Aaron Adams - Old War Invalid File #24446. Saint Clarr's War. Not in the Revolutionary War. On October 21, 1819 in Frankfort, Kentucky, A. J. Mitchell and Joseph Scott, both physicians, certify that Aaron Adams, a soldier in the company of Captain John Adams on the Kentucky Militia in the service of the United States in the year 1792, was rendered incapable of performing the duty of a soldier by reason of a wound inflicted when he was actually in the service of the aforesaid and in the line of his duty. On November 6, 1792, being engaged in an action with the Indians near Fort Saint Clair, he received a gun shot would in the right thigh and about four inches above the knee and he is thereby rendered one-half disabled. Richard Taylor certifies to Aaron Adams being wounded November 6, 1792, he the deponent being wounded the the same action at Fort Sinclair on the same morning. On April 14, 1835, G. H. Perrin and A. T. McMillin, being both physicians, certify that the disability of Aaron Adams is total. Aaron Adams writes to the Secretary of the Interior, but there is no date given, but it is after 1852, and in this letter he requests for the second time that he be transferred from the Kentucky Roll of Pensions to that of the State of Missouri, saying that he now resides in Missouri, but he asks that all communications be sent to Union Corners at VanBuren County in the State of Iowa. In Pendleton County, April 19, 1820, Wm. Barnes makes oath to his personal knowledge of the service and wound of Aaron Adams. On December 11, 1830, Joel C. Frazer and Daniel Holt, both practicing physicians, certify that Aaron Adams is three quarters disabled. He is inscribed on the Kentucky Roll of Pensions at the rate of $4 per annum to commence August 14, 1820. This pension was later increased to $8 per month to commence December 24, 1831. John Adair, late Captain, testifies on August 12, 1820 that Aaron Adams was in his company of one hundred men which he enlisted on authorization of General Wilkerson, then his Colonel. He also testifies that Aaron Adams was at that time still a youth. He in addition testifies that he performed his duty faithfully until November 6, 1792 when he was wounded and that at that time he was left in charge of the U. S. Physicians at Cincinnati, in the State of Ohio, by the command of Colonel James Wilkerson.

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