Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16082, Champion Clark, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
clark, champion
S. 16082
CONTENTS
carded

Connecticut 17756.
Champion Clarke
of Bethlehem in the State of Cont. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Ship of the Reg t commanded by Genl Shelton in the Cont. line for 21. mos.
12 mos. Private 40. 9 " " 30. 70.
Inscribed on the Roll of Conn. at the rate of 70 Dollars 00 Cents per annum. to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Sep. 1833 and sent to G.B. Woodruff Litchfield Cont.
arrears to the 4th of February 1833 175. Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar 31. 35.
$210. =
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Wm. H. Samuel Clerk, Book E. Vol. Third Page 9.

Declaration of Champion Clarke in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832
State of Connecticut } Court of Probate within Litchfield County } ss. and for the District of Litchfield
On this 17 th day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. Frederick Wolcott Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said District now sitting, Danl Champion Clarke a resident of the Town of Bethlehem in the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy one years who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 -
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated
I was born in East Haddam in the County of Middlesex on the 6 th day of November 1760 I have no record of my age in my profession but state my age from my own recollection I have always understood that there was a record of my age on the Town records in s d Town of East Haddam I continued to reside in s d East Haddam the principle part of the time from my birth until the year 1784 when I removed to Litchfield in Litchfield County in the State aforesaid where I resided sixteen or eighteen years and about thirty years of age I removed from Litchfield into the adjoining town of Bethlehem where I have resided until the present time -
In the Month of April 1777 I enlisted at New London in the State of Connecticut into a company of State Troops commanded by Captain Smith his Christian name I think was Samuel, he belonged to

East Haddam, to serve as a private for the term of Nine Months and joined a Regiment at New London commanded by Captain John Ely of Lyme in the state aforesaid I was employed at New London on guard and at labour repairing Fort Trumbull until (according to my best recollection) the month of August 1777 at which time I went with said Regiment to Providence in Rhode Island, from thence to Scituate point & performed duty at Providence and Scituate point I should think from one to two Months I recollect that while I was at Scituate point General Spencer from East Haddam made two or three attempts to get his Troops across the river on to the Island but was prevented by the British Troops who were upon the Island I was with the Troops under the command of Genl Spencer when the attempts were made, after this the Regiment to which I belonged was ordered back to New London soon after we returned to New London I was taken sick with the Measles, & the Regiment to which I belonged was ordered to Norwalk & from thence on to Long Island I remained at New London on account of my being sick, until the Regiment returned to New London, soon after this (and according to my best recollection, on the first Day of January 1778 we were Dismissed, our term of enlistment having expired I know that I served on this tour of duty the full term of Nine Months I did not receive a written Discharge, neither have I any Documentary evidence of my said service but rely on the Testimony of Solomon Gosly who belonged to the same Regiment with me and was with me at New London, at Providence & at Scituate point at the time aforesaid, and whose Deposition is herewith annexed to prove my declaration for this tour of service. Immediately after being Dismissed as aforesaid I returned to my Father's residence in East Haddam and in the month of July or August 1778 I was detached out of a company of Militia belonging to East Haddam to go to Rhode Island and join the Troops under the command of General Sullivan I went immediately to Providence and joined a company commanded (according to my present recollection) by Captain — Hale of Glastonbury Hartford County in a Regiment commanded by Col. Huntington of Norwich Connecticut, we arrived at and

crossed over onto the Island sometime in the Month of August 1778 and pitched our Tents on the North end of the Island, we were very soon ordered to March under the command of General Sullivan towards Newport which Town was in the possession of the British we marched to within about Two Miles of that Place halted & threw up breastworks &c after a few Days had elapsed we were ordered to strike our Tents and march to the north end of the Island we were pursued by the British & were overtaken by them and a battle was fought between the Americans & British, after the Battle the British retreated towards Newport & General Sullivan retreated off from the Island as soon as he could get the Troops off - we were after this  then ordered to Providence at which place I was discharged being according to my best recollection from Three to four Months from the time I left home on this Tour of Duty, I did not receive any written Discharge neither have I any Documentary evidence of my said service, neither have I been able to procure any testimony in relation to the same excepting the slight testimony contained in the Deposition of Solomon Gosley in relation to the same & which is herewith annexed but you must rely principally on my own declaration to prove this Tour of service -
On or about the first day of April 1782 at Marlborough in Hartford County, I enlisted into the service of the United States as a Teamster to serve for the term of Nine Months in a Company of Teamsters enlisted as aforesaid & placed under the command of Captain Isham Chapman of Colchester in New London County I was immediately ordered to Hartford, from there to Ridgefield, I then took a load of Cots and carried to Fishkill for the use of the Army, we were then employed in transporting Powder from the Town of Fishkill to Fishkill Landing, from there we were ordered to Pechskill & was then employed in transporting in Provisions for the Army from Kings Ferry to Croton River, after having been employed

in the neighbourhood of Peekskill, Croton River & several months a part of the company to which I belonged was ordered to West point, a part to Wapping Creek & I was ordered to go to North Street in Horse neck & was then employed in transporting Hay for Col. Sheldon's Troop of Horse & I remained at North Street & in the neighbourhood of that place until January 1783 & was discharged at North Street on or about the first day of Jan'y 1783 The term of time for which I enlisted having expired - I was during the time aforesaid subject to Martial law & to the rules & regulations of the Army and drew my pay and rations from the United States, The only evidence which I have of said four years of service is the Testimony of of Solomon Govey whose deposition is herunto annexed to support my declaration to this four of Pety - I have annexed all the evidence of my services in the War of the revolution which within my knowledge can be obtained -
I am known to the Revd Paul Cook Nathan Hawley Esq - Joseph H Bellamy Esq and Samuel Jackson Esq all of the Town of Bethlehem and all of whom reside in my neighbourhood & can testify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my services as a soldier of the revolution -
I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity therefor except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state -
Champion Clark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Before me Frederick Wolcott, Judge of Probate Rutland District, Conn.
We Paul Cook a clergyman residing in the town of Bethlehem in the county of Litchfield and Levi Judah residing in said Bethlehem hereby certify that

We are well acquainted with Champion Clarke who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing Declaration, that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion, We also certify that the said Clarke's character for veracity is good & his Declaration is in our opinion entitled to credit, Paul Cook Leavitt Fadd
Sworn & subscribed the Day and year aforesaid
Before me Frederick Wolcott Judge of Probate Litchfield District, Conn.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Leavitt Fadd  Paul Cook who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Bethlehem in the County & State aforesaid and that Leavitt Fadd who has also signed the same is a resident in said Town of Bethlehem and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit,
Frederick Wolcott Judge of Probate Litchfield District, Conn. I Phineas Mear Clerk of the Court of Probate within & for the District of Litchfield aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Champion Clarke for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Office this 17 th Day of August A.D. 1832 -
Phineas Mear Clerk

Champion Clark,
adm d
12. pri
9 - Teamster
21 mo.
70 $

State of Connecticut } p Litchfield May 27. th 1833, County of Litchfield. }
On this 27 th day of May A D 1833, personally appeared, in open Court before the Hon Court of Probate in & for the District in the County of Litchfield now sitting, Champion Clark, a resident of the town of Bethlehem in the County & State aforesaid, aged 72 years, who being duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following addition & supplement to his foregoing declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed Jan y 7. th 1832.
That by reason of old age, & the consequent loss of memory, He cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection He served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades (viz)
For the full period of nine months , I served as a private in Capt. Smith's company, in Col. Clegg's Regt., as is detailed in my original declaration. Of this term of service I know of no survivor, excepting W. Solomon Goble & myself, & I know of no other testimony within my power to obtain, of this service, excepting that which accompanied my original declaration, and which is again stated .
For the full period of three months I served as a private in Capt. Hale's company, in Col. Huntington's Regt., as specified in my original declaration. Of this term of service I know of no survivor besides myself. Nor is it in

my power, that I know of, to obtain any other testimony to this term of service, than that which accompanied my original declaration & which is herewith forwarded again, -
For the full period of nine months , I served as a private in the Company of Captain Chapman, as is particularly set forth in my original declaration, I know of no survivor of this term of service, nor of any testimony of it within my power, other than that already exhibited to the department & which is again sent,
In the whole, then, for twenty one months , I served as a private , & for such service I claim a pension,
Champlaine Class. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand the day & year aforesaid Frederick Wolcott, Judge of Probate
And said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, & served as he states in the foregoing supplement to his original declaration,
Frederick Wolcott, Judge of Probate, District of Litchfield, State of Connecticut -

I Phinehas Mainer Clerk of the Court of Probate in & for the district & in the County of St. Johnfield do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Champion Clark for a pension,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this twenty seventh day of May A.D. 1833
Phinehas Mainer Clerk

W.S.
June 26, 1928.
Mrs. Josephine C. Frost, 129 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, New York.
Madam:
I advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16082, it appears that Champion Clark was born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, November 6, 1760.
While a resident of said place he enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut troops as follows:
From April, 1777, served nine months in Captain Samuel Smith's Company in Colonel John Ely's Regiment; he was in General Spencer's Rhode Island expedition.
From July or August, 1778, three or four months in Captain Hale's Company in Colonel Huntington's Regiment; he was in Sullivan's Rhode Island expedition and in the battle of Rhode Island.
From April 1, 1782, until January 1, 1783, as a teamster under Captain Isham Chapman.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 17, 1832, at which time he was living in Bethlehem,

COPIED BY ADY
Litchfield County, Connecticut.
There are no data on file relative to his family.
No charge is made for this service and one dollar, the amount of your check, will be refunded to you in due time.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT, Commissioner.

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section MCS:MLB
Duplicate of this letter in clm. of Champion Clark, A16082
October 28, 1930
Mr. Charles R. Hale 91 Elm Street Hartford, Connecticut
Dear Sir:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 16082, that Champion Clark was born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, November 6, 1760.
While a resident of said place he enlisted and served as a private with the Connecticut troops, as follows:
From April, 1777, served nine months in Captain Samuel Smith's company in Colonel John Ely's regiment; he was in General Spencer's Rhode Island expedition; from July or August, 1778, three or four months in Captain Hale's company in Colonel Huntington's regiment, he was in Sullivan's Rhode Island expedition and in the battle of Rhode Island; from April 1, 1782, until January 1, 1783, as a teamster under Captain Isham Chapman.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 17, 1832, at which time he was living in Bethlehem, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
There are no data rel. to his family. *****
It appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 17311, that Nathan Burton was born November 30, 1754 in Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
In 1773 he moved to Bethlehem, Litchfield County, Connecticut, and while a resident of that place, enlisted and served in the Connecticut troops, as follows:

From about June, 1776, six months as a private in Captain Nathan Hurd's company in Colonel Gold S. Silliman's regiment, was in a skirmish at Flatbush and in retreat from Long Island, received a wound in the neck in the battle of White Plains; from August, 1778, five weeks as sergeant in Captain Enos Hawley's company in Colonel Increase Moseley's regiment; from May, 1779, one month as sergeant in Captain Enos Hawley's company; from July, 1779, two weeks as sergeant in Captain Enos Hawley's company in Colonel Increase Moseley's regiment and was in an engagement at Fairfield; from August, 1781, two months as sergeant in Captain Enos Hawley's company.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 10, 1832, at which time he was living in Bethlehem, Connecticut.
There are no data re: his family. Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner
The dates of death of these pensioners are not in my book N. C. S.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Champion Clark, S.16082, you should apply to the Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing all of the following data:
Champion Clark, Certificate No.17756, issued September 19, 1833, rate $70.00 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Connecticut Agency.
Respectfully,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner.
This letter addressed to Clarke B. Hart. See letter re Samuel Hough W. 25866

BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
June 15, 1928
Chief Rev. 318.12 Mar. Section Division.
I have this day received from
Josephine C. Frost
check in the amount
of $ 1 00 , requesting
photostat copy as per letter herewith.
1928 June 26 Yours truly J. C. Frost to be refunded
O. J. RANDALL
Chief, Finance Division.
M.C.L.

Rev. 1812
HEADQUARTERS COMMANDERY-IN-CHIEF SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR
CHARLES R. HALE, COMMITTEE MARKING GRAVES 91 ELM ST. HARTFORD, CONN.
Oct. 15 - 1930
Chief Clerk Pension Dept. Washington, D.C. Dear Sir:
Please send me Revolutionary War Record of Champion Clarke died Jan. 20-1843 a. 83 Also Nathan Benton died March 19-1834 a. 79. Both lived in Bethlehem, Am. and were on the Pension roll.
Yours very Truly Chas. R. Hale

Check #1575 - $1.00
TELEPHONE MAIN 9572
MRS. JOSEPHINE C. FROST HISTORIAN-GENEALOGIST 129 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
June 11. 1928
LIFE MEMBER OF NEW YORK GENEALOGICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY; MEMBER OF LONG ISLAND, NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC AND GENEALOGICAL, NEW JERSEY, CONNECTICUT, QUAKER HILL AND KINGS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETIES; MEMBER OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION; NATIONAL SOCIETY OF NEW ENGLAND WOMEN, BROOKLYN COLONY; COLONIAL DAUGHTERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, AND THEIR GENEALOGIST; GEORGE WASHINGTON-SULGRAVE INSTITUTION.
PUBLICATIONS:
Three volumes of the Town Records of Jamaica, L. I., 1656-1751.
Frost Haviland Strang Outenbogart } Genealogies also
ANCESTORS OF:
 Amyntas Shaw and his wife Lucy Tufts Williams;  Jerry Crary and his wife Laura Antoinette Dunham;  Alden Smith Swan and his wife Mary Althea Farwell;  Edward Irving Eldredge and his wife Helen Louise Dutcher;  Benjamin Ferris Blakeney and his wife Stella Peronne Sabin;  Frank Herbert Davol and his wife Phebe Downing Willits;  Charles Dana Bigelow and his wife Eunice Ann Howe;  James Wilson Yates and his wife Nancy Terry;  Henry Rogers Winthrop and his wife Alice Woodward Babcock;  Lineage Book of the Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century. 
GENEALOGIES IN MANUSCRIPT:
 Birdsall; Loree; Ancestors of:—  Benjamin F. Card and his wife Abigail Bliss;  Rodman King Bowne and his wife Maria Harmer;  Rev. Charles Dame and his wife Nancy Jenness Page;  William Mulford Loree and his wife Sarah Marsh;  Daniel Atley Webster and his wife Josephine Outenbogart;  Ebenezer Butterick and his wife Ellen Augusta Pollard;  Arden A. Smith and his wife Constance A. Brooks;  Edwin F. Patchen and his wife Martha Washington Yellowlee;  Henry Lafayette Horton and his wife Josephine Lent;  Rev. Henry Ward Beecher and his wife Eunice White Bullard. 
NUMEROUS LONG ISLAND CEMETERY INSCRIPTIONS AND CHURCH RECORDS
U. S. Pension Bureau. Revolutionary Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:- I am enclosing check of one dollar and ask if you will please send me as soon as possible a copy of the pension papers of Champion Clark who had a pension in 1832 and in 1840 was listed as 79 years of age residing in Bethlehem Conn. as per the Revolutionary (pension) rolls of that state pp. 653 & 664. I desire it to use in a book I am doing for his descendants and if the dollar is not sufficient kindly let me know and I will send the required amount.
Yours Truly Josephine C. Frost

16.082 INVALID.
File No. 16.082
Champion Clark
Pr. Rec. War
Act: June 7 '92
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 71
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1928. June 26. kept. to Josephine O. Frost M.C.S.
1929. Apr. 10 - Fish. L. Clarke O. Hart: See letter in Samuel Waugh W 25864 awg
1930 Oct. 28. Tombstone data to Chas. R. Hale. M.C.S.

Inverness
Conn
(Pension papers)
Oct 7
To. J. L. Edwards Esquire, Commissioner of Pensions. Washington City

N o 5442.

I Solomon Gorgey of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut aged Seventy years being first duly sworn according to law Depose & say that I have been acquainted with Champion Clarke of Bethlehem in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut from my childhood to the present time that in the year 1777 I think in the month of April of that year I enlisted into a company of State Troops at New London Connecticut in the service of the United States commanded by Captain Augustus Collins in a Regt. commanded by Col John Daly of Lyme to serve for the term of nine months I performed duty in sd Company & Regt at New London & at Providence & Second Swansey point in Rhode Island and Long Island for a period of nine months & I recollect that the said Champion Clarke was a member of a company commanded by Captain Smith of New Haven & belonged to the same Regiment to which I belonged & that the said Clarke remained on duty in sd Company & Regt during the time aforesaid —
I will recollect that I heard in 1778 that the sd Clarke had gone on a tour of duty to Rhode Island I should think about four months but do not know the fact of his having enlisted except only from common report —
In the year 1782 I know that the said Champion Clarke was in the service of the United States as a teamster under the command of Captain Isham Chapman I saw the sd Clarke while he was in the service aforesaid at Hornbrook in Connecticut I know that a company of men were raised by enlistment to

Inform Duty as I remember in the year 1778 & that the said Isham Chapman commanded a Company of that Description I also know that the members of said Company were subject to Martial law & to the regulations of the army & that they drew their pay & rations from the United States - and further the Deponent saith not
Solomon Goshu
State of Connecticut Litchfield County - ss. Litchfield
On this 4 th Day of August A.D. 1832 personally came before me Morris Woodruff a Justice of the Peace for Litchfield County, Solomon Goshu of said Litchfield to me well known to be a gentleman of respectability & a credible Witness & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed -
Morris Woodruff Justice of the Peace
11 11 12
I Frederick Wolcott Clerk of the County Court within & for the County of Litchfield in the State of Conn t . certify that Morris Woodruff, was on the 4 th day of instant August & that he was a Justice of the Peace within & for said County, & that the above signature which purports to be his is genuine. - Witness my hand & the seal of said Court at Litchfield in said County this 22 d day of August A.D. 1832. Frederick Wolcott Clerk