Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,715, Nathan Carpenter, Mass.
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Service:  Mass.
Carpenter, Nathan
Number: R. 1.715
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Declaration of 
Nathan Carpenter
26,120
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State of Vermont On the 4th day of July AD 1832 Addison County fs personally appeared before the judges of Addison County Court Nathan Carpenter a resident of Middlebury in said County of Addison and State of Vermont aforeseen aged eighty one 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 entered in the army of the United States at Hardwick in the State of Massachusetts in the Massachusetts line - on the first day of May or the last day of April 1775 ^ for the term of eight months and served in said line under the following named officers in the Company commanded by Capt Samuel Billings in the regiment commanded by Col Ebenezer Larnard in the Massachusetts line that he resided at said Hardwick when he enlisted in said service and that he continued to serve in said corps until about the first of August 1775 when he hired one Simeon Fletcher to serve out for him the residue of the time for which he the said Carpenter had enlisted and according to said Carpenters best information and belief said Fletcher truthfully  served out the residue of said Carpen-ters time, he hereby relinquishes his army claim whatev-er to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any State         Nathan Carpenter
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
E.D. Barber Clark
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier as served as he states Edward D Barber Clk
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N. Carpenter 

Nathan Carpenter 
Act 1832 - Vermont, 
Suspended or Mass
Ex by Sylvester to Wade March 51
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Middlebury July 3, 1847
Dear Sir
I have tried to find the report on my Fathers claim which has caused considerable delay but have not succeeded Therefore follow your directions My Fathers living children are as follows
Nathan Carpenter Jr Aged 58 years residence Middlebury, VT
Gideon Carpenter 56 "    "    "
Anna Carpenter   56  residence Ohio town not known
Jabez S Carpenter   51 Manchester VT
I cannot say ^ ho long my Fatter was in service before he hired the substitute but think th services of both were sufficient to draw half pay & that Father served about half of that time - he resided in Harwich Mass at the time he entered the service he did not leave a widow at his death
Respectfully yours
Gideon Carpenter

Willis G Wade Esq
??, Wayne County OH
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1715 REJECTED

P.O. Nathan Carpenter
Service:
Enlisted: 
Discharged: 
Application filed: 

Alleges: List of rejected claims printed in 1852 shows cause of rejection as follows: "He did not serve six months"
Attorney: 
Recognized. Cert. of Dis. Searched for Conti
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Vermont Nathan Carpenter 
1715 rejected only 3 mo service 

see letter to Wm Slade 30 July 1833 

Let. to W.G. Wade
August 30th '47
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Middlebury Vermont June 30 1847 

Sir:
Please correspond with W. G. Wade of Rose N.Y. relative to the claim of Nathan Carpenter deceased, late my father an applicant for a pension under act of 7th June 1832, as he is the attorney duly authorized to investigate such pension 

I Am Respectfully Your Obt. Servt
Gideon Carpenter 

Hon J L Edwards Com of Pensions,
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August 16th Pown Ally 
Nathan Carpenter 

Rose NY Aug 11
J.L. Edwards Esq Com of Pensions Washington City D.C.
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Rose New York 11th August 1847. 

Sir
I am requested to inquire what the objections were to the admission of the claim of Nathan Carpenter, an applicant for a pension, under act of Congress of 7th June 1832 from Vermont in accordance with the enclosed letter 
I am very Respectfully Your Obt Servant
W.G.Wade

J.L. Edwards Esq Comm of Pensions
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Nathan Carpenter his claim rejected 
Agreeably to his own statement he enlisted about the 1st May 1775 in the 8 mo service of Massachusetts and on the 1st of August following was discharged he having procured a substitute. If he served as much as 6 mo evidence thereof should be found in the State Department at Boston
over
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From 
Composite letter of Aug. 30, 1847 to W. G. Wade, Rose, N. Y.
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Hon Wm Slade
30 July 1838
OE

Re. vol 9
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War Dep Pension Office July 30th 1833 

Sir
the papers in support of the claim of Nathan Carpenter have been examined. He alleges that he entered the service about the first of May 1775 served until the first of August then went when he enlisted a substitute the residue of the term, this is all the service set forth and not amounting to six months, does not bring the claim within the provisions of the act of 7 June 1832.
the claim according rejected the papers placed on file 
Hon Wm Slade Middlebury Vt
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I send the enclosed at the request of Mr.  Carpenter. The reason that it has not been before sent, I understand to be that it has been written among the papers of the Attorney who drew up the declaration 
Respectfully Yours
Wm. Slade
July 20.33-
J.L. Edward & Esqr
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State of Vermont. 

I William A Palmer, Governor of the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that Calvin Greene, whose name is signed to the annexed affidavits, was at the date of said affidavits, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Windsor, duly qualified as such and that full faith and credit are due to his official attestations 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed at Danville this 11th day of July AD. 1832 and of the Independence of the United States the fifty seventh 
By the Govenor Wm Palmer
Edward D. Barber Secretary
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Timothy Newton's Affidavit 
Nathan Carpenters case

Timothy Newton Affidavit
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I Thomas M. Wright of Barnard in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say that on the first of May in the year 1775 I entered the Military service in the Massachusetts line and that Nathan Carpenter then of Hardwick in  the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts entered the same service at the same time with me and marched with me to Roxbury in said State and that the said Nathan Carpenter stayed in the said service untill about the first of August in the same year and that according to the best of my recollection Simeon Fletcher entered the same service at the time said Carpenter left it as the substitute of the said Carpenter being hired by the said Carpenter to take his place in said service and stayed untill the time expired that we enlisted for the last day of January 1776 that we served in Ebenezer Leonards Regiment in Capt. Samuel Billings Company and further the Deponent saith not 
Thomas M Wright 

State of Vermont Windsor County SS ⎬ 
Be it known that at Barnard in said County on the 20 day of April 1832 Personally appeared Thomas M. Wright Signer of the above deposition and made oath to the truth of the same before me 
Calvin Greene Justice Peace 

I certify that the above Deponent is a credible witness Calvin Greene Justice Peace
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I Thomas M. Wright of Barnard in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say that on the first of May in the year 1775 I entered the Military service in the Massachusetts line and that Nathan Carpenter then of Hardwick in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts entered the same service at the same time with me and marched with me to Roxbury in said State and that the said Nathan Carpenter stayed in the said service untill about the first of August in the same year and that according to the best of my recollection Simeon Fletcher entered the same service at the time said Carpenter left it as the substitute of the said Carpenter being hired by the said Carpenter to take his place in said service and stayed untill the time expired that we enlisted for the last day of January 1776 that we served in Ebenezer Leonards Regiment in Capt. Samuel Billings Company and further the Deponent saith not  Thomas M Wright   State of Vermont Windsor County SS ⎬  Be it known that at Barnard in said County on the 20 day of April 1832 Personally appeared Thomas M. Wright Signer of the above deposition and made oath to the truth of the same before me  Calvin Greene Justice Peace   I certify that the above Deponent is a credible witness Calvin Greene Justice Peace
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Timothy Newton's Affidavit
Nathan Carpenters case 

Timothy Newton Affidavit
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I Timothy Newton of Barnard in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont of lawful age do testify and say that on the first day of May in the year 1775 I entered the Military service in the Massachusetts line and that Nathan Carpenter then of Hardwick in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts entered the same service at the same time with me and marched with me to Roxbury in said State and that the said Nathan Carpenter stayed in the said service untill about the first of August in the same year and that according to the best of my recollection Simeon Fletcher entered the same service at the time said Carpenter left it as the substitute of the said Carpenter being hired by the said Carpenter to take his place in said service and stayed untill the time expired that we enlisted for the first day of January 1776 and that we served in Col. Ebenezer Leonards Regiment in Capt Samuel Billings Company, 

And I further testify and say that in the month of September in the year of 1778 that I in company of the said Nathan Carpenter went on a scouting party under the command of Lieut Beriah Green Ordered out by Col Marsh of the State of Vermont and served Seventeen days and that the said Carpenter served the the whole of that time and further this deponent saith not
Timothy Newton 

State of Vermont Windson County Ss
Be it known that at Barnard in said County on the 20 day of April 1832 Personally appeared Timothy Newton the signer of the above deposition and made oath to the truth of the same before me 
Calvin Greene Justice Peace 

I certify that the above Deponent is a credible witness Calvin Greene Justin Peace
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STATE OF VERMONT, Addison County Ss. 

I EDWARD D. BARBER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the annexed documents contain the [illegible]inal proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application Nathan Carpenter for a pension.  

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 11th day of July A.D 1832 Edward D. Barber, Clerk