Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2,047, Heman Adams, Mass.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.

Adams, Heman 
Lucy

NUMBER
W. 2,047

CONTENTS
Enl. at Sandwich, Barnstable Co. Mass.
in 1820 aged 59 yrs, res of Bulter Co. Ohio 
d. Nov. 21, 1848

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Notification sent Sept 11 1820 to Daniel Millikin, Esqr. Hamilton, Ohio. 

17. 2017
Ohio

Heman Adams of Butler Coy. in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Smith of the Massachusetts line, for the term of 9 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 16th of December 1818. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 31st of May 1821 and sent to Dan. Millikin Esqr. Hamilton, Ohio.
Arrears to 4th of March 1820, 117..16
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1820, 48.
$165:16
14 & 20/30 months 
Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. 
[Stamp] The National Archives of the United States

Continued

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Old case 497
2nd. Declaration.

Hamilton 
Feb 7th 1820 

Free

Hon J C Calhoun Esq 
Secretary of War
Washington City DC

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The State of Ohio Butler County SS

On this 31st day of January 1820 before me the Subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County Personally appeared Heman Adams aged fifty nine years resident in the County of Butler Who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath, Make the following declaration 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 & Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, that he said Heman Adams. Enlisted for the time of Nine Months on the day of July in the year 1779 in Sandwich in the State of Massachusetts in the Company of Captain Page, the Regiment commanded by Colonel Smith in the Line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, that he continued to serve in the said troops or in the service of the United States Untill May 1780 When he was discharged from service [illegible] West Point State of New York that he was in no battles for he was one of the dying camp & that he is in reduced circumstances, & Stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support & that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services
Sworn to & delared before me the day of year above writen. 
Heman Adams x his mark
I an Millikin

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I Daniel Millikin Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Heman Adams did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy for the time of Nine Months at one time on the Continental Establishments, & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken I had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War Pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress, I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. 
Dan Millikin
I do certify that the first declaration of Heman Adams was made 16th December 1818
Dan Millikin
The State of Ohio Bulter county SS
I John Reily Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in the county of Bulter aforesaid as certify that Daniel Millikin Esq before whom the disposition herein before stated and by whom the certificates were made was at the time of the taking and making thereof one of the Associate Judges of the Said Court of Common Pleas and that to all his Official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given. 
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto act my hand and Official seal at [illegible] the second day of February one thousand eight hundred & twenty 
John Reily

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Heman Adams 
Priv
Col. Smiths 
Massachusetts Reg.
1779-9 mos
Roll
16th. Dec. 1818.
Dan. Millikin,
Hamilton 
Ohio.
Admitted 
Butler Coy.

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[BLANK]

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Schedule of Heman Adams
No. 17. 287
31 May 1820.
Cont Sep 11 
1820

a copy

Con

Sept 20.

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The State of Ohio Butler County SS
At a special court of common pleas holden at Hamilton in the county of Butler and State of Ohio. Before Daniel Millikin Henry Weaver & Robert Taylor Esquires associates Judges of the said court of common pleas the same court of common pleas being a court of Record for the said county of Butler expressly created the court of Record by the laws and ordinances of the said State of Ohio on the Seventeenth day of July One thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open court Warren Smith of the said county of Butler who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he is well satisfied that Heman Adams who resides in the said county of Butler and who the said Warren Smith does verify believe is not in his right mind and reason, served the revolutionary war and made his application for pension on or about the sixteenth day of December 1818 the certificate of his being placed on the pension Roll is numbered seventeen thousand two hundred and eighty seven and the said Warren Smith doth farther swear that exclusive of the necessary clothing and bedding of the said Heman Adams the personal property of the said Heman Adams doth not consist of more than two head of cattle and five head of hogs one ax one hoe and a few articles of kitchen furniture and one loom that the family of said Heman Adams consists of himself and his wife who are both aged and both infirm. the said Heman Adams has a claim against a person with whom he made a contract for thirty arces of land. but which is not very valuable if obtained but the purchase money for the same   tract of land never having been paid to the United States it is not probable that the title for the land will ever be obtained by the said Heman Adams
Warren Smith
Sworn & Subscribed in open court the day & year frist [first] above written 
Attest 
John Reily Clerk 
I John Reily Clerk of the court of common pleas aforesaid

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do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto 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 exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty eight dollars
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this eighteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and twenty
John Reily Clerk of Bulter Com Pleas

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[Illegible]

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Omit 
State of Ohio 
Butler County SS
David Wing whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sown according to law, deposes and says that he is seventy eight years of age, that for thirty or forty or more years, he has been personally acquainted with Heman Adams late a pensioner & with his present widow Lucy Adams at present an applicant for a pension and with their family, that he has been for the same length of time personally acquainted with the eldest daughter now living of the said parties now Asenath Smith, a witness attached, that this deponent is do well acquainted with the said Asenath Smith as to have no doubt of her being more than sixty years of age and he knows well that she has been married more than forty years & that she is a daughter of Heman Adams the late pensioner & his widow the said Lucy Adams, the said Heman Adams died Nov 1848

Subscribed & Sworn before me this 12th day of June 1849
Peter Sutton, Justice of the Peace.
David Wing


State of Ohio 
Butler County SS
Ezra [illegible] Bourne whom I certify is a highly respectable person after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says, that he is sixty two years of age, that he has been for thirty, forty or more years, personally acquainted with the late Heman Adams, late a pensioner & who died in November 1848 leaving his widow Lucy Adams who is applying for a pension, that she is the identical person and widow of the said Heman Adams late a pensioner, that Asenath Smith a witness attached is the closest child now living of the said parties and that she is more than sixty years of age, & that she has been married more than forty years, that this deponent from her own age and marriage has a correct date so as to know, as to the marriage of the said daughter Asenath Smith & he is confident that she has been married more than forty years. 
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 12th day of June 1849
Peter Sutton Justice of the Peace. 
Ezra L Bourne

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The State of Ohio Butler County SS.
I James McBride Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the County of Butler and State of Ohio, do hereby certify that Peter Sutton whose signature is appended to the within affidavits was at the time of signing the same a justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified as such, and that his signature thereto is genuine; and further that Nehemiah Wade whose signature is appended is one of the associate judges of our Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned as such and that his signature appended to the affidavit of Lucy Adams is genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said court this nineteenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and forty nine.
James McBride Clerk of Butler Common Pleas.

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Lucy Smith was born Juley 25 day in the year 1806
Joshua Hamman Smith was born October 4 day in the year 1804
[illegible] Smith was born August 13 day 1809
S Edmund Smith was born September 4 day 1811
Oliver Smith was born June 19 day 1813
Edmund Smith did first day of June in the year 1814
[illegible] Smith was born the last day of Juley 1815

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Bleffings to thofe that fear God. 
CHAP. IV.
The ftudy of law recommended.  
Before CHRIST cir. 397. 
16 ¶Then they feared that LORD fpake often one to another; and the LORD hearkened and heard it: and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. 
|| Or, fpecial treafure. 
17 And they fhall be mine, faith the LORD of hofts, in that day when I make up || my jewels; and I will fpare them, as a man fpareth his own fon that ferveth him.
18 Then fhall ye return, and difcern between the righteous and the wicked; between him that ferveth God and him that ferveth him not.
CHAP. IV. 
1 God's judgement on the wicked, 2 and his bleffing on the good. 4 He exhorteth to the ftudy of the law, 5 and telleth of Elijah's coming and office. 
For, behold, the day cometh that fhall burn as an oven; and all proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, fall be ftubble: and the day that cometh 
Before CHRIST cir. 397. 
fhall burn them up, faith the LORD of hofts, that it fhall leave them neither root nor branch.
a Luke 1. 73.
2   ¶But unto you that fear my name fhall the a Sun of righteoufnefs arife with healing in his wings; and ye fhall go forth, and grow up as calves of the ftall. 
3 And ye fhall tread down the wicked; for they fhall be afhes under the foles of your feet in the day that I fhall do this, faith the LORD of hofts.
b Exod, 20. 3.
4  ¶ Remember ye the b law of Mofes my fervant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Ifrael, with the ftatutes and judgments. 
c Matth. 11. 14. Mark 9. 11. Luke 1. 17.
5  ¶ Behold, I will fend you c Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.
6 And he fhall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, left I come and fmite the earth with a curfe. 
Lu Lucy Smith [illegible] July 25, 1806
The End of the OLD TESTAMENT.

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Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 29th July 1848
State of Ohio
Butler County SS
On this 19th day of September 1849 personally appeared before the subscriber a judge of the court in and for said county Lucy Adams of said county aged eighty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed by July 29th 1848
That she is the widow of Heman Adams late a pensioner of the United States. She further declares that she was married to him the said Heman Adams November 14th 1781 by Rev Abraham Williams in Sandwich, Barnstable County Massachusetts, that her name before marriage was Lucy Cobb, that her husband the said Heman Adams died on the 21 day of November 1848, that she has not since married but remained a widow, that she has not before this declaration, made application for a pension. 
Subscribed and sworn before me this 19th day of September 1849 
Lucy Adams her mark 
Wade Associate Judge B.C.C. Pleas 

I certify that the above named Lucy Adams is a respectable person, that she cannot from bodily infirmity attend the court to make her declaration
Wade Associate Judge B.C.C.P

State of Ohio 
Butler County SS
Rev Daniel S Roberson whom I certify is a highly respectable person after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he officiated at the funeral of Heman Adams late a pensioner & that on refering to his notes  he leaves that he died on the 21 day of November 1848 leaving his widow Lucy Adams above mentioned, who remains a widow 
Subscribed and sworn before me this 12th day of June A.D. 1848
Daniel S Roberson
Peter Sutton Justice of the Peace.

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State of Ohio
Butler County SS
Versailus Murrell whom I certify is a highly respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he furnished the Coffin for Heman Adams, late a pensioner, and that on refering to his notes & memorandum he finds he died on the 21st day of November 1848 as he believes leaving his widow Lucy Adams the applicant for a pension within mentioned, who remain his widow. That on the 23rd day of November 1848, he furnished the coffin for said dead. 
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 13th day of June 1849
V.S. Murrel
Peter Sutton Justice of the Peace. 

State of 
County of Butler SS
Asenath Smith whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that Lucy Adams within named who is applying for a pension is this deponents mother and that Heman Adams late a pensioner & the late husband of the said Lucy Adams was the deponents father that this deponents said father was a pensioner and died on the 21 November 1848 leaving his widow the said Lucy Adams within mentioned, who still remains his widow, that this deponent was herself born July 9th 1785, that she has always been informed & believes she is the third child of her said parents, that this deponent was married in 1806 & that this deponents eldest child was born in 1806.
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 12th day of June 1849. 
Asenath Smith 
Peter Sutton, Justice of the Peace. 

State of Ohio Butler Co SS Asenath Smith above name further deposes & says that the old family record attached has been in use as such more than twenty years & that it is the original record of the date of the birth of her children & that it is correct, that she was married at the date above mentioned
Subscribed & Sworn before me this 25th day of October 1849 
Asenath Smith 
Peter Sutton J.P.

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Genealogical notes made by N. D. Adam Aug, 1883.
Mcl-6-1900. Histy to Miss Margaret Wing Anderson
Bloomington Ills.
1928 July 20 Photos to E.V. Martindale. See Wm. Adair W.9691.9.W.Y.

Rev War WIDOW, &c.
No. 2047
Lucy Adams. 
Widow 
Heman Adams.
Priv. Rev. War.
Act: July, 29, 1848.
Index:-Vol. A, Page 3

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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[Transcription of only the dark ink, uncrossed words]

Free
Nov 15/49
J.G. Edwards 
Cour. of Pensions
Washington.

Whig Majority

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Ovid Nov 7th '49
Dear Sir
Will you be so very obliging as to please inclose the inclosed to Court of Pensions, after having made a request upon the back of it above your own name, that a report be made to you
Much Oblige 
[illegible] Respectfully 
Arad Joy

Hon. W A. Sacket 
M.C.

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Lucy Adams 
widow of Heman 
Ohio
admitted

P-H96
con; 21 Nov 48

Lucy Adams 
Declaration & Proof. Ohio

Please repost the [illegible] can to Arad Joy Esqr Ovid [illegible] N.Y. 
W. A. Sacket 
M.C.

Arad Joy
Ovid NY

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Pension Department .
Washington D.C.
I would like information of one Heman Adams a Pensioner of the Revolutionary War. He enlisted I think from Mass or New York and died in Reily Township Butler Cou Ohio in 1846 or 1847. Can you give me the records necessary to entitle me to become a member of the "Daughters of the American

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Revolution"
Very [illegible]
Margaret Wing Anderson 
706 E. Washington St 
Bloomington 
Illie.