Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1231, Simeon Clarke, R.I.
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[From left to right] 
R. S. 
Clarke Simeon 
Mr. 1231
or 
Clark 
Betsey
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1707 
New York Albany 
Betsey Clark
widow of  Simeon Clark 
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a private  
Rhode Island Mil. 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of  
30 Dollars 00 
Cents per annum, to commence on 
the [crossed out]  
3rd February 1853 
Certificate of Pension issued the
2nd day of Septr/53 
and sent to 
Joseph Clark 
Brookfield 
N.Y. 

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act 
[crossed out] Page 70 Vol. A
Febry 3rd/53 
1832
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20.536
(Utica) New York 
Simeon Clarke 
of Mad[illegible] in the State of New York 
who was a private in the Corp. commanded 
by Captain Spinger of the [illegible] commanded by  Col. Japan in the A. Island 
line for 9 Mos 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York 
at the rate of 30 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 

Certificat of Pension issued the 21 day of Sept. 
1833 and sent to J. Clarke 
Brookfield 

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '33  $75
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 M[illegible]
$90  
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7, 1832. 
Recorded by G [illegible] Cler
Book 6. Vol. 4, Page 1
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State of New York 
County of Madison { 
On This 9th day of October 1832 
personally appeared in open court before the the judges the court of Common pleas of the Madison County setting Simeone Clark a resident of the town of Brookfield in the county of Madison and state New York aged seventy nine years who having first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed  June 7th [1821?] that he entered the service of the United States under the officers named [illegible] served as here in stated he served under colonel John Topan and captain Springer but the names of the other officers he does not recollect - that he enlisted in the town of Westerley county of Washington in June 1778 in the state of Rhode Island for nine months and continued in the service the full ten of nine months and was discharged in March 1779 that he marched from Westerly aforesaid to Tiverton in the state of Rhode Island where he continued until the month of [illegible] following he then crossed on to the Island of Rhode Island with the army and was in the first regiment he crossed onto the Island and was [illegible] the engagement with the British in Sulivan's Expedition when the American army not marched[?] the regiment in which he belonged crossed to Tiverton in the winter of Rhode Island when he continued to the end of his involvement and was discharged in March 1779 that this was no other regiment [illegible] with him except at the time of Sulivans expedition - any documents not reached any of them except the general assured Sulivan & say for [eth] that he has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person with testimony he can provide who can testify to his service in full except Sulivan [hall?] whose appears fit [sworn?] [forms] this
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he hereby relinquishes enemy claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present    and declares his name is not on the pension roll of the [illegible] of an states      Simeon Clarke
sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

and the interrogations having put to him as furnished by the war department be he answered as follows  that 
1st he was born in Westerly county of Washington and State of Rhode Island February 11th 1763  
2d that he has no record of his age 
3rd that he lived in the Westerly county of Washington and State of Rhode Island when called into the service and lived and lived their until about the year 1796 He then moved to the City of Newport in the State of Rhode Island where he lived until about eight years past (?) he then moved into the town of Brookfield county of Madison and the State of New York where he now lives and has lived for the last eight years.
4th  that he enlisted when called into the service
5th  that this was in the regiment created the one in which he belonged which was commanded by Col. Topan except in Sullivans Expedition and that he was not [regimented?] acquainted (?) with any in that care but has understood that Sullivan and Lafayette were in that company
6 that he thinks he never had a written discharge
7 That Joseph Clark and Sulivan Garner in his present neighborhood can testify to his character for veracity then hereby of his services as a soldier of the Revolution
Simeon Clarke
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter and after putting
the interogatories prescribed by the War department
that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
soldier and served as he states and the court further certifies that 
it appears to them that Lulwon Gondnew and Joseph Clark
who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of Brookfield County
of Madison and State of New York and that their statement is entitled to credit
I Andrew S. Sloan Clerk of the Court of Common
Please of the County of Madison do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said court in the matter of the application
of Simeon Clark for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and seal of office this 9th day of October 1832
A.S. Sloan Clk
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State of New York
County of Madison
On this 30th day of May AD 1853 personally appeared
before me Lidmy T. Holmes
County Judge of Madison County in
the State of New York Betsey Clark a resident of Brookfield in the
county of Madison and State aforesaid aged seventy years at first
being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the
following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions
made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d February 1853 granting
pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary
War that she is the widow of Simeon Clarke who was a private in
the Revolutionary war and a pensioner under the act of
June 1832 at the rate of thirty dollars per annum payable
at [illegible] State of New York which pension certificate is hereunto
attached She further declares that she was married to the said Simeon
Clarke on or about the first day of March eighteen hundred and
twenty seven by Joseph Clarke a Justice of the peace that she had
a family record in her family bible which was destroyed by her
husband while in a deranged state of mind in his last sickness
That her said husband died on the twenty seventh day of September
A D one thousand eight hundred and fifty that she was
not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred
but at the time above stated She further declares that she is now
a widow
Betsey Clark
in presence of Mary P. Greene
Sworn to and [illegible] on the day and year above written
before me and I further certify that from infirmity and
old age the above named deponent cannot reasonably
attend Court
and that I am not interested on conscience
in the above application
Lidmy T. Holmes
County Judge of
Madison County
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State of New-York, 
Clerk's Office, Madison County, } 
I, LUCIUS P. Clark, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that S. J. Holmes Esq. whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement, County Judge in and for said County, duly elected or appointed. and qualified, and authorized by the laws of said State to take the same; and that I am well acquaint-ed with his handwriting, and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and ac-knowledged according to the laws of said State.  

[Illeg.]hat I have no interest in the within claim.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the 16th day of June 1853.  

Lucius P. Clark
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State of New York
Madison County
Joseph Clark being duly sworn says he is sixty five years
of age and has resided in Brookfield county of Madison and State of
New York fifty years last past that in the year one thousand eight
hundred and twenty seven he was a Justice of the peace in said
town and some years before and after that time inclusive that
by vertue of his office of Justice of the peace he joined in Marriage
Simeon Clarke and Betsey Burdick on or about the first
day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty seven
That he was well aquainted with them both that they lived
together as man and wife until the said Simeon Clink died
That said Simeon Clarke died on the twenty seventh day of September
one thousand eight hundred and fifty that he attended his funeral
That on a marble tombstone erected at the head of his grave
soon after he was buried is the following inscription
Simeon Clark died
September 27th 1850
Age 88 years
in letters and figures as above stated that his widow has
not intermarry but remains his widow and still resides
in Brookfield aforesaid that the said Simeon Clarke was a
pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress
of 7th June 1832 that he assisted him in procuring
proof to establish his claim to a pension and always
made his papers to draw his semi anual payments and
procured his last payment to the fourth of September 1850
that he did not keep a record of Marriages that he
has made diligent search and enquiry for Record of
the marriage once death of said Simeon Clarke and
has not been able to find any and verily beleves there
is no written evidence except on his Tombstone as been
Stated
Joseph Clark
sworn and subscribed before me this 15th
day of June A D 1853 and I further
certify that the above named deponent
sustains a good character for truth and
veracity and that I am not interested
or expressed in the above application
John T. G. Bailey Justice
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1791
Simeon Clarke
of
[illegible]
Joseph
Clarke
Brookfield
Madison Co
N.Y.
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office, 
May 20th 1833 

Sir:  
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in the tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. These points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 

A Statement, showing the Service of Simeon Clarke Madison Co N. Y.  

Period when the service was rendered. || Duration of the claimant's service Years. Months. Days. || Rank of the claimant. || Names and Rank of the Company of officers under whom he served. || Names and Ranks of the General and Field officers || Battles in which the applicant was engaged. || Country through which he marched. || Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.  || Evidence by which the decla-ration is sup-ported.  

June '[illeg.]8 || 9 || pr. || Cap. Springer || Col Japan || || || 69. Mar[illeg.] Co. RI || [illeg.]  who [illeg.] to the [illeg.]

I am, respectfully, 
Your obedient servant, 
J. L. EDWARS, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
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2 
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 

The following regulations have been adopted:  
This law has been construed to extend , as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as the Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatment &c. Persons who served on the board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.  
 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3.  Persons employed in the Naval service. 
4. Indian Spies.  

As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claim-ing the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first in-stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of REcord. 

DECLARATION,
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.  
State, Terrirtory, or District of 
Count of } ss. 

On this [blank] day of [blank] personally appeared (a) before A.B. a resident (b) of [blank] in the county of [blank] and State, Territory or District of [blank] aged (c) [blank] years, who being first duly sworn, according to the law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) [blank] , with [blank] and served in the [blank] (e) regiment of the [blank] line, under the following named officers: 

[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he serv-ed under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he enered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. [Pointer finger icon] This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and per-sons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]

He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in the State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of [blank] 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A.B. 

[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 

And the said Court do hereby declare their oinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  

I [blank] of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of [blank] for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this [blank] day of [blank] &c.  

If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in not (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: 

(k)We, A.B., a Clergyman, residing in the [blank] and C.D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with [blank], who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be [blank] years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.  
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.] 

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revo-lutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B. and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the [blank] and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.  

I, [blank] Clerk of the Court of [blank] do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application for a pension.  

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this [blank] day of [blank] &c.  

Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commis-sion; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 

If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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Service
R. J. Clarke, Simeon Number W. 1231
or Clark
Betsey
Double underline
Contents empty
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Brookfield June 20th 1853
Dear Sir
I enclose the application of Betsey Clarke
widow of Simeon Clark a Revolutionary
Pension for a pension under the act of 3rd
Feb 1853 was my fathers brother & I have
always during his life prepared his papers on
which he drew his pension & [illegible] them I
trust all will be satisfactory
[illegible]
Joseph Clark Brookfield NY
Very respectfully your Obedient Servant
Joseph Clark
Hon L. P. Waldo
Commission of pensions
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Pension Office
29 August, 1853.
Sir
Bepleased to inform
me to what time the within
named pensioner was found, or
the date of his death
Very Respectfully
S. Cole
Acting Commissioner
Simeon Clarke, Act 1832,
$30. per annum - Paid to 4th
Sept. 1850, no date of
death on our Books.
F. Burt
Auditor
Francis Burt, Esqr
The Auditor, Juan
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WIDOW, &c.
---
File No. 1231
Betsey
Clark
Widow
Simon Clark
Pri Rev. War
---
Act: Feb. 3, 1853
Index:--Vol. A, Page 134
Arrangement of 1870.}
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June 25 [illegible]
No. 2213
Appl. of Betsey
Clark widow of
Simeon
Madison Co.
N.Y.
20536
Act 3d Feby 1853.
$30.00 per annum
Comm Feb 3, 1853,
Rev.
Joseph Clark
Brookfield
N.Y.
DEPARTMENT OF THE
INTERIOR
Pension Office, Official Business
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Clerk's Office, Madison County,
interest in
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I
June
ss.
1853,
LUDLES PARK, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify,
that John G. Bailey, whose name is subscribed
to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed
instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such
proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, duly elected or appointed, and qualified, and authorized by
the laws of said State to take the same; and that I am well acquainted
with his handwriting, and verily believe the signature to the said
certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and acthis

knowledged according to the laws of said State. I have no
have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the 16
day
Lucius P. Clark Clerk
Download
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Pa;Rr;of of Ma: 27th Sept.  50
"Boynton."
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Brief in the case of Betsey Clark, Widow of Simeon,
Madison County and State of N. York
act 3d Feby, 1853
Claim ("Original")
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner, under the
Act of 7 June 1832
Pawle proof of Marriage.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent
Joseph Clark, Esqr
Brookfield.
N.Y.
S. C. Boynton
Examining Clerk
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We Sullivan Gardner and Joseph Clark residing in the
town of Brookfield County of Madison and State of New 
York hereby certify that we are well aquainted with
Simeon Clark who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration that we believe him to be sixty nine years
of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood
where he resides to have been a soldier of the
Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn and subscribed in open
Court this 9th day of October 1832
before me
A.S. Sloan Clk
Sullivan Gardner
Joseph Clark
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to
Subscribed & Sworn to this
ninth day of October 1832
in open Court before me
A.S. Sloan Clk
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State of New York
County of Renslier personally appeared before
me Isaac Saunders one of the Justices of the 
Peace of the town of Petersburgh
county of Renslier and State of New York
William Hall of the town of Petersburgh
County of Renslier and State of New York
and being by me first duly sworn says he
is seventy six years of age that he lived in the time
of the Revolutionary war in the town of
Westerly --  County of Washington and State of
Rhode 
Island but now lives in the town of Brookfield
County of Madison and State of New York 
that in the month of June -- in the year 1775 the 
said Simeon Clark enlisted with him in a 
company commanded by Capt. Springer
in a regiment commanded by Capt. John Sapin for
nine months and that the said Simeon Clark
served the full length of nine months in 
the service of the United States and was discharged
in the month of March -- in the year 1779
William Hall
Sworn and Subscribed
September 17th 1832
before me Isaac Saunders Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that I am well 
aquainted with William Hall and
believe him to be as old as he states,
and that he is a man of truth 
and veracity.
Isaac Saunders -- Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
Rensselaer County ss. I certify that Isaac Saunders whose signa
ture is affixed to the within affidavit & certificate was
on the day of the date of the same one of the Justices
of the peace in & for the County of Rensselaer and
that I am acquainted with the hand writing of
the said Justice and verily believe his signature
affixed to the said affidavit & certificate to be
W
his proper hand writing and signature-
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed
the seal
the Court of the Court of Common pleas of said County this
21 day of September 1832
Archibald Bull Clerk

Simeon Clarke
[illegible]
Simeon Clarke
19916
Please have the certificate payable in [illegible]

[illegible]
9 mo [illegible]
_____________
30$
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Payments to be made
at Utica, N. York
by Pres. U.S.[illegible]
Agent for paying Pension=
ers, in the Agency of
.
New York

Recorded in the Pension Of=
fice, in Book E. Vol 4
Page 1, by G.C. Stiles
Clerk.
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Whereas I Betsey Clerk of the town of Brookfield
in the County of Madison and State of New York am the Widow
of Simeon Clarke and late of said town deceased who was a pensioner
of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
at the rate of $30 per annum And when as I am advised that
I am entitled as the widow of the said Simeon Clarke to
a pension under the act of Congress passed February 3d AD 1853
now therefore I do hereby constitute and appoint Joseph Clark
of Brookfield State of New York my true and lawfull attorney and
agent for me and in my name and behalf to prosecute my claim
to an allowance of pension as above mentioned hereby giving and
granting to my said attorney and rightfull power and authority
to present and prosecute my said claim before the proper offices of the
government of the United States and in prosecuting of the same to do
any act or thing which I might do lawfully if personally present and
for the purposes aforesaid to appoint or substitute agents or attorneys
under him or in his place and stead hereby notifying and confirming
whatever my said Attorney or his agents or substitutes shall lawfully do
in the premises Witness my hand and seal this 30th day of April
AD 1853. 
Betsey
Clark
Sealed signed & executed in
presence of Mary P. Greene
Lydia Clarke
J L Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.
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State of New York
County of Madison
I Lucius P. Clark Clerk of the court of common pleas
on [illegible] at Eaton in and for
the county of Madison, do hereby certify that satisfactory 
evidence has been  [illegible] to said court that Simeon
Clarke was a pensioner of the United States at the
rate of thirty dollars per annum was a resident
of the county of Madison in the State of New York
and died in the town of Brookfield in the State
of New York in the year 1850 on the 27th day of 
September that he left a widow whose name
is Betsey Clarke.
In testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affixed
my seal  of Office at Eaton this
16th day of June in the year of
our Lord 1853.
Lucius P. Clark, Clerk
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STATE OF NEW-YORK,
Clerk's Office, Madison County,

I, Lucius P. Clark, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify,
that John T. G. Bailey Esq whose name is subscribed
to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed
instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such
proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said
County, duly elected or appointed, and qualified, and authorized by
the laws of said State to take the same; and that I am well acquaint-
ed
with his handwriting, and verily believe the signature to the said
certificate is genuine, and that said instrument is executed and ac-
knowledged according to the laws of said State. I have no interest in this claim
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal, the 16th
day
of June 1853.
Lucius P. Clark Clerk





ucius P. Clark
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WAR DEPARTMENT
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that in conformity with the law of the United
1
States of the 7th June, 1832,
Simeon Clarke
of the State of
New York
who was a private in the Revolutionary
Army --
is entitled to receive thirty dollars 
per annum, during his natural life, com=
mencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=
annually on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in
every year.
Given at the War Office of the United 
States
, this
21
day of
September one thousand eight
hundred and thirty three
Examined and
Countersigned. }
Edward
Commissioner of Pensions.
Lewis Cass
Secretary of War.

Examined and
Countersigned
J.L. Edward
Commissioner of Pensions