Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20566, Issacher Adams, Mass.
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
Adams, Issacher
     Melisent   or
     Millisent

W.20566
BL.Wt.6105_160_55

CONTENTS
res at eul Medway, Norfolk Co. Mass.
also res Hubbardston Worcester Co. Mass.
d June 18, 1829
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No 13177
Melisent Adams
widow of Issacher
Mass
act 7 July 1838
Married 1776
husband died 1829
Worcester Co.
Capt Cobb
Col, Rend
13177
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay
and pensions to certain widows and the act of the 3d March 1843 and the act of June 17, 1844
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Worcester County [illegible] On the 23 day of [November crossed out] Dec
1846 personally appeared before the Probate Court within county aforesaid line Melisent Adams a resident of Hubbardston in the County and State aforesaid aged ninety one 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 7 1838 entitled
an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
and the act of the 3d March 1843 and the act of the 14th
June 1844 that she is the widow of Issachar Adams who
was a private in the Revolutionary war and served as
such about Eight months in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five under Capt Colt of Bellingham,
he resided at Medway Mass that where he entered the service.

She further declares that she was married to the said Issacher Adams on the 17th day of July in the year seventeen hundred Seventy six at said Medway by the Rev David Sanford a minister of the Gospel - that her husband the aforesaid Issackher Adams died on the 18th day of June Eighteen hundred & twenty nine. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the
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service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four at the time above stated.

Interlineations on the lines 6H17H made Melisent Adams {illegible] signature

Sworn to and subscribed
on the day & year above written
Before
Ben J Thomas Judge of Probate
Worcester SS. Dec 15th 1846
I certify that the said Melisent Adams from bodily infirmity was unable to attend in open Court. Ben J Thomas
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Judge of Probate
Worcester County SS. Charles G Prentiss
Register of the Probate Court within & for the County foresaid certify that Benjamin J Thomas is Judge of the Probate Court within aforesaid
County of Worcester and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the seal of said Court this
16th day of December Anno Domini 1846
Charles G Prentiss, Register
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Copy
From "Marriages solemnized by the Rev. David
Sanford". -
"Isechar Adams & Millisent Alden both of Medway were married July Seventeenth one thousand seven hundred
and seventy six". -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Norfolk County SS. - Town Clerks Office in
Medway December 21st, 1846. I certify that the above
is a true copy of the records in my office with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "July 17th 1776."
Luther Bailey Town Clerk

I, Luther Bailey above named depose & say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of Medway in the County & State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of the Medway with the exception above named as certified by me.
Luther Bailey, Town Clerk of Medway

Sworn to before me
Medway Decr 21. 1846.
Joseph L. Richardson Justice Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Parter Decemb. 24 1846
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the
annexed attestation Joseph L. Richardson
was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Norfolk, in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; 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 hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John ⎬ G Paisley
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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4331
Massachusetts
Melisent Adams
widow of Issacher Adams 
deceased 
{illegible]
who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private
================
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
26 Dollars 77 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848
================
Certificate of Pension issued the 
14 day of Mch 1849
Geo. M. Prentiss
Worcester
Mass
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Pge 1 Vol 2

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Reg 3rd M 55 - no 180449
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180,449
Act March 31, }
June 30 }
_____________________
Mellisent Adams, wid.
Issacher Addams dec
______________________
Col. Joseph Pearl,
Mass. Mil;
Ad: 160 Sept: 8" 1855
Boston
Rev. War
______________________
Per Feb. 2. 1848 
Map 1. a Vol. 2
Mass no 4331
______________________
Special S. Cole
C.C.
Claimant aged 100 year
______________________
Horatio Woodman
Boston. Mass
Vol A. 19.00
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180.449;
APPLICATION OF
Melicent wife Issacher Adams
Revolutionary War
for a 160 acre warrant,
Act of March 3d, 1855.

WARRANT TO BE SENT TO
HORATIO WOODMAN, Boston, Mass.
AS WITHIN REQUESTED
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston June 27. 1855

I Hereby Certify, That at the date of the attestations hereunto annexed, Wm Bennett Jr was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that
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 hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E M Wright
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

[illegible seal]
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State of Massachusetts County of Worcester
On this twenty third day of June A. D., 1855,
personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County,
Melisent Holms aged 100 years, a resident of
Hubbardston in said County, who being duly sworn according to law, declared that she is the widow of Issacher Adams deceased, who
was a private in the Company commanded by 
Revolutionary [crossed out: in the] war with Great Britain, [crossed out: declared by the United States, on the 18th day of June, 1812, ]
that her said husband was drafted day of
A. D. 18 for the term of and was honorably discharged at on or about the day of A. D. 18, as will appear by reference to the rolls, that he
received no printed or written discharge, and that neither he nor she ever received or
applied for, or is entitled to bounty land for any other service, 
[crossed out: except that she received
for the same service under the act of September 1850, a 40-acre warrant, No. ,
which she has legally sold and cannot return.]

The applicant now receives, a Pension from the Government for the same service payable in Boston. The Pension Certificate is recorded
the Pension Office on the Rolls of Pensions under act of February 2d 1848, Page 1, Vol. 2.

She further states that she was married to the said Issacher Adams in Medway on the 17th day of July 1776, by David Sanford a Clergyman and that her name before
her said marriage was Melisent Alden, that her husband died at Hubbardston on the 18th
day of June 1829, proof of which will be found on file with her [crossed out: previous] Pension application, that she is still a widow, -
that she makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which
she may be entitled under the act of Congress passed March 3, 1855, and that she prays
that the certificate thereof may be sent for her to Horatio Woodman, Boston, Mass.
her
Melisent Adams
mark
---
Subscribed and duly sworn to, the day and year first above written. I certify
that she is the identical person above described. I have no interest in the case.
Wm Bennett Jr { Justice of the Peace.
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State of Massachusetts
County of Worcester
We Otis Ware and Celia Gleason
having been duly sworn, depose and say, that we well knew Issacher Adams 
who was a private in the Revolutionary War
whose widow now applies for bounty land,- that we knew him for more than four
years before his death, which occurred at Hubbardston about twenty six years 
ago, -- that we know that he died about that time because we then lived in the same neighborhood and we know the applicant to be the identified person who now
draws a pension for the same service.
that we are resident of Barre & Hubbardston
that we have known his said widow from his death to this time, that she has remained unmarried, -- that her declaration was signed and acknowledged by her in our presence, -- that she is the identical person she
represents herself to be, -- and that we are disinterested.
Chas Ware
&
Celia Gleason
Subscribed, and duly sworn to before me this twenty third day of June A.D. 1855.
Wm Bennett Jr } Justice of the Peace.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, by the affidavits of Otis Ware and Celia Gleason of the said county and state, who are personally known to me, who are entitled to credit, and who swear that
they have no pecuniary interest in the result of the above application; that Melisent Adams is the widow, remaining unmarried
of the late Issacher Adams who was a private in the Revolutionary War 
and that the said Isaacker Adams died at Hubbardston on or about the eighteenth
day of June A.D. 1829.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty third day of June
1855. I have no interest in this case.
Wm Bennett Jr Justice of the Peace
"We attended his funeral,” or “were in the neighborhood at the time,” or some equally good reason.
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Rev. and 1812 War Section.        [AW?]

September 22, 1926

Henry Augustus Elliot, M. D.
Barnet
Vt.

Sir:

I have to advise you from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim W. 20566,  it appears that Issacher Adams, while residing at Medway, Massachusetts, enlisted in 1775 and served eight months as a  private in Captain Cobb's Massachusetts Company.

He died June 18, 1829 at Hubbardston, Worcester County, Massachusetts.

Soldier married July 17, 1776 at Medway, Massachusetts, Melisent or Millicent Alden, they were both then of said Medway.

She was allowed pension on her application executed December 15, 1846, while a resident of Hubbardston, Massachusetts, aged ninety-one years.

There is no data on file relative to children.  

Respectfully,

E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner.
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1926 Sept. 22. Hill to Henry G. Elliot, M.D. Crey
Revy

WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20566
Melisent Adams
Widow of
Issacher Adams
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 2d 48
Index:-- Vol. A Page 4
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Gen notes taken by N. D.
Sept. 1883,
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6105
160 Aisy
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No 13177
Melisent Adams
Widow of Issacher
Mass 9172
1325
act 7 July 1838
admd 8 mo 1 day /ui
$26.77 pn ausa
admd act 3 March 1843
and 17 June 1844
$26.77 pn ausa
Hon S. Foot
House Officer
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2 Cerfd
1838, 1843 [illegible[
Repd.
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8064
Massachusetts.
Melisent Adams
widow of Issacher Adams
who was a Private
in the Mass Line-
Husb. died June 18. 1829.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
26 Dollars 77 -
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
12th day of Jany 1867
and sent to
Hon. S. Frost
House of Rep.
---
Acts of March 3, 1843.
and June 17. 1844.
Recorded in Book A.
Vol 2. Page 25
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10.172
Massachusetts
Melisent Adams
Widow of Issacher Adams
who was a pensioner under the Act of -
and who died on the 18th June 1829
of Worcester in the State of Mass.
who was a Pri in the compy
commanded by Captain Cobb of the
Reg commanded by Col Read
the Mass line for 8 mo. a {text cut off]
---
Inscribed on the Roll of Boston
at the rate of 26 Dollars 77
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day
March, 1836.
---
Certificate of Pension issued the 12. day 
Jany 1847 and sent to Hon
Hon S. Foot, st. ofR.
Total amount, $133.85
[Act July 7, 1838.
Recorded by D.H. Woods Clerk
Book D.  Vol. 1 Page 54
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Issacher Adams
Hon S. Foot
H.R.
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[Seal of Commonwealth]
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston;
August 19 1846
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 Issacher Adams,
is borne upon a Muster Roll of Capt
Samuel Cobb's Company, in Col Joseph
Read's Regt. in the Eight months service
as a private of Medway, from May 8 to 
August 1 1775, 3 months and 1 day -  
probably travel is included. - Upon a
Return of Said Company, in said Regt, 
as a private of Medway- No Service
named - said Return is dated. "Roxbury
Camp September 26 1777." Upon an order
of said Company for Military Coats. dated, "Roxbury Camp, December 27, 1775."

The above is all the evidence of service of any one of the named shown by the Military records in this Office.
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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone;  and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.

John G. Paisley

Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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State of Vermont Perce June 26, 1846.
To the Secretary of the State of Massachusetts
You are hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in your office of the service of my late husband Issachar Adams he entered the service as I beleive the Revolutionary war in the year 1775 and served
Eight months part of which time he was at Roxbury he resided in the town of Medway in the State Massachusetts when he entered the service. He served as a private under Captain Cobb of Bellingham. 
We were married in the year Seventeen hundred and seventy six at Medway. by
Rev. David Sanford. He died in the year 1829
I am now ninety one years of age and my memory does not enable me to state anything further material to the search required. I have empowered Alexander S
Campbell of Boston Mass to act in the premises as my attorney Witness my hand this 26th day of June 1846
Melisent Adams
Signed in my presence by the
said Melisent Adams 
Wm Bennett Jr. Justice Peace
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I Moses Adams of Peru in the County of
Bennington and State of Vermont testify and say that I was well acquainted with Issacher
Adams a Revolutionary soldier late of Hubbardston in the County of Worcester in the  state of Massachusetts deceased, that the said Issacher died on the 18th day of June A.D. Eighteen hundred and twenty nine leaving Melisent Adams his widow who is still living, and further testify that I am well acquainted with the said Melisent Adams, and that the said Melisent has not been married since the
death of the said Issacher Adams, but
continues single and unmarried.
Moses Adam

State of Vermont      }
Bennington County  }

Manchester September 21st 1846
Then Personally appeared Moses Adams above named who is a credible person and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before John S. Pettibone Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont                                    }
Bennington County Court Clerks office  }

I Samuel A. Blackmer Clerk of said Court certify
that John S. Pettibone is a Justice of the Peace
within and for the County of Bennington
aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission bears date November 4, 1845 and will expire on the 30th day of November 1840, and that his signature above written is genuine. In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this [day scratched out] day of September A.D. 1846.
Saml H. Blackmer Clerk
Fees for Certificate 25 ts.
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fll Aaa
8064
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress of 2nd February 1848, entitled, "An Act making
further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of
the Revolution."
Commonwealth of Massachusetts  }
Worcester County,  } ss.

On this fourteenth day of October 1848, personally appeared
before the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in
and for the County aforesaid, Melisent Adams a resident of Hubbardston in said County of Worcester, Aged ninety three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed
on the 2d February 1848 granting Pensions to Widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Issachar Adams who was a resident of Hubbardston, and who was a Private in the Revolutionary War. And that she is
the identical person who drew a pension under the Act of 17th June 1844, on account of the Revolutionary Services of her late husband aforesaid, at the rate of twenty six dollars and seventy seven cents per annum.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Sworn to, and subscribed on the
day and year above written 
In presence of
John Adams
Jarius Adams

her X mark
Melisent Adams

Before me
Wm Bennett Jr Justice of the Peace

I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, a widow, and a Pensioner, as she declares
Wm Bennett Jr Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,  }
Worcester County,                            } ss.

I, Charles W. Hartshorn, Clerk of the
Supreme Judicial Court, of the County and State aforesaid do hereby certify, that William Bennett Jr was on the fourteenth day of October 1848, and now Esquire, is, a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County duly commissioned and qualified; and
that his signatures within written are genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal
of said Court, this third day of November
A.D. 1848.
Chas. W. Hawthone
Clerk
[illegible seal]
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Barnet, Vermont, Aug. 2, 1926,
Bureau of Pensions, Washington D.C.
Mr Commissioner: - I am descended from Jonathan Elliot, Minute Man
Sutton, Mass, b, 1727-30, d, 1813. He married Hannah Wheeler, dau. of James
Wheeler, Jr. and Elizabeth West, b. Aug, 12 1733, at Rheobeth, Mass, April
25, 1749. He served as Minute Man under Col. Ebenezer Learned, Sutton, Mass.

He served Dec. 1776 to Mar, 1777, in Capt. Samuel Baldwin's Company and
Col, Dike's Reg. Credited to Sutton, Worcester Co, Mass.
Did he or his widow receive a pension?
Can you inform the place of his burial? Is it marked by a Gov. marker?
If you are unable to furnish answers to last two questions please write
me where I may get such information?

I am also descended from Issachar Adams (6) Nathan (5) Obadiah (4) John (3)
Ensign Edward ( 2 ) Henry  (1): b. West Medway, Mass. 1754, married Millicent
Alden June 17, 1776, died Jan 1829, the widow survived until Sept 9, 1855
lacking 4 days of one century) Did he or his widow receive a pension?
Probably his grave is at Hubbardston Mass. Is it marked by U.S. marker?

If not how may I find the grave? He served for 3 months and a day from
May 5, 1775, in Capt Samuel Cobb's Company and Col. Joseph Read's Reg.

O
I am also descended from Abiezer Edson who served in revolution and
buried in Charlemont Mass died in 1835, U. S. Marker has been granted
for his grave. No pension was issued.

An early reply will be appreciated.
Henry Augustus Elliot, M.D.
Mayflower Descendant, Mass, Sec. No. 2937, National 8560
S.A.R. Vt. Sec. No. 542, National 38041,