Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,980, Bunker Clark, N.H.
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Service N.H.
Clark, Bunker
Number S.36.980
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36980
INVALID
Revy
File No. 36.980
Bunker Clark
Pri  Rev. War
Act: 18th March 18th 
Index: Vol. 2, Page 75
[Arrangement of 1870]
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6211
Maine,

Bunker Clark
Private
Capt Farwell
New Hampshire line War 
in the army of the United States during the Revolutiionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22d of April 1810

Certificate of Pension issued the 26 of Janry 1819 and dito  R. C. Vore

Arrears to 4th of Sep. 1818 4 m 13/30 - 35.46
Semi-anl. all'ee ending 4 March 1819     40.00
(total) $83.46

Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March 1818
Farmington
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I, Bunker Clark of Farmington in the County of Kennebec and District of Main, aged seventy three years, a resident citizen of the United States, desiring to obtain the provision made by the law of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in The revolutionary war," and to be placed on the pension list for the District of Maine, I do on oath testify and declare:

That at New Ipswich, in New Hampshire, in April, 1777, I enlisted during the war, as a private soldier, in Capt Isaac Farwell's company, Col. Gilly's regiment, being the first, in the New Hampshire line, on the continental establishment in the war of the revolution, and served until June 1783, when I received an honourable discharge. My discharge about twenty two years ago, was delivered to one Weit Ranney in Vermont, with a view to his using it to obtain some arrearages of rations; I have not seen it and know not that  it is in existence
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I was in the retreat from Ticonderoga, was taken at Hubbardston, retaken in about three months; - was in the battle of Monmouth; assisted in the taking of Forts St. George, Slongo on Long Island.
I was on a command under Capt Brewster, when we took a boat commanded by Joseph Hoyt, a Refugee, in Long Island sound; when Capt. Brewster was wounded by a shot through the body; I received a buckshot through my little finger which remains crooked and callous from the wound. While on this command, my discharge was sent to me from Newburg to Fairfield in Connecticut. By reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support.

Bunker Clark (signature)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Second Eastern Circuit
On the twenty third day of April A.D. 1818, the aforesaid Bunker Clark, having been duly cautioned and examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed. Before me, Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the G.G.G.P. for said Circuit.
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We the subscribers Selectmen of the town of Farmington do hereby certify that we are acquainted with the circumstances of Bunker Clark, and that they are such as to render him in need of assistance from his country for support. He sustains the character of a man of truth and veracity -
Joseph Fairbanks
Thomas Parker
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I, Moses Chandler, of Farmington in Maine, on oath testify and say: that I personally knew Bunker Clark, the signer of the foregoing affidavit, before he went into the army. I joined it in 1778, and from that time for two or three years often saw him, and knew that during that time he did duty in the New Hampshire their troops.
In the latter part of the war the New Hampshire troops were at time seperated from us, and I have not a particular recollection of him at that period.
Moses Chandler

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Second Eastern Circuit
On the twenty third day of April A.D. 1818, the aforesaid Moses Chandler, having been duly cautioned and examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him  
signed, Before me,
Josiah Stebbins
a Judge of the C.C.C.P. for said Circuit
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.

I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor that Bunker Clark, a citizen of the United States, now resident of Farmington, in the said County of Kennebec, in the District of Maine, on the twenty third day of April, A.D. 1818,
made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceeding has thereon, to your Honor; that he might be plased on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed March 18, A.D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant are hereunto annexed.

And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, this 27th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Josiah Stebbins

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec, SS
I THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Honorable Josiah Stebbins, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec, and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand: - Dated at Augusta in said County of Kennebec, this twenty seventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
John Davis