Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16,536, Solomon Clark, Conn.

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(3-1776)
Service 
Conn.
Clark, Solomon
Mahitable
Number
W. 16,536
B.L. Reg. 295616-55

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[handwritten]
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Wm Bixby Jany: 27/59
Refec: [illegible]

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295616 Act [illegible]
Nov 16/58

Huldah Thurber
Formerly H. Clarke
Solomon Clarke
Horace Clarke and
Thirza Gillet [illegible] of Solomon Clarke 
Rev War

NY W036-No 2250

Wm Bixby 
Masonville 
N.Y.

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2250
New York Albany
Mahitable Clark decd.
widow of Solomon Clark
who died on the 11 April 1825
of Cost Co in the State of New York
who was a teamster in the Compy commanded
by Captain Wadsworth of the Regt commanded
by ~~~~~ in the Connecticut
line for 2 years
Conn.
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany
at the rate of 192 Dollars 00 Cents 
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of 
March, 1831. Ends 4th April 1843
when she died 
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day
April 1851 and sent to
Abijah Catlin
Harwinton
Litchfield Co.
Ct
Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi:annual allowance ending [blank]
[illegible] from $180
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3d}
Recorded by H W Wrightman
Book D. Vol. 2 Page 360
C. I page 109

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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the Third Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836

State of New York
Cortland County} Ss 
on this Twenty Ninth day of July 1837 personally appeared before me William Berry one of the Judges of the Court of common Pleas, in and for said County of Cortland & State of New York Mahitabel Clark a resident of the Town of Cortlandville in Said County & State, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth are his Oath, Make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, that She is the Widow of Solomon Clark Jun who was a Private, and a Teamster in the Army of the Revolution she says, that the forepart of May 1775 her said Husband Solomon Clark Jr Enlisted for Eight Months, under Col. Roger Eno, at Windsor, Hartford County & State of Connecticut. he went from said Windsor the most direct route to Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts, She thinks his Captains Name was Robins or Robinson from Stafford in Connecticut ~ she says he came home on the Fifteenth day of December after, she says, he drew pay from the first of April 1775. which was the time agreed upon, that his Enlistment should commence, she knows he drew pay for Eight Months service, she says there was difficulty about obtaining pay and Discharge, while at Roxbury, & he did not get home as soon as expected – that in the Month of February 1777 he Enlisted for three Years, in the United States Team Service under Captain Gordon Wadsworth of Hartford State of Connecticut- She says he Drove Continental Oxen Yokes, Chains, Carts  &c which he drove, all belonged to the Con

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-tinental Service – she says, he served two Years, then he hired one Benjamin Clark Jr as a Substitute to take his place, & said Benjamin, did serve one Year for said Solomon
when said Solomon Enlisted in the team Service as aforesaid his Father was dead, & Junior to his name was discontinued – She says, that her Husband was to stand any draught, which might be made, in the Militia Company, to which said Solomon & Benjamin belonged, while said Benjamin was out as said Substitute, & that said Solomon was Draughted in August 1780 under Capt Bissell of East Hartford, he went the most direct route to White Plains in New York was gone from Home just Eleven Weeks, came home on the twelveth day of November after, whether he went under Capt. Bissell or not She does not Know, but Capt. ^Bissell Commanded the Company in which he did duty when at home – She says he was once Draughted and went once to New London but how long he was gone she does not recollect – she further declares that she is Eighty one years old on the twelveth day of August next & that She was Married to the said Solomon Clark Jr on the Second day of February 1775 by the Reverend Dan Foster of Poquonnoc Society, Windsor, Connecticut, that her husband, the aforesaid Solomon Clark Jr, died on the Eleventh day of April 1825 of the Dropsy on the lungs, and that she has remained a Widow ever since that Period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed – she says the reason why She, as her said Husband never tried to obtain a Pension before, is, that, she did not know till with a short time, whether she was entitled to one.
[signed] Mahitable Clark

Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 29th day
of July 1837. Wm Berry a Judge
of Cortland Common Pleas

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I William Berry, the Judge within named and before whom the Declaration of Mahitabel Clark the applicant for a Pension within named was made and before whom the proceedings were held do hereby certify and declare my Opinion after the Investigation of the Matter by me carefully taken, that the said Mahitabel Clark was the Wife of Solomon Clark Jr and that her Declaration is correct and true. and I do further certify that in my opinion the said Mahitabel Clark is utterly unable from bodily infirmity to attend Court for the purpose of making her Declaration
[signed] Wm. Berry a Judge of Cortland Common Pleas
July 29th 1837

State of New York
Cortland County Ss  
We Jeremiah Thurber and Huldah Thurber both upwards of Forty Years of Age, of the Town of Cortlandville County & State aforesaid, depose and say. that we are well acquainted with Mahitabel Clark, the widow of Solomon Clark Jr and Are personally knowing to the Death of the said Solomon Clark Jr who Died at our House in Bainbridge Chenango County, New York on the Eleventh day of April 1825, and said Mahitabel Clark the Widow of the said Solomon Clark Jr has lived with us ever since. and further, that we are personally knowing to her remaining a Widow ever since that period ~
[signed] Jeremiah Thurber
[signed] Huldah Thurber
Sworn and subscribed before me this 8th day of August 1837 – 
[signed] Lizur B Canfield J. Peace

I certify that Jeremiah Thurber & Huldah Thurber are persons of truth and veracity, and reputable in their Neighbourhood.
[signed] Lizur B Canfield J. Peace

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Mahitable Clark
widow of
Solomon Clark
of New York

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Power of Attorney – Revolutionary Pension Claims.
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Thirzah Gillet of Cicero in the County of Onondaga and State of New York hereby constitute and appoint Erving Taintor of Harford New York my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of Mahitable Clark for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said Claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which I wish made payable to myself Horace Clark Mahitable Bowers, Huldah Thurber and Betsey Day only surviving children of said Mahitable Clark to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my Hand and Seal this 22nd day June A.D. 1854
[signed] Thirzah Gillett

Signed and Sealed in the presence of
[signed] BF Sweet 
[signed] Mary Sweet

State of New York
County of Onondaga

On this twenty second day of June A.D. 1854 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared Thirzah Gillet and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, the day and year aforesaid.}
[signed] B. F. Sweet  Justice Peace.

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Claim of Mahitable Clark
Act of July 4th 1836
State of New York
County of Onondaga

Be it known, That on this 22nd day of June A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty four before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Thirzah Gillett a resident of Cicero in said County, and made oath according to law, that she is the daughter of Mahitable Clark late of Masonville in the County of Delavan and State aforesaid deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum afterwards increased to the rate of one hundred and ninety two Dollars per annum; that she has been informed that the said Pension ought to be increased; that she is directly interested as a Claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said Claim.
[signed] Thirzah Gillet
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me,
[signed] B. F. Sweet Jus. Peace

Benjamin F. Sweet Justice of the Peace in and for said County, do hereby certify that Thirzah Gillet who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said Claim as therein set forth. And I further certify that I have no interest whatever in said Claim, or the prosecution thereof.
[signed] B. F. Sweet Justice Peace.

I, Barnard Slocum Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjm F. Sweet before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and fore said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed is his signature.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my office Seal, this 22nd day of June A. D. 1854.
[signed] E. R. Hopkins Dept Clk
Clerk. Abs.

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State of [blank]
County of [blank] Ss.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, [blank] that [blank] was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of  $[blank] per annum, and [blank] died on the [blank] day of [blank] eighteen hundred and [blank] leaving surviving [blank] and that [blank] the only surviving child [blank] of the aforesaid.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this [blank] day of one thousand eight hundred and fifty-[blank]

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State of Michigan
County of Waine ss.

I George Clark aged eighty Years of the Town of Dearborn County of Waine & State of Michigan being duly sworn according to law Says he, this deponent is a Brother of Solomon Clark, who was a Revolutionary Soldier that in the Year one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy seven he said Solomon Clark Enlisted for three Years in the United States Service, under Captain Gordon Wadsworth of Hartford State of Connecticut that he drove a continal team, I do know that my said Brother took care of Continental teams, in the Year Seventeen hundred and Seventy Eight & Seventeen hundred and Eighty ^ Seventy Nine at Winsor in State of Connecticut, he Says he distinctly recollects, that his Brother Solomon Clark served in Said team Service two Years, after which he hired a substitute by the Name of Benjamin Clark Junior to take his place, who did & Served that time out. My Brother aforesaid married Mahitabel Giles about the Year Seventeen hundred and Seventy-five or Six & was married by Rev. Dan Foster as near as he can recollect.
[signed] George Clark
Sworn and Subscribed 
before me this 14th day
of September 1838
[signed] Cyrus Howard
Justice of the Peace Wayne C M.
I certify that George Clark is a man of truth and veracity and reputable in his neighbourhood.
[signed] Cyrus Howard
Justice of the Peace W C

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State of Michigan
Wayne county ss.

I Chas. Peltie Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Cyrus Howard before whom the within Deposition was taken, was at the date of the taking of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for Said Court duly elected & Qualified according to Law & that I verily believe the signature thereto, to be true & genuine
Witness the Seal of Said County and my name 
this 15th day of September A.D. 1838
[signed] Chas. Peltie
Clerk

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State of New York
County of Delaware} SS
On this 12th day of November 1858 personally appeared before me Wm Bixby a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Huldah Thurber, aged 65 years a resident of Masonville Delaware County in the State of New York who being duly Sworn according to Law declares that She is one of the children of Solomon Clark decesed and that Horace Clark and Thirza Gillet are the Other children of the Said Solomon Clark deceased who went into the Militia Services ^ as a Teamster of the United States in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain some time near the year of Our Lord 1775 from Hartford County State of Connecticut for which Services my Mother Mahitable Clark drew a Pension up to the time of her death which was on the 4th day of April 1843 and She also States that her Said mother never in her lifetime Received a bounty Land warrant for the Services of her Said father  She also States that documentary Evidence of her Fathers Services in Said war in Establishing her Said Mothers Claim for her Pension must be on file in the pension office in Washington to which She would Call your attention to  She makes this declaration for the purposes of Obtaining the Bounty Land to which She and her Said Brother and Sister may be entitled under the act granting Bounty Land to a Certain Class of Revolutionary Soldiers and to there Surviving Children passed some time in the year 1858 by Congress
[signed] Huldah Thurber
Sworn to and Subscribed before me this 12th day of November 1858}
[signed] Wm Bixby Justice of the Peace

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Revolutionary War Records Section.
3-525
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington, D. C.  [blank], 19 [blank]

In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Solomon Clark* a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow’s) application for pension on file in this Bureau
*Son of Solomon.
W. F. 165-36
[following is a table “++++” indicates a new column]
Dates of Enlistment or Appointment.
May 8 1775
Feb. 1777
Aug. 1780
++++++++++++++
Length of Service.
Dec 19 1775
2 years
11 weeks.
+++++++++++++
Rank.
Pvt
Teamster
+++++++++++++
Officers under whom Service Was Rendered.
+++++++++++++
Captain.
Elijah Robinson
Gordon Wadsworth
Ozias Bissell
+++++++++++++
Colonel.
Roger Enos
+++++++++++++
State.
Conn.

Battles engage in, none stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enl at Windsor, Hartford Co Conn. Where he was born
Date of application for pension, July 29.1837. Her claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Cortlandville, Cortland Co. NY Masonville Delaware Co NY in 1839
Age at date of application, b. Aug 12, 1756. She died in Masonville Apr. 4, 1843. 
Remarks: Soldier married Feb 2, 17765 at Windsor Conn Mehitable Giles, he died Apr. 11 1825 at Bainbridge Chenango Co NY. Children: Susan, mar. David Gillett; Thirzah mar. Jonathan Gillett; Solomon; Horace; Betsey mar Curtis Day; Mehitable mar Cyrus Bowers; Huldah mar Jeremiah Thurber. 
Respectfully,
[blank]
Commissioner.

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Town of Homer
Cortland County ss
State of New York}
I James Phelps of Homer aged Sixty Eight years being duly sworn according to Law depose and say that I lived in the Town of Windsor, Paquonock Society, & that I was personally acquainted with Solomon Clark Jr and Mahitabel Giles. & that I was present at the Wedding when they were Married, on the Second day of February 1775, according to this deponents best recollection, by the Rev Dan Foster of said Society, the Town was called Windsor, State of Connecticut_ I was Boarding with my Sister and going to School, at the time, to the Revd Dan Foster, and heard of the Wedding, and was there, where they was Married at the time. 
[signed] James Phelps
Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 30th day of
August 1837
[signed] Lizur B Canfield J. Peace

I certify that James Phelps is a Man of truth and veracity & reputable in his neighbourhood. 
[signed] Lizur B Canfield J. Peace

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State of New York Cortland County ss
I Oren Stimson Clerk of said County do hereby certify that William Berry Esq is a Judge of the Court of Common Please of Said County duly Commissioned & sworn & also Lizur B Canfield Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for Said County duly Elected & qualified & further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge & Justice. & verily believe the Signatures within purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed the Seal of Said County this 13th day of October AD 1837
[signed] Oren Stimson Clerk
[in the left margin at the top of the page there is a small square of paper and ribbons attached. Paper is folded over and no print is visible]

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[oval stamp]
Record Division
Apr 9 1921

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[handwritten]
[over writing is a round stamp stating Pension Office U.S. Apr 8 1921]

Arnston, Conn. April 7, 1921
Dept. of the Interior
Gentlemen,
As I have not received an answer to a letter, which have miscarried I am writing again for a statement of the military history of Solomon Clark of Windson or Bloomfield Conn. & Thomas Smith a pensioner in New London County in 1832. also  of Philip Spaulding of Plainfield, Conn. For this above I shall be very much obliged.
If for any reason you do not furnish this information now please let me know 
and oblige
Respectfully yours, O. A. Clark
Mrs. Frank [illegible]

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[round stamp]
U. S. Pension Office
Nov 30 1914

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[handwritten]
November 30, 1914

Gentlemen,
Please send any family data you may have of the following soldiers of the Revolut[on.
1st Thomas Clark of Pomfret, Vt. In Capt. Peter Page’s Company of Vermont Volunteers also in New Hampshire Reg. at Bunker Hill.
2d Mehitable Clark – Soldier’s widow drew pension at Delaware Co, N. Y. in 1840. and oblige
Yours truly,
[signed] (Miss) Frances McCullard
43 East 29,
New York.

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[left page] 
1914. Dec 3: history to Miss Francis McCulloch M.B.H.
1921 Apr. 29 Hist. to Mrs. F. E. Clark

[right page, printed & completed in handwriting]
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16546
Mahitable Clark
Widow of
Solomon Clark
Teamster Rev War

Act July 4th 36
Index: Vol. a, Page 137
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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[handwritten]
[left page] 
see letter Aug. 4h 1846 to P. Agt. 

[right page, printed & completed in handwriting]
New York. 2.250
Mahitable Clark, decd.
Widow of Solomon Clark Jr. Decd.
who died on the 11th April 1825
of Cort. CO. in the State of New York
who was a Pri & Tea in the Co. commanded
by Captain Wards of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the Connecticut line for 2 years. 
Increased from [page torn]
Inscribed on the Roll of Alba [page torn]
at the rate of 180 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th March, 1831. & end 4th April 1840. [torn page]
She died, payable to her children.

Certificate of Pension issued 4 day of August 1846 and sent to Hon. D. S. Dickinson, Senate, U. States

Arrears to the 4th of April ’43   $1208.33
Semi=annual allowance ending [blank]
                                                ========
                                                  $1208.33
                                                ========

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3rd}

Recorded by D. H. Wood Clerk, 
Book C. Vol. 2. Page 109.~

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[handwritten]
[left page torn] 
10 Jan. 1849

[right page, printed & completed in handwriting]
New York. (A.) 2.250
Mahitable Clark, 
Widow of Solomon Clark Jr. deceased.
who died on the 11th April 1825
of Cortland Co. in the State of New York
who was a private in the [blank] commanded
by Captain Wadsworth of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in  Connecticut 7 months and 11 days Private.
Increased to $80 [illegible]
Inscribed on the Roll of New York (Alby.)
at the rate of 24 Dollars 54 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th March, 1831. & end 4th April 1840. 

Certificate of Pension issued 8th day of August 1838 and sent to L. B. Canfield, Esqr, Homer, N.Y.

Arrears to the 4th of March 1838,             $171.78
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept. “    12.27 
                                                             ========
                                                                 $184.05
                                                             ========

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836,
Section the 3rd}

Recorded by G T Rhodes Clerk, 
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 106

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Albany
New York _ 2,250.
Mahitabel Clark
widow of Solomon Clark Jr. Decd.
who died on the 11th of April, 1825 –
of Cortland Co. in the State of N. York
who was a pri. & teamst in the compy commanded 
by Captain Wadsworth of the [blank] commanded 
by [blank] in the Connecticut 
line for service as private & teamster
Increased from $24.54/100 per ann.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 
80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831, deducting
amt. received at rate of $24.54/100

Certificate of Pension ^re issued the 19th day of March,
1840 and sent to Hon.
John Q. Adams, H. of Reps.

Arrears ^(Diff. of rate) to the 4th of March 1840 = $486.87
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept. 		40.00
							====
							$526:87
							====

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1846,
Section the 3d.}

Recorded by S. A. Elliott Clerk
Book A  Vol. 2 Page 207

[right page handwritten]
Let. to Alby Pen. Agent
March 19, 1840
Let. Hon. J. Q. Adams
(Enclosing certif.) March 20, 1840
See letter Aug. 17. 1840, to Hon. J.
Q. Adams-

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[handwritten]
Official Business
[stamp] FREE
To the Commissioner
of Pensions
Washing City
D C
[round postal cancellation stamp Masonville NY NOV 13]

[separate piece of paper]
[handwritten]
V
Mahitable Clark
New York
Suspended
See let 9th Feb
1838 L. B. Canfield
do. 25th July 38

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[struck out: Fe 1843. no. Presented 8992. [illegible] 7902]

Mahitable Clark decd.
N. Y.
Act 4 July 36
increased

See documents in cusy
of moses Filly Con – admd No 2040. & Ges Latimer Con: admd No 9320.
Teamster from Spring of 77 to Spring of 79 – 
at [illegible number]5$ pr mo halfpay
180$ deducting
whatever was paid under 
act of 36
[struck out: Also act 4 March 43 $180 to 4 Apl 43 when she died]

To Solomon & Horace Clark Susan Gillett. Thirza Gillett – Betsy Day – Mehitable Bowen & Huldah Thurber only children. 

Hon. D. T. Dickinson

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[handwritten]
[illegible]
Mahitable Clark decd
Wid of Solomon
N. Y.
Act 4- July ~ 1836
[illegible] 2 yrs Teamster $192
per ann from 4 Mch 1831 to 4 Apl 1843, when she died
 [illegible] payment in $180 deduction
Payable to Solomon Clark, Horace Clark, Susan Gillett, Thirza Gillett, Betsy Day, Mahitable Bower & Huldah Thurber, her only surviving children – 

[illegible] to
Abijah Catlin
Harwinton
CT

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[handwritten]
Harforde N.Y. Sept 6th 1854.

Sir

I have the honor herewith to transmit additional evidence in the case of Mahitable Clark of New York widow of Solomon Clark deceased. and pensioned under the Act of July 4, 1836, at the rate of 96 dollars per annum afterwards increased to the rate of 192 dollars per annum, for the service of her said husband as a Teamster in the Revolutionary War. 
I now ask a reexamination of this case and an allowance of the pension to “the amount of his full pay.” as is shown by the accompanying proof.

Respectfully yours, &c
Erving Taintor

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Solomon Clark

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A Seal

[handwritten]

State of Connecticut 
Comthrollers Office
Hartford Aug. 22 1854

I certify that our application for each XXXX of the service of Soloman Clark, in the war of the Revolution as a Teamster, I have examined the books kept by Nehemiah Hubbard Deputy Quarter Master General in said war which are now deposited in this office and on which I find the name of Sol Clark in an entry under date of "Hartford June 5 1778," which reads as follows "Quarter Master Gen. to Gordon Wadsworth D. To the wages "of myself as conductor of XXXX in the XXXX Army "with ye, following Teamsters in my XXXX vis." Then following entrys for himself XXX teamsters among the names which is that of Soloman Clark, who is XXX with service as a Teamster from March 2 to May 3rd 89 days a XXXX L 14.4.9.

Under date of Oct 8th 1778 I find an entry as follows Quarter Master Genl D. To paid Gordon Wadsworth and Rict for the advanced pay of 6 Teamsters vi Soloman Clark, Renni Clark, Gideon Loomis, Jacob Andrus, Amos Lawrence and Asa Hoskins for W months of June and July 1778 in L3.4 each per month.

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3 in another entry on the same books, under date of Oct. 8th 1778 I find an entry as follows/
“Quarter Master Genl. Dr. to paid Gordon Wadsworth 
“[illegible] pay roll for a Compy of Teamsters under his
“Command from Aug. 1st to Sep. 30th 1778 Inclusive
“as follows vis”, Among the names on this account is that of Solomon Clark, who is credited with service 2 months a 8£ pr mo. £lb.
4 I find an entry on said books under date of Feb 4th 1779 as follows vis, “Quarter Mason  Genl.
“Dr. to Gordon Wadsworth Comd. Pay Roll,”
“My own pay as Comdr from Oct. 1st 1778 to Jany 30th 1779 Inclusive being 4 months a £12.    £48
Subsistence Money during the above time 123 ds. a [illegible]  
                                                   24.12.
To the services of Eleven Teamsters for the above time a 8£ pr moth                                          352.0
	                                           £424.12.
5 I also find an entry under date of May 8th 1779, 
“Quarter Master Genl. Dr. to Gordon Wadsworth bill for 
“service of himself & 11 Teamsters from Feb. 1st to April 30th
“1779 inclusive,” when the said Solomon Clark is credited with service as a Teamster 3 months 8£ 24£
[signed] John Dunham [illegible]
by Geo. Robinson Clerk

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[handwritten]
Washington 23 Dec 1850

Hon Jas E Heath

I here with present an application for a small arear of Pension believe to be due the heirs or heir of Mehitable Clark widow of Solomon Clark who was pensioned under act of July 1836 at $80 pr an increased to $180. The application now is for an increase to $192 or $12 pr an more. Her right to it will be found in the papers on file which shows that Solo. Clark was one of those teamsters enlisted by Col. Wadsworth in 1777 & entitled to $16 pr month as has recently ascertained and allowed. Your records also show the death of the widow & to whom payment should be made.
Accompanying this also is a power of Attorney authorizing me to act

Yrs with respect
[signed] Abijah Catlin
[illegible]
Litchfield Co
Connt

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[handwritten]
J. L. Edwards
Comm

30
----
15
7.50
12
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90.00

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[handwritten]
Washington July 3
`46

Sir
I have the honor to refer the application of Mrs Clark to the pension off for its decision
Yrs  [illegible]
[signed] D. S. Dickinson

J. L. Edwards ~

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[handwritten]
Mehitable Clark
Wid of Solomon
NY
Increased to $80

Hon Jn Q Adams
H. R.

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[handwritten]
Hartford Ct Jan 7 1852

Hon J E Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
I have the honor to represent that in the Certificate of pension issued from the Department of the Interior on 12th April 1841. granting an increase of pension to the children of Mahitable Clark in the New York Agency, a mistake occurred in one of their names. In the Certificate it is written Mahitable Brown. It should be Mahitable Bowers.

Will you have the goodness to direct the Agent at Albany to pay the share in question to Mahitable Bowers. that she may be able to come into possession of her share of the money.

Your immediate attention to this matter is urgently solicited, and will much oblige

Your most obedient servant
Erving Taintor
Atty. for 
Mahitable Bowers

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[handwritten]
State of New York
County of Allegany} ss  Caneadea this seventeenth day of October 1850.

Before me Alpheus Estabrooks a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Allegany personally appeared Susan Gillet a resident of said town of Caneadea and made solemn oath that she is the daughter of Solomon Clark and Mahitable Clark the latter of whom was a pensioner of the United States under the Act of Congress passed July 4th 1836, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, and afterwards increased to the rate of one hundred and eighty dollars per annum upon the roll of the N. Y. Agency, and that she now believes that the said Mahitable Clark ought to have been pensioned at the rate of one hundred and ninety two dollars per annum, and for the purpose of obtaining this increase this affidavit is made.
[signed] Susan Gillet

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year last above written before me
[signed] Alpheus Estabrooks J.P.

[printed and completed in handwriting]
State of New York
Allegany County Clerk’s Office} SS.  I, John J. Rockafellow, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts thereof; do hereby certify, that Alpheus Estabrooks before whom the annexed Instrument in Writing was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorised to take the same. And I am well acquainted with his hand-writing  and verily believe that the signature to said Certificate of proof or acknowledgement ^affidavit taken^ is genuine, and that said Instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of this State.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at Angelica, in said County, this 18 day of Oct 1850
[signed] John J. Rockafellow
Clerk of Allegany County.

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[handwritten]
Know all men by these presents that I Susan Gillet of Caneadea in the county of Allegany and State of New York  daughter of Solomon and Mahitable Clark deceased, do hereby constitute and approve Abijah Catlin of the State of Connecticut my turn and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to make application at the Pension Office at Washington for increase of pension which I claim to be due the children of the said Solomon and Mahitable Clark for the serviced of the said Solomon Clark as a Teamster in the Revolutionary War. 

And I hereby grant full power to my said Atty. to act for me in the said premises, hereby revoking all former power by me granted.

Witness my hand and seal this seventeenth day of October in the year 1850
[signed] Susan Gillet   [small piece of folded paper attached, no print visible]
In presence of
Erving Taintor}


State of New York
County of Allegany} ss
Be it known, That on this seventeenth day of October 1850. before me Alpheus Estabrooks a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Susan Gillet above named, and acknowledged the foregoing power of attorney to be her act and deed.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand on the day and year last above written.
[signed] Alpheus Estabrooks J. P.

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[printed and completed in handwriting]
Payment to be made
at Albany
by T. W. Olcott
Agent for paying pension=
ers, in the Agency of
New York. 

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book D. Vol=
ume 1. Page [blank] by
D. H. Wood Clerk.

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[printed then handwritten]
War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the Act of 4th July 183[smudged], Mahitable Clark, deceased, late of New York, Widow of Solomon Clark, deceased, a Teamster of the Revolution, is entitled to a pension at the rate of one hundred and Eighty dollars per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1836 and Terminating on the 4th April 1843. The amount is due and payable to Solomon and Horace Clark, Susan and Thirza Gillett, Betsy Day, Mahitable Bowen and Huldah Thurber, only surviving children, of Mahitable Clark, dec’d first deducting what has been paid under Act of 4th July 1836, at the rate of $80 per annum. Issued in lieu of on for $80 under Act of 4th July 1836, dated 19th March 1840

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 4th day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty=six

Examine and
Countersigned.}				Secretary of War.

Commissioner of Pensions. 

Duplicate.

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[printed and completed in handwriting]
Payment to be made
at Albany
by T. W. Olcott
Agent for paying pensioners, in the 
Agency of
New York.

Payable on the 4th September and 
4th March

Recorded in the Pension Office, in
Book A. Vol. 2 Page [blank] 
D. H. Wood Clerk.

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[printed then handwritten]
War Department.
Widow’s Pension.
I certify that, in conformity with the act of March 3, 1843, Mahitable Clark, decd of New York, Widow of Solomon Clark, decd, who was a Teamster in the Revolution, and died on the 11th day of April 1825, is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of 180 dollars and [blank] cents per annum, commencing on the 4th March 1843, and terminating on the 4th April 1843 when she died. Payable to Children only surviving. 

Given at the War Office of the United States, this 4th day of August one thousand eight hundred and Forty Six

Examine and
Countersigned.}				Secretary of War.

Commissioner of Pensions. 

Duplicate.

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Payment to be made
at Albany.
by T. W. Olcott Esq
Agent for paying Pen=
sioners, in the Agency of 
Albany, N.Y. 

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A, Vol. 2,
Page 207 by
S. A. Elliott Clerk.

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[printed then handwritten]
War Department.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the Act of 4th July 1836, Mahitable Clark, of Cortland County New=York, Widow of Solomon Clark, Junr. deceased, who was a Private and Teamster in the War of the Revolution, is entitled to receive Eighty dollars per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September. Issued in lieu of a certificate for $24.54/1000 per annum, dated August 8, 1838, which has been cancelled.  

Given at the War Office of the United States, this nineteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and forty [thirty is struck through]

Examine and				[signed] J. R. Poinsett
Countersigned.}				Secretary of War.

[signed] J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions. 

[a multipointed seal is present but print is illegible]

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[handwritten]
I George Latimer of Bloomfield in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut hereby certify that I knew Solomon Clark formerly of Windsor, Connecticut, and know that he was a Revolutionary Soldier, & that about the year 1777 he the said Clark enlisted for three years in the United States service. under Capt. Gurdon Wadsworth of the State aforesaid and that the said Clark drove a Continental Team in said service, and from the best of my recollection served two or three years in said service
[signed] George Latimer
In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand
Bloomfield February 19, 1840
Personally appeared before me, George Latimer, and made oath to the foregoing affidavit
[signed] Hirum Thrall Justice of the Peace

I Jonathan Olcott of Hartford in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, hereby certify that I knew Solomon Clark formerly of Windsor in the State aforesaid and know that he was a Revolutionary Soldier and that about the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven he enlisted for three years in the United States service under Captn Gurdon Wadsworth of the State aforesaid and that the said Clark drove a Continental Team in said service and from

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[handwritten]
the best of my recollection service two or three years in said service as a continental Teamster 
In witness whereof I hereunto set my name
Hartford February 19. 1840
[signed] Jona Olcott

Personally appeared before me Jonathan Olcott and made oath to the foregoing statements this 19. day of February A.D. 1840
[signed] Hiram Thrall Justice of the Peace

[left margin note]
Hon. J. Q. Adams
H. R.

[continued handwriting]
State of Connecticut
City & County of Hartford} ss.
James H. Holcomb Clerk of the County Court in & for said County hereby certify that Hiram Thrall who has subscribed the above certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County and that full faith and credit are due to his official acts.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the seal of said Court this 22d day of February 1840. 
[signed] James H. Holcomb Clerk

[to the left is a multi-pointed seal with illegible print and a figure in the center]

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[handwritten]
Town of Masonvill – Delaware County – State of New York 
14th November 1839 ~

I Mahitable Clark of Masonvill formerly of Courtland County in the State of New York made application for a pension by reason of the services of my Husband Solomon Clark Jur. in the revolutionary War – that I obtained a pension Certificated for part of said services since which Time I have obtained further and additional evidence of his said services – which I now enclosed together with my said Certificate in order to have said pension raised to a full pension of a private agreeably to my former application and the enclosed additional evidence of his said services – 
Most respectfull
Your Obt. Sevt.
[signed] Mahitable Clark


Honl. J. L. Edwards}
Commssn of Pensions}

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[handwritten]
[left margin]
Nov 25.
N.Y.
Mehitable Clark
[illegible]
for increase.

War Department
Pension Office
Washington City

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[handwritten]
State of Connecticut
County of Hartford}ss
I George Latimer aged Eighty two years of the Town of Bloomfield County of Hartford and State of Connecticut being duly sworn according to law say that I was well acquainted with Solomon Clark  we were both born in the Town of Windsor & lived near neighbors in the same School District and knew him untill about the year 1809 when he removed from this state to the State of New York. and furthermore I the said George Latimer know that the said Solomon Clark was a revolutionary Soldier, that about the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven he the said Solomon Clark enlisted for three years in the United States service under Captain Gurdon Wadsworth of the county & State aforesaid that he drove a Continental team and from the best of my recollection served two or three years in said service –
[signed] George Latimer

Signed sealed subscribed & sworn to before me this 23d day of September AD 1839

[signed] Hiram Thrall Justice of the Peace
for Hartford County Con.
I certify that George Latimer is a man of truth and veracity and reputable in ^his^ neighbourhood
[signed] Hiram Thrall Justice of the Peace 

State of Connecticut
County of Hartford} ss.

I James H. Holcomb Clerk of the County Court for said County hereby certify that Hiram Thrall who has subscribed the above certification is an acting Justice of the Peace for said County duly authorized to take the acknowledgement of deeds & administer oaths- that his commission is dated June 7, 1839 & will expire June 20, 1840 - & that his signature thereto subscribed is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and the seal of said County Court this 23d day of September A. D. 1839
[signed] James H. Holcomb, Clerk

[to the left is multi-pointed seal with illegible print and figure]

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[printed and completed in handwriting]
Payment to be made
at Albany, New York,
by Thomas W. Olcott, Esqr.
Agent for paying Pen=
sioners, in the Agency of
Albany, New York.

Recorded in the Pension
Office, in Book A, Vol. 2,
Page 100, by
G S Rhodes Clerk.

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[printed then handwritten] 
[large handwriting across entire document “Cancelled”]
War Department. 
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the Act of 4th July 1836, Mahitable Clark, of Cortland County New York, Widow of Solomon Clark, Junr. deceased, who was a Private in the Revolutionary war, is entitled to receive twenty four dollars and fifty-four cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried, commencing on the fourth day of March, 1831, and payable semi=annually on the 4th of March and 4th of September. 
Given at the War Office of the United States, this eighth day of August one thousand eight hundred and thirty=eight.
[signed] S Cooper
Secretary of War.
Examined
and Countersigned.} 
[signed] J. L. Edwards 
Commissioner of Pensions.

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[handwritten]
Revolutionary Pension Claim
[stamp FREE]
Honl. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner Pensions,
Washington City District
Columbia
[round stamp]
HOMEH N.Y.
Aug 1

[left margin]
Clark
Aug 5
[illegible]
NY.

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[handwritten]
Homer, Cortland County N. York
July 31st 1838 –

Honl Sir – 
I recd your Letter this day, relative to the claim of Mahitable Clark for a Pension – in which you say the proof of the alleged service of her Husband, in the team service under an Enlistment for three Years is unsatisfactory – I do not know that any further Proof of that can be obtained – but, I believe, I sent you the Comptroller’s Certificate of the State of Connecticut, of her Husbands Service in a Tour of Militia duty in 1775 or 6 for between 7 or 8 months under Capt Robinson – I was at Hartford, State of Connecticut, and  found heron a Husbands name on a Muster Roll last fall, for that time & obtained said Certificate – you will please issue a Pension Certificate, for what she would be entitled thereto, for said service of 7 or 8 months, if correct and enclose the same to me – yours with sentiments of respect – 
[signed] L. B. Canfield

Honl. J. L. Edwards

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[handwritten]
Comptrollers Certificate case of 
Mahitabel Clark

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[handwritten]
Comptroller’s Office
Hartford Connecticut
November 25th 1837

I certify that Solomon Clarks name is on a pay roll in this office headed as follows, to wit,
“A Pay Roll of the 3d Company of the 2d Regiment raised per order General Assembly Colony Connecticut in 1775” And he is credited for service from May 8th to December 19th, a period of seven months & eleven days, It appears by said pay roll that said company was commanded by Capt Elijah Robinson, Capt. Ozias Bissel is charged in the Pay table Books in this Office as follows, to wit,
1779 March 16 For order on Treasurer for Balance  1441  2  6
1780 For Cash received of Col Enos			   30      “  “
April 21 Order on Treasurer				           150  “  “
1781
April 18 Order on Treasurer				           850  “  “
Dec 21 Cash at sundry times for Col Wills		  100  6  5
							                       £2661.08.11

[signed] Wm Fields Comptroller

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[handwritten]
Honl. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner. Pensions
Washington City -

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[handwritten]
Homer October 16th 1837
Honl. Sir –
enclosed, are the papers, in the Case of Mahitabel Clark, for a Pension – please examine the Same, and inform me. the result – yours respectfully, 
[signed] L. B. Canfield

Honl. J. L. Edwards Esqr

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[handwritten]
To the Commission  Pensions Dear Sir Enclosed I send you a Declaration by Huldah Thurber without a certifficate from the County Clerk that I am a Justice of the peace I do it as she is poor and I having never See the late act pased by Congress and I fear that the declaration is not right please Send me a Copy of the Law and Copy of the form for a declaration back if it aint wright and I can git up an other declaration if the declaration is wright but the certifficate I will git that and send it on

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[handwritten]

So you can a lock it to the Declaration with respect I remain yours, 
Wm Bixby
direct your answers Meanwhile
Delaware County
New York

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[handwritten]
PostMasters
Letter. Care of
Mahitable Clark
Marriage [?]

Free
Wm Howard P.M.
Windsor Ct August 22

Lizur B Canfield Esqr
Homer
Cortland County
New York

[written upside down]
23.33
121
24.54

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[handwritten]
Windsor Con August 22 1837.
Sir
Your letter of August 4th was duly recd and I lost not time but immediately examined the records of this Tow do not find the Marriage of Solomon Clark Jun and Mahittable Giles on record, have also tried to find the church records, as the record of Marriages kept by the Revd Dan Foster. I am told by the only surviving Member of Mr Fosters Church, that some ten or fifteen years since the records were taken away, there being no church in that place  are supposed to be in possession of some one out of town and perhaps out of the county. but still I think they may be found. I do not feel authorised to Make any great expence to procure the testimony neither do I know what importance is attached to the inquiry. You do not say what is the object of your inquiry or in what case this testimony is wanted
Please answer
Respectfully yours
[signed] Wm Howard P.M.

Lizur B Canfield Esqr

Page 62

[left page]
[handwritten]
2819
Mahitabel Clark
Application for Pension
1837
7 mo. 11 ds – ‘75

Admd
47 mo 11 pri
$24.54

No deductions

[right page]
V2819
Mahitable Clark
New York

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[handwritten]
State of New York
Onondega County ss: James Clark of the village of Salina in said county being duly sworn says that he will be seventy two years of age on the 20th day of November next – that he was personally acquainted with Solomon Clark the husband of Mahitabel Clark and knows that said Solomon Clark drove a team in the Army of the American Revolution and that it was said that said Solomon had Enlisted in the Said Army but the time when this took place deponent does not now remember. That said Solomon went at one time from the town of Windsor in the State of Connecticut, and that it was Said among the neighbors at the time that he had gone to Roxbury Massachusetts and that he did duty there as a private soldier in Revolutionary Army. Deponent further says that it was said also that said Solomon had enlisted for three years, and deponent recollects that said Solomon was under on Gurdon Wadsworth as it was said among the neighbors. Deponent further says that it was said at the time that the team which said Solomon drove was a Continental team, and not his own and further says not.
[signed] James Clark
Subscribed & Sworn to this
8th day of September 1837
before me
[signed]
David G. Montgomery

Onondega County ss: I certify that James Clark is a person of truth & veracity & reputable in his neighborhood. Dated September 8th 1837.
[signed]
David G. Montgomery
Justice of the Peace.

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State of New York
Onondaga County }}}}} I, Cornelius Younglove Deputy Clerk of the County of Onondaga 
                   certify that David G. Montgomery Esquire is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected
and qualified, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe that
the [illegible] signatures purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I have
hereunto affixed my Seal of Office,and sub-
sribed my name, this 8 day of September
in the year 1837

                                    C. Younglove Dep. Clerk

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Mahitable Clark

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State of New York
Delaware County
Surrogates Officer May 25 1846

I certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, that Mahitable Bower was a pensioner of the United States at the sum of eighty dollars per annum, and that she died in the town of Masonville in said county on the fourth day of April, eighteen hundred and forty three leaving the following natural surviving children viz, Susan the wife of David [illegible] of [illegible] [illegible] county. Theresa a wife of [illegible] [illegible] of Cicero [illegible]
[illegible] and Horace Clark of [illegible] [illegible] county State of New York. Betsy wife of Curtis Day of Ohio. Mahitable Bower widow of Cyrus Bower deceased of East Windsor Hartford County State of Connecticut and [illegible] [illegible] wife of Jeremiah [illegible] Masonville Delaware county N.Y.

In Testomony Whereof I have hereto [illegible] my hand and affixed my official Seal.
This 25th day of May 1846.

Nelson K. Wheeler    Surrogate