Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20840, John Carter, Conn.
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(3-1770)
Service  Number
Conn.  Carter, John.  W 20840
Lucinda
Contents
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Vermont
John Carter
of Benson in the state of Vermont
who was a private in the (blank) commanded
by Captain (blank) of the Reg commanded
by Col. Swift in the Connecticut
time for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum,
to commence on the 4th of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of November
1832 and sent to Pensions
Bearson Rutt and to Vermont
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832         
( Somant) allowance ending 4th March 1833

120.00
  40.00
----------
$160.00
( Revolutionary Claim,)
(Act June 7, 1832)

Recorded by J M Duffield Clerk,
Book D Vol. 45 Page 98
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State of Vermont Rutland County Ss.} I John Carter of Banson in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont depose and say that I am a resident citizen of the United States. That I am fifty seven years old. That I served three companies in the army previous to the year 1781 making two years between the years 1776 1781 and that as near as I can recollect in the month of May in the year 1781 I enlisted into the Continental Army for three years under Capt Chapman and Col. Heman Swift's Regiment and General Huntingtons Brigade, Connecticut Line of Troops. I served in the army until the month of november 1783, when I was discharged from the army by Major General Knox. Since I have lived in Vermont my discharge has been conveyed to Connecticut. My original place of residence in a trunk that belonged to my parents and my parents are long since deceased. And what has become of my discharge I know not. I further testify that I am unable to do but very little labor, have a wife and six children, and stand in real need of assistance from my country and request that my name may be entered on the pension roll of the United States and my pension certificate forwarded to me at Banson above said.
John Carter

Sworn and subscribed before me at Banson in the County of Rutland this 16th day of April 1818.
Pliny Smith Chief Judge of Rutland County Court

I the subscribing authority hereby certify that I am of the opinion that the above named John Carter did serve in the revolutionary war as a soldier in the army of the United States as stated in the above deposition. In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and caused the county court seal to be affixed the date above.
Pliny Smith Chief Judge of Rutland County Court

By order of Judge Smith
R. Temple Clk
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(Service) Conn. Carter, John. Number W. 20840
Lucinda
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Rutland County, ss.}
On this 28th day of June 1820 personally appeared before the County court for said county of Rutland in open court, (said court being a court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) John Carter aged 61 years, resident in Benson in said county of Rutland who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: Inlisted under the Continental Establishment in 1780 into Capt. Meeds Co. Col Swifts Regt. I served under said Enlistment three years except about 4 months. & was discharged at West Point by Genl Knox in 1783.
that he made his original declaration on the 16th day of April 1818 has received a Pension Certificate, No. 2204. And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; - and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

1 table, 1 stand, 2 old chests, 7 chairs, 15 pail kettle, 1 dish kettle leaks badly, 1 old iron pot cracked badly, 1 spider, 1 bake kettle the lid bust, stew kettle, without a lid, 3 skillets, 2 flats, 1 pr tongs, 2 tied pots, 10 earthen plates, 2 pewter platters, 7 milk pieces, 1 tea pot, 9 tea cups & saucers, 6 tea spoons. 5 table spoons. 1 tin cup. 1 do [illegible]. 1 tin milk cup, 1 1/2 pink glass, 3 [illegible 2 of them cracked. 1 [illegible] 1 small morter, 2 wooden bords, 2 pt bottles, 3 q1 bottles, 1 pr hand bellow, 2 great wheels, 2 foot wheels, 1 loom, 2 old hogsheads, 1 quill wheel warping bars, 2 [illegible], 6 old casks, 2 pork barrells, 2 small casks, 1 wooden pail, 1 [illegible], 2 cannisters [illegible], 1 candel mould, 1 [illegible], 1 horn, 1 yoke of oxen, 4 cows, 2 3 yr old cattle, 3 2 yr old yearlings, 4 calves, 8 sheep & 6 lambs, 4 swine, 1 [illegible], 1 framing mill, 2 plows, 1 [illegible], 4 axes, 3 hoes, 2 sickles, 1 draft chain, 1 horse collar, 3 rakes, 1 scythe, 1 horn shovel, 1 saddle, 1 bridle, 1/2 of an old ox [illegible] 1 sack box.

I am impaired & unable to do hard labour. I have a wife named Lucinda aged 67 years & enjoys bad health. I have 4 daughters & 2 sons living with me. Jerusha aged 21 years who has had bad health for 6 years past, Patty aged 19 in good health, Lucy aged 13 in bad health, Lucinda aged 3 years in good health, Seymour aged 9 years & in good health, Elijah aged 6 yrs in good health. I have due me about $40 & I am indebted to others to the amount of $100, according to the best of my recollection.
John Carter X his mark
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Vermont 3835
Lucinda Carter
widow of John Carter Con. who was a pensioner under the Act of 7 June '31 and who died on the 11 September 1845 of Rutland in the State of Vermont who was a Pri in the Compy commanded by Captain ~~ of the Regt commanded by Swift in the Con line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 80 Dollars ~ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of Aug '39 and sent to L. C. Kellogg Benson, VT

Arrears to the 4th of March $240.00
Semi-annual allowance ending   $40.00
__________
$280.00

{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 36

Let L. C. Kellogg Sept 12 '39
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V4231
Lucinda Carter
widow of John
VT
Act 7 July '38

M 91 d. 34
admd
2 yrs pri
80$

No deduction

L. C. Kellogg Esq
Benson VT
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State of Vermont
Rutland County Ss.} On this 5th day of December 1838 personally appeared before the Probate Court within & for the Fairhaven Probate district in said county Lucinda Carter a resident of the town of Benson in said district in the county and state aforesaid aged sixty three years who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of John Carter, late of said Benson, now deceased, who was as she verily believes a soldier of the Revolution and who was a pensioner under the act of Congress of 1818, and whose name as she is informed was struck from the pension roll under said act on account of his having too much property to be continued as pensioner, and who was afterwards restored or made a pensioner under the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832. The certificate of which last named pensioner is for Eighty dollars per annum during his natural life, is dated Nov 8, 1832, signed by Lewis Cass Secy of War & is No. 1675. That she has no personal knowledge of the said John Carter's services in the Revolutionary Army, but refers to the papers in the pension office made out for obtaining his former pension, as evidence establishing the same.
She further declares that she was married to said John Carter on the 3d day of May AD 1791 by Asahel Smith Esq, Justice of the Peace for said county of Rutland who is now long since dead and that she has no knowledge of any record of said marriage. And that her husband the said [cut off]
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dead and ninety four viz at the time above stated.
Lucinda Carter X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first before written.
Before Almon Warner Judge

I S. H. Merrill Clerk of the Court of Probate for the district of Fairhaven aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Lucinda Carter for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at [illegible] in said district this 5th day of December AD 1838.
S. H. Merrill

The pension certif recorded by J. M. Duffield Clerk in Book D Vol 4 Page 98

Mr. Carter was a soldier in the Connt Continental line, placed on the pension roll on the 8th August 1818 under the act of 18 March 1818 at the rate of $96.00 per annum. Dropped under the act of May 1, 1820 and pensioned again under act of 7th June 1832. See proofs of his service in the Pension Office furnished in support of his former applications for a pension.
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I Milo W. Smith of Benson, county of Rutland Vermont of lawful age testify  & say that I am town clerk within & for said town of Benson and I have made diligent search in my office for a record of the marriage of John Carter to Lucinda Pratt, now the widow Lucinda Carter, who and named in the foregoing application for a pension and can find no record of said marriage in this office.

Milo W Smith

Subscribed & sworn to this 10th day of Dec. AD 1838.


Jesse Parkill Just Peace

State of Vermont
Rutland County

I Robert Pierpoint clerk of the county court for the county of Rutland certify that Jesse Parkill is a Justice of the Peace for said county and that his certificate above is genuine.
in testimony whereof I have hereunto set
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I Miles W. Smith of Benson in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont do certify that I am the town clerk of the said town of Benson, and that it appears from the records of births and deaths for said town kept in my office
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State of Vermont
Rutland County

At Benson in said county on this 16th day of May AD 1839 personally appeared Milo W Smith, known to me to e the Town Clerk of said town of Benson, and subscribed the foregoing certificate and made oath to the truth of the same before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Rutland aforesaid.

And I further certify that I have been a resident of the town of Benson for the term of fifty two years last past, and I was well acquainted with John Carter named in said certificate during the greater portion of said term till the time of his death, which took place about four years since, and also with Lucinda Carter, his widow, who now resides in this town: that said John at the time of his death was reputed to be a revolutionary pensioner, and that I have no doubt, from my own recollection and from my constant and long continued acquaintance  with the said John and Lucinda Carter, and with the said John previous to his marriage, that said intermarriage between them took place previous to the first of January AD 1794.

Jesse Parkhill Just Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County

I Frederick W Hopkins clerk of the county court for the county of Rutland do certify that Jesse Parkhill, was at the date of the certificate to which this is annexed, a Justice of the Peace within and for said county, that his commission is dated the 1st day of December 1838 and will expire on the 30th day of November 1839: and I believe his signature to the same is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Rutland in said county this 17th day of June AD 1839.

F. W. Hopkins
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November 7, 1932

BA-J/ADY
John Carter
W. 20840

Miss Geraldine B. Kellogg,
United States Post Office,
Benson, Vermont

Dear Madam:

Reference  is made to your letter relative to one John Carter, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W. 20840, based upon his military service in that war.

John Carter enlisted, place not stated, and served two years between 1776 and 1781 in three campaigns in the Connecticut troops, officers not stated. He enlisted in May 1781 and served to November 1783 as a private under Captains Chapman, Weed, Taylor and Colonel Heman Swift in the Connecticut troops.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 18, 1818 while a resident of Benson, Rutland County, Vermont, aged fifty-seven years.

He died September 11, 1834.

Soldier married May 3, 1791 in Benson, Vermont, Lucinda Pratt. She was allowed pension on her application executed December 5, 1838 while a resident of Benson, Vermont, aged sixty-three years.

Children:
Judah Carter  born  April 19, 1792
John Carter  born  April 25, 1794
"Infant son"  born  August 20, 1796
Jerusha Carter  born  May 19, 1799
Patty Carter  born  July 23, 1801
Lucy Carter  born  September 14, 1804

In 1820 soldier referred to children: Seymour,
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Elijah and Lucinda, aged nine years, six years and three years respectively.

Very truly yours,

A. D. Hiller
Assistant to Adminstrator

Returned 2 war Dept reports & 2 letters written to the war Dept.
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20840
Widow, &c

File no. 20840
Lucinda Carter
widow of John Carter
Pri. Rev. Rev.

Act July 7 1838

Index: Vol. A, Page 120

[Arrangement of 1870]

1910 Jany 31. Hist to Rev Evarts Kent
1913 Oct 9 Hist to Mrs J W Gentle &
1929 Sept 30 Hist to Mrs Frank W Knight, AWY
1932 Nov 7 Hist to Geraldine B Kellogg, ADY
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Vermont Roll
2204
John Carter, Swift's Regt, Private. Connecticut Line in the Army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 16 of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8 of Aug 1818, and sent to R Temple, Esq. Rutland, Vt.

Arrearages to 4 Sept 1818
4 mo 19/30  #37.06

{Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818}
2 years


Appl. to be restored rejected. See letter to R Temple 4 April 1829

Modification sent to R. Pierpoint
By 22 July 1820, Rutland Vt.
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Sett L. E. Kellogg, May 10 '39
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3-871
Record Division
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions

Briefed by Geo. M. Moore
Jan 22, 1910
Certificate No.
Claimant has moved in Vt.
Soldier John Carter
Service  Rev.
Additional Service
No    lcaim, State records    , 190
No claim, combination records     , 190

Remarks:
No O W J W or R as above except WF 20840

Chief Division
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State of Vermont
Rutland County

On this 10th day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before the court of probate now sitting within and for the Probate district of Fairhaven in said county John Carter a resident of Benson in said county aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following statement that he was placed on the pension roll of the Vermont agency, in 1818 under the act of that yea at therate of eight dollars per month, and was afterwards struck from the roll on account of owning too much property that he was private in Capt. Reeds Co if he now recollects might, afterwards in Capt. Webb's Regt that he has resided in Benson about forty five years and now resides there & resided in said Benson when he made his first application for a pension and he herewith transmits his original pension certificate & on the pension roll of the Vermont agency under the act of June 7 1832.

John Carter his mark X

Present John Kellogg

I Selah H Merrill clerk of the Probate Court aforesaid hereby certify that John Carter above named personally appeared in said Court and subscribed the foregoing statement and was sworn to the same, the day & year afd. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 10th day of August AD 1832.

S. H. Merrill
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We Levi Barber and Rebecca Barber of Castleton in the county of Rutland and State of Vermont of lawful age being duly sworn depose  testify and say that on the 3d day of May 1791. We were present at the marriage of John Carter now deceased to Lucinda Carter now residing in Benson in said county of Rutland, that we saw the said John and Lucinda married at said Benson by Asahel Smith Esquire a Justice of the Peace for said county at the time above mentioned, that we have been acquainted with the said John from that time until his death a few years  since and with the said Lucinda to the present time, that they lived together as husband & wife until the decease of the said John, and further say not.

Levi Barber
Rebecca Barber  her mark X

witness Hylle Westover

State of Vermont
Rutland County

Be it known that on the 17th day of December 1838 before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared Levi Barber abd Rebecca Barber who subscribed and sworn to the truth of the foregoing affidavit.

S H Merrill Justice Peace

I further certify that in my opinion the said affiants Levy Barber and Rebecca Barber above named as credible witnesses.

SH Merrill Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Rutland County Ss}
I Robert Pierpoint clerk of the county court for the county of Rutland certify that Selah H. Merrill is a Justice of the Peace for said county and that his signature to the foregoing certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Rutland this 21 day of December AD 1838
R. Pierpoint
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Benson Vt.
18 June 1839
Sir:
In your letter to me of the 10th ultimo, you say that "in the case of Mrs. Lucinda Carter widow of John Carter deceased, it will be necessary to forward the certificate of the Town Clerk respecting the births of their children, showing the relation of husband and wife prior to 1st January 1794." I transmit in this inclosure the certificate of the Town Clerk of the Town of Benson, containing the collateral or presumptive evidence required. It has been in my hands for several weeks, waiting authentication from the County Clerk.
It will be seen, from the certificate of the town Clerk, that the record of the births of the children of Mr. and Mrs. Carter on the books in his office is in the hand-writing of a former Town Clerk who has been dead more that Twenty six years. This fact places
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the authenticity of the record beyond all doubt. To this proof, the magistrate before whom the certificate was verified adds in his certificate an additional confirmation from an acquaintance of fifty two years standing with the applicant and her husband.
In submitting this additional evidence to you consideration, I feel confident, sir, that every part of the case of Mrs. Carter is amply sustained, and that her claim to the benefit of the act of July 7 1838, rests upon clear and satisfactory proof.
Very respectfully 
sir,
Your Obed't. Ser't.
L. C. Kellogg

To the 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City,
D.C.
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Jonah Carters
Affidavit
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I Jonah Carter of Benson in the County of Rutland or State of Vermont of lawful age do testify & say that I am knowing that John Carter now of Benson aforesaid enlisted into the Continental Army of the United States in the year 1781. in Capt. Chapmans company, Col. Herman Swifts Regiment, & Genl. Huntingtons Brigade, that he served from the time of his enlistment until the fall of 1783 (Nov?) when he was regularly discharged at Wet Point I think he was discharged by Major Gen'l. Knox. and further this deponent saith not. Jonah Carter
Sworn to & subscribed this 18th day of April AD 1818. 
Before me
Pliny Smith Chief Judge of the Rutland County Court
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John Carter
Payable on the 4. March & r. sept of each year at Bennington, Vermont, by D. Robinson, Agent.
Recorded
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WAR DEPARTMENT
Revolutionary Claim
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18. March 1818, John Carter, late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of Eighty dollars per month to commence on the sixteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.

GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this eighth day of August one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J.C. Calhoun
Sec'y. of War.
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papers under act act 32 said to be sent me, but not rec'd.
May 8, 35 GME
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Rutland Vt.
27th Dec. 1838.
Sir:
The inclosed papers are transmitted to your office in support of the claim of Mrs Lucinda Carter, widow of John carter, a soldier in the war of the revolution now deceased for a pension under the act of 7th July 1838. These papers furnish,
1. The declaration of the applicant made before the Probate Court for the district of Fairhaven according to the prescribed form. On the same sheet.
2. the affidavit of the Town Clerk of the town of Benson, showing that there is no record of the marriage of said John Carter and the applicant in his office.
3. The affidavit of Levi and Rebecca Barber (husband and wife) showing that
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they witnessed the said marriage at Benson on the 3d May, 1791.
Reference is made in the declaration to the proofs now on file in the Pension Office, to show the services of said John Carter as a soldier in the revolution. Evidence of his death is also in the Pension office, as his widow drew the arrears of his pension. Mr. Carter was first placed on the Pension roll on the 8th Aug't. 1818, under the act of March 18, 1818, and was dropped from the roll under the act of May 1 1830. He was pensioned again under the act of 7 June 1832 and died on the 11th Sep't. 1834. The proof of his revolutionary services is presumed to be ample, as it has twice been taken as satisfactory, and hence no pains have been used to strengthen it.
The proof of the marriage is also deemed to be sufficient. Although there is no record of the marriage in the office of the town clerk of Benson, where the record ought to be, yet there is in that office a record of the births of the children of John & Lucinda Carter, by which it appears that
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their oldest child was born in August 1792. This fact is prima facie proof of a marriage previous to that time, but as it is merely collateral, and hence not contemplated by the instructions of the Commissioner, it has not been thought important to precure a copy of that record in support of the applicant's claim. As the affidavit of Mr. and Mrs. Barber furnishes direct evidence of the marriage, it is presumed that nothing further will be required at the Pension Office.
Any communication on the subject of this application may be addressed to John Kellogg Esq. of Benson Vt. and if a pension should be allowed, the certificate may be sent to his address.
Very respectfully,
your servant,
L.C. Kellogg

To the Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
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Sir
Benson, Vermont,
Apl 26. 1838.
I transmitted to your office on or about
the 26th Decr last, the application of Mr. Lucinda Carter of this place for a
pension under the act of July 1838, she being the widow of John Carter deceased, who was a soldier in the war of the revolution.
The application was accompanied by
the necessary proof of marriage &c and in my
letter, I directed the Commissioner of Pensions to transmit his decision upon the claim to John Kellogg Esqr of this place,
upon my return hither a few days
since, from an absence of several months, I found that no communication had been received from the Pension office on the subject of Mrs Carter claim. The anxiety of Mrs Carter and her friends, under this long delay, is I trust, a sufficient
apology for making an inquiry whether there
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application was received; and, if so, for calling the case and its merits to your attention.

By informing me upon this subject, you will relieve the solitude of the applicant, and oblige.

Very respectfully, 
Your Obedient servant,

L. C. Kellogg

P.S. If the application has not been received, or is not on file in the Pension office, an early answer to that purport is desired by the applicant and her fiends, in order that no time may be lost in taking the stops necessary to secure her the benefit of the bounty of the Govt.

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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file
Sept 28
Lucinda Carter
[illegible] role file

Benson Vt.
Sept 23
3835
Free
J.L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Benson, Vermont
Sept 23d 1839

Dear Sir:

Your letter of the 12th inst in reply to mine of the 6th inst is now before me. In compliance with your request, I have the pleasure of saying that the pension certificate of Mrs Lucinda Carter (which was the subject of both letters) has been received and forwarded to her.

I am, Sir, very respectively, your servant,

L. C. Kellogg

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Benson, Vt
Sept 6

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Washington City, D. C. 
Comm. of Pensions
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Benson, Vermont
6th Sept 1839

Sir:

In your letter to me of the 10th May last you say in reference to the application of Mrs Lucinda Carter, widow of John Carter deceased, for a pension under the act of 7 July 1833, that "it will be necessary to forward the certificate of the Town Clerk respecting the births of their children, showing the relation of husband and wife prior to 1st January 1794."

On the 19th June last, I addressed to you a letter enclosing the paper desired, but have not as yet heard from your office in reference to the case. Mrs Carter's papers have been filed in the Pension Office nearly nine months, and the old lady is in much solitude and anxiety respecting the success of her claim. I address you now, Sir, to inquire respecting the situation of her claim and whether any thing more is required from her in support to Mrs Carter, and I feel sure that if the
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case has been examined at your office, it was evident that few cases are more deserving or better supported than the one she presents.

Very respectfully, Sir, your obt Servant,

L. C. Kellogg


J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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State of Vermont
Rutland County

On this 4th day of February 1829 personally appeared before the Supreme court for said county of Rutland in open court (said court being a court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c.) John Carter resident of the said county, aged sixty nine years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st of May, 1820; that he the said John Carter enlisted for the term of three years on or about the month of June in the year 1781 in the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until November 1783 when he was discharged from service, in West Point in the State of New York that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropped therefrom an account of his property.

And in pursuance of the act of 1st May, 1820,. I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818, and I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with the intent, thereby, so to diminish it, as to being myself within the provisions of an act of congress, entitled, "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts doe to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed-viz. about 88 acres of land poor house & barn, 1 yoke of oxen 4 years old, three cows, 2 2 year old cattle, 5 calves, 20 sheep, 1 mare 12 years old, 1 yearling colt, 1 yearling bull, 1 old cart, 1 horn waggon, 1 single cup, 1 set of small drop cloth, 1 plough, 1 pair of draft chain & draft chain, 1 sythe & sickle, 1 old axe, 2 hoes, 2 old laid steads, 1 servable crass kettle, 1 old chest, 1 poor pine table, 1 shovel & tongs, 1 cracked iron kettle & 1 [unk], 1 broken tea kettle, [unk] cup, small lot of old crockery, 1/2 doz old knives & forks, 9 poor chairs, one hope head & 6 old cider barrells, 3 8 wine, and income at least one hundred & fifty dollars, over & above what is owing to m, I have also one pair and irons & 2 pitchforks.

That, since, the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in my property. According to my best recollection I exchanged the horse named in my former schedule for the man I now own the oxen I sold & applied the credits to my debts, two cows I sold and applied in payment of debts I [unk] I have lost one cow.

John Carter his mark X

Present John Kellogg Sworn to, and declared, on this 4th day of Feb 1829, before said Court,

R Pierpoint Clerk

I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the Supreme Court do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said John Carter did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from records of the said Court; and I do further certify, that in the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is seven hundred seventy two dollars and 34 cents,

in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this 7th day February 1829.

R Pierpoint
Clerk of the Supreme Court
Rutland County
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In reply to your request of     , received      for the statement of the military history of John John Carter a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: between 1776 & 1781
Length of Service: 2 years in three campaigns
Rank:
Officers Under Whom Service was rendered: officers not stated
State: Conn

Dates of Enlistment or Appointment: May 1781 to Nov 1783
Length of Service:
Rank: Officer under whom Service was Rendered: Christopher Herman Swift, Weed, Taylor
State: Conn

Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at enlistment, [unk] Connecticut
Date of application for pension, Apr 16 1818. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Benson, Rutland Co, Vt
Age at date of application, 57 years
Remarks: Set, [unk] May 3 1791 Lucinda Pratt; he died Sept 11, 1834
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Benson Vt
Jan 14 1910
Pension Commissioner

Is there on file in your department an application for a pension, [unk] 1820-1840 by one John Carter of Benson Vermont a Revolutionary soldier serving in some Connecticut Regt. In reference to an inquiry from the Wat Dept I am informed a number of men of that name served in various Conn Regiments in the Rev. War, and the data given is not sufficient to identify the subject of inquiry
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But if there  some record in
your department of an application
for pension of a John Carter of
Benson Vn
that will serve the purpose of
this inquiry
 Respectfully yours
Evart Kent
Pastor of Coryal. Ch. Benson Vt.
[stamp] PENSION OFFICE.U.S. A JAN 18 1910
[stamp] JAN 10 1909
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Frankfort MO
Oct 1 1913

Dear Sir-

Will you please look in your pension records for the name of John Carter from Kentucky, who fought in the Revolutionary War. He drew a pension, and lived in Henry Co. KY. His wife's name was Lucinda Carter, can not say whether he was a private soldier or and officer. But he was buried with military honors, he either received his pension from Lewiston or Owenton that being the nearest Post Office. Please give me all the information you can find in regard to him and will be very grateful to you. Please reply as soon as possible.

yours truly,

Mrs J. W. Gentle
Frankford Pike Co MO

P.S. Please send no. of pension
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Spencer, Iowa, June 26, 1929

Pension Office
Washington, D. C.

Will you please give me a record of John Carter (1758-1834) who was placed on the pension roll of Connecticut in 1818 for service in the Connecticut line. He was dropped from the roll under the act of 1820, ad was pensioned again in 1832, according to the D.A.R. Lineage books.

What I particularly wish to know is just where this John Carter lived at the time of Revolution, and the names of his children, also his wife.

If these names check up with my ancestor, John Carter of Connecticut, I will be able to prove him to be my ancestor.

Yours truly,

Mrs. F. W. Knight


Mrs. Frank W. Knight
141 North Main Street
Spencer, Iowa
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OFFICE NO. 02021             FOURTH CLASS
UNITED STATES POST OFFICE
BENSON, VT.
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GERALDINE B. KELLOGG, Postmaster

Oct. 29, 1932

Director of Pensions,
       Washington, D.C.
     
     I would like to join the D.A.R. thru a John Carter, who inlisted [sic] in Connecticut, but as there was a number who inlisted [sic] from Connecticut, it's rather hard to trace his record.  The John Carter I refer to lived his last years in Benson and is buried here.  He received a pension thru the Act of 1818 he died September 11, either (1831 or 1834), then his wife Lucinda had a pension but cannot give you the date she died.
     C.H. Bridger, Major General thought you might be able to identify the John Carter I am tracing.  He was the only John Carter who lived here that served in the war.
             Respectfully, 
                Geraldine B. Kellogg
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
ADY

September 30, 1929.

Mrs. Frank W. Knight,
541 North Main Street,
Spencer, Iowa.

Dear Madam:
     I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 20840, it appears that John Carter enlisted, place not stated, and served two years between 1776 and 1781 in three campaigns in the Connecticut Troops, officers not stated.
     He enlisted in May 1781 and served to November 1783 as a private under Captains Chapman, Weed, Taylor and Colonel Heman Swift in the Connecticut Troops.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed April 16, 1818 while a resident of Benson, Rutland County, Vermont, aged fifty-seven years.
     He died September 11, 1834.
     Soldier married May 3, 1791 in Benson, Vermont, Lucinda Pratt.  She was allowed pension on her application executed December 5, 1838 while a resident of Benson, Vermont, aged sixty-three years.
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Children:

Judah Carter   born   April 19, 1792.
John Carter       "       April 25, 1794.
"Infant son:       "       August 20, 1796.
Jerusha Carter   "      May 19, 1799.
Patty Carter       "      July 23, 1801.
Lucy Carter        "      September 14, 1804.

In 1820 soldier referred to children; Seymour, Elijah and Lucinda, aged nine years, six years and three years respectively.
             Very truly yours,

                           EARL D. CHURCH,
                           Commissioner.