Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 4,911, Anthony Carter, Continental (New York)
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(D-1776)
Service                                                  Number
Continental (New York) Carter, Anthony W.4911
                                               or
                                      Shirkee
                                                     Mary          
Contents
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Lee let to Hon. A.D.W. Bruyn,
(Widow) Jan 7.20, 1838


S354
New York Line

Anthony Carter alias Anthony Shirkee of Aurelius in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hazen of the (unreadable) militia for the term of Five Years1776 Continental

Ascribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 8th of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of March 1819 and Send to Honorable Judge Gover Aurora Cayuga Cty N.Y

Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10m 23/30-87:16 Semi-anl all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819-------48

$135.16

Revolutionary claim.
Act 18th March, 1818.

Continued
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Anthony Carter
or
Anthony Cartier


Adm
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State of New York
Cayuga County ss

Anthony Carter, alias, Anthony Shirkee of the Town of Aurelius & County aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth & saith that he was a Canadian refugee & enlisted as a private soldier in 1778 under Captain Anthony Poland in the Regiment, called the Congress regiment under General Moses Hazen for & during
the war and remained in said Regiment till after the peace in 1783 & was honorably discharged at Snake Hill in Orange County in state aforesaid: that the last Captain under which this deponent served was Captain Anthony Seely.
And this deponent further saith that by reason
of his reduced circumstances he is now in need of assistance from his country for support and that he has lost his discharge.
his
Anthony X Carter
mark
State of New York
Cayuga County
Personally appeared before me John Grover Esq. Judge of the Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Cayuga Anthony Carter alias Anthony Shirkee above mention
& to me known, and made oath upon the Holy Evan
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State of New York
County of Cayuga
I hereby certify that John Grover Esquire before whom the written Affidavit appears to have been made was at the time of taking the same a Judge  of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County acting under the authority of the State of New York, that full faith and credit are due to his Official acts in that capacity and that his Signature thereto subscribed is Genuine - In testimony whereas I have hereto affixed the seal of said County the Eighth day of April 1878.

E.T. Throop blk
for J.D. Casey Dep Clk

I do hereby certify to the Honorable the Secretary
of the Department of War that I have ascertained
from the Secretaries Book of this State that one
Anthony Cartier a Canadian refugee drew a 
Lot of Land of 100 acres & have no reason to douby
but that he is the same Anthony Carter named in the
within affidavit & further certify that he
is in Reduced Circumstances
Dated [[illegible]] [[illegible]] of 14th 1819 John Grover
Judge of Cayuga Com. Pleas
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Anthony Carter Says he had three brothers served during the war that he is part French that he was called a Canadian Reffugee That his name in French is Shirkee
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8354
Anthony Carter Copy

24
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State of New York,
Cayuga County, SS.

ON this Sixth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, being a court of record for the said county, in the July Term of Court Pleas, Anthony Carter (alias) Shirkee aged 56 years, resident in the Town of Aurelius, in said county who, being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:

That he was a private in the company of Captain Polan in Col Hazens Regt Enlisted March 1778 for three years served untill about a month before his time was out when he was [[illegible]] for during [[illegible]] and  that he was discharged at Snake Hill New York June 1783 and that my original claim was dated 8th April 1818 the number of my Pension certificate is 8354 (discharged out Cap Selby Company)

And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th day of March 1819; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent there-by so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, the the revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed

And I do solemnly swear further that my trade is that of a farmer and that I am afflicted with a Rheumatic Complaint so that I am not able to contribute much to the support of my family if any and that my family consists of my wife Mary aged 54 verry weakly one daughter named Matilda aged 6 who also is verry weakly and further that I was in the Battles of the taking Burgoyne, Stony Point Springfield New Jersey taking Corn Wallace Several other Skirmishes
(Signed) Anthony his X mark Carter

Sworn to, and declared, on the 6th day of July 1820 before me Charles Kellog Judge of Cayuga Court Pleas

I James Glover clerk of Cayuga County do hereby certify, that the forgoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is 42 dollars and 87 cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, on this Sixth day of July 1820 1820 
James Glover
Clerk of the Court for the County of Cuyuga
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Schedule

Of Property Exhibited at the court of Com Pleas here in after the County of Cayuga At the Village of Auburn July Seven 1820 vis

1 Cow 12.00
10 Sheep 6.00
2 Hogs 3.00
1 3 Pail Kettle 1.00
2 dish Kettle 1.00
1 Bake de 1.25
1 Tea de 0.75
1 p Fire Dogs 1.00
Shovel & Tongs 0.98
6 Chairs 0.75
1 Table & Chair 0.50
1 Spinning Wheel 1.00
1 Letter Da 2.00
1 Ax 1.00
33=13

And from wife  33_13
11 Plates 0.50
3 Pewter Plates 0.25
6 de Spoons 0.62 1/2
6 Knives & Forks 0.75
3 Tea Cups & Saucers 0.12 1/2
1 Tea Pot 0.18 1/2
1 Small Cooking Nap 0.75
1 Pail 0.25
1 Hat From 0.31
1 Huch Matel 6.00
$42=84

I owe about $70.00 and have nothing due me
I certify that the above is a True Honest Statement of all my property debts dues or incomes
(Signed) Anthony his x mark Carter
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State of New York

Tompkins County SS: On the third day of January 1838 personally appeared before Amasa Dana one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the Vice Counsel of Tompkins (being by law duly constituted a court of Ruane) Mary Carter Foundation called Polly a resident of Ithaca in the county of Tompkins and State of New York aged Seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836.
That she is the widow of Anthony Carter, who was a private in Captain Seely Company and Col. Hazens Regiment of Troop in the Continental Establishment in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary War - That she cannot state particularly the time said Anthony entered such service, but she has always understood & verily believes he entered the service as a volunteer in said Regiment soon after the commencement of the Revolution, that according to the best of her knowledge & belief he so enlisted as early as April 1776 at first as a fifer & continued to serve in that capacity for a short time only when he was enrolled and served as a private as aforesaid during & until the close of the Revolutionary war. That at the time of his said enlistment he was a resident of Dutchess County in the State of New York; that a great portion of his service with said Regiment was along the Hudson River & was in the Battles at the taking of Burgoyne at Stoney Point Monmouth, and at York Town as the Surrender of Cornwallis. That at & before the commencement of the Revolution said Anthony with his father and three other brothers & said Col Hazen were residents of a place called St. Anthony in Canada & that they all very soon left the Canadas & removed to Fishkill in Dutchess County New York where they all enlisted in the service of the United States as aforesaid. That said Anthony served as fifer until the Capture and Execution of Maj Andre, at which time & place he served as fifer, but from & after the Execution of Maj. Andre he continued to the close of the war to serve as a private bearing arms. That she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim nor can she procure any such unless it be that on file in the Pension Department at Washington, upon which said Anthony Carter was placed upon the Pension List Roll under the act of Congress of 1818 to which she most respectfully begs leave to refer in further support of her claim 
She further declares that she was married to the said Anthony Carter in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred & Eighty one
(but the day of the month she cannot state nor does she know as the only word of their marriage which ever did exist to her knowledge or belief was contained in a family Bible which with the house of the father of said Athony Carter was many years since destroyed
by fire at Harpers field A. That her husband the aforesaid Anthony Carter died on the South
day of October 1836 - and that she has remained a widow ever since that period
as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed
Sworn to and subscribed on the day
and year above written before me
Amasa Dana
1st Judge of Tompkins Co.
her
Mary
Carter
mark
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I Amasa Dana Judge VC before whom the preceding Declaration of Mrs. Mary Carter was this day subscribed and sworn to do hereby certify that the said Mary Carter by reason
of old age & bodily infirmity is unable to and Cannot safely attend in open Court for the purpose making her said Declaration - Dated January 3rd, 1838
Amasa Dana
Judge VC
State of New York
Tompkins County SS. I, Wait T. Huntington Clerk of the said County of Tompkins and Clerk of the County Courts in & for said County Do hereby certify that Amasa Dana Esq before whom the presiding Declaration purports to have been sworn, and whose name is subscribed to the dural thereto and to the above certificate was at the date thereof one of the Judges of the court of common pleas of said County V first Judge thereof, duly commissioned and sworn - And I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe the signature to the Jurist to said declaration and to said certificate are his sworn hand writing and signatures. In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Ithaca this 9th day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty Eight.

W. T. Huntington Clerk
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2230
Ohio
Mary Carter widow of Anthony Carter alias Shirkee who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Private, Canadian Refugee

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Nov. 48 and sent to Hon. H.S. Conger, Cortland Village New York

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 336 Vol.

Reported 
Hon E. Blackmire
Sep 26, 49
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Anthony Carter
Was born february
the 24th 1765
Polly Carter
was born october
the 14th 1767
first child born october
the 6th Anthony Carter
October the 19th 1784
Polly Carter Second
born January th 1 1790
Ernie Carter Third
born january 18 1793
(illegible) Carter fourth
(illegible) 9th (illegible)
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[Illegible] the fifth child born August the 15 1813
[Illegible]
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Anthony Carter was married to Mary Wilcox April the 10 1842

Anthony Carter farming thence to bushel [illegible] more til 165
Mary Carter was witness to Asa Wilcox Jan the 10 1815
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State of Ohio
beas County
Amelia Matilda Thorp
being duly sworn according to law doth
depose and say that she is a daughter of
Mary and Anthony Carter and that the
Bible from which the following record is taken is her Mother's family Bible and has been known to her as such for thirty years viz Anthony Carter was married to Mary Wilcox April 16, 1782
Amelia Matilda Thorp
Sworn to and subscribed this seventeenth day
of December Eighteen hundred and forty six
James Aldrich J. P.
I hereby certify that Amelia Matilda Thorp who subscribed and swore to the above affidavit is a credit and an intelligent person.
James Aldrich J. P.
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The State of Ohio
Lucas County SS
I Francis L Nichols Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Lucas do hereby certify that James Aldrich before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was at the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Lucas duly commissioned and qualified & to all whose official acts full faith and credit are due & also that the foregoing signature is true and genuine and in his own handwriting
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 19th day of December A D 1846
F. L. Nichols Clerk LCCP
By [ ? ] Dept
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Record Division
January 20, 1910.
Mr. Guyon J. Carter,
Burdick Hall,
Alfred University,
Alfred, New York.
Sir:
In reply to your letter dated the 10th and received the 11th instant, you are advised that from the papers on file in pension claim, Wid. Filo No. 4,911, it appears that the family of Cartier, Charthie or Carter and Colonel Moses Hazen, resided at Saint Anthony, Canada, and at the outbreak of the Revolution the Cartiers became French-Canadian refugees, removed to Fishkill, New York, and four of the sons served in Colonel Moses Hazen's regiment, of whom the two brothers Anthony Carter and Joseph Chartheir are the only names stated.
Anthony Carter was born February 24, 1765; enlisted as "Anthony Shirkee" in April 1776, and served as a Fifer until the execution of Major Andre - company and regiment not stated.
Enlisted in March 1778, and served as a Private in Captains Antoine Paulint's and Anthony Selin's companies of Colonel Moses Hazen's 2d Canadian or Congress' Own Regiment until after Peace was declared, and was discharged at Snake Hill, Orange County, New York, having served seven years and four months. He was in the battles of White Plains, Springfield, Trenton, Brandywine, Germantown, taking of Burgoyne, Monmouth, Stony Point, and taking of Cornwallis.
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Wid. File No. 4,911.--2
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 8, 1818, while fifty-four years of age and a resident of Aurelius, Cayuga County, New York.
Soldier married at West Point, New York, April 16, 1783, Mary or Polly Willcox born October 14, 1767; he died October 10, 1836, and she was allowed pension on her application executed January 3, 1838, while a resident of Ithaca, New York. In 1845 she resided in Lucas County, Ohio.
Children.
Anthony born October 19, 1784, married May 2, 1805 (?) Rachel Toter.
Polly born January 1, 1790 married June 10, 1815 Asa Wilcox.
Eunice born January 18, 1793
Betsey born November 9, 18__
Matilda born August 13, 1813
In 1840 Amelia Matilda Thorp and Lewis M. Thorp of Lucas County, Ohio, testified in the case.
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1910 Jan. 20. Hist. to Mr. Guyon J. Carter.
1929 Mch 6 Mr. H.J. Carter
adv. further in re. military record etc. [illegible]

Revy Widow, &c.
File No. 4911
Mary Carter Wid. Anthony Carter alias Shirkee, Pvt. Rev. War
Act: Feby, 2nd 48
Index: Vol. Page
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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8423
Ohio Cin.
Mary Carter widow of Anthony Carter who was a private in the revolution
Husband died 10th Oct. 1836

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Nov. '48 and sent to Hon. H.S. Conger, Cortland Village New York

[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 202

Reported
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10495
Ohio
Mary Carter widow of Anthony Carter who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 10th Oct. 1836, of [illegible] in the State of Ohio who was a private in the company commanded by Captain ____ of the Regt. commanded by Col Hazen in the Rev. for 2 years

Inscribed on the roll of Cincinnati at the rate of 80 Dollars -- Cents per annum, to commence on the 10th day of Oct. 1836.

Certificate of pension issued the 9th day of Nov. 1848 and sent to Hon. H.S. Conger, Cortland Village, New York
Total amount, $
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Th. Lumpkin Clerk
Book D Vol. 1 Page 385

Reported
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Anthony Carter, Alias Shirkee, N.Y. Act 18 March 1818
$96.00 per annum
To what time was he last paid?
Pension Office
Nov. 6, 1848
G.C.A.
Died 10th Oct. 1836
Paid to his death.
BLB
7th Nov
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Sent to Hon. W. Sawyer July 20, 1848

1534
Mary Carter
Let to W.L. Greenly
Sept 4. 45
[illegible] R. Mc[illegible]
July 15. 1846
to W.L. Greenly Sept 16. '46
do to W.S. Thorp Nov 7., 1846
Do to same Jany 4. '47
Do to same W.S. Thorp March 12 '47
do to same Apr 24 1849
Act 4 July 1836
same May 29. 47

Set to D.J. Bishop March 4 '48
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Chesterfield Lucas Co Ohio Oct 21, 1846
Mr. J L Edwards

Honored Sir,
In compliance with the request of an aged lady, the widow of Anthony Carter who was a soldier of the war of the revolution I have taken the liberty to address a few lines to you respecting a pension for which she has made application she cannot get any satisfactory answer from the men who are employed to do her writing now if you will condescend to give an answer stating whether a pension has been granted to her or not you will oblige one of the aged mothers of our country who is left
entirely destitute of the means of subsistence, if a pension has not been granted she wants to know what is yet wanting to clearly prove her claim
Direct your letter to Lewis M Thorp
Chesterfield Lucas Co Ohio
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Washington, Feb. 12, 1848
I herewith submit to you a letter
received in relation to the claim of Mary
Carter, widow of Anthony Carter, for
a Revolutionary Pension under act
of 4. July 1836 - Will you be pleased
to acquaint me with the present
State of her application-- what further
evidence, if any, is required to
substantiate her claim, &c-
The enclosed letter you will be
pleased to return me with your
reply.
Respectfully yr. Obt. Servt.
D. J. Bishop
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. Pensions
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Will the Com. of Pensions please examine
this letter and return the same to me with his
reply
R. M. Clelland
June 29. 1846
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State of New York
Steuben County SS.
Joshua C. Stephens
whom I certify to be
a respectable person & is the Town Clerk
of the Town of Canisteo in said County
after being duly sworn deposes and says
that he is personally acquainted with
Anthony Carter the person who executed the
within affidavit. that this deponent
holds the Town Records that he is a
member of the board to make out the
jury list that the name of the within
named Anthony Carter is stricken from
said jury list the said board being
satisfied that he is over sixty years of
age.
subscribed and sworn
before me this 15th day J.C. Stephens
of August 1848
Wm B. Jones Justice

State of New York
Steuben County Clerk's Office SS
I Paul C. Cook Clerk of said County
do hereby certify, that William B Jones
before whom the affidavits of Anthony Carter
and Joshua C Stephens purports to have
been sworn, was, at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the peace in and for the
said County, and that I am acquainted with
his handwriting, and verily believe his
name subscribed to the said affidavits, to be his proper handwriting and signature
Witness my hand and seal of office, this 21st
day of August 1844
Paul C Cook Clerk
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State of New York
Steuben County  ⎬ ss Anthony Carter whom
I certify is a Respectable person after
being duly sworn according to law
deposes and says that he was born in 1787
and will be sixty one years of age in
October 1848 that Anthony Carter late a
pensioner was his father and that Mary
Carter an applicant for a pension from
the State of Ohio is his mother and is the
widow of the said Anthony Carter that of
this deponents as he cannot be mistaken
that he has been clear from the jury
list for one year his age being then
sixty that he has not been subject to calls
to fix on a Jury for one year that he was married himself in 1807 agreeable to an old family Record and a Record of his marriage
that several children of his said parents
family were born before the year 1794 own
sisters of this deponent
Subscribed and sworn 
before me this 7th day
of August 1848
Wm B. Jones Justice
Anthony Carter
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Dec 26 1846
[illegible] to case
Mary Carter

Maumee City O.
Dec 20
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December 17th 1846
Mr. J.L. Edwards
Dear Sir
In reltion to this affidavit which was coppied from Mary Carter family Bible in which the births and marrage of Mary & Anthony Carter together with those of her children are recorded is how in our possess. and can be refered to at any time and if you do not think this sattisfactory I have latly assertained that there are more persons living who were present at her marrage. We hope you will look with an eye of clemency on old age and afirmity and confer a [illegible] on us by answering this as soon as possible.
Yours With [illegible] Lewis M. Thorp

Pleas adress your letter to the subscriber Chesterfield, Lucas Co., Ohio

W.L. Greenly has resigned the agency of Mary Carter business
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14700
6534
Mary Carter widow of Anthony
Act 4 July 1836
husband died Oct 10th 1836
Rejected [illegible] 1836
Admid 1836
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Crawford County ss
and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Personly came before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Joseph Carter and on his solemn oath deposeth and saith my brother Anthony was a soldier in the revolutionary war. He maried his wife in the Spring of 1782. Her maden name was Mary Willcox. I understand he died in 1836 leaving his wife and four children Anthony Mary [illegible] Amelia Matilda. My brother was maried at west point state of New York and the said Mary remains the widdow of my dead brother Anthony. He the said Anthony was in Captain Seebys Company in Coln. Hasens regement. He entered the service some [illegible] time before Bergain was taken. He was in Wallaces Battle I think he was in the Valley Forge Battle and [illegible] other battles that I cant name. My brother Anthony Carter and my self ware both in the servis at the same time. Our names was then caled Charthie being French. I draw my pension in that name. My brother Anthony draw his pension in the name of Carter and my self get our discharg in 1783.
The above statement is corect to the best of my recolection. I was in Captain aboves company [illegible] [illegible] my Charthie in his company. Joseph Charthie

Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of June 1845
J.G. Grier, J.P.
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Crawford Bounty, State of Pennsylvania ss
I, William McArthur Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Crawford in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do by these present certify that J.G. Grier Esqr, before whom the foregon affiavit was at the time of taken such acknowledgement and now is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn to all whose act as such due faith and credit are and of right ought to be given throughout the United States.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Meadville in the said county this fourth day of June one thousand eight hundred and forty five.
Wm McArthur
Prothy for John McArthur
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State of Michigan, Lenawee County ss
Lewis M. Thorp residing in the Town of Chesterfield Lucas County Ohio being duly sworn according to law says that he has been acquainted with Mary Carter who made the application on oath hereto prefixed for twenty years last past & that he was acquainted with her husband Anthony Carter from the year eighteen hundred & twenty five up to the period of his death which occurred in October eighteen hundred & thirty six. That from the time that he first became acquainted with the said Anthony Carter & Mary Carter they lived together as husband & wife until the time of his death. And this affiant further saith that the said Mary Carter has remained a widow ever since the death of said Anthony Carter. That said Anthony Carter drew a pension as a Revolutionary soldier up to the time of his death as aforesaid.
Lewis M. Thorp

Sworn & subscribed this 7th day of July AD 1845 before me. DB Dennis, Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that from the best information that I can obtain that the above affiant is a credible person.
DB Dennis
Jus Peace
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State of Michigan
Huron County
I certify that said Denis was
at the time of taking the within affidavit
a Justice of the peace and for said County
duly elected & qualified & duly authorized
by law to take the same, and that I am
acquainted with the hand writing of the
said Justice and verily believe the signature to the certificate
of the same is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County
this 10th day of July 1845
John Barber Co Clerk
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March 26th Chesterfield
Mr. Edwards. Honoured Sir. I will write a few words of explanation to you concerning the old bible leaf you think it to recently made to be of any use I will now state what ought to have ben done at the time that the leaf was sent. The record thereon were not made from memory. The old family bible which belonged to my grnadmother in which the births and mariages of her family were recorded fell into our family at the death of my grandmother and was kept by them for many years as father and mother could neither read not write. They employed a man by the name of Wisner to transfer such as related to their own family into a bible which was at that time new. This I can clearly remember and have no doubt but the man is still living and can recollect the same. The old bible was badly torn and was thrown aside and destroyed. Amelia Matilda Thorp
Chesterfield Lucas Co Ohio
Lewis M. Thorp

Mr. JL Edwards Commissioner of Pensions
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I hereby certify that the within leaf was taken by me from Mary Carters Bible Chesterfield Ohio January the 22nd 1847. James Aldrich, JP

Mr. JL Edwards
Dear Sir you may think strange of our not sending the Leaf of the bible before therefore I will briefly explain the matter. Mr. WL Greenly as I wrote you before did not give her any sattisfaction as to what was wanting and he did not know til you sent us a copy of the letter that you sent to him and we did not know how to [illegible] any other way than to take an affidavit from the bible where the fact is recorded. Since we wrote we have obtained a copy of the act of congress of the fourth of July 1836 which gives som information on the subject. We would tender our gratful acknowledgement for the information you have given us also for your punctuality in writing and we hope you will act upon this immediately.
I am Respectfully &c. Lewis M Thorp

JL Edwards Com of Pension
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No 13700 9525
Mary Carter wo of Anthony
Act 7 July 1838
[illegible] before 1794
Husband died 10 Oct 1836
[illegible] 2 years his $80.00 pension
[illegible] 10 Oct 1836 [illegible] [illegible]
1841
Admin 3 March 1843, 17 June 44 and 2 Feby 48 $180.00

Hon H.S. Conger
Cortland Village NY
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Ovid Augt 25. '48
Sir
I inclose acceptance under law of 1838 of Mary Carter of Ohio, mentioned in your of July 20 last, & proof of marriage.
Respectfully Your Obt Servt Arad Joy

Hon JL Edwards
Com of Pensions
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Washington 15 July 1848
Dear Sir
The inclosed paper (old Leaf) is sent to me to furnish proof in [illegible] of Mary or Polly Carter said to be from Ohio. 
Truly yours Mrs. Sawyer

Hon JL Edwards
Com of Pensions
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Adrian Aug 25. 1846
D Sir
Enclosed I send you an additional affidavit in regard to the marriage of Mary Carter an applicant for a widows pension. I regret that the affidavit could not have been obtained in time to be sent over with the others but I have for more than a year past made inquiries in the state of New York in regard to her [illegible] resident but could not [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] was until the present [illegible]. I think you will now find the evidence of marriage & the date being sufficient.
Yours Respectfully
Wm L Greenly

Hon JL Edwards
Comsn Pensions
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Adrian July 11th 1845
Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the applicaiton of Mary Carter the widow of Anthony Carter deceased to obtain the benefit of the third section of the act of congress of the 4th July 1836 together with the affts. of Joseph Charter his brother & Lewis M Thorp & the only paper which she now has in relation to the pension drawn by her deceased husband. The original certificate of pension she says was sent back to the department in order that she might obtain one month & a few days pay that were due her husband when he died. By examining the files all the proof originally made by said Pensioner may be found & will throw much light upon the matter.
If the proof now offered should not prove satisfactory any suggestions that you may offer in relation hereto will much oblige the applicant.
Your Obt. Servt Wm L Greenly

Hon JL Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

Direct Adrian Lenawee Co Mich.
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JL Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Present

Hon A D W Bruyn

3097
Jan 17
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Washington Jany 14th 1838
Dear Sir
I am directed to present the enclosed application of Mrs. Mary Carter for a pension under the act of July 1836.
Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt ADW Bruyn

To JL Edwards
Com of Pensions
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Recd May 21 '47
Resp case of Mary Carter wid. of Anthony
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Chesterfield
May 9th, 1847

Dear sir,
The old lady May Carter the widow of
Anthony Carter she thinks she was correct as to the date of her marriage it having taken place many months before her husband was discharged from the army
We suppose there is a record resting somewhere; but
we have been unable to obtain it; consequently, she will come under the provisions of the act of July 1838.
She wants to know if her Declaration heretofore made, could not be applied under the aforesaid act, and you will see by a reference to Charlotte Thorp affidavit the age of their eldest child and the relationship of husband and wife existing between them before January 1794 the old Lady is almost helpless and dependent on charity for her support and it is almost impossible for her to appear in court it being 37 miles from the County seat. If you deem these satisfactory pleas much to Service the amount her due payable at Detroit, if not we would beg further instructions how to proceed; and for the love of humanity attend to it soon.
I
J. L. Edwards
Lewis M Thorp
Commissioner of Pensions
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State of Ohio Lucas County ss
Lydia Hanoville being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that during the war of the Revoltuion she resided at west point in the state of New York. That while residing there she was well acquainted with Anthony Carter who was a soldier in the Revolutionary War. That during the war of the Revolution said Anthony Carter was duly maried to Mary Wilcox at West Point by a magistrate at that place. This deponant says that she was present when the said Anthony Carter and Mary Wilcox were maried, and saw the mariage ceremony performed. This deponant does not recollect the precise year in which the mariage took place but knows positively that the mariage took place before the close of the war of the Revolution. This deponent further says that she has been acquainted with said Anthony Carter & Mary Carter his wife untill the decease of said Anthony Carter & knows that up to the time of his death they lived together as husband & wife. That said Anthony Carter drew a pension as a soldier of the war of the Revolution up to the time of his death. This deponant further says that about four weeks [illegible] she saw Mary Carter this widow of said Anthony Carter deceased for the first time in eight years and that said Mary Carter reside in the town of Dover. That this deponent has resided in the town of Danville Livingston County State of New York for the [illegible] year
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and that said Mary Carter had no means of ascertaining her place of residence untill she met her about four weeks since. This deponant further states that she knows said Mary Carter [illegible] the person she saw maried the said Anthony Carter and that she is the widow of said Anthony Carter. This deponant says that she is eighty three and upwards years of age.
Lydia Hanoville - X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed this 17th day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty six before me.
Michael Handy, Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that Lydia Hanoville who subscribed and sworn to the the foregoing affidavit is a creditable person.
Michael Handy JP

The State of Ohio, Lucas County ss
I Francis L. Nichols Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the county of Lucas aforesaid do hereby certify that Michael Handy before whom the foregoing affidavit was made was on the 17th day of August AD 1846 a Justice of the Peace for said county of Lucas, duly commissioned & qualified, & that the above signature in genuine and his own hand writing. Witness my hand & the seal of said Court this 19th day of August AD 1846.
FL Nichols, Clerk of CCP
By W Wilickox Depty
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State of Ohio Lucas County ss
Charlott Thorp being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that she resided near West Point in the state of New York for several years, and that in the year 1787 she became acquainted with Anthony Carter and Mary Carter his wife who were near neighbours at that time. The deponent further states the the eldest child of Mary and Anthony Carter was at that time about three years of age. And that she has ben acquainted with the family ever since, and poisitively knows that they then lived together as husband and wife and did the same till the day of his death. She also states that she knows the said Mary Carter to be the widow of Anthony Carter deceased. This deponent further states that she remembers the commencement of her acquaintance with Mary and Anthony Carter more clearly on account of the age of one of her brothers who was born the same year. Charlott Thorp

Sworn to and subscribed before me James Aldrich a Justice of the Peace for Chesterfield Township Lucas County Ohio on this twenty sixth day of March 1847. James Aldrich. J.P.
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I do hereby certify that the within named Charlott Thorp is an inteligant person and a woman of truth and varasity. James Aldrich. J.P.
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State of New 
Cayuga county
Joseph Carter of Ontario County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is brother to Anthony Carter of Cayuga County who is applying for a pension under the late act of Congress that he a line of his brother we’re enlisted in the Burgoyne regiment in the revolutionary war, bring refugees from Canada that he knows that his brother Anthony enlisted and entered the service in said regiment under Colonel, afterwards General Haren,  in the spring after Burgoyne was taken and that he served together with the deponent thro’ the war and was honorably discharged in the year 1783 at Snake Hill back of Newburgh in New York and that this deponent has not interest in this application. And that he knows the circumstances of said Anthony and such that he stands in need of 
[??] of his country for support and further saith not.
Joseph Carter
Dated Sep. 20, 1818
Sworn and subscribed the 20Th day of
September 1818 
John Grover
Judge of Cayuga common pleas
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I John Grover one of the Judges of the Court of 
Common Pleas in & for the County of Cayuga do certify that I am personally acquainted with the within named Joseph Carter and do consider him a man of creditibility. I am Govern Judge of Cayuga Com Pleas

State of New York Cayuga County ss
I certify that John Grover before whom the within declaration under oath were made and by whom the preceeding certificate was made, was on the day of the date thereof and still is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Cayuga duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge, and that full faith and credit are to be given to his act in that capacity. I further certify that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Judge and know the foregoing signature to be his testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and any names subscribed this twenty sixth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
E.T. Throop Clk
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State of Ohio Lucas County SS
Mary Carter, whom I certify is a respectable person, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says, that she is the identical person, and widow of Anthony Carter late a pensioner, that she is the identical person who made application under the law of 4th July 1836, as the said widow of Anthony Carter, that she is still a widow, that not being able to prove her claim under the law of 1836 to the satisfaction of the department, she now proposes to accept of a pension under the law of 1838. She asks therefore for a pension under the law of July 7th 1838. Mary Carter - X her mark

Subscribed & sworn before me this 12th day of August A.D. 1848
William E. Parmelee J.P.

I certify the above named Mary Carter to be the identical person whe represents herself to be in her affidavit. W.E. Parmelee J.P.
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The State of Ohio Lucas County SS
I, Fr L Nichols Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas within & for the said county of Lucas do hereby certify that William E. Parmelee before whom the foregoing affidavit purports to have been sworn to & whose name is subscribed thereto, states at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace within said county of Lucas, duly commissioned and qualified and to all of whose official acts full faith and credit are due & ought to be given throughout the United States & elsewhere.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Court of Maumer City this 21st day of August A.D. 1848.
Fr L Nichols Clerk
Lucas Com Pleas Ohio
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The State of Ohio Lucas County ss
On this second day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five personaly appeared before James Wilkingson one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Lucas and state of Ohio, Mary Carter (who was also called Charthie in French) a resident of the Township of Dover in the said county of Lucas and state of Ohio, aged eighty 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 provisions made by the act of congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Anthony Carter (also called Charthie in French) who was a private soldier in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War in Captain Leclays company, and in Colonel Hasen's Regiment (and who my said husband called General Hasen whether he was promoted to general I do not know). He entered the army at Albany in the state of New York about the commencement of the war and was in [illegible] [illegible] seven years and four months. He was a volunteer and fifed two or three years, and carried muskets the remainder of the service. He was engaged in the Battles of Brandywine, German Town, Vally Forge, White Plains, Monmoth, Stonyfield, Trenton, Bearaus Hights and some other engagements which I do not now fully recollect. The only documentary evidence of which this affiant has any knowledge, is what she understands is in the war department at Washington.
She further declares that she was married to the said Anthony Carter (called Charthie) on or about the sixteenth day of April in the year seventeen hundred and eighty two, at West Point in the state of New York and that her husband, the aforesaid Anthony Carter (or Charthie) died on the tenth day of October in the year
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Of our Lord eighteen Hundred and thirty Six and that she has Remained ever Since That period. As will More fully Appear, By the proof hereto annexed 
Mary Carter her mark X
Swore to and subscribed On the day and year Above written before me
W. Wilkinson. Appointed judge Lucas Co.
I do hereby Certify From The age and Apparent failings of said affiant, I should think it would be difficult for her to attend court.
I do further certify that from the best [illegible] of this affiant she is a credible witness.
Jas Wilkinson
One of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Lucas County

The State of Ohio Lucas County ss
I F.L. Nichols clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Lucas do hereby certify that James Wilklinson before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken is one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Lucas, Ohio, and that said Court is a Court of Record and that the signature of said Jas Wilkinson above I believe to be genuine.
Witness my hand and seal of said Court this 2d day of July 1845. F.L. Nichols Clerk
50d
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43097
Mary Carter
Widow of Anthony 
NY
Husb. Died after 4 July ‘36
Hon.ADW Bruyn HR
December 1839
JW Schenman Clerk
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State of New York
Allegany County 
Joseph Charthe of the town of Centerville in said county aged 74 years personally appeared before me, Quinn Pell a commissioner of deeds in and for said county and being by me duly sworn makes oath and says that he was well acquainted with Anthony Carter late of  Tompkins County deceased during and before the Revolutionary War that he was present and saw the said Anthony Carter married to Polly Wilcox at Wish Point in the state of New York in the month of April in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty two. That the said Polly Wilcox, now Polly Carter and the said Anthony lived as man and wife up to his death and that the said Polly now remains the widow of said Anthony and further this deponent said that according to the best of his recollection the name of the person who married the said Anthony Carter was the said Polly was Hubbard.
Also further this deponent saith that the said Anthony Carter was before and at the time of his said marriage as well as afterwards a soldier of the Revolution in the service of the United States. That he well knew the  said Anthony Carter, and that he was a private in said service, enlisted, or volunteered for three years or during the war in Captain Celey company in Colonel Hazen regiment in general[ blank] brigade. That he this deponent was with the said Anthony Carter at the same time. That the said Anthony with this deponent continued in such service under their aforesaid officers after the marriage of the said Anthony to the said Polly as aforesaid until the year 1780 when this deponent with the said Anthony was discharged from the service at a place called Snake Hill about the month of, in the fall of 1783. And this deponent saith that he belonged to Capt. Oliver’s company and not the same company that Anthony Carter belonged to.
Joseph Charthie
Subscribed and sworn before me this 27 day of November 1837
Owen Pell
Comm. Of Deeds
I certify that I am well acquainted the said above named Joseph Charthie and that his reputation for truth and veracity is good and his statement entitled to credit.
Owen Pell
Comm. Of Deeds
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State of New York 
Allegany County
I Judson M Shenman
Clerk of said county do hereby certify that Oren Pell Esq. before whom the written affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Commissioners of Deeds in and for said county duly authorized to take the same and further that I am well acquainted with handwriting & believe his signature thereto to be genuine. Witness my hand& the seal of said county this 11th day of December 1837
JW Shenman Clerk

Mary Carter
 Widow of Anthony 
NY
Husband died after 4 July’36

Hon. ADW Bruyn 
HR
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Anthony Carter
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Anthony Carter
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No. 8354
War department,
Pension office,
September 7Th 1820
Sir,
You are hereby informed that the schedule of your property has been examined; and the secretary of war has directed your name to be continued on the pension roll.
I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards 
To Mr. Anthony Carter,
Cayuga county
New York
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Hon. J.L. Edwards 
Com. Of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Ovid Sept 6: 48
Sir
I enclose 3 applications for pension certificates 
Respectfully yours truly 
Arad Joy

Hon. J.L. Edwards 
Comm. Of Pensions
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March 18th, 1849
Sir, we are getting a little impatient to hear from you, the leaf containing the record of Mary Carter Marriage was taken from the bible by James Aldrich a Justice of the peace and enclosed in a letter and mailed nearly two months ago, and we have not any answer yet, the old lady is yet living and still entertains hopes that you will deem it satisfactory 
pleas write
Chesterfield Lucas Co Ohio
Yours with Respect
Lewis M. Thorp
J. L. Edwards Com
Pension Office
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Emery
March 20
J.L. Edwards, Com.
Pension Office 
Washington City
March 29, 1847
Rec’d of Mary Carter
Paid 10
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3-871
Record division.
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of pensions
Briefed by Geo M Moore
Claim No. Jan 14, 1910
Certificate No. 
claimant
Soldier Robert Anthony, Cartier or Carter
Service Rev
Additional service
No. Claim
State records 
No claim combination records
Remarks
No OWI WR. As above Try
N.F. 4911
Chief division
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Burdick Hall
Alfred University
College YMCA
W. G. Pope, President.
Men’s dormitory
G. J. Carter, manager.
Alfred, New York
Jan. 10, 1910
Department of pensions
Washington DC
Gentlemen;
The task of looking Into family ancestry has fallen to me And I thought You would aid me Either directly or indirectly by telling me where I can find the following information. I will state it briefly as it has been handed down from generation to generation and if there is any fact can connect, corroborate or give me some new light [?] I would indeed be very grateful. [?] as follows.:
At the time Nanette’s coming With French boys Robert Anthony Cartier and Joseph Cartier who from about 18 years came along with the FrenchGeneral fight for the Americans in the revolutionary war. Both began. As privates and Robert Anthony least was drummer boy for three years. Either during the war or at the close Joseph went south, probably to South Carolina or thereabouts and this is the last or last we heard of him. Robert Anthony was also in service after being drum with him serving till the end of the war. To him were born for children, Eunice, Polly, Matilda, and Anthony"
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Burdick Hall
Alfred University 
College YMCA
W.G. Pope, President 
Men’s dormitory
G. J. Carter, manager.

Eunice married John Jonson and Went to Canada This is all we know of them
Polly A Mr. Wilcox and [ Illegible] This We have them.
Matilda Married a Mr. Thorpe And lived in Williams County Ohio, This is all we have of them. Robert Anthony Junior. Married Rachel Teatro of Tompkins. County, New York. Both he and his father Were  Shoemakers by trade.
He had 16 children, Pietro C., Polly, Betsy, Sally, Daniel, Rachel, John, Louisa, Diana, Anthony, Calvin, Rachel, George, Nelson, Henry, Jane. Of them. Is who had directly connected with the writer, Myself being my grandfather.
He had two sons, Daniel and Chas., Living, one infant. Son Washington. Died and six daughters. Mary, Lydia, Libby, Hattie, Rose and Miriam. Of these Char. is my father, living only Guyan J. And D. Lee Carter. The former, myself. After. War. Anthony settled nearer. Lake Champlain. His son Robert Anthony Junior. And we think. He himself came. To the cabin In central New York state and while living there, the name dropped the “I“becoming Carter from the formally French Cartier. I think that. This is enough data. You can look up  Possibly everything Of either Robert Or Joseph who fought in the revolutionary war or died.
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A pension from it Perhaps Their names At least would be on record. Should you be Unable to enlighten me directly and know of someone Or some department Would you be so kind as to turn this letter over to them or return it to me so that I can If there is left any Question or ground left uncovered That I might Answer To help you please write them.
Very sincerely, yours
Guyon J. Carter
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New York State, Department of Education
Supervisory district,No.6
Steuben county
G. J. Carter, superintendent.
Avoca, N. Y.
Feb. 18, 1929
Dept. of Interior 
Bureau of pensions,
Records division,
Washington DC
Gentlemen:
A number of years ago, You were so kind As to look up And write Me regarding the record of Anthony Carter a soldier of the revolutionary war Serving in Col. Moses Hazen’s regiment. You referred to pension Claim, Wid. File No. 4,911. This soldier was my ancestor and from  The data you furnished Me in 1910 I am trying to trace Our lineage The original French family Cartier. Our Annals And traditions Agree in practically all details back to your records, which as you state gives four brothers who served with Col. Moses Hazen.
 Two of these brothers, Anthony, our ancestor, and Joseph seem to be the only who in records are preserved.
I would like to know more about Col. Moses Hazen , his regiment,Captain Antoine Paulint and Captain Anthony Selin and their companies. Can you tell me whether Col. Hazen organized his regiment in Canada and then came to the U.S. to join. In the colonist cause against Great Britain  or was The regiment Recruited and organize In the colonies. Any information In this connection will help me locate the family in Canada can you tell whether there were any Other Cartier’s in the regiment or in the above Companies. You mention that Col. Hazen and the Cartier‘s at Saint Anthony, Canada and at the outbreak of the Rev. War, Became French Canadian refugees. Does this mean that they were in distribute in Canada Or in a sense violators of the law? I’d rather carries that impression in as   Much as Canada was a part of Gr. Britain at the time of the war. I do know that our traditions carry the idea. That our ancestors were very bitter against the British and were willing to sacrifice their all to even the old scores of the French and Indian War
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Rev.& 1812 Wars Section.
MMTF
March 6, 1929
Anthony Carter
W.4911.
G. J. Carter,
Avoca,
New York.
Sir:
I advise you that The history of Anthony Carter, Furnished you in 1910, was compiled from the papers on file In the revolutionary war Pension claim, W. 4911.
This bureau has no general genealogical data on file as a means of tracing ancestry, and no section or division engaged in historical research. Such matters of history and genealogy as are contained in Bureau reports are assembled from original papers, submitted, in support of claims for pension and land made to the United States and based on military service.
For information relative to military records, you should apply to the adjunct general, war department, this city; there are no military rolls on file in this bureau.
Respectfully,
Winfield Scott
Commissioner