Captain Joseph Carter, Sr

Captain in the Conn. Militia. in the French & Indian War & the Revolutionary War. DAR# A019987

First child of Thomas Carter and his second wife, Sarah Gilbert, born in Hebron, Conn., Sept. 13, 1731, died Warren, Conn., Aug. 26, 1824. Married at Kent(Warren) Conn., March 9, 1758, to Ruth Curtis. Capt. Carter was a man of much prominence in the affairs of the town, was chosen first selectman when Warren was set off from Kent, and repeatedly was elected to offices of trust and responsibility. In the French and Indian war, he served as a private in Capt. Samuel Dunham's Company, in the alarm to relieve Fort William Henry in August, 1757. He was appointed by the General Court in 1767 Ensign of the 2d Company, or Train Band, in the town of Kent; Lieutenant of the same company in 1770 and Captain in 1772. He was Captain in the 13th Regimaent of Militia at New York in 1774 and marched with the same company, in which two of his brothers were also officers, for the relief of Danbury in 1777. He was also Captain in the 13th Reg. Sept. 1779 at Peeskill.