Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 30,931, Nathan Clifford, Mass

SERVICE
Mass
Clifford, Nathan
NUMBER
S 30.931
CONTENTS
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176 Dukes
5740
Massachusetts Nathan Clifford of Fisbury in the State of Mass who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Smith of the Mass by  in the Mass time for 7 month 17 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 25 Dollars 22 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th day of Feb 1833 to Nat Thomas Durham  Wolmes Root  Mass
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832  $37.83 Pension allowance ending Mar 33  42.11 $80.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. N. Addison Clerk, Book D Vol. 2a Page 94

No 1060
Nathan Clifford. petition for a pension
Ms. A. 9. 2. 20. 11. 1860

State of Massachusetts } County of Dukes County }
On this sixteenth day of July eighteen hundred and thirty two personally appeared before a Court of Probate (within and for the County of Dukes County) Nathan Clifford a resident of the Town of Tisbury in the County of Dukes County State of Massachusetts aged Seventy five — years who being first sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he enlisted into the Service of the State of Massachusetts in the year seventeen hundred and seventy six in the Company of a Captain Nathan Smith and served as a private soldier, stationed on the Island of Martha Vineyard for the defence of the Sea Coast (the name of the Regiment unknown to him) and he verily believes said Regiment was commanded by a Colonel. Beriah Norton That he enlisted on or about the fifteenth day of January seventeen hundred and seventy six and served until September the first seventeen hundred and seventy six
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the for pension roll of any agency in any state
And the following interrogatories were put to the aforesaid applicant (Nathan Clifford) and the answers are herein contained
1st Where and what year were you born
Answer in Tisbury Dukes County, AD-1757 Bible
2 have you any record of your age and where is it. Answer in my
3rd Where were you living when called into the service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War and where do you now live Answer in Tisbury aforesaid
4th How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute and for whom. Answer, I enlisted voluntarily.

5th State the names of the regular officers who were with the Troops where you served, such Continental and Militia regiments as you can recollect and the circumstances of your Service
Answer Col Bariah Norton
Capt Nathan Smith
Jehueah Manton Lieut
Horatio Boffitt 2 Lieut
David Merry Sergeant
Malachi Luce Samuel Luce & Jonathan Lock Friends, 6th did you receive a discharge from the service and if so by whom was it given and what has become of it Answer no written discharge the Company being discharged
7th State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighbourhood and who can testify as to your character, veracity and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution
Answer Malachi Luce & Jonathan Lock Nathan Clifford
We Thomas Dunham Jabez Smith Jr. Jonathan Lock Malachi Luce all of Tisbury County of Dukes County certify that we are well acquainted with the aforesaid Nathan Clifford that we believe him to be seventy five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion Thomas Dunham sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Jonathan Lock
Malachi Luce his mark Jabez Smith

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department that the above named applicant (Nathan Clifford) was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the court further declare that Thomas Dunham Malachi Luce and Isaac Smith, residents in the town of Tisbury are credible persons and that their statements is entitled to credit
George Mearns } Judge of Probate for Dukes County
Dukes County ss }
I Cornelius Marchant Register and Clerk of Probate (within and for the County of Dukes County) certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Nathan Clifford for a pension. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand seal this and Register of Probate's — seal of office. This sixteenth day of July in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Cornelius Marchant.

A. Clifford claim
from
Thomas Denham Holmes Hole Dukes County Massachusetts
No. 1060
Deposit in the 10th January
Private
Yours truly
Adm'd
ACT 1 JUNE 1830 of the State of Massachusetts to wit: That the within copy is a true copy of the original now on file in the office of the Secretary of the Navy at the Navy Yard, Washington, D.C.
Joseph G. Coles
W. W. Clancey

BRIEF in the case of Nathan Clifford of the Town of Tisbury in the State of Massachusetts (Act 7 June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court of Probate,  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy five  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.      In 1776  January 15 th  60  Sept 1 st  7 17 Priest Col. Bariah North  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Tisbury  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? by Documentary proof, Cert d of E. D. Bangs Secretary of the Commonwealth of  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
E. D. Bangs Examining Clerk.

Hon. Lewis Cass my free Secretary of War Washington (District of Columbia)
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Holmes Hole, State of Massachusetts Jan'y 15 1832 Hon. Sir
I send you the papers in the case of Nathan Clifford applicant for a Pension under the act of June 7 th 1832 having been returned to me for the want of a Seal since the signing and sealing of Nathan Clifford's declaration dated July 16 th 1832 the Register of Probate for Dukes County has procured a new seal and has put it on the said declaration which I now inclose directed to the War Department if any further enquiries are necessary the Hon. John Reed of Massachusetts now a member of Congress is acquainted with the signature of Cornelius Merchant Esqr. Register of Probate and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Dukes County. please to direct your letter to Thomas Dunham at Holmes Hole County of Dukes County. I remain your humble servant
Thomas Dunham Attorney for Nathan Clifford
Hon. Lewis Cass. Secretary of War

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, June 27. 1872
I hereby certify, that it appears from an examination of certain Muster Rolls remaining in this Office among the Military Papers of the Revolutionary War, that Nathan Clifford served as a private in Capt. Nathan Smith's Company, stationed on Martha's Vineyard, for the defence of the Seacoast, from Jan'y. 15. 1776 to Sept 1. 1776.
Edward D Bangs. Sec'y of Com't.

Dukes County ss. A Court of Sessions held at Edgartown in the County of Dukes County on the sixteenth day of July A D 1832.
I hereby certify that Edward D. Rogers is Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that I believe the within to be his signature,
George Atkinson } Judge of Probate for Dukes County

30931 Ray INVALID.
File No. 30,931
Nathan Clifford Rev War
Act: June 7 39
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 14
[Arrangement of 1870.]