Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 5470, for Adam Ice, Virginia

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Ice, Adam
R. 5470
CONTENTS

14018 Adam Lee Virginia
ap. 7
in. st. reject
Col. J. L. Edwards
free
Com r of Pensions
Washington city

Morgantown 1 April 1837
Dear Sir, Mr Lee insists that I shall enclose you his declaration. altho' I informed him that his services were not embraced in the rules of the Department - a letter from you will be sufficient to satisfy him - he lives near Pylesys mills (a post office) Monongalia county
Respt y I am yours
Thos P. Ray
Col J L Edwards
Com d B

Memorandum
Adam Lee in open court made the following declaration as to his services in the revolutionary war. Says upon oath the first day of June next he will if he lives be seventy seven years old that he was born and raised in the county of Monongalia that he was about sixteen years old when the revolutionary war commenced the service he performed first was under the then Captain (afterwards Col) Zaequell Morgan in the Militia of the state of Virginia posted in Picketts fort on the Monongahelia river between one and two years in the commencement of the revolutionary war time not exactly recollected that on an average there was not more than forty armed men in the fort that during his continuance in the fort they had no battle with the Indians only occasional skirmishes in the Neighbourhood when the Indians came to plunder & kill a few families. They were then pursued by the soldiers in the fort That in the year of 1778 or 79 he was placed under the command of Captain Owen Savy with between thirty and forty other men and stationed on the west fork of the Monongahelia river the camp was called Owen Savys station was under line six Months was discharged about Christmas The next service he performed he was drafted and placed under the immediate command of Lewis Rogers then a Captain in the Militia that he there drove with Thomas Day and others pack horses from Union Town (then called Bearstown) to Hardens fort Mers fort- and to Picketts fort that this tour of duty was for three months packing

provision for the use of those in the forts that he 28 had twelve pack horses to take care of feed and drive that he believes that John M c Farland had the chief command that he thinks this service was performed about the the year 1779 or 80 that this is all the service he performed in the employ of the State of Virginia where actually called into service, but that he carried arms nearly all the time of the Indian wars, occasionally pursuing the Indians when they came into the settlements in small parties to commit depredations as almost every able bodied man then living in this section of the state did that he does not recollect of being sick or failing from any cause from performing the duties required of him by the officers under whose command he was placed during his different terms of service amounting altogether to upwards of two years besides other duties he performed as above stated.
State of Virginia.
I Thomas P. Ray, clerk of the County court of Monongalia do certify that at a monthly term of said court, held on Monday the 27 th of February 1837, the foregoing declaration was produced in court, and the truth thereof sworn to by the said Adam Lee in open court, which was ordered to be certified to the Department of War. In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed the seal of said court at Morgantown, the 17 th of March in the year 1837.
Th. P. Ray

Monongalia County Virginia
I Anthony Koon now a resident of the county of Harrison & State of Virginia do solemnly swear on the holy evangelist that I was well acquainted with Adam Ice during the revolutionary war that he was fort in the same fort (in Pickett's fort) under Capt Bagwell Magaw with the said Adam Ice that Adam Ice was then in the service of the Government defending the frontier settlement this deponent shortly after enlisted himself for three years in the army of the United States and did not see the said Adam Ice any more until the close of the revolutionary war when he returned again to this part of Virginia and has been well acquainted with the said Adam Ice every since that he understood when he returned that Adam Ice had been generally engaged in the service of the Government during the war in the Militia service and that he the said deponent is now eighty three years old and has known Adam Ice ever since Pickett's fort was & that he knows of himself that the said Adam Ice was a Soldier of the

Revolution that the fort before mentioned as Pickett's fort was situated in the county of Monongalia on the Mononahelia River and further this deponent says not
Anthony his J Koon Mark
Sworn to before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace in and for the County of Monongalia this day of December 1836
L. S. Haymond

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
5470
P. O.
Adam Ice
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
1930 Oct. 11. Hon. Frank R. Brown men adv. cert. of enlistment. See James Fleming R. 3605. MFM. N. Y.

Adam Ice V o
Rejected for the P. Ray app 7
482 clo. to Hon. W. C. Rivers Jan. 7. 1839 Hon. J. Kidwell Apr. 14. 1839
5470
Ad. 3 June 1832

Banacksville Va
March 24
Please return this letter, with address to Hon. G. Reddick
General Turner Mr. Blee Sebastian Richard Co. Bran. Cal. W. Va.

W. B. Lewis
Con. Jan. 1:39
Adam Ice
J. L.
Stearns
Hon. W. C. Rivers Senator U.S.
Commonwealth
of Massachusetts

Senate Chamber Dec. 30 th '38.
Dear Sir,
I beg leave to call your attention to the subject of the enclosed letter, which is from a gentleman of great respectability, & at present, a member of our State Legislature. You may rely with implicit confidence on any statements contained in his letter. — Will you have the goodness to re-consider the case to which Col. Haymond refers, & inform me if such an amendment of the claimants' declaration as he suggests, might not place it before you in a different light. — Very respectfully &c.
J. L. Edwards Esq. your most S er . serv. Commissioner of Pensions. — W. O. Davis.