29-1ClaimsReport : Petition of G. Carpenter. [489] Black Hawk war; 1832; Michigan militia.1846-6

House of Representatives Report No. 396, 29th Congress, 1st Session (1846)

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29th CoNGREss, 1st Session. Rep. No. 396. GUY CARPENTER. MARCH 5, 1846. Read, and laid upon Lhe table. Ho. OF REPS. Mr. DANIEL, from the Committee of Claims, made the following REPORT: The Committee of Claims, to whom was referred the petition if• Guy Carpent~r, report : Thi~ claim is unsupported by legal evidence. 'rhe sickness of the claim-ant, and the expensr.s attendant upon it, remain to be proved. Other imp:>r-tant points are equally destitute of support. One objection urged by a former committee has .been removed, but th.e rest remain. Annexed is a report heretofore made by this C')mmittee, which supersedes the hecessity of a repetition of the facts involved. The committee offer the following resolution: Re~olved, That the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted. FEBRUARY 22, 1843. 1'he Committee of Claims, to w!tich was referred the petition of Guy Carpenter, report: The petitioner sets forth that he is an inhabitant of the town of Blissfield, in the State of Michigan ; that · on the 2lst day of May, 1~32, he was called into the srrvice of the United States, and mnrched, under the command of General Joseph W. Brown, to the defence of the western frontier, at that time menaced by the Indians under Black Hawk; nnd that, while in the service of the United States, he was taken sick and left to his own charge, .and that he continued sick for the space of six months, nnd consequently became liable to t.he following "charges and losses:" For six months' board, 12 shillings per week For expenses for doctoring and medicine .For six mouths' time lost Paid damage on gun borrowed -Paid for provisions and blanket • !nterest 10 years :.. - $:39 00 .25 00 75 00 1 50 4 00 101 15 245 65 2 Rep. No. 396. Received from the United States -'l.,en years' interest - $4' 68, 3 27 7 95 Balance due 237 70 which amount the petitioner asks to have allowed and paid to him. ·There is no evidence submitted to the committee in support of this claim, nor has the claimant sworn. to the truth of his own statement, as presented· in his petition. But, if the facts were all established by the most unques-tionable evidence, they would not constitute the. basis of a claim on the government. The petitioner entered the service with a knowledge of the· amount of pay and rations which, by law, he was entitled to receive; and he does not complain that he hns not been paid all he was entitled to re-ceive. If he had kept with the army, he would have been entitled to all the care which the hospital or medical arrangements of the detachment to which he belonged would have enabled them to bestow upon their sick • soldiers. Bllot in no case have the United States held themselves liable for the ex-penses incurred by sick soldiers, who may choose to withdraw from the service to their own homes or private boarding-houses. The committee therefore recommend to the Honse, for adoption, the following resolution : Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioner ought not to be granted. I, Joseph W. Brown, do hereby certify that Lieut. Sewall A. Goff com-manded a company of Michigan militia, an_d marched with his company under my command to the defence of the western frontier, in the month of May, 1832, at that time menaced by the Indians under Black Hawk. And I do further certify, that there were no tents in the army at all, and no hos. pital arrangements and no accommodations for the sick whatever; and no money or other means with which necessaries could be procured. J. W. BROWN, Britf. Gen'l, command'g Michigan militia. TECUMSEH, January 25, 1844.. 

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