Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18,850, Hope Carpenter, New Jersey

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(8-1776)

[column headings:
Service
Number]

Service: New Jersey

Carpenter,
Hope
Phebe

W18850

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Albany, N York 30.250
Hope Carpenter
of Yates Co. in the State of N. York
who was a private in the --- commanded
by Captain --- of the Regl commanded 
by Col Forman in the N.J. militia
line [crossed out] for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 20 Dollars and --- Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 3^d day of Nov
1835 and Jas Taylor Esq.
Penn Yan, NY

Arrears to the 4th of Sept. '35,                   90.00
Semi-ani. allowance ending 4 March '36   10.00
                                          [underlined] $100.00
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832}
[page folded or torn]
ecorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
ook E.2 Vol. 4   Page 11

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Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 11 April 1838 from the 4th March 1837 to the 4th Sept 1837. Agent modified 13 June 1838
[underlined]
Paid as above from 4 Sept 1837 to 4 Sept 1838. Agt Notified 16 Oct 1839.

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Yates - Com Pleas [underlined]
Pension [underlined]
Hope Carpenter [underlined]

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed Jue 7th 1832
State of New York
County of Yates
ss: on the 28th day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Yates now sitting Hope Carpenter a resident of the town of Starkey in said County and State aforesaid aged seventy five years the sixteenth day of March last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served herein stated.
That in the month of February in the year 1775 (as he believes) he was drafted in the Militia at Princeton in the County of Hunterdon in the state of New Jersey where he then resided and went out as a private under Captain Peter Gorden on to Long Island to disarm Tories, and was out at that time before he returned about three or four weeks.  
That in the month of April thereafter he was again drafted while living at Princeton and went out again as a private in the Militia under the said Captain Peter Gorden on to Staten Island to guard the Island, and was about a week he believes.
That in the month of June following he was drafted again in the Militia and went out under Captain Gorden and when they got to New Brunswick he enlisted for five months under the said Captain Peter Gorden in Col Formans Regiment, and went with him to Long Island, and they remained there until the battle on Long Island.
That they marched from Long Island and went to Fort Washington and from thence to White plains and was in the battle of that place and it was a sore battle, from thence we marched to the north River and

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crossed over into the State of New Jersey and was followed by the British until we arrived at Trenton, that when he got to New Brunswick he was discharged from the army but immediately volunteered and entered the service again.  That Gen^l. Washington led the Army from the White Plains to Trenton and when we got to Trenton Gen^l Washington walked the streets all night and it was said and believed at the time that he wept. The next morning after we arrived there, the army crossed over the Delaware river into Pennsylvania and laid there until the night of the 26th of December and then crossed over at Coryells Ferry and went down to Trenton and took the Hesians, that the night after new year's, the army crossed over the Delaware again at Bourdentown or Bollentown and marched up to Trenton again, and General Washington went in the night on to Mill Hill and placed in the street cannon to prevent the British from crossing over, and Gen^l. Washington fired upon them in the morning as they attempted to cross, and continued to fire upon them the whole day and prevented their crossing and killed many of them.
That when night came on Gen^l Washington ordered fires to be built up where they lay, and marched away from there about eight miles further up the Creek and crossed over and marched to Princeton and had a skirmish there, and then marched to Rocky Hill, and there the main of the army remained through the winter, and in the spring this Deponent returned home, and after remaining at home about one week he was drafted again in the Militia of Princeton and went out into the service under one Captain John Mott, and kept guard down about Philadelphia and other places along the Delaware River on Jersey side of the River, and that he joined the main army a short time before the battle of Monmouth, that the first attack was made upon the British by the Regiment he was in, which was placed upon the right wing, Gen^ls. Washington, Green, Putman and Lee were present at the battle

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That he has thought more on the subject of late of what took place, and the probable length of time he was out and in actual service during the Revolutionary War, and is of opinion and verily believes that he must have been and was out in actual service of the United States as much as two years and four months and he believes more
That he has no documentary evidence of his service, that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service, except Captain Peter Gorden who he served under who was living one year ago last Fall in the village of Geneva in the County of Ontario in the State of New York
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the Agency of any State.
That he has a Record of his age in his Bible at home taken from his Fathers Bible
That he was called into service in the manner set forth above in this Declaration
That he knew Gen^ls. Washington Green Putman and Lee-
That he received a discharge from Captain Gorden at New Brunswick and does not know what has become of it.
That he never received a commission always served as a private in the United States service
That he is acquainted with Silvanis Arnold Post Master at Tyrone Steuben Co. New York, Gen^l. William Kernan Rev^d. Van Rensellaer Wall of the Town of Jersey in Steuben Co. N.Y. Rev^d Edward W Martin of Starkey Deacon Lazarus Ellis of Tyrone who can testify to his character for truth & veracity and their belief of his service as a Soldier of the Revolution

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Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signed] Hope Carpenter
[signed] Thomas J. Nevins
Deputy Clerk

State of New York
County of Yates
ss Mr Edward W. Martin
a Clergyman residing in the town of Starkey in the County of Yates and Thomas Roswell residing in the town of Starkey in the County of Yates hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Hope Carpenter who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five years of age: that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signed] E.W. Martin
[signed] Thomas (his mark X) Roswell
T.J. Nevins - Dep Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named Applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that is appears to them that Edward W Martin who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the town of Starkey in the County of Yates and that Thomas Roswell who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Starkey in the County of Yates and is a credible person and that their statements entitled to credit.
By order of the Court
T.J. Nevins Dep. Clerk

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I Thomas J. Nevins, Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the Application of Hope Carpenter for a pension
[wax seal affixed (covered with paper?)]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office this 28th day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
[signed] Thomas J. Nevins Deputy
Clerk of the Court of
Common Pleas of the
County of Yates

State of New York
Steuben County ss
I William Kernan of the Town of Tyrone in the County and State aforesaid upon my oath do say that I am well acquainted with Hope Carpenter the applicant in the preceding declaration for a pension & that full faith and credit in my opinion should be given to his aforesaid statements - 
[signed] William Kernan
Sworn and Subscribed this 29th day of September 1832 before me - 
Henry L Arnold Justice of the Peace of said County - 

State of New York
Steuben County
I, David Rumsey Clerk of said County do Certify that Henry L. Arnold Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County - And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to said affidavit to be his proper hand writing - Witness my hand and seal of office at Both this 4th day of [illegible Oct?] 1832
[signed] David Rumsey

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Hope Carpenter
Pensioner
[illegible (initials?)] July 16 1832
16422.

from J Ferris Tyrone
Steuben County

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State of New York
Ontario County S.S.
Peter Gordon of Geneva in said county being sworn doth depose and say that he this deponent was a Captain of a company in the New Jersey line of the continental army of the United States in the Revolutionary War.  That this deponent is personally well acquainted with Hope Carpenter, who now resides in the town of Starkey in the county of Yates in the State of New York.
And this deponent further saith that the said Hope Carpenter in the fall of the year Seventeen hundred and seventy five, enlisted under the command of this deponent for a tour of militia duty, to disarm the tories of Long Island, and was engaged in that service under the command of this deponent four or five weeks with the troops commanded by Gen. Heard of Woodbridge, and as this deponent understood and believes that by the orders of Gen. Washington.
And this deponent further saith that in seventeen hundred and seventy six the said Hope Carpenter enlisted under deponent in the five months service and joined the continental army of the United States at New York, and that during this period of enlistment the said Hope Carpenter was engaged in the Battle of Long Island and White Plains and continued in the army until it retreated through New Jersey, and until he was discharged ^at New Brunswick, at the expiration of the term of said enlistment, and that the Regiment in ^which said Hope Carpenter rendered the said service was commanded by Col. David Foreman, and composed a part of the troops furnished by the said State of New Jersey for five months service in the line of the army of the United States.  And further this deponent saith not. - 
[signed] Peter Gordon
Sworn & Subscribed
this 18th February 1831.
before me Robert W. Stoddard
a Commissioner of Deeds & for Ontario County.

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of this 7th July 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay & pensions to certain widows" & subsequent acts
State of New York
In Yates County Court of Common Pleas
February 9 1846.
On this 9th day of February personally appeared in open Court before the Judge of said Court Phebe Carpenter of Starkey in said county aged seventy two years who first being duly sworn according to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" That she is the widow of Hope Carpenter late a pensioner of the United States for Revolutionary services performed by him. She further declares that she was married to the said Hope Carpenter 24th day of February 1788 seventeen hundred and eighty eight, that her husband the said Hope Carpenter died on the 4th day of May 1840 eighteen hundred & forty & that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service the [crossed out] but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four [vir:?] at the time above stated
Sworn & subscribed in open Court this 9th day of Feby 1846. By said Phebe Carpenter
[signed]  Phebe (her mark X) Carpenter
[signed] David H Buel clerk of Yates County

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I certify that the above named Phebe Carpenter is a respectable person & that she appeared in open court & made the foregoing declaration
A. Oliver
First Judge

State of New York
Yates County Clerks Office s.s.
I David H Buel clerk of said county Do here by certify that the within declaration was made in open court by the declarant Phebe Carpenter, and further that Andrew Oliver Esq is first Judge of said County
Intestimony where of I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of Said County and the Court of these of this ninth day of February 1846
David H Buel clerk

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State of New York
County of Yates ss
Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said county, John Carpenter of Starkey in said county aged thirty three years, after being duly sworn according to the law, deposes and says, that widow Phebe Carpenter who is applying for a pension, is this deponents mother, & that Hope Carpenter her late husband & a pensioner of the United States was this deponents father, that this deponents said father died on the 4th day of May 1840 eighteen hundred & forty, leaving as his widow, the said Phebe Carpenter this said deponents mother, & who still remains a widow, that this deponent is the Eleventh child of his said father & mother, that the attached family record, is the original family record that was in use as the true record of the ages of this deponents said father & mother, & this deponents brothers & sisters & as containing the true date of the marriage of this deponents said father & mother, that this deponent can recollect the said old record as being in use as the genuine old record twenty five years - 
[signed ] John Carpenter
Subscribed & Sworn before 
me this 26th day of November 1845
[signed] James Huly Justice 
of the Peace Yates County
I certify that the above named John D Carpenter is a respectable person
[signed] James Huly Justice
of the Peace YC

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Hope Carpenter His Bible
he was born March 16th 1757 
was married February 24th 1788 ^on wensday
Phebe Carpenter was born May 8th 1773 
Hope: Wife ^on saterday
Henry Carpenter was born ^on tusday January 20th 1789
Jacob Carpenter was born ^on thirsday November 11th 1790
Joseph Carpenter was born ^on tusday [crossed out] wensday September 25th 1792
Joseph Carpenter died ^on tusday July 15th 1794
Daniel Carpenter was born on saterday February the 28 1795
died august 15th 1795
[illegible] Carpenter was born august the 6th 1796 on saterday
Sarah Carpenter was born on tusday the 8 day of January 17 1799
Beniamin Carpenter was born on ^[crossed out] wensday febery 18th 1801
Garner H Carpenter was born on thirsday June 30th 1803

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[Printed Bible excerpt Malachi 3:16 -4:6 as family record is from Hope Carpenter Bible]
[Handwritten portion follows]
Tasaann Carpenter was born on tusday october 13 1807
Elizabeth Carpenter was born on munday 15th day of January 1810
John Carpenter was born on tusday March 17 1812

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[Left Side]
2228 Albany
New York
Phebe Carpenter
widow of Hope Carpenter N.J.
who served in the Revolutionary 
war as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
20 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 40 Vol 4

[Right Side]
Reported

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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C., ...................., 19.......

Our
W.F.18.850

In reply to your request of .............., received .......... for a statement of the military history of Hope Carpenter, a soldier in the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

DATTES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
1775

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
Served at various times 2 years and 4 mos.

RANK.
Pvt.

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
Captain Peter Gordan, Colonel David Forman, Captain John Slott

STATE.
N.J.

Battles engaged in Long Island, White Plains, Trenton, Monmouth

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Princeton, Hunterdon Co. N.J.

Date of application for pension, Sept. 28. 1832 His cl. was al.

Residence at date of application, Starkey, Yates County. N.Y.

Age at date of application, born Mch 16, 1757 in Hunterdon Co. N.J. die Mar 4 1840

Remarks: He mar. Fey 24. 1788 Phebe -- who was born May 8. 1773. She was al. pens on an app. ex. Feby 9. 1846 while a res. of Starkey. N.Y. Children: Henry b. Jan'y 20. 1789. Jacob b. Nov. 11. 1790. Joseph b. Sept. 25. 1792, d. July 15, 1794. Daniel b. Feb'y 28. 1795 d. Aug. 15. 1795 (illegible) b. Aug 6. 1796. Sarah b. Jan'y 8. 1799. Benjamin b. Feb'y 18. 1801. Grymes H. b. June 30, 1803. Sassan b. Oct 13. 1807. Elizabeth b. Jan'y 15. 1810. John D. b. Mch. 17. 1812.

Commissioner

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[Left Side]
Rev 
Widow, &c.
File No. 1885v
Phebe Carpenter
widow of
Hope Carpenter
Pri Rev War
Act: Feb 29 48
Index: - Vol. A, Page 120
[arrangement of 1870]

[Right Side]
1920 Dec 9 Hist to Mrs. Leon D. Gray

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[Torn]
No - 
Phebe Carpenter (widow of Hope)
NY
see letter to Hon. S.S. Ellsworth, March 20 1840

HS Conger
Act 7 July 1838

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[Left Side]
10.493
New York
Phebe Carpenter
Widow of Hope Carpenter
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 4th May, 1840
of Yates Co in the State of New York
who was a Private in the Company
commanded by Captain -- of the
Regs commanded by -- in 
the Revolution line [crossed out] for 6 months

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 20 Dollars -- 
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March [crossed out] May, 1836 [40 written over 36]
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Novr 1848, and sent to Hon H.
S. Conger, Cortland Village
New York

Total Amount, 
[Act July 7, 1838]
Recorded by Th Simpkin Clerk, 
Book D  Vol. 1  Page 541

[Right Side]
Reported

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[Left Side]
8420 Albany
New York
Phebe Carpenter
widow of Hope Carpenter
who was a Private
in the Revolution
Husband died 4th May, 1840
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
20 Dollars --
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the 
9th day of November 1848, 
and sent to
Hon. H.S. Conger, 
Cortland village
N. York, 

[Acts of March 3, 1843 and June
17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2 Page 88

[Right Side]
Reported
See letter to Hon. S.S. 
Ellsworth, Mch. 2, 1846

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Hope Carpenter, NY Yates Co, Act 7 June 1832
$20.00 per anm
To what time was he last paid?
GCA
Pension Office
Novr 6 1848

Paid to 4th Sept 1839
BLB
7th Nov

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State of New York
Ontario County ss.
Peter Gordon of Geneva in said County of Ontario being duly sworn doth depose and say that he this Deponent was a Captain of a Company in the New Jersey line of the Continental Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War, That this Deponent is personally well acquainted with Hope Carpenter who now resides in the Town of Starkey, in the County of Yates in the State of New York. And this Deponent further says the said Hope Carpenter in the fall of the year Seventeen Hundred Seventy Five, enlisted under the command of this Deponent for a tour of Militia duty to disarm the Tories of Long Island. And was engaged in that service under the command of this Deponent four or five weeks with the troops commanded by Gen^l Heard of Woodbridge. And as Deponent understood and believes by the Orders of Gen. Washington.
And this Deponent further says that in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Six, the said Hope Carpenter enlisted under the Deponent in the five months service and joined the Continental Army of the United States at New York and during this period of enlistment the said Hope Carpenter was engaged in the Battles of Long Island and White Plains. And continues with the Army until it retreated through New Jersey and until he was discharged at New Brunswick at the expiration of the [crossed out] term of his said enlistment. And that the regiment in which the said Carpenter rendered the said Services was commanded by Col. David Foreman and composed a part of the Troops furnished by the said State of New Jersey for five months service in the hire of the Army of the United States. And further this Deponent says not.
[signed] Peter Gordon
Sworn to and Subscribed this Eighth day of October A.D. 1832 before me.
Eurotas Hastings JP

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State of New York
Ontario County ss.
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Eurotas Hastings, whose name is subscribed to the within Certificate of Affidavit, was at the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe the said signature to be his proper act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ninth day of October A.D. 1832.
[signed] Charles Crane [underlined with flourish]

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Act 43  No. 9521
No 13.720
Phebe Carpenter
Widow of Hope
New York
Act 7 July 1838
Married 1788
Husband died 4 May 1840
Rejected did not serve 6 months
Adm: 6 month per
$20 pension 
From 4 May 1840 to 4 March 1841
Adw Acts 3 March 1843, 17 March 1844 and 2 February 1848
$20 per annum
4 March 1843
Honorable H. S. Conger
[unreadable] New York

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State of New York
Steuben County ss
Personally appeared before me Henry L Arnold a Justice of the Peace of said County of Steuben Hope Carpenter who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollection he served For Six Months as a private under Captain Peter Gordon and that for [crossed out] he served one year and ten months as a private under Capt John Mott. And for these services, I claim a pension.
[signed] Hope Carpenter
Sworn and subscribed this 13th day of June A.D. 1833 before me
Henry L Arnold Justice

State of New York
Steuben County ss
Personally appeared before me Henry S Williams, a Justic of the Peace of said County of Steuben Henry L Arnold who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he received from the Clerk of the County of Steuben [crossed out] Yates the annexed papers in the matter of the application of Hope Carpenter for a pension & that no addition no alteration has been made to said papers since they were sealed and delivered by said Clerk ^except this sheet and deponent further says he is acquainted with Captain Peter Gordon whose name appears to an affidavit attached to the said papers, that the said Peter Gordon is a Gentleman in first standing, for truth and veracity with all who know him.
[signed] Henry L Arnold
Sworn and subscribed this 14th day of July 1833 before me
Henry S Williams JP

Steuben County ss
I Henry S Williams the Justice of the Peace before whom the deposition of the said Henry L Arnold was this day taken do certify that I am well acquainted with the said Henry L Arnold and that he is a credible person and that in my opinion full credit should be given to the matters set forth in his said deposition.
Given under my hand this 31 day of July 1833 [year underlined]
Henry S Williams

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State of New York
Steuben County ss.
I Wm H Bull of said County do certify that Henry L Arnold and Henry S Williams Esqrs before whom the within affidavits and the within certificate purport to have been made were on the dates thereof Justices of the Peace in and for the said County of Steuben.  And I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing and verily believe their names subscribed to the said Depositions and affid [crossed out] certificate to be their genuine [illegible] natures.
Witness my hand and seal of office at Bath in said County this 15th day of July AD 1833.
[signed] Wm H. Bull
[signed] AC Switzer ___ clerk

[written sideways] 
Hope Carpenter
Yates Co N.Y.
6 mo & 5

[Written sideways facing opposite direction]
Admitted
Private 6 months

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State of New York
County of Yates

Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in aforesaid county Nicholas Yost of Starkey in said county aged Sixty Six years & upwards, after being duly sworn according to law, deposes to say that he has from his first recollection & from a child been personally acquainted with phebe Carpenter & her late husband Hope Carpenter late a pensioner of the United States, that this deponent was present & a witness in the marriage of the said parties, & he deposes & says that they were married in the winter of 1788 Seventeen hundred & Seventy eight, that this deponent was nine years of age at the time of said marriage, further this deponent deposes & says that the eldest child of the said parties was but ten years younger than the deponent, that two or three of the eldest children of the said parties were children with this deponent, that this deponent deposes and says that he has full confidence in the truth of the attache to family record, that the said Hope Carpenter died on the 4th day of May 1840 eighteen hundred & forty, leaving the said Phebe Carpenter his widow, who still remains his widow.

N. Yost [signature]

Subscribed & sworn before me this 26th day of November 1845
James Hully
Justice of the Peace
Yates Co.

I certify that the above named Nicholas Yost is a respectable person.
James Huly
Justice of the Peace

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1799 N. 48 St.
East ST. Louis, Illinois

U.S. Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

I am placing my application ofIsland  admission into the D.A.A. and wish proof of my credentials.

My ancestor was a Pensioner but I haven't the certificate. I will give his record as I have it.

Hope Carpenter-born on Long Island Feb. 13, 1757. He died March 1, 1804, aged 83 yr. 1 mo. and 18 days. He was a private soldier he then lived and before he was 21 years of age. He was in the battles of Monmouth and Long Island and was with Washington in his retreat from Long Island to New York and helped the Merchants in parking their goods prepartory to leaving New York. He was in the army until becoming sick with camp fever-and he received a pension as long as he lived.

I will be very grateful for the verification of this record and any further data which you may have.

Very sincerely,
Mrs. Leon D. Gray
1700 N. 48 St.,
East St. Louis, Illinois.

W18850 is the only one
Send it as he died May of 1840.
& her ancestor of born in 1757 as this man was couldn't have died in 1804 aged 83 years would have to be born 1721

1804
   83
1721

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State of New York
County of Yates

On this 18 day of August 1848 personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Phebe Carpenter a resident of said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and states, that she is the widow of Hope Carpenter deceased, who during his natural life was a Revolutionary pensioner under the act of 7 June 1832, act of Congress, at the rate of twenty dollars per annum, and that she is ann applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of 7 July 1838.

Now the object of declaration being made is, in order to open a claim at the same rate of pension her husband received, in lieu of none as she receives none, claiming on the evidence filed in her late husband's case, and under the Resolution of Congress approved the 1st July 1848.

She further declares she is still a widow.

Phebe Carpenter
her X mark

Sworn & Subscribed before me on this 18 day of August 1848

Horace Henderson J.P.

I do hereby certify that Phebe Carpenter above named is well known to me, and that she is the widow of Hope Carpenter who was a Revolutionary pensioner.

Horace Henderson J.P.

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State of New York
County of Yates

I Russell R Fargo Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Horace Henderson Esq whose signature appears to the durat of the on their affidavit of Phebe Carpenter dated August 18. 1848 and also to the Certificate of identify thereunder written was on the day of the date thereof a duly authorized acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid: that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that his said signatures are genuine.

In testimony whereof Ii have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said county my official seal the 21st day of August A.D. 1848.

R.R. Fargo
Clerk

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J L Edwards Esq
Com'r of Pensions
Prest.

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House of Reps
Washington
Feb 24/46

J l Edwards Esq

D Sir

I herewith enclose the pension papers of Phebe Carpenter and respectfully ask your attention to them and to return your decision 1st to me.

Truly yrs
S.S. Ellsworth

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Free
FREE

Mrs. Ames

Hon. J L Edwards
Com'r of Pensions
Washington DC

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Ovid N Y 
Augt 23. 48

Sir

I inclose declaration in case of Hope Carpenter

Respectfully
Your Obt Set
Arad Jay

Hon J L Edwards
Com'r of Pensions

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NY
Sept 21
Hope Carpenter

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City

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[illegible]
14 Sep 1835

J.l. Edwards

Sir

Hope Carpenter an applicant for a pension has presented his papers (which I enclose) and requested my assistance in aid of a further prosecution of his application. On looking them over, I feel it a duty respectfully to ask of the department a reexamination of his papers.

Captain Gordon proves a service of more than six months - the respectability of his character is sworn to: as is also that of the applicant: - and we have the certificate of a clergyman. - Please communicate with me at that place "Yates Co N.Y."

With great respect
Your obt serve
Jas Taylor

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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller's Office

June 8th. 1838

Sir

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, Hope Carpenter a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany Agency, at the rate of twenty Dollars and --- Cents per annum, under the lase of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837 to the 4th of September 1837.

Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.

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Treasury Department, 
Second Comptroller's Office  
October 12th. 1839  

Sir: 

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States, Hope Carpenter a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany N.Y. Agency, at the rate of twenty Dollars and --- Cents per annum, under the lase of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept 1837 to the 4th of Sept 1838.  

Respectfully yours, 
Albion K. Parris 
Comptroller  

TO THE COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

No such name on  New York roll
30.250

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Rev. War Section.

December 9, 1930.

Mrs. Leon D. Gray,
1700 N. 48 Street,
East St. Louis, Illinois.

Madam:

In addition to the military record of Hope Carpenter, W. File No. 18,850, you are furnished the following data as to his children:

Henry born January 20, 1789.
Jacob born November 11, 1790.
Joseph born September 25, 1792, died July 15, 1794.
Daniel born Febrruary 28, 1795, died August 15, 1795.
(illegible) born August 6, 1796.
Sarah born January 8, 1799.
Benjamin born February 18, 1801.
Grimes H. born June 30, 1803.
Sassan born October 13, 1807.
Elizabeth born January 15, 1810.
John D. born March 17, 1812.

Very respectfully,
F.D. Byington
Commissioner.