Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5023, for Adam Linn, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

Service

Penn

Linn, Adam
Ann

Number W. 5023
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38/11 Ohio / Pittsburgh Agency    
Adam Linn    of Guernsey Co in the State of Ohio who was a Sergt in the Company commanded by Captain -- of the Rev commanded by Col Irvine in the Pennsylvania line for two years from 1776.     Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 120 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.     Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of January 1833 and sent to Hon [Honorable] William Kennon H. R. [House of Representatives]    Arrears to the 4th of Sept, 1832   180.00 Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 March 1833   60.00 Debt   240.00     
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832} 
Recorded by Henry H. Sylugler, Clerk, Book D Vol. 2 Page 136 

Let. [Letter]  to Maj. Cooper (Act 9 Sec. War) May 24, 1838, Letter to J. M. Bell Sept 16 1839. 
Dead.

Letter to J. Parrish and 3rd Auditor 11 December 1839
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6th April 1938 from 4 Sept 1834 to 17 Oct 1834 the day of his death Agent notified 30 Dec 1839
Let. 14 Sept 1841 to W. W. Tracy,
Let. To W. W. Tracy Nov 5. 1841
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2515 Ohio Wheeling     
Ann Linn widow of Adam Linn 
Pennsylvania who was a Sergeant in the Penn Line for 2 years    
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 120 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. - Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of Oct 1843 and sent to W. W. Tracey Cambridge Ohio     
[Act of March 3, 1843.]     
Recorded in book A   Vol. 1   Page  160

Enclosed regulatory record the act of 17 June 1844 to P. B. Aukney Sept 24 ‘46
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11.133    Adam Linn     
Guernsey Co    
Ohio 
Adm for two years as Sergeant from 1776 at $120 per annum

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Brief in the case Adam Linn of Guernsey Co in the State of Ohio (Act 7th June, 1832.)    
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge: Court    
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?     
3. How old is he?   83      
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. Period    enlisted in 1776 in York County Pennsylvania in the 7th Regiment   Duration of Service. Years, Months, Days.    Rank.  As a First Sergeant  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.  Gen.

5. In what battles was he engaged?     
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?     
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence or by the rolls?:    In the rolls as Sergeant     8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?:      
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned       Examining Clerk
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Marriage    Names    Births   Month Day Year   Deaths Month Day Year    
Adam Linn married to Ann Hefly [Hefley] August the 17 1780    
Adam Linn married to Ann Hefly [Hefley] August the 17 1780 Hagerstown by the reverend Wiymer.  
John Linn was born in the year 1784 November the 20   
Joseph Linn in the year 1787 February the 18
Gorg Linn in the year 1790 March the 2 Day    
Samuel Linn in the year 1793 September the 3 Day    
Aaren in the year 1796 December the 10
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Children's Marriages
Names. || Month. | Day. | Year.
A.
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Adam Linn   
Pension    
11,133
Adam Linn   
Declaration   
On roll Sept Small Book is in Book B. page 43 paid to 1st Jan. 1781 $50-
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 State of Ohio Geurnsey County} Ss    On this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundered and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the honorable Jeremiah H. Hallock President Judge and Turner G Brown.   William Skinnor and William Thompson Esqrs associate Judges of the court of common Pleas for said county now sitting Adam Linn a resident of said county of Guernsey and state aforesaid aged Eighty Three years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776 (as near as he can recollect) with Lieutenant McPherson in the Town of Gettisburgh York County in the state of Pensylvania - in what was called the Col’s Company and served in the 7th Regiment of the Pensylvania Line under the following named officers Commander in Chief George Washington the next officer in command cannot recollect certainly but thinks it was Twin or Toire intill a while before the battle of Brandywine when the Regiment he was in was placed under the command of Gen Anthony Wayne under whom he served untill the revolt of the Pen: Line in N Jersey - that he reccollects the names of Capts John & William Alexander (brothers) Capts Montgomery, Parker, & Andrew Twin or Troin brother to the Gen: of the same name the commandant of his company was Lieutenant Mcpherson, under whom he enlisted and from whom at the term of enlistment, he received the commission of 1st Sargeant in said Company, in which capacity he served until he left the army, excepting on several occasions when he acted as commandant of said company in the absence of the Lieutenant - that he was in several skirmishes & marches prior to the Battle at Chadsford from that he was marched to Paoli where there was action in the night & rout at the Point of the bayonet.
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the watch word of the enemy was 'here we are & there they are" that he was after this at the battle of Chesnut
ridge commonly called Battle of Germantown
then retired into winter quarters at Valey forge that
the next summer he followed the army after the brittish
through N. Jersey untill they came to Monmouth
where there was an action - that the next October
he was in he was detached  from the grand army to attack
Stony Point that the watch work Wayne gave the men 
was "Remember Paoli Boys" that he was then marched
back to the former post some where above New York.
the next was a forced march to relieve West Point
on account of arnolds Treason that he saw Maj -
Andre hang at a place called Tappan
that on new years day in 1781 there was a revolt
of nearly all the Regiments in the Pen: Line they
marched to Princton then after a reconciliation they
marched 14 or 15 miles forth from the Brittish and
had a gen: settlement that he there received a
discharge signed by Col Butler and that said
discharge was burnt when his house was burned before
he left Virginia - also that -
_he has no record of his age that
he enlisted in the town of Gettisburgh county of
York & State of Pensylvania, that since the revolution
he resided a part of the time in Pen: part in Mary.d
that previous to his entering the line he served 6 
months in Capt McLachs company in what was called
the flying camp That his commission of Sergeant
was the oldest of his rank of any other in the 
regiment in which he served.
He hereby relinquishes every claim
whatever to a pension or annuity except the present
and he declares that his name is not on the pension
Roll of any agency in any state.  Sworn to and 
subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  Adam Linn
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant (Adam Linn) was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states
J H Hallock }
T. G. Brown}
Wm [William] Skinnor}
Wm [William] Thompson}
Judges of the Court of Common of Guernsey County

I Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common pleas for said county of Guernsey, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Adam Linn for a pension.
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this nineteenth day of September A.D. 1832
Moses Sarchet Clk
[seal]
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836. The State of Ohio Guernsey County ss} On this nineteenth day of October A.D. 1841. personally appeared before me Joseph D. Tingle one of the associate judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Guernsey.  Ann Linn a resident of Jefferson Township in said Guernsey County aged about eighty years (her precise age being unknown) who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Adam Linn who was (as she has been informed and believes) a sergeant in the Pennsylvania line of the Army of the Revolution. She further declares that she was married to the said Adam Linn before he left for said service, that she distinctly recollects of the said Adam Linn's being being in said Army for Some months after her said marriage, that she cannot read English writing but she is informed that said marriage was recorded by said Adam in the family Bible as having taken place on 17th of August A.D. 1780 and she has no doubt but the said record expresses the true date of their said marriage. That her husband the aforesaid Adam Linn died several years since but that she does not recollect the month or year in which he died, but she believes from information of others that the said Adam Linn died on the Seventeenth day of October A.D. 1833 and that she has remained a widow ever since the death of the said Adam Linn as with more fully appears by the proof hereto annexed. She further declares that the said Adam Linn, in his life time drew a pension from the United States on account of his services in the Revolutionary war and that at the time of applying for and receiving said pension he resided in said County of Guernsey and that she received from the United States the arrears of pension due to the said Adam Linn at the time of his death Ann Linn her mark     Sworn and subscribed before me the said Joseph D. Tingle on the said nineteenth day of October in 
5479   Ann Linn of Adam    Ohio
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the year eighteen hundred and forty one and I further certify that the said Ann Linn cannot from bodily infirmity attend before any Court of Record to make said declaration. Jos D. Tingle associate Judge   
The State of Ohio Guernsey County }ss   
On the first day of November A.D. 1841 before me Ebenezer Smith a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared Andrew F. Linn Known to me to be a man of respectability and truth and sincerity who being by me first duly sworn did depose and say that he is thirty six years of age, that he is a son of Adam Linn and Ann Linn named in the foregoing declaration that from his earliest recollection the said Adam Linn and Ann Linn lived and cohabitated together as man and wife, that he always understood from them that they were legally married in the year 1780, that the said Adam Linn died on the seventeenth day of October A.D. 1833. That the said Ann Linn has remained the widow of the said Adam Linn ever since the death of the said Adam Linn and yet is his widow, that the said Adam Linn in his life time drew a pension from the United States on account of his services in the Revolutionary war, and that at the time of drawing said pension he resided in said Guernsey County and that the said Ann Linn drew some arrears of the said Adam Linn's pension after his death. That he on this day cut from the family Bible of the said Adam Linn the family record hereto attached marked A, that said bible has been in his possession since the death of the said Adam Linn, that said record is in the handwriting of the said Adam Linn, that said deponent son of said Adam Linn make the said record either in the year eighteen hundred and twenty five or six and that he has no doubt of the truth and accuracy of said record and after that he on this day took the record hereto attached marked B from a German psalm book of said Adam Linn which has been in possession of deponent ever since the death of aforesaid Adam Linn. That the said court mentioned record is in the handwriting of the said Adam Linn but he does not know on what date it was made but that the book containing the same has
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been for many years lying locked up in drawer and seldom exposed to the air.    Andrew F Linn 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me. E. Smith [seal]  Justice of the Peace      
State of Ohio Guernsey County } ss  On the 1st day of November A. D. 1841, before me Ebenezer Smith, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County personally appeared John Linn of said County known to me to be a man of respectability truth and veracity who being by me duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is a son of the said Adam Linn and Ann Linn named in the foregoing declaration that he is fifty seven years of age on the twentieth day of the previous month, that from his first recollection up to the draft of the said Adam Linn he said father and mother lived together as man and wife and that no doubt ever existed to his knowledge as to the legality of their marriage, that the records hereto attached marked A and B are in the handwriting of the said Adam Linn and that he has not any doubt of the truth and correctness of said records, that said Ann Linn has remained a widow of the said Adam Linn ever since his decease, that the said Adam Linn died of the [illegible] on the seventeenth day of October A.D. 1833    John Linn 
Sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year aforesaid E. Smith [seal]  Justice of the Peace     
State of Ohio Guernsey County } ss    On the first day of November A.D. 1841, before me Ebenezer Smith a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally appeared James Bratton of said County known to me to be a man of respectability truth and veracity who being by me duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is aged eighty four years and that he has been well acquainted with the aforesaid Adam Linn and Ann Linn his wife named in the foregoing declaration ever since the year eighteen hundred and eleven that they always [illegible] as husband and wife, that he never heard a doubt expressed as to the legality of their marriage, that in the year 1811 the said Adam Linn and Ann his wife moved to said Guernsey County
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and at that time they had several children who were grown up and doing for themselves. That the aforesaid Adam Linn and Ann his wife were people highly respected and that the most perfect reliance could always be placed in the veracity of the said Adam Linn.     James Bratton     
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year aforesaid before me E. Smith [seal] Justice of the Peace 
The State of Ohio Guernsey County ss.    I Moses Sarchit Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county of Guernsey hereby certify that Joseph D. Tingle Esquire before whom the foregoing Declaration of Ann Linn was subscribed and sworn was at the time, and now is an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county of Guernsey duly appointed, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to administer oaths, to whose acts full faith and credit are due and I do further certify that the foregoing signature of said Judge is genuine, - I also certify that Ebenezer Smith Esquire before whom the foregoing depositions or affidavits of Andrew F. Linn, John Linn and James Bratton were subscribed and sworn was at the time a Justice of the peace within and for said County of Guernsey duly elected commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to administer oaths to whose acts as such full faith and credit are due and that the foregoing signatures of said justice are genuine.     In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Camden this first day of November A.D. 1841 Moses Sarchit Clerk [seal]
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December 29, 1934
xxxxxxxxxxxx
Adam Linn-W.5023
BA-J/AWF

Mr. W. E. Osborne
Box 1342 
Columbus, Ohio

Dear Sir: 

The Revolutionary War record of Adam Linn which follows was obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, W. 5023, based upon his service in that war. 

The date and place of birth of this soldier are not shown in the claim, nor are the names of his parents given. 

Adam Linn served six months in Captain McLean's company in the Flying Camp, no dates of this service are given, but it was prior to the following service. He enlisted in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1776, was a first sergeant under Lieutenant McPherson in Colonel Irvine's 7th Pennsylvania regiment; he was in the battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, wintered at Valley Forge, in the battles of Monmouth, Stony Point and in several skirmishes, was present at the hanging of Major Andre, and served until early in 1781. 

He lived, after the Revolution, in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, and in 1811 moved to Guernsey County, Ohio. He was allowed pension on his application executed September 19, 1832, at which time he was aged eighty-three years and living in Guernsey County, Ohio. 

Adam Linn married August 17, 1780 in Hagerstown, Ann Hefley or Hefly. He died October 17, 1834 in
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Guernsey County, Ohio.

His widow, Ann Linn, was allowed pension on her application executed October 19, 1841, at which time she was living in Jefferson Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, aged about eighty years. In 1846 she had lived in said Jefferson Township about thirty-four years and had previously lived in Augusta County, Viriginia.

The following names of their children are found in the claim:

John born November 20, 1784
Joseph born February 18, 1787
Gorg(?) born March 2, 1790
Samuel born September 3, 1793
Aaren(?) born December 10, 1796
Andrew F., thirty-six years of age in 1841.

The signature of A.M. Linn, appears in 1846 in Guernsey County, Ohio; it is not stated that this A. M. Linn was a relative of the family.

Very truly yours

A. D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1928 June 1 - Hist to Erle B. Adler Esq
1934 Dec 29 - Hist to W. W. Osborne Esq

Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 5023
Ann Linn
Wid. [widow]
Adam Linn
Sergt. [Sergeant], Pa [Pennsylvania] line
Act: Mch. [March] 3rd / 43 [1843]
Index: - Vol. A, Page 435
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Ann Linn
of Adam
Ohio
suspended
see set 5 Nov. '40
W. W. Tracy
Act 4 July 1836
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6452   
Ohio.   Wheeling Ag:    
Ann Linn widow of Adam Linn who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832 and who died on the 17, October 1834, of Guernsey in the State of Ohio who was a Sergeant in the Comp: commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt. commanded by Col. Irwin in the Penna. [Pennsylvania] line for 2 years Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 100 Dollars per annum. to commence on the 4 day of March, 1836 Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Nov. 1841 and sent to W. W. Tracy Esqr. Cambridge Ohio arrears to the 4th of March, '41 or 600.00    $600.00 {Act July 7, 1838} Recorded by Theodore L Moody Clerk. Book A. Vol. 2 Page 218
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Adam Linn, Ohio Pittsburgh now Wheeling  wv. Act of June 7, 1832, at $120 per annum.
Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid.
Pension office Sept. 16, 1839.}
p.7 4 Sep 1834
JH
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3135
Ann Linn
#120 per annum
W. W. Tracy
Cambridge
Ohio
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Declaration In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 3rd of March 1843, granting pensions for one year to certain widows who have received pensions under the Act of July 7th 1838. The State of ohio Guernsey County } ss On this twenty second day of July A.D. 1843 personally appeared before me David Kinkead a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Guernsey aforesaid Ann Linn a resident of Jefferson Township in the County of Guernsey aforesaid aged seventy eight 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 pension made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3rd of March, 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Adam Linn, who was a sergeant in the Pennsylvania line of the army of the Revolution but that this declarant is unable to state the regiment to which the said Adam Linn was attached during said service. That the annual amount of pension which she received under the Act of July 7th 1838 was one hundred and twenty dollars. She further declares that she is still a widow. Ann Linn her mark   
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written before me} David Kinkead [seal]  Justice of the Peace     
Andrew F Linn witness to the signature of Ann Linn     
I David Kinkead a Justice of the Peace and before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed, do hereby certify that the above named declarant, Ann Linn is personally known to me. Given under my hand and on this 22d day of July 1843. David Kinkead [seal] J. P. 
The State of Ohio Guernsey County ss. 
I Thomas W. Peacock Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County hereby certify that David P Kinkead Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn to and subscribed and who signed the foregoing certification is and was at the time of executing the same an acting Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Guernsey duly commissioned and qualified, and to all of whose official acts as such Justice full faith and credit are
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and of right ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as elsewhere, and that his said signature attached to the same is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at the Courthouse this twenty-second day of July Anno Domeni eighteen hundred and forty three
Attest. Thos. W. Peacock Clerk
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8077
Ann Linn
of Adam
Ohio
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Declaration. In order to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, entitled "the act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." The State of Ohio Guernsey County } ss    On this fifteenth day of November A.D. 1841, personally appeared before me Joseph D. Tingle one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Guernsey   Ann Linn a resident of Jefferson Township in said County of Guernsey aged about eighty years (her precise age being unknown) who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed July 7, 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Adam Linn who was a sergeant in the Pennsylvania line of the Army of the Revolution, that said Adam Linn drew a pension from the United States in his life time on account of his services in the Revolution, and at the time of drawing the same he resided in said Guernsey County and that she drew some portion of said pension after his decease. She further declares that she was married to the said Adam Linn, according to the best of her knowledge and belief, on the seventeenth day of August in the year seventeen hundred and eighty and that her husband the aforesaid Adam Linn died on the seventeenth day of October A.D. 1834. That she believes she was married to him prior to his leaving the service but as she is unable to prove that her marriage took place prior to the last period of his service, she hereby waives any benefit which might accrue to her if it were proven, but their marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated. Ann Linn her mark  
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I hereby further certify that the said Ann Linn cannot from bodily infirmity attend before any Court of records to make said declaration. Witness my hand and seal this fifteenth day of November A.D. 1841 Jos D. Tingle [seal] Associate Judge
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The State of Ohio Guernsey County ss
I Moses Sarchet Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county hereby certify that Joseph D. Tingle Esquire before whom the within declaration of Ann Linn was subscribed and sworn, was at the time an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas within and for said county of Guernsey, duly appointed, commissioned and qualified and duly authorized to administer oaths. - And I do further certify that said Court is a court of Record, and that the within signature of said judge is genuine.
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Cambridge in said county this fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty - one
Moses Sarchet Clerk
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United States of America Stae of Ohio Guernsey County ss. Be it known that before me Peter B. Ankeny A justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Ann Linn and made oath in due form of law that she is the identical person who drew a pension under the act of the 3d of March 1843 on account of the Revolutionary services of her husband the late Adam Linn at the rate of one hundred and twenty dollars per annum. that she now makes this affidavit for the purpose of drawing a pension under the act of congress passed on the 17th of June 1844 entitled an act to continue the pensions of certain widows. That she has not intermarried but continues to be a widow that she now resides in Jefferson Township in the county of Guernsey and State of Ohio and has resided there for the space of thirty four years past and that previous hereto she resided in Augusta County Virginia Ann Linn her mark   
Sworn to and subscribed this 7th day of September 1846 in presents of 
P. B. Ankeny   
Andrew F Linn 
Before me Peter B. Ankeny a Justice of the Peace I certify that the above named officiant is personally known to me and that she is the same individual who drew a pension as stated by her in the foregoing affidavit    
Peter B. Ankeny justice of the peace   
Know all men by these present that I Ann Linn of the Township of Jefferson in the County of Guernsey & State of Ohio a revolutionary pensioner of the United States do hereby continue and appoint [blank] of Wheeling in the County of Ohio & State of Virginia my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the agent of the united States to paying pensions in Wheeling my pension from the 4th day of March 1846 to the 4th day of September 1846 witness my hand and seal this 7th day of Sept. 1846 Ann Linn her mark  sealed and delivered in presents [presence] of Peter B. Ankeny Andrew F Linn
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State of Ohio Guernsey county fs. Be it known that on the seventh day of Sept. 1840 before me the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for the said county personally appeared Ann Linn above named and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and dead the testimoney whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above written.
Peter B Ankeny [seal]    J. P.

State of [blank] County ss.
Be it known that on the day of [blank] 1846 before me [blank] a [blank] in and for said county duly authorized by the laws of said state to administer oaths, personally appeared [blank] the attorney named in the foregoing power of attorney and made oath that he has no interest whatever in the money he is authorized to receive by virtue of the foregoing power of attorney either by pledge mortgage sale assignment or transfer and that he does not know or believe that the same has been so disposed of to any person whatever.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year last above mentioned before me.

The above blanks are to be filled at subscribing.
W. S.
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[stamped " paid"]
20
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

[round stamp at bottom left]
Washington D C Sep

[written vertically on left side]
Sept. 14, 1846
[written in pencil " look on Roll"]
4098.06 Ann Linn,
2515.43 [crossed out] July 4, 1836 [\crossed out]
Re Jan. 23d 1845
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Washington Guernsey County Ohio}
September 8th 1846}
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
Enclosed you will receive the pension papers of Ann Linn in order to receive her pension from the 4th of March 1846 to the 4th of September 1846. If you will confer a favor on remitting the necessary papers to the agent at Wheeling to request him to forward the draft to my address as above given.
Respectfully your
obediant servant& c
P. B. Ankeny
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The State of Ohio, Guernsey County ss
I Thomas W. Peacock Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said Guernsey county hereby certify that Peter B. Ankeny Esqr. [esquire] before whom the foregoing affidavit of Ann Linn was sworn to and subscribed -  who signed the foregoing certificate of identity, and before whom the foregoing power of attorney signed by Ann Linn was taken and acknowledged, was at the time of administering such oath and taking such acknowledgement, and still is an acting Justice of the Peace within said Guernsey County duly commissioned and qualified as such and that the signatures to the same purporting to be his, are genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Cambridge, this eighth day of September 1846.
Atted. [attest] Thos. W. Peacock clerk Com [common] Pleas G.C.O.

Andrew F Linn is hereby fully authorized to receive my pension from the 4 of March 1846 to the fourth of September 1846 from my attorney who may receive the same from the agent of the United States. witness my hand and seal the 7th day of Sept. 1846.
Ann Linn her mark 
Witness 
P. B. Ankeny
A. M. Linn
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From
W. W. Tracy
[illegible] Sep. 16 1841

[round stamp on left side]
Cambridge O. Sep [handwritten "6"]

[stamped "free" two times]

J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commifsioner [commissioner] of Pensions
Washington City D.C.

[written vertically]
W. W. Tracy
resping [responding?] Ann Linn
[illegible three letter word in middle of page]
Sept. 10, 1841
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Cambridge Ohio, Sep. 6th 1841 
J. L. Edwards Esqr. Commissioner of Pensions. 
Sir 
Mrs Ann Linn of Guernsey County Ohio widow of Adam Linn late of said County decd [deceased] is about making application for a pension under the act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836. Her husband drew a pension in his life time under the act of 1832 and died about October 1833. Mrs Linn's memory is so much impaired that she is not able to make a declaration in the usual form. She can state that she is a widow of Adam Linn decd [deceased], that they were married at Hagerstown, and can remember the name of the preacher who married them, and can recollect that her husband was out in the army after their marriage, but she cannot recollect the date of their marriage, nor the date of the death of her husband, nor the rank which he held in the army. There is a record in the family bible left by Mr. Linn of their marriage on the 17th August 1780. That record was made about the year 1825 or 6. There is an entry of the marriage on the same day and year made by Mr. Linn decd [deceased] in a Dutch Testament. The entry has been made more than thirty years since, so Mrs. Linn cannot make a declaration agreeably to the usual form, used as proof of many of their
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facts necefsary [neccessary] to show her right to a pension is probably on file in your department among the testimony upon which her husbands pension was granted. I have thought it proper to make the foregoing statement of the facts in her case and to ask from you best instructions as it may be proper for you to give in the case. I think Adam Linn decd [deceased] was a sergeant in the Revolutionary War, and drew his pension as such.
I am most respectfully
Your obediant
W. W. Tracy
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT’S Second Comptroller’s Office, December 17, 1839
Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The widow of Adam Linn, a Pensioner on the Roll of the “ Wheeling, Va   Agency, at the rate of one hundred & twenty  Dollars per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept.,1834. to the 17th October, 1834, the day of his death.   Respectfully, yours,  Albion K. Parris 

To the Commissioner of Pensions,  Present,
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[crossed out] 18 [\crossed out]Anna Linn
Ohio [illegible]
J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Comm [Commissioner] of pensions
Washington City
D. of C.

[circular stamp on upper left side with interior lettering " Cambridge Sep"]
[handwritten over stamp " W. Sept 16"]
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Cambridge, O. Sept. 11, 1839
J. L. Edward Esq.
Sir there is a small balance of pension coming to Ann Linn, widow of Adam Linn, a Revolutionary pensioner, which she wishes to get. In making out the papers, I find that application has to be made at the Pension Department, but from the forms heretofore forwarded to her, I am not certain whether the forms of attorney to name the pension, is to be sworn in the usual form, as though the application was made at one of the pension agencies, or whether it must be altered to suit the application to the Third Auditor. Will you have the goodness to say how the matter must be managed, and also whether you will sit as her attorney. The sum is small but she stands in need of it, and wishes to avoid the exposure of drawing the papers a second time, as she must do if they are improperly drawn at first.
Very Respectfully,
Yours
J. M. Bell
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4 Nov. 1841
Mr. Allison
Nov

Free
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
I enclose herein the declaration of Mrs. Ann Linn widow of Adam Linn decd [deceased] made for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of Congress of July 4th, 1836 together with the proof taken to sustain the same. I am not advised as to the length of service of Adam Linn nor its termination, as proved by the evidence on file in your department on other public offices at Washington. If the evidence on file at Washington does not prove the service of Mrs. Linn after the 17th of August 1780 and the testimony in the case is otherwise satisfactory, I will endeavor to get the necessary proof of service after that period from the records at Harrisburg.
I am most Respectfully yours
W. W. Tracy
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8.077
Ann Linn
Of Adam 
Ohio
Admitted
Sergt. 2 yrs $ 120 –
Cap – Colonel Irvin. Pa.
Act of July 1838
Died 17 Oct: 1834.
W. W. Tracy
Cambridge Ohio
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Cambridge Ohio Nov 15
18 Nov 1841
Mr. Allison
Ann Linn

Free
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
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Cambridge Ohio Nov 15th 1841
J. L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir.
I enclose herein a new declaration made on this day by Mrs Ann Linn under the Act of July 7th 1838 as directed by your letter of the 5th [unreadable].  The enclosed declaration is drawn as nearly in accordance with the prescribed form as Mrs. Linn’s recollection as to the date of her marriage would permit.  As to the attestation of the record heretofore forwarded to your office I have no reason to believe the same to have been made with any improper object whatever and if it would be of any avail I can prove that records has been in the same state as when forwarded to your office ever since the death of Adam Linn and as to the other records if I am not mistaken are proved by the oaths of the Mr. Hines whose depositions were forwarded to your office that it was in the hand writing of Adam Linn they are both forwarded and probably not much accustomed to Judge of hand writing, but I have no doubt they judged it to be in his
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father.  If it would be of any avail for Mrs. Linn to forward the testimony of her Son who has had the custody of the records first above mentioned, stating that the records has been the same as when it was attached to the declaration ever since the death of his father, and my own testimony that it was not altered after it came to my possession. You will please to inform me and if not I suppose it will be of no use to make any further effort for a Pension under the act of 1836.  Will you will please forward her certificate under the act of 1838 if the valuation and proofs are satisfactory under that act.   
I am most Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
W. W. Tracy
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THE RALSTON STEEL CAR COMPANY
Steel and Composite Cars
WORKS AND GENERAL OFFICES
Columbus, Ohio
December 12, 1934

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen: 

Will you give me what information you have available relative to War Records and pension assignments of the following men who served in the Revolutionary War: 

Cornelius Osborn or Orsborn, New York State. 
The Line, 3rd Regiment, Capt. John Hulbert's Company 
The Militia, Suffolk County, 1st Regiment Minute Men 
5th Regiment of Dutchess County, New York Militia
2nd " " " " " " "

Cornelius Osborn, Morris New Jersey
Jerseymen in the Line - Perhaps the same man.

Adam Linn. Pennsylvania State
7th Penn. Regiment
Sergeant in the following companies
Capt. John McDowell
" William Miller
Lieut. Colonel's Morgan Connor
Paid off Carlile, Pa. 1781. Died Guernsey County, Ohio 1834. 

Rev. William Linn, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania
Chaplain 5th Penn. Batt. Colonel Robt. Morgan
Appointed Feb 15, 1776 Died Albany N.Y. January 1808

I would appreciate any information you have relative to these men. 

Sincerely, 
W. E. Osborne 

ALL AGREEMENTS ARE CONTINGENT UPON STRIKES, ACCIDENTS, FIRES, AND OTHER DELAYS UNAVOIDABLE OR BEYOND OUR CONTROL.
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VANDERPOOL & COMPANY
INCORPORATED
VANDERPOOL BUILDING
33-35 S.E. FIRST AVENUE

MIAMI, FLORIDA
ESTABLISHED 1913

May 27th, 1928. 

Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.

Rev. and 1812 - War Section
Att'n A.W.F.

Dear Sir: 

Acknowledging receipt of your letter dated May 23, for which I thank you. I note that in reference to James Boyd and Adam Linn you ask where born, when, place of residence at time of enlistment and after service, and first names of widows.

James Boyd: Born Bedford County Viriginia, about 1738, married to Martha Burns, who survived him. Shortly before 1775 he moved with family to South Carolina, probably Chester County, or Chester District as it was at that time. Supposed to have died in a Tory prison. Information from Secretary of S.C. Historical Commission indicates that during a portion of his service held the rank of Lieutenant.

Adam Linn: born in Ireland, came to this country and settled in Bedford County Virginia. Married Sydney Ann Ewing, daughter of Robert Ewing who about 1775 was Justice of Bedford County Court. He may have joined the army from Bedford Country Virginia, or he may have joined from Chester District, S.C., as Abraham Boyd who was son of James above married his daughter Nancy Linn, after the War. Adam Linn, about 1788 or in next few years moved down into Tennessee, and thence about 1800 he moved over into Trigg County Kentucky. Adam Linn died in Trigg Country Kentucky, about 1832. His wife, Sydney Ann, is supposed to have died prior to 1787, and during the latter part of his life Adam Linn xxxx may have married again, though we have no record of such marriage. 

Thank you for your assistance in the matter,

Very truly,
Erle B. Allen.
P.O. Box 843
Miami, Floria.

"IF IT'S INSURANCE ASK VANDERPOOL"
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December 29, 1934.

BA-J/ILL

W. E. Osborne
Box 1342
Columbus, Ohio.

Dear Sir: 

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Cornelius Osborn of New York, Cornelius Osborn of New Jersey, Adam Linn of Pennsylvania and William Linn, a Chaplain in the Pennsylvania troops who died in January 1808, in Albany, New York. 

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and no claims for pension or bounty land found based upon service of the William Linn described by you, or of any Cornelius Osborn; other spellings of the surnames have been searched. The claim of Adam Linn has been found. His record is furnished herewith as found in that pension claim.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

June 1, 1928

Erle B. Allen
Miami, P.O. Box 843
Fla.

Sir: 

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 5023, it appears that Adam Linn served six months in Captain McLean's Company of Pennsylvania Troops, in the Flying Camp, no dates of service given, but it was prior to the following service.

He enlisted in Gettysburg, York County, Pennsylvania in 1776 and was a First Sergeant under Lieutenant McPherson in Colonel Irvine's Pennsylvania Regiment, he was in the battles of Brandywine, Paoli, Germantown, Monmouth, Stony Point, was in several skirmishes, and also saw Major Andre hanged, length of service not given. 

He was allowed pension on his application executed September 19, 1833, while residing in Guernsey County, Ohio, aged eighty-three years. At this time he stated that after the Revolution he lived in Maryland, Virginia, and since 1811 in Ohio. He died October 17, 1834. 

The soldier married August 17, 1780 in Hagerstown,
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Ann Hefley or Hefly. She was allowed pension on her application executed October 19, 1841, while a resident of Jefferson Township, Guernsey County, Ohio, aged about eighty years.

She stated in 1846 that she had lived in Jefferson Township, Ohio for thirty-four years, and had previously lived in Augusta County, Virginia.

The following sons testify in the case of 1841- John Linn, aged fifty-seven years, and Andrew F. Linn, aged thirty-six years.

The following names appear on the family record-

John Linn born November 20, 1784.
Joseph Linn born February 18, 1787.
Gorg Linn born March 2, 1790.
Sammel Linn born September 3, 1793.
Aaren (?) Linn born December 10, 1796.

The above noted Adam Linn (all spellings of that name searched) is the only soldier of that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau, and said records fail to afford any information in regard to James Boyd as described by you.

Respectfully

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.