Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42642, John Canter, Va.
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(8-1776)

SERVICE
Va.

Canter, John

NUMBER
S. 42642

CONTENTS
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19,656

Ohio.
John Canter
of Jackson Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Finley of the regiment commanded
by Colonel Dark in the Virginia
line, for the term of two years.
from 1780 to 1783

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per months, to commence on the 10th day of August 1826

Certificate of Pension issued the 24 of Augt 1826
and delivered to A.M. Faulkner Esqr
Clerk of the Court C.P. Jackson Co. Ohio

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1826           $06-73
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar 1827  48-
                                                     $54-73

Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,
and May 1, 1820

Files Sept. 26

Date of death
not on AB
JLL
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John Canter has authorised me to receive his pension certificate
Aug 24th 1826
A.M. Faulkner

com. 10 Aug 1826
Finley's Co.
Dark's regt
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The State of Ohio Jackson County Ss
Personally appeared before me Thomas Dougherty a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County of Jackson James Dawson aged sixty five years a respectable citizen of said County who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he hath been long acquainted with John Canter who hath subscribed the foregoing declaration and well know him to be the identical person he therein represents himself to be and that he knows or believes that he performed the military services he therein hath stated to have been performed
May 26 1826
James Dawson

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 26th day of May AD 1826
Thomas Daugherty J.P.

The State of Ohio
Jackson County Ss
I A.M. Faulkner Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do certify that the above named Thomas Dougherty Esqr was a Justice of the Peace for said County on the 26 day of May 1826 duly commissioned & qualified & that his signature subscribed appears to me to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court his 27th day of May 1826
A.M. Faulkner Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Jackson County Ss
Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Jackson and State of Ohio aforesaid May term 1824 and the 27th of May aforesaid personally appeared in open court this court being a court of record in and for the County aforesaid John Canter aged about seventy years and resident in the said County of Jackson who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he was in the year 1779 and 1780 a citizen of Virginia and was in 1779 or 1780 he does not now recollect distinctly which and during the Revolutionary War drafted as a soldier for eighteen months service in said War and served out a part of said time in the Company of Captain Bedinger or Budinger in the Regiment commanded by Col Darks or Dark under General Daniel Morgan  that before the said time of service expired in Winchester Virginia he the said John Canter enlisted into the service of the Government as a soldier during the war in the Company of Captain Finly or Findley that he was enlisted by Col Holmes in May 1781 as near as he can now recollect and was put into the Company of the said Finley in a Regiment commanded by one Colonel Dark or Darks under the command or in the Brigade of General Morgan that he served as a soldier from the time of his said enlistment during the said war, and was honorably discharged at the end of the war
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war in 1782 or 1783  that he received a certificate of discharge which he has lost & is not now able to produce and that he has no other proof of his service than his statement aforesaid and the affidavit of Thomas Canter a brother hereunto annexed  the number of the Regiment and the Christian names of the officers otherwise than as above stated he does not now recollect   that at the time of his said enlistment and ever since he has been a citizen and resident of the United States and that he the said John Canter at no time before or since that first day of March 1818 by gift sale of in any manner has disposed of his property or any part thereof with a view or intent thereby so to diminish it so as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property securities contracts or debts due to him nor hath he any income other than what is mentioned in the schedule here below and by him subscribed to with one horse of the value of fifteen dollars and one cow of the value of seven dollars
John Canter  x his mark

And the said John Canter doth further declare
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declare that by ocupation he is a farmer and of an age incapable of doing much labour has a wife aged about sixty and quite infirm living with him and a Daughter Mary fifteen years old a son Hiram 27 years old who is a lunatic both living with him and wholy dependent on him for a support and four other sons John 39 years old, Henry 27 years old James 30 years old married and Daniel 23 years old unmarried all living abroad and not in circumstances to render him any assistance and that he is actually in needy circumstances and has no expectation of relief from any other quarter than the government
John Canter   x his mark

Jackson Court of Common Pleas
Jackson County Ss
Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record John Canter and made oath that the matters and things set forth in the foregoing declaration are true and the Court find the amount of the property in his said schedule to be twenty two dollars
Ezra Osborne P.J.

State of Ohio
Jackson County Ss
Court of Common Pleas of the Term of May  1824 personally appeared in open Court Thomas Canter a respectable citizen of this County who deposeth and saith that he is a brother of the above named John Canter and that he was knowing to the said John's having enlisted and serving as a soldier in the revolutionary war as is above by the said John declared and
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who deposeth and saith that he is a brother of the above named John Canter and that he was knowing to the said John's having enlisted and serving as a soldier in the revolutionary war as is above by the said John declared and further he saith not
Thomas Canter  his mark

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court this 27th day of May 1824
A.M. Faulkner Clerk

The State of Ohio
Jackson County Ss
I, A.M. Faulkner clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Jackson do certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said John Canter did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the continental establishment.  I also certify that the foregoing oath and the shedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the oppinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is twenty two Dollars.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 27th day of July AD 1824 & in the 22nd year of this State
A.M. Faulkner Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Jackson County aforesaid
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June 6, 1832

BA-J/AWF
John Canter
S. 42642

Mrs. George Martindill
Wellston 
Ohio

Dear Madam:
The data furnished herein were obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S.42642, based upon the Revolutionary War service of John Canter.
While residing in the state of Virginia, he enlisted in 1780 and served as a private in Captain Bedinger's and Captain Finley's companies in Colonel Darke's Virginia regiment, and served until the close of the war.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 27, 1824, at which time he was living in Jackson County, Ohio, and was seventy years of age.
In 1824 his wife was about sixty years of age, her name not given;  his daughter, Mary aged fifteen years, and his son, Hiram aged twenty-seven years, lived at home then.  He referred, also, at this time to four other sons:  John aged thirty-nine years, Henry aged twenty-six years, James aged thirty years, married, and Daniel aged twenty-three years, unmarried.
In 1826 and 1842 the soldier, John Canter was living in Scioto County, Ohio.
The soldier's brother, Thomas Canter, in 1826 was living in Jackson County, Ohio, and his brother, Truman Canter, then resided in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name of person paid and possibly the date of death of the above named Revolutionary War pensioner,
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you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:  John Canter, certificate #19656, issued August 24, 1826, rate $8.00 per month, commenced August 10, 1826, Act of March 18, 1818, Ohio Agency.
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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42642
Invalid.
Revy

File No. 42,642
John Canter  AW  Jan. 8. 08
Pri Rev War

Act: 18# March 18#
Index:-Vol. 3, Page 72
Arrangement of 1870

1932  Jan 3- Mrs. George Martindill furnished history ILL.
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The State of Ohio Jackson County SS
Personally appeared before me John B. Gilleland a Justice of the peace of said county John Canter a citizen of the County aforesaid aged about seventy years who being sworn according to law saith, he hath no other evidence within his reach of his Inlistment and service as a soldier in the revolutionary war than the evidence of Thomas Canter mentioned in his former declaration and Martha Dawson hereunto annexed.  That the cause of his not making earlier application for a pension at the war office was, that when he was informed of the passage of the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 for the relief of the officers and soldiers who served in the revolution he was also informed, that those who were well able to labour and had a family able to work and support them were excluded.  That after some of his family married and left him, and he became more unable to labour, he applied to a Mr. Beckley at Burlington in Lawrance County Ohio who drew his Declaration and presented it to the court, but the Presidents [illegible] informed him that his Declaration was informal and that he had better draw another;  and at the next term the same Mr. Beckley drew him another which he was also informed was deficient and informal.  That he then moved to this said County and made his declaration which he forwarded to the War office.  He further states that he hath since the 18th March 1818 sold one horse [beast?] to Abjah Dawson for the amount of thirty dollars for which he received the amount in grain to support his family (he thinks in March 1822)  Also one mare & colt which he exchanged to William Dawson for a horse worth about $15-00 which horse he owned at the time of making his Declaration and the only one he now owns.  That with the exceptions of some [illegible], tallow and some small articles of but little value which he has exchanged at stores for little necessaries for himself and family he has not parted with any property or articles of value since the 18th March 1818,  that they in all would not amount to more than fifty dollars.  The said John Canter further states that the reason is he believes of his name not being found
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found on the rolls is, that some men being inlisted for three years, and other during the war which he was one and both doing duty in the same  Company, that of the surrender of Cornwallis they were sent to guard the Magazines and on [illegible], the discharges came to those who were inlisted during the War (which he was one) and he has good reason to believe that when the old rolls was defaced and worn out in the officers packets that on making out new rolls, those men which had been inlisted during the war was discharged that their names was not inserted, and he thinks that this is the reason of his name  not being there.  for they received nothing but their naked discharges and parted each man his own way.  And further saith not.
John Canter  x his mark

Sworn and subscribed before me by making his mark this 23d day of December 1824
J.B. Gilleland J.P.

Also personally appeared before me John Perkins a respectable Citizen of said county aged about fifty five years who being sworn according to law on his oath saith that he has been well acquainted with the above named John Canter for twenty years past, as also with his common dealings and transactions and he good reason to believe that the above account of the disposal of his property since the 18th March 1818 is correct  that he is knowing to the transfer of the horse and that the statement respecting him is correct.  He further states that the said John Canter is not in a situation to enable him to support himself nor family   neither has he any other property of value that as above described and further saith not
John Perkins   x his mark

Sworn and subscribed by making his mark before me this 23d day of December 1824
J.B. Gilliland J.P.
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And personally appeared before me Thomas Mercer a respectable citizen of Jackson County aged about twenty eight years who being sworn as the law directs on his oath saith, that he has been well acquainted with said John Canter for 7 or 8 years past, and says he has not known him to dispose of any part of his property except a horse that he sold for grain and one he exchanged for an other horse [illegible].  he further states the said John Canter is a poor man that he believes him not be in circumstances to support himself and family and further saith not
Thomas Mercer
Sworn and subscribed before me this 23th day of December 1824
J.B. Gilleland J.P.

The State of Ohio  Jackson County Ss
Personally appeared before me J.B. Gilleland a Justice of the peace of said County Martha Dawson a respectable citizen of said County aged about sixty years and being sworn according to law saith that she was well acquainted with the said John Canter she thinks since the year 1781 or 1782.  with the exception of the time he was in the service as a soldier in the revolution and since he left the service up to this time.  that she knew of him being drafted as a soldier in the revolutionary war  that after said service expired she undersood from his neighbors and relations that he enlisted as a soldier during the war in the company she understood commanded by Capt Finley that she also seen the said John Canter after the expiration of the war and immediately after on
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on his way home from the army, and from common reports amongst his neighbours and relations with whom she was well acquainted then living in the neighbourhood and seeing him were the regimentals then worn by the soldiers of the army and always understood he was inlisted at the time and place and by the officer before stated and of his serving during the war, and ever understood he was honourably discharged by his Captain, and that she is well acquainted with his common dealings for three years past and does not know of him parting with any of his property but one horse that he sold to her son Abijah Dawson in March 1822 for which he received grain in lieu thereof to support his family She further states that to her own knowledge he is not in circumstances to support himself and family and further saith not
Martha Dawson  x her mark

Sworn and subscribed by making her mark before me this 3d day of January 1825
J.B. Gilliland J.P.

The State of Ohio Jackson County Ss
I, A.M. Faulkner Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do certify that John B. Gilleland Esquire before whom the foregoing depositions appear to have been taken was at the time of subscribing his name thereto to wit the 23d day of December 1824 and 3rd day of January 1825 a now is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County of Jackson duly commissioned and qualified according to law
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of said Court this 15th Jany AD 1825
A.M. Faulkner Clk
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State of Kentucky
Rockcastle County Sct.
This day Truman Canter of this County personally appeared before me John H Slaughter a Justice of the peace for the sd County of Rockcastle and made oath that his brother John Canter formerly of Frederick County state of Virginia and now a citizen of Sciota County State of Ohio did in the year 1780 or 1781 in the town of Winchester Virginia enlist as a regular soldier for during the war in Genl Daniel Morgans Brigade, Colo. Joseph Darks Regiment and Capt. Finley's Company and that he saw the said John Canter in actual service in the afsd. Regiment.  Given under my hand this 10th day of May 1826.
John H. Slaughter J.P.

State of Kentucky Rockcastle County Sct.
I James Terrill Clerk of the Court holden for the County afsd. do certify that John H. Slaughter who signed the foregoing Certificate or affidavit of Truman Canter is and was at that time a Justice of the Peace for the County afsd. duly commissioned and sworn and full faith and credit should be given all his acts as such in all legal tribunals.
In Testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my County this 11th dayof May 1826
James Terrill C.R.C.Co
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State of Kentucky Rockcastle County Sct
I James P. Carpenter Presiding Justice of the Pease for the County afsd. do certify that James Terrill who gave the last foregoing certificate with the seal of County is and was at that time the Clerk of the Rockcastle County Court and full faith and credit should be given to all his acts as such by any legal tribunal in the U.S.
Given under my hand the 11th day of May 1826
James P. Carpenter J.P.R.C.
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The State of Ohio
Jackson County Ss
Personally appeared before me John Horton a Justice of the Peace for the said County Thomas Canter a respectable citizen of said County who being sworn agreeable to law saith on his oath that he is knowing to the inlistment of John Canter in the Revolutionary War at Winchester Virginia by Col. Holmes of the United States Army sometime in the year of 1781 as near as he can now recollect  that he served during the war in the company commanded by Col. Joseph Finley of the Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Dark in Gen. Morgan's Brigate but he cannot recollect nor has he any means of informing himself or his recollection of the No. of either the Company Regiment or Brigade.  he further states that he said John Canter was discharged after the close of the war on James River
he further states that John Canter did serve as a drafted soldier in the revolutionary war as he has stated in his declaration of the 27th May 1824 in Jackson Common Pleas & further he saith not
Thomas Canter   x his mark

Sworn to & subscribed before me this 16th day of July AD 1826
John Horton JP
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Wellston, Ohio Apr 25, 32

Dept. Interior,
Washington, D.C

Dear sirs:
I wish to secure the county in which the enclosed Revolutionary soldiers were last pensioned, and any other date which you have on file about him.

I am told that I get certain data from your office, then I have to apply elsewhere for what I want. I am trying to locate where he was buried, and all possible data.

Thanking you for the same,
Yours truly,

[handwritten signature: "Mrs. George Martindill"]

Wellston, Ohio

[handwritten: "member of {Captain John James Chapter D.A.R"] of Jackson, O.

[image: seal that says "RECEIVED May 13 1932