Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18403, Adam Flesher, Va. Indian Wars 1782-1792
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Va. 
Indian Wars 1782-1792
         
Flesher Adam      
Elizabeth

NUMBER
S.18403
B.L. Wt 47338-160-55 

CONTENTS
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Transcriptions

Virginia_ 23.022
		23022
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Adam Flesher
Service in the State of Va _
Who was a pr:_  in the _______ commanded 
By Captain _______ of the Regt commanded 
By Col Duvall __ in the VA________
Line for 2 years ____
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Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia ___
At the rate of __ 80 Dollars ___ Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of October 33
and sent to Jonathan
Wamsley Weston Lewis Co
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833.    200 --
Semi-anl. allowance ending  4 mar 34  40-- 
        						   =========
							  $240 --
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{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nath. Rice Clerk
Book E Vol. 6 1/2 Page 12

[right page]
[this part very blurred]
This letter contains a list of names For pensioners dropped 
pour rolls, let names of this sol. therein. no reason for action-
mrs 75

Let to Hon S Clements
December 21/ 61

Dropped March 18, 1835	

Let 16 Mar : 35 Pen Agt
on or to in Wm Hoffman

$262 34/100 paid to 
the Marshal of the 
Western Dist. of Va.
by Flescher’s Ex'r
vide receipt of Th.
Nelson, collector at
Richmond, Va. 5th
June 1841
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251.449  Act Mch 3/33

24.312

July 12th/56
Elizabeth Flesher (wid)

Adam Flsher Corp
           [lined thru] Indian Spy  [/lined thru]

Col Jno P Duvall
Capt Louther

Enlt  1788     }        
Dis Nov 1788 } Va Mil [Virginia Militia\
Dis         1792 }

Waynes War

Certificate of Service
in. 

160 Acres Oct 23d/56
			Heaton

Vol F = 78

Jas Bennett
Weston Va
    			
4733 iss Nov 1856

En'd Hamilton

See Rev. War Pension
Claim Sur File 18403

[slanted over other writing]
47338 is Nov 18/56
C [?ev]
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(3-C-9)
NAME  Flesher Adam. ✓ VA. ✓

SERVICE
Soldiers application for pension was sent to W G Singleton,  U.S. District Attorney Aug 9 1834. and does not appear to have been  returned ✓
W.G. Singleton, U.S. District Attorney, reports on Nov. 6, 1834; that soldier states, that in Oct. 1781, he went with his father to Buckhannon Fort in Lewis Co. Va, which was commanded by one Pringle; and in the fall of 1781, was out scouting 5 days; then lived in said fort until spring 1782, when he went out on duty twice, ten days each time; after which they left said fort, and went to Richard’s For on west Fork, guarded the people during said trip four days; also out in 1782 under Capt. Geo. Jackson [lined thru] two [/lined thru] ten weeks; lived at Richard’s Fort until March 1784 during (over)

over
ALLOWED FOR  2 years Pvt. Col. Duvall’s Va. regt.  
SOLDIER Oct. 26, 1833 WIDOW None. ✓

DATE AND PLACE OF BIRTH July 29, 1764 					
DATE AND PLACE OF DEATH Nov. 4, 1854, Lewis Co Va.

PLACES OF RESIDENCE
Before Oct 1781 at his father’s settlement in Lewis Co. Va., Where Weston afterwards stood, and returned there in 1784; Levers Co Va in 1834,1851. ✓

DATE AND PLACE OF MARRIAGE  Feb. 22, 1792, Harrison Co. Va. ✓  				
NAME OF WIFE Elizabeth Staats or Stotts.
NAMES AND AGES OF CHILDREN

DATE OF SOLDIER’S APPLICATION 	not on file not on file ✓			
DATE OF WIDOW’S APPLICATION Jan 24, 1859 + over ✓
WIDOWS AGE AND PLACE OF RESIDENCE
Born Oct 12, 1776; resident of Lewis Co. Va. in 1856. 1859 and 1860 ✓
CERTIFICATE 23022 ✓		
ACT	June 7, 1832 ✓ 		
AGENCY Va. ✓	
FILE NO. S 18.403 ✓
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Service.
Which time he went out on several scouts, five or six days at a time, and never served otherwise during the Revolution. Said report is endorsed fraud and soldier’s name was dropped from the pension roll on March 18, 1835. +  ✓
Widow’s application for pension states that soldier served in 1792 or 1793 as Pvt and Indian Spy, Capt Clark or Coburn’s Co of  rangers; discharged in Harrison Co. Va; 6 mos. ✓
+ Widow’s application for pension rejected as service was not rendered during the Revolution. ✓

In an application for Bounty Land executed March 14, 1851 Adam Flesher states that he enlisted in Harrison Co. Va. on March 1, 1791; [?] ranger of or Indian Spy under Lieut John P Duvall in the war with the North Western Indians, discharged first of Nov. same year in Harrison Co Va, actual service 5 1/2 mos. ✓
Enlisted in Harrison Co Va. Mch 1, 1792 : Corporal under Capt William Lowther; discharged Nov 1, 1792 in Harrison Co Va. ✓ 
In an application for Bounty land executed June 9, 1856 Widow states that soldier entered the service spring of 1788; ranger or Indian Spy Col John Pierce Duval’s regt of Harrison Co Va militia; and served to Nov same year. ✓
March 1, 1791 : ranger or Indian Spy under same officer : served to middle of Aug and also from Oct 1, 1791 for 1 mo.  ✓
Early spring 1792 : Sgt under Col William Lowther served to late fall that year. ✓
A report from Auditor of public accounts at Richmond Va., states that Adam Flesher served as Corpl of Capt William Lowther’s Co. Vol. Militia, from Mch 15 to Dec 1, 1792.

Said claim for Bounty land was allowed under Warrent No. 47,338 for 160 acres under Act of March 3, 1855  
M.13.H.
Mch 2.1910
AW
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Report in the case of 
Adam Flesher,
Fraud
✓
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Va   Flesher Adam    S 18403
Elizabeth                   BL.Wt 47338-160-55
Indian Wars 1872-1792
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the same I done during the Revolutionary War - I never was during the Revolutionary War, engaged in characters of a spy nor have I to my knowledge claimed for such service.
     I [illegible] to mention the weeks service [illegible] 1782.- 25 men including myself under Capt Geo Jackson went from Richards Fort to Backhannon Fort in pursuit of
Indians - RH Sutten [illegible] the original draft of my declaration.  Jonathan Waensly put in [illegible] - the declaration [illegible] [illegible] illegible] is the same which Waensly drew for me, I defend and swear to it - Wainsley refused to dolter [illegible] [illegible] less than a year and a half pay.  I agreed to
give it to him.  In [illegible] that this statement is true I hereto subscribe my name.
Adam Flesher.

Witness
Nathan Goss

a new copy
W G Singleton-

[Illegible] this man refused to give a statement.  I thereupon collected evidence to [illegible] purposes - after such he called after me and leged that I could later his own statement.  I [illegible] to - it is so conclude that I deem
it unnecessary to report the [illegible] - he has been [illegible].  Waensley indicted - the Grand Jury refused to indict Flesher.

W G Singleton
Nov. 6 1834
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State of Virginia
County of Lewis
On this 9th day of June, A.D. 1856, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Elizabeth Flesher, aged Seventy nine years, a resident of of the County and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Adam Flesher, deceased, who was an Indian spy
detailed and ordered out by Col. John Pierce Duval Commandant of a regiment of Militia in Harrison County, Virginia.  That her said husband commenced his service as a ranger or Indian Spy, in company with a certain James Tanner, in the spring of the year 1788, and continued in said service until Nov of that year, that his field of opperations was the Country bordering on the Ohio river in North
Western Virginia.  That he again entered the service as ranger or Indian Spy, under Command of said Duvall, the first of March 1791, and continued said services until about the middle of August, in that year, then resumed his said services about the first
of Oct. 1791 & continued them for about one month, and that her said husband, under Command of Col. William Lowther of Harrison County Va. was entrusted with the Command of Flesher's Upper Station, the site of the town of Weston, Va had the office o.f Sergeant
conferred upon him, had ten men placed under his Command, Viz: Peter Bonnett, Samuel Bennett, Lewis Bonnett, Jacob Starcher, Thomas Shaw, Joseph Glanfield, Peter McKensey & that he continued in this last service in the in the said Indian War, from early Spring of 1792 till late in the Fall of that year.  That her said husband at the end
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of each term of service was honorably discharge.  But in the year 1804, had the misfortune to get his house consumed by fire and with it all his papers of every kind, so that there is no documentary evidence within the reach of the said widow by which to support the above detailed facts.
She further states that she was married to the said Adam Flesher, in Harrison Co. Va on the
22d.  day of Feby. A.D. 1792 by one Joseph Cheuvront, a Methodist minister and that 
her name before her said marriage was Eliz. Stotts.  That her said husband died in Lewis
County, Va. on the day of Nov. A.D. 1854 and
that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose
of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the "act approved March 3d. 1855.

Elizabeth Flesher
[Signed with her X mark.]

We Wm J. Calbreath and Jasper Butcher residents of Lewis County, in the State of Virginia, upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Elizabeth Flesher in our presence and that we believe, from the appearance and Statements of the applicant, that she is the identical person she represents herself to be
Wm J. Calbreath
Jasper Butcher

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the Claimant is the person she represents
herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim
Thos S Wood J.P.
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Virginia
Lewis County
On this 9th day of June A.D. 1856 personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, George Butcher, aged 80 years, a resident of the County and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that he is the identical George Butcher, who received Bounty land warrants for services rendered in the company of Captain Watson Clark & Jonathan Coburn in North Western Virginia in the Indian War in 1792 & '93.
He further States, that he has heard the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Flesher, read, and knows from his own personal knowledge that much of it is true, and believes
it all to be true.  That he was acquainted with the applicant before her marriage in 1792, at which he was present and has lived a near neighbor to her ever since.  That he knows her said deceased husband did under repeated tours of military services as a ranger or Indian spy, as states in said declaration, and that he knows personally, that he had command of Flesher's upper Station, that he was personally acquainted with the men named who served in said Indian war under said Flesher as stated in his widows declaration aforesaid.  He, said affiant saw said Flesher buried in Nov. 1854, and knows the declarent Elizabeth Flesher to be his widow.

George Butcher
[Signed with X mark.]

The foregoing affidavit of George Butcher
was sworn & subscribed to before me the day
& year aforesaid & I further certify that the
said George Butcher is the identical person
he represents himself to be & that he is a
creditable person, Given under my
hand this 9th day of June 1836
Thos S. Wood JP
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State of Virginia}
County of Lewis} ss.
On this 7th day of July 1856, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County and State aforesaid John Hardman, a resident of the County & State aforesaid aged 78 years, on the 7th Oct. last, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he was well acquainted with Adam Flesher for about sixty years before his death, and with his wife Elizabeth from a short time after her marriage, to the present time. That he has heard her foregoing declaration read and although he cannot speak from his own personal knowledge, yet from common report and the tradition of the County he believes it true. That he has often heard said Flesher speak of his service in the said Indian war, as a spy or ranger. That he was well acquainted with the Bonnetts so they Stated in the foregoing declaration to have served under him, and heard them speak of having rendered such services with or under said Flesher. And he further states that he knows of no one who doubts the fact of said Flesher having rendered services in said War. It is the tradition of the County, the said Hardman further states that he was in a condition to know what the belief of the Country was having lived for about sixty years within ten miles or less of said Flesher, having filled the office of Justice of the peace in Lewis County for many years, and having officiated as a minister of the Gospel for the last fifty years or more. John Hardman

The foregoing affidavit of John Hardman was sworn to and subscribed before me the day & year aforesaid, and I certify that I know the said Hardman to be a credible person
Thos. S. Wood JP
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CLAIM FOR PENSION.
Act of February 2 1848
Mrs. Elizabeth Flesher
Widow of Adam Flesher
DECLARATION.
And for restoration of Pension under Act of June 7th, 1832.
CHAS. C. TUCKER,
Attorney.
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Declaration of Mrs. Elizabeth Flesher widow of Adam Flesher
For Revolutionary Penion under the Act of February 2nd 1848.

State of Virginia
County of Lewis

On this 10th day of May. _ 1860, personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace one of the Judges of the County Court of the County and State above named, Mrs Elizabeth Flesher a resident of Lewis County in the State of Virginia aged 83 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 February 2nd 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Adam Flesher who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of Lewis County, Virginia at Eighty Dollars per year and whose pension was suspended. 

She further declares that she was married to the said Adam Flesher on the 22nd day of February A.D. one thousand seven hundred and ninety two at Harrison Bounty Virginia by one Joseph Cheuvront a Clergyman that name before her said marriage was Elizabeth Staats and that her husband, the aforesaid Adam Flesher died at Lewis County Va on the Fourth day of November A.D. 1854 and that she has remained a widow since the death of her husband. 

She also claims the ... of her said husband's pension from the time it was stopped to his death. And she constitutes Charles C. Tucker her Attorney to ... these claims.
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husband was a pensioner, his pension papers having been certified before me as Clerk of the County Court and I further certify that I am disinterested in the claim of Mrs Flesher.
John Talbott J.P.
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Know all Men by those Presents, that I, ... of the County of ... and State of ... do hereby constitute and appoint Chas. C. Tucker, of Washington D.C., my true and lawful agent and attorney, for me, and in my name to prepare and prosecute my claim for a Revolutionary Pension by reason of the services of my deceased husband ; and I hereby empower my said attorney to examine all records and documents in reference to said claim on fine in the Departments at Washington, to file additional evidence and arguments, and to do all lawful acts and things whatsoever touching the premises, with full powers of substitution. Hereby revoking and countermanding all former powers of attorney that may have been given by me for the above specified purpose. 
Witness my hand and seal this ... day ... of ... 185. 
State of ...
County of...
On this ... day of 185... personally appeared before me, ... and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
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Jacob Fleisher
S.2214

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Jacob Fleisher are not shown in the papers in the pension claim. 

He entered the service in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, sometime in 1782, served as a marine under Captain John Joiner on board the ship "South Carolina". Commodore Gillen was taken prisoner when the ship was captured by three British frigates, carried to New York and confined in the prison ship "Old Jersey", then lying in the North River, length of captivity, eleven months. 

[Handwritten note, in left margin: Did not use June 1780 as ship did not go into service until 1781.  See diary book.]

[Handwritten note, in right margin: Verified ship, capt & commodore also capture in Navy book.]

He was allowed pension on his application executed June 13, 1818, at which time he was aged fifty-seven years and resided in Berne Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.  It was stated that he was a German school master. 

Children are referred to: their names and the name of their mother are not shown.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Jacob Fleisher (S.2214), you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city and cite the following data:
Jacob Fleisher, Certificate No. 17, rate $40 per annum, Act of June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania Agency. 

Very truly yours, 
A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

[Handwritten note: As he was dropped in 1820 & restored in 1832, Mrs. F. said not to use commencement of pen. or date of issuance of  cert. in adoising him to apply to C. G.]

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P
18403
INVALID.
File No. 18403
Adam Flesher
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th  32
Index: - Vol. 1, Page 231
(Arrangement of 1870.)
See Bounty Land Wt. 47338-160-55
for service as Indian Spy 1788-1792
1910 Dec. 15 Hist to
Mrs. Ida Flesher Martin
V.L.M.
1933 - Oct 18 - 7 dist. to
Benj. H. Flesher, EEL Flesher, of
Benj.
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War

213
251.449

Mar 12/57
Adam Flesher / Spy
Lt J.P. Duvall
Col-
Col-
Va Mil
En Mar 91 dis-
Ind War

Pros: Con:
Wm Lowther
Col-
Col-
Va Mil
En Mar:/92 dis Nov/92
Ind War
3d [illegible]
No Rolls of Lt Duvall and Coss
Lowthers Companies for the years 1791a& 2  [illegible] are presumed to have been destroyed in the burning of the Public Buildings.
P.F. Gallaher
[illegible]
Civ No.
Mar 1853
James Bennett
Weston Va
No Rolls [illegible]
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47338
[illegible]
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There being no time to take copies of
the papers in this case, the originals sent to
W.G. Singleton U.S. Dist Atty Va Aug 9
1834
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Weston Va
March 5th
Jas. E. Heath Esq,
Comss of Pensions,
Washington City
D.C.
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Collector's Office Richmond Va
June 5th 1841

$262 34/100
Received of James Points Marshal of the W-
D. of Virginia, two hundred and sixty two
Dollars and thirty four cents, which he says was
received on account of an execution which issued from the Clerks Office of the U.S. Court holders at Clarksburg in favor of the United States against Adam Fletcher's Executor, which had been fraudulently obtained from the United States for Pensions.
Thomas Nelson Coll.
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Revolutionary
Pension Claim
Act of February 2. 1848.
Also for restoration of
Pension Act of June 7. 1832
Elizabeth Flesher
Widow of Adam

Chas. C. Tucker
Atty
Cherry Camp
Harrison Co.
Va.
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State of Virginia
Lewis County,
I John Morrow Clerk of the County Court in and for the County and State above named do hereby certify that John Talbott Esq. before
whom the foregoing affidavits of Elizabeth Flesher and of Wm J. Calbreath and Martin Smith were made was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace and on of the Judges of the County Court in and for said County and that his signatures thereto are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 10th
day of May 1860.
John Morrow Clerk
of Lewis County Court
[Seal affixed.]
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COPY
Pension Office December 21, 1860
Sir:
I have received and examined the papers communicated by you in relation to various claims for pension, and have the honor to state that the files of this office afford no information whatever in relation to any of them except the following:
Adams Flesher was pensioned under Act of June 7, 1832; but upon an examination of his case by the united States District Attorney, he was found not to have served as he alleged, and the money he had thus  improperly received was recovered by the United States and paid his executer. No pension is due his widow
*****
It remains only to be observed that the widows of soldiers in Wayne War (so called) are not entitled to pension in virtue of such services.
*****
Very respy
Hon. Sherrard Clemens
House of Rep.
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State of Virginia
Lewis County
On this 10th day of May 1860 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County
and State above named personally appeared William J. Calbreath and Martin Smith who are residents of Lewis County Virginia and known to me as credible persons who being duly sworn according to law declare that they
and personally acquainted with Mrs Elizabeth Flesher widow of Adam Flesher and were personally acquainted with her husband.
That she was a pensioner of Lewis County Virginia for a short period and his pension was stopped.  That he died in Lewis County Virginia, as they are informed and believe on the 4th day of November A.D. 1854, leaving
Mrs Elizabeth Flesher a widow who has continued a widow from the death of her said husband.
And they further certify that the following is a
true copy of three entries in a family record in a Bible in the possession of Mrs Elizabeth Flesher.
"Adam Flesher was Born July the 29th day in
"the year of our Lord 1764."
"Elizabeth Staats was Born Oct the 12 day in
"the yeare of our Lord 1776."
"Adam Flesher and Elizabeth Staats was
"Married the 22 day of February in the year of our Lord 1792."
The said William J. Calbreath for himself says that his knowledge of Mr Adam Flesher having received a pension is derived from conversations had with him and with his
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neighbors and others, and that he knows his death took place in the Fall of 1854,  for the reason that he was present when he died and he remembers it was about that time, also
that he had a child born about the same time, and also that he the witness was Administrator upon the Estate of one of his neighbors who was buried on the day of Adam Flesher's burial and also from other cotemporaneous circumstances.
The said Martin Smith says for himself that he is sixty four years of age and was acquainted with Adam Flesher from his childhood that he frequently heard him and his neighbors and others speak of his receiving a pension for a short time and it was stopped.  That he the witness was present when Adam Flesher died, that he died in Lewis County Virginia and witness knows it was in November 1854, from his recollection of the time and also for the reason that he the witness removed to his present residence the month following the
death of Mr Flesher and he knows this removal was in December 1854.
And the witnesses both testify that they are
not interested in the Claim of Mrs Elizabeth Flesher.
Wm J. Calbreath
Martin Smith,
Sworn to and subscribed before me the
day and year first above written.
John Talbott J. P.
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24312
[illegible] 12/51
Adam Flesher
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State of Virginia
County of Lewis
On this 4th day of March A.D. 1851, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Adam Flesher, aged eighty six years, a resident of Lewis County in the State of Virginia, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that he is the identical Adam Flesher, who was a ranger, or Indian spy under command
of Lieutenant John P. Duvall, in the war with the North Western tribes of Indians; that he enlisted at the county of Harrison in the State of Virginia, on or about the 1st day of March A.D. 1791, for the term of about eight months, and continued in actual service from that time until about the middle of August, of that year
when he was relieved until about the last of September, in the same year, when he resumed his duty, and continued in actual
service until the first of November in the same year when he was honourable discharged at the said county of Harrison, having
actually served for a term of not less than 5 1/2 months in the character aforesaid.
He further states that he is the identical Adam Flesher, who was a corporal under command of Capt. William Lowther in the said Indian War, that he enlisted at the said county of
Harrison, on or about the 1st day of March A.D. 1792, for the term of about eight months, that he was stationed at Flesher's upper station in the said count of Harrison, (the present site of Weston, in the count of Lewis,) had 8 men placed under his command that he continued in actual service at said Station and in ranging the frontier country in order to discover or repel any hostile Indian in any of their incursions into the Settlements from the said 1st day of March, A.D. 1792, until the 1st day of November, 1792, when he was again honourably discharged at the said county of Harrison.
In January 1804, he had the misfortune to get his dwelling house consumed by fire, and all his goods and papers so that he has no discharge or documentary evidence to present.  He knows not whether any of his companions in
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areas are living by whom he could prove his said services nor does he remember to what regiment he was attached, what its number was or by whom commanded.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which he may be entitled under the "act granting bounty land
 to certain officers and soldiers who have been
engaged in the military service of the United States" passed September 28th 1850.
Adam Flesher [his X mark]

Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.  And I hereby certify that I believe the said Adam Flesher to be the identical man who served as aforesaid and that he is of the age above stated
Jesse Wooter J.P.

Virginia
Lewis County
I John Morrow Clerk of the County Court of Lewis County, certify that Jesse Wooster is
is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
affixed the seal of my office and subscribed my name this 4th day of March 1851
John Morrow of
Lewis County Ct.
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2514499
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Virginia
Lewis County
I John Morrow Clerk of the County Court of Lewis County certify that Thomas S Wood is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly Commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such; and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are Genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have herein unto affixed the seal of the said Court, and subscribed my name this 7th day of July 1856.

John Morrow JP
of Lewis County Court
[Seal affixed]
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Virginia
Lewis County
I John Morrow Clerk of the County Court of Lewis County certify that Thomas S Wood is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly Commissioned and qualified, and that full faith and credit are due to all his official acts as such; and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are Genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have herein unto affixed the seal of the said Court, and subscribed my name this 7th day of July 1856.

John Morrow JP
of Lewis County Court
[Seal affixed]
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Petition
Elizabeth Flesher
47338-160-55

[Stamp: Pension Office Dec 20 1860]
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State of Virginia, Lewis Coounty
Be it Known, That on this 24th day of January, one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine, personally appeared before me,  Geo W Jacks Notary Public within and for the said County and State aforesaid, Elizabeth Flesher aged 83 years, a resident of the County of Lewis, who being duly sworn according to law, declared
that she is the widow of Adam Flesher & that he the identical Adam Flesher who was a private in a Company commanded by Captain Clark or Coburn and of the Rangers, in a War with the Indians, that he served in the County of Harrison in the State of Virginia, on or about the [blank] day of [blank], in the year of 1792 of 3 for the term of six months, & that he acted in the said Company as an Indian Spy or Ranger, in the Western part Virginia, and that he was Honorably Discharged at [blank], in the County of Harrison, on or about the [blank] day of [blank], A. D., 1792 or 3, for which services she received a Land Warrant of one hundred and sixty acres, which will more fully appear by reference to the records of the Pension Office.
Your petitioner is advanced in years, and does not expect to live but a short time, and is poor and needs assistance, and prays Congress to grant her a pension for said services, from the 3d day of February, 1853, to assist her in her declining years.

Elizabeth Flesher [with x signature mark]
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I, George W. Clutter, Auditor of Public Accounts, hereby certify, that it appears from the original Rolls on file in this office of Captain William Lowthers Company of Volunteer Militia, ordered into service under the Instructions of the Executive of the 12th of December 1791 - that Adam Flesher served as Corporal in said Company from the 15th day of March 1792 to the 1st day of December 1792 and that he received as pay for said service the sum $52.25. Given under my hand at the Auditors office, in the City of Richmond the 3rd day of October 1856.
[No seal of Office seal]
G. W. Clutter
Aud. P. Accts.
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24912
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Weston, Lewis County, Va
March 4th 1851.
Sir,
The declaration of Adam Flesher is herewith transmitted.
Any bounty land Warrant to which he may be entitled you will please forward to me.
Very respectfully,
Your most obl. St.
Jas. Bennett

Jas. E. Heath Esq.
Comp of Pensions,
Washington City,
D.C.
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Weston, Va
July 7th, 1856,

Hon. Minot,
Com. of Pensions,
Sir,
The declaration of Elizabeth Flesher, widow of Adam Flesher, made in order to obtain Bounty Land is herewith transmitted.
Adam Flesher made his declaration, in his lifetime, under the act of 1850.  No rolls were found and the claim suspended.  Under that act parole testimony was inadmissible, and the applicant being unable to give record evidence never recd a warrant.
His widow has been unable to find any person living who served with him.  Yet gives the positive testimony of one witness, and strong corroborative testimony of another that the alleged services were rendered.
And it is hoped the evidence adduced will be
considered satisfactory.  It could scarcely be
expected that testimony of living witnesses to the fact of the services could, after the lapse of so many years, be adduced
Very respectfully so,
Jas Bennett
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Weston Va. May 10th 1860.
Hon. Geo. C. Whiting
Comr of Pensions
Sir
Enclosed please find claim of Mrs Elizabeth Flesher widow of Adam. for a pension under the Act of Feb. 2. 1840 and also for a restoration of the pension of her husband the said Adam Flesher under the Act of June 7, 1832.
A certified copy of the marriage record will be sent from Harrison County.
Please address your communications to Charles
C. Tucker, Cherry Camp, Harrison Co. Va.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Chas C. Tucker
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FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
TOM.G.STRICKLER, PREST.
E. E. WELLS, VICE PREST.
H. J. SCOTT, CASHIER.
PENNSBORO, W. VA.

Pennsboro, W. Va
Dec. 9th 1910.

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.

Dear Sir;-
Kindly inform me if there be a record in the Pension office of service in the War of American Revolution of Henry Flesher and Adam Flesher, both of Weston, Virginia - now West Virginia.  If there be a record; please enclose dates said information desired as proof for membership in the D. A. R.
I am,
Very Respectfully,
(Mrs.) Ida Flesher Martin
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FLESHER, FLESHER & FLESHER
MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL

L. J. FLESHER, LL. B.
B. H. FLESHER, LL. B.
W. W. FLESHER
S. L. FLESHER

MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE
616 THIRD AVE. SOUTH
ST. PAUL OFFICE
MINNESOTA BUILDING

October 5, 1933

U. S. Veterans Bureau,
Washington, D. C.,

Dear Sirs:

We are endeavoring to ascertain whether or not anyone by the name of "Flesher" was engaged in the Revolutionary War.  Our records, although not yet authenticated, show our ancestors came from Virginia and one of them settled the town of Weston about 1775. We understand that he was an Indian scout and came west into West Virginia territory about 1774.  We are not sure whether or not he is the ancestor of who bear that name, but we feel quite sure that he is a relative of ours.  Our folks came from West Virginia, and we
feel reasonably sure that he is one.  We are endeavoring, at the present time, to trace our ancestry back to Henry Flesher.  I believe
he formerly came from Harrison County, but lived in and was a resident of Lewis County, the County in which Weston is located.
Any information you can furnish, will be very greatly appreciated.
Yours very truly,
Ben H. Flesher

BHF:R
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Record Division.

December 15, 1910.

Mrs. Ida Flesher Martin,
Pennsboro, West Va.

Madam;

In reply to your letter dated the 9"" and received the 10"" instant, you are advised that in the claim of Adam Flesher, Sur. File No. 18,403, Rev. War, it appears that the soldier was born July 29, 1764 and went with his father, (name not stated) to Buckhannon Fort, Lewis County, Virginia.
He went out as a Scout after Indians in the Fall of 1781, in the Spring of 1788 and at various times until March, 1784.  He also served as an Indian Spy in 1788, 1791 and 1792.
He married in Harrison County, Virginia,  February 22, 1792, Elizabeth Staats or Stotts who was born October 12, 1776 and was a resident of Lewis County, Virginia in 1860.  He was allowed pension on a Certificate which
issued October 26, 1860, but was dropped from the Pension roll March 18, 1835, on the ground that his service was not rendered during the Revolution.
He died in Lewis County, Virginia, November 4, 1854.
The Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to Henry Flesher as described by you.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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October 18, 1933

Adam Flesher S.18403
Jacob Fleisher-S.2214

Mr. Benjamin H. Flesher
616 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of soldiers with surname Flesher, particularly Henry.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers of that war.
A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made in your behalf and no record found of such claims having been made
on account of the services of a Henry Flesher. The records of only two soldiers, under any spelling of that surname, have been found,
those of Adam Flesher and Jacob Fleisher. They are given below as found in the respective claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

Adam Flesher
S. 18403

Adam Flesher was born July 29, 1764, place not stated.
Prior to October, 1781, he was residing with his father at the latter's settlement in Lewis County, Virginia, where Weston was later
located. In October, 1781, soldier went with his father and family to Buchanan's Fort, commanded by one Pringle, rank not shown, in what was later Lewis County, Virginia, and in that same fall, Adam Flesher was out scouting against the Indians for five days he remained in the fort during the winter and in the spring of 1782, was out on two tours of ten days each, against the Indians; after which they moved to Richard's Fort on West Fork, soldier guarded the people from the
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first to the last named fort for four days: Adam Flesher was also out in 1782 for two weeks in pursuit of the Indians under Captain George
Jackson; he continued to live at Richards Fort until March, 1784, and during that time, he went out during the summer and fall of each
year for five or six days at a time, about one month in all, no names of officers given:
He also served in 1788, 1791 and 1792 or 1793, as a ranger and spy under Lieutenant John Pierce Duvall, Captains Clark and Coburn,
and William Lowther; he also served as sergeant and was stationed at Flesher's Upper Station in Harrison County, Virginia, which was later Weston, Lewis County, that state, under Colonel William Lowther.
He was allowed pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War under Certificate No. 23022, issued October 26, 1833, but upon a re-examination of his claim in 1834 by the United States District Attorney, it was found that he did not serve six months during the Revolution, in a regularly organized military corps as required by the pension laws his service on the frontiers subsequent to the
Revolution, was not provided for in the act under which he applied for pension, consequently his name was dropped from the rolls on March 18, 1835.
Adam Flesher died November 4, 1854, in Lewis County, Virginia.  It was stated that he was for many years a Justice of the Peace for said Lewis County and for more than fifty years was a minister of the Gospel, the particular denomination not shown.
The soldier married February 22, 1792, in Harrison County, Virginia, Elizabeth Stotts or Staats, who was born October 12, 1776, place not stated.
There are no data as to children.
Elizabeth Flesher was allowed bounty land on executed June 9, 1856, at which time she was a resident of Lewis County, Virginia.  The bounty land was allowed for the frontier service, noted
above, of her husband, Adam Flesher.
For information in regard to the location of the land, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and cite the number of the warrant, 47338, for 160
acres of bounty land, issued under the act of March 3, 1855.