Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45,493, John Adams, Continental N. H.
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(3-1776)
Service
Continental N.H. Adams, John
NUMBER S. 45,493
B.L.Wt.4-200-
issued July 23, 1791
no papers
CONTENTS
In 1818 and 1828 res [RESIDENT] Stratham, Rockingham Co. N.H.
d. [DIED] Aug. 28, 1847
RFB 3/24/[illegible]
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4,19
New Hampshire
John Adams
Capt Gilman
Lieutenant New Hampshire line The army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of Nov 1818 and sent to W. M. Richardson Esqr.
Judge &c. [ETC.] New Hampshire

Arrears to 4th of Sep 1818. 5 mo. 4/30 102. 66
Semi-anl. [ANNUAL] all'ce [ALLOWANCE] ending 4th Mar. 1819 - 120.00 
--------
$222.66

[Stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818.}
3 years
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I hereby testify that I John Adams of Stratham
County of Rockingham and State of N Hampshire joined the Revolutionary Army as an Ensign in the year 1781 sometime in May and served in the Company of Capt Nicholas Gilman 1st N Hampshire Regt to the close of the war after which I remained in a Regiment which was ordered to stay on West Point Commanded by Colo. Henry Jackson of Boston till June 1784 when I returned home with 
respect to my circumstances I would briefly state that with all my exertions upon a small farm for which I owe for a considerable part -and what [illegible] bringing up a family of nine children for whom I am unable to do anything and being 7 years sick myself and unable to labor - I am this moment poor -  It is mortifying to make this disclosure but such is the fact & I do stand in need of assistance from my country for support.

John Adams

[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES

April 1 1818
sworn to
W. M. Richardson
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Certificate of Death and Heirship.


STATE OF New Hampshire
COUNTY OF Rockingham SS:

It is hereby certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, William B Morrill Register of Probate in and for the
County aforesaid, that John Adams deceased -
late of Stratham - in said County, who was a
Revolutionary Pensioner under the act of 15. May 1828, as Lieutenant at three hundred & twenty dollars per year died in said County, on the twenty eighth day of August - in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-seven leaving surviving the following named children only, viz: John F. Adams, Mary Ann Adams
Joseph Adams, Benjamin F Adams, Nathan Adams and Charles Adams, and that the said Joseph Adams has since died, leaving no children, having never married, and that the above named John F Adams, Mary Ann, Benjamin F, Nathan and Charles Adams,
are the only children of the said John Adams, decd. [DECEASED] who are now living.

I further certify, that the Rev John F Adams of Greenland in said County has been duly appointed and qualified as Administrator
of the estate of the said John Adams - deceased.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my Seal of Office, this
nineteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two.

William B. Morrill
Register of Probate
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Rev. and 1812 War Section.

July 20, 1925

Genevieve Donnersberger
902 S. Green Bay Road
Highland Park, Ill.

Madam:

I have to advise you from the papers in the
Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 45493, it appears that John Adams was commissioned March 30, 1781 as Ensign in Captain Nicholas Gilman's Company, First New Hampshire Regiment, and served to the close of the Revolution, at which time he was a
Lieutenant, after which he continued to serve
in Colonel Henry Jackson's Continental Regiment until in June 1784.

He received a diploma as a member of the
Society of the Cincinnati. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818, while a resident of Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. His age is not
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stated. He died August 28, 1847. 

There were nine children, names not stated,
except the following, who survived the soldier -
John F. referred to as Reverend, in 1852 a
resident of Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, aged sixty-one years; Mary Ann Adams, in 1852 a resident of Stratham, New Hampshire, aged fifty-nine years; Joseph, not living in 1852, had never married; Benjamin F.; Nathan; and Charles.

The name of soldier's wife is not on record.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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Mar 8 '98 [1898]
[illegible]
Boston Mass

1923 - Mch [MARCH] 15- Date of death, etc. to 
Henry D. Warren. See letter & carbon copy of reply in cl. S. 45745 of Amos Emerson. MMH

1924, Sept 26 - Hist [HISTORY] to Mrs. Dilworth. UM

1925 - July 20 Hist [HISTORY] to Genevieve Donnersberger awy.
1927 Apr. 26 - Hist [HISTORY] to Mrs. CH Wunderlich See letter in asa.
Robbins S.30067 awy.
1928 July 20 Photos to E.V. Martindale See WM. Adams W.9691. A.W.Y.
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45 493
Revy [REVOLUTIONARY]
INVALID.

File No. 45493
John Adams Lieut.- Rev War

Act: 18 March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3,
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[Arrangement of 1870.]
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3 - 049.
Ex. W M Div. Rev. [REVOLUTIONARY] War Sect. [SECTION]

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 7, 1924

The attached letter is respectfully returned
with the information that the data furnished is
not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intelligent answer to the queries therein contained.

Please fill out such of the blank spaces below
as the information in your possession will permit and return to this Bureau.

["No. of claim" crossed out]
Name of soldier Lieut. John Adams

P. O. address of ["claimant" crossed out] soldier at enlistment & after service Exeter
Company Capt. Chase Taylor
Regiment Col Thos. [THOMAS] Stickney

State where enlisted _________
Date of enlistment ___________
Date of discharge Sept 29 1777
If unable to furnish company and regiment
give names of commanding officers.
N. H. Militia

Return attached letter with reply.
Washington -
Gardner, Commissioner.

6-2463
[sideways] 2 months & 8 days in service
[Stamp] US PENSION OFFICE SEP 4 1924
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Let. [LETTER] J. M Thayer May 1952
(See papers in rejected files) 
[all of this is crossed out]
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Consolidated with admitted Soldier File No 45.493
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Ex'r. OLD WAR.
No. 20 122
Act of ["July 14, 1862, and March3, 1873" crossed out] July 7, 1832

John Adams
Revolutionary
REJECTED
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED

To John Adams Gentleman. Greeting. We, Reposing special trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valor, Conduct, and Fidelity, DO by these presents constitute and appoint you to be an Ensign in the first New Hampshire Regiment in the Army of the United States, to take rank as such from the 30th day of March 1781. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of an Ensign by doing and performing all manner of things is thereunto belonging. And we desiridly [sic] charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as Ensign And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions, from time to time as you shall receive from this Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress
for that purpose appointed, a Committee of the States or Commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance
of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue inforce [sic] until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the committee of Congress beforementioned, or a Committee of the States.

Witness his Excellency Thomas McKean Esq. President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the 13th day of August 1781, and in the Sixth Year of our Independence.
Thos [THOMAS] McKean President

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board
Attest

[illegible] Secretary of the Board of War
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J. M Thayer
May 14th, 1852
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149

Pension Office
May 14. 1852

Sir:

I have examined the claim of the heirs of John Adams of N. Hampshire for increase of Pension, but can find no evidence to identify the John Adams who was a Lieut in the N. H. Line and who was pensioned under the Acts of 1818 & 1828, with the ["John" crossed out] individual of that name shown by the certificate of the 3d Auditor to have been apt. Dept. [APPOINTED DEPUTY] pay master
Genl. [GENERAL] and Commissary of Pensioners. On the contrary Lieutenant John Adams in his original declaration under the act of 1818 expressly declares that he joined the Revolutionary Army in the N. H. Line, as an Ensign in May 1781 and served to the end of the war, and left it as a Lieut. while it is shown that as early as 1778 the John Adams to which the 3d auditor refers, was apt Depy P. M. Genl. [APPOINTED DEPUTY PAY MASTER GENERAL] It is evident therefore that the John Adams of Stratham N.H. who entered the service in May 1781 as Ensign & the John Adams who was apt Dept. P.M. Genl [APPOINTED DEPUTY PAY MASTER GENERAL] in '78 [1778] were very different individuals. Without better evidence of identity no increase can be granted.

J. M. Thayer, Esqr.
Present
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Dr John Adams, Asst. [ASSISSTANT] Deputy   Pay
1778 ┃901 | To Ebenezer Hancock | 500
Oct   ┃932┃To   ditto                     | 970.60
________
1470.60
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Paymaster General_______ Cr. [CREDIT]
┃ 5084 ┃By U. States (for pay) 1470.60

A true copy from the Revolutionary Books of this
Office.

Jno [JOHN] B. Gallaher, 3rd Aud [AUDITOR]
May 12, 1852.
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John Adams
Addl [ADDITIONAL] Evidence

D D Addison
Prest [PRESENT]
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Dr [DEBTOR]
1782 D.C Pensioners John Adams Special [illegible] Cr [CONTRA]

3042 To John Peirce $100.

Dr DEBTOR]1788. John Adams Apt [APPOINTMENT] Deputy Paymaster General Cr [CONTRA]

Oct To Ebenezer Hancock $500 By United 
States &1470.60
to ditto [EBENEZER HANCOCK] 970.60
_________
$1470.00

Dr [DEBTOR] John Adams Deputy Commissary of Pensioners Cr [CONTRA]
1777 Sept. 
To Wm [WILLIAM] Bedloe $100 By Sundry [illegible] $64.900
 To Ditto [WILLIAM BEDLOE] $100
 Ditto [WILLIAM BEDLOE] $100
 Ditto [WILLIAM BEDLOE] $100
 Ditto [WILLIAM BEDLOE] $82.43 - 70
Nov Ditto [WILLIAM BEDLOE] $340
Nov To Jonathan Trumbull $100
Nov Ditto [ONATHAN TRUMBULL] $301. 2/8 8

Treasury Department
Third Auditor's Office
March 11. 1832

I certify that the above is a true copy from the
Books of this Office.

Jno [JOHN] B. Gallaher
Auditor
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805 Jeremiah
98.259.   500

328 Catskill
698.1092

[upside down]
Jas E. Heath Esqr Comm [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
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J. E. Heath Esqr. Com [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions}
Washington Dec 10th 1857
Dear Sir,

I enclose herewith the power of attorney in the case of John Adams, decd. [DECEASED] and have to request that you will cause his papers, under the act of May 15th,1828, to be examined with a view of having his name inscribed under the act of June 7th, 1832, at the increased rate of $600 per an [ANNUM] for his services as Lieut and Ap. [APPOINTED] Commissary of persons - Mr. Adams was pensioned under the act of 1828 for his services in the line only & you will perceive that he is entitled to a pension under the act of 1832 of $600 per an [ANNUM] for his service in the line & as  Commissary on the staff - 

Respectfully your obt svt. [OBEDIENT SERVANT]
D. D. Addison

Please send certificate to J. M. Thayer Esqr
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Washington May 12th, 1852
Sir,
Enclosed you will find a certificate of Court
showing the date of John Adams death and the names of the children who survived him -
Also enclosed you will find three Affidavits in support of the fact that John Adams, was a
Paymaster in the Staff, independent of his rank as Lieutenant in the line.
To shew [sic] that he rendered upwards of two
years as Paymaster, I enclose herewith a Certificate from the 3rd Auditor, showing that he was paid the sum of $1470.60 for his services in that capacity.
Believing the affidavits above referred to will
remove all doubt as to the identity of the John Adams, who was a Pensioner under the Act of 1828, and the John Adams, who performed the services established by the 3rd Auditor's Certificate, I have to request that you will without further delay cause a certificate
to be issued for his heirs under the Act of June 7. 1832 at the rate of $600 per Annum, deducting the amount he received under the Act of May 15th. 1828, at the rate of $320 per annum from the 4th of March 1831, up to the
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day of his death.

The objection heretofore waged against the admission of this claim, viz: that he did not refer in his declaration under the Act of 1818 and 1828, to his Staff service, cannot hold good, as you are aware that under neither of those acts was such service provided for, and if you will refer to the papers of Mrs. Elizabeth Perkins, Widow of Jonathan Act [18]'36 N.H., Mrs. Judith Clark Widow of --- Clark Act [18]'38 Mass, to the papers of the Widow of Henry Dagget Act [18]'38., Wm Taylor Act [18]'32 Mass, Lebbeus Loomis Act [18]'32 N.Y., and Sarah Wendall Widow of Jacob H. Wendall Act [18]'38 N.Y. you will find that it was not usual for persons applying under those acts to refer to their Staff service.

Very Respectfully your obt Servt [OBEDIENT SERVANT]

J. M. Thayen

J E Heath Esq.
Comr [COMMISSIONER] of Pensions
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Secretary of States Office

I, JOHN L. HADLEY, Secretary of State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Edward Holmes is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Rockingham duly commissioned and qualified, and duly authorized by the Laws of said State to administer Oaths, take the acknowledgment of Deeds, &c. [ETC.] His Commission was dated on the 17th. day of May 1851, and will expire 17th day of May 1856 and that his signature to the annexed instrument is genuine.

Given under my hand and the Seal of the State,
this 26th day of April 1852.

John L. Hadley
Secretary of State
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State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham}

On this 24th day of April 1852 before the subscriber, a Justice of the peace in and
for the said County, personally appeared Rev.
John F. Adams, a resident of Greenland in the said County aged 61 years, and made oath according to law, that he is the Administrator of the Estate of the late Lieutenant John Adams of Stratham, in said County deceased. - that he has made an application for an increase of Pension due his father, the said John Adams, deceased. That he claims this increase on the ground that the aforesaid John Adams served in the Staff department of the army in the Revolutionary War, as a Paymaster, and he thinks, Commissary of Prisoners, which services, he verily believes the said John Adams performed. That he is very confident, according to his best recollection, that he has heard the said John Adams several times say he belonged to the Staff department of the Army in the Revolutionary War, which brought him
into company with a set of Officers, with whom
other Officers of companies were not associated. He has no recollection of ever hearing his father speak any other Officer in the Northern Department of the Army by the name of
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John Adams, which he thinks he would
have done, if there had been any such Officer.
That he asks for the increase of Pension due
his said father, for himself and the other
children under the Act of 7th of June 1832
to be paid to him as Administrator. That the
said John Adams died on the 28 of August
1847. That he was a Pensioner under the act
of 15th of May 1828 at the rate of $320 per annum.
John F. Adams

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day
and year first above mentioned & I certify that the above named John F Adams, is a highly respectable minister of the Gospel, that he
was for several years a residing Elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church and that the fullest confidence may be given to his statements. the two words "he has" having been interlined before signing.
Edward Holmes
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham SS.

On this 24th day of April eighteen hundred and fifty two before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally
appeared Mary Ann Adams a resident of
Stratham in said county, aged fifty nine years
and affirmed in due form of law that she is a daughter of the late Lieut. John Adams of said Stratham decd [DECEASED] who was a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States at the rate of $320 per annum.  - that she always lived at home with her father, the said John Adams. - that she has frequently heard him speak of his Revolutionary services. - that she distinctly remembers to have heard him say at different times in his life, that he was a staff officer in the Revolutionary war. - that she is positive as to his use of the word 'Staff." - that the particulars of his services she does not now
recollect. - that during the latter
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years of his life he said but very little in relation to his services in the Revolution.

Mary Ann Adams

["sworn to" crossed out] affirmed and subscribed before me the day and year above written. The word "heard" having been first interlined, and I certify that the above named Mary Ann Adams is a highly respectable person and and [sic] intelligent and credible witness, also the word "years" was first interlined, also the word "affirmed" twice interlined.

Edward Holmes
Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham SS

On this 24th day of April 1852 before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared Mary Adams,
a resident of said county, and aged sixty
three years and affirmed, in due form of law, that she was acquainted from her earliest recollection, with the late John Adams of Stratham in said County, deceased, who was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of $320 per annum for his service in the Revolution as a Lieutenant, that in the earlier part of her life she heard the said John Adams
frequently speak of his Revolutionary
services, but during the latter part he rarely alluded to them. That she is confident she has heard the said John Adams several times say he was a Pay Master in the Revolutionary war, that she has no doubt about having heard him
say he was a Pay Master in the Revolution.
That the said John Adams was a very intelligent man and always
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maintained an excellent character.

Mary Adams

["Sworn to" crossed out] Affirmed and subscribed before me the day and year above written, and I certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Mary Adams for twenty five years. - that she is a highly intelligent witness, and of unimpeachable character and that full faith and credit should be given to her statements. The word "affirmed" twice interlined before
execution.

Edward Holmes
Justice of the Peace
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POWER OF ATTORNEY - Revolutionary Pension Claims.

Know all Men by these Presents, That I, John F. Adams of Stratham, Rockingham Co. New Hampshire hereby constitute and appoint Edmund F. Brown of Washington City
my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of John Adams, deceased
for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to me as Administrator of said John Adams, deceased to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.

WITNESS my hand and seal this 17th day November A. D., 1851. John F. Adams

Signed and Sealed in the presence of
Edward Holmes Daniel Smith}

I hereby substitute Daniel D. Addison Esq. as Attorney in the above case. 8. Dec. 1851

Edm. [EDMUND] F. Brown Atty. [ATTORNEY]

STATE of New Hampshire, COUNTY OF Rockingham}ss.

On this Seventeenth Day of November A. D. 1851 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Revd [REVEREND] John F Adams and acknowledged the foregoing Power, of Attorney to be his act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.}

Edward Holmes J. [JUSTICE OF THE] Peace.
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Claim of John Adams
Act of 1828
New Hampshire

STATE OF New Hampshire
County of Rockingham ss.

Be it known, That on this seventeenth day of November A. D., eighteen hundred and fifty-one, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Rev John F Adams a resident of Stratham in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the son and Administrator of John Adams, deceased, who died on the 28th of August 1847. Who was a Revolutionary Pensioner as Lieutenant at the rate of three hundred & twenty Dollars per annum; that he has been
informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

John F. Adams

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me. 

Edward Holmes, Justice of the Peace.

I, Edward Holmes, Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, do hereby certify that the
Reverend John F Adams who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.

Edward Holmes, Justice of the Peace

I, Ira B Hoitt, Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Edward Holmes Esqr before whom the
foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed, is his signature.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this twenty ninth day of November A.D. 1851.

I. B. Hoitt, Clerk.
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Act 1828
Settled at Treasury
Cousn with
Invalid file #45.493
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Payable on 4th March & 4th of September in Each year at the Branch Bank W.L. Portsmouth, New Hampshire

There sent to W.M. Richardson, Esqr., Rockingham Co [COUNTY] N.H.

Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT

Revolutionary Claim

I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 18th of March 1818
John Adams late a Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New Hampshire Agency, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month to commence on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this Sixth day of November one
thousand eight hundred and eighteen

J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
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Stratham N.H. June 10th. 1828.

Honorable Richard Rush
Secretary of the Treasury.

Sir,

I take the liberty to enclose the necessary
declaration to be made by Officers claiming under the "Act for the relief of certain Surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," agreeably to the regulations of the Treasury Department; - Also, my diploma as a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and the Certificate of the Secy [SECRETARY]  of War dated Nov 6, 1818:  that I was inscribed on the Pension List. - Which documents, if satisfactory, I wish to be returned to me; and a draft on the office of discount and deposits of the Bank of the United States at Portsmouth, remitted me, for the two years pay that accrued up to March last, (through the Post Office directed to Stratham New Hampshire) payable to myself on Order.

I have the honor to be Very Respectfully, Your Mo. Obt. [MOST OBEDIENT] Servant,

John Adams

J.T. My Commission is lost.
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No of orig [ORIGINAL] Pay 90.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT. 1st July 1828.

John Adams, of Stratham, in the County of
Rockingham, in the State of New Hampshire has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May 1828. He states that he was as an officer on the Continental line, and served as such to the end of the war, at which period he was a lieutenant in the first regiment of the New Hampshire line; and that he received commutation certificates for the five years full pay granted by the resolve of 22 March 1783; and, further, that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, Nothing. ["dollars, paid to him by the agent in the State of" crossed out]

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far these several statements are corroborated
by the records in his office.

[illegible] Secretary
A Dickins.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
2nd July 1828

It appears by the records in this office, that final settlement certificates have been issued for the commutation of five years full pay to John Adams - Lieutenant in the New Hampshire line, amounting to Sixteen Hundred dollars.

It further appears that John Adams is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been since the 3d March 1826.

Peter Hagner Aud [AUDITOR]
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[A.]
FOR the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution,” approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I John Adams of Stratham in the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby declare, that I was an officer in the Continental Line of the Army of the Revolution, and served as such, to the end of the War, at which period I was a Lieutenant in the first regiment of the New Hampshire line.

And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate (commonly called a commutation certificate) for a sum equal to the amount of five years' full pay; which sum was offered by the resolve of Congress, of the 22d of March, 1783, instead of the half pay for life, to which I was entitled under the resolve of the 21st of October, 1780.

And I do further declare that I have received of the United States as a pensioner since the 3d day of March 1826, no money.

John Adams

Before me, William Bennett Parker, a Justice of the Peace, in the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire, personally appeared, this day, Nicholas Rollins of Stratham and George Fishley of Portsmouth in the County of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire who did, severally make oath, that John Adams by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.

Witness my hand, this tenth day of June
in the year 1828.

W. B. Parker

I, Nathaniel Adams Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature in and for the county of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire do hereby certify, that William Bennett Parker before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time, a Justice of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this tenth day of June in the year 1828.

Nathl.  [NATHANIEL] Adams
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One Case
Chief Justice Richardson N.H.
Portsmouth 
Recd. [RECEIVED] May 29th, 1818 -
Correct
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State of New Hampshire

I William M. Richardson, Chief Justice of the
Superior court of Judicature of said state do certify that on this first day of April A.D. 1818 John Adams personally appeared before me & made solemn oath to the truth of the annexed
affidavit by him subscribed & I further certify
that I am well satisfied that all the statements
made by said Adams in said affidavit are true

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my
hand & caused the seal of the said court
to be affixed the day & year aforesaid

Wm [WILLIAM] M. Richardson

By order of the Chief Justice
Nathl. [NATHANIEL] Adams Clerk
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902 So. Green Bay Road,
Highland Park
Ill
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May. 19. 1925

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir:

Will you please send me the Pension Record of
Lieut. John Adams, Rockingham Co., N. H.
Pensioner of the Revolution Pensioned on Roll Nov 6, 1818

Yours truly
(Mrs.) Genevieve  Donnersberger
(over)

[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE H MAY 21 1925
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[stamp] U.S.P.B.
DEPT. WAR & NAVY
FEB 25 1898
FILES.

Boston, February 19, 1898,
Hon. H. C. Evans, Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:

I have the honor to request information concerning the Revolutionary officers below named - for the purpose of establishing a
claim to membership in hereditary society - the receipt of which will be greatly appreciated.

I desire a statement as full as the records may permit of military service, - also, memorandum of any dates on record, number
of pension certificate, the date of the Act under which same was granted, date of receipt and date of last payment.

1. Josiah Munro, Captain, N.H. Continental Line; resided in Amherst, N.H. - afterwards in Zanesville, Ohio (Am unable to give date of death but hope you will find it on record). Wife's maiden name, Susannah Fitch. He was born in Lexington, Mass, and was one of the
47 founders of Ohio under Gen. Rufus Putnam.

2. John Adams, Lieutenant, N. H. Continental Line: was born, resided and died (1847) in Stratham, N. H. Wife's maiden name, Ann
Folsom. (Was he not about the last surviving Revolutionary officer?)

Very respectfully yours,
George Albert Senter

636 Tremont St., Boston, Mass.
(636)


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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.

September 26, 1924.

Mrs. Dilworth,
684 W. 14th
Dubuque, IOWA.

Madam:

I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.45493, it appears that John Adams was commissioned March 30, 1781, as Ensign in Captain Nicholas
Gilman's Company, First New Hampshire Regiment, and served to the close of the Revolution at which time he was a Lieutenant,
after which he continued to serve in Colonel Henry Jackson's Continental Regiment until June 1784.

He received a diploma as a member of the Society of the Cincinnati.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818, while a resident of Stratham, Rockingham County, New
Hampshire, age not stated. He died there August 28, 1847.

There were nine children, names not stated except the following who survived the soldier:

John F., referred to as Reverend, in 1852 a resident of Greenland, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, aged 61 years.

Mary Ann, in 1852 a resident of Stratham, New Hampshire, aged 59 years.

Joseph, not living in 1852, had never married.
Benjamin F.
Nathan
Charles
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The name of soldier's wife is not on record.
Respectfully,
Acting Commissioner.