Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 46,431, Nicholas Carter, Va.

SERVICE
Va.
Carter Nicholas
NUMBER
8.46.431
B.L.Wt. 1704-100
CONTENTS
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Re-Insurance.
Henry
No. 1075
16/11/91
Name: Nicholas Cartes Rank: Priv Comp'y: Moore Reg't: Va Line
_____ } Agency.
RATE PER MONTH, AND DATE OF COMMENCEMENT.
1st Issue. { _____ Comm'g _____
2d Issue. { _____ Comm'g _____
3d Issue. { _____ Comm'g _____
DATE OF CERTIFICATE, AND TO WHOM SENT.
1st Issue. { _____ Sent to _____
2d Issue. { _____ Sent to _____
3d Issue. { _____ Sent to _____
Allowed Act 1828
Act 14th July 1862. Bk. G., Vol. _____, Page _____
Registering Clerk: _____
Disability. { _____

17.332 Nicholas Cartwright Petition # 46.4-31
17.332 Nicholas Cartwright Petition ✓ ✓
17.332
6th trip

Original claim
District of Columbia Wilson Circuit on this 30 th day of June 1820 personally appeared in open court being a court of Record for the Wilson Circuit Nicholas Carter for the district circuit court in compensation as the war has
Aged sixty five years who being first sworn only sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and the 1 st of May 1820 that he the said Carter enlisted for the term of  the war during on the day of in the year 1777 in the state of Virginia in the corps commanded by by captain Moore in the regim with commanded colonel Russell in the line of the state of Virginia on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps until the end of the war when he was discharged from the said service in the state of
Pittsburgh

That he was in the battles of the White Horse and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services except
And for pursuance of the act of the 1 st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear every word  with carefully that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March and thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 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 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not now has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts and to the best of knowledge any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit two hundred acres of land
Seven Horses Thirteen head of cattle eight head of sheep about thirty head of swine that his occupation is that of a farmer and that he has a wife about

fifty eight years old and that he has three children living with him.
Nicholas Cartier
Adon Cincinatti
Sworn to by Nicholas Cartier on 30 th June 1820 in Open Court
Mr. G. G. G. Clerk
It is the opinion of the Court that the property mentioned in this petition is worth seven hundred forty two dollars

Be it remembered that heretofore Court at a Circuit Court continued and held for the County and Circuit of Nelson at the Courthouse in Bardstown on Monday the 14 th day of June 1830
An affidavit for a pension having been this day presented to the Court on the name of Nicholas Keaster and the affidavit of Barnabas Keaster thereto is annexed and it being proved to the Court that the said Nicholas was too infirm and unable to attend this Court It is requested that William Johnson Esq r Justice of the peace for Nelson County take the oath of the said Nicholas to the said affidavit And on a further day of said Term Court on Wednesday the 16 th day of June 1830
William Johnson Esq r a Justice of the peace for Nelson County, in obedience to the order of the Court having this day returned in Court the declaration of Nicholas Keaster who was also proved unable to attend Court to make oath to the same in open Court the oath of the said Keaster taken before him to the facts stated in said declaration which is received and ordered to be certified and recorded.
And the Court thereupon examined two credible witnesses William Gill and Edward Martin as to the value of the said Estate in the schedule set forth who proved the land to be worth $150 the house $30 and the two cows $4 in all $184 which the Court certifies as the value of the Estate of said Keaster and by leave of the Court the petitioner is permitted to withdraw the original

take the oath of another Witness in Hardin County to prove the facts of Enlistment and Service and which declarations is in these words First
District of Kentucky Nelson County Set On the day of 1830 personally appeared Nicholas Coaster aged 79 years in open Court being a Court of record in and for Nelson County and State of Kentucky who being sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress of the 18 th March 1818 and the sev- eral acts amendatory of the same that he the said Coaster entered on the day of 1777 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Capt Moore and the regiment commanded by Col. R. Russell of the 13 th Virginia Regiment on the continen- tal establishment in the War of the revolution that he served from the time of his Enlistment four years until he was regularly discharged at Fort Pitt at or about the conclusion of the peace He had his discharge and many years ago and gave it to a man to draw his disbursement pay as it was called and he has never since seen it the pay or the man. That he is at this time a citizen of Ken- tucky and has been ever since his discharge for he came from Pittsburgh or Fort Pitt to Ky his family consists of an aged wife and one daugh- ter He and his wife are poor and helpless and able to labour.
And in pursuance of the act of the 1 st May 1820 the said Nicholas Coaster does further swear that he was a resident Citizen of the United States

on the 1 st March 1898 and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any manner dis- posed of his property or estate or any part thereof of with an view or with intent thereby so to de- minish the same as to bring himself within the provisions of the 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 18 th day of March 1898 and that he has not now nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him nor has he any income other than what is contained in the following schedule and by me subscribed.
He further states that in 1820 he made his declaration a copy of which is referred to and then he gave in as all the estate he owned or held in any way Two hundred acres of land situated head of Cattle Eight head of sheep about thirty head of hogs the whole of which was then valued by the Court at Seven hundred and forty Five dollars out of which he has had to maintain himself ever since that he has one horse exclusive worth $30. and two cows worth seven dollars each that his land is poor and greatly reduced in value it is not worth more than $100 at this time it is covered by several claims and is considered of but little value the remainder of the stock given

and his wife, and daughter the above 200 acres of land & house & two cows are all the property he owns besides his little household furniture signed
Nicholas his Custer
Barnglas Custer a citizen of Frank Kentucky and one of your chargeles and entitled to credit upon with as the Court is assured personally appeared in open Court and made oath upon the holy evan- gelist of almighty God that he is the brother of said Nicholas Custer whose declaration is here in before written that he knows personally that said Nicholas Custer did enlist and serve for the time and in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war as therein stated by him for the affiant enlisted and served in the same company and Regiment with him Nelson County Set
My deponent of the Nelson County Court I William Johnson a Justice of the peace for Nelson County went to the home of the said Nicholas Custer and on the 13 th day of June 1830 he the said Nicholas in my presence did subscribe the said declaration and upon the holy evangelist that this day I swear that the facts stated therein by him are true to the best of his recollection given under my hand this day & date above which is certified to the said Court
W Johnson Justice of the Peace
Nelson County Kentucky Set
June Term 1830
on the 23 rd day of June 1830 personally appeared

in open Court being a Court of Record Held by the honorable Paul S. Booker Leven Sprigg a man of good character who being sworn de- poses & says that he is personally acquainted with the said Nicholas Carter that he did not see him entire but well recollects that on the day the deponent enlisted in the company of Moore and in the 13 th Virginia Regiment on the continental establishment he was told that Carter with others had enlisted the day be- fore he found Carter a regular soldier then in service in 1777 as well as he now recollects and that he and Carter served in the same company on the continental establishment from the day of his enlistment until the month of June in the year of his enlistment at which time Carter was marched in the direction of the grand camp of Washington army and he the said Sprigg was mar- ched towards the marches whereby he saw Carter afterwards at the close of the war in the ser- vice as a regular soldier in the said Regiment I the clerk of the Hardin Circuit Court in the State of Kentucky do certify that at a Court con- tinued and held for said Circuit at the Courthouse in Elizabethtown on Wednesday the 23 rd day of June 1830 the above declaration of Leven Sprigg was taken in open Court on the oath of said Sprigg and that the said declaration was entered at length upon the records of said Court & that leave was given to withdraw the same for the purpose of completing the proof of the within named Nicholas Carter claim in Nelson County Given under my hand this 23 rd June 1830
Sam L. Rogers ft ctk

Nelson County Ky
This day Nicholas Carter personally appeared before the undersigned a justice of the peace for Nelson County authorized to administer an oath and of the precinct of the county seat of Nelson a court of Record and made oath that the claims which he says are his lands are not Mortgages or Debts but a dower Leasehold claims under the Law of Virginia to his He states that he has sold no lands since 18th May 1818. Nor has he sold any other property or estate since that time, but the same has been devoted to his support & that of his family
Signed, Plus
Nicholas Carter
Mark
Sworn to before me this 11th day of Nov. 1830
William Johnson Justice of the peace for and in Nelson County Kentucky John B. Allen Clerk James M. Harlan For Me

of the property of the County (out of which a tract of land for Nelson County is situated) to be as mentioned in said act and appreciated before the unexpired portion of the period the said Nicholas Carter possesses
Stearns County Ky Nov 10th 1878 Dear Sir
I know that James Mayhew James Maycraft are clerks of the impubic courts as certified by them. I am personally acquainted with Nicholas Carter and from all I can hear have no doubt he served in the Revolutionary war as a soldier like his close I therefore present his claim as his agent dated for the benefit of the act of 1828. instead of 1878. Resp O.A. Harkness

(copy) Revolutionary Claims.
1029
Under the Act entitled, "An Act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15 May, 1828.
Pay Certificate of
I Certify that Nicholas Carter - of _____ in the County of Nelson - in the State of Kentucky - is entitled to receive pay under the above mentioned Act, as a surviving Private of Infantry in the Virginia - Line of the Army of the Revolution, at the rate of Six dollars and Sixty Six \frac{2}{3} cents a month, payable during his life on the third day of March, and third day of September, in each year.
It is provided by law that the said pay, shall not in any way be transferable, or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever.
(L.S.)
Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury of the United States, this Sixteenth - day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and Thirty - and of Independence, the fifty fifth.
I certify the above to be a true copy.
(Signed) S. D. Ingham.
Secretary of the Treasury
Francis A. Dickinson.
Clk. Treas. Dept. 14 Jan'y 1831.
Eng. by Thos. White

No. of Original pay mts 1025- Revolutionary Claims. Allowed act 1828
1917.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,  14 Dec 1830.
Nicholas Carter — of _____ in the county of  Nelson — in the State of Kentucky has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termina- tion, at which period he was a Private _____ in captain  Moore — 's company, in the _____ regiment of the Virginia line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary.  J. H. Dickinson.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,  15. December 1830
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to Nicholas Carter — in the Virginia line. It further appears that Nicholas Carter  not is now on the pension list of any — — — — agency, and has been so since the 31 st March  1826.  at the rate of  dollars per month.
Peter Hagner Aud
No Record has Nov 20/80
James Virginia Book page 116

Nicholas Carter N o 1704

Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
16 Dec. 1830
Sir :
Your claim, under the abovementioned act, having been examined, you are found to be entitled to the pay of a Private of Infantry in the Continental Line. The amount which may be due, accordingly, will be remitted to you by the Treasurer of the United States.
I am, sir, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
P. D. Insane
Secretary of the Treasury.
M c Nicholas Carter.

Washington
Jan'y 10 th 1830
Dear Sir,
I am not able to find the letter sent to Bartle from the Treasury office and which I sent you as evidence of his being a "War man", and now enjoying the benefits of the act of 1828. I am impressed with the opinion that that letter was not returned to me, if returned. I have not found it. I must again request you that upon the evidence or certificate on the file in the Treasury Department you will issue the warrant to Mr Bartle, under the circumstances which I stated to you verbally the other day.
If you were to address a note to the clerk of the District, he says he will give a certificate of the facts, as the papers are voluminous.
You will please to consider this as his application for his bounty Land Warrant as his Agent & Representative in Congress. I know the
old man he is unable to get out of his house as I have been informed the lions about 20 miles from any court of justice.
Respectfully
Yours ob. Servt
C. Stockdale