Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,912, Isaac Carter, N.C.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE  N. C.
Carter, Isaac
Charity
NUMBER W. 4.912

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CONTENTS
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2 Certificates
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1 act 1838
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7000
N. Carolina,
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Charity Carter,
widow of Isaac Carter, who was a Private, in the N. C. line


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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of June '45 and sent to Thomas Green, Esqr., Present,
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[intentional brackets as printed]
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
& June 17. 1844.
Recorded in Book A.
Vol. 2,   Page 153
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefits of the acts of Congress passed July 4th 1836 and the joint resolution of 7th of July 1838.

State of North Carolina }
Edgecomb County } S.S
On this the 25th day of November 1843 personally appeared before the Subscriber an acting Justice of the peace for the aforesaid county and state Charity Carter a resident of the aforesaid county and State aged seventy nine years or thereabout who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress passed 4th of July 1836 and 7th of July 1838 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war. That she is the widow of Isaac Carter who was a private soldier in Captain Welshes, company of the 8th regiment of the continental line in the revolutionary war and enlisted on the 1st of September 1777 for the term of three years, that he was taken prisoner on the 1stof June 1779 and discharged the 14th of February 1780 - the said Isaac Carter being a citizen of the county of Gates and aforesaid state during his service in the revolutionary war She further declares that she was married to the said Isaac Carter in the county of Gates in the 1781. in which county they continued to live until the year 1803 when they moved to the county of Edgecomb where they resided together as man and wife up to the time of the death of Isaac Carter which occured [occurred] the 20th of August 1829 - where your affiant hath resided until the present time. That she was not married to the said Isaac Carter previous to his having the service but the marriage was prior to the 1st
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1794 Viz at the time above stated and that she has remained a widow ever since his death as will more fully appear by reference to the proof annexed
Witness  Charity [her mark X] Carter

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me. and I further certify that Mrs Charity Carter is from bodily infirmity unable to attend court. Given under my hand and seal
S/Jas. Bridgers JP [private seal]


Charity Carter maketh affidavit that she has no family record - That she had a family bible which contained the day and month of her birth and her marriage & which was destroyed by fire in the year 1837 and by loss of memory in consequence of old age is unable to give the day and month of her birth and marriage
Witness Charity [her mark X] Carter

Sworn to and subscribed before me a justice for the aforesaid county and state on the day and year above written [.] Given under my hand and seal
S/Jas. Bridgers J.P. [private seal]


State of North Carolina }
Edgecomb County } S.S
Be it known that on the 25th of November 1843 personally appeared before me James Bridgers a Justice of the peace for and in said county and state Millicent Evans aged forty five years the 21st of the present month a citizen of the aforesaid county and state who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following statement That Isaac Carter husband of Charity Carter died on the 26th of August 1829 and the said Charity has remained ever since his death and is now at this time unmarried
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And further says the said Isaac & Charity were persons of good character and were esteemed man and wife ever since she can remember and their statements as to their marriage is generally considered true by their acquaintances and the said Isaac her husband was believed to have been a soldier of the revolution
Millicent [her mark X] Evans


Witness
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before, and I further certify that Millicent Evans is a credible witness

Given under my hand and seal
S/Jas Bridgers J P [private seal]


State of North Carolina }
Edgecomb [Edgecombe] County } S.S.
Be it known that on the 25th of November in the year 1843 personally appeared before me James Bridgers a Justice of the Peace in and for the said county & state Mildred Felton aged 72 last September who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following statement That she is native of Gates county No Carolina and in the 1800 migrated to the county of Edgecombe where she has continued to reside ever since. she knew Isaac Carter before he married Charity Odum he married her sometime in the year 1781. She was at the wedding and after their marriage they lived in Gates county until the time she left the county and in about three years thereafter the said Isaac & Charity became citizens of the county of Edgecomb [Edgecombe] and state aforesaid where they resided until the death of the said Isaac [.] they were considered man and wife by all who knew
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Them. Their marriage was celrated [celebrated] as other marriages are in this country and the precise day and month of which she cannot recollect
Witness Mildred [her mark X] Felton

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me and I do further [crossed out: State of North Carolina Edgecomb county } SS] certify that the said Mildred Felton is a lady of good character and credible witness. Given under my hand and seal
S/Jas. Bridgers JP [private seal]


State of North Carolina }
Edgecomb [Edgecombe] County } ss
Be it known that on the 25th of November 1843 personally appeared before me James Bridgers a Justice of the peace in and for the aforesaid County and state Nancy Jones aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following statement; that she is a native of Gates County North Carolina and come to Edgecomb [Edgecombe] county in the year 1810 [.] She knew Mr Isaac Carter and his wife Charity [.] They were married in Gates County in the year 1781 [.] She was present at their wedding. They lived she thinks in Gates county until the year 1803 when they went Edgecomb [Edgecombe] county where lived they until the death of Isaac Carter which was about thirteen years ago - Mr Carter served a good long time in the war she can not say how long She recollects none except Mrs Mildred Felton who was present at the wedding that is now living
Nancy [her mark X] Jones

Witness
Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year above
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above written before me and I do further certify that Nancy Jones whose signature is affixed to the above writing is a credible witness [.] Given under my hand and seal
S/Jas Bridger JP [private seal]


State of North Carolina }
Edgecomb [Edgecombe] County }
Be it knowns that on the 25th day of January 1844 personally appeared before me James Bridgers a Justice of the peace in and for the aforesaid county and state John Ellis aged sixty one years the 14th day of the above named month who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement [,] I am a native of Gates county North Carolina [.] I knew Mr Isaac Carter before I left Gates county which was in the year 1792 when I removed to Edgecomb [Edgecombe], I think Mr & Mrs Carter come to Edgecomb [Edgecombe] in the fall of the year 1803. I knew them from the time they come to this county until the death of the said Isaac which occurred in 1829 I think; as man and wife and as such they were generally esteemed by those who knew them and were generally respected by their neighbors. Nos Charity Carter has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband Isaac Carter and is yet a widow
S/J Ellis
Witness

Sworn to and subscribed before me a Justice of the peace for the aforesaid county and state on the year and day above written and I do further certify that John Ellis is a credible witness and that his genuine signature is signed above Given under my hand and seal
S/Jas Bridgers JP [private seal]
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State of North Carolina }
Edgecomb [Edgecombe] County }
Be it known that Zachariah Carter on the 25th day of January 1844 personally appeared before me James Bridgers a Justice of the peace in and for the aforesaid county who being first duly sworn makes the following statement upon oath that he is the sone of Isaac and Charity Carter the aforesaid petitioner and that he had in his possession the record of their marriage and their ages and that his house was destroyed by fire in the year 1837 and with it was destroyed the aforesaid record and the said Charity has never married since the death of Isaac Carter her first and only husband which took place in 1829
Witness Zachariah [his mark C] Carter

Sworn to and subscribed before me James Bridgers a justice of the peace in and for the aforesaid County and I further certify that Zachariah Carter [crossed out: and I further certify that] whose signature is affixed to the above writing is a credible witness [.] Given under my hand and seal
S/Jas Bridgers JP [private seal]
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State of North Carolina } Oct. 31st. 1844.
Edgecombe County }
This day personally appeared before me Wyatt Moye one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, Moore Carter of the County of Wayne and State aforesaid, and after being duly sworn, saith, that he is the son of Isaac Carter and Charity Carter: that he was borned [sic] when they lived in the County of Gates, that his father and mother together with the rest of the family moved from the County of Gates to the County of Edgecombe about forty years ago: where his father and mother remained untill [until] his fathers death. which took place according to his recollection about fourteen years ago. This mother is still living in the County of Edgecombe and has remained a widow ever since the death of his father. According to what his father said and the family he is now about fifty three years of age, that his father and mother had five children older than himself to wit; Alexander, Esther, William O. [,] Elizabeth and Isaac - Alexander and William O
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has gone to the the [sic] South, Esther and Isaac are dead; Elizabeth married one Jones and the last he heard of her She was living in the County of Johnston in this State.

Sworn to and subscribed before me -
S/Wyatt Moye JP
Moore [his mark O] Carter


State of North Carolina }
Edgecombe County }
I, John Norfleet Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for said County, do hereby Certify that Louis D. Wilson, James Bridgers and Wyatt Moye, whose genuine signatures are subscribed to the annexed foregoing affidavits, are lawful acting Justices of the Peace in and for said County, and full faith and Credit are die and ought to be given to all their official acts - 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office at Tarborough [Tarboro] this the 5th day of November A. D. 1844
S/Jno. Norfleet Clk
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 4912
Charity Carter
Wid.
Isaac Carter
Pvt. N. C. line
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Act: Mch. 3/43, June 17/44
Index: - Vol. A,    Page 113

[intentional brackets as printed]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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V    10.791
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Charity Carter 
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Suspended
let to Hon. W. W. Payne  May 27.'44
 "  to Tho. Green Decr. 10th 1844



Act July 7th 38
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9416
N. Carolina,
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Charity Carter
widow of Isaac Carter who was a pensioner under the Act of [blank] and who died on the 26 Augt, 1829 of Edgecomb [Edgecombe] in the State of NC who was a pri: in the com commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the NC line for 2 years
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Inscribed on the Roll of N Carolina at the rate of 34 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 14 day of June 45 and Sent to Thos Green  Present.
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Total amount, $[blank]

[intentional brackets as printed]
[Act July 7, 1838.]

Recorded by F. L. Swann, Clerk,
Book D    Vol. 1      Page 287
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State of North Carolina} ss
Edgecombe County }
This day personally appeared before me John G. William, one of the acting Justices of the Peace, in and for the said County, Charity Carter widow of Isaac Carter decd, and after being duly sworn, saith as she has before said; that She and Isaac Carter were married in the County of Gates, and as well as she can recollect, that it took place about Sixty three or four years ago, - That there is no family bible in existance [existence], that there was one that had their childrens ages in it, but it got burnt up in their Son Zachariah Carters swelling House some Several years ago, when the house and it s entire contents were consumed by fire, And there is no record proof that can be got to establish the date of her Marriage.

Sworn to and Subscribed the 28th day of April 1845
S/Jno G William JP
Charity [her mark X] Carter


State of N. Carolina }
Edgecombe County }
I, John Norfleet Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of said County, do hereby Certify that John G. Williams, whose genuine signature is subscribed to the above affidavit, is a lawful
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acting Justice of the peace, in & for said County, duly Commissioned & sworn & that full faith and credit are due & ought to be given all his official acts 

[seal] 
Given under my hand and seal of Office, at Tarborough [Tarboro], This the 28th day of April AD. 1845
S/Jno. Norfleet Clerk
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State of North Carolina }
Edgecombe County }
Personally appeared before me Lewis D Wilson, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid John Ellis who being sworn saith. that he is now about sixty two years old. that he was, as he has always understood born in the County of Gates where ^he lived until he was about ten years old when he moved to the County of Edgecombe. while living in the County of Gates, he Knew Isaac Carter of said County, and was well acquainted with hi sons Alexander Carter and William O. Carter with whom I went to school while in Gates, about the year seventeen hundred and ninety one, and in the fore part of the year seventeen hundred & ninety two. Alexander was then about nine or ten and William about seven or eight years old. Isaac and Charity Carter the Father and Mother of Alexander and William moved from Gates to Edgecombe County about the year Eighteen hundred and three near to where I now live and where they remained until Isaac Carter died about the year Eighteen hundred and twenty eight or nine, and where Charity Carter his widow now lives. When Isaac and Charity Carter moved to Edgecombe they brought with them six or seven children and had several afterwards, all but four the youngest living have removed from this part of the Country.
S/J. Ellis

Sworn to and subscribed before me the 11th Septr. 1844
S/Louis D Wilson J.P.


I do hereby Certify that I am personally acquainted with John Ellis who is Known to me to be a man of respectability.
S/Louis D Wilson JP.
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State of North Carolina }
Edgecombe County }
October 14th 1844 - This day personally came before me James Bridgers one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Nancy Jones of said County, who being sworn saith, as she before said on a former occasion that She was at the wedding when Isaac Carter and Charity Odom were married and the reason that she thinks the marriage took place about the year 1781 is that she Nancy Jones was married to Hezakiah Jones about the year one thousand seven hundred and eight Seven and at the time she was married Isaac and Charity Carter had three children to wit Alexander, William O. & Esther, and afterwards they had Several Moore [more] children before they left the County of Gates. - They left the County of Gates and moved to the County of Edgecombe about the year 1803. And in the year eighteen hundred and ten, She Nancy Jones and her family moved to the said County of Edgecombe and Settled in the neighbourhood of the Said Isaac & Charity Carter; where she has lived ever since. - (Her husband Hezekiah died about seventeen years ago.) - when she arrived in Edge- [Edgecombe]
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-combe [Edgecombe] County, Esther was married and gone to the County of Onslow to live as she was informed [.] William O. Carter was also married and living in the neighbourhood and had three children. he continued to live in the neighbourhood untill [until] a few years ago, he then moved somewhere South - Alexander was not in the neighbourhood when She arrived, he was living elsewhere [.] he came one time to see his parents after she arrived in Edgecombe. the only time she saw here he moved to the South as she was informed.

Sworn to and Subscribed before me - 
S/Jas Bridgers JP
Nancy [her mark X] Jones


I do hereby certify that Nancy Jones is a credible witness, Given under my & Seal [sic] the 14th Oct. 1844
S/Jas Bridgers JP


State of North Carolina }
Edgecombe County }  October the 21st. 1844
This day personally appeared before me James Bridgers one of the acting Justices of the peace in and for said County Mildred Felton and after being sworn She saith as she said before that she was at the wedding when Isaac Carter and Charity Odom were married, and the reason
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that she thinks it took place about the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one is that it took place several years before She Mildred Felton was married - Her marriage took place about the year 1795. her oldest child was borned [sic] in September 1796. - Isaac Carter and Charity had several children when she Mildred was married but the precise number she does not recollect - She however recollects that there were Alexander; Esther, William O. & Elizabeth Carter. - William O Carter were [sic] the third child as well as she recollects. he married in some two or three years after they moved to this county - Edgecombe.) The came to this County some time about the year 1803 - 

Sworn to and subscribed before me - 
S/Jas Bridgers JP
Mildred [her mark O] Felton


I do hereby certify that Mildred Felton is a credible witness - Given under my hand & Seal the 21st day of October 1844 -
S/Jas Bridgers JP
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10791
Charity Carter
wid. of Isaac, who died 26 Aug. 1829  N.C.
Act July 7th '38
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adm'd. 2 yrs pri
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$80.

also act 3 March 43. & 17 June '44 - 

act '43 - No 7904
act '44 - No 676

Edgecombe Co.


Thomas Green - Present
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State of No. Carolina }
Edgecombe County }
Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for said County - February Term 1844.
The declaration of Charity Carter Certified on the 25th of November 1843 by James Bridgers a Justice for the said County, as well as the deposition hereunto annexed, being submitted to the Court, and his acts and proceedings in the case being approved by the Court, the Clerk of this Court is hereby directed to endorse the approval upon the papers
Test. S/Jno. Norfleet Clk


State of No. Carolina }
Edgecombe County }
I John Norfleet Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid, do hereby Certify that the foregoing is a true copy of an entry made on the Minutes of said Court, at February Term 1844, which Court is a Court of record - I further Certify that James Bridgers Esq, whose genuine signature appears subscribed to the annexed declaration and depositions, and before whom, the same purports to have made, is a lawful acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and that full faith and Credit are due, and ought to be given to all his official acts

[seal]
Given under my hand and seal of Office at Tarborough [Tarboro] this the 28th day of February A. D. 1844
S/Jno. Norfleet Clerk
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State of North Carolina
Office of Secretary of State
I William Hill Secretary of State in and for the State of North Carolina, do hereby Certify, that it appears from the muster rolls of the Continental line of this State, that Isaac Carter a private Soldier in apt. Walshe's Company of the 8th Regiment enlisted on the 1st. September 1777 for the term of three years, that he was a prisoner 1st. June 1779, and discharged 14th February 1780.

Given under my hand this 2d day of September 1843.
S/Wm. Hill
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House of Representatives
Apl. 8th 1844

Col J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
I have the honour to enclose you the papers to sustain the application of Mrs. Charity Carter widow of Isaac Carter a soldier of the North Carolina line for a pension under the act of 7th of July 1838. The evidence appears to be full and complete on every point

I am very respectfully
your mo obt servt [most obedient servant]
W. W. Payne
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May 10, 1845.

Amended dec. [declaration]
Charity Carter.

[round stamp: RICHMOND Va.
MAY 18]
free

Col J. L. Edwards 
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City 
D. C.
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Richmond 8 May 1845.

Col J L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Sir.
Enclosed is the amended Affidavit of Mrs. Charity Carter, widow of Isaac Carter of N. Ca. for a pension under act 7. July 1838.

In yr. letter of June 1844 to Hon: W. W. Payne, you say the proof of [underline] service  [/underline] & [underline] identity [/underline] is [underline] satisfactory. [/underline] but not of [underline] marriage. [/underline] On 10 Decr. '44, the case is suspended for [underline] Record [/underline] proof of Marriage.

I now send Mrs. Carters affidavit that the [underline] only record, [/underline] was [underline] burnt. [/underline] 

The clerk of the County writes that there is no proof on his record.

I presume, under such circumstances, the [underline] highest [/underline] grade of proof will be dispensed with.

I am yr obt. sevt. [your obedient servant]
Thomas Green.
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Richmond 11 Nov: 1844

Col. J. L. Edwards
Commr. of Pensions
Sir.
Enclosed are the affidavits of John Ellis (taken 11 Sept) of Nancy Jones (taken 14 Oct) of Mildred Felton (taken 21st Oct) and of Moore Carter (31 Oct) to prove the [underline] date [/underline] of Charity Carter's marriage to Isaac Carter. - 

This evidence, appears to be conclusive that the marriage, took place [underline] prior [/underline] to 1794.

In your letter of 27 May last, to the Hon: W. W. Payne you say the [underline] service [/underline] & identity are admitted, but that the date of the marriage was not then satisfactory.

I am yr. obt sevt.
Thomas Green