Aaron
Adams
State
of Kentucky - County of
Harrison
Resident
of Grant County
The Harrison County application of Aaron Adams is merely mentions that he had served in the Revolution. He was granted a pension in recognition of his service in the St. Clair War of 1792. He suffered a disabling gunshot wound in the right thigh by a ball, entering on the outside about six inches above the knee, injuring the bone seriously and making its exit about one inch lower on the inside. About 1852 he moved to the vicinity of Union Corners, Van Buren County, Iowa.
I, John Adair of the County of Harrison and State of Kentucky, do hereby certify that in the year 1792, General James Wilkinson, then a Colonel in the Unites State service, did authorize me to enlist one hundred men in Kentucky and command them as a captain for three months in the United States service northwest of the Ohio, that I made the enlistment, that Aaron Adams, then a youth, was one of the men so enlisted by me and did perform his duty faithfully as a soldier, until on the 6th day of November in the year1792, when in the actual discharge of his duty in an action with the Indians near Fort St. Clair he received a gunshot wound in the thigh, when the tour of service ended he was left in charge of the United States physicians at Cincinnati by order of said Colonel James Wilkinson until his wound was cured or healed, which wound it appears has and does disable him from earning his living by his labor. Given under my hand the 12th day of August 1820. Signed: John Adair, Captain then in service of the United States.
State of Kentucky, County of Harrison.
This day came Aaron Adams before me, a justice of the peace for the county
aforesaid, and made oath that heretofore he obtained from the War Office
of the United States a pension certificate for a pension of $72 a year on
account of a wound received by him while in the line of his duty in the actual
service of the United States since the Revolutionary War, and that said
certificate has been lost or mislaid, so that he cannot find the same. Given
under my hand this 2nd day of December 1835. Signed Th. B
Woodyard.
Payable on the 4th of March and the 4th of September at Lexington by John Tilford, Pension Agent registered in Book F, Volume 9, Page 1, by D. Brown, Clerk. I certify the written to be a true copy of my certificate given the 7th day of May 1832. Aaron (X) Adams.
Secretary of Interior:
Dear Sir, having written to you some time last spring requesting a change
from the agency of Kentucky to that of Missouri and having heard nothing
from you and being in much need, I again address you wishing you to attend
to it in haste. I am an old, helpless soldier and have changed my residence
from Kentucky to Missouri, therefore I request my pension paid in Missouri.
I have not received a payment since the fourth of March 1852. You will please
give notice immediately of what will be done.
Yours Respectfully,
Aaron (X) Adams
To the Secretary of Interior:
Sir, please direct to Union Corners, VanBuren County, Iowa.
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