Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9323, Aaron Adams, Green Mt. Boys Vt
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(3-1776)
Service
Green Mt. Boys
Vt
Adams, Aaron
Sarah
Number
W.9323
Contents
born Mar. 22, 1747
near mt. Timmouth, Vt.
d Dec. 13, 1833
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[illegible official stamp] | Agent notified
Letter to P. R. Hopkins. May 14 1845
To Ohio, Pitts'g from 4 Sept 1850 April 5, 1851. Notn [lowercase "n" superscript] to P. R. Hopkins Milan, Ohio

Death of widow not in D. B. [handwritten at bottom, rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise.]
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Ohio. Pittsburg Indiana [last word crossed out] 3669
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Sarah Adams widow of Aaron Adams Vt. who died on the 13. Dec. 1833 of Johnson Co. in the State of Indiana who was a Private in the company c [illegible further, paper torn and folded] by Captain Spafford of the regt. com [illegible further] by Col. Allen in the Vermont line for 8 months & 22 days
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inscribed on the Roll of Madison India[illegible further] at the rate of 29 Dollars 10 Cents [illegible further] to commence on the 4th day of March 1834. 4. March 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28th. day of Feb. 1862 and sent to P. R. Hopkins Milan, Erie Co. Ohio.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sep. 1841 | 305.55
Semi=annual allowance ending Mar.6.62 | 14.55
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$320.10
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[bracketed] Revolutionary Claims, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3. [end bracket]
Recorded by D. Brown. Clerk.
Book C. Vol. 1. Page 200

[This is an official form/certificate. Entries of dates, names, locations, currency, and other identifying numbers are handwritten.]
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State of Indiana   }
Johnson County  }Ss

On this 6th day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty one personally appeared before me James R Alexander associate Judge of the Circuit Court of Johnson County. Sarah Adams a resident of said county of Johnson and state of Indiana aged Eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July [4 or 11], 1836. That she is the widow of Aaron Adams who was a Serjeant in the Militia in the Army of the revolution. That as she has always understood from her said husband and the said Aaron Adams entered the service as a volunteer somewhere in the State of Vermont in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five that he marched through Castleton from whence under the Command of Colonel Ethan Allen to the fortress of Tyconderoga [Ticonderoga] and that he was present at the capture of it in this expedition it is the impression of the said Sarah Adams from the statements of her said husband the said Aaron Adams he the said Aaron was out and in the service four or five months. Again in the spring of the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven the said Sarah says from the statements of her said husband and other persons who are now deceased she believes her husband entered the service as a serjeant in the militia was at and engaged in the Battle of Benington [sic] from which time he continued in the service untill [sic] the latter part of September ^of the year last aforesaid^ the Company to which he belonged she thinks was commanded by Captain John Spafford of Tinmouth in the State of Vermont. his colonel was Seth Warner the said Sarah further states that to her own knowledge the said Aaron her said husband was in the service and on duty as a serjeant in Captain Spaffords Company in the fall and winter previous to his intermarriage with her and after that event for something over two years on several occasions was in the service one of which was a tour to Neshoba (now Brandon) against a body of Indians. She also further declares that she was married to the said Aaron Adams on the twenty first day of May AD 1778. that her husband the said Aaron Adams died on the thirteenth day of December in the year AD 1833. And that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will now fully appear by refference [reference] to the proof hereto annexed

Over         Sarah Adams
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Omit [in pencil at top]

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid: Associate
James R Alexander, Judge
J. C. C.

I James R Alexander one of the judges of the Johnson Circuit Court in the State of Indiana before whom the forgoing statement was subscribed and sworn to do hereby certify that owing to extreme age and infirmity it would be out of the question for Sarah Adams to attend court to make and be sworn to the statement to which this is annexed. Given under my hand this 6th day of August AD. 1841

James R Alexander
[illegible]

Indiana to wit      }
Johnson County }

I David Allen clerk of the Circuit Court of said county do hereby certify that James R Alexander whose name is subscribed to the forgoing certificate and before whom the forgoing statement of Sarah Adams was was subscribed and sworn to is one of the associate judges of the Circuit Court of Johnson County State of Indiana duly elected commissioned and qualified and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given. And further the signatures above purporting to be his are known to me to be genuine

In witness where of I do hereunto set my hand and affix my official seal at my office in Franklin this 6th day of August AD. 1841 David Allen Clerk

Omit [in pencil]
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State of Ohio
Heron County SS
Before me John J Ackerman Mayor of the Town of Norwalk in said County personally came Charlotte Merry who being by me first duly sworn the truth and the whole truth and nothing but
the truth to say in the matter touching service of Aaron Adams as a soldier says that she
was the oldest daughter of the said Aaron and
Sarah Adams that she is now 61 years old
that some time in the fall of the year 1788
the said Aaron her father had his house
burned in the Town of Salisberry in the State of
Vermont with all its contents and among other
things which were burned were his soldier
papers as her said father stated at the time
He also stated that the said papers he did not
suppose were worth anything at that time that they might draw land he supposed in Virginia and might be worth some thing some day or other
She has often heard her said father speak of
his services in the war of the revolution and name
the Battles in which he was engaged with the British
and Indians he mentioned frequently the battles
of Benington in Vermont and the Capture of Bergoin at Saratoga and many others not particularly recollected. Said Aaron was always respected among the neigh
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boug [crossed out] bors [neighbors, continued from prior page] where he resided in the State of Vermont to have served in the war of the revolution and always after as long as she resided in his family which was untill [until] she was about twenty years of age she says he was always called Sergent [Sergeant] Adams She further says that she always understood from her said father that he was the lawful husband of the said Sarah Adams that he always treated and acknowledged her as his lawful weded [wedded] wife that her said father and Mother had 9 living children which said Adams acknowledged and and Educated and treated as their legitimate offspring that said Aaron and Sarah Adams had a family record of the marriage of said Aaron and Sara and the birth of their children but the said record was burned at the time his said house was burned in Vermont that afterwards and about thirty years ago as this deponent believes another family record was made and kept in the family a copy of which she has in her possession and on which her age is stated and her own marriage which she knows to be correct. On the same copy of said record is the marriage of her said father and mother which is stated to have been on the 21st day of May 1778. and further this deponent saith not [naught] - 
Charlotte Merry
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Also at the same time and place came Ebenezer Merry who being also duly sworn by me the subscriber [subscribed] mayor of said Norwalk deposeth and says that he is will [well] acquainted  with the said Aaron Adams that his ["s" crossed out] is 60 years of Age - that he has heard the said Adams state his services in the war of the Revolution. he told affiant the he had been in thirty six Battles and Schermishes [skirmishes] with the British and Indians during the Revolution. Said Adams stated that he was in the battle of Bennington in Vermont and at the taking of Burgoin [Burgoyne] at Saratoga and also the battle of Hubberton [Hubbardton] under Col. [Colonel] Worner [Warner]. and many other Battles which he does not now recollect - Deponant [deponent] has heard other credible persons speak of His services in the revolution. Deponant [deponent] further says he was acquainted in the family and that said Adams alway [always] acknowledged and treated said Sarah as his lawful wedded wife and treated and Educated his Children as his legitimate offspring -- Ebenezer Merry
At this same time also came David Underhill and was also by me [crossed out] duly sworn by me said mayor of Norwalk as above stated doth depose and say that he is now in his 77th year of his age that he was well acquainted with said Aaron Adams in his life time he says he saw said Adams in the service of the war of the Revolution several times he served under Captain Spafford in Col -
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Warners. [Colonel Warner's] Regiment - in the Vermont lines. Says he saw him in the services during the revolutionary war a great number of times he thinks at Least twenty he says he saw said Adams and his brother Daniel Adams the next day after the Battle of Bennington in Vermont with many other soldiers returning from this Battle. was then on a scout - with many other soldiers - to the north he saw Adams then stated to my father in the presence [illegible] this affiant that he was in said battle the day before.
Said Adams was then reputed to be one of the most active,  resolute men in the army to which he belonged deponant [deponent] also says he has repeatedly heard him say he was in a great number of battles & Surmeshis [skirmishes] and always understood that said Adams Served the greater part or all the war of the Revolution.
that said Adams at the time of hes services resided at Tinmouth in the [illegible] State of Vermont - Deponat [deponent] says he saw said Adams towrd the close of the war in the services but cannot recollect what year - and further this deponant [deponent] saith not [aught] - David Underhill (signature]
State of Ohio Huron County SS. This twenty seventh day of August AD.. one thousand eight hundred and forty one, personally appeared before me this subscriber, Mayor of the
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Town of Norwalk, County and State aforesaid, Charlotte Merry, Ebenezer Merry and David Underhill, who being first duly sworn to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, did depose and say upon their corporal oath, that the foregoing Depositions and Statements of facts, being first reduced to writing in my own and their presence, and by them severally subscribed, are true in substance and in fact. John J. Akerman Mayor
The State of Ohio, Huron County f | I Roswell Gibbs Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Huron and State aforesaid do hereby certify that John J. Akerman whose name is subscribed to the forgoing certificate was, at the date thereof the Mayor of the Town of Norwalk duly elected & sworn as such that he is by law authorized to take the acknowledgement of instruments in writing and that the foregoing Signature purporting be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the Seal of Said Court at Norwalk this 27th day of August A.D. 1841 Roswell Gibbs Dep. Clk. Huron Com. [Common] Pleas.
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I herewith Send the declaration of Sarah Adams and also the Depopositions [depositions] of three respectable witnesses The applicant had no knowledge of the Existance [existence] of the Testimony of David Underhill untill about a month ago she did not know that any man was living who could Testify to her husbands Services untill audent [audient?] brought to her knowledge that Major David Underhill the above named witness was living and had a knowledge of said Adams' Services- Pleas [please] communicate with me for the present. The family record named in Charlotte Merrys deposition will be sent to the deportment. Abundance of Testimony can be procured here as to the high & respectable stan- of the witnesses above named, and their credibility 
S 
Yours with much respect - 
P R Hopkins
Milan Erie County O-
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Family Record
Marriages | 1
Aaron Adams & Sarah Hard were married May 21. 1778  Aaron Adams was born March 22 1747. Sarah Hard was born June 1st 1757.
Charlotte Adams was born August 17. 1780
Mary Adams was born December 21. 1781
Aaron Adams was born Novr- 25. 1783
Abraham Adams was born Sept 29. 1785
Eliza Adams was born Sept 7. 1787
Sebastian Adams was born August 3. 1789
Cylindia Adams was born April 7. 1792
Noble Adams was born Feb. 3. 1794
Malissia Adams was born Feb. 12. 1798
Lysander Adams was born May 31. 1799
Charlotte Adams was Married May 5th 1800
Mary Adams was Married December 5. 1801
 Aaron Adams was Married December 22. 1809
Abraham Adams was Married January 21. 1819
Cylindia Adams was Married January 31. 1810
Indiana to wit Johnson County Ss | Aaron Adams On this 7th day of September in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty onepersonally appeared before me James Chenowith a justice of the peace within and for said county and being by me duly sworn says he is the third Child of Aaron and Sarah Adams first above names that the forgoing [foregoing] statement of their births and marriages and [illegible, crossed out]
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the births and marriages of their Children is a true and accurate copy of a family record now in the possession of his mother the said Sary [Sarah] Adams the said family record he believes was made about twenty years since Copied from a family record in a very old Bible of the said Aaron that was at the time given to a boy in the State of New York that record in the old Bible given to the boy was made by the said Sarah Adams between 30 and 50 years since from her recollection of a record in a Bible that was burned in the house of the said Aaron Adams about fifty years since affiant has seen the record on the old Bible mentioned that was given to the boy recollects the burning of his fathers house always understood and it was never to his knowledge doubted by any of the family but the record upon the old Bible mentioned of which from his own recollection he believes the above to be a true copy was [4-5 words crossed out, illegible] and that the above is a true history of the births and marriages of the family of the said Aaron Adams  Aaron his Adams work
Subscribed and sworn to this 7 day of September 1841 
James Chenowith Justice of the peace | Seal [hand drawing of a seal inscribed with the word  "seal" within to the right of Chenowith signature block]
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State of Indiana Johnson County | I David Allen Clerk of the Circuit Court in the county aforesaid do hereby Certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing and signature of James Chenowith Esqr who has signed the foregoing affidavit as subscribed and sworn to before him and believe his said signature to be genuine. And further that he is and was at the date [illegible] a regular acting Justice of the peace of said County duly Elected commissioned and qualified and that full faith and Credit are due to all his official acts as such In witness whereof I do here unto subscribe my name and affix my seal of office at Franklin this 7th day of September AD 1841 David Allen Clk
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[Bordered, embossed 2-column form with 
handwritten entries]

FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES. 
Aaron Adams & Sarah Hard were married May 21. 1778
Charlotte Adams was married May 5 1800
Mary Adams was married Dec 5 1801
Aaron Adams was married Dec= 22, 1809
Abraham Adams was married Jan= 21. 1819
Cylindia Adams was married Jan= 1, 1810

|  MARRIAGES. [column 2, no entries]
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[Bordered and embossed 2-column form with handwritten entries]

FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS. [column1]
Aaron Adams was born March 22 1747
Sarah Hard was born June 11, 1757
Charlotte Adams was born August 17, 1780
Mary Adams was born Dec= 21 1781
Aaron Adams was born Nov= 25 1783
Abrahamn Adams was born Sept= 29 1785
Eliza Adams was born Sept= 7 1787

| BIRTHS. [column 2]
Sebastian Adams was born August 3. 1789
Cylindia Adams was born April 7 1792
Noble Adams was born Feb= 3 1794
Malissia Adams was born Feb= 12 1798
Lysander Adams was born May 31. 1799
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State of Indiana | 3
Johnson County | Ss On the fourth day of November in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and forty one. before the undersigned James Chenowith a justice of the peace in said County of Johnson. Aaron Adams of Franklin, County and State of aforesaid duly sworn according to law On Oath states that the records of the marriages and births of the family of Aaron Adams hereto attached by a Ribbon drawn through the margin is a leaf taken from the Bible of the said Aaron - Adams father of this affiant. now deceased, that the Bible was a long time in the family of his father and the record upon the leaf was always by himself and the family considered a true and genuine record of the marriages and births of his father's the said Aaron's family. That this leaf contains the Original record of the marriages and births of the family of the said Aaron Adams a Copy of which was a short time since by this affiant subscribed and sworn to by and before the said James Chenowith Eqr [Esquire] to be used as this affiant was informed and believes as evidence in the application of Sarah Adams the mother of this affiant and widow of the said Aaron Adams deceased to obtain a pension.
his
Aaron X Adams
mark
subscribed and sworn to the day and year Above stated
State of Indiana  | James Chenowith
Johnson County | Ss | Justice of the peace | [hand drawn seal in inscribed "Seal" within]
I David Allen Clerk of the Circuit Court of said County do hereby certify that the Justice of the peace above named to wit James Chenowith who had subscribed his name to the foregoing affidavit to which is was then attach in manner above in the affidavit of Aaron Adams stated a leaf containing the family record of Aaron Adams deceased. That the said James Chinowith [Chenowith] is a regular acting Justice of the peace of said County duly Elected commissioned and qualified & that full faith and credit aught to be given to all his official acts. In witness whereof I do hereunto subscribe my name and affix my seal of office this 4th day of November AD. 1841 David Allen Clk
[Leaf with ribbon affixed as described is seen in bottom left corner.]
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September 21, 1937

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Aaron Adams, W. 9323
Mrs. Ira Hinsey BA-J/MCS
322 W. Spruce Avenue
Arkansas City, Kansas

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to the Revolutionary War soldier, Aaron Adams, W. 9323.

The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, W. 9323, based upon the military service of Aaron Adams.

Aaron Adams was born March 22, 1747. The place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given. 

While a resident of Tinmouth, Vermont, he enlisted in 1775 and served at various times, amounting to four or five months in all, with the green Mountain Boys under Captain Oliver Potter and Colonels Ethan Allen and Seth Warner; he was in the battle of Ticonderoga. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served until sometime in the fall or winter of that year as sergeant in Captain John Spafford's Vermont company; he was in the battle of Hubbardton, Bennington and at the capture of Burgoyne. After May, 1778, he served at various times, amounting to at least two years in all, officers not stated.

He married May 21, 1775, Sarah Hard who was born June 11, 1757. 

Aaron Adams died December 13, 1833.

His widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed August 6, 1841, at which time she was a resident of Johnson County, Indiana. In 1851 she was living in Milan, Erie County, Ohio.
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Aaron and Sarah Adams had the following children:
Charlotte | born August 17,1780, married May 5, 1800, --- Merry.
Mary | " December 21, 1781, married December 28, 1801.
Aaron | " November 25, 1783, married December 22, 1809, was resident of Franklin County, Indiana, in 1841.
Abraham | " September 29, 1785, married January 21, 1819, and was a resident of Avon, Livingston County, New York, in 1845.
Eliza | " September 7, 1787.
Sebastian | " August 3, 1789.
Cylindia | " April 7, 1792, married January 31, 1810.
Noble | " February 3, 17994.
Malissia | " February 12, 1798. 
Lysander | " May 31, 1799.
In 1841 the above-noted Charlotte Merry stated that her father's house burned in Salisbury, Vermont, in the fall of 1788. In 1841 one Ebenezer Merry, aged sixty-eight years, testified in behalf of the widow, Sarah Adams, relationship not shown.
The soldier had a brother Daniel Adams, who was in the battle of Bennington. 
There are no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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[Two column form with form blanks hand filled in column 2 and hand written notes in column 1]

[Column 1]
1914 June 30 Hist. to Mrs. Marshall Cushing. S.J.M.
1921 Sept. 30 Hist. to K. P. Ruggles
1927 Nov. 1 hist. to Dr. Herbert S. Johnson M.C.S.
1927 Nov 25 - Herbert S. Johnson advised rel. to [illegible] data etc.
1928 June 9 - Photos to Herbert S. Johnson see carres.  in cl.f Oliver Harmon S 16143
1928 July 20 Photos to E. V. - [illegible] Martindale See Wm. Adair [illegible] 9691
1929 Aug. 5. hist. to Miss Roxie J. Adams M.C.S.
1929 Dec, 10 - Photos to Wm G Adams Finance Div. Ntfd - 
1930 Dec. 12 hist. to Hon. Joe E. Baird M.C.S.
1931 Jan. 10. hist again sent to Hon. Joe E. Baird M.C.S.
1937 Sept. 21. hist. to Mrs. Ira Hinsey M.C.S.
1938 Aug 20 - Mrs. AJ Berger adv'd no fur. inf. given than in above record & refd to Comp. Gen (See ltrz in chap. S36687 of [two illegible words) - MLB

[Column 2 - hand filled form]
Revy [handwritten] WIDOW, &c.
File No. 9323
Sarah Adams Wid. of Aaron Adams Pvt.- Vt.- line
Act: July 1736, [?] Sec. 3 [or 31]
Index: ----- Vol. A, Page 3
[Arrangement of 1870.] [typewritten]
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Sarah Adams of Aaron Indiana - supsended - See 
let. 4 Sept. 1861 to P. R. Hopkins.
let. to do. 22. Sept. '41 
let. to do. 10 Nov '41 
to do. 5 Jan., 1842
let. 3 Feb 42, to Sec. of State of Vt. (C. L. Knapp)
let 4 Feb. 42 P.R. Hopkins.

Act 4 July July 1836
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Secretary's Office,
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Sarah Adams widow of Aaron of Ohio formerly of Indiana Cleveland Agency Act July 4th 1836
B. B. Chapman
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Sarah Adams [underlined] of Ohio, formerly of Indiana pensioned February 28th [superscript] 1842 act of July 4th [superscript] 1836

B.B. Chapman
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5425
Sarah Adams of Aaron
Indiana
Admitted -
Priv. (Private] | 8 mo. | 22 da. | $29.10
Sergt. [Sergeant] | | 6" [days] | 1.-- [underscored]
| | | $30.10
Cap Spafford Col. Allen. Vt.
died 13 Decr [superscript December] 1833.
Act 4 July 1836
P.R. Hopkins Milan Erie Co. Ohio
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101 days | Cap. Sexton Col Walbridge for defense of frontiers. 1781.
7 days. | Cap Spafford Col. Allen. 1780
4 " [days] | Cap Spafford Col Allen 1780
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112. = 3.22
Private 5 " [days] = in 1775 Col. Warner Cap Potter.
Sept. - "6 days. Cap - 1779
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8.28. --

Pr 8.22 = | 6 mo. | $20.--
 | 2 | 6.66
 | .20 | 2.22
 | .  2 |   .22
 |  |   _______
 |  |    29.10
Sergt | 6 days | 1.00
 |  |    _______
 |  |     30.10

3.0 [division bracket] 50.0
16.2 [2 superscripted, underlined]
63 [3 superscripted]
_____
100
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" Rutland, Oct. 24, 1786
State of Vermont
To Capt. Oliver Potter his officers and soldiers who served in Col. Seth Warner's Regiment in the year 1775 in an expedition to Canada
To Capt Potter for enlisting 14 men at 8/ | £5 : 12 : 0
" 5 weeks' subsistence at 16/ | 4 : 0 : 0
" a blanket 12/ | 0 : 12 : 0
" a gun 10/ | 0 : 10 : 0
To money paid for transporting the baggage of the Company from St Johns to Seperarie 18/ | 0 : 18 : 0
---
To Lieut. Ebenezer Allen for enlisting 18 men at 8/ | 7 : 4 : 0
" 5 weeks' subsistence at 16/ | 4 : 0 : 0
" a blanket 12/ | 0 : 12 : 0
" a gun 10/ | 0 : 10 : 0
To money paid for transporting bagagge of the company from Long Gale to St. Johns 18/ | 0 : 12 : 0
---
To Lieut. Jonas Claghorn for enlisting ten men @ 8/ | 4 : 0: 0
To 5 weeks subsistence @ 16/ 4 : 0 ; 0
To a blanket @ 12 |  0 : 12 : 0
To a gun 10/ | 0 : 10 : 0
---
Abraham Jackson | Bounty 40/ Blank. | 12/ gun 10/ | 3 : 2 : 0
Moses Cooley | Do [superscript | Do [superscript] | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Caleb Rice | Do [superscript | Do [superscript] | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
James Laflin | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
William Thinkinbatham | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
James McNight | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Joel Baldwin | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Silas Bingham | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Daniel Adams | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Thos [Thomas] Tuttle | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Edw [Edward] Turner | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Silas Gerard | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Orange Train | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Ethan Rice | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
[To the left a hand is drawn pointing right to this line followed by a bracket] Aaron Adams | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
James Bampus | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
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Asahel Jackson | Do [superscript] | £ 3 : 2 : 0
Hazleton Spencer | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Ebnr. [Ebenezer] Washburn | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Reuben March | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Joseph Randall | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Thomas Stafford | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Amariah How | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Rufu Tift | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Henry Green | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Alexander Barr | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Saml [Samuel] Dorwin | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Amaze Dorwin | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Joseph Fuller | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Ebenr. {Ebenezer] Andrice | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
George Olds | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Robert Havenl [Havens] | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
John Eaton | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
John Griffin | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Daniel Norton | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Daniel Williams | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Alpheus Hall | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0"
Micah Whitney | | | Do [superscript] | 3 : 2 : 0
Total £ 163 : 06 : 0
 "Pay Table Office Rutland, Oct. 24, 1786. | The within account examined and approved , and the Treas. was directed to pay the same to Col. Ebenr. [Ebenezer] Allen, or bearer, it being one hundred sixty-three pounds sixteen shillings L. money.
Timo. [Timothy Brownson, Lem. [Lemuel] Chipman, | Committee."
"Treasurer's Office, Ruttland [Rutland], Oct. 25th, 1786. Recd. [Received] of Ira Allen Esq Treasurer, the contents of the above order being one hundred and sixty-three pounds sixteen shillings £163:16:0  Ebenr. [Ebenezer] Allen."
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State of Vermont.
Secretary of State's Office,
Montpelier. Feb. 12, 1842.
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of an account, Pay Table Order, and receipt, originally filed in the Treasurer's Office of said state, and now remaining on file in this office.
Given under my hand and the Seal of this office at Montpelier, this the 12th day  of February, A.D. 1842
Chauncey L. Knapp, Acting Secretary of State.
[Image of affixed seal  to left of signature.]
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"Tinmouth, 20th July 1779.
"Sir, You are ordered to take into custody and them safely keep and convey to Arlington to his Excellency the Governor's quarters and deliver to a proper guar Jason Crawford and Oliver Hill, deserters from the Continental service. You will also inform his Excellency that your guard is not paid, therefore pray him to see that matter settled before you are discharged. pr Gideon Warren, Col. [Colonel]
To Sergeant Aaron Adams.}

"Sir, Pay to Sergnt. Aaron Adams, for himself and two men six days and their expended thirty-five pounds seventeen shillings, and for the expenses of two prisoners four days fifteen pounds eight shillings, in the whole fifty pounds five shillings. Thos. [Thomas] Chittenden. To Ira Allen Esq. Treasurer."

"Recd. [Received] of the Treasurer eightee six shillings on ye above order. Aaron Adams."

"Recd. Arlington, Aug. 10th 1779 of Ira Allen, Treasurer, thirty-one pound nineteen shillings in full of what is due on the within order. Recd [superscript] for Aaron Adams Pr mee Sarah Adams."
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State of Vermont. Secretary of State's Office, Montpelier, Feb. 12, 1842.}
I certify the foregoing to be a true copy of orders and receipts now on file in this office. 
Given under my hand and seal of office at Montpelier,, this the 12 day of February A.D. 1842. m Chauncey L. Knapp, Acting Secretary of State.
[Image of seal to left of signature block.]
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State of New York Livingston County} Ss Abraham Adams of Avon in the said County being duly sworn before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County deposeth and saith that he was personally and well acquainted with Aaron Adams for forty five years previous to his death that deponant [deponent] is a son of the said Aaron that he has heard said Aaron relate the scenes of the Revolution and state that he served some time as a soldier in the Army of the Revolution and that he was in the following Battles {Viz} the Battle of Binington [Bennington] Ticondarogue [Ticonderoga] at Huberton [Hubbardton] at the surrender of Burguoyne [Burgoyne] that he said Aaron stated that he served under Ethan Allyn [Allen] as his Col [Colonel] and under Col Warner also that this deponant [deponent] has heard said Aaron and Thomas Lyon who was also a soldier of the Revolution relate frequently their service together in the Army and of their being in the most or all of the foregoing Battle that said Aaron and the Thomas were both men of truth and Verasity [veracity] that they are both now dead
subscribed and sworn before me this 8th day of March 1845 M P Thomas JP}Abraham Adams
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State of New York Livingston County Clerks Office}.Ss  I  William H Whiting clerk of Said County do hereby testify that Matthew P Thomas Esqr. before whom the foregoing and annexed affidavits purport to have been taken and subscribed, was on the day the same beas date a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Elected and Qualified to act as such and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the Said Matthew P Thomas and verily believe his Signature subscribed to the foregoing and annexed Certificates to be genuine  In Witness Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said County at Geneseo this 10th day of March 1845. Wm [superscript] H Whiting. clerk
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State of New York Livingston County|Ss  Moses Eggleston of Avon in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Aaron Adams for about twenty years before his death and have frequently heard said Adams relate the scenes of the Revolution and have frequently heard him say that he served in the Army of the Revolution [crossed out] ary Army [end cross out] and that he served under Captain Morgan and that he served in a company called the sharp shooters at same time but this deponant does not recollect the number of times which he claimed to have been out or the length of time that his service in all and further this deponant saith not
subscribed and sworn before me this 1st day of February 1845 M. P. Thomas JP}  Moses Eggleston
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State of New York Livingston County}Ss  Abraham Adams of Avon in the State and County aforesaid being duly sworn before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid deposeth and  saith that he is a son of Aaron Adams and Sarah Adams his wife that this deponant hath frequently and at diverse times heard his Father the said Aaron narate [narrate] his services in the Army of the Revolution that he has heard said Aaron frequently state that he served for some considerable length of time but that length of time this deponant does not recollect but he recollects of his having stated frequently that he served at one time for nine months and that he had stated that he had been out in the service at several other times that this deponant has heard said Aaron state that he was in the Battle of Tigondaroga [Ticonderoga] Bennington and at the taking of Burgoyne that this deponant further states that he has heard said Aaron and Thomas Lyon who was a soldier with him and they both agreed as to said Adams having served in the Army of the Revolution and further this deponant saith not

subscribed and sworn before me this 25th day of Jan 1845 M P Thomas JP} Abraham Adams
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State of New York Livingston County}Ss Jehial Keisley of Avon in the said County Being duly sworn before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County Deposeth and saith that he has been well acquainted with Aaron Adams for some fifty years preceeding [preceding] the death of the said Aaron which occured [occurred] about twelve or thirteen years since that he has heard the said Aaron relate the events of the Revolution among which deponant [deponent] recollects of hearing said Aaron state that he had served in the Army of the Revolution for some time that he was in the Battle of Bennington at Ticondargoue [Ticonderoga] and at the Battle of Huberton [Hubbardton] and at the surrender of Burguone [Burgoyne] and was a man of truth and verasity [veracity]

subscribed and sworn before me this 8th day of March 1845 M P Thomas JP } Jehial Kelsey
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State of New York Livingston County }Ss Mary Kelsey of Avon in the said County being duly sworn before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County deposeth and saith that she was personally and well acquainted with Aaron Adams for about fifty two years previous to his death that she has heard him state frequently that he had served in the Revolutionary Army and that he was in the Battle of Benington [Bennington] and at Ticondarogue [Ticonderoga] at the taking of Burguoine [Burgoyne] and at the Huberton [Hubbardton] Battle (so called) thinks said Aaron was not a man of much boasting and that he was a man of truth and verasity [veracity]
subscribed and sworn before me this 8th day of March 1845 M. P. Thomas JP } Mary Kelsey
We the undersigned inhabitants of the town of Avon in the County of Livingston and State of New York do hereby certify that we are personally and well acquainted with Abraham Adams Jehial Kelsey and Mary Kelsey and have been for many years and believe them to be persons of good moral character and of truth and Verasity [veracity]
dated at Avon this 8th day of March 1845 } M. P. Thomas Isaac Wells A. N. Merrill J E Nixon Ellem Cook
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State of Vermont [underlined]
Secretary of State's Office, Montpelier, Dec. 28, 1841
I, Chauncey L. Knapp, Acting Secretary of said State, do hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper, purporting to be "A Pay Roll of Capt. George Sexton's Company of Volunteers, belonging to Col. Ebenzer Walbridge's Regt. [regiment] raised for the defence [defense] of the frontier of the State of Vermont, Manchester, December 20, 1781," and that the name of Aaron Adams appears in the list of privates, on said pay roll, with an allowance, private, [crossed out] for one hundred and one days' service annexed. I further certify that there is on file in the office another paper, purporting to be a "Pay Roll of Capt. John Spafford's Company in Col. Ebenr. [Ebenezer] Allen's Regiment of Militia in the service of this State, commencing the 31st day of May, 1780 and ending the 6th day of June, 1780, inclusive, the money being due from the State of Vermont." I further certify that the name of Aaron Adams appears upon said pay roll as private, with an allowance for seven days' service annexed. I further certify that there in on file in this office another paper purporting to be a "Pay Roll of John Spafford's Company
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of Militia in Col. Ebenr. [Ebenezer] Allen's Regt. [Regiment] in the service of the State of Vermont, October, A.D. 1780, from the 25th to the 28th both days included - at Castleton." I further certify that the name of Aaron Adams, a private, appears upon said pay roll, with an allowance of four days service annexed. I further certify that each of the said pay rolls appears to have been examined, allowed and ordered to be paid, by a committee acting under the authority of this State, and that the same were duly paid by the Treasurer of said State. I further certify that a part of the revolutionary pay rolls containing evidence of service of the Vermont troops are lost and are not to be found.
Given under my hand and the seal of this office, at Montpelier, this the 28th day of December, A.D. 1841. Chauncey L. Knapp, Acting Secretary of State.

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Milan Erie Co [County] O [Ohio]
March 25. /51
Sir Sarah Adams who formerly resided in Johnson County Indiana has removed to this place to reside She made out her papers for drawing her pension at Pittsburgh but they were returned her name not being on that pension agency. She has heretofore Drawn at the Indiana agency but having come her [here]  to reside during the residue of her life she wishes to have her name changed from Indiana to Pittsburgh agency. I enclose her Vouchers which were made out for Pittsburgh that you may order the agent there to pay if you make the change as she wishes - your [yours] with much respect P R Hopkins.
Hon J E Heath Com. Pensions
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[This document is the front of an envelope.]

Jan 3. 1842
M. Allison
Hon. J. L. Edwards, 
Court. of Pensions,
Washington

[Image of postal stamp at bottom left reads, within a circle, as follows.] 
Montpelier
Dec 29
Vt.
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[This document is the front of an envelope.]

Jan 3. 1842
M. Allison
Hon. J. L. Edwards, 
Court. of Pensions,
Washington

[Image of postal stamp at bottom left reads, within a circle, as follows.] 
Montpelier
Dec 29
Vt.
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Montpelier Vt. Dec. 28, 1841.
Sir, The enclosed certificate of the service of [underlined] Aaron Adams [end underline] is forwarded by request of J. R. Hopkins Esq. of Milan, Ohio. I have the honor to be With great respect, Your obt. Servt., C. L. Knapp, Acting Secretary of State
Hon J. L. Edwards, Court of Pensions, Washington.
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Secretary of State's Office, Montpelier, Jan. 23, 1842.
Sir, Will you please inform whether or not the evidence recently furnished from this office of the service of Aaron Adams, was conclusive in favor of the claim. The reason of this inquiry is, some additional fragments of evidence have been found since my last certificate was forwarded, and which will be furnished, if necessary. Very respectfully, Your obt. servt., C. L. Knapp
Hon J. L. Edwards
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Milan Erie County O. Jany [January] 14/42
Sir Yours of the 5 instant came to hand by last mail, informing me that the record from Vermont had been received at the pension office Shewing [showing] that Aaron Adams performed services, 112 day in the war of the revolution. You have the deposition of Major David Underhill (now deceased which States that he saw Aaron Adams in the service the next day after the battle of Benington [Bennington] which took place on the 16th of August 1777. Now Sir I would ask the privilege to be informed whether the records from Vermont shew [show] services before or after this battle. Adams was in a great number of Battles and I perhaps may get proof of his being in other battles which will shew [show] Services over six months, for it is believed that he was in the service several years at different times and in several Battles before and after that of Benington [Bennington]. If it would not be going beyond the rules of the department I would ask a list of the pensioners names and residue [residence?] who served in the same company and regiment with Aaron Adams if any now Survived ["d" crossed out] All the witnesses which the applicant knew of are now dead. Underhill died Since we took his deposition. She can get evidence of Adams' statement of his services and in what Battles he was but does not know that she can get more positive proof without knowing the name of some one who served with him Yours with much Esteem & Respect P R Hopkins
Hon J L. Edwards Esq Com. of Pensions -
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March 27, 1848.
Cl
Sarah Adams

[Postal seal to the right here within a circle, as follows.]
Milan 
MAR 21
O
[end seal]

Pencion.
mo-3669

FREE [Stamped at 90 degrees clockwise]
[Handwritten at 90 degrees clockwise, as follows]
Pension Office
Washington DC

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[This is a second version part of the previous image (33 of 79) turned 90 degrees clockwise and reads as follows.]

FREE [stamp]
Pension Office
Washington DC [handwritten]
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Milan Erie Co Ohio March 21, 1945
Sir I enclose depositions taken at the request of Sarah Adams whose pention is now only about $33.33 for the purpose of increasing her pension to the full pay of a private, which she prays may be allowed under the evidence now submitted. The Evidence now produced shows that Aaron Adams her husband was in the service from the taking of Ticonderoga under Col E. Allen in May 1775. That he continued to serve untill the surrender of Burgoine in Oct 1777 - Fully believing that the service of said Adams were such that they were a full pention to his widow. She has taken the additional testimony which I enclose
Pleas direct to me at this Place 
[signed] PR Hopkins -
Hon J. L. Edwards Esq
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Secretary's Office, Montpelier, Vt. Feb. 12, 1842
Sir, I enclose some additional evidence in support of the claim of Mrs. [underlined] Sarah Adams [end underline] of Indiana, and am, With great respect, Your obt. servt., C. L. Knapp
Hon. J. L. Edwards. Comr. Pensions.
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[This is an image of the address and postal label of a postcard. It holds four images/stamps above the typewritten address, as follows.]

[#1 Wording within circular receipt stamp.]
Received Jul 10 1937 [illegible further]

[#2 Wording within circular postal stamp.]
ARKANSAS CITY 
10 [superscript] 30 [end superscript] PM
Jul 7 1937
KANS.

[#3 Cancelled postal stamp.]

[#4 Stamp.] 
THIS SIDE OF CARD IS FOR ADDRESS

The Veterans Administration,
Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary War Section,
Washington, D.C.
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[Typewritten postcard.]

322 Sw. Spruce Ave., Arkansas City, KANSAS [underlined]. July 7, '37
Dear Sir: - An Aaron or a James Adams received a pension for their services in the Revolutionary War & the number of this pension I believe to be: W. 9323, but am not certain if this was for the pension granted Aaron Adams for his services, or granted to James Adams, the father of Aaron Adams. Will you kindly advise me of the family data contained in this pension, NO. W. 9323 - and I am especially interested in learning place & date of birth; parentage; names & dates, if given, for children of pensioner; name of wife, service as set forth in pension claim etc. Thanking you most kindly for any information you may send me regarding this pension, and trusting I may hear from you at an early date as I am anxious to have this record just as soon as possible. Most respectfully,Mrs Ira Hinsey [handwritten] Mrs. Ira Hinsey. [typewritten]
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HERBERT S. JOHNSON 369 BEACON STREET BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
September 19, 1927.
The Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary War Records Section, Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sirs: - I will consider it a great favor if you will give me the Revolutionary War record of Aaron Adams who lived in Tinmouth, Vermont. I am informed that you hold this record in your office file "V.I.M." "W.F. 9323," in a letter dated June 30, 1914, and addressed to Mrs. Marshall Cushing. Do any of your records give a list of the children of Aaron Adams and Sarah Hard Adams, his wife? If so may I have it? If so, was he in the Regiment of Colonel Ethan Allen or Colonel Seth Warner? Has James Adams, father of Aaron Adams a Revolutionary War record? [handwritten note in margin here at 90 degrees clockwise, transcribed below] If there is any expense attached to the looking up of these records, I shall be very glad to pay it. Thanking you, I am Very respectfully yours, Herbert S Johnson [handwritten signature] Herbert S. Johnson.
HSJ/EMD.

[Handwritten note in margin as noted above.] In the meantime Dr. Johnson has called the Bur. and gotten the data himself
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HERBERT S. JOHNSON
369 BEACON STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
October 26th, 1927.
The Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary War Record Section,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Sirs:- Somewhat more than a month ago I wrote to you a letter asking for the War record of Aaron Adams of Tinmouth, Vermont, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. Having received no reply I am afraid that my letter went astray. As I am extremely anxious to get this information, I am writing a second time, and am inclosing a self addressed envelope. I shall be glad to pay any necessary expenses incident to this request
as soon as the bill is sent to me.
#1. Will you please furnish to me the Revolutionary War record of Aaron Adams of Tinmouth, Vermont.
#2. Can you furnish me with a list of the children of Aaron Adams and his wife, Sarah Hard? Did you obtain this list from information furnished
by the widow in her application for a pension?
#3. Can you tell me where Sarah Hard Adams, the pensioner, was living at the time when she received her last pension money from the Government? I am anxious to find the place where she died, hoping to discover the burial places of Aaron Adams, and his wife, Sarah Hard Adams
Very truly yours, 
Herbert S. Johnson [handwritten signature]
Herbert S. Johnson. [typewritten]
HS/EMD.
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HERBERT S. JOHNSON
369 BEACON STREET
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS
Nov. 4, 1927.
The Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions,
Rev. & 1812 War Section,
Washington, D. C.
My dear Sirs:- I wish to thank you sincerely for your letter dated November 1st, in which you give me the information which I desire concerning my ancestor, Aaron Adams, a soldier of the Revolutionary War. The information is invaluable, and I feel under
great obligation to you. 
May I trouble you to answer one question which happens to be of supreme importance to the matter which I have in hand. It is this: From what source did
you obtain the list of children of Aaron Adams and his wife, Sarah Hard Adams? I naturally assume that this list was made by the mother of the children herself, Sarah Adams, and that she submitted it to the Pension Bureau in connection with her application for a pension. Would you be so kind as to verify this assumption of mine. Again thanking you, I am
Very respectfully,
Herbert S Johnson [handwritten signature[
Herbert S. Johnson. [typewritten]
HSJ/EMD.
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FORM 1838

Rev [handwritten in margin, underlined].
W [handwritten in margin]

THE B. F. GOODRICH RUBBER COMPANY
RUBBER [Trade mark image inserted here.] GOODS
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
AKRON, OHIO

September 8, 1921.

IN REPLY REFER TO
KPR - 16

U. S. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir: 
Aaron Adams, Born March 11, 1747 at Canaan, Conn. moved to Tinmouth, Vt. about 1772, Died Dec. 13, 1833.
It is said that the above is on record in your office as having drawn pension due to Revolutionary War service. Will it be possible for you to furnish me an exact copy of his pension record? If there is any fee for a certified copy of this I will gladly pay it. Yours truly, 
K. P. Ruggles [handwritten signature]
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[Letterhead] Oklahoma Education Association
The Oklahoma Teacher
[Letterhead, cont. below, Three Columns]

[Left column]
OFFICERS
E. A. DUKE PRESIDENT, OKLAHOMA CITY
JOHN S. VAUGHAN, VICE PRESIDENT, OKLAHOMA CITY
JOHN G. MITCHELL, TREASURER, EDMOND
C. M. HOWELL, SECRETARY, OKLAHOMA CITY
LULA GREGORY, ASST. SECY. OKLAHOMA CITY
ROXIE J. ADAMS, ADV. MGR. OKLAHOMA CITY

[Middle column]
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
[Logo design image.]
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY
PHONE MAPLE 6663
708 CONTINENTAL BLDG.
OKLAHOMA CITY

[Right column]
DIRECTORS
SUPT. E. L. RODMAN, ANTLERS
SUPT. T. T. MONTGOMERY, CHICKASHA
SUPT. E. O. PRICE, ENID
PRES. J. P. BATTENBERG, ALVA.
CO. SUPT. VOYLE C. SCURLOCK, HOBART
PROF. M. P. HATCHETT, ADA
CO. SUPT. A.G. BOWLES, TULSA
PRES. A. W. FANNING, GOODWELL

May 1, 1929
Pension Bureau
Washington, D.  C.
Gentlemen: Will you kindly furnish me with information regarding the Revolutionary War record of Aaron Adams of Tinmouth, Vermont. His number is W9323. Please let me what charge is attached for this service and I will remit. Yours sincerely,
Roxie J. Adams [handwritten signature]
(Miss) Roxie J. Adams
1201 1/2 West 26th St
Oklahoma City
P. S. Will you kindly include a complete list of the children of Aaron Adams and his wife Sarah Hard? RJA

[Pension Office stamp image, bottom right corner, upside down, wording within the stamp circle as follows]
PENSION
A
MAY
U. | 4 | S.
1929
OFFICE
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[Letterhead]
JOE E. BAIRD | COMMITTEE:
13TH DISTRICT OHIO | POST OFFICE AND POST ROADS
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. [end  letterhead]

Washington D.C.
December 10, 1930.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Dear sir: Sarah Adams, widow of Aaron Adams, was married to the deceased veteran near Tinmouth, Vermont a short time prior to 1780. This record was cut from a family bible when Mrs. Adams applied for a widow's pension about 1833 so is on file some place in the pension bureau. The descendants of the Adams family would like to get this record from the Bureau. They would also like to know what company and regiment and whether it was the Revolutionary War or the war of 1812. Will you please be so kind as to furnish me with this information at the earliest possible date. Thanking you for the favor, I am, Very cordially
Joe E. Baird. [handwritten signature]
Joe E. Baird M.C.

JEB/HB. | [Pension office stamp image, wording within circle as follows.]
PENSION
A
DEC
U | 11 | S
1930
OFFICE
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W.9323 [handwritten]
Jun 30 1914 [date stamp]

[letterhead] CUSHING FARMS

MARSHALL CUSHING, | MILLBROOK, DUTCHESS COUNTY | Thelephones, Dutchess and
Woolworth Bldg., New York City: | | Connecticut Railroad Station
Telephone, 6234 Barclay | NEW YORK | American Express, Millbrook;
 | | Freight Station, Oak Summit [end letterhead]

Commissioner of Pensions. | June 25.
Dear Miss Pierce, [crossed out]
I received yesterday from Mrs Brumbaugh a reply to my enquiry
as to the fate of Aaron Adams papers sent last Feb, She says "In regard to Aaron Adams supplemental papers I would
state that this paper is based on a record not previously accepted by his society and has not
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yet been reached for examination. If however you have the statement from the Pension Office in regard to this
Service I would suggest that you forward the same to this office. It will be returned after examination." Can you suggest my reply to this, I have already told them that [crossed out] to  "See Pension List". Hope you are cool again, but yesterday was pretty hot here, you must have suffered in Washington. Love to you both 
Ever sincerely yours
Isabel M. Cushing
[Numbers handwritten upside down in bottom right corner, as follows.]
8 - 12 = 4
1 - 3 = 2 [number 2 is underlined]
4 = 5 - 1
6 = 10 less 4
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[Letterhead]
JOE E. BAIRD | COMMITTEE:
13TH DISTRICT OHIO | POST OFFICE AND POST ROADS
Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. [end  letterhead]

Washington D.C.
January 8, 1931.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.
My dear sir: On December 10th.last, I wrote your department for information concerning the marriage record of Aaron Adams and Sarah Adams near Tinmouth, Vermont a short time prior to 1780. This record was cut from a family bible and has been lost. Decendants of the Adams family are desirous of getting the date of the marriage which was filed with the Pension Bureau in 1833 when Sarah Adams applied for Pension. They would also like to know what company and regiment the veteran belonged to and whether it was the War of 1812 or the Revolutionary War. Will you please get this information to me as soon as possible as I have
never received a reply to my request of December 10th.
Very cordially
Joe E. Baird. [handwritten signature]
Joe E. Baird M.C.

JEB/HB. | [Pension office stamp image, wording within circle as follows.]
PENSION
A
JAN
U | 9 | S
1931
OFFICE
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[This is the first page of an official government requisition form for the Department of the Interior.]
SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE. | 1-681 | PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 37723
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work. [Handwritten initials signed on top of form language last two lines.]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications,
Room G 139. | November 29 , 1929
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pension | Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job  photostatic copies of 5 pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of Aaron Adams, W 9323,  Vermont Troops.
No. of copies 1 of each | Shall form be kept standing? [2 blank form fields] days
For further information see Mrs. M. M. H. Finch | 5033 | 541
  | Room No. | Phone No.
Approved:
A. D. Wilkinson | Margaret M H Finch
Chief Clerk of Bureau. [hand initial "G"] | Chief of Division
NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering [blank]
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CHECK WORK DESIRED [underlined]
Duplicate
Multigraph | single or double space? [blank] | Facsimile signature? [blank]
Mimeograph | one side or both sides? [blank] | Facsimile signature? [blank]
Folding | once or twice [blank]
Assembling [blank]
Stapling | Once? | Twice? | Side? | End? [all blank]
Electric typewriter | Fill in addresses? [blank] | Dated? [blank]
Addressograph from lists [blank]

[A date stamp image is on top of the previous five lines outlined by an oval double line with one star on the right and one on the left of the following words.] DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED NOV 30 1929 DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR

[Next is a 6 column, 4 line table with the 1st and 4th columnar form fields pre-filled as follows and all other form fields blank.]
Envelopes, size | | | Card, size | |
Proof list | | | Pay rolls | |
Lables (Submit sample) | | | Corrections | |
Fill in letters | | | Tabulation sheets | | [end table]
Photostat X | Size actual | Official use?[blank]  | Repay? yes | $ .75
Blue Print [blank] | Size [blank] | Official use? | Repay? [blank] | $ [blank]
Remarks? [blank]
(OVER)
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[This is an official government form. No form fields have been filled in.]

NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of bureaus.
[blank] | [blank] 192[blank].
Date
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
[square] | Make new addressograph plate | [bracket]
[square] | Change present addressograph plate {bracket] On list [blank line]
[square] | Destroy present addressograph plate [bracket]
as follows:
Now reads | 1 [blank line]
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Should read | 1 [blank line]
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FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
ADDRESSOGRAPH [underlined]
The above change was made | [blank line] | 192[blank].
Operator [blank line]
MULTIGRAPH [underlined]
Operator [blank] | Date [blank] | Type set by [blank] | Date [blank]
Remarks: [blank]
MIMEOGRAPH [underlined]
Operator [blank] | Date [blank] | Cut by [blank]
Remarks: [blank]
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November 29, 1929
Cash - $2 85 [handwritten, "85" is underlined and in superscript]
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington,
D. C.
[stamp to the right of the address block] FINANCE DIVISION BOOKKEEPER'S DESK NOV 30 1929 BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Dear Sir: Please furnish uncertified photostatic copies from the following Revolutionary War pension claims: Aaron Adams (W9323) five pages; Joseph Adams (W. 15513) 4 pages;  Joseph Adams (W16092) 4 pages; Martin Adams (W. 23409) 4 pages; Jeremiah Gilman (S. 45552) 2 pages. Very truly yours,
[begin handwriting] Wm x G x Adams
mail to [hand drawn arrow] University Club
Washington D. C.
Permanent address. [underlined] Hotel Pennsylvania N. Y. [end hand writing]
Received payment, November 29, 1929, $2.85, 
Margaret M H Finch
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
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[This is an official government requisition form for the Department of the Interior.]
See receipt in cl. g Oliver Harmon. S. 16143 [handwritten note in left margin entered vertically 90 degrees counterclockwise.]
SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE. | 1-681 | PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 23842
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work. [Handwritten initials signed on top of form language last two lines.]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications,
Room G 139. | May 23 , 1928
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pension | Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job  photostatic copies of 13 pages from Rev. War pension claim of Aaron Adams, W.9323,  Vermont Troops, Widow Sarah.
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Title and description of job photostatic copies of 13pages from Rev. War pension claim of Aaron Adams, W.9323, Vt. Troops, Widow Sarah.
No. of copies 1 of each page shall form be kept standing? [blank] days
For further information see M.M.H Finch Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541
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January 10, 1931
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
MMHF: MLB
Hon. Joe E. Baird
House of Representatives
My dear Mr. Baird: Reference is made to your letter of January 8, requesting information in regard to Aaron Adams, a Revolutionary War soldier, and his widow, Sarah. You state that you have not received a reply to your request of December 10, 1930 for the same data. The records show that on December 12, 1930 the data which follow were furnished you and it is regretted that the letter has not reached you. It appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9323, that Aaron Adams was born March 22, 1747, place not stated. While a resident of Tinmouth, Vermont, he enlisted in 1775 and served at various times, amounting to four or five months in all, with the Green Mountain Boys under Captain Oliver Potter and Colonels Ethan Allen and Seth Warner; he was in the battle of Ticonderoga. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served until some time in the fall or winter of that year as sergeant in Captain John Spafford's Vermont company; he was in the battles of Hubbardton, Bennington and the capture of Burgoyne. After May, 1778, he served at various times, amounting to at least two years in all, officers not stated. He married May 21, 1778, Sarah Hard who was born June 11, 1757. He died December 13, 1833.
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His widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed August 6, 1841, at which time she was a resident of Johnson County, Indiana.  They had the following children:
Charlotte | born | August 17, 1780, | married | May 5, 1800, ---Merry
Mary | " | December 21, 1781, | " | December 28, 1801
Aaron | " | November 25, 1783, | " | December 22, 1809
Abraham | " | September 29, 1785, | " | January 21, 1819
Eliza | " | September 7, 1787
Sebastian | " | August 3, 1789
Cylindia | " | April 7, 1792, | " | January 31, 1810
Noble | " | February 3, 1794
Malissia | " | February 12, 1798
Lysander | " | May 31, 1799.

Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
[This record also includes erased handwritten notes which are illegible.]
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December 12, 1930
Hon. Joe E. Baird | Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
House of Representatives | MMHF: MLB
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: Reference is made to your letter of December 10, 1930, requesting information in regard to Aaron Adams, a soldier of the Revolution. From the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9323, it appears that Aaron Adams was born March 22, 1747, place not stated. While a resident of Tinmouth, Vermont, he enlisted in 1775 and served at various times, amounting to four or five months in all, with the Green Mountain Boys under Captain Oliver Potter and Colonels Ethan Allen and Seth Warner; he was in the battle of Ticonderoga. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served until some time in the fall or winter of that year as sergeant in Captain John Spafford's Vermont company; he was in the battles of Hubbardton, Bennington and the capture of Burgoyne. After May, 1778, he served at various times, amounting to at least two years in all, officers not stated. He married May 21, 1778, Sarah Hard who was born June 11, 1757. He died December 13, 1833. His widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed August 6, 1841, at which time she was a resident of Johnson County, Indiana.  They had the following children:
Charlotte | born | August 17, 1780, | married | May 5, 1800, -------Merry
Mary | " | December 21, 1781, | " | December 28, 1801.
Aaron | " | November 25, 1783, | " | December 22, 1809.
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Abraham | born | September 29, 1785, | married | January 21, 1819.
Eliza | " | September 7, 1787.
Sebastian | " | August 3, 1789.
Cylindia | " | April 7, 1792, | " | January 31, 1810.
Noble | " | February 3, 1794.
Malissia | " | February 12, 1798.
Lysander | " | May 31, 1799.

Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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August 5, 1929
Miss Roxie J. Adams
1201 1/2 West 26th Street
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dear Madam: I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9323, it appears that Aaron Adams was born March 22, 1747, place not stated. While a resident of Tinmouth, Vermont, he enlisted in 1775 and served at various times, amounting to four or five months in all, with the Green Mountain Boys under Captain Oliver Potter and Colonels Ethan Allen and Seth Warner; he was in the battle of Ticonderoga. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served until some time in the fall or winter of that year as sergeant in Captain John Spafford's Vermont company; he was in the battles of Hubbardton, Bennington and the capture of Burgoyne. After May, 1778, he served at various times, amounting to at least two years in all, officers not stated. He married May 21, 1778, Sarah Hard who was born June 11, 1757.
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[The top left corner of this record is torn, typewritten text there is illegible.]
He died December 13, 1833. His widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed August 6, 1841, at which time she was a resident of Johnson County, Indiana.  They had the following children:
Charlotte | born | August 17, 1780, | married | May 5, 1800, ----Merry
Mary | " | December 21, 1781, | " | December 28, 1801.
Aaron | " | November 25, 1783, | " | December 22, 1809.
Abraham | " | September 29, 1785, | " | January 21, 1819.
Eliza | " | September 7, 1787.
Sebastian | " | August 3, 1789.
Cylindia | " | April 7, 1792, | " | January 31, 1810.
Noble | " | February 3, 1794.
Malissia | " | February 12, 1798.
Lysander | " | May 31, 1799.

No charge is made for this service.
Very truly yours,
EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner.
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section

November 25, 1927

Herbert S. Johnson
369 Beacon St.
Boston, Mass.

Sir:
I have to advise you relative to the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 9323, that the list of names of the children of Aaron and Sarah Adams, which was furnished you on the 1st instant, was copied from a leaf from the family Bible, which leaf was submitted as evidence in support of the claim for pension of Sarah Adams,  and is now on file with the other original papers in said claim.
Respectfully,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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W.C.S. [handwritten in top right corner]
[The top left corner of this record is torn; in other records this Section of the Pension Bureau is referred to as "Rev. & 1812 Wars Section"] 1812 Wars Section 

November 1, 1927 
Dr. Herbert S. Johnson 
369 Beacon Street 
Boston, Mass.
Sir: I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 9323, it appears that Aaron Adams was born March 22, 1747, place not stated. While a resident of Tinmouth, Vermont, he enlisted in 1775 and served at various times, amounting to four or five months in all, with the Green Mountain Boys under Captain Oliver Potter and Colonels Ethan Allen and Seth Warner; he was in the battle of Ticonderoga. He enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served until some time in the fall or winter of that year as sergeant in Captain John Spafford's Vermont company; he was in the battles of Hubbardton, Bennington and the capture of Burgoyne. After May, 1778, he served at various times, amounting to at least two years in all, officers not stated. He married May 21, 1778, Sarah Hard who was born June 11, 1757.
He died December 13, 1833. 
His widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed August 6, 1841, at which time she was a resident of Johnson County, Indiana.
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They had the following children: 
Charlotte | born | August 17, 1780, | married | May 5, 1800, ----Merry 
Mary | " | December 21, 1781, | " | December 28, 1801. 
Aaron | " | November 25, 1783, | " | December 22, 1809. 
Abraham | " | September 29, 1785, | " | January 21, 1819.
Eliza | " | September 7, 1787. 
Sebastian | " | August 3, 1789. 
Cylindia | " | April 7, 1792, | " | January 31, 1810. 
Noble | " | February 3, 1794. 
Malissia | " | February 12, 1798. 
Lysander | " | May 31, 1799. 

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person to whom paid and possibly the date of death of Sarah Adams, widow of Aaron Adams, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data: Sarah Adams, widow of Aaron Adams, Certificate 3669, issue February 28, 1842, rate $29.10 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of July 4, 1836, Ohio (Pittsburg) Agency, transferred from Indiana Agency.

Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner
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[This is a partially completed [by hand] Bureau of Pensions typewritten form for responding to a request for a soldier's military history. There are additional handwritten notes along the left margin of the form, appended after the form itself, below.]

REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. | 3-525
[blank line] | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
W.F. 9323 [handwritten] | BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
[blank line] | Washington, D. C., [blank line], 19 [blank line]
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In reply to your request of [blank line], received [blank line] for a statement of the military history of Aaron Adams [handwritten] a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his [crossed out] (or [crossed out] his widow's) application for pension on file with this Bureau.

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DATES OF | LENGTH OF | RANK. | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | STATE.
ENLISTMENT OR | SERVICE. | | CAPTAIN. | COLONEL. | 
APPOINTMENT. | | | | | 
1775 | 4 or 5 mos. | Sgt. } Oliver Potter | {Ethan Allen & Seth Warner | Green Mtn. Boys
Spring of 1777 | Sept. 1777 | | John Spafford | [check] | 
[The next spans all columns] After his marriage he served at various times two years. No officers or dates stated. [end table]

Battles engaged in, Ticonderoga, Hubbardton, Bennington, Capture of Burgoyne.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Tinmouth, Vermont.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 6, 1841 Her cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Johnson Co., Ind.
Age at date of application, She was born June 1, 1757 [correction to (June) 11 written above "June 1".]
Remarks: Soldier was born Mch. 22, 1747 and married May 21, 1778 Sarah Hard He died Dec. 13, 1833. See supplement herewith for family data.

Respectfully, 
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Commissioner.

brother Daniel [handwritten note to left]
6-2856

[Handwritten notes from left-hand margin entered vertically at 90 degrees clockwise follows.]
Identity not proven as regards other reports in claim from Vt | Corrected by AW. Dec 23, 1918.
Capt John Spafford was never in Seth Warner’s Regt. as wid says but all the Bennington troops were under Warner, so she got mixed info
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June 30, 1714.
Mrs. Marshall Cushing.
Cushing Farms.
Millbrook, New York. 
Madam:
In addition to the military history of Aaron Adams. W. File No. 9323, Rev. War, you are furnished the following family data:

Children:

Charlotte Adams | born | August 17, 1780.
Mary Adams | " | December 21, 1781. 
Aaron Adams | " | November 25, 1783. 
Abraham Adams | " | September 29, 1785. 
Eliza Adams | " | September 7, 1787. 
Sebastian Adams | " | August 3, 1789.
Cylindia Adams | " | April 7, 1792. 
Noble Adams | " | February 3, 1794. 
Malissia Adams | " | February 12, 1798. 
Lysander Adams | " | May 31, 1799. 

Charlotte Adams |  married | May 5, 1800. -Merry ["-Merry" handwritten]
Mary Adams | " | December 28 ["28" handwritten] 5, 1801. 
Aaron Adams | " | December 22, 1809. 
Abraham Adams | " | January 21, 1819. 
Cylindia Adams | " | January 31, 1810.

Very respectfully, 
GM Saltzgaber [signed]
Commissioner.
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August 30, 1938

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Mrs. A. J. Berger
Box 379
Arkansas City, Kansas

AARON ADAMS, W. 9323
FRANCIS LUCAS, S. 36687
BA_J/MLB

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of recent date, in which you requested information in regard to Aaron Adams of Vermont, as found in the claim for pension under File No. W. 9325, and in regard to Francis Lucas, as shown in the papers of pension claim, S. 36067, both of which claims were based upon service of those soldiers in the
Revolutionary War. You desire to know if the claim of Aaron Adams shows the name of the town and state in which that soldier died: also, if in the pension claim of Francis Lucas the name of Oliver Lucas is shown, the name of the town and state in which the soldier died and
whether his widow, Fanny, ever received a pension or applied for one on account of his service in the Revolution.

A careful examination has been made of all papers on file in pension claim, W. 9323, based upon service of Aaron Adams in the Revolutionary War and the name of the town and state in which that soldier died December 13, 1833, does not appear. His widow, Sarah Adams, was residing in Johnson County, Indiana, in 1841.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension and name and address of the person paid in the case of Aaron Adams, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: Sarah Adams widow of Aaron Adams, certificate #1809, issued February 28, 1842, rate $29.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act July 4, 1836, Indiana Agency, transferred to Ohio (Pittsburgh) Agency.

The papers on file in pension claim, S. 36067, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Francis Lucas have been examined, also, and it is shown therein that he was residing in 1930 in Princeton, Indiana, and died August 9, 1851, survived by his widow, Fanny Adams,
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who did not receive a pension, nor apply for one, on account of his service. The name of Oliver Lucas is not shown in the papers of the claim, nor the place of death of the soldier, Francis Lucas.

In order to obtain date of last payment of pension in the case of Francis Lucas and name and address of the person paid, you should apply to the same official as in the other case, furnishing the following data: Francis Lucas, certificate #7960, issued March 20,
1819, rate $8 per month, commenced June 27, 1818, Act 18th March, 1818, Indiana Agency.

Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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