and say: That I am a granddaughter of the Reverend Mr. Joseph Adams, the late settled minister of said Newington, from the year 1715 to May - 1783, when he died.  The said Joseph Adams was an uncle of the Honourable John Adams, late President of the United States. That I was present and saw my grandfather aforesaid, marry Joseph Adams and Elizabeth Adams, of said Newington who were also both his grandchildren.
The said Joseph, last aforesaid, was a Revolutionary soldier, but the precise time he served nor that of his marriage, I do not recollect.  But my grandfather, above mentioned, kept a record in a Book of his ministerial performances, which Book, I believe has always since my Grandfather's death been kept in the same house he lived and died in, and is now in the possession of his Great Grand Child, Captain John Adams, which Book has lately been exhibited to me, and I find recorded in said Book, in the well known (to me) hand writing of my Grandfather aforesaid, that he married Joseph Adams and Elizabeth Adams aforesaid on the eighth day of December, one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine.  And I know that Elizabeth Adams, now in full life at Newington, is the identical person, whom my said grandfather married to said Joseph Adams, deceased, that she has never since the decease of her said husband intermarried again, but still remains the widow of Joseph Adams last aforesaid.
Mary Smith
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I, John Adams of Newington, in the county of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire of lawful age, testify and say:
That I am a great grandchild of the Reverend Mr. Joseph Adams,, who was the settled minister of said Newington, from the year 1715 to 1783, That my said great grand father kept a book of records of his  doings as the Parson or Minister of said Newington, which Book, has always been kept (except occasionally lending it) in the house in which I now reside and in which house my great grand father aforesaid resided, as I have always understood, and was handed down and until this day preserved after his decease, by my grand father, father and myself, and I find recorded in said Book these words and figures following, viz:
Newington December 8th, 1779 married Mr. Joseph Adam and Mrs. Elizabeth Adams
John Adams
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County
Newington, (November crossed out) December 5th, 1836

Then Mary Smith and John Adams aforesaid, personally appeared and subscribed in my presence, their respective affidavits, and also made oath in due form of law, that the facts stated by them respectively, therein, an in all points just and true.  I also certify that I have been intimately acquainted with both of them for many years, with the aforesaid Mary Smith for twenty years and with the said John Adams for ten years, and that in my opinion they are both respectable and credible witnesses. (The word November erased and the word December interlined by me.) 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal the day and year last aforewritten.
Wm B Parker
Notary Public
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I, John Starbird of Durham in the county of Rockingham and state of New Hampshire aged eighty one years, a revolutionary pensioner under the Act of 1818, certify and say:
That I enlisted Joseph Adams of Newington who was the husband of Elizabeth Adams now living in Newington in said county; in the autumn of the year 1776 for one year and he served that term in Capt Abraham Perkins' company in Col. Peirce Long's regiment; that Tobias Laighton was first Lieutenant, Samuel Stackpole 2nd lieutenant and myself, Ensign of said company;  That said Adams was promoted to be a Corporal and was discharged at Stilwater, New York in the autumn of the year 1777.
John Starbird

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County
Durham, December 5th, 1836
Subscribed and sworn to, before me, the day and year last aforewritten. I also certify that in my opinion the said John Starbird is a most respectable and credible witness, having been well acquainted with him for upwards of twenty years.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my notarial seal the day and year last aforewritten.
Wm B Parker, Notary Public
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County

I, Peter Chadwick, Clerk of Supreme Court of Judication for the county of Rockingham aforesaid do hereby certify that William B Parker, before whom the written and annexed affidavits of John Starbird, Mary Smith and John Adams were executed is a notary public in said county and state and that his signature to the certificates thereof are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this eighth day of December AD 1836.
P Chadwick, Clerk of said court
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8087.3 Sec.
Elizabeth Adams
widow of Joseph
Mass
on Perkins roll corpl, 12 mo
on Jewells roll 3.21[illegible]
aom'd
12 mo Corpl
3" 21 Pri

Wm B Parker
Portsmouth, Mass.
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I Ebenezer Nutter of Barnstead in the county of Stratford and state of New Hampshire aged eighty, a revolutionary pensioner under the act of 1832 testify and say that sometime in the summer of 1780 I enlisted at Newington under Captain Ephraim Pickering (he being the Captain of Newington Company of militia) for the term of three months, soon after my enlisting I marched from said Newington to Kingston in said state of New Hampshire, passed muster at said Kingston and joined  company commanded by Captain Lewell marched through Springfield and Danbury in the state of Connecticut, viewed the ruins of [illegible] in said Danbury committed by the British, then marched and joined the Army of the United States at West Point where in the aforesaid company I continued to serve the said term of three months, when the term of my enlistment expired, I was then discharged at said West Point.  I further say that I was at West Point at the time General Arnold purposed given up the fort to the British, also when Major Andre was taken and executed as a spy and that I saw Major Andre several times after he was taken before he was executed.  I further say that after my passing muster at Kingston General Stark book command of the troops untill we joined the army at said West Point.  I do not recollect any colonel but Colonel Lamb but whether he commanded the regiment I served in I am not able to say. I further say that to the best of my recollection Major Andre was executed on the 2nd day of [illegible] 1780.  I further testify that Joseph Adams then of Newington in the county of Rockingham whom if now alive I should think be about 86 years old enlisted in the aforesaid company at the same time I did and that he marched in the same company with me to said West Point and that he served in the same company with me.
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the aforesaid term of three months when he was discharged at the same time I was and returned home to said Newington with me.  I further say that I and the said Joseph Adams were neighbors and that I was well acquainted with him from boyhood, we both living in said Newington.  I further say that at the time of our enlistment the said Joseph Adams was married to Elizabeth Adams of Newington and that after our enlistment and before we marched to join the army, I was at the home of the said Joseph Adams, saw his wife, who at that time had one child and also after we joined the army, I often heard the said Joseph Adams mention his wife and child whom he had left at said Newington and was very uneasy of [illegible] the treachery of Arnold for fear of being killed or captured by the British and leaving his wife a widow. I further say that I heard the said Joseph Adams say that the said Joseph Adams served in the United States Army at Ticonderoga six months, I also heard two of his brothers, Ebenezer Adams and Dudley Adams who are both deceased say the same.  I further say that I never heard of the intermarriage of the said Elizabeth Adams and the last news from her, she was in full life.  And I have been lately informed that she is now alive.
December 1, 1836
Ebenezer Nutter

State of New Hampshire
Strafford
December 1st AD 1836
Then Ebenezer Nutter personally appeared and made solemn oath that the aforesaid affidavit by him subscribed is to the best of his recollection true.
John Peavey, Justice Peace of the Quorum
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the aforesaid Ebenezer Nutter and that he sustains a good moral character and his reputation for truth and veracity is good.
John Peavey, Just Peace of Quorum

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County
I, Peter Chadwick, Clerk of the Supreme Court of Judication for the county of Rockingham aforesaid, do hereby certify that the above named John Peavey is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Strafford in said state and that his signature to the foregoing certificates are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this eighth day of December AD 1836.
P Chadwich, Clerk of said court
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16092
Elizabeth Adams
wid of
Joseph Adams
Corpl Rev War
Act July 4 1836
Index: Vol A, Page 3

See notes taken by
N D Adams, Aug 1883
Nov 30 '96 - To Jos E Janvrin
191 Madison Ave NY
1929 Dec 10 -[illegible] to Wm G [illegible] Corres, in Aaron Adams  H.9323F
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Portsmouth N H Jany 26th 1836

Hon, James L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir,
A few days before the burning of the City of Washington Post Office, I transmitted you the declaration and proof of Elizabeth, the widow of Joseph Adams in order to her obtaining a pension under the Act of 1836.
I have had fears whether or not you received these documents; will you have the goodness to inform me whether they reached your hands in safety?
I also in August last transmitted you the claim of Mary, the widow of John Whitelock  of you informed me that [part] her claim was founded upon service performed in the Massachusetts troops and that the Rolls were not arranged for examination.  The widow is very anxious to know when a decision may be expected, will you also please to gratify her by informing me?
I am [illegible] respectfully
Your obt Serv
Wm B Parker
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191 Madison Avenue
New York, Nov 11th '96

To The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D C
Dear Sir,
The accompanying correspondence is respectfully forwarded to you as the proper source from which to obtain the necessary information.  I had been informed that the "Record and Pension Office" was the department to apply to, but in this particular I was at fault.  Can I trouble you to answer to the question, and if Mr. Adams really served in the Rev. War, I will get some friend in Washington to make abstract of his service unless it should
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be the case that your department prefer to furnish it.  I am the honor to remain,
Yours very truly,
Joseph E. Janvrin
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Record and Pension Office,
War Department,
Washington, November 11, 1896
Respectfully returned to
Joseph E. Janvrin M D
191 Madison Avenue
New York, N.Y.
Applications of this nature should be addressed to the Commissioner of Pensions, Washington DC, who is the custodian of the Pension records of all wars, and whose office is separate and distinct from the Record and Pension Office of the War Department.
By Authority of the Secretary of War:
T C Ainsworth
Colonel, U S Army, Chief of Office
Per [illegible]
(800a)
(Rev War handwritten over address)
(date stamped Old War & Navy Files, Nov 18,1896)

(Date stamped: Record & Pension Office, War Department Nov 10, 1896, 461661)
191 Madison Ave.
New York City, Nov 7, 1896
Joseph Adams of N H, Rev War.
Joseph E Janvrin, M D, Great grandson, asks whether this man's name appears on records of pension office as having served as above, if so, requests abstract of his service, also requests name of his wife.
(date stamped: U S Pension Office ,Nov. 12, 1896)
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Madison Avenue
New York City, Nov 7th '96

Col. Ainsworth
Chief of the Record and Pension Office
War Department
Dear Sir,
Can you inform one whether the name of Dr. Joseph Adams of Newington, N H (later of Barnstead) appears [illegible] the records of the Pension Office as having served in the Revolutionary War - probably in 1775 and 1776?
If it does can I obtain an abstract of his services, and also the name of his wife?  (His wife's maiden name was Joanna Gilman, of Exeter, N H) Dr. Adams was a cousin of President John Adams
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He was also my great grandfather.  Hence my anxiety to know whether he was a soldier or officer in the Revolutionary War.  I have the honor to remain,
Yours very truly,
Joseph E. Janvrin, M.D.
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Submit in duplicate    Phone Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No., 37725
Requisition for Duplication, Addressograph, Photostat and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Washington
Chief, Division of Publications, Room G139. November 29, 1929
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering: Pension
Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job: photostatic copies of 4 pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of Joseph Adams, NH Troops, W 16092
No. of copies:  1 of each
Shall form be kept standing? _____  _____ days
For further information see:  Mrs. M M H Finch, Room No 5033, Phone No. 541
Approved: A D Wilkerson,, Chief Clerk of Burean
Margaret M H Finch, Chief of Division
Note:  No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering ________________________________________________________.
Photostat x size: Actual  Official use? _____ Repay? Yes, $.60
Date stamped : Division of Publication, Dept. of the Interior, Received Nov 30, 1929
(Note written in margin: Correspondence in Aaron Adams M. 9323)
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