Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 1545-100, John Carter, Continental

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental
Carter, John.
B.L. Mt. 1545-100
Resided in Va. in 1829
CONTENTS
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State of Vermont } ss. County of Addison }
I, John Carter aged Seventy two years, do upon oath testify and declare, that about or in the year one thousand seven hundred and Seventy five I entered or enlisted into the service of the United States, for the term of during the war, and served in the Conyngham regiment raised raised by the United States  United States , commanded by Colonel Hezekiah , and that I continued in the service aforesaid until the close of the war, when I was regularly discharged from the same regiment of the raised by the U.S.  under under the command of Colonel Hezekiah and when I was a private . I do further declare, that I have never received a Warrant for the bounty Land promised me on the part of the United States, nor have I ever assigned or transferred my claim in any manner whatsoever: Therefore, KNOW all men by these presents, that I, John Carter aforesaid, do hereby constitute and appoint William B. Goss to be my true and lawful attorney, for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secretary of War of the United States, a warrant for the quantity of land due to me as aforesaid; and my said attorney is hereby fully authorised and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him, for the special purposes above expressed.
Attest, Caleb Sherman  John Carter mark
I Josiah Kellogg aged fifty years years do upon oath declare that I am well acquainted with John Carter who has subscribed the above declaration in my presence, and do well know him to be the identical person he therein represents himself to be; and further I know or do believe he did perform the military service therein stated.
Attest, Caleb Sherman  Josiah Kellogg
State of Vermont } ss. County of Addison }
Before me Caleb Sherman a Justice of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared the above named John Carter subscriber to the foregoing declaration, and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto subjoined, to be his free act and deed; and likewise personally appeared the above named Josiah Kellogg subscriber to the above certificate of identity, both to me well known to be men of respectability and truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the depositions by them respectively subscribed. Dated this Eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.
Caleb Sherman Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont } ss. County of Addison }
In testimony that the abovewritten Caleb Sherman was a magistrate authorised to administer oaths, and take acknowledgments, &c. in the state of Vermont at the above date, and that his name there subscribed appears to me to be his usual signature, I have hereunto affixed the county seal, and subscribed my name and quality, at Middlebury this 18 th day of August 1829
Samuel Swift County Clerk, &c.

The Receipt of Land Warrant N o 1545 for John Carter, of Hazens Regiment, is hereby duly acknowledged by me
Westmore September 9th 1829
W m B Goff Attorney etc

John Carter
No. 1544
No. 1545. o.k.

Hon. 
John H. Eaton
Secy of War Wash.