Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42113, Samuel Carson, Penn.
Page 1

Penn.

Carson, Samuel
S.42113
B.L.Wt. 9086-100
Issued Mch 21, 1790
Page 2

10.9.41  R
Ohio
Samuel Carson/30   4/31
of Licking, in the state of Ohio
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Johnston of the Pennsylvania
line, for the term of three years

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 21 of May 181[8]
and sent to Amos H. Caffee Esq
Newark, Licking County, Ohio
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819.                  81.83
semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Sep. 1819.   48.00
                                                           $129.83
10 mo.   3/30   4/31
---
{Revolutionary claim,  }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
Page 3

[writing on left hand side of paper] 
Samuel Carson
Deposition
Private
Col. Johnston Regiment
Pennsylvania line

Deposition was made is the president judge of said court and that the signature thereto is the proper handwriting of the said William Wilson president judge is aforesaid.  In  testimony whereof I have herein set my hand and seal of office at Newark on April 28th A.D. 1818.
A. H. Caffee, Clerk

Samuel Carson, [illegible]
Licking County, Ohio
Various services -
one year in Col
Wayne's regt and
3 years in Col-
Johnston's regimt
Penna line
28th April, 1818
found on the rolls of
5th Penn Regt
William Wilson, judge
Amos H. Caffee, agt
Newark, Licking Co.
Ohio.
Page 4

The State of Ohio Licking County ss
Personally appeared before me the Subscribed the William Wilson Esqr President of the fourth circuit of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Ohio, Samuel Carson a resident Citizen of the United States, at present residing in the County of Licking and State of Ohio, who being duly sworn did depose say and declare that he served in the War of the Revolution on the continental establishment for the term of seven years and nine months as a private soldier - That he enlisted shortly after the battle of Bunker Hill in the year 1775 in a company commanded by Captain James Taylor at Faggs Manor in the State of Pennsylvania, in the 4th Regiment of the Pennsylvania line commanded by Colonel
Anthony Wayne, that he together with the rest of the company joined the Regiment on Long Island, and marched from thence to Albany where they receved their arms and ammunitions and from thence to Ticonderoga, where they were stationed and continued for nearly a year when the term of Enlistment (being one year) expired which was some time in the spring of the year 1776. The deponent states that he again enlisted in a company commanded by Capt
Page 5

Thomas Bond [Boude], in the 5th Regiment of the Pen'a line commanded by Col Johnston as deponent believes, for "three years or during the War" and continued with the Army in its movements and opperations [operations] from that period until after the conclusion of the war, when at the City of Philadelphia (as deponent thinks in 1783) he this deponent received an honorable discharge, that his discharge was in writing and signed by
Colonel Harmon or Harmer.   Deponent
further states that said discharge he had long
since lost. And further states that he applied
for and obtained a Warrant from the War Department for two hundred acres of land in the United States Military lands in the North Western Territory on which a patent was issued after deponent had sold it-- deponent further states that from his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support and further he saith not
Signed  Samuel Carson

Sworn to and subscribed before me at Newark this 28th day of April AD 1818. Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid
William Wilson
Page 6

I, William Wilson Judge as aforesaid do hereby certify that it has been made appear to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Carson did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the foregoing deposition against the common enemy on the continental establishment; and also that he is now in reduced circumstances in life and is in need of the assistance of his country for support; and I now transmit the proceedings taken and had before me to
the secretary for the department of war agreeable to the aforesaid act of congress. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name officially at Newark this 28th day of April A.D. 1818.   
William Wilson

I, Amos H. Caffee clerk of the Court of common pleas of Licking County do certify that William Wilson who signed the above certficate and before whom the foregoing
deposition was made is the president judge
of said Court and that the signature
thereto is the proper hand writing of the said
William Wilson president Judge as aforesaid.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Newark this April 28th A.D. 1818.
A.H. Caffee, Clerk

[written at bottom of page sideways]
Samuel Carson 
Licking County Ohio
Various Services
one year in Col. 
Wayne's reg't and
3 years in Col.
Johnston's regim't
Penn'a line
28th April 1818
found on the rolls of 
5th Penn'a reg't
William Wilson Judge
Amos H. Caffee, ag't
Neward, Licking Co.
Ohio
Page 7

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME:   Carson, Samuel

GRADE:   Private

LINE:  Pennsylvania

WARRANT NUMBER:  9086

ISSUED:   March 31, 179 -- (term)
to -- not shown --
Page 8

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
AWF:MLB

September 5, 1930

Mrs. Olive Orr Williams
429 Hudson Avenue
Newark, Ohio

Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 42113, that Samuel Carson enlisted at Faggs Manor, Pennsylvania, in 1775, shortly after the battle of Bunker Hill, and served one year as a private in Captain James Taylor's Company, Colonel Anthony Wayne's
Pennsylvania Regiment. He again enlisted and served in Captain Thomas Boude's Company, Colonel Johnston's Pennsylvania Regiment and was discharged in 1783, in Philadelphia.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 28, 1818, at which time he was living in Licking County, Ohio.
In 1828, he was still residing in Licking County, Ohio.
His age is not stated and there are no data as to family.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
[handwritten at bottom of page]
Samuel Carson stated that he received 200 acres of land from the War Dept. located in
the Northwestern Territory.
B.L. books searched and Mr Robb in Grant
Land Office verified the following
Wt-no-9086 issued Mch 31 1790
presumably only 100 acres.
Page 9

Rev. War
42 113
INVALID.
-
File No. 42113
Samuel Carson
Priv Rev War
Act: 18th March 1818
Index: -- Vol. 3, Page 73
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1916 Oct. 24 Tombstone
data to Agnes M. Robbins
1930 - Sept 5 Hist to
Mrs Olive O Williams
[illegible]
Page 10

Samuel Carson Pensioned
under the act of March 18, 1818
in Ohio or Pennsylvania
[illegible two words]
Page 11

Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
[illegible] with
Invalid file
#42
Page 12

609 [written on left margin]
848 [written center]
865 [written on right margin]

No. of Original Parts 609
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Sep't 29, 1828
Samuel Carson of _____  in the County of Licking in the State of Ohio, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution,” approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private
in captain _____'s company, in the Fifth regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by
the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
A Dukins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
4th September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has
been issued to Samuel Carson in the Pennsylvania line.
It further appears that Samuel Carson is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3 March 1826. 
Peter  Hagner And
Page 13

for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved
on the 15th of May 1828. I Samuel Carson of the County of Licking and State of Ohio do hereby declare that I enlisted in the continental line of
the army of the Revolution for and during the war and continued in the service until its termination, at which period I was a private in
Captain Thomas Boude's company in the fifth
regiment of the Pennsylvania line.
And I also declare that I afterwards received a certificate for the reward of Eighty Dollars
to which I was entitled under a resolve of Congress paper the 15th of May 1778.
And I further declare
Page 14

that I was not on the 15th day of March 1828 on the Pension list of the United States.  
Samuel Carson

Before me John Lain a justice of the peace in and for the County of Licking and State of Ohio
personally appeared this day Parker L Crawford
and James Irvin of said County who did severally make oath that Samuel Carson by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a soldier
in the Army of the Revolution in the manner therein stated.  Witness my hand this 9th day of August 1828
John Lain Justice of
the Peace
Page 15

The State of Ohio Licking County SS
I Amos H Caffee Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that John Lain before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time a Justice of the Peace within and for the County aforesaid and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of said Court the twelfth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
A. H. Caffee Clerk
Page 16

Newark Ohio  Aug 15th 1828
Dear Sir
I herewith transmit to you the declaration of Said Carson made in pursuance of the late act of Congress.
Mr Carson was formerly on the pension list of the United States, all the evidence of his services in the Revolutionary war was sent on to Washington to enable him to be placed on the pension list so that evidence he refers as corroboration of the statement set forth in his declaration.
Very respectfully yours 
[illegible signature]
Page 17

Rev War Section 
Irwin, Pa  R. D. I.
September 26, 1916
Misc Revolution

Pension Bureau
Washington D.C.
I would like to have additional information of the following Revolutionary Soldiers:
James Taylor Capt. 4th Battalion
mine a Vol.
of Lancaster
Anthony
Cole
Commissioned
County
Jan. 576
-
plect 26 1776 appoint
Judge Advice of the Northern Army
and Isaac
McKissac (McKissick) 8th Pa. Vol.
enlisted July
12, 1776
Alexander
3rd
Ewing
13 Reg Pa. Vol. Nov. 12
1777-78.
4th Samuel Carson
Enlisted Jan. 25, 1776
4th Regt. Capt Taylor's
Co.
Page 18

IN REPLY REFER TO
Rev. and 1812
Wars Section.
AWFeel

3-2562
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON 

February 6, 1930

Mrs. Olive Orr Williams
429 Hudson Avenue.
Newark, Ohio
Dear Madam:
I advise you that the data furnished by you are not sufficient to enable this bureau to make intelligent reply to the queries contained in your letter.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below, as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this bureau.
First name of widow:
Full name of soldier: Samuel Carson.
Residence of soldier at enlistment: Penna
Residence of soldier after service: Brooke Co., W. Va.?
Name of state from which he enlisted: Penna
Approximate date of birth: 1749
Approximate date of death 1830 Licking Co. O. [Ohio]
Kindly return attached letter with your reply.
Respectfully,
Earl W Church
Commissioner
Vt. 9086
[illegible two words] 31-1790
Page 19

V.L.M.
rEv. War Section.

October 24, 1916.

Miss Agnes May Robbins,
R. D. 1, Irwin, Penn.
Madam: --
In response to your letter dated the 26" ultimo, you are furnished the following data in regard to Revolutionary War pensioners, and are advised that owing to the large number of inquiries on the subject and lack of clerical force available for the purpose, this Bureau is not able to furnish you the records of more than two soldiers. Any responsible person designated by you will be allowed to examine and copy papers in Revolutionary War claims on file.
Samuel Carson, S. F. 42, 113, Private in  captain James Taylor's Company, Colonel Anthony Waynes' Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment.  Dates of birth and death, or age at enlistment are not stated,
David Logan W. F. 2,952, born between 1748 and 1751, died February 13, 1835; served from October 1778 to January 1781, in Captain Hawkins Boone's Company, Colonel William Cooke's Twelfth Pennsylvania Regiment and was in the battles of Short Hills, Brandywine and Germantown.
For information in regard to tombstones you should apply to the Quarter Master General, U. S. Army, War Department, Washington, D. C.
Very respectfully,
E. C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner,