Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,265, for Adam Mitchell, Virginia
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Va.       Mitchell, Adam     R.7265
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24015
Adam Mitchell
Kentucky
Reject did not serve six months.  See letter May 7 33 to W.R. Willis Greensburg.

William T. Willis
Greensburg Ky
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(This is a printed tabular form with handwritten answers.)

WAR DEPARTMENT, 
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
     The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned.  The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form.  On comparing these papers with the following rules and subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed.  The notes and the regulations will show what is necessary to be done.  Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: } ).  You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of our claim.

A Statement, showing the Service of Adam Mitchel, Green County Kentucky

(Column 1)
Period when the service was rendered.
(illegible) 1782
(illegible) 1781

(Column 2)
Years
-
-

(Column 3)
Months 
1
3

(Column 4)
Days
15
-

(Column 5)
Rank of the claimant.
Private

(Column 6)
Names and rank of the field officers under whom he served.
Col Lynch
Capt. Jones
Genl Green
____
Capt. Clater
Capt. Cormins
No Colonel

(Column 7)
Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.
70 years
Campbell County, Virginia

(Column 8)
Proof by which the declaration is supported.
Living Witnesses

                 I am, respectfully,
                   Your obedient servant, 
                         J.L. EDWARDS,
                         Commissioner of Pensions.
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         REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832
     The following regulations have been adopted:
     This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line,"  "State troops,". "militia", and "Volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c.  Persons who served on board of private armed vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
     Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
       1.  The Regular Troops.
       2.  The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
       3.  Persons employed in the Naval Service.
       4.  Indian Spies.
     As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned offices, musicians or privates, will, in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides.  And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.

                                       DECLARATION
                         In order to obtain the benefit of the
                     Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832
State, Territory, or District of 

     On this _____day of______personally appeared (a) before _____A.B. a resident (b) of _____in the county of_____and State, Territory or District of _____aged (c)_____years, who first being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress, passed June 7th, 1832.  That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)_____, with_____and served in the _____(e) regiment of the _____line, under the following named officers:______

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers;  the time he left the service; (and if he served, under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers:} the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service;  the battles, if any, if which he was engaged and the country through which he marched.  This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
      
     He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll or any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of _____.                         A.B.
     Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
     [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]

     And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
     I_____ of the Court of _____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ________for a pension.
     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ____day of ____ &c.

     If, on examination of the proper record, the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
     Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
     (k) We, A.B., a clergyman, residing in the _____ and C.D. residing in (the same) herby certify, that we are well acquainted with _____, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be _____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 we concur in that opinion.
     Sworn and subscribed the days and year aforesaid.
     [And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
     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 states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the _____ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
     I, _____Clerk of the Court of _____do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of ____for a pension.
                     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my 
                     hand and seal of office, this ____day of 
                      _____&c.

Every applicant will product the best proof in his power.  This is the original discharge or commission;  but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.
     If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration, (l) and he will also, whether he product such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person
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alleged service, as they are known at the Department.  A very full account of the services of each person will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case.  The facts stated will afford one of the principal means or corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted;  and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be ex-expected.  All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
     The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all  applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.
     1.  Where and in what year were you born?
     2.  Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
     3.  Where were you living when called into service;  where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
     How were you called into service;  were you drafted, did you volution, or were you a substitute?  And if a substitute, for whom?
     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 circumstances of your services.
     6.  To a Soldier {Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
          To an Officer {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?
    7.  State the names of persons 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.
     The Court will see that the answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
     The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons--one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion.  If one of these persons is a clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify to the character and standing of other persons giving such certificates.
     The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party.  And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
     Applicants unable to appear in Court, by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the court.
     Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of the Court of Record, or by a Justice of the Peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature.
     No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the court upon the whole matter.

(The following are small type footnotes at the bottom of the page.)

[a]  The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b]  The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides.  If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c]  The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
[d]  The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
[e]  Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served;  otherwise a claim cannot be had.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
_____" Personally appeared before me, the undersigned a Just of the Peace, &c. A.B. who, being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that, by reason of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:  _____For_____year_____months, and_____days, I served as a _____, For _____months and _____days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension." 
     It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase "about three or four months" is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service.  This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served;  the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
     [f]  The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
     [g]  The opinion of the court is always required.
     [h]  The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
     [i]  The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.

               Mode of authenticating papers.
          In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbons, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
 
                         Proof of Service.
     [j]  In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department , he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses , and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
     [j]  The notes from [a] to [i] are equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops.  The proof required by rule in note [j] applies to continental troops only.
     [k]  This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
     [l]  If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
     [m]  The answers to the interrogatories must all be written and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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Adam Mitchell
Pension claim
Sworn to 28 Feby 1833
in open court
J. Barret Clk
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State of Kentucky Green County Sct. 
     On this 23rd day of February 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Green Circuit court Adam Mitchell a resident of the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress of the 7th of June 1832 – he states that he has no record of his Age, but from the best information he has he believes himself to be 70 years of age, – he states that he was born and raised in Campbell County State of Virginia; that in the same year that Cornwallis surrendered  at York, and in the month of February of that year, there was a call for men to serve against the British who were then committing ravages in Halifax County, that the necessity for troops to march against them was very pressing in consequence of which Colonel Charles Linch and Major James Calloway caused it to be proclaimed in the different companies under their command that all who would turn out and served a tour of six weeks against the British in Halifax County without waiting
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to be compelled to do so by a regular draft should be entitled to and should receive compensation for three months service and would also receive a discharge for three months service; and that he the said Adam Mitchell Equipped himself and entered into service under the above conditions, that he served under Captain William Jones in the militia in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles Lynch and Major James Calloway, that he marched under the command of said officers as a private soldier from Campbell County to Boyd's Ferry on Dan River, and not far from Boyd's Ferry they joined Washington's  troop of horse, that the Regiment he was in marched with said troop of horse to Guilford Courthouse and there joined General Green's Army, and the next day after they joined General Green, a battle was fought between General Green and the British at Guilford courthouse and that he fought through the whole of the said Battle under the officers aforesaid – General Green being Commander in chief, – that General Green was defeated by the British and the night after the Battle was fought, the said Mitchell with many others rendezvoused at Stillwell's Iron Works
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18 miles from Guilford Courthouse, and the next day started again in pursuit of the Enemy, marched past Guilford and from there to Ramsey's Mills on Deep River, Crossed the River and marched up it about two miles, and were there met by some light horse men who had been in pursuit of the enemy and who wrought news that the enemy was then 15 miles distant, they then halted, camped all night, and the next day were discharged, that he the said Mitchell received a discharge for three months from Colonel Lynch agreeably to the proclamation herein before stated – The said Adam Mitchell further states that in the year above named to wit the year that Cornwallis surrendered and previous to his surrender and to the best of his recollection in the month of July he again entered the service in Campbell County Virginia, that he was drafted for three months under Captain John Clater, that there was a call for men at York and that he marched under Captain Clater with several other captains' Companies about 10 miles, and there 
halted when a few men from each Company were sent to New London to guard the magazine, and that he the said Mitchell was one of them, that he marched with said detachment to New London
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 and there served out the 3 months for which he had been drafted, and under the command of Captain Comins guarding the magazine, and at the expiration of his 3 months tour he received his discharge from Captain Comins, he states that both of the discharges herein named are lost, and that he has no documentary evidence of his services – he 
hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State – sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
                               Adam Mitchell
Adam Mitchell
Pension claim
Sworn to 23 Feby 1833
in open court 
J Barret Clk
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(The top of this page is missing.)

for a statement of the military history of Adam Mitchell a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.  Reb. F. 7265.

(Column 1)
DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT
Feb. 1781 to Mch 17, '81
May - June, 1781

(Column 2)
-
3 mos

(Column 3)
RANK
Pri.

(Column 4)
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED
CAPTAIN.
Wm. Jones
John Clates
Comins or Cummings

COLONEL
Chas. Lynch
-

(Column 5)
Va. 
Va.

Battles engaged in, Guilford
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Campbell Co. Va.
Date of application for pension, Feb. 23 1833.
Residence at date of application, Green Co. Ky.
Age at date of application, 70 yrs. C. Campbell Co. Va.
Remarks:  no data re. to family (Feb. 20, 1917).  His claim was rejected on acct of lack of proof that he rendered 6 mos service, as required by the act of &c. &c.
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Hon. Willis Green
July 11, '42
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                              Pen Off
                              July 11 '42

Sir
     I have the honor to inform you that that declaration of Adam Mitchell purporting to be an original claim & making no allusion whatever to a previous declaration with which it conflicts upon the most essential point, has been examined & filed -- In his original declaration he gave a truthful account of the militia tour to Guilford in Feby 82 and correctly estimated it at the 15 days & being informed in '33 that his service arguably to his narratives on oath was less than the minimum provision of the act, he now asserts a new claim & swears that his service in that tour was 3 mos at least having been discharged in May or June after the battle of Guilford 15 March 1781.  Altho he has stated what is historical fact that the militia of that part of Va. reached home before 1 Apl.  He has no claim whatsoever.
     Hon Willis Green
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W.T. Willis
May 17 1833

Rec. Vol 25 Page 70
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                          War Department
                               Pension Office
                                      May 17, 1833

Sir
     The papers of Adam Mitchell have been examined.  The service performed by him did not amount to a period of six months.  The act of June 7, 1832 provides for none who did not service that length of time.  His Claim has therefore been rejected.  The papers will be placed with the files in this office.

William T. Willis Esq
Greensburg, Kent.
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Adam Mitchell
Kentucky
Rejected did not serve six months.

7265
Act 7 June 1832
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S.A. Spencer
10 May 1842
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                                                                   102
                                                        Pen: Office
                                                    May 10, 1842

Sir,
     In reply to your letter of the 30th ult. in the cases of Adam Mitchell, Mrs. Catharine Cooke and the heirs of Isaac Gibbins, I have to inform you that those papers have been received here from Hon Willis Green in their cases.  There is a declaration of Adam Mitchell on file in this office.  It was examined May 17, 1833, and rejected because he did not serve six months, at least six months service is necessary to obtain the benefits of the Act of 7 June 1832.  Mrs. Catharine Cook widow of Benjamin Cooke was allowed a pension under act 4 July 1836 at the rate of $46.66/100 per annum.  I am unable to give you any information in the case of Isaac Gibbins's heirs upon the statement made in your letter, nor can I discover what information you wish in Mrs. Cooke's case or in that of Adam Mitchell.

Samuel A. Spencer Esq.
Greensburg, Ken
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Hon. J.F. Bell
Aug. 5, '46
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                            Pension Office
                                  August 5, 1846

Sir,
     I have the honor to return herewith W. Sisles' letter, and to enclose a copy of a communication to Hon Willis Green dated 11 July 1842, from which you will learn that Adam Mitchell has no claim whatever under the act of 7 June 1832, not having rendered as much as 6 mo service


Hon J.F. Bell
House of Reps
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(left panel)
Feb. 28, '08, Hist. to Wm. H. Martin
1917, Feb. 20, Hist. to Chas. R. Davis

(right panel)
REJECTED
7265
Adam Mitchell
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(Typed on THE ELLIS 7 MARTIN FURNITURE & CARPET CO., PARSONS, KANSAS letterhead.)

                           Feb. 12, 1908


War Department of Interior,
Bureau of pensions, Revolutionary War
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen:
     Will you please give me a transcript of the military record or history of the old Adam Mitchell, NC, whom we are led to believe was a Revolutionary soldier and fought with General Nathaniel Green against Lord Cornwallace.  In fact we are led to believe that the battle of Guilford court house was fought on the farm of Adam Mitchell.
     This information is very essential as various members of my family are desirous, if possible of becomming members of The Daughters of the American Revolution.
     Thanking you in advance for information in regard to this matter, I am
                          Yours very truly,
                          William H. Martin

W.H.M.-A.

(stamp)
U.S. PENSION OFFICE
A
FEB 15 1908
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RECORD DIVISION
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS

Briefed by S.D. Lamparter
Claim No.
Certificate No.
Claimant
Soldier Adam Mitchell
Service
Additional Service Rev. War

No...claim, State records..., 190...
No claim, combination records...., 190...
REMARKS:
No claim as above, except Rej. 7265

Chief Division
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Davis

(stamp)
US Pension Office
FEB 12 1917
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(Typed on ELLIS & MARTIN, Parsons, Kansas letterhead.)

Rec Sec letter

                                         Feb. 8th, 1917.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:
     Will you please be so kind as to inform me if your office has any record of one Adam Mitchell, who served in the Rev. War.  Enlistment from Campbell Co., Va., service Feb. and Mar. 1781, also May or June, 3 months, supposedly upon Capt. Wm. Jones, Capt. John Clates, and Capt. Cominsor Cummings, and Col. Chas. Lynch.
     I am tracing this record for admission to some of the organizations of the Rev. War.
                       Yours very truly,

                       Chas. R. Davis

Chas. R. Davis
2320 Belmont Ave.
Parsons, Kansas.
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State of Kentucky Green County Sct. 
 On this __ day of February 1833 William Stearman a resident citizen of said County 
came into Green Circuit Court before the judge of said Court, and being duly sworn according to law states that he is now 77 years of age and will be 78 on the 9th day of October 1833 should he lived so long, and stated that he was acquainted with Adam Mitchell who now resides in this County when he was a small boy, having married his sister, he stated that he could not state how long said Mitchell served as a soldier in the American Army in the Revolution, but remembers that, in the year 1781 he thinks in the early part of the year said Mitchell started from home, in Campbell County Virginia, marched off with the troops which were to joined General Greene in 
the South and after sometime returned, and at that time he learnt from many of the neighbors 
who went also to the South on this campaign, that said Mitchell was in the battle at Guilford 
Courthouse, and never heard it doubted, he learnt from the other soldiers as well as from said Mitchell at the time of his return that he had served out the tour required of him, and had acted as a good soldier.  He also stated that he had a recollection that said Mitchell during the same year was ordered to New London to guard a magazine in company with some other soldiers but how long he served in this tour he cannot state.
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At the time and afterwards it was generally reported and understood in the neighborhood that said Mitchell had served 2 tours in the American Revolution – Said Mitchell when he served each tour lived in Campbell County Virginia – and continued to reside there for some years after the revolutionary war, then removed to Green County Kentucky where he has continued to reside ever since.  Subscribed & sworn to the day 
and year aforesaid. 
                          William X Stearman
                              (X his mark)
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Adam Mitchell
Declaration

Hon. Willis Green H.R.
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(written vertically)
Adam Mitchell Declaration
Hon. Willis Green HR


Address S.A. Spencer
Greensburg Ky
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Declaration
	In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
State of Kentucky Green County: SS 
 On this 7th day of February 1842 personally appeared in Open Court before the Justice of 
the Court of the County & State aforesaid now sitting – Adam Mitchell a resident of the said 
County of Green in the State aforesaid aged 79 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 1832, to wit.  That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated.  He states that he entered the service of his country as a volunteer in the winter of the year 1781 for a tour of three months service in the County of Campbell & State of Virginia in a company commanded by Captain William Jones which company rendezvoused at long island on what was called Stanton River in said County of Campbell from which place he took up the line of march in 
said company for Guilford County North Carolina through the County of Halifax Virginia & across the Dan River at Ervin's Ferry & thence on to Guilford & reached that place sometime 
about the first of March in that year & was engaged in the Battle fought at Guilford in said state of North Carolina on the 5th or 6th of March 1781, the officers who commanded on that occasion that he can now recollect was Captain William Jones, Major James Calloway, Colonel Charles Lynch & General Green that his messmates were Daniel Marshall, Robert Prewitt & Daniel Mitchell.  Shortly after this battle was fought his company was disbanded & he received a discharge from his Capt. William
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Jones for 3 months service and returned home to Campbell County Virginia.  He states that the age he entered the service was about 17 or 18.  He was born about the year 1761 or 1762 or thereabout.  He has seen & has had a record of his age but it is now lost or destroyed being by some means or other born from the family Bible in which it was recorded he was born in said County of Campbell & State of Virginia, he states that sometime after he returned home from Guilford & to the best of his recollection in the month of May or June in the year 1781 he was drafted in a company raised & 
commanded by Captain Cummings in the said County of Campbell & State aforesaid & marched on immediately to New London in said County and was there stationed & there served as a guard of the magazine & munitions of war for three months, at that place after which he received from Captain Cummings a discharge for 3 months service & returned home, he states that he has lost both of his Discharges or mislaid them so that he is unable to find them: the whole time he served & for which he got discharges in the first & last service was six months, he is unable at this late period of time to find anyone who were eyewitnesses of his Service resident in his 
Country as above mentioned: they are either dead or removed to parts unknown to him.  He 
states that he continued to reside in said County of Campbell until the year 1791 or 1792 from whence he removed to Green County Kentucky where he now resides,
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he further states that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present & he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency of any state. 
                                       Adam Mitchell 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

State of Kentucky Green County SS February the 7th 1842
     We Burford Henry and Hugh Montgomery residing in the county aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adam Mitchel who has subscribed & sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age, that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion & that said Mitchel is a man of undoubted truth and veracity.          Buford Henry
                       Hugh Montgomery
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

And the said court, do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant Adam Mitchel was a soldier of the Revolution War and served as he states and the court further certifies that it appears to them that Buford Henry who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Green County Kentucky and Hugh Montgomery who has signed the same is also a resident of said county and a credible person & their statements are entitled to full credit.  

State of Kentucky Green County SS
     I John Barret Clerk of the courts of Green County in the State aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said courts in the matter of the application of Adam Mitchel for a Pension.  In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 7th day of February 1842.
                       John Barret
(seal)
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Adam Mitchell
Declaration
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State of Kentucky Green County Sct.
     I Thomas Lasley a Clergyman and Samuel Patterson a citizen & resident of Green County Kentucky and neighbours to and acquaintances of Adam Mitchel of said county do certify that we (illegible) that he said Mitchel is a man of high respectability and veracity, and that any statement which he would make on oath or otherwise, is entitled to implicit credence and belief, and from his statements in relation to his services in the American army in the revolution war have no doubt, but that he served as stated, and altho we have no recollection to have heard of his services as a soldier spoken of until recently in the revolution, yet we feel well persuaded that he did serve as he has in his declaration stated, and moreover state that we are of opinion that he is seventy years of age, having been many years acquainted with him.
Sworn to & subscribed this 1st day of March 1833.
           Tho. Lasley
           Saml. Patterson

At a circuit court continued and held for the Green circuit at the courthouse in Greensburgh on the 1st day of Marh 1833 -
     An motion of Adam Mitchell who filed his declaration to be placed on the pension list roll under the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832 who swore to the same, also the affidavits of William Stearman, Thomas Lasley and Samuel Patterson accompanying the same who swore to their several affidavits, whereupon it is ordered that the same be certified to the secretary of War, and that it is the opinion of the court, that the said Mitchell served as stated and that the said Stearman Patterson and Lasley are credible persons.
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I John Barret Clerk of the Green Circuit court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Adam Mitchell for a Pension.
     In testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand and caused the seal of my said office to be hereunto affixed at Greensburgh this 2nd day of March 1833.
(seal)
John Barret
Clerk of the Green Circuit Court