Rowan County, NC - Adam Philips Revolutionary War Pension, 1850

February 15, 1933

The Quartermaster General
Memorial Branch
War Department
Washington, DC

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to Adam
Philips who served in the War of the Revolution as a private with
the North Carolina Troops and died near Asheville, North Carolina.

The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in pension
claim S.8955 based upon the military service of Adam Philips in the
War of the Revolution.

Adam Philips enlisted in Rowan County, North Carolina, no date given,
served as a private in Captain Simmons' Company, Colonel Francis
Locke's North Carolina Regiment, was in the battle of Cowan's Ford
and guarded prisoners at Salisbury; length of service six months.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 11, 1850
at which time he was aged eighty-seven years and living in Buncombe
County, North Carolina.

The papers on file in this claim contain no reference to wife or
children of the soldier, Adam Philips.

The application for headstone for Adam Philips (Phillips) is
returned herewith, and a letter from Mrs. Leslie B. Clark, Lance
House, Hot Springs, North Carolina.

Very truly yours,

A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

Source: HeritageQuest Online

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