Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41486, John Clark, Mass
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(3 - 1776) 

SERVICE 
Mass 

Clark, John

NUMBER
 S. 41486

CONTENTS
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From 
Vermont Rolls - 
1750 
to Pennsylvania. 

John Clark 
Nixon's Regt
Sergeant   4.
Massachusetts Line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont -  
at the rate of - 8 - Dollars per month, to commence on the 16 of April 1818- 

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818 and Sent to John Roberts - Esq - Brattleboro Windham Co. Vermont 

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818- 
(Semi-anl. all'ce ending crossed out)
4 Mos 19 /30.                                 $37..6

{Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818.} 

3 Years  

Adm Continued 
Marlboro, Windham Co 

[right page, sideways]
Notification sent Oct. 26 1820 to 
James Elliott, Brattleboro, Vermont
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John Clark of Marlboro in the County of Windham and State of Vermont a citizen of the United States deposes & testifies and declares that some time in the month of March AD 1777 he enlisted into the army of the United States on the continental establishment for three years and served in Captain Japha (Japheth written above) Daniels' Company in the sixth Regiment in the Massachusetts line commanded by Colonel Thomas Nixon untill (until) January 1780 when he again enlisted into the same company and Regiment during the war and served as aforesaid in the war of the Revolution against the common enemy untill (until) he received his discharge in June 1783, certifying that he had served seven years & five months and was entitled to honorary badges he further testifies that he served during the whole time above stated as Sergeant in said company but cannot find his warrant nor render any account what has become of it - he further testifies that about twenty three or twenty four years ago he sold his Military land and delivered his discharge to the man who purchased who agreed to return it to him but has not nor has he ever since seen it he further testifies that he is now seventy one years old and no property either real or personal except a very trifle of household furniture and only sufficient of that to uphold life and that he has not been able with his utmost prudence and industry to maintain himself and and infirm weakly wife without having received aid from the town in which he has resided - and that by reason of his reduced circumstances he is in need of assistance from his country 
John Clark

Sworn to this 16th day of April AD 1818 before me  
John Roberts assistant Judge of Windham County Court in the State of Vermont
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 State of Vermont

 Windham}
 County ss} on this 16th day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the County Court within and for the County of Windham in the State of Vermont personally appeared the aforenamed John Clark who being by me first duly sworn on his oath made the foregoing declaration in order to obtain the provision 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."  I John Roberts Judge as aforesaid do therefore certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Clark did Serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the term of nine months and more on the Continental establishment and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the department of war pursuant to the aforesaid act of Congress 
John Roberts} Judge of Windham County Court 
                       in the State of Vermont 

State of Vermont. 
Windham County Court Clerk's Office. Brattleborough, May 21st A.D. 1818. 

I certify that the Honorable John Roberts, Esquire, is one of the Assistant Judges of the County Court aforesaid, and that the signatures of the foregoing certificates are in the hand writing of the said Judge. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said Court, the day and year above written 
Attest James Elliot Clerk
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No 12

John Clark
Application for Pension
Windham County - Vermont
[copy]

1750 Sept '79

Adm
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STATE OF VERMONT.

COUNTY OF WINDHAM ss. 
At the County Court, begun and held at New-Fane, within and for the County of Windham, on the second Monday of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty..... 

PRESENT -- Hon. PHINEHAS WHITE, Esq. Chief 
                                                                 Judge. 
Hon. JOHN ROBERTS,}                    Assistant
Hon. GILBERT DENISON, ESQARS.}   Judges.

ON this Twentieth day of June, A. D. 1820, personally appeared in open court, being a court of record for the said county, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a civil jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having, in certain cases, the power of fine and imprisonment,  John Clark aged seventy four years, resident in Halifax 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 - In the Company commanded by Capt. Donnels in the sixth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, commanded by Col Nixon in the Continental Establishment, that he enlisted in the month of March seventeen hundred & seventy seven for three years, that he served the time nearly out, & then inlisted (enlisted) during the war, & served till the war was closed, and was honourably (honorably) discharged at New Windsor above West Point in the month of June seventeen hundred and eighty three, that Col. Tupper commanded the Regiment when he was discharged - 

That he has received a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 18th March, 1818, that the number of his pension certificate is 1750 - and the date of his original declaration in April 16. A.D. 1818 - 

AND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR, That I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen:  and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, 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 Service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen (do to smudges and a crease in the page, the following is difficult to decipher) 
 ... 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.  John Clark

SCHEDULE of real and personal estate, necessary clothing and bedding excepted. 
6 old chairs ---- $1.50
2 old tables ----   1.50
4 Pewter P+lates -  1.09
2 Porringers - - -   "50
1 tea earthen pot -"34. 
6 do. cream plates "50.
2 large old do ----  "40.
                             ______  
One Tea Kettle -- $0"75 
One Dish Kettle ---  "50
2 Bushels of corn & rye - 2"00
50 lbs. Pork -------  5 -
One meat barrel --  "50
3 knives & forks --  ".07.
                              ______  
6 tea cups & saucers $0..25 
Money of my last pension - 3 -
Brought up -------  5.89
                                9.22
                              ______
                              $18.36.                       
John Clark

 AND I do also swear that my occupation is that of Farmer - that by my age and infirmity I am unable to do very little labor, that I have a wife seventy three years of age, and is very infirm. I have no children who live with me, and have no relations to help or assist me

SWORN to and DECLARED in open court on the 20th day of June, A. D. 1820, 
Before Phinehas White JUDGE. 

James Elliot Clerk of the County Court for the County of Windham, in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the files and records of the said Court: And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is thirty three dollars, and sixty seven cents. 

IN testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this sixth day of July 1830.
James Elliot, 
CLERK OF THE COURT FOR THE COUNTY OF WINDHAM.
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For transfer.
Recd. 20 Apl.1825.

Transferred by order.
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Personally appeared John Clark who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he served in the army of the revolution about six years in the 6th Massachusetts Regiment - that he received a pension certificate from the war department no.1750 dated the 30th day of June 1818 by which it appears that he was inscribed on the Pension List Roll of the Vermont agency at Eight dollars per month to commence on the 16th of April 1818 - and that he has received his pension from the proper agent in the State of Vermont up to the 4th of September - 1824 - also that he has removed from the State of Vermont to Smithfield township in Bradford County in the State of Pennsylvania where he now resides and that he is desirous to be transferred to the Pennsylvania agency   John Clark

Sworn and subscribed
the 9th day of March 1825
before me
Abiram Pierce Justice of the Peace
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Jesse Mosman of Halifax in the county of Windham and State Vermont of Lawful age (illegible) oath that he is well acquainted with John Clark of Marlboro in Said County of Windham and that he is well knowing to his serving in the Revolutionary war in Capt Danials Company in the sixth Massachusetts Regiment for three years as a seargant (sergeant) of the company and was knowing to his having a regular & honorable Discharge and has of late uniformly (insisted) that  he is a very poor man and believe from what he knows and has heard that he stands in need of assistance from his county for support and further the deponent saith not
Jesse Mosman 

Sworn to the 16th day of April AD 1818 before me John Roberts Assistant Judge of Windham County Court in the State of Vermont
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Burlington Pa    Apl. 13 - 1825

Mr. Edwards will have the goodness to attend to the within application of John Clark and transmit the same to me
your obt servt.
S Mc Kean
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As there are several Pensioner of his name on the same roll, it would be well for him to give the number of his pension certificate.

I am, respectfully,
Yr. Obt. Servt.
J. L. Edwards



Hon. S. Mc Kean,
House of Reps.
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41486

INVALID.
Revy

File No. 44,486
John Clark
Serg Rev War

Act 18" March 18"
Index: - Vol. G, Page 89

[Arrangement of 1870.]