Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,744, Henry Carter, Va. Indian Wars -1793-4 (Ky.)

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Henry Carter Indiana Oct 7 June '32

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State of Indiana Washington County ss.}
On this 15th day of November 1843 personally appeared in open Court before the honorable Isaac Thomas sole Judge of the Probate Court of said County of Washington began and held by adjournment on the second Monday in November in the year 1843, Henry Carter of Washington township in the County and State aforesaid, who having been first duly sworn according to law, doth on his said Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress approved 7th June 1832. That he is seventy eight years old as he verily believes but has no document or record of his birth, that he was born in Albermarle County, Virginia, that he has no education not being able to read or write, that some time, a year or more before the capture of the British General Lord Cornwallis (1781) there were posted a party of Hessions (prisoners of war) near Charlotteville Albermarle County, Virginia and about five miles from the then residence of their deponent, and this deponent was ordered out, having been previously placed upon the muster roll of Captain Benjamin Burgy or Bergee of the Virginia Militia Albermarle County, to form a guard for said Hessions, prisoners of war - for a term of three months. That in the autumn of the year that Lord Cornwallis was captured (1781) he removed from Virginia to Harrod's Station now called Harrodsberg in Kentucky where he remained four or five years and was frequently engaged in expeditions against the Indians. From thence he removed to Bowman's Station in now Mercer

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County, Kentucky where he remained about a year and a half and from thence removed to Smith's Station, Kentucky in the forks of Kentucky & Dick's rivers where he remained about two years and from thence he removed to Fayette County Kentucky - while resident at this last mentioned place, he engaged as ???? volunteer in the service of the United States in a company of Kentucky Militia commanded by Captain William Lewis in General Barber's Brigades of Kentucky Militia (this was as he believes in the year 1793 in the month of August) whose rendezvous was at Georgetown Kentucky, Genl late Gov. Scott of Kentucky being the commanding officer, whence he marched on an expedition against the Indians Northwest of the Ohio river, to the mouth of the Licking river opposite to where Cincinnati now is, at which place he, with the troops of Kentucky under the command of the said Genl Scott, Genl Barbee & Genl Todd, crossed the Ohio river and marched with a detachment of United States troops, commanded by Genl Anthony Wayne, through the wilderness to a point on the Maumee river where two Forts were built on two streams one called "The Black Water & the other "The Still Water. Was not engaged in any actions of fights on this expedition. This Deponent now recollects of no officers of the regular army of the United States engaged in this service but Genl Wayne and the late Genl Harrison who he thinks was aid to Genl Wayne. That on this expedition this deponent lost his horse for which he had paid Eighty five Dollars by his falling through a log or pole bridge by which accident he was disabled & was left as unfit for use. That this deponent with the company to which he belonged returned to the mouth of Licking

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where they were discharged about the 19th or 20th of December 1793, having been in actual service of the United States this year three months & fifteen days, as he verily believes. And this deponent further declares and says that on the 10th day of June 1794 he again at Fayette County Kentucky engaged in the Service of the United States as a volunteer Mounted Militiaman in a Company of Kentucky Militia commanded by the said Capt William Lewis in the Brigade of Genl Todd and marched to the mouth of the Licking River, was crossed over the Ohio river at Cincinnati where was posted a portion of the regular Army of the United States commanded by Genl A Wayne That he was marched with the troops to the Maumee Rapids where he was engaged in the memorable fight under Wayne in the month of August - soon after that fight his company & others were marched about 70 miles to the old Maumee towns and were employed in building the Fort there - after the building of the Fort Todd's Brigade to which he belonged were marched to Fort Recovery and this deponent with his company and Capt baker's company & others that he cannot now recollect were on two occasions employed in guarding provisions from Fort Recovery to the new Fort at Maumee towns - the distance was about seventy miles - after this service was performed he was with his company and others marched back to the mouth of Licking River and mustered & dismissed the service in the month of November having been this years five months in the service of the United States as he verily believes-

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This deponent says he never received any written discharge from service This Deponent says he knows of no person now alive by whom he can prove any of the above services - and he has no documentary evidences of them- 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 And this Deponent says that the reason why he has not before this taken steps to procure a pension from the Government, is owing to the uncertainty in which he has been kept by different advices he has received from different persons, some advising him that he was not entitled to a pension under any law of Congress and some that he was, by which means he has been induced to neglect the matter wholly until the present time. Henry (X his mark) Carter
Subscribed & sworn to in open Court on the day & year first above written Attest}
Eli W Malott Clk
We John McMahan, Sheriff, Alexander Attkinson, Recorder, William Lee, Auditor, and Elijah Newland Treasurer of the County of Washington in the State of Indiana, and we John Kingsbury, Jeremiah Rowland and John H Butler Attorneys at Law in the County and State aforesaid, and residing in the same, do hereby respectively Certify that we are well acquainted with Henry Carter who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration: that we believe him to be 78 years of age: that he is

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reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to be a man of undoubted truth and respectability of character and to have been often times engaged while he resided in the State of Kentucky in expeditions against the Indians North West of the Ohio River and otherwise, and we concur in that opinion. 
John Kingsbury
John H Butler
Jeremiah Rowland
William Lee
A. Attkinson
John McMahan
Elijah Newland

Subscribed & sworn to in open Court the day & year first above mentioned - Attest}
Eli W. Malott Ck

And the said Court does hereby declare its opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant Henry Carter was actually engaged in the service of the United States as a mounted Volunteer Militiaman of Kentucky as he states and as a drafted Militiaman of Virginia as contained in his above statement - The Court further Certifies that it appears to it, that John McMahan is the Sheriff Elijah Newland is the Treasurer, William Lee is the

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Auditor and Alexander Attkinson is the Recorder of said County of Washington, Indiana and also that John Kingsbury, Jeremiah Rowland and John H Butler Esquires are practicing attorneys at law resident in said County all of which persons have subscribed their names and sworn to the certificate above, and are persons of intelligence and respectability and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Isaac Thomas sole Judge of the Probate Court of Washington County, Inda.-

State of Indiana Washington County}ss: I Eli W Malott, Clerk of the Probate Court of the County of Washington in the State of Indiana, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Carter for a Pension - In testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Probate Court this 16th day of November A. D. 1843 - Eli W. Malott CK

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1744 REJECTED
P. O. Henry Carter
List of suspended claims printed in 1852, shows cause of suspension as follows: "He did not serve six months."

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REVOLUTIONARY PENSION CLAIM.
ACT OF 7. June 1832.
Henry Carter, decd.
Indiana
Suspended
POWER OF ATTORNEY  TO EXAMINE CLAIMS.
CHARLES C. TUCKER, Attorney, Present

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Power of Attorney
Know all men by these presents: That I Sarah Carter Widow of Henry Carter, deceased, ___________do hereby constitute and appoint Chas. C. Tucker, of Washington City, D. C., my true and lawful Agent and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Henry Carter, deceased, ________ for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of June 7, 1832, ___ or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed: and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney may lawfully do in the premises. 
Witness my hand and seal this thirteenth day of June 1854
Sarah (X her mark) Carter {seal}
In presence of John H Butler Jas. P Banta}SS.

State of Indiana Washington  County }SS.
On this 13th day of June 1854, before me the undersigned a Justice of the peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Sarah Carter a resident of said County, and made oath according to the law that she is the identical Sarah Carter who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that she is directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim. 
Sarah (X her mark) Carter
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.
James P. Banta J. P. {seal}

State of Indiana County of Washington}SS. I Washington C De Panso Clerk of the Washington Circuit Court do hereby certify that James P Banta Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and acknowledgement were made and who has [illegible] signed the name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my official seal this 13th day of June 1854
W. C. D Panso CK

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Hon T S Henley 14 Feb 1844

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Sir      Ten H Feby 14   44
I have the honor to inform you that the claim of Henry Carter has been examined & disallowed The act of 7 June '32 provides for those only who have served in a military corps within the revoy war at least 6 mo. and it appears from claimts own shewing that his service in the revolution was but three months
Enter on Inda
Index act 7 June 32
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Hon. T. J. Henley H. R.

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Washington City
Feb 14th 1844
Sir
The papers in the care of Henry Carter I [illegible] to have returned or a copy, sent me early attention would oblige
Yours Thos J Henley
I L Edwards Esqr

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Washington City
January 18th 1844
Sir The enclosed is from a respectable citizen, who is poor and much in need of the bounty of the government, & he should prove to be entitled to it. I hope you will give it ???ly and careful consideration
Yours Respectfully Thos J Henley

Hon T L Edwards Com. of Pensions

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Let to Hon. T. M. Henley
14th Feb 1844.
copy of papers sent to same feb 20 1844
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