Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43061, for Adam Myers, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Myers Adam
S 43061
CONTENTS

Notification sent to Aaron Schuyler Esq. 26 Sep 1820. Herkimer N.Y.
New York Rolls.
1305
Adam Myers, Capt Allen Private, Wapsachusett Co.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 23 d of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of June 1818 and sent to David Root Esq. Herkimer, New York.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Service rendered
4 months 12/30. $ 35.20
Allen
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
4 years war -
Schuyler, Herkimer Co.

43061
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 43,061
Adam Myers
Rev. Rev. Rev
Act: 18 March 18
Index:—Vol. 3 , Page 861
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Adam Myers Certificate of Emplification
No. 58
30 June 1888
C M
1305
Henry of St. Louis City Sep 1888

Schedule
State of New York 3/
Herkimer County ss on this 4 th day of July 1820 in open court to wit the court of Common Pleas in and for said County said court being a court of Record thus constituted by the Laws of the State of New York personally appeared Adam Myers aged sixty nine years resident in the town of Herkimer in said County who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath declar that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit that he enlisted at Boston in March 1778 in the Company of Capt. Allen in Colonel Aldens Regiment in the Massachussetts line and continued to serve in the same Regiment under different Officers until after the close of the war when said Regiment was commanded by Col. John Brooks and when he the said Adam was honorably discharged near Newburgh in the State of New York That the date of the Original Declaration of the said Adam is the 13 th of April 1818 and that the Number of the said Adam's Pension Certificate is 1,305.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 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 and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for 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 to wit a Tea Kettle and few other articles of Kitchen Furniture and the Waring apparel and bedding of Myself and My wife that My Occupation is that of a day Laborer That I have learned no mechanical trade that I am infirm and unable by my Labor comfortably to support myself that My family is composed of Myself and My wife only & that she is seventy six years old and utterly unable to support or provide for herself Adam Myers Myers Sworn to and delivered on the 4 th day of July 1820 before

David Scott Judge Herkimer Com Pleas The court of opinion that the value of the property mentioned in the foregoing Schedule is two Dollars
W. M c Cloughby David Scott John S. Bandergrast } Judges
State of New York Clerks Office Herkimer County } I Walter Fish Clerk of the court of common Pleas in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify the foregoing oath and the Sched- ule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records 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 is two Dollars. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 11 th day of July 1820
Walter Fish Clerk of the court for the County of Herkimer

Adam Myers print 23 April Herkins County N. York
Correct DH
Holt -

State of New York Herkimer County
On this twentieth third day of April one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, before me David Holt one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State aforesaid. Personally appears Adam Myers aged Sixty two years resident in the town of Schuyler in the county of Herkimer in the State aforesaid, the said Adam being to me well known, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War" — That he served as a Sergeant in the British Army under Gen. Burgoyne from which Army he deserted and came into Gen. Gates camp, about six weeks before the surrender of Gen. Burgoyne — and received a pass for Boston from Gen. Gates — That he enlisted in Boston Massachusetts the seventh day of March one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight in a company of Infantry then commanded by Captain Allen, and subsequently by Capt. Barker & Lovin in the sixth Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, on the continental establishment then under the command of Col. Alden, and subsequently by Col. John Brooks that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine he re-enlisted in the same company, at Fort Herkimer in the then county of Tryon in the State of New York, to serve during the War — That he continued to serve in said company and regiment, (with the exception of about nine months when he was drafted and served on the lines in the regiment commanded by Col. Mariam Willett) until after the close of the war, when he was honourably discharged at West Point, in New York, on the ninth day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty three — That he was in the expedition of Gen. Sullivan in the western part of the State of New York, That he was in the engagement with the enemy at Cherry Valley, And that he was at the taking of General Cornwallis and his Army, But that he was not actually in any other important engagements — That the discharge of the said Adam has been worn out and destroyed while in his possession that he has no other evidence of his service now in his possession or at his command, then the affidavit of Andrew Piper his which is hereto annexed, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support — and that he relinquishes all pension rights and grants to which he had claims from the United States
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid David Holt
Adam Myers

State of New York Herkimer County } ss
On the 23 d day of April, 1818, before me David Holt, personally came Andrew Piper, of the town of Frankfort, in said county, to me known, who being duly sworn, saith, That in the year 1779, he resided in the town of German Flatts, in said county, in the month of November, in which year, he saw Adam Myers, whose declaration is herunto prefixed, in the as company of Captain Allen , in the Massachusetts troops on the Continental establishment - That the said com- pany was stationed at Fort Herkimer, in the town aforesaid until the next summer, when they joined the troops upon General Sullivan's expedition - That the said Adam continued on duty in said company during that time - That he the said Andrew has known the said Myers from the close of the Revolutionary war till the present time - and that he is now in very indigent circumstances
Andrew Piper
Sworn & subscribed April 23 d , 1818, before me. David Holt Judge of Herkimer Common Pleas
I, David Holt, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Herkimer, in the State of New York, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Adam Myers did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken.

and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the Act of Congress in said declaration mentioned.
Given under my hand at Herkimer this 23 d day of April, 1818
David Holt
State of New York Herkimer County } ss
I Walter Fish Clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Herkimer do certify that David Holt who signed the preceding Certificate is a Judge of said court & that the said court is one of the Courts of Record of the State of New York In witness of which I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the said court at Herkimer this 23 d day of April, 1818
Walter Fish, Clerk