Jones County, NC - Revolutionary War Widow's Pension Application

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MARY ADAMS
PETITION FOR WIDOWS PENSION
REVOLUTIONARY WAR

State of Tennessee
Morgan County

On this the 25th day of March 1839 personally appeared before me, Daniel S.
Lavender, Justice of the peace in and for said county Mary Adams a resident 
citizen of the County of Morgan State of Tennessee aged 80 years the 15th 
day of May next and after being Duly sworn for that purpose on her oath 
states that she was born and raised in the County of Jones in North Carolina 
that she was raised from a child within a few miles of her deceased husband 
William Adams and she makes the following declaration in order to obtain the
benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th July 1838.  

She states that well recollects her said husband entering the service 
sometime in the fall or winter season of the year and continuing in the 
service to her best knowledge and (being) founded on her own knowledge of 
his starting and returning from service and of his being absent and being 
said to be in the service and also from the whole of her acquaintance with 
him during the time of her living with him and from many surrounding 
circumstances but as to the precise time of his beginning service and 
quitting the same.  

She cannot say precisely but agreeable to her best opinion his service was 
performed between the latter part of the year 1780 and the latter part of 
the month of August 1781.  She is not certain whether he was a drafted man 
or not.  She thinks that he was in continued service for mini months whether 
all at one engagement or not she cannot state but he was absent for the whole 
time and she believes was under one engagement for the whole time and served 
nine months and served she has often heard him speak of being in service in 
the Carolinas and of being in Service at Wilmington and at the (Nuse) and of 
being in a skirmish at the Long bridge in North Carolina and of many Points 
and places not to her now recollected, and of his being and acting as a cook 
for the officers, as to all the officers under whom he served she cannot now 
say with certainty, but she distinctly recollects of hearing him often speak 
of serving under Col Avery and serving under him and William Bush adjutant and
Lieutenant Martin Franks and James Blackshir she thinks was ensign She does 
not now recollect of ever hearing her said husband say whether he was 
verbally discharged or otherwise.  

She states that after her said husband returned from his said service that 
she was married to him by Justice Jacob Johnson living just across the County 
line and in Dobbs County North Carolina they having just went to Whitey 
Franks a Justice of the County of Jones to be married and he having been 
from home we went to Jacob Johnson's in Dobbs County North Carolina and
was married at his house on the 20th day of October in the year seventeen
hundred and eighty one that she has no record of her said marriage as she 
knows of that her oldest son David Adams had a record of Declarants age and 
his age and the age of Declarants childrens ages on some papers sewed 
together he being going to Missouri left it with Declarant which she states 
is probably in existence but that she is not certain that the time of her 
marriage is contained in the Document.  She states she was married to the 
said William, on the 20 Oct 1781 that her maiden name was Gooden he died 
in Morgan County Tennessee on the 19 of June one thousand eight hundred 
and thirty two that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the
service but the marriage took place before the first day of Jamuary
seventeen hundred and ninety four (-----) at the time above stated.  

She positively states that her Departed husband died on the 19th June one
thousand eight hundred and thirty two as above stated after living with her
from the time of their marriage until he died and that she has remained a 
widow ever since his death.  She has no record of her husbands service  
She believed that Daniel S Lavender Esquire living near her with whom she 
has been acquainted from a child knows things of and concerning her said 
marriage and her said husbands service that would in all probability be 
fully convincing  (?) of her husbands service and of Declarants marriage 
and her husbands death and her widowhood.

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