Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 20248, for Clark Mc Carty, Connecticut
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SERVICE  Conn.
McCarty, Clark
or Carty
Mabel 
NUMBER  W. 20248
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9520 
New York Albany 
Mabel McCarty Dec’d 
widow of Clark 
Wagon Conn who was a private in the Revolution 
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 180 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843 End’g 25 Sept 1843. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 28" day of April / 54 and sent to Geo. C Ames Present 
[Acts of March 3, 1843]  
Recorded in Book A  Vol 2  Page 258  
J.N. Coffin Sept. 8 1857 
J. N. Coffin Sept 28. 1857
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State of New York 
Monroe County ss 
On this thirtieth day of August eighteen hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before me Samuel Mead, one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas, in and for the County of Monroe, Mabel McCarty, a resident of the town of Clarkson in the County of Monroe and State aforesaid, aged seventy three years, the twenty seventh day of March last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions 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 Captain Clark McCarty who was a captain in the army of the United States of America, but the precise time he enlisted this deponent cannot say.  He enlisted in the town of Colchester in the County of Hartford, now New London and State of Connecticut and continued in the service more than three years, and to the end of the war, and to her best recollection and belief, he was in said service four years or more. 
There is no any documentary evidence in the possession of this deponent either of said Clark McCarty's enlistment or discharge nor does she know that there is any, nor has she any record of her marriage, nor does she believe there is any in existence, nor does she know of any person now living who was present at the time of the marriage. She was married to Clark McCarty by the Rev. Abel Palmer in the town of Colchester County of Hartford and State of Connecticut.   She has frequently heard her husband say that he crossed the Hudson river at Kings Ferry with the army in the Revolutionary war, marched through the States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland and went to Virginia, that he was at the siege of Yorktown, when Cornwallis surrendered to the American army.  This deponent further says that she has not been married since the death of her said husband, and declares that she was married to the said Clark McCarty on the 12th day of February one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight, that her husband the aforesaid Clark McCarty, died on the third day of December eighteen hundred and sixteen, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service; but the marriage took
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place precious to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above mentioned. 
Mabel McCarty
Sworn and subscribed to me the day and year above written before me  
Samuel Mead one of the Judges of Monroe Common pleas 
I hereby certify that in my opinion, the within named Mabel McCarty is from bodily infirmity unable to attend the court of common pleas, of the County of Monroe 
Saml Mead one of the Judges of Monroe County Common Pleas 
State of New York 
Monroe County Clerk's Office, 
I certify  that Samuel Mead Esquire, was at the date of the certificate of proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument in writing as Judge of Monroe County Courts  in and for the said county, authorized by law to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe the signature to said certificate is genuine. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 31 day of August A. D. 1838
Ephraim Goss Clerk
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State of New York 
Seneca County SS. 
I, William McCarty of Waterloo in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn do depose and say that I am own brother to Clark McCarty deceased and I have heretofore made an affidavit to prove his services in the Revolutionary War.  I further depose and say that I had a brother by the name of Langford McCarty who was a twin brother of the said Clark McCarty and they are both dead and have been dead for a number of years last past.   The said Clark, Langford and myself were born the Town of Colchester in the State of Connecticut and resided there during and after the Revolutionary War.  
I further depose that I am Eighty one years of age and that ever since I can remember the McCarty family were called and known as well by the name of Carty as by the name of McCarty, but the true name was the McCarty and the said Clark McCarty was generally called Clark Carty and Captain Carty and was called Carty as much as he was called McCarty and was well known by both of those names.
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The said Langford McCarty was Wagon Conductor a good deal of the time during the Revolutionary War as I was informed and believe and have no doubt and he was called Langford Carty and Captain Carty as well as McCarty the said Clark McCarty was a Waggon Conductor during said War a good deal of the time as it was said and which I verily believe.
Wm. McCarty
Subscribed and sworn to 26th day of March before me Wm H. Burton Justice of the Peace in & for Seneca County 
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named William McCarty and that he is a man of good character known respectability and reputable for truth and veracity and I place full confidence in his statements.  Dated 
Wm. H. Burton Justice of the peace
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State of New York 
Seneca County 
Clerks Office }Ss 
I Hugh Montgomery Clerk of said County and of the County Court thereof do hereby certify that William H Burton before whom the above Affidavit was made and taken and who has thereunto officially Subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace of in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to administer oaths and take Affidavits - And I further certify that am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and that his signature thereto is genuine.  
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal which is the seal of said Court this 29th, day of March in the year of our Lord 1853. 
Hugh Montgomery Clerk
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State of New York 
Monroe County} ss 
I, D. G. Stuart Surrogate of said County do hereby certify that at a Surrogates Court held at the City of Rochester in and for said County Satisfactory Evidence was exhibited to the said Court that Mabel McCarty was not a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States; but that she was a resident of the Town of Clarkson in the County of Monroe and State of New York and died in the said Town of Clarkson on the twenty fifth day of September in the year of Our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and forty three. That she left no husband surviving her, but she left children surviving her who are now living and are over the age of twenty one years whose names are Francis McCarty, John McCarty, Russel G. McCarty, Robert McCarty and Lovice Bowman and that they are the only Children which she left Surviving her.
And I further certify that Lovice Bowman & William H. Bowman of said County have been duly appointed Administrators of the said Mabel McCarty deceased and are legally authorized to act as such in all matters and things whatsoever.  
In Testimony whereof I have set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at the City of Rochester in said County this 19 day of April in the year of our Lord 1854.  
D. G. Stuart
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State of New York 
Senaca County} SS 
William McCarty being duly Sworn deposes and says that he is 66 years and was born in the Town of Colchester now New London County and State of Connecticut, Says that Capt Clark McCarty was his older Brother and that he the said Clark entered the service of the Revolutionary war soon after the commencement and was stationed at New London in the State of Connecticut and served as a soldier for six months, the term for which he was drafted or enlisted and soon after the expiration of this six months, he furnished a number of teams and Joined the continental Army and served as conductor of teams  and was authorized if necessary to take Forage where ever he could find it and served in that capacity till near the close of the war except that he returned home sick for a time and was supposed to be in a consumption and be employed his Brother Langford McCarty to serve in his absence all the time during his absence from the army, and according to his best reccollection his teams went in the rear of Washington’s army to the head of Elk in the State of Maryland and after the defeat of Cornwallis the teams were ordered to be kept on account of their being disordered, or distempered.  Said deponent further says that the said Clark McCarty to the best of his recollection was married to Mabel Treadway the 12th of February 1788 and immediately after their marriage the said Clark and Mabel moved into my Fathers house and lived in the same house with me her a number of years where I then lived and lived with his wife until his death which was the third day of December 1818; according to my best recollection and belief. leaving the said Mabel a widow with Six Children viz: Francis, John, Lovice, Clark, Russel and Robert McCarty the said Robert was under sixteen
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years old at the time of his Fathers death according to my best recollection; and that the said Mabel has not since been married and still remains a widow and has not been able to support herself for the last six or seven years and now lives with one of her children in the town of Clarkson Monroe County and State of New York. 
Wm. McCarty
Sworn before me and subscribed the the day of April 1838 
Jesse Fifield J.P. 
I hereby certify that I am acquainted with above named Wm McCarty and know him to be a person of credibility 
April 28th 1838 Jesse Fifield J.P. 
State of New York 
Seneca County SS} I do hereby certify that Jesse Fifield Esquire was at the time of taking the above affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Seneca, and that I am well acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe that his several signatures above written are genuine.  Given under my hand and the seal of said county at Waterloo this 4th day of April Anno Domini 1838 
Cyrus D. Hanks Dep. Clerk of Seneca Co.
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Know all Men by these presents that I, Lovice Bowman, Daughter of Clark McCarty and Mabel McCarty deceased of the Town of Clarkson in the County of Monroe and State of New York do hereby constitute and appoint George C. Ames of the City of Washington my true and lawful Attorney and agent for me and all the other Children of the said Clark McCarty and Mabel McCarty to present the Claim for a pension which the said Children have in right of the said Clark and Mabel deceased or either for the Revolutionary services of the said Clark McCarty deceased which he performed in his life time in the War of the Revolution.  
In Witness whereof I have been set my hand and seal this 10th day of August A. D. 1854
In presence of Lovice Bowman 
State of New York 
Monroe County SS. 
On this first day of A.D. 1851 personally appeared before me Gustavus Clark a Justice of the peace of the said County of Monroe, the above named Lovice Bowman well known to me to be the person described in and who has executed the above power
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of Attorney and acknowledged that she executed the same which I certify. 
And I certify that she made oath before me that she is directly interested in the Claim for a pension mentioned in the said power of Attorney. 
Gustavus Clark 
Justice of the Peace 
State of New York 
Monroe County 
Clerks Office } ss I, John T. Lacey Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Gustavus Clark above named before whom the within power of Attorney was acknowledged and who has thereunto officially subscribed his name was at the time of to doing a Justice of the peace of said County duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgements and Affidavits and that his signature thereto is genuine.   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal this fourth day of September in the year 1851 
John T. Lacey Clk 
Lovice Bowman to George C Ames 
power of Atty
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ISC
Dec. 1 1904. 
W. 20248: Rev War
Madam:
In reply to your request for the military service of Clark McCarty, you are advised that his widow, Mabel (Treadway) McCarty, applied for pension August 30, 1838, at which she was a resident of Clarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y. 
She stated that her husband was a captain: enlisted Colchester, Hartford Co. Conn. served more than four years, and was at the siege of Yorktown; also that he was a forage master in 1775 or 1776.   
They were married at Colchester, Conn., February 17, 1788, and he died at Martinsburg, Lewis Co., N. Y., December 3, 1818, and her claim are allowed for his service as "Private six months, and Wagon Conductor eight months in the Connecticut troops." 
The widow died at Clarkson, N. Y., September 25, 1843, and the arrears of pension were paid to her only surviving children, Francis, John, Russel G. and Robert McCarty, and Lovice, wife of John Bowman. 
Very respectfully, 
Commissioner
Mrs. Annie E. Towne, 
264 Ogden Avenue, 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Revy WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 20248 
Mabel McCarty 
widow of 
Clark McCarty
Pri Rev. War  
Act March 3rd 1843 
Index: Vol. M, Page 24 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 
Dec 1, 1904 Hist to Mrs. Annie L. Towne Milwaukee, Wisc
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11653 
New York Albany
widow Mabel McCarty decd who died on the Clark of the State of NY Wagon Cond’r  who was a by Private in the - commanded Captain - of the - commanded by – in the Revolution
8 mos W. C. [wagon conductor]
6 mos Private
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 180 Dollars 00 per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of April 1854 and sent to 
Geo C. Ames
Present
Arrears to the 4th of – 
Semi-annual allowance ending – 
{Revolutionary Claim Act July 7, 1838. }
H. R. Weightman Clerk
Book D. Vol 1 page 549
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State of New York 
County of Monroe} sc. I Simon B. Levett Surrogate of said County, do hereby certify, that at a Surrogate's Court held in and for said County before me the said Surrogate at town of Clarkson in said County on the Twenty seventh day of January 1846, it was proved by the adduction of testimony satisfactory to the said Court, that Mabel McCarty (widow of Clark McCarty) late of the town of Clarkson in said County died on the twenty fifth day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three, that she left her surviving her the following named named children who are all of lawful age, to wit, John McCarty, Francis McCarty,  Russel McCarty, Robert McCarty & Lovice wife of John Bowman.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this 29th day of January 1846
Simeon B. Levett
Surrogate
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V  1643 
Mabel McCarty 
Widow of Clark NY 
Let to R McCarty 15 June 38
H R Selden 29 March 39
R. McCarty 27 Feby 41  
Hon S. Wright 12 Feby 42  
N. Locke, June 8, ‘46
G.C. Ames Feby 1 1852 
same Oct 27 1852 
Same Nov 9. 1853 
Act 7 July 38
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Brookport March 1 1862
Comr of Pensions 
Sir, Please allow Cyrus Miles [unreadable] to examine all papers in file in relation to the claims of Mabel McCarty for moneys due her or her heirs for services of Clark McCarty in the Revolutionary War.
Yours &c 
Lovice Bowman
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State of New York 
Monroe County } I Mabel McCarty being duly sworn, do depose and says that she is seventy three years old, and was born in the town of Colchester then Hartford Co. Now New London County in the State of Connecticut says she was well acquainted with Capt Clark McCarty and to the best of her recollection he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war as Forage Master, in the year 1775 or 1776 and continued in such service about five years, except that he returned home twice on furlough on account of sickness by hardships in the service of the Revolutionary war.   
Said deponent further says that she was married to the said Clark McCarty the twelfth day of February 1888 in the town of Colchester then the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut as aforesaid, by the Rev. Able Palmer of the same place, and that she the said Mabel lived with her husband the said Clark McCarty untill the 3 day of Dec in the year 1818 when the said Clark died leaving her the said Mabel a widow with six children Frances, John, Lovice, Clark, Russel and Robert McCarty, and said Robert was under 16 years of age, that he was ten years old when his Father died.  And the said deponent further says that she has been a widow ever since the said Clarks death and that she has not been married since, and the said deponent says she has been unable to support herself the last six or years and is now living with one of her children in the town of Clarkson, Monroe County and State of New York. 
Mabel McCarty
Subscribed & Sworn the 2 day of April 1838 before me 
Saml Mead one of the Justices of Monroe County Courts-
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I hereby certify that I am acquainted with the within named Mabel McCarty and believe her to be a person of credibility. 
Saml Mead one of the Judges of Monroe County Courts 
State of New York 
Monroe County ss. I certify that Samuel Mead Esq. was at the time of taking the within affidavit a Judge of the County Courts of said County, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the with in signature purporting to be his is Genuine. 
Witness my hand and official seal this third day of April 1838
Ephraim Goss Clerk
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State of New York 
Monroe County SS} 
Barbara Burnham being duly sworn deposes and says, that she is sixty five years old and was born in Colchester in the State of Connecticut,  says she was well acquainted with  Captain Clark McCarty, and to the best her Recollection he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war as Forage Master in the 1775 or 1776 and continued in such service about five years according to the best recollection of said deponent except that he returned twice home on a furlough on account of sickness by hardships in the service of the Revolutionary war said Clark McCarty was married to Mabel Treadway the 12th of February 1788.  Said Deponent was well acquainted with said Clark and Mabel till the 3d day of December 1818 when the said Clark McCarty died in the County of Lewis Town of Martinsburg and State of New York, leaving said Mabel a widow with Six Children Viz. Francis, John, Lovice, Clark, Russel, and Robert McCarty.  Said Robert was under sixteen years of age at the death of his father and the said deponent further says that she has been acquainted with Mabel McCarty the widow of Clark McCarty deceased since his death and she has never been married since the death of the said Clark McCarty and still remains his widow; and the said Mabel
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has been unable to support herself for the last six or seven years and is now living with one of her children in the town of Clarkson in the County of Monroe and State of New York 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this – day of April 1838
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State of New York
Monroe County SS}
Barbary Burnham being duly sworn deposes and says, that she is sixty five years old and was born in Colchester in the State of Connecticut, says she was well acquainted with Captain Clark McCarty, and to the best her Recollection he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war as Forage Master in the 1775 or 1776 and continued in such service about five years according to the best recollection of said deponent except that he returned twice home on a furlough on account of sickness by hardships in the service of the Revolutionary war said Clark McCarty was married to Mabel Treadway the 12th of February 1788. Said Deponent was well acquainted with said Clark and Mabel till the 3d day of December 1818 when the said Clark McCarty died in the County of Lewis Town of Martinsburg and State of New York, leaving said Mabel a widow with Six Children Viz. Francis, John, Lovice, Clark, Russel, and Robert McCarty. Said Robert was under sixteen years of age at the death of his father and the said deponent further says that she has been acquainted with Mabel McCarty the widow of Clark McCarty deceased since his death and she has never been married since the death of the said Clark McCarty and still remains his widow; and the said Mabel has been unable to support
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herself for the last six or seven years and is now living with one of her Children in the Town of Clarkson County of Monroe and State of New York. 
Barbara Burnham
Subscribed & Sworn the 2  day of April 1838 to before me Saml Mead one of Judges of Monroe County Court 
I hereby certify that I am acquainted within named Barbara Burnham and believe her to be a person of credibility- Dated April 2d 1838 
Saml Mead one of the Judges of Monroe County Court 
State of New York 
Monroe County ss I certify that Samuel Mead Esq. was at the time of taking the above affidavit a Judge of the county courts of said county, and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine 
Witness my hand and official seal this third day of April 1838 
Ephraim Goss Clerk
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Washington October 6 1857 
James E Heath
Sir 
Enclosed you will please find Power of Atorney and additional evidence in the case of Mabel McCarty widow of Clark McCarty an applicant for a pension under the act of 7 July 1838.   
The additional evidence herewith presented together with that on file will I hope be sufficient to establish this claim for 2 years service as a Wagon Master. 
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Sevt 
Geo C Ames
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Authority from 
Mrs Lorice Bowman daughter of Mrs Mabel McCarty widow of Clark McCarty of New York 
Act July 7. 1838 
admitted
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N. Y. Clarkson Sept 14th 1855 
Sir,
I request you to make an examination into the case of an Application for pension by or in right of my mother Mrs Mabel McCarty widow of Clark McCarty to make the requisite examinations in the Public Offices and prosecute any claim which her children may have in her right.   
I am Respectfully &c. 
Lorice Bowman
Isaac N. Coffin Esq 
Washington D.C
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Ans’d Novr 30th 1838 
Comprollers Office Hartford Conn.
Sir
Your letter of the 12th ult. has been received at this office though directed to a former Comptroller and to New Haven. 
The Comptrollers Office is at Hartford except for a short period while the Legislature is in session, once in two years, it is at New Haven.   
I have examined the Rolls of the Connecticut Line of the Continental army, and do not find the name of Clark McCarty, or Carty, on those rolls. We have beside these, the rolls of Militia service which are not indexed, and many other documents relating to service in the war of the
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Revolution which I have not time now to examine.   
There is also at the rooms of the Historical Society in this City, evidence of the service of Wagoners & Forage Masters and a man in Massachusetts with whom I have frequent correspondence, has in his possession the Hubbard Books which show a great Amount of services of this kind.  You will please send me three dollars and will complete the search of our documents and will also ascertain from the sources above mentioned, what evidence may be there found relating to the service of Mr.
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McCarty, and will write you as soon as I hear from the parties.   
I am very respectfully Yours &c 
Geo Robinson 
For Comptr
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Department of State, Washington, March 29, 1862 
Joseph H. Barrett, Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions. 
Sir, 
Agreeably to your request of this date I have to inform you that in the volume and on the page indicated by you the name of Clark Cartee is set down as a conductor of 11 ox-teams. The document. is entitled "return of Private Teams engaged to serve with the Army to the First of January 1781”, and is dated "Camp Tappan, 29th Septemr 1780.”  Cartee is one of seven conductors, to whom the following remark applies, viz: "Engaged by Nehemiah Hubbard, Esq. D. Q.M.G. at Hartford, and are employed in transporting Commissary Genl Stores.” 
I am your obedient servant 
F. W. Seward, 
Assistant Secretary
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Washington Feby 7 1862
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 
Dear Sir
I am requested by a constituent to inquire what defects have been found to exist in the proof connected with the application of Widow Mabel McCarty, late wife of Capt. Clark McCarty, for a pension under the Act of the 7 July 1838. I am informed the application was presented in the fall of the year 1838, and that since some defects were there found in the proof, in efforts have been made to supply the requisite evidence, in consequence of the death of the person who had charge of the case.  
Will you do me the favor to give me this information, and also to inform me whether, in the expiration of the law of 1838, those who were applicants under it are considered as entitled to perfect their proof and receive certificates? 
Matter filed before case came to me Apr. 12 [unreadable] M.B.H.
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Dept of State, Washington, Nov. 13, 1855 
Sir
Agreeably to the request contained in your note of the 5th inst a lawful examination has been made of the revolutionary records on file in this Dept to find evidence of the service of Clark McCarty, in the war of the revolution, but no such evidence can be found. 
I am respectfully Your Obt Servant 
J. A. Thomas 
Isaac W. Coffin 
Washington
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Secretary's Office, Boston 
April 3d 1857 
I Hereby Certify, That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Clark McCarty, Clark Carty or Clark Carte is not found on the rolls in this Office.   
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.  
Francis DeWitt 
Secretary of the Commonwealth.
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Washington March 18th 1846 
Sir
I enclose herewith the surrogates certificate in the case of Mrs Mabel McCarty decd widow of Clark McCarty, a revolutionary soldier.   She made application for a pension under the act of 4 July 1836.  Several years since I have been appointed her agent to prosecute the claim, & present this certificate showing the time of her death & the names of her children now serving her.  And as the case has been laying so long I would respectfully request that it may be acted on without delay, & that I may be informed of the exact condition of the claim & what further will be required in order to the allowance of the claim. 
I am Very Respectfully 
Nathan Leake 
Hon J.L. Edwards 
Comr of Pensions Present
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Washington July 12, 1853
Hon L P Waldo 
Sir 
In order to meet the requisitions obtained in your report to me of the 27 of October thus in the case of Mabel McCarty widow of Clark McCarty or Carty, I filed on the 22 of April the affidavit of William McCarty, brother to claimant husband.  I now present the affidavits of three respectable witnesses from Colchester Ct. the place of McCarty’s residence at the time his service was performed, all of whom I believe you are acquainted.  Also the affidavit of Solomon Hill, who is a pensioner, and Thomas Beckwith, all of whom were well acquainted with the McCarty family and testify that they were as often called and Known as Carty as McCarty, that Mr McCarty husband may called "Capt Carty”.   These affidavits, together with the payment on file shows clearly that Mrs McCartys husband Was Known as Capt Carte, as well as McCarty identifies him with the Wagon Master refund in the certificate of the secretary of State of Connecticut, and establish his service as such for more than two years.  As this meet the only question raised in your report I ask that a certificate may be issued in this case in conformity therewith
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I have the honor to be very respetfully 
Your Obt Svt
Geo C. Ames
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Washington April 22. 1853 
Sir
In the report of Mr. Heath to me of the 27th of October last in the case of Mabel McCarty widow of Clark of New York, it is stated "that before it can be admitted, it will be necessary to show that Clark Carty mentioned in the certificate of the Secretary of State of Connecticut and the Clark McCarty for whose service a pension is claimed are identical”  
I present herewith the affidavit of William McCarty a Brother of Clark McCarty who testifies Clearly upon this point. 
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Svt 
Geo. C. Ames 
Hon L. P. Waldo Comm of Pensions
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Washington August 4 1852 
Sir
I enclose herewith an affidavit in support of the Claim of Mable McCarty widow of Clark, of New York, Act 7 July 1838. 
These witnesses both testify Clearly to the service of Mrs. McCartys husband as a Wagon Master or Conductor, one of them was himself in that service and of course was not likely be mistaken as to the officers belonging thereto. The two affidavits now presented together with the 4 or 5 now on file all going to show that Clark McCarty served more than 3 years in charge of Teams belonging to the Continental Service which I hope will be sufficient to authorise the allowance of this claim as a Wagon Master or Conductor.   No record evidence of his rank can be found and if the endue is not deemed sufficient to authorize a Relaxation of the Rule upon this point I ask that the claim may be allowed as a teamster.
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt Svt
Geo C. Ames
Capt F. F. C. Triplett 
Actg Commr of Pensions
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Washington Sept the 6th 1840 
J. L Edwards Esqr 
Sir  It is desireable to assertain if the application of Mabel McCarty Widow of Clark McCarty Case under the act of Congress July 7th 1838 and if so whether the evidence in her case is what the law requires and if not so please inform me what more is required. 
Yours very Respectfully 
Robert McCarty 
Mrs McCarty resides in Monroe Co. N. York- Direct the answer to Mr Robert McCarty City of New York
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Secretary's Office, Boston 
April 3d 1857 
I Hereby Certify, That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Rufus Heminway is borne on Continental Army Books in Col - Company Col. Sproats Regt from Jany 1st 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779,  36 mos as Fifer from Southborough.  
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written. 
Francis DeWitt 
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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Washington March 28th 1857.   
Sir:
In behalf of the claim in right the of Mrs Mabell McCarty, and at the request of her daughter, Mrs Lorice Bowman, the widow and daughter of Clark McCarty sometimes called Clark Carty and also called Clark Carte, an extremely worthy and meritorious Revolutionary Officer, I address you, and request an examination of the Revolutionary Rolls and Records in your Office to ascertain the commencement and duration of his service.
To facilitate the search, I will mention that Major Rufus Hemenway on the 21st of March 1838 states that in the year 1778 deponent enlisted into the service of the United States in the State of Massachusetts & that he deponent was a musician in said service and afterwards during said service received the Commission of Major & Inspector of Musie under the command of General Knox and that for a part of the time aforesaid the deponent was well acquainted with Clark McCarty then officiating as Forage Master in the Army of the United States in the Connecticut and Massachusetts
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“Lines and that he said Clark served in that capacity for more than two years and for most part of the time in the State of New York and that to the best of deponents recollection the said Clark had the chief control of the forage department.”
The fee for the search, I pledge my honor instantaneously to remit. on reception of your reply, and to show that that pledge may be confided in, I herewith transmit Testimonials of two Mayors of Washington. I respectfully request that the Search may be very thorough and that no farther form of application may be required then this. 
If his name is not found, then I respectfully request an examination of the rank and duration of service of Rufus Hemenway above mentioned. 
I am Very Respectfully Your Obed Svt
Isaac N. Coffin 
Francis DeWitt Esqr.
Secretary of State 
Boston, Mass.
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Washington Augt 28th 1857. 
Sir
In the Revolutionary Pension case of Mrs Mabel McCarty, Widow of Clark McCarty alias Clark Carty under the Act of July 7, 1838, I herewith transmit the following papers:
Affidavit of Eli Taintor dated by 3d 1857 
Affidavit of same dated Aug 21, 1857. 
Letter of George Robinson of the Comp rollers Office of Hartford dated Nov 15th 1855, showing that there is no Record afterwards a farther search shew same result. 
Certificate of Secretary of State of Mass. dated April 30 1857 showing that Clark McCarty or Carty was not found on the Rolls in that Office. 
Certificate of same showing that Rufus Hemenway did serve three years in the Continental Army, evidence of whose service is produced to show that he was in a situation to know of the service of Clark McCarty. 
Letter of the Assistant Secretary of State of U.S. of Novr 13. 1855. 
1st  The Extracts from the Records in the affidant of Eli Taintor of August 21, 1857, on the 3d
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page of the sheet enclosed, shows that in Decr 28th 1780 “Ransom & Carty returned this day with their Teams”.
2d By these two papers, Affidavits of Eli Taintor, Clark Carty or Carter is shown as in service, which is sustained also by the evidence of Thomas Beckwith among the papers in the case who is a Revolutionary Pensioner and who is Officially certified to be one of the most respectable men in this community and he is a man of good character and reputation for truth and veracity who makes oath "When deponent first went to New London he SAW the said Clark McCarty as a soldier who was in the six months service at New London. Deponent further saith that the said Clark McCarty was discharged at New London in a few days after deponent arrived there in January 1777 and was appointed to the Office of Wagon Master or Waggon Conductor: but whether he was in the Continental or Connecticut line deponent does not know.  But deponent knows that the said Clark McCarty Served in the capacity of a Wagon Conductor or Wagon Master commencing in the latter part of the Winter or fore part of March 1777 till Spring of 1778, when deponent went to sea.  **  Deponent frequently saw the said Clark  McCarty at different times from February or March 1777 till April or May 1778 and he was such Waggon Conductor or Master and had a number of teams under his charge all that time and he was called Captain McCarty.”
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“And Deponent frequently saw him at New London during all that time with a number of teams under his charge.  And deponent knows that he saw him in the service as such Conductor or Master more than one year. And deponent verily believes it was all of 13 months. & Deponent again saw the said Clark McCarty at Plainfield Connecticut in the Summer of 1779 of with a number of teams under his charge, and it was at Dranes Tavern which was near the Academy. Deponent saw the said team drive away from said Tavern and deponent knows the fact that then and there had the charge of and commanded the said teams and the said teams were all in the service in said War and carrying Army stores and munitions of war.”  
3d of James Fales certified by the Office “to be a person of good character, known respectability and reputable for truth and veracity makes oath that he Saw Clark McCarty a number of times during said War from the Spring of the year 1777 till the year 1780 or 1781” ****  “that every time he saw the said Clark McCarty he acted as a Waggon Conductor or Waggon Master, but which deponent does not know and he had a number of Government teams under his charge and command.  
Deponent saw him the said McCarty twice or three times in the said town of Charlemont hiring or procuring teams for the Army. And deponent saw the said McCarty a number of times march through the said Town of Charlemont having under his charge and command a number of Government teams
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“loaded with Army Stores and munitions of war.  And wherever deponent saw the said Clark McCarty with this, the said teams were Government teams and loaded as aforesaid. The said Clark McCarty was a very active and energetic man and was called Captain McCarty as he was Captain over the teams.  And deponent saw him acting in that capacity for more than three years.”  
 4th Solomon Hill a Revolutionary Pensioner, certified by the Office to be “a man of good character known respectability and reputable for truth and veracity” makes oath “the said Clark McCarty Served as a Waggon Conductor, Waggon Master or Forage Master two years and upwards, for deponent knows that he saw the said Clark McCarty having charge of Government teams from the Spring or Summer of 1777 till the Fall of 1779 and deponent is very confident that he saw him in the Camp of 1780, the year that Andre was executed.   Deponent saw him a great many time during said period and he had the charge and command of Government teams every time deponent saw him and deponent saw him in said service on the North River, and in Connecticut, Horse Neck and various other places; and the said Clark McCarty accompanied the Army on the march a number of times commanding government teams as aforesaid and carrying provisions and munitions of war for the American Government.  Charles Knight certified to be respectable & credible makes oath he enlisted in May 1780 and served six months & states he “was in the team service - I know all the time that I served” **** while I was such Teamster I saw
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“him very often, sometimes every day and as often as once a week and a great deal of the time he was in company with me: and he had charge of teams all the time ** and served as a Waggon Master or Waggon Conductor all time.”  
Thus there are two Revolutionary Pensioners Thomas Beckwith and Solomon Hill and Two others, James [unreadable] & Charles Knight, Certified to be of known respectability & veracity, who swear in the most positive manner that they saw and knew him in the service for at least three years as Waggon Conductor except the last one who knew him twelve months. 
5th Besides these Rufus Hemenway whose service is proved by the enclosed Certificate (and his making the mistake of the word Forage for Waggon ought not to lessen the effect of his evidence as some what the same duties have to be performed by both and hence his mistake) and Wm McCarty made oath of his service.  
6th The Commissioner of Pension in his Recorded Decision of May 19, 1855 to R Mayo Esqr contained in Mayo & Moulton's Pension Laws Edition of 1854 at End of book Decides “Every thing that has “this tendency, whether it be a matter of record or resting in the memory of witnesses, is received in all cases” **** “the reception of evidence is required by the ordinary  rules established by law as practised in Courts, U.S. and of the 7th Court is that One Witness is sufficient in Law. 
This case has been heretofore refused
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to be admitted without record evidence was furnished I would respectfully represent that that the claimants are entitled to the benefit the Decision of the Commissioner of Pensions just quoted, and also the Unanimous decision of the Committee House of Representatives of the United States in and also the Decision of the House of Representatives of the United States at TWO different times in the case of Elizabeth Durant widow of Thomas, in the 2d & 3 Sessions of the 25th Congress. The Committee state in Report No 32 of Session of 1838 as follows: “The fact of such of service by her husband is well established by her own oath and the testimony of two credible witnesses Samuel Clark and Nathaniel Durant. Her application at the War Office was rejected solely for the reason that she did not produce the commission or appointment under which her husband acted or some record of it.  But your Committee do not deem this is a case in which title to office should be required.  The actual rendition of the services in the alleged capacity being proved the right to a pension accrues under the law, without production of title to office, especially after so great a lapse of time, and in cases like the present where no record was required, or usually made of the appointment.  Your Committee are unanimously of opinion that
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he said Elizabeth is entitled to a pension.”
8th The Secretary of the Interiors Letter to the Commissioner of Pensions of March 19th 1850,  after quoting the Commissioner of Pensions letter of the danger of receiving parol testimony of distant events, and admitting that danger Decides as follows “still such evidence [parol] may prove the fact fully and certainly and if it does this Department has NO right to reject it”.  
9th The Official Report of the Pension Office to the Senate of the United States, being Senate Document No 37 of 32d Congress Sess made only five years ago and being an Official Formal  Grave Deliberate Report, made to that august body the Senate of the United States and Decision below quoted be in repeatedly expressed as follows must be considered as the fixed and Established rule of the Pension Office, viz, at page 129 it was decided in the case of George Lape "No such name appears on the rolls of Van Rensselaer’s Regiment claimant should cause his service to be specified by A credible witness.  At page 291 of Same, it is shown the Pension Office Decided in the case of Tophar Tannag as follows, Not on the New Jersey Rolls of the warsmen. He must prove his service by at least one credible witness”.  At page 213 of same it is shown the Pension Office Decided in the case of William Watters as follows: Service in the flying camp alleged. The proof by at least One credible witness is required.”  Thus above Three decisions notwithstanding the name does not appear on the rolls but One witness is required and that is not required to be a Revolutionary Pensioner, whereas in Mabel McCarty's case there are
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two of that description (besides Your other Respectable Witnesses) on whom the stamp of truth has been placed by the United States by admitting them on the Pension Roll and a grave Decision thereby made that they were in a situation to know the facts about which they testify.
10th The Attorney General of the United Sal has decided at pages 448, 1159 & 134 of “Opinions that the Report of a Committee is a Preamble to the Law”  and at page 734 of Mayo & Moulton “The several statutes of the Legislature upon the same subject that of bounty in land to the officers and soldiers of the Revolutionary war are of one to be taken together and construed as one act, in order ascertain the true legal intent of the law giver” of course applies to Revolutionary pensions as well as “bounty in land”.  And a Law of the Land and Expression of the true legal intent of the Law Giver “ exists in the Law Approved in the case of Richard Hopkins March 3. 1847, the Report of the Committee being in the following words, “It is understood that a pension was refused the applicant by the Commissioner of Pensions on the ground that his name was not found on the Roll of Webbs Regiment which was deemed to be correct.  The Committee is of opinion that the spirit of the law looks rather to the service than the enlistment, and as his service is abundantly proved, by persons who are certified in the a manner to be credible & it was decided by Congress that this case not found on the roll, but proved by parol testimony was included in the Act of June 7th 1832.”
11th The parole proof in the case has been already admitted, in connexion with some Record evidence to eight months service, and thereby the validity of the parol testimony in effect been admitted.  
On the subject of Clark Carty’s name being spelt Carter in the Affidavits of Eli Taintor on the duty of into, I will mention that Charles Knight make oath among the papers in the case that Clark McCarty and Langford McCarty
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were brothers and it is proved and been admitted by the Pension Office that they were called Clark Carty and Langford Carty.  It is evident that they were called Langford Carter and Clark Carter as vide the papers in the case of Elias Lathrop of Vermont, (Suspended) under the Act of June 7. 1832. 
I am Very Respectfully Your Obt Servt 
Isaac N Coffin 
George C. Whiting Esqr 
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
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Washington Oct 12 1852 
James E Heath Esqr 
Sir 
You will find herewith enclosed additional evidence in the case of Mabel McCarty, widow of Clark McCarty Act 7 July 1838. 
There has already been filed in this case evidence showing that Mrs McCartys husband was in service a considerable length of time as a conductor of Teams, but objection to the allowance of the claim for want of Record or documentary evidence of Rank has be raised. To remove that Objection I now present a certificate from the Secretary of State of Connecticut, showing that in the Campaign of 1781, Spencer Taylor went out a teamster in the Brigade of teams under the direction of Clark Carty, and returned under Isham Chapman who was acting as Conductor.  
In order to identify Mrs McCartys husband with Clark Carty refer to in the Secretarys certificate, the testimony of Charles Knight and [unreadable] Burrows is presented.  From the affidavits of these
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Witness who have been acquainted with the family during and since the Revolutionary War, that there were several other witness two of whom [unreadable] and Clark were in service, all residing in the Town of Colchester & that they were as Called "Carty"as “McCarty,” this together with the fact of the Churcham name being the same, which is by no means a common one it is believed be sufficient to establish the Rank of Mrs McCartys husband as a Wagon Master or conductor, and [unreadable] objection to the allowance of her claim that may now exist.
Very respectfully Your Obt Svt
Geo. C. Ames
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I John Isham of Colchester County of New London State of Connecticut, aged 79 years 24th Feby last, depose and say on Oath, that I was born in Said Colchester where I have always resided, that I was acquainted & well recollect a family who is lived in said Colchester by the name of McCarty especially Clark McCarty, Langford McCarty, William McCarty and a Sister of theirs who married Amos Ransom of Hartford, who I was also well acquainted with for a number of years while he lived at East Haddam and having been a Representative to the Genl Assembly at Hartford 1812, I Boarded with the said Ransom during the Session, and do know that the said family were generally called by the intelligent part of community, McCarty but often by the common people “Carty” there were consider [unreadable]  respectable while residing in this quarter.   
John Isham
Subscribed & sworn to at Colchester this 16th day of May 1853 Before me 
A M Hurlbut
 Justice of the Peace 
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named John Isham and that he is a man of Good Character, Known respectability and reputable for truth & veracity & I place full  confidence in his statement. 
Dated at Colchester May 16th 1853 
A M Hurlbut Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut New London County ss 
Town Clerks Office Colchester May 25 1853 
I hereby certify that Amanda M Hurlbut was duly chosen a Justice of the Peace for New London County on the first Monday of April 1852 for two years as appears from record in this office.
Attest A M Hurlbut 
Town Clerk
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Mabel McCarty, dec'd, widow of Clark, N.Y. 
Act July 7. 1838. 
Brief: The papers are put in the order of their dates. 
1838 Mar 29 - Rufus Hemenway - Sworn, (of City of Buffalo In 1775, deponent enlisted into service in Mass. and afterwards received a commission of Major and Inspector of Music under command of Genl Knox. For a part of the time I was in service, knew Clark McCarty officiating as Forage Master in the Ct. & Mass Lines and that said Clark served in that capacity more than 2 years  & for most of the time in New York. To best of my recollection Clark had chief control of the Forage Department.
1838 Apl 2   Mabel McCarty Monroe Co 
Is 73 yrs old, born in Colchester, then Hartford now New London Co. Ct.  Was well acquainted with Clark - to beat of recollection he entered service as Forage Mstr in 1775 or 1776 & continued therein as such about 5 years, except he returned home twice on furlough, on account of sickness by hardships in the service.
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Deponent married to Clark Feb 12. 1788 in said Colchester by Rev Abel Palmer of same place and lived with him til he died, Dec 3.1818 Leaving her with 6 children-- Frances, John, Lovice, Clark, Russell & Robert McCarty - Robert 10 yrs old when his father died. Deponent has been a widow ever since. Is very poor &c. 
1838 Apl 2 - Barbara Burnham Sworn. (Monroe Co)
Is 65 yrs old, born in Colchester was well acquainted with Capt Clark McCarty. To best of her recollection he entered service as Forage Mst in ‘75 or ‘76 & continued about 5 years except returned twice on furlough on act of sickness by hardship in service. He was married to Mabel Treadway Feb 12 ‘88. Deponent was well acquainted with both until Dec 3, 1818 when he died, in Martinsburgh, Lewis Co, N.Y. leaving Mabel, widow, with 6 children Francis, (&c as above) Robt then 10. Been acquainted with Mabel since remained unmarried & is poor  & lives in Jackson, Monroe Co. N.Y.
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1838 Apl 4 - Wm McCarty sworn in Seneca Co. N.Y. 
Is 66 yrs old - Born in Colchester. 
Capt Clark was depts older brother. He entered service soon after commence’t of war - was stationed at New London & served as soldier 6 months the term of his draft or enlistment.   After this, he furnished a number of teams & joined the continental army & served as Conductor of Teams & was authorized to if necessary, to take Forage wherever he could find it.  Served in that capacity to near close of war - Except he returned home sick for a time, supposed to have consumption. His brother Langford served in his place during his absence.  To best of depts recollection his teams went in rear of Washington's Army to the head of Elk in Md.   After defeat of Cornwallis the teams were ordered to be left on act of being disordered or distempered.  As he recollects Clark married Mabel Treadway Feb 12. 1788. Immediately after they removed into my father's house & lived there a number of years, where I lived. He lived with her until his death Dec 3 ’18, according to my best rec’n. Francis, &c, as above. Widow ever since, poor, residence as above.
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1838. August 30. Mabel McCarty (claimant)  
Clark was a Captain,  cant tell precisely when he enlisted,  served over a year. Enlisted in Colchester In service 4 yrs or  more, she thinks.   
Knows of no documentary evidence of his service - nor record of Marriage - nor surviving witness present at marriage. (married as above) 
Heard him say he crossed the Hudson at Kings Ferry with the army, marched thru state of N.J. Pa. & Md to Va,  At seige of Yorktown & surrender of C - Recapitulates date of Marriage, &c &c  
1846. Jany 29.   Certif of Surrogate of Monroe Co N Y of proof that Mabel McCarty died at Clarkson Sept 25. 1843.  Leaving surviving children – John, Francis, Russell & Robert McCarty, & Lovice Bowman.   
1852. Feb 10. Solomon Hill, of Genesee Co. 
Aged 98. Lived at Frederickstown, Dutchess Co N.Y. before & during, Rev war & served under Col Van Cortlandt 9 mos in 1776 & was in battle of L. Island., Next winter enlisted for the war & served through was in Capt Pell's co., Van C's [Van Cortlandt]  regt in NY and on N. River Mohawk - in Ct., R.I.,  N. J. & Pa. &c &c & Cornwallis
Was Well acquainted with Clark McCarty from Colchester - Clark served as Waggon Conductor
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Wagon Master or Forage Master 2 years & upward.  Saw him having charge of Gov’t teams from Spring or summer of 1777 till the fall of 1779  & is very confident he saw him in Campaign the year Andre was executed.   
Saw him a great many times, always had charge of Teams on North River, in Ct., Horseneck & various other place He followed army commanding teams, carrying provisions & munitions.   He was a very active & persevering man.  Certif of J.P. that deponent possesses his faculties in a remarkable degree & he places full confidence in his statements. 
1852. July 27- Chas Knight, of Genesee Co. Is aged 88, Born in Colchester & lived there til after Rev War. Lived here last 18 years. In May 1780, I enlisted as teamster under Roswell Ransom at Colchester for 6 mos. & served.  
Drove a team to the Hudson & served there at White Plains & vicinity, discharged there in Novr.  
From May 1781 I served from Colchester teamster under Langford McCarty to White Plains.   
In Augt ordered to follow army to Yorktown & went there.  Disch’d in Novr 81.   
Was well acquainted with Clark McCarty
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since I can remember and know he was in Team service all the time I was, except I think he was ordered back from Pa to take charge of some teams at or near New London, while I was in service I saw him at least once a week, & he had charge of teams of all the time as Waggon Master or Conductor, & was a very active & talented man. 
In summer of 1777 said Clark went into the Team Service - it was the year Burgoyne was taken. 
Summers of 77, 78 &79  He wagoned all summer & in Summer of 78 & 9, he was gone, & it was said he was conductor of teams.   
I saw him in service as Waggon Conductor a number of times before I entered.   
He must have served considerably more than a year as cond’r before I began.  
His brother Langford was in service conductor all the time I was.
Certif that dept has retained all his mental faculties, &c 
1852 Sept 17 - Certif of certif of Ralph Pomeroy D Q M of Ct  dated Feb 1. 1783. That Spencer Taylor in campaign of 1781. went out as teamster in brigade of Teams under the direction of Clark Carty - served then the campaign &
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returned under direction of Isham Chapman acting as cond’r. 
1852. Sept 30. Charles Knight - again    
The only material facts additional are Clark & Langford were twin brothers. 
Clark McCarty was called "Carty" as much or more than he was McCarty. In Colchester he was generally called "Clark Carty" or "Capt Carty".  The same of Langford, when both were mentioned they were called "the Carty" The same was the case in the service. 
1852. Oct. 1.   Rene Burrows, of Wyoming Co. N.Y. Is aged 82 yrs, Born in Coventry & moved to Colchester early in Rev War & left there about the close of the war.    
Lived about 1 mile from Clark & Langford twin brothers,  a good deal older than I,  lived there before & while I did & when I left.    
They were gone a good deal of the time & I understood were waggon Conductors. Their names were sometimes pronounced with the Mc but generally without - as "Cartys" "Clark Carty" "Capt Carty" &c 
Clark was a very active business man, large
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& portly looking.   I saw him about 40 years ago & then he was called "Clark Carty" and  Capt Carty, the same as in Colchester.  Certified by H. Putnam Late M. C. NY.
1852. Sept 25. Thos Beckwith of Genesse Co 
Is aged 92 & pensioner. Resided in Lyme Ct.  During war served at Black Hall Ct. 4 mos in Capt Griswolds Co. from Sept 1776. at New London in Capt Say's Co & thinks & Col Throops Regt from Jany 1777.   Served in N.L. [New London] until spring of ‘78. 
Well acquainted with Clark McC of Colchester, which joined Lyme on the north.  When first went to N. L (1776) saw Clark a soldier in the 6 mos service but his time was nearly out in Jany ‘77.   Soon after applied Waggon Mstr or Condt’r.   Knows he served until Spring of 78 when depot went to sea.  More than 1 year. Saw frequently, knows he had charge of several teams &c understood after when he served until near its close.   
52 Sept 25. Jas Fales Genessee Co lived in Charlemont, Mass, during war.  Saw Clark of Colchester & Saw Clark from Spring of 77 to 80 or 81 often and always as wagon cond’r.  Saw him near N. L. [New London] when burnt by Arnold, saw him [unreadable] teams for service, &c. 
1853 June 30. Thos Beckwith again. Clark generally known in service as “Carty" and often out.
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1883 May 23  Avery Morgan of Colchester - 71 yrs. 
Clark generally called "Clark Carty" & “Capt Carty.” 
1853 May 16. John Isham of Colchester Called “McCarty" and "Carty". 
1853 May 6 – Sol [Solomon] Hill again,  Genesee Co. 
Clark was called "Clark Carty" & “Capt Carty" 
1853 May 25  John Turner of Colchester aged 82. 
Born in N.L. [New London] well remember Rev War. 
Well acqt’d [acquainted] with McCarty family. 
I trained under Mila Capt Clark McCarty after war.  
Family as well known by name of "Carty" as “McCarty”
1853 Mar 26.  Wm McCarty Seneca Co. N.Y. 81 yrs 
Brother of Clark, Had brother Langford, twin br [brother] of Clark, all born in Colchester, lived there during Rev War. 
Known as well by name of “Carty" as McCarty. 
Both Clark & Langford Wagon Conductors.
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Clark McCarty died Dec 3, 1818 
Mabel Widow died Sept 25. 1843 
children her surviving 
John, Francis, Russell & Robert McCarty & Lovice Bowman married (parol) Feby 12, 1788   
[unreadable]  accounts of Hubbards as of Team service and forage extending from the Spring of 1778 to the year 1781 show that Langford Carty of Colchester served as Waggon Conductor a portion of the time but do not contain any evidence whatever that Clark Carty or McCarty served at all.  
No doubt Clark McCarty was a Contractor for Teams and forage, may have occasionally had charge of teams under civil contract, and that he generally followed this service as a speculator.
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Rufus Hemanway 
Barbara Burnham 
Wm McCarty 
Solomon Hill 
Chas Knight } swear to over 2 mo service as Waggon Conductor. Master or Forage Master
Kene Burrows 
Thos Beckwith 
Jas Fales 
Wm McCarty } swear to service in that capacity and generally to reputation of long service 
Certif [certificate] of Dep Qr Mr [deputy quarter master] That he was conductor in 1781.   
Rolls of A Joy.  - In service July 81, & Dec 30, 81
These, in connexion with the parol proof show about & 8 mos service as Wagon Cond’r  [conductor] - The parol proof shows much more.
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Mabel McCarty dec’d
widow of Clark 
NY 
Brief
1838
73
1765
Elias Lathrop – Vt 32 brief says that in 1777 he served 6 mos as teamster under Capt John Chamberlain & that Clark & Langford Carter were teamsters at the same time.
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Conductor of Ox teams on the 29th September 1780 
Theodore Roote 
Nathl Baxter 
Ebenezer Coleman 
Solomon Phelps 
Noah Risley 
Jonah Phillips 
Clark Cartee 
John Nedaway 
Jno Norman 
Saml Russell 
Deman Contractor 
Rd Claiborne late D QM Genl
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Clarkson Monroe Co. N. York 
Sept. 10. 1838 
Dr. Sir:
Enclosed is the declaration of Mrs Mabel McCarty widow of Clark McCarty a Captain in the service of the U.S. in the Revolutionary War to obtain the benefit of the act of 7th July last.   
I am informed that the proof of the service and rank of Captain McCarty and of his marriage to the applicant has heretofore been forwarded to your office and is now on file there.   The service I understand is proved by the affidavit of Col. Hemminway, and the marriage by other affidavits.   If this is so I hope the papers will be found sufficient to entitle her to the benefit of the act, she is a very respectable and worthy woman but without property, and dependent upon her friends for support.  
Please advise me of the result of the Examination of the papers. 
Very Respectfully YoursT
H. R. Seldon
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Com of Pensions
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State of New York 
Monroe County SS} 
Mabel McCarty being duly sworn depose and says that she is Seventy three years old, and was born in the town of Colchester  then Hartford now New London in the State of Connecticut.  Says she was well acquainted with Capt Clark McCarty and to the best of her recollection he entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war as Forage Master in the year 1775 or 1776 and entered in such service about five years, except that he returned one twice on a furlough on account of sickness by hardships in the service of the Revolutionary war.  Said deponent further says that she was married to the said Clark McCarty the twelfth day of February 1788 in the town of Colchester then the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut as aforesaid, by the Rev. Abel Palmer of the same place, and that she said Mabel lived with her husband the said Clark McCarty until the  2nd day of Decr in the year 1818 when the said Clark died leaving her the said Mabel a Widow with Six Children, viz; Francis; John: Lovice: Clark, Russell and Robert McCarty and said Robert  was under sixteen years viz; ten years old at the death of his Father and the said deponent further says that she has been a widow ever since the said Clarks death; and that she has not been married since, and the said deponent further says she has been unable to support herself to last six or seven years and is
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now living with one of her children in the
town of Clarkson Monroe County and State of
New York
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Mabel McCarty dec’d 
widow of Clark McCarty New York 
Act July 7. 1838   
Admitted 
Wagon Comdr 8 mos $160  
Private 6 mos             $  20 
at $180 per annum, from Mar 4. 1836 to September 25th 1843. when she died excepting 2 years  
Certificate payable to Wm H. Bowman & Lovice Bowman her admr [administrator] & Admix [administratrix], for the benefit of 
Francis McCarty, 
John McCarty, 
Russel G. McCarty, 
Robert McCarty and 
Lovice Bowman her only surviving children 
Agent
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Brief in the case of Mabel McCarty, decd, widow of Clark McCarty Monroe County and State of New York 
act July 7. 1838. 
Claim, (original, ) 
Proof exhibited, (if original.) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Service Parol and Documentary evidence.
Marriage Parol and evidence
Deaths and names of children } Parol  & evidence certified 
administration certified 
(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 
Name and residence of Agent 
Geo C. Ames 
Present 
S. G. Dodge 
Examining Clerk
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
County of Berkshire }  
I Eli Taintor of Lee Mass. of Lawful age do depose and say that I have in my possession the Manuscript Account Books kept by Nehemiah Hubbard Deputy Quarter Master General of the State of Connecticut in the War of the Revolution and in one of the Books dated 1778, I find the following entry Viz 
“Roswell Ransom’s Company of Teams Viz 
Then engaged   Sept 28th  Names & Quality  Roswell Ransom Conductor  No. of Teams.  1  Wages per day a 20 / 
Then engaged   Sept 28th  Names & Quality  Jno Treadway   No. of Teams.  1  Wages per day a 20 / 
Then engaged   Sept 28th  Names & Quality  Bliss Ransom  No. of Teams.  1  Wages per day a 20 / 
Then engaged     Names & Quality  Amasa Hillborn  No. of Teams.  1  Wages per day a 20 / 
Then engaged     Names & Quality  Abel Rathborn  No. of Teams.  1  Wages per day a 20 / 
Then engaged     Names & Quality  Clarck Carter  No. of Teams.  1  Wages per day a 20 / 
Then engaged     Names & Quality  Thomas Gustin  No. of Teams.  1  Wages per day a 20 / 
Then engaged     Names & Quality  Joshua Buckett  No. of Teams.  1  Wages per day a 20 / 
Then engaged     Names & Quality  Caleb Calkins  No. of Teams.  1  Wages per day a 20 / 
10 
Peter Cook  £ 6.0.0 Lawful Money”
And in another of said Books I find the following entry viz  
“Hartford Oct 4th 1778   
Roswell Ransom, set off this day with 10 Teams for Headquarters with load of Clothing where they are to remain 3 months.” 
“ Jany 8th 1779, Roswell Ranson returned from Camp with ten Teams under his command”
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“Feb 12th 1779, Conductor Roswell Ransom returned from Colchester by way of Durham with Loads of hay for the Light Dragoons there and arrived this day.” 
“Feb 13th Conductor Roswell Set out from this for Norwich this day with load of flour with 12 teams.” 
“March 1st 1779, Conductor, Roswell Ransom returned from Norwich by the way of Durham Loaded with hay for the Light Horse” 
“March 22nd  Conductor Roswell Ransom returned this day from Sharon Loaded with flour, and set off the same day with Company for Providence loaded with flour" 
“March 4th 1779”  (this is evidently a mistake Meaning the 24th) "Conductor Roswell Ransom set off with Eleven teams for Litchfield loaded with Beef, and is to return to this place loaded with an flour" 
November 25th 1779, Conducter Roswell Ransom returned from Camp and is gone to Colchester for to recruit twenty days and then he is to return loaded with wood.” 
June 5th 1780, Conductor Roswell Ranson this day arrived with Eleven Teams from Colchester and set off the same day to Danbury without carts and there to remain till further orders.” 
“June 23d 1780, Conductor Roswell Ransom this day returned from Fishkill with his Company of teams and set of same day to the same Post with loads of Fish, and took one continental Cart which he is to return  (wheels)”
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“Dec 28th 1780. Ransom & Carty, returned this day with their teams, part staying behind.”
And in another of said Book I find the following entries viz 
“Hartford April 22d 1779 Quarter Master General [unreadable]  
To Paid Roswell Ransom Conductor for Wages due himself and Eleven Teams from 13th Jany to 31st March 1779 his Pay Roll & Receipt - £ 1105.6.” 
“Hartford Feb 10th 1781. 
Quarter Master General J. R. 
To Paid Roswell Ransonmsaid Bill for the Service of 2 teams 468 day; Each a 16/ £ 1748.16. 
For the service of 7 teams 215 days each a 16/ £ 1204 
Roswell Ransom Conductor 7 months & 20 days at 16/ £ 115
John McFannel Cook 7 months & 20 days at 6/ £ 46
Time Horse hire & Expense coming for settlement 4.6
2118.12
40
84.744.
Advance forty for one”
Commonwealth of Massachusetts 
Berkshire County ss}  
I Eli Taintor of Lee in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth aforesaid of lawful age do depose and say that I have the possession and custody of the Books of Account kept by Nehemiah Hubbard as Deputy Quarter Master War of the Revolution, and the above extracts are taken from the said Books and that they have been examined by me and found to be true. 
Eli Taintor 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Berkshire County ss.} of August 21st 1857. Then
(over)
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personally appeared Eli Taintor and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed, before me, and I hereby certify that am well acquainted with the said deponent, and that I know him to be a person of truth and veracity and I do hereby further certify that I have no interest whatever in this case. 
John Brunning Justice of the Peace 
I hereby certify that the name "Ranson in the twelfth line on the first page of this short was interlined before the affidavit was subscribed by the said Eli Taintor”  
John Brunning Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
BERKSHIRE SS. 
I Henry W Taft Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Common wealth for the County of Berkshire, do certify that John Brunning Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificates on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth and that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said John Brunning and believe his signatures in said certificate is genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Superior Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this twenty first day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven. 
Henry W. Taft CLERK.
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State of New York 
Genesee County } SS 
I, Soloman Hill of the Town of Ella in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn do depose and say that I have heretofore made an affidavit to prove the Services of Clark McCarty as a Wagon Conductor &C in the Revolutionary War I further depose and say that the said Clark McCarty was called Clark Carty and Captain Carty as well and as much as he was called McCarty and some generally called him Carty and it was the same with his Brother Langford McCarty who was a Waggon Conductor in said War whom I frequently saw in such service during said War and have no interest in the claim for a pension.   
Solomon Hill
Subscribed and sworn to this 6th day of May before me
J. S. Stewart Justice
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Solomon Hill and have been so acquainted with him for a number of years last part and that he is a man of good character, known respectability and reputable for truth and veracity and of sound mind and memory and he has retained all his mental powers and
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faculties to the present time and enjoys good health except old age and I have full confidence in his statement - And I have no interest whatever in the claim or application for a pension dated May 6 1853 
J. S. Stewart Justice  
State of New York 
Genesee County 
Clerks Office } SS 
I. M.G. Soper Clerk of said County and of the County Courts thereof do hereby certify that the above named J. S. Stewart Esquire before whom the annexed and within Affidavit of Solomon Hill was made and taken and who has thereunto officially subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace of said County duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to administer oaths and take affidavits, and that his signature thereto subscribed by him is genuine and in his own hand writing. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official seal which is the seal of said Court at Batavia in said County this 7th day of May A D 1853 
Geo H. Holden dep Clk.
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State of New York 
Erie County SS} 
Rufus Hemenway of the City of Buffalo being duly sworn says that in the year 1775 he deponent enlisted into the service of the United States in the State of Massachusetts & that he deponent was a musician in said Service & afterwards during said period in the Commission of Major & Inspector of Music under the command of General Knox & that a part of the time aforesaid the  deponent was well acquainted with Clark McCarty then officiating as Forage Master in the Army of the United States in the Continental & Massachusetts lines & that he saw Clark in that capacity for more than two years & for the most part of the time in the State of New York & that to the best of Deponents recollection the said Clark had the chief control of the forage & deponent further says not 
Rufus Hemenway
Subscribed & Sworn this 29th day of March 1838 
Harry Slade Justice of the Peace 
STATE OF NEW-YORK, 
ERIE COUNTY CLERKS OFFICE ss}  I, CYRUS K. ANDERSON, Clerk of the County of Erie, do hereby certify that Harry Slade Esq. whose name is subscribed to the annexed deposition was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected and sworn and acting as such. And further, that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice Harry Slade and verily believe the signature to be his genuine signature. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of 29th day of March A. D. 1838. C. K. Anderson Clerk 
By R.W. Padelford Depty
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Extracts from an original authentic manuscript furnished by Arad Joy 
Vol 2 Memorandum of Teams 
Page 262 Clark Carty Cond 10 Teams 
263   7 without carts gone on with Cannon 
3 with Carts one with provisions
Hartford 17th July 1781 
275  Return of all persons employed in the Quarter Master General department with the Main Army under the immediate command of His Excellency General Washington 
299  Names of the person employed, How employed, Where, on Whole [unreadable] 
Clark Carty Cond’r of  ox teams Parks Artillery $ 35 [unreadable] 
[unreadable] Return of the Names of the Conductors of Ox Teams together with the state they engage with Dec 30 1781 
Conductor Name Clark Carty  State they engaged with  Connecticut 
Thos Cogswell for Mr Anspach 
Pension Office 
April 3, 1854 have compared the foregoing with the original manuscript & find it correct 
S. Cole
Ch. Clerk
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State of New York
Genesee County SS. Soloman Hill of the Town of Elbain in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he lived in Frederickstown in the County of Duchess in the State of New York previous to, during and after the Revolutionary war and Deponent served in Colonel Van Cortlandts Regiment 9 Months in the [unreadable] in 1776 and was in the Battle of Long Island.   Deponent further saith that the next winter he enlisted for during the War and served during the Revolutionary War in Captain Pells Company in Colonel Van Cortlandts Regiment and served in the State of New York on the North River Mohawk, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and was in the Battles of Long Island, White Plains, Monmouth and Fort Montgomery and was at the taking of Cornwallis and in various Skirmishes. 
Deponent further saith that he was well acquainted with Clark McCarty who lived in Colchester Connecticut during the said War, the said Clark McCarty Served as Waggon Conductor Waggon Master or waggon Forage Master two years
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and upwards for Deponent knows that he saw the said Clark Carty having charge of Government teams from the spring or summer of 1777 till the fall of 1779 and Deponent is very confident that he saw him in the Company of 1780, the year that Andre was executed.  Deponent saw him a great many times during said period and he had the charge and command of Government teams every time Deponent saw him and Deponent saw him in said service on the North River and in Connecticut, Horseneck and various other places and the said Clark McCarty accompanied the Army on the March a number of times commanding Government teams as aforesaid and carrying provisions and munitions of War for the American Government and the said Clark McCarty was a very active and persevering man. Deponent is 98 years of age. 
Deponent served as a private.
Solomon Hill
Subscribed and sworn to this 10th day of February 1852 before me 
H. Stilwell 
Justice in & for Genesee Co
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I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Solomon Hill and that he is a man of good character known respectability and reputable for truth and veracity and he enjoys very good health and has retained all his mental faculties in a remarkable degree and I place full confidence in his statement,
Dated Feb. 10, 1852 - H. Stilwell 
Justice 
State of New York 
Genesee County Clerks Office } I Merrill G. Soper Clerk of said County and the County Courts thereof do hereby certify that the above named H Stilwell Esq before whom the foregoing and the annexed Affidavit was made and taken and whole thereunto officially subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace of said County duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to administer all and that his signature thereto is genuine- In Testimony whereof have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 15th day of July in the year of our Lord 1852.  
Geo H. Holden Dep Clk
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State of Connecticut 
New London County } ss  N. Colchester May 25th 1853 
I John Turner of the Town of Colchester in the County & State aforesaid being duly sworn do depose and say that I am Eighty two years of age and that I was born in New London, but have resided in said Colchester since 1800 to the present time. I can well remember the Revolutionary War. I further depose and say that I was well acquainted with the McCarty Family who resided in said Colchester aforesaid after said War & I was well acquainted with Clark Langford & William McCarty who were all Brothers to each other & Clark & Langford McCarty were Twin Brothers and I lived in the vicinity of them in said Colchester while they resided there the said Clark McCarty was captain of a Company of Militia after said War and I trained under him & in his company.  Ever since I can remember the McCarty Family were called & known as well by the name of Carty as by the name of McCarty, but the true name was McCarty and the said Clark McCarty was generally called Clark Carty & Captain Carty and was well known by both of these names & it was the same with the said Langford & William and all the rest of the Family. The said Clark & Langford McCarty were much older than myself.  
John Turner
Subscribed and sworn to this 25th day of May 1853 Before me 
A M Hurlbut Justice of the Peace 
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named John Turner and that he is a man of good Character, Known Respectability and reputable for truth & veracity &  I place full confidence in his statement.  
Dated at Colchester May 25 1853 
A M Hurlbut Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut New London County ss 
Town Clerks Office Colchester May 25 1853 
I hereby certify that Amanda M Hurlbut was duly chosen a Justice of the Peace for New London County on the first Monday of April 1852 for two years as appears from record in this Office 
Attest A M Hurlbut Town Clerk 
Pension Office June 2. 1853 
I know that A. M. Hurlbut is town Clerk of the town of Colchester, and being acquainted with his hand writing am of the opinion that the above is his genuine signature.
L. P.  Waldo
Commissioner
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State of New York 
Genesee County SS. 
I, Charles Knight of the Town of Ella in the County of Genesee aforesaid being duly sworn do depose and say that I am Eighty Eight years of age and was born in the Town of Colchester in the State of Connecticut and resided there till some time after the Revolutionary War. And I have resided in the said Town of Ella for the space of 18 years last past.    
I further say on oath that in the month of May 1780 at Colchester in Connecticut I enlisted as a Teamster for six months under Roswell Ransom and drove a Government Team and served as such Teamster six months and I drove the said team onto the North River in the State of New York and served as A such teamster on the North River and at Whiteplains and its vicinity and I was honorably discharged near Fishkill, within State of New York in the month of November 1780 1 after having served six months
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I further say on oath that in the month of May in the year 1781 at Colchester in the State of Connecticut I again enlisted as a Teamster under Langford McCarty and I served as such Teamster for the United States Six months and upwards and I drove the said Team from Connecticut to White Plains and unto the said North River and I served as such Teamster at and near White Plains till into the month of August 1781 and there I was ordered to go and did with said Team to York Town in Virginia with General Washingtons Army and drove said team all the time till into the month of November 1781 and until after Lord Cornwallis was captured and I served as such Teamster six months and was discharged at York Town in November 1781.   
 I further say on oath that I was well acquainted with Clark McCarty who lived in Colchester aforesaid ever since I can remember and during
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and after the Revolutionary War and he was in the Team service, I know all the time that I served as above stated except when I went to York Town he went with the Army in the Team service into the State of Pennsylvania in 1781 and was sent back as was informed and believe by General Washington and ordered to go to New London or in that vicinity to take charge of some teams - While I was such Teamster I saw him very often sometimes every day and as often as once a week and a great deal of the time he was in company with me; and he had charge of teams all the time which were government teams or belonged to the State of Connecticut and he acted and served as a Wagon Master or Waggon Conductor all the time and be was a very active and talented man.   I served with him all of one year including the time that I went to Yorktown. 
I further say that in the summer of 1777 the said Clark McCarty went into the team service for it was the year that General Burgoyne was taken
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and he was gone all Sumner and in the summer of 1778 and 1779 he was gone and it was said that he was in the team service and was a conductor of Teams and I saw him in the team service a number of times acting as a waggon conductor before I served with him.  His brother Langford was in the team service all the time I served and was a conductor of Teams.  The said Clark McCarty must have served considerably more than a year as a waggon Conductor as I was informed and believe before I served with him.  I am not a Revolutionary pensioner but have applied for one.  
Charles Knight
Subscribed and sworn to 27 day of July 52 before me 
J.S. Stewart Justice 
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Charles Knight and have been so acquainted with him some Eighteen years last past and that he is a man of good character, known respectability and reputable for truth and veracity and that he is of sound mind and memory and has retained all his mental faculties to the present time and I place full confidence in this his statement.
Dated July 27, 1852 
J. S. Stewart Justice
Charles Knight
Afft
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STATE OF NEW YORK,  
Genesee County Clerk's Office, }ss 
I CERTIFY, That James S. Stewart Esqr before whom the annexed affidavit was made, was at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said certificate is genuine,  
IN WITNESS WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal. at Batavia, in said County, this 27th day of  July 1852.  
Geo H. Holden Dep Clerk
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State of New York 
Genesee County SS. I Thomas Beckwith of the Town of Batavia in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn do depose and say that I have heretofore made an Affidavit to prove the Revolutionary services of Clark McCarty as a Waggon Conductor or Wagon Master in the Revolutionary War.  The said Clark McCarty resided in the Town of Colchester and I knew his Brother Langford and his sister Nancy and he and Langford were twin brothers. 
I further depose and say that the said Clark McCarty was generally called Clark Carty and Captain Carty while I knew him in said War and I called him Carty - Captain Carty and Clark Carty in said War and I seldom heard him called McCarty during said War, but some times he was called McCarty, and his true name was McCarty and be was known by the name of Carty and McCarty, but during said War he was generally called "Carty.”
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as herein above Stated.  
I further depose and say that I have no interest whatever in the result of the application for a pension for the services of the said Clark McCarty nor am I concerned in presenting the claim for such pension. 
Thomas Beckwith
Subscribed and Sworn to this 30th day of June 1853 before me 
John Munro Jr. J.P. 
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Thomas Beckwith and that he is a man of good character, known respectability and reputable for truth and veracity and he has retained his memory and mental faculties to the present time in a remarkable degree and be enjoys good health for a man of his age and he now performs some light work and chores and I place the fullest confidence in his statement. 
And I further certify that I have no interest whatever in the result of the application for a pension.
John Munro Jr. J.P.
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for the services of Clark McCarty nor am I concerned in prosecuting the claim for such pension,
Dated June 30, 1853. 
John Munro Jr J.P. 
State of New York 
Genesee County 
Clerks Office } ss  
I, M.G. Soper Clerk of said County and of the County Seventy thereof do hereby certify that John Munro Jr, Esquire before whome the preceding Affidavit was made and taken and who has thereunto officially subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace of said County duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to administer ouths and that his signature is genuine.   
In Testimony whereof have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal which is the seal of said Court at Batavia in said County this 6 day of July in year of our Lord 1853 
M G Soper Clk
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I hereby certify that Spencer Taylor in the Campaign of 1781 went out a teamster in the brigade of teams under the direction of Clark Cartey, served through the campaign and returned under the direction of Isham Chapman who acted as Conductor.
Ralph Pomeroy
Hartford 1st July 1783 D. Q. M  in the State of Connecticut}  
To all whom it may concern.  
State of Connecticut, ss
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE. } 
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of record in this Office, being annexed to the petition of Joshua Hall to the Governor and General Assembly.  
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford this 17 day of September A. D. 1852. 
Jno. P.C. Mather, 
Secretary of State.
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State of New York
Genesee County SS. Thomas Beckwith of the Town of Batavia in said County being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is Ninety two years of age and that he is a Revolutionary pensioner of the United States for services in the Revolutionary War.  That he resided in the Town of Lyme in the State of Connecticut during the said War. Deponent served at Black Hall in Connecticut 4 months in Lieutenant Griswold’s Company commencing in September 1776.   
Deponent then served at New London Connecticut six months in Captain Lays Company and he believes in Colonel Throups Regiment commencing January 1777.   Deponent served 3 months  in Captain Palmers Company in Colonel Elys Regiment commencing Sept 1777 and served in New London and at Rhode Island.  He served in Captain Hamsted’s Company in Colonel Latimers Regiment at New London aforesaid till the spring of 1779.  Deponent further saith that he was well acquainted with Clark McCarty who resided in the Town of Colchester in the State of Connecticut during the Revolutionary War.  Colchester joined Lyme on the North. When Deponent first went to New London be saw the said Clark McCarty as a soldier who was in the six months service at
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New London but in whose company Deponent does not know; but the said McCarty’s time was nearly expired when Deponent arrived there in January 1777.   Deponent further saith that the said Clark McCarty was discharged at New London in a few days after deponent arrived there in January and was appointed to the office of Waggon Master or Waggon Conductor; but whether be was in the Continental or Connecticut Line Deponent does not know.  But Deponent knows that the said Clark McCarty in the Capacity of a waggon Conductor or waggon Master commencing in the latter part of the winter of 1777 or fore part of March 1777 till the spring of 1778, when deponent went to sea and Deponent was not in the Land service after the Spring of 1779.  Deponent frequently saw the said Clark McCarty at different times from February or March 1777 till April or May 1778 and he was such Waggon Conductor or Master and had a number of teams under his charge at that time and he was called Captain McCarty and was a very active persevering man. And Deponent frequently saw him at New London during all that time with a number of
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and under his charge. And Deponent knows that he saw him in the service as such Conductor or master mare than one year. And Deponent verily believes it was all of 13 months.  
Deponent returned from sea in July 1779 and went to New London and he then and there saw the said McCarty and he had a number of teams under his Charge.   
Deponent again saw the said Clark McCarty at Plainfield Connecticut in the summer of 1779 with a number of teams under his charge. 
And it was at Darrowes Tavern which was near the Academy Deponent saw the said teams drive away from said Tavern and Deponent knows the fact that he there and there had the charge of and commanded the said teams were all in the service in said War and carrying Army stores and munitions of War.   
Deponent was well acquainted with William McCarty who was a Brother of the said Clark McCarty whose residence was in Colchester aforesaid. 
Deponent saith said Clark McCarty after said War and it was said that he served as such conductor or Master over three years and till towards the close of said war.
Thomas Beckwith
Subscribed and sworn to this 25 day of September 1851 before me 
John Munro Jr 
Justice of the Peace in for said County
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I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Thomas Beckwith and have been acquainted for many years last past.   That he is and has been one of the most respectable men in this Community and he is a man of good character and reputable for truth and veracity. He retains his mental and physical faculties in a remarkable degree and I have full confidence in his statement. 
John Munroe Justice of the peace in for said County
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State of New York 
Genesee County SS James Faler of the Town of Batavia in the County of Genesee aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he resided in the Town of Charlemont in the County of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts during the Revolutionary War.
Deponent further saith that he saw Clerk McCarty a number of times during said War from the Spring of the year 1777 till the year 1780 or 1781 and the said Clark McCarty resided in Colchester in the State of Connecticut during said War. Deponent went to New London on an alarm when it was burned by General Arnold and Deponent saw the said Clark McCarty near New London at that time.  Deponent further saith that every time he saw the said Clark McCarty he acted as a waggon Conductor or wagon Master, but which deponent does not know and he had a number of Government teams under his charge and command. Deponent saw him the said McCarty twice or 3 times in the said town of Charlemont  hiring or procuring teams for the Army. And Deponent saw the said McCarty a number of times march through the said Town of Charlemont  having under his charge and command a number of Government teams loaded
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with army stores and munitions of War. And whenever deponent saw the said Clark McCarty with teams the said teams were Government teams and loaded as aforesaid.  
The said Clark McCarty was a very active and energetic man and was called Captain McCarty as he was Captain over the teams. And Deponent saw him acting in that capacity for more than three years.   Deponent is Eighty nine years of age.  
James Faler
Subscribed and sworn this 25 day of September 1851 before me 
John Munro or Justice of  the peace in for said County 
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named James Failer and have been so acquainted with him for a number of years last past - that he is a person of good character, known respectability and reputable for truth and veracity and he is an upright & honest man and I have the utmost confidence in his statement with or without oath and he retains all his faculties well.
John Munro Justice of the peace in for said County 
I do hereby certify that John Munro Jr before whom the annexed Affidavits
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of Thomas Beckwith and James Fails were made and taken and who has thereunto officially subscribed his name was at the time of so doing a Justice of the peace of the County of Genesee in the State of New York duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by Law to administer oaths 
H. Putnam Late M. C.
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State of New York
Genesee County SS. I Charles Knight of the Town of Elba in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn do depose and say that I am Eighty Eight years of age and was born in the Town of Colchester in the State of Connecticut and resided there all the time during the Revolutionary War and afterwards till the year 1788 and I have resided in the said Town of Elba for the space of 18 years last past.  
I do further depose and say that in the month of July last I made an affidavit to establish and Prove the service of Clark McCarty as a Wagon Master or Wagon Conductor in said War.  
My statement of his herewith will more fully appear by reference to said Affidavit which I suppose is on file in the pension office in the City of Washington. 
I further depose and say that the said Clark McCarty resided in the said Town of Colchester not far from me before during and after said war and I presume he was born in the said Town of Colchester and he was a good deal older than I was & I was well acquainted with him ever since I
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remember as long as we both lived in Colchester and he was captain of a Company of Militia after said war; and he had a twin brother by the name of Langford McCarty with whom I was equally well acquainted and who resided in Colchester; and the said Langford McCarty Served a good deal in said War as a Wagon Conductor.   
I do further depose and say that the said Clark McCarty was called and known by the name of Carty as much or more than he was called McCarty and in Colchester he was generally called Clark Carty and Captain Carty and it was the same with Langford McCarty and when they were both mentioned together, they were generally called the "Carty’s”  and Clark McCarty while I was in the said war generally spoken of as follows -  Carty, Clark Carly, Captain Carty & Carty’s Teams and frequently “Mc” was added and the same with Langford McCarty - Mc was generally 
omitted.
Charles Knight
Subscribed and sworn to 8th day of September 1852 before me 
J. S. Stewart Justice
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I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the above named Charles Knight and that he is a person of good character, known respectability and reputable for truth and veracity and is of sound mind and memory and has returned all his mental faculties and powers to the present time, and I place full confidence in his statement.   
Dated Sept 30 1852.  
J. S. Stewart Justice 
I do hereby certify that J. S. Stewart, Esqr before whom the foregoing affidavit of Charles Knight was made, and who has thereunto officially subscribed his name, was at the time of taking the said affidavit Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Genesee and State of New York, duly commissioned and sworn and authorized by law to administer oaths, and that his signature above written is genuine. 
A. P, Hascall
MC NY
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State of New York 
Wyoming County SS. I Kene Burrows of the Town of Bennington in the County and State aforesaid being duly sworn do depose and say that I am Eighty two years of age and have resided in this neighborhood over thirteen years and I was born in the Town of Coventry in the State of Connecticut and moved to Colchester in the State of Connecticut in the forepart of the Revolutionary War and I moved from Colchester about the close of said War.   
While I lived in Colchester aforesaid I lived in the Neighborhood of Clark McCarty and Langford McCarty not more than half a mile distant from them.   The said Clark McCarty and Langford McCarty were twin Brothers and a good deal older than I was and they lived in Colchester when and before I lived there and they lived there when I moved from there and I understood they were born in Colchester.   
I further depose and say that Clark McCarty and Langford McCarty were absent a good deal of the time from Colechester and it was said that they were Conductors of Teams in said war; and the said Clark McCarty and Langford McCarty were generally called Cartys, Clark Carty and Langford Carty.
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and the word "Mc” was sometimes used but generally omitted; but the true name was McCarty and was so written. 
Clark McCarty towards the close of said War was called frequently Captain Carty and Mc was generally omitted. 
The said Clark McCarty was a very active business man and he was a large and portly looking man and I seen the said Clark Carty about forty years ago and he was then called Clark Carty and Captain Carty the same as in Colchester aforesaid. 
Kene Burrows
Subscribed and sworn to first day of October 1852 before me 
F. C. Farnham J Peace 
I am well acquainted with Kene Burrows above named and know him to be of good character and believe his statements to be entitled to full credit. 
H. Putnam Late M.C.  N. York
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I do hereby certify that F. C. Farnham Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavit of Kene Burrows was made and who has thereunto officially subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking the said affidavit, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Wyoming and State of New York, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his said signature is genuine. 
A.J. Hascall 
MC Ny
Knight & Burrows affts [affadavits]
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State of Connecticut 
New London County} ss  Colchester May 23 1853  
I Avery Morgan of the Town of Colchester in the County State aforesaid, being duly sworn do depose and say that I am Seventy one years of & that I was born in the Town of Ledyard in said County and have resided in Colchester since 1800.  I further depose & say that I was well acquainted with the McCarty Family, who resided in said Colchester aforesaid & I was well acquainted with Clark, Langford, & William McCarty who were all Brothers to each other & Clark & Langford McCarty were twin brothers & I lived in the vicinity of them while they resided there.  The said Clark McCarty was Captain of a Compy of Militia in said Colchester after the Revolutionary War eversince I can remember the McCarty Family were called & known as well by the name of Carty as by the name of McCarty but the true name was McCarty & the said Clark McCarty was generally called Clark Carty & Capt Carty & was well known by both of these names & it was the same with the said Langford & William and all the rest of the Family.  The said Clark & Langford were much older than myself. 
Avery Morgan
Subscribed and sworn to this 23 May 1853 Before me 
A M Hurlbut Justice of the Peace 
I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the within named Avery Morgan and that he is a man of good character Known Respectability and reputable for truth & veracity & place full confidence in his statement.  
Dated at Colchester May 23 1853 
A M Hurlbut Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut New London County 
Town Clerks Office Colchester May 25 1853 
I hereby certify that Amanda M Hurlbut was duly chosen a Justice of the Peace for New London County on the first day of April 1852 for two years as appears from record in this Office. 
Attest A M. Hubert Town Clerk
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Mrs. Annie L. Towne
Milwaukee Wis
50-92-628
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W. 20248 
Clark McCarty
Aug 30 1858 res. Clarkson Monroe NY b. [born] Mch 27, 1765 
[unreadable]  6 mos
Ent Colchester, Hartford Co. Conn
Wagon Conductor
[unreadable]
Mar [married] Colchester Conn 12 Feby 1788
Mabel Treadway
[unreadable] 3 Dec 1818 Martinsburg
9 Mos [unreadable]
ch: [children] Francis, John, Lovice, Clark, Russel & Robert
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OWN 
Milwaukee Wis. Nov 13, 1904 
To the Comm of Pensions Washington D.C 
Dear Sir 
Will you kindly advise me if the records of your office show the payment of pension to Captain Clark McCarty who enlisted in the State of Connecticut and served in the war of the Revolution.   I desire this information to prove my eligibility to the D.A.R. 
Yours truly 
Mrs Annie L. Towne 
264 Ogden Ave. 
Milwaukee Wis
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[unreadable]
3 ½ mos Teamster
[unreadable] 
probably McCarty
See also p 9 of transcript of Hubbard in this office on White paper
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Berkshire County ss }  
I Eli Taintor of Lee in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aforesaid, aged seventy three years, do depose and say that I have the possession of the "Team Book" Rept by Nehemiah Hubbard Deputy Quarter Master General in the Army of the United States, and I do further depose and say that I find upon said Book under the head of Roswell Ransoms Compy of Teams,”  the name of Clark Carter, one team engaged 28th September 1778 and at the close of the list of teamsters is found this entry viz: “Up to the 12 Jany" and further this deponent saith not. 
Eli Taintor 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
Berkshire County ss } August 3 1857. Then personally appeared Eli Taintor and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed and I hereby certify that I am well acquainted the said El Taintor and that he is a credible witness and that I have no intrest in this case. 
John Branning
Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 
BERKSHIRE SS. 
I Henry W. Taft Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire, do certify that John Branning Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly commissioned and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth and that full faith and credit are and ought be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the handwriting of the said John Branning and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine. 
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth this third day of August in the year of our Lord and thousand eight hundred and fifty Seven 
Henry W. Taft 
CLERK.