Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,842, Whitinton Clifton, Del.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Del.
Clifton, Whitinton
or Whittenton
NUMBER
S. 35,842
CONTENTS

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12,795 R
Delaware
Whitinton Clifton -
of Lewes in the state of Delaware who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel D. Hall of the Delaware line, for the term of Two Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 29th of April 1818 -
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th of July 1819 an sent to Samuel Paynter Esqr Judge Lewestown Delaware
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 10 mo 2/30 & 4/31 - 81:56
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept. 1819 - 48: -
$129:56
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

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35842
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 35,842
Whitinton Clifton
Pri Rev War
Act: 18th March 18
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 75
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Lewestown D. June 25th} Free
The Honorable the Secretary of War.
Washington
[written upside down] Adm.

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Lewes, in the State of Delaware, Sussex County
June 22nd 1819.
Sir/
Whitinton Clifton a resident of this Town who was enlisted by Captn. Kirkwood, and served in the Delaware Regiment until the end of the Revolutionary War, informs me that he forwarded to the War Department through Judge Paynter, last summer certain documents for the purpose of obtaining a Pension. As he has recd no answer to his application, nor any information whatever respecting it, he is fearful it has miscarried, or thrown asided for want of form, and requests you will be so good as to inform him by a note, either to Judge Paynter, or myself. This man is industrious and reputable, tho' in indigent circumstances. After the Regimt was broken up, by the fatal battle in Carolina, he resided in Lewes, for some time with Col Davd Hall, who commanded the Regimt, then joined Captn Jacques Company, and escorted some of Cornwallis' prisoners to New York, on his return to head of Elk, he red a furlough to join the Col with whom he remained till the Peace, and does not remember, that Col Hall gave him a discharge, tho' he bro't down and delivered to him his certificates for 5 or 6 years service, one of which I afterwards purchased of him myself.

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The foregoing statement was made to me by him  - and I believe the most of the facts, can be proved by a dozen persons in this place. W. Clifton, is a white man with a large family of children and relations, and the only applicant (that I know of) belonging to the Del Reg 1 within 20 miles of this place, except one Edwd Harman, a coloured man, who recd his certificate for a pension some time last year. You will sir I trust excuse the freedom I have taken, and the trouble I have given you on this subject, as I have no other motive but to serve a poor tho' worthy man, who in my opinion, has an unquestionable claim to a pension, if he can substantiate it in point of form. 
With the greatest respect
I have the Honor to be
Sir Your most Obt Servt
[signed] Danl Rodney
If his documents should not have been recd at the Office, would it be too much trouble, to order a blank form to be sent him, with directions, here to prepare a new set.
Honble. Secretary of War

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Whittenton Clifton
Private
Col David Halls Regt
Delaware Line
1776. 7 years
[several lines of crossed out text]
Capt Kirkwood
Whittenton Clifton

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55
16
71

State of Delaware
Sussex County Ss.
Be it Remembered that on the twenty ninth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, came before me Samuel Paynter Junr. one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware Whittenton Clifton a native citizen of the County of Sussex and State of Delaware aforesaid, aged fifty five years, who being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God, Deposeth and Saith that in the Revolutionary War in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six he enlisted a private soldier under Captain Kirkwood in the Delaware Regiment commanded by Col. David Hall in the line under Generals Gates and Green and remained in the aforesaid company two years, and was afterwards transfered to the company of Captain Anderson of the same regiment, he was in the Battle at Monmouth, and that he remained generally in the service under Col. David Hall untill he was discharged by General Proclamation in the year seventeen hundred and eighty three. The said Deponent saith that he served with Mitchell Kershaw, Edward Harmon, Aaron Easor and many others served in the same company with him. And the aforesaid Whittenton Clifton further Deposeth that he is infirm and in need of any assistance that can be given him by the Government for past services agreeably to Law in such case made and provided
Whittenton Clifton his X mark
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year above written before me
[signed] Saml. Paynter Jun. J.

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The State of Delaware
Sussex County to wit
I Do hereby certify that Samuel Paynter Esquire is one of the Judges of the Supreme Court for the State of Delaware afrd and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given all his Acts and Deeds as such In Testimony I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at George Lowes the twenty first day of May in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred and Eighteen. -
[signed] Wm Russel Clk, JC

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Office of the Secretary of the State of Delaware
Dover - 24 June 1819
There are in this office pay rolls of Captain Robert Kirkwood's company from March 1777 to March 1780, and of Captain Enoch Anderson's company from January 1777 to February 1779 in [illegible] and of Captain John Patten's company from May 1777 to March 1780 in [illegible], all of which companies belonged to and from part of the Delaware Regiment, commanded by Colonel David Hall, in the service of the United States, on the continental establishment, during the revolutionary war; - from which pay rolls, it appears that a man of the name of "Whittington Clifton" belonged to, and served as private soldier, in Capt. Kirkwood's company from the 16th February 1778 until and during the month of August 1778, and in Capt. Anderson's company from the 1st September 1778 until and during the month of February 1779, and in Capt. Patten's company from the 1st June 1779 until and during the month of March 1780.
It also appears from an original paper was in the office purporting to be a "muster roll of the non commissioned officers drummers and fifes and rank and file of the late Delaware Regiment (then) the first company of the second battalion in Col. Williams' Regiment serving in the Southern army of the United States" dated "Hillsborough N. Carolina Sep. 1780", that a private soldier of the name of "Whitin Clifton" then belonged to the said last mentioned company and had been commanded to the State of Delaware-
Certified for the United State War Department
[signed] H.M. Ridgely

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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Clifton, Whittington 
GRADE Private
LINE Delaware

WARRANT NUMBER 10735
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED September 2, 1789 is - not shown -

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.