Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 1898, John Clark, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Clark John
S 1898
CONTENTS
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7052
Jonesborough Tennessee John Clark -
of Washington Co in the State of Tennessee who was a pri. Lieut in the Company commanded by Captain Russell of the Regt. commanded by Col. Shelby in the H.C.A. m a time for 6 mo. from '76 5 mo. from '76
Inscribed on the Roll of Tennessee at the rate of 96 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Feby 1833 and sent to Hon: J. P. Blair Ho. of Reps.
Arrears to 14th of March 1833. $193.32 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 48.33 $241.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book 7c Vol. 8 Page 123
See letter to June 1833 to Hon. J. Blair Jonesborough.
Duplicate certificate issued to 26 March 1834 & sent to Hon J Blair H.R.

John Clark 1849
By John Blair

15070 00127 State of Tennessee } September Term 1832 Washington County } On this 13 th September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Samuel Powell one of the Judges of the Circuit Court of Law & Equity now sitting in & for said County John Clark a resident of the County of Washington within said State, aged seventy four years who first being duly sworn according to Law took an oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed the 7 th June 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and second as herein stated to wit that at the time & previous thereto he resided in the County of Washington then North Carolina, now Tennessee, the same being a frontier & separated from the settlements of said State by a chain of mountains & uninhabited Country, & having arrived in the same about the first of March 1775. the Revolutionary war shortly thereafter broke out & the Cherokee Indians on the borders & adjacent to said settlements on W Ocheechee & Watoga took part against the Colonies & shortly after his removal appeared began to kill & depredated upon the settlements, when, as well as recollected on the 1 st of March of the ensuing years

(1778) he was drafted to go on an expedition against the Chickamauga (part of the Cherokee tribe of Indians) under Col Charles Robinson who commanded the North Carolina troops & enrolled under Capt Russell of the County of Washington officers and rendezvoused at the head of the Long Island on Holston River, there met Col Shelby, men of the Virginia Militia, & there encamped for several weeks, & took water  boats ascended the Holston river & Tennessee & landed near the mouth of Chickamauga creek in the Country (called the Chickamauga District) & there burned towns, houses, stock & destroyed their provisions, but most of the Indians fled, and evacuated the Country after which they marched back by land through the woods, by the way of the Grassy valley & near where Knoxville now stands, there being no settlement or roads for near two hundred miles of their trail, and on his return and was discharged verbally by his said Capt Russell after serving between three and four months , That after being called upon without being regularly offered to go on short & irregular tours of duty against the Indians, he volunteered volunteered to go under Roberson to the South, and the captain of his company  was Samuel Williams in whose company he acted as lieutenant , and rendezvoused on Indian Creek, & then met the troops from the upper Country near East Sullivan County, & marched sometime in May or June and well recollects that

when he crossed over the Yellow mountains & marched into the Southern settlements, (the oats crop was partly cut, & standing in the sheaf & part uncut) and encamped some ten days or more at Gattrel Town, (now Rutherford House), and from thence to the Chero- kee ford on Broad River, and there remained some time & then marched, a part of the (which consisted of three or four thousand men under M c Clure Shelly & (Clark), men under sundry officers, he thinks, Sevier & Shelly were along, were detailed to go about eighteen miles to a fort in possession of an old fort where were assembled a number of Tories under one Patrick Moore, with two hundred or more stand of arms and a British officer to discipline them, & upon the attack made upon said Fort the Tories surrendered, & let them loose upon their parole of honor & oath not to take up arms against the colonies. from which time the army scouted about, from place to place hearing of the main British army being in their vicinity and too powerful for an engagement with it, and returned home often being in service as a lieutenant in the Company during said War, and in actual service some- over three months immediately after which the man from his neighborhood, went on to the Kings mountain engagement, but in which expedition he did not go (being about to marry) that in the winter of the year 1781. after the Kings mountain Battle, the Overhill Indians (or Cherokees, so called from their location) were in hostility & Col. Sevier called out the
(over 3 m)

Metetua to go on an expedition of arrest said Indians, when this sergeant who was a Lieutenant in John Williams Company volunteered, & said John Williams decli- ning to go, this sergeant acted as Captain & commanded the company under Col. Sevier in said expedition, & set off  up Indian Creek through the Greasy Cove, across the Bald Mountain to what is now Haywood County, and the Indians principally retreated, but in detached parties fired upon the army & killed John Davis & Lieutenant under sergeant (named Bond) & some Indians were also killed but the principal service performed was in destroying the property of said Indians burning their Towns, & causing them to retreat from the settlement. They then returned home, being absent on the tour some thing near three months, & he verbally discharged the men under his command. That he served in several little terms of service on forced marches, & hasty arrangements as before stated in repressing the Indians when they broke in upon the settlements, but was not in the  as before said regularly offered, but served some two or three months in that way & served as a Lieutenant three months, as a Captain three more, and as a private three months, & over regular service is also about two or three months irregular service, amo- unting in the whole to about twelve Months . That he has no documentary evidence, having no discharges, & that he knows of no way on which he can prove his said service.

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state, nor is there a resident minister of the Gospel in his vicinity by whom he can establish the fact, set forth in the instructions of the War Department.
Test Jas V Anderson Clerk of Charles Robison We Leroy Taylor & Charles Robison residing in the County of Washington do certify that we are well acquainted with John Clark who has subscribed the foregoing declaration that we believe him to be four seventy years of age that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood in which he resides to have been a Revolutionary soldier, & that we concur in that opinion. Leroy Taylor Charles Robison Subscribed to & subscribed in open court this 18th Sept 1832 Test Jas V Anderson Clerk
and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that after the examination of the matter and after propounding the interrogatories prescribed by the secretary of war, that the above named applicant was a soldier of the Revolution and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that Leroy Taylor & Charles Robison who signed the foregoing certificate are residents in the County of Washington State aforesaid, & are credible persons, and their statements entitled to full credit.
James O'Anderson clerk of the Court of Law & Equity County of Washington do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of John Clark for a pension In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office 11th Sept 1832. Test. Jas V Anderson

The facts set forth by the dect. are not as to the estated situation of the premature settlers in that section of the country which is now East Tenn ee - is a part of the authentic history of the Country. & of the officers had delayed to leave their Country (after elect d ) and when called upon until they could send through an un-occupied country of some hundreds of miles to obtain commissions they would not now be applying for pensions as the reward of their patriotism. The applicant John Clark is known by me to be a man of respectability; is my neighbor, & the services performed by him understood generally in the Country from representation. Feb 13 th 1833. J. Blair M.C.
I further state that I drew up the claim & it is in the form in which it was perfected Feb 19 th 1833. John Blair
By John Blair
John Clark

August 27, 1929
Dr. William E. Kendall 228 South Ridgeland Ave. Oak Park, Illinois
Dear Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 1898, it appears that John Clark , while living in Washington County, North Carolina (later Tennessee), served with the North Carolina troops as follows:
From March 1, 1776, three months as a private in Captain Russell's Company in Colonel Charles Robison's Regiment.
He next served three months as lieutenant in Captain Samuel William's Company in Colonel Charles Robison's Regiment.
In 1778, two months as lieutenant in Colonel John Sevier's Regiment.
In the fall of 1779, two months as lieutenant in Captain Samuel William's Company in Colonel Brown's Regiment.
He next served one month as spy under Captain Luke Buyer.
In the winter of 1781, served three months as captain in Colonel Sevier's Regiment.

Rev.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 13, 1832, while a resident of Washington County, Tennessee, aged seventy-four years, date of birth not given.
There are no data on file relative to his family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of this soldier and possibly the date of his death you should address the Comptroller General, Records Division, General Accounting Office, Washington, D.C., citing the following data:
John Clark, Certificate 7052, issued February 27, 1833, rate $96.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act June 7, 1832, Tennessee Agency.
Very truly yours,
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner

In reply to your request of _____ received for a statement of the military history of _____
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
January 14, 1924
Bob Bryanton % Floyd & Son Harriman, Tenn.
Sir:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S.1898, it appears that John Clark, while a resident of Washington County, North Carolina (later Tennessee) enlisted March 1, 1776 and served three months as private in Captain Russell's Company, Colonel Charles Robison's North Carolina Regiment.
He next served three months as Lieutenant in Captain Samuel William's Company, Colonel Charles Robison's Regiment.
He enlisted in 1778 and served two months as Lieutenant in Colonel John Sevier's Regiment.
He enlisted in fall of 1779 and served two months as Lieutenant in Captain Samuel William's Company, Colonel Brown's Regiment.
He next served one month as spy under Captain Luke Buyer.
He enlisted in winter of 1781 and served three months as Captain in Colonel Sevier's Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 13, 1832, while a resident of Washington County, Tennessee, aged 74 years.
There is no data on file as to his family.
date - birth not given
Respectfully,
Commissioner

In your request of _____, received _____ statement of the military history of John Clark of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
S. file 1898
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Mar. 1. 76 3 mos. Private _____ Charles Robison N.C.   _____ 3 mos. Lieut. Samuel Williams Robison   1778 2 mos. Lieut. _____ John Sevier   Fall 1779 2 " Lieut. Samuel Williams Brown   _____ 1 mo. Cpl. Luke Buyer ✓   Winter 1781 3 mos. Capt. _____ Sevier  
Battles engaged in, Pursuit of Cherokee Ind + destruction of their towns. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Washington Co., N.C. Date of application for pension, Sept. 13, 1832. Held. Residence at date of application, Washington Co., Tenn. Age at date of application, seventy-four years. Remarks: His claim was allowed Feb. 27, 1833.  There is no family data on file.

IN REPLY REFER TO
3-2562
Rev. and 1812 Wars Section. MMHF
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU OF PENSIONS WASHINGTON
August 17, 1929.
Dr. William E. Kendall, 228 South Ridgeland Avenue, Oak Park, Illinois.
Dear Sir:
I advise you that the data furnished by you are not sufficient to enable this bureau to make intelligent reply to the queries contained in your letter.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below, as the information in your possession will permit, and return to this bureau.
First name of widow .....
Full name of soldier Capt. John Clark
Residence of soldier at enlistment .....
Residence of soldier after service .....
Name of state from which he enlisted .....
Approximate date of birth .....
Approximate date of death .....
Kindly return attached letter with your reply.
Respectfully,
Earl D Church EARL D. CHURCH, Commissioner.
Served under Gen. Sevier in Campaign against Cherokees in 1780-82 near headwaters of Tennessee in North Carolina & Tenn.

228 South Ridgeland Avenue Oak Park, Illinois
August 12, 1929.
Department of Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
I am doing some genealogical research work and I am informed that my great, great grandfather, John Clark, served in the Revolutionary War in North Carolina, what is now Tennessee.
Will you kindly give me any data available on Captain John Clark who served in the area above mentioned, particularly any data relating to his birth and death.
Thanking you for this information, I am
Very truly yours,
WM. E. KENDALL, M. D.

1911 Sept. 5. Hist to Geo. W. West letter in W. file 794 Andrew Hannah & 1924 Jan. 14 Hist. to Bob Bryant. See letter filed in case of George Fitzgerald, S. 39573. 1929 Aug 27. Hist. to D. V. Wm E. Scandall mes.
Rev War.  in
1898
INVALID.
File No. 1898
John Clark  Lieut. M. C. Line
Act: June 7, 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 68
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Clark
from 1776 private 2 d Lieutenant 11 months. Lt. 6 m $80 P. 5 " 16.66 $96.66
Ret d care
Allowed by N.E.

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
John Clark further proof or explanation.
 I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?  II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?  III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?  IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?  V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?  VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?  VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?  VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?  IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? 

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. †If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service? If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No. XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?
1. 2. 3. 6, 7 4 
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and 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; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
† QUERE XIV.  Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡ QUERE XVI.  Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
¶ In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
# Should be particular in answering the 6 th interrogatory, as regards his commission as an officer.

John Clark affordavit for increase of pension as officer.
name on roll of Dorsetborough agency
H. Blain

State of Tennessee.
Washington County Be it remembered that on this seventh day of May 1833 before me the subscriber, an acting justice of the peace in and for Washington County aforesaid personally appeared John Clark the declarant & made oath oaths, in order to increase his pension or annuity granted him under the act of Congress of 7 th June 1832. That at the time he made his original declaration upon which he has been allowed merely six dollars & sixty six cents , as a private and Lieutenant in the Revolutionary war, his recollections of events so long gone by, together with his ignorance of the grounds upon which the allowance was, (in amount) made to depend, prevented him from presenting before the war department the full extent of his revolutionary services, as to grade, as well as extent, and to remedy which and now present the facts more fully than his recollections would then enable him to do he makes this additional & explanatory statement to wit, that he during the Revolutionary war, in the year 1778 volunteered in the Company of Capt. Williams of the then North Carolina militia, (he said declarant at the time being Lieutenant of said company) to go against the Cherokee

Indians. said service was under Col John Sevier that his Captain Williams declined going on said tour & this declaration command- ed said Company being the highest officer in command on said expedition in said Com- pany & marched under Col Sevier to the Red- can Nation on the Tennessee River and expelled said Indians and returned after being two months on said expedition. Again in the fall of 1779. he again as Lieutenant of the same company volunteered under Col Brown to go against said Cherokee Indians who had again depredated, & being as before the highest officer in the company who volunteered commanded the company under Col Brown to the Cherokee Nation & there had an engagement with the Indians in which sixteen of the Indians were killed, & much of their property destroyed & after serving two months returned home. Again he was as a spy under Luke Bryan for one month to keep down the Tories which three tours amounted in the whole to five months the two first being four months as Lieutenant & the last month as a private. That he at the time of making out his original declaration only set forth

the three months as Lieutenant which he served to the Middle settlements against the Indians. When in fact he was two short tours in addit n which are before stated as Lieutenant and for which he has received no compensation, owing to his not having at the time a distinct recollection thereof & being determined in abundant caution only to state what he distinctly recollects should specify.
That he claims an increase of his pension for 4 months as Lieutenant and one month as a private for which none has been allowed him.
Known to be subscribed before me the undersigned
Levi Bowers Justice of the peace "
John Clark
Levi Bowers Esq r is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County & the above is his attestation made in my presence
May 24 th 1833
J. B. Blair

James I. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions. Washington
Please tho' a pleasure to answer
1851

Washington City March 26 th 1834
James L Edwards Esqr
Since I wrote my certifi- cates which you will have received I have found the affidavit & letter of Mr Clark referred to in my communica- tions of yesterday, by so good as to give the duplicate thereof to me
respectfully J Blair

Certificate of John Black for renewal of John Cooks certificate of Pension

Hall of Representatives March 25 th 1834
I certify that on yesterday I received a letter covering the affidavit of John Clark a citizen of Washington County Tennessee, on which he deposed to the loss of his Pension certificate (the said John Clark being a pensioner on the Jonesborough agency at the rate of ninety six dollars and \frac{66}{100} per ann) which affidavit I have misplaced so as not to be able to find it. I know the hand writing of the said John Clark and state that the affidavit is genuine, & he the deponent is the identical man who applied for and obtained the pension certificate, as I obtained it for him, & delivered it on my release from Congress. He requested upon said affidavit then misplaced that the loss of his certificate be made known by the issuance of a duplicate.
John Blair member Congress 1 st Street Tenn ee
James L Edwards Esqr Commissioner of Pensions

Tenn.
Jane
Issue a duplicate on Mr Blair's cert. within JLE
Edward Ely
comptroller of Public Works.
W.C.
Hon. Mr. Blair

Washington City
Mr Edwards.
March 25 th 1834
Will be pleased to send me the duplicate certificate for Mr Clark if the within is satisfactory.
Very respectfully
John H. Sir

John Clark
FREE
Hon. John Blair Washington City D.C.

State of Tennessee Washington County
Be it known that before me Jacob Brown an acting Notary of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid personally appeared John Clark a Revolutionary pensioner and made oath in due form of law that he was placed on the pension list under the law of the United States of the 7 th June 1832 at the rate of $96 66 / 100 Dollars per annum Commencing on the 4 th day of March 1831 that he received his certificate and has regularly drawn his pension at the Forsyth Agency up to the 4 th day of September 1833 since which time he has either lost or mislaid his certificate so that he cannot find it
Sworn to and subscribed this 14 th day of March 1834 before me
John Clark
Jacob Brown Justice of the peace

Townboro March 15 th 1834
Dr Sir
I have either lost or mislaid my pension certificate so that I cannot find it Enclosed is an affidavit to that effect on which you will please try to get my Certificate renewed and forward it to me per mail & oblige Grot Servant John Clark
time & to John Blair