Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,789, William Carrithers, Penn.
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Service
Penn.

Carrithers, William
Caruthers

Number
R. 1.789
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[illegible] Mail

[written vertically, bottom to top]

Col. Jas L Edwards
Pension office
Washington DC

Hon R. M. Johnson

[illegible]
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Col J. L. Edwards
Please answer the within & oblige

Rt M Johnson

Send back the letter
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Rejected

See letter 3 March 1836 [illegible], R.M. Johnson
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did not serve six months

1789
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Hon R.M.  Johnson
March 2, 1836

Record Vol 18 P360
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Wa Dept. Pen. Office
March 2, 1836

Sir

The declaration of William Carrithers and a heir [illegible]  He alleges to have served a tour of six months in 1781 in guarding [illegible] fort.  The militia were not called out by the competent authorities to serve as alleged nor did they serve so long as six months under one engagement.  The act of June 1832 provides for none who did not perform for six months actual service against the common enemy.  The claim has therefore been rejected and the papers filed in this office.  Enclosed in with Beard's letter.

[illegible]

Hon. R. M. Johnson
N. R.
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33.553
Wm Carrithers
Indiana

Hon R. M. Johnson

AR
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State of Indiana       SS
County of Sullivan

On this eighth day of February in the years of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appeared in open court before me  J.W, Briggs_________________________________

composing the Court of Probate for said County now sitting, it being Court of record for Said County, William Caruthers a resident of the County of Sullivan  & State of Indiana, aged seventy six years -- who being firs duly sworn seven according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, -- in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June the 7th, 1832.  That he was drafted in the year eighty one and served six months under the command of Captain Hickman [inserted: "Hickeyass"] in Colonel Gattis' Regiment and that he served the [illegible] six months in guarding Garrets Big Whitely in the State of Pennsylvania [insert: "he also states that he was discharged by one Lieutenant Phillips and that he has lost the same"] He states that he was born on the first day of January 1760 in the County of Donegaul in the north of Ireland, that he came to America in the year seventy four; that he lived in Ciscil County State of Maryland until the year seventy nine, and that he then removed to the state of Pennsylvania County of [inserted: "now"] Fayatte near Brownsville on the Monongahila river  He there married in the year eighty three and lived there until the year ninety nine.  He then moved to Kentucky and lived in Nelson County until the year 1820, -- at which time he removed to Sullivan county State of Indiana, where he has resided ever since.  He states that he knows of no person now living by whom he can prove his services.  He states that he is known to William [inserted "B"] Eldridge a clergyman and Hardy Hill _____
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his present neighboir hood, who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as he has stated  He hereby relinquishes 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.

William Cauthers
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We William B. Eldrige a clergyman, residing in the County of Viga and state of Indiana and Hardy Hill residing in Sullivan County, hereby certify -- that we are we[ll] [ac]quainted with William Carrithers who has subscribed and sworn  to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy six -- years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbour hood where he resides, to have served as he has stated, and that we concur in that opinion.

Sworn to an subscribed the day and year aforesaid

William B Elderidge
Hardy Hill

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant did serve as he has stated.  And the Court further certifies. that it appears to them, that William B. Eldrige who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the County of Viga and that Hardy Hill ___________ who has signed the same is a resident in the [word crossed out] County of Sullivan and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.  And that the words " he also states that he was discharged y one Lieut Phillips and that he has lost the same" was interlined in Presence of the Court County of Sullivan  SS

Joseph W. Briggs
B. Wolfe clerk of the said Probate Court do hereby certify athat the foregoing contains the original
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proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Caruthers for a pension.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand [and] seal of office, the 8th day of February 1836. ----------
Benjamon Wolfe clerk
S.C. P. Court
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(3-223.) 1789  [stamped on left, vertically] REJECTED

____________, Ex'r.

OLD WAR INVALID

William Caruthers
P.O. Ind a

Service:

Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:

Alleges [crossed out]: List of rejected claims printed in 1852 shows cause of [Re enlisted: [crossed out] rejection as follows "He did not serve six months"

Attorney:
P.O.