Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 426-300, Oliver Clarke, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
R.S.
Blake Oliver
B.L.W. #26-300-bapt. Issued Apr. 18, 1793 Also recorded as above under P.S.W. 2631 - No papers.
CONTENTS
General Land Office report by telephone (mch. 1940) W. #26 never located W. 2631 located in Ohio

Rev. & 1812 War Section Heas
December 14, 1926
Mrs. Jane E. Foster Webster Monroe County, N.Y.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the records of this bureau it appears that three hundred acres of bounty land were allowed on Warrant # 2631 which was issued April 18, 1793, on account of the services of OLIVER CLARKE who served as a Captain in the Rhode Island Line during the War of the Revolution.
There are no further data on file as to the soldier and no data as to his family owing to the destruction of papers in bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in November, 1800.
The above noted is the only soldier from Rhode Island by the name of Oliver Clark or Clarke that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
The Revolutionary War records fail to afford any information in regard to a Jedediah Foster.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner

CABLE ADDRESS: WILBELWAIT
WILLIAM BELL WAIT 230 PARK AVENUE NEW YORK
February 14, 1940.
Veterans Bureau Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you be good enough to advise me whether your office has any record of Oliver Clark , said to have been a Captain of a Cavalry Company in the Revolutionary War. It is probable that he lived and served at or near Providence, Rhode Island although it is not beyond the range of possibility that he may have served in the vicinity of the Mohawk Valley.
If you have a record of such a person in your files, I will be most appreciative if you will let me have whatever information your records may disclose as to his identity, where he served and when, the date and place of his death if it is known, and if perchance he left a widow who had a pension, I would be glad to have any records in reference to her.
Very truly yours,
Tom Bell Wait L.c.
WBW:A

Webster N.Y. Oct. 15- 1926 Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir -
Will you please send me the military record of Oliver Clark also of Jedidiah Foster
Oliver Clark was born at - Richmond Rhode Island Nov 1743
Yours truly
Mrs Jane E. Foster
Webster
Monroe Co
N.Y.

March 15, 1940
Mr. William Bell Wait 230 Park Avenue New York
BA-J/MCS Oliver Clarke B.L.Wt. 2631-300
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Oliver Clark who served in the Revolutionary War as Captain of a Cavalry Company and lived near Providence, Rhode Island.
The Revolutionary War records of this office show that Warrant #2631 for three hundred acres of bounty land was issued April 18, 1793, on account of the services of Oliver Clarke as Captain in the Rhode Island Line during the Revolutionary War.
There are no further data on file relative to this officer and no data relative to his family because of the destruction of papers in bounty land claims when the War Office was burned in November, 1800.
This is the only Oliver Clark or Clarke of Rhode Island that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
If you desire information relative to the location of the land noted above, it is suggested that you address the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and give the warrant number, the acreage and the date the warrant was issued.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator