Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12419, John Carleton, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. H.
barleton, John barlton
S 12419
carded
CONTENTS

10.043
New Hampshire
John Carleton*
of Hillsboro' in the State of New Hampshire who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Emerson of the Reg't commanded by Col. Mooney in the New Hampshire line for 6 months 16 days
John Carleton*
Records corrected Aug. 1/05 f
Inscribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 21 Dollars 76 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of March 1833 and sent to Samuel Parker Amherst New H.
  Arrears to 4th of March 1833  $43.52    Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep '33  10.88     $54.40  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. B. Addison Clerk, Book 1 Vol. 25 Page 46

13.622 John Cartter Mont Vernon -
Matilda
Sent to E. P. Parker Anhalt
1. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for patriotism and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 2. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what are the particulars of the same? 3. Where do you now live? Answer.
4. State the names of some of the regular Officers who were with the troops where you served, each Colonel and Major. Answer.
5. How were you called into service, when you started, and how long continued, or were you a substitute, and if so, for whom? Answer.
6. Where do you now live? Answer.
7. Where were you when you were called into service, where were you then, and how long continued? Answer.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, ss.
On this twenty eighth day of August A.D. 1832 Amherst personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate, now sitting at within and for the County of Hillsborough, in the State aforesaid,
John Carlton of aged Sixty nine years Who being 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 as herein stated. That is to say, on the last of July or first of August in the year 1778 in Amherst in said county of Hillsborough he volunteered in the militia of said State of New Hampshire. To go to Rhode Island. That he went to Rhode Island and served one month . He was in a company commanded by Capt. Josiah Crosby of Milford. Hezekiah Levey of Amherst Lieut. in Col. Moses Nichols Regiment, under Gen. Sullivan. The company was marched to Portsmouth on the Island of Rhode Island, and afterwards near the enemys lines. A day or two before the battle the volunteers were marched off the Island. At the time of the battle they were within hearing but not in the battle.
Second - That on the last of June or first of July 1779 at said Amherst he enlisted in Capt. Daniels Emersons company of New Hampshire Militia in Col. Spencer  Spencer Regiment. for six months. Marched to Providence, and from there to Liverton where the company remained until the British evacuated the Island, and then marched on to the Island, and the company then attached to Col.

Money Regiment. After being at Dover about two months he was attached to the foraging department and at first drove a wagon. After a few days he was taken to the Officers quarters, and remained in that service until about the first of January when most of the regiment were discharged at Providence. Capt. Emerson and some of his men were retained, and he was one of them, and served in the Wood Department as a clerk until the 9 th of January 1780 when he was discharged. - That he was born in said Anhalt in 1762 and has ever since lived there but in that part that is now Mont Vernon.
He relinquishes every claim, whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll, of the agency of any State, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Sworn to John Carlton
Edmund Parker, Judge of Probate -
We Nathaniel Kingsbury a Clergyman residing in the town of Mont Vernon in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid, and Jephaniah Kittredge residing in Mont Vernon aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Carlton who has subscribed and sworn to the above, and that we believe him to be 69 years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier in the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid,
Nathaniel Kingsbury Jephaniah Kittredge
Edmund Parker, J. Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories 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 it appears to them, that Nathaniel Kingsbury who has signed the preceding Certificates is a Clergyman resident in the town of Mont Vernon and that Jephaniah Kittredge who has signed the same, is a resident in the town of Mont Vernon and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Edmund Parker
Judge of Probate for said County of Hillsborough.
I CHARLES H. ATHERTON, Register of the court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of John Carlton for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court, this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.
C. H. Atherton
Register of Probate, for said county of Hillsborough.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
County of Hillsborough, to wit,
At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were propounded to the said John Carlton and the following answers given, to wit:
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, I was born in Amherst Co. Hillsborough N.H. in 1762 - Oct. 16 th as I believe.
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, My birth is recorded in the records of the town of Amherst. I have procured a certificate from the town clerk which is annexed. -
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer, I lived in that part of Amherst which is now Mont Vernon at the time of the War, and ever since.
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer, I enlisted or volunteered, and was never drafted or a substitute.
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer, The same as stated in my declaration aforesaid.
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer, I never received any written discharge.
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer, Rev. Nathaniel Kingsbury - Zephaniah Kittredge Dea. Daniel Adams -
Certified by
C. H. Hetheron
Register.

Whitfieldton
13. 6. 29
Part 6 Month 16 day
In Role of Ann
Ann
X
Conrad Parker
Amherst N.H.

BRIEF in the case of  John Carlton  of  Willsboro' Co  in the State of  New Hampshire  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 69 Years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     July 17 78 " x x 26 Private Colt Gosby Col. Nichols   June 17 79 " 5 20 Col " Emerson " Mooney   per Role of service   per Role of service  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None stated  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Amherst New Hampshire  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Living Witnesses, and traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Witnesses not flaws as credible - Packer's Official Character not certified to - 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Read Addison Examining Clerk.

I hereby certify that it appears from the Records of the Town of Amherst in the coun- ty of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire that John Carlton Son of Oliver Carlton was born October 16 th 1762.
Amherst July 25. 1832. A. Wallace Town Clerk

Per Wm
✓ 12.419 INVALID.
am
File No. 12,419
John Carlton Briv. Rev. War.
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. a , Page 61
[Arrangement of 1870.] John Carlton Records corrected Aug. 1, 1905.

John Odall of Merrimack in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, aged Seventy years being duly sworn, testify and say, that I was born in the town of Antrim in said county of Hillsborough and lived there until, & during the Revolutionary War. Near the last of July or the first of August in the year 1778 I volunteered in Capt. Brack Josiah Crosby's company in Col. Moses Nichols Regiment, to go to Rhode Island. Marched to Rhode Island, and after remaining at Portsmouth a few days we were marched near to the enemy's lines at a place called Middletown, as I think. A day or two before the battle the volunteers were marched off the Island, and at the time of the battle we were within hearing, but not on the Island. The militia were then permitted to return home, and we were gone just one month.
In the month of June in the year 1779 I again enlisted in Capt. Daniel Emerson's company in Col. Mooney's Regiment of Militia for six months. We were marched to Rhode Island, and the Regiment stationed at various places until the British evacuated the Island, when we were marched on to the Island, and did duty there until near the close of our time when we went to Providence, and most of the Regiment were discharged about the last of December, but about sixty were kept as a guard until the ninth of January 1780, to guard the stores &c. at which time we were discharged.
I further testify that John Carlton, then of said Antrim, and now of Manchester in said county of Hillsborough, enlisted with me and served with me during all the times above mentioned, in the same companies. We went together each time and returned together, and I saw him nearly every day while we were absent.
State of New Hampshire Hillsborough County ss July 3 rd 1832 Signed & sworn before me John Odall Edmund Parker Justice of the Peace

I Alphus Crosby of Daffrey in the County of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire aged sixty nine years being duly sworn testify and say, that was born in Amherst in the County of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire and lived there until the last of Jan 1779. when I enlisted in Capt Daniel Emerson (Regiment) Company in Col Mooty Regiment of militia for six months - We then marched to Rhode Island and the Regiment was stationed at various places in the vicinity until the Island was evacuated by the English, when we then marched on to the Island, and did duty there until near the close of the term for which we enlisted when we marched to Providence - Most of the Regiment were discharged the last of December 1779 at which time I was discharged and re- turned home -
I further testify that John Carlton then of Amherst aforesaid and now of Mount Vernon in said County of Hillsborough enlisted with me and served in the same Company during the six months for which we enlisted -
Alpheus Crosby
State of New Hampshire County of Hillsborough ss - On this third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally came the above named John Odell and Alpheus Crosby, and signed the respective affidavits afore- said, severally made oath, in due form of law, that the affidavit by them signed is true. Before me Colmure Parker, justice of the Peace

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Carleton, John GRADE Private LINE Pennsylvania
WARRANT NUMBER 9141 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED June 29, 1789 To M. McConnell, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.