Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 26495, for Adam Sonday, Pennsylvania

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(3-1776)

SERVICE 
Penn.

Sonday, Adam  Mary E,

NUMBER
W 26495
B.L.Wt. 46943-160-55

CONTENTS

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234.430  
Act Mar. 3. '55
Feb. 8 '56
Mary E. Sonday, wid.
Adam Sonday pri.
Private Pa. Troops

Reviy. war

Penn? Act Ad Feby 53-5920
Penn. June 32-11023 
Ad. 160 ac's Nov 30/56

Dodge

Gen. Buchanan
Spring Miles, PA

Vol. S2-14.8

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5:921
Pennsylvania Phila
Mary E. Sonday

Widow of Pri. Adam Sonday who served in the Revolutionary War, as a Private
Inscribed on the roll at the rate of 60. dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the  24th April 183-
Certificate of Pension issued 27th day of September 1831 and sent to George Buchanan
Spring Mills, Pa

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under Act February 3, 1853 Page 160 Vol. B6

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No. 11023
Pennsylvania
Adam Sonday
of Centre in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Bowen of the Regt. commanded by Col. Craig in the Pensylvania line for 18 months.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pensylvania at the rate of 60 dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of march 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of March 1833 and sent to Mr. Petrekin
Bellefonte, Pa.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar 33              $120
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 33 $30
$150

Revolutionary claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by D. Brown  clerk,
Book E. Vol. 5 Page 52

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Letter 30th March 1837. to Pen Agent
ditto 30. March 1837 H. Petrekin.
Letter to H. Petrekin & D Comptroller
21 April 1838.
To H. Petrikin 7 May 1838.
Letter to McKean Buchanan 26 June 1838
do to 3 Auditor 2d June 1838
Paid at the Treasury under 
the Act of the 6 April 1838 
from 4 March 1836 to 4 Sept
1837. - Agent notified 28th
June 1838.
Paid as above from 4 March
to 4 Sept 1839. Agt notified 3d June 1840
Letter to Geo. Buchannan Ag
Sept. 7/50.
Aprl 24 1855 Pnor's book

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No. 5807
Return
Admd.
18 mos
Private
$60.00
H. Petrikin Esq
Belleponte PA

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BRIEF in the case of Adam Sonday
of Centre Co. in the State of Pennsylvania
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court of a Judge? Court of Com. Pleas
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 68 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period. 
In 1870 Aug.

Duration of Service.
Year,s 1, Months, 6, Days. " 

Rank. 
As a 
Private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. 
Gen. Wayne, Col. Craig. Capt. J. Bower

5. In what battles was he engaged? Yorktown,
6. Where did he reside when he entered service? Pettlo[?] Township, Berks Co.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by rolls? By living witnesses
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
No certificate of credibility of evidence. No[?]
papers attached by nerofers[?]
I Certify that the forgoing statemnet and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
D. Brown   Examining Clerk.

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State of Pennsylvauis[sic] [curley florush going down to next line]
Centre County [curley florush from above line] ss.
On this twentythird day of January A.D One thousand eight hundred and fifty six - Personally appeared before me. a Justice of the Peace in this and for the County and State aforsaid,  Mary E. Sonday, aged Eighty two years, a residente of Centre County, in the State of Pennsylvania, who being duly sworn according to waw, declares, that she is the widow of Adam Sonday, late of the same County deceaseds, who was a soldier of the War of the Revollution, and served his Country in actual service in said war, and was present in his last tour of service at the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at York Town Va. and afterwards honorably dischargede, and for his service in the War of the Revolution he became a [pinsioner ??] of the United States, and also fo the State of Penna - up to the period of his dcceases
She further states, that she was married to the said Adam Sonday, in Banks County, Penna - on odr about the first of December A.D. 1789> by one Gideon Moyer - the Justice of the Peace - fn [from?} said County of Berks, and that her name before her marriage was Mary E. Miaick, That her said husband died in Centre County Penna. on the 24th. day of April A.D. 1855. aged ninety years = and that she now remains his widow>[> = period?] She makes this declaration fn[for] the purpose of obtaining the Bounty Land, to which she may be entitledunder the "Act Approved March #, 1855>[>=period?]" She further declares that she has never received a Land Warrant under this: or any other law, and authorises George Buchanan of Centre County, Penna- to receive her warrant.

Her 
Mary E. X Sonday
Mark

Witness
Geo Buchannan

SS.ee William Grove and Daniel Breon. (the former aged fifty six years. and the second aged fifty three years.) 
over

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resident of Centre County in the State of Pennsylvania upon our oaths declare, that the written and foregoing de-claration was signed and acknowledged by Mary E. Sonday in our presence, and we further declare, that we well knew adam Sonday in his lifetime, and that he and the said Mary E. lived and cohabited together as man and wife- in Centre County, Pa. [illegible] to the time of his decease, in the year 1853[backward c mark} that we have known them both for a period of twenty [scratch out] years as man and wife, and [illegible] by the neighborhood generally in which they lived. And we further declare that the applicante Mary E. Sonday is the widow of the said Adam Sonday deceased at the present time, and that we believe she is the identical person she represents herself to be.

[illegible signature]
Daniel [illegible]

State of Pennsylvania
Centre County  ss.        
The written and foregoing declar[illegible]ation and a [illegible] and [illegible] [illegible] the day and year above written.  And I Certify that I know the affidavit to be credible [illegible] And I further Certify, that I know the said [illegible] named Adam Sonday and Mary e. his wife, for a period of twenty five years, and that they lived and cohabitated together, ar[e] man and wife, to the time of his decease in the year1853[?} and that she/the claimant, now remains his widow, and is the [illegible] she represents herself to be. And further Certify that I have no interest in thes[e] claims.

Geo Buchanan                            [Seal mark]
Jus. Peace

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State of Pennsylvania
Centre County  [Curly Florush] ss.

I, George B. Weaver, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County, in the State of Pensylvaina Do hereby Certify that George Buchanan be free when the writtenand foregoing declaration and affidavits, and ac-
knowledgement thereof were taken, was at the time the same were taken and is now an acting Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Centre, and State aforesaid, duly certified and qualified, and that the foregoing signatory [illegible] to be his are genuine.

In testomony which of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal of Office a[s] Prothonotary Centre County, the 31es day of January A.D. 1856.
Geo B Weaver Pnot

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State of Pennsylvania Centre County SS.
On this twenty seventh day of August Eighteen hundred and thirty-two personally appeared before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Centre in the State of Pennsylvania Adam Sonday, a resident of Gregg township in the said County of Centre & State of Pennsylvania aforesaid aged above 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832:
That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the month of August in the year Seventeen hundred & eighty-one, with Captain Jacob Bower and served in the 2nd Regiment, Pennsylvania line under the following named officers - viz Brigadier General Anthony Wayne, Col Craig, - Majors Hamilton & Edwards, Captain Jacob Bowers, & First Lieutenant Mackey. The deponent was enlisted by recruiting Sergeant Michael Einigh and John Goodman - he was then a resident of  Pettle township in the County of Berks and State aforesaid, and was enlisted in said township, about fifteen miles from the Town of Reading. He was enlisted to serve for the term of Eighteen months. In a few days after his enlistment he was marched to the town of Reading and joined the company commanded by Captain Jacob Bowers - from thence he, with others, was marched to Philadelphia, and soon after arriving there took passage on board a vessel and was landed at Christine Bridge - from thence marched over land to Elkton in Maryland - and from thence by water and landed near to Yorktown in Virginia. One or two other Companies of Regular troops left Philadelphia for the same destination at the same time. Deponent recollects one of these Companies was commanded by a Captain Christy. After landing near Yorktown

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Yorktown, Captain Bower's Company, of which the deponent was a member, was united with the 2nd Regiment of the Pennsylvania line aforesaid, commanded by Col. Craig & Majors Hamilton & Edwards. The first company of said regiment was commanded by a Captain Henderson or Anderson. The 2nd Company by Capt Jacob Bower aforesaid - The third company by Captain Lusk. The fourth company by Capt Zeeland - The fifth company, the Captains name he does not recollect, but he remembers the names of two other Captains belonging to the Regiment, viz Baker & Sudsberry. The 2nd Regiment with others was under the command of Brigadier General Wayne. After landing near Yorktown aforesaid, the deponent was immediately engaged in active service, in aiding as a soldier to beseige Yorktown then in possession of the British troops under Lord Cornwallis - and he continued actively engaged in the performance of all the duties belonging to a soldier until the surrender of the whole British troops engaged in the defence of Yorktown aforesaid. The surrender took place on the 13th day of October 1781. Soon after the surrender aforesaid a portion of the army was detailed for service in the South, commanded in Chief by General Green - but the Regiment to which the deponent belonged, with others, was under the command of Brigadier General Wayne. The army (or the detachment aforesaid) marched from Yorktown, thence to Williamsburg, thence to Richmond, thence to Petersburg, thence through North Carolina to Camden in South Carolina, thence to Jacksonburg, thence to a place about 10 or 12 miles above Charleston, called Ashley hill River, as the deponent believes, where the army encamped and remained about 12 months. About two months after the encampment, the Brigade under General Wayne was ordered to the neighborhood of Savannah to disperse some irregular forces, consisting of British, Indians, and Tories. The Regiment and Company to which the deponent belonged were among those despatched on that particular duty, and the deponent marched with his Company. After having performed the service required, the Brigade returned to the encampment aforesaid, where the deponent remained until near the expiration of the term of his enlistment, or perhaps until the full time had expired. After orders had been received to march the Pennsylvania line home, or after it had been determined to break up the encampment, the troops were drawn up in rank, and as many of them unaccustomed to a Southern climate, had been sick, and remained debilitated from fevers and agues, the Physician belonging to the Regiment (whose

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names the deponent do not recollect) passed along the front of the lines and selected such of the soldiers of each company as he thought unfit from sickness and disability to endure the fatigues of marching - and among others this deponent and Captain Lusk had to remain, and did remain for two or three months until able to direct their steps homewards. The deponent after his return home to Berks County aforesaid, after a service including the time he remained sick, of about 21 months, called on Capt Bowers, where resided in the Town of Reading aforesaid, and received his discharge from the service. The paper purporting to be his discharge as aforesaid the deponent took in person to the City of Philadelphia, as he was directed by Captain Bower, and called on an Officer in the service of the United States, whose name and rank he cannot recollect, but who on presentation of the discharge signed by Captain Bower, gave the deponent a certificate for the arrearages of pay due him for his services aforesaid. This Certificate the deponent sold at a great discount. The paper purporting to be his discharge the deponent verily believes he left in the possession of the Officer who gave him his Certificate for arrearages of pay. The deponent should have before stated that Col. Craig, before the detachment marched forth from Yorktown, returned home, and Regiment on the march, and afterwards, was under the command of Major Hamilton & Edwards. The deponent further recollects that Col. Stewart commanded the first Regiment, and marched to the South in command of the same. Colonel Minches (or Minges) com=manded the third regiment. These Regiments were also fo the Pennsylviana line. General St. Clair the deponent recollects as on of the Regular Officers who marched with the detachment to the South. Geneeral LaFayette the deponent also well recollects - as also Count DeGrasse the French Admiral - also Coll. Morgan in command of a Regiment of Riflemen. He also remembers a Captain Ricketts a regular Officer[.]  He finds it unnecessary to state that he remembers, and shall while he lives, the immortal General George Washington. The Deponent says he has on documentary evidence to prove the facts set forth herein before, except the deposition attached to this declaration, of Godfrey Settlemier, taken on the 17th day of March 1829 before the Honnable Jacob Kryder. It may be proper to state that the said Godfrey Settlemmier was enlisted in the Company of Captain Jacob Bower, but after arriving at Youktown he was transferred to Capt Zeeland's Company. This fact the deponent stats in ex=planation of Settlemier's testimony, as on the rolls of the regular troop

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existing in the War Department, Settlelmier's name is probable, will be found amended to Captain Zealands company. The deponent knows no other person where evidence he can at this late day insure who can testify to his service.  He does not know that Godfrey Settlemier is now living, or if alive where he at present resides. He will name, for the in=formation of the proper officeer, or member of his fellow soldiers, belonging, or who did belong to Captain Bower's Company, vig - David Billman, John Mcnaughly, John Shorb, George Morgan, John Kroner, George Herring, Jacob Hetrick, Cornelius Hoffman, Adam Koch[,] _____ Cooley, _____ Eighom, _____ Brandt, _____ Peacock, and name a number of others. The name of the oderly Sergeant was _____ Dorson. nn He Hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity wxcept the present, and he declares his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State, except on the Pension list of the State of Pennsylvania, he being allowed by the Legislature of his native State forty dollars per year for his services as a soldier during the Revolutionary war. He never before applied for a pension under any act of Congress.
Adam Sonday

Sworn & Subscribed in open
Courts 27 August 1832
Jas Gilliland, Proth.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
[Signature illegible] Judge

I James Gilliland Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Centre in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the fore=going contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Adam Sonday for a pension.
     In testimony of which I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of office at Belleponte the 28th day of August AD 1832
Jas Gilliland, Clerk

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State of Pennsylvania
Centre County            SS
   On this twentythird day of April A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty six. Personally appeaered before me George Buchanan, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Centre aforesaid, Mary E. Sonday, aged Eighty one years a residente of Centre County in the State of Pennsylvenia, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the second section of the Act of Congress passed the 3d. day of February A.D. 1853, entitled "An act granting pensions to certain Widows". That she is the widow of Adam Sonday, deceased, late of Centre County, Pa. who was a private in the Revolutionary Army, and was for his services in the Revolution, a Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of sixty dollars per annum, up to the time of his decease, under the Act of Congress of June 7th 1832. And that this Certificate of Pension was surrendered to the agent of the United States for paying pensions, in September last part, when she drew the arrears of pension due him, [at] Philadelphia.
She further declares that she was married to the said Adam Sonday, in Berks County, Pa. on or about the first day of December, in the rear Seventeen hundred and eighty nine, by one Gideon Moyer, then Justice of the Peace. That her husband the aforesaid Adam Sonday died in Centre County, Penna. on the twenty fourth day of April A.D. 1855, That he was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January Seventeen hundred and Ninety four, [illegible]: at the time above stated, and that she is now a widow.~.~

            her
Mary E.  X  Sonday
           Mark

Stitucf[?]  picseate[?] > [illegible] Zerby

The foregoing declaration and affidavit here sworne to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written. And I Certify that I know the affiant to be the widow of Adam Sonday, deceased, and that she is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in the claim.  
Geo Buchanan, Jus Peace

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State of Pennsylvania
Centre County  SS
Personally appeared before me the [illegible] a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Centre aforesaid Daniel Breon, a resident of Centre County, Pa. aged fifty five years who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that he well knew Adam Sonday now deceased in his life time, and knew him as a friend of 25 years before his decease, that he also knows Mary E. Sonday his widow, now living, and that the said Adam Sonday and Mary E. lived and cohabited together as man and wife, to the time of his death, and were copated as shch by the neighborhood. they have one Child living. that the same Adam Sonday died in Centre County in April la[illegible]t 1855. and that the said Mary E. still remains the widow of the said Adam sonday deceased & further saith not. 
sworn to and subscribed the
23d. day of April A.D1856.
Before me. Geo. Buchanan  Jus.Peace
 
   Daniel Breon
__________________

State of Pennsylvania
Centre County  SS
          Personally appeared before me the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in this and for said County of Centre. George Buchanan
a resident of said County, aged fifty nine years, who being duly sworn according to law, declares, that he was well acquainted with the late Adam Sonday, deceased, in his lifetime, and knew him for a period of twenty five years a there a bout. that he also knows his widow Mary E. now living. and that the said Adam Sonday and Maryk E. lived and cohabited together as man and wife, from the time that deponent knew them,  after the time of his decease, and were copated as such in the neighborhood ~ that they have one child now living ~ that the said Adam Sonday died in Center County on the 24th day of April last 1855 ~ and that the said Mary e. Sonday now

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living, still remains the widow of the said Adam Sonday deceased ~ this deponent freely[?] states that the said Adam Sonday was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Sixty dollars per annum, and also a pensioner of the State of Pennsylvania at the rate of forty dollars per annum and that the widow Mary E. is now a pensioner of the State of Penna. in light of her said deceased husbands ~ at the rate of forty dollars per annum ~ 
(signed) Geo. Buchanan
Sworn to and Suscribed the
30th day of April A.D 1856
Before me ~ John Rishel


State of Pennsylvania 
Centre County        SS

          I, George B. Weaver, Protonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Centre County, State of Pennsylvania, Do hereby Certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Courte, to wit, at [illegible] to [illegible] last part: that Adam Sonday was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Sixty dollars per annum. was a resident of the County of Centre in the State of Pennsylvania, and died in the County of Centre in the State of Penna. on the 24th day of April A.D.1855. that he left a widow whose name is Mary Elizabeth Sonday ~ And I further Certify that George Buchanan, before where the two first written, and foregoing declaration and affidavite were taken, and that John  Rishel  before whene the last forgoing affidavit was taken, were at the time the same were taken both acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Centre, duly commisioned and qualified, and that the forgoing signature purporting to be theirs are genuine. 
~The Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Bellefonte, Penna, the 30th day of April A.D. 1856~
Geo B Weaver  Protho[notary]

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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.

November 12, 1923.

A. R. Hunter,
315 N. 8th St.
Reading, Pa.

Sir;
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 26495, it appears that Adam Sonday, while residing in Pettle Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, enlisted in August 1781 and served eighteen months as a private in Captain Jacob Bower's Company, Colonel Craig's
Pennsylvania Regiment and was at the Siege of Yorktown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1832, while a resident of Gregg Township, Centre county, Pennsylvania, aged sixty eight years. He died in Centre County, Pa., April 24, 1855.
Soldier married in Berks County, Pennsylvania,

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December 1, 1789, Mary Elizabeth Kinick, she was allowed pension on her application executed April 23, 1856, while living in Centre County, Pennsylvania, aged eighty one years.
There was one child living in 1856, name not stated. There is no further family data on file.
Respectfully, 
Commissioner.

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(Handwritten on the left side of the card)
1910 June 8 Hist. to Mr. John H. Sunday. V.S.M.
1911 Feby 1 John H. Sunday Marks cannot be furnished tc. V.L.M.
1920 January 16 Hist. to Mr. H..H. Garver
1923-Nov.12. Hist to A.R. Hunter aus.

(Printed Form on right side of card)

Widow, &c.
File No.  2.6.485
Mary E. Sonday
Widow of
Adam Sonday
Priv Rev. War
Act: Feb. 3rd 1853
Index: -Vol. S, Page 231
{Arrangement of 1870}

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Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
Please send me a copy of the Pension Record of Adam Sonday whose name appears in the Penna Archives, Third Series, Volume 23 Page 525.
Thanks for the courtesy
Yours truly
A. R. Hunter
316 N 6 St
Reading Penna
Oct 3/23

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[stamped] U.S. Pension Office H Oct 4 1923

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46.943
Neo Ams

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327 1/2 G St. N-E
Washington, D.C.
May 27, 1910

The Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Sir: 
Adam Sonday served in a Pennsylvania organization in the Revolutionary War.
I respectfully request that you furnish me with whatever information you have concerning him. I want it for family use.
Respectfully, 
John H. Sunday.

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327 1/2 G St., N. E.,
Washington, D.C.,
Jan. 28, 1911

Commissioner of Pensions, 
Washington, D.C.
Dear sir:
Enclosed is a military record of Adam Sonday that I obtained from you on June 8, 19110. Please return it as I do not want to lose it. I want to make a half dozen copies of it and respectfully request that you send me that number of blank forms on which I can then make them.
     Thanking you for your favor,  I remain,
      Respectfully,
      John H. Sunday.

(Post Mark = U.S. Pension Office, D, Jan 30, 1911)

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Chicago, Ill.,
January Fifth, 
Nineteen Twenty.

Bureau of Pensioners,
Washington, D.C.

Revolutionary War Section

Gentlemen:-
Will you kindly furnish me certificate of service of my ancestor
Adam Sunday
who served in the Revolution as Pt. in Capt. Bowers Co., 1st Penn. Continental Line, Commanded by Col. Craig. He was pensioned in Centre Co., Penn.
Shall be glad to have incorporated in said certificate any family data that may appear of record.
This I desire to file with the Sons of the American Revolution. Thanking you very kindly for this, I am
Very truly yours.

H.H. Garver, 
Room 1333, No. 30 N. LaSalle Street, 
Chicago, Illinois.

[stamped] U.S. Pension Office D Jan 7 1920

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Record Division.

February 1, 1911.

Mr. John H. Sunday, 
327 1/2 G Street N.E.
Washington, D.C.

Sir: 
In reply to your letter dated the 26" and received the 29" ultimo, in which you request six blanks to enable you to copy the military record of Adam Sonday, Wid. File No. 26,495, a copy of which was furnished you June 6, 1910, you are advised that it is not the practice of this Bureau to furnish blanks, or more than one such statement to any person.
The record forwarded by you is herewith returned.
Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

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{Envelope} 
{Postmark} = Spring Mills PA  AUG
{Addressed} = The Hon ble J Minot
Com of Pensions
Washington City

{Other Markings} = Penn
Mary E Sonday
234430
Adam
{illegible] 1853

triplett
Aug 12th

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 18th, 1840,
Sir:
     Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "And act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, "Adam Sonday,---a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Sixty Dollars and --- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has ben paid at this Department, from the 4th of March, to the 4th Sept., 1839.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.

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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 27, 1839.

Sir:
     Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, " Adam Sonday a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at the rate of Sixty Dollars and "-- "- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th, of March 1836 to the 4th, of September 1837 --
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

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#46,943-160
Adam Sonday
Rev [rest of page is to faint to read]

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234.430

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Spring Mills Pa. Feby. 4th 1856.

The Hon ble J. Minot
Com: of Pensions
Sir.
Inclosed I hand you the appllication of Mary E. Sonday, widow of Adam Sonday dead, an old soldier of the war of the Revolution, for Bounty Land, by coference to the files of your Office you will find a letter from Mr. Edwards, to me - in which he says - that Adam Sonday having enlisted for 18 mo - and nor for and during the war - was not entitled to receive Land after his discharge, and therefore did not get any in his lifetime. His widow is also entitled to a pension, be kind enough to send me the neccessary forms for her to make application [illegible]. I will only say that Adam Sonday was on his deathbed after the passage of the Act of 3d. March 1855 - and of course could not apply.
Very respectfully
Your Obed[ien]t. Sevt.
Geo Buchanan

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Spring Mills Pa Augt. 6th 1856

Sir,
  Enclosed I hand you again - the declaration of Mary E. Sonday - widow of Adam Sonday deceased- a Widow of the Revolution. I hope now that her