Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44769, Selah Clark, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Clark, Selah
NUMBER
S.44769
CONTENTS
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44769
INVALID.
Rev
File No. 44769
John Clark
Pris. Rev War
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 90
[Arrangement of 1870.]

19272
New York.
Selah Clark.
of Onondaga in the state of New York who was a private in the commanded by Captain Chapin of the regiment commanded by Colonel Porter in the Massachusetts line, for the term of 1 year in 1776 .
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of December 1823 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 th of June 1824 . and sent to E. A. Wetmore, Esq. Utica, N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1824 . $ 22 70 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1824  48 00
$ 70 70
{ Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.

19,173
Selah Clark, Oneida Co. N.Y.
E. A. Wetmore, Utica N.Y. Chapin's Comp'y Porter Dept - 1 year Recd. 2 Feb. 1824 com'd 10 December 1823 admitted.

We Noah Cook and Eliab Wood both of Northampton in the county of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being of lawful age do testify and say that in the year 1776 we were in the revolutionary war, and enlisted into the company of Capt. Israel Chapin & in Col. Elisha Porter's Regiment, and that we marched from Northampton in the said county of Hampshire on the third day of March A.D. 1776, and Mr. Selah Clark marched at the same time and in the same company and Regiment with us to Quebec, from thence to Morristown in New Jersey where we were all of us honorably discharged together about the middle of January 1777 and that during that time the said Clark remained with us, and we further say & testify that we were well acquainted with said Clark a resident at that time in Northampton in the said county of Hampshire, but now residing in the State of New York; and furthermore the deponents say not. —
Noah Cook Eliab Wood
On the fourth day of October 1823 personally appeared before me the above named Noah Cook and Eliab Wood, and being duly sworn did depose and say that the facts stated in the above affidavit by them subscribed, are true — and are well known to me and are respectable and creditable men & sustain a perfectly good reputation for truth and veracity.
Joseph Kingsley Jr.
Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Hampshire

I Solomon Stoddard Jun Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the within named "Joseph Kingsley Jun" was on the day of the date of the within jurat & certificate by him subscribed a Justice of the Peace in & for the said County of Hampshire duly commissioned and sworn, & authorized to take affi- davit - and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, & that the name "Joseph Kingsley Jun" subscribed to said jurat & certificate is in the proper hand writing of him the said Joseph - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Superior Judicial Courts  of the Superior Judicial Courts this sixth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty three
S Stoddard Jr Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the County of Hampshire

"State of New York County of Oneida, ss"
On this tenth day of December Eighteen hundred and twenty three personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas for the said County of Oneida being (by Statute) a court of Record Selah Clark aged seventy six years resident in the Town of Trenton in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows. Viz, that he enlisted in the Fall of the year 1775 in Capt. Israel Chapins Company in Col. Elisha Porter Regiment of Infantry of the Massachusetts line on the Continental establishment to serve until the first of January 1777: that he marched in said Company from Northampton on the 3 d of March 1776 to Quebec where he remained in said Company until some time in May following when he marched with said Company to Morristown in New Jersey where this deponent was honourably discharged about the middle of January 1777 and that he was in service & under pay for upwards of one year and in actual service from the said third day of March 1776 until the middle of January 1777 and he further saith that neither himself nor any other member of said Company as he was informed & verily believes ever received any written discharge from said service. And he also saith that his Wife Phebe aged Sixty one years is the only person living in his family that she is infirm & seldom able to work and that he has no children & is himself infirm & unable to work. And in pursuance of the act of 8 th May 1820 S. the said Oliver do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following schedule by me subscribed. I have no property except a Bed & bedding and a few articles of necessary wearing apparel & household furniture worth in the whole $ 40 — my wife is entitled to receive forty nine Dollars per year from her Fathers Estate during

to be paid to her her natural life, by the heirs of her said Father, but owing to the poor & in- solvent circumstances of most of said heirs she has never received more than about twelve Dollars per year and that there is no probability of her ever receiving more than said $42 per year - I am not entitled to receive any portion of said sum which ought to be paid either during her life to my said Wife or after her Death Selah his Clark mark
I swear to & declared in open Court
before me this 10 th day of December 1823
Truman Enos Senior Judge, Oneida Com Pleas.
State of New York
Clerks Office } p
Oneida County
I Eliasaph Dorchester Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Oneida Do Certify that the foregoing proceedings were had in open Court, that the said oath and Schedule have been admitted to the records of said Court and that the same are truly Copied therefrom, and I do further Certify that in the opinion of said Court the total amount of property exhibited in said Schedule is Forty Dollars and no more In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 26 th day of January 1824
Eliasaph Dorchester Clk
By Thomas M. Francis Dp Clk
19.173 Selah Clark Applicant to be placed upon pen- sion roll
E. A. Watrous, Jr. (Atty. Genl.)