State of Georgia
County of Madison
Court of Ordinary September Term 1832
On this third day of September in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and
thirty two personally appeared in open court before James Anderson, John Meroney, Noah W.
Pittman and James Long, Justices of the Inferior Court now sitting as a court of Ordinary,
Robert Carithers a resident in Capt. Seal’s Company District of Georgia Militia in
the County of Madison and State of Georgia, aged Eighty eight 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 act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named
officers and served as herein stated, to wit, he entered as a volunteer on the twenty
fourth day of December seventeen hundred and eighty as a private under the command of
Capt. Robert Anderson, Alexander Noble as Major and Andrew Pickens as Colonel, and
continued to serve as a private until about the last of May seventeen hundred and eighty
one, when he received a Captains commission and continued in the service as Captain until
the end of the war between England and America, and also continued to hold said command
until some time in the Fall season of the year seventeen hundred and eighty four for the
purpose of protecting the frontiers of South Carolina. And he joined General Morgan’s
army a short time before the battle of the Cowpens ~ he was ordered with a party of men to
guard some public property, which duty he was performing when the battle of the Cowpens
took place and by that means was deprived of being in the battle. He resided in the
District of Ninety Six in the State of South Carolina when he entered the service under
the command of Colonel Pickens. He was not in any regular engagement with the British army
but in several skirmishes with the Torys and Indians ~ in one of them he was wounded in
the thigh ~ those skirmishes were principally on the Frontiers. After joining Col. Pickens
regiment as aforesaid he marched until he joined the army under Genl. Morgan (when he was
detached to guard as aforesaid). After the battle of the Cowpens he again joined General
Morgan and marched with the army to Guilford North Carolina, when by orders from General
Green the troops under the command under Col. Pickens returned to guard South Carolina
from the depredations of the Torys and Indians. He was also at the siege of Ninety Six. He
was not acquainted with any of the regular officers, only those before stated. He has lost
or mislaid his Commission so that it cannot now be procured ~ he has no documentary
evidence ~ but submits the affidavit of James McClesky herewith annexed. He has no
discharge. In answer to the interrogations presented by the War Department and propounded
by the court he answereth as follows to wit ~
Answer to first Interrogatory ~ he was born in Lancaster County Pennsylvania
the 30th day of March 1744
Answer to second Inter ~ he has a record of his age at his house
Answer to third Inter ~ he was living in the District of Ninety Six in the
State of South Carolina, he removed to Wilkes County in Georgia about the Seventeen
hundred and ninety, which now forms a part of Madison County and has resided in said
County of Madison ever since.
Answer to fourth Inter ~ he volunteered
Answer to fifth Inter ~ he has stated in his declaration all he recollects on
that subject
Answer to sixth Inter ~ he never received a discharge, and he has either lost
or mislaid his Commission. He received his Commission from Governor Rutledge of South
Carolina.
Answer to seventh Inter ~ he refers you to James Thompson, Robert Griffith,
William Thompson, Robert Groves, James Long, Stephen Groves, &c.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity and
declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Robert (x) Carithers
State of Georgia
County of Madison
This twelfth day of November Eighteen hundred and fifty one, be it known that
before me, Benet Sims, a Justice of the Peace in and fore the county aforesaid, personally
appeared Amos Carithers a resident of said county aged thirty-six 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 of the act of Congress passed 7th July 1838
entitled an Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That he is the
administrator of Mary Carithers widow of Robert Carithers deceased who was a private and
captain in the war of the Revolution and served as such in the State of South Carolina.
He further declares that she was married to the said Robert Carithers in
Abbeville District State of South Carolina on the 18th day of April in the year
seventeen hundred and eighty two, that her said husband the aforesaid Robert Carithers
died on the fourth day of October eighteen hundred and thirty two in the aforesaid county
of Madison and State of Georgia, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the
service but the marriage took place prior to the first day of January 1794, viz, at the
time above stated as will fully appear by the family record hereto annexed in the
handwriting of the aforesaid Robert Carithers.
He further states that the aforesaid Mary Carithers widow of Robert Carithers
died on the Eight day of February 1842 leaving the following children, to wit, Mary F.
Carithers and Margaret Carithers.
Amos Carithers
Sworn to & subscribed on the day and year first above written by me
Bennet Sims, JP
Elizabeth Carithers was born the 30th Day of January 1783
James Carithers was born the 25th Day of October 1784
Mary Carithers was born the 11th Day of September 1786
---- Ciay Carithers was born the 21th day of September 1788
Robert Carithers was born the 30th Day of March 1744
Mary Luckie was born the 24th Day of September 1758
Robert Carithers and Mary Luckie was married September April the 18th
1782
State of Georgia
County of Madison
I, Richard B. Gholston, clerk of the court of Ordinary for said county do
hereby certify that the leaf herewith enclosed containing two pages of entries and upon
which is made an entry of the intermarriage of Robert Carithers and Mary Luckie on the
eighteen day of April seventeen hundred and eighty two appears upon examination to have
been taken from the Family Record of said Robert Carithers.
Given under my hand & seal of office this eight day of January eighteen hundred and
fifty two.
Rich’d B. Gholston
Clerk of said Court
