Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,067, Adam Helmer, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
- Helmer, Adam, or Adam Frederick Anna
W. 17.067
CONTENTS

Helmer, Adam NY W17067

New York, 4.163,
Anna Helmer,
widow of Adam Helmer, who died on the -- April 1830 of Cayuga in the State of N.Y. who was a S er in the Co commanded by Captain of the reg t commanded by in the time for 18 months N.Y.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 240 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & End on Jan'y 25 '41 when she died,
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of Feby 1845 and sent to J. G. Yates, Present
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the . }
J. L. Swann, Clerk.
Recorded by Book C. Vol. 1. Page 117.
Rep d . see Col. to Agt. for 15, 415,
Pay d to Peter Helmer, Adm r of Anna Helmer, decd for benefit of himself, Helmer Anna Passage. Catharine Hill, Elizabeth Moore, & Margaret Passage only sur. chil. of Anna Helmer
1 w77067 Curt Let to Hon H. Whalen Dec 10 '45 " " " Mar 24 1846 " " " Apr 11 1846 " P. Helmer Apr 10 1849

Lina Helmer
3058
Anna Helmer, dec d
NY
act 4 July 36-
Wm E. Noble
Agent J. D. Gould Salon NY
See Vol 4, p 58
Anna Helmer Lieut p 113. 34
1780 - 47 days
adm d 18 mo. L t
240 to 25 Jan'y 44 to Peter Helmer adm d for benefit of himself - David Helmer, Anna Rapsay Catharine Hill - Elizabeth Moore & Margaret Lapham only surviving children
Antonia
G. F. Yates M A Exec r

State of New York Cayuga County ss Peter Helmer of Brutus in said County being duly sworn says that he is aged forty one years and is the son of Adam and Anna Helmer, the said Adam being now deceased. That said Adam & Anna lived together as man & wife & raised a family of children of whom deponent is one That said Adam died in the month of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty leaving the said Anna his widow who has continued a widow ever since
That deponent has the family record of the said Adam Helmer by which it appears that the said Adam & Anna were lawfully married on the 27 th day of July 1776. which record also contains the names and births & deaths of their children.
And further deponent saith not sworn this 15 th day of December 1837 before me { Peter Helmer John P. Hurlbut Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga
I certify my opinion that said Peter Helmer is a man of truth & veracity
John P. Hurlbut Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga

State of New York Cayuga County ss On this 15 th day of December 1857 personally appeared before John P. Bulbert one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga in said State. Anna Helmer a resident of Brantus in said County aged eighty years who being first duly sworn counseling to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to ob- tain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 1836 That she is the widow of Deane Helmer who was a Lieutenant in the time of the Revolutionary war. That soon after the commencement of the Revolutionary war the said Deane Helmer entitled or was enrolled in a company of Reaguers at what is now Herkimer in the County of Herkimer in said State of New York and continued to serve therein as Lieutenant in tours for and during a part of the war. That said company was commanded by Captain Bigbeard Lieutenant Deane Helmer & Ensign John Smith. That the said company was organized in the fore part of the year 1777 & entered active service and continued to serve a term of nine months in the neighborhood some times stationed at Fort Dayton & at other places to protect the inhabitants from the Indians. That said Deane Helmer con- tinued to serve during the whole term of nine months which ended late in the fall of the year aforesaid as

She believes. That in the following winter 1778 or spring the said Deborah Helmer again entered said service in the said company and served another term of nine months at the same place where said term ended on the 1 st about the first day of January one thousand Eight  Seven hundred & seventy nine. She further says that in both of said terms the said Deborah Helmer served as Lieutenant. She further says that during the whole of said war the said Deborah Helmer lived at Herkimer aforesaid near Fort Dayton where the country was constantly kept in a state of alarm by the Indians and said Deborah was kept in service almost the whole term but in consequence of age & a failure of memory she is not able to specify any other terms of service than as above and she should would not have been able to recollect so particularly about the above mentioned terms were it not for the assistance of the affidavits hereto annexed. That said Deborah Helmer had a commission but the same is now lost or destroyed so that she cannot produce it. That during the she has no need evidence of said service. That she was lawfully married to the said Deborah Helmer at the Church in what is now called Herkimer on the 27 th day

of February 1776 by the Revd Abraham Rosekrantz. That during said war the church records owing to the alarmingly state of the times were put together into a chest or box & the said chest or box was buried in the ground to keep it away from the enemy as she has been informed & believes and that said chest & its contents became wet & entirely destroyed so that all record of said marriage has been lost and she is unable to prove record evidence of said marriage. That the said Abraham Rosekrantz is dead & has been for many years and she has never obtained a certificate of said marriage. That the said Adams Helmer died in the month of April 1830 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed Sworn to & subscribed on the { her } day of June first above written. Anna Helmer John N. Hurlbut Judge of Court of Common Pleas mark of the County of Cayuga.
I certify that said Anna Helmer is entitled to credit and that she is unable to attend court on account of age & extreme debility. Dated Decr 15 th 1837 John N. Hurlbut Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga

January 25, 1938.
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Mrs. Carmita R. Shaver Rm. 221 Post Office Oneonta, New York
BA-J/ady Adam Frederick Helmer W.17067
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter relative to Adam Helmer, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.
The data contained herein were obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W.17067, based upon the military service of Adam Frederick Helmer in that war.
The date and place of birth and the name of the mother of Adam Frederick Helmer are not shown. He was the son of Frederick Helmer.
While residing near Fort Dayton, New York, Adam Frederick Helmer, the name also appears as Joh: Adam F. Helmer, served in 1777, nine months as Lieutenant in Captain John Bradbrick's Company of Rangers, and was in the battle of Fort Stanwix; he served in 1778, nine months as Lieutenant in the same company. It is also stated that the night before the battle of Oriskany said Adam was despatched by General Herkimer to Fort Stanwix to inform Colonels Willett and Gansevoort of his, General Herkimer's approach, and it is also further stated that while Captain Bradbrick's Company, of which said Adam was Lieutenant, was at Fort Dayton, near what was later Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York, intelligence was received at said fort of the depredations of Indians on the Mohawk River and they went in pursuit of the Indians, overtook them near Frankfort and had a skirmish, said Adam killing one with the Indian's own tomahawk. He also served at various other times during the Revolution, no definite data on file, was in several skirmishes with the Indians.
He died in April 1830, his age not given.
Soldier married February 27, 1776, at a place, afterwards called Herkimer, New York, Anna Piet, daughter of Peter Bellinger.

Soldier's widow, Anna Helmer, was allowed pension on her application executed December 15, 1837, while a resident of Brutus, Cayuga County, New York, aged eighty years.
She died January 25, 1841, leaving the following children: David; Anna, widow of Henry Passage; Catherine, wife of John Hill; Elizabeth, wife of James Moores; Margaret, wife of George Passage; and Peter, who was fifty-one years old in 1837 and living in Brutus, New York. There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17067
Anna Helmer
Wid. of
Adam Helmer
Sergt Rev. War
Act: July 4, 1836.
Index:—Vol. A , Page 326
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1907 Heist to Josephine P. Lewis 1920 March 24 Heist to J. H. Helmer (cont)
1927-Sept 25 Frank D. Deuel adving cost of photos. MMV
1928-March 23- Heist to Frank D. Deuel MMV
1929-Sept 2. Photos to L. J. Bellanger U.S.N. M.E. Co. 1930 April 10 to D. M. Blue MMV 1931 March Photos mailed to Mrs. J. H. Williams & Rev. Rev. intfd. A.D.Y.
1930 Sept 23. Photos mailed to L. R. Mac Wethy & Fin. Dist. mfd. A.D.Y.
1938 Jan. 25. Heist to Mrs. Carolina R. Shaver A.D.Y.

V New York Anna Helmer
Let. to Hon. W. H. Noble 5 Jan. '38.
to same 1. May 1838
to A. Gould June 26. 1839
to Hon. C. Morgan 24. Jan. 1840
to same 24. Feb. 1840
to same 9. April 1840
to same 22 July 1840
to A. Gould 9. Sep. 1840
to same 17 Nov. 1840
to Hon. C. Morgan Dec. 31. 40
Act July 1830
To G. G. Yates 3. April '43.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C., _____, 190__
In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of Adam Helmer 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.
N. 17067
Name also appears as Adam F. Helmer.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1777 9 mos Lt John Bradbick co of Lyman co. Rangers N.Y.   1778 9 " " " "   also served at various other times during war  
Battles engaged in, ✓
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Near Fort Dayton N.Y.
Date of application for pension, Dec. 15, 1837. Claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, Brutus, Cayuga Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, 80 yr.
Remarks: Soldier was the son of Frederick Helmer. He mar at a place afterwards called Herkimer N.Y. Feb. 27, 1776. Anna Piet. dau of Peter Bellinger. He died Apr. 1830. She died Jan. 25, 1841. Only surviving children were David, Anna wife Henry Passage, Catherine wife John Hill, Elizabeth wife James Moore, Margaret wife of George Passage and Peter.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

April 9/45 Post Byron
apls 27/29
W. L. [unclear] Peter Helmer
heirs of Acker of Adam Helmer sentenced to 5 years hard labor, was sold in the Revolution
Inform the
writer that
there is 15 Feb 45
Ref. to Commr. of Pensions nothing Dept. of the Interior April 7/45
one

W. Hon Thos Ewing Secty of Home Dept Washington D.C.

To the Honorable Post Byron April 2 nd 19 Thomas Ewing Secretary of the home department — Sir in reading the pension laws.
Of the revolution, I notice the following Widows and Orphans of officers and soldiers of the militia rangers &c which have died since 1814 are entitled to five years half pay. My Father Adam Helmer or Adam H Helmer died in the year 1830 I wish to know if his children are not entitled to the five years half pay.
The said Helmer was a Lieutenant in militia and likewise served as Captain of a company of rangers; I obtained my Mother due half pay which was two hundred and forty dollars per year for nine years or over, but it appears the law is altered and if I un- derstand right the children are entitled to twelve hundred dollars under the new law. Please inform me whether I am right or not and whether it is necessary to employ any pension agent as all our former papers are at Wash- ington or at least the certificate which I sign to draw the money.
Dear Sir if you will answer me these questions you will Oblige your humble Servant Peter Helmer

Copy of Secretary's Letter in the matter
of
Adams Helms

Secretary Office
Albany Jan 22 d 1838
Sir
Your Letter in Relation to Adam Herlihy was up this day You say "that in the years 1777 1778 & 1779 Adam Herlihy belonged to and served in a Company of Rangers in which a man named Bright was Captain the said Adam was Lieutenant and one John Smith was ensign
I have carefully examined the records of this Office and have not been able to find an Officer of the name of Herlihy. There are mentions of rolls in this Office of the Privates who served in the Rangers or the Malitia I find no Captain by the name of Bright but I find that in August 1775 the following were appointed Officers of the Regiments of Malitia in the (then) County of Lyons which
 Jacob Elock was Colonel  John Bradbake Captain  John Zieles 1 st Lieutenant  Jacob Elock 2 d Lieutenant 
On the 25 th of June 1778 the Council of appointments made the following appointments in Colonels Elocks Regt of Malitia
 John Bradbick Captain  John Zieles 1 st Lieutenant  Jacob Elock 2 d Lieutenant  Nicholas Van Slyke Ensign 
March 4 th 1778 John Van Slyke 2 d Lieutenant of Capt y John Smith Ensign replaced Van Van Slyke hereunto
Yours respectfully
Isaac Campbell Deputy Secy
To Genl. Ely

Personally appeared Before William Brooks one of the Justices of the Peace for the town of Little Falls in the County of Herkimer Jacob Markell of the town of Markham in said County of Herkimer who being duly sworn deposeth & says that he is of the age of Forty Seven years that he was well acquainted with John Breadlake of the town of Palestine in the County of Montgomery from the infancy of this deponent to the death of said Breadlake who was an uncle to this deponent that among the German People the said Breadlake went by the name of Big Bread that there was no other in this County that this deponent ever heard of by the name of Breadcake and that he always went by the name of Captain Bigbread among the German People
Sworn Before me this 13 th day of March 1838. William Brooks Justice of the Peace in Herkimer County New York
Jacob Markell
I the undersigned do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Jacob Markell for the term of twenty years and that he is a highly respectable person and of the highest Credibility and that his Statements above referred are entitled to the fullest Confidence.
William Brooks Justice of the Peace

Herkimer County
Peter Sleege of the town of German Flatts in Herkimer County, being duly sworn, saith that he is seventy eight years of age, and is a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 7 th 1832, that he was well acquainted with Colonel Helmer now deceased in the revolutionary war and for many years after the war that this deponent & Colonel Helmer in the war for a season lived together and occupied the same house at Fort Schuyler that in the year 1777 the said Colonel Helmer was first Lieutenant in a company of Rangers which were then in the service of the United States in the vicinity of Herkimer where the said company was raised being then Tryon County that in the said year 1777 this deponent was enlisted and served in said company of Rangers of which the said Helmer was 1 st Lieutenant for the period of nine months. This deponent was enlisted in said company by the said Colonel Helmer himself and is certain it was in the year 1777 from the fact that this deponent never served in the said rangers company at any other time than this one enlistment which was in the year 1777. That the said service & enlistment of this deponent was also during the year of the Oriskany Battle where general Herkimer fell which Battle was fought in the year 1777. That this de- ponent was not in said Battle for the reason that he was at the time confined with sickness but that the said Colonel Helmer with the company were at said Battle but that the said Colonel Helmer was not in said engagement as this deponent was then informed and as he has ever since understood for the reason that the said Colonel Helmer and one Mead Donmouth were dispatched by General Herkimer with a letter to Colonel Gan- sevoort of his General Herkimer's approach that the

since Helms & Dementh with their letter found their way through the line of the besiegers into the service Fort after the information thus communicated to Colonel Garrison since the attack upon the enemy was during the engagement with Gen Harkness that besides the personal knowledge of this defendant of the service of the said William Helms after since the said Helms has always esteemed and reported to have service in the revolutionary war as a Solider Officer and that such is the general belief of the neighbourhood in which this defendant lives as well as of this defendant and further this defendant saith that although the said William Helms was not in the service Battle with general Harkness men yet he accompanied Col Millet & his men from Fort Harkness and was in the service Battle and attack upon the enemy with Col Millet as this defendant has always been informed and believes and still believes
his Peter X Hagg mark
Subscribed & sworn to this 12 th day of March 1838 Before me
John A Rushbrook Justice of Peace

Herkinn County ss Michael Stieg of German Flatts aged 44 five and Peter Hoop Mann aged 44 forty years both of Schoharie County of Herkinn before duly sworn say that they were well acquainted with said Helmer whose widow we are informed is an applicant for a pension for services performed in the revolutionary war by the said Helmer that our acquaintance commenced in our infancy which was shortly after said war that we frequently heard the said Helmer speak of his services rendered as a Soldier & Officer in said war in the neighbourhood of Herkinn where said Helmer during the war for many years after the war resided that besides the statements of the said Helmer it has always been generally understood in the neighbourhood of this defendant that the said Helmer served in the war of the revolution in the capacity both of a private & Officer that he was a lieutenant in a Company of volun- teers which during said war was raised near said Helmer in Schoharie County that the said Helmer has always been reported by those persons who served with him in said war to have been a very active & spirited Soldier and always doing the utmost in resting and pursuing the enemy whenever resistance or pursuit became necessary and the said Michael Stieg for himself says that his father Michael Stieg was a Captain in the revolutionary army in the United States and that he this defendant has very frequently his father who is now also deceased speak of the said Helmer and his services in the war of the revolution and that from his father as well as from others this defendant learned that the said Helmer served as an Officer & Lieutenant in the war in said war and that he was an active & good Soldier and further these defendants say not

Sworn & Subscribed this 12 th day of March 1838 before me John S. Reabuck Justice
Michael Ittig Peter Hoag
Herkimer County } I hereby certify that I am person- ally acquainted with Peter Hoag Michael Ittig and Peter Hoag the deponents in the foregoing affidavits and that they are men of good Moral Charac- ter and their statements entitled to credit sworn this 12 th day of March 1838 at Herkimer
John S. Reabuck Justice

1 State of New York } Herkimer County } ss George Rosecrants of the town of Little Falls in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is of age of twenty four years the 15 th day of March 1837 that his father was the Revd Abraham Rosecrants for many years before the revolutionary war, during that war for many years until his death after the war the Minister of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in German Flatts in said County that among the records of Marriage kept by defendants  his father not lost and destroyed are and since his death have been in the possession and custody of defendant that among them records this defendant finds in the proper secret writing of his said father entered in regular order it recorded that in 1776 February 27 Adam Herlin was married to Anna Piet Belinger by him That this defendant believes this record to be true & authentic and has no doubt that said marriage there took place
This defendant saith he was well acquainted with Adam Herlin from his this defendant's infancy and recollects very well in the latter part of the war previous to heres that defendant was at Fort Herkimer in said County and that news of an alarm arose and that said Herlin with a party of a company of privates and that Henry Herlin with part of another company marched to the region of Coeymans called Little Falls & Schuyler's Lake in the new town of Warren That said Herlin was an Officer there but whether Lieutenant or Captain defendant does not recollect and cannot state but recollects that he had the command of the Corps that then marched out on Herlin This defendant frequently during many years after said war saw said Herlin and was well acquainted in the neighborhood where said Herlin lived and said Herlin

was always reported to have been a revolutionary Soldier and Officer & believed to have served as such and deponent always did and still does believe the same to be true.
This deponent saith he was also well acquainted from his infancy with Captain John Breadbake who was also an officer in the revolutionary war and saith his surname was variously spelt that by some it was spelled that by some it was spelled Breadbake by some Breadbick & by others Breadlake That it is the only person of that name or of any of these variations that this deponent ever knew or heard of in the Mohawk River Country where deponent has always resided and that he died without leaving any children and further saith not
George Reserant
I certify that on this 10 th day of March 1838 came before me George Reserant to me well known in my presence to be the person in my presence of saying that whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deposition signed by him is true and that said George is a man of good Moral Character and his statements entitled to Credit.
William V. Brooks Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Herkimer.

State of New York Herkimer County 3p
II
I hereby certify that William H. Brooks and John A. Rusbruk Esq., are justices of the Peace as within duly elected and qualified and that I am well acquainted with their hand writing and truly believe the several signatures within purporting to be theirs are genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County at Herkimer March 19 th 1888.
II
E. A. Munn Deputy Clerk for John Dygert Clerk
Over

State of New York Cortland County ss. Dorothy Woolson of the town of Truxton in Cortland County being duly sworn says that she is aged about eighty two years and is sister to Anna Selmer of Brutus in the county of Cayuga the widow of Adam Selmer late of Brutus aforesaid now deceased that she was present at the marriage of the said Adam Selmer & Anna Selmer and saw the ceremony per- formed. That the name of said Anna before said marriage was Anna Billinger That said Adam & Anna were lawfully married at the Church in what is now Herkimer in the county of Herkimer on or about the twenty seventh day of February 1776 by the Rev. Abraham Rosekrantz. That she is not so positive about the precise day in February 1776 of the marriage but thinks it was on the said twenty seventh day.
And further deponent says that she recollects that said Adam Selmer was in service during the Revolutionary war but she does not remember times with sufficient accuracy to testify to the same.
Sworn this 5th day of December 1837 before me Dorothy her Woolson Mark Mrs. Blanchard Justice of the Peace.
I certify my opinion that said Dorothy Woolson is a person of truth and veracity. Mrs. Blanchard J.P.

State of New York Cortland County Clerk's Office I, Oren Stimson Clerk of said County do hereby Certify that William Blanchard 2 d before whom the affidavit of Dorothy Woolson pur- ports to have been taken was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned & qualified and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe his signature within to be genuine. I witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 6 th day of December 1837 Oren Stimson Clerk
Quincy

State of New York
County of Onondaga ss. George Stig of Manlius being duly sworn before Adam S. Huntley One of the Justices of peace of the town of Manlius & being personally made oath and says that he is eighty one years old last December. That he was well acquainted with Adam Helmer before the Revolutionary war That in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty Eight this deponent was in the service of his Country in a Company of Rangers a man by the name of Bighead was Captain and the said Adam Helmer was Lieutenant & John Smith was Ensign his Company during that Summer at Herkimer and vicinity; was dismissed on the first day of January in the morning; they had served nine months: the said Adam Helmer was Lieutenant during the nine months. He was acquainted with the said Adam Helmers wife; her name when a girl was Anna Ballinger he knows of their living together as long back as Seventeen hundred & Eighty five or six and as late as about sixteen or eighteen years ago it was the General understanding that they were married and further saith not.
Subscribed & sworn before me Nov - 13 1837
Adam S Huntley Justice
George Stig
I hereby Certify that I have been acquainted with the above named George Stig about twenty years & that he always has sustained a good moral character and is entitled to full Credit Nov 13. 1837
Adam S Huntley Justice

State of New York County of Onondaga } ss. J. Hansen Edwards Clerk of the said County do Certify that Adam S. Huntley Esquire before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County duly elected and qualified and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the first of said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand & Seal of Office at Syracuse this 21 st day of Novem- ber 1837.
J. Edwards. Clerk

State of New York Schoharie County ss. The undersigned of Schoharie in the County of Schoharie being duly sworn before Nicholas Smith Esquire a Justice of the Peace of the said Town and County aforesaid deposes and says that he is seventy seven years that he has been acquainted with Adam Selmer now deceased from his youth; that he was acquainted with said Adam before and in and after the Revolutionary War That in the said War the said Adam ser- ved as Lieutenant in a Company of Rangers Commanded by Capt. Bigbread But this deponent does not remember the year in which he performed said Service nor does he now remember how long he served in said Company; that whilst said Adam served in said Company of Rangers this deponent served in a Company of Militia Commanded by Capt. Henry Darter Lieut. John Demarett & Ensign Peter Wilm that this deponent and the said Selmer were at the same Station at Fort Dayton at Schoharie and that whilst they were so there intelligence was received at said Fort that a party of Indians had taken prisoner a Mr. Frank on the Mohawk River near a place called Frankfort in Schoharie County. That on that occasion the said Adam Selmer and Capt. Bigbread and this deponent and some others went from Fort Dayton in pursuit of the Enemy and in the neighbourhood of Frankfort fell in with a party of Indians and had a Skirmish with them wherein one of the En- emy's Indians was killed & one of the party that accompanied this deponent was wound- ed of which wound he died the next day after

the Skirmish That on that occasion the Sail Adam Selmer besides being actually engaged in the said Skirmish after the Red Indian was killed went in pursuit of a Tory who was also engaged & who was flying for the distance of half a mile when he gave up the Chase and returned to our party
That this deponent has also been acquainted with Anna Selmer the widow of the said Adam Selmer that the said Adam and the said Anna lived at Perkins in the immediate neighbourhood of this de- ponent after the war but when they were married or whether they were actually married this deponent does not know but from the fact that they were generally reported to be married and from the fact of their living together as man and wife and having as such raised a family of children and having never heard the fact of their marriage questioned or disputed this deponent believes and has no doubt that the said Adam Selmer & the said Anna Selmer were lawfully married and that the said Anna is the lawful widow of the said Adam Selmer deceased -
Subscribed & sworn to Johnes Dockstad This 18 th day of November 1837 before me Nicholas Smith Justice
And the said Nicholas Smith the said Justice do hereby further certify that I have been acquainted with John Docksta- der the person who has signed & sworn the foregoing affidavit for forty years now last past and that he has during the whole

last past and that he has during the whole period sustained a good Moral Character and a fair reputation and that his Statements are entitled to full faith Credit Dated November 18 th 1837 Nicholas Smith Justice
State of New York
Schenectady ss. Andrew Piper of Frankfort in the said County of Schenectady being duly sworn before Nicholas Smith one of the Justices of the Peace of the town of Schenectady in the said County of Schenectady deposeth & saith that he is Seventy Seven years of age that he was Acquainted with Adam Selmer now deceased from his infancy. That he was acquainted with said Adam during the Revolutionary War and until his death which occurred several years ago That in the year One thousand Seven hundred & Seventy Seven the said Adam Selmer served as a Lieutenant in a Company of Rangers which was com- manded by one Bigbreast whose given name as this deponent believes was John as Captain. The said Adam Selmer served therein as Lieutenant and John Smith was Ensign. That the said Com- pany was organized and served for the period of nine Months during the said year That the said Company was raised on the Mohawk River then Tryon County in the State of New York being the District now comprising parts of Montgomery Schenectady and Montgomery Counties; That the ser- vice of the said Company of Rangers in which the said Adam served during the said year 1777 was rendered at Fort Dayton

the Skirmish That on that Occasion the at Schuylkill and in the vicinity of that place and at Briskany and at Fort Stanwix above Schuylkill on the Mohawk - That this Detachment during the said year 1777 served also at the said Forts Dayton & Stanwix in a Company of Militia commanded by Captain Frederick Getman. 1st D. John Root 2nd Lieutenant Jacob Mage & Ensign John Mage That whilst this detachment so served in said Company of Militia he repeatedly during that Season saw the said Adam Helmer in Actual Service in in the said Company of Rangers and knows that he commanded as Lieutenant therein That the Company of Rangers and Militia in which this & the said Adam detachment ser- ved were both engaged in the Briskany Battle where this Detachment recollects distinctly see- ing the said Adam Helmer in the ranks That this detachment remembers also that the night previous to the engagement at Briskany the said Adam Helmer & Marks Smith and one Sandyfoot Folts as this Detachment now remembers & believes were secretly despatched to Col. Milet and Col. Gansbroot in Fort Stanwix where they with some Troops were Stationed and where at the time they were besieged by St. Leger and his Army, to inform Colonels Milet and Gansbroot of the approach of General Herkimer and which information was the cause of the Sallie from Fort Stan- wix by Col Milet with a party of men and the attack upon the enemy whilst the engagement between General Herkimer and the enemy as the Briskany Battle was going on - That besides the

Sail Services of the said Adam Helmer in the said Company of Rangers in the year 1777 he afterwards served in the Militia at Perkins, where this deponent also served, but this deponent does not now remember any particular service under the said Adam. And this de- ponent further saith that he has also been acquainted with Anna Helmer the widow of said Adam Helmer since he was a child that they were children together lived in the same neighbourhood That the Maiden name of the said Anna is Bellingr and she was the daughter of Peter Bellingr with whom this deponent was also well acquainted. That this depo- nent was also well acquainted with the said Anna before her intermarriage with the said Adam Helmer. That the said Anna and the said Adam as this deponent now believes were married some time before the war although this deponent cannot state how long before. That this deponent did not attend the solemnization of the marriage nor does he know of said marriage except from hearsay and report at the time and from the continued living together of the parties as man & wife in the neighbourhood of this deponent and their raising a family of children to- gether.
Subscribed & sworn to
this 18th day of November
1837 before me
Nicholas Smith Justice
Andrew his P mark

And of the said Justice do hereby further Certify that I have been acquainted with Andrew Rife the person who has signed & subscribed sworn the foregoing affidavit for twenty five years now last past that he has the whole period sustained a good moral character and a fair reputation and that his state- ments are entitled to full faith & credit Date November 18 1837.
Nicholas Smith J.P.
State of New York Herkimer County ss. I John Deyut Clerk of the said County of Herkimer do certify that Nicholas Smith Esq. is a Justice of the Peace as within and that the within signa- -ture purporting to be his is genuine - In testimony whereof I have here- unto affixed my seal of Office and sub- scribed my name this 18th day of No- -vember 1837.
E. J. Munsen Esq. for John Deyut Clerk

Copy of papers
Mrs Helmer
Christopher Morgan, H.R.

State of New York } Herkimer County } ss Abraham G. Rosecrantz of the Town of Little Falls in said County being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he is a son of George Rosecrantz Esquire deceased of the same place who died the 21 st day of December last past and is Grandson of the Reverend Abraham Rosecrantz many years since deceased and who as deponent is informed & believes true was before, during & until his death after the Revolutionary War the minister of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the (now) Town of German Flatts. That a short time before the death of his deponents father he placed in deponents hands for safe keeping the records of marriages, births & baptisms kept, as deponent has always been informed & as he believes true were made & kept by deponents said Grandfather while he was such minister. Deponent saith he is in his thirty fifth year of age and the said records are the same records which have from the infancy of this deponent been used and treated by his father & others as the true & genuine records of marriages, births & baptisms made & kept by his said Grandfather at the periods at which they bear date. This deponent saith that in said records is contained the marriage of Joh: Adam F. Helmer to Anna Piet Bellinger on the twenty seventh day of February one thousand seven hundred & seventy six and this deponent further states & certifies that it is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is mispelled on the record in fair legible figures as follows "1776" "A 27 Febr Joh: Adam F. Helmer & Anna Piet Bellinger" -
I Abraham G. Rosecrantz above named depose & say that I hold the office of Supervisor of the Town of Little Falls in said County & State

aforesaid. That the above is a true extract from the records aforesaid of said Marriage with the exception above named as certified by me
Abraham G. Rosecrantz
This may certify that on this 11 th day of January 1839 came before me Abraham G. Rosecrantz who is personally known to me to be the person who is described in & who signed the above affidavit & in due form of law made oath before me that the above deposition is true & I certify that he is a man of fair & good character for truth and veracity
William Brooks Justice of the Peace
The above erasure of "Abraham G. Rosecrantz" was made before executing this paper & was a mistake in the said Rosecrantz in first putting his name in that place
W. Brooks J. P.
Herkimer County to Conrad Ottig of Frankfort in said County being duly sworn before Charles Clow a Commissioner of Oaths for said County says - That he is aged seventy seven years the 20 th day of this month & that he is a pensioner of the United States & that he has resided in the town of German Flatts before & during the Revolutionary war. That he was well acquainted with Adam F. Helmer sometimes written Adam Helmer also of the town of German Flatts - That to the knowledge & recollection of this deponent the said Adam F. Helmer was a Lieutenant in Capt - Bigbreach or Broadbrakes Company of Rangers

for the period of nine months - That this deponent served in the same Company at the same time which was during the year 1778 & was discharged on the first day of January 1779 - That said Company was raised & officered under the direction of the Committee of Safety as this deponent was informed and believes by the Authority of the Governor - That said Committee of Safety then were Rudolph Steel Michael Otig & John Frank the latter of whom is still living - That during the frequent alarms & attacks upon the inhabitants by the Tories & Indians, under the direction of the Committee the Continental officers the militia were clapped into claps of eight or ten & deponent does not recollect which & each clap were obliged to furnish one man for the service & in this manner the Company called Rangers under the Command of Capt. Bigbread who was a Captain of the Militia was raised & deponent was hired by one of the claps as a soldier therein & served nine months, during which time the said Adam Helmer was a lieutenant in said Company acting under the Authority of the Committee & the Governor as this deponent is informed & verily believes - That said Company deponent well recollects went down to Fort Plain & were mustered by Col Waggener that John Smith commonly called Blind John Smith was Ensign & they were constantly employed as scouts in parties on the look out for Tories & Indians - That said Company was attached to the command of as deponent believes of Col Gansvoort - That the authority of the its officers Capt. Bigbread Lieut. Helmer & Ensign John Smith was understood to be derived from the Governor through the Committee of Safety & that to the knowledge of the deponent such Companies of the local militia

under the same authority were usually organized every summer season: that the officers were either volunteers or were appointed by the Committee & unless they happened to be officers of the local militia they were not commonly commissioned by the Governor & further saith not
Sworn & Subscribed the
15 th day of January 1839
Conrad Ittig
Before me Charles Clow
commissioner of Deeds
I certify that I am well acquainted with Conrad Ittig the individual who made the annexed affidavit & that he is a person of good moral character & that his statements are entitled to full credit & belief
Charles Clow Com of Deeds
Herkimer County ss
Andrew Piper of Frankfort in said County being duly sworn before Charles Clow a Commissioner of Deeds in & for said County in addition to the facts stated in his affidavit sworn before Nicholas Smith Esq. on the 18 day of November 1837 says that the nature of the warfare practiced upon the frontier of the State of New York in the Valley of the Mohawk River by the sudden descent of the Tories & Indians upon the settlements that it became necessary to organize some of the Militia & keep them in service during every summer season. That after the battle of Oriskany his deponent remembers the militia were divided into companies of eight or ten each company being obliged to furnish one man. This division was understood to be under the authority of the Governor & the Committee of Safety & deponent recollects that the Company called Rangers under the command

of Capt. Bigbread & Lieut. Adam F. Helmer & Ensign John Smith was then organized. That Capt. Bigbread belonged at Palatine in the county of Montgomery & was a commissioned Captain in the Militia belonging to Blocher's regiment. That the officers of these were as deponent is informed & believes appointed by the Local Committee of Safety under the authority derived from the Government & were not therefore usually commissioned. That their services were for different & uncertain periods of time according to the various necessities of the country & the times - and deponent further says that the said Adam F. Helmer was usually called among the Dutch people Adam & his name was frequently written Adam but his true name deponent believes was Adam F. Helmer. That the statement in the life of Brant by W. L. Stone page 203 which has been read to deponent. That the same Adam Helmer went to carry intelligence to Col. Gansevoort is correct according to the best recollection of deponent & refers to the same Adam F. Helmer mentioned in this affidavit - & this deponent was in company to said Helmer going away from the troops at the time & further saith not.
Sworn & subscribed the
his Andrew P. Piper mark
15 th day of January 1839
before me Charles Clor
Commissioner of Dreds
I certify that Andrew Piper the person who made the above affidavit is a man of good moral character & his statements are fully entitled to credit & belief & that I am well acquainted with said Andrew Piper
Charles Clor
Commr of Dreds

Herkimer County
Clerks office p 3 I hereby certify that Charles Elmer Ely was on the date of the above affidavits a Commissioner of Ores & that William Brooks Ely was a Justice of the Peace on the date of the within affidavits in & for said a County & duly commissioned and qualified & that I am well acquainted with their several hand writings & verily believe that the several signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of the said County Jan'y 15, 1839
ELM
Edmund M c Manus Deputy Clerk
Herkimer County p
John Frank of said County being duly sworn says that he is aged Eighty three years the 23 d day of March next & is a pensioner of the United States. That he resided in the Town of German Flatts before & during the Revolutionary War and was for one year or thereabout a member of the Committee of Safety. That he was well acquainted with Adam Helmer who was a son of Frederick Helmer & to distinguish him from a person of the same name who was a lary his name was written Adam F, which stood for Frederick because he was a faithful whig of those times, as well as those of his family & connexions. That to the knowledge of this deponent the said Adam F. Helmer was engaged in the service of the United States in the year 1778 but this deponent cannot state the precise time he served, but this deponent believes he was absent from his home from the spring of that year until the succeeding winter. — This

deponent knows that said Adam F. Helmer acted as a lieutenant in Capt. Bigbreads Company of Rangers but does not know that he ever had a commission - Deponent well recollects that the Local Militia were clapped into claps of eight men & sometimes fifteen & each clap when organized by the Committee of Safety or by the Governor were obliged to furnish a man & in this way a Company of Guards or Scouts were organized every summer season usually for three months service and the officers were generally either volunteers from the Militia or were appointed by the Committee of Safety or by the Governor - This deponent recollects that Capt. Bigbreads (who always was so called, but his right name was Breadbake ) Company was thus raised & organized in the year 1778, but deponent does not recollect how the officers were appointed or commissioned or whether they were commissioned at all, but Adam F. Helmer acted as a member & Lieutenant of said Company - This deponent lived near the said Adam F. Helmer during his life time & has often talked with him about the events of the War & he always was reputed to be & to have been a faithful officer & soldier of the war - That he married Anne Bellingr with whom he always lived as his wife until his decease - and further saith not
Sworn & subscribed the 18 th day of Jany 1839 before me George W. Fox Justice
John Frank
Herkimer County ss 3
I certify that I am well acquainted personally with John Frank whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit - & he is a respectable citizen and his statements are entitled to entire & full belief as he retains his faculties & memory about Revolutionary events well for a person of his age
George W. Fox Justice

State of New York Herkimer County Clerks office
I John Dygert Clerk of said County do hereby certify that George H. Fox Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit purport to have been taken was on the date thereof a Justice of the Peace duly elected and qualified & further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice & truly believe the signature to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 18 th day of January 1839
J. Dygert Clerk
Oral

State of New York County of Herk
John Schottlander of Herk in the County of Herk being duly sworn before Nicholas Smith Esquire a justice of the peace of the said Town & County do hereby depose and saith that he is seventy seven years of age that he has been acquainted with Adam Schott now deceased about 40 years - that he was acquainted with said Adam before and in and after the Revolutionary War - that in the said War the said Adam served as Lieutenant in a Company of Rangers commanded by Capt. Big Bend but this Deponent does not remember the year in which he performed said service nor does he now remember how long he served in said Company that whilst the said Adam served in the said Company of Rangers this Deponent served in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Henry Hart. Lieut. John Schott & Ensign Peter Schott - that this deponent and the said Schott were at the same station at Fort Dayton at Herk and that while they were so there intelligence was

received at said Fort that a party of Indians had taken Prisoner a Mr. Frank on the Mohawk River near a place called Frankfort in Herkimer County - That on that occasion the said Adam Helmer and Captain Bigbread and this deponent and some others went from Fort Dayton in pursuit of the enemy and in the neighborhood of Frankfort fell in with a party of Indians and had a skirmish with them wherein one of the enemy Indians was killed and one of the party that accompanied this deponent was also wounded of which wound he died the next day after the skirmish - That on that occasion the said Adam Helmer besides being actually engaged in the said skirmish after the said Indian was killed the said Adam went in pursuit of a Tory who was also engaged & who was flying for the distance of half a mile when he gave up the chase and returned to our party. That this deponent has also been acquainted with Anna Helmer the widow of the said Adam Helmer that the said Adam & the said Anna lived at Herkimer in the immediate neighborhood of this deponent after the war but when they were married or whether they were actually married this deponent does not know.

but from the fact that they were generally reported to be married and from the fact of their living together as man & wife and having as such raised a family of children and having thereunder heard the best of their marriage questions and arguments. This defendant believes and has no doubt that the said Adam Kelum and the said Anna Kelum were lawfully married and that the said Anna is the lawful widow of the said Adam Kelum deceased -
Subscribed & sworn to
this 18 th day of November 1834
John Nesbitt
Nicholas Smith Justice
Adam Kelum

And I the said Nicholas Smith the said Justice do hereby further certify that I have been ap- pointed with John Dockstader the person who has signed and sworn the foregoing affidavit for forty years now last past and that he has during the whole period sustained a good moral character and a fair reputation and that his statements are entitled to full faith credit. — Dated November 18 th 1837
Nicholas Smith J.P.
Onw

Andrew Speer of Frankfort in the said County of Herkimer being duly sworn before Nicholas Smith one of the Justices of the peace of the town of Herkimer in the said County of Herkimer being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he is seventy seven years of age, that he was acquainted with Adam Helmer now deceased from his infancy — that he was acquainted with said Adam during the Revolutionary and subsequent to said war and until his death which occurred several years ago — that in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven the said Adam Helmer served as Lieutenant in a Company of Hangers which was commanded by one Bigbread who gives name as this deponent believes was John as Captain the said Adam Helmer served therein as Lieutenant and John Smith was Ensign — that the said Company was organized and served for the period of nine months during the said war — that the said Company was raised on the Mohawk River then Tryon County in the State of New York being the district now comprising parts of Herkimer and Oneida Counties — that the service of the said Company of Hangers in

in which the said Adam served during the said year 1777 was rendered at Fort Dayton at Herkimer and in the vicinity of that place and at Oriskany and at Fort Stanwix above Herkimer on the Mohawk — That this deponent during the said year 1777 served also at the said Forts Dayton & Stanwix in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Frederick Getman, Lt. John Hoff 2d Lieutenant Isaac Moyer & Ensign John Moyer — That a list of the said Company was to be found in the said Company of Militia he repeatedly during that season saw the said Adam Helmer in active service in the said Company of Moyer and knows that he was considered Lieutenant therein — That the companies of Moyer & Militia in which this deponent and the said Adam served, were both engaged in the Oriskany Battle where this deponent recollect distinctly seeing the said Adam Helmer in the ranks — That this deponent remembers also that before the night previous to the engagement at Oriskany, the said Adam Helmer and Mark Dechant and one Bangsfoot Hotts as this deponent now remembers and believes, were secretly dispatched to Col. Willett and Col. Gansevoort in Fort Stanwix where they with some

Troops were stationed here at the time they were besieged by St. Leger and his army, to inform Colonel Gillett & Young of the approach of General Herkimer and which information was the cause of the defeat from Fort Stanwix by Col. Gillett with a party of men and the attack upon the enemy whilst the engagement between Genl. Herkimer & the enemy was going on - That besides the said service of the said Adam Helmer in the said company of Rangers in the year 1777 he afterwards joined the Militia at Herkimer where this deponent also served but this deponent does not now remember any particular service rendered by said Adam - And this deponent further saith that he has also been acquainted with Anna Helmer the Widow of the said Adam Helmer since he was a child - that they were children together and lived in the same neighborhood - that the maiden name of the said Anna is Bellinger and she was the daughter of Peter Bellinger - with whom this deponent was also well acquainted - that this deponent was well acquainted with the said Anna at the time of her marriage with the said Adam Helmer.

That the said Anna and the said Adam as this Deponent now believes, were married some time before the Pro- clamation this Deponent cannot state how long before - That this Deponent did not attend the solemnization of the marriage nor does the Deponent the said marriage except from hearing and report at the time, and from the continued living together of the parties as man & wife in the neighborhood of this Deponent and their raising a family of children together -
This Andrew X Piper Mark
Subscribed and sworn to this 18 th day of November 1837
Nicholas Smith Justice
* and I the said Justice do hereby further certify that I have been acquainted with Andrew Piper the Person who has signed and sworn the foregoing affidavit for twenty five years now last past that he has the whole period sustained a good moral character and a fair reputation and that his statements are entitled to full faith and credit.
Dated November 18. 1837
Nicholas Smith J.P.

State of New York § Herkimer County §
I John Dygert Clerk of the said County of Herkimer do certify that Nicholas Smith Esqr is a Justice of the Peace as within, and that the within signature purporting to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of Office and subscribed my name this 18th day of November A.D. 1837-
E.A. Munson Deputy for John Dygert Clerk
Quit
Witness my hand and seal this 18th day of November A.D. 1837 at Herkimer resuscended by Col. T.

A Mann & Son
M Hoffman Esq Herkimer
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State of New York Cayuga County
ss Peter Helmer of [illegible]
being first duly sworn says that he is aged fifty one years and is the son of Adam and Anna Helmer The said Adam being now deceased That said Adam and Anna lived together as man and wife and raised a family of children of whom defendant is one That said Adam died in the month of April one thousand eight hundred and thirty leaving the said Anna his widow who has continued a widow ever since
That Defendant has the family Record of the said Adam Helmer by which it appears that the said Adam and Anna were lawfully married on the 27 th day of Feb y 1776 which said Record also contains the names and Births & deaths of their children And further defendant saith not
Sworn this 15 th day of December
1837 Before me John P. Hurlbut Judge of The Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga
Peter Helmer
I Certify my opinion that said Peter Helmer is a man of truth and veracity
John P. Hurlbut Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga
State of New York Cayuga County
ss On this 15 th day of December 1837 personally appeared before John P. Hurlbut one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga in said State Anna Helmer a Resident of Brutus in said County aged Eighty years who Being first duly sworn according to law doth hereby make the following deposition in order to obtain the Benefit of the provision made by the

of Congress passed July 4 th 1838
That she is the widow of Adam Helmer who was a Lieutenant in the time of the Revolution and war That soon after the commencement of the Revolutionary war the said Adam Helmer enlisted and was enlisted in a Company of Rangers at which is now the County of Herkimer Herkimer, Said State of New York and Continued to serve therein as Lieutenant in Jones for and during a part of the war That said Company was commanded by Captain Benjamin Scituate Adam Helmer and Ensign John Smith That the said Company was organized in the fore part of the year 1777 and entered active service and continued to serve a term of nine months in the neighbourhood sometimes stationed at Fort Dayton and at other places to protect the inhabitants from the Indians That said Adam Helmer continued to serve during the whole term of nine months in the neighbourhood which ended late in the fall of the year aforesaid as she believes that in the following 1778 in spring the said Adam Helmer again entered said service in the said Company and served another term of nine months at the same place which said term ended on or about the first day of January one thousand Seven eight hundred and seventy nine she further says that during the whole of said war in both of said terms the said Adam served as Lieutenant She further says that during the whole of said war the said Adam Helmer lived at Herkimer aforesaid near Fort Dayton where the Country was constantly kept in a state of alarm by the Indians and said Adam was kept in service almost the whole time but in consequence of age and a failure of memory she is not able to specify any other terms of service than as above and she would not have been able to recollect so particularly about the above mentioned

for the assistance of the affidavits hereto annexed That said Adah Helmer had a Commission. But the same is now lost or destroyed so that she cannot now produce it That she has no record evide- nce of said Service That she was lawfully married to the said Adah Helmer at the Church in what is now called Heerkirk on the 27 th day of February 1776 by the Reverend Abraham Reskrents That during said war the Church Records owing to the alarming state of the times were put together into a Chest or Box and the said Chest or Box and the said Chest or Box was buried in the ground to keep it away from the enemy as she has been informed and believes and that said Chest and its contents have been burnt and entirely destroyed so that all record of said Marriage has been lost and she is unable to produce record evidence of said Marriage That the said Abraham Reskrents is dead and has been for many years and she has never obtained a certificate of said Marriage That the said Adah Helmer died in the month of April 1830 and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by the proof hereto annexed
Sworn and Subscribed on the day and year first above written John P. Hulbert Judge of Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga
I certify that said Adah Helmer is entitled to Credit and that she is unable to attend Court on account of age and extreme debility Dated December 15 th 1837
John P. Hulbert Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga

Anne Helmer
additional affix
Agent
A. Gouler
Leban
NY
W. H. ...

State of New York
Herkimer County ss Abraham G. Rosecrantz of the town of Little Falls in said county being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he is a son of George Rosecrantz Esquire deceased of the same place who died the 21 st day of Decem- ber last past and is grandson of the Rever- end Abraham Rosecrantz many years since deceased and who as deponent is informed His life time was upon, during, & until his death after, the Revolutionary War the minister of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church in the now town of Germanflats that a short time before the death of this deponent's father he placed in deponent's hands for safe keeping the records of marria- =ges, births & baptisms kept as deponent has al- ways been informed as he believes there were made & kept by deponent's said Grandfather while he was such minister, Deponent saith he is in his thirty fifth year of age and the said records are the same records which have from the infancy of this deponent been used & treated by his father & others as the true & genuine records of marriages births & baptisms made & kept by his Grand father at the period at which they bear date. This deponent saith that in said records is contained the marriage of Joh: Adam T. Helmer to Anna Piet: Bellinger on the twenty seventh day of February one thousand eight hundred & seventy six, and this deponent further states & certifies that it is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as as follows "1776"
"A 27 Febr Joh: Adam T. Helmer u. Anna Piet: Bellinger"
I Abraham G. Rosecrantz above named do hereby say that I hold the office of Supervisor of the town of Little Falls in said county & state aforesaid That the above is a true extract from the records

aforesaid of said Marriage with the excep- tion above named as certified by me Abraham G. Rosencrantz
This may certify that on this 11 th day of January 1839 came before me Abraham G. Rosencrantz who is personally known to me to be the person who is described in & who signed the above affi- =davit & in due form of law made oath before me that the above deposition is true & I certify that he is a man of fair & good char- acter for truth & veracity.
Abraham G. Rosencrantz William Brooks Justice of the Peace
The above Erasure of "Abraham G. Rosencrantz" was made before executing that paper and was a mistake in the said Rosencrantz in first putting his name in that place
W. Brooks, J.P.

Werkimer County Pa.
Conrad Stitz of Frankfort in said County being duly sworn before Charles Gloro a commissioner of deeds for said County, Says That he is aged seventy seven years the 20 th day of this month & that he is a pensioner of the United States & that he resided in the town of German Flatts before & during the Revolutionary war that he was well acquainted with Adam F. Helmer sometimes Milton Adam Helmer also of the town of German Flatts that to the knowledge & distinct recollection of this deponent the said Adam F. Helmer was a Lieutenant in Capt Bigbreads or Breadbrake Company of Rangers for the period of nine months that this deponent served in the same company at the same time which was during the year 1778 & was discharged on the first day of January 1779. that said Company was raised & officered under the direction of the Local Committee of Safety as this deponent was informed & believes by the Authority of the Governor, that said Committee of Safety then were Rudolph Stett Michael Stitz & John Frank the latter of whom is still living that during the frequent alarms & attacks upon the inhabitants by the Tories & Indians, under the direction of the Committee & the Continental Officers the Militia were classed into classes of eight or ten & deponent does not recollect which & each class were obliged to furnish one man for the service & in this manner the Company called Rangers

under the command of Capt Bigbread who was a Captain of the Militia was raised & deponent was hired by one of the Clapes as a Soldier therein & served nine months during which time the said Adam Helms was a lieutenant in said company acting under the Authority of the Committee & the Governor as this deponent is informed & verily Believes that said company deponent well recollects went down to Fort Plain & were mustered by Col. Waggner that John Smith commonly called Blind John Smith was ensign and they were constantly employed as Scouts in parties on the Look out for Tories & Indians, that said company was attached to the command as deponent believes of Col Ganswort that the Authority of its Officers Capt Bigbread & Lieutenant Helms & John Smith was understood to be derived from the Governor through the Committee of Safety & that to the knowledge of the depon- -ent such companies of the Local Militia under the same Authority were usually organised every Summer Season that the Officers were either Volunteers or were appointed by the Committee & unless they happened to be Officers of the Local militia they were not commonly commissioned by the Governor & further saith not
Sworn & subscribed
the 15 th day of January 1839 before me
Charles Clow Com of deeds
Conrad Stig

I certify that I am well acquainted with Conrad Ehrig the individual who made the annexed affidavit & that he is a person of good moral character & that his statements are entitled to full credit & belief
Charles Clow Com d of Leeds
Quit

Herkimer County N.Y.
Andrew Piper being deputy of Frankfort in said County being duly sworn before Charles Clow a Commissioner of Oaths in & for said County in addition to the facts stated in his affidavit sworn before Nicholas Smith Esqr the 18 th day of November 1837 says that the nature of the warfar prosecuted upon the frontier of the State of New York in the Valley of the Mohawk River by the sudden descent of the Tories & Indians upon the Settlements that it became necessary to organise some of the militia & keep them in service during every Summer Season that after the Battle of Oriskany this deponent remembers the militia were divided into classes of eight or ten each class being obliged to furnish one man this division was understood to be under the Authority of the Governor & the Committee of Safety & deponent recollects that the Company called Rangers under the command of Capt Bigbread & Lieut s Adam F Helms and ensign John Smith was thus organised that Capt Bigbread bilouged at Palatine in the new County of Montgomery & was a commissioned Captain of the militia belonging to Klocks Regiment that the officers of these were as deponent is informed & believes appointed By the Local Committee of Safety under the Authority derived from the Government & were not therefore usually commissioned that their services were for different & uncertain periods of time according to the various necessities of the country & the times

And deponent further says that the said Adam F Helmer was usually called among the dutch people Adam & his name was frequently written Adam but his true name deponent believes was Adam F Helmer. That the statement in the Life of Brant by W.L. Stone page 233 which has been read to deponent that the said Adam Helmer went to carry intelligence to Col. Ganswood is correct according to the best recollection of deponent & refers to the same Adam F. Helmer mentioned in this affidavit & this deponent was knowing to said Helmer going away from the troops at the time & further saith not.  Sworn & subscribed the 15 th day of January 1839 before me
Andrew his  X mark Piper
Charles Clow  Com of deeds
I certify that Andrew Piper the person who made the above affidavit is a man of good moral character & his statements are fully entitled to credit & belief & that am well acquainted with said Andrew Piper
Charles Clow Com of deeds
Steuben County 3 Clerks Office p: 3
I hereby certify that Charles Clow Esq. was on the date of the above affidavits a Commissioner of Deeds &c. and that William Brooks Esq. was on the date of the within affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County & duly Commissioned & qualified. And that I am well acquainted with their several handwritings and justly believe that the several signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine - In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said County Jan'y 15, 1838.
Erwin S. Henson: Deputy Clerk

State of New York Montgomery County } [redacted]
This 16 th day of May 1860 John Henry Wagle of the Town of Canajoharie in the County of Montgomery came before me John Van Alstine a justice of the Peace of said County & deposed & saith that he is eighty three years old a pensioner of the United States in the commencement of the war he resided in Stone Arabia in the Town of Palatine in the County aforesaid about two miles from the residence of Captain John Breadbreak a Militia officer in Col. Klock's Regiment and Genl. Herkimer's Brigade. he was a private soldier under Captain John Breadbreak soon after the commencement of the war the Government ordered several companies to be raised to guard the country from Tories & Indians called Rangers. Deponent volunteered & listed for six months we were regularly organized as a Company, our Captain was Jacob Seeh. first Lieutenant John Seeh. Second Lieutenant John Hauser we were stationed around Fort Stanwix to guard the Fort & workmen who were engaged in building said Fort. at the expiration of six months I was discharged & returned home. the Tories & Indians grew so outrageous. The Governor appointed a Committee of Council & the Committee of Council gave orders to raise companies for nine months men. who were usually called rangers in the year 1777. the companies were collected together under General Herkimer & I don't at what place this Deponent cannot say. but it is his impression that it was at Fort Herkimer. They found it difficult to raise volunteers until they knew who their officers were. John Breadbreak was a Farmer had many servants & men labored himself, was much esteemed as a man & as an officer. and for the encouragement of the Inhabitants & Soldiers volunteered as a Captain over the nine months men as before stated at the time of the Oriskany battle. he called his militia men & rangers together they formed one Company under Captain John Breadbreak.
And Deponent says that Anna Helmer who is the widow of Adam Helmer is now an applicant for a pension & that she now resides in the Town of Brtus in the County of Cayuga & State of New York & that this said Adam Helmer was first Lieutenant over these

rangers under Captain John Breadbreak and Elisha Denny as an uncommissioned officer, or was commissioned by the higher officers, he actually served nine months in the year 1778. There was a company of rangers, raised & this Captain John Breadbreak though wounded took charge of this com- pany of rangers, raised by the order of the committee of Coun- sel, and Adam Helmer volunteered as first Lieutenant & that one John Smith was an under officer, who was usually called blind John Smith in order to distinguish him from another Smith. & this Deponent cannot now recollect the other under officers of said company Captain John Breadbreak was so much esteemed among the soldiers that they daily got many volunteers, and that then they clapped those men from ten to sixteen in a clasp, & drew out of all their companies sufficient to make up a guard of rangers, called nine months men & they were legally organized as a company at Col. Maggones near Fort Plain in the County of Montgomery, and whenever there was likely to be a battle the militia who were generally farmers were called together and started at a minutes warning & their equipments examined in order to be in readiness, & when they marched to battle they all formed one company as herein before stated under Captain John Breadbreak, & when the battle was over the militia soldiers returned to their several occupations, and that Captain John Breadbreak usually lay around among his nine months men, which were divided in scouting parties under watch day & night & that they served their nine months, & were discharged on New Years morning in the year 1779 & returned home to their several occupations. I, this Deponent, was called into Briarkey battle, Saratoga battle, Johnstown battle & several other skirmishes & after the battles were over returned home to my farm & held myself in readiness as usual at a moments warning and further Deponent says not
Sworn this 16 th day of May 1840 before me

and further Deponant says not —
Sworn this 16 th day of May 1840 before me J. H. Van Alstine Justice
John Henry his X Maple mark
I certify that I am personally acquainted with John Henry Maple, the person who made the above affidavit that he is a creditable & reputable witness. Dated May 16. 1840
J. H. Van Alstine Justice
State of New York
Montgomery County
Clerk's Office I do hereby Certify that the above named John T. Van Alstine whose name is subscribed to the front of the foregoing affidavit is at the time of signing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County and duly authorized by the Laws of the said State to administer Oaths and that his signature subscribed to the same is genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of my office this 16 th day of May 1840
A. J. Bonner Clerk

Washington City April 10 th 1846
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
Will you have the good will to report to me at your earliest convenience your answer to the enclosed interrogatories & very much oblige
Yours &c N. Wheaton

Warren County Lt. Adam Helmer
Comptroller's Certificate of service in 1780.
No 4.

Adams Hamilton Apr 7 1787 Capt Peter Ellsworth
In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz :
24th Oct 1786.
Adams Hamilton Lieutenant £ 45 - 5 - 8
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, April 22 , 1843. }
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 4 . now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz :
  First—under Capt. John Bradburn in Col. Jacob Kloek Regt.   Second, " " " " "   Third, " " " " "   Fourth, " " " " "   Fifth, " " " " "   Sixth, " " " " "   Seventh, " " " " "   Eighth, " " " " "   Ninth, " " " " "   Tenth, " " " " " 
Philip Schuyler Deputy Comptroller

Christopher Morgan
A. Gould Seaburn ms

Antwerp A. J. Jones
Christopher Morgan

The Number and Amount of Certificates issued by the Treasurers of the State of New York for Quarters and Militia Ho- -ries &c. Continued from Book N o IV.
   To whom given     1780 April 1 20839 Adam Harlow Pay 6 5 4  
State of New York Comptroller's Office Albany Jan'y 28 th 1840
I hereby Certify the above to be true extracts from Books & now remaining in this Office, and also that it appears from the same Books, that the said Harlow served the term above named under Capt David H. Haring, and that on the 1 st April 1780 Peter Bellinger was a Colonel.
Walter Lee Comptroller
   1784 Oct 1 State of New York For amount of Pay Roll for Capt John Bradbick's Company living in Colp Dubois Regt in 1780 consisting of One Capt, two Subalterns & thirty three Non Commissioned Officers & Privates Audited October 2 nd 1784. 423 7 6    
State of New York Comptroller's Office Albany Jan'y 28 th 1840
I hereby Certify the above to be a true extract from Books & of Audited Accounts now remaining in this Office, and that Original Pay Roll is lost or mislaid, & that the same has not been found.
Walter Lee Comptroller

An Abstract of the Field & Staff Officers of Col Jacob Klock's Regt. of Rensselaer County Militia, called into the Service on different alarms to oppose the Common enemy of the United States.
   Amount of Capt Rudolph Klock, Pay Roll No 1.  410  3  9    " " " John Bradfield " " 5th  288  11  4    Audited Octob r 5 th 1784.      
State of New York Comptroller's Office Albany Jan y 28 th 1840
I hereby Certify the above to be a true extract from Books A of Audited Accounts, and that the original pay Roll of Capt John Bradfield amounting to £288.11.4 is lost or mislaid, & that that the same has not been found.
for $1.02
Waterloo Comptroller

Comptroller Office Albany January 28 th 1840
Sir
I am sure you have certificates in relation to the revolutionary services of Adam Helmer which contain all the evidence remaining in this office
I am very respectfully Yr. Ob d Servant Philip Phelps Comptroller
A. Gould Auburn NY

Adan Helmer
no 8

"United States Dr for pay and subsistence of Militia and Levies for which the Treasurer has issued Certificates. Sheet No 1."
   Interest commencing Names No. of Vouchers Principal Time 6 per cent Amount of Interest       1778. Decem. 31   " " " Capt. Bradbig's Comp £173:17:3 8 £83:9:7   1778 June 30 Capt. Bradbig 69:8:2 8 6 35:7:9   1780. Oct. 24 Capt. John Bradbig & Co 56 423:7:6 6 2 7 157:2:9   1782. Mar 19 Ensign Sherwood 57 7:5:10 4 9 12 2:1:10   May 15 Capt. Westfall's Coy 58 60:15:— 4 7 10 16:17:1   1783 May 1. Col. Klock's Abstract H. & Staff 59 116:—:2 3 8 25:10:4   1780 Sept 4 Capt Rock's Comp 410:3:9 6 3 26 155:11:11   1779 Dec 31 Carpier do 128:7:6 7 53:18:3   1782. Dec 31 House's do 141:13:10   " do do Klock do 372:2:10   " " " Bradbig's do 288:11:4 4 332:0:1   " " " Sutz do 463:11:4   " " " Miller do 117:7:10  
Comptroller's Office — } Albany, Jan 7. 22 d . 1844.
I certify the preceding to be a true extract from a Revolutionary document now remaining in this Office
Philip Phelps Dep. Comp t

Anna Hobner N.Y.
Gily St. July Dec 9th 1844 R Galt Feb 5 1845
Act 4 July 1836

As the letter is addressed to the General of Penns. the Hon. Mr. Wheaton will please return it after writing to Mr. P.
Yours of the 13th Feb 5
Rev. Dr. Churchman

Toronto Apr. 7, 46
Sir
I am engaged in filing a bill in chancery against Peter Helmer in behalf of several of the children of Anna Helmer dec d . As it important my statements showed the very minute & accurate I hope you will pardon me for troubling you once more in this matter which I hope will be the last
In whose name was the claim made which you do speak of as the claim of the children of Anna Helmer dec d admitted on the 15 th of Feb. 1845?
By whom was it signed?
Can you send me a copy of the certificate granted?
If not Can you inform me to whom the money mentioned in it was made payable and, in what Capacity , & for whose benefit
An immediate answer will much oblige
Yours Abt Sat.
M rs Porter Jr.
H. L. Edwards Esq. Gent men &c.

Washington City, March 21. 1846
J. S. Edwards Esq. Sir,
I enclose a letter to you from Mr Porter of N.Y. asking some information from you on certain subjects. I desire to give me as early an answer, as is consistent with your business, Mr Porter is anxious to get an early reply.
I am very Respectfully Yours R. Wheaton

Anna Helmer widow of Adam Helmer
Letter Oct 24 1844.
G. H. Yates Batz

In the matter of the application of Anna Helmer widow of Adam Helmer decd. for a pension &c
Sir.
In this case you have the affidavits of Conrad Ittig & George Ittig (or Edick ) who were privates in the company of Captain John Bradpick (or " Breadbatti " as the Dutch called him) of which Adam Helmer was 1 st Lieutenant. These affidavits with those of Peter Fox , Peter Hag , Judge , Pipin , Judge Markle &c must clearly establish the identity of Adam Helmer as such Lieutenant. The blun- dering of an agent in producing proof of the services of a private of the same name & that in the same year too in which proof is exhibited of the Adam Helmer in question having been a Lieutenant, ought not to militate against the claim. I have it now in my power to estab- lish it on incontrovertible testimony.
Of Adam Helmer's militia & volunteer service in 1779 & 1781, I have not been able to ob-

tain any documentary evidence & cannot make any given number of days service with the detail your rules require. The life of Colonel Brant by Col. Chase, bears testimony to the valor of Adam Helmer when he met Genl. Herkimer, It was he who carried the express alluded to on the occasion referred to. In 1781, he served at least a week at Muddy Kill (or mud creek) & vicinity. See affidavits of Peter Fox & Dennis A. Blandus enclosed, marked - No 1.
Exhibit documentary proof that Adam Helmer served as a Lieutenant in 1778, 1780 & 1782 as follows.
1778. I have forwarded to you by this day's mail 4 Rolls of Capt: Bradpick for the months of July, August, September & October 1778, showing continuous service of Adam Helmer as Lieutenant in said Company for those months, commencing on the 1 st day of July. That he continued to serve in said company that year till the 31 st Dec - appears from the fact that John Bradpick's company was paid up to 31 st Dec 1778. See Document No 2, herewith sent; also by Document No 3, which shows that John Smith the associate Lieutenant of Adam Helmer served till 1779. That the service in 1778 was continuous is indispu- table, because Bradpick's company was a

company of Levis, (or Rangers as Smith designates them. We claim then for Adam Helms a service in 1778, of 6 months
1779. As to service he rendered in 1779,
We claim that he be allowed so much as may fairly be inferred from & proved by the affidavits on file in the case. Now that his appointment as Lieutenant in 1778, & his actual service after 1779, have been clearly shown, the claim assumes a different aspect than it would if such appointment previous to 1779 & service afterwards, had not been made out. I have not a copy of the Declaration & accompanying affidavits to refer to, to enable me to set forth the claim for this year —
MS.
1780. I exhibit anew the Comptroller's Certificate of 4 Mos & 27 days service of Adam Helms in 1780. No 4.
MS 7
1781. I have the same representation to make as for the year 1779
MS 1
1782. By reference to Document No 2. you will find that Bradrick's Company was paid a balance of £288: 11. 4 Dec r 31 st 1782. The service for this year of said Company is set down at 6 or 8 months
MS
17 mos 7 days

Prot forward — 17 mo s 7 days By reference to said document N o 2. it will be seen that said Company rec d a like balance on 30 th June 1778 showing at least semi-annual month — The 2 payments in 1778 of £173.17.3.
& of £69. 8. 2. of the whole company, affords no standard by which to judge of the true length of service in that year. In fact those amounts added together would hardly pay for 1 month's services — yet Clinton's Rolls show 4 months at one view.
Under all the facts & circumstances now exhibited I confidently assert & claim at least 18 months services for Adam Helmer.
I am very respectfully Yours no. 1 st Secy G. H. Yates.

Dec 16 44
Adam Helmer
Brig Hattie
Nycaus
James J. Edwards Owner of Schooner Washington City Off
Am

Dec 16 44
Adam Helms
Benj. Hotie
Ny Coney
Mr
James L. Edmonds Comm ee of Pensions Washington City D.C.

Weedsport, Cayuga Co, New York Dec 12, 1844
Sir,
I am Solicited, by some of the heirs of Adam Helmer, a Revolutionary Soldier to Enquire of you if the Name of Anna Helmer his widow was ever placed on the pension Roll, and if so to whom was her Certificate sent? Are the heirs intitled to any thing, if her name is not on the Pension Roll? There is some difficulty among them on the subject, as I am informed —
I am, Sir, Your Obt Servt Robert Galt
James L Edwards Commr of pensions Washington City D.C.
P.S. Was ever the Name of Benjamin Hoxsie, placed on the pension Roll. He was a resident of Kingsborough, Montgomery Co. N.Y., and died about 5 years since —
Robt Galt

In the matter of of Anna widow of Adam Helmer
Petition of John Smith Lieut. &c
No 3.

"To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of New York in Senate and Assembly convened.
The Petition of John Smith late of the town of Manlius in the County of Onondaga humbly represents
"That in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy-six, your petitioner entered as a Sergeant in Capt- ain Jacob Seber's Company belonging to the Levys of the State of New York, and served regularly under Captain Seber doing duty constantly till the year following; then your petitioner enlisted under Captain McKeen for and during the war & remained in said Company until the Spring following, then your petitioner enlisted four men in his place & received a regular discharge from said Company then he was ordered by the Committee of the County of Tryon to go with a party of men and open a road from old fort Schuyler to the Oriskany Creek, which service your petitioner faithfully performed & on his return was sent with baggage to the garrison at Fort Stanwix with orders to continue there, where your petitioner continued on duty during the siege of the fort and till the year following, when he was appointed a Lieutenant in Captain John Breadbick's Company belonging to the New York Levies, in which station he regularly did his duty as a Lieutenant in said Company till the year seventeen hundred and eighty nine Then your petitioner received orders from the Governor to enlist men for the defence of the garrison which he did, in the Spring of seventeen hundred & eighty nine your petitioner was ap- pointed a Lieutenant in Captain Robert McKeen's Company of nine months men belonging to Henry K. Van Rensselaer's Regiment of Levies, in which

Company he served during the Campaign and that for two years service during his Tenancy he was paid in the year Seventeen Hundred and Eighty in Con- tinental money at par (without any commutation notwithstanding its depreciation at that time was so great as to render it of little or no value to him And that your petitioner has never received any part of the lands which were set apart for the troops of this State, notwithstanding was enlisted for & during the war. In the year seventeen hundred and eighty, your petitioner contracted with William Duer for the supplying the posts of forts Plain, Herkimer and Dayton with provis- -ions in which service your petitioner continued during the war, and in this last service your petitioner sacrificed all his property. So that for his service in the defence of his country he received merely nothing, and last of all Colonel Willett's expedition to the Oswego proved his complete ruin as there was no provision to be had in that quarter &c
Your petitioner humbly therefore prays that your Honorable Body will take his case into consideration, as he is now aged infirm and indigent, and your petitioner wishes if your Honorable body should think fit, that a portion of the military bounty lands may be granted to his sons John I. Smith Jun and his daughter Polly Smith (in trust) that they may dispose of the same under such restrictions and limitations as may be thought proper by your Honorable body, so that the avails thereof may be appropriated to the support of him

your petition, and he as in duty bound will ever pray &c
(Signed) Jas O Smith
"This may certify that the bearer hereof Mr John Smith was a Lieutenant in my Regiment in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, and that the said John Smith behaved him- self as a faithful officer during the Campaign - Albany 20 th Feby 1871."
(Signed) "A. K. V. Ruspelaw"
State of New York - Secretary of State's Office - Albany, October 21 st 1844.
I certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of an original paper on file in this office in Book labelled "Assembly papers - Revolutionary soldiers and Claims" - No. 21. pages 197, 198, & 199.
Arch d Campbell
Dep. Sec. of State
Albany Oct. 21. 1844

J. L. Edwards Esq. Comr of Pensions Washington

Sir
Will you be so good as to inform me Whether any Claim has been made for the pecuniary of Adam Helms late of the Town of Brutes in the County of Cayuga & State of New York decd. And if so the names of the applicants & whether the claim has been allowed or not & if so the amt. awarded
In the case of the claim of the children of Anna Helms which was admitted on the 15 of Feb. 1845 are two grand children in case their parents were both dead before the claim was admitted entitled to any share of it or is it to be equally divided among the surviving children
Yours Abt. Sir,
Wm Porter Esq.
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Jordan March 16 1845

Anna Helmer
Widow of Adam Helmer
Certificate of Unon- gate

The People of the State of New York by the grace of God Free and Independent.
To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern — Seal Ye!
Know Ye, that at a Surrogate's Court held at the Village of Auburn in & for the County of Cayuga, before Charles B. Perry Esquire Surrogate of said County, the most satisfactory evidence was advanced to prove that Anna Helmer the widow of Adam Helmer deceased, late of the town of Brutus in our said County, departed this life on the twenty fifth day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred & forty one; That Letters of Administration on the estate of the said Anna Helmer deceased have in due form of law been granted and committed unto Peter Helmer one of the sons of said deceased, and that said Letters still remain in full force unrevoked and unrescinded.
The most satisfactory evidence was advanced to prove, that said Anna Helmer died leaving her surviving the follow- -ing named children, who are all over twenty one years of age, and the only legitimate surviving children of said Anna Helmer deceased, viz: David Helmer, Anna Passage widow of Henry Passage, Catherine Hill wife of John Hill, Elizabeth Munes wife of James Munes, Margaret Passage wife of George Passage & the said Peter Helmer.
All of which is hereby accordingly certified.
In Testimony whereof we have caused the seal of Office of our said Surrogate to be hereunto affixed. Witness Charles B. Perry Surrogate of our said County at Auburn this twenty third day of January in the year 1841. Charles B. Perry Surrogate

July 22. 1870
My. J. Schumann Aurora
James L. Edwards Esq. Pension Office. Washington.
C. Morgan House of Rep. Hon. Chas. Morgan Aurora N.Y.

House of Rep.
July 21 st 1840.
J L Edwards Esq.
Sir,
I inclose additional evidence in the case of Anna Helms. It seems to me that the inclosed affidavits with the proof now in your possession, furnish a very clear case. Will you have the kindness to give the case an attentive reconsideration.
Please address me at Aurora, Cayuga County, New York.
Very Respectfully.
Your obedt. Servt.
Christopher Morgan.

Ans. 10. Sep. 1840
Sept 18. 1840
Miss Adams
Ja
Henry L. Edwards bearer of pension Washington D.C.

Salem Sept 4 1840
Sir
Since writing you yesterday in regard to the claim of Sumner Helmer to a pension I have been informed that about 20 years ago Adlam Helmer made application for a pension under the act of 1818. That the agent who did the business was John Groom of this place. That at that time Mr Helmer gave to Judge Groom his commission and all his other evidence of service to be transmitted to Washington and it is supposed those papers are now on file in the pension office. Have you any means of ascertaining whether such an application was made, and will you please make examination of the files of your office and see if you find any thing that will afford evidence of the grade in which he served. Would the effect of a person who has seen his commission be of any service in establishing this claim?
I am yours Very Resp
Hon J L Edwards
A Gould

RATHBUN & GOULD, Attorneys & Counsellors at Law,
and
Solicitors & Counsellors in Chancery.
GEO. RATHBUN. ) AMOS GOULD. )
AUBURN, N. Y.
CT Gould

Sept 7 1840
On the
Rev. L. Edwards Court of Pension Washington D.C. Anna Helms

Auburn Sept 3 rd 1840
Sir
Your letter of the 22 nd July last to the Hon C Morgan in relation to the claim of Anna Helmer for a pension has been placed in my hands. We can not possibly I fear furnish the evidence which you require of Adam Helmers being commissioned as Lieutenant.
That he served in that capacity the affidavits before leave no doubt.
I have made examination at Albany personally for evidence of his service but could find only such as has been sent you. I was also informed that most of the records of that kind had been transmitted to your office from this State. Have you examined those records? If you find in them no evidence of his being commissioned I shall be inclined to think that he was never commissioned, but entered the ranger service as stated in the affidavits and was then chosen by his company to serve as Lieutenant. If this were the case he would be entitled at any rate to a pension as a private soldier. Will you not allow

her a pension for services as a private soldier for the whole time which he is proved to have served
There is no doubt but he served with officers regularly commissioned and his service must have been of that character which entitles his widow to a pension
I am authorized to say that Mrs Helmer will receive a pension for his services as a private soldier except for such time as he is proved by the records of the department to have served as sergeant.
Of his service there can be no doubt and I think you can have no hesitation in allowing the pension as above suggested
Please send your answer to me
I am Sir
Very Respectfully yours
A Gerrel
Then J L Edwards

RATHBUN & GOULD, Attorneys & Counsellors at Law,
and
Solicitors & Counsellors in Chancery,
GEO. RATHBUN, } AMOS GOULD. }
AUBURN, N. Y.

Mar 7-43
Adams
L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

J. S. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir.
I send herewith a letter in reference to the claim of the widow of Adam (F.) Helmer .
Before incurring any additional expense in the matter, I thought I would solicit a reexamination of the claim. The documentary evidence bears out nearly five months of the services alleged to have been rendered by Mr. Helmer; as much as usual in the ma- jority of cases, and as much as the imperfect state of the Records at Albany will warrant. I trust that the parole testimony in the case taken in connection with the record evidence will satisfy you that the widow is entitled at least to the lowest pension allowable under the act of 4 th July 1836.
I am very respectfully
Your ob t Servt
G. F. Helmer
Albany, March 1 st 1843.

Nov 16. 1874.
W. H.
Anna H. ...
Am. ab.
Dear
Dear J. L. Edwards
Commission of pension
Washington
D.C.

Auburn Nov 10 1840
Sci
Since the return of papers from Washington to Albany in relation to the service of the New York troops I have caused an examination to be made for evidence of the service of Adam Helmer and I have obtained the following which I enclose.
I think the enclosed will be sufficient to satisfy you that Mr Helmer was a Lieutenant and served as such
It seems the troops were called New York Livids instead of Rangers. The people probably called them Rangers.
I think the enclosed taken in connection with the memoranda of full affidavits of his service as Lieut already in your possession must be sufficient to establish the claim of Anna Helmer to a pension.
Please examine the matter & communicate the result to me.
I hope you will see fit to allow the claim.
I am Sir
Yours very truly
A Gould
Hon J L Edwards

Adam Helmer
No 1.

State of New York ss Montgomery County ss
Dennis Dlander of the town of Oppenheim in the County of Fulton, aged eighty six years & upwards, being strictly sworn saith, that during the Revolution he was well acquainted with Adam Helmer who Hailed from the the district of Herkimer. That said Adam Helmer in the Summer of 1781, was on duty with the Militia from his district in what is now called Palatine & Deponent at the time saw & partic- =ularly remembers that said Adam Helmer was in the battle (so called) Mudder Hill or Mud Creek in the town now of St Johnsville, & then & there saw said Adam Helmer knock an Indian in the head & the Indian said Shana Shana . . . & said Helmer replied well skin you & then killed him, this deponent was then & there on duty in the Company Command- =ed by Capt Graft in the Regiment of Colonel Willet subscribed & sworn Dennis Dlander the 12 th day of Oct 1844 mark before me
Laurence Marshall ss & I also certify that said Dennis D lander is a witness of credibility & that the foregoing affidavit was carefully read over to him & its contents explained before he signed or made his mark & sworn to the same L Marshall ss

STATE OF NEW-YORK, { ss. Montgomery County Clerk's Office. {
I, Chester S. Brumley , Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Lawrence M'Gillius Esq. whose name is subscribed to the annexed Deed  Certificate was at the time of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace of said county; and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of such Justice and verily believe that the signature to the said Deed is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said county, the 17 th day of October 1844
Chester S. Brumley Clerk.

Peter Helmer for Adam Helmer , widow.
PAID 12 3/4 Mr Giles F. Yates Esq. Schenectady NY Albany Co

WadsPort in the town of Brulius Cayuga County N.Y. State Mr. Giles, F. Gate, Esq. Sir
Having by a friend been inform'd you Sir have as- sisted the widow and the fatherless to obtain their rights in getting pensions I take the liberty to inform you of my luck in trying to obtain a pension for my mother (who died the 24 th of January 1831) it is five years since I began I went to Herkimer in expectation of finding evi- dence to prove of my father's services as Cap- tain after one Captain Bake Bread was wounded Bigbread the German people used to call him I fail'd of finding such evidence but obtain'd three affidavits for being first Lieutenant for nine months in a company of rangers Breadbake being Captain, I proved their marriage and supposed all done but obtain'd no pen- sion there has been two journeys since and obtain'd several affidavits but obtain'd nothing, altho' there is found in the war department at Washington four months and seven days credited to Adam Helmer (the name of my deceased father) Sometimes his name was written Adam F. Helmer he was a man which went through every hardship that was endured during the war he was in several skirmishes and battles among the indian he was the identical Helmer which is mentioned in the life of Brant as going with the express to fort Snayler for

merly called Fort Stanwix and sallied out with Willet to meet Herkimer and man- y more Services his family was routed three times his house and all the stuff burnt three time during the war for which he had no compensation nor ever received any pay for his services and because he was so Valiant a soldier and his wife while living needed her pension and her heirs now are needy which prompts me still to persevere now Mr. Yates a line from you giving your advice would oblige Your humble Servant Peter Herkimer
M c Giles F. Yates Sir re mem.
January 14 1848
P.S. Sir by conversing with many of the revolutioners you might obtain information concerning my father's services and if there is any chance for us to obtain our right I should like to do it Sir

Anna Helmer
May
Mr. Morgan

State of New York Montgomery County town of Pataline this fourteenth day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty Peter Frose came before me Jacob C. Fox. One of the Justices of peace in Said County being duly sworn Deposeth and saith he was eighty years old last September and that he is a pensioner of the United States that he was well acquainted with Adam Helmer whose widow is now an applicant for a pension he knows the Said Helmer to have been one of the most respectable men in town whose word was ever to be believed and a worthy citizen and good patriot and soldier in the year One thousand seven hundred and Seventy Seven he was with the troops up the river all the companies all along the river were ordered out we march'd along from old fort Schuyler to Oriskany in marching along the Said Helmer sat on a log beside the road he bid good by & call him he said he would be amongst us did not happen to see him when fighting but when we met again he told me he was chosen to carry an express to fort Stanix he was ordered by General Herkimer to sit on the log untill the troops were all out of sight then to go across the wood and let no one know he had the letter Helmer told me he could not get by the indian camp no other way then to wade the river he put the letter in his hat and kept his head above water and came towards the fort he left the river when he found he must and crept along the guard at the fort hailed him he gave them a sign they immediately came to him and aided him into the fort he further told

told me the following Day The Sallicd fourth with Willet and his men into the indian camp they brake them up took all from them ammunition and every thing that was worth carrying away and returned to the fort without loosing a man at the latter part of the war he brought his family here to Palatine he lived in the house with my father a part of the time I cannot state exactly the time but a company of tories and indian came into our border. One of the tories deserted some and told us the enemy was near we all turned out and went Helmer and five others were chosen to spy them out, enemy spied us and fired we were immediately in battle Helmer shot an indian broke his leg but discovered the indian intended to shoot him Helmer came to him the indian cried for mercy but Helmer perceived the indian still fixing his gun to shoot Helmer sprung caught hold of the gun indian would not let go Helmer took the indian tomahawk and made an end of him Helmer took the gun and tomahawk and we went on on our return we saw he had been scalped I cannot state all the acts of helmer but the time he lived among us here he kept himself well equiped and ready to start any moment to the end of the war and has ever been esteem an One of the preservers of our Country
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 14 th day of May 1840
Peter Fox
Jacob C Fox Justice

This is to certify that I am well acquainted with Peter Fox to be a man of truth and veracity -
I myself have heard my father say that he was in company with the said Adam Holmer when he killed the Indian
Jacob C Fox pro tem
I Peter C Fox do hereby certify that I was well acquainted with the above named A. Holmer in the Revolutionary war & that he and family lived in my father's house in or towards the last of the war and to my recollection no man more brave than him the said A. Holmer
Peter C Fox now residing
and Seventy six 1/2 T. Hill Street

State of New York
Albany -
Montgomery County
Clerk's office.
I do hereby certify that Jacob G. H orshagen whose name is subscribed to the foregoing  affidavit of the foregoing affidavits and proceedings was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the peace in and for the said County and duly authorized by the Laws of the said State to administer Oaths &c in said County and that his signature subscribed to the same is genuine
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of my office this 16 th May 1840
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State of New York County of Montgomery town of Minden this fifteenth day of May One thousand eight hundred and forty Henry Murphy of the town of Starks in the county of Herkimer New York State came before me Countryman a Justice of the peace of the said county of Montgomery being duly sworn deposeth and saith he was seventy seven last December and an invalid pensioner of the United States that in the revolution war he was a soldier under Adam Lipe Captain under Colonel Clyde On the South Side of the Mohawk river I had a Brother Thomas Murphy who was under Captain Cornelius Venever of the same regiment that in the year One thousand seven hundred and and seventy eight this said Cornelius Thomas Murphy enlisted as a nine months man and was considered under Capt ain Breadbake and Henry Murphy took his place and did actually serve nine months Captain Breadbake that was a militia Officer we counted our captain Breadbake was an officer in Colonel Clocks regiment general Herkimers Brigade Bread bake was wounded in the Orisk ny battle but was still able to keep along with the other troops the greatest part of the time he further saith the country was in a deplorable situation the rangers raised in Seventy Six were not sufficient to guard the country the Governor appointed a committee the committee gave orders to the

the Officers to raise more rangers On this ground the companies of nine months men were raised in the year Seventy Seven and Seventy eight I did actually serve the nine months in Seventy eight and the Militia captain Breadbake was my Captain And I think the said Helmer was first Lieutenant and was commissioned by the higher Officers we were pulled and halted and ordered from place to place and often in great confusion but were stationed apart of the the time at Fort Tatum Fort Harkness and Fort Stanis we were not kept together but we were rangers and did range from place to place it was difficult to raise sufficient companies to guard our country unless there could be officers that suited the Soldiers which was One reason why Breadbake when Captain in the militia volunteered as a captain Over the rangers Breadbake was a good Captain although wounded and I actually served under him as a ranger the nine months State it is so long since I cannot exactly State all the officers in their several capacities, but there was One we call'd blind John Smith was One and there was one Gitman and several Others that acted as under officers we were dismissed the first day of January Seven ty nine and further as deponent faith root. Henry Murphy

Sworn & Subscribed before me this 15 th day of May 1840. before me S. Countryman Justice
The words "said county of Montgomery," also the word "Albany," the word "Thomas," & the words "to place," were all interlined before The deponent was sworn. Also the erasures were made upon the words "Thomas," & "Cornelius," before executing this affidavit S. Countryman Justice
Albany
I certify that I am acquainted with Henry Murphy the deponent in the above affidavit, & have no doubt of the substantial truth of the facts sworn to in the said affidavit. S. Countryman Justice
State of New York Montgomery County
Bliss office p. I Certify that S. Countryman whose name is subscribed to the part of the foregoing affidavit & was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and duly authorized by Law to administer Oaths &c. in and for said County and that his signature subscribed to the same is genuine In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of my office this 16 th May 1840 A. J. Bennett Clerk

J. L. Edmunds Esq. Count of Prusious
Washington
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Frankfort N.Y. Feby 11 th 1839
J. L. Edwards Esqr Comm r of Pensions Sir,
The friends of the late Adam F. Helmer whose widow Anna is an applicant before you for a pension on account of his Revolutionary Services have desired me to state to you briefly my knowledge of the man & his revolutionary neighbors (witnesses in behalf of his widow) and to solicit you to view the case with all the favor which the rules of your office will permit. I do this most freely because my sympathies are always awakened in behalf of those who suffered famine and death to establish the liberty of the Land wherein as a free man I now dwell and I know your own kindness of disposition will enough by past experience to believe you will if needful pardon this intrusion.
This Mr. Adam F. Helmer resided within a few miles of me from the time of my birth to his death and was among our most respectable German farmers. His widow now claims the pension allowed to a Lieut. I understand from the papers that no evidence exists in the minutes of the Council of appointment of his appointment or Commission. Notwithstanding this I am satisfied from the statements of all his surviving contemporaries with whom I have conversed

that he was legally a Lieut. in Capt. Bredebakes Compy of Rangers & served therein successively. Both tradition and testimony concur that as a Lieut. he went on the authority of Genl. Hritimer from the German Flats (where I now write) to carry a message through the ranks of St. Leger's & Johnson's Army to Fort Stanwix while it was besieged before the battle of Oriskenny to Col. Willett & succeeded in reaching the fort from which he sallied forth with Willett's men to the rescue of Hritimer's forces which had fallen into an ambuscade.
In the language of Judge Frank his neighbor whose affidavit is before you "Capt. Helmer was not afraid of Tories & Indians but was always a leader when there was danger." In respect to the merit of a Commission I had formerly occasion frequently to explain verbally to you the nature of the warfare which was altogether predatory in the Valley of the Mohawk then the extreme frontier.
The Service was temporary & short as a general rule but the frequent incursions of the Indians & non combatants rendered it expedient every summer to organize a Company or two of patrols or Scouts to keep a look out for the enemy while those who remained near the fort or blockhouses planted corn and produced subsistence. These Companies were frequently organized by the local Committees of Safety under the authority of the Governor or Chief officer in Command. They were generally under the command of militia officers as Volunteers or

otherwise but for want of such the Committee of Safety appointed. In this manner I have no doubt Adam F. Helmer was appointed in Berks County and of course had no commission from the Govt & Council. This is corroborated and established by the testimony & confirmed by tradition & the history of the times and I trust in a case as meritorious as this is known here to be very satisfactory to the Law & its administrators.
I perceive also some queries as to the name or Identity because the name is sometimes written Adam & sometimes Adam F. Your own acquaintance with the manners & customs of the early & unlettered Germans will enable you to account for this especially when you consider how long they contended with the difficulties of speaking proper names in English and more still in writing them.
At any rate there was but one Adam Helmer in this County who preserved his faith & fidelity to his Country — the other of the name of Adam Helmer adhered to the enemy & went with Johnson during the war to Canada.
I presume there is no difficulty as to the marriage & identity of the widow and allow me to add the hope that this case may be most favorably considered — because I believe it is undoubtedly meritorious.
I remain Sir with great
Respect your ob t Servt.
J. Munn Jr.

Anna Helmer
Additional affts in support of claim Im at
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Hon. W.H. Noble H.R.
[Faint, illegible cursive handwriting]

State of New York & p: Seneca County
I hereby certify that William Brooks & John A. Rasbach Esqrs are Justices of the peace as within only elected & qualified - And that I am well acquainted with their hand writings & hereby believe the several signatures within purporting to be theirs are genuine In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the seal of said County at Seneca March 12, 1838
E. A. Munn Deputy Clerk for John Dygert Clerk
Orbit

Secretary's Office Albany Jan. 22. 1838.
Sir
Your letter in relation to Adam Helmer was recd this day - You say "It is alledged that in the years 1777. 1778 & 1779 Adam Helmer belonged to and served in a company of Rangers in which a man named Bigbread was Captain - the said Adam was Lieutenant and one John Smith was Ensign."
I have carefully examined the records in this office and have not been able to find an officer of the name of Helmer - There are no returns or rolls in this office of the Privates who served in the Rangers or the Militia - I found no captain by the name of Bigbread - but I find that in August 1775 the following were appointed officers in the Regiment of Militia in the (then) County of Tryon whereof Jacob Klock was Colonel viz:
John Breadbake Captain John Sicely 1. Lieutenant Jacob Ekert 2. Lieutenant
On the 25 th of June 1778 the Council of Appointment made the following appointments in Col. Klock's Reg t . of Militia
John Bradbick Captain John Zieler 1. Lieut. Jacob Eaker 2. Lieut. Nicholas Van Slyck Ensign
March 4 th 1780. John Van Slyck 2. Lieut. of Capt Keyser's Co. John Smith Ensign vice Van Slyck promoted
Yours respectfully

Personally appeared before me William Brooks one of the Justices of the peace for the Town of Little Falls in the County of Herkimer Jacob Markell of the Town of Manheim in said County of Herkimer who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he is of the age of Sixty Seven years that was well acquainted with John Breadbake of the Town of Palatine in the County of Montgomery from the Infancy of this deponent to the Death of the said Breadbake who was an Uncle to this deponent that amongst the German people the said Breadbake went generally by the Name of Bigbread that there was no other in this County that this deponent ever heard of by the Name of Breadbake or Bigbread except the above named John Breadbake and that he always went by the Name of Captain Bigbread amongst the German people Sworn before me this
13 day of March 1838
William Brooks
Justice of the Peace
in Herkimer County
New York
Jacob Markell
I the undersigned do hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named Jacob Markell for the term of twenty years, and that he is a highly respected person, and of the highest credibility, and that his statements above made are entitled to the fullest confidence
William Brooks
Justice of the Peace

1 | 1 | 1 Perkimer County p: Peter Flagg of the Town of Pommanflets in said County being duly sworn saith that he is seventy eight years of age and is a Pensioner of the United States under the act of June 4 th 1832 - that he was well acquainted with Adam Helmer now deceased, in the Revolutionary War and for many years after the War. That this Deponent and said Helmer in  in the War for a season lived together and occupied the same house at  Pommanflets  at  Pommanflets That in the year 1777 the said Adam Helmer was 1 st Lieutenant in a Company of Rangers which were then in the Service of the United States in the vicinity of Bunker - where the said Company was raised being then Tryon County - that in the said year 1777 this Deponent was enlisted and served in the said Company of Rangers of which the said Helmer was 1 st Lieu- tenant for the period of nine months - this Deponent was enlisted into the said Company by the said Adam Helmer himself and is certain that it was in the year 1777 from the fact that this Deponent never served in the said Ranger Corps at any other time than this one enlistment which was in the year 1777 - That the said Service and enlistment of this Deponent was also during the year of the Oriskany Battle where General Herkimer fell which Battle was fought in the year 1777 - That this Deponent was not in said Oriskany Battle for the reason that he was at the time confin- ed with sickness. but that the said Adam Helmer with the Company were at said

Battle but that the said Adam was not in said engagement as this deponent was then informed and as he he has ever since understood for the reason that he the said Adam Helmer and one Marko Damuth were dispatched by Genl. Schuyler with a letter to Col. Gausevoort then besieged in Fort Stanwix to inform him Col. Gause- voort of his Genl. Schuyler's approach that the said Helmer and Damuth with said letter found their way through the lines of the besiegers into the said Fort, and the information thus communicated to Col. Gausevoort was the occasion as is believed of the sortie from the said Fort Stanwix under Lt. Col. Millett and the attack upon the enemy's rear during the engagement with Genl. Schuyler-  Colonel the personal knowledge of this deponent of the service of the said Adam Helmer aforesaid the said Helmer has always been esteemed reputed to have served in the Revolutionary war as a soldier & officer and that such is the general belief of the neighborhood in which this deponent resides as well as of this deponent and further this deponent saith that although the said Adam Helmer was not in the said Quotitown Battle with General Schuyler's men yet he accompanied Col. Millett and his men from Fort Stanwix and was in the said Battle and attack upon the enemy with said Col. Millett as this deponent has always been informed and believed and as he still believes —
Subscribed & sworn to
His Peter * Hogg Mark

This 12 th day of March 1838 before me
John A. Rabbach Justice of the Peace
Herkauer County ss: Michael Illig of German Platts aged fiftyfive and Peter Hoyer of Platts aged Sixtyone Years both of said County of Herkauer being duly sworn say that they were well acquainted with Adam Behner deceased whose widow we are informed is an applicant for a Pension for services rendered in the Revolutionary War by the said Adam — That our acquaintance commenced in an infancy which was shortly after the said War — That we frequently heard the said Adam speak of his services rendered as a soldier and officer in said War in the neighborhood of Herkauer, where said Behner during the war and for many years after the War resided That besides the statements of the said Adam it has always been generally reported and believed in the neighborhood of these deponents, that the said Adam Behner served in the war of the Revolution in the capacity both of a private and officer — That he was a Lieutenant in a Company of Hangers which during said War was raised and formed in Tazewell County — That the said Adam Behner has always been reported by those persons who served with him in said War to have been a very active and spirited soldier and always among the foremost in reaching
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and pursuing the enemy whenever resistance or pursuit became necessary and the said Michael Ittig for himself says that his father Michael Ittig was a Captain in the Revolutionary Army in the Militia and that he this deponent has very frequently heard his father who is now also deceased, speak of the said Adam Kelm and his service in the War of the Revolution, and that from his father as well as from others this deponent learned that the said Adam Kelm served as an officer a Lieutenant in the Rangers in said War, and that he was an active and good soldier - and further these deponents say not
Sworn to subscribed this 12 th day of March 1838 before me
Michael Ittig Peter Hoyer
John A. Rastach Justice
Herkimer County B.G. I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Peter Hoyer Michael Ittig, and Peter Hoyer, the depo- -nents in the foregoing affidavits and that they are men of good moral character and their statements entitled to credit dated this 12 th day of March 1838. at Herkimer
John A. Rastach Justice

State of New York Herkimer County Ys
George Rosencrantz of the town of Little Falls in said county being duly sworn depones & saith that he is aged seventy four years the 15 th day of February March 1837 that his father was the Rev. Abraham Rosencrantz for many years before the revolutionary War, during that war & for many years until his death after the war the minister of the Reformed protestant Dutch church in German Flatts in said county, That among the records of marriages kept by deponent's father not lost or destroyed are since his death have been in the possession & custody of deponent that among those records this deponent finds, in the proper handwriting of his said father and entered in regular order, it recorded that in "1776, February 27" Adam Helmer was married to Anna P. Bellinger by him, That this deponent believes this record to be true & authentic & has no doubt that said marriage then took place.
This deponent saith he was well acquainted with said Adam Helmer from his this deponent's infancy and recollects very well in the latter part of the war & previous to peace that deponent was at Fort Herkimer in said county and that news of an alarm came and that said Helmer with a part of a company of privates & Henry Kester with part of another company marched to the region of country called the Little Lakes & Schenck's Lake in the now town of Warren, That said Helmer was an officer then but whether Lieutenant or captain deponent

does not recollect Samuel state, but recollects he had the command of the Corps that then marched out on that alarm, This deponent frequently during many years after said was saw said Helmer & was well acquainted in the neighborhood where said Helmer lived and said said Helmer was always reported to have been a revolutionary soldier & officer & believed to have served as such, and deponent always did & still does believe the same to be true -
This deponent saith he was also well acquainted from his infancy with captain John Broadbake who was also an officer in the revolutionary war and saith his surname was variously spelt, that by some it was spelled Big-e-bread by some Broadbick & by others Broadbake, That he is the only person of that name or of any of those variations that this deponent ever knew or heard of in the Mohawk river country, where deponent has always resided, and that he died without leaving any child - Further saith not - George Rosecrantz
Deverify that on this 10 th day of March 1838 came before me George Rosecrantz to me well known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing deposition signed by him is true, and that said George is a man of good moral character his statements entitled to credit - William Brooks Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Herkimer

State of New York.)
Cayuga County ss. I Michael S. Myers clerk of said County do hereby certify that John D. Hulbert Esq. before whom the accompanying declaration of Darius Helmer was made and before whom the accompanying affidavit of Peter Helmer was made & by whom the certificates accompanying said declaration and affidavit were made was on the day of the date of the same one of the judges of the court of Common Pleas of said County That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge & believe his signature to said declaration affidavit & certificates to be genuine
Witness my hand and seal of office the nineteenth day of Dec 1837
M. S. Myers Clerk

State of New York Cortland County 3 rd ss Dorothy Wooliven of the town of Troupsburg in Cortland County being duly sworn says that she is aged about eighty two years of age and is sister to Anna Helmer of Brutus in the County of Cayuga, the widow of Adam Helmer late of Brutus aforesaid now deceased. That she was present at the marriage of said Adam Helmer & Anna Helmer and saw the ceremony performed. That the name of said Anna before said marriage was Anna Bellinger. That said Adam & Anna were lawfully married at the church in what  house of now Larkine in the County of Larkine on or about the twenty seventh day of February 1776 by the Revd Abraham Wisekrantz. That she is not so positive about the precise day in February 1776 of the marriage but thinks it was on the said twenty seventh day.
And further deponent says that she recollects that said Adam  Adam Helmer was in Brutus during the Revolutionary war but she does not remember times with sufficient accuracy to testify to the same.
Sworn this 5 th day of December 1837 before me
Dorothy his Wooliven mark
Wm Blanchard Justice of the Peace
I certify my opinion that said Dorothy Wooliven is a person of truth & veracity
Wm Blanchard J.P.

State of New York Cortland County
to the Hon. the Clerk of said County do hereby certify that William Blanchard before whom the Affidavit of Dorothy Woolverin purporting to have been taken, was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly Commissioned & qualified and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice & verily believe his signature within to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County this 6th day of December A.D. 1837
Oliver Stimson Clerk

State of New York County of Onondaga
George Stig of Manlius being duly sworn before Adam S. Huntley one of the Justices of the peace of the town of Manlius and County aforesaid makes Oath and Saith - that he is Eighty one years old last December that he was well acquainted with Adam Helmer before the Revolution war that in the year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Eight this Deponent was in the service of his Country in a company of Rangers a man by the name of Bighead was Captain and and the Said Adam Helmer was Lieu- tenant & John Smith was Ensign his company lay during that Summer at Herkimer - and finally was Dismissed the first day of January in the morning. They had served nine months the Said Adam Helmer was Lieutenant during the whole time - he was acquainted with the Said Adam Helmers wife her name when a Girl was Anna Billinger he knows of their living together as long back as Seventeen Hundred & Seventy five or Six and as late as about Sixteen or Eighteen years ago - it was the General understanding that they were married further Saith not - Subscribed and sworn to before me Nov 13 1837 George Stig Adam S Huntley Justice
I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with the above named George Stig about twenty years and that he always has sustained a Good Moral Character - and is entitled to full Credit Nov 13 1837 Adam S Huntley Justice Peace

State of New York County of Onondage } ss: I, Hanson Edwards Clerk of the said County do certify, that Adam B. Huntley Esquire before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County duly Elected and qualified and that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the jurat of said Affidavit to be his proper hand writing and Signature Witness my hand and Seal of Office at Syracuse this 31 st day of November 1837
H. Edwards Clerk

Arkheimer County ss
John Frank of said County being sworn says that he is aged Eighty three years the 23 rd day of March next and is a pensioner of the United States that he resided in the Town of German Flatts before and during the revolutionary war and was for one year or thereabouts a member of the committee of safety - that he was well acquainted with Adam Helmer who was a son of Frederick Helmer and to distinguish him from a person of the same name who was a tory his name was written Adam F. which stood for Frederick because he was a faithful whig of those times as well as those of his family and connections - that to the knowledge of this deponent the said Adam F. Helmer was engaged in the service of the United States in the year 1778 but this deponent cannot state the precise time he served but deponent believes he was absent from home from the spring of that winter year until the succeeding winter - This deponent knows that said Adam F. Helmer acted as a Lieutenant in Capt. Bigbeards Company of Rangers but does not know that he was had a commission - deponent well recollects that the local militia were classed into classes of right

It sometimes fifteen and each class when organized by the Committee of Safety or by the Governor were obliged to furnish a man & in this way a company of Guards or Scouts were organized every summer season usually for nine months service and the officers were generally either volunteers from the militia or were appointed by the Committee of Safety or by the Governor . This deponent recollects that Capt. Bigbread, (who was always so called but his right name was Bradbake ) company was thus raised and organized in the year 1778 but deponent does not recollect how the officers were appointed or commissioned or whether they were commissioned at all but Adam F. Helmer acted as a number Lieutenant of said company. This deponent knew man the said Adam F. Helmer during his life time and has often talked with him about the events of the war & he always was reported to be & to have been a faithful officer & soldier of the war - that he married Anne Bellingr with whom he always lived as his wife until his decease & further saith not Sworn & subscribed the 18 th Jany 1839 before John Frank me. George W. Fox Justice

Herkimer County ss: I certify that I am well acquainted personally with John Frank whose name is subscribed to the annexed affidavit & he is a respectable citizen. His statements are entitled to entire & full belief as he retains his faculties & memory about Recollectionary events well for a person of his age. George H. Fox Justice
State of New York
Herkimer County
Clerks office ss. I John Deyut Clerk of said County do hereby certify that George H. Fox Esq. before whom the foregoing Affidavit purports to have been taken was at the date thereof a Justice of the peace duly elected and qualified. I further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and justly believe the signature to be genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County this 18 th day of January 1839
Deyut Clerk
Ques

Anne Helmer
old certf - rec'd in
1840 -

In pursuance of a law passed the 27th day of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned," the following certificates have been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz :
  1780 Sept 1 1136 Adam Nelm Private — 0 — — 16 — — 0 —   1780 Octo 24 18526 Adam Nelm Sergt — 45 — — 5 — — 8 —   1780 April 1 20841 Adam Harlan Sergt — 6 — — 5 — — 4 —   
STATE OF NEW-YORK, COMPROLLER'S OFFICE, Albany, October 23 — 1840.
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 1. 4. 85. now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above named were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz :
  First—under Capt.  Henry Miller  in Col.  Jacob Block  Regiment.    Second, " "  John Bradbick  " "  Lewis Dubois  " N.Y. Militia    Third, " "  Wendt Staring  " "  Peter Bollenger  "    Fourth, " "   " "   "    Fifth, " "   " "   "    Sixth, " "   " "   "    Seventh, " "   " "   "    Eighth, " "   " "   "  
M. C. Madaway Dep. Comptroller

Please have certified and return to Revolutionary & 1812 Wars Section, Room 5033.
Photostatic copies of seventy-one pages from Revolutionary War claim for pension of Anna Helmer, widow of Adam Frederick Helmer, New York Troops, Widow File No. 17067.

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LOU D. MacWETHY, Editor and Owner
GENEALOGICAL
Besides the current news of each week the paper carries a department devoted to Old Mohawk Valley Families and Descendants
July 30, 1930
Pension Department
Rev war and War of 1812.
Gentlemen:
We enclose our check for $11 which we are informed is the correct amount required for photostat copies of the papers of John Adam or Adam Helmer.
For better identification will say the soldier wanted served as a scout in the march on Fort Stanwix which ended in the battle of Oriskany.
He served in the Tryon County Militia under colonel Dellingner in the 1st Regiment Tryon County Militia and served as a scout for the same and perhaps other regiments.
He is referred to as John Adam in some places but mostly as plain Adam Helmer. In one reference the number of his pension papers are given as No 2 17067.
All papers in reference to his claim will be wanted.
If the enclosed is incorrect or insufficient please advise.
LOU D. MacWETHY
This information possibly came from Frank D. ... Devil after 1812 ... which ...
Am order from ... Dis. ... not ... as ... 10¢
list of pages furnished - see attached

List of 71 pages to Lou D. MacVethy:
✓ Widow's Decl. Dec. 18, 1837, the 1st p. of which begins with the affid. of ✓ Peter Helmer dated Dec. 15, 1837 - 3 p. ✓ Secretary's Report - Albany Jan. 22, 1838 - signed Archd Campbell - 1 p ✓ Jacob Markell (mur?) affid. mch. 13 - 1838 - 1 p - ✓ Peter Flagg's affid. dated mch. 12, 1838 - 2 p - ✓ Michael Ittig's affid. mch. 12 - 1838 - 2 p ✓ George Rosecrantz' affid. mch. 10 - 1838 - 2 p - 1 missing ✓ Dorothy Woodliver's affid. Dec. 5, 1837 - 1 p ✓ George Ittig's affid. nov. 13, 1837 - 1 p (blue paper) ✓ Johannes Dockelader's affid. nov. 18, 1837 continued with affid. of Andrew ✓ Piper's affid. nov. 18, 1837 + Nicholas Smith J. P. 6 p - ✓ Abraham G. Rosecrantz' affid. Jan. 11, 1839 followed by affid. of ✓ Conrad Ittig Jan. 15, 1839 followed by Andrew Piper's affid. of ✓ Jan. 15, 1839 followed by John Frank's affid. Jan. 18, 1839 all written in clear blue ink - 7 p ✓ Michael S. Myers Clerk verifying John P. Hulbut Dec. 19, 1837 - 1 p ✓ Dorothy Woodliver's affid. Dec. 5, 1837 (same date as her former one) 1 p ✓ Geo. Ittig's affid. (on white paper) nov. 13, 1837 - (same date as his former) 1 p ✓ John Dockelader's affid. nov. 18 - 1837 - 3 pages (his second) ✓ Andrew Piper's affid. nov. 18, 1837 (his second) 4 p - ✓ 3/10/38 ✓ Peter Helmer's affid. Dec. 15, 1837 (his second) - 1 p ✓ Widow's affid. Dec. 15, 1837 - 3 p - ✓ Jacob Markell's affid. mch. 13, 1838 (his second) 1 p ✓ Peter Flagg's affid. mch. 12, 1838 - (his second) 2 p - ✓ Michael Ittig's affid. mch. 12, 1838 (his second) 2 p ✓ George Rosecrantz' affid. mch. 10, 1838 (his second) 2 p - ✓ John Frank's affid. Jan. 18, 1839 (his second) - 2 p ✓ Abraham G. Rosecrantz - Jan. 11, 1839 (his second) 2 p - ✓ Conrad Ittig Jan. 15, 1839 (his second) 2 p - ✓ Andrew Piper Jan. 15, 1839 (his 3rd) 2 p - ✓ Letter from A. Mann, Jr. - Frankfort, N.Y. Feb. 4, 1839 - 3 p
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List to Gen. S. MacArthur, Continued!
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Cert. No. _____
Washington, D. C., _____, 191_____
Dear Sir:
Relative to your claim for pension under act of May 11, 1912, in which you allege that you are _____ years of age, and that you were born _____, 18_____, you are advised that the best obtainable evidence of the date of your birth is required by this Bureau.
If there is a public, church, or family record of your birth, you should forward a verified copy of such record.
If there is no public or church record, and a verified copy of the family record is furnished, the officer certifying to the same should state in what year the Bible, or other book in which the record appears, was printed; whether the record bears any marks of erasure or alteration; and whether, from the appearance of the writing, he believes the entries to have been made about the dates given.
If you are unable to furnish any of the evidence indicated, you should state that fact, and the reasons why you are unable to furnish it, under oath.
Please return this letter with your reply.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

List to Lee D. MacMathy, Continued:
 ✓ John Henry Waple's affid - May 16, 1840 - 3p  ✓ Dennis A. Flander's affid. Oct. 12, 1844 - 1p  ✓ State Report - Comptroller's Off. - Oct. 23, 1840 { 1780 - Sept 1 1780 - Oct 24 1780 - Apr 1 } 1p  ✓ Letter to Mr Giles F. Yates from Peter Nelmes Jan. 14, 1843 - 2p  ✓ Peter Fox's affid. May 14, 1840 (Jacob G. Fox Justice) + followed by Peter C. Fox that family lived in his father's house etc. 3p  ✓ Henry Murphy's affid. May 15, 1840 - (page with addi omitted) 2p  ✓ my jacket - 1p 
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_____ Div. _____ Examiner.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Cert. No. _____
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_____ Washington, D. C., _____, 191_____
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Dear Sir:
Relative to your claim for pension under act of May 11, 1912, in which you allege that you are _____ years of age, and that you were born _____, 18_____, you are advised that the best obtainable evidence of the date of your birth is required by this Bureau.
If there is a public, church, or family record of your birth, you should forward a verified copy of such record.
If there is no public or church record, and a verified copy of the family record is furnished, the officer certifying to the same should state in what year the Bible, or other book in which the record appears, was printed; whether the record bears any marks of erasure or alteration; and whether, from the appearance of the writing, he believes the entries to have been made about the dates given.
If you are unable to furnish any of the evidence indicated, you should state that fact, and the reasons why you are unable to furnish it, under oath.
Please return this letter with your reply.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

Bureau of Pensions. Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
September 5, 1930.
541
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Rev. War claim for pension of Adam Helmer,
W.17067.
Actual 1 of each page.
xxx
$10.65.....71 pages
Kindly leave margin of 1½ in. at top of each page and return papers in each case in folder with corresponding name and number.
The word "omit" written in pencil on those pages which are not to be copied.
Chief, Rev.&1812 Wars Section.

September 4, 1930.
Mr. Lou D. MacWethy
Saint Johnsville, New York.
Dear Sir:
You are advised that photostatic copies from Revolutionary War claim, W. 17067, Adam Frederick Helmer (also appears John Adam FreHelmer) for which you remitted check for $11.00, will be forwarded to you veryshortly.
Very truly yours,
E.W.MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.
to Lou Sept 20

RECEIPT OF PENSIONS
(9) Finance Division
Jan. 29. 1929.
Chief Rev. and 1812 War Section Division.
I have this day received from L. F. Bellinger cash in the amount of $ 30 /1.00, requesting photostat copy as per letter herewith.
2/4/28 Finance Div. notified money to be disposed of
J. RANDALL Chief, Finance Division.
M. E. W.L.

All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No.
29429
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137.
January 28, 1929
192
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering PENSIONS
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 two (2) pages from Revolutionary War pension claim of Adam Helmer, Widow Anna, W. 17067
No. of copies 1 of each page Shall form be kept standing? days
For further information see M. M. H. Finch 5033 541 Room No. Phone No.
Approved:
Handwritten signature: A. Wilkinson
Chief Clerk of Bureau.
Handwritten signature: Margaret M. H. Finch
Chief of Branch or 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 single or double space? Facsimile signature?
Mimeograph one side or both sides? Facsimile signature?
Folding once or twice?
Assembling Once? Twice? Side? End? Stapling
Electric typewriter Fill in addresses? Dated?
Addressograph from lists
Table with 2 columns: Envelopes, size; Cards, size; Proof list; Pay rolls; Labels (submit sample); Corrections; Fill in letters; Tabulation sheets
Photostat X Size actual Official use? Repay? Yes $ .30 Blue Print Size Official use? Repay? $
Remarks

NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on reference through or initialing of chiefs of bureaus.
192
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INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
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January 28, 1929
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Sir:
Please furnish photostatic copies of two (2) pages from the Revolutionary War pension claim of Adam Helmer, Widow Anna, W. 17067.
Signed:
L. F. Bellinger USN Naval Operating Base Hampton Roads Va
Received payment, Thirty cents only January 28, 1929
Maurine E. Enrick
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
Cash - 30 cents FINANCE DIVISION BOOK-KEEPER'S DESK JAN 29 1929 BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Pension W. 17067 Affidavit of Peter Fox of Palatine on May 14, 1840 reciting services of Adam Helmer. "Told me this following day the callite" This page began:
Pension W. 17067 Affidavit by Andrew Piper of Grandport N.Y. Nov. 18, 1837.
This
This page began: "in which the said Adam earned during the"

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Pension W. 17067 Affidavit of Peter Fox of Palatine on May 14, 1840 reciting services of Adam Helmer.
"Told me this following day the sally" }
This page began:
Pension W. 17067 Affidavit by Andrew Piper of Frankfort N.Y. Nov. 18, 1837.
This
This page began: "in which the said Adam came during the"

All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No.
42516
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 139.
April 24, 1930
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering Pensions
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 two pages from the Revolutionary War pension claim of Adam Helmer, W. 17067.
No. of copies 1 of each Shall form be kept standing? days
For further information see M.M.H. Finch 5033 541 Room No. Phone No.
Approved:
Chief Clerk of Bureau (with signature)
Margaret M. Finch Chief of Revenue Rev. & 1812 Wars Section (with signature)
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 single 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
Table with 6 columns: Envelopes, size; Cards, size; Proof list; Pay rolls; Labels (submit sample); Corrections; Fill in letters; Tabulation sheets.
Photostat x Size actual Official use? Repay? yes $30cts. Blue Print Size Official use? Repay? $
Remarks

NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without for reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks bureaus.
.....192 .
(Date)
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.
Make new addressograph plate
Change present addressograph plate
Destroy present addressograph plate
} On list.....
as follows:
Now reads
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Should read
 1 .....  2 .....  3 .....  4 .....  5 ..... 
FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION
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The above change was made ..... 192 .
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SUI
4 Jan 10
April 24, 1930
Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir:
I desire photostatic copies (uncertified) of two pages from the Revolutionary War pension claim of Adam Helmer, W. 17067.
Mrs Pascoe W Williams 621 Providence St, Albany N.Y.
Recd. payment
30 cents
Antonia W. Ford Rev. & 1812 Wars Section.
Cash - 30 cents

Peter Fox's statement May 14-1840 2 pages

1045 Keyes Ave.
Schenectady, N.Y. Sept 16, 1927
U.S. Dept of Interior
Bureau of Pensions, Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
Mr. Winfield Scott Washington, D.C. Commissioner,
Did John Adam Helmer also written "Johann Adam" "Hans Adam" & "Adam" or his wife Anna of German Flats or Herkimer, Herkimer County, N.Y. apply for a pension for services in the Revolutionary war?
✓ Did John Adam Hartman also written "Johann Adam" "Hans Adam" & Adam or his wife Catherine of Herkimer or Schuyler, Herkimer County, N.Y. apply for a pension for services in the Revolutionary war?
○ Did Hans Marcus Demuth, Damoth Damude etc. or his wife Catharine of German Flats, Herkimer Co later Deerfield, Oneida Co, N.Y. apply for a pension for services in the Revolutionary war?
If any of the above did apply, how many pages each at 15¢ per page plus 25¢ for certification?
Truly Yours
Frank D. Deuel
1045 Keyes Ave.
Schenectady, N.Y.

1045 Keyes Ave.
Schenectady, N.Y. March 20, 1928
U.S. Dept of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions
Rev. & 1812 Wars section, Washington D.C.
Mr. Winfield Scott, Commissioner;—
In regard to the Revolutionary War claim No. W- 17067 of Adam F. Helmer, comprising 70 pages, would advise that on account of the great number of pages, I do not feel that I can afford to send for a photostat copy of same at this time.
Being at work only part time at my regular vocation, I have, however been able to do considerable research work on the Helmer family and I am writing to ask if you can glean a few important dates and notes from the Adam F. Helmer Pension claim, namely:
When and where was he born? When did he die? Who did he marry and when?
Does it mention any members of his family?
Does it say that on the evening of Aug. 5, 1777 that he was sent by General Herkimer as a scout to notify the Garrison at Fort Stanwix of the approach of Herkimer's forces.
Does it mention that Helmer as a scout was sent to find out about the Enemy who held a council at Unidilla, learning that the Enemy intended to burn, scalp and kill the settlement of German Flats, he rushed through the woods and got the settlers in the Fort before the raiders arrived? Adam F. Helmer was one of the most famous soldiers in the Mohawk Valley - "known as the famous scout".
Truly Yours Frank D. Deuel

New York State Education Department
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS SEVENTH DISTRICT, ONEIDA COUNTY
DANIEL M. BLUE, SUP'T
OFFICE: ERWIN AVE.
Boonville, N. Y., Aug 20 1928
To Pension Dept: Washington D.C.
I am anxious to find out if any of direct ancestors ever fought in the Revolutionary war. I can not find out the name of my Great, great Grandfather. I find that my Great grandfather John Helmer, and his brother Jacob Helmer were in the war of 1812. They received a
  pension      No. 4227  Helmer John  $74 00    No. 4234  " Jacob.  $58 00  
In regard to war of 1812 claims see misc. files under Mrs. D. M. Blue
They are buried near Boonville, N.Y., but lived at Kask Bridge near Mohawk N.Y. before coming to Boonville

Jacob Helmer was born in 1768 and died Jan. 12. 1856. His brother and my Great grandfather was born 1790 & died in 1845. Jacob left no children but Great father had several sons. My Great Grandfather married Dolly Shutt of which I know nothing about.
I have found that this family of Helmer's came from Holland with Sabroons, later becoming dissatisfied with conditions migrated into Penn. and later came  a grant of land was given them in the Mohawk valley near Mohawk NY. It is possible my Great, great grandfather name was John or Adam, or John Adam. as these two names prevail.
John Helmer born 1790 - died 1845 had the following sons.
Jacob. Robt. Daniel. Benj. Isaac. Henry. Adam, Leonard.

New York State Education Department
DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS SEVENTH DISTRICT, ONEIDA COUNTY
DANIEL M. BLUE, SUP'T
OFFICE: ERWIN AVE.
Boonville, N. Y., _____ 192
Any information you can give me, will be greatly appreciated.
Jennie Helmer Blue Boonville.
(Mrs D. M. J.)

Detroit, Michigan. 61 Blaine Avenue. February 11, 1926.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir:
Attention: Record Division.
Will you please give me the military record of the following soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War:
Friedrich Helmer (Capt.)
Georg Helmer (Lieut.) Sent
Johann Adam Helmer (Private) Sent
These men served under General Nicolaus Herkimer and were in the Battle of Oriskany fought August 6, 1777.
Thanking you in advance for your courtesy in the matter, I am,
Yours very truly,
J. H. Helmer.

Rome New York.
Nov. 10, 1907
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sir
Will you inform me as to whether there is the name of Adam Helmer on the pension list. A Rev. soldier who lived in the Mohawk Valley.
Sincerely
Josephine P. Lewis 315 N. James St.
Rome N. Y.
no info W. 17067.6

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK THE STATE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT ALBANY
LEWIS A. WILSON ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER FOR VOCATIONAL AND EXTENSION EDUCATION
ADULT EDUCATION BUREAU WILLIAM C. SMITH, CHIEF SUPERVISORS CAROLINE A. WHIPPLE ELIZABETH A. WOODWARD JAY R. CROWLEY
EMERGENCY ADULT EDUCATION SUPERVISORS
ELLEN BUTTON JOHN W. HERRING A. DRUMMOND JONES CONSTANCE D. POTTER CHAUNCEY R. PORTER NELLIE M. SEEDS WILLARD B. STONE JACK WRIGHT
January 15, 1938
The Secretary Veterans' Administration Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me whatever information your records contain regarding the birth, parents' names, etc. of Adam Helmer, who was a scout under Colonel Bellinger in the Revolutionary War.
Be assured I will deeply appreciate your kind attention to this request.
Very truly yours,
Mrs Carmita R. Shaver (Mrs.) Carmita R. Shaver Otsego County Supervisor Adult Education-Recreation
CRS:E
Address reply: Mrs. Carmita R. Shaver, Rm. 221, Post Office, Oneonta, New York

MS
September 28, 1937
Frank D. Deuel 1045 Keyes Ave., Schenectady, N. Y.
Sir:
I have to advise you that photostatic copies of original papers on file in the Revolutionary War claims of Adam (or Hans Adam) Hartman, S. 22811, New York Troops, and of Adam (or Adam F.) Helmer, the only soldier by that name found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau, his file number, W. 17067, and of the New York Troops, will be furnished you at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty-five cents extra for certification of each claim.
The number of pages to be copied in Adam Hartman claim is twenty-three, and the number to be copied in Adam Helmer claim is seventy.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

April 1, 1929.
Mrs. D. M. Blue, Boonville, New York.
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 17067, it appears that Adam Frederick Helmer (name also appears as Joh: Adam F. Helmer), was the son of Frederick Helmer.
While residing near Fort Dayton, New York, he served in 1777, nine months as Lieutenant in Captain John Bradbrick's Company of Rangers, and was in the battle of Fort Stanwix; he served in 1778, nine months as Lieutenant in same company.
It is also stated that the night before the battle of Oriskany said Adam was despatched by General Herkimer to Fort Stanwix to inform Colonels Willett and Gansevoort of his, General Herkimer's, approach, and it is also further stated that while Captain Bradbrick's Company, of which said Adam was Lieutenant, was at Fort Dayton, near what was later Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York, intelligence was received at said fort of the depredations of Indians on the Mohawk River and they went in pursuit of the Indians, over-

took them near Frankfort and had a skirmish, said Adam killing one with the Indian's own tomahawk.
He also served at various other times during the Revolution, no definite data on file, was in several skirmishes with the Indians.
He died in April 1830, age not stated.
Soldier married February 27, 1776 at a place, afterwards called Herkimer, New York, Anna Piet, daughter of Peter Bellinger. She was allowed pension on her application executed December 15, 1837, while a resident of Brutus, Cayuga County, New York, aged eighty years.
She died January 25, 1841, leaving the following children: David; Anna, widow of Henry Passage; Catherine, wife of John Hill; Elizabeth, wife of James Moores; Margaret, wife of George Passage; and Peter, who was fifty-one years old in 1837 and living in Brutus, New York.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN, Acting Commissioner.
See misc. files Mrs. D. M. Blue in reference to War of 1812 pen. claims for Jacob & John Helmer

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Frank D. Deuel, 1045 Keyes Avenue, Schenectady, New York.
Sir:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 17067, it appears that Adam Frederick Helmer (name also appears as Joh: Adam F. Helmer), was the son of Frederick Helmer.
While residing near Fort Dayton, New York, he served in 1777, nine months as Lieutenant in Captain John Bradbrick's Company of Rangers, and was in the battle of Fort Stanwix; he served in 1778, nine months as Lieutenant in same company.
It is also stated that the night before the battle of Oriskany said Adam was despatched by General Herkimer to Fort Stanwix to inform Colonels Willett and Gansevoort of his, General Herkimer's, approach, and it is also further stated that while Captain Bradbrick's Company, of which said Adam was Lieutenant, was at Fort Dayton, near what was later Herkimer, Herkimer County, New York, intelligence was received at said fort of the depredations of Indians on the Mohawk River and they went in pursuit of the Indians, overtook them near Frankfort and had a skirmish, said Adam killing one with the Indian's own tomahawk.

He also served at various other times during the Revolution, no definite data on file, was in several skirmishes with the Indians.
He died in April 1830, age not stated - (This was added to original)
Soldier married February 27, 1776 at a place, afterwards called Herkimer, New York, Anna Piet, daughter of Peter Bel-linger. She was allowed pension on her application executed December 15, 1837, while a resident of Brutus, Cayuga County, New York, aged eighty years.
She died January 25, 1841, leaving the following children- David; Anna, widow of Henry Passage; Catherine, wife of John Hill; Elizabeth, wife of James Moores; Margaret, wife of George Passage; and Peter, who was fifty-one years old in 1837 and living in Brutus, New York.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

Rev. and 1813 War Section.
Ans
March 24, 1926
J. H. Helmer 61 Blaine Ave Detroit, Mich.
Sir:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 17067, it appears that Adam Frederick Helmer (name also appears as John: Adam F. Helmer), was the son of Frederick Helmer.
While residing near Fort Dayton, New York, he served in 1777, nine months as Lieutenant in Captain John Bradbrick's Company of Rangers, and was in the battle of Fort Stanwix; he served in 1778, nine months as Lieutenant in same company.
He also served at various other times during the Revolution, no definite data on file, was in several skirmishes with the Indians.
He died in April 1850.
Soldier married February 27, 1776 at a place, afterwards called Herkimer, New York, Anna Piet, daugh-

ter of Peter Bellinger. She was allowed pension on her application executed December 15, 1837, while a resident of Brutus, Cayuga County, New York, aged eighty years.
She died January 25, 1841, leaving the following children- David; Anna, widow of Henry Passage; Catherine, wife of John Hill; Elizabeth, wife of James Moores; Margaret, wife of George Passage; and Peter, who was fifty-one years old in 1837 and living in Brutus, New York.
Owing to a lack of clerical force available for the purpose, only two reports are furnished each inquirer.
Respectfully
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.