Husband of Nancy Ann Sandidge Carr.
Children: Meekins, Dabney, John Bluford, Susannah, Anna, Nancy Elizabeth, Sally, Micajah, & Martha.
Parents: Gideon and Susannah Meekins Carr.
Siblings: William, Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Micajah W., Mary, Nancy, & Meekins.
Lived in home of son, John Bluford Carr, at time of his death.
A letter to Mrs. Bailey Davis, of Cadiz, Kentucky, dated November 2, 1937
Dear Madam,
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Gideon Carr of Albermarle County, Virginia. The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.3119, based upon the military service of Gideon Carr in the War of the Revolution.
Gideon Carr was born November 5, 1752 in Albermarle County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given. While residing in said Albemarle County, Gideon Carr served, shortly after the capture of Burgoyne, four months in Colonel Taylor's Virginia regiment, guarding prisoners at Albemarle Barracks. He enlisted in the spring of 1781, and served in Captain Leak's company, Colonel Lindsley's Virginia regiment, marched below Richmond, and was there placed under Captain Hamner and marched up the James River to guard public stores, length of this service two months.
He moved about ten years after the close of the Revolution from Albemarle County, to Dickson County, Tennessee.
The papers on file in this claim contain no reference to the wife or children of the soldier, Gideon Carr. His brother, Meekins Carr, was living in 1833 in Albemarle County, Virginia.
In order to obain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and furnish the following data:
Gideon Carr
Certificate #25097
Issued November 23, 1833
Rate $21.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
West Tennessee Agency.
Very Truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Served in the Revolutionary War as a private. (Revolutionary War Series Virginia-Series. M 805 Roll. 164 Image. 89 File S 3119. Pension started October 8, 1833. Received $21.00 a year.
"Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Dickson County, Tn." Includes Gideon Carr, Va., among others.
Erected by Gideon Carr Chapter DAR 1976 Bicentenniel.
Monument in front of County Courthouse. Charlotte, Dickson County, Tennessee.
June 1, 1820
Albemarle County, Virginia
I, Gideon Carr of Albemarle County, Virginia being of perfect mind, infirm state of health, make my will. 1st pay just debts. 2nd To wife Ann Carr, during her life or widowhood the house and tract of land where I now reside with household and kitchen furniture she may deem necessary with two work horses, 3 milk cows, 10 sheep, and as many hogs and corn she thinks sufficient for support of herself and family. 1 yr after her death, balance to be sold and equally divided among my 9 children or their heirs, with deduction of any account I may have against them. Should a misunderstanding arise the executors should choose a third party to make the decision and it shall be binding if they fail to comply they forfeit. I appoint my son John B. Carr my executor.
Gideon Carr (Seal)
June 1, 1820
Wit. Jas Old.,p.
1840 Dickson County, Tn. Federal Census He is listed: Gideon Carr, 90, living with John B. Carr. ( Death date on tombstone is incorrect.)
Children: Meekins, Dabney, John Bluford, Susannah, Anna, Nancy Elizabeth, Sally, Micajah, & Martha.
Parents: Gideon and Susannah Meekins Carr.
Siblings: William, Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Micajah W., Mary, Nancy, & Meekins.
Lived in home of son, John Bluford Carr, at time of his death.
A letter to Mrs. Bailey Davis, of Cadiz, Kentucky, dated November 2, 1937
Dear Madam,
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Gideon Carr of Albermarle County, Virginia. The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.3119, based upon the military service of Gideon Carr in the War of the Revolution.
Gideon Carr was born November 5, 1752 in Albermarle County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given. While residing in said Albemarle County, Gideon Carr served, shortly after the capture of Burgoyne, four months in Colonel Taylor's Virginia regiment, guarding prisoners at Albemarle Barracks. He enlisted in the spring of 1781, and served in Captain Leak's company, Colonel Lindsley's Virginia regiment, marched below Richmond, and was there placed under Captain Hamner and marched up the James River to guard public stores, length of this service two months.
He moved about ten years after the close of the Revolution from Albemarle County, to Dickson County, Tennessee.
The papers on file in this claim contain no reference to the wife or children of the soldier, Gideon Carr. His brother, Meekins Carr, was living in 1833 in Albemarle County, Virginia.
In order to obain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and furnish the following data:
Gideon Carr
Certificate #25097
Issued November 23, 1833
Rate $21.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
West Tennessee Agency.
Very Truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Served in the Revolutionary War as a private. (Revolutionary War Series Virginia-Series. M 805 Roll. 164 Image. 89 File S 3119. Pension started October 8, 1833. Received $21.00 a year.
"Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Dickson County, Tn." Includes Gideon Carr, Va., among others.
Erected by Gideon Carr Chapter DAR 1976 Bicentenniel.
Monument in front of County Courthouse. Charlotte, Dickson County, Tennessee.
June 1, 1820
Albemarle County, Virginia
I, Gideon Carr of Albemarle County, Virginia being of perfect mind, infirm state of health, make my will. 1st pay just debts. 2nd To wife Ann Carr, during her life or widowhood the house and tract of land where I now reside with household and kitchen furniture she may deem necessary with two work horses, 3 milk cows, 10 sheep, and as many hogs and corn she thinks sufficient for support of herself and family. 1 yr after her death, balance to be sold and equally divided among my 9 children or their heirs, with deduction of any account I may have against them. Should a misunderstanding arise the executors should choose a third party to make the decision and it shall be binding if they fail to comply they forfeit. I appoint my son John B. Carr my executor.
Gideon Carr (Seal)
June 1, 1820
Wit. Jas Old.,p.
1840 Dickson County, Tn. Federal Census He is listed: Gideon Carr, 90, living with John B. Carr. ( Death date on tombstone is incorrect.)
Husband of Nancy Ann Sandidge Carr.
Children: Meekins, Dabney, John Bluford, Susannah, Anna, Nancy Elizabeth, Sally, Micajah, & Martha.
Parents: Gideon and Susannah Meekins Carr.
Siblings: William, Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Micajah W., Mary, Nancy, & Meekins.
Lived in home of son, John Bluford Carr, at time of his death.
A letter to Mrs. Bailey Davis, of Cadiz, Kentucky, dated November 2, 1937
Dear Madam,
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Gideon Carr of Albermarle County, Virginia. The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.3119, based upon the military service of Gideon Carr in the War of the Revolution.
Gideon Carr was born November 5, 1752 in Albermarle County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given. While residing in said Albemarle County, Gideon Carr served, shortly after the capture of Burgoyne, four months in Colonel Taylor's Virginia regiment, guarding prisoners at Albemarle Barracks. He enlisted in the spring of 1781, and served in Captain Leak's company, Colonel Lindsley's Virginia regiment, marched below Richmond, and was there placed under Captain Hamner and marched up the James River to guard public stores, length of this service two months.
He moved about ten years after the close of the Revolution from Albemarle County, to Dickson County, Tennessee.
The papers on file in this claim contain no reference to the wife or children of the soldier, Gideon Carr. His brother, Meekins Carr, was living in 1833 in Albemarle County, Virginia.
In order to obain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and furnish the following data:
Gideon Carr
Certificate #25097
Issued November 23, 1833
Rate $21.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
West Tennessee Agency.
Very Truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Served in the Revolutionary War as a private. (Revolutionary War Series Virginia-Series. M 805 Roll. 164 Image. 89 File S 3119. Pension started October 8, 1833. Received $21.00 a year.
"Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Dickson County, Tn." Includes Gideon Carr, Va., among others.
Erected by Gideon Carr Chapter DAR 1976 Bicentenniel.
Monument in front of County Courthouse. Charlotte, Dickson County, Tennessee.
June 1, 1820
Albemarle County, Virginia
I, Gideon Carr of Albemarle County, Virginia being of perfect mind, infirm state of health, make my will. 1st pay just debts. 2nd To wife Ann Carr, during her life or widowhood the house and tract of land where I now reside with household and kitchen furniture she may deem necessary with two work horses, 3 milk cows, 10 sheep, and as many hogs and corn she thinks sufficient for support of herself and family. 1 yr after her death, balance to be sold and equally divided among my 9 children or their heirs, with deduction of any account I may have against them. Should a misunderstanding arise the executors should choose a third party to make the decision and it shall be binding if they fail to comply they forfeit. I appoint my son John B. Carr my executor.
Gideon Carr (Seal)
June 1, 1820
Wit. Jas Old.,p.
1840 Dickson County, Tn. Federal Census He is listed: Gideon Carr, 90, living with John B. Carr. ( Death date on tombstone is incorrect.)
Children: Meekins, Dabney, John Bluford, Susannah, Anna, Nancy Elizabeth, Sally, Micajah, & Martha.
Parents: Gideon and Susannah Meekins Carr.
Siblings: William, Thomas, Elizabeth, John, Micajah W., Mary, Nancy, & Meekins.
Lived in home of son, John Bluford Carr, at time of his death.
A letter to Mrs. Bailey Davis, of Cadiz, Kentucky, dated November 2, 1937
Dear Madam,
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Gideon Carr of Albermarle County, Virginia. The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S.3119, based upon the military service of Gideon Carr in the War of the Revolution.
Gideon Carr was born November 5, 1752 in Albermarle County, Virginia. The names of his parents were not given. While residing in said Albemarle County, Gideon Carr served, shortly after the capture of Burgoyne, four months in Colonel Taylor's Virginia regiment, guarding prisoners at Albemarle Barracks. He enlisted in the spring of 1781, and served in Captain Leak's company, Colonel Lindsley's Virginia regiment, marched below Richmond, and was there placed under Captain Hamner and marched up the James River to guard public stores, length of this service two months.
He moved about ten years after the close of the Revolution from Albemarle County, to Dickson County, Tennessee.
The papers on file in this claim contain no reference to the wife or children of the soldier, Gideon Carr. His brother, Meekins Carr, was living in 1833 in Albemarle County, Virginia.
In order to obain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., and furnish the following data:
Gideon Carr
Certificate #25097
Issued November 23, 1833
Rate $21.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
West Tennessee Agency.
Very Truly yours,
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
Served in the Revolutionary War as a private. (Revolutionary War Series Virginia-Series. M 805 Roll. 164 Image. 89 File S 3119. Pension started October 8, 1833. Received $21.00 a year.
"Soldiers of the American Revolution buried in Dickson County, Tn." Includes Gideon Carr, Va., among others.
Erected by Gideon Carr Chapter DAR 1976 Bicentenniel.
Monument in front of County Courthouse. Charlotte, Dickson County, Tennessee.
June 1, 1820
Albemarle County, Virginia
I, Gideon Carr of Albemarle County, Virginia being of perfect mind, infirm state of health, make my will. 1st pay just debts. 2nd To wife Ann Carr, during her life or widowhood the house and tract of land where I now reside with household and kitchen furniture she may deem necessary with two work horses, 3 milk cows, 10 sheep, and as many hogs and corn she thinks sufficient for support of herself and family. 1 yr after her death, balance to be sold and equally divided among my 9 children or their heirs, with deduction of any account I may have against them. Should a misunderstanding arise the executors should choose a third party to make the decision and it shall be binding if they fail to comply they forfeit. I appoint my son John B. Carr my executor.
Gideon Carr (Seal)
June 1, 1820
Wit. Jas Old.,p.
1840 Dickson County, Tn. Federal Census He is listed: Gideon Carr, 90, living with John B. Carr. ( Death date on tombstone is incorrect.)
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PVT COL TAYLOR'S
VIRGINIA REGT.
REV WAR
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