Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 34,622, David Adams, N.C.

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NC  Adams, David S 34,622

Contents
In 1879 aged 56yrs & res of Hickman Co, Tenn
In 1826 res of Monroe Co, Miss

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12750
Mississippi
David Adams
of Hickman Co in the state of Tennessee
who was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Lyttle of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Lyttle in the N. Carolina
line, for the term of one year
from ______ 17 to _______ 17

Inscribed on the role of  W Tennessee
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 3 day of February 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of July 1819
and sent to Hon. J. McNairy
Nashville Tennessee

Arrears to 4th of (March or May – illegible due to smudge) 1819  $8.45
Semi-anl all’ce ending (Sept? – illegible due to smudge) 1819  $48
 (total)                                                                                                                    $56.45                                                                                                                   48                                                                          104.45
[illegible strike through]
Revolutionary claim
Acts March 18, 1818
And May 1, 1820

(right side of page)
See letter to Hon. P Ellis, Senator US
March 15, 1831
* let to Hon. S G (Gladson?),
Sept 19, 1837.

Letter to C (Whightman?) 9 Aug 1839
Paid as the (We asking?) under
The act of the C (illegible) 1838
From 4 Sept 1837 to 4 September
1838. Ag notified 15 Oct 1839
	
Paid as above from 4 Sept 1838 to 
(illegible) March 1839. Ag notified 9 May
1840

Paid as above from 4 March
to 4 Sept 1839 Ag notified
19 June 1840

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Continuance and transferred from W Tennessee
January 1827 to take effect from 5 November 1826
(Illegible) continuance sent to Stephen
(illegible) Mississippi
Date of death (illegible)

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David Adams
Little N. Carolina
3rd Regt

Adm @

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Care of David Adams
Col Lyttle N Carolina Rep
M McNairy
July 1781 for 1 year
Nashville, Ten.
Rec Feb 20 , 1819

(Clohn C. Culhio?)
Sent to Wm Hill esq
Proof of residency (?)
(city?)
Admitted

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District of West Tennessee (S?)
on the 3d day of February 1819 before
me John McNairy Judge of the courts of the united states for the Districts of East & West Tennessee personally appeared David Adams aged fifty six years resident in the county of Hickman in the State of Tennessee, who being by me duly sworn according to Cain doth on his oath make the following declarations, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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, that he the said David Adams entered in the Company commanded by Capt. Elisha Moore in the second North Carolina Reg. commanded by Col. Lyttle, that he does not remember the date of his enlistment but that it was directly after the Battle of Ramsuers Mills, that he entered in the service of the United States, he believes for five years and until after the Battle of Eutaw Springs in South Carolina, that he was in the battle when Gates was defeated and in the Battle of Catawba River, of Guilford

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and of the Eutaw Springs and was discharged
soon after the last battle and has long since
lost his discharge, and that he is in reduced
circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his country for support and that he has no other evidence in his render of 
his said service.
Sworn to (illegible)                                  
Before me the day    David + Adams
& year aforesaid       his mark				
John McNairy

I John McNairy Judge (illegible) as aforesaid and and do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said David Adams did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in his preceding dictation against the common enemy, for the term of nine months on the continental establishment – therefore I have sent the claim to the war department.
John McNairy
Judge

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This may certify that from the account
of the applicant David Adams, from his narration of his service, his appearance and apparent candor I am well satisfied of the truth of his statement as to his being in indigent circumstances this other statements.
John McNairy
District Judge

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State of N Carolina Servant’s Office 9th June 1819
J William Hill Secretary of State in (?) the State aforsd do certify that it appears from the musterrole of the N Carolina Continental line in the revolutionary war that David Adams was mustered as a private
in Capt. Lytles Company of the 10th Regt on the 6th of June 1781 for 12 months and “left the service on the 6th of June 1782. Given under my hand the date above.  Wm Hill

(vertical)
David Adams
Little N. Carolina
Regt
(illegible)
Adm@

(vertical other direction)
Care of David Adams
Col. Lyttle N. Carolina Rep.
1781 for 1 year
Judge M
Nashville, Ten (illegible)
Rec @ Feb 20 1819

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The State of Mississippi
Monroe County Circuit Court November Term
1821.         personally appeared on this (25?) day of November 1821 in open court being a court of Record & made so by the laws of this state. David Adams a resident of said county aged about sixty six years next February who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the provision made
by the acts of congress of the 18th of March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820 that he the said David Adams was enlisted for (during?) the war this Affidavit thinks some time in June 1777 by a Captain Elijah or Elisha Moore that
he was sent on to Salisbury N.C. to the com-
pany commanded by Captain Givins – the name of the colonel commandment or the regiment this affidavit does not recollect in the army commanded by General Rutherford
until it formed the army commanded
by General Gates – that he continued in
the said army until the battle of Gates
defeat – shortly after which he joined
the army commanded by General
Greene in the company commanded
By Captain William Little in the regiment
Commanded by Colonel Archibald
Little – that he continued to serve under
the said Captain William Little in said
Regiment until the end of the war
when he was regularly discharged
in the said state of North Carolina

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My affidavit states also that he was in the
battle of Gate’s defeat – at the battle of
Guilford and at the Eutaw Springs where
he was verry severely wounded – and also
at the siege of ninty six – and that he
has no other evidence of his said service now
in his power except his own oath and that the following are the reasons for not making earlier application for a pension this affidavit states that he thinks some time in the year 1819 he was at the pension office in Nashville in the state of Tennessee and that Stephen Can(tneu?) and Judge McNairy the pension
agents there was being advised of the circum-stances and selection of this affiant
concurred him entitled to a pension when he the affiant got the said Judge McNairy to make his declaration in order
to place him on the pension list under
the act of 18th March 1818.  That he
got it as he (convened?) regularly certified
and put it in the post office at Nashville
directed to the secretary of war, as we was
directed – but whether the same was ever
received he does not know – that
he got Washington Perkins to write on
enquiring what his position had been
made (illegible) it - & he had been informed
(illegible / strike through) war advised none such had been received – about this time the
affiant moved to the said county
of Monroe his present place of residence
and that it was several years before
the county were organized so that his

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declaration could be properly certified and
authenticated.  That at the May arr of
said circuit court of Monroe County being
quite illerate he got Chaney S. Kellogg
an attorney at law to make out his
declaration for him which was entered
of record and as he is advised was
property certified and sent by mail on
to the secretary of war but making sure
this has been done with this affiant
he does not know that he has been informed 
nothing has been heard from it since
why it has been this affiants applica-
tions have not been noticed and his 
pension allowed him he is not able
to account. But states he has suffered
much from his indigent circumstances
for his pension which he conceives him
self to have been entitled to ever since
the year 1818. And in pursuance of the
(det?) of the first of May 1820 I the said
David Adams 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
any manner disposed of my property 
or any past (hiring?) with intent merely
so to diminish it as to bring myself 
within the provisions of an aid of congress
entitled an act to provide for certain
persons engaged in the land and naval
service of the united states in the revolution-
ary war paper on the 18th day of March
1818 and that I have not nor has
any other person in trust for me property, securities, contracts or

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debts owe to me nor have I any income
other than what is contained in the schedule
hereto annexed and by me (subscribed?)
8 head of cattle worth about $40.00
1 Steer 12.00
1 Horse 80.00
10 head of Hogs 20.00
this affiant is indebted to his neighbors and county near something the rise of sixty dollars/

this affiant cannot (strikethrough) state the changes that have taken place in his property since the 18th of March 1818 But states on oath in aforesaid that his circumstances have been pretty much of the same since the 18th of March 1818 as they are now.  This affiant states that he has a claim to about ten head of cattle in the (procession?) of John Adams  William Adams & David Adams which he Cannot get but by suit in law – which he is unable to prosecute and the result of which he can not (tell?) And this declarant further states that he is by occupation a farm and that his ability to pursue his said occupation is his ours personal exertion which is verry feeble – and that the necessities of his family now resident with him is a daughter about twenty five years of age who has three small children for whom he is obliged in a great degree to provide a support which he is illy able to do. Sworn to me in open court                    David + Adams (his mark)
Stephen Cocke clerk
It is the opinion of the court from the examination of testimony that the value of the property of the declarant is about one hundred and fifty dollars

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dollars
The State of Mississippi
Monroe County  S. Stephen Cocke Clerk
of the circuit court of said county do certify
that the foregoing declaration and the oath & 
schedule thereto assumed are truly copied from from the records of the said court and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said
court that the total amount in value of
the property on his title in the aforesaid
schedule is about one hundred and fifty
dollars.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal
of the said court on this 5th day of
November 1826.
Stephen Cocke Clerk

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Rev. and 1812
War section.

May 31, 1926

Honorable Carrell Reece
House of Representatives

My dear Mr. Reece:

In response to your letter of the seventeenth
Instant, I have the honor to advise you that this Bureuau is unable to furnish the history of a sol-dier of the Revolution, unless a claim for pension or bouty land has been made on account of his ser-vices, and careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of any Richard Luttrell.

From the papers in the Revolutionary War pen-sion claims S. 34622, it appears that David Adams enlisted in June 1777 and served as a private in Captain Elijah Moore’s and Givins’ North CarolinaCompanies, and was at the battles of Camden, Catawba
River, and Guilford; and June 6, 1781 he enlisted and served twelve months in Captain William Lytle’s Company, Colonel Archibald Lytle’s North Carolina

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Regiment, and was at the Siege of Ninety-Six, and the battle of Eutaw Springs, where he was severely wounded.

He was allowed pension on his application exe-cuted February 3, 1819, while a resident of Hickman County, Tennessee, aged fifty-six years.

In 1826, he was living in Monroe County, Miss-issippi, and referred to a daughter, aged about twenty-five years, who had three small children, no names are given, nor is the name of his wife on file.

There is no further data on file as to family.

Very truly yours,

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner

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34622                             1936Oct1 (illegible) sent                                                                                   to Mrs. George Gibson 

Revy.               INVALID
File No.          34622
David Adams
Pri Rev War

Act:  18 Mar 18
Index:  -- Vol. 2, Page 3

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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1897 – History to                          Apr. 3
Edgar S Wilson                              Mr.
Con Fire Ins. Co-                           c/o Ma
Macon, Georgia
________________

1921, Nov. 9 hist to Mrs. W.
Eugene Harrington – (EW?)
1926 – May 21 Hist to Hon.
Carrell Reece (cur?)

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12750
West Tennessee  R
David Adams
of Hickman Co in the state of Tennessee
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Lyttle of the N. Carolina 
line, for the term of 1 year

Inscribed on the roll of West Tennessee
at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on
the 3rd of February 1819

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of July 1819
and sent to the Honbl John McNairy
Nashville, Tennessee

Arrears to the 4th of March 1819 (illegible)     8.45
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 September 1819      48.00
                                                                               $56.45

Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March, 1818

Hickman County

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20,(1 or 4?)82
David Adams
Monroe Co Mipip

Stephen Cocke
Hamilton, Mississippi
___________

Recd 30 Dec 1826

final (statements?)
vol. 4 fol 115

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Hamilton Miss
(rec?) 10
The Honorable
James Barbour Secretary of War
Mail

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Hamilton Monroe County
Mississippi
5 Nov 1826

Honorable James Barbour
Secretary of War

Sir,
Inclosed herewith you will
receive the declaration of David Adams of
this county in order to obtain a pension-
He is anxious for a consideration to be
given his application at an early period
Should he be placed on the pension
list he is desirous of knowing it after
early a period as practicable.  His place
of residence in the county is so distant
from any deposit of that mail that
he wishes your communication in
relation to him to be made to
me at this place. When he will
be immediately advised of it.
Verry respectfully,
Your obd. servt
Stephen Cocke

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W.199.1839
Mr. Evans
In att.

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(pension office)
Hon JR Poinsett
Secty War
Washington DC
Mail

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Aberdeen Mississippi 10 July 1839

Hon JR Poinsett Secy of War

Jim

I am laboring under the most extreme poverty and destitution of the necessaries of life in consequence of any pension being stopped by the Pension Agent at Natches, on the ground that I did not apply immediately after it became due.  I have now three half years pay coming to me and cannot get one cent, the reason I did not apply were 1st That I have to (proven?) some friend to make out my papers, and which is not always do done as the Agent will (illegible) and pay them.  I find them on then times and were returned for my informality.  in the mean the time expired which is limited by the dept. and I have to do (illegible) 2nd Natches is nearly three hundred & fifty miles from where I reside, I am so old and decrepit I can not travel in person, and if I were able it would take the greater part of my pension to pay traveling expenses.
 
I hope that these reasons will be satisfactory why I have not applied in the time presented and that your honor will immediately forward to me an order to the Pension Agent at Natches to pay on the amt due me, and I am suffering for the necessaries of life for the want of it.

Respectfully
his
David DA Adams
mark

Please direct to the Can of George Wightman Aberdeen Monroe County Missi, how I now get to attend to my business

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The Honl The Commissioner
of Pensions
Washington
City

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Washington City 18th Sept 1839

Dr Sir
David Adams was as appears by the certificate of the J C Calhoun placed on the pensi-on Roll of the United States on the 21st of July 1819 under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818.
It appears from a Letter of J L Edwards of the 9th of January 1827 that he was transferd from West Tennessee where he had before been paid to Mississippi. by a Letter of the same date of J L Edwards says to Adams that he will be paid what is Due him; and that his name is to be continued on the pension Roll (H?).
 Adams was not paid from 1819 or 1820 untill sometime in the year of 1820 that Elaps? during this (Interegumm?) appears to be about $656.00 he wishes to be inform? whether this sum cannot legally be paid to him or whether it has not been paid to some one for him.  You will please wright to me on the subject as soon as your convenience will admit.

Your Obt. Sevt.
SJ Gholson
of Mississippi

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Officer
October 3d, 1839.

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April. 1838, entitle "An act directing the transfer of money remained unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasure of the United Satats."  David Adams __
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mississippi Agency, at the sale of eight - Dollars ___
per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept 1837 to the 4th Sept 1838.

Respectully yours,

Albion K. Harris
Comptroller


To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Officer
Dec: 31st, 1839

Under the act of the 6th of April. 1838, entitle "An act directing the transfer of money remained unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasure of the United Satats."  David Adams __
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mississippi Agency, at the sale of eight - Dollars ___
per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of Sept 1838 to the 4th Sept 1839.

Respectully yours,

Albion K. Harris
Comptroller


To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Officer
June 10th 1840

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April. 1838, entitle "An act directing the transfer of money remained unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasure of the United Satats."  David Adams __
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Mississippi Agency, at the sale of eight - Dollars ___
per month under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March to the 4th Sept 1838.

Respectully yours,

Albion K. Harris
Comptroller


To the Commissioner of Pensions, Present.

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Inv. 34-622


The
Macon
Fire Insurance
Company.

Macon, GA March 5th 1897

Honorable
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington D.C.

My Dear Sir:

I wish to know for my own information and that of my family, if there is any record in your office that will show that our Great Grandfather David Adams was a Revolutionary Soldier.

Traditions tell us and our own family history shows that he was a Revolutionary Solider and an officer.  I am of the opinion that he went to the war from the State of South Carolina.

I am sorry to trouble you to look up the records in this matter but it will be a great favor to me and my family and I will gladly remit you for any clerical help you may be required to employ in look up the matter.  Hoping to hear from you at your earliest convenience. I am

Yours very truly

Edgar S. Wilson

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Mrs. W. Eugene Harrington
1114 Piedmont Avenue
Atlanta, Georgia

Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir:

I would appreciate very much your sending me a record of the service of David Adams when he was a Revolu-tionary Pensioner in Monroe County Mississippi from 1819 to 40.
Very sincerely
Amielie Adams Harrington

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Levy, M. Mex.
Sept. 11, 1936.

Rev O.W.Inv File # 34622

Adjt. General
Pension Dept.,
Washington, D.C.,
Dear sir;

Please send me the information container in the pension application of David Adams, private from North Carolina, file number S-34622.  He resided in Monroe County, Mississippi at the time of application.

Very truly yours,

Mrs. George Gibson

85 Received A.G.O. Sep 15 1936 (stamp)

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Carroll Reece
1st Dist. Tennessee

Committee on
Military Affairs

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

May 17, 1926

My dear Sir:

Will you kindly make a search of your records and see if you have any data regarding either David Adams of North Carolina or Richard Luttrell of Tennessee both of whom, it is thought, served in the Revolutionary War.  If the record of those men may be found please advise me fully as to the data that may be shown as to dates of birth, marriage, etc.

Sincerely,

Carroll Reece

Istamp)

Rec'd Rev War Pension
May 20, 1926 HPM
AW

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Revolutionary War Records Section. 3-525
S.34622
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C. Nov. 9, 1921

In reply to your request of _____________ received _____________  for a statement of the military history of David Adams a soldier in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen-sion on file in this bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment
June 1777
June 6, 1781

Length of Service
(checkmark)
12 mos

Rank
Pvt

Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered
Captain
Elijah Moore / Givins
Wm. Little

Colonel
Lyttle
Archibald Little

State
N.C.

He was severely wounded at the battle of Eutaw Spgs

Battles engaged in, See above, Siege of 96 (above that: June '81, below that: 4), Catawba River (above that Aug. '80), Guilford (above that: Mar '81, below that: 3), Camden (above that Aug '80, below that: 1)

Residence of soldier at enlistment, not stated

Date of application for pension, Feb. 3, 1819 (I. al.?)

Residence at date of application, Hickman Co., Tenn.

Age at date of application, 56 yrs

Remarks:  In 1826 he lived in Monroe Co., Miss. and he refers to a day ^ at about 25yrs who had three small children - no names stated or name of wife.  No fur. fam. data.

Respectfully,

Commissioner.

5-2856

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October 15, 1936

David Adams-S.34622
BA-J/AWF (Our?)


Mrs. George Gibson
Levy
New Mexico

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information relative to the pension appli-cation of David Adams, file number S.34622.

The data which follows were obtained from pension claim, S. 34622, based upon the service of David Adams in the Revolutionary War.

The date and place of birth of this solider are not given, nor are the names of his parents stated.

David Adams enlisted shortly after the battle of Ramseur's Mill and service in Captain Elijah Moore's North Carolina company, and was in the battle of Gates' Defeat, Catawba River, and Guilford Court House.  He enlisted June 6, 1781, served in Captain William Lytle's company and in Colonel Archibald Lytle's North Carolina regiment, was in the siege of Ninety-Six and in the battle of Eutaw Springs, where he was severely wounded, and was discharged June 6, 1782; nature of his wound not stated.

He was allowed pension on his application exe-cuted February 3, 1819, at which time he was living in Hickman County, Tennessee.  On November 15, 1826 he was a resident of Monroe County, Mississippi, and stated that he "was aged about sixty-six years next February".  He at this time referred to his daughter about twenty-give years old and to her three small children; he gave no names nor is the name of his wife shown.

Reference was made in 1825 to John, William, and

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David Adams, with whom the soldier David Adams, was well acquainted, but there was no relationship given.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of the person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and give the following-

David Adams
Certificate # 12750
Issued July 21, 1819
Rate $8.00 per month
To commence February 3, 1819
Act of March 18, 1818
Mississippi Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

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A.G. 201
Adams, David
(9-11-36) ORD

September 16, 1936.

Mrs. George Gibson,
Levy, New Mexico.

Dear Madam:

(handwritten note: Hist, A.W.F)

I have your letter of recent date in which you request to be furnished information from the pension application of David Adams, private from North Carolina.

As the matter of pensions is one pertaining exclusively to the Veterans Administration, Washington, D.C., your letter has this day been transmitted to that office from which you will no doubt receive a prompt reply.

Very truly yours,

E.T. CONLEY
Major General
The Adjutant General.
by W.G. Murchison


(Stamp)
Received
SEP 23 1936
(Season Sect.?)
Index
(illegible)