Cary or Carey, Alexander

Pension Number: R. 1679, State Served: Georgia, (Pension Documentation Length: 13 Pages)

Territory of Florida, Western District, Walton County

On the 23rd Day of November, 1833, having been called upon to attend at the dwelling Alexander Carey a resident of Walton County, owing to the great bodily infirmity of said Carey which prevents him from attending the court of said County, said Alexander Carey 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 the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

That he enlisted in the Army of the United States early in the War of the revolution, he thinks in the latter end of 1776 or the beginning of 1777 – the date he cannot remember. He was then between forty and fifty-five years of age, that he thinks he is now nearly one hundred years old, but his precise age he cannot ascertain as he has not record thereof remaining. He was **born in the State of Pennsylvania **whence he moved before the commencement of the war to Burke County in Georgia when he enlisted as aforesaid.

The only officers under whose command he served, whose name he now remembers are Colonel Stewart, Colonel Jack and Captain Alexander. He served as a regular soldier under said enlistment for the term of three years. After the expiration of said term he again served in the Militia among what was called the “Minute Men” until the close of the war. In the course of his first service he marched with his regiment to the St. John’s River in Florida. After remaining there, for some time he marched back to the State of Georgia and was discharged at a place called “Midway Meeting House.” That his discharge was burnt in his house upward of thirty years ago, when his house was consumed by fire. He does not remember who gave him his discharge. Since the Revolutionary War, he has lived mostly in the State of Georgia, whence he moved about eleven years ago to Alabama and about four years since he moved to Walton County where he now resides.

He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency of the State of Georgia

X his mark Alexander Cary

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid –

David Gartman

Judge of the County Court of Walton County

Alexander Carey, No. 1679

List of suspended claims, printed in 1852, shows cause of suspension as follows:

“For proof of service.”