Pension Application of John Carper: S37825

                        Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris

 

Virginia

            At a Court of Quarterly Sessions held for Montgomery County at the Court house on the 1st day of November 1830

            On this first day of November 1830 personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the county of Montgomery aforesaid, John Carper resident in said county, aged seventy three years, who being first duly 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 18th March 1818 and the last of May 1820. that he the said John Carper enlisted for the term of one year in the fall of the year 1780, in the state of Virginia, in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Gilkman in Regiment commanded by Colo [Richard] Campbell (who fell at the Utau springs [sic: Battle of Eutaw Springs SC, 8 Sep 1781], in the line of the State of Virginia on continental establishment, that he continued to serve in the said corps (which after the death of Colo Campbell was commanded by Colo House) until sometime in the year 1782, he was discharged from the service in Salisbury in the state of South [sic: North] Carolina; That although from his present recollection he enlisted to serve only one year, yet he was continued in the service near three years, and that he was in the battles of the Utau springs and Camden [Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill SC, 25 Apr 1781]; And in pursuance of the act of May 1st 1820, 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 other 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 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  Schedule of the whole estate of John Carper real and personal. Lands none,

horses 5 Head worth                                                               $150:00

   Horned cattle 13 Head $72: Hogs about 20 head $20 . . . . . . 92:00

   Sheep 25 head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  .  . . . . . . . .  25:00

                                                                                                $267:00

                        John his X mark Carper

My family consists of myself and an aged wife. I lived upon rented land at Willis [now in Floyd County], on the 18th of March 1818, I owned no land and rather less of personal property than I now own. what property I did then own, was of the same character of that specified in my foregoing schedule, and at no point of time since the 18th of March 1818 was I owner of more property than that which I now own, and I have used it from time to time only in a common family way; Sworn to and subscribed on the first day of November 1830 before the court aforesaid.                   John his X mark Carper

 

NOTE:  The pension certificate notes that Carper was paid until his death on 18 Feb 1841.