Maria Williams-Cole, SAR Grave Memorial Service, 2014 In 2014 at the culmination of my research for the North Carolina Society Sons of the American Revolution (NCSSAR), I wrote a post entitled, Private John Carter: Revolutionary War Pension File (R1749) He was honored on March 16th of that year at the Grave Memorial Ceremony at Harlowe Community Center in North Harlowe, North Carolina--in the community where my father-in-law, Chester Carter Sr., was born and raised. Vetting Sources When I worked with the NCSSAR, I not only researched the list of Patriots names the group supplied me with, but I gave them my database of over 2,500 descendants of Paul and Hannah Carter and Peter and Joan George, the progenitors of the Carter and George families in North Harlowe, along with the intertwined branches of that tree, including the familiar surnames of those still living in the community: Anderson Andrews Bannister Battle Becton Bell
Transcription 3749 Image 2 of 12 North Carolina Martin Black, Private, North Carolina line In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 22nd of April 1818-- Certificate of Pension issued the 20th of October 1818 and Sent to John Lewis Tayler Esq. Judge Newbern Arrears of 4th of Sept 1818..... 35:47 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th March 1819..... 40:-- $83:47 Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818 Three Years Continued Newbern, Craven Co. Declaration United States of America Image 3 of 12 State of North Carolina Martin Black maketh Oath that he is at this time and always has been a resident citizen of the State of North Carolina. He enlisted as a Soldier in the Continental line of the State of North Carolina during the War