Sergeant, 13th Regiment Connecticut Militia, at the Battle of New York; Danbury, Connecticut 1777 and Peekskill, New York 1779; same company that his brother, Joseph Carter, commanded.
According to his death notice in the American Mercury, he died of spotted fever, along with two other Salisbury men, Darius Joslen & Thomas Ball (U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, ancestry.com).
Sergeant, 13th Regiment Connecticut Militia, at the Battle of New York; Danbury, Connecticut 1777 and Peekskill, New York 1779; same company that his brother, Joseph Carter, commanded.
According to his death notice in the American Mercury, he died of spotted fever, along with two other Salisbury men, Darius Joslen & Thomas Ball (U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930, ancestry.com).
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