Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,731, Abijah Carter, Mass.
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service    number
Mass.  Carter, Abijah  W.22.731
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11.504
Maine
Abijah Carter
of Bridgton Co. in the State of Maine who was a Pr - in the Company commanded by Captain Sawyer of the Reg't commanded by Col. Whitney in the Mass's Troops -
10 Mo. 12 D - Private - 34.64
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 34 Dollars 64 Cents per annum to commence of the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of May 1833 and Sent to F. Bradford Portland, Me
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 - 69.28
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.  17.32
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$86.60
{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by J. T. Sprague Clerk,
Book E  Vol. 1  Page 7
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Declaration of Abijah Carter

Abijah Carter  16821
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Minot within and for said District, on the fourteenth day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty-two before the Honorable Ashur Ware, Judge of said Court.
On this 14th day of August aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Abijah Carter a resident of Bridgton in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged seventy years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he Carter aforesaid entered the service of the United States sometime in the fall of 1775 and served six weeks as a substitute for Joseph Sweetser of Leominster Mass in the commpany commanded by Capt Sawyer and was stationed during said term of time at Dorchester. The Lieutenant of the company was Sawin and the Ensign was my brother Josiah Carter.
That he the said Carter enlisted sometime in the month of October of 1775 and served two months at Dorchester in the company commanded by my brother Josiah Carter aforesaid and acted as a waiter to him during the said two months. The company then belonged to the regiment commanded by Col Dikes - he thinks
That he the said Carter again entered the service in the last part of the summer of 1776 and served three months as a waiter to his father Col Josiah Carter who was at that time Lieutenant Col. of the regiment that the first Col. of the regiment was Josiah Whitney of Harvard Mass. and was in part of the time in Danbury Con. he thinks and marched about three hundred miles during said three months and was dismissed in New Jersey at the expiration thereof. That he again entered the service sometime in the month of October in the year 1777 and served as waiter to Capt. Thomas Wilder of Leominster one month and was in the northern army at the time Burgoyne was taken. That he again entered the service sometime in the last of the summer of 1780 and served three months as waiter to his father who was the Lieut  Col of the regiment and marched from Leominster to Peekskill in New York. That the Capt of the Company was Timothy Boutelle of Leominster -
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State
Abijah Carter
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before Arthur Ware } U. S. Judge for the District of Maine
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary pensioner, and served as he states
And that Freeman Bradford Esquire whose certificate is annexed is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified that his official attestations are entitled to full faith credit.
In testimony whereof, I John Mussey Clerk of said District Court, have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this First day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
John Mussey {Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
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That he the said Abijah Carter was born in Leominster in the County of Worcester State of Mass. in the year 1762 and has no record of his age and thinks there is one in the town where he was born - That he was living in Leominster at the time he was called into service and has lived for the most of the time since the revolutionary in Bridgton County of Cumberland and that he always served as a waiter as aforesaid - That he never received a written discharge - And he further states that he knows of but one person who can certify that he served as is stated in the foregoing declaration which person is Asa Johnson
That Mr Berman can testify as to his character - 
and several other of his neighbors.
Abijah Carter
Arthur Ware
Justice of the U. S. Court District of Maine