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Obadiah and Judith Carter
STATE OF KENTUCKY, FAYETTE COUNTY. On the 16th day of June 1818, personally appeared Obadiah Carter, age 63, residing in the town of Lexington; that he entered the service 1775; that Captain Samuel Haines in the 2nd Virginia regiment, served out his time except abut eight days and then enlisted in Col Baylor's regiment of horse called light dragoons for 3 years, served out that time and he being discharged at the Catawba River, at the Old Nation Ford returned home to Virginia and in a short time, was called out again in the militia service and not again discharged until after the capture of Cornwallis at Little York. After the defeat of Col Baylor in the Jersey - I was under the command of Col William Washington, Col Baylor, being disabled, a wound in his groins, making his whole term of service about five years; that he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown, Stone, and Red House, in the south besides many other similar engagements, skirmishes, etc. He was with Col Washington at the taking of Ridgeley's Mills, when the enemy were alarmed with pine logs in the shape of cannon over the Santee. Took some prisoners after some sharp skirmishes and that he was one of the few who escaped from Col Buford defeat, having been attached from his company with a few others sometime previous and that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his possession of his services within the accompanying affidavit.
Affidavit of Reuben Stivers, Sr, states that he is well acquainted with said Carter and knew him while he was in the service in 1775-6-7 & 8. I knew or belonged to the Light Horse, the last two or three years that I was acquainted with him. This May 29-1818.
STATE OF
KENTUCKY: SCOTT COUNTY. On the 30th day of August, 1838, personally
appeared before me, Robert McCalla, JP. Judge Carter, aged over 85.
That she is the widow of Obadiah Carter, she states that she can
neither read nor write and knows nothing of the battles in which he
fought but remembers well he was over five years in said war and
served to the end of the war; that she was married to the said O.C.
March 13-1781 and that he died 28th July 1820, all of which is taken
from the family Bible. She lives at least ten miles from the Scott
County court house. That the undersigned neighbors have known Judge
Christian from her infancy - signed John and Philip Hudson.
BIRTHS:
One James B. Black clergyman residing in the town on Stamping Ground made affidavit.
She states in 1839 Scott Co, Ky that she was married in
March 13-1781 by Parson Mathews of Essex Co, Va and that her husband
aforesaid O Carter died July 28-1820 and that she was married to him
two months prior to his leaving the service.
Source: Records of Revolutionary War Pensions of Soldiers who Settled in Fayette County Kentucky Annie Walker Burns, compiler, Washington DC, 1936 Copy held by the Kentucky Room, Lexington Public Library Call number: R976.947 B4128r KY1936 |