Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3843, for John Mc Carter, Delaware
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John Agnes McCarter
W 3843
Continental
Del
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[Illegible]
New Jersey
Agnes McCarter
widow of John 
Delaware who served in the Revolutionary War,
as a Commissary [Illegible] from $511.11 
inscribed on the roll at the rate of 600 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.[Illegible]
8th February 1837 certificate of pension issued the 28th day of July [illegible] and sent to 
Alexander Ray [Illegible] Present
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th, July 1838, entitled "an act of granting half pay and pensions to certain widows.
State of New Jersey, Sussex County for on this sixteenth day of October [illegible], 1838, personally appeared before the Superior Court of   Common Pleas, in and for this county & state aforesaid. Mrs. Agnes McCarter, a resident of Newton, in the said County of Sussex, aged 69 years, who being first 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 7, 1838, entitled "an act, granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
I am the widow of John McCarter, who served, as I believe, in the Army of the Revolution, in different grades from 1778, to the close of the war.
His first service, was, I believe, as a volunteer, in a rifle corps, under the command of Colonel Craighead of the State of Delaware. His other officers names, at this period, are unknown to me & the only evidence in my [illegible] of this service, or that is in my power to obtain is contained in a brief outline of his revolutionary services which was found among my husband's papers, addressed to the late Governor Bloomfield of New Jersey, written many years since & long before any pension law was prepared by Congress. It [illegible] is in my husband's handwriting & purports to be a copy of one sent to the governor, as I believe. I sent it, with many others of my husband's papers, desiring the commissions of pensions & the Secretary of War, to allow to it, such weight, as in their opinion it may discern, & no more. While a volunteer in this rifle corps under Col. Craighead, he was in the battle of Trenton, in which two young men, pupils of his at Wilmington, where he had taught a school, were both killed at a shot. His attention to their bodies, & their friends, prevented him from being in the battle of Princeton, which followed close upon that at Trenton.
In 1777, he became attached to that part of the American Army, which fought the enemy at White Clay Creek in Delaware, at Brandywine, Whitehorse, Paoli, Germantown, Barnhill Church, Monmouth [illegible]. I believe he was a commissary's clerk at this time, & it is probable that General Wayne commanded the section or wing of the army to which my husband belonged. From papers which he has left & herewith transmitted, I believe he acted as a clerk or assistant to James Gamble, with whom he afterward had an abitration. I saw all the papers relating to this controversy, as they may throw light upon my claim & enable the Commissioner to do better justice to the [illegible] states & to myself. In an account stated by my husband against Mr. Gamble his salary seems to have been [illegible] by Mr. Gamble from 20th. August 77 to 1st January 79 during which time
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I presume he was acting in that capacity. (See in the bundle marked "J. McCarter & James Gamble papers", your paper marked A."
In 1780, it appears by reference to his papers, that he acted as Commissary, or as Deputy Commissary of Aides, in connection with John Michelin, who was probably his principal. By an account with the U. States, stated by my husband, in his own handwriting, the first item is "For my salary as Commissary of Aides re: from 7th January 1780 to 30th April 1781." See bundle, envelope marked, "J. McCarter papers, Aides re" paper B. In another paper in same envelope, a "Return of [illegible]" re: marked C. There is a note, from which it would seem, that John McCarter's connection with this Department went back as far as 7th Nov. 1779. A paper in same envelope marked D is a certificate, signed John Michelin, stating that John McCarter was employed by him as an assistant Commissary of Aides with the army at Morristown, which he thinks must have been in the winter of 1779 & 1780 re: re: referring to his books re: ____ Another paper or letter signed John Michelin dated February 15, 1781 & an order signed Thomas Lowrey, dated January 18, 1780, are in the same envelopes, both recognizing my said husband as acting in the Commissary's Department of Aides.
On the 24th May, 1782, a letter was addressed to my husband, appointing him Assistant Commissary of Issues, to the [illegible] of Artillery at Burlington, with instructions as to his duties re: by Charles Stewart, Esq., Commissary General of Issues. Another letter of instruction signed John Erskine, for Charles Stewart Commissary General Issues, dated New Windsor 24, July 1782 was addressed to him. Both letters have been [illegible], & will be found in the envelope marked "papers of John McCarter, Assistant Commissary of Issues;" that of 24th May, designated by letter E and that of 24th July, by the letter F. __ In both papers, allusion is made to my husband's experiences in [illegible] was neither abused nor betrayed. I may refer the Pension Commissioner to a letter in the same envelope, marked G. from his former principal, Colonel Charles Stewart, written after these labors were closed & they were seeking a settlement of accounts with the U. States. The letter is dated New York, 31st March, 1785. ___ Other papers are contained in the same envelope [illegible] Regulations by Congress 22nd April 1782, instructions from Board of War, signed B. Lincoln. Letter signed J. Miligan, [illegible] letter signed Charles Lee ? all found among my husbands papers and sent herewith. Perhaps they are not absolutely necessary.
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There are also contained in another envelope, a separate bundle, containing "returns, abstracts" re: relating to the Park of Artillery at Burlington, marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & one Return of Provisions & Stores for use of General Hazens Regiment, marked 8 & our return of provisions for troops at Pompton on account of Wadsworth & Carter, marked 9.
I am unable to say whether or not these two [illegible] (8 & 9) are connected with his duties as Assistant Commissary of Issues at Burlington; nor do I know that if they are to be considered as extra duties, that he would therefore be entitled to extra allowance-this I leave to the discretion & equity of the Commission, believing that he is willing to do [illegible] justice, under the pension laws.
I had overlooked another "return for use of General Hazen's Regiment for December 82," marked 10, also included.
In the same envelope marked "Aides" will be found 3 receipts signed John Grayson, for shoes, and boots, dated in 1780, in the months of March, April, May, marked 10, 11, & 12, 13, 14, which probably appertains to my husband's duties as Commissary of Aides. There are also various other loose receipts & papers, relating to his public duties, perhaps of but little consequences. They may however be deemed of some importance by the Commissions. His books & vouchers, deemed necessary in the settlement of his account at the treasury, were called for by the letter of the auditor, & no doubt can be entertained of fact that they were all surrendered to the proper accounting offices. Colonel Stewart's letter (G) before spoken of [illegible] his attendance for settlement of accounts as Principal of the Department.
A letter signed James Thompson, dated Trenton, 8th February 1781, marked 15, accompanies Col. Stewart's letter & has reference to Mr. Gamble's account & in which appears my husband was interested. To his books of accounts, I respectfully refer the Commissioner of Pensions, as evidence of my husband's competence & [illegible] in the discharge of his revolutionary service. His Principals, Colonels Gamble, Michelin, & Stewart together with most of his and their associates in those trying days, have gone to their last account. A very few who were eyewitnesses of my husband's services survive, & their depositions are hereto annexed. Among them, will be found one from General Colfax, then in the family of General Washington, & one from Major William Shute, of the Jersey brigade. Enquiry has been made of some Pennsylvania officers, but no answers have been received. If any should hereafter be received, I trust the Commissioners of Pensions will give them such weight as they may be entitled to in his decision.
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For my husband's service as a volunteer in Col. Craighead's Rifle corps, I have no evidence, except his narrative to Gov. Bloomfield hereto annexed, & I submit it to the Commissioner's decision. It is probable he remained with that regiment until he acted under Major Gamble. From the time he left Gamble's bureau, to his engagement with Col. Michelin in N. Jersey, I am not aware that I have any direct proof of his pursuits. I have no doubt that he was with the army.  Nor have I, to my knowledge, any direct proof of his engagements, after his duty ceased under Michelin, (30th April 81), to his appointment under Col. Steward, in May 82. 
I verily believe, however, that he remained with the army, though the proof is wanting from May 82 to the discharging of the army in [illegible] the duties of Assistant Commissary of Issues. And whether or not his appointment as such, did not necessarily continue, until his accounts were finally settled at Philadelphia, the Commissioner of Pensions, aided by the books of the Auditor who settled them, will determine. His narration hereto annexed, is corroborated by all the ancient papers before the Commissioner, & it also states that his last duties, or businesses connected with revolutionary service, were performed in "[illegible] the agencies of two York Regiments.' How long this occupied his attention, I know not. 
I conscientiously believe that my dear husband's time, from December 1778 to when the army was disbanded in 1783, was almost exclusively devoted to the service of the Country. And that exclusion of his volunteer service under Col Craighead, he was actively engaged in different branches of the Commissary's Department not less than four years. And for his services so performed, I humbly ask for such an allowance, as the laws of my Country entitle me to receive. 
And I do further declare that I was married to the said John McCarter on the 21st day of November, Domini 1780 by Reverend John Joline, then pastor of Presbyterian Church in Mendham, Morriss County N. Jersey. I do not know that there is any parish record of marriages in that church, of that period. I am in the family Bible of said John McCarter, written with his own hand, in which the date of our marriage, the births and names of children are recorded, the original entry, whereof I herewith send, annexed to this declaration, having been carefully taken out from said family Bible.  My maiden name was Harris, & we were married at the home of my faither, George Harris in Mendham, in the County of Morris, in the presence of my sister Susan Harris, now Susan Thompson, living at Mendham in Morris County, and other persons not now living.
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State of New Jersey
Sussex County 
Clerk of Sussex County hereby certifies that
before whom the preceding Declaration of Mrs. Agnes McCarter, widow of John McCarter [illegible] was taken, it was at the time of [illegible] the same, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, a commissioned & authorized, & that the signature of his name thereto, is genuine. Witness my hand, & the seal of my office at Newton, in said County, this [illegible] day of 
A. 1838.
[photo of seal]
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[book of Malachi]
[6] rebellion and sacriledge of the people. 7 of the rebellion, 8 sacriledge, 13 and infidelity of the people. 16 The promise of blessing to them that fear God.
1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
2 But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:
3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
4 Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years.
5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
6 For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
7 Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we return?
8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.
10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.
12 And all nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the Lord of hosts.
13 Your words have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee?
14 Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord of hosts?
15 And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.
16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.
17 And they shall be mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.
18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
 CHAP. IV
1 God’s judgement on the wicked, 2 and his blessings on the good. 4 He exhorteth to the study of the law, 5 and telleth of Elijahs coming and office.

For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.
And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.
Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD:
And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
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John McCarter & Agnes Harris were married 21 November 1785
Mary their eldest daughter was born 1 March 1789 
Martha Isabella.............5 March 1791
Robert Harris................16 March 1793
Benjamin Ludlow.........24 December 1794
George Harris................5 November 1796-1 A.M.
John...................................26 January 1799
James Jefferson.............14 December 1800
Daniel Stuart...................2nd December 1803
Eleanor Cordelia............2nd March 1807
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                   Morristown 30th January 1807
Dear Sir,
     It is upwards of three years since you extended to me the hand of efficient friendship, and drew me from obscurity--yes, it is strange! - no line of mine has ever made the acknowledgement to you, that my heart owns its gratitude in its inmost core. And even at this late hour, while I attempt it, I must lose sight, for a little time, of the distance placed between us in the scale of society. And the more useful employment of your time, on which it would be wrong to intrude. And more-the fear of incurring a charge of paying court to exalted station more than to the man. These considerations have operated too long in my mind, to the hindrance of unbecoming to you the feelings of a grateful heart, that cannot for a moment lose sight of its obligations, and that contemplates them with peculiar pleasure. I believe Sir, the pleasures enjoyed by gratitude, come but little, short of those enjoyed by its parent, benevolence. If you will allow this sentiment founded in nature, my enjoyments are no way measured by my past silence.
When I last had the pleasure of sitting at your table, you were pleased to intimate a question as to my employment in the Continental Army. It would not perhaps, be over civil, to make this a pretext for turning egotist, and obstruct on you a detail of a life totally unimportant to any besides myself and family. But pride, Sir--and who does not feel its power?--tells me, I ought to be known to you--forgive then, and I admit the following sketch--for making which, I have a much better reason. 
In December 1774 I arrived in Philadelphia, a kind of consignment from my father to his friend, a merchant there. But business being then at a stand, I was, at the age of 22, cast on the world without relation, friend, or connexion to guide my inexperience. I settled at Brandywine where I taught school among the Quakers. But having brought with me an experimental knowledge and abhorrence of the British system of oppression, I easily associated with the military temper of the day & promoted, by my last endeavours, associations for military trainings, and the use of arms and at several of our first bickerings, as at Wilmington, Trenton, & I served a volunteer in a rifle corps sometime commanded by Col. Craighead. I never think of the last affair without remembering that I lost, that morning two worthy young men my pupils (brothers) at a shot who were placed under my care by their parents. My attentions to them prevented my being at Princeton. A circumstance I have ever regretted.
From the Landing at the Head of Elk, until our army made a stand at Whitebay Creek, our corps were always on the lines. Then I joined the Army in the obscure station of a Commissary's Clerk under General Wayne. This Sir, you remember, was an active campaign. It was an undeviating rule with that General
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that in all expected engagements, his Commissary had orders to be near the lines with a supply of bread and rum.  The [illegible] of my principal not suiting the General's temper and his not shewing much inclination for duty of this kind, furnished me with many opportunities, under the General's orders, of being an inactive, tho' not always a very secure observer of some of the movements of our troops, in several of our principal engagements--as at Brandywine, White Horse, Paoli, Germantown, Barnhill Church, Monmouth, Valentine's Hill & other places on stations, distinction very seldom is attached to even the performance of duty. After this I served as Commissary at several ports with Gen. Lamb's artillery, and with Gen. Hazen's troops, and last of all, settled the agencies of 2 York regiments at West Point & Philadelphia. In 1784 I entered into a mercantile concern with Messeres. Greer & Brooks, which continued for a few years until want of health by [illegible] application drove me to this county where I purchased from works with all the prospects of success I would expect until the year 1794 when all my work and valuable stock were swept away by a [illegible] in one hour. I rebuilt and the inactive capital I had left in the hands of my late partners amounting to $5000. The house [illegible] from which I never received a shilling. Fatigue of building perhaps brought on bodily complaints that confined me to bed, chiefly, for nine months at the end of which I gave up all to my creditors from whom I had my goods and who knew the truth of my [illegible], and they--unsolicited--gave me a discharge in full. You perceive Sif, you are not the only person to whom I am bound by gratitude. Reduced in my circumstances, with a family of eight children to support, and sinking into that obscurity, that generally attends on misfortune, the prospect before me was dreary indeed--from which however I scorned to be relieved by employment in our then "Revenue System", or by any agency in that momentary trifle the direct [illegible]. My only consolation was that neither idleness nor desperation were the agents of my misfortune. In this situation, Sir, your benevolence found me. You gave me employment. You reached your hand and enabled me to support my family. Can I forget this? O, no! The engraving is too deep. You would smile perhaps and call me an enthusiast would you hear me [illegible] this tale on my sons, who are all young enough to admit the soft impressions. And they will early learn to unite the [illegible] feelings of gratitude and respect with the name of Bloomfield. Under impressions such as I have attempted to describe I have [illegible] the above sketch in your leisure moments. And before I sat down to [illegible], I was
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in doubt whether I am more to blame in deferring it so long, or in doing it at all, but I feel I am right in writing, because my heart feels eased of a debt it has long wished to acknowledge-the only kind of payment in its power-and because you will be pleased to receive the tribute of a grateful heart and influenced by one unworthy motive. Accept, Sir, my ardent wishes for your happiness and the happiness of your Lady believe me to be. Yours

I hereby certify to the Commission of Pensions that I was well acquainted personally with John McCarter from the year 1794 to the time of his death in the year 1807. He was my near neighbour in Morristown during the greater past of that period. He was [illegible] of the County of Morris as well as County [illegible] for many years and I was in the habits of [illegible, illegible, illegible, illegible.] I was well acquainted with her handwriting and with entire confidence say and declare that the narrative contained on this sheet is in the proper handwriting of said John McCarter [illegible, illegible] and Agnes McCarter now [illegible] as a pension on account of his said [illegible, illegible]  service in the way of the revolution. I was his family physician many years and have often heard him relate many incidents which befell him in times of the revolution. He was a [illegible] man of high sense of honor and of unimpeachable integrity and I verily believe that this written narrrative, written by him is true in relation to all the facts therein stated by him. It is not signed by said John McCarter and I have no doubt it is a copy taken by him and that the original was sent or delivered by said McCarter, to Governor Bloomfield. Morristown Notary, October 17, 1838. Lewis Condich
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State of New Jersey
County of Morris
 Personally appeared before me the
subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the
said County of Morris, Mrs. Susan Thompson aged 63
years who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose
and say that she is the sister of Mrs Agnes McCarter
who is applying for a pension under the act of Congress
passed the seventh day of July AD 1838. that she was
present when the said Agnes McCarter was married
to her husband John McCarter. that she was married
at the house of George Harris the father of the said Agnes
McCarter and of this deponent, who at the time resided in the township of Mendham
the County of Morris and State of New Jersey by a

Clergyman by the name of Soline who was formerly
pastor of the Presbyterian Church at Mendham
 In the said County of Morris. that said Agnes McCarter
was married to the said John McCarter some time
in the year 1786. that there were other persons present
at the said Marriage now of whom are living as this
deponent recollects. that this deponent has resided
in the said township of Mendham nearly all the time
in the said intermarriage between the said Agnes
McCarter and the said John McCarter. and in
the Congregation where the said Mr John preached
and that she has never heard, nor does she know of
any record of Marriages kept by the said Mr Soline
or by any other person of the time.
that this deponent further say, that being shown
a record of the Marriages of the said John McCarter
with the said Agnes McCarter written upon a leaf of
bible, and attached to the declaration of the said
Agnes McCarter says that the said Record is in the
hand writing of the said John McCarter except the
Name Jefferson after the name of James one of the
Children of the said John McCarter and also except
the words “Eleanor Cordelia 2nd March 1807.” which
is not in the hand writing of the said John McCarter.
and that the time mentioned in the said Record as the
time when the said Marriage was solemnized compares
 with recollection of this deponent and that she has
  no doubt it is the true time when the said
Marriage was solemnized
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That this deponent was well acquainted with the
said John McCarter and that it was always will
understood in the neighborhood, that the said John
McCarter had been engaged in the public service during the
whole period of the revolutionary war. altho this
deponent was too young to have any knowledge of
the fact herself - that the said John McCarter
  did as this deponent believes.  in December 1807 and
this deponent attended his funeral at Morristown
in the County of Morris.
Susan Thompson

Sworn and Subscribed before me
this 30th day of October A.D. 1838
Wm Babbit

State of New Jersey
Morris County ss
I David B. Hurd Clerk of Morris
County hereby certify that William Babbit before whom the
foregoing affidavit of Susan Thompson was taken is and was at
the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace of the
County of Morris duly commissioned and authorized and
that the signature of his name thereto is genuine.
Witness my hand and the seal of my
office at Morris Town in said County this
31st day of October A.D. 1838
D B Hurd
[seal]
MORRIS COUNTY [illegible]
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State of New York City
& County of New York
Personally appeared before me George Duman
Cooper Notary Public for the State of New York dwelling in
the City of New York.
William Shute Esq of the said City of New York
who being duly sworn according to Law doth depose
and say that he was an assistant Commissary of Issues
attached to the Jersey Brigade commanded by General Maxwell
during the revolutionary war; that he was well acquainted with
John McCarter late of the County of Morris
in the State of New Jersey- deceased. that the said
John McCarter served in the war of the Revolution in
the Capacity of an assistant Commissary of Hides - that
he knew the said John McCarter as such assistant
Commissary of hides, as early in the War of the Revolution
as the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine, and
that the said John McCarter continued in that capacity
attached to the army for the span of at least two years
and he thinks for a longer period. that he remember
the said John McCarter while with the army when
it was quartered at Morristown in the County of
Morris and State of New Jersey and that he acted as a
commissary of hides while stationed at that post.
that he does not now remember from whom the said
John McCarter received his appointment as Commissary
that he remember a Gentleman by the name of
James Gamble who was a commissary and that he thinks
he was attached to the Pennsylvania Line-
That he was also acquainted with a Mr John
Nicholas who was in the public service. but his
grade or rank he does not now recollect. that the
said John Nicholas  was also stationed as he thinks
 at Morristown about the year 1779 & 1780.
That this deponent does not remember that John
McCarter acted as a Commissary of issues under
Charles Stuart the Commissary General, but his
acquaintance with the said McCarter was while
he was acting as a commissary of Hides - and
not while he was acting as a company of [pen]
This
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This deponant further states, that he was personally acquainted with the said
John McCarter, many years after the close of the Revolutionary War.
William Shute

Sworn to this 18th day of
August 1836
Before me
Geo. D. Cooper
Not. Pub.

Major Wm Shute's Deposition
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State of New Jerry
County of Passaic 
Personally appeared before me
David H Reeves one of the Justices of the peace of
said County Simon Van Ness who being duly sworn
according to Law doth depose and say that he
was well acquainted with John McCarter late of the
County of Morris de that he know the said
John McCarter while a Commissary of Hides and
was attached as he thinks to General Wayne’s
command. that during the revolutionary war
while the army lay at Pompton in the the
County of Morris. that he [from or found?] the
said John McCarter with him and took
he exchange from him hides for said [shoes]
and that he thinks that it was about the
year 1777 -  being the year that this deponent’s
 marriage.  that he knew the said John
McCarter until his death - and that he
has no doubt that he served as a commissary
during the most of the war-
Simon Van Ness

Sworn and subscribed
before me this 16th day
of August 1838
David H Reeves

State of New Jersey
County of Passaic 
I George A Ryerson Clerk of the
Inferior Court of Common pleas of the said County of Passaic 
do hereby certify that David H Reeves before whom the foregoing
affidavit is taken is and was at the doing thereof duly enrolled   
as one of the Justices of the peace in and for the
County of Passaic  and that full faith and credit is due
to his official acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
name and affixed the seal of said Court
this sumberth day of August A.D. Eighteen
hundred and thirty eight
Geo. A. Ryerson Clerk
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State of New Jersey
County of Passaic 
Personally appeared before David H. Reeves
the subscriber
one of the Justices of the peace of the County of
Passaic, Genl William Colfax formerly Captain William
Colfax of the army of the Revolution who being duly sworn
according to Law doth depose and say that he was well
acquainted with John McCarter late of the County of
Morris. and that the said John McCarter acted as a
Commissary during the revolutionary war, and that he
thinks he acted as a Commissary of Hides.  That he [saw]
him as acting in that capacity as early
in the war of the revolution in the year 1779. and
That he thinks he was stationed at Morristown in
the County of Morris as such commissary the winter
of the year 1779-80 - and that he acted under
Mr. James Gamble who this deponent thinks
was a commissary of the Pennsylvania Line.
that they the said John McCarter also
acted as an assistant Commissary of issues and
Charles Stuart. and that the said John
McCarter served as a commissary from the year
1779 to the close of the war. that he remembers
that the said John McCarter was attached
as a commissary one winter with the army at
Pompton in the then County of [Bergen]
and that this deponent has no doubt but
that the said John McCarter served as
such Commissary for the year 1779 to the
close of the war-
Wm Colfax
Sworn and subscribed
before me this 16 day of
August AD 1878
David H. Reeves
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State of New Jersey
Passaic County ss: I George A. Ryerson Clerk of the County
of Passaic and of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas
Do hereby certify that David H. Reeves by and before
whom the within affidavit is taken and sworn
is one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said
County of Passaic, duly commissioned and sworn.
that I am well acquainted with the hand writing
of the said Justice, and verily believe that the signature
 to the Justice of the within affidavit is his
genuine signature and proper hand writing-
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the
said Court, at Paterson this seventeenth
day of August A.D. eighteen hundred
and thirty eight
Geo A. Ryerson Clerk
Page 20

State of New Jersey Morris County
Before the subscriber, a Justice of peace in & for said County
of Morris, personally appeared William Todd Esq of Bedminster
 township in Somerset County, a highly respectable
man, a magistrate in said County & well known to be a man of truth & unblemished
character, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, on his oath saith
as follows viz - I am in the 76th year of [age], was in the service of the United States
in the Revolutionary Army, & am a pensioner under the law of Congress.
I was in the wagon service or department, engaged in carting army stores from
one portion of the County to another, wherever the wants of the army & the orders
of the officers directed. I was well acquainted with John McCarter who was
connected with the Commissary Department, as Commissary of Hides as I understood & believe, some portion of the time.  & some portion of time, in some other
branch of that service. I enlisted in the wagon service in October 1779 under Captain
Hunt for six months, & in the spring of 1780 for twelve months, in the same branch of service
viz: in the wagon department, under Captain Thomas Douglas, & [served] out both engagements
in transporting army stores, provisions &c. as before stated, & during this period I often saw
the said John McCarter, at Morristown, at Pompton-- at Westpoint & other places, & he
seemed to the best of my knowledge & belief, to be employed in the line of duty as a Commissary
of the Army- frequently as Commissary of Hides, & part of the time as issues Commissary.
Seeing said McCarter [over] often during my services as a Teamster or Wagoner, it is my
impression & belief, that he was acting in that Department of the public service during the
whole period in which I was so engaged, viz. from October 1779 to May 1781.
John McCarter was a foreigner, & I believe an Irishman by birth-- was an educated
& an intelligent man. I knew him after the war was over, & until his death
He was many years Surrogate of Morris County, & afterward Clerk of said County
& Surrogate, to the time of his death, as I understood & believe. He lived several years
at Mendham, & some time at [a forge] which he [seemed], near the Somerset [line], & within a fewmiles of my own residence.

William Todd
Elijah Ward J.P.

State of New Jersey Morris County
I David B. Hurd Clerk of Morris County hereby certify that Elijah
Ward Esq before whom the above deposition of William Todd
  was taken is a Justice of the peace in and for said
  county, duly commissioned and authorized and that the signature
 of his name thereto Elijah Ward is genuine.  - Witness my hand and seal of
Office at Morristown November 10. 1838
D. B. Hurd Clerk
Page 21

New Jersey County of Sussex SS.

I Daniel S. Anderson Surrogate and Clerk of
the Orphans Court of said County of Sussex do hereby
certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited
that Agnes McCarter late of said County Widow of
John McCarter deceased, was a Pensioner of the United States
at the rate of five hundred and eleven dollars
($511) per annum. that she died at her residence in
Newton in said County of Sussex on the eighth day
of February Eighteen hundred and fifty one. that at
the time of her decease she left six children then
living and no more, four sons and two daughters
viz. Robert H. McCarter who resided at Newton Sussex
County New Jersey,  James J. McCarter at Charleston
in the State of South Carolina, John H McCarter in the
County of Morris in said State of New Jersey, Daniel [Stuart]
McCarter in the City of Philadelphia in the State of
Pennsylvania, Mary E. McCarter and Ellen C. Hallock
wife of Dr Harvey Hallock both at Newton in said
County of Sussex

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my name and affixed my seal
of office at Newton in said County
of Sussex this third day of May A.D.
One thousand eight hundred and fifty

Danl S Anderson
Page 22

John McCarter, Commissary
W. 3843

(11) eleven papers containing accounts
of John Mc Carter and
James Gamble
and
(30) thirty papers, receipts orders
accounts etc. and several
fragments of accounts
have been removed to
be forwarded to the War Dept.
AW.

Sent to War Dept
Jan. 16, 1913.
Page 23

Revy
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3843

Agnes McCarter
Wid.
John McCarter
Commissary Rev.
Act: Feby, [2nd '18]
Index: -- Vol. M Page 18
{Arrangement of 1870.}
Page 24

Hon John Van Dyke
July 26th '49
A. Ray Apl 15, 1857

Reported 
July 4/49
Page 25

2806
New Jersey
Agnes McCarter
widow of John McCarter
who served in the Revolutionary war,
 as an Asst Issuing
Commissary
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
511 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the
4 day of Jany 1849
and sent to
Lewis Condict
Morristown
NJ
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 2, 1848, Page 303 Vol 4
Page 26

N. Jersey
Agnes McCarter
let. to Hon. G. D. Wall 10 Jan '39
to Hon. L. Condict 1 July '39

Act July 7. 1838
Page 27

742
New Jersey
Agnes McCarter dec'd
widow of John
who was a Commissary
in the Revolution
Inc'd from 571.00

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 600 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued
the 28 day of July 1851
and sent to
Alex Ray Esq
Present

{Acts of March 3, 1843 & June
17, 1844.}
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 98
A.I. 124
Page 28

New Jersey 742
Agnes McCarter
widow of John McCarter
who was an Apt. Issuing Commissary
in the Revolution
Del. & Continental

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
511 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
5th day of July 1843
and sent to D. Lewis Condict
Morristown, New Jersey

{Act of March 3, 1843.}
Recorded in Book. A
Vol. 1 Page 124
Page 29

New Jersey
Agnes McCarter
widow of John McCarter
[crossed out - who was a pensioner the Act of]
and who died on the 12. December 1807
of Sussex Co. in the State of N. Jersey
who was an Asst. Issuing Comm'y & Comm'y of Hides 
 in the  [blank] commanded
by Captain   [blank] of the   [blank] commanded
by  [blank] in the N. Jersey
line for 6 months & 6 days  Asst. Issuing Commissary
Commissary of Hides 17 mos. & 26 days

Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
the rate of 511 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 21st day of January
 1842 and sent to Hon. Lewis
Condict, Morristown, N. Jersey

Arrears to the 4th of March 1841  $2,555.00

Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book A  Vol. 2. Page 129
Page 30

Dr. H Lindly Aug 2 1842
do to Hon J. W. Miller, Aug 8, 1842
Page 31

6574
New Jersey
Agnes Mc Carter decd
widow of John McCarter
who died on the 13th Decr 1807
of [blank] in the State of N. J. 
who was a Commissary in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank] of the [blank] 
by [blank] in the Revolution
for two years

Inscribed on the Roll of Trenton
at the rate of 600 Dollars
00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of July 1857  and sent to Alex Ray Esq
Present

Arrears to the 4th of  [blank] 
Semi-annual allowance ending  [blank] 

Inc'd from $511.00

Recorded H. R. Weightman
Book D.  Vol. 1.  Page 201.

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 7, 1838.}

A, 2,127
Page 32

On public service
Charles Stewart Esq
Commissary General Issues
Aud'r Gen'ls Office

From the Auditor's Office
J. Milligan A.E.
Page 33

3183
New Jersey
Mrs Agnes McCarter
Widow of
John McCarter
Declaration &c.
$511 per ann.
Return to Lewis Condict
Morris town, N. Jersey
Page 34

I hear certify that John McCarter [illegible] has drawn no forage for his Horse [at] this Port from the 2d day of Decr last. (the time of his coming to this Port) till this date
Pompton Jany 4th 1779
Fredrick Fine JM
Page 35


Receiv'd Morris Town Jan 18th 1781 of John McCarter on
behalf of Mr James Gamble Two Silver Dollars
Silas Howell

2 Silver Dollars
Page 36

Received, Morris Town Sepr 13th 1788 of Thomas Lindsay by the Hands of John McCarter two Silver
Dollars, being for the pasturing of A Colt of said Lindsays near four months as Justice Sutton's in Summer 1780 by me
15/
Rob't Blair
Page 37

Compton Sept 4th 1779
This [morn or more] & Nathaniel Norris to informs me that as he was
Carting a load of provisions consisting of Three Barrels Bread and
two Barrels Pork to the Army, his waggon broke down on the
Road within four miles of Squire Suffrens Tavern on which
he was obliged to unload his waggon and [haled] to a [Carpenter]
about one Mile and half from where he left his load in order
to mend it and on his returning to proceed wilth the load the
whole of it was entirely taken away by some evil persons for the
purpose as he supposes of embezzling it for their own use.
The above I declare to be fact.
 Nathanael Norris
The above the said Nathanael More was duly sworn to before
Gabriel Ogden Esq, Justice of the peace for Bergen County
Page 38

Chas. Stewart's Letter
31st March 1785
G.

From Col Stewart
31 March 1785


To be left at Messrs
J. Grier Mc Carter & Co.
at the Corner of 4th & Market Streets.

from Col. Stewart
Mr. John McCarter
[Midland?]
Philadelphia
Page 39

New York 31 March 1785

Dear Sir

I have enclosed the Certificate you requested & would long since have sent it. But that I daily expected to have set out for Phila' myself and to have then called with you on Mr Burrell. 
I have been so long detained
here that I shall take [Uion Term] in
my way. 
There can be no doubt that
you [aud.] will now be settled to
your satisfaction & that will be pleasing to
me, because I know your worth and
will not fail to do you justice with
great regard.
I am your Obed't &c
Cha Stewart
Page 40

Mr Marter
in
please Credit W Robert Nisbet for
what He ours you, Money was when the contracted the
Debt, or when you assumed it for him, I belive
Seventy five for one, when Mr Gamble had my
property it was forty for one, but your receipt
A
for what Mr Nesbitt owes you, shall be to me
deficient to Credit Mr Gamble for, the remains
der with the depreciation please pay Mr
Erskine whose receipt will be sufficient
Mr Gamble has treated me in a manner
and help callignt honest James
Wach's Town
25th May 1781
James Lette
Page 41

Receiv'd to the within in part
Six pounds thirteen Shills
and 42d for James Little
Robt Nesbitt
for W. McCarter

[ha/u]
Page 42

Mr Gambles most respective
Complements wait on M Kemper
requesting the fact of him to give the Bearer (his boy) the shirt 
or if possible two as he hath one at present save the old rag
he wears.
Morristown Sunday Morning
[mostly illegible-Auditor at home first?? Debtor pays shirt ?? the ??
20th 
McCarter in full. Dan’l ??]
Page 43

Agnes McCarter, N Jersey roll act July 7.
1838, at $511.00 per Annum
Be pleased to say what amount
has been paid in her case, and to whom.
Pension Officer } pd $2555.00 to
Aug 1, 1842} Lewis Condict Atty
JH
Page 44

This is the case which was admitted
by your own direction on the last 
day I saw you. 
F. F. C [Phillips or Triplett?]
Page 45

[illegible]
Agnes McCarter dc’d
 wid of John
N. J.

Act 7 July 1838

Pd 2 yrs Commissary
$600 per ann. 
 from 4 Mch 1836,
(except 2 yrs,) to 8
July 1837 when she
died.

Former payments at
$571 per ann. to be
Deducted.

Payable to Robert [Ruben?]
H McCarter, James J.
McCarter, John
McCarter, Daniel
S. McCarter, Mary
E. McCarter and
Ellen C. Hallock
her only remaining
Children.

Certificate sent to
A. Ray
Present
[over]
Page 46

Washington Decr 7 1848

Sir

Doct. Lewis Condict of New Jersey, has enclosed
me your letter to his address of Jan 1. 1842 in the case of
Mrs Agnes McCarter Widow of John, a pensioner under act
1838 at the rate of $54 pr annum, claiming $600.
You state " I find that he served 6 months and 6 days as
an Assistant Issuing Commissary, but I also find that he served
" 18 months as a commissary of Hides”. “For service as a
Commissary or Hides she will be allowed at the rate of $20
month, and for service as Issuing Commissary she will
allowed at the rate of $25 per month.”
Do’r. Condict inform me the claim was
admitted by Secretary Spencer, that is the appointment
was recognized, the service and rate of pension settled by
yourself.
It has been a settled question since 1841, that since
Commissaries were entitled and allowed at $25 pr mo. or $600
per annum for the years service, because on the 2 July 1777
it was resolved by Congress "that that be paid to the assistant
" Commissaries of Issues each $60 a month.”
In your report to the Hon Secretary of War Jun 6. 1842,
you stated "the rate of pay fixed by Congress in 1776 and in
the spring of 1777 was the rate which was allowed on the final
  settlement at the end of the war, and to grant pensions according to
that rate was in my opinion the only safe and proper course "
and further " on the 14th of May 1777 Congress fixed the pay of a
Page 47

Forage Master at $40 pr month, and for that reason Emanuel
 Coryell’s widow was allowed a pension of $40 per month.”
I have thus shown under your own decision
the resolution 14 May 1777 you set as the reason for allowing
a Forage Master $40 pr mo. and the resolution of the 2d July
1777 for allowing assistant issuing Commissaries $50 pr ann.
Now, if your, and the Secretary of war's decision be
well founded, & I myself entertain no doubt of the fact
Then allow me to ask, and in doing so, to refer you to
the resolve of Congress on the 20 June 1777. Journal Vol 2
Page 175, “That the pay of a commissary of hides be $80 a
month,” of the month of May 1777, and July following,
be the "Safe guide" for settling the rate of Pensions, does
not the same rule or justice apply to the interning month
of June 77.
As these facts have been brought to your notice,
I flatter myself that you will readily allow the widow
of John McCarter at the rate of $600 pr ann. for the services
as a Commissary of Hides being the same rate of pension
granted in the case of the widow of Robert Land of
Massachusetts allow'd for me in 1843.
I submit the question with deference,
and remain Your Obd’t serv.
Alex Ray

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com’ of Pensions
Page 48

Washington July 29th
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir
I have been particularly requested
by the parties interested to ascertain at yr office
the amount of pension money which has been
paid to the agent of "Agnes McCarter widow”
of Jno McCarter about 4 months since or thereabouts. 
 Also the amount of the pension of Wm Parrott & since
his death of his widow Catherine Parrott all of Morris Co.
New Jersey.  Will you do me the favor to inform me
Of the respective amounts paid to the agent of these
individuals that I may forward the statement to
their friends in N Jersey.

Very Respectfully
Yr Ob. Svt.
Harvey Lindsly
Page 49

Senate Chamber
Augt 1, 1842

[Jay]
Rec’d yet another/
You will oblige me by [your]
answer to the enclosed.

Yours Very Respectfully
J. W. Miller

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Page 50

Morristown N.J. Augt 29th 48

Dear Sir

Enclosed herewith you will receive the declaration of
Mrs. Agnes M. Carter widow of John McCarter a Commissary of
of Hides, in the Rev. Army.
The widow was pensioned under the law of 1838, by
a decision of the Secretary of War on Appeal (Secy Spencer probably).
The husband died before the passage of the act of 1832 & was never
Pensioned. The widow resides in Sussex Co. in this State.
Would it be practicable to decide on this & the other surviving 
Widows, known to be yet living, who were married after the close of the war, 
the limitation of whose pension expired or 4th March last, so that they
may draw the extra payment shortly? Most of them known to me, are
extremely poor, & a speedy decision will greatly oblige them.
Very respectfully yrs,
Lewis Condict

J. L. Edwards
Page 51

House of Representatives
Dec 27, 1848

J L Edwards Esq

Allow me in [asking] &
at the request of my constituent
Lewis Condict of Morristown to
request the favor of you to examine
& report to his agent Mr Ray upon the
subject of the enclosed letter, in the
case of Mrs Agnes McCarter-
Your early attention
will oblige
Your obedt Servt
John Van Dyke
Page 52

Morristown N.J. Decr 13th 1848

Dear Sir
I enclose herewith a letter from the Comm’r admitting
the grade, service & rate of pension allowed Agnes McCarter, whose husband
was both Commissary of Issues & of Hides.
It had been so long, & to stoutly resisted & rejected, that we were
 glad to take what was then offered.
I know not by what authority, a distinction is made between
a Com. of Issues & of Hides, in respect to pay pr. month. I can find no
such difference in the rate of pay as established by the old Congress.
That is one point. The other is, that Commissaries have in
many cases been pensioned at $600 pr an
The increase, if I mistake not, was granted at about the same time
& perhaps under the same authority which authorized an Increase to
Surgeon & their widows.
This widow’s case is now before the Comm’r under the act
of Febry 2d 1848 the pens’n having expired 4th March 48.
The other case (Arrowsmith's) I will forward to you
in a day or two.

Yours truly
Lewis Condict

Alexr Ray Esq
Page 53

Washington
Dec. 11. 1850

James E. Heath Esq
Com’r of Pensions

Sir

I have received a letter from the Hon.
Lewis Condict of New Jersey, in the case of Mrs Agnes
McCarter, widow of John McCarter,
a pensioner under act 7 July 1838 at the rate of $511 per annum.
Dr. Condict encloses me the late commissioner’s letter to him
in the case of Jan 21. 1842 in which he states, "I find that
he served but 6 mo. and 6 days as an Assistant Issues
Commissary, and I also find that he served 18 months as
a commissary of Hide. A pension for two years will
 therefore be allowed, for service as Commissary of Hides
she will be allowed at the rate of $20 pr mo: for 17 mo & 24 days
and for service as Issues commissary she will be allowed
at the rate of $25 per month.”
I am instructed to make an appeal from the
Commissioners allowance, and claims for service a
commissary of hides 25$ pr. mo.:
But seeing the claim in the light - I do under [stand]
The decisions of the late Secretary of the Interior, and under the
practice of your office too, I shall so far depart
from my instruction as to submit the claim to
you sir; believing, as it has been decided that a commissary
of Hide is entitled for their service at the rate of $600 pr. annum
that this claim will also be admitted.
Page 54

By reference to the Journals of Congress. Vol 2 Page
174 June 20 /77 it will be seen that the office of a
Commissary of Hide was created; and on the following
page the pay was fixed at “$80 a month.”
The month’s pay was subsequently increased at a higher rate. Under
  That decision of Secretary Ewing the resolution fixing the
pay at $80 a month is itself sufficient to grant an
allowance at the rate of $600 pr ann.
and the claim of Mrs. McCartee is made at that rate.

In Submitting the question
I remain very respectfully your &c
Alex. Ray
Page 55

W. 3183 - 7 July
G. D. W.
Page 56

Look again into the case of Mrs
McCarter, of N. Jersey (Christian
name & act not known) and report to
Hon. G. D. Wall, Senate U.S.
[illegible Memo] Mehelm is the name of
the Captain under whom her
husband served - not Helm as
erroneously written in the Declaration
Feb. 17. 1841
Page 57

May 10, 1857
-
Agnes McCarter
Add'l Evi.  in case
of Agnes McCarter

Alexr Ray
Present

Alex Ray
May 8th 51
Page 58


Pension Office
April 15, 1841
Sir
The increase for which you ask
in the case of Agnes McCarter will be
allowed when you shall satisfy the
Office whether she is now living, or if
dead, who are her heirs.
I am respectfully
Your Ob't Srv't
H. S. Evans
For Com.  Pensions

A. Ray Esq
Present
Page 59

Trenton, N.J. Novr 14th 1838-

Dear Sir,
Enclosed herewith is the Declaration of Mrs Agnes M. Carter
now a resident of Newton Sussex Co. in this State, with a large bundle of
old papers & vouchers, all tending as I suppose, to show the nature & true
character of his various services, & of the rank & grade of John McCarter
her husband, in the war of the revolution. Some of the papers may
not be very important, but I advised the family to send all which
had been preserved. If his books & vouchers, which were no doubt
left in the hands of the proper accounting officer, have been preserved,
the case will be very plain to you. His narration to Gen’l Bloomfield
is no document "by authority”; but being drawn up by himself when he
could have no inducement for coloring, may serve to explain some of
the accompaniments. A Receipt Signed "Saml Hunt”, which
was among the vouchers of Mrs Charity Wortman's claim, sent to your
Office within 2 or 3 days past, belongs to Mrs McCarters case, & was
intended to corroborate the single deposition which accompanies the
Declaration of Mr Wortman. I think there may be found in
the remaining Records of the Department sufficient proof of McCarter’s
continuous service throughout the war, & that his widow will be
entitled to a full pension, as the widow of a Deputy Commissary.
Please notify me of the result of your examination.
Very respectfully, 
yr obt servt &c
Lewis Condict
Page 60

Monday evening, 17th Jany 42

Col. Edwards
Since leaving your office this afternoon, I have concluded
to take the morning car for home. Instead of putting into my hand the
Pension Certificate of Mrs Agnes McCarter, please mail it to my address, at
Morristown N. Jersey.-
The Secry having admitted the service of McCarter
as Comm of Hides - there is ample proof of his service in the two characters of
more than two years, giving his widow full pension.
Yours in haste, & with esteem
Lewis Condict

Washington

Jan 20. 1842
Conv.
Mrs McCarter
Dr. L. Condict


Jas L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Page 61

Jan 13. 1842
Conv.
Agnes McCarter
Act 1838
Hon. L. Condict
Page 62

Under the act of Congress of 1838. Agnes McCarter of N.J. widow of John McCarter,
Claims a pension for the Rev. services of her husband, in a different grades

Viz 1st as a private in Col. Craighead's Regiment of Delaware State. 
Of this service, the Declaration & oath of the widow is the only evidence.

2nd as a Commissary of Hides -  of this appointment there is no positive
proof. But there are various letters, papers, acct &c. on file, relating to his
duties as Commissary in charge of Hides Tallow &c for the army.

3d as Dep Commissary of Issues - This appointment it is believed was
made to McCarter by Colonel Charles Stewart, Commissary General, & it is
also believed, that evidence of it, (not his commission) is on file in the Pension Office.
There are also various Returns (monthly or quarterly) of public stores in his custody as
Dep Commissary made out by sd McCarter. His accts were finally settled by the
proper officers as Dep. Commissary & the balance due him for service as Commissary, stated
in books now in possession of the Register, which recognised McCarter officially, with sundry other officers of similar grade.  And in an official Return of Army Officers - or of officers
of the Commissary Department made about the close of the war, the name of John McCarter is included, as a Dep Commissary, as is believed.

A large lay mass of paper letters, accts, &c remaining in the hands of the widow, were
placed in the hands of the Commissioner, to gather from them such information as they
might give in relation to her husband’s services. Some of these, shew that he was engaged
in other business, of trade, in partnership with others, who had been connected with the Army.
The case has been rejected by the Commissioner on the grounds, that
McCarter could not legally have been a Dep Commissary, because he was a
partner in trade, carrying on a private business.
Page 63

It is objected to this decision, that the public records, which recognize McCarter
as Dep Commissary to the close of the war, must be admitted as proof, both of
rank & service. And the opinion of the Secretary, on this point, is most
urgently requested.
The preceding statement is made from memory only & it is
probable that in some reports it may be erroneous. The papers on file,
& the records in the Treasury, will correct any defects or mistakes.

In behalf of Agnes McCarter
Lewis Condict

Hon. J. B. Spence
Secretary of War
Page 64

Agned McCarter
New Jerssey
Admitted
1838

Jno Hassler
Feb 1853
Page 65


Newton Feb. 153, 1853
F. E. Hassler Esq
Dear Sir
Will you please examine
the papers on file in the Pension Bureau
relative to the allowance of a Pension to Mrs 
Agnes McCarter Widow of John McCarter, deceased, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the Heirs of said John Carter deceased are not entitled to Bounty land under some Law of Congress.
Your attention will oblige
Your obedient Servant
Thomas N. McCarter
Page 66

Morris town, N.J. June 22d 183

Dear Sir
Some time lately, I obtained the enclosed newspaper
printed in 1807, 32 years since, which I found contained an obituary
notice of an old friend, John McCarter Esqr whose widow is an applicant
 for a Pension on acc’t of his revolutionary services. I am induced
 to ask you to pursue it, as it corroborates the Narrative of his
widow, & I know you will be willing to know something of the Estimate of
McCarter’s character as a man of Revolutionary times.
I also avail myself of the occasion to solicit your attention to Mrs. McCarter’s
claim, which to her, is one of much interest, & her friends are enquiring
very often, what is the result.- I do not propose to consider this
biographical notice as a part of the evidence, to be filed with the papers.
I wish you to give it such consideration & weight as you may deem to
be proper, & after perusal, to return it to me. I find it contains
a reply from President Jefferson to an Address from the Legislature
of our State, of which Address I was the author, being then a young
Member of it.

Very respectfully
Yours &c.
Lewis Condict

Col. Edwards
Page 67

H
Return of Commissaries
annexed to the Army now in 
the field. July 23, 1780.
Page 68

Extract of a "Return of the Commissaries
annexed to the army now in the Fields
23d July 1780."

"John McCarter. Assistant at the Magazine,
Morris Town"

The above is a true Extract from
the original in the Department
of State
Jno. W. Dickins
Keeper of the Archives
May 31st 1841.


Letters & Papers to the
Committee of 1780 Vol. 2 No 39.
Page 69

West Point July 24th 1779
Sir
I have your forms [favours?] of the 10th and 19th,
the two last upon the subject of Hazards complaint
of the Stove plates, which contains a very satisfactory
 account. If you are not already supply’d with forage 
agreeable to your demands, inform the assistant QuarterMaster
there that it is my direction that he furnish you.

The form of returns which were
sent you by Major Claiborne, you will
have compleated as soon as possible and
send them on to this office.

You will please to discharge
Polly's account, and inform me what
the sum is, and the money shall be
transmitted you.

I am Sir
humble servant
N. Greene
Q.M.G.

Col. Abel
The above is a true copy from the original in
the Dept. of State.
Jno. W. Dickins
Keeper of the Archives
May 31st 1841.
Original Letters No 1734 No.173-Vol4.
Page 70

New Jersey
Agnes McCarter, Widow of
John McCarter, Law of 1838
---
Additional Testimony from
State Department.


Return to Lewis Condict
Morris town, N Jersey
June 1,1841
Page 71

Observations on the Commissaries
Department

Gentlemen,

The foregoing remarks are
submitted to your consideration - 
Should any explanation be necessary
I shall wait on you when directed
I am
Gentlemen
Your most Obedient servant
Charles Stewart
C.G’l. of Issues

Philadel’a March 30, 1779
The Honorable
The Board of War
& Committee of Congress
(Copy)
The above is a true extract from the
Copy on file in this Department.
Jno. W. Dickins
Keeper of the Archives
Dept. of State,
May 31st 1841.
Letters & papers of the
Committee of 1780. Vol. 2d No 39.
Page 72


Pen: Office Jany 15th 1842.
Col. Edwards Com. of Pensions,

In the case of Agnes McCarter, widow
of John McCarter, claiming a pension under the law of 1838, I respectfully
ask your attention to the letter of Col. Charles Stewart herein included, of
May 24th 1782, which is evidently a letter of appointment & instructions
for the discharge of his duties, as "Assistant Commissary of Issues" (E)
Also, to another letter of 24th July, 82, signed John Erskin, for Charles
Stewart Commy Genl of Issues addressed to "John McCarter, A.C. S.
[Park] Artillery.”
Also to a 3d letter from Charles Stewart dated 31 March 1785, expressing
his sense of McCarter’s "worth" & desire to have his accounts adjusted by
the proper officers &c. also Mr Dickins certificate, enclosed.

These 3 letters establish his rank & grade as” Commissary of Issues.”
The claim is further urged, for his prior services as Commissary of
Hides, under appointment by Colonel John Mehelm.

I refer to the letter of May 24th 82, of Col. Charles Stewart, above
alluded to, in which he speaks of the "experience” &c of McCarter. See
the first page, 7 last lines of said letter, speaking of Hides & Tallow &c.
See also McCarter’s Returns (monthly) as Issuing Commissary, as well as his
Genl Acct & Return of Hides, Tallow &c: duties which would not have
been performed unless he held the office.
See also John Nichols Certificate (D) & his letter Feb 15th 81 & John
[Maylor’s] Rect of McCarter. "G. H." date 10th Ap. 1780. That Lowry's note
to Col. Mehelm, Jany 18th 1780 all corroborative of his office as Com. Hides.
The lost certificate from Register’s office, having the same due to
McCarter as Commissary, I will endeavor to supply
Most respectfully &c
Lewis Condict
Page 73

July 12 1841
copy when have [Cert]
Agnes McCarter
N J 

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Page 74

Morris town N. Jersey. July 8th 41

Dear Sir

The last hour I spent with you at your office, was
in examining the claim of Mrs Agnes McCarter widow of John McCarter
under the law of 1838. The Documents which I then presented from
the Department of State, had just been completed by Mr Dickins &
I had no time to take any memorandum or to copy them. 
Directly after my return home, I asked the favor of you to
have them copied & to send the copy to me, as the family 
are desirous to see them.
I presume the letter has been forgotten, or that in the
duties of the office, the Clerks have not found time.
If the request be not an improper one, please to send
me a copy. I refer only to those obtained from Mr Dickins [work]
& I believe are certified only by him.

Very respectfully
Your obt Servt
Lewis Condict

Col. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
Page 75

E
Chas. Stewart Com. Gen'l.
to J. McCarter
May 24th, 1782
Page 76

Morris Town May 1782
You will proceed to Burlington and deliver the
letter committed to your care to Mr Jones who has acted
as Commissary to the park of Artillery stationed there
and who will cease to act in that station on the first
day of June when you are to commence and to receive
of him the Stores on hand at the close of this month,
of which make a special return and send me the copy.
Keep another yourself and Mr Jones retain another.
But he as well as you are to sign each copy in
order that no dispute may arise as to the stores on
hand when you commence.
Whilst the park and troops annexed continue at
Burlington, you are to apply to [Maj’r or Mr]  [Tenet] Francis
at Richard Sands in Phild’a. for the necessary
supply of Bap, Flour, Whisky, Salt &c. and it will
the proper for you to know of Mr. Jones before the last
of this month what supply he has that no waste may
arise which can be avoided. You will [receive] from
Mr. Jones the order of the Minister at War regarding
the [mode] of Issues and by it you are to be governed.
Hides & Tallow are received from the Contractors to
supply meat, they are articles of great worth and
are to be carefully attended to by having the Tallon
rendered in lime and the hides well saved. You
are so particularly acquainted with this business
that I am sure the interest and property of the
Contractors is perfectly safe under your care.
Page 77

Monthly Returns of All Stores Received and [Spend] will be
requisite and must accompany your vouchers, and artillery
voucher will be examined minutely by the Auditor of
accounts. I must beg for your own reputation as well as
the characters and interest of the Contractor, that no
Errors or Omissions happen that can properly be avoided.
Be particular as to the sales of empty casks and consult
Mr Francis whether the Hides that fall at Burlington
are to be disposed of there or send north the Tallow to 
Philadelphia.  You can [leave] the price at Burlington
and by comparing that with the price at Philadelphia
and you can judge what will be most [eligible.]
When the Troops march you will want them 
to carry flour, whisky, [loaf] & candles. If the Route
should be by Trenton, apply to Mr Lowery to furnish
them and keep very particular account of
the time you have then in employ money & pay
then will be put into your hands by morning.
and you will Employ as few Teams as possible.
The troops will carry three days provisions with them.

If you get [enough] allowance of salt pork for the
march it will be found an advantage in the end
and save the loss of fresh meat in hot weather.

Your experience in the Commissary Department makes it
Needless to say more in regard to your duty. But as the
delay of one return may [entail] the whole settlement, 
and be very prejudicial to the Contractors,  I must urge
that you have yours ready as near the close of every
month as possible and am your friend & most humble servant.

Ch. W Stewart
Mr. John McCarter
Page 78

State of New York 
City & County of New York ss Personally appeared
before me the Subscriber one of the Notarius Publics
Philip Milspaugh a notary Public in and for the said
City and County of New York dwelling in the City of New York.
Mrs Margaret M. L. Powers of Cooperstown Otsego County
and State aforesaid, who being duly sworn according
Law doth depose and say that she is the granddaughter
 of Charles Stuart the Commissary General of
to the Army of the United States during the war
of the revolution, that she is well acquainted with
the hand writing of the said Charles Stuart
having often seen him work, and having also read
  many letters of his writing. that being shown a
paper purporting to be “Instructions & appointment to
Mr John McCarter, assistant Commissary of issues to
the park of Artillery stationed at Burlington, and
bearing date at Morristown the 24th day of May AD
1782 and signed by the said Charles Stuart and
marked with the Letter A with my own signature
underneath the said Letter and is attached to this
affidavit says that the said paper and the signature
thereto is in the paper hand writing of the said
Charles Stuart her said Grand father and the said
Commissary General in the army of the revolution.
That this deponent lived for a time in the family
of the said Charles Stead during his life time and
that she is now fifty nine years of age
Margaretta M L Bowers

Sworn & Subscribed before
me this eighteenth day of
August A. D. 1838
Philip Milspaugh
Notary Public
Page 79

United States of America
City & County of New York

I hereby certify that on the
eighteenth day of August in
the year one thousand eight
hundred and thirty eight the within named Margaret
M.S. Bower personally appeared before me and took and subscribed the
within affidavit in my presence. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day and
year above mentioned
Philip Milspaugh
Notary Public
in & for the City & County of
New York
Page 80

Instructions of
Appointment
to Mr Jno McCarter
Asst. Comm’y Issues
to the park of
Artillery

A

Margarette M L Bowers
Page 81

I do hereby Certify that I employed Mr John McCarter as an
Assistant Commissary of hides with the army at Morristown, 
which as near as I can recollect must have been in the winter
of 1779 & 1780 and that as to the time of his continuance in
the Department his books and returns will shew I [doubtless]
agreed to give him the the Usual wages and emoluments
allowed by the Sessions of Congress to assistant Commissary
 Of Hides.
John Mehelm
Late [C.H.] for New Jersey

I recollet Mr McCarter’s going
to Philadelphia with
This from me to the board of War
which he says was at my particular
request, which may very probably be
the case.
Nicholas Arrowsmith
QM

B
Page 82

State of New Jersey
County of Morris
Personally appeared before me, James Woods, 
one of the Justices of the peace
in and for the County of Morris Nicholas Arrowsmith of
the County of Somerset who being duly sworn
according to Law doth depose and say that he was
personally acquainted with John McCarter during
and after the revolutionary war. that the said
John McCarter was a Commissary of hides attached
to the same line. that he is well acquainted with
the hand writing of the said John McCarter
That he hereafter saw him [write], that the
Paper purporting to be a certificate signed by
said John McCarter and attached to this affidavit
and within [declaration] marked with the letter B
and my own name  written under the said letter B
is the proper hand writing of the said John McCarter.
And this deponent further saith that he was
well acquainted with the said John McCarter
named in the said Certificate during the
Revolutionary war and afterward until the death
of the said John McCarter.  And he knew the
said John McCarter while a clerk for one
James Gamble who was a commissary of Issues, as
He thinks attached to the Pennsylvania line.  that
he also knew the said John McCarter while he
attached to the Jersey line. that he served
in the capacity of Commissary of Hides under
Mr. John Mehelm. that he remember the said
John McCarter while the army was stationed
at Morristown in the winter of the year 1777 & 
the year 1780. that he acted as a Commissary of
Issues during the period. - And that [he] always
Understood that the said John McCarter had
some duty to perform and was attached to the
army of the revolution for nearly all the time of
the war.
Nicholas Arrowsmith
Sworn & subscribed before me
this 20th day of August AD 1855 
James Woods, JP
Page 83

Morris Town 9th May 1780.

Gentlemen

The distresses of the army are
such as require the attention of all concerned
for their support: We have delivered our
sentiments to his Excellency, of this date.
Enclosed is a copy for your perusal 
Your present local situation with the
army prompts us to trouble you.

We are with proper respect, your most Obedient Servants
Charles Stuart C. G. Issues
Ephraim Blain C.G. Purchases

The Honorable War Committee

The above is a true copy from the
Original in the Dept of State
Jno. W. Dickins
Keeper of the Archives
May 31st 1831

Circular Letters
Army Returns
Committee of 1780
Vol. 3d No 39
Page 84

Return of provisions & stores remaining in the hands of the issuing Co
Commissarys, March 1st 1778. Specifying the days for which the troops
are served.

Brigades [dea]  - Genl Chambers's
Asst Commissary's Named - James Gamble
 Pounds  Flour - 660
 Pounds Bread - 1480
Pounds Beef - 785
 Pounds Pork - 210
 Pounds  Fish - [blank]
 Pounds  Soap - 200
 Pounds Candles - [blank]
Hhds Molasses - [blank]
Barrels Salt - 1
Barrels Indian Meal - [blank]
Gallons Liquor - 3
Head of Cattle - 14
No. of Tongues - [blank]
[illegible] Rice - [blank] 


Served with Bread for 1778 - March 1 
Served with Meat for 1778 - March 1 

Errors Excepted Commissary’s
Office near Head Quarters March 2d 1778
Thomas Jones
D.C.G. of Issues

The above is a true extract from the original in the Dept. of State.
Jno.W. Dickins-
Keeper of the Archives
May 31st 1841.
Letters & Papers relating to the
Quarter Masters Department 1777-1781. No 192.
Page 85

Return of Persons employed in the Quarter Master General's Department with the
Army commanded by His Excellency General Washington, under the direction
of the Q.M. General, 18 Sept. 1779

Deputies Q.M. General  
Names & Number - [blank] 
Where stationed  - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Wages - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Subst’n - [blank]

Assistants D.Q.M. General  
Names & Number - [blank] 
Where stationed  - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Wages - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Subst’n - [blank]

Auditor of Accounts
Name - [blank] 
Where stationed  - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Wages - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Subst’n - [blank]

Paymaster
Name - [blank] 
Where stationed  - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Wages - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Subst’n - [blank]

Clerks
Names & Number - [blank] 
Where stationed  - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Wages - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Subst’n - [blank]

Captain of Express, and Riders
Names & Number - Jno Erskine Capt with the army @ 12 Doll’r  pr. day
Where stationed  - [blank]
Doll’s pr. Mo. Wages - 360
Doll’s pr. Mo. Subst’n - [blank]

The above is a true extract from the Copy
on file in the Dept. of State
Jno. W. Dickins
Keeper of the Archives
May 31st 1841.
Returns [dr.] on various subjects. Vol. 3
Page 86

"List of Returns of Quarter Master's Stores,
to his Excellency Genl Washington, 10th Octr 1779. 
Cornelius Sheriff's with Genl Sullivan, dated 30th June 1779

James Abel's   Morris Town  12th July

The above is a true extract from
original in the Dept. of State
Jno. W. Dickins
Keeper of the Archives
May 31st [illegible]

Returns on various-
subjects. Vol. 3.
Page 87

New Jersey Sussex County
Pension Declaration
of
Agnes McCarter
widow of
John McCarter
Law of 1838 & of Feby 2. 1848.

Return to Lewis Condict
Morristown, N. Jersey
Page 88

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of the
act of Congress of 2nd February 1848, entitled, "an act making further
provision for surviving widows of soldiers of the Revolution.”

State of New Jersey, Sussex County

On this twenty fifth day of August 1848, personally appeared before the
subscriber, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court Common pleas of the County
aforesaid and a Justice of the peace of the same-- Mrs Agnes McCarter, a resident
of Newton in the County of Sussex & State of New Jersey aged seventy eight
years, 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 act of Congress, passed on the 2nd February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of
persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
I am the widow of John McCarter, who was a Commissary of
Issues, & also a Commissary of Hides in the Continental Army of the Revolution.
And I am the same Agnes McCarter, to whom a pension was granted, under the
ad of Congress of July1838 at the rate of $511. pr annum for 5 years.
which has been continued under subsequent laws, & has been paid to me, up to
4th March, 1848 - For the particular details of my husband’s service, I refer
the Commissioner of pensions to my original Declaration, & accompanying vouchers,
on the files of the Pension office, as well as to various other old papers & memorandums
 relating to my husband’s revolutionary services, communicated to the Pension
Bureau at sundry times in my behalf by Doct’r Lewis Condict my agent &
Attorney.-
I further declare that I remain to this day, the widow of said
John McCarter, & am in the 79th year of my age, as I verily believe.
Agnes McCarter

Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written.
Before me
Saml F. Rorbach Judge &c

I do hereby further certify, that the above Declarant, Mrs Agnes McCarter, is
personally known to me Sam’l F. Rorbach Judge &c
Page 89

State of New Jersey
County of Sussex,
I William G Smith Clerk of Sussex County, do hereby certify, that
Samuel Rorbach
Esq before whom the within Declaration
& Deposition of Mrs Agnes McCarter was taken & subscribed on the twenty
fifth day of August AD. 1848, is one of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas and Justice of the Peace
in & for the County & State aforesaid, duly commissioned &
authorized. & that the signature of his name thereto, viz "Sam'l Rorbach
Judge &c" is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name,
& affix my official seal at Newton in said County, this
twenty fifth day of August AD. 1848.
Wm G Smith Clerk
Page 90

State of New Jersey County of Sussex
I William G Smith Clerk of Sussex County do hereby certify, that Samuel Rorbach
Esq before whom the within Declaration
& Deposition of Mrs Agnes McCarter was taken & subscribed on the twenty fifth
day of August AD 1848, is one of the Judges of the Inferior
Court of Common Pleas and Justice of the Peace
in & for the County & State aforesaid, duly commissioned &
authorised. & that the signature of his name thereto, viz. Sam'l Rorbach
Judge &c" is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name
& affix my official seal at Newton [or Trenton] in said County, this twenty fifth day of August A.D. 1848.
Wm G Smith Clerk
Page 91

Under the act of Congress, 1838. Agnes McCarter of N. Jersey, widow of John
McCarter, claims a pension, for the Revolutionary service of her husband, in 3 different
Grades of service. viz

1st As a private of Infantry, in a Delaware Regiment commanded by Col. Craighead &
taking part in the battles of Trenton, Brandywine, Monmouth, German Town [Bank], & other places
of this service, there is no evidence, except the declaration & oath of the widow.

2nd As Commissary of Hides. 
This appointment was made by John Mehelm, whose
authority has not been ascertained. Major William Shute, of one of the
New Jersey Regiments & General William Colfax, a Captain of Genl Washington
Guards, both testify that they knew Mr Carter as a Commissary of Hides &
engaged in the performance of duty as such. There are also letters from sundry
officers to Mr Carter, giving instructions & directions as to the performance of his
duties as Commissary, together with sundry original & official Returns, rendered by
him to his superior officers, shewing from time to time, the amount of public property
in his custody, as Commissary.

3rd As Deputy Commissary for issuing Rations &c. to the Artillery at Burlington.
This appointment was made by Colonel Charles Stewart, Commissary Genl
whose authority is admitted. There are two or more letters of instructions &
orders from him to McCarter, relating to his official duties, & one of a late
date, expressing his entire satisfaction with the manner in which his duties had been
performed, & promising aid in the final allowance of his pay & accounts.

In the Department of State, there is an original Return of the Commissions
annexed to the Army “now in the field”, dated July 23d 1780, in which the name of
John McCarter, is mentioned, as assistant Commissary, at the Magazine, Morristown.
McCarter’s accts were  finally settled by the proper officers, & in the books now in
the Register’s office, is found his name, with many others of similar rank, shewing
the balance of pay due to him at a certain time. Office copies of both papers 
last mentioned, are, or have been filed in the pension office, & reference to the
originals is respectfully solicited.
Various accts & papers, filed by the Claimant, shew that McCarter was concurred
  in other business, as a partner in trade with other persons.
Page 92


The case has finally been rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions, who alleges
that McCarter must have been a Contractor & could not legally
have been a Deputy Commissary.
From this decision, an appeal to the Hon Secretary of War is respectfully
requested, on the ground that the letters of appointment & instruction in duty,
from the Commissary General, the official Army Return & Records in the
Register’s office, should be admitted as conclusive proof both of service & rank.
If it shall be decided that McCarter was a Commissary & accredited by the
proper officers as such, it is but reasonable to presume, that his official monthly
or quarterly Return & the letters from his superior & associate officers, shall be used
as testimonials of service performed, as far as they relate to such service.
In behalf of Agnes McCarter
Lewis Condict
Pension Office, 14th January, 1842.

I think McCarter ought to be considered as having been

 in service during War of 1779 and 1780 
[for one years] as a Commissary of Hides.
J. C. Stevenson
Jany 16, 1842
Page 93

813
New Jersey, Morris County
Declaration of
Agnes McCarter
---
Law of March 3d 1843
Return to Lewis Condict
Morris Town, New Jersey
Admit Ass. Issuing Comy
$571
send as above
Page 94

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefits of
of the act of Congress of the 3rd March, 1843, granting pensions
for one year, to certain widows who have received pensions under the
act of July 7th 1838

State of New Jersey, Sussex County

On this day of May Domini 1843, personally
appeared before the subscriber a Judge of the Superior Court of Common Pleas &
Justice of the Peace in & for Sussex County New Jersey, Agnes McCarter
Resident of Newton in the County of Sussex aforesaid, aged seventy three years.
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
Act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons
Who served during the Revolutionary war.
I am the widow of John McCarter, who was, as I verily believe
on the commencement of the Revolutionary war, a private in a Regiment raised
In what now is called the State of Delaware, commanded by Colonel Crayhead,
& [Buck or Jack]  was engaged in said Regiment in public service, at the battles of Trenton, 
Princeton & other places. of this particular service of my said husband. I have
Not been able to obtain any documentary proof, nor testimony of livery witness, so
As to satisfy the commissioner of Pensions.
My husband the said John McCarter, as I believe, was duly appointed &
Performed duty in the war of the Revolution, as Commissary of Hides.
The precise time of his appointment to this office & duration of his service therein, I
cannot state. I respectfully refer the Commissioner of Pensions to a large number of
Documents, which accompanied my former Declaration & now on file at the
Pension Office, & especially to the following ones-- viz:

1st Certificate of John Mehelm, endorsed & to which is annexed Nicholas Arrowsmith’s Deposition.  Thomas Lowry's receipt dated Jany 18th 1780. No 13

2nd Deposition of William Colfax, William Shute - William od & Van Eys.
all annexed to my former Declaration marked A.

3rd John [Maylor's] rect for 795 pairs of Shoes & 30 pairs of Boots. No 13
4th John Mehelm’s Letter dated 15th Febry 1781.

5th Thos Lowry's letter to John Michel, Dep Comm: Hides Jany 18th 1780

6th 2 Returns (official) made by said John McCarter of Hides, Tallow &c
marked B & C. the date not now recollected.

My husband, the said John McCarter was, as I believe regularly appointed
by Colonel Charles Stuart to a Regiment or Battallion of Artillery stationed
at Burlington N. Jersey, as a Commissary of Issues, in May 1782, as is believed
Page 95

In proof of this appointment & service, I refer to Documents accompanying
my former Declaration-viz.

1st Two Letter from Col. Charles Stuart Marked E. & G. - the first dated
May 24th 1782. appointing him to that office, & specifying minutely his duties
& his responsibilities. The second (G.) March 31 ‘85 recognizing his
services, & alluding at length to settlement of accounts with the U. States &c.

2nd A certified copy of an official "return of Commissaries, now in the field,” the
original bearing date 23 July, 1780, marked H.

This last document was to have been included with those which relate to
my husband’s service as Commissary of Hides, as is evident from its date.
There will also be found on file with my former Declaration, several
Returns, made by him officially of public stores in his custody & care as Dep
Commissary of Issues, monthly or quarterly, or perhaps both. to which I would
also refer. In all, perhaps 6 or 8 returns relating to artillery provisions &c.

His accounts, as I believe, were settled by the proper accounting
officer, after the War terminated & a balance stated as being due to said John
McCarter Dep. Commissary, as follows viz:
“John McCarter, July 7th 1785  $1373. due Sept. 17th 1780.
Ditto 797.30 April 1st 1782.”

The balances appear to have been ascertained, & the Commissioner of Pension is
Referred to a "Register of Certificates issued by Jonathan Burnall Commissioner
“for settling accounts of the Commissary & QuarterMasters Department from 22d of
August 1782 to the 7th May 1789 [or 84]”, which book may be found in the Register’s
Office, Treasury Department. A copy, is believed to have been filed in the Pension
office by Lewis Condict, sometime in the year 1840 or 1841, in support of my
original claim.

My pension was graduated later, as I am informed, at $20 per month.
for 17 months & 24 days, as Commissary of Hides; + at $25 pr month for 6 months
& 6 days as Issuing Commissary.  The case, as I am informed & believe, was
rejected by the Commissioner of Pensions after a long & laborious investigation, &
ultimately was allowed by the Secretary of War, on appeal to him personally
Sometime in the year 1842, after the expiration of the five years to which the
continuance of the pension was limited: & when payment was made, the Certificate
was given up to the Pension Agency, as I am informed & believe.
If by the Laws, or by the army regulations & practice, or by any recent
decisions of the War Department, it shall be found, that a Commissary of Hides is
 entitled
Page 96

entitled to the same pay & emoluments as an Issuing Commissary, 
or that Commissaries in general are entitled to a
higher grade of Pension, than has been awarded for the
services of my said husband, then & in either & both cases I
claim the just & full benefit of such additional sum, as well on my pension for
five years, as in this my Declaration for a pension for one year.
In proof of my marriage & of the time of the decease of my husband
the said John McCarter I respectfully refer to Documents, on the files of the Pension
Office.  & I do further declare, that I am still the widow of said John McCarter
Agnes McCarter

Sworn to & subscribed, on the day & year before written
before me,
Robt H M Carter Judge

I also do hereby certify that Agnes McCarter the Declarant is personally well
known to me. May 11 184[3]

Robt H M Carter one of the
Judges of the Inferior Court of Common
pleas of the County of Sussex

(Clerk’s certificate, over)
Page 97

State of New Jersey
Sussex County SS
I, John H. Hall, Clerk of Sussex County do
hereby certify that Robert H. McCarter, Esq. before whom the within Declaration of Agnes M. Carter was taken & subscribed, is a Judge of the
Inferior Court of Common Pleas, & also a Justice of the Peace in & for said County
& State, duly commissioned & authorized; & that the signature of his name thereto, by
Rob H McCarter, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe
my name & affix my seal of Office at Trenton in
said County, on this first day of May
in the year of our Lord, 1843.
John H. Hall