Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34214, William Clark, Mass.
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SERVICE      NUMBER
[handwritten] Mass. Clark, William S.34214
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[handwritten] 34214 Rev'y
INVALID.
File No.
[handwritten] 34,214 William Clark
Pri Rev War
Act: [handwritten] 18 March 18
Index: - 
Vol. [handwritten] 2,
Page [handwritten] 74

[in brackets] [Arrangement of 1870.]
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9094
Massachusetts.
Wiliam Clark,
[illegible] Rochester, in the state of Massachusetts. who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Bailey, of the Massachusetts line, for the term of thirty one months. Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 13 of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 of April [illegible] 19. and sent to Nahum Mitchell judge, Bridgewater, Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of March, 1819- 85.83
semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept.1819 48
$133.83

 10 mo 18/30 & 4/31}

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818}

[handwritten faintly] Continued
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[handwritten] William Clark
Rochester
Col. [illegible]Bailey's regt.
Massachusetts line.
31 months
13 April, 1818.
[underlined] correct
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COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
On this [handwritten]13th 
day of [handwritten]April AD. 1818, before me
the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Southern Circuit, personally appeared [handwritten] William Clark of Rochester aged -
years, resident in
the said Circuit, who being by me first duly cautioned according to law, on his oath made the following declaration, by him signed, in order to obtain the
provision made by the late act 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." viz
[handwritten] That he served in said war as a private soldier for the [crossed out] first three years service, so called on Capt George Dunham's Company Col. John Bailey's Regiment and Massachusetts line - Lee his said declaration of all his services enclosed -  The said Clark is made upon
the Massachusetts Rolls at
Boston for 31 months & 5 days
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[handwritten] and I do certify that the said Clark in the is poor and needs the assistance of his country for support

And I, the said Judge do^also certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said [handwritten] William Clark
did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common
enemy, for the term of nine 
 months, on the continental establishment; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of
the aforementioned act of Congress.
[signature handwritten and underlined] Nahum Mitchell

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SS. 1818,
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That [blank]
is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, consisting of the Counties of Plymouth, Norfolk, Bristol, Barnstable, Dukes and Nantucket in said Commonwealth - that the same Circuit Court
of Common Pleas is a Court of record - that the signature to the above certificate is the true signature of the said Judge, and that the seal thereunto affixed is the seal of the said Court.
}Clerk of the Judicial
Court for the County of
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[handwritten] William Clark_
Compared
9094
Sept. 1819
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SCHEDULE
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS County of
[handwritten] Plymouth ss.
On this 
[handwritten] eighteenth day of 
[handwritten] July
1820 before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Southern Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, having a power also of fine and imprisonment, and keeping a record of their proceedings, personally appeared in open Court, being a court of record for the said County
[handwritten] William Clark
aged
[handwritten] sixty one
years, resident in
[handwritten] Rochester
in said County, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz for the term of three years viz
in
[handwritten] Capt George Dunham's Company, Col Bailey's Regiment afterwards in the same Company commanded by Robert Bradford, & regiment commanded by Col. Begelow; Mass. Line and that he has received a pension certificate dated
[handwritten] 7th April 1819
and numbered
[handwritten 9094
in pursuance of his original Declaration made
[handwritten] 19th day April A.D. 1818 
and also takes and subscribes the following oath viz
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident of the United States, on the 18th day of March; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval services in the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

[handwritten] Real. Consists of an old house, & the land on which it stands -
I have ten old chairs, one half a [illegible] two old tables, Iron Crockery & glass ware & some other trifling articles for housekeeping. My family consists of myself & Catharine my wife; aged 55 years both unable to labour & thankful my daughter 14 years supports herself I owe about 40 dollars- William Clark

Sworn to, and declared, on the 
[handwritten[ 18th
day of
[handwritten] July A.D. 1870 
[signature] Nahum Mitchell a Justice of the Court

I,
[handwritten] John B. Thomas
clerk of
[handwritten] said Courts
[handwritten right margin] $225.00
do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereunto annexed, are truly copied from the record court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the toral amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
[handwritten] $225
dollars and - cents, In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this
[handwritten & crossed out eighteenth]
29th day of [illegible] 1820

[handwritten signature] [illegible] B. Thomas

Clerk of the Court for the County of
[handwritten] Plymouth
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I further state that I served two months at Roxbury when the enemy was in Boston after the enemy left Boston Served six months on Nantucket and the Caswell three months in the winter served at Howlands ferry and Bristol Go towers at Joylands ferry and Howlands ferry in the militia we was called on alamo.

Rochester April 11th 1818  William Clark

I William Clark of Rochester in the County of Plymouth State of Massachusetts, citizen of the United State of America, did on the month of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven I testify that I enlisted into the United States service for the term of three years in Capt. George Dunham Company belonging to Plymouth in Col. John Bailey's regimen in General Larnards Brigade From there passed muster then marched on to Boston from there to Albany then on to the northward lill we met our army between Fort Edward and Fort George retreating before our common enemy I therefore state that I was there when the two generals battles was fought and had the pleasure of seeing Gene Burgoyne lay down his arms from there to Pennsylvania wintered at Valley Forge near Philadelphia. In the next 1778 marched into the State of New York and was stationed at West Point and White Plains and some part of the time in the State of Connecticut and was discharged at West Point served the full term of 3 years as a soldier with fidelity. My discharge was sined by Robert Bradford Capt. and signed by Col. Ezra Bedslow. I last my discharge or it was misplaced by one of our deputies with discharge I sent to Boston. Rochester April 11th 1818 William Clark.
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I further testify that all the services aforesaid were in the Massachusetts line, and that Arnold Briggs of Rochester served with me during the three years I served in General Dunham's Company and In Baileys Regiment that I am reduced in my circumstances and need the assistance of my Country for support and am desirous of obtaining a pension agreeably to the act of Congress of the 18th March last William Clark 

The foregoing three affidavits or statements were subscribed and sworn to April 13. 1818.--

William Clark
Rochester