Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25417, Josiah Clark, Continental Mass.
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(3-1778)

SERVICE
Continental
Mass.

Clark Josiah     
           Lucy

NUMBER
W. 25417

CONTENTS
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Vermont 941

Josiah Clark
of Newhaven in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the company commanded
by Captain Bedlow of the regt. commanded
by Col Lamb in the Rev. Artillery
line for 3 years and 8 months.

Sh be $100 (illegible)

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 80 Dollars __ Cents per an.
to commence on the 4th day of March,1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of October 1832 and sent to E. D. Barber
Middlebury Vt.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832            120.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 
4th M'ch 1833                                    40.00
                                                         _______
                                                       $160.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by J. M. Duffield Clerk,
Book D   Vol. 4   Page 51

Let - to Pensioner 23 Nov 1835
  "         E.
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Examined with
Orig. Rolls oct. 18. 1883 M.G.

5342
Vermont

Lucy Clark
widow of Josiah Clark decd.
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1832
and who died on the 17th June 1835
of Addison in the State of Vt.
who was a Artificer in the Compy commanded 
by Captain Post of the Regt. commanded
by Col. Lamb in the Connt.
line for 1 year

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont.
at the rate of 72 Dollars ___Cents per ann.
to commence on the 4th day of March, 836.

Certificate of pension issued the 1st. day of Mar
1840 and sent Hon. Wm. Slade (illegible)

Arrears to the 4th of March 1860   $288.00
Semi=annual allowance ending
4th Sept. " (1860)                                36.00      
                                                         ________
                                                        $324.00

Recorded by DD. Addison Clerk.
Book A    Vol. 2d.    Page 56
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Declaration of
Josiah Clark
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State of Vermont}
County of Addison ss} on the 4th day of July AD 1832 Personally appeared before the Judges of Addison County Court now sitting in open Court Josiah Clark a resident of Newhaven in the County of Addison and State of Vermont aged Seventy five 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 provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted at Roxbury in the army of the United States in the year 1775 in April or May with Capt James Bedlow in the Artilery (Artillery) for the term of Eight months in Col. Henry Thor Regiment of the Contilental (Continental) line under the aforesaid named officers and lived at Roxbury and Illegible) point the full term of his enlistment.  he then enlisted again into Col. John Durges Regiment in Capt Thomas Dyers Company of Infantry in the Continental army for the term of one year and was at Cambridge from January 1776. to March of the same year - while at Cambridge and Letchmeres (Lechmere) point he was on the picket guard and the guard was fired at by the inemy (enemy) and some of our men killed In the latter part of March or first of April 1776.  our army marched from Cambridge to Newport City where we remained in and around the city two or three months until driven from the city by the enemy and that he was in the battle when our army retreated from the City to Kings bridge was in the battle of Harlem and was at Dobbs ferry
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and fired at the enemies as they passed up and down the River we were under the commd. of Gen Putnam when there at the City - and was with the army on their retreat into New York he was with the American Army at Trenton and was there in the battle and took about a thousand of the enemy - about the close of the year 1776. Gen Washington requested that those whose time of service had then expired to continue in the Service until recruits could be enlisted into the Service - and particularly requested the sd. Clark to remain in the Service whose term of enlistment had thus expired - the Said Josiah Clark then enlisted again into the Continental Service in Col. Lambs regiment of Artilery (Artillery) in Capt Anthony Pratts Company - for the term of two years and marched with the army under the Command of Gen Washington from Trenton to the South was in the battles of German Town Monmouth and Brandywine and Several Small engagements and Served the full term of his enlistment - and then left the Army in the year 1779. in February - that he then returned home to Lebanon Connecticut that he has three discharges but has lost them and that he knows of no persons who can testify to his Services as aforesaid He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any State - Before the close of the Revolution he resided from
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Lebanon in Connecticut to Shaftsbury in Vermont and from there to Newhaven thirty (illegible) where he now resides
Josiah Clark

Sworn and subscribed the day ad year aforesaid in open Court 
Court                      E.D. Baber Clerk

We Miller Stow residing in Weybridge in the County of Addison and Archibald Platt residing in Newhaven & Hubbard Cook of Newhaven in Addison County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Josiah Clark who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Seventy five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he used to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion
 Hubbard Cook
Miller Stow
Archibald Platt

Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court
And the Court said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation the matter, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states; and the court also certify that, from personal acquaintance, with the said Josiah Clark as well as with Hubbard Cook, whose certificate is above written, they consider them persons of veracity and entitled to credit and the Court further certify that it has been made to appear to them by competent testimony that Miller Stow and Archibald Patt, whose certificate is above written, are persons of veracity and entitled to credit.
Edward D. Barber Clk
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State of Vermont}
Addison County ss} On this 20th day of February in the year 1840, personally appeared before the Probate Court for the Said District of Addison Lucy Clark a resident of New Haven in the County of Addison aged Seventy three years last May, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."  That she is the widow of Josiah Clark late of Said New Haven deceased, and late a private in the army of the United States in the revolutionary war: - That she has no knowledge of his Service, except what She learned from him, and her recollection is not distinct;  She recollects that he Stated that in 1775 the first year of the war, he resided in Connecticut, and at the time of the Lexington battle he was on his way to join the troops at Boston - that he was in Bunker hill battle, and served during the war nearly five years; that he obtained a pension under the act of 1832, for his Said Services; and that his declaration is Supposed to contain a correct Statement of his Services.
She further declares that She was married to the Said Josiah Clark, on the thirty first day of March in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five, at Manchester in the County of Bennington, Vermont, by an Episcopal clergyman then residing in Arlington in that County, the Rev. Mr. Nichols, - his Christian name she thinks was James. - The Said Nichols afterwards resided
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in Manchester, and kept a school, and became intemperate, and She understands that he has Since died, and She has no knowledge, where any of his family resides.  Soon after their Said marriage, a record of the marriage was made in the family bible, in which also was a record of the births of three children; that that bible becoming much worn; the record was transferred, not far from twenty years ago, to a new bible; - the first record afterwords was destroyed, and the bible has Since been given away: - The present bible containing the record has always been in her possession.  She further declares that her Said husband died on the 17th day of June in the year 1835; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the marriage took place precious to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above Stated. - The paper hereto annexed is the original record, contained in the bible last mentioned above.           her    
                                 Lucy X Clark
                                        mark

Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year above written - (The declarant having made her mark directed her name to be written.  she not being able to write on account of infirmity.)  Before the Said Court,
Saml. Swift Judge

I, Ira Clark of New Haven in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, being duly Sworn depose and say that the time of my first recollection, I resided with my father Josiah Clark, late a pensioner of the United States deceased, and my mother Lucy Clark, who has made the foregoing declaration, in Hampton in the State of New York' that when I was five years
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old the family removed to Manchester in the County of Bennington, Vermont, where they had before resided; in the year 1800, my father moved with his family from Manchester to New Haven in the County of Addison where he resided until the time of his death, on the 17th day of June 1835; that he obtained a pension under the act of Congress of June 1832, of Eighty dollars per annum; I have always lived on the same farm with my father - until the time of his death - and with the Said Lucy Clark my mother, Since his death: - From conversation and report, and from the family records, I have always Since my recollection understood the following to be facts in relation to the history of the family - that my father & mother were married on the 31st day of March 1785, by Rev. Mr. Nichols, an Episcopal clergyman then preaching in Arlington in the County of Bennington - that their first child, Josiah Clark, was born at Manchester on the 15th November 1786, that soon after the family moved to Hampton in the state of New York - where I was born on the 11th day of October 1788 - that my oldest brother, Josiah, died in infancy.  From my first recollection, I have known a record of the marriage of my parents, and of the birth of three children to be in a bible, of small size, used in the family as a family bible - that at an early day. - how long ago I am not able to Say, my father being apprehensive that the record, from it being so much worn would be destroyed, copied the record, into a blank book, in which, I think, he kept accounts; - that afterwards, I think more than twenty years ago, having obtained a new bible, and a Schoolmaster, who was a good writer, residing in the neighborhood, by the name of Castle, my father
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employed him to transfer the record from the old bible to the new, - the old bible not being then destroyed, afterwards the record in the old bible was destroyed - and the bible given away.  The paper annexed is the original contained in the new bible. - The blank book, to which the record was transferred cannot now be found; The record of the death of my father was made by and is in the handwriting of my Son, Norman Clark. - About a year ago, with a view to obtain evidence of the marriage of my mother, to enable her to obtain a pension, I directed a letter to my uncle Elijiah Collins, at Manchester, requesting him to make inquiry at the office of the town clerk to ascertain if any record could be found there of her marriage; and in answer to my inquiry, I received by mail, the letter hereto annexed, containing a certificate of the town clerk.  I requested the Said Collins also to make inquiry for other evidence of the Said marriage. - After my father obtained his pension, I went with him to draw the money, as long as he was able; - and for one or more of the last times of his drawing, he was unable to go out and I employed a magistrate to go to the house to execute the necessary papers.  After his death, I obtained the arrears of his pension on behalf of my mother.  Ira Clark

Sworn to and Subscribed
this 20th day of February 1840, before the Said Court.  And I certify that it is the opinion of the Said Court the Said Ira Clark is a credible witness, and his testimony is entitled to full confidence.
Saml. Swift Judge
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FAMILY RECORD.

MARRIAGES.

Josiah Clark and Lucy Clark
were joined in marriage @ March 31th 1785.
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FAMILY RECORD.

BIRTHS.
Josiah Clark born in Lebanon county of Windham, State of Connecticut April 24th 1757

Lucy Clark born in Kent County of Litchfield State of Connecticut May 18th 1766

Josiah Clark Jr. born in Manchester in Vermont November 15th 1786

Ira Clark born in Hampton State of New York Oct. 11th 1788

DEATHS.
Josian Clark Jr. departed this life March 18th 1788

Josiah Clark departed this life June 17.. 1838
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No 1184

Admitted

Private. 3 years. 8month
$80: per annum.

(947)
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BRIEF in the case of Josiah Clark of Addison County in the State of Vermont
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1.  Was the declaration made before a court of a Judge:  In the County Court

2.  If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  blank

3.  How old is he?  75 years

4.  State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
April or May in 1775

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
               8

Rank.
As a
private

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen. 
In artillery of Contl. line
Capt. Bedlow   Col. Henry


Period.
from 1777 to 1779

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days.
   2

Rank.
As a
do

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen. 

Continental artillery under
Capt. Post   Col. Lamb

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  At New York Harlem, Dobb's Ferry, Trenton, German Town Monmouth, Brandywine.

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Roxbury Massachusetts

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  By tradition

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  Correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

J M Duffield Examining Clerk.
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In reply to your request of _______, received ______ for a statement of the military history of Josiah Clark a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as obtained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

W. file 25.417

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Roxbury
Apl or May 75
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
8 mos.
RANK.
blank
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
James Bedlow (?)
COLONEL.
Henry Knox
STATE.
Contl Arty.

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
Jany 76
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
1 yr.
RANK.
blank
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Thos Dyer
COLONEL.
John Durges
STATE.
2d Contl Inf

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
to Feby 79
LENGTH OF SERVICE.
2 yrs.
RANK.
blank
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Anthony Post
COLONEL.
Lamb
STATE.
2" Contl Infy.

Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill, Retreat fr. N.Y. Harlem Dobb's Ferry Trenton, German, Mon., Brand.

Residence of soldier at enlistment, Lebanon, Conn.

Date of application for pension, July 4, 1832.

Residence at date of application, New Haven, Addison Co., Vt.

Age at date of application, B. Lebanon, Conn. Apl. 24 1757 died June 17. 1835

Remarks: She mar. Manchester, Vt., Mch. 31, 1785 Lucy Ball (or Bull) born Kent Conn. May 18,1766 - wid. appln. Feby 20,1840 - New Haven, Vt., ch: Josiah b. Manchester Vt. Nov. 15, 1786 d. Mch. 19.1788. Ira b. Hampton, N.Y. Oct, 11.1788 living in 1840
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(check mark) 6772
Vt
Let. to Hon w. Slade}
March 28, 1840.}

act 7. July 38
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STATE OF VERMONT,}
Addison County ss.}

I, EDWARD D. BARBER, Clerk of the County Court for the County of Addison, do hereby certify that the annexed documents contain the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Josiah Clark for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 10th day of July A.D. 1832

Edward D. Barber Clerk
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No 1184.

Declaration of 
Josiah Clark

August 6 1832

Enlistd. in Posts artificers
22 March 78 for 1 year.
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House of Reps. April 29.1840

Sir

In accordance with the suggestion contained in your letter to me of the 28th ultimo relation to the case of Lucy Clark, I have written to the Comptroller of Court and have received a reply saying that he has "examined all the payrolls remaining in this office relating to the Revolutionary war, from 1775 to 80: - also the records of the Connecticut line from 1777 to 81, inclusion, for the name of Josiah Clark (embracing artificing) & his name does not appear."

Your early return in this case is desired
Very respectfully
Your obedient servant
William Slade

J. L. Edwards Esq
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H. R. Marh 26 1840

Sir

I send the papers of Lucy Clark, applicant for a pension, on which I desire your speedy action, and report to me

Respectfully Your obedient servant
Willam Slade

J. L. Edwards Esq
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Oct. 5. 1904. Histy to
Mrs. A.M. Langwill
LaGrange, Ill

1907 June 3. Hist to T.D. Huntting letter in
Wid file #26,565. c

WIDOW, &c.

File. 25,417
Lucy Clark
wid. of
Josiah Clark
Artifice Rev. war

Act: July 7th 1838.

Index: - Vol. A, Page 140
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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To what time was Josiah Clark private 80$ paid at the Vermont agency under the act of 7 June 1832?
G.H.C.
Nov.16.'35

He was paid to 4th March 1835 - 3d Jl.
not received  IH
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Middlebury (Vt.)  July 30.1832

Hon Lewis Cass
Sec. War

Sir
Please order the returns on the within applications to be enacted to me by request of the applicants.
Respectfully
Your ob sevt
E D Barber
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25,417
3-068.
(Old no. 3-649.)

Bureau of pensions.
Josah Clark

July 4, 1832 - 75
New Haven Vt

spg 75.  (Roxbury, Mass crossed out) Conn
Capt Jas Bedlow
Col Lamb
Pvt 8 m

76 Capt Thos Dyer
Col Jno Durges (Dunker)
Pvt 1 yr

Mar Lucy Hull
Mch 31, 1785 Manchester Vt.
D. June 17, 1835 N. Haven "

Bat. Harlem, Dobbs Ferry, Trenton
Brandywine Germantown & 
Monmouth

77 - Capt. Post
Col Lamb
Pvt. 2 yrs
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(Square stamp:)
U.                   S.
(illegible) NAVY
DEP 26 1904
(Illegible)
P.                    D.

The Com. of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir - 
I write to inquire if you can give me any information concerning the Revolutionary service of my great-great-grandfather, Josiah Clark.  

His wife's name was - Bull; he probably enlisted from Massachusetts and he died in Waltham or New Haven, Vermont.  We know that he was in the Revolution but have no facts to support our
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claim.

Also, is there a record of any military service rendered by Constantine Noble, who was born in Westfield Mass, in 1725 and died in Sheffield, Mass?  His wife's name was Elizabeth Hogstrom.

Also, is a record kept of those who took part in the wars before the Revolution?  We have a family record of Ensign (illegible) Noble, born in Westfield, Mass. in Sept. 1698 and died in the same place in 1771.  We have no account of an military
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service which he rendered, but judge from his title that he must have been connected with the army.

Any information you can give me upon these points will be appreciated.

Very sincerely
Mabel M. Langwill

Thursday - Sept 22

Mrs A. M. Langwill
97 Sixth Ave.
La Grange, Ills.
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6.772
Lucy Clark - 
Vt
Act 7. July 38

m 85 d 35.

on Roll. Capt post, Artificers
22 March 78 for one year.

admd
12 mo. Artificer
____
72$

no deduction


Hn. W. Slade
HR.
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State of New York}
County of Clinton}
Town of Plattsburgh} ss.

I Rebecca Hilyard of Plattsburgh being duly sworn; before Peter I. Roberts, Esqr a Justice of the Peace of Said Town do depose and say That I am well acquainted with Lucy Clark, the person now present.  That I was first acquainted with her while we were both children and have been acquainted with her ever since, That we are cousins and when young lived both of us in Manchester Vermont,  That deponent is about two months older than Said Lucy Clark and deponent was present at the wedding of Said Lucy Clark and Saw her married to Josiah Clark in the Town of Manchester, deponent further says that she was Seventy three years old last March and deponent well recollects that said Lucy Clark was married in the month of March in which deponent was nineteen years old, That the name of the person who married Said Lucy Clark & Josiah Clark was Nichols but his Christain name deponent does not recollect.  That Said Nichols was then  a Settled Minister of the Gospel of the Town of Arlington in Vermont but occasionally Preached in Manchester - deponent well recollects that deponents Father & Mother and Joel Clark and Several other people were present at the wedding - deponent further says that Said Josiah Clark and Lucy Clark lived together as husband and wife for Several years after their marriage when deponent moved from Manchester to Plattsburgh in the Stat of New York, and that since deponent resided in Plattsburgh Said Joseiah Clark & Lucy his wife has visited at deponents house and deponent & her husband has visited them in Newhaven Vermont. & verily believe they lived together untill (until) Said Josiah Clark died.
            her
Rebecca X Hilyard
            mark

Sworn and Subscribed before me this 3d. day. of February AD 1840 & I certify that deponent is a credible witness.
Peter J. Roberts Justice peace
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I further Certify that Said Rebecca Hilyard does not write for the reason that She never learned to write.
Peter J. Robers Justice Peace

State of New York}
County of Clinton} ss

I Smith Mead Clerk of the Said County of Clinton do hereby Certify that Peter J. Roberts Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Clinton duly Commissioned & Sworn And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe his signature above is genuine - 
In testimony in hereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 5. day of February 1840
Smith Mead Clerk
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From Clerk's Office
Manchester 30- April 1839

I Certify that I have examined the Records of the Town of Manchester and cannot find there in a Record of the marriage of Josiah Clark to lucy Bull - 
W.P. Black Town Clerk


30th of April 1939
Dear Sir  I have examined the Town Records and Cannot find any Record of the Marriage of Josiah Clark you have also the Certificate of the Town Clerk I went and see Aunt Moll She Says that She was not at the Wedding I have made all the inquiry and Can find no one that knows any thing in Regard to their Marriage  I Should have written sooner but have taken a good Deal time at the Clerks office and have made all the inquiry that I could we are all Well as usual 
Yours With Respect
Ira Clark                    Elijah Collins
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State of Vermont}
District of Addison ss}
I Samuel Swift, Judge of the Probate Court for the Said District of Addison, do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the appliance of Lucy Clark for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of Said Court this 20th. day of February in the year 1840.
Saml. Swift, Judge. - 


The records of Marriages were very imperfectly kept in Vermont as early as 1785.  That imperfection would be much more likely to occur in a case of marriage by clergymen then by magistrates, and in a case of marriage by Episcopal Clergymen than any others as there was, at that time probably, not a single settled Clergyman of that order in the State.  The Clergyman who married Mrs. Clark it seemed was a sort of hanger on upon the Church, for after turning Pedagogue, he became intemperate and died it is not known where.
William Slade