Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34166, Gideon Carter, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
Continental Mass.
Carter, Gideon
NUMBER
S. 34166
CONTENTS
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11.678 D
Massachusetts
Gideon Carter
of Gloucester - in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin - of the Massachusetts Line, for the term of 1 year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of -8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 3 rd of April 1815
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th of June 1819 and sent to William Wilmot
Boston Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Mar: 1819 10 mo. \frac{28}{30} \times 8 = 88.44
Semi-ann. all'ce ending Sep: 1819 48.
$136.49
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
William and Charles W. Wilmot John S. Sleeper, John Sleeper, Mass. W.B.

19th Century
Enlisted May 1775 14 months
Incomparable [Signature] ✓
Adm l " " Madamifiable
No enlistment prior to Dec 1775 for a longer period than 14 months
See further evidence within L. Baldwin's re: one year 1776

State of Massachusetts
I Gideon Carter — a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gloucester in the County of Essex in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the month of May in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred & seventy five
I entered and was engaged in the Land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the month of September in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred & seventy six, when I was taken prisoner & kept in confinement by the enemy till the year Seventeen hundred & seventy seven, being then exchanged as a Private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to the Company of Captain Barnabas Dodge in Colonel Gerrish's Regiment of foot, in the Massachusetts line of the Army.
and that I left the service on being exchanged as aforesaid.
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Sixty six years. I have no other evidence in my power to offer than what is herewith exhibited.
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Gideon Carter
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me
the Subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding pro vice the abovenamed Gideon Carter
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. the testimony
Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of the Court & further certify that the Depositions with annexures are credible witnesses, & disinterested. June 15 1818
Wm Wetmore May

May 4. 1819. I now certify the further evidence in this case with the explanatory Declaration of the said Gideon Carter the within named Declarant, & transmit the same to the war department for approbation & allowance
Wm Wetmore, Judge as within named.

We the Subscribers inhabitants of Gloucester, do hereby & say that we are acquainted with the within recited declarant Gideon Carter & believe him to be in his circumstances in life, reduced & indigent & in need of assistance from his Country for support & we have heard his character for veracity called in question. —
Isaac Elwell } Selectmen of Charles D. Roberts } Gloucester
Sworn to 3 d April 1813. before me
W m Withmore the Judge within named

11678
Gideon barter
June 1819
Consp. 25. 1820
A large, stylized cursive signature of Gideon Barter, featuring a prominent 'G' and 'B' intertwined with decorative flourishes.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Gideon Carter resident in Gloucester in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 11,678 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Gideon Carter late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the third day of April — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  eighth day of June one thousand eight hundred and nineteen  J.L. Edwards in the absence and on behalf of the  GOVERNMENT , Secretary of War.
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
No real estate, income, or debts due him
  Five old chairs 50 c Old pine table 10 c — $ 4. 66   Three knives, three forks 10 c Songs 12 c Bellows 8 c — — — 30   Little cookery, 17 c one pot & two kettles 100 c — — — — 1. 17   Old desk 3.00 chest 1.— saw 1.17 — — — 5.17     $ 7.30 
He is sixty nine years of age next August, is a day laborer, saws wood occasionally and is too infirm, weak and troubled with rheumatic pains to perform much labor. He has no family residing with him except Anna Carter his wife, aged 69 years, able only to cook & wash for them. He served in the Revolutionary war as a private in Capt. Benj. Dodge's company, in Col. Loami Baldwin's Regiment in the Mass'tts line from December 2 d 1775 to 16 th Sept r 1776 when he was taken prisoner near New York Gideon Carter
I sworn to & declared before Wm Wetmore Judge above named

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Wm Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Gideon Carter do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.
Gideon Carter
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Gideon Carter took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Wm Wetmore
Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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
Seven dollars thirty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker Clerk

34 166 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 166
Gideon Carter
Rev Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 65
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Explanatory Declaration
I Gideon Cartar, the within named declarant, a citizen of the United States, do on oath testify and make the following explanatory declaration, That on or about the 10 th day of May, Seventeen hundred seventy five I enlisted in Capt. Barnabas Dodge's company in Col. Gerrish's Regiment within named, for the term of eight months and served accordingly to the month of November, when I asked for but could not obtain a furlough except I enlisted again for the year's service; and I served accordingly to the 1 st of December, A.D. 1775 when I was regularly discharged from the eight months enlistment and on the following day, being the 2 nd of December, Seventeen hundred seventy five I again enlisted anew for the term of ONE YEAR in the aforesaid Capt. Barnabas Dodge's company in the same Regiment of foot in the Massachusetts line of the army commanded by Col. Baldwin after Col. Gerrish was broke; that I served accordingly as a private against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence until the British took possession of New York City, which was on the fifteenth day of September in the year Seventeen hundred seventy six, being nine months and fourteen days, when I was taken prisoner by the enemy and kept in prison until the month of March in the year Seventeen hundred seventy seven, when I was exchanged.
Gideon Cartar
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss Gloucester, April 22 d 1819.
Then the above named Gideon Cartar personally appeared before me, subscribed his name, and made solemn oath to the truth of the above explanatory declaration by him made and subscribed
Isaac Elwell, { Justice of the Peace.

Essex Jo.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts April 20th. 1819.
I Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said State in and for said County hereby certify that Isaac Elwell Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified to administer oaths; that his signature within written is genuine; and that the seal affixed is the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State.
In Certificate addressed to the Deputations by me Wm Wilson Judge

I William Kelham of Manchester in the county of Essex & common- wealth of Massachusetts of the age of sixty one years testify & say: That I was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War in the service of the United States against the common enemy. I was a private soldier in in Capt. Baine Dodge's company in the Regiment of foot commanded by Col. Baldwin, from May A.D. 1775. to the close of the year A.D. 1776. being twenty months, and Gideon Carter of Gloucester in said county was a private soldier in the same company and served with me during the twenty months aforesaid. And I further testify that the said Gideon Carter who is here present, is the same Gideon Carter who served with me as aforesaid. Wm Kelham
Essex ss. June 10 th 1818. Then the above named William Kelham made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed. Col. Lonson Nash. Jus. Pacis

I Jonathan Burnham of Ipswich, County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, do on oath testify and say, That in the war of the Revolution I served as a private in Col o Moses Little's Regiment of foot on the Continental establishment in the Massachusetts line during the year 1776; that I was well acquainted with Gideon Carter of Gloucester who was a private in Col o Gerrish's Regiment in said Massachusetts line on the Continental establishment; that the time of his enlisting for the year's service in his explanatory declaration of his leaving said service, are to my knowledge just and true, as also the length of time he continued in the service as testified in his explanatory declaration.
Jonathan Burnham
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss. Gloucester, April 23 d 1819
Then the above named Jonathan Burnham personally appeared before me and in my presence subscribed his name and made solemn oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed; and I certify that the said Burnham is well known to me as a respectable and credible witness and disinterested in his testimony
Isaac Elwell { Justice of the Peace.
I Henry Davis of Gloucester, County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, do on oath testify and say, That in the war of the Revolution I served as a private in Col o Hutchinson's Regiment of foot on the Continental establishment in the Massachusetts line during the year 1776; that I am well acquainted with Gideon Carter, a native citizen of Gloucester aforesaid, and the present applicant for a pension, who was a private in Col o Gerrish's Regiment in said Massachusetts line on the Continental establishment; that I saw him while in the service, particularly on or about the 7 th of September A.D. 1776 after the retreat from Long Island and before the evacuation of New York City; that the time of his enlisting for the year's service in his explanatory declaration, the time he continued therein, and of leaving said service, are to my knowledge just and true; and that the P. Carter is the identical person who served as aforesaid
Henry Davis
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss. Gloucester, April 20 th , 1819.
Then the above named Henry Davis personally appeared before me,

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex Is. April 20th. 1819.
I Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts of said State in and for said County hereby certify, that Isaac Elwell Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly qualified to administer oaths; that his signatures within written are genuine; and that the seal affixed is the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State.
The abovenamed Ichabod Tucker being absent on a journey to Philadelphia not soon to return, I hereby certify that Isaac Elwell Esq. is to me personally known as an acting Justice of the Peace in the County of Essex, within the Circuit, where I am one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas & that full faith & credit are sought to be given to his attestations. Witness my hand and Seal the day & year above said.
W m Wetmore