Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,540, Adam Hickman, Va.
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[Standard Card File Format]

Va.

Hickman, Adam

S.5540

carded
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[number at top of card is torn through]

Virginia

Adam Hickman
of Rockbridge in the State of Virginia
who was a Private in the Comp. commanded
by Captain Hall of the Regt. commanded 
by [blank] in the Virga.
line for six months.
* 13140 [handwritten, probably the number torn through at the top of card]

Inscribed on the Roll of Virginia
at the rate of 20.  Dollars   00. Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 14th day of May

1833 and sent to Saml.
McD Reid   Lexington, Va.

Arrears to the 4th March 1833     40.-
Seni-anl. Allowance ending 4 Sept. 1833     10.-
$50.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer Clerk
Book G, Vol. [writing lined through]     Page 11
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No. 22017  12140
Adam Hickman
VA.

Adm for 6 months from 1780
$20

Samuel McD. Reid
Clerk Rockbridge Co Court
Va.
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[War Department Standard Form]

War Department
Pension Office
183

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

[Column headings from the table are shown below with the written notes]

A Statement shewing the Service of Adam Hickman Rockbridge County Va

Period when the service was rendered.     1780 o t [onto?] 1781

Duration of the claimant's service.   3 months Served in all 6 months

Rank of the claimant.     [not stated]
 
Names and ranks of the Company Officers under whom he served.     Capt Hall [Capt] Paxton

Names and rank of the Gerneral and Field Officers.   [not stated]

Battles in which the applicant was engaged.   None

Country through which he marched.   Va. " [parenthetical mark]

Place of abode when he entered the service and age at the present period.  Aged 70   Rockbridge Co Va

Evidence by which the declaration is supported.     Traditionary Living today
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(Standard List of Interrogatives - only written notes are transcribed below]

[No written notes on this page
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[Standard List of Interrogatives - only written notes are transcribed below]

[signed] Dyer Castor ex. Clerk
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Adam Hickman 

22017
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Rockbridge County
State of Virginia Sept. 3rd 1832
On this 3rd  day of September in the year 1832 Personally appeared in Open Court, s’d. Court being a Court of Record, for the County of Rockbridge, and now sitting, Adam Hickman a resident in s’d. County & State, aged 70 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 entered the service of the United States, under the following named Officers, and served
as herein stated.
This applicant states, that in the fall of the year 1780. (about the first of October) he was drafted as a Militia Man, under Capt. James (or William) Hall [James Hall] then of sd. County, now dead; he marched from s’d. County having rendezvoused about a mile below Lexington, to the City of Richmond, thence he marched through the Country, in various directions, which this applicant cannot now describe, to Petersburg. This applicant states, that his company marched with another company of volunteers under Capt. David Gray from the same County, this applicant cannot now recollect any further particulars of the tour. He states that in this tour he served 3 months he does not recollect any other officers. He received no discharge. This applicant refers to the evidence of Henry Evans, who served with him in this tour, being his mess mat. 
This applicant further states, that he was again drafted as a Militia Man, under Capt. William Paxton, then of s’d. County now dead, in May 1781 he marched from s’d County to Deep run church, near [12 mi NW of] Richmond, where he thinks he remained about 2 weeks, then joined other forces, which he cannot specify, marched thence to Richmond, thence down the Country, how far he cannot say, crossed James River at a place called Sandy Point as he thinks, thence came up the River to Petersburg. This applicant states, that the Bridge of the Appomattox ] at Petersburg, had been burned down by the British, and he crossed in a flat, Thence marched up the Appomattox, how far he cannot recollect, and was stationed on s’d. River a
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week or 10 days, thence marched across to Westham, on James River, about 6 miles above Richmond thence back to Richmond, and down the Country about a days journey, when this applicant was dismissed. he served 3 months in this tour he received no discharge as he recollects. This applicant refers to the testimony of William Miller of s’d. County of Rockbridge who served with him, in this expedition.
This applicant served in all 6 months. This applicant states that he was born in January in the year 1762, and emigrated with his parents to Pennsylvania in his second year. 
This applicant has no record of his age. he states that he came to s’d. County of Rockbridge (then
Bottetourt County in the 6th year of his age, where he was living when drafted into service, and has been living since the war of the Revolution.
This applicant was drafted into service in both tours. This applicant refers to the personal knowledge of William Miller, as testimony in his behalf, also to the testimony of Jefferson Crawford & William Paxton Esq’r [S5873].
This applicant hereby relinquishes all and every claim to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
[signed] Adam Hickman

We William Paxton, Jefferson Crawford and John D. Erving a  a Clergyman residing in s'd. County and Neighborhood of s'd. applicant, do hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Adam Hickman, who has sworn to and subscribed the above declaration, That we believe him to be 70 years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a revolutionary Soldier, that no doubts to our knowledge have ever existed upon the subject, and that we concur in that opinion, that s'd. applicant in the above declaration is a man of truth, and incapable of making a false Statement. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written.
[signed] William Paxton
[signed] Jefferson Crawford
[signed] John D Ewing
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I William Miller of said County of Rockbridge & s’d. State do hereby certify, that I have known s’d. applicant in the above declaration for 60 years, and that I know from my own personal knowledge, that said Adam Hickman was in service under Capt. William Paxton in 1781. That I frequently saw him and stood with him in the ranks. That I saw him at the Battle of Hot Water, that I saw him while pulling the flat over the Appomattox River, as he states in his declaration, that I saw the flat overturned by the horses in it, and saw the said Adam Hickman preserve himself by holding to the rope, that I saw him start on a scouting expedition to Williamsburg, during the night, to surprise the British guard. I further certify that I believe what the s’d. Adam Hickman has stated in his declaration, and that he served during the tour of 3 months for which he was drafted under Capt. William Paxton, that it is the 
general belief of his neighbourhood that he was a revolutionary Soldier, and that no doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written. 
[signed] William Miller

Virginia
At Rockbridge County Court September 3rd 1832
The declaration of Adam Hickman together with the affidavits of William Miller and William Paxton, Jefferson Crawford and John D Ewing of which the foregoing are true copies were honored in court and severally sworn to and subscribed in open court. And the said Court declares this opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the interrogatives proscribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that William Miller, William Paxton, Jefferson Crawford and John D ewing who sined the prreceeding cetifiecates are residents of this county and are cresible persons and that their statements are entitled to credit and that the said John D Ewing is a Clergyman resident in said county. 
In testimony where of I Samuel
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McD Reid Clerk of said County court have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said coounty this 4th Day of September 1832, and in the 57th year of the Commonwealth.
[signed] Saml McD Reid

[vertical sct] Adam Hickman
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5540

File no. 5540

Adam Hickman
Pri Rev War

Act: June 7th '32

Index: Vol M, Page 172

[Arrangement of 1870.]