Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34173, George Carter, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Carter, George
S. 34173
CONTENTS
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New Jersey
George Carter, Capt McClellan's Corps Army N. A. N.J. Blues
At $8 per mo: Com? 31 st March, 1878 Cert: issued 12 th April, 1878. Sent to Hon: Genl. Bloomfield, House of Representatives N.J. Bal. to 4 th Sept. 1878. 5 2/3 mo. $40.57
(Rev'd Claims, Act 18 th March, 1878)
New Jersey Line
Five years Med of War
Continued. Allocation sent to John S. Blackwell. Sept 30 th 1878.
Henry W. Van Dyke.
Washington, Hunterdon Co.

State of New Jersey Hunterdon County
Be it remembered that on this twenty eighth day of March in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and eighteen before me Thomas Capner, One of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County, personally appeared George Carter, who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God, deponeth and saith that he was a Corporal in the United States Revolutionary Army, that he enlisted sometime in the year of our Lord Seventeen Hundred and seventy eight under Capt n McMeiers in the first Company of the first Regiment of the New Jersey Infantry, Call d the Jersey Blues, that he continued to serve in the same Company and the same Regiment as a Corporal, under the said Capt n McMeiers and under Capt n Ogden until the close of the War - when he received an Honourable discharge; and also that he afterwards served in the western campaigns under Generals St Clair and Wayne. And this Deponent further saith, that he is a citizen of the United States, and now resides in the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey; And by reason of his age and infirmities he is reduced in his circumstances, and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support, And that he has never received any Pension whatever from the United States. And further this deponent saith not
Sworn & Subscribed this 28 day of March AD 1818 before me
Geo. Carter
Thomas Capner

I have been for many years acquainted with the within named George Carter, he is a very old man hard of hearing and almost Blind, and in very low Circumstances, from repeated assurances of Respectable people and also from a Certificate of Aaron Ogden late Governor of the State of New Jersey I am perfectly Satisfied the within description is Substantially True
Thomas Capner
Geo: Carter
Attorney. Esq. Carter. Ex. 3 found 6 be correct

State of New Jersey } Hunterdon County } I John T. Harkwell clerk of the court of common pleas in and for the county of Hunterdon Do certify that Thomas Capner, Esquire, before whom the within affidavit was taken, was at the time of taking the same, and now is one of the Judges of the court of common pleas in for said county of Hunterdon, duly commissioned and sworn, and that full faith & credit is due to all his acts as such.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court at Flemington the thirty first day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. T. Harkwell Clerk 3

George Carter 132
Sept. 1810. M

SCHEDULE.
STATE OF NEW-JERSEY, } ss. Hunterdon county, }
ON this fifth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty personally appeared, in open court of common pleas, being a court of record in and for the said county, George Carter aged eighty years, resident in the Township of Hopewell in said county, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows: that he enlisted in the year 1776 he believes in the fall of the year under Captain Shaw in the regiment commanded by Colonel Agnew of the first regiment of the Jersey line on the continent. That establishment was in the battles of Short Hills, Springfield and Westfield, Germantown and Brandywine. This deponent has no family, is very infirm almost blind - his memory much impaired, reserved seven years and was honourably discharged at the end of the war, afterwards served in the cont. of the  army close at the  end of the war, afterwards served And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
He has no property either real or personal George Carter
Sworn to, and declared, on the fifth day of August A.D. 1820 before me one of the Judges of said Court Thomas Capner
I JOHN T. BLACKWELL, Clerk of Hunterdon Pleas, do hereby certify, that the foregoing and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is _____ dollars and _____ cents. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this fifth day of August eighteen hundred and twenty
Blackwell Clerk of the Court for the county of Hunterdon.

3417 B Rev INVALID.
File No. 34,178
George Carter Corp. N. S. A.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 66
[Arrangement of 1870.]
✓

I do hereby certify that George Carter an aged man and hard of hearing, living now at Remington in the State of New Jersey, was a corporal in my company of Infantry in the first regiment of the New Jersey Line, during the revolutionary war, and that he continued in service and acted faithfully till the end of the war when he was honorably discharged.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name at Trenton this 16 th day of September 1813.
Abner Allen