• General Notes

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  William Carpenter inher.  homstead of Peter
  Carpenter/Zimmerman in Lincoln Co. ? notes from Carpenters
  A Plenty.  William and wife both buried in Michael
  Carpenter Cemt. NC
  
  http://pages.prodigy.com/UGXA64A/ansdeed.htm Anson Co. NC
  Deeds Seller/Buyer/ date/book/description Isaac Sullivant &
  wife Nancy William Carpenter December 8, 1824 Y pg. 487 Big
  Brown Creek, Nancy's dower from D. Allen Isaac Sullivant
  was born around 1770 according to census records and the
  testimony found in Gardner High's Revolutionary War pension
  records. In his testimony dated 1838, Isaac certified that
  he was present when Gardner High and Rachel Gibbs went to
  the church to get married in Brunswick Co., Virginia at the
  start of the Revolutionary War.
  
  
  The first official record of Isaac in Halifax County is
  found in the book Halifax County North Carolina Court
  Minutes: Volume II:1796-1797 , Abstracted by Stephen E.
  Bradley, Jr. in Para. 837, pg. 71, May Court 1797, where
  Isaac was the administrator of the estate of James Merritt
  with Robert Brantley and Thomas Gayner as securitys.
  
  Isaac was married to Euridice Merritt, daughter of Richard
  and Sarah Merritt of Halifax County. From the census data
  available on his children, he was probably married around
  1790 although there have been no marriage records found.
  Isaac is first mentioned as a brother-in-law in a will left
  by Ephriam Merritt in Halifax County in 1801. From the deed
  evidence in both Halifax and Anson Counties, North
  Carolina, Isaac appears to have moved from Halifax Co. to
  Anson Co. in the period between 1807 and 1817 . In an 1817
  Halifax Deed, he is listed as a resident of Anson County.
  He is also listed in the Anson County 1810 census.
  
  From the deeds and census information in Anson County, had
  the following children:
  
  
  
  Martha SULLIVANT b. Abt 1794 m. Willis ALSOBROOK Sarah
  SULLIVANT b. 13 Jul 1796 m. Joseph John WILLIAMS Isaac
  Hunter SULLIVANT b. 1799 m. Susan WILLIAMS, m. Delilah
  PRITCHARD Lucy SULLIVANT-b. Abt 1800 m. Rev. John TARRANT
  Frances (Fanny) SULLIVANT-b. Abt. 1804 m. Jesse WALLACE
  Joseph SULLIVANT-b. 26 May 1806 m. Mary (Polly) GADDY
  Euridice SULLIVAN-b. 1810 m. William EDWARDS Mary
  SULLIVANT-b. 1815 m. James PLUNKETT
  
  http://www.inct.net/~german/revwar/carpentr.htm Anson Co.
  NC GenWeb page, Rev. War Pensions Application of Isaac
  Carpenter with affidavit of William Carpenter (from
  National Archives pension application file ????? [North
  Carolina]) Submitted by Louis Carpenter LouisSMU@@aol.com.
  State of No. Carolina }  October Session, 1832 On this 9th
  day of October
          Anson County }   1832 personal appeared before the
  Court  ______ Justice of Said Court for the County of
  Anson, now sitting Isaac Carpenter a resident of said
  County of Anson State of No.Carolina aged sixtyeight years
  who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his
  oath make the following declaration In order to obtain the
  benefits of the Act of Congress  passed  ___ the ____ 1832
  the says that he entered the services of the United States
  under the following named officers and served as herein
  stated he says that the 1st engagement that he entered his
  service at Halifax  it was in Halifax County, No. Carolina
  that he joined the army as a substitute (or that he took
  his fathers place) and that his father was drafted, he
  states that he entered the service about the 1st day July
  1780 that he mustered under Captain Wallis & John Branch
  was Coll. of the County & that he marched from Halifax to
  Lewisburg in Franklin county, and that he does not
  recollect his captain for he thinks he was sick or did not
  march with him tho he marched under William Morris which
  was the 1st Sergeant & at Lewisburg was put under the
  command of Coll. Seawell and then marched to Gen Gates army
  in South Carolina got to Pee Dee River in So. Carolina who
  we met part of Gates men retreating from Gates defeat we
  then retreated back to Chatham Courthouse where we were met
  and I was then put under the command of Capt Armstrong.
  Then marched to Salisbury from there to Charlotte and from
  there to Sugar Creek near the British lines and continued
  there about two weeks We then retreated to Charlotte and
  was pursued by the British Army Where we had some
  skirmishing fighting and from there to Salisbury and then
  across the Yardkin River and from some time and was
  reinforced by Col. Lee and Washington, we then recrossed
  the Yardkin River and was discharged  the 12th day of Nov
  1780 believes Charlotte and Salisbury and then returned
  home in company with my 1st Sgt. William Morris.
  
  He further says that he entered the 2nd engagement about
  the 15th day of June 1781 that he was a drafted soldier in
  the militia service that he was drafted immediately after
  the British left Halifax town, that he was under the
  command of Capt. Jones and then after the draft he
  continued at Halifax about one month waiting for orders
  where to march that they then marched under the Command of
  Col. Branch and towards Eadington but did not proceed far
  before they got orders to stop an then continued waiting
  for further orders till then service expired and was
  discharged about the 15th day of September 1781.
  
  He furthers says that he entered the 3 engagement or tenure
  of Service as a volunteer that by order of the Col of
  County a certain number of me had to be raised to guard a
  _____ of store wagons General Green headquarters in So.
  Carolina he says he entered the services as a volunteer
  about the 15th day of November as expected to March under
  Capt William Hall ____(ink blot) and the guard, the wagons
  15 in number  _____ (ink blot) to Halifax town with the
  march to Hills Company to then to Salisbury then by
  Charlotte and Camden So. Carolina then to Gen Green
  Headquarters at a place called the Round O. near Charleston
  or Savannah when we arrived the 2nd day of Dec 1781 and
  continued there sometime.  The waggons returned by order of
  Gen. Green and was some short time engaged Halling River
  and placing it at ______ H according to order until we met
  General Morris again near Charlotte during which time he
  says he acted as a guard for said waggons when marching and
  when not under the command of Capt William Rose the waggon
  master general and he further says that he acted as a
  soldier and was not employed in any other way, he then
  returned to Halifax town and the received his discharge
  about the 15th day of Feb 1782 and further says he served 9
  months and 12 days in the engagements and he further says
  he was born in Halifax Co, No. Carolina and continued their
  until he entered the service and further says that he got
  discharged in all three terms of service but that the
  thinks that he left them at his fathers home when he left
  his father and he has no recollection whatever became of
  them.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a
  pension or annuity except the present and declares that his
  name is not on the pension roll of the agency or any state
  and he says that he has not documentary evidence.  Sworn
  and subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
  
                                     Isaac Carpenter
  
  Interrogatory by the Court question the 1st Where and on
  what year were you born.  Answer I was born in Halafax
  (sic) County NoCarolina about the date of 1764 question 2nd
  have you record of your age answer I have none The 3 id.
  Where were you living when called into the service and
  where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where
  do you now live Answer in Halafax (sic) county moved from
  there to Orange County in this State  after the war and
  continued there about 7 years then I moved to Wake County
  and lived there about 11 years and then came to Anson where
  I have been ever since. 4th how were you called into the
  service where you drafted were you a volunteer or were you
  a substitute and if a substitute for who ans. I was first a
  substitute for my father I was then drafted and then a
  volunteer 5th State the names of some of the regular
  officer who were with the troops Where you served  whether
  Continental and Militia Regiments by you recollect and the
  general circumstances of you service Answer in my first
  term I went with Coll Seawell to SoCarolina I expect he was
  a Militia Coll and then back to Chatham and there was put
  under command of General Summer a Continental General and I
  was under Capt Armstrong part of my time and I think he was
  a regular officer and there was a great many regular
  officers with him but I dont recollect their names in my
  2nd term I was under no continental officers I was under
  Capt Jones and Coll Branch and they were militia officers
  In my 3rd rip I was under Capt hall a great part of my time
  who was a Continental officer tho part of my time under
  William Rose who as coll of the waggon master general, I
  think that there was some times five hundred men guarding
  the waggons at other times just few tho I dont remember
  many of the officers Question the 6th did you receive a
  discharge for m the Service and if so by who was it given
  and what has become of it. I think that I received a
  discharge in all three of my engagements but have lost them
  7th State the names of person to who you are known in
  present neighbourhood and who can certify to your character
  as to veracity and the belief of you services as a soldier
  of the revolution Ans. I think that any of my neighbours
  can state as to my veracity an that reputations if I have
  been a soldier.but no person in this part of the county now
  living knows of my service except my Brother William
  Carpenter who knows that I went into the cervices thru
  timing and returned he was too young to remember the length
  of time I was absent.
  
  
  State of No. Carolina }  October Session, 1832 On this 9th
  day of October
         Anson County}     1832 personal appeared before the
  Court ______ Justice of Said Court for the County of Anson,
  Rev. Jn. L. Kindall, a clergyman residing in the County of
  Anson and St. of No.Carolina and Edward Winfield residing
  in the said County of Anson hereby certify that we are well
  acquainted with Isaac Carpenter who have subscribed and
  Sworn to the above Declaration that we believe him to be 68
  years of age that he is respected and believed in the
  neighbourhood where he resides to of been a revolutionary
  soldier and that we concur in that opinion sworn to and
  subscribed this day and year aforesaid.
  
                                     J.L. Kindall
                                     Edw. Winfield
  
  
  State of NoCarolina    } October Court 1832 This day came
  unto
       Anson County } Open Court William Carpenter and after
  being duly sworn on the wholy (sic) evangelist of almighty
  God he says that he remembers very well that his Brother
  Isaac Carpenter went into the service of the United States
  as a soldier that he thinks he was about nine years old the
  1st time that his Brother Isaac entered the services and he
  says that he knows he went into the service and he
  remembers his returning but he was two (sic) small or young
  to remember how long he was gone that he knows that he went
  three times and he thinks that he served as long as stated
  in the declaration of said Isaac Carpenter and he further
  recollects that one time when he returned that one of the
  officers came with him. Sworn to and Subscribed in open
  court this 9th day of October, 1832
  
  
                                     WM Carpenter[576008.ftw]
  
  William Carpenter inher.  homstead of Peter Carpenter/Zimmerman in Lincoln Co. ? notes from Carpenters A Plenty.  William and wife both buried in Michael Carp enter Cemt. NC

Details of William's family with Amelia Rudisill