Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,164, Nathaniel Saunders Clark, Continental N.H.
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SERVICE  Continental N. H.

C;lark, Nathaniel Saunders

NUMBER  S. 23,164
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1028
+ Vermont
+New Hampshire

Nathaniel S. Clark
of Landaff in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Norris of the Regt commanded by Col Poor in the N  line for 2 years from  1776

Inscribed on the Roll of N H  at the rate of 80 Dollars ~ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of October 1832 and sent Ira Goodale  Bath N.H.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1832 $120~
Semi-anl. allowance 21 Mar 33 . . .40
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[total] $160


{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }


Recorded by I H McBlain  Clerk,
Book D  Vol. 1st  Page147.

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[unknown] July 18 1836
Transfer to Vermont from 4th March '36 - July 27 '36
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No 5506

Nathl. S. Clark

Private

on Rolls Col Reid's Reg

2 years

unknown]
JLE

$80

Ira Goodale
Bath N H
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BRIEF in the case of Nathaniel Sanders Clark of Landaff in the State of New Hampshire
 (Act 7th June, 1832) 

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court 

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

3. How old is he? 75 

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
In 1776 Jany 1 to Nov 19, 1776 As a Private, Gen. Sullivan Cap Norris - Col Poor,  
reenlisted immediately for 3 yrs to Nov 19th 1799| a part of which time he was a prisoner  Col Hale

5.  In what battles was he engaged?  Skirmish at Hubbardtown - Monmouth - with Indians - general battle with the Seneca Indians

6.  Where did he reside when he entered the service?  not stated

7.  Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Traditionary & Living witnesses certified to be credible

8.  Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and, if so, how?  correct

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case
[signed] Sam J Potts
Examining Clerk.
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Nathl Saunders Clark

Declaration

regular troops


No. 5506
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State of New Hampshire,
County of Grafton } ss.
 On the 14 day of August 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judge of the Court of Probate for said County now sitting in Bath in said County of Grafton Nathl. Saunders Clark, a resident of Landaff in the County of Grafton and State of New Hampshire, aged seventy five 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 the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.  
That he enlisted in the army of the United States on the first of January 1776 with Capt. James Norris & served in the [illegible] Regt New Hampshire line, under the following named officers:  Col Enoch Poor commanded the regiment, Lt Col [McGaffin?] & Major Calley [Celley?] were field officers Capt Norris Lieut Rowell & Ensign Glidden Company Officers - & joined the regiment the same month at Winter Hill near Boston Massachusetts; after the British left Boston our regiment went to N York City & in 10 or 15 days we sailed up North River to Albany from there were marched to [Saint?] Georges & then by [that?] Lake & Champlain to the river Sorrell & down that river until we met the Canada Army retreating before the British out of Canada General Sullivan commanded us & I believe all the troops, & our regiment was in the rear guard on the retreat until we got back to Mount Independence and then I continued to do duty in said Company & regiment until November 19 1776 I think, then I enlisted again for three years in the same Regiment being then numbered two for the first time under the same officers & being out of health I had a furlough to go home & to report myself at Exeter N. H. which I did & did duty there  in March 1777 I was ordered on & joined the regiment again at Mount Independence then commanded by Col Hale - we continued to do duty there until July & on Burgoynes advance we retreated & I was again in the rear guard with our regiment at Hubbardstown we had a skirmish & I was taken a prisoner & sent back down the lake & St Lawrence to Quebec - remained there a prisoner until November 1777 when I was put aboard a transport ship & sent to New York by sea on the 25 December 1777 I was landed at Tarry Town 25 miles up North river & then sent home on Parole - on the last of February 1778 I joined some new recruits & I was sent on with them & some of my brother Prisoners to the State of Pennsylvania and joined our regiment at Valley Forge where it had wintered - it was then commanded by Col George Reid [end of page]
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of Londonderry N.H. and our Company by Capt Norris as before after the British moved out of Philadelphia we marched to Monmouth & had a [short?] battle there the first of July.  Soon after this Capt Cherry took the command of our Company & Norris was [illegible] from there we marched to White Plains in New York & [unknown] about until late in the fall & then we went to Danbury & Newtown in Connecticut & then we built Huts [unknown] there.  N. H. Regiments wintered in Danbury Rawlings & Newtown or between them.  In the spring of 1779 we marched with the three NH Regts under Gen Sullivan to Easttown in Pennsylvania then to Wyoming then up the Susquehanna River  to Tioga Point at the forks of the rivers.  Then to Chemung [in New York] & there had a battle or skirmish with Indians[.]  Gen Hand of the Pennsylvania line was with us & his brigade was ambushed & suffered [some?].  we went back to Wyoming & there built a small fort & left our wounded & invalids & heavy baggage & then we marched off to a place called Newtown or Watertown & had a general battle with the seneca Indians, and then we marched on through the western country by Seneca Lake [illegible] the Genesee river to give [?] battle destroying all the Indian towns we could & then we marched back a short allowance to Tioga Point and from there to Toteway [Totowa?] in New Jersey State & then on the 19th day of November 1779 (I think)  I was honorably discharged and returned home.  I have lost my discharge.
I know of very few living men now that I knew in that service.  Emerson Corliss is living at Corinth in NH & has given me an affidavit of his knowing my services generally for the three years [.]  Israel Woodbury of New Salem was with me the three years service
I lived at Methuen in Massachusetts before I entered the service [near?] the line of New Hampshire soon after the war started  I removed to Landaff & have lived there ever since.
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year aforesaid  
[signed] N. S. Clark

Mr David Sutherland a Clergyman residing in the Town of Bath and Joshua Thornton residing in said Lyman hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Nathl. S. Clark who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.  The said Thornton further says that he knew him in the service & has personal knowledge of his being there he thinks three years
Sworn, and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signed] D. Sutherland, Clergyman    Joshua Thornton

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 revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that D Sutherland who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, residing in the town of Bath and that J Thornton who has also signed the same, is a resident in the Town of Lyman and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit. The affidavits of Emerson Corliss & Israel Woodbury the court [cause?] to be annexed also to the declaration as Documentary evidence & the Court further certify that the [unknown] in the hand writing of this sentence were made by request of the declarent according to the [unknown]
[signed] Edward Webber   Judge of Probate

I, Moses Dow, Reg[ister] of said Court do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Noah S. Clark for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 14 day of August A.D. 1832.
[signed] Moses Dow
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State of Vermont
Orleans Co ss}  Derby. On this fourth day of July 1836 before me, the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Orleans personally appeared Nathaniel S. Clark of Morgan in said Orleans county , who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company commanded by Captain Cherry in the Regiment commanded by Col Reid in the service of the United States, that his name is [inscribed?] on the Pension roll of the State of New Hampshire from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in Morgan in the County of Orleans and State of Vermont, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be there payable, in future,.  The following are his reasons for removing from the State of New Hampshire to the State of Vermont, is that he is old and [unknown] in years, and that he has a son residing in Morgan who professes to be a Preacher of the Gospel and that his desire is to spend the remainder of his days in Morgan with his child.
[signed] N. S. Clark

Sworn and Subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid} 
[signed] Timo. Hinman  Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Orleans County ss}  Be it known that before me Timo. Hinman a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid personally appeared Nehemiah Colby well known by me to be a respectable person, and a man of veracity and after being sworn according to Law, doth on his oath state that Nathaniel S. Clark, who signed and swore to the above oath of Identity is the same Nathaniel Clark that he therein represents himself to be
[signed] N. Colby
Sworn and subscribed this 4th day of July 1836
before me [signed] Timo. Hinman  Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Orleans County Clerks Office July 7th 1836.
I Samuel C Crafts, Clerk of Orleans County Court, do certify and make known, that Timothy Hinman, whose name is subscribed to the above certificate, is  a Justice of peace, within the County of Orleans, duly commissioned and sworn, and by the laws od said State empowered to administer oaths and certify the same, and that his name subscribed to said certificate is in his own handwriting.  In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court, the date above
[signed]  Samuel C Crafts
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION 3-525.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,,
Bureau of Pensions, 
Washington, D. C., 

S.F. 23164
Rev. War.

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Nathaniel Saunders Clark , a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.

Jany 1, 1776 . . . Nov 19, 1776 . . .. . .Captain James Norris . . . .Colonel Enoch Poor . . State N.H.
[check mark] . .  July 7, 1777 . . Captain James Norris . . Colonel Enoch Poor, Col Hale . . N.H.
taken prisoner at Hubbardton, Sent to N. Y. Dec 25, 1777, then sent home on Parole.

Feby 1778 . . Nov 19. 1779 . . Captain Norris, Cherry. . Colonel George Reid . . .N. H.


Battles engaged in, none mentioned, Monmouth  With Indians at Chemung and Newtown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Methuen, Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug 14, 1832.  His cl. was al.
Residence at date of application, Landaff, Grafton Co., N.H.
Age at date of application, 75 years
Remarks: In 1836 he was a resident of Morgan, Orleans Co. Vt. where his son was then living, his name is not stated.

Respectfully, 
[no signature]
Commissioner.
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[NLI?]
Jan 8/14
Bureau of Pensions
Gentlemen
Kindly send me any historical information of the following
Benjamin
1st Sarah Clark widow of Soldier of Revolution born about 1756 drew pension in 1840 then resident of Jay Essex Co. N.Y. information wanted of Military history of her husband
2nd Elias Clark soldier of Revolution born about
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1753  Drew pension in 1840 then a resident of Villa Nova Chatagua Co. N. Y.

3rd Nathaniel Clark from 1856.  Drew pension in 1840 and then resided at Morgan Orleans Co Vermont
Yours truly
[signed] (Mrs) E Fry
24  1st St
Brooklyn  N. Y.
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Revolution  23164

INVALID.  

File No. 23,164

Nathaniel S. Clark

Pri Rev War

Act:  June 7th '32

Index: -- Vol. 2, Page 72

[in brackets]  Arrangement of 1870.

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1915  Jany 12  Hist to Mrs. E. Fry.
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July 26th 1836
[Mr?] Burdine



[postmark]
PORTSMOUTH N. H.  JULY 22

FREE

James L. Edwards, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington


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Nathl. S. Clark
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Portsmouth  July 22 1836

Sir  In reply to your letter of the 18th instant inquiring to what time Nathaniel Clark a pensioner was last paid I have to state that he was last paid up to March 4 1836---
I am respectfully 
your obedient servant,
[signed] Isaac Waldron [Waldson?]

James L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Nathl S. Clark

N Hampshire to Vermont


[?] T. Hinman

June 27th '36
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Derby June 20th 1836
Hon J. L. Edwards
Sir  There is a pensioner that has removed from the State of New Hampshire into Morgan in Orleans County, State of Vermont,  By the name of Nathaniel S. Clark
He produced his certificate to me in the [illegible]  [illegible] following War Department Revolutionary Claim  I certify that, in conformity of the Laws of the United States of the 7th June 1832, Nathaniel Clark of the State of New Hampshire who was a private in  the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty Dollars per annum during his natural life, commencing 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 Twenty Fourth day of October one Thousand Eight hundred and thirty two
[signed] Lewis Cass, Secretary of War
Examined and countersigned [signed] J L: Edwards}

Now Sir his request is to be transferred from the Agency of New Hampshire to that of Vermont at Burlington agency his reasons are that he is now in his eightieth year of age & has a son that is a Clergyman in the Town of Morgan aforesaid and he has a desire to spend the remainder of his days with him and it will be most convenient to receive his pension at the Vermont Agency.  If it is incompatible with the rule of this Office to transfer a pensioner from one agency to another, without complying with your certain regulations please to forward your particular regulations and  [illegible] and oblige your obedient Serv. [signed] Timo Hinman
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June 27
[Mr?] Burdine



Derby Vt, 21 June

Pension [Comm.?]  - - -   Free

Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
District of Columbia
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July 18
[Mr?] Burdine



Derby Vt, 12 July

Pension Concern  [Comm?] - - -- - -      Free

Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions
City of Washington
District of Columbia
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Derby  July 9th 1836
Hon[orable] J. L. Edwards
Sir  I here forward the application for Nathaniel Clark for a transfer from the Agency of the State of New Hampshire to the Agency of Vermont, and if agreeable to the Regulations of the Department please to forward the notice of the transfer and oblige your obedient Servant,
[signed] Timo Hinman
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I Emerson Corliss of Bradford in the County of Orange and State of Vermont formerly of Massachusetts aged seventy four years do depose and say that I have been acquainted with Nathaniel Clark formerly of Salem now of Landaff in New Hampshire ever since we were boys, being schoolmates together.  I knew said Clark in the service of the Revolutionary war as a years man in 1776 in Poor's Regiment, and afterwards in the three years service in the second New Hampshire Regiment in 1776 - 1777 - 1779 and into 1779, and I knew that he was called a three years man.  I saw said Clark frequently during his service.  I was not present when he enlisted or when he was discharged, but never heard but that he served his time out faithfully, and knowing his faithfulness always supposed he did.
I have been well acquainted with said Clark ever since, and the man who is now before me, is the same Nathaniel S. Clark that I knew in the Army.  In the years since I was in Reid's Reg. & Tuppors Reg & Mass line.  So that I was in the service during all Clark's three years service and until the close of the war.  And further say not.
[signed] Emerson Corliss
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State of New Hampshire
Grafton SS.  At Haverhill in said County on this 20th day of July Anno Domini 1832 came before me Emerson Corliss with whom I am well acquainted & who is a credible witness and made solemn oath that the within Deposition by him subscribed is just and true
[signed] S. P. Webster  Jus. Peace

State of New Hampshire
Grafton SS.  Court of Probate at Bath 14th day of August A. D. 1832--
Ordered by the Court that the foregoing declaration of Emerson Corliss, and the declaration of Israel Woodbury, which is hereunto annexed, be annexed to the declaration of Nathl S. Clark as evidence thereon, and I do hereby certify that Stephen P. Webster Esq signer of the above certificate is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County & that the above signature is genuine
Attest [signed] Moses Dow  Reg[ister]
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I Israel Woodbury of Salem New Hampshire depose and say that Nathaniel Clark served in the revolutionary was three years in the second New Hampshire regiment commanded by George Reid, I was a soldier in the same regiment at the same time. I am now seventy two years of age
[signed] Israel Woodbury

Rockingham SS.  June 25, 1832
Then personally appeared the above named Israel Woodbury and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true
Before me  [signed] John Ewins   Jus. Peace