CARTER, HENRY #4782State of Kentucky
County of Barren Sct
On the 19th day of September 1832 personally appeared
in open court before the Judge of the circuit court of
Barren County & Circuit now sitting HENRY CARTER a
resident of Barren County & State of Kentucky aged 80
years thr 25th day of June 1832, who being first duely
sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the
following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of
the act of Congress passed June 7 1832.
That he entered the service of the United State & ...
herein states. He served under Col. CHARLES SCOTT
enlisted under Captain GEORGE STUBBLEFIELD, & marched
from Williamsburgh, the place of Rendevoux, under Major
PARKER to Norfolk & Portsmouth & served two years
in the Regular Army or Continental line or Virginia State
line, he is not certain which. He entered the Army he
thinks about the year 1776 in the beginning of the year
and left the service in 1777 or early in 1778 in the
winter time, He was at the taking of the Hessians on the
26th of December 1776 having marched about 6 miles in the
night & suffering much with the cold & it being
snowing at the time the Hessians were taken. He was at
Philadelphia, New Ark, marched through Jersey before the
British & corssed the Rive in the Army under Gen.
WASHINGOTN & Col. CHARLES SCOTT & was at the
Battles of Trenton & Princeton. He obtained a
Discharge but not expecting ever to have use for it, has
mislaid or lost it. It can not now be found at the time
he entered the service in the Regualr Army, he lived in
Spottylvania about 18 miles from Fredericksburgh
Virginina to which place he returned in the winter of
1777. He was also drafted in about one month after he
returned home, as a soldier in the Militia of Virginina
& served under Capt. THOMAS CRUTCHER, Lieut BRANNUM,
Ensign CLAYTON. He does not recollect his field officers.
A the time he served about 3 months & marched to
Richmond, & Jamestown, the British giving way before
them. He obtained a discharge, can not now recollect the
place he obtained it at & he then returned home. He
served two or three other tours in the Virginia State
Militia, but he has now entirely forgotten the
particulars of them, the length, the officers he served
under or ?? in the service of his county he know Gen.
WASHINGTON, Col. PARKER, Genl. SCOTT, Lieut HUCKLBERRY,
Genl, STUBAND, Col. ANDERSON, & many others. He has
no documentary evidence of, nor does he know of any
person whose testimony he ( the next line
not copied on the microfilm reader)... every claim
whatever 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. Sworn to and subscribe, the day
& year aforesaid .
/s/ HENRY (X his mark) CARTER
We ZACHARIAH EMERSON, a clergyman residing in the county
of Barren & JOHN DUFF residing in the same county
hereby certify that we are well acquainted with HENRY
CARTER who has subscribed & sworn to the above
Declaration, that we believe him to be 80 years of age;
that he is reputed & believe in the neighbourhood
where he resided to have been a soldier in the Revolution
and we concur in that opinion. Sworn & subscribed the
day & year afsd
/s/ ZACHR EMERSON
/s/ JOHN DUFF
1. Where &
in what year were you born?
In Spottsylvanian County, 18 miles of
Fredericksburgh in 1752 |
| |
2. Have you any record of
your age?
If so, where ist it? I have. It is in the family
Bible at my house |
| |
3. Where were you living
when called into the service? Where have you
lived since the Revolutionary War? Where do you
now live?
At Spottylvanina, about 18 miles from
Frederickburgh, since the war I hve live in
Spottsylvanina & in Faquier County, from
which place I moved 20 years ago to Barren County
Ky, where I have lived ever since & this time |
| |
4. How were you called in
service?
Enlisted in the Regular Army first, then drafted
in the Militia |
| |
5. State the name of the
Regular officers who you served with, the namer
of some regiments & general circumstances:
Col. PARKER, Col. SCOTT, Genl. WASHINGTON, HENRY
VOWLS, A.J. WITANTE(?) and many others. I served
in the 5th Virginina Regiment, and at the battle
fo Princeton, Trenton, & at the taking of the
Hessians. |
| |
6. Did you ever receive a
Discharge, if so by whom was it given, & what
has become of it?
I did, do not recollect by whom it was given, it
is now lost. |
| |
And the said court do hereby declare this, after the
investigation of the matter, have after ?? the
interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the
above name applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and
served as he states And the court futher certifies, that
it appeard to them that ZACHARIAH EMERSON who has signed
the preceding certificate is a clergyman receiving in the
County of Barren & that JOHN DUFF, who has also
signed the same is a Residant in the County of Barren
& is a credible person, & that their statement is
entitlted to credit.
I, RICHARD GARNETT, clerk of the Circuit Court of Barren
County Cicuit & I do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said
court in ths matter of the application of HNERY CARTER
for a pension. In testimony whereof I have here unto set
my hand & seal of office this 19th day of Septr 1832.
s/s RICHARD GARNETT CBCC
Covering Jacket: Kentucky 4732 Henry Carter, Barren Ky,
Pr. in the regiments of Col. Scott in the Va line for 2
years from 1776. Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the
rate of $80 per annum to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1834.
(*Note: The Abstracts of the Pension Records of Henry
Carter found in other publications have the #S12684 of a
previous Henry Carter from VA whose pension was rejected.
The # on the covering jacket is what appears on the
application found on the microfilm from the NARA)*
|