David Carty

Law Order Book 9, Page 43
Dec. 4, 1832

State of Virginia, County of Russell, SS:

On this 4th say of December, 1832, personally appeared before the County Court of Russell, David Carty, a resident of Russell County and State of Virginia, aged about seventy nine or eighty years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year he thinks of 1776 under Captain______Combs in the county of Loudon in the State of Virginia for a tour of Eighteen months;………

That he returned home where he remained some time, when some of his relations removed to the Red Stone river a tributary stream of the Ohio in the state of Pennsylvania, and that he the said David Carty accompanies them for the purpose of aiding his relatives, and that whilst he was there he volunteered under Captain_______Cross, Lieutenant Triplett he thinks, and that the said company as well as he now recollects, formed a part of the Regiment of the Pennsylvania State Line commanded by Cols. William Craford [sic] and John Crawford and they were designed to form a part of Genl. McIntosh’s army in his intended expedition against Fort Detroit rendezvoused at Pittsburgh and marched from thence to the mouth of Big Beaver and built Fort McIntosh so named in honor of their General, and from thence marched to Tuscarawas river, when the cold weather forced them into winter quarters and they set about building a fort, which was called Fort Lawrence, and which he supposes retains its name to the present day. That they remained at Fort Lawrence until about Christmas—at Tuscarawas river they were met by a body of Indians of about six or seven hundred, with whom General McIntosh made a treaty of peace, and the company to which the said David Carty belonged was marched back to Fort McIntosh and discharged after having been in the service about four months, lacking five or six days to the time they were discharged, but rather more than four months including the time occupies in traveling home to the County of Loudon in the State of Virginia. That he the said David Cartry remained at home a short time…..

That in the whole to the best of his present recollection he was in the service of the United States in the War of the revolution, fully four years. That he has always been in humble circumstances, and removed to Bedford County in Virginia where he resided some ten or fifteen years, when he removed to Carter County in the State of Tennessee, and after living there some years he removed to the County of Russell in the State of Virginia, where he has resided ever since. That he had several discharges which from the great lapse of time have either been lost or mislaid so that he cannot now produce them. That it has been many years since he has visited that part of the county in which he lived when called, into the war of the Revolution, and not having a very extensive acquaintance, and what he being with those who like himself were poor, some of whom removed to other parts of the world, and others less favored than himself with a long life, have died, so that he is now deprived so far as he knows, of the testimony of any human being who can testify to his service in the War of the Revolution—He hereby relinquished every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name in not on the pension roll of the agency of any State. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. /X/ his mark David Carty. Witness: Samuel Gibson, a Clergyman.

The information on David Carty was submitted to the Friends of Fort Laurens Foundation by Carty, Thomas C. “Re: David Carty, Sr.” E-mail to Friends of Fort Laurens Foundation. 11 June 2002.

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