Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44773, Roger Clark, Conn

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[printed form completed in handwriting]
(3-1776)
Service
Conn

Clark, Roger

Number
S. 44773

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[printed form completed in handwriting]
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Dec. 9 t. 1833 trasfd 
to N. York from 4 Sept
33 – certif. of Pension
Sent to him at Dunkirk
Notification sent to Thos
Chautaque County, N. Y.
Chester Esq 19 Oct 1820.
on the next day – 
Hartford Cont.
3d May ’34 – see ltr to
Saml H Parsons, Hartford
Cont. – 
Dead
Letter to C. B Curtis [illegibl] 3d Audi
18. Aug 1840
Paid at the Treasury under the 
Act of the 6 April 1838 from
4 March to 24 May 1835 the
day of his death
Dead
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To New York 1783
fm Connecticut [struck through]
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Roger N Clark
Capt Scott private
Connecticut Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
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Inscribed on the Roll of Conn
at the rate of 8 dollars per month to commence on
the 15 of April 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of July 181[last number cut off]
and Sent to Hon. Hon. Jam Brace
Hartford Conn. –
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Arrearages to 4 Sept 1818
4 mos 19/30   $ 37.00

{revolutionary claims,}
{Act 18th March 1818,}

.75 one Years
[illegible] Sept ‘19
Continued
[illegible]

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Roger Clark
[illegible] 1818
[other faint writing is not legible]

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[handwritten]
State of Cont &
County of Hartford} ss

Roger Clark of Withersfield in said County being duly sword doth depose & say that he served in the revolutionary was, on the Continental establishment for & in the Cont line for more than one year –
That he entered the service in the month of December 1775 to serve for one year as a private & faithfully served until his discharge when about the 1st day of January 1777 he recd an honorable discharge – that he belonged to Capt [illegible] Scotts company & Colo Saml Wyllys Regt – 

That he is a resident citizen of the U States is in reduced circumstances & in need of assistance from his country for support & has never had any pension
[signed] Roger Clark

Sworn to & subscribed this 6th day of March 1818}
Before me
[signed] Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court of the County of Hartford aforesaid

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State of Connecticut & County of Hartford July the 2d 1818 

Personally appeared Thomas Harts and Isaac Reck both of Berlin in said County and made Solemn oath that they knew the within named Roger Clark while in the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War
that in the month of Jany 1776 he was in the Company commanded by Capt Ezekiel Scott and that they knew of his continuing to serve as a Soldier in said Company in the Regt commanded by Col. Saml Wyllys in the Connecticut line till about the first of November in the same year. when they left the service and left said Clark thus in said company  that he was a faithful Soldier. and that they belonged to the same Regt. the said Harts to the company commanded by Capt Scott in where he served as a Sargeant and the said Reck belonged to the Company commanded by Capt. Abl Pettbone.
 Before me
[signed] Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court of the County aforesaid – who also certifies that the foregoing persons are credible witnesses
July 2d 1818 Sealed with the Seal of Said Court by direction of Hona Jonathan Brace who is the Presiding Judge of said Court & was on the 6th day of March 1818
Thomas Chester Clerk
[Attached to this document is a small slip of paper with a faint round circle on it]

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State of Connecticut,
And County of Hartford} SS. Hartford
I Jonathan Brace, Judge of the County Court, within and for said County, the same being a Court of Record, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that Roger Clark who swore to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit, served as a private in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy, and on the Continental establishment, for at the least the term of nine months, and is a resident citizen of the United States, in reduced circumstances, and in need of assistance from his country for support. His discharge he also swears is lost.
And in addition to the proof contain in the foregoing affidavit, and in support thereof, I further certify that it is proved to me by the testimony under oath of George Seymour who is a credible witness, that the said Roger Clark served in the revolutionary war, as aforesaid: 
And from the like testimony of Asher Robbins & Solomon S. Williams that the said Roger Clark – is in reduced circumstances, and in need of assistance from his country for support.
In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, and subscribed my name at Hartford aforesaid, this 16th day of April – A. D.  1818. 
[signed] Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County aforesaid
April 16th 1818 sealed with the seal of the Court by direction of the Honorable Jonathan Brace who is the Presiding Judge of said Court
[signed] Thomas Chester Clerk 
[small square attached to the paper with faint round seal visible – illegible print]

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[handwritten]
Roger Clark
1783
Spt. 1818

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On this 1st day of August, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment,
Roger Clark aged 60 years, resident in Withersfield in the County of Hartford
who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War, as follows: in the Regt commanded by Col. Samuel Wyllys & in the company of Capt Ezekiel Scott of Connecticut line that the original declaration for a pension was made sixteenth day of April AD 1818 & the number of his pension certificate No 1783.
“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 within 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.

A schedule of personal property of Roger Clark necessary clothing and bedding excepted
1 table 1,50 1 small desk $2. 1 stand 20.     $3.70
1 chest 1,50 6 chairs 1,50 1 watch $3. 1 doz plates 50	 
                                                                               6.50
2 tea pots 40 cts 1 glass 13 1 sugar bowl 12		65
tea cups & saucers 12 pepper caster 6			18
1 beaureau 300 1 pot 80 cts 1 kettle 40			4.20
1 spider 40 cts 1 skillet 25 1 gridiron 50			1.15
1 tea kettle 70 1 small brass kettle 2.50			3.20
1 pr tongs & peal 25 1 doz junk bottles 70		95
1 pair flatirons 50c 1 drawing knife 17			67
1 old coffee kettle 50. old pewter 1			1.50
1 seive 20c 3 tin pails 25					        45
2 wooden bowls 36 2 pails 20				56
1 steelyards 24 1 hoe 24 1 pair andirons 1		1.50
1 pig $5 1 old loom $5 one pr Spectacles 25	       10.25
1 sett knives & forks						70
								$36.16

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The age of sd Clark is sixty years  his health is feeble  has a wife aged 45 years in feeble health & at present unable to support herself & an infant child  that he is at present sexton of the parish in which he lives for which the parish pay him forty dollars per annum but he is unable to perform the duties at all times without assistance. 
[signed] Roger Clark. 
[printed form completed in handwriting]
Sworn to and declared by said Roger Clark on the 1st day of August, 1820, before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is
thirty six dollars and sixteen cents.
I, Thomas Chester Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 21st day of August 1820
[signed] Th. Chester 
Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford.
[square slip of paper visible to the left but print is illegible]

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[handwritten]
 Application for a Transfer
State of Connecticut}
County of Hartford} SS. Hartford

On this fifth day of October 1833, before me the subscriber a notary Public for the County of Hartford, personally appeared Roger Clark and made oath that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Ezekiel Scott in the regiment commanded by Colone Samuel Wyllys in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Connecticut [illegible writing struck through and written over] he expects to remove in a few days to Dunkirk in the County of Chatauque in the State of New York, where he intends to remain, and wishes his pension to be paid at the nearest agency which he supposes is at the Branchus Bank in Buffaloe – His brother in law & other relations reside near Dunkirk and he wishes to spend the remainder of his days near them.
[signed] Roger Clark
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid}
[signed] Samuel H. Parsons Notary Public

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I hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Roger Clark who signed the within affidavit, and know that he is the same person whose name is curatted upon the Connecticut Agency - 
Test  Samuel H. Parsons 
Notary Public

Hartford October 7th 1833
Sir.
Mr. Roger Clark requests that your reply may be directed to him, at Dunkirk in the County of Chatauque of New York.
Very respectfully
I am yr Obt Svt 
[signed] Samuel H. Parsons

J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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44773

Revy Invalid.
File No. 44773
Roger Clark
Priv. Rev. War.

Act: 18th March 1818.
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 90
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Connectt
April. 19. 183[illegible 4 or 6]

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
[illegible vertical writing]

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[handwritten]
 Hartford April 15th. 1834
Sir,

On the 7th of October 1833, Roger Clark a pensioner under the Act of 18th March 1818 applied to the War Department to be transfer from the Connecticut to the Agency at Buffalo in the State of New York, to take effect from Sept 4 1833- 
Mr Clark has applied to the agency at Buffalo but does not find his name returned to that office – but it appears from the Book at the Connecticut agency that he transfer to the roll of Pensioners “of the United States for the State of New York” – per letter dated 7th December 1833.= Will you please to direct that his name be [illegible smear] in the Roll of the Agency at Buffalo

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So that he can draw his pension these from September 4 1833 as early as practicabile.
Very respectfully
I am Your Obedient Servt
[signed] Samuel H. Parsons

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

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Treasury Department,
Second Comptroller’s Office,
August 21st, 1840.

Sir: 
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” the widow of Roger Clark, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Eight Dollars [struck through “and Cents”] per month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, has been paid at this Department from the 4th of March to the 24th May 1835, the day of his death. 
Respectfully yours,
Albion K. Parris [signed]
Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present