Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 1823, Robert Clark, N.H.

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(3-1776)

Service: N.H.

Clark, Robert
           Hannah

Number: W. 1823

Contents:

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478 20
New Hampshire Portsmouth
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Hannah Clarke [Clark]
Widow of Robert Clark
Who served in the Revolutionary war, as an Ensign
NH Line
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 
240 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on 
The 3rd February 1853
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Certificate of Pension issued the
25th day of May 1853 and sent to Timothy Murray -- New Market, N.H.
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Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 14 Vol. A
1818
[Initials along the spine of the journal document right side is badly damaged - part of page may be missing]

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[This is a two sided journal type document with writing on two sides]
[Left side of page]
7079
New Hampshire
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Robert Clark
Of New Market in the state of N. Hampshire who was an Ensign in the regiment commanded by Colonel Long - of the N. Hampshire line, for the term of 1 year
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Enscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of 20-dollars per month, to commence on the 22nd of May 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of Mar 1819 and sent to Hon J. Butten
South Deerfield, N Hampshire
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Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 --9 mo 14/31.  189.3
Semi-anl. All’ce ending 4 Sep 1819.  120.-
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                                                                   $309.3
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{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued on the roll under the law of the 1 May 1820 notification. Sent to Peyton R Truman Esq. --6 July 1820 Portsmouth NH

[Right side of page]:
See letter to D. Gale Oct. 9. 1836
[illegible] WB Parker 19 July
1834
Letter to Hon J.P. Hale
Feby [February] 15 - 750

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Robert Clark
Commission X [Made X mark for signature]
Robert Clark Ensign 
[illegible] N. Hampshire; Rt
1776 to 1777
22nd May 1818
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Adm 
Hon. J. Butten
South Deerfield, N.H.

Rate cert: 5 March

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Robert Clark of New Market in the County, of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire late an Ensign in the company commanded by Capt Timothy Clements in the Regiment commanded by Col Prince Long, in the New Hampshire Line, on the Continental Establishment Declareth makish oath and saith, that he was commissioned as an Ensign in said Company 
In the Regiment and line aforesaid on said Establishment to serve the United States, in the War of the Revolution for one year. That his commission was signed by John Hancock President of Congress, by order of the Congress, a dated the seventh day of August in A.D. 1776. That he the Deponent received said Commission and immediately entered into service in said Company, and faithfully served the United States therein, for said term of one year. Th the Deponent served as a vol until n at Livingston and several other places in Massachusites, Rhode Island and New Hampshire at the early stage of said War, and after the expiration of his aforesaid service as Ensign, he commanded a Company of Militia at West Point in the Regiment of New Hampshire militia under the command of Col Thomas Bartlett. That the Deponent ha always been a resident citizen of the United States and for about or or new twenty years last to has resided in said New Market, and previous there to in Spring in said County - and that by reason of his received circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Robert Clark

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Sworn to and declared before me, John S. Sherburne Judge of the District Court of the United States for the District of New Hampshire on the 1st day of April 1818 and I John S. Sherburne District Judge as aforesaid do certify that appears to my satisfaction that the said Robert Clark did serve in the revolutionary War as stated in the proceeding declaration, against the common Enemy. and
I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the act of Congress
entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Lands and naval Service of the United States in the revolutionary War."

Portsmouth in New Hampshire District }
May 22d 1818 }
And I further certify that by the declaration of the selection of Newmarket [New Market], which is hereto annexed it appears to my satisfaction that the said Robert Clark the applicant is in reduced circumstances in life, & is in need of assistance from his country for support.
J. S. Sherburne, District Judge N Hampshire

United States New Hampshire District
Be it known that John S. Sherburne Esqr who hath subscribed the foregoing certificate is one of the Judges of the Circuit Court and Judge of the District Court of the United States for said District --
Witness the seal of said Circuit Court this twenty third day of May AD 1818-
Peyton R Freeman Clerk

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We the Subscribers Selectmen of the Town of
Newmarket [New Market] in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire do certify testify & say that we well know Capt Robert Clark an Inhabitant of said Town (whom we have always understood  to have served as an officer in the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War) and that he is in reduced circumstances of life, and stand in need of assistance from his country for support
Selectmen:
Paul Chapman
Sam'l Pickering
Geo. Hilton

New Hampshire Dist. 
On this 15th of April 1818-
The aforesaid Saul Chapman, Sam'l Pickering & Geo Hilton made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition before me Jno. S Sherburne Dist Judge New Hampshire.

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No. 7079
Enst. Robt. Clark's
N Hampshire

7079
5 March 1819

Sent
To Peyton A. Freeman
Portsmouth, N H

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United States of America  District of New Hampshire. SS.

On the twentieth day of June A.D., 1820, personally appeared in open court before the Hon. John Samuel Sherburne, Judge of the District Court of the United States for the New Hampshire District, being a Court of Record, in and for the said District, having the power of fine and imprisonment, doth appear Robert Clark aged sixty four years, resident in Newmarket [New Market] in the county of Rockingham in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on this oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: viz. that on the seventh day of August A.D. 1776 he was commissioned as an Ensign in the Company commanded by Captain Timothy Clements in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Peirce [Pierce] Long in the New Hampshire Line.  That his commission of that date is signed by John Hancock President of Congress & he sent it to the War Department with his Declaration as a proof of his service & claim for a pension.  That he entered into the service immediately on receiving his said commission & continues to serve the United States in said & in said corps for the Term of one year and at the expiration thereof was discharged at Stillwater, in August 1777 and afterwards commanded a Company of New Hampshire Militia in Col Thomas Bartletts Regiment at West Point, and I the said Robert Clark further depose & say The date of my original declaration in order to obtain a pension is the 22nd day of May A.D. 1818.  The number of my pension certificates is 7079.  I have received a pension.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself with the provisions of an Act of Congress, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.  My occupation is that of a farmer -- my ability to pursue it is but small through age & Rheumatic complaints, I have to contribute to the support of my aged mother.  in family residing with me is none.  
Robert Clark

New Hampshire District [illegible].  Sworn to and declared at a District Court held at Exeter in the County of Rockingham in said District on the third Tuesday of June A.D. 1820, before the Honorable John S. Sherburne Judge of the said District Court.

Attest Peyton R. Freeman Clerk 
I, Peyton R. Freeman Clerk of the District Court of the United States for the New Hampshire District, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & declaration and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied  from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty one dollars and ninety cents.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty sixth day of June A.D. 1820.

Peyton R. Freeman 
Clerk of the said District Court for}
New Hampshire District.}

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                       Schedule

Containing the whole estate and income of Robert Clark (his necessary clothing and bedding excepted,) by him subscribed, exhibited to the District Court of the United States for the New Hampshire District, on the twentieth day of June 1820, and annexed to his oath, viz.

one heifer 2 years old                      $10
one yearling [indistinguishable].      6
10 bushels corn                                  3.60
200 lb Pork                                          20
     6 chairs 30 years old.                    50
     1 table [indistinguishable].            1.00
     1 stand                                            30
     Shovel & tongs                               50
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                                                               31.90
And he owes at least $100

Robert Clark

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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss On this 22 day of March, AD. 1833
personally appeared before the Subscriber, a Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, it being a Court of Record within and for
the County aforesaid, Hannah Clark a resident of South
Newmarket in said County of Rockingham, aged Eighty
years and upwards, who first being duly sworn, according to
law, doth on her oath, make the following Declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the
Act of Congress passed February 3d 1853; that she is the
widow of Robert Clark late of Newmarket, deceased
who was an Ensign one year from the seventh day of
August 1776 under Capt Timothy Clement in Col Pierce Longs Regiment, and Lieutenant Commanding a company
four months under Col Thomas Bartlett at West Point
in 1780 and who served as a volunteer at Lexington and
Several other places in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
New Hampshire at the early stage of the Revolutionary war
and was at the time of his death a Pensioner under the
act of March 18. 1818 at the rate of two hundred and forty
dollars per annum, paid to him at the Portsmouth Vick
Hampshire Agency he residing in said Newmarket
She further declares that she was married to the said Robert
Clark on the fourth day of April eighteen hundred and
twenty two; that her husband, the aforesaid Robert Clarks,
died, deed on the nineteenth day of November Eighteen
hundred and thirty four, and that she was married to him
at the time above stated

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she further swears that she was a widow at the passage of
the act, and is still a widow, and that she has never life
applied for a Pension, under any act of Congress
Sarah Clark
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year
above written, before me; and I certify that the appear
cannot from age and infirmity attend the Court
James A Butter Judge of said Court
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham,
I Albert H. Hoyt Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas in and for said
County of Rockingham hereby certify that
James H. Butter is an acting Judge of said
Court, and that the certificate signature purporting to be his to the annexed certificate is in his
own proper hand writing and genuine
Given under my hand
and the seal of said Court at
Exeter in said County this
twenty fourth day of March A.D.
1853.
A Hoyt Clerk

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Paul Chapman's
affidavit

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Extract from the Records of the Town of New Market in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire
under the Head of Marriages by King John Brodhead
Capt Robert Clark to Mrs. Hannah Fowler, both of
New Market April fourth eighteen hundred and twenty two
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the
exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in
fair legible figures as follows

April 4. 1822-
Paul Chapman Town Clerk
Paul Chapman above named, depose and say that I hold
Office of Town Clerk in the County town and State aforesaid
and that the above is a true extract from the records of said
with the exception above named, as certified by me, And
further depose and say that I was well acquainted
the the above named Robert Clark, who were Revoll
Mary Pensioner, and also with his wife and now his
on the said Hannah and testify that she has
Son
intermarried but is still his widow
Paul Chapman Town Clerk of said Newmarket
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss. March 21 1853
Subscribed and sworn to, before me,
David Murray Justice of the Peace

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Rev War
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18213
Hannah Clark,
Widow
Robert Clark,
Ensign Rev. War
July 29. 1848.
Index:--Vol. A, Page 154
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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IN CONGRESS
The DELEGATES of the UNITED STATES of New-Hampshire, Machusetts-Bay,
Rhode-Iland, Connecticut, New-York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, the Counties of New-Castle, Kent and Suffex on Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, TO
Robert Clark Gentleman Greeting.
We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct and Fidelity,
DO, by these Presents, constitute and appoint you to be Ensign of the
whereof in Long Esq is Colonel, raised
in the empire to serve one year in
the Army of the United States, raised for the Defence of American Liberty, and for repelling every
hostile Invasion thereof. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of
Ensign by doing and performing all manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly
charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command, to be obedient to your Orders as their
Ensign-
And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions from Time to
Time, as you shall receive from this or a future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress,
for that purpose appointed, or Commander in Chief for the Time being of the Army of the United States,
or any other your superior Officer, according to the Rules and Discipline of War, in Pursuance of the
Trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in Force until revoked by this or a future Conger.
Dated at Philadelphia the seventh day of August Anno Domini 1776-
By Order
of the Congress,
John Hancock President
ATTEST Chas Thomson [illegible]

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STATE NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The Government and People of said State,

To Robert Clarke Gentleman Greeting
WE reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Fidelity, courage and good Conduct, do, by these Presents, constitute, and appoint you
the said Robert Clarke
Second Lieutenant
of the Ninth Company in the fourth Regiment of
Militia within the said State of New Hampshire
.
You are therefore carefully, and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Second Lieut.
in leading, ordering, and exercising said Company in Arms, both inferior officers and Soldiers, and to keep them in good order and Discipline; hereby commanding them to obey you as their second Lieutenant and yourself to observe
and follow such Orders and Instructions, as you shall from Time to Time receive
from the Council and House of Representatives of said State for the Time
being, and in their recess from their Committee of Safety, or any your Superior
Officers for the Service of said State, according to Military Rules and Discipline,
pursuant to the Trust reposed in you. In Testimony whereof we have caused
the Seal of said State to be hereunto affixed: Witness Meshech Weare E
President of our said Council at ExETER, the 7th
Day of September
Anno Domini 1779
M Weare
E Thompson Secy

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March 20 [illegible]
N. H 23
Appl of Hannah
Clarke widow of
Robert
N. H. 
Act 3d Feby:1853
$240 per Annum
commencing Feby 3 1853
Revy
Timothy Murray
New Market
N.H. 
Pension Office [illegible]

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Official Business
Burn
FREE
J E Heath Esq
Commissioner of Pension
Washington D C
Mr Mayo EEW

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Brief in the case of Hannah Clarke, widow of Robert
Rockingham County and State of New Hampshire
act 3d February 1853.
Claim, (original, [crossed out] or for increase)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance
Husband was a pensioner, under act of 18"
March, 1848,
Marriage proved by Certificate
Copy of the Town Record of the same
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been fiied since the admisions of the claims? If so, what?
Timothy Murray Esq
New Market,
N. H. 
Name and residence of Agent
S.C. Boynton
Examining Clerk.

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Newmarket N H March 26 1833
Sir
Enclosed are the application of Hannah
Clark widow of Robert Clark decd for a pension
under the Act of Feb 3d 1853 and accompanying
proof in support of her claim.
Please communicate the result of the examination
to the Subscribed
I am very respectfuly
your obt servent
Timothy Murray
James E Heath Esq
Comm of Pension
Washington
D. C

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Senate Chamber Feb 8. 1850
Sir
The enclosed letter to me
Tuck of the House of Representatives was bounded by him to
part as he was having
the City for N Hampshire
May I ask your attention
to the subject matter thereof
and an answer to me
at as early a day as may
accord with your convenience.
Respectfully Yours
John Wade
J L Edward Esq

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Stevens Filler
affidavit

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I David Stevens of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged forty eight
years, depose and say that I was Administrator of
Robert Clarke late of Newmarket aforesaid, deced who was
Revolutionary Pensioner under the act of March
18. 1818 at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars
per annum; that said Robert Clark died at said
Newmarket on the nineteenth day of November eighteen
hundred and thirty four leaving Hannah Clarke
his widow.
I further depose and say that Hannah Clark
still resides at said South Newmarket formerly part of Nenmarket, and has never intermained
but continues the widow of said Robert Clarke
David Stevens
 
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss. March 15 1853. Subscribed and
Sworn to, before me and I certify that the deponent is a
respectable intelligent witness; and I further certify
that the said Hannah Clarke is personally known to me
to be the widow of the identical Robert Clarke where
a pension as above stated.
David Murray Justice of the Peace
and Quorum throughout the State

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I John C Fowler of South Newmarket County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged fifty eight years depose and say that Robert Clarke late
of Newmarket did a Revolutionary Pensioner, of the act
of March 18. 1818, at the rate of 240 per annum, died at
said Newmarket on or about the 20th November 1834
leaving Hannah Clarke his widow
further depose and say that the said Hannah
Clarke has never intermarried but continues his Widow
John C. Fowler
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham County ss. March 15, 1853. Subscribed
and sworn to before me; and I certify that the deponent is a respectable and inteligent witness
David Murray, Justice of the Peas

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
ROCKINGHAM, SS.
I A.H. Hoyt CLERK of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for said County, hereby
certify, that
David Murray
Esq., is an acting Justice
of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is
dated on the 27th day of June
A. D. 185 [illegible], and will expire in
five years from that date; that full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts as such;
and that the signature purporting to be his to the annexed certificate is in his own proper hand
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court at Exeter, in said County, this
24th day  of March
Anno Domini 1853.
A.H. Hoyt Clerk
June 27, 1851
[seal affixed]

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Lt Major [illegible] Co
[illegible] Reg 1780
3 Mo 27

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Portsmouth, N.H. January 14th 1835
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
Fully in behalf of Mrs Hanna Clark the widow of Robert Clark, a Revolutionary pensioner under the Act of 18th March
1818, as appears by his certificate herewith enclosed, dated the 5th
March 1819 to prefer or claim to an increase of pension
under the act of June 7. 1832 for the arrears of pension, from
March 4 1831 to the time of his decease, on the 19th of November
1834, as will appear from the Certificate of the Register of Probate
also herewith transmitted of yesterday's date
The history and circumstances of his services and
obliterated from her mind, she is unable to recollect only
generally, that her late husband stated often to her, that
he served more than two years in the Militia of New Hampshire
as a Lieutenant, and she believes part of the time as a Captain
as he stated that he commanded a Company most of the time and meant
to apply for an increase of pension under
but his infirm state of health at the latter
part of his life, delayed it until it was too late.
It appears from a memorandum in pencil at the bottom
of his pension certificate, which is filled up as an Ensign
for $20 per month, that he served in Capt Timothy Clements
company of July in Colonel Peirce Long's New Hampshire
Regiment and perhaps his declaration and other proofs to
place him under the act of 1818, will shew his entire service
as an officer of the Revolution to which he begs leave to
refer:
It also appears by a commission herewith also
enclosed dated the 7 September 1779 and signed by M. Wear
Prest of New Hampshire, that he was a second Lieutenant of
W. H. Militia, so that whatever service he rendered after
that date, must have been of that grade, at the last

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She also has in her possession, but which is not herewith sent a Commission of Captain in the N. H. militia in 1785, as that was after the peace.
Mrs. Clark is the second wife of Robert Clark and therefore as she married him after the peace has no knowledge herself of his tours of duty as a Revolutionary Officer.  But she always  understood him that he served before several campaigns.
She therefore prays that if his declaration under the Act of 1818, does not show all his service, that search may be made amongst the Rolls of the of New Hampshire Troops war extends at Washington, as it is very certain, from the enclosed commission that he held a higher grade than that of Ensign, as expressed in his pension Certificate; for , from that it appears that on the 7th September 1779 he was a second Lieutenant, and she thinks that he continued the most of the time till the peace of 1783 in the service of his Country:  And, that if he was entitled to an increase under the Act of 1832 that the Pension Agent in this state may be authorised and empowered to pay her the arrears of the increase as well as the arrears of his old pension.
Any communications respecting this petition you will please to make to me.
I am sir respectfully Your obedient Servant
William B. Parker

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October 4th 34
Pension Office

Gilford NH
Sept 29  {  Hon. Lewis Cass
                 Sect. of War
                 Washington City

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Gilmanton September 29th 1884
State of New Hampshire Strafford County

Sir,
Robert Clark of New Market in said State an Ensign in Capt. Clements Co. in Col. Long's Regt in the Revolutionary War and is now on the pension Roll under the Act of March 1818 and has drawn a pension
Ensign [hard to read in crease of paper] I under has appear and has never required any money in addition to the above same since the pay of Officers of the Revolutionary was raised three or four years ago.  He has made application to me to assist him in procurring his back pension or use of Pension.  I wish you to send me all the instructions necessary in the case and also what the addition of Pension is in such a case yearly,
I am very Respectfully your obt Servt
Daniel Gale

Hon. Lewis Cass
Secy. of War

P. S. Please direct your letter to me Gilford Post office Strafford County New Hampshire
D. Gale