Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 406-200, John Carruthers, Penn.
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Penn.   *     Carruthers, John   

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B.L. Wt. 406-200 - Lieut.
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Veterans Administration
Washington       March 5, 1938

Honorable M.A. Romjue         BA_J EEL
House of Representatives      xxxxxxxxxxxxx                                  
Washington, D.C.                    B.L.Wt. #406-200


My dear Mr. Romjue:

Reference is made to your letter of March 2, 1932, relative to John Carothers, a soldier in the Revolutionary War.

Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and Bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.

A careful search of the Revolutionary War records has been made in your behalf and no record found of a John Carothers, who served as lieutenant and captain in the Pennsylvania Troops. The record of one John Carruthers has been found.

Warrant No. 406 for two hundred acres of bounty land was issued January 2, 1792, on account of the service of John Carruthers, lieutenant of the Pennsylvania Line, War of the Revolution.

There are no further data on file relative to his service and none whatever relative to his family due to the destruction of papers in such claims when the War office was burned in 1800.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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M. A. ROMJUE
1ST DIST. MISSOURI

Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.

March 2, 1932.

Director of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:

     Enclosed find copy of letter from H. A. Wright of Clarance, Mo., which is fully explanatory, and it will be appreciated if you will furnish me the information he requests concerning that part pertaining to a pension. The land grant matter I am taking up with the General land Office.

Thanking you for the many courtesies of the past,
I remain,

Very truly yours,
MA Romjue

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Clarence, Mo., Feb. 24, 1932.

Hon. M. A. Romjue,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Romjue:

To aid some ladies in establishing their eligibility to membership in the D. A. R. I was asked if you could locate from the data given below and ascertain whether Capt. John Carothers or his heirs were ever given any land grants or any pension.

John Carothers, Captain on list of officers in service in 1776. He was Lieutenant of Cumberland county, Pa., 1777 to 1779. Was Captain of the Seventh Company, Third Battallion, 1780 to 1781. References, Vol. 6,6, Pennsylvania Archives, 5th series, pages 3, 4, 6, 227, 233, 590, 591, 592, 593, 594, 595.

I, and others also, shall be very grateful to you and your clerk if you can have the records searched and ascertain whether this man, John Carothers, or his heirs, was ever given any land grant, or ever pensioned, and I thank you very kindly in advance for this favor.

Very sincerely your friend,

H A. Wright.

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Penn.    Carruthers John      BL Wt, 406-200 Lieut
                                            Issued Jan 2, 1792.
                                            No papers.