Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34210, Joseph Clark, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Clark, Joseph
NUMBER
S 34210
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Roll.
(2448)
Joseph Clark,
Capt Ballard
Private
Mass. June 15 months the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27. of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17. of Sept. 1818, and sent to Edw. D. Bangs, Esq. Worcester, Mass. "
arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818..... 34. 13 semi-annual all'ee ending 4. March 1819... 48. " arrears 4 m o 8/30. $ 82. 13
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Gardner, Worcester County

File this with the papers of Col. Clark hitherto unlisted - May 25 - 30
Petition of Joseph Clark & Certificate in his behalf -
Petition of Joseph Clark for a pension
Learned dis. from R.

To the Hon Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled Humbly showeth Joseph Clark of Gardner, in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts enlist- -ted in the year 1775 into Capt Benja Bullard's Company in Col Asa Whitcomb's Regt as a private soldier for one year and served as such in said Company during that time, at the expiration of said year your petitioner reenlisted into Capt Thomas Wellington's Company in Col Wigglesworth Regt and Gen Glovers Brigade in the Massachusetts line for and during the war and continued in the service as a private soldier and wailer as stated in the application which is now before your honorable Committee The privations and hardships which your petitioner endured while in the army, especially for the want of shoes caused a disor- -der in his feet and legs which have been troublesome more less ever since, and for more than one year past your pe- -titioner has not been able to walk a step and cannot now bear his weight by reason of his lameness in the feet and legs, and your petitioner further showeth that Mary Wife of your petitioner is so infirm by reason of rheuma- -tism that she is unable to dress herself — After spending the prime of his life and flower of his days in his Country's service your petitioner humbly prays that your Honorable Body will grant him a pension towards his support the little time he has to remain in this world, he being now seventytwo years years of age  old and as in Duty bound will ever pray Joseph Clark Gardner April 13 th 1830

To the Hon Senate and House of Representatives in Congress assembled
We the subscribers inhabitants of the town of Gardner hereby certify that we believe the foregoing statement made by Joseph Clark of said Gardner to be correct and true, we believe he was in the service of his Country as a soldier during the war of the revolution as stated in his application which is now in Congress We know of no man living in this part of the Country who was with him in the army except Capt John Hresdon of Westminster whose testimony is in said application, said Hresdon is considered a man of truth and veracity where ever he is known — Considering the lapse of time since the war, and that the old Soldiers are almost all gone off the stage of action, we hope Mr Clark's petition will not be rejected although he has but one living wit- ness — Said Clark's situation is truly deplorable, he and his wife are both cripples, neither of them are able to to perform business
Dated at Gardner April 13 th 1830
Sumner Lincoln, Minister of the Gospel Smyrna Gardner Just of peer Wm Whitney Esq Nathan Green } Schuyler Joseph Wright } of Gardner Moses Wood P.M. Rev Heywood Clerk of the Town of Gardner

Joseph Clarke Affidavit -

No. 13 March 1852.
I Joseph Clark of Gardner, in the state of Massachusetts do testify and say, that in the year A.D. 1777, I was a private soldier in Capt t Wellingtons Company in the Army of the United States and did duty as such, that in December of the same year we went to winter quarters and built huts at Valley forge, and Wintered there Early in the Spring either in March or the first of April there was a large patrolling party ordered out to reconnoitre the British lines we marched within about eight or ten miles of said lines and encamped over night, between day and Sunrise news came that we were surrounded by the British, and I being on the outer guard near a mile from the main Body did not get the word so soon, and we were obliged to retreat precipitately and flee for our lives, we did not overtake the main Body till we came to the River Schuylkill which we were obliged to ford the water being up to our middles, Soon after I was very much troubled with the Cramp, and occasionally with the Rheumatism but I got bethe and did duty as a private soldier in the Regiment most of the time. — When the British evacuated Philadelphia we broke up our encampment and marched after them to Monmouth or  where  we had a  it is sometimes said bloody engagement with them in which I fought for the liberty of my Country — from thence we marched to White-plains, we encamped there a short time — from thence we marched to Rhodeisland where we had another battle with the British there I fought again for my Country — next we marched from the Island up to providence — while at providence sometime in September or October, by order of Genl Sullivan I was detached from said Wellingtons Company to go as writer and chainsman with Maj r John Murnane a frenchman who was Engineer in our Army — I went with the said Major from providence to a place called Quaker Hill in York State from thence and made a short tarry there  from I went with the said Major to Philadelphia where we wintered. — in the Spring of 1779 we went to Valley forge and surveyed the old encampment & returned back to Philadelphia.

and surveyed up and down the Delaware River and other places near Philadelphia.
From Philadelphia I went with the said Major to East Town from thence we went to Wilmington on the bank of the Susquehannah River and surveyed up and down the River and laid out a number of forts and the said Joseph carried the Chain there, in the later part of August or in September I was taken sick with with the fever and Ague and was very much troubled with cramp and Rheumatism and was entirely unable to walk and was carried to the Hospital where I remained under the care of Dr Wm H. Smith till the Spring of 1783 when I went into the family of an old Gentleman by the name of Hide, near the Hospital where remained during the summer I did some chores, enough to pay for my board - I received Rations and Clothing from the Commissary during the time I staid in the Hospital but no pay - in the fall of 1783 I returned home to my Father's House in Sherburn about the middle of November poor and penniless and in a feeble state of health, and I did not recover my health so as to be able to perform much Business for more than a year after I returned home, and I do sincerely believe that the original cause of my then sickness and present lameness was my wading through the Schuylkill as before stated and other hardships that I underwent in the service of my Country.
Previous to my return home my father supposing me to be dead made application to the Secretary of Mass and recd my wages up to Dec 31st 1779 by a State note, which he gave to me after I came home - After finding the little value of final settlement notes and the trouble attending those who applied to proper authority to be made up, I made no application and received no pay.
Joseph Clark
Worcester ss March 6 th 1832 Then the above named Joseph Clark personally appeared and made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true according to the best of his remembrance - and I certify that the said Clark is a man of good character for truth.
Smyrna Glazier Jus. Peace

Washington Mar 13 th 1832 - I certify that Smyrna Hagin above named is a respectable magistrate of Gardner in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts - I have no doubt that his is now in Commission & qualified to act as a justice of the peace - Joseph G. Wendell -

I Rev 25 Jan 1882 Asa Clark of Sherburne in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age testify and say. That I am the Brother of Joseph Clark of Gardner in the County of Worcester and State aforesaid - that in March in the year 1781, I enlisted into the Continental Army to serve three years, and immediately after joined the Army at West Point - The said Joseph had been in the Army several years previous to my enlistment, I should think he had served three years or more, as near as I can recollect - He had served out the term for which he had enlisted at first, and had had enlisted again to serve during the War, and had left the Town of Sherburne where he then lived to join the Continental Army, sometime previous to the time I enlisted - I was discharged from the Army sometime after the conclusion of the War, and arrived at my Father's House in Sherburne the fourth day of January 1784, and found that for my Brother Joseph had returned a few weeks before me as he then informed me - I well remember that he was then in bad health - I also recollect most distinctly, that my Mother told me about the period of my return from the Army, that when Joseph her son got home, he was so altered & so feeble that his Parents, my Mother & Father, did not know him - I also recollect that my brother Joseph at the time of my return told me, that he had been with a French Officer of the American Army at the Southward, for some time, was there taken sick - was left by his Officer and never rejoined the Army - I am now Sixty eight years of age and may be mistaken as to dates - But I am positive as to the time of my enlistment and return home, and that the said Joseph was in the Army a long time before I enlisted, and am confident that the said Joseph returned home in the year 1783 as he then informed me, & that he served nearly or quite four years under his last enlistment Furthermore your deponent saith not - ASA Clark

Middlesex ss. January 16. 1832. Then the within named Asa Clark made Oath that the foregoing Affidavit by him subscribed is true. And I also certify that the said Asa is a man of truth, an exemplary Christian, and a credible witness —
Dalton Goulding, Justice of Peace.
Washington Jan'y 24 1832 I certify that the name of Dalton Goulding appears in the Massachusetts Register for 1831 as one of the Justices of the Peace of that State — I have no doubt that he is now a magistrate — Joseph G. Kendall

Sherburne Mass Jan'y 17 th Hon. Joseph G. Kendall. Representative in Congress. Washington, D.C.

Sheburn Jan. 17 th 1832
J. G. Kendall, Esq.
Sir, Yours of the 31 st ult. was duly
received - Also the Address of the Friends of Domestic Industry, for which I tender you my thanks. I enclose the Affidavit of Asa Clark - On conversing with him the second time, I found I had misunderstood him a little on one point - Finding it was necessary for him to make oath to his statement, he chose to be a little more explicit than what I expected - He appeared to be very conscientious and spoke with the utmost confidence of the time of his enlistment and return home, as also of Joseph's services rendered early in the War - He thinks he was one of those who enlisted in the first three years service. Asa Clark is an excellent Man. He is the youngest of seven Brothers, all of whom, he served in the Continental Army. Two of them fought on Bunker Hill; one served six years; one, five years & eight months; one three years; one died in the Army; one was burnt to death soon after he left the Army, in the conflagration of a dwellinghouse - Three are now living in Sheburn, all Men of wealth, & highly respected -
As to my compensation for services, I wish for no other than to be informed, that you have succeeded in procuring a Pension for Joseph Clark, who was a neighbour and intimate acquaintance of my deceased Father.
Yours respectfully &c
Dalton Goulding

34 210 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34 210
Joseph Clark. Rev Rev Mr
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 74
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No of orig Rept 1118
1935
Revolutionary Claims.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, 3 d March 1831.
Joseph Clark _____ of Gardner _____ in the county of Worcester _____ in the State of Massachusetts has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termina- tion, at which period he was a Private _____ in captain Willingtons _____'s company, in Col Wigglesworths Regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826. He states that at end of the war he was sick & consequently did not return home until Nov 1783. when he received his pay & at which time he was a waiter to an Officer of the Engineers.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By Order of the Secretary.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE, 5 March 1831
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to _____ in the _____
It further appears that Joseph Clark - not is now on the pension list of any _____ agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of dollars per month
The name of Joseph Clark cannot be found among those of the Massachusetts line, to whom certi- ficates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued. It appears however from the Register of Auditors of the Massachusetts line, that Joseph Clark enlisted on the 1 st January 1777, as a private, in Capt Willingtons Company of Col Edward Wigglesworths Regiment, for the War - but it is not stated how he left the service -
Richd Hagner Aud

War Dep t Bounty Land Office
March 30. 1831
The name of Joseph Clark cannot be found on the Records of the Massachusetts line on file in this Office, Among those, entitled to bounty lands from the U. States Nor does it appear that a Land Warrant ever issued in his name
H. Gordon

Joseph Clark's Case
To the Honorable Edward Bangs, Esqr. The within is the Affidavit of Benjamin Bullard, taken at the request of Joseph Clark, who has applied for a Pardon
Taken and sealed up by me
Ebenezer Fairbanks Justice of the Peace

On this twenty seventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally appeared before me Elisha Fairbanks one of the Justices assigned to keep the Peace within and for the County of Middlesex, Benjamin Bellows of said Hingham in said County, who being first sworn to testify to the whole truth, under oath says:— That Joseph Clark of Gardner in the County of Franklin, was in the Revolutionary War, in the capacity of a Soldier, said Clark enlisted into the the Company of which the Deponent was Captain about the fifteenth of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, and said Clark continued in the Deponent's Company, under the Continental establishment until the twentieth of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, and in the Regiment commanded by Col. Asa Whitcomb, and taken and sworn to Benj a B. Merrill the day and year above mentioned. before me Elisha Fairbanks.

Middlesex ss. Hepsburton June 27 th 1818
This may certify that the within mentioned Benjamin Bullard, with whom I am well acquainted, is a person of truth.
Elisha Fairbanks Justice of the Peace

Application of Joseph Clark for a Pension
Certificate of our Rev. Church of our Lord that member of his flock and affirmed says Judge Brooke - he is one of our worth on Pension -

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester ss.
On this twentyfirst day of November in the year of our Lord onethousand eight hundred and twentyeight, person-ally appeared John Fresendon of Westminster in said County of Worcester who was a Soldier in the aforesaid Capt t Welling-tons Company, and did make oath that the aforesaid Joseph Clark was enlisted as a private Soldier in the Continental Army of the United States in said Capt t Wellingtons Compa-ny, for, and during the war, and that he the Joseph did until the time Military duty in said Wellingtons Company, that he went off with the french Officer and he the said Fresendon has no doubt but that the foregoing declaration made by the said Joseph Clark is true
Before me Smyrna Glazier Justice of the peace
Worcester ss.
December the 1 st 1828 personally appeared the day W m Whitney Esqr and James Coolidge both of Gard-ner in said County of Worcester and did severally make oath that Joseph Clark by whom the foregoing declar-ation was subscribed is generally reputed and believed to have been a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution as therein stated
Before me Smyrna Glazier Just of the peace
I Abijah Bigelow Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for the County of Worcester in the State of Massachusetts do certify, that Smyrna Glazier before whom the foregoing affi- davits were sworn was at the time a Justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, this seventeenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
Abijah Bigelow, (cl.)

1735 For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act, entitled An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, approved on the 15th of May, 1828, I Joseph Clark of Gardner in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby declare, that in the fall of the year 1775 I enlisted into Capt Benjamin Bullards Company, in Col Asa Whitcomb, Regiment in the Massachusetts line for the term of one year, and before the expiration of that year I re-enlisted into Capt Thomas Wellingtons Company in Col Wigglesworth, Regiment and Genl Gloyes Brigade in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for and during the war, and that I continued in its service in said Wellingtons Company until the fall of the year 1778 when I was detached from said Wellingtons Company by the order of Genl Sullivan to go as wailer and Chains Man with a French Officer (who was Major of the indianers, whose name I think was Marmam but am not positive that I give it the right pronunciation) which service I performed without any interruption or absence until the summer of 1781 when I was taken sick with a fever and ague at Susquehanah where the Major left me, and I did not recover my health so as to be able to join the Army or return home until November 1783, to join the Army or return home until November 1783, I understood that I was returned as supposed to be dead, but on application I was made up two hundred Dollars for the time I was absent which I received of Government after my return home — And I further declare that I was at the taking of Burgoin, and I was in Gen Lees detached Body at the Battle at Monmoth and was also in the Battle at Rhode Island And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May, 1828 on the pension list of the United States. Witness my hand this 20th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-eight Joseph Clark
Worcester ss, Subscribed and sworn to this twentieth day of November A.D. 1828
Before me Smyrna Glazier Justice of the peace

Revolutionary Claims
Hon. Louis McLane Secretary of the Treasury Washington

Rec d 25 Jan'y 1832.
4280. Washington Jan'y. 24 1832
Hon. Louis McLane,
Sir
I have the honor to enclose to you the deposition of Asa Clark, to be used in the case of Joseph Clark, his brother, an applicant for a pension under the act of 15 May 1828. I should be gratified that an early reexamination of this case may be had. I recollect that when Mr. Dikeus advised me of an unfavorable decision, he suggested that the case might be reexamined, if desired - I felt very confident of a successful issue to this application for a pension - For I had found that it appeared by the rolls of the revolutionary army, that Mr. C. enlisted for the war, & there was no entry thereon by which any inference of his failure to serve out his term of enlistment could be raised - Now, in this state of the evidence, the pension would doubtless have been granted. The only doubt which can be entertained is founded on the declaration of the applicant - I should suppose it would be a correct principle, an established rule of evidence, that, inasmuch as the applicant is permitted by law, or the rules of the War Department to make oath to his service,

we ought to take his whole statement together, & if he states a fact which creates a doubt of his service, we ought to take his explanation, if rational & uncontradicted to rebut the presumption raised against him. Mr. Clark, with perfect honesty, admits that he left the army with an engineer & did not return before the army was disbanded - This is an admission that he did not serve to the end of the war - As however he swears that he fell sick & was unable to return, I think we ought to take this explanation as true; & not believe him, when he admits his leaving the army & not returning, & disbelieve him as to the cause of his non-returning. Now the fact that there is no entry of desertion or other misconduct entered against his name on the rolls, tending to disprove enlistment & service, I think the conclusion to which I arrive is the only one which, on legal principles, can be made -
I trust that the Case is strengthened by the deposition which I now send in Mr. Goulding's name is in the Massachusetts Register of 1831, as a justice of the Peace in the town of Sherburne - I believe he is the post master of that place, as to which I am not certain - I enclose to send herewith Mr. Goulding's letter which I have seen Mr. Clark & know his great infirmities & advanced age - I hope that his application will be be successful - very respectfully your obedt. Servt Joseph G. Kendall

Wellington 13 th Reg't 1783 vol 21
enlistment 1777 for the war
FILE
Col. Joseph G. Kendall. Member of Congress. Washington.
alleged in

Re. 13 March 1832.
Boston, Sec. Offic., Feb. 9. 1832.
Hon. Joseph G. Kendall.
Sir -
In answer to your enquiries respecting Joseph Clarke, a revolutionary soldier, I would state, that I find his name on two books, one stating the service of the continental troops from Jan'y 1 1777 to Dec. 31, 1779 - and the other the services for the year 1780. On the first book, he is described as belonging to capt. E. Smith's company, Col. Smith's regiment, to have enlisted to serve during the war , amounting to £72. to have actually served 36 months, & his accounts are settled to the close of the year 1779. - In the second book he is described as belonging to the same company & regiment, but he is stated as among the 3 year men , and not the during the war men . If the same individual is intended in both cases, I cannot account for the discrepancy in the term of enlistment, & from the names of company & regiment being the same in both cases, it is to be presumed the same individual is intended.

The time of his services after '79 is not stated, nor does it appear that his accounts after that time were settled. This goes to prove that in 1780 he probably left the army, but when or why he left does not appear, nor does it appear that he recd. any thing beyond the £72 in settlement of his accounts to Dec. 31. 1779. The fact that he actually served 3 years, and that his name was afterwards transferred to the book for 1780, would, I should conceive, go to prove that he must have enlisted for more than 3 years, altho' in the book of 1780 he is mentioned among the 3 years men.
I do not know precisely what facts you would wish to have me certify, if a formal certificate should be necessary. — — If you wish for a Certificate please inform me, & it shall be forwarded.
Very respectfully Your friend's servt Edward D Bangs Secy.

I John Fessenden of Westminster in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Mass of lawful age to give testimony to depose and say that I am now personally acquainted with Mr. Joseph Clark of Goudine his said locality and was personally acquainted with him at the commencement of the Revolutionary War or near of Independence as I called it - He enlisted at Cambridge, Mass. - into the company of S. Wellington - Me, the said Clark, and myself in the same company marched from Cambridge to the Neck of Hudson - and after arriving there the said Clark was detached from our company to go with a French Officer - his name I do not now recollect but I do distinctly recollect that the said Joseph Clark was a soldier that enlisted in the same company or Army for and during the Revolutionary War and as I have always understood was honorably discharged what makes me more certain is that I had frequent access to the books of the returning Officers and always found his name there as such -
John Fessenden
Worcester, Commonwealth of Mass - January 19, 1831. Then personally appeared John Fessenden and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed was true - Prove me - Simon Sedgwick , Jus. Peace

Depositions of Emma Grazier W m Whitney —

I Smyrna Glazier of Gardner in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of lawful age to give testimony do depose and say that I became acquainted with Mr Joseph Clark of said Gardner in the year 1783 and the win- ter following and the winter following I spent a number of evenings with said Clark to hear him relate his war stories and anecdotes. I perfectly recollect his telling me at that time that he en- listed for during the war, and was in the service more than seven years, I recollect his saying at the same time that he was in the Battle at the taking of Burgoyne, and at the Battle of Ben- nington as he then called it, and he gave me a more general history of the war than I had obtained from any other individual at that time. (wife) I have been personally acquainted with said Clark & ever since the year above mentioned and they are now got to be so old decrepit that they are all together incompetent to perform any kind of business or to take care of themselves their means are so small that unless they have some assistance from Government they will soon become pan- pers - in all my acquaintance and dealings with Mr Clark I have always found him to be a Man of truth and I presume that his state- ments in regard to his services are correct
Worcester, Feb 14 1831 - Smyrna Glazier
This person hereby affirmed the above received Smyrna Glazier and made solemn oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is true Smyrna Glazier

I Wm Whitney of Gardner in the County of Worces- ter and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, of lawful age to give testimony do depose and say that I have been personally acquainted with Mr Joseph Clark of said Gardner for more than forty years I have frequently heard the said Clark say that he listed for during the war and that he served seven years I believe the said Clark has always been a Man of truth and veracity and have no reason to doubt his being a soldier in the service of his Coun- try as he has stated - his case at present is truly deplorable having no means of support except what he gets off of a small poor farm which is now under a mortgage - personal property he has none except a little poor household furniture; he the said Clark and his wife are both cripples neither of them able to do any kind of business and must have assistance from some quarter soon
Wm Whitney
Worcester ss Commonwealth of Massachusetts February 14 th 1831 personally appeared Wm Whitney Esqr and made solemn Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed was true Before me Smyrna Glazier Just of peace

To the Honorable Edward Bangs Esq.
The within is the affidavit of Jonas French. taken at the request of Joseph Clark who has applied for a pension.
Taken & sealed up by me Tim o Harrington Clerk
Joseph Clark Esq.

This certifies that Joseph Clark of Gardner in the County of Worcester was in the Revolutionary War in the capacity of a Soldier, that he enlisted into the Company of one Captain Benjamin Bullard in the regiment commanded by one Col Asa Whitecomb about the fifteenth of December A.D. Seventeen hundred and Seventy five and continued in said Company till the first of January A.D. Seventeen hundred and Seventy seven Joseph Brick
Midway June 2 nd - 1880 Then John Brick personally appeared before me the Subscriber and after being duly examined and cautioned made oath that the foregoing statement is true
John H. Harris
John N. Davis

J. G. Kendalls Statement
Act 1828 Settled at Treasury Cons'd with Ad. Comm. Pte. Invalis File # 34210

Recd 24 Feb 1831
Hon. Saml. D. Ingham
2437
Washington Feb. 23. 1831
Sir -
I have the honor to present the papers of Joseph Clark, an applicant for a pension under the act of 15 May 1828 - Supposing that there was a deficiency of proof of his service during the war, I presented these papers to the Committee on Military Pensions at the last session, who did not act thereon - On examination yesterday, it appears by the rolls of the Army, that Mr. Clark did enlist & serve, as stated in his application - Such was the statement of J. L. Edwards Esq. at the War Department -
I am acquainted with Simeon Scudder Esq., Smyrna Glazier & William Whitney Esqrs - whose names are in the papers - I have no doubt whatever that they are now, & have been for several years, Justices of the Peace & have acted as such - Their names are in the Massachusetts Register for 1830 as Justices of the Peace for the County of Worcester - They are all gentlemen of unimpeachable characters - I know the fact that Rev. Sumner Lincoln is the Minister of the town of Gardner. I am also acquainted with Moses Wood, Postmaster of that town, who sustains, I believe, a good character - The names of Mr. Lincoln & Mr. Wood are on one of the certificates -
I have the honor to be very respectfully your obedt Servt
Joseph S. Kendall

Joseph Clark
not on Rolls Dff
Admitted

State of Massachusetts
I Joseph Clark a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gardner in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the fifteenth day of November A.D. 1775,
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the first day of January, 1777-
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Capt. Benjamin Bullard's Company in the Regiment of Col. Asa Whitcomb in the Massachusetts line
and that I left the service on the first day of January 1777
and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of Sixty years-
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Joseph Clark
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this twenty seventh day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me,
John C. C. Cummings Western Circuit
Edward Bangs
the abovenamed Joseph Clark
and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edward Bangs

I Thomas Greenwood of Winchendon in the County of Worcester, on oath declare that I served with the said Joseph Clark, in the same company, Regiment and line from about the 15 th day of November 1776— to about the first day of January 1777—
Thomas Greenwood
Worcester ss. April 24, 1818 Then personally appeared the above named Thomas Greenwood and made solemn oath to the above certificate by him subscribed
Before me Levi Maynard, Just. Peace—