Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,826, Elisha Clark, Continental Green Mountain Boys Vt.
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(22.) ┃
Frontier lines
for 1781
established | That the line of defence [defense] on the West side of the Green Mountains be established at the forts of Pittsford and Castleton by no means to be drawn further to the south unless by urgent necessity as by the opposition of a superior force of the enemy &c [et cetera] and that a Committee be appointed on the west side the mountains by this assembly with full powers to remove the line from Castlelton to the narrows on the lake, or elsewhere if it shall be found proper
to act in conjunction with the troops from N.
York [New York], if any such should arrive at said
narrows &c [et cetera].
Troops stationed | That the troops destined to guard the frontiers on the east side the Green Mountains be from time to time under the direction of a Committee elected on the east side the said mountains, and that the said Committee
take to their assistance in either of the aforesaid
instances the officers commanding the several
detachments.
Benj.a [Benjamin] Whipple Chairman. The aforesaid report was read and accepted [illegible, X?] resolved, that Col.o [Colonel] Gideon Warren,  Col.o [Colonel] Tho.s [Thomas] Lee and Mr. Ithme'r Hibbard on the west side of the mountains and Capt Abner Seelye
Benj.a [Benjamin] Emmons Esq and Capt. Elisha Barlow on the east side of the mountains be and they are hereby appointed the Committee for the purposes
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(23.) | mentioned in said Report. -
Thursday Feby [February] 15th 1781.
Resolved. That there be two persons added to
the Board of War - and that they be chose
tomorrow morning - 
Additional
members to
Board of War
appointed | Friday Feby [February] 16th 1781 -
The house proceeded to choose by ballot the
two persons voted in addition to the Board of
War - where Benj.a [Benjamin] Emmons Esq. and Majr [Major] Joseph Tyler were chosen. -
Committees to
establish
frontier lines
confirmed |  The Committee appointed to nominate two
Committees for the purposes mentioned in the
report of the Committee for establishing the
frontier line brought in their report which was
read and the following persons were chosen
and they are hereby appointed. Committees for said
purposes [illegible] - Col.o [Colonel] Gid.n [Gideon] Warren, Col.o Thos. [Thomas] Lee
and Mr Ithm.r Hibbard on the west side of the
mountains and Capt. Abner Seelye, Benj.a [Benjamin] Emmons Esq, and Capt Elisha Burton on the east side of
the mountains.
State of Vermont | In General Assembly held at
Windsor April 12th 1781
Means of
defence [defense] for
1781 ⎬ The Committee appointed to take into
consideration the means to be taken for
defending this State against the common
enemy brought in the following report
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(24.)
To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Vermont. - 
Your committee appointed to take into consideration the measures to be taken for defending this state against the common enemy beg leave to report. - 
That they conceive it necessary that one thousand and five hundred men including officers be [employed] in defence of the northern frontier of this state against the common enemy the xxxx ensuing season. That they find seven hundred men including officers are already ordered to be raised in the territory west  of Connecticut river, and recommend that three hundred and ten men including a suitable proportion of officers be raised in the territory east of Connecticut river to be apportioned to the several regiments and parts of rg.ts as follows [virj.]
                                              Capts.            Lieuts.   [illegible] & privates
1st regt in the 2d brigade        1                  3                      90
4th  do        do       do              1                  2                      68
1st regt in the 3d brigade east of the river  2                      43
2d   do        do       do              1                  0                      47
3d   do        do       do              1                  1                      47
                                Total      4 Capts        8 Lieuts          295 [illeg.] & privates

That there be an additional of a suitable number of persons to the board of war,
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(25.)
from the east side of Connecticut river. - 
[That] those members of the Board of War on the west side of the mountains have direction in respect to the particular station of the men ordered by a quorum of the whole Board to be stationed west side of the mountains - And the members of the Board east of the mountains have direction of the particular station of the men ordered by a quorum of the whole Board to be stationed on the frontiers contingent to the Connecticut river. - [That] matters in which a majority of either part of the Board of War cannot agree shall be determined by a quorum of the whole Board to be considered by the president on application of a majority of either part, or when he shall judge necessary
That the Board of War be directed and empowered at discretion to raise such number of volunteers by bounty from the State as shall amount to 1500 including such men as have been or shall be raised by other measures already adopted by the State. - And that the whole be divided into two regiments to be properly officered and stationed in such proportion on the east and west sides of the mountains as a quorum of the whole shall from time to time direct. - That in apportionment to the men to be raised on the east side of the river particular regard be had [to]
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(26 ) | by the officers who shall make the proportion to the several towns and that they make reasonable abatement to the towns for such men as they now have in continental
Service. - And, that in order to defray
the expense of defending the frontiers in the
manner before mentioned they conceive
it necessary that the Assembly at their
present session devise ways and means
to supply the treasury with a sum not
without less than [illegible symbol] 3,000 lawful money. -
Ira Allen for the Committee.
Adopted |  Which was read, passed and sent up for concurrence.
Additional members to Board of War | resolved to add two [crossed out[ more [crossed out]  members to the Board of War and that this house will proceed to choose them to morrow morning. -
Friday April 13th 1781 -
Agreable [agreeable] to the order of the day proceeded to choose two members in addition to the Board of War - The ballotts [ballots] being taken Col.o [Colonel] Tim.o [Timothy] Beadle and Capt. Eben.r [Ebenezer] Brewster were unanimously chosen. -
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(27 )
State of Vermont ⎬ In General Assembly held at
Charlestown October 13th 1781.
Resolved that a Comm.ee [Committee] of five to join a
Committee from the Council be appointed to
nominate eighteen persons to choose nine out of
for a Board of War and six persons to choose three
for a Committee of Pay Table and make report to this
House - The members chosen, Mr. J. Bradley, Mr.
Tichenor, Mr. Whipple, Mr. Childs and Mr. Lyon -
October 15th 1781. The Committee appointed
to make a nomination of eighteen persons for the
Board of War, and six persons for Com.tee [Committee] of Pay Table for the approbation and appointment
agreable [agreeable] to the order of Saturday last - brought in their report - viz.
Your Committee do nominate Col.o [Colonel] Timothy
Brownson Col.o [Colonel] Ira Allen, John Fassett Esq,
Col.o [Colonel] Sam.l [Samuel] Robinson, Col.o [Colonel] Gideon Warner, Gen,l [General] Sam.l [Samuel] Safford, Jos. [Joseph] Caldwell, Joseph Bowker Esq, Jos. [Joseph] Bradley, Esq, Elihu Smith Esq, Col.o [Colonel] Timothy
Beadle, Colo [Colonel] Ebenezer Brewster, Benjamin
Emmons Esq, Majr [Major] Joseph Tyler, Maj.r [Major] Thomas Murdock, Col.o [Colonel] Johnathan Child, Gen.l [General] Roger Enos, Col.o [Colonel] Isaac Myman, as the persons for the formation of the Board of War.
Oct 15. 1781. According to a request of this house and this
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State of Vermont
Rutland County Clerk's office, ss.} I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that [handwritten] Harvey Button [end handwritten[ was at the date of the certificate to which this is annexed a [handwritten] Judge of the Probate County for the District of Rutland [end handwritten] within and for said County, duly commissioned: that his commission is dated on the [handwritten] thirtieth [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] December [end handwritten] A.D. 18 [handwritten] 50, and will expire on the ]handwritten] thirtieth [end handwritten] day of [handwritten] November A.D. 18 ;handwritten] 51 [end handwritten]; and I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.
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on the board of War & desire them to make a report of their proceedings since the last session of this house.

State of Vermont
Secretary of States Office
Months Nov. 28, 1835

[large seal with ribbons appears to be attached]
I hereby certify that the foregoing and true extract from the journals of the General
Assembly of this State in the years and days above specified, as appears by the records in this office-- they being all the records on these several subjects that I have as yet been
able to find in this office, from the organization of the government up to and including the year 1781, excepting a resolution and Report to the assembly relative to Col. Seth Warner's Regiment and Capt. Thomas Seeley Company, and a return of the officers and men of said regiment belonging to the State of Vermont; and a report dated Windsor, April 12th 1781, signed Ira Allen for Committee and another report purporting to be made to the assembly by the Board of War dated at Bennington June 23 1781 and signed by Ira Allen Secretary to said board.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the Seal of this office this 28th day of November 1st 1835.
Timothy Merrill
Secy of State
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7 [top right corner]
Calvin J Keith
Heman Carpenter Esqrs
Depositioning
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I Calvin J Keith of Montpelier in the County of Washington
& State of Vermont do depose & say, that in the year of our Lord 1829
I was Librarian of the State Library, and that there was then in
said Library a manuscript volume in folio, purporting to contain
the Journal of the proceedings of the Council of Safety of the State of
Vermont during the revolutionary War, & I believe it to be
the same volume from which sundry extracts were taken
from the proceedings of said Council and published in the
Volume called State Papers of Vermont. Edited by Thm [Thomas] Slade.
And further this deponent saith not
Calvin J. Keith [signature]

I Heman Carpenter of Montpelier in the County of
Washington and State of Vermont do depose and say
that I am now Librarian of the State Library kept
at Montpelier. That I have examined the said Library
for the purpose of finding the said manuscript
volume of the Journal of the council of safety
mentioned in the preceding deposition of Calvin
J. Keith Esqr., and that the said volume is not inside
the said Library; nor do I know where it is.
And further this deponent saith not
Heman Carpenter [signature]

State of Vermont ⎬ 
Washington County 
Be it known that on the 28th day of ^Nov 1835 before me the Subscriber a
magistrate in and for said County of Washington
personally appeared Calvin J. Keith and Heman Carpenter
who have severally signed the preceding depositions
and made solemn oath, that the said depositions by
them respectively subscribed contain the truth and
nothing but the truth, and I do hereby certify that the
said deponents are reputed to be credible witnesses.
John L. Buck [signature]
Justice of the Peace

The word "Nov." interlined by me in the above certificate
before signing
John L. Buck, Justice of the Peace,
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State of Vermont
Washington County Ss.

I Joshua Y. Vail, Clerk of County Court in said County of Washington do hereby certify that John L. Buck Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned and that his signature ^ to the written affidavit of Heman Carpenter is genuine. In testimony whereof I have here unto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name of Montpelier in said County this 28th day of November 1835

Joshua Y Vail Clerk
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I, Elias Hall of Castleton in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont aged 81 years, do depose and say, that I know that Elisha Clark of Tinmouth was Chief Commissary of Issues under the State of Vermont
during the years 1780 and 1781, and had deputies under him, to wit, Eli Coggswell then of Castleton (now deceased) and Nathan Hutchins now of North Hero, Vermont -
That the Head Quarters of the Vermont troops in 1780, was at Pittsford, and the port was commanded by Maj. Ebenezer Allen; that I was then a Lieutenant in Capt. Jesse Sawyer's Company; and that said Clark was at said Pittsford during that year as Principal Commissary of Issues - 
That in 1781, the Head Quarters was removed to Castleton, where I now reside, and the port was commanded by Col. Samuel Fletcher; and that said Clark was Principal Commissary at said Castleton, that year; while Cogswell served as his deputy of said Pittsford. This year I was a Lieutenant in Capt. Brookins Company. It was always considered that said Clark ranked with
a Captain in the line of this army. And further this deponent saith not.

Elias Hall

State of Vermont
Rutland County Ss 

Be it known, that on this 22 day of
December, 1835, before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared the said Elias Hall, who subscribed the preceding deposition in my presence, and made solemn oath, that the facts
stated therein are true, and that they contain nothing but the truth. And I do hereby certify that the said deponent is reputed to be a credible witness

S. Foot Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County ss}
I Robert Pierpoint Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland certify that Solomon Foot is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that his Signature to this written certificate is genuine
In testimony whereof, I I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Rutland this 26th Decr 1835
[signed] R. Pierpoint 


N. 4
Lt. Elias Hall's
2d. Deposition
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State of Vermont
District of Rutland  P
At a court of Probate holdsu [?] at Rutland in 6 district on the 13th day of February AD 1851, It was proven by the adduction of testimony satisfactory to said court that Elisha Clark late of Tinmouth in 6 district died on the 12th day of December AD 1838. leaving a widow named Edna Clark who survived him and died on the 6th day of April AD 1847, and that Elisha Clark Mary Hodges, Nathan M Clark, Emily Clark Alber S Clark Burr R Clark and Mary Ann Clark are their only surviving children
In testimony whence & I have hereunto set my hand the day & year above written
[signed] Harvey Button Judge
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[overlaid document]
State of Vermont
Rutland County Clerk's Office, ss} I, Frederick W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland, do certify that Harvey Button was at the date of the certificate to which this is annexed a Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Rutland within and for said County, duly commissioned: that his commission is dated on the Thirtieth day of December A.D. 1850, and will expire on the thirtieth day of November A.D. 1851; and I verily believe his signature to the same is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland in said county this Fourteenth day of February A.D. 1851
[signed] F.W. Hopkins, clerk