Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [BLANK], Henry Carman, New York

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SERVICE   New York                                                                   
                                                     
[STAR]   Carman, Henry           
                                                                                     
NUMBER  Dis.  No Papers

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Carman, Henry
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on May '22, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 126.

Rank;   Ensign

Regt;   Col. S. Drake's militia

Disability;  Wounded by a ball from a pistol that went off by accident; which ball entered the left part of his neck and lodged in his shoulder, where it still remains, and has caused his left arm to perish.

When and were disabled:  Nov. 3, 1780, Crumpond [Crompond] now Yorktown.

Residence;  Yorktown, West Chester County.

To what pension entitled;  Full.

Remarks;  No rolls of this regiment in this office.
Evidence complete.
Against the claim of Henry Carman there have been transmitted to the War Office by certain inhabitants of the county in which he resides, the affidavits of Col. John Heyatt, Lt. Col. Gilbert Strange, Capt. John Paulding, Eezekiel Heyatt and Robt Lang setting forth that Carman received his wound in his own house, by the accidental discharge of a pistol which was laid on a shelf by one of the party with whom the said Carman had been in pursuit of a cat.