Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28680, Ephraim Clark, Mass. Navy N.H.

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Mass.
Clark, Ephraim
S-28680
Navy
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Increased, ~
Moaine 80. ~
Ephraim Clarke ~
York Co., in the State of Moaine
was a Seamen in the Frigate Alliance commanded
Captain Landais of the PA commanded
Paul Jones in the No. S. Navy
for 12 mo. 25-days.
scribed on the Roll of Portland, Me.
the rate of 54 Dollars 10 Cents per annum,
commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
increased from $36. 57 / 100
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 th day of Octo, 1848. and sent to N. Manchester, Limington, Me.
Arrears to the 14th of
Semi-ant. allowance ending
increased from $36. 57 / 100
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by D. G. Wood Clerk, Book D. Vol. 1. Page 5-2

I Ephraim Clark of Simsbury in the county of York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of sixty-two years of age do testify and say, That I was a soldier in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war, that I first enlisted in Portsmouth in that service in a company commanded by Capt. Nathl Adiorne in the winter of 1775 winter season of 1775 or 1776 - and from thence to marched to Cambridge, and there remained (in the militia) about two or three months, and then I was dismissed and returned home
On the 26 th of Nov r 1776. I sailed in a Privateer from Portsmouth in in the brig Dolton , and on the 24 th of Dec r next following we were captured by the Reasonable , an English man of war ship of 64 guns in which I remained as a prisoner 27 days, I then was removed and put on board the Bell Isle , an English ship of 64 guns, in which I remained 19 days, from this I was removed and put on board the Torbay of 74 guns, and in her remained six days, and thence was carried on board the 74 gun ship Berford and there continued 83 days, and then was removed to the Blenheim a ninety gun guardship, and continued in her twenty-three days: - And on the 13 th of June 1777, I with many other American prisoners was taken from the said Blenheim and carried to Mill Prison, so called in Plymouth, in England, where I remained till I was exchanged as a prisoner and carried to France, where I arrived at a place called Pen Beef on the 5 th of April 1779 and there immediately shipped on board the American Frigate called the Alliance commanded by Capt Londais ; which ship, with her officers and crew, joined the squadron under Capt Commodore John Paul Jones Esq. and we sailed from L'Orient up the Irish sea, and North to the Islands of Shetland, and there, taking a prize I was put on board, and in attempting to go to France we were captured by the British, and was carried as a prisoner to Portsmouth Prison , in Portsmouth, England, - from which prison I escaped on the first of May 1780, and arrived to France on the 3 rd of the same month; and there finding no vessel bound to America I went on board a Privateer at Sherburgh , under American colours, and in our cruise we were captured again by the British, and carried to Mill Prison in Plymouth, and there remained till the general exchange of Prisoners took place, when I was exchanged and returned to Marblehead in Massachusetts, in August 1782 - I am a citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I have no pension, nor have I been able to get

any reward for all my sufferings, I am in re- duced circumstances, & infelicitous health as the con- sequence of my several imprisonments & suffer- ings therein, I am now altogether unable to sup- -port myself by labour, I stand in need of asis- -tance from my country for support. I enlisted on board the Ship Alliance as a sailor —
May 8. 1818 —
Ephraim Clark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts ss —
Be it known that on the eighth day of May 1818, be- -fore me the Subscribed One of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the said Commonwealth personally appeared Ephraim Clark of Simsbury in the County of Tolland being duly sworn & made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Navel service of the United States in the Revolutionary war; from which declaration signed & sworn to as aforesaid I George Thacher justice as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ephraim Clark did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in his said declaration against the common enemy; and that he is in reduced circum- -stances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support — And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had before me to

the Secretary for the Department of War
I Joshua Woodman of Buxton in the county of York aged sixty seven years testify & declare that I was a prisoner in England at Fortune Prison at Portsmouth about the middle of October 1779 & continued there till about the middle of April following. I further testify that while I was in prison as aforesaid I became acquainted with Ephraim Clarke who was also a prisoner with me & I left J. Clarke there, when I escaped in April 1780. J. Clarke & myself while in prison together made an attempt to escape together, but did not succeed. I understand that J. Clarke was taken in a prison to the Alliance frigate in Paul Jones Squadron.
Joshua Woodman
York 38 July 30 1819 -
Then Personally appeared the above named Joshua Woodman & being a credible & disinterested witness was duly sworn & made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed.
Before me Sam P. B. Harker
giving deposition...

Andrew Witham of Berwick in the County of York - Sixty four years of age - Testify and say that Ephraim Blake of Simnington was captured with me by the British and committed to Mill Prison in England 13 June 1779. Exchanged to France arrived to Brest the fifth of April 1779 shipped for the Alliance an American Frigate the first commanded by Peter Landis - we sailed up the Irish Sea together and in October same year we were parted being put on Board of different Ships - The said Ephraim Blake was commanded by Paul Jones Esquire the said Blake did his duty as a Seaman faithful at all times.
Andrew Witham
London August 4. 1818 -
Yorke's Trustee August 4. 1818. When the above named Andrew Witham personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the fore- going deposition -
Refer me - - Ebenezer Linscott Justice of the Peace

Included is the Deposition of Anthony Witham taken at the request of Andrew  Andrew Clarke to be used before the Hon. George Thatcher Esq. to entitle said Clarke to his Pension pay —

I Ephraim Clark of Simmington in the county of York and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of sixty-two years of age do testify and say, That I was a soldier in the service of the United States in the revolutionary war, that I first enlisted in Portsmouth in that service in a company commanded by Capt. Nathl Adiorne in the autumn of 1775 winter season of 1775 or 1776 - and from thence to marched to Cambridge, and there remained (in the militia) about two or three months and then I was dismissed and returned home —
On the 26 th of Nov r 1776. I sailed in a Privateer from Portsmouth in the brig Dolton , and on the 24 th of Dec r next following we were captured by the Reasonable , an English man of war ship of 64 guns in which I remained as a prisoner 27 days, I then was removed and put on board the Bell Isle , an English ship of 64 guns, in which I remained 19 days, from this I was removed and put on board the Torbay of 74 guns, and in her remained six days, and thence was carried on board the 74 gun ship Berford and there continued 83 days, and then was removed to the Blenheim a ninety gun guardship, and continued in her twenty-three days: — And on the 13 th of June 1777, I, with many other American prisoners was taken from the said Blenheim and carried to Mill Prison, so called in Plymouth, in England, where I remained till I was exchanged as a prisoner and carried to France, where I arrived at a place called Pen Beef , on the 5 th of April 1779 and there immediately shipped on board the American Frigate called the Alliance commanded by Capt Lendais ; which ship, with her officers and crew, joined the squadron under Capt Commodore John  Paul Jones Esq. and we sailed from L'Orient up the Irish sea, and North to the Islands of Shetland, and there, taking a privateer, I was put on board, and in attempting to go to France we were captured by the British, and was carried as a prisoner to Portsmouth Prison , in Portsmouth, England, — from which prison I escaped on the first of May 1780, and arrived to France on the 3 rd of the same month; and there finding no vessel bound to America I went on board a Privateer at Cherburgh , under American colours, and in our cruise we were captured again by the British, and carried to Mill Prison in Plymouth, and there remained till the general exchange of Prisoners took place, when I was exchanged and returned to Marblehead in Massachusetts, in August 1782 — I am a citizen of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I have no pension, nor have I been able to get

any reward for all my sufferings, I am in re- duced circumstances, & infested health as the con- sequence of my several imprisonments & suffer- ings therein, I am now altogether unable to sup- -port myself by labour, I stand in need of as- -sistance from my country for support. I enlisted on board the Ship Alliance as a sailor —
May 8. 1818 —
Ephraim Clark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts ss — Be it known that on the eighth day of May 1818 be- fore me the Subscriber One of the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of the said Commonwealth personally appeared Ephraim Clark of Simsbury in the County of York being duly sworn & made oath to the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed, in order to obtain the provision made by the late Act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war, from which declaration signed & sworn to as aforesaid I George Thacher justice as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Ephraim Clark did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in his said declaration against the common enemy; and that he is in reduced circum- -stances & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support — And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had before me to

the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and have caused the seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed this eighth day of May An Anno Domini 1810
George Thatcher
and so on ... giving deposition ...

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CLARK, EPHRAIM (MASS., NAVY, N. H.) S-2 8680

Memorandum
Built from keel to keel in the year 1776 20 December 1776. When launched the vessel was about the size of a 74 gun ship.
She was named The Reasonable and was a privateer on behalf of the First Continental Congress.    The Reasonable - 27  { all ships of the Line. 64 74 90 a three decker    Belleville - 19    Torrey - 6    Bangor - 83    Blenheim - 23  
Committed to Mr. Wilson the 13 th of June 1777
Exchanged to France arrived to port before the 15 th of April 1777 Entered for the Alliance Frigate the 5 th of April 1777 - Capt. Lander
Taken prisoner in a private Schooner Belonging to the French East India Company October 1777 was put on board several ships of war and finally was sent on shore and committed to the Prison in Portsmouth in England.
Made my escape from the prison the 1 st of May and arrived in London in June the 1 st of 1780.

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Ephraim Clarke
1652 Farmington
Identified
1727
1727
1727
STATE OF VERMONT

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Yorke , within and for the County of Yorke , on the first Tuesday, being the fourth day of July and by adjournment at Alfred from day to day, on the eighteenth day of July , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene , Chief Justice — Judge of said Court.
ON this eighteenth day of July , in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court —
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit , Ephraim Clarke — aged sixty four years, resident in Limington in said Circuit , who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a mariner in the company  squadron commanded by Capt.  Commodore Paul Jones in the Regiment  continental frigage Alliance commanded by Colonel  Capt. Peter Landers  in the line of the State of on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the eighth day of May , A. D. 181 0 , and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 14, 352 — was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 18th 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 schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
Ephraim Clarke
Sworn to and declared, on the 18 th } day of July , A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Benj a Greene, Ch. Justice
} One of the Judges of the said Court.
Atty. Daniel Sewall, Clerk

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
98 acres of land with house & barn thereon - 2 oxen, & 2 steers 3 y m old, & 4 cows - 1 horse - 3 yearlings - 3 small swine & 4 pigs - 11 sheep & 10 lambs - 1 pr cart wheels - 1 plough - other small farming utensils - household furniture
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Ephraim Clarke who, by occupation am a farmer - which I am not able to pursue by reason of a scrotal hernia , the situation of which is such that I can receive no relief by trussing.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Lucy Clark 57 partly able to support herself, but out of health.   Polly Clark, daughter 27 capable of supporting herself   Edward Clark, a son 25 { a hired man, to whom I am indebted about 300 doll s & who must have his pay out of my property.   Lucy Clark, daughter 21 capable of supporting herself   Aseneth Clark, daughter 16 ditto -   Elliot Clark, a son 13 out of health, but can do some small labour -  
Ephraim Clarke
STATE OF MAINE.
I, York ss. the county of Daniel Sewall, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is eleven hundred & twenty seven dollars; and that the applicant owns  owns three hundred dollars. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty second day of July, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Daniel Sewall,
{ Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York,
1127. Owns - 300 - 827 -

I Edward Clark of Limington in the county of York & State of Maine aged fifty six years do hereby testify and say that I am acquainted with Ephraim Clark of Limington who is reported to have been a revolutionary soldier & seaman & who is a pensioner and an applicant for an increase of pension; that he sustains a good character for truth & veracity & that full credit in my opinion should be given to his statements; that I have frequently seen the memoranda in his own handwriting marked A D & B annexed to the deposition of Isaac Mitchell Esquire & the book from which the same were extracted & says said Mitchell extract two of them from book being the documents marked A & D and frequently sent them & the document marked B & the other long before the passage of the act of March 18 1818; that I have resided in the same house with Ephraim Clark as described & have heard him relate the events of his revolutionary career as stated in the declaration of said Clark which read to him in my hearing; that I have heard him state his service with Captain Stacey, his service with Captain Fernald, his service with Captain Odiorne, his service in private armed Brig Fatten, his service in Alliance in Commodore Jones squadron, his imprisonment as a prisoner of war & every particular stated in his declaration made recently before Arthur Warther Esquire & have heard state all the facts of his services as above stated long before a pension law was enacted in 1818.
Witness Isaac Mitchell
Edward Clark
State of Maine York ss: On this twenty third day of May A.D. 1846 personally appeared Edward Clark

aforesaid and made solemn oath to the truth of aforesaid deposition by him subscri- bed Before me Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Edward Clark the affiant and that he sustains a good character for faith truth and veracity & that full faith & credit should be given to his statements. Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace.

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comprehension
CLARK, EPHRAIM (MASS, NAVY, N. H.) S- 28680

Memorandum
Sailed from Portsmouth in the Galleon Brig Nov 26 1776. Taken a prisoner in the Reasonable Man of war 21 of December 1776 Conveyed to Mill prison 13 of June 1777
Exchanged to France arrived at Penzance 5 of April 1779. Entered on Ship for the Alliance American Frigate of April 1779 Capt. Louis Peter Commander
Taken in a private Schooner belonging to the Squadron of Paul Jones Esq. Oct 1779 was on board of several ships of war a prisoner was sent on shore and admitted to Fortin Prison in Portsmouth in England made my escape from Fortin prison the first day of May 1780 and arrived at Cherburgh in France May the 3. 1780
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CLARK, EPHRAIM (MASS, NAVY, N. H.)
S-28680

Taken prisoner in a privateer from Dunkirk, by a Cutter and Sloop the 19 th of Septem r 1781 Sent on board and confined to Mill prison was Exchanged from Mill prison in the General Exchange of Prisoners from England to America - Arrived at Marblehead in August 1782 -
July 31 1783 sailed from Plymouth in The Good Ship Sanana bound to London Capt Samuel Tucker - arrived at Dover after a Passage of 36 days in four days after I arrived at Dunkirk in France where I got a settlement for my prize money Left Dunkirk in Novem r 1783 arrived in Martin Vineyard after a passage of 10 days arrived home to Kittery Janu y 28. 1784

28680
Rev
INVALID.
File No. 28,680
Elmer Clark Seaman 1860 1
Act: June 1 st 1897
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 78
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Nov. 13-1901 J. L. Wait Burlington Iow

See letter to A. M c . Arthur Aug t . 5. 1833
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Maine
Ephraim Clark
of York Co., in the State of Maine who was a Mariner in the Frigate Alliance commanded by Captain Landais of the Regiment commanded by Colonel N. H. in the U.S. Navy line, for the term of one year & 25 days. from April 5 1779 to ————— 1780
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 36 7 / 100 Dollars per month, to commence on the 4 day of March 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 of July 1832 - and sent to Arthur M c Arthur Simington, Me.
Arrears to 4th of March 1832 $ 36.07 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep. " 18.03
$ 54.10
Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820.
7 June 1832.
Rec: Book D. Vol: 52.

see letter 30 April 1829 to General Bradbury Esq
14 352 R District of Maine
Ephraim Clark
of Limington in the state of District of Maine who was a Marine in the regiment  on board Frigate Alliance commanded by Capt. Lancaster of the U.S. Navy line, for the term of One year
Inscribed on the Roll of District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence 18 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of Sep. 1819 and sent to George Thacher Esq. Saco District of Maine
  Arrears to 4th of  Sep. 1819  127.25    Semi-ann. all'ce ending  Mar. 1820  48.00    15 Mo. 24 4 31 30   $175.25  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Transferred to District of Maine for the term of One year at the rate of 8 Dollars per month commencing on the 18th day of May 1818

Sir,
Simington Aug. 10 th 1846.
In the case of Ephraim Clark applicant for an increase of pension, on which you have been pleased to make a negative report some of the facts are that Mr. Clark was pensioned under the Act of 18 March, 1818, the provisions of which required nine months service for a pension at rate of $96 per annum & was struck in from the roll under Act of May 1 1820. He subsequently was pensioned under Act of June 7 1832 at rate of $36.07 as a seaman which sum by computation is for about 9 months service as a seaman.
Your report of August 5 1846 says "The application of Ephraim Clark for an increase of pension has been examined and disallowed."
"In his declaration, under the act of 18 th March 1818 Clark states that he shipped on board the "Alliance" on 5 th of April 1779 - that shortly after he was taken by the British and detained as a prisoner until 1 st May 1780, when he made his escape - that on the 3 rd of that month he arrived in France, and finding no vessel bound to America, he shipped on board a privateer under American colors, and in a cruise was again captured and sent to Mill prison, where he remained until exchanged in 1782. When taken prisoner in the last cruise he was not in the public service, consequently he was not entitled to a pension for that service. The evidence on file

"is not at all satisfactory to show that claim- "ant rendered as much as two years service. " If however, that amount could be establish- "ed he would not be allowed under the act of "June 7 1832, a stipend at a higher rate per "annum than he is now receiving under the "act of 18 th March 1818."
In answer to some of your objections I say Mr. Clark is not receiving a pension under the act of 18 th March 1818 but was struck from that roll under act of May 1 1820 and was pensioned under act of June 7 1832 at $36.07 per annum and if he served as a seaman from April 5 1779 to May 1 1780 which by his original declaration under act of 1818 he did by the lapse of time of his service & imprisonment is he not entitled to be allowed one year and twenty five days for that service? If you say substantially that the service in the privated subsequent to his escape from prison was not public service and cannot be allowed and the claimant does not contend that it should be allowed but it was introduced in his declaration merely as part of his recollectionary narrative — neither does he contend that his claim is limited to two years service as you seem to sup- pose but to such time as he shall satis- factorily prove.
Permit me Sir respectfully to object to any inference that you may draw from the fact that Mr. Clark in his declara- tion

under the act of 18 March 1818 omitted to state any more than his sea service as he probably well knew that some months service was all necessary to be proved & probably stated to declare upon that service & that only necessary to sub- stantiate his claim.
The claimant in addition to the deficit in his sea service has introduced some small items of quarantine service amounting to about four months. It is for me to judge whether under your rules for the admission of proof his testimony is admissible. If the principle that the best evidence the nature of the case will admit it is not brought to his aid he will be compelled to abandon a just claim: but the balance of time on the sea service is incontrovertible. I am very respectfully
James S. Edwards Esq. Your Obt. Servt. Commission of Pensions
Arthur M c Arthur

STATE OF MAINE.
CUMBERL. ss. D, ss....
— Charles Cobb — Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that
Arthur M c Arthur is a Magistrate
as appears by the papers hereto annexed; that he is — duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission bears date February 3, A.D. 1842, and will expire February 3, A.D. 1849. —————
and that the — Following — signatures purporting to be his — are genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand, and affixed the Seal of the — Supreme Judicial — Court for said State, this third day of June Anno Domini 1846
Charles Cobb CLERK.

Livingston June 5 1846
Sir Indorsed is the application of of Ephraim Clark for increase of pen- sion.
I am very respectfully Your Obedt Servt.
Arthur M c Arthur

Simington Sept 21 1846
Sir,
In your letter of 15 th inst t you say "twelve months, twenty five days as a seaman is admitted" & that "A new certificate will be issued in conformity with this decision "so soon as the one he now holds is returned "to this office." Inclosed is the certificate referred to.
James L. Edwards Esqr Comm d . of Pensioners.
I am very respectfully Your Ob t Serv t Arthur M c Arthur

Payment to be made at Port and by W m Woodbury Agent for paying pension- ers, in the Agency of
Moaine ~
Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book B F. Vol- ume 1. Page 52 by ~
D. H. Wood Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States, of the 7 th June 1832, the pension of Ephraim Clark, of Maine, who was a Seamen in the Navy and pensioned at $36. 7 / 100 per annum, is increased to Fifty one dollars and 75 cents per annum, commencing on the 4 th March 1831; which amount is due and payable after deducting all former payments, and will continue for life. The difference between the former and present pension is payable on demand.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 13 th day of October one thousand eight hundred and forty- Six.
Examined and Countersigned. §

12mo 25 day Season
of 51 st year

171 Secy of War certificate. April 28 1846 Negation.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston; April 28. 1846.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that there is no evidence of service of any one of the name of Ephraim Clark, which can in any way be identified with the individual described in the annexed application. Not upon Roll of Capt. Tobias Fernald's Company for the year 1775. Nor Roll of Capt. Nathaniel Odiorne's Company.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John D. Sleeper,
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Application of Ephraim Clark of Limington in the county of York & State of Maine for evidence of his service in Revolutionary Army for the purpose of obtaining an increase of pension.
State of Maine county of York Town of Limington
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the rolls in his office of the services of Ephraim Clark in the war of Revolution.
I am a native of Hitting in the county of York & State of Maine.
I served about six weeks as a private in Captain Tobias Fernald Company of Infantry in Col. Scammon's Regiment at Cambridge in year 1775.
That in December 1776 or January 1777 I enlisted as a private in Portsmouth N.H. in a company of Infantry commanded by Captain Nathan Odiorne & was immediately after appointed a corporal in said company. we marched to Cambridge where we were stationed about six weeks & Captain Odiorne and his company were discharged. I have an attorney Atty William McArthur of Limington my at Limington advised this 3 rd day of March 1846 Signed by the said Ephraim Clark in my presence
Ephraim X Clark mark
George Small Justice of the Peace

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE,
SECRETARY OF STATE'S OFFICE.
I DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the war of the Revolution, which remain in this office, it appears that the name of Ephraim Clark is borne upon the Pay _____ Roll of Capt. Daniel Wilkins _____ Company, as a private _____ in said Company, with an allowance of £ 5 3 4 for one months wages, bounty, blanket money and travel. Said Wilkins company was in Col. Bedels Regt. 1776. And that the name of Ephraim Clark is borne upon the Muster Roll of Capt. Daniel Wilkins Company, Col. Daniel Moores Regt. as a private, with an allowance for three days service , commencing July. 1. 1777
I further certify, that there are no Rolls of Captain Nathaniel Odiorne's Company in this office, but it appears from a "Return of the companies of New Hampshire Militia in the Continental Army December 1775," that said Nathaniel Odiorne was at that time in service as captain
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, this 27 th day of May — 18 46
Thomas P. Treadwell
Secretary of State.
I Arthur Mitchell attorney to Ephraim Clark of Durham in the county of York State of Maine for his application for increase of pension for said Clark in his behalf disclaim the services in Captain Wilkins company Col Bedels regt in 1776 & the services in Capt. Newman's company Col Daniel Moores Regt. in 1777 in the above certificate expressed; but have annexed the above certificate to

the documents of said Ephraim Clark as proof of the existence in Revolutionary army of Captain Odiorne's company and as proof of the non existence of any documentary evidence in the office of Secretary of War in proof of the service of said Ephraim Clark of Linnington in said Odiorne's company. I make the foregoing disclaimer because the Ephraim Clark named in the certificate is not identically the said Ephraim Clark the applicant. Dated at Linnington this first day of June A D 1846.
Arthur M c Arthur Atty to Ephraim Clark applicant for increase of pension.

I Franklin Yeaton of Linnington in the county of York & State of Maine aged thirty five years depose testify and say that I am pastor of the first Congregational Church & Society of the Town of Linnington aforesaid, that I am personally acquainted with Ephraim Clark of said Linnington who is reported to have been a soldier & veteran of the Revolution; that his character for truth & veracity is good; that he is a member of the Church of which I am pastor and is in good standing & it is my opinion that full faith & credit should be given to any and statements made by him relative to his revolutionary services or relative to facts upon any other subject.
Witness
Stephen H. Libby      Franklin Yeaton State of Maine York ss: On this twenty third day of May A.D. 1846 personally appeared Franklin Yeaton and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before me Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the affiant that he is a clergyman and pastor of the first Congregational Church in Linnington, Maine, & that his character for truth & veracity is good and that full faith and credit should be given to his statements
Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace

I Parmenio Libby of Linnington in the county of York & State of Maine aged fifty four years do hereby testify & say that I am personally acquainted with Ephraim Black of said Linnington applicant for an increase of pension that I have been acquainted with him from my childhood for from that period he has resided in same village; that he sustains a good character for truth & veracity, & in my opinion full faith and credit should be given to all statements made by him; that I have repeatedly heard him say, before any pension law was made that is before the year 1818, that he served nearly the whole period of the Revolutionary war as soldier & seaman by land & sea & in prison; that I have heard him speak of his being in Mill prison; of his having made his escape from Prison ; of his being recaptured & taken again; of his service in Paul Jones Squadron; I do not know from what prison the escape was made but from the prison that he was confined after being taken a prisoner of war while in the Naval service of U. S. & that he suffered much.
Witness Chas H Small
Parmenio Libby
State of Maine York ss: On this first day of June A. D. 1846 personally appeared Parmenio Libby above named and made solemn oaths to the truth of foregoing deposition by him subscribed before me Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace

I certify that I am personally acquainted with Parmenio Libby the officer & that he sustains a good character for truth & veracity & that in my opinion full faith & credit should be given to his statements.
Arthur M. Agtun of the Referee

We Simon Moody, Nathaniel Brackett & Dominicus McKenny all of Limington in the county of York & State of Maine depose testify & say that we are selectmen of the said town of Limington for the year 1846 duly elected & sworn, that we are personally acquainted with Mr. Ephraim Clark of said Limington a revolutionary soldier, seaman & pensioner; that he has resided in said town of Limington for the most of his lifetime & since then since he was a young man; that he has ever maintained an unblemished reputation for integrity, truth & veracity & for very superior intelligence & in our opinion any statements made by him are entitled to full credit and belief.
Witness James Foster Simon Moody Nathaniel Brackett Dominicus McKenny
State of Maine York county ss: On this twenty third day of May A.D. 1846 personally appeared Simon Moody, Nathaniel Brackett & Dominicus McKenny above named & made solemn oath to the truth of foregoing deposition by them subscribed. Before me Arthur M c Arthur justice of the Peace.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Simon Moody, Nathaniel Brackett & Dom- inicus McKenny above named & that they are Selectmen of Limington as above said and that they and each of them sustain good character for truth and veracity.
Arthur M c Arthur justice of the Peace

I Isaac Mitchell of Limington in the County of York and State of Maine, aged sixty-six years, depose, testify and say, — That I have been personally acquainted with Ephraim Clark of said Limington, who is reputed to have been a Revolutionary soldier & seaman, ever since I was a boy; — That said Clark is now a Revolutionary Pensioner, and an applicant for increase of pension; — That his handwriting is perfectly familiar to me, he having once been Town Clerk for said town of Limington, and I having had custody of the records of said town in the capacity of Town Clerk, in which office I served more than twenty years; — That the manuscripts which are annexed to this deposition, marked A & D & B. I have no doubt are in the hand writing of said Clark, — And that the manuscripts marked A & D annexed to this deposition were eradicated this day, May 23 1846, from a manuscript pamphlet of duodecimo size, — it being two written leaves and one blank leaf of the same book, which I attached to them by three wafers; — That the manuscript book contains no memoranda of his revolutionary services except what is contained in these two leaves; That the book aforesaid and the annexed memoranda I have seen in the possession of said Clark many years before the Pension law of 1838, 1818 and that I have heard said Clark recount his Revolutionary services frequently and minutely before any pension law was enacted and his account corresponded with the

memoranda hereunto annexed; - That said Clark sustains a good character for truth and veracity, and of superior intelligence, and that full faith and credit should in my opinion be given to any statement made by him; - That his declarations have uniformly been, that he served by sea and land and in prison as a prisoner of war about the whole period of the revolution, and his statements have received the general credence of the neighborhood in which he has lived.
Witness
Isaac Mitchell
Edward Clark
State of Maine York ss: On this twenty third day of May A.D. 1846 personally appeared Isaac Mitchell abovenamed & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before me Arthur M'Arthur Justice of the Peace.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with Isaac Mitchell the above named affiant & that he sustains a good character for truth & veracity; that full credit ought to be given to his statements & that he is a magistrate in & for the county of York in the State of Maine.
Arthur M'Arthur Justice of the Peace.

Payments to be made at Portland by the Pres d W. I. Branch Bank Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Maine.
Issued new Certificate 12 mo. 25 ds Seaman
57.10
deduct what has been paid —
Recorded by
J. Allison
C. A. McArthur
Clerk, in Book
D. Vol. 1
page 52, Limington Maine

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June 1832, Ephraims Clark of the State of Maine who was a Mariner in the Navy of the United States is entitled to receive Thirty Six dollars, and seven cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty third day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Acting John R. Robb Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. }
J. L. Edwards

Linnington July 16
Free.
Hon. Lewis Cass, Secretary of War U. S. Washington (city)
Postmark Office July 21
1 year 25 days
Adm d
[Faint handwritten mark or signature]

I Ephraim Clark of Limington in the county of York & State of Maine on oath depose testify & say that my name was inserted on the pension list Roll of the District of Maine agency at the rate of eight dollars per month to commence on the eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred & eighteen my certificate of pension dated September 14 1819 & numbered 14352 for services as a mariner in the Navy of the Revolution & was stricken from the roll on account of my property - that I shipped on board the Alliance Frigate in United States service April 5 th 1779 Captain Peter Sandais commander, That the Alliance was put into the Squadron of Paul Jones Esq r that on October 9 th 1779 I was taken prisoner in a privateer belonging to the Squadron of Paul Jones Esq r , was put on board several ships of war a prisoner & sent on shore & committed to Fortune prison in Portsmouth, England; that I made my escape from Fortune prison May 11780 & arrived at Cherburgh in France May 3 d 1780; that I was taken a prisoner while in a privateer from Dunkirk in France by a cutter & lugger September 19 th 1781 & sent on shore & committed to Mill Prison; that I was exchanged in the general exchange of prisoners from England to America & arrived at Marblehead Mass. in August 1782; that his present place of residence is in Limington in the county of York & State of Maine & that the said Limington was my place of residence at the time of my former application; that while in the continental service as aforesaid I was a seaman.
Ephraim Clark
State of Maine York ss: On this sixteenth day of July A.D. 1832 personally appeared Ephraim Clark an inhabitant of the town of Limington in the county of York & State of Maine & after in my presence subscribing the foregoing instrument oath & affidavit made solemn oath to the truth of the above instrument oath or affidavit by him

So subscribed in my presence.
Before me Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace

Simington July 16 1832
Dear Sir
Enclosed is the affidavit of Ephraim Clark of Simington State of Maine, who, as it will appear, by the instrument was in several services of United States in Revolutionary war in his former application, under law March 18 1818, his proof was intended to show that he served 9 months, that being sufficient. Some facts in that application or declaration were omitted, he thinks, as to length of time, his being under impression that all evidence to prove more than nine months service were superfluous - He is in doubt how great a length of time his former application proves - He says he was in the land & naval service about five & one half years - If the former application included was any time that he actually on board a United States vessel & the time he was prisoner, all of which time, he thinks by construction would be included in his term of service, does not complete the two years he wishes to be informed of it before a decision has been passed on this application. As the applicants as well those who may be employed for them for that purpose are not very well acquainted with the requisite proofs & the mode of adducing it if there should be any erroneous important omissions will you have the goodness to inform me - I am very respectfully
Hon. Lewis Cass Secretary of War U.S.
Your obed. Serv t
Arthur M c Arthur

1 Ephraim Clark's March 1823. Application for Pension.
Maine
$623 50 / 100
(March 1820)

State of Maine.
COUNTY OF YORK, SS.
ON this 12th day of February , 182 9 in open Court, being the Court of Common Pleas, held at Alfred , within and for the County of York on the Second Tuesday of February , A. D. 182 9 , Present the Hon. Ezekiel Whitman , Justice of said Court; said Court keeping a record of their proceedings, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having the power to fine and imprison, and being a Court of Record in said County, personally appeared Ephraim Clark of the town of Limington , resident in said county, aged seventy two years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820, that he the said Ephraim Clark shipped on board the frigate enlisted for the term of  Alliance as a seaman, Captain Peter Landois commander there in the continental day of service, fifth day of April, in the year 1779, in Embark in the state of  France , said frigate Alliance in the company commanded by captain was in Paul Jones' squadron, in the regiment commanded by Colonel I was in the continental in the line of the State of  naval service  thirteen on the months. Continental establishment, that he continued to serve in said corps until when he was discharged from the said service, in the State of that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropped therefrom on account of his property.
And in pursuance of the Act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 Na- val service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," passed on the 18th 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 Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
And the said Ephraim Clark further on oath declares that his original declaration was made about the eighth day of May, 1818, on which a pension certificate was issued dated 14 th day of September, A. D. 1819, and numbered 14.352.
Ephraim Clark.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
30 acres of land in Pinington and buildings, and one undivided half of following property, viz: 1 house, 1 yoke oxen, 3 cows, 1 two year old heifer, 2 one year old heifers, 1 yoke two year old steers, 16 sheep, 3 swine, one sleigh and harness, household furniture for common use.
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Ephraim Clark, _____ who, by occupation am a farmer, _____ which I am not able to pursue by reason of infirmities of age.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Lucy Clark 26 years Unable to support herself, her health very bad.   Arsenath Clark 22 years Able to support herself.  
July 18, 1820, THAT since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property.
I conveyed to Edward Clark my son by deed dated Feb. 9, 1829, all my real estate excepting thirty acres of lands to pay him for 13 years labour which he performed for me after he was 21 years of age, and one undivided half of all my personal property which I had contracted with him for. The other few changes in my personal property has been occasioned by increase of stock and disposing of some of it for my support.
Ephraim Clark.
SWORN to and declared on the 12th. day of February, 1829, before
Ezekiel Whitman.
I Jeremiah Brattbury Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said Ephraim Clark did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the schedules thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is six hundred & twenty three dollars and fifty cents, and the income thereof forty dollars yearly & no more
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this second day of March 18 29
Jere Brattbury CLERK of the C. C. P.

This is to certify that Mr Ephraim Clark of Limington State of Maine, is in a decrepit state & unfit for Labor, on account of a Scrotal Hernia, on both sides so large & of so bad a sort as to receive no benefit from a Truss
Clement J. Adams Henry Dimock
Physicians & Surgeons
Limington 12 th July 1820

I Aaron Goodwin of Parsonsfield aged 65 years do testify and say some time in November 1776 I in company with Ephraim Clark then of the town of Limington shipped on board the brig Dolon of Newbury commanded by Capt. Eleazer Johnson we sailed from Portsmouth in New Hampshire the latter part of said month some time in December we was taken by a British 64 gun ship and carried into Plym- -outh there we was put on board several ships of war in Plymouth harbor and remained on board till some time in June when we was carried ashore and committed to Mill-prison where we remained till some time in April 1779 when when one hundred of us was exchanged to France we arrive at sometime in April New Bedford the said Goodwin shipped on board a ship of war commanded by Paul Jones Esquire and said Clark shipped on board the Alliance an Amer- -ican frigate commanded by Capt. Peter Landis we sailed from Oleron in a squadron under the command of Paul Jones up the Irish and north seas to the Islands of Shetland where said Clark was put on board of a prize corradore Jones had the prize in tow when the chaser parted in a heavy gale of wind and there we the said Goodwin and Clark parted
Aaron Goodwin
York ss. July 20 th 1819 personally appeared the above named Aaron Goodwin and made oath that the above deposition by him signed to be the truth and nothing but the truth - before me Nath l Libbey Justice of the Peace I do hereby certify that the above named Aaron Goodwin is a creditable and disinter- ested witness Nath l Libbey Justice of the Peace

State of Maine York County ss: On this sixteenth day of May A.D. 1846 personally appeared before Arthur M c Arthur Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the county of York & State of Maine Ephraim Clark a resident of Lim- -ington in said county aged ninety years, who, being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7 1832: That he served as a private & corporal in the army of the Revolution and under the officers subsequently named & in the Navy of United as a seaman as set forth in following statement; that in the Spring of the year 1775 the British Frigates Scarborough & Ganeer comman- ded by Captains Mowatt & Bartlet came into the Bay near the mouth of Piscataqua River, near Kittery, off against what was then called Sir William Pepperell's battery. Captain Samuel Stacey's company of Infantry, of which I was a member was called to prevent the landing & I was in said company and served there as a private one month.
That in the year 1775 about the first of August I went on to Cambridge (Massachusetts) and while there a man by the name of Simon Libby of Kittery who was a private in the company of Infantry commanded by Captain Tobias Fernald in Col. James Deccummon's Regiment in Massachusetts line requested me to take his place in said company

for the time he wished to be absent to come & see his friends at Nittany. The Captain consented for him to have leave of absence on condition I would remain as his substitute - I remained there and served in said company six weeks until Simon Libby returned and I was dismissed.
That in December 1775 or January 1776 I enlisted as a private in Portsmouth N.H. in a company of Infantry commanded by Captain Nathaniel Odiorne and was immediately after appointed a corporal in said company. We marched to Cambridge where we were stationed six weeks and Captain Odiorne and his whole company & I was discharged - I enlisted for three weeks and was kept there before I was discharged six weeks. I think this was a volunteer company.
I have understood that in the fall of 1775 a little previous to the eight months' men's service being out, it was supposed that when they were discharged the army would be too much reduced and enlisting orders were sent out to enlist men for six weeks and the same men were prevailed on to serve two weeks longer making two months in the whole and I suppose this circumstance in the affairs of the American Army was the emergency which demanded this short service of Captain Odiorne's company:
That on the seventeenth of November 1776 I shipped on board the Dalton a private armed

Brig at Portsmouth N.H. and sailed 26 th November 1776 and on 24 December 1776 was taken prisoner by His Britannic Majesty's Ship Reasonable 64 Guns and was detained a prisoner (some time on board ship but the principal part of the time in Mill Prison near Portsmouth) twenty seven months & ten days until I was exchanged and arrived at Penbeauf in France April 5 1779:
That on fifth of April 1779 I entered as a seaman on board the Frigate Alliance in the United States service Captain Peter Landais commander & sailed immediately after. Said Frigate Alliance was put in Captain Paul Jones squadron and went up the Irish Sea & to the Shetland Islands - Captain Paul Jones commanded the Bonne Homme Richard - After we had been at sea a short time, one evening the Alliance was run down by the Bonne Homme Richard & her bowsprit going abaft our main shrouds, and she layed aft, it came against our mizen mast and swept it away by the board. Several men belonging to the mizen top, jumped upon the bowsprit of the Bonne Homme Richard and were obliged to go on board her to save their lives and were not found until the roll was called the next day, when they were found on board the Bonne Homme Richard. The Alliance Frigate went back into St. Orient and refitted and afterwards fell in company with the Bonne Homme Richard and

went up to the Islands of Shetland as aforesaid. I with several others were sent on board a beller and we were told we should have orders to scuttle her or burn her - we were held by a hansom extended from Commodore's ship - there came up a violent gale and parted the hansom and the fleet stood off to the eastward and parted from us and we saw them no more - we then were on board this collier thirty five days in a suffering condition when we fell into the hands of the British as prisoners of war, October 9 1779. I was put on board several ships of war & then sent on shore and committed to Fortune Prison near Portsmouth (Eng.) I made several attempts to make my escape and finally succeeded in the third attempt on the first of May 1780 and arrived at Cherburg in France May 3 rd 1780.
That on 19 th of September 1781 while on board a small vessel I was retaken a prisoner and carried to Mill Prison (Eng.) and remained there nine months when I was exchanged in the general exchange of American Prisoners and arrived at Marblehead in August 1782.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present increase of pension and the pension to which this increase if granted will be added and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state except the cantonment pension of the agency of the State of Maine.
Witness Edward Clark
Ephraim X Clark mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written
Before me Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace
We Franklin Gaylor a clergyman residing in the town of Livermore in the county of York & State of Maine & Parmenio Libby resident in said Livermore hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Ephraim Clark who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be ninety years of age; that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier & seaman of the Revolutio n ; and that we concur in that opinion
Witness Stephen M c Libby
Franklin Gaylor
Parmenio Libby
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace
And the said Justice does hereby declare in opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and seaman and served as he states, and the said Justice further certifies that it appears to him that Franklin Gaylor who has signed the foregoing certificate, is a clergyman resident in Livermore aforesaid and that Parmenio Libby is a respectable person and that statement is entitled to credit. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this sixteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty six. Arthur M c Arthur Justice of the Peace

I Ephraim Clark of Limington in the county of York & State of Maine of the age of twenty six years (May 1832) depose testify & say that in the Spring of the year 1775 the British Frigates Scarborough & Cancer commanded by Captains Mowatt & Bartlet came into the Bay near the mouth of Piscataqua River near Kittery off against what was then called Sir William Pepperell's battery Captain Samuel Stacey's company of Infantry, of which I was a member was called out to prevent their landing & I was in said company & served there as a private about one month:
That in the year 1775 about the first of August I went on to Cambridge (Massachusetts) and while there a man by the name of Simon Libby of Kittery, who was a private in the company of Infantry commanded by Captain Tobias Fernald in Colonel James Scammon's in the open air at the line Regiment requested me to take his place in said company for the time which he wished to be absent to come & see his friends at Kittery The captain consented for him to have leave of absence on condition I would remain as his substitute - remained there & served in said company about six weeks untill Simon Libby returned and I was dismissed:
That in December 1775 or January 1776 I enlisted as a private in Portsmouth N.H. in a company of Infantry commanded by Captain Nathaniel Odiorne & was immediately after appointed a corporal in said company We marched to Cambridge where we were stationed about six weeks & Captain Odiorne & his whole company & I was discharged - I enlisted for three weeks and was kept there before I was discharged about six weeks I think this was a volunteer company:
That on 17 November 1776 I shipped on board the Dalton a private armed Brig at Portsmouth N.H. & sailed 26 November 1776 & on 24 December 1776 was taken prisoner by His Britannic Majesty's Ship Reasonable 64 guns and was detained a prisoner (sometimes on board ship but the principal part of the time in Mill prison near Plymouth) 27 months & 10 days until I was exchanged and arrived at Penhance in France April 5 1779:
That on 5 th of April 1779 I entered as a seaman on board

C the Frigate Alliance in the United States service Captain Peter Landais commander & sailed immediately after said Frigate Alliance was put in Captain Paul Jones squadron & went up the Irish sea & to the Shetland Islands. Captain Paul Jones commanded the Bonne Homme Richard - after we had been at sea a short time one evening the Alliance was run down by the Bonne Homme Richard & her bowsprit going abaft our main shrouds, and she payed aft, it came against our mizzen mast as swift it away by the board. Several men belonging to the mizzen top jumped upon the bowsprit of the Bonne Homme Richard & were obliged to go on board her to save their lives & were not found until the roll was called the next day when they were found on board the Bonne Homme Richard - The Alliance frigate went back into L' Orient & refitted. & afterwards fell in company with Bonne Homme Richard & went up to the Islands of Shetland as aforesaid - I with several others were sent on board a collier & we were told that we should have orders to scuttle her or burn her but we were held by a hawser extended from Commodore ship - there came a violent gale & parted the hawser & the fleet stood off to the eastward & parted from us & we saw them no more - we then were on board this collier thirty five days in a suffer- ing condition when we fell into the hands of the British as prisoners of war October 9 1779. I was put on board several ships war & then sent on shore & committed to Forton prison near Portsmouth (Eng.) I made several attempts to make my escape & finally succeeded the third attempt on the first of May 1780 & arrived in Cherbourg in France May 3 1780. Being the

left the ship, I was taken into the custody of the  officer there. That on 19 of September 1781 while on board a small vessel, I was retaken or prison and carried to Mill Prison (Eng.) I remained there about nine months when I was exchanged in the general exchange of American prisoners and arrived at Marblehead in August 1782.
Ebenezer Dyer
State of Maine York ss: On this nineteenth day of January A.D. 1833 person- ally appeared the above-named Ebenezer Dyer and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him in my presence subscribed
Before me Arthur McArthur Justice of the Peace
State of Maine.
Cumberland ss:
I Charles Cobb, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in Said County, certify that Arthur McArthur Esq. was a Magistrate as appears above, that he was duly qualified to act as such; that his Commission bore date Feby. 7. A.D. 1828 and expired Feby. 7. A.D. 1835, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine. _____
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of Said State, this nineteenth day of May Anno Domini 1846. _____
Charles Cobb Clerk

I Ebenezer Clark of Limington in the County of York and State of Maine aged eighty years, do testify and say, that I served as a Soldier in the Massachusetts line, in the Company commanded by Captain Tobias Fernald at Cambridge, in the eight months service, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five. I further testify, that during a part of said term, Mr. Ephraim Clark, now of said Limington, served as a Soldier in said Company. Ebenezer Clark
State of Maine - York ss. on this fourteenth day of December A. D. 1832 the above named Ebenezer Clark signed the above deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same, before me
I hereby certify that the above named Ebenezer Clark is a man of truth and veracity Nathl. Clarke
Nathaniel Clarke, Justice of the Peace
State of Maine.
York ss. I Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of the Court of Probate for said county, hereby certify that Nathaniel Clarke and Arthur W. Arthur are Justices of the Peace for the county of York and that the signatures to the depositions herunto annexed purporting to be theirs are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this first day of July A.D. 1833.
Wm. Cutter Allen, Register of Probate.

State of Maine
Cumberland ss.
I Charles Cobb, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, certify that Nathaniel Clark, Esq. was a Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum within and for the County of York, on the fourteenth day of December A.D. 1832, as appears by the certificate to the within Deposition, that he was duly authorized to act as such; that his Commission was dated June 21. A.D. 1827, and expired June 21. A.D. 1834, and that the within Signature purporting to be his is genuine.
Edward L. D. 1846 Nathaniel Clark
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court, for said State, this third day of February Anno Domini 1846.
Charles Cobb Clerk.
E

30 C ad I Arthur McArthur of Simington in the county of York & State of Maine aged fifty six years depose testify and say that I am & have been for forty years past person- ally acquainted with Ephraim Clark of said Simington & he has uniformly sustained a good character for truth & veracity and has been so accounted among his neighbors; he is remarkably intelligent; that long before any pension was enacted I have heard him recount his revolutionary achievements and they corresponded in every particu- lar with his declaration made before me on the sixteenth of May A.D. 1846; that his declaration made on the nineteenth of January A.D. 1833 and which is hereto annexed and marked on the upper corners of four pages 1C, 2C, 3C & 4C was made with a view of applying for an increase of pension & was drafted by me from his statements and an exami- nation of manuscripts annexed to the deposition of Isaac Mitchell Esquire marked A D & B but which declaration from neglect & inadvertence was never forwarded to the pension office; that the deposition of Ebenezer Clark which is marked on the back E and hereto annexed was taken with a

view of being forwarded with aforesaid declaration which was omitted for a like reason; that said Ebenezer Clark is now dead and consequently there can be no renewal of his said deposition.
Witness Edward Clark Arthur M c Arthur
State of Maine. — York ss. On this twenty- third day of May, A.D. 1846, personally appeared Arthur M c Arthur and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him described.
Before me, Isaac Mitchell, Justice of The Peace.
I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Arthur M c Arthur and that his character for truth & veracity is good, and that full faith and credit should be given to his statements.
Isaac Mitchell, Justice of the Peace.
State of Maine.
York ss. I, William Drafton, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts in said County, do hereby certify that Isaac Mitchell is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County of York as appears by the papers hereto annexed; that he is duly commissioned and qualified to act as such; that his commission was dated on the third day of February A.D. eighteen hundred and forty two and

will expire on the third day of February A. D. eighteen hundred and forty nine, and that the above written signature purporting to be his, is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State, this twenty fifth day of May, Anno Domini, 1846.
William Trajan, Clerk

Let. to A. M c Arthur, Aug. 5, '46.
to Same Sept 15 '46