Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,453, Adam Harper, Va.

SERVICE
Harper, Adam
NUMBER
S. 30.453
CONTENTS

Reported
32727
Kentucky
Adam Masper
of Woodford in the State of Kentucky who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Stratton of the Regt commanded by _____ in the Va line for 6 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Louisville at the rate of 20 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th day of May 1850 and sent to Mrs. C.S. Morehead, N.H.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Semi-annual allowance ending
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by J. P. Chase Clerk, Book E 2 Vol. 7 Page 24

State of Kentucky Woodford County ss
On this the 25 day of February right then & there and forty three personally appeared before me Gordon Carter an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid Mr Adam Harper resident of the County of Woodford State of Kentucky, & who is by reason of bodily infirmity prevented from appearing in open Court. Being aged upwards of eighty three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832: That he entered the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war in the month of March Seventeen Hundred and eighty, and left the same in October thereafter, and that he entered as a draughted Militia Private and was draughted under Captain Stratton and John Warpole was the Sergeant and marched from the South Branch of the Potomac River in Pendleton County Virginia to the North Fork or Branch, about fifteen miles from the South Fork or Branch, where the Indians had been (North Fork) and had killed some of the white people and burnt houses etc and at this place he remained about four weeks guarding this portion of the Country from the ravages of the Indians; and Sergeant John Warpole and an officer by the name of Abraham Heinkle were the commanding officers at this station as Captain Stratton returned back to South Fork and at the termination of said four weeks Captain Bruns from Rockingham County Virginia arrived with more men and took the command of the whole troops and then marched them to what was called the West Fork on the 4 th time from the frontier about one hundred and thirty miles, he thinks west of North Fork, and that they remained at West Fork until the tour for which he was draughted being for three months had terminated - and at the termination of the same they were about to start home when the Indians again appeared and commenced depredations, and he then volunteered for another tour of three months and did continue in actual service until it terminated and during which he continued at said West Fork as a guard or guarding the frontiers from the inroads of the merciless savages - and would in company of two, three etc go about hunting to kill deer etc yet the men would not venture out from the fort on account

of the great danger to which they were exposed of being killed or taken by the Indians and that he frequently had hints of this character and in this way he was engaged until the last mentioned tour had terminated and after wards they returned back to South Fork in Pendleton County Virginia which was the first of October thereafter and declares that he was in actual service from the time he was drafted as aforesaid until he returned home at the period just mentioned. He further declares that he resided in Pendleton County Virginia when he entered the service aforesaid as a drafted Private and that he served out the term and then volunteered for another as aforesaid and after serving out the same marched back to Pendleton County Virginia from Fort West Fork. He further declares that he has no documentary evidence in support of his claim, and knows of no one whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service except his brother John Harper who is now his nearest neighbor and who was with him in all the aforesaid service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
his Adam Harper mark
Goodloe Carter Place
Mr Joseph Gwyn an Elder of the Presbyterian Church in Upper Woodford County resident in said County. And James Ford Jr., also a resident in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with and have long known Adam Harper who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be aforesaid of right three years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution; and we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me.
his Joseph H Gwyn mark
Goodloe Carter Place
James Ford Jr.

to the fort or not extend our chase too far from the fort Question 1 th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service of if so by who was it given: and what has become of it?
Ans If ever I received a discharge I don't now remember it & if I did it has been lost
Question 2 th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Ans. Joseph Guins Richard Ship William Offutt G. V. Gulasby James Wood Jr. Robert Adams
Her declant that the reason he did not apply for a Pension at an earlier date is that he did not know that he was embraced or his case was embraced by vir- -tue of any existing law until late & he now hereby prays to be enrolled on the Roll of Revolutionary Pensioners by virtue of the act of the 7 th June 1832
Sworn to and subscribed before me This 25 day of February 1843
his Adam Harper mark
Goodloe Carter JP  2 nd
I John Harper resident of Woodford County Kentucky hereby certify that I am the Brother of Adam Harper of the same County and that my said Brother is upwards of eighty three years of age and was a Sold- -ier in the Revolutionary War for I myself was with him and an eye witness to his service. I and my said Brother were draughted in March 1780 to serve a three months tour against the Indians we set out immediately to serve out said tour and did so & when it was completed we volunteered for another tour of the same duration & completed it and then returned back to Pendleton County Virginia where we resided when we entered the service & in which we were draughted & we returned back to Pendleton County in October 1780 & was in actual and arduous service from the time we were draugh- -ted in March until about the first of October - after the war was over we lived in said Pendleton County until we removed to Woodford County Kentucky where we now live - I further certify that the statement made by my afo d

Brother in relation to his service in the Revolution war are strictly true for I myself was an eye witness to the same being in company with him
Given to and subscribed upon
his John F Harper mark
Goodloe Carter V.P.
State of Kentucky Woodford County ss.
I Herman Bowman Jr Clerk of the Court of Woodford County State of Kentucky Certify that Goodloe Carter before whom the foregoing declaration of Adam Harper was made and before whom the foregoing affidavits of Joseph Gwynn Samuel Ford Jr and John Harper was made is and was at the time the same were made an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid and the several foregoing signatures purporting to be said Carter's are his own genuine signatures -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this the 1 st day of March 1843 Herman Bowman Jr Clerk

And I Goodloe Carter an acting Justice of the Peace in Woodford County hereby declare my opinion after an investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. I also certify that Joseph Gwyn who has signed the preceding certificate is an Elder of the Presbyterian Church resident in the County of Woodford State of Kentucky - and that James Herd Jr is also a credible person and their statements are entitled to credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name the day and year aforesaid
Goodloe Carter Pratt

I Goodlon Carter an acting justice of the Peace in & for the County of Woodford State of Kentucky hereby certify that I propounded the following interrogatories to the foregoing declarant Adam Warper who answered them as herein after set forth
Question 1 st When and in what year were you born?
Ans. I was born in Pendleton County Virginia in the year Seventeen Hundred and fifty nine.
Question 2 nd Have you any records of your age? and if so where is it?
Ans. I have none. My age was recorded in my Father's Bible but the leaves therefrom have been lost.
Question 3 rd Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Ans. I resided in Pendleton County Virginia when called into service & resided there after the close of said war until the year 1794 at which time I removed to Kentucky Woodford & have continued to reside in Woodford County up to this day.
Question 4 th How were you called into service: were you draughted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom?
Ans. I was draughted for the first tour of service of three months and volunteered for the second tour service.
Question 5 th State the names of some of the Regular officers who with the troops where you served; such Continental and militia Regiments as you can recollect; and the general circumstances of your service?
Ans. Captain Crains Militia men of Rockingham County Virginia formed their junction with the men from Pendleton County Virginia at North Fork. I cannot say particularly in relation to other militia companies. I was draughted in March 1780 & served three months as a draughted militia Private & then volunteered for another tour of three months when said tour terminated & then continued until it terminated - after which I returned to my home in Pendleton County Virginia and during the aforesaid tour we marched to North Fork where we remained about four weeks and then marched to Fort West Fork on the western frontier of Virginia and remained until the second tour terminated - and there would defend the frontiers - from the incursions of the Indians and would go out on tours of hunting but would keep close

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 26, 1857.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States;" and the third section of the Act of August 28, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the Pension agents,
Adam Harper
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of Twenty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the "7"
June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March 1857 to the 4 th Sept. 1857.
Respectfully, yours,
52727
J. M. Broadhead Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

No 35,475
Adam Harper
Kentucky
Act 7 th June 33
Adm 6 m per $20
pay March 1831
Henk S Michaud Home MP

30 H 53 Recy INVALID.
File No. 30 H 53
Adams Harper Pro Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index: — Vol. 2 , Page 172
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No 35.475
Adam Harper Kentucky
Adm #20 per am Landpendents
6th Tranche apm 3'43 Hon. C.S. Morehead H.R.
Act 7 th June 1832.

Washington, April 15 th 1850.
Sir:
I beg leave to call your attention to the cases of Adam and John Harper, of Kentucky, now pending before you - each of whom claimed a pension for six months service in the militia, in the war of the revolution. The claimants are brothers, and served together. On referring to their papers you will see that they declare that they were each drafted for a term of six  three months, which term they served, and then volunteered for another term of three months, which they also served. Each brother swears, distinctly & unequivocally, to the service of the other, as well as to his own service.
The enclosed letter of the Hon. C. S. Morehead, as to the high and unblemished character of these patriots, and of the justice of the Pease before whom their declarations were made, ought to remove all doubt as to the truth of their statements.

It is not to be presumed that two men sustaining the character that these gentlemen are now shown to bear, would conspire together for the purpose of obtaining by perjury , the pitiful stipend of twenty dollars a year, from the Government. The claimants, as I am informed, are still better living. I cannot doubt, but that, on reading the letter of the Hon. Mr. Morehead, you will be satisfied of the fairness and honesty of the claimants. I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
J. H. Coombs
Hon. J. L. Edwards Clerk of Pensions

Frankfort Kentucky March 3 d 1843
Sir
I here with enclose you the declaration of Adam Warper and the evidence in favor of his application for the benefit of the act of Congress of 7 June 1832. Upon the allowance of his Claim please transmit to me at Frankfort Ky. the Certificate thereof.
I am Very respectfully your Ob t Serv t C H Trabue
Wm J L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions. Washington City D.C.