Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L. Wt. 571-100, Reuben Carter, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Carter, Reuben Moss Elizabeth
B.L. Wt. 571-100
Former widow
CONTENTS

No 571.
Reuben Carter
Corporal.
Connecticut Line.
Warrant issued in the name of Eli Baldwin, Asst. of the Heirs of Reuben Carter, and delivered to the hon.ble J. L. Morrow - under date February 1 st 1812.
Hon.ble J. L. Morrow

Docum t Relative to Reuben Carlos & Eben t Dumaresque Deposited by the Hon ble
Gen l Morrow M. C. —
Feb y 11 th 1811. Col o Bldg s —

Boardman in Columb County Ohio 22 Jany 1811 Jeremiah Morrow Esquire
Sir although we are personally unacquainted with each other yet being one of your constituents and presuming you as a Representative of the State Ohio will not refuse to attend to the private as well as the publick Interest of its Citizens not being myself particularly acquainted with any Gentlemen now at Washington City without any further apology I shall expect you will be so kind as to attend to the following business for me and herewith are all the Papers necessary to obtain the Warrants and Patents that the Persons holding the discharges herein are entitled to I am not certain that the discharge for three years is sufficient to entitle the holder to donation land but of this you doubtless are informed. I wish you to obtain the Warrants & Patents in my name if the same can be done I think Duncans Power of attorney will at least allow that mode of doing the business The owners have agreed with me to have the Patents issue in my name if consistent as I have an Interest in the discharges  discharges I have furnished you (as you will see) with the Power of attorney to attend on their Powers of Attorney to me all of which are inclosed I have also inclosed a Deposition from Elizabeth Carter Wife of Reuben Carter to show that Reuben Duncan is the only surviving heir

Reuben Carter deceased, by information which I have received from the War Office it seems necessary that when the original owner is dead that the right of Heirsship should be proven by a certificate of the Orphans Court when the Estate was settled but as there was no estate left by said Carter there of course was no settlement of the same at any Orphans Court. The enclosed Document was supposed to be the best Evidence that the nature of the case would admit of and is presumed most be deemed unexceptionable after you have obtained the Warrants I wish you to obtain Patents for some of the following Lots if they are not taken up and in the order herein enumerated that is if the first should be located then the next Lots Nos 2 14 or 20 of the 4 th quarter of the 8 th Township 3 rd Range Nos 16 or 17 of the 2 nd quarter of 10 th Town- ship of 2 nd Range or Lot Nos 9 of the 10 th Township 4 th Range in either the 1 st or 3 rd quarter of said Township if all of these lots should be taken up then select such ones from the unlocated lots as you judge advisable if you should be personally acquainted with any lots that you judge tolerable good ones then please to select such ones even in preference of the ones I have designated but if not then confine the selection to those above enumerated of unlocated but at all events if the Warrants can be procured procure Patents for some one or other unlocated lots and we will be well satisfied we wish the Missys

done and your charge shall be paid on the completion of the business and you will much oblige Sir your very humble Servant Eli Baldwin
PS If it is not consistent with the Rules of doing business at the War Office to issue the Warrants and Patents in my name then let this issue accordingly according to the Rules of the Office Sir be placed on the receipt of this to drop a line into the mail informing thereof and also be pleased to attend to this business and forward on the Papers as soon as is consistent and oblige one of your supporters, should business permit a short sketch of Congressional Proceedings would be thankfully received by Sir yours — E Baldwin
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Know all Men by these Presents That We William Denson and Rube Denson Wife of the said William Denson (and the only Daughter and surviving Heir of Reuben Carter deceased) of Kingsbury in the County of Washington and State of New York for divers good causes have Nominated constituted and appointed and do by these Presents Nominate constitute and appoint Eli Bateman Esq. of Boardman Trumbull County State of Ohio as our true and lawfull Attorney for us and in our Names and behalf to do all and singular the acts which we might or could do with a certain discharge Executed by General George Washington to the said Reuben Carter as Corporal bearing date the eighth day of June 1783 and to obtain from the War Office for us a Warrant to locate land from the United States Military District in said State of Ohio either in his own Name or the name of both or either of us as may be legal and customary and when he has so obtained said Warrant to proceed to locate said land and obtain from the United States a Patent for the same either in his own or either of our Names and we further authorize our said Attorney to appoint one or more Attorneys under him for the above purposes hereby Ratifying and confirming whatever our said

said Attorney shall or may do or cause to be done in the premises In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals at Kingsbury aforesaid This first day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten
In witness whereof Daniel D. D. D. Eliza D. D. D.
William Danson
Rube Danson
Washington County ss Be it remembered that on the 1 st day of May 1810 personally appeared the above named William Danson & Rube Danson his wife before me & acknowledged the foregoing instrument or letter of attorney to their voluntary act & power of attorney for the the purposes therein expressed
Nathaniel Pitkin one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County aforesaid
I do hereby certify that Nathaniel Pitkin was one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County in the State of New York on the 1 st day of May 1810
Asa Fitch
My Rube Danson J. King Attorney to the above

Be it Known that on the Sixteenth day of January in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ten at the Town of Fort Ann in the County of Washington and State of New York before me Isaac Sargent Surrogate in and For said County Personally came Elizabeth Mose Wife of Simeon Mose Formerly Elizabeth Coates Widow of Reuben Coates who being duly Sworn saith that at the Time of the death of the said Reuben Coates he was Possessed of No Property except his expectancy on a discharge which he received from the Service in the American Army at the close of the Revolutionary War and that No Letter of Administration were ever taken out on his Estate Nor was any Last Will and Testament ever known to have been made by the said Coates And Further Saith that Ruth Dunson Wife of William Dunson Formerly Ruth Coates is her Daughter and the Daughter of Reuben Coates and the Only child and Lawfull Heir of the said Reuben Coates he having left Only one other child who died an Infant
I hereby certify the above to be a True Copy as taken before me Witness my hand and the Seal of My said Office the Year and day above written
Isaac Sargent

I hereby certify that nothing has ever been received on this discharge in satisfaction of the said Reuben Carter's services. Witness my hand the 19th day of August 1863. Elizabeth H. Carter mark
BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq., General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof  Reuben Carter a Corporal in the Third Connecticut Regiment, having faithful- ly served the United States from March 11 th 1861  to the date hereof and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the Ninth
 Day of June 1863,  G. Washington 
By His Excellency's Command,  J. Turnbull 
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,  Joseph Clark Adjutant.

HEAD-QUARTERS, June Eight 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
Reuben Carter Discharge 8 th Company 3 rd Regiment.
Reuben Carter (born) B.L. 21. 571-100