Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,623, Adam Adams, Md.

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(3-1776)

SERVICE Md. 

Adams, Adam 
or Addams

NUMBER S.34,623

CONTENTS In 1820 aged 57 yrs & res. Charles C. Md.

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Duplicate certificate issued 29. Nov. 1837 and sent to Pensioner.  Pleasant Hill 

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327

Maryland

Adam Adams of Charles Co in the State of Maryland who was a private in the Country commanded by Captain Gaithers of the Regt commanded by Colonel Adams in the Maryland line, for the term of [blank space] from [blank space] 17 [blank space] to [blank space] 17 [blank space]

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, commence on the 28 th day of March 18.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of Ma[?] 1818 and sent to Pension[?]
Pleasant Hill Maryland

[blank space] the Roll on [blank space] day of [blank space] 182 [blank space] and notification sent to [blank space] at [blank space] 
[blank space] Pension commencing on the [blank space] of [blank space] 182 [blank space]

Amount due on 4 th of} 
[on the right a dollar sign with blank space for amount] 

{Revolutionary Claim, 
Acts March 18, 1818, 
May 1, 1820.}

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Charles[?] County, Maryland[?]

[illegible] Sep. 1818    
5/28 mo.

42.09
$42.09

{Revolutionary claims. Act 18 th March, 1818.}

177 
Six years
War[?]

Charles Co

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Adam Adams

private

1st, Mary. Reg

Maryl. Line

28 day Mar. 1816

Charles County

Care of Edm. Key [illegible]

Judge, V[illegible],

Admitted

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Maryland Charles County [illegible] Be it remembered that on this twenty eighth day of march eighteen hundred and eighteen Before the subscriber an associate judge of the first Judicial District of the state of  Maryland, comprising the counties of Saint Marys, Charles and Prince Georges, Personally appears Adam Adams a free black citizen of Charles County in the District and state aforesaid, and being duly sworn on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God deposeth and saith, that he enlisted as a private soldier with Lieutenant John Mitchell in Captain Henry Gaithers Company First Maryland Regiment in May seventeen hundred and seventy seven, for and during the continuance of the war, and that he continued to serve as such until duly discharged in November seventeen hundred and eighty three, when the Maryland line was discharged at Annapolis, and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is now in need of assistance from his Country for support. 

Edmund Key

State of Maryland Charles County [illegible]. Be it Remembered that on this twenty eighth day of March eighteen hundred and eighteen Before the subscriber an associate judge for the First Judicial District of the state of Maryland, personally appears Colonel William Bruce late a Captain in the First Maryland Regiment of the Continental Army and made oath on the Holy evangely of Almighty God that he is personally acquainted with Adam Adams in the preceding deposition mentioned that he knew said Adams while belonging to the Army during the Revolutionary War, and saw him often and for a long time serving in the first Regiment

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of the Maryland line, in this continental service, that the said Adams now lives in Charles County aforesaid, and he verily believes is in indigent circumstances and this deponent further believes the facts stated in the preceding deposition to be true - 
and I now transmit the proceedings in this case to the Secretary of War being satisfied that the within named Adam Adams, is fully entitled to pension under the provision of the Law of the 18 March 1818

Edmund Key

Honble John C. Calhoun

Secretary of War

State of Maryland Charles County [illegible]. I hereby certify that Edmund Key Gentleman before whom the within affidavits appear to have been made and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time of so doing one of the associate judges of the first Judicial District of the state of Maryland Comprehending the Counties of Saint Marys Charles and Prince Georges duly Commissioned and sworn; and to all whose official act as such full faith and Credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justices as thereout.
In testimony whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal Charles County Court this second day of [illegible] in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

John Barnes Clk of Charles County Court

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Sir
It appearing to my satisfaction that Adam Adams the applicant in the preceding depositions named served as a private soldier in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy as therein stated and that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, he is now in need of assistance from his country for support, I have the honor to transmit to the department of war the testimony in the case and the proceedings had thereon in conformity to an act of the congress of the United States entitled “an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War -

Edmund Key
1 st May 1818

I certify that it appears by the Musters of Maryland Troops that Adam Adams a private in the first Regt. Enlisted on 16 th May 1778 and was Discharged on 1 st Nov. 1780.

R. Sookerman Aud. Gen. 
Auditors Office Anenapolis 21 April 1818.

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Adam Adams

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First Judicial District of Maryland
Charles County [illegible].

On this 5 day of June 1820, personally appears in open Courts, being a Court of record for said County, Adams Addams aged fifty seven years, resident in Charles County in said District, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows; In the first Mary land Regiment commanded by General William Smallwood, in a company commanded by Capt. Henry Guither attached to the Maryland line, that the line he served in the American revolutionary war was from the year 1776 til the year 1783, that the date of the original declaration is the 28 th day of March 1818, the number of his pension certificate is 327 - And I 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 in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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” before on the 18 th day of March 1818; and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or  securities,  contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed – 

Schedule of my property and income –

2 Draught horses - 2 milch cows, 4 yearlings, 1 calf, 3 hogs, 40 dollars[?] annual income from the state of Maryland. 

his mark [hand drawn X] Adam Addams

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And I do solemnly swear that my occupations in that of a foremen, that I am unable to derive a sufficient competency therefrom to support my family, the numbers ages and names of which are as follows

Ann Addams my wife aged 36 years
[below in bracket labeled “My Children”]

Pamelia Addams | 14 Ditto
Eleanor Addams | 9 Ditto
John Addams | 8 ditto
Robert Addams | 6 ditto
Richard Addams | 4 ditto
Lydia Addams | 3 months

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All of which live with me and contribute but little towards their support - sworn to and declared by me Adam Addams the day and date herein before written

Before John Barnes C 
of Charles County Court

I Edmund Key, one of the judges of the first judicial District of Maryland, comprehending the counties of S. Marys, Charles and Prince Georges, do hereby certify that Adam Adams, the applicant abovenamed, appeared in Charles County Court, and made affidavit to the truth of the facts setforth in the aforegoing deposition,  that the said Court is expressly made a Court of record by an act of the General Assembly of Maryland passed at November Session eighteen hundred and one, proceeding according to the course of the common case, keeping a record of their proceedings. having the power of fine imprisonment and unlimited jurisdiction both civil and criminal -
I further certify that I have adjudged the property (exclusive

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of the annuity contained in the preceding schedule to be of the value of eighty eight dollars - 
In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed my seal (in open Court) this sixth day of June eighteen hundred and twenty -

Edmund Key [space for “seal”]

I John Barnes Clerk of Charles County Court, do hereby certify that the aforegoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the proceedings 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 in eighty eight[?] dollars[?] –

[seal that reads “FIAT JUSTITIA[?] CHARLES COUNTY COURT”]

In Testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of Charles County Court aforesaid, this tenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty -

John Barnes C
of Charles County Court

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1928 July 20 Photos to E.V. Martindale. Lel[?] Wm. [illegible] 
W.9691.A[?].W[?].y.

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34 623
[illegible] INVALID.

File No. 34, 623
Adam Adams 
Pri. Rev War

Act: 18 th March 18

Index:-Vol. 2, Page 15

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Pen. Ag. March 31, 1837
Letter to G. R. Spalding 14 Nov[?] 1837

4/31 4/31

Notification handed Charles Sewall, a pensioner, 
June 16. 1820

Duplicate certificate issued 20. Nov 1837. and sent to Pensioner, Pleasant Hill Maryland.

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327
Maryland.

Adam Adams
Private
Maryland Line
the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Maryland
at the rate of 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of March 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of May 1818 and sent to the Pensioner, care of 
[illegible]

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Pension Agency 
Union Bank of Maryland
Baltimore 30 March 1837

Sir,
I forward herewith the vouchery of Adam Adams. unpaid for twelve months, with a request that you [illegible] [illegible] authorise their payment. 

I am Sir
Very Respectfully
[illegible]
HW. Evans [illegible]

 J.L. Edwards Esq[?]
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.

County of Charles ss. State of Maryland
On this twenty first day of November 1837, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Charles personally appeared Adam Adams who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Henry Gaither r[?] Gates in the first Md, regiment commanded by Colonel Adams in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Maryland [italics] that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the [end italics] twentyeth day of April 1837 at or near Pleasant Hill in Charles County and State of Maryland he lost, or mislaid the said Certificate which he has never since seen or heard from – 

his mark [hand drawn X] Adam Adams

Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.}
George R Spalding
J.B. Charles Co. 

NOTES. – The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate. 
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, “ [italics] but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one.” [end italics]
The pensioner’s oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be. 
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.

In every case where the Clerk of the Court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should be sent with the papers. 

Mode of authenticating papers. – In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or small ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

No attention will be given to applications from persons who act as agents, unless they are known at the War Department or are vouched for as respectable persons by some one who is known to the Department.

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County of Charles State of Maryland, Ss. 

On this 21 st day of Nov. 1837 personally appeared John Spalding before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Charles, who makes oath on the Holy Evangely of Almighty God that he has known the same Adam Adams who has this day appeared and made oath before me ^George R Spalding that he has seen his certificate and written his papers for him, or got them  printed for the last ten years (or nearly) that he is the identical person who for A long time has been clearing a pension of forty Dollars per year from the State of Maryland, and Also that he is the identical Adam Adams who has been in possession of, a a certificate from the War Department,  copy of which is enclosed And further more that the said John Spalding I do hereby certify is a person of veracity 
In testimony where of I as a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Charles in the state of maryland do hereby attach my signature the day and year first above written.

George R Spalding  

Please Forward the certificate to Adam Adams. Pleasant Hill MD.
very [illegible]
Yours
Jn. Spalding

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State of Maryland. Charles County [illegible]

I hereby certify that George R. Spalding Gentleman before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made and whose name is thereto subscribed was on the day of the making and subscribing the same one of the state of Maryland, Justice of the Peace in and for Charles County aforesaid duly commissioned[?] and sworn. 

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In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of charles County Court, this twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty seven. 

John Barnes clk of Charles County Court

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Pleasant Hill Md
Nov. 11 th

Free

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Nov 13
[illegible] Evans

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Hon. James L. Edwards
commissioner of Claims
Washington City

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War Department

I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States of the 18 th March 1818 Adam Adams late a private in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the pension list Roll of the Maryland Agency at the rate of Eight dollars per month to Commence on the 28th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
Given at the war office of the United States this first day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 

Signed
J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War  


Hon. James L. Edwards Md. Charles Co. Nov 8’ 1837

Sir, 
I wrote you at the instance of old Adam Adams some few days ago requesting you to send me a form (it being lost or mislaid) to enable him to procure his pension for Revolutionary services.   
The form you aid me the honor of forwarding requires the magistrate to certify that the above is a true copy of an original certificate

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now in his posession upon further inquiry of this poor and indigent old man I learn of him that it is only the original certificate he wants He having all the other necessary papers and have lost or mislaid the aforesaid certificate.

You will confer a great favor upon this poor old man by acting for him as will enable him to procure his pension.

He lives immediately in my neighborhood and has here lived since my earliest recollection His identity is beyond a matter[?] of doubt. 

I have the honor to be 
[illegible] Geo R Spalding 

P.S. Please direct as post marked.

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WAR DEPARTMENT.

I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18 th March 1818
Adam Adams late a private in the Army of the Revolution is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Maryland Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th day of March 1818

Given at the War Office of the United States, this first day of May 1818

(SIGNED) J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War. 

that he is entitled to a pension of Eight dollars pr month, on account [crossed out: “of wounds and disabilities received, or”]  of services rendered to the United States, during the Revolutionary war; that he served in Captain Henry Gahers  Company of Infantry in the first Maryland Regiment, [crossed out text] that he now resides in Charles County and has resided there for the space of his whole life past;  [crossed out: “and that previous thereto he resided in”] except when in the American Army

Sworn and subscribed this [blank space]
day of [blank space] 18 [blank space]
before me, [blank space] 

J.P.