Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3118, John F Carr, Va.
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[Printed form with handwritten answers]
(3-1776)
Service  Number
Va. Carr, John F. S. 3118
Carded 
Contents
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John F. Carr 
amended Declaration 
for a Pension
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October 16, 1934
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John F. Carr-S.3118
BA-J/AWF
Goldie Dodge 
Albany
Texas

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Carr of Charlottesvilles, Virginia, War of the Revolution. 

The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.3118, based upon the military service of John F. Carr, during the Revolutionary War.

John F. Carr was born November 12, 1764, places not given, nor are the names of his parents shown. 

While residing near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia, John F. Carr, late in the year, 1780, took his own team and moved prisoners from Albemarle Barracks to Fredericktown, Maryland, served six or eight weeks, and shortly after, he went to Philadelphia and hauled provisions for the army until in March, 1781. He enlisted in April, 1781, served in Captains Isaac Davis' and John Burk's companies, Colonel Reuben Lindsey's Virginia regiment, was in the battles of Hotwater and Jamestown, where he was soughtly wounded in the right knew by a bayoney [bayonet], after which was discharged; he immediately enlisted and served as substitute for Walter Carr, and was the the Siege of Yorktown; length of service from April, 1781, six months and ten or fifteen days. 

he was allowed pension on his application exe-
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cuted [executed- from previous page], September 13, 1832, then a resident of Cedar Creek, Maury, County, Tennessee. 

It is not shown that the Walter Carr for whom the soldier, John F. Carr, served as substitute, was a relative, nor is it stated the soldier was married. 

Reference was made in 1850 to a Mr. Carr, as the lawful heir of John F. Carr, relationship not given. 

IN order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address to whome sent, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D. C., citing the following data:

John F. Carr
Certificates # 13870
Issued July 3, 1833
Rate 21.12 per annum
To commence March 4, 1833
Act of June 7, 1832
West Tennessee Agency.

Very Truly Yours

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to the Administrator
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Columbia Ten. June 11th 1833