Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1,960, for Noah Parr, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
N. 6
Parr, Noah Clarke, Abashaba Former widow
R. 1960
CONTENTS

No 948
Abashaba Clark Abashaba Clark widow of Noah Parr
Ind o
Act of 29 th July 1848
To D.B. Donaldson June 27 th 57 (Rec. Its in clm of Caleb Hascord R. 4056 1/2)
1960

Ent
REJECTED
1960
P. O. _____
Abasaba Clark
Service: Widow of Noah Parr
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Wages: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18 .

No 948
Abishaba Clarke, no y. Spah Pass
Fun
Set 29 July 1848-
Ryuta - she was married after 1 st July 1848-
D. S. Donaldson

State of Indiana = County of Vigo: }
On this the fifteenth day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one, personally, in open Court, at a Court began and held at Terre Haute, in the County of Vigo and State of Indiana, on the fourteenth day of March A.D. 1851, within the seventh judicial Circuit of said State, present the Honorable Delam A. Eklund, president judge and Elijah Tilton and Jacob Jones, associate judges, Asahel Clarke, (widow of Noah Parr, late of Paskatank County, and State of North Carolina, deceased), of the County of Vigo and State of Indiana, aged seventy five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her solemn oath, declare and make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress in such case made and provided, that she was married to Noah Parr on the day of _____ about the year 1800, (the precise time or year, she cannot now recollect) in the County of Paskatank, County in the State of North Carolina; That the said Noah died about the year A.D. 1806 or 8, at said County of Paskatank, North Carolina, that she shortly after the death of the said Noah, married a man by the name of Cornelius Clarke, who also died about the year A.D. 1820 That she has continued to reside in the State of Indiana about five years, that previous to her removal to the State of Indiana, in the year A.D. 1845, she has always resided near Elizabeth City, in the State of North Carolina. Deponent further states that her said husband, Noah Parr, was a soldier of the revolution, that he was a substitute in the regular army

as deponent believes, for and in the place of one That he went from Winfield Court house, in Purya- tank County, North Carolina, and served as such subti- tute two years, That he then entered the service as a field major, and served five years; That the said Noah was at the battle of Bunker's hill, June 1775; at Trenton December 26 A.D. 1776; at the battle of Brandywine, Septem- ber A.D. 1777; at York Town at the surrender of Cornwallis, October 1781, and also at the battle of Great Bridges, in the state of Virginia. That the said Noah en- tered the service first under Captain Torrant, deponent believes; deponent does not know the names of any of the other officers under whom the said Noah served.
Deponent does not know where the said Noah was dis- charged; Deponent further states, that there was land allowed to the said Noah, for his services, by the state of North Carolina, or by the United States; deponent does not know which: Deponent further states that no pension has ever been paid to the said Noah for his said services, nor to deponent. Deponent asks that her claim may be in- vestigated and such amount may be allowed her, as she is entitled to by the laws of the United States. Deponent fur- ther states that she has remained a widow since the death of her said husband Cornelius Clarke. Deponent fur- ther states, that she believes the said Noah was dis- charged at Little York, but does not know positively. That she has seen his discharge often, and had it in her hands, but that the same was destroyed by a little boy.
Barbara his Clarke mark
Subscribed and sworn to in open court, on the day and year of said.
C. J. Noble CLK.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, That the above-named applicant, is the widow of Noah Parr, as she states.
Jelam P. McRae Esq. Tillotson Jacob Jones
I, Charles T. Noble, Clerk of the Vigo Circuit Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of the said Alashaba Clarke for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this 1st. day of April AD 1851, at Terre Haute Vigo County & state of Indiana.
C. T. Noble (Clerk)

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Parras, Anthony GRADE Private LINE Samb's Artillery (New York)
WARRANT NUMBER 7636 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 30, 1790 to Simon Veeder, assignee
*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.