Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 49,292, Isaiah Adkins, Conn.

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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE 

Conn. 

Adkins Isaiah 

NUMBER S. 49. 292. 

B. L. Wt. 649 - 100 

(& of Capt. Daufoutis Co. 30" U. S. Inf.)

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No. 6A9 

Isaiah Adkins 

Corporal 

Connecticut Line

Warrant issued to Isaiah Adkins, under date 19th February 1816, and delivered to the Hon. John W. Taylor, Atty. the same day.

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Isaiah Adkins application for bounty land for Revolutionary service

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Isaiah Adkins
What became of his Discharge?

The printed instructions relative to such claims, states that where it is not produced in Support of the claim," proof is required if its lost"

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State of New York
Saratoga County} ss.  Isaiah Adkins of Ballston in the County of Saratoga late a Sergeant in Capt Danforth's detachment in the 30th Reg. of Infantry & at the close of the revolutionary was a Corporal in Capt. Chapmans company in the 2nd Connecticut
regiment commanded by Col. Heman Swift being duly sworn doth depose & say that some time between the first & tenth day of April in the year 1777, he was enlisted into Capt. Elijah Humphreys company in the 6th Connecticut Regiment in the American army during the revolutionary war, to serve during the war.  That upon the derangement of the 6th Regiment this deponent was placed in the 4th Connecticut Regiment commanded by Zebulon Butler.  That upon the derangement of the 4th Regiment this deponent was placed in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment commanded by Heman Swift in said Chapman's company in which this deponent
did continue until the end of the war.  That 
this deponent did enlist to serve during the
war & did actually serve to the end of it & was
discharged about four miles from West Point
in the State of New York on Sunday the eighth
day of June 1783-And this deponent further saith that he has never received any land 
warrant for the land to which he was & is entitled for his service aforesaid - And
that the same has

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never been granted, or procured by any person or persons by the authority or direction or to his knowledge or belief.

Isaiah Atkins [signature]

Subscribed & Sworn this [illegible] day of November 1815 before me David Rogers, 
one of the Justices of the peace of the County of Saratoga.


State of New York
Saratoga County} ss: Lemuel Wilcox of  Ballston in the County of Saratoga who was a private in Captain Eli Levingsworth's company in the Sixth Connecticut regiment of American forces during the revolutionary war & who enlisted to serve during the war & did actually serve until the end of it being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is acquainted with Isaiah Adkins the person described in the above affidavit.  That this deponent was afterwards transferred into Captain Elijah Humphreys company in the same regiment.  That this deponent was acquainted with the said Isaiah while he this deponent was in Leavenworth's company & the said Isaiah in Humphreys company
& also when both this deponent & the said Isaiah were together in Humphreys company.  That this deponent knew the said Isaiah to be in the service in the year 1777 & to continue in the service to the end of the war in the same regiment with this deponent.

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that this deponent always understood & verily believes that the said Isaiah Adkins enlisted to serve during the revolutionary war & did actually serve to the end of it.  That this deponent never knew the said Isaiah to be punished for any offence during the time he was in service as aforesaid & knows him to have maintained this character of a good & faithful soldier in his country service.

Lemuel Wilcox [signature]

Sworn to & subscribed this 20th day of November in the year 1815 before me David
Rogers - one of the Justices of the peace of the County of Saratoga.

I certify that the above named Benjamin Barnett & Lemuel Wilcox are credible witnesses-- Dated November 20 1815 -

David Rogers [signature]

State of New York Ss:
I John W. Taylor of Ballston in the County of Saratoga Representative in Congress Do certify that David Rogers before whom the above affidavits were made is a Justice of the peace of the County of Saratoga acting under the authority of the State of New York &
that the above is his signature - 
Dated November 20 1815

John W. Taylor [signature]

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[Crossed out:] New York Rolls
to
Pennsylvania
9421
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Isaiah Adkins
Corporal
1777 - war
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence
the 13th of April 1818.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of June 181
and sent to the case of Jno Walker, Esqr. Greenwich, Wash Co., New York
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818
4 months 22/30   $3.86
Connecticut line

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

joined Connecticut line from regt previously comd by RJ Meigs under Genl Parsons in Putnam Division & was subsequently in a variety of situations & under the new organization was put in 2nd Conn't.  regt com by Col. Heman Swift.  Served from 10 Apl 1777 to 8 June 1783

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Isaiah Adkins,
Affidavit
No 9
Correct [illegible]


Direct to the care
of Jno. C. Walker
Greenwich
Washington County
N. York

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State of New York
Washington County Ss.  Isaiah Adkins
being duly sworn deposeth and saith that
he was a soldier of the Revolutionary Army
of the United States of America on the Conti-
nental establishment.  That he enlisted as
such soldier at the town of Guilford County
of New haven & State of Connecticut, under
Lieut. John Ball in Capt. Elijah Humphries
Company & in Col. Douglass regiment for
during the war -  that he so enlisted on or
about the tenth of April seventeen hundred
& seventy seven -  that afterwards in consequence of the death of Col. _ Douglas, Lieut. Col. Deming or Dernon commanded the sd regiment. - that Col. Deming also died when the regt was commanded by Col. Return J. Meigs - that said regiment rendezvoused at New Haven, that he went from that to Sag Harbour on Long Island, raided the place & burnt the enemy's vessels and returned to New Haven - from thence marched to Peekskill where he joined the Connecticut Line under Genl. Parsons in Genl. Putnams [Brigade] Division, was after this in a variety of situations & at different places untill December in the year seventeen hundred & eighty, was then in a detachment commanded by Col. Wm Hull - went to Morrisania attacked the refugees, took a number of Prisoners

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burnt their huts and returned and 
joined the regiment at the Highlands,
was then appointed a Corporal in Capt.
Elijah Humphreys company in the
said Col. Meigs regiment _ After this
Col. Meigs resigned and Col. Zebulon
Butler took the command of sd regiment
after this in the year seventeen hundred
and eighty one, he marched to White-
Plains, was then detached & put into 
Col. Alexander Hamilton's Battalion of
Light Infantry - marched from thence
in sd Battalion under the command of Gen'l 
Washington to Yorktown Virginia, was at
the storming of the Redoubt before Yorktown
on York river, that after the siege he returned 
to the Highlands & joined his regiment, that
'82- after this in the fall of eighty two, a new organization took place & your deponent was
put in the second Connecticut Regt. commanded by Col. Heman Swift - that on
'83- the eight of June eighty three he recd his discharge from the Continental Army and
honored, with the badge of merit, for six
years faithful service, that he lost the said 
discharge on board a Vessel which was shipwrecked - that he is now fifty seven years old, & in verry necessitous & indigent circumstances & that he now lives in the Town of Greenwich County of Washington and state of New York

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and your deponent further saith that
he was discharged as sd by Genl. Washington
at the Highlands near West Point & that
by reason of his reduced circumstances he is
in need of assistance from his country for
support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services -
 
Isaiah Adkins [signature]

State of New York
Washington County Ss. Greenwich April 13th
AD. 1818 - Then personally appeared before me Isaiah Adkins the signer of the above affidavit and made Oath that the same was true.  And I hereby certify, that it does fully appear to my satisfaction that the said Isaiah Adkins did so serve as stated in his said affidavit against the common enemy in the 
revolutionary war, and that he is in my
opinion a proper subject for a Pension under
the "Law of the United States providing for persons engaged in the land and naval service of the same in the Revolutionary war". and I hereby now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the secretary for the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress.

Jonathan Sprague [signature]  One of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Washington

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State of New York
Washington County ⎬ I Daniel Shepherd Clk. of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do certify that Jonathan Sprague Esq before whom the within certificate was made is one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County acting under the the authority of the said State and that the name subscribed to said certificate is his signature

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 23d day of April 1818

D.Shepherd Clk.

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Isaiah Adkins

Con
942

Does not appear on Pension
roll, let the transfer herewith
be executed & returned with
this schedule.

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District of Pennsylvania ss.
On this 7th day of August Anno Domini 1820 personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas holden in Wilkes Barre for the County of Luzerne being a Court of record proceeding according to the course of the Common law with jurisdiction instructed in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings Isaish Adkins aged Fifty nine years and Seven months resident in Luzerne County in said District who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress of the 18th day of March 1818, and 1st of May 1820. That he served in the Revolutionary War in the company commanded by Capt Elijah Humphreys in the regiment commanded by Col Return J. Meigs in the line of the State of Connecticut - and has obtained a pension under the act of the 18th of March 1818 his certificate being number 942.

And as I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or  securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Josiah Adkins [signature]

Sworn to in Open Court 8 August 1820
Andrew Beaumont Prot. [signature]

Schedule of Property
I have besides necessary clothing & bedding-
One Iron Kettle 3 - 
One Iron Kettle 1 -
One Tea Kettle - 75 
Two pewter Platters  Six Pewter Plates 3.00
Six cups & saucers - 50 
Two low chest 2.75
One Horse $15. 
Four Chairs 2.00 
One Ax 2.00 
One Hoe 1.00 
Two tin pails - 90
Four Table Spoons six Tea Spoons 1.00 
4 Knives & Forks - 50 
one pair andirons  2.00 - 
& A sick horse worth nothing

I have the following debts due to me and are recoverable
- One debt of Fifteen Dollars

I am indebted in the following sums
One debt of Forty five Dollars, One debt of Twenty five dollars
One debt of Thirty four Dollars - One debt of Twenty three Dollars
Two sums of Ten Dollars each One debt of Two Dollars & fifty Cents

I am by profession a laborer but by reason of age and infirmities not able to pursue that occupation. I have to family residing with
except my wife Rhoda aged sixty five and infirm like myself
Isaiah Adkins [signature]

Sworn and Subscribed in
Open Court 8 August 1820
A Beaumont Prot. [signature]

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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss.

I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule (hereto annexed) are truly copied from the record of the said Court and I do further Certify that it is the opinion of the
said Court that the total amount in value of the
property estimated in the aforesaid Schedule is
thirty five dollars and forty cents & a debt of fifteen dollars.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court on this twenty sixth day of August AD 1820
A. Beaumont Prot. [signature]

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RECORD DIVISION
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION

3 -- 525
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C.,

S49292

In reply to your request of [blank] received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Isaiah Adkins a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Apr. 6 1777

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
to June 8, 1783

RANK.
Pvt & Corpl.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Elijah Humphrey
Chapman

COLONEL.
Douglass
David Damon
Return Jonathan Meigs
Zebulon Butter
Alex Hamilton
Heman Swift

STATE.
Conn.

Battles engaged in, Morrisania Yorktown

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl at Guilford Conn

Date of application for pension, Apr 23, 1818.  His cl was al-

Residence at date of application, Greenwich NY

Age at date of application, 57

Remarks: In 1820 he referred to his wife Rhoda ag 60 yrs. No further family data

In 1815 he was a res. of Ballston, Saratoga Co NY. & is referred to as late a Sgt in Capt. Danforths Detachment of the 30 Regt of [illegible] no dates of service given.

Respectfully,
Commissioner

Vol. 1. p. 352
Heitmans Army Reg. gives Capt Sylvanus 
Danforth as of 30 Regt U.S.  15 of Apr 30 1813 to June IV. 18

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1922 Oct 14 Hist. to H.J. Russell

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OLD WAR.
INVALID

FILE No. 49292

Isaiah Adkins

Corpl., Conn. Line,
Rev. War

Cert. No. 942

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Dead - Let to payt Phil Sept 13. 1842

Hon. Asa Parker
June 27 1854

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Know all men by these presents that I
Isaiah Adkins who was a Corporal in Capt.
Chapman's Company in the second  Connecticut Regiment who was enlisted to serve during the revolutionary war & did actually serve until the end of it do appoint John W. Taylor my attorney to procure & receive a warrant for the quantity of land to which I am entitled for the services rendered by me as a Soldier in the army of the United States during the revolutionary war.  Hereby empowering him to do all acts & things in the premises as fully
as I could do were I personally present

Witness my hand & seal November 6, 1815

Isaiah Adkins [signature]

Sealed & Delivered
In presence of ⎬

David Rogers [signature]

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State of New York
Saratoga County ss:
Benjamin Bennett who was a Sergeant in Captain Jonas Prentice's company in the Sixth Connecticut Regiment in the American army during the Revolutionary war being duly sworn doth depose & say that he is well acquainted with Isaiah Adkins & knows of his own personal knowledge that the said Isaiah in the year 1777 was a private soldier in Captain Elijah Humphreys company in the sixth Connecticut Regiment commanded
by David Demming & afterwards by Return J. Meigs for during the war - that this deponent never saw the enlistment of the said Isaiah but always understood & verily believes that he did enlist to serve during the war that this deponent knew him the said Isaiah to continue in the service until November or December 1782 when this deponent was placed in the first Connecticut Regiment
commanded by Zebulon Butler & verily believes that the said Isaiah did continue in the service until the end of the revolutionary war.  That the Sixth Regiment having been consolidated into the fourth Regiment commanded by Zebulon Butler the said Isaiah was appointed a corporal & continued a corporal until the fourth was consolidated into the second under the command of Col. Heman Swift -- & this deponent verily believes that the said

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Isaiah continued a Corporal until the end
of the war.  That this deponent well remembers having seen the said Isaiah wear upon his left arm one & this deponent verily
believes two badges of honor for faithful service- that this deponent has been on
guard with the said Isaiah & knows him to have had the character of a good soldier
 
[signed] Benjamin Bennet

Sworn to & subscribed
this 6th day of November
in the year 1815 before me
David Rogers [signature] one of 
the Justices of the peace of
the County of Saratoga

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Isaiah Adkins's application for transfer from N. York to Pennsylvania - 9 Nov. 1820
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Transferred 5 Jan'y 1821

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APPLICATION FOR A TRANSFER.

State of Pennsylvania
County of Luzerne
SS.

On this Ninth day of November 1820, before
me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Luzerne - personally appeared Isaiah Adkins who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Chapman, in the regiment commanded by Colonel Heman Swift & others in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York from whence he has lately removed; that he now resides in the state (district, or territory) of Penn., County of Luzerne and [illegible]  Township where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future.

Isaiah Adkins [signature]

Sworn and subscribed to, before
me, the day and year aforesaid.
Thomas Dyer [signature] one of
Justices of the Peace in the 
County aforesaid.

NOTE. The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official
character and signature must be properly authenticated.

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State of Pensylvania
Luzerne County

I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne aforesaid do certify and make known that Thomas Dyer is and was at the time of taking and signing the within affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned that the signature is his proper
hand writing and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such.

In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and
seal of Office at Wilkes Cove in the County of Luzerne aforesaid this Eighth day of December A.D. 1820.

Andrew Beaumont [signature]
Prothonotary

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Affidavit of
Isaiah Adkins

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State of New York
Saratoga County ⎬ss
Isaiah Adkins of the Town of Ballston in the County of Saratoga and State of New York being duly sworn says that on the Eighth day of June one thousand Seven hundred and Eighty three he this deponent was discharged as a corporal in the Company commanded by Captain Chapman in the Second Regiment of the Connecticut line commanded by Colonel Heman Swift of the Revolutionary Army,  which said discharge was dated the day and year above mentioned, and in the month of November following, this deponent embarked on board of a vessel at Guilford in the State of Connecticut bound for New York.  That the aforesaid discharge was deposited in a trunk
belonging to this Deponent on board of the said Vessel, and while on board of the said Vessel, the said vessel was cast away in a 
Storm in the Harbour at Guilford aforesaid and the said Trunk containing the said Discharge was lost in the Sea-

Isaiah Adkins [signature] 

Sworn & Subscribed to to before me 
the 27th day of January 1815
Thomas Palmer a
Justice of the Peace in &
for the County of Saratoga & 
State of New York

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Clerks Office ⎬
Saratoga Co } ss

I certify that Thomas Palmer Esqr before whom
the within affidavit was taken is a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County duly appointed & qualified on Oath and that the within is his signature.

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 27th Day of January in the year of our Lord 1815

Wm Stilwell Clerk in & for the
County of Saratoga

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Mr Peter Hagner
War Dept.
Dece'r 30th 1815.

Sir,

Please to cast your eye over the deposition of Isaiah Adkins transmitted you herewith, and cause examination to be made in the Registers of Revolutionary services to see if he be entitled to Military Bounty Land and have the goodness to acquaint me with the result.

Respectfully yours-
Nat. Cutting [signature]

There is in Col. R.J. Meigs Regt Connecticut Line an Isaiah Atkins private private inlisted 6 April 1777 for the war promoted to Corface
1 February 1781 - whether he served to the end of the war I cannot discover.

Yours respectfuly [respectfully]
P. H.

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1 - 2d stamp enclosed


22 Parker Ave.
Cranford N.J

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C

Can you tell me whether the names of
Thomas Adkins, Revolutionary Soldier, in Capt. William Shepard's Co. Regiment 12 Vermont Militia appears as a pensioner on record?  Also Isaiah Adkins, Revolutionary
Soldier, and a corporal in the war.

Any information as to date of death and place of death will be appreciated.

Very truly yours
Harriet J. Russell


[Date stamp:] Sep 18 1922
U.S. Pension Office