Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23409, Martin Adams, Vt.

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SERVICE                                               NUMBER
Vt.            Adams, Martin               W.23409
                  Mercy

CONTENTS
[illegible character] Feb. 5, 1764, at Stillwater, N. Y.
res. at [illegible] Tinmouth, Vt.
d. Aug. 8, 1839 at Newport, Orleans Co. Vt.

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State of Vermont Orleans ["County" crossed out and "District" written above] ss⎬ At a Probate Court holden at Barton in said ["County" crossed out and "District" written above] of Orleans on this 31st day of July 1832 personally appeared in open Court Present
the Hon. John Kimball Judge of the Court of Probate, now sitting Martin Adams a resident of Newport in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont 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 7th 1832 that he entered the service of the United as a drummer in Capt.
Brackins Company - that Isaac Litchenor was adjutant (the names of the other officers he does not recollect) that he inlisted in the month of April 1782 as he verily believes (but does not like to state positively as he is not certain but it might have been in the year 1781) that he enlisted in Tinmouth in the County of Rutland in the State of Vermont marched to Castleton where he continued six months it being the term of his first enlistment that at Castleton in the month of October following he inlisted again into the same company for another six months where he continued until he had completed one years service, then had a written discharge and returned home in the month of April 1783
he states that his discharge was burnt up at the time his Fathers house was burnt which was at St Johnsbury where his Father removed to from Tinmouth, he states that he was sent with a flag to the British while they lay
upon Lake Champlain near Crown Point, and that he was one of the drummers who whiped a soldier by the name of Lee 200 lashes for desertion -

I hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency in any State - Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid -
Martin Adams

He the said Martin Adams states that he was born in Still Water in the State of New York in the year 1764 removed to Tinmouth at about 14 years old continued there until after the close of the war the removed to St Johnsbury
where he continued until he removed to Newport where he now resides

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And the said Court do hereby declare their
opinion after the investigation of the matter
and after putting the interrogatories
presented by the War Department that the within
named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and
served as he states-

I John H. Kimball Register of said Court
of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing
continues the original proceedings of the said
Court in the matter of the application of
Martin Adams for a pension.
.
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 31st day of July 1832
John H. Kimball Register

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State of Vermont
Orleans District ss
At a Probate Court [illegible] at Barton in said District on the 4th of July 1833. personally appeared Martin Adams a resident of Newport in the county and district of Orleans aforesaid and on his oath makes the following supplementary declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 That he enlisted in April 1782 and served as stated in his former declaration - That in consequence of loss of memory
he is unable remember the names of any of his Officers except those named in his first declaration  he knows of no person living by whom he can prove actual service-

That he was born at Still Water in the state of
New York the 5th day of February 1764 where is as he believes a Record of his age.

That he resided in [text crossed out] Tinmouth Rutland County Vermont when he served in the Revolutionary War.  The year following the War he resided with his fathers family in St Johnsbury Vt [text crossed out]  where I resided eleven or twelve years since which I have resided in Newport aforesaid

I entered the service by voluntary enlistment

I am known to the people generally in Newport and the neighboring town but would refer the War Department to the New Harvey Clerk who has been our Minister in Newport for many years and to Nathan Daggett Esqr who has frequently represented said town in the Legislature of this state, for my
reputation

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Martin Denning

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Repd.

Vermont    8103
Mercy Adams
Widow of Martin Adams
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 8th August 1839
[tear[ Orleans Co. in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Brockin of the [tear]igt commanded by           [tear] Vermont line for 1 year 

Inscribed on the Roll of Burlington
[tear] the rate of 40 Dollars -----
[tear] [word crossed out] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 15th day of February 1844 and sent to John Kimball 
Barton, Vert.

Total amount,  $200 - 
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by D. Brown   Clerk,
Book D.   Vol. 1.  Page 123.

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I Clarissa Trescott of Danville in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont depose and say that in the month of February after I was eleven years of age in the June previous I removed with my father's family to Tinmouth in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont.  I am now according to my best knowledge and belief sixty three years of age.  I will recollect that soon after we removed to said Tinmouth and I think the next year, my brother Martin Adams now of Newport, Orleans County, Vermont went into the army as a drummer, the particular time of his enlistment or the length of his service I cannot state  I recollect that he was absent (in the service as I understood) in the summer season, and I also recollect that he came home in the winter season to stay a short time and after a short stay returned.  I had another brother who was absent in the same service as I understood and believe he came home lame about the time of [text crossed out] making maple sugar in the spring.  My brother Martin returned afterwards and not a great while after, - I understood that my said brothers were stationed at Castleton, Vert.
Clarissa Trescott  her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed this 28th day of July A. D. 1832 by the above named Clarissa Trescott whom I certify to be a credible witness
Before Benjamin F. Denning
Justice of the Peace.

I Charles Adams of Waterford in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont depose and say that my father's family removed to Tinmouth Vermont in the latter part of the revolutionary war, where we resided for two years.  I was about nine years old when my father removed from said Tinmouth.  I well recollect that my brother, Martin Adams, now of Newport Vt. was in the service of the United States as a drummer while we lived at said Tinmouth and was stationed at Castleton Vt.  It is so long since and I was so young at the time that I cannot state how long he was in the service, but I make no doubt he was in the service one year the time he states.  I was fifty nine years of age last month
Charles Adams

Sworn to and subscribed this 28th day of July A. D. 1832 by the above named Charles Adams whom I certify to be a credible witness.
Before Benjn. F. Denning Justice of Peace

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State of Vermont  County of Caledonia SS }

I Benjamin F. Denning Clerk of the County Court for the County of Caledonia aforesaid do hereby certify that Benj. F. Denning before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken is a Justice of the Peace for said Caledonia County and that his name subscribed to the within certificates is his own signature.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 28th day of July A. D. 1832.
Benja. F. Denning Clerk
[seal stamped]

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No. 18417
Vermont

Martin Adams
of Orleans Co. in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Brockin of the  _______ commanded by ___________ in the Vermont Troops [illegible] for 1 year.

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 40 Dollars ----- Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28. day of August 1833 and sent to J. H. Kimball
Derby Vt.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833            80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep 1833  20.00
                                                               $100.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D. Brown, Clerk,
Book E.  Vol. 3   Page 50

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State of Vermont 
Orleans County SS

At a special Court holden at Derby in said
County on this fourteenth day of June
1843 Personally appeared Mercy Adams
a resident of Newport in the State of
Vermont aforesaid aged Seventy four years
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 of the act of Congress passed
July 7th 1838 and other Subsequent acts which may apply to her case

That she is the widow of Martin Adams
who served in the war of the Revolution
and was a pensioner of United States
at the rate, she thinks, of forty dollars
per annum  that he the said Martin Adams
died at Newport aforesaid on the eighth day
of August 1839 that for proof of his the said
Martin Adams Service she refers to his
declaration now in the War Department
by which he obtained his pension, that
she was married to the said Martin Adams
at Barnet in the County of Caledonia and State of Vermont on the 27th day of October 1786
by Alexander Harvey a Justice of the peace
that previous to her marriage her name was
Mercy Rider that she was not married previous
to his leaving the service but the marriage
took place previous to the first day of January
1794
Mercy Adams    her X mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year
above written before me Isaac Parker Judge
I further certify that I have been acquainted
the the above named Mercy Adams for more
him thirty years She is person whose character
for truth was never questioned and I believe
her statements true
Isaac Parker Judge

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State of Vermont
Orleans County clerks office  June 14th 1843

I Henry M. Bates Clerk of Orleans County Court do hereby certify that Isaac Parker is one of the Judges of Orleans County Court duly qualified.  And that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is true and genuine  And that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of Mary Adams for a pension - 
[seal stamped]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and seal of office this 14th day of June A.D. 1843.
H M Bates Clerk

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STATE OF VERMONT.
Secretary of State's Office, 
Montpelier, August 16th 1843 }

I certify that Nathaniel Knight Esq whose name is subscribed in his own proper hand writing to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county of Caledonia duly elected and qualified, and that to his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of this office, at Montpelier, this the 16th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three.

Ferrand F. Merrill
Acting Secretary of State.

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I Walter Harvey of Barnet in the County of Caledonia & state of Vermont do hereby Certify that I am a son of Alexander Harvey, late of Barnet Deceased and that I am Executor of His Will and Testament, that I have in my possession the papers left by said Alexander Harvey, and that in a book containing a record of the marriages solemnized by him is the following record

Barnet October twenty eighth one thousand seven hundred and eighty five 
"Then Martin Adams and Marcy Rider were joined in marriage by Alex Harvey Just Peace."

I hereby certify that the above is a true Copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures: as follows "Barnet Octr 28" 1785"
Walter Harvey

State of Vermont
Caledonia   SS         Barnet August 11th 1843
Then personally appeared Walter Harvey Known to me as a credible witness and made oath that the foregoing certificate by him [illegible]bed is true
Nathl Knight Justice of the peace

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RECORD DIVISION.      3-525.
W. F. 23,409.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., ..................., 19.......

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

DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
Apr. 1781 or 1782

LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
1 year

RANK.
Drummer

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.          COLONEL.
Brookins

STATE.
Vt.

Battles engaged in, ..........
Residence of soldier at enlistment,
Tinmouth, Vt.
Date of application for pension, July 31, 1832. His cl. was al
Residence at date of application, Newport, Orleans Co. Vt.
Age at date of application b. at  Stillwater N. Y. Feby 5. 1764
d. at Newport, Vermont, Aug. 8. 1839.
Remarks: He mar. at Barnet Vt. Oct. 28. 1785 Mercy or Marcy Rider  She was allowed pension on an application executed June 14, 1843 while a resident of Newport Vt. aged
years

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Sister Clarissa Trescott
brother Charles Adams

6-2856

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INVALID.

File No. 15.727
Martin Adams

Act: June 7" 32
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 3
[Arrangement of 1870.]

#23400
W-F-

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[text cut off by left edge of document] made by 
                                                               1883

Revy
WIDOW, &c.

File No. 23.409
Mercy Adams
wid of
Martin Adams
Pri Rev War

Act:  March 3d 43

Index:-Vol. A, Page 4

[Arrangement of 1870.]

1913 Apr. 23 Hist. to W. H. Taylor Letter
in S. F. 22.075 James Adams.
Genealogical notes
N. D. Adams, Sept.

1929 - Dec. 10 - Photos to Wm G. Adams. Corres. in [illegible] Adams - W.9329 - [illegible]

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File this with papers of Martin Adams 
viz 
admd. act '32

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4933
Vermont. Burlington
Mercy Adams
widow of Martin Adams
Vt
who was a Private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
40 Dollars ----- Cents per annum, 
to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
15th day of Feb. 1844
and sent to John Kimball
Barton, Vermont

[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 1.    Page 24.

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I Nathaniel Dagget of Newport in the
County of Orleans and State of Vermont
aged sixty four years do testify and say
that I have been acquainted with Martin
Adams of said Newport for more than
forty years  that about forty years
ago we were both living in the Town of
St. Johnsbury in the County of Caledonia
when the first Militia Company in that
Town was formed  that the said Adams
was chosen Ensign in said Company and
was fifer in the same Company and
that said Adams would frequently beat
on the drum shewing the method in which
he then said he was taught to drum when
he was in the war and he in those days
often told me of his being in the war at
Castleton in this State and I confidently believe that he (in those days) told me that he served one year in the Revolutionary War-- also I further state that we both removed from the Town of St Johnsbury to Newport (where we have lived ever since) about the same time) and that he and myself are and have been
members of the Baptist Church more than
thirty years and that I consider his statements
intitled to full belief
Nathan Dagget
& John H. Kimball Register of the Probate Court for said District and county certify this

State of Vermont
Orleans District ss.
At a Probate Court holden at Barton in said District on this 28th day of July 1833 personally appeared Nathaniel the signer of the above affidavit & made oath that the
same is true  - and the court further certifies that it appears to them that the said Daggett is a credible witness - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 28th day of June 1833
John H Kimball Register -

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18417
Martin Adams
Declaration

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I Harvey Clark of Newport in the County of
Orleans and State of Vermont aged fifty-seven
years - pastor of the Baptist Church and Society in said Newport do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Martin Adams [word crossed out] a resident of said Newport and have been acquainted with him for more than thirty years - that I believe him to be sixty nine years of age - that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been or soldier of the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion and I further certify that the said Adams is a member of the Baptist Church in said Newport in Regular Standing and that in my [text crossed out]
opinion his statements are entitled to credit
Harvey Clark
[text crossed out]

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories 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 Harvey Clark who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in said Newport - and is a credible person
and that his statement is entitled to credit

I John H. Kimball Register of the Probate Court for the District of Orleans aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the [word crossed out] application of Martin Adams for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal of office of Office this
4th day of July A.D. 1833
John H. Kimball Register
[text crossed out]

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K9695

Sep 25 1843
Mercy Adams
Act 1838. [illegible]

died 8 August 1839

$40 per an

John Kimball
Barton Vt.

Barton  Vt     [illegible]
20 Sept 

Col. James S. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department  Washington

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Barton  Orleans County Vermont  Sept 17th1843

Col James L. Edwards 

Sir enclosed is the papers of Mercy Adams for a pension.  You will perceive that that she has made a mistake of a year as to the time of her marriage.  The record no doubt is correct, she having nothing but her memory by which she made a mistake 

Let me ha a return when it shall come time -

Respectfully yours
John Kimball

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5062
Decmr 23 1843

Vt.

Mercy Adams
3 March 1843

B
$40 per an

John Kimball
Barton Vt.

Barton Vt
18 Dec       [illegible]

Col James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department Washington D C

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Barton  Vermont 16th December 1843

Col. James L. Edwards

Sir enclosd is the declaration of Mercy Adams for a pension under the act of 3 March 43 - her declaration for a pension under the Act of 7th July 1838 was forwarded in September last --

Respectfully Your Obedt Servt.
John Kimball

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5062

Newport Vt
Oct 26th                        6

John Kimball Esqr
Barton  Vt

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STATE OF VERMONT.
Secretary of State's Office,
Montpelier, November 23th 1843  }

J certify that Orville Dagget Esq. whose name is subscribed in his own proper hand writing to the foregoing certificate, is and was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the county of Orleans duly elected and qualified, and that to his official acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of this office, at Montpelier, this the 23th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Ferrand F. Merrill
Deputy Secretary of State.

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State of Vermont   Orleans County ss }

At Newport in said county on this 16th day of October 1843 personally appeared before Orvill Daggett a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid Mercy Adams a resident of Newport in said County aged 75 years who being 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 act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war ---- That she is the widow of Martin Adams who served (as she believes) as a Drummer in said war from ---- the state of Vermont for which he was a pensioner at the rate of forty - dollars per year --

She further declares that she is still a widow 
Mercy Adams
her X Mark
S. B. By[illegible] witness

State of Vermont Orleans County ss.
at Newport on the day of the above date Mercy Adams who has subscribed to the above declaration and known to me as the widow of the above named Martin Adams personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the same Before me Orville Daggett Justice of the Peace

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[illegible initials; first initial appears to be "C"]
Correspondence in Aaron Adams N.9328

SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE.   1 - 681
PHONE Branch 476

All inquiries regarding this should refer to Requisition No. 37726
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WASHINGTON
November 29, 1929.

CHIEF, Division of Publications,
Room G 139.
Please furnish work specified below.

Bureau ordering Pension.
Deliver to Room No. 5033

(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE,
EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)

Title and description of job photostatic copies of 4 pages from Revolutionary War claim of Martin Adams, Vermont Troops, W.23409.
No. of copies 1 of each     Shall form be kept standing?   ...........    .............. days
For further information see Mrs. M. M. H. Finch  Room No. 5033  Phone No. 541.
Approved:
A D Wilkinson
Chief Clerk of Bureau.
Margaret M. Finch
Chief of Division.

NOTE: No order made ""SPECIAL"" unless statement showing necessity is written
below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering

CHECK WORK DESIRED
Duplicate

Multigraph  singled or double space? ......... Facsimile signature? .................

Mimeograph  one side or both sides? ..........
Facsimile signature? .................

Folding  once or twice?

Assembling

Stapling   Once?   Twice?   Side?    End?

Electric typewriter   Fill in addresses? ...........
Dated? ........................

Addressograph from lists ...........
Envelopes, size ...........
Proof list ...............
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Fill in letters ..............
Cards, size ..........
Pay rolls ............
Corrections ............
Tabulation sheets ............

Photostat x Size actual  Official use? ............
Repay?  yes  $ .60

Blue Print   Size ...........  Official use? ............
Repay? ..............  $ .................

Remarks ....................

DIVISION OF PUBLIC [ILLEGIBLE] DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR  
RECEIVED NOV 30 1929

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