Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9730, John Cary, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn
CONTENTS
of
Cary, John
or
Carey
NUMBER
S. 9730
B.L. Wt. 578-100-
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Cary, John
His name appears on a list of applicants for
invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State papers,
class 9, page 102.

Rank: Private
Captain Spalding's
Disability: Wounded in the right arm by a musket ball, which fractured the bone; and that he is not able to perform
more than three fourth the labor he otherwise could have done, had he not met with this misfortune.
When and where disabled: 1778, when on command down the Susquehanna, from Wyoming.
Residence: Luzerne
To what pension entitled; One-fourth
Remarks: Time of enlistment of this man is
unknown; he was in the service in 1781.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court complete.
(illegible) 6:21-1906
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Pennsylvania
John Carey
Private in the
Conn
Army of the Revolution
Rule of disability,
Date of discharge,
Time of doing the testimony,
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at 1.25 Dollars per month, to commence on the 

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of August
1835
and sent to Penn
Wilkesbarre, Pa
Arrears to this
Semi-ant. all ce ending
Act relative to Revo: Invalids
Recorded in Book D. Vol. 6

John Cary
Conn Line
Records corrected Dec 23 (?)

Let to Pen apt Aug 1 1835
do to Hon. A. Beaumont 39
March 1836 same day to
 PAgt-
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Jan 14
a letter 21 Jan 1835 to Hon A 
Beaumont

I do certify that David Scott before whom
the annexed or foregoing affidavits were taken
and subscribed is President Judge of the
11th judicial district of Penna that the name
thereto annexed as such is his own proper
Signature Jany 14th 1835
A Beaumont
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State of Pennsylvania

Luzerne County 

Before me David Scott President Judge
in and for the 11th Judicial district of Penna was present
John Carey of the township of Wilkes Barre in said County
aged seventy eight years who on oath duly administered
by me doth depose and say that he enlisted as a soldier
of the Revolutionary army in the month of Sept 1776
or 77 in Wilkes Barre in the Company of Capt Robert
Durkee in the Regiment commanded by Col Durkee
of the Connecticut line that he marched in the February
following to a place called Millstone in New Jersey when
they had an engagement with a foraging party of the
British Troops who then lay in New Brunswick, that the
Battle lasted from ten oclock A.M. to about four Oclock in 
the afternoon and that they took from the British thirty
Waggons and ninety Horses as it was then stated, that
in the last of May or beginning of June following they
Marched to Boundbrook where General Lincoln had
under his command about seven hundred men that the
British made an attack upon them, Genl Lincoln
ordered a retreat and the Americans lost their artilery and Baggage - that from N Jersey they were ordered
to return to the defence of Wyoming then threatened by
an invasion of the Indians, met Judge Hollenback in
the Great Swamp who brought the news that the settlement was cut off and in possession of the British and
Indians & returned to Stroudsburg on the Delaware
Returned to Wyoming in the last part of 1778 when
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our service was to defend the settlement, that he the
said John Carey was engaged in many expedition on
that part of the County against the Indians & Tories or refuges;  that Capt Spalding and company and Capt Dunkis, who
was killed in the Indian Battle 30 July 1778 were consolidated that he was in an expedition with Col
Hartleys Regiment to the (?) where they retook
a large number of cattle that had been drove off by the
Indians the Indians followed and fired upon us
killed and wounded several of our men that the
said John Cary was detailed to guard some
boats that belonged to the Garrison at WilkesBarre
where he was shot in the right arm above the
elbow and wounded very severely; that after his
had recovered so far as to travel he was employed
to carry the mail for the Army until the close
of General Sullivans expedition; that for the
wound thus received a pension of sixteen dollar
per annum was granted him by the United States
on the certificate of three surgeons & the
testimony of Col. Butler that he drew his pension aforesaid down to the year 1818 - that in consequence of the smallness of the sum he omitted to
apply for it until 1782 from that time until
1828, when he found that his name had been
stricken from the pension list as being dead, and
he has been not been able to recover it since, that
while he was in the receipt of it, Zebulon Butler
the son of Cal Zebulon Butler drew it once or twice
on his power of Atty and that Lord Butter or his
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son John L. Butler also drew it at another time that
he knows not what has become of his certificate
Sworn & subscribed
his
this 9th day of January
his
John Cary
X mark

sworn and subscribed 
this 9th day of January 
A.D. 1835 before 
me, by his mark 
David Scott
Prest 11th, a dist
of Penna

Also personally
appeared before me Col. John
L. Butler, to me personally known as a gentleman
of the first respectability and integrity of character
who being duly sworn deposes and says, that
in the fall of the year eighteen hundred & eighteen
John Cary of Wilkes Barre, who is reputed a revolutionary soldier, gave to this deponent a power
of Attorney to receive his pension as an invalid
pensioner, for wounds received during the revolutionary war - that this deponent called at
the Loan office in Philadelphia & received the
back pension for the said John Cary - That this
deponent has been acquainted with the said
John Cary for more than thirty years; that
he was present at the taking and subscribing
the foregoing affidavit & that the person who
made said affidavit is the same John Cary
whose pension he received in the year 1818.
and that the said John Cary has ever retained
an unimpeachable character for truth and
veracity

Sworn & Subscribed
this 9th Jan. 1835
John L Butler
before me
David Scott Prest 11th dist of Penna
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I do further certify that I have known John
Cary who has made the written affidavit
nearly thirty years - that he has always been reputed as a soldier of the revolution that I
have examined his arm, and that from its
appearance he has received a severe wound
just above and near the right elbow that the
muscles are contracted & his arm disabled
and that the said John Cary is a man of
unblemished character & sustains a high reputation for honesty, truth and veracity from
a tremor in his hand occasioned by age and infirmities he is unable to write.

Jan. 9th 1835
David Scott
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Know all men by these Presents that I John Carey of WilkesBarre in
Luzern County and State of Pennsylvania who enlisted under Captain
Robert Durkee as a soldier during the revolutionary war and before the
conclusion of the war was placed in the company of Captain Simon
Spaulding & Independent Company of Wyoming, do hereby constitute
and appoint Phineas Bradley to be my true and lawful attorney
for me and in my name to make application to the proper office in
Washington City for a land warrant for my share of the County lands
granted by Congress to the Army, and when obtained to pass receipts or any
other act for me and in my name and behalf to do that may be requiste in the premises: Hereby ratifying what ever he legally do and about the business. In witness whereunto I haveunto let my hand and seal the 28th day of October AD 1811.
John Carey

Signed and sealed 
in presence of 
Phineus Walker
Miller Horton

Commonwealth of the County to (?) Luzerne
Before me the subscribed one of the Justice of the Peace in for said county personally was the John Carey the signed and sealed of the above written instrument (?) and signed the same to his (?)
Witness my hand and Seal Oct 28, 1811
Thomas Dyer for (?)
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss
I
I do hereby certify that the
within named Thomas Dyer
before whom the within acknowledgement
was taken, was at
the time of the taking thereof an
and
acting Justice of the peace in
and for said County clearly commissioned and sworn as appear of Record in my 
office, and that full faith and credit is
and ought to be given to all his official acts
and deeds In testimony whereof I have
hereto set my hand and seal of Office at
Wilkes Barre Nov 1st 1811
for Lazarus Denison Ret
Geo Denison
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No 578
John Cary
Private
Connecticut Lines
this Warrant issued under date
18th March 1812, and delivered
to Thomas Bradley (?) the 9th of 
April 1812
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Meturnard Woodford County
Illinois Feby 6th 1858
Comissioner of
Pensions
Washington D.C

Sir
John
Cary of
Wilkesbarre Luzerne County Penna
Pennsylvania was a soldier of the
Revolutionary War and wounded
in the service. He died in town
informed on or about the year
1843 leaving no widow and Hannah
Barney is now the only daughter and
no son now living
Will the Department inform me if
his name is upon the books, whether
he has received his land Warrant or if
not on the the only child drew it
and the back arrears if  (illegible) to
the period of his death
Yours
Respectfully
Brown
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Seal only
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Rev War
9730
INVALID.
No. 9730
John Carey
Priv. Rev. War
Act:
ex:-- Vol. 1
, Page 60
(Arrangement of 1870.]
John Carey
Records corrected
Dec 23
1892 Ap 23
Hist to John
Jordon Phila
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To what time, and at what rate, was John
Carey, Invalid of Pennsylvania, last paid?
Respectfully
J L Edwards
3 June 1835

John Carey paid to 4th Sept 1818
by $1.25 pr mo
A.H.
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I find on the Large
Register of Invalid claims
the name of John Carey
& opposite to his name
in the remark "dead"
written with red ink; but
the time is not stated, nor are thee any invalid papers on file. I find a man of the same name under act 1818 whose papers I have tied up with the enclosed - 
Jno D Wilson
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To what time was John Carey, Invalid of
Penna last paid?
J L Edward
2 March 1836

John Carey Invalid of Penna was paid to
4th Sept. 1818
Anthy Hyde
2 March 1836
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John Carey
Invalid - on 
Penna Roll.
See letters to Ho A .
Beaumont H.R.
Feb. 12. 1835
Feb. 1835- also
L payt Feb 
18, 1835 pd. to
D Scott, May 27
1835 - pd. to P.
(illegible) A.
Beaument, 3rd
June 1835
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This soldier was in the Wyoming Valley Companies
See Conn. book pp. 263, 264 & 265
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1675
Revolutionary Claim

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act, 
entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and
soldiers of the Army of the revolution",  approved on the
15th of May 1828, I John Cary of Wilkes Barre, in the
County of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania, do hereby
declare, that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army
of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued
in it service until its termination, at which period
was a private soldier in Captain Simon Spaulding
company, in the Regiment commanded by Zebulon
Butler of the Connecticut line. And I also declare
that I afterwards received certificates for the rewards
of Eighty dollars; to which I was entitled, under a
resolve of Congress, passed the 15th of May 1778.

And I further declare, that having been upon the
pension list of the United States, at the rate of Sixteen dol
lars a year, for & on account of wounds received in the
revolutionary war, I recently applied at the loan office
in the City of Philadelphia, and could obtain no past
or portion of said pension. And I also further declare that
I have received no past of the said pension of sixteen
dollars a year for the last ten years. Witness my hand
this 25th day of June, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred & twenty nine.
John Cary
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County: Before me the subscriber, President Judge of the Court in and for the Eleventh
Judicial district, including the said County of Luzerne in
the said State of Pennsylvania, personally appeared, this
day Thomas Williams and Rufus Bennet, of the said
County, who did severally make oath, that the deponents enlisted in the service of the United States about
the month of September 1776, at Wilkes Barre, then 
Westmoreland, for and during the war, & that they severally saw out faithfully the terms of their enlistment; and the deponents further say, that John Cary, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, enlisted at the same place & about the same time, for and during the war, that the deponents frequently saw him in the service, part of
the time in the same company during the war & to the
best of their knowledge & belief he faithfully served his
country according to the terms of his enlistment,
as stated in his said declaration.
Witness my hand, this 25th day of June,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. 
David Scott President
of
Judge of the 11th Judicial dist
of Penna
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County
I Charles D. Shoemaker Clerk
of the Court in the County of Luzerne
in the State of Pennsylvania do
hereby certify that David Scott esq before whom the foregoing affidavits were
sworn was at the time President Judge
of the Eleventh Judicial district of Penna
and duly empowered to administer oaths
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
said Court this 20th day of June AD 1899
C. Shoemaker Clerk
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I am of opinion
that the disability
of Mr Caney is permanent, & has doubtedbly 
been so for many years
Feb 18 1835. Jos Lovell

served at L.C.
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss
Personally appeared before me, 
David Scott, President Judge of the eleventh
judicial district of the said State, Ethan L Boyd 
and Thomas W. Miner, Doctors of Medicine,
and practicing Physicians and Surgeons of
the Borough of Wilkes Barre, (to me person
ally known), of the most respectable standing
and reputable character in their professions,
severally duly sworn depose and say, that on the twenty ninth day of January eighteen hundred and thirty five, they carefully examined John Cary of WilkesBarre, reputed a revolutionary soldier 
touching his disability from a gun shot wound
of the humorous or arm - That the found
permanent marks of the original wound
of the flexor muscles of the arm - That the
motion of the part is very limited, and its
uses consequently much impaired - That of
his disability from the said wound in September
1819, Sept. 1821, Sept. 1823, Sept. 1825. Sept.
, Sept 1827, Sept. 1829 & Sept. 1831, they have no
certain information, but they are of opinion
that through all this time, it must have been as, 
now, very considerable & that they
strengthened in their belief by the present appearance 
of the wound and the arm; 
the fact of his having obtained a pension
from the government antecedent to these dates
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in consequence of this injury, and his own
statements confirmed by his uniform 
excellence of character as a man and a christion-
Sworn & subscribed
this 3d February 1835
Eben Boyd
before me,
Thomas W. Miner
David Rolf Prest
11th Ind dist of Penna

I certify that David Scott whose name is subscribed
to the above affidavit is and was at the time of
taking, and subscribing the same President Judge
in & for the eleventh Judicial district of Penna
and that the above is his own proper signature
A. Beaumont
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WilesBarre
Sept 3
Free
Hon
Saml. D. Ingham
Secy of the Treas of
Washington
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5 Oct   854
Wilkes Barre
Sept. 29, 1829.

Dear Sir

I recd yesterday, your letter in
relation to the revolutionary Claim of our
friend John Cary. I have not seen
him nor shall I for some time as
business calls me from home. Perhaps what I know of his case may be satisfactory to
your department.  I proceed to state it. 
Some two or three years ago Mr. Carey informed me that he was on
the list of invalid pensioners -  had not
drawn his pension for a number of
years, wished me, as I was going to Phila, to take a power of atty and to draw the money for him. I accordingly took a letter of atty and collect at the loan office, as it
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was then called, kept in a department of the  U.S. Bank. I was there informed
that John to me that
he had, and that the money had 
been recd by Alex McCalla of
Phila. Upon calling on Mr McCall I 
ascertained that the John Cary for who
he had acted as atty was John Cary of
Easton, the father of John Cary, Jr. late
of north whom I presume you very
well know. The matter, however was thought
by the officer, to be involved in such difficult (?) financially too in consequence of our friend not having called for his arrears for sometime, that nothing could be done. An in
formal inquiry has since been made & the same information elicited.
The Character of John Cary, the applicant, is so entirely is exceptionable in every point of view his  (?) his revotutionary services, as a for & during the war is so notorious, & can be so well 
established
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if not sufficiently vouched in the war department, that it appears to me his cause can be and will be relieved from al difficulty. 
The information you obtained in relation to the location of the western end of the Penna canal is altogether erroneous; is in a corner : is correct as however as one half of the reports put in circulation by interested and unprincipled individuals, for the sole purpose of estranging from each other men of the same principles, same views, same feelings & same wished - in short, of  putting variance old friends, and destroying long cherished friendships.  A mutual approach & mutual éclaircissement would place all things in there proper & legitimate light.
Sincerely & truly yours
David Scott
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Act 1828
Settled at
Treasury
Commonwealth
Invalid file
#9730

(Right Side)
Revolutionary Claims
(?)
Treas U.S.
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David Scott
for
John Cary
4
Rec 30 June far 1829
132

(Left side upside down)
WilkesBarre
June 2
Hon
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WilkesBarre
June 2 

Revolutionary Claim
Free
Hon S. D. Ingham
Sec Treas U.S.
Washington
D. C
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Wilkes Barre June 25 1829
Hon. S. D. Ingham
Secy of the Treas

Sir, 
Enclosed is the declaration
of John Cary, a soldier of the Revolution, one
of our worthiest and most respectable ┃
Citizens. It is not precisely in the form prescribed by the department. He has stated
the fact of his having been on the pension
list for and on account of wounds.
I have not within my immediate reach the
means of determining whether this circumstance
will prevent his receive the benefits
the act of 1828.
The reason of his not applying soon
is that he is in easy circumstances; but recently 
the care of a number of grand children has
fallen to his lot & their support & maintenance 
is more than he has ability to meet without
too much intrenching upon that case which his
age & infirmities demand.
With great respect I am dear to
your most object
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Deposition of Simon Spalding
related to the Military Service
of John Cary
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I herby certify that John Cary now of the
County of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania
was an enlisted soldier in my company for
 during the war his being a recruit in one of 
the Independent Companies aimed at 
Wyoming in the late revolutionary war
and that he served to the end of said war
and is entitled to all the privileges & emoluments to  the soldier belonging to said Companies-
December 23rd 1811. Certificate ? me
Simon Spalding

Late Captain in the Revolutionary War
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Luzerne County ss
County
Commonwealth of Pennsyvania
Seal

On the twenty third day of
December in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eleven and sworn personally came before me William
Myer one of the Justices of the Peace in and
for said County General Simon Spalding
the Subscriber to the aforesaid
certificate who on his solemn oath by me administered according to law declared that what was therein stated
is just and true sworn and subscribed to before
me on the day aforesaid
Witness my hand
and seal at Wysox township in said
county
William Myer
Justice of the Peace ┃
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County 
I Lazarus Denison Recorder
of Deeds in and for the County of 
Luzerne. Do hereby Certify that
William Myer before whom the an-
nexed affadavit was taken, was at
the time of the date thereof an acting Justice of the peace in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn as appears of record in my Office, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to all his Official acts and deeds. In testimony whereof I have hereto sit my hand and Seal of Office at Wilkes Baue? January 7th 1812
for Lazarus Denison Recd
G..Denison
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Aug 1st
WilkesBarre, Pa Jul 28
John Carey

Revolutionary Claim
Lewis Cass FREE
Secy of War
Warnington
City D.C.
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzene County Ss:
On this twenty eighth day
of July eighteen hundred and thirty five, personally appeared before the subscribe, President Judge of the eleventh Judicial district of said State, John Cary
of Wilkes Barre, County
and State aforesaid, aged seventynine years, who being duly sworn according to
law deposes and says, that he obtained
a certificate as an invalid pensioner of the
United States, for wounds received during the
Revolutionary war as a soldier of the
army of the United States, at the rate as
he believes of sixteen dollars per year. That
he drew his pension up to the 4th day
of September 1818, when as he has under
stood he was reported to be dead. That
he afterwards made application to be restored to the invalid pension list of the
Pennsylvania agency, and finally succeeded in being restored in February last - 
That he has applied by his attorney duly
authorized for the arrears of his pension
due, but has been refused payment
for want of his pension certificate. The ┃
said deponent further says that he has
made diligent search for the said pension
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certificate but has not been able to find
the same, nor can be imagine what has
become of the said Certificate unless it was
placed in the hands of Zebulon Butler
who drew his pension at one period &
who has long since been dead, and
for the purpose of obtaining
a copy of the original certificate, or a renewal of the same, to enable him to draw the
arrear of his pension, he makes this
affidavit.
John Cary
Sworn & subscribed the
day and year first before
written
before
David  Scott Prect 11th
and district of Penna


I David Scott President Judge of the Eleventh
judicial district of Pennsylvania Do Certify
that I have been personally acquainted with
John Cary the above named deponent
for nearly thirty years. that he has been dung
the whole of that period reputed as an
invalid pensioner of the United States for wounds received in the service during the Revolution. That he has always
sustained an unblemished and 
and inapproachable character for honor,
honesty and integrity. In testimony
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whereof I do hereto sign my name this
28th July 1835.
State of Pennsylvania
Ⓧ
David Scot Pres
11th Judicial dis of Penn

State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County
I, Henry Pettibone, Prothonotary of the Court of
Common Pleas of said County, do certify
that David Scott, before whom the foregoing
Affidavit was taken & subscribed, is President
Judge of the 11th Jud dist of Penna as above. 

In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand & affixed
the seal of said Court, at
Wilkes Barre the 28th day of
July 1835 -
H. Pettibone, Prothy
By A.T. McClintock
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May 31 WilkesBarre, PA
John Carey

Free
℗
L. Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Washington
City
D. C
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Wilkes Barre May 31 1835
J. L. Edwards Esqr
My Dear Sir
You will no doubt recollect the case of John Carey - of his restoration to the pension roll of invalid pensioners last winter.
You will recollect that his pension had not been paid since 1818 - that in order to overcome the difficulty of the absence of the biennial certificate of Surgeons required by the act of congress of the rules of the Dept
a statement of two surgeons was produced setting forth the nature & condition of the wounded arm - that you went with me to Dr Lovel's the Surgeon Genl and obtained his certificate that from the nature
of the wound the disability must be permanent
and that from thence we went together to the
Scty of War who confirmed these proceedings &
and directed that the pension should be paid to the said John Cary from the time that it was
discontinued in 1818. All these facts will approve
by refering to the papers filed in your office.
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Judge Scott handed me your letter of the
7th inst in which you require that all these
things shall be done over. I presumed at a
glance that the particular facts of this case
had escaped your recollection & that your directions were predicated upon a belief that it was a new case not already acted upon. Now Sir as all these things things required by your letter to Judge Scott have already been furnished & are on file in your office and particularly passed upon and determined as sufficient to warrant the payment
of Mr Carey's pension from 1818 and that too by the express sanction of the sum of War no longer ago than last February (I think it was) I would presume that nothing more than a power of Atty
together with the usual proof of identity was
nessary to enable him to draw said back pension
from 1818 up to the 4th March last. Upon these
facts please inform me as soon as convenient.
Your friend sincerely
A. Beaumont
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John Carey Feb 27
L. Edwards, Esq
the
of
Pension agt
War Department
Hon Beaumont
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Washington Feb 26 1836
My dear Sir
I at this moment (?) to me to enquire of
you if the pension of Mr John Carey (to
wit the arrears of his invalid
pension which had been
Suspended since 1879) has been paid? 
You have had
much trouble in this case and so have I but it is never the less important to Mr  Carey
who had been deprived for
14 or 15 years of a pension to which
he is most justly entitled
Your friend
A Beaumont
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May 25
John Carey Pa

Revolutionary Claim
Hon Secretary of War
Washington City
(illegible)
May 19
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Wilkes Barre Penna
May 19th 1835
Hon Secy of War
Sir,
If the department over which you
preside has presented forms for the application
of an invalid pensioner of the Revolution, for
his pension, will you be so obliging as to transmit
them to me for the benefit of John Carey. The
case of Mr Carey is this -Several years since
he was reported as dead and his pension was
refused at the loan office. He was restored
last February is desirous of receiving his back
pension.
Very respectfully Sir, your obt serv

David Scott
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Pension Office
17th Aug 1829
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Revolutionary Claims.
Under the Act, entitled, "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and
Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution,” approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
14 August 1829
Sir, 
Referring to the letter from your Department
of the 3d. I have to request that you will cause me to be informed whether more than one John Cary appears to have been placed on the Pennsylvania Invalid
Pension list. 

have the honour to be,
very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
The Hon 
Secretary of War.

S.D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
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John Carey

A. Beaumont,
Wilkesbarre, PA

Recd 29 May, 1826
ans May 29. 1826


The Sec of War
Washington DC
May 24 Wilkesbarre, PA post stamp
-
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War Department
Pension Office,
May 8th 1826
Sir

I find on a particular examination of the Books and papers in this office, that the name of John Carey, an Invalid Pensioner was reported to be dead about
twelve years ago and his name is so recorded on an old Roll in this Office. If Mr Butler received a pension in 1817 or 1818 for John Carey as he states in his affidavit, it must have been for a man of that name who is on
the revolutionary pension list, and at that time recorded in Northampton, Penn. As there is no Invalid Pensioner of the name of John Carey now on the roll, the Secretary
of War cannot lawfully issue a new certificate, even if the Department was well satisfied that the report of Carey's death was unfounded; but as so long a time has elapsed and no payment has been demanded, there
is not the least doubt but that the man who now applies for the certificate was never entitled to one or that it is the same person who lives in Northampton, and wishes to obtain two pensions. The affidavit which
you left with me will remain on our files
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully
Your Obt Sert
J.L. Edwards
Hon. S. McKean
House of Representatives
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Wilkes Barre May 20th 1826
Sir

General MCKean had the goodness to enclose the foregoing
note from Mr Edwards. On behalf of Mr Carey I feel it my duty to
correct some misapprehension of it Mr Edwards respecting Mr Carey's
claim for an invalid pension which was granted soon after the
close of the Revolutionary war but for some cause unknown to him
has been withheld for the past 7 or 8 years. Mr Butler whose affidavit is 
in your Department and who is a gentleman of the first respectability testifies that he drew said Carey's pension in 1817 or 18. Mr Carey says under 
oath and he is a man of the strictest veracity, that he did it for near thirty
years perhaps longer. He has never lived in Northampton
County. There is a man a pensioner I believe of the same
name in Northampton County. The pension of
the John Cary residing in Luzerne County was granted
in consideration of a wound rec in the right arm during the
Revolutionary war. I cannot see the propriety of
Mr Edwards conclusions, that because Mr Carey had been
returned some time since the mistake as dead
that he should thereby loose his right to his pension
notwithstanding the fact should be clearly proven to be
otherwise; and that because so long a time had elapsed
and the pension not demanded, that the inference is
inevitable that either this man who now applies for a
new certificate, was never entitled to one, or that
it is the same person who resides in Northampton
and wishes to obtain two pensions. There is no manner
of doubt that the facts as set forth in the affidavits of
John Cary and John L. Butler are substantially
correct and that Mr Carey has enjoyed his pension
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from soon after the Revolution to within 8 or 9 years and
that Mr Butler drew his pension for the last time in the
year 1817 or 18. As respects the credibility of those two
persons, should it be deemed necessary, affidavits can
be obtained from the most respectable authority to place
that fact beyond a doubt.  Mr Cary will feel particularly  obliged if the Department will point out to
him the means of recovering the pension of which he
unquestionably has been unjustly deprived.

I am Sir with
Respect &
A. Beaumont


The Hon James Barbour
Secy of War
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Feb 9
Jos L. Edwards
Conn Revolutionary Pensions
Office of Rev Pensions
Wallington City D.C.

Hon A Beaumont
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Washington Feb 8 1835
J.L. Edwards Esqr
Dear Sir
I take the earliest opportunity to transmit to you the affidavits of two Physician & Surgeon
taken before the Hon D. Scott
of the disability of John Carey
whose case has heretofore been examined and allowed conditionally.
From the very nature of the case
no other testimony could be furnished
and I do most religiously hope as
the case is a just one that it
will be deemed sufficient. 
Most respectfully &
A. Beaumont
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Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and
Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
2 July 1829
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The annexed paper, relating to the claim of John Cary under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a discharge, and if so, what discharge or other evidence was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension.
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S.D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
Letter from War Department 3d July 1829 & 18 Augt 1829
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1675
No of orig Payt 1018
Revolutionary Claims.
1675
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
30 June 1829
John Cary of ______ in the county of Luzerne
in the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary
of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving officers
and soldiers of the Revolution, "" approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the
Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private, in captain
Spalding's company, in Col Z Butlers regiment of the Connecticut line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 5th of May, 1778; and further, that he has been on the invalid pension list of the United States,at $16 per year and that he has received as a pensioner for the last ten years nothing having been refused payment when he applied to the Bank of the United States.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the
records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary.
Dickins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
2nd July 1829
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It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued. 
It further appears that John Cary is now on the pension list of the Pennsylvania agency, and He has
not been paid subsequent to the 4th of September 1818-
The name of John Cary cannot be found among those of the Connecticut line to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued - His name is not on the record of Musters of the Connecticut line - 
 Peter Hagner Hon