Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,756, Giles Landon Carter, Ga.
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Service  GA
Name Carter, Giles Landon   Sela
Number R. 1,756
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Sela Carter's application for a pension. 
Direct your answer to Thomas Lewis Knoxville Ten.
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State of Tennessee, Knox Count, be it known that before me, Robt. D. Jamolmon, an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths, personally affirmed, Sela Carter, and made oath in due form of law, that she is between seventy five and eighty years old, as well as she can recollect, and that she was the only wife and is now the widow of Giles Landon Carter, deceased, commonly called Landon Carter, and that she was lawfully married to said Carter in one of the years between 1800 and 1810 in Rutherford County, North Carolina, by a minister of the gospel, and that her said husband Giles Landon Carter died on the 26th day of July in 1856 in the county of Roane and the State of Tennessee being nearly one hundred years old, and that he was a private soldier in the revolutionary war, that he enlisted during the (illegible) and served until after peace was made, a time of five or six years and was lawfully and honorably discharged, that he lived at the time of his entering into said service in Halifax Virginia or Halifax North Carolina, and it is not known by deponent Whether he was of the Continental line of the state troops.  His discharge paper cannot now be produced because it was burned up with the other papers and affects together with their cabin many years ago in Rutherford county North Carolina. He was in the battle of Cowpens, Kings Mountain Eutaw Springs. Alo, was wounded in one leg, a flesh wound, that General Gree, Col Wilson & Capt Morgan were his officers, (illegible) then about whom he most frequently talked - that he travelled through the country watered by the Eutoba & Yadkin rivers, that
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State of Arkansas
Country of Philips 

Be it known that in the State of North Carolina and the County of Rutherford, I was born in the state of Tennessee and at the time mentioned came to Arkansas in year 1842.

The property at the subject state of going to act as formerly used prior was as follows:




The foregoing having sworn, signed and sealed in the presence of witnesses and parties of the house at Helena, to which set apart and distinct that it is so.

And from such course communication that to him who puts the substance, things such as his husband and wife and household was of the former issue and subsequent afflict.

I with said and pledge to be set at suffrage to common of the subsequent compliance of matter at stated for the said time and date as within the bond record.

Recorded and submitted before me this 28th day of January 1848, Jurisdiction 10.

Elda L. Carter
Jospeh Spencer 
Joseph R. Smith
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Clerk of Count Court of said County, de herby certify that whose name appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavit it is and was at the tome of making the same, a justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith and credit ate due to all his official acts as such. 

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at office in Greenville, this day of July 1855.

Clerk
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(8- 1776)                                                      SERVICE                         NUMBER R. 1756                                    
Ga.                                                                     Carter, Giles Landon                                          Sela
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H. M. West
314 South Hill Street
Los Angeles, California.
BA-J/ILL
Giles Landon Carter
R. 1756

August 5, 1937.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Giles Carter, a private in the North Carolina Continental line, whose nephew, Rick Carter, survived him, and cite a land warrant, shown in the Tennessee State Archives, for 380 cares [acres], issued August 28, 1820.

A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and
only one claim for pension found based upon service of a Giles Carter,
shown in said files as Giles Landon Carter) claim R. 1786. The data
given herein were found in that claim, as it may aid you in your research.

Landon Severally Collestandon Carley
Giles Carter married Miss Selah Queen, the marriage bond was
dated January 14, 1803 and was resided in Rutherford County, North Carolina
, where both parties resided. One John Queen of that same
county signed this marriage bond; no relationship between him and said
Selah was stated.
They lived in Rutherford County, North Carolina, where their
cabin was destroyed by fire afterwards resided in Carter, McMinn, Knox
and Rutherford Counties Tennessee.
the claim alles Lands Carter at
called generally Lander-terrier died July 26, 1835 in Roane County,
Tennessee, being nearly one hundred years old; the date and place of birth
not given.
Selah Carter, his widow applied June 26, 1858 for the pension
which might have been due on account of the service of her husband in
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the Revolutionary War. She gave her age as between seventy- five and eighty years, but did not state the date and place of her birth, nor the names of her parents. Her application was executed in Knox County, Tennessee. It was stated then that Giles Landon Carter, while a residence of Halifax Virginia, or Halifax North Carolina, enlisted when very young, that he served as private until after peace was made, in all five or six years, under Captain Morgan, Colonel Wilson , and General Green, also that he was in the battles of King's Mountain, Cowpens and Eutaw Springs and received a flesh wound in one leg, no further details given.                                                             The claim for pension was not allowed as proof of service of Giles Landon Carter was not established as required by the pension laws. In 1858, reference was made to William and Samuel Queen of Haywood County, North Carolina, who served in the Revolutionary War and had been dead some years. No relationship between them and the above noted widow, Selah Carter, was stated.          
No reference was made to children or heirs of Giles Landon Carter.                                     Very truly yours, ( no signature)                    A.D. Miller                                             Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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1937- Aug. 5. History to H.H. West - JDB        
1756 [stamp rejected]                                       P.O.   Sela Carter widow of George Giles Landon Carter             Enlisted: ---------, 18       
                       Discharged:  ----, 18           Application filed: 1858 and therefore not reported in printed list of 1852                            Alleges -----------                                              Re- enlisted ------                                     
Attorney ----------                                            
P.O. ---------------                                Recognized.  --------- Contract.                           ----- Cert. of Dis. Searched for -----------------, 18
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No. 7057                                                            Sela Carter                                                         WD                                                                  
Giles Landon Carter                                         
                                  Tenn (underscored)                         Th. Sews, prly, 23/58                                                   1756                              (signed) ACSpB [ illegible]
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State of Tennessee 
Knox County

Be it known that before one 
Nathl K Meroney, an acting justice of the peace in the for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths , personally appear Giles Murray and Solomon M. Harmon; man of truth and sworn oath in due form of law, that they are personally acquainted with Sela Carter whose application for a pension is to accompany this statement.  They further state, they they know her to be the person she represents herself to be, as she is the window of Giles Carter commonly called Landon Carter, and that said Carter was believed by his neighbors and acquaintances to have been a solder in the Revolutionary war.  They state, that they have heard said Carter talk about the times of the Revolutionary War and of its hardships and the sufferings of the army, and of the battles in which he took a part as a solder under the gallant officer Genl. Green, Capt. Morgan, Col Wilson te. and the he served five or six years in said war and until the close of the war after the battles of Cowpens, Eutaw Springs and Kings Mountain--That he enlisted or entered into the said service when very young and continued therein until peace was made, and that he got a regular discharge which got burned up with his house a long time ago--They further state that said Carter died in this neighborhood on the day of July 1856, bein a very old man--They further state that they have no interest in this matter whatever.  
Giles Murray 
Sword to and subscribed before one on the 3rd day of July 1858 
Nathl K. Meroney
Justice of the peace
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Rutherfordton June 12th /58      Sir, At the time the enclosed bond was given we kept no record of Marriages; the bond given at the time of obtaining a license is all that there is here to establish the Marriage: the licenses were generally kept by the person who officiates on the occasion. My fees are  sixty cents , Please remit in three cent postage stamps and oblige yours. E. Toms
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Thomas Sews   July 23
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Pensions Office July 28th 1858 Sir: I have examined & suspended the claim of Sela Carter for a pension  / under the Act of 3 Feb: 1853, the 2d section thereof , as the  - widow of Giles Landon Carter. There is no evidence in this Office of the service of Claimant's husband. S.9,462 Ga.  Wm L. Queen ( signed)  To whose pension papers you refer. Was pensioner & then dropped from the roll because he was only in the war after the revolution. His papers (R. 8541 Ga. troops )throw no light upon this claim & Saml Queen to whom you refer was never a pensioner upon the N.C. roll. This is very strange that Giles Landon Carter should ? of had applied for a pension in his life time if Entitled. Evidence of service is required. Thomas Lewis, Esq., Knoxville, Tenn.
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                                        PmSw [ illegible ]  Office 
                                        July 23d , 1858            Sir,                                                                          
     I have examined & suspended the claim of Sela Carter for a pension under the Act of 3-c Feb: 1853. the 2d Section thereof. as the - widow of Giles Landon Carter.                                  
     There is no evidence in this Office of the Service of Claimant's husband.                    
           L.9,462 Ga. Wm. L. Queen (signed)            to whose pension papers You refer. Was(?) pensioner & then dropped from the roll because he was a Tory in the War of the Revolution. His papers throw no  (R.8541 Ga troops.) light upon this claim & Samuel Queen to whom You also refer was never a pensioner upon the N.C. roll. This very strange that Giles Landon Carter should have application for a pension in his life time if entitled. Evidence of service required.                                     
                Thomas Sews, Esq. (signed)  
                Knoxville, Tenn.
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Knoxville , Tenn.  July 15th ,1858 Sir, I enclose to you an application for a pension, and hope you will give it your earliest attention. You will be kind enough to notice in connection with this application, the fact, that * Wm Queen, and * Samuel Queen of Haywood County North Carolina were pensioners of the U.S. many years ago, and have been dead some 20 years perhaps and was paid up at an agency in N.C. perhaps at Macon , They were in the U.S. Service , in the Revo. War at the same time the applicant's husband was in it, and by referring.  to their returned pension certificates, you will be able from them and the semi annual report to learn whether Mr. Carter, the husband of the applicant, was of the State troops, or of the Continental line, and in what Regiment, under what officer etc. Please be particular about this matter, and very much oblige your humble servant. Thomas Lewis ( signed)                                              Geo C. Whiting                             Commissioner of Pensions              
Washington  D.C.                                               * Both of these brothers allege that they were enlisted & served in the Georgia Rangers - hence the caption of this case.  G.S.C. (initials) July 11, 1918.
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H. H. WEST CO.                               
Manufacturers' Representative                         
214 South Hill Street                                  
VAndike 1818 Los Angeles, Calif.                              
                      July 16,1937.                                                          Veteran's Administration,                    
Washington, D.C.                                        Gentlemen:       In the Tennessee State Archives are some Revolutionary Warrants, and among them is :                                                         
        HEIRS OF GILES CARTER  (underscored)       a private in the North Carolina Continental line. 360 acres of land issued August 28, 1820. Ricks Carter nephew and only heir of GILES CARTER of Warren County , North Carolina ..............   
         Can you furnish me an abstract of the military record of the above GILES CARTER? His nephew Ricks Carter married Sally West, and I wish the data in connection with a history of Hezekiah West, a revolutionary soldier.     
                                                              
    Thanking you , I am,                               
    Yours very truly,                                                                                             
    (signed) H.H. West                             
                   (seal - RECEIVED Jul 23,1937 MAIL 
                   SUB-DIV VETS ADM. ORDER #21 )                                       
                                                               HHW/M