Pension Application of Elisha Adams: S12903
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
Virginia Franklin
County Sct This 3rd day of
June 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the county Court of Franklin
now seting, Elisha Adams a resident of said county and state aforesaid aged
seventy[?] years or thereabouts born as he is informed in Charlotte Va but has
no register of his age who being first duly sworn according to Law on his
oath doth make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the
act of Congress passed the 7th of June 1832. That he entered the
service of the United States and served as herein stated that at the age of
about 16 at the time Cornwallace [sic: Cornwallis] invaded Virginia [May 1781]
he marched with a company from Bedford County Va commanded by Capt Alexander
Cummings to Fluvana [sic: Fluvanna] County Va where he joined the American Army
under the orders at that place of Genl [Robert] Lawson & the Baron
Steauban [sic: von Steuben] & others That he was in the action fought at
the point of fork, in Fluvana [5-6 June 1781]
that he remained three months in service under Lawson & others as
aforesaid pursuing & retreating alternately from the enemy that at the
end of his term for which he voluntarily agreed to serve he was discharged On
his way to returning home he substituted for one Wm Couts and again marched in
a company the capt of which was sigmond Carter
he remembers he was marched to Richmond and was stationed one
month at Marbin Hills [sic: Malvern Hill] in he thinks Henrico County the
regement was commanded by Colo Henry Skipworth [sic: Skipwith] he was discharged near pomonkey [sic:
Pamunkey] river after a service of three months during this service which was also as above three months he was
nearly all the time boman[?] for Colo Skipworth Majr. Samuel Mitchell a
member of Bedford County court the Revd Wm Leftwich of Bedford and John
Hudnall of said County all Whigs during the revolution and good citizens he
believes remembers him well and he refers to them for additional proof as
required He also files the affidavit of Capt Thos Pullen to prove his
services He has lost all his discharges if he ever had any given him &
has no documentary evidence he states that he afterwards served ten weeks at
new London guarding the magazines, at new London Va in Bedford county [now in
Campbell County] the county he lived in He hereby relinquishes all claim to a
pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the
pension Roll of the agency of any state. Elisha
his X mark Adams