Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,983, David Clark, Mass

SERVICE
Clark, David
NUMBER _____
NUMBER S. 36983 B.L. Wt. 527-100
CONTENTS

13.723
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District of Maine
Daria Clark
of Bridgton in the state of  D of Maine who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wigglesworth of the Massachusetts line, for the term of Six Years
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of May  1819
Certificate of Pension issued the 3 rd of Aug t 1819 and sent to Ino. Murphy Esq r Portland D. of Maine
Arrears to 4th of Aug  Sep 1819 . 26 09
Semi-ann. all'ce ending
3 Mo. \frac{4}{31} \frac{4}{30}
$ 26.09
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

No 327.
David Clark, a Private in the late Massachusetts Line.
Warrant issued under date the 25 th Oct r 1810.
in favor of David Jewett Poor, Assignee of D. Clark, & dd to him.

David Clarke Deed to David J. Poor
David Clarke To David J. Poor
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To all People to Whom these Presents shall come, Know Ye That, I David Clark of Bridgeton in the County of Cumberland and Commonwealth of Massachusetts; For and in consideration of the sum of fifty dollars to me in hand paid by David J. Poor, of Cincinnati in the County of Hamilton & State of Ohio, do hereby waive release and forego all claims to him the said David J. Poor, his heirs and assigns all that Right title interest or Pretensions the said David Clark has of one hundred Acres of Land lying in the City in the County and territory of Oregon. To all Persons now intitled to by virtue of a discharge from under the hand of Major General by George Washington, Esq. General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America, I was serving as a Soldier in the Third Massachusetts Regiment.
To have and to hold the above named release and quit claim Powers to him the said David J. Poor his heirs and assigns forever without any manner of Release challenge or contro- version by or from me the said David Clark, my heirs executors or administrators or any other Person or Persons in name or their names Right or share.
In witness whereof I the said David Clark have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten and the thirty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
Signed Sealed and delivered in presence of
David Clark
John Wharton
Isaac A. Wharton
Waterford August 16. 1810 Before me personally appeared the above named David Clark and acknowledged the above instrument by him subscribed to be his free act and deed before me Calvin Farris, Just. Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.-
Oxford ss.
I the subscriber, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said in county of Oxford, do hereby certify that Calvin Farrar within named is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Oxford duly authorized to administer oaths and certify the same and to receive and certify the acknowledg- ment of instruments, and that I have seen the said Farrar write, and that I have no doubt but that the certificate purporting to be made by said Farrar is his hand writing.-
Cyrus H. Sanborn Clerk.

David Clark - maps - line 13 th Col Wigglesworth 16 th Jany 1777 war
Correct by Roll
Admitted
22 Mar 1819

I David Clark of Bridgton in the District of Maine aged seventy one years being duly sworn do do hereby and say that I enlisted as a private soldier in the month of January in the year Seventeen hundred & seven seven in Capt M. Fairfield afterwards J. M c Nall, afterwards Peter Page's company in Col Edward Wigglesworth's Regiment Gen. Glover's Brigade of the Massachusetts Line of the Continental Establishment for the period of during the war : that at some time in 1780 this regiment was reduced or broken up & I was transferred into Capt Joseph Williams company Col. John Grayson's Regiment in which I continued until the war was over and received an honorable discharge in June 1783 at Newberg near New Windsor in the State of New York: was at the taking of Burgoyne & in the battle of Monmouth and also in many skirmishes during the above period: that my said honorable discharge was forwarded to the City of Washington for the purpose of obtaining the land due me for my services where I presume it now remains in the files of the department of Government: that I am not borne on any pension Roll: that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of the assistance of my country for support agreeably to the provisions of the Act of Congress passed the 18 th March A.D. 1818 —
David Clark
Subscribed and sworn to this twenty eighth day of May A.D. 1819 Before me
Albion H. Parrish U. S. Dist. Judge Dep

I Alner Dodge of Bridgton in the District of Maine being duly sworn depose & say that I am acquainted with David Clark who subscribed the within declar- ation & that in my opinion said Clark by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of the assis- tance of his country for support agreeably to the Act of Congress passed 18 th March 1818
Alner Dodge
Subscribed & sworn to this twenty eighth day of May A.D. 1819 Before me
Albion L. Parris U.S. Dist. Judge

black formerly of ... Robert Wall
United States of America District of Maine ss
To Charles Whitman and Nathaniel How of said District Esquires or either of them _____ Greeting
You are hereby authorized & empowered to take the deposition of Joseph Kimball and Joel Atherton of said District to be used in the application made by David Clark before me this day for the benefit of the provisions of the Act of Congress passed the 18 th March A.D. 1818 - and you will certify also the credibility of the witnesses aforesaid and return the same with this commission
Given at my chambers in Portland this twenty eighth day of May A.D. Eighteen hundred & nineteen
Albion H. Parry
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine

I Joseph Kimball of Waterville in the County of Oxford and District of Maine do hereby certify that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven I joined the army of the United States that was well acquainted with David Clark formerly of Topsham in the state of Maine. at the time of our battle in the District of Maine that said Clark then belonged to the army and was a private soldier in the company commanded by Capt. Matthew H. Fairfield of the Thirteenth Regiment I continued to serve on the continental establishment in the same company with said Clark three years when I was discharged was with said Clark at the taking of Burgoyne and his army and also in the battle of Saratoga and further with note. Joseph Kimball
District of Maine, Cumberland ss. June the second A.D. one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. Then personally appeared the above named Joseph Kimball and after being duly examined, confessed and swore to tell the truth and nothing but the truth made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed. Taken at the request of David Clark herein named and by authority of a Dedimus-Potestatem of the Honorable Albin P. Parris bearing date the twenty eighth day of May last past which is hereunto returned.
Before me, Nathaniel Flower { Justice of the Peace

I Joel Atherton of Waterville in the County of Oxford and District of Maine of lawful age testify and say that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one I belonged to the army of the United States that I then became acquainted with David Clark now of Bridgeton in the County of Cumberland & District of Maine that said Clark was then a private in the first Company of Massachusetts continental troops commanded by Capt. Joseph Williams of the Third Regiment and Third Brigade that we both continued in the services of the United States until after the Peace and until said Clark was honorably discharged which took place as respected said Clark in June in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three and further and Dependent on the note.
Joel Atherton
District of Maine, Cumberland ss. June the second A. D. one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. Then personally appeared before me the subscribers, one of the justices of the Peace for the County of Cumberland aforesaid Joel Atherton above named, who after being examined and continued to testify the truth and nothing but the truth, made solemn oaths to the truth of the above deposition by him signed. Taken at the request of David Clark therein named and by authority of a De dimus. Soletestatem of the Honble. Albion H. Parris bearing date the twenty eighth day of May last past which is herewith returned. And I do hereby certify that the above named Dependent is a man of truth and veracity.
Nathaniel Blower { Justice of the Peace

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty eighth — day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  nineteen , personally came David Clark the applicant named in the papers hereunto annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true.
And the said applicant further offered in evidence the depositions of Joel Atherton and Joseph Kimball taken pursuant to a depositions subpoena by me issued and which are hereunto annexed, stating that they well knew said Clark while a private in Fairfield and afterwards in Williams company of the Massachusetts Line Continental Establishment & that he served faithfully for the period of nine months & upwards in continuation during the Revolutionary War and which deponents were present in the army during that period — and also the declaration under oath of Abner Dodge, that the said Clark by reason of his reduced circumstances is in need of the assistance of this country for support
And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory proof to me that the said David Clark the applicant, served as a private in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months and upwards in continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my Official Seal to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
And I further certify that it has been perfectly proved to me that the said David Clark by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of the assistance of his country for support —
Albion H. Parris
Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.
Albion H. Parris U. S. Dist. Ct. Judge —

843.
D. Clarke
✓ David Clarke
Declaration
Presented 22 nd Aug 1829.
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36.983
Allowed
act 1828

For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act for the relief of certain surviving Officers & Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution, approved on the 15 th of May 1828, I David Clarke of Bridgton in the County of Cumberland & State of Maine, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution for & during the War, and continued in its service until its termination; at the time of enlistment (which was in July 1777) I was a private in Captain Matthew Fairfield's Company, in the Thirteenth Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, under the Command of Col. Hylesworth; and at its close I was a private in Captain Joseph Williams' Company in the Third Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, under the Command of Col. Dreyton. — I also declare that I have a discharge dated June 1783 which is now at the War Office, having been sent there a few years since, & not returned to me.
I also declare that I have no recollection of receiving a Certificate for the reward of Eighty Dollars, under a resolution of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778. — And I also declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828, on the Pension List of the United States.
David Clarke
Cumberland July 21 1828. Personally appeared the above named David Clarke, & made oath, the declaration by him subscribed is true. Before me
Theodore Ingalls, Just. of the Peace
Before me Theodore Ingalls a justice of the peace in the County of Cumberland, in the State of Maine, personally appeared Ebenezer Carsey and Joseph Kimball both of Bridgton in said County of Cumberland, who did severally make oath, that David Clarke, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, has long been a neighbour to us, that he is about eighty years of age, and is generally reported & believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated.
Witness my hand this twenty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & twenty eight

a Certificate for the reward of Eighty Dollars, under a resolution of Congress passed the 15 th of May 1778 — And I also declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of March 1828, on the Pension List of the United States
David Clarke
Cumberland July 21 st 1828. Personally appeared the above named David Clarke, & made oath, the declaration by him subscribed is true. Before me
Theodore Ingalls, Just. of the Peace
Before Me Theodore Ingalls a justice of the Peace in the County of Cumberland in the State of Maine, personally appeared Ebenezer Carseby and Joseph Kimball both of Bridgton in said County of Cumberland, who did severally make oath, that David Clarke, by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed, has long been a neighbour to us, that he is about eighty years of age, and is generally reported & believed to have been a soldier in the Army of the Revolution, in manner as therein stated. Witness my hand this twenty first day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & twenty eight
Theodore Ingalls, Justice of the Peace
I, the subscriber, Clerk of the Court of the County of Cumberland in the State of Maine, do hereby certify that Theodore Ingalls before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn , was at the time  was then a justice of the Peace and duly empowered to administer Oaths;
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said County  the said Court, this eighth day of August, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
Richard D. Vaughan

Rev. C Original Copy 628 REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Aug t 29. 1828.
David Clark. of Bridgeton, in the County of Cumberland, in the State of Maine, has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Private in captain Williams's company, in the Third regiment of the Massachusetts line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing.
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary Adkins
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
4 th September 1828
It appears by the records in this office, that a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars has been issued to David Clarke - - in the Massachusetts line.
It further appears that David Clarke - - is now on the pension list of the any - - - - - agency, and has been so since the 3 d March 1826 at the rate of  dollars per month.
John H. Haynes Aud
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We John & Joel Atherton of Watertown in the County of Oxford Commonwealth of Massachusetts being of lawful age do testify and say that David Clark served as a soldier in the Third Massachusetts Regiment and the first Company under the command of Capt. Joseph Williams during the war, and that the said David Clark received a regular discharge and further saith not,
Dated at Watertown this sixteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten.
John Atherton Joel Atherton
Exhibit G.
Personally appeared the above named John and Joel Atherton who made solemn oath that the above certificate or deposition by them subscribed contained the truth and nothing but the truth, this sixteenth day of August. A.D. 1810.
before me Calvin Fairbank, Sub. Com.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Oxford ss -
I the subscriber, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county of Oxford do hereby certify that
Calvin Farrar within named is a Justice of the Peace within and for the said county of Oxford, duly authorized to administer oaths and certify the same, and that I have seen the Farrar write, and that I have no doubt but that the certificate purporting to be made by said Farrar is his hand writing. -
Cyrus Hanchin Clerk

36 983
Rev INVALID.
Rev
File No. 36,988
David Clark Rev Rev. Clark
Act: 18 th March 187
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 75
[Arrangement of 1870.]

By His Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq; General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America.
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof David Clark Soldier in the Third Massachusetts Regiment, having faith- fully served the United States Seven years & five months and being enlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army.
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the day of June 1783.
G Washington
By His Excellency's
Command,
John Laurens
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
J Savage Adjutant.
THE above David Clark Soldier has been honored with the BADGE OF MERIT for Seven Years faithful Service.
James Mellen Lt Col Comd

HEAD-QUARTERS, June 1783.
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
David Clark dis-charge
Mr. Lester Recd. Sept 10 1808 Furnished 20 1/2
Secretary's Office Boston May 16 1808 These Certify that Mr. David Clark has received the benefits of the Furlough passed the General Court in favor of the late Continental Soldiers and this discharge is delivered up agreeable to their Directions. - John Adams Secy.
David Clark, Esq. Essex County
David Clark (man) 132.9.14. 527-100