Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35,836, Joshua Clifton, Va.

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(3-1776)
Service
Va.

Clifton, Joshua

Number
S. 35,836

Contents

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18,874
Delaware
Joshua Clifton of Sussex Cy in the State of Delaware who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Mitchell of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Parker &c in the Virginia line, for the term of 1777 to end of War.

Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 26 of November 1822

Certificate of Pension issues the 22 of Jany 1823 and [illegible] Francis Brown Esq.
Georgetown, Delaware

Arrears to 4th of [crossed out] Portion of Semi anl. all'ce ending March 1823 26.36
$26.36

[handwritten math calculation]
5/30 4/31
3 mo
8
24
1.33
1. 3
26.36

{Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.}

M 7
pap 200

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35 836
INVALID.
Revy
File No. 35-836
Joshua Clifton
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 75
[Arrangement of 1870.]

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Joshua Clifton
on Roll
page 114

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Among the Records of the Court of Common Pleas for the State of Delaware in the County of Sussex it is contained as follows,
Sussex County, State of Delaware Ss.

Be it Remembered, that on this twenty sixth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, Personally appeared, in the open Court of Common Please, of the State of Delaware, at George Town in and for the County aforesaid, being a Court of Record for said County, because Constituted such by the Constitution and Laws of the State of Delaware, Joshua Clifton aged seventy seven or seventy eight years, Resident in Broad Kiln Hundred in the County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on this Oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the Provision made by the Act of Congress of the eighteenth of March eighteen hundred and eighteen and first of May eighteen hundred twenty, and declared that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, that he entered at Dagsborough  (formerly called by [illegible] Blackford) in the County and State aforesaid, with Captain Nathaniel Mitchell who afterwards enlisted deponant as a Soldier in the Sixteenth Virginia Regiment, Commanded by Colonel James Grason or Grison, that deponant was taken to Philadelphia where he was inoculated for the small Poxs. That he was afterwards at the Battle of Monmouth, Woodbridge and Brandywine, That he then was taken to the Morristown and after the Camps were built, he was moved on to the South under General Wayne, and put und the Command of Colonel or Captain Alexander Parker of the Second or third Virginia Regiment. That deponant was in the American Army at the taking of Charles Town by the British & was then taken a Prisoner, & carried by them to Little York & released when Cornwallis surrendered to General Washington, that deponant served as aforesaid in the American during the War of the Revolution from the year seventeen hundred Seventy six or Seventeen hundred & Seventy seven, that he obtained an honorable discharge, in Writing which he delivered to a man by the name of Pout to assist deponant in obtaining his pay & deponant thinks he saw the same discharge Pinned on a Book in the Pension Office at Washington several years ago. And I the said Joshua Clifton do solemnly swear that I was a Resident Citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred & eighteen, and that the Reason why this deponent has not made a declaration before this in order to obtain a Pension was because he supposed that when Levi Powell made his declarations, that he would also depose and declare for the deponant. That said Levi Powell (to whom declarations deponant refers) enlisted where this deponant did, That I have not since that time [illegible] the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred & eighteen or before that time by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of any 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

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Revolutionary War" Passed on the eighteenth day of March eighteen hundred & eighteen" or any other Act of Congress: And that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any Property or Securities, Contracts, or debts, due me; nor have I income other than what I derive as being one of the Poor of the County aforesaid. That I have no Kind of Property whatsoever either Real Personal or Mixed. That a Cripple and lame, am Unable to follow any Kind of Occupation, and I have no person to aid or assist me therein. That I have a wife aged about fifty, scarcely able to get a living for herself. That he is without children, & deponant entirely unable to Work.
Joshua Clifton X his Mark
Witness
Peter Robinson
Francis Brown

The above was Sworn to and declared on the twenty sixth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two in open Court of Common Pleas, before Francis Brown Prothy

Be it Remembered that Seleck Hazzard & Gen. Jesse Green declared on Oath that they have known the aforesaid Joshua Clifton for many years, and that he has no Property of any Kind.
Jse Green
Seleck Hazzard
Attest F. Brown Prothy
26th Nov. 1822

The Opinion of the Court is that the aforesaid Joshua Clifton is without Property

The State of Delaware Sussex County to wit}
I Francis Brown Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the State of Delaware in & for Sussex County do hereby Certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Joshua Clifton did serve in the Revolutionary War, as above Stated in the Preceding declarations against the [illegible] on the Continental establishment. I also Certify that the foregoing Oath and declaration to the [illegible] as aforesaid are [illegible] Copied [illegible] the Records of said Court. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said Court at George Town the second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty three
Francis Brown Prothy