Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,027, Robert Carr, Continental (N.H.)
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Continental (N.H.) 
Carr, Robert
NUMBER
S.46.027
CONTENTS
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10732
New Hampshire
Robert Carr
of Hillsboro, in the State of N. H.
who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hall of the --commanded by Genl Sullivan in the N Hamp
line for 1 year.
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at
the rate of 40. Dollars -- cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 20th day of April 1833 and Sent Franklin B Price, Hillsboro, N.H. 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833          $80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept "       20.00
                                                             $100.00 Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D D Addison   Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 1st,  Page 216
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,
Robert Carr
N Hampshire
Private 1 year
A [Illegible]
12783
F Pierce
Hillsborough NH
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BRIEF in the case of Robert Carr
60 of Hillsborough in the State of NH
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? 
Open County
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
[Blank]
3. How old is he?
75
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period.
NH Militia
Dec. In 1775
Jany 1776  enlisted
Duration of Service. 
Years  1
Months  -- 
Days  --
Rank. as a  Private
Name of General and Field Officer under whom he served.
Capt. Hall   Genl. Sullivan
mentioned.
Genl Sullivan
 5. In what battles was he engaged?
Non mentioned
6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?
N Hampshire  Co Shriston
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary  one living witness
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
[Blank]
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.
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No 21. 128
Declaration
Robert Can
12.783
address to Franklin Pierce
Esq Hillsborough N. H.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
County of Hillsborough, SS.
On this thirtieth day of August A.D. 1832
personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting at Francestown within and for the County of Hillborough, in the State aforesaid, Robert Carr
of Hillsborough in the County & State aforesaid aged seventy five years who being duly 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 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the
following named officers, and served as herein stated. That is to say, On the Month December 1775 or of January 1776 he enlisted into the army of the Revolution in the New Hampshire Militia for the term of one year.  He belonged
to Colo John Stark's Regt in a Company commanded by Captain Hale of Hopkinton N.H.  One Hardy was first Lieut.
Jesse Carr of Goffstown second and on Pritchard Ensign.  He marched from Winter Hill to New London took shipping to
New York went from thence to Albany, thence to Lake George thence to Lake Champlain and having served the time of one year was dismissed at Mt. Independence near
Saratoga
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He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever, except the present, and declares that  his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, Robert Carr Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Edmund Parker Judge of Probate
We John Lawton a Clergyman residing in the town of Hillsborough in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid, and Benjamin Pierce 
residing in Hillsborough aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Robert Carr who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be seventy five years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
John Lawton
Benjamin Pierce
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them, that John Lawton who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the
town of Hillsborough and that the Hon Benjn Pierce who has signed the same, is a resident in the town of Hillsborough and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edmund Parker
Judge of Probate for said County of Hillsborough.
I Charles H. Atherton, Register of the court, 
hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Robert Carr for pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
C.H. Atherton
Register of Probate,
for said county of Hillsborough.
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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, SS.
At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were propounded to the said Robert Carr and the following answers given, to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, In Litchfield, New Hampshire AD 1757
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, I have a record of my age in my Bible
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? Answer,
when I entered the service I resided in Goffstown in the County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire.  I have resided in Hillsborough where I now live fifty two years
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
I enlisted voluntarily
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer.
General Sullivan command at first & afterwards
General Gates, Colo Stark, Col. Poor Colo Patterson  Colo. Maxfield &c
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? Answer,
I did not receive a written discharge
7. State the names of  persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution? Answer,
Deacon Paul Coolidge. Capt William Dickey General Benjamin Pierce Major Isaac Andrews
Certified by C. H. Atherton Register
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Revy  INVALID
File No. 46.027
Robt Carr
Private
Capt Hall N.H. Mila
Rev War
Act June 7, 1832
Index: Vol. A Page 76
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Robert Carr which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?
yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?
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IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
Yes
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout [amount] of pension he is entitled?
Yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? 
Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
Yes
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
Yes
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
Yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
[Blank]
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
[Blank]
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
Yes
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? 
Yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
yes
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?
yes
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
*QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; 
For ___year ___months, and ___ days, I served as a ___ For___  months ___and days, I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service.  The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.  Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable.  It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged.  The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass attached to the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to t he certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office , the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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Affidavit
James Carr
for
Robert Carr
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I James Can of Hillsborough in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire depose and testify that I am now a pensioner of the United States under the act 1818.  That I am now Eighty years of age, that having
served eight months at Winter Hill, Mass
in 1775 I again enlisted into a company commanded by Captain Hale of Hopkinton N.H. that one Hardy was our first Lieutenant Jesse Carr of Goffstown our second and one Pritchard of Mistick Mass our ensign, that I was immediately appointed a sergeant in said John Haws Company, that Robert Can then of Goffstown now of Hillsborough in the County aforesaid enlisted into said company in the years service as a private in Nov or Dec. 1775 and that he served the same company and in the same mess with me during the term of one year.  We marched from Winter Hill I think to New London, I think took shipping to New York went from there to Albany, thence to Lake George, thence to lake Champlain & I said Carr served in the same Company and the same [Illegible] with me during the term of one year
James Carr
State of New Hampshire  July 9
Hillsborough County SS   1832
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year last aforesaid
Before me
Franklin Pierce   Jus. Peace

I certify that James Carr the above deponent is a man of veracity and entitled to entire credit
Franklin Piece Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire Secretary's Office 
July 7 1832
The within named Franklin Pierce is a Justice of the Peace for County of Hillsborough duly
constituted and sworn and his
signature as such genuine
In testimony which I have hereto set the Seal of the State
Ralph Metcalf  Secretary