Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1545-100, John Carter, Continental
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(3-1776)

SERVICE     Continental

Carter, John

NUMBER     B.L.Wt. 1545-100

Residence Vt. in 1829

CONTENTS
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State of Vermont
County of Addison
I, John Carter aged Seventy two years, do upon oath testify and declare, that about or in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five I entered or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of during the war,
and served in the Congress  regiment raised by the United States, commanded
by Colonel Hazen, and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the same regiment of the raised by the U.S.A. under the command of Colonel Hazen and when I was a private
I do further declare, that I have never received a Warrant for the bounty Land promised me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever:  Therefore, know all men by these presents that I, John Carter aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint William B. Goff to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one of more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest, Caleb G. [name not legible]

his mark X John Carter

I, Josiah Kellogg aged Sixty years years do upon oath declare that I am well acquainted with John Carter who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and do well know him to be the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further I know or do believe he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest 
Caleb Sherman Josiah Kellogg

State of Vermont
County of Addison
Before me Caleb Sherman a Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared the above named John Carter subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and likewise personally appeared the
above named Josiah Kellogg subscriber to the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed. Dated this Eighteenth  day of August in the year of 1829.
Caleb Sherman Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont
County of Addison
In testimony that the above written Caleb Sherman was a magistrate
authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the state of Vermont at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Middlebury this 18th day of August 1829
Samuel Swift
County Clerk, &c.
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The Receipt of Land Warrant No. 1545 for John Carter, of Hazens Regiment, is hereby duly acknowledged by me
Herkimer September 9th 1829 --
Wm. B. Goff
Attorney &c
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John Carter
[deleted] No. 1544 [/deleted]
No. 1545  o.k.
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Honble
John H. Eaton
Sec of War
Wash[ington]