Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 927, Clark Blandford, Conn. New Jersey
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(3-1776)
Service
Conn.   Blandford, Clark
New Jersey   
Number R. 927
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Clark Blandford
[illegible]
Ad. June 7. 1882

[illegible]
W C. Dawson
H R
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[illegible] W. C. Dawson
H R
{something crossed out]
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State of Georgia
Early County

On this 10th day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, personally appeared Clark Blandford Sr. a resident of said County and state of the age of Eighty four years who being first duly sworn, according to 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 the 7th 1832.. That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1775 in the Company of Captain John Montgomery in the regiment Commanded by Colonel Benedict Arnold in the expedition filled out against Quibeck in lower Canada, and there served twelve months, was there made a prisoner & (illegible) & returned to the state of New Jersey, and served in the militia of said state under various officers until the termination of the revolutionary war - was first under Colonel John Nelson and Liut Col Scudder at the taking of Bennett's Island so called, at the taking of Major Richard Hogden, and under him the said Colonel John Nelson and (illegible) Col. Scudder served two years. was under the Command of Lord Herling about three months, after the British left Brunswick at the Battle of the Short Hills. Was at the Battle of Trenton, was at the Battle of Springfield, was at Mud Island fort until the British (illegible) in the delaware, was at and fought in the Battle of Monmouth under General Maxwell, generally under his command for nine months in the year 1778, and received three wounds during said war, which can show for (illegible) The deponent having moved from New Jersey where he first enlisted, first under Colonel Arnold, and where was then his
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residence, to various other sections of the United
States, To Wit. from Jersey to the State of Virginia
from thence to the State of Georgia, from thence to
the Territory of Florida, from thence returned to the
State of Georgia as aforesaid and now a
resident of the County of Early of said State and
during said moving & casualties attendant thereto
has lost his different discharges, and therefore on
account of defective memory cannot set forth
precise period of service rendered by him during
said revolutionary war. Recollects almost
each tour in the militia to have performed the
duty of sergeant, was Sergeant Major in Col
Nelsons regiment three months. was under Colo
Sealy in the year 1781 about 9 months, was in
Captain Freeman Company three months and laid a 
considerable time at Connecticut Farms.
s/ Clark Blandford

Sworn to and subscribed in
open Court this 10th day Sept 1838
s/ William Castleberry J.J.C.
s/ Thos Speight J.J.C.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity
pension except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the
roll of any agency in any state in the Union.
the day and year aforesaid
s/ Clark Blandford
s/ William Castleberry J.J.C.
s/ Thos Speight J.J.C.
s/ Barnett Cody J.J.C.

And the said Court do hereby declare that the ipinon that the above
named applicant was a pensionary soldier  and swears as he states.
s/ William Castleberry J.J.C.
s/ Thos Speight J.J.C.
s/ Barnett Cody J.J.C.
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I Joel W Perry Clerk of the Inferior Court of said County
of Early and State aforesaid do certify that the aforegoing
contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the
matter of the application of Clark Blandford for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal this
the 10th day of September 1838. There being no seal of
office
s/ Joel W Perry 
Clk Infr. Court

We James Cody, Solomon Ward, James Ward & Paul McCormick
residing in the County of Early and state of Georgia
do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Clark
Blandford the applicant above named, who has subscribed and
sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to
be Eighty four years of age, that he is reputed and believed
in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a
soldier of the revolutionary war have been acquainted 
with him at least thirty five years, have believed
him a revolutionary soldier, and concur in that
opinion, and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interogation
prescribed by the war department, that the above named applicant
was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, and the
Court further certify that it appears to them that James Cody, Solomon
Ward, James Ward & Paul McCormick, who has also assigned 4
Residenters of the County of Early and State aforesaid and
are creditable persons, and that their statement are entitled
to credit.
s/ James Cody
s/ Solloman Ward
s/ James Ward
s/ Paul McCormick

s/ William Castleberry J. J.C.
s/ Thos Speight J. J.C.
s/ Barnett Cody J. J.C.

I Joel W Ting Clerk of the Inferior Court of Early County
in said State do certify that the foregoing contains the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application
of Clark Blandford for a pension. In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and personal seal there being no seal of office
this 10th day of Sept 1838.
s/ Joel W Perry
Clk Infr Court
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Ex'r. 
INVALID.
No. 927
[stamped sideways on the right side] REJECTED
[preprinted and crossed out] Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873
Clark Blandford
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Clark Blandford, Ga
1034966 - act 7 June 1832
let to Hon. W. C. Dawson
14 Feby 1840 & 21 Apl '40
Clark Blandford 13 Oct '40
Nov A. H. Stephens
July 10, 1840.
Let to Clark Blandford
Feb 26 '47
Let to R. T. Queen Oct. 5 '47
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Act of June 1832
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Notes given by the Commissioners of
the several Counties for Militia Services.

[table with one entry]
No. of Voucher. -- [blank]
No. of Certif. -- 82.
Date. -- May, 1784 
SIGNED BY. -- Thomson Stelle
PAYABLE TO. -- Clark Blanchard 
Amount. -- L. S. @ 1.13.0
1 y's int. -- [blank]

STATE OF NEW JERSEY
I, CHARLES G. McCHESNEY, Secretary of State of the State of
New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract
from a Book, headed as above, as taken from, and compared
with the original, now remaining in my office.--And I do
further certify, that Thomson Steele Was,
by an Act passed by the Legislature of this State, December
20, 1783, entitled ""An Act to procure an estimate of the sums
due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the
defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the
settlement of the same appointed a Commissioner for the
County of Middlesex for the
purpose of settling and adjusting the pay rolls of the Militia and
Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering
out to each and every person a note for the payment of
what may be justly due.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, at
Trenton, in said State, this tenth day of February
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.
s/ Charles G. McChesney
Secretary of State,
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The Honl. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
District of Columbia

[stamp] CLINTON GA OCT 5

OCT 12, 1840
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Jones County Geo. 2nd Oct. 1840

To The Honorable J.L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington City district of Columbia

Dear Sir you Communication (officially to  the Hon Wm. Cosby Dawson in representation from this state to the Congress of the United States. Under date 14th of Feb 1840. with respect to (illegible) application for pension under the act of Congress of U. States passed 7th June 1832 was handed one by Col. Dawson and now I have the same before me, you there say "Proof as to his services other then his own Declaration is deemed by you indispensable in order to establish the claim"

I you mean thereby that he has to prove by other disinterested  Testamony such as was with him in rendering the Tour of he says he rendered in Canada in 1775, under Col. Arnold as well as the Tour (there set forth) he rendered in the Militia of the state of New Jersey. I req. you will say so in Reply to these as well as forward me a copy of the Act of 7 June 1832. or say what kind of Testimony the department required for establishing the Claims of Revolutionary Soldiers other than their original discharges in compliance directed to Clinton Jones County. You will oblige yours very respectfully-
Clark Blandford Jr.
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Sept. 24. 1847
Enclosed is the application
of Clark Blandford [illegible] services,
which [illegible] at your earliest [illegible]
[illegible]
yes by faithfully
R. T. Queen
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Washington DC
30 June 1846
Dear Sir
Please examine the enclosed
letter and at [illegible] knew the condition
of the claim of Clarke Blanford
the person whom is named. Please
return the letter.

Your respectfully
s/ Ats Stphens

J. L. Edwards
Court of Pens.

P.S. I have not yet [illegible]
of Elizabeth Law-
AOS
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State of New Jersey Mercer County
On the 20th day of February AD 1827 before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for [illegible] County personally appeared Eli Carson a resident of East Windsor in the County & State aforesaid a person of credibility and truth in the eighty ninth year of his age who being duly sworn according to law Oath on his oath say that he well remembers when about twelve or thirteen years of age a person by the name of Clark Blandford in the Village of Hightstown sometime during the Revoluntionary war this deponent volunteered in the Militia and performed much service, he also recalled that Clark Blandford served in the said Militia with deponent under [words crossed out] Major Nixon Capt Combs, - Longstreet Perrine Stout and others not recollected at Cranbury, Hightstown Amboy New Brunswick Elizabethtown that he served in the same town with said Blandford deponent recollects hearing him tell of being in the Canada campaigns in which  he was a prisoner at Quebec and the sufferings he experienced there; deponent believes the said Blandford served in the Militia two years or more deponent recollects that he left this part of the country a short time after the Revoluntionary War, but an account of his great age and consequent loss of memory he cannot specifiy each town but the general facts he well remembers deponent further states that he has never applied for a pension 

Eli Carson
Sworn and subscribed this day and year first above written 
Israel Pearce Justice
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The erasures of the names of Col. Nelson Lt Col Wm Scudder and also the paragraph relative to the Canada Campaign were made prior to signing, also the words (that he) in the twentieth line omitted were inserted before signing the deponent had no recollection of the Canada Campagin.

Feb. 20th 1827
Israel Pearce Justice

state, duly commissioned and sworn; that full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature therto is in the proper handwriting of the said
Israel Pearce.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office at Trenton,
in said state, this twenty third day of February A. D. one thousand eight hundred and forty seven.

s/ Charles G. McChesney
Sec'y of State.
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STATE OF NEW JERSEY.

I, Charles G. McChesney, Secretary of State of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that Israel Pearce Esquire, before whom the within affidavit was taken, was, at the time of the doing thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Mercer in said state, duly commissioned and sworn; that the full faith and credit are to be given to his official attestations, and that the signature thereto is in the proper handwriting of the said Israel Pearce

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office at Trenton, in said state, this twenty third day of February A. D. one thoughsand eight hundred and forty-seven

Clarles G McChesney
Sec'y of State.
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Clark Blanford
(illegible) 34966
June 7 1832
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927

Act June 7 1832,
Hon. W.C. Dawson
(illegible)
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
STATE OF GEORGIA.
By Charles J. McDonald
Governor of said State.
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME:
Know Ye, That Joel W Perry whose
certificates are given and made to the
within document, was, at the time
of making the same holding and
exercising the office of Clerk of
Inferior Court of the County of
Early in said State of Georgia
and that the same are in due
form.

Therefore, all due faith, credit and authority are, and ought to be had and given
to his Attestation as such.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I hereunto my hand, and caused the Great
Seal of this State to be put and affixed.

DONE at the Capitol, in Milledgeville, this Seventeenth
day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred
and Thirty nyne and of the Independence of the United States
of America the sixty-forth.

By the Governor:
s/ Wm A Tennille
Secretary of State,

Executive Department Ga
Milledgeville 17 December 1839
Registered
received 25 cents
J U Hoover
S. E. D.