MASSACHUSETTS. SOLDIERS and SAILORS in the WAR of the REV. part 10 CARTER, JOSIAH(?). Private, Capt Benjamin Allton's co, Col John Rand's regt; enlisted July 9, 1780; discharged Oct 10, 1780; service, 3 mos 12 days; company raised for 3 mos service at West Point. Roll sworn to at Charlton. CARTER, JOSIAH, Bridgewater. Descriptive list of men raised to reinforce Continental Army for the term of 6 mos, agreeable to resolve of June 5, 1780; age, 26 yrs; ststure, 5ft 9in; complexion, dark; residence, Bridgewater; arrived at Springfield July 17, 1780; marched to camp July 17, 1780, under command of Capt Abner Howard; also, pay roll for 6 mos men raised by the town of Bridgewater to reinforce Continental Army at West Point during 1780; marched July 10, 1780; service, 5 days; reported deserted. CARTER, JOSIAH, Leominster. 1st Major, Col Asa Whitcomb's regt; engaged April 19, 1775; service, 17 days; also, Lieut Col, Col Abijah Stearns's(8th Worcester Co) regt; listof field officers of Mass. militia; commissioned Feb 7, 1776; also, Lieutenant Colonel, Col Josiah Whitney's regt; list of officers ]yr not given]; also Colonel, 8th Worcester Co regt; official record of a ballot by the House of Representatives, dated June 2, 1779; appointment concurred in by Council, June 2, 1779; also, resignation dated Leominster, June 18, 1779, signed by said Carter, asking to be discharged from his commission as Colonel of the 8th Worcester Co regt; accepted in Council June 23, 1779. CARTER, JOSIAH, West Springfield. Private, Capt Enoch Chapin's co, Col Timothy Danielson's regt; muster roll dated Aug 1m 1775;enlisted May 4, 1775; service, 3 mod 4 days. CARTER, JOSIAH. Private, Lieut Samuel Stickney's co, Col Abijah Stearns's (Worcester Co) regt; marched to Saratoga Oct 9, 1777, under command of Maj Ebenezer Bridge to reinforce army under Gen Gates; service, 17 days, r oll dated Leominster. CARTER, JOSIAH. Private, Capt Peter Porter's detachment from Gen Fellows's (Berkshire Co) brigade; enlisted July 1, 1778; service, 1 mo 19 days, under Gen Stark at Albany; reported deserted Aug 19, 1778. CARTER, JOSIAH, Jr Corporal, Capt John Joslin's co of Minute-men, Col John Whetcomb's regt, which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; to Cambridge; service, 11 days; reported enlisted into the army; also, Sergeant, Capt David Wilder's co, Col Asa Whetcomb's regt; muster roll dated Aug 1, 1775; enlisted April 26, 1775; service, 3 mod 13 days; also, reciepts for wages for Aug and Sept 1775, dated Camp at Prospect Hill; also, company return [prob. Oct 1775]; also, order for bounty coat or its equivalent in money dated Prospect Hill, Dec 7, 1775; also,Ensign, Capt Manasseh Sawyer's co, Brig Gen Jonathan Warner's brigade; return of officers dated Dorchester; commis sioned July 31, 1776; marched to camp Aug 18, 1776, to join Col Dike's regt; also, Capt Sawyer's co, Col Dike's regt; pay abstract for travel allowence Sept 13, 1776; also, same co and regt; pay abstract for mileage home dated Dorchester Heightsm Nov 30, 1776; credited with 2 days allow- ence; also, 2d Lieutenant, Capt Manasseh Sawyer's co, Col Nicholas Dike's regt; list of officers; ordered in Council, Feb 1, 1777, that a commission be i ssued to date fromDec 1, 1776; regiment raised for defence of Boston; stationed at Dorchester Heights until March 1, 1777; also, same co and regt; service from Dec 1, 1776, to March 1, 1777. CARTER, LEVI. Private, Capt Samuel Hill's co, Col Josiah Whitney's regt; marched from Harvard Aug 19, 1777, on an alarm at Bennington; service to Aug 26, 1777, 6 days; roll sworn to in Suffolk Co. to be continued Alice Ohlsson Tatum Frendlysky@aol.com