Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 28, Elisha Adams, Conn.

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Service: Conn
Adams, Elisha
Number R 28
Contents:
8 July 13 1764 at Cambridge, Hartford Co, Comm -Tres more at ends
Am 1833,res, Bergess Genesee Leo, NY

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Ch. 279.
Elisha Adams
Declaration-
Pensioner-

H.U. Soper
Agr. Baranies 
N.Y.

Suspended

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Declaration of Elisha Adams in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7-1832
State of New York}
County of Genesee} DD:
   On this twelth day of June 1833 personally appeared in open court, before the judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the county of Genesee now sitting in the town of Batavia and for the county of Genesee in said state, Elisha Adams, a resident of the town of Bergen in the County and State aforesaid, aged sixty eight 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 7 1832.
   That he entered the service of the Mister Hales under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
   That he was born on the 13th July 1764 at Cambridge, Hartford Co, Connecticut that he has not got any record of his age but believes he is of the above age from the best information he has been able to obtain that at the notice of his entering the service he resided in Cambridge aforesaid and entered in the service in the state militia of the State of Connecticut as a substitute for James Hadsill who had enlisted for three months that he went into the service in the spring of 1779 in the month of April or May, he thinks, but is not certain which that he served in Capt Mitchell's company, that his legit was means and in Col. Meng's Regiment that he went to Horseneck and remained there a short time then went to Groton River, Venplanck's Point, Fishkill and West Point that after having served three months he was honorably discharged at Venplanck's Point and went home.

That sometime in August 1779 he was drafted for three months into Capt. Brag's Company of  state militia- that he cannot recollect any other of his company officers and he was not attached to any Regiment and had no regimental officers that he served as a private and marched to Dover, east of Fishkill to join the army but before he joined the army was ordered to march back and did so, with orders to hold himself in readiness to turn out at a minutes warning and he held himself in readiness to some the reminder of his letter as a minuteman.

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that he was not called out again and did not receive any regular discharge-that he was out about two weeks at least and was liable to be called out during the whole term of his enlistment which was three months.

That in September or October 1780 but the precise time he cannot recollect, he enlisted into the Continental army in the team service for one year as a teamster that Cadet, Tuttle, who had a company of teams enlisted him-in his company, which consisted of ten teams that Hunrial Hart, Benjamin Jerome, Benjamin Beckwick, two of Capt. Tuttle's sous, Gershom and  Joseph, and one Bradley belonged to the Company-that he went to North Haven and took provisions and carried to Fishkill-that he then went to White Plains-carried timber for xxxxx morter beds for the cannon at Newburgh that he then went to New Windsor on the North River where Gen Washington lay and took provisions and carried to the army at the Highlands. That in the spring of 1781 he was crushed nearly to death by a^ loaded cart breaking down which he was under while repairing it. That he was then put into the Hospital at Newburgh where he remained about five or six weeks and he then went home  on a furlough for a few days, where he received orders to go on and join the army at Yorktown that he went on and before he joined the army, Cornwallis was taken and he was ordered back and went to Fishkill Barracks  where he was stationed with the invalid Company and was engaged in cutting and transporting  firewood and other necessary duties about the camp until the 22. December 1781 that he served at least two months more than the year for which he enlisted that he continued in the service after his time had expired on the account of the absence of his Captain who was at Yorktown that he received a written discharge which is lost that he then went home, and had served at least fourteen months, that he knows of no person living by whom he can prove his services and that there is no clergyman acquainted with whose certificate he can procure that Phrichan L. Tacy and James D. Merrill are acquainted with him and can

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testify on to his character for vanity and their belief in his service in the revolution.

That since the war he lived in Cambridge twice 1795 then in Farmington Hartford Co. Ct. till 1812-then in Cherry Valley, Otsego Co. N.Y. till 1816 -then in Berger, Genesee Co. N.Y. where he now resides and has resided about seventeen years. That he has no documentary evidence of his service. That he has stated the circumstances of his service as minutemen-as he could as his memory is impaired by old age. 
   He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the Agency any state.
Elisha Adams
Sworn and subscribed this day and year aforesaid in open court} 
T Fitch Clerk.

We, Phrichan L. Tracy and James D. Marrill, residing in Batavia in said county-hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elisha Adams who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be sixty eight years of age -that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Phrichan L Tracy
James D Merrill
T. Fitch Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states; and the court further certifies, that it appears to them that Phrichan L. Tracy and James D. Merrill who have signed the preceeding certificate^ are residents of the town of Batavia in said county, are credible persons and that their statement is enlisted to credit.
James Taggart Isaac Wilson
Horace S. Susney William Mitchell

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I, Timothy Fitch, clerk of the said court certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of Elisha Adams for a pension.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twelfth day of June 1833
T. Filch Clerk

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State of New York, Monroe County in Rochester

On this 30th day of August 1843, personally appeared before me the subscribing authority, a Justice of the Peace for said Monroe County, Elisha Adams, a resident of said Rochester, a credible person, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his Oath make the following declaration in addition to his former declaration, made in 1833, and explanatory of the same:   Viz.
That he was misunderstood in relation to his statement of the manner of his entering the service. He did not mean to be understood that he was himself drafted, but that another man was drafted, viz James Hadsell of Farmington, in Connecticut, & that he went and served as a substitute for him. As he lived at a great distance from me, when I made my first declaration I did not xxxxx his deposision, but xxxxx that he was still living. I have obtained his deposision which I trust will be received without objection says the declorant.
   He further declares that finding that all the xxxxx that could be obtained would be required, he made  journey to his native place in Farmington a distance of aout three hundred & fifty miles in order to find some survivor who was with ---- his

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second tour.  The following persons from Farmington served with him is Lemas Nevern fotd Abel Bradley, Benjamin Jerome, Amos Brachet , Ashbel Hitchcock, & Benjamin Beckwith but he found on careful emergency in Farmington that they were all clear but Mr. Humgerford, he was dying of a cancer & so near death that he was wholly unable to give his testimony.

He further requests that if any further cooplanation, or, proof should be required that he ^The company signed would xxxxx The communication to James H Charlton, Post Master of East Windsor Connecticut, who lives so much nearer the place of residence in the time of the War, than he himself now does, that he the said Charlton will give all the attention to the subject, which it may demand.
Tho from the death of almost all the xxxxxx companions of his service in the war he does not now know what proof he can give in addition to that which he respects will be sent herewith. Elisha Adams 

Swore to and subscribed on the day of year first named, before me, xx certify that the declarant is the identical person who heretofore made application for a pension

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under the act of June 7th 1832
P. G. Buchan
June - 07 the peace
State of New York Monroe County Ss
I James H. Smith Clerk of the court of Monroe do hereby certify that Patrick G. Buchan Eng before whom the declaration of Elisha Adams was taken was at the time of taking the same, a Lawful Justice of the peace for said County authorized by the Laws of said State to administer oaths and take [illegible] & that the signature of said Justice to said certificate, is his genuine signature well known to me.

The testimony where of I do hereunto subscribe my name, and [illegible] the Seal of said Court at Rochester in said County on the 29th day of August 1843
James H. Smith clerk

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I Ezekiel Cowlis, a resident of Farmington in Hartford County Connecticut, do hereby reposed & say, that I served in the army of the Revolution, for which I receive a xxxxxx. And I further depose, that in time of said Revolutionary War, I was well acquainted with Elisha Adams, who then lived in this town. I ^have some general remembrance that the said Adams served some time in the war, but xx he did not serve in the same corps with me. I was unable to specify the officer under which he served, or the lengths of the period.   

I will remember that some years after the close         of the war, he removed out into Western New York, I heard believe that he now lives in Rochester N.Y.
I believe that he was a man of integrity a veracity, who would not attempts to defraud the government by false protance.   
Ezekiel Cowlis
Sworn to and subscribed before me,

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Jelose Charlton, a Notary Public, of & for the State of Connecticut authorized by the laws of said state to administer Oaths & Take deposisions, on the 24th day of August 1843. 

And I certify, that the deponent, is a man of great respectability, in the town of Farm-ington in Connecticut.

In testimony whereof, I do hereinto subscribe my named, and office my Seal of office on the day a year aforesaid.

Atleast Jess Charlton Notary Public}

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State of Connecticut Hartford County S. XXXX XX ,August 21st 1843.

James Hadrell of Bristol in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut do hereby depose and secy. That in the spring of 1780. I was living are the Town of Farmington, in the County of Hartford, and state of Connecticut. That I was drafted sometime on the month of the spring of that year.

To join the Company of Capt Asa Bray who there lived in that part of Farmington which is now the town of Southington in said county. 

That I was drafted to go and serve as a private soldier with the continental army, for the term of three month. That it being inconvenient for not to go out that time. I engaged Mr. Elisha Adams who was there in part of Farmington which is now the town of Bristol and said County to go and take my place as a substitute   for me. I further depose that he was accepted as my substitute and that he went and served with the American Army, for a period of three months.

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according to my best recollections the months of May June July 1780. 

after he had served out this tour he returned home to said Farmington 
In presence of Uri Hudsell James Porter} James x his Hadsell mark.

Swore to and subscribed before me Jesse Charlton Notary Public of a for the state of Connecticut, authorize by the laws of said state, to administer oaths & take deposisions; and I certify, that the deponent is satisfactory proved to me to^ be a credible & respectable person; he signed by a xxxx on account of being nearby blind.


In testimony whereof, I do hereinto subscribe my named, a office my Seal of office on the Day a year first Named.\

Atlest Jesse Charlton Notary Public.

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Ex'r.
INVALID.
Gen notes mail by
N.D. Adams Sept.83
REJECTED
Elisha Adams 
P.O.
Service:
Enlisted:
, 18
Discharged:
, 18 
Application filed:
,18
Alleges: List of rejected claims
printed in 1852, shows cause
Re-enlisted: of rejection as follows:
He does not claim to have
Served six months.

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28 26 279
New York 
Read
Elisha Adams 
Suspended 
See letter to H.U. Toper 
19 Sept 1835
Set to J. G. Charlton 
Duty June 1832

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J. H Charlton 
Nov. 20 1843

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192 
In XXX
Nov. 20 43
Sir 
The renewed application of Elisha Adams, has been examined & disallowed.
The only military service in which he was engaged is town to the North Pian at one time represented to have been under in 7 company Capt Mitchell xxxxxx & another in 1780 under Capt Bray as the substitute of Hadsell-If that term were satisfactorily established it is not sufficient to entitle him to a pension.
The alleged service as a xxxxxxxx affords no grounds for an allowanced-no testimony take before a notary is awaiting 

J H Charlton 
E Wendser 
Comm

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19 Sept 33.
of
xxxxxx
Pa 199

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War dept
XXXXXX XX
19. Sept 1835
Sir
The claim of Elisha Adams has been examined and suspended. He alleges "he was drafted for 3 mo into Capt Brays compy of state militia in aug '49" when he was in his 14th year-This allegation can not be admitted and consequently thrown a distrust over his whole statement which can only be removed by direct proof of serviced- as a case depending upon traditionary evidence alone, it can not be admitted in whole or in part. 

Isaac Grant allege is that he enlisted in 77 in Patter 's Compy, Bradley, xxxx xxxxx, line for 2 xxx the notes it its established that he enlisted at that time in that compy, & xxxxx ^for the war, deserted 2 Jans '80 & never rejoined the army- His claim is therefore rejected.

The paper in the above cases are placed in our files 
acpt June
H.U. Soper xx
Batavia N.Y.

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State of Connecticut, Hartford County
East Windsor September 5th 1843

Sir, 
As the agent of the claim of Elisha Adams of Rochester on ( illegible ) county N York. I transmit his explanatory additional ( illegible ) certificates of service.
The case is a suspended case under act of June 7th 1832 Reported to Mr. Toper of Batavia NY sometime in the year 1833.
The principal objection was that Mr Adams claimed to have been drafted in 1779 when he was but 14 years of age a ( illegible ) at which it is well known ( illegible ) not subject to draft. But it appears on due research that Adams placed it one year to early that it was in the Spring of 1780, And that another man was drafted that Adams wants served as his substitute. The proof of service I think will be undoubted. 
Mr Toper sent Mr Adams a copy of your letter which is before me; but he has not given the data : his letter to Mr Adams is dated at Batavia Nov 18 1833
Mr Adams come down on purpose to look up evidence a year ago and went round among his old acquaintance.

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in search of evidence. He found two more (illegible) who remembered his service a look from them merely a memorandum not sworn to. But when (illegible) John L Adams was in Rochester this summer, he (Elisha Adams) called on him a showed him his minutes and he Mr John L Adams (illegible) the belief that they would be satisfactory and told him of he would have them prepared a forwarded to him he would see to their proper prevention : but it would cause delay, to take the benefit of his kind offer; and as it adds nothing to this proof to have the papers presented by one honored hand, I did not think it worth while to trouble the Veritable Old Man; except that from the intervers he had with a form the narration he gave of his services he might be able (illegible) to enforced for the credibility of his narrative and the apparent journey and (illegible) of the (illegible)
By Mr Elisha Adams request you will report the case to me when you are ready. 
I am Sir Most respectfully