Sadly, we cannot even prove the parents for Moses Carman.  He was a Private in Spence's Regiment in the Continental Army in New Jersey in the Revolutionary War.  His children we know because he wrote them down on a piece of paper, along with their birth dates in 1776.  But what earns Moses his place here is a simple and humble fact.  Moses Carman died at Valley Forge on 26 January 1778, of small pox.

"The Prayer at Valley Forge" - painted by H. Brueckner ; engraved. by John C. McRae, c.1866. Collection of the United States Library of Congress

As history quotes itself, on the winter of 1777-78 at Valley Forge:

"An army of skeletons appeared before our eyes naked, starved, sick and discouraged" - Governor Morris of  New York to the Continental Congress

"The unfortunate soldiers were in want of everything; they had neither coats nor hats, nor shirts, nor shoes. Their feet and their legs froze until they were black, and it was often necessary to amputate them." - Marquis de Lafayette

"I feel superabundantly for them, and from my soul pity those miseries, which it is neither in my power to relieve or prevent." - General George Washington

Well Done, Private Carman, and thank you.