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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Bailey Carter was born about August 1742 at Virginia. He was a great-grandson of English immigrants to Virginia. He was an apprentice to John Waller and learned the craft of shoemaking. He moved to Halifax County, a part of present-day Henry County.
In 1762, Bailey Carter was inducted into the Halifax County Militia as a Private under Lieutenant Colonel Adams Stephen and served at Fort Trial, near present-day Martinsville, Virginia, to the end of the French and Indian War. His duties included scouting for hostile Indians and French trappers. He did not receive pay for this service.
Bailey Carter married Nancy Teague in 1764.
He went to the Henry County Courthouse, July 27, 1780, and made an oath that he served as a soldier in Colonel Adam Stephen's campaign in the year 1762 and did not receive his bounty of land as agreed for serving the King of England's Proclamation of 1763.
Carter was granted this bounty of land for serving the King by renouncing the King: " I do swear or affirm that I renounce and refuse all allegiance to George III, King of Great Britain… and that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the Commonwealth of Virginia, as a free and independent state."
Bailey Carter died about 1820, aged 77 years.
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