Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12407, Stephen Carter, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
born
barter, Stephen
$ 12407
CONTENTS
carded

5779-
Connecticut
Stephen Carter
Wolcott in the State of Connecticut who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Veit of the Regt commanded by Col Wood in the Conn't
time for 9 mo 10 days
C C
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 51 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of Jan'y 1833 and sent to R. I. Hinman Salembridge P.O.
Connecticut Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832 $ 46 Pension allowance ending March 1833 157
$61
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Not June 7, 1832.
Recorded by E.D. Bullock Clerk Book D Vol. 3 — Page 56

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Stephen Bartle of Kotzebue New Han Co Or Apple orchard for a person Claims to have found Cabinets - 10 Nos -
July 25 July 1982 Archives 29 July 1980
admit 9 th 10 days p 31 -
R. J. Binnman Salisbury PO Edin

State of Connecticut, New Haven County } ss. District of Waterbury On this 8 th day of August 1832 personally appeared, in open Court, before The Probate Court for the District of Waterbury at Waterbury New Haven County & said District
now sitting, Stephen Carter a resident of Wolcott in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut, aged eighty three years, who being first 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 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
He enlisted July 8 1776 to serve in Col Wood Rgt of State Troops one year after the 14 th of May 1776 in August of that year the 14 or 15 th of month he joined the Rgt at East Guilford Connecticut & from there was taken by water to New York & in a few days after marched up the river & up at Mount Washington & Fort Lee and afterwards marched further up the river to a few miles above Kings Bridge & from there we went to White Plains and was at the battle there from there marched to North Castle & from there to Peekskill and from there to Easton in New Jersey & from there to Bucks County Pennsylvania & from there marched all Christmas night to attack the Hessians at Trenton then after taking the Hessians marched back to Bucks County & after a few days back again to Trenton & encamped & was there a few days when the British marched from Princeton to attack us & we left camp the River and guarded marched from Princeton to attack us & we left camp the River and guarded a few afterwards he joined the Army at Morristown and was soon after taken lame and on the 20 th of Feb was discharged in consequence of my lameness had a written discharge which is lost it was signed by Gen John Sullivan. In the month of July 1777 I was drafted & sent to Brimfield in Capt. Housers Hopper Company Joseph Baker was Lieut of said Comp of Col Housers He thinks commanded the Rgt was out on the Housers He thinks commanded the Rgt was out on the tour five weeks & was dismissed On the summer year 1777 marched to Saratoga was at the taking of the Rgt & was out this time about a month The next year he was drafted to go to West Point Started & before arrived there had an order & returned home over out about 10 days
In July 1781 He was again drafted on a six months tour to join the Continental Army & was first marched to Danbury & from there a Continental Officer whom name he has forgotten took us to the Army at Orange Town New Jersey where he joined Col Nuttall Rgt & Capt Vits Company and remained in said Company a few days over a month when my brother heard a substitute by the name of John Williams for me & he was discharged & came home he has lost the discharge which he thinks was signed by Gen Huntington
He was born in that part of Farmington St which is now Southington & lived there until he was 23 years old when he removed to that part of Farmington which is now Wolcott & has resided there ever since He supposes there is a record of his birth in the Town Clerks Office at Farmington He is acquainted with Orin Plumb & Isaac Bronson Esqrs of Wolcott but is not acquainted with any Clergy men there or then in now
The said Stephen Carter 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. Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
We, Orin Plumb  Stephens Carters acquaintances, residing in the town of Wolcott and Isaac Bronson residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Stephen Carter who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 83 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 and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Orin Plumb Isaac Bronson
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Orin  Plumb Esq who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman , resident in the town of Wolcott and that Isaac Bronson Esq who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Wolcott and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
1. Robinson G. Himm an Clerk of the Probate Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Stephen Carter for a Pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of this 8 th day of August 1832 Office,
R. G. Himm Clerk

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section REL
February 24, 1930
Honorable Richard P. Freeman House of Representatives Washington, D.C.
My dear Mr. Freeman:
In response to a letter, herewith returned, from Mrs. Mary B. Bishop, which you forwarded to this bureau, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.12407, it appears that Stephen Carter was born in that part of Farmington, Connecticut, which was later Southington, date not stated, where he resided until he was twenty-three years of age, then moved to that part of Farmington which was later Wolcott, Connecticut.
I could not make any connected statement of the first three lines of the dislocation as as he gave date of first enlistment & discharge. I used show I did not try to use the state-ments in the three lines referred to. He enlisted July 8, 1776, served in Colonel Ward's Connecticut Regiment, was at the battles of White Plains and Trenton and was discharged February 20, 1777.
He enlisted in July, 1777, and served five weeks in Captain Ambrose Sloper's Company, Colonel Gad Stanley's Connecticut Regiment.
He enlisted in September, 1777, served one month in Captain James Stoddard's Company under Major Andrew Adams in the Connecticut Troops and was at the taking of Burgoyne.
He enlisted in 1778, and served ten days, exact dates and officers' names not given.
He enlisted in 1781, and served over one month in Captain Viets' Company, Colonel Butler's Connecticut Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed

August 8, 1852, at which time he was aged eighty-three years and resided at Wolcott, Connecticut.
It is not stated that soldier was ever married.
Very truly yours
EARL D. CHURCH Commissioner
One enclosure.
Date of death not on A.B.

3. 1894 History to Joseph H. Twiddle - Woodland Street. Hartford, Conn.
1930. Feb. 24 - West. To Hon. Richard P. Freeman - Esq.
Stephan
✓ 12.407 INVALID.
Apr. Rev. 125
File No. 12,407
Stephen Cartwright Phil. Pa. was
Act: June 1 th 1838
Index: Vol. 9 , Page 60
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of Connecticut
New Haven County
Waterbury Aug. 1. 1832
On the day & year above stated personally appeared Simon Miles of Waterbury affirmed before me Job Hume Justice of the Peace for said New Haven County. The said Miles being to me personally known to be a credible witness and being first sworn on oath declares and says that in the year 1777 about the middle of July in the aforesaid then he was ordered to move in the militia of said State in the Revolutionary war for the term of five weeks & was called out & went to Green Brook in the State of New York and remained five weeks there under Capt. Amos Glover of Litchfield & Lieut. Buckner of Holcomb. He further says that Capt. Stephen Hemenway was his own that Stephen Hemenway was of Holcomb then of Litchfield in the same time into the same service & moved his said of five weeks in the same company with the aforesaid. In the same year 1777 in Sept in the aforesaid then the aforesaid turned out as a volunteer under Capt. James Smith & Lieut. Buckner & was in Major, Hemenway's

Adams of Littlefield commenced us. we joined Genl Gates Army at Still - Note in New York and remained there until the 2d of Oct a few days after Burgoyne surrendered. our Regt were left at the place where the English retreated from to take care of the sick & wounded of Burgoyne Army which had been left there we remained there until after the English had surrendered & were marched down by water nearly on the way to Boston we were out on this tour a little over a month He thinks they started on the 20 of Sept & returned on the 21 of Oct which would be a journey and one day This account knows that said Boston was a Volunteer in the same Company with him stayed the whole time of the departure and the return home with him -
He told me Gates & appeared the day after the Battle of Bennington before the Battle of Bennington
He was in the Battle of Bennington He was in the Battle of Bennington He was in the Battle of Bennington He was in the Battle of Bennington He was in the Battle of Bennington

14339 00113 Dear Sir;
For historical and genealogical purposes I desire a copy of the pension application of Stephen Carter , a revolution- ary soldier, of the 2 nd Regt Connecticut Line , If you will kindly send it to me, I shall be greatly obliged. Yours truly
Rev. Joseph H. Trumbull 125 Woodland St Hartford Conn.

S.7. 12407- Stephen Carter
Enlistment papers of Stephen Carter and five other soldiers in 6th Mass Conn.
Regt. removed from case to forward to War Dept.
Oct. 19. 1905 a.f.

L. W. B. I. 12407.
This Bureau can furnish the military record of only such Revolutionary soldiers as were pensioned or whose widows were pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department. Original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C.,
O. W. & N. DIV. REVOLUTIONARY.
April 3, 1897.
Sir:-
Replying to your request for information concerning the military record of Stephen Carter, a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you are advised that he made an application for pension on August 8, 1832, at which time he was 83 years of age and residing in New Haven County, Conn., and his pension was allowed for nine months and ten days' actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war; a part of the time he served under Col. Wood. He enlisted at Farmington, Conn.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Rev. Joseph H. Twiddle,
125 Woodland St.,
Hartford, Conn.