Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 718, Elisha Clark, Continental (Conn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
SERVICE Continental (Conn.) Clark Elisha Martha.
W. 718
B. L. Wt. 8159-160-55
CONTENTS

1570. Connecticut Martha Clark widow of Elisha Clark who served in the Revolutionary war, as an Artificer
Commence scribed on the Roll at the rate of 240 Dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848. 3 rd February 1853 Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th day of Aug 1853 and sent to
Geo: Robinson Hartford Ct.
Record on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 58 Vol. A 3/53

Connecticut Eliza Clark
Let to L. M. Sprague
of Burlington in the State of Connecticut who was an Artillery in the ————— commanded by Captain ————— of the Regt commanded by Col Baldwin in the ————— line for 2 years Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Hartford at the rate of 240 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. Engr 16 May 1833.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 nd day of March 1831 and sent to Hon A. Snook U.S.
Allowance to the 4th of Exeter Remained allowance ending
Increased from $144
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Wightman Clerk, Book E. 2, Vol. 3, Page 8.
Q. 3. 36

64 386 Apr. 13/55
Setts
Martha Clark wid. Elisha Clark
Business
Artificer
Col Baldwin's
Rev. War.
Buxton
Conn Feb 53-1570
Ad. 160 acs Oct 11/55
Dodge
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R. Lowrey Southwick ton.
Vol. 1-145.

State of Connecticut, ss. Middletown,
A.
On this 28 th day of May 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, personally appears Elisha Clark aged 60 years, resident in Southington in the said State, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, 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 and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That he the said Elisha Clark about the 14 th day of March 1778, enlisted in Southington in the state of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Darius Miller , of and in the regiment commanded by Col. Jonathan Trumbull and in the brigade commanded by Brig. a corps of Artillery ; that he was transferred to the company commanded by Capt. Dumb , & afterwards to the company commanded by Capt. Elisha Kingsley , & afterwards to the company commanded by Capt. Phineas Parker .
that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the 10 th day of March 1781, when he was discharged from service in Fish Kill state of New York , that he was in the battles of a part of which discharge he has lost, & the other part he delivers for transcription, that his property is worth about a thousand dollars & no more, & that he owes Three Hundred dollars and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services, except Phineas  Robert J. Burkin in said state, & Israel Dugg of Middletown aforesaid.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
J. Titus Notary
B.
I, Stephen Titus Hopkins a Judge of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction, that the said Elisha Clark did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress.
Connecticut, ss. Middletown May 28 th 1818 J. Titus Notary

State of Connecticut, p. An affidavit On this 28 th day of May 1888, before me the Sub- scribed, one of the Judges of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, personally appeared Ephraim Crofoot of Berlin in said State, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, with in this Oath, declare and say, that he is well acquainted with Elisha Clark of Southington in the said State, the person who made the preceding declaration on Oath, that the said Elisha Clark & Ephraim Crofoot, served in the Corps of Artillery commanded by Col. Seth- -then Baldwin & in the several companies, that is, in companies commanded by Capt. Dennis Wiggins, Capt. Lumb, Capt. Eliphalet Kingsley, & Capt. Phineas Parker, that the said Elisha Clark enlisted in the company commanded by Capt. Dennis Wiggins in March 1775, after the said Ephraim Crofoot had enlisted into the said Company, and served in the Corps aforesaid so long as the said Ephraim was in the army, which was till August 1780, when he left the said Elisha Clark in service - - -
That the property of the said Elisha Clark is, in the judgment of the said Ephraim Crofoot, fairly estimated at a Thousand Dollars, & of his indebtedness he knows nothing. Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid - - - J. Titus Wadsworth

State of Connecticut.
I, John P. C. Mather , Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That Asa Dury was, from the fourth day of July, A. D. 1853, to the fourth day of July, A. D. 1854, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed and commissioned—having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations.
And I further certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said Asa Dury to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 6 th day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three .
John P. C. Mather,
Secretary of State.

State of Connecticut. Hartford County ss. Southington
On this 18 th day of March, A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the Subscriber Judge of Probate for the District of Southington Martha Clark a resident of Southington in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut Aged Eighty Six years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Provisions made by the Act of Congress passed 3 rd February 1853, under the Second Section of said Act.
That she is the Widow of Elisha Clark who was an Artificer in the Army of the Revolution in Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers, and a pensioner of the United States under the Act of June 7, 1832 at one hundred forty Four dollars per annum, and increased to 240 dollars per annum
She further declares that she was married to the said Elisha Clark on the 30 th day of November in the Year One thousand Eight hundred and fifteen : That her husband the aforesaid Elisha Clark died on the 16 th day of May 1835, and that the arrearages of pension due at the time of his death, and the increase pension from 144 to 240 dollars per annum were paid to her as his widow,
She further swears that she is now a Widow and has never before applied for a pension (with the exception of her application for an increase of her husband's pension) Sworn to and Subscribed Martha Clark on the day and year above
written Before me and I certify that I am not directly or indirectly interested in the foregoing M c Spedden Meritissim a Judge

State of Connecticut Hartford County ss. Southington
I Mansfield Merriman Judge of the Probate Court for the District of Southington do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Elisha Clark was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of One hundred Forty four dollars per annum and increased to two hundred Forty dollars per annum was a resident of Southington in the County and State aforesaid and died in said Southington in the year One thousand eight hundred and thirty five on the 16 th day of May. (16 th day of May 1835) leaving a Widow whose name is Martha Clark the identical person who has signed the foregoing Declaration in order to claim a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and affixed my Seal of Office at Southington on this 18 th day of March 1853. Mansfield Merriman Judge

I, Martha Clark widow of Elisha Clark deceased, late a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, do hereby constitute and appoint Geo. Robinson of Hartford, my true and lawful Attorney, and Agent to prosecute my Claim for any pension which may be my due under any law of Congress, to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to myself at the United States Agency in Hartford Connecticut, to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.  Signed & sealed in presence of Romeo Sowerby } Mansfield Merriman }  Witness my hand and seal at Southington this 18 th day of March A.D. 1853  Martha Clark mark
State of Connecticut Hartford County } ss Southington
On this 18 th day of March A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me the Subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Martha Clark above named, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be her act and deed, and I certify that I am not directly or indirectly interested in the foregoing power. Mansfield Merriman Justice of the Peace

I Elisha C. Jones, of the Town of Southington in Hartford County and State of Connecticut, of lawful age, depose and say;
That I am the settled clergyman in the First Ecclesiastical Society in said Town of Southington, and as such clergyman, have the custody, of the records of my predecessors in the ministry in said Society; that it was formerly the custom for the minister to keep a record of the marriages in said Society, at which he officiated, in a book kept by him for that purpose, and for other records pertaining to said Society; that I have in my custody a book kept by Rev William Robinson, my predecessor in the ministry in said Society, in which he entered such marriages; that on the 139 th page of said book in the margin, on the left side of the page, is the date in figures "1815," that in the same margin below the above date, is the word Nov r , and under that, is the following entry, in figures and words, as follows, "30 th Elisha Clark and Martha Woodruff."
And the whole entry purports, that Elisha Clark and Martha Woodruff, were married Nov r Thirtieth one Thousand Eight Hundred and fifteen. I further state that the said Martha is now the widow of Elisha Clark, and resides in said Southington.
Sworn and subscribed This 22 nd day of March A.D. 1853
Elisha C. Jones
Before me Jesse Olney Justice of the Peace

I Jesse Olney of Southington in the county of Stafford and State of Connecticut, of lawful age, depose and say, that I am clerk of s d Town of Southington, and as such clerk, have the custody of the records of s d Town, That I have examined the records aforesaid, and can find no record of the marriage of Eliza Clark and Martha Wadsworth.
I further say, that as early as 1818, but very few marriages in said Town, were recorded in the Town Records, but that the record of such marriages was kept by the clergymen, who officiated at such marriage.
I further state that the aforesaid Martha, is now the widow of Eliza Clark, and is residing in s d Southington.
Sworn and subscribed this 31 st day of March 1853
Jesse Olney Before me Mansfield Morrison, Justice of The Peace
officer. I give you my own NA

Elisha Clark
10,887
Sept 11 1874
[Handwritten signature]
[Handwritten signature]
]

STATE OF CONNECTICUT, County of HARTFORD, at Hartford in said County ss. Special County Court, or Court of Common Pleas, holden by order of the Chief Judge of said Court , on the 2 first Tuesday of August, 1820.
ON the 3 rd day of August, 1820, personally appeared in open Court, the same Court  before Thomas Day Esq. an Associate Judge of said Court the same Court being a Court of record for said County, having the power of fine and imprisonment.
Elisha Clark — aged sixty three years, resident in Southington in the County of Hartford, who being first duly sworn according to law eth did , on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolu- tionary War, as follows: In the month of March A D 1778 he ex
tionary War, as follows: In the month of March A D 1778 he enlisted as a private in a company of artificers & in the Reg't of Col Jeduthan Baldwin in the Connecticut line which enlistment was for the term of three years that he served during said period & was honourably discharged on the 28 th day of May 1818 he applied for a pension under the act of congress of the 18 th day of March 1818 & received a pension certificate from the Honorable Secretary of war which certificate from is numbered 10,887 -
“ 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 hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.”
    27 acres of land with a house 875.00 1 reel 00   barn & shop thereon 875.00 2 pewter platters 50   one third part of an old shop 000.00 4 tin pans 60   personal estate 16.00 1 porringer 06   1 cow 16.00 4 old knives & forks 12   1 cow 15.00 6 do do 2.25   1 yearling calf 5.00 1 pint decanter 17   1 desk 10.00 2 glass bottles 16   1 cherry table 2.00 1 tea pot 10   1 do do 2.00 6 tea cups saucers sugar & milk 25   1 kitchen table 0.50 1 small tumbler 06   1 old candle stand 12 2 wine glasses 10   8 old chairs 25 cts each 2.00 4 earthen platters 10   1 candle stand 75 2 earthen pots 30   10 chairs 50 cts each 5.00 2 iron kettles both broken 75   1 chest with drawers 2.00 1 iron tea kettle broken 25   2 old chests 1.00 1 iron pot 40   1 pair andirons 50 4 old barrels 2.00   1 pair do 2.50 1 kneading trough 12   1 shovel & tongs 1.00 1 loom & tackle 4.00   1 do do 30 1 wash tub 34   1 looking glass 50 1 tin pail 12   1 do do 2.00 1 wooden bottle 00   

Thomas Day a Judge of County Court Hartford County
  1 wooden bowl 8 72   1 surc   1 sythe & snathe 1 00   88 lbs bar iron 4 00   1 spade & hoe 34   6 old volumes of books 2 00   2 swine 4 40   6 pewter plates 75   1 quart basin 20   15 crockery plates 80   9 small do 36   9 tea cups & saucers & a pot 0 42   4 bowls 25   2 salt cellars 12   6 tumblers 42   6 wine glasses 30   1 sugar bowl & slop bowl 12   2 small pitchers 20   1 cream cup 06   6 table spoons 36   6 tea do 300   3 candle sticks 1 00 
  1 snuffer tray & snuffers 25   3 small tin pans 30   2 earthen pots 34   1 small brass kettle 1 50   2 spinning wheels 3 75   1 low chest 1 00   1 small trunk 25   1 bible 4 00   5 augurs 1 25   1 froe 17   1 bell 50   6 chisels 75   1 broad ax 1 00   2 saws 1 25   2 old yokes 17   1 square & compass 50   6 table cloths 3 00   11 napkins 1 47   2 scurs 1 50   1 adge 0 50   3 sets of waggon boxes 1 50 
I have estate during the life wholeamt of my wife in right & an $1000 37 / 100
half acres of land the annual value of which is $12
My occupation is that of a wheelwright my infirmities are such in consequence of a wound received in the service in consequence of a fit of sickness that I am unable to perform labor. My family at present residing with me are Martha Clark my wife aged 54 years who is at present in good health & Salmon Clark my son aged 31 years for many years he has been dependant upon me for his support being of very infirm health & unable to support himself by any kind of labor. I am indebted to the amount of more than $350 viz to Julius S. Barrows $4.34 Allen Clark $3.49 Amos Hanson $5 Silas Clark $13.65 Miles Hitchcock $2 Martin Tucker $2.84 Samuel Andrews $9.70. Lewis Clark $79 Phineas Taylor $78 Noah Lyman $3.36 Truman Burns $60 Joel Beman $2 Henry Whittlesey $3.50 Stephen Clark $1.50 Benjamin Sworn to and declared by said Elisha Clark on the 3rd
day of August, 1820, before said Court, and it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One Thousand Sixty eight dollars and thirty seven cents.  Elisha Clark
I, Thomas Chester Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Hartford aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the record of said Court. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 7 th day of Sept 1820
Th. Chester Clerk of the County Court or Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Hartford.

State of Connecticut } Hartford County } S. Southington
On this 9 th day of April - one Thousand Eight Hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Martha Clark a resident of S d Southington aged Eighty Eight years who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Elisha Clark deceased who was an Artificer in the war of the Revolution and was a Pensioner of the United States on the Roll of the Connecticut Agency until his death which was on the 16 th day of May - A.D. 1855 at S d Southington and that his certificate has been returned to the Pension department. That she is the identical person, who now is a Pensioner of the United States on the roll of the Connecticut Agency at Hartford under the act of February 3. 1853 at the rate of Two Hundred and forty Dollars per annum per month, during her life unless she should again marry. That her Pension certificate was dated at the Department of the Interior the 26 th day of August A.D. 1853 and she refers to her application on file in the Pension Department at Washington for proof of the facts herein stated. She further

states that she was married to the s d Elisha black in s d Southington on the 30 th day of November A.D 1815 by William Robinson a clergyman, and that her maiden name before her s d marriage to Elisha black was Martha Woodruff that her said husband died at s d Southington on the 16 th day of May A.D 1835 and that she is now the widow of the s d Elisha black
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the Bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved the 3 rd day of March 1855 - She also declares that she has never applied for nor received under this or any other act any bounty land warrant
her Martha black mark
We Mansel Morrison and Thomas Egan residents of s d Southington in the state of Connecticut upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Martha black in our presence and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person who represents herself to be
Mansel Morrison Thomas Egan

The foregoing declaration and affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above recited and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons and that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be
Romeo Lowrey Just of Peace

State of Connecticut, } ss. Hartford County, }
County Clerk's Office, Hartford, March 9 1855.
ait A Hawley Clerk of the County Court, within and for the County of Hartford and keeper of the Seal thereof, hereby certify that
Romeo Sourey Esquire, was on the 9th day of April A. D. 1855, ever since has been, and now is, a Justice of the Peace within and for the said County, duly elected and sworn, with authority by the laws of this State, to administer Oaths, and take the acknowledgment of Deeds and other Instruments; that I am acquainted with his hand-writing, and that the signature to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine, official signature.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and the seal of said County Court, this 9 day of April A. D. 1855.
Wait A Hawley Clerk.

JTW
No. 713, Widow, Revolutionary War.
June 8, 1904.
Sir:
In reply to your recent inquiry you are advised that Elisha Clark, aged sixty-one years, residing at Southington, Connecticut, applied for pension May 28, 1818, alleging that he enlisted the 4th of March, 1778, at Southington, Connecticut, and served one year as an artificer under Captain Cox in Colonel Jedenthon Balswin's Regiment, Connecticut Line. No battles mentioned. His claim was allowed. He married Martha Woodruff November 30, 1815, and died May 16, 1835, and she was pensioned as his widow.
Very respectfully,
1818 61 5-7 Commissioner.
Mr. S. T. Chamberlin,
Derby, Conn.

The Weavers Co In Capt. Phineas P. The Regiment Com Baldwin, Col. 5th Reg. The Service of the He having suffered The Term of His Date Hereof
Given Under our H at Fort Hill this day Day of March 1861

Ebenezer Clarke Certificate

We certify that the subscribers being specially authorised by Commission from Richard Law Esqr Judge of the District of Connecticut in pursuance of an act of the Congress of the United States of America passed at the second session of the second Congress entitled "An Act to regulate the claims of Invalid Pensions" did within the time limited by said Act examine the Claims of Elisha Clark then a resident in Southington in the County of Hartford to a Pension as an Invalid of the United States and that we trans- mitted the Evidence taken by us in support of his Claim to the Judge of said District
Hartford 4 th March 1797
Exec d & compared
Certified by 51
For W m H. Inlay Esqr J. Seymour
W m H. Inlay Jon th Powell Clerks

United States District of Connecticut } Sec. Bridgeport.
To Doctors Julius S. Barnes and Timothy Jones both of Southington in the County of Hartford State of Connecticut, Pursuant to an Act of Congress of the United States passed the 4 th of February 1822, entitled an Act to revive and continue in force "an Act to provide for persons who were disabled by known wounds received in the Revolutionary war & for other purposes" you are hereby appointed and authorized to examine Philela Clark of said Southington, who is inscribed on the Pension List of the United States, and is claimant for an increase of pension conformably to the 5 th Section of the Act of the 10 th April 1816 revived as aforesaid; and you are to report in writing and on oath or affirmation, your opinion of the nature of his disability and in what degree it prevents him from obtaining a subsistence by manual labor; and in your proceedings in the premises you are to be regulated and governed by said Act. Given under my hand and seal at Bridgeport this 10 th day of July A D 1824
Guilford Edwards

Surgcons Certificate for an Increase of Pension
It is hereby certified that Elisha Clark of Southington in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut formerly a private of Captain Edward Boylston's company in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Mason who it appears by the accompanying certificate was placed on the pension roll at the rate of Four Dollars per month on account as he states of having received a wound in the Left foot by an axe which passed quite through the Foot dividing the tendons of the flexor and extensor muscles of the toes and separating four of the metatarsal bones near their heads, and junction with the bones of the toes. A perfect union of these tendons and bones was not formed; two of the bones projecting below their natural level on the sole of the foot, by which the said pensioner is crippled and subjected to much pain and inconvenience both in standing and walking consequences which have much increased by age. Said wound was received as he states while in the line of his duty and in the said service, on or about the 21 st day of August A.D. 1777. at Springfield, Massachusetts, and in our opinion entitles him to two fourths more than he already receives as a pensioner, being disabled in the Degree of Three fourths from obtaining his subsistence by manual labor.
Sim o Jones Julius S. Barnes
Physicians and Surgeons
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State of Connecticut } ss Southington County of Hartford }
On this 26 th day of July A D 1824 before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the county of Hartford personally appeared Timothy Jones and Julius S. Barnes both of Southington practicing Physicians and Surgeons and made solemn oath to the truth of the within certificate And I do further certify that the above named persons are entitled to credibility
Horace Lawrey Justice of Peace

Rec d May 4. 1821.
Mr. Edmunds
Honble J. C. Calhoun Secy of War City of Washington

Southington April 24 1821
Honble J. C. Calhoun - Sir -
Elisha Clark of this town has received from Mr Chester the clerk of our County Court the notice which was forwarded last October notifying him that his name is stricken from the pension list - Mr Clark was an invalid pensioner at $48- per year. his old certificate was surrendered. he has applied at the branch bank at Middletown & is not informed that he is re- cognised as a pensioner. Mr Clark wishes you to send to him or me a new certificate that he may be enabled to draw according to his former rate.
Respectfully Yours &c Sam H Woodruff

Know all men by these presents that I Martha Clark of Southington in Connecticut have appointed and do hereby appoint L. M. Druery Esq of Canandaigua in the State of New York my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to make application to and prosecute my claim for arrears of Pension believed to be due me as the widow of Elisha Clark late of said Southington deceased who was a Pensioner of the United States at the time of his death and who died on the 16 th day of May 1835. — with full power to use my name in the prosecution of said claim and I do hereby authorize my said Attorney to receive the certificate that may be issued in the premises payable to me — And said Druery is authorized to act in the premises in as full and complete a manner as I myself could — hereby ratifying all that my said Attorney may do in the premises —
Dated at Southington this 13 th day of March 1851
In presence of Romeo Lowrey Mansfield Morrison
Martha X Clark mark
State of Connecticut } ss Southington March 13 th 1851 Hartford County }
Personally appeared Martha Clark signed and sealed of the foregoing Power of Attorney and acknowledged the same to be her free act and deed. Before me.
Romeo Lowrey Just of Peace

State of Connecticut Probate District of Southington } ss Southington March 13, 1851
I John Gridley Clerk of said Court of Probate do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Elisha Clark was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of One Hundred and forty four Dollars per Annum, that he was a resident of said Southington in said County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, and died in said Town on the 16 th day of May 1835, leaving a widow whose name is Martha Clark, who is now living at said Southington, and is still the widow of said Elisha Clark
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the official seal of said Court at said Southington the 13 th day of March A.D 1851
John Gridley Clerk

Mr. J. C. Calhoun
Secy of War
Washington
D.C.
SHAVEN APR 6
Recd April 1822
For national military
Edwards

Connecticut — Southington April 3 d 1822.
Mr. J. C. Calhoun
Sir, About twenty eight years past I obtained a small pension from the United States on account of a wound which I received in the Revolutionary War — and received my pay thereon semiannually until March 1818 — when I obtained a pension of full pay or eight dollars per month under the act of 18 th March 1818. At which time in compliance with the requirements of law I relinquished my former pension and delivered up my certificate — Afterwards under the act of May 1 st 1820 I was struck from the list of pensioners under the act of 18 th March 1818 as may appear by the notice which I received which is enclosed herein —
By the laws of the United States I am restored to my old pension as on broaled — but having delivered up my certificate according to the requirements of law under the act of 18 th March 1818 I have nothing to shew that I am entitled to receive any pension — and have not been able to obtain any since 4 th March 1820 And my request, Sir, is that my old certificate may be returned to me or a new one sent so that I may be enabled to receive of the Agent for paying pensions

in this state. The pension which I am entitled by law to receive - or that some other provision may be made for that purpose.
I am Sir - respectfully
Yours Sincerely Elisha Clark

The enclosed Discharge was found in a mutil- ated condition when case was opened by me
Dec. 15. 1910.
E. H.

Martha Clark's Declaration
Court of Sessions Grand Jury
Hon Amos Dake
Feb 26 1857
M. Cole

State of Connecticut
Hartford County ss. Before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for said county, personally appeared Martha Clark, a resident of Southington in said county, aged eighty four years, and on her oath made the following declaration. That she is the widow of Elisha Clark who was a pensioner under the act of 7 th June 1832 at the rate, she believes of ninety six dollars per annum, and died on the sixteenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty five. She makes this declaration in order to obtain the benefit of all or any of the acts and resolutions of Congress applicable to her case, authorizing an increase of the pension of her late husband and arrearages -
Martha her Clark mark
Witness Mansfield Merriman
Sworn and subscribed before me, and I hereby certify that the above named Martha Clark is personally known to me to be the person she represents herself to be, and that she is a credible person - Southington.
Hartford County Connecticut. January 29. 1857 Mansfield Merriman Justice of the Peace

STATE OF CONNECTICUT.
I, JOHN P. C. MATHER, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, and Keeper of the Seal thereof, do hereby certify and make known to whom it doth or may concern, That Mansfield Merriman
is, and since the fourth day of July last past hath been a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hartford in said State, duly appointed and commissioned,---having full power and authority by the laws of said State, to take the Acknowledgment of Deeds and to certify the same; also to administer Oaths, to take Affidavits and Depositions out of Court, and to give Certificates thereof; and that full faith and credit may and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations.
And I further Certify, That I believe the foregoing signature of the said Mansfield Merriman to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the Seal of said State, at Hartford, this 29 th day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one.
John P. C. Mather Secretary of State.

State of Connecticut, Comptrollers Office Hartford Mar 24 th 1819
Upon examination of the Books of this Office it appears - that Elisha Clark served as a private in Colonel Jonathan Baldwin's Regiment of Artificers in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War from the ninth day March 1778. until the thirty first day of December 1780. (after which his services were not settled at the Pay-table Office in this State) The pay for his services for the above period was made up in the Regimental Pay-roll - was paid by this State and charged to the United States - and by them allowed on the settlement of the claims of the State for the Expenses of said Revolutionary war
Certified by Elisha Clark Compt n of Public Accounts

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
County of Hartford
ss.
Southington
On this fifteenth day of May 182 2 ; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Hartford personally appeared Elisha Clark who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Oliver Pease in the regiment commanded by Colonel Leviathan Bartd. Wm  re-instated in the service of the United States; that his name was placed  inserted on the invalid pension roll of the state of Connecticut , and that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the   day of 182 2 , at or
near
the
Elisha Clark
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid.
John E Benjamin Just. Peace
NOTES. The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.
□ If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."

I Sam H Woodruff of Southington in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut depose and say that I have never received the certificate in favor of Elisha Clarke re-enlisting him on the roll of invalid pensioners of the United States. That I am infor- med by J. L. Edwards Esq. that such a certificate was forwarded to me on the 8 th day of May 1821 at New Haven Connecticut but that the same was never received by me and that accord- ing to my best belief the certificate aforesaid is lost by accident
Sam H Woodruff
Hartford County ss. Southington May 15 th 1822 personally appeared Sam H Wood- ruff and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him signed. Witness me
John E Benjamin Just. Peace

State of Connecticut ss.
I Ralph S. Ingersoll a Notary
Public duly commissioned and sworn, dwelling in the city of New Haven and state aforesaid
Do hereby certify that John
E. Benjamin Esquire, before
whom the within Depositions
were taken, and who has written his name to the certificate thereof, now is, and for more than
six months last past, has been a justice of the
Peace within and for the county of Hartford in said state, and is by law authorized to adminis- -ter oaths and affirmations, in testimony whereof
I have set my hand and notarial seal hereunto in the city of New Haven this the twentieth day of May 1822.
R. S. Ingersoll
Notary Public

Clark Elisha, Mar 78 Sams, 60 dis 7 Mar 1781
To Hon Lewis Casp. Esq Secretary of War.
The application of Elisha Clark of Southington in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, shews that, he was born at said Southington on the 6 th day of Sept 1757, where he has since resided ever since except when absent in the service of the United States during the Revolutionary war - That he enlisted into the service of the United States the 9 th day of March A.D 1778, and served in the Regiment commanded by Col Ichethan Baldwin of the Continental Army, and was discharged as he thinks in the winter or spring of 1781, having served Three years or about Three years. That at the time that he procured the enclosed certificate for a pension under the act of May 1 st 1820 he forwarded his discharge to the War Department, where he supposes it may

now he found, and he supposes also that his name is on the rolls in the office of the War Department, that he is the same Elisha Clark to whom the enclosed certificate was granted, and now asks to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except an increase of his pension except the present and declares that his name is only on the Pension roll of the agency of the State of Connecticut.
Elisha Clark
State of Connecticut } Southington Probate District, } for Southington
Personally appeared before the subscriber Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Southington in Connecticut. Elisha Clark well known to me as a man of good character for truth, and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing application by him subscribed.
Romeo Dorey

I John Wightman Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Southwestern in Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains Romeo Laurey who has subscribed the foregoing certificate is the Judge of said Court, and that the signature annexed to said certificate is his genuine signature
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 27 th day of Sept. A. D. 1832
John Wightman

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Duplicate
INVALID PENSION.
Reinstated under the Law of the 1 st of May 1820.
I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 1 st of May 1820.
Elisha Clark,
late a
Private
of the Army of the U. States
is inscribed
on the Pension List, Roll of the Connecticut.
Agency, at the rate of four dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this twenty eighth day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty two .
J B Calhoun
Secretary of War.

Increased to $6 per month, from the 26 th July 1824 - the amount of the increase to be paid 4 th March 1824.
In the absence of the Secretary of War,
J. L. Edwards. War Dept t Pension Office, Aug. 21. 1824
admitted Certified that the last entry
No 765 M m

Haitout June 8 th 1853
Hon. L. P. Waldo, Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir,
I enclose herewith, the declaration &c. of Martha Clark of South- ington, widow of Elisha Clark deceased, for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the Act of Feb. 8 th 1853.
I am sir, with great respect, your obedt. Servt., Geo. Robinson,

Elisha Clark, dec et
Act 7 June 1832
due to p 240 per ann dec 9 p 144 per ann comm 4 March 1831 & end 9th May 1835
Payable to his widow, Martha Clark
A. Lick U.C Exeter N.H.

Brief in the case of Martha Clark widow of Elisha Hartford — County and State of Connecticut act 5 Feb. 3. 1853
Claim, (“original,” or “for increase.”)
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. Husband a pensioner under act of June 7 th 1832 at $ 240
Artificer
(If for increase.) Marriage proof clergyman's certificate attests Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Death and report
Identity cert. of Court
Name and residence of Agent
G. Robinson Hartford Conn.
Examining Clerk.
J. H. Gray

Derby, Conn. 5/21 1904
Pension Bureau Washington D C
Gentlemen Will you give me the war record of Elisha Clark who was drawing a pension in 1870 from the town of Milford Conn
Yours &c S. T. Chamberlin Derby Conn

Providence Office Aug 20/53
Sir
Please report time of last payment to the within named pensioner or time of death
Respectfully &c
Herbert Ely Esq
J. C. Clegg for Comtee
Present
Elisha Clark, dec d Ast 32, $240.00 p. an. — Died 16 th May 1835, Paid to his death.
G. Burt Auditor. "

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See Aug

J. L. Edwards Esquire Washington

Southington 15 th May. 1822
J. L. Edwards Esquire Sir -
Your favor of the 10 th Instant was recd. herewith one the certificates of Mr. S. Clark. I have made inquiry of Mr. Jones the Post master at Kent Ranch, and he is confident that the papers forwarded in May last never came to his office and if they had he would have forwarded them to me - please to forward the certificate to me at Southington Connecticut.
Respectfully Yours &c Sam H. Woodruff

M c Elisha black South.

War Department, 10,887.
PENSION OFFICE,
Oct 19 th 1820.
SIR,
You are hereby informed that the Secretary of War does not, on account of the amount of your property, consider you entitled to a Pension under the Acts of the 18th March, 1818, and 1st May, 1820; and has, therefore, directed your name to be stricken from the Pension List.
I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J. G. Edwards
To Mr. Elisha Clark Southington, Con

Elisha Clarke. (Private)
Baldwin's Regt. Artfys.
1770 - 3 years -
28 th May 1810 -
Adm l .
✓
The Judge's certificate of the reduced circumstances of the applicant, and that he receives the assistance of his country for such but is re- quired.
Pension Office July 1 st 1819

D. State of Connecticut ss. Middletown. On this 28 th day of May 1818. before me the Subscriber, one of the Judges of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut, personally appears Israel Driggs of Middletown aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth, on his Oath, declare and say, that he is well acquainted with Elisha Clark of Southington in the said State, the person who made the preceding declaration on Oath, and served with him in the Regi- ment of Artillery commanded by Col. Nathaniel Baldwin. From the Spring of 1778 to January 1781, when the said Israel was duly dis- charged from Service, and left the said Elisha Clark in the Service aforesaid. — Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid. Silas Hopper.

I John Fisk Clerk of the Superior Court for the State of Connecticut do certify, That the Hon. Stephen Dyer Member of Ansonia Town in the said State is an of the Judges of the said Court and that his name subscribed to the preceding declarations & Certificates marked A. B. C. D. is his proper hand writing & signature
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of the said Court at Ansonia aforesaid this 28 th day of May 1818.
John Fisk Clerk

Eliza Clark the within declarant is a persio- ner, by reason of a wound recd while in the Service of the U.S.; which he expects to re- -linquish, if his present application is allowed.

June 8, 1904 D. T. Chamberlin, North Ames
Prison
WIDOW, &c.
File No.
718
Martha Clark,
Widow...
Elisha Clark,
Artificer Rev. War.
Act.
Feb. 3, 1853.
Index:—Vol.
A
Page
134
[Arrangement of 1870.]

No. 64368
ACT OF MARCH 3, 1855.
Received Apr. 13, 1855.
Elisha Clark
Rev. War
Warrant 8159-160-55
R. B. Garry
Southington
ct

Nov 2 1906 R.R. aw

Clark, Elisha
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Feb. 21, 1795 and printed in the American State Papers class 9, page 153.
Rank; Artificer
Boilstone's company of Artificers.
Disability; A severe cut in his foot, by an axe with which he was at work in making baggage wagons.
When and where disabled; 1777, Springfield.
Residence; Southington.
To what pension entitled; One-fourth Evidence complete.

aw
Aug. 9, 1906
8/9/06

Clark, Elisha
His name appears on a list of claimants to be placed on the pension list returned by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 114.
Rank: Artificer, laboratory, Springfield.
Disability: In erecting a carriage for public service, accidentally cut off all the toes of his right foot, except the great toe.
Where disabled: Springfield.
Residence: Southington.
Monthly allowance: $5.00
Arrearages: $100.00
Remarks: Enlisted March 9, 1778; discharged March 7, 1781.

aw
July 13, 1906 L.H.H.

Clark, Elisha
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the Circuit Court for the district of Connecticut, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on Dec. 14, 1792, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 65.
Rank: Artificer
Regt.: Capt. E. Boilstone
Disability: Lost all the toes, except the great toe of his right foot, in 1777.
Date of certificate: Oct. 3, 1792.
Monthly allowance: $ 5.00
Arrears due: $ 100.00

Certificates issued between the 4th March and the 4th September are not payable until the 4th September. Those issued between the 4th September and 4th March are not payable before the 4th March. The stipend due to the within named Pensioner will be paid at Middletown, Conn. by
the President of the United States Branch Bank. This Certificate is issued in case of one supposed to be lost destroyed, which, if it should hereafter, be presented at the Bank, the Agent will place transmitted to the War Department.
Registered in Book B Vol. 2 page 75 by Lloyd Brall Clerk.

7/15
Connecticut
Alusha Clark
Private
In the Army of the U.S.
Inserted on the roll of the Connecticut Agency as an Invalid Pensioner $2.50 per mo. increased to $4.00 by the law of the 24 of April 1816 Relinquished as an Invalid Pensioner & placed on the roll of Rev. Pensioners under law 18 March 1818. Stricken off under the law of the 18 March 1818 19th 1820, & reinstated as an Invalid Pensioner.
Reinstated as an Invalid on the 8 May 1820.
Certificate sent to S.H. Wood Esq. New Haven Conn.
Original Certificate shown 28 May 1822 and sent to Genl H. Brockway Esq. Washington Connecticut The above duplicate was imperfectly attested to Kentucky instead Connecticut, was returned by the P. Master in Lexington, and on the 8th of Oct. 1822 sent to S.H. Wood Esq. at Southington Connecticut.

Connecticut.
Elisha Clark, Private U.S. Army during the revolution
(See inside)
Increased on the 21 st Aug. 1824 to $6 per month, from 26 July 1824 & certificate sent to S.H. Parsons, Hartford

June 10. 1853
No. 2066
App. of Martha
Clark widow of
Elisha.
Connl: P. # 164 enc 240
1147
Act 3 d Febry: 1853
Rev:
Allowed $240 per annum
Connl Feb 8 1853
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, Pension Office, Official Business
Geo Robinson
Hartford.
Connl.

10,884
Q
Connecticut.
Elisha Clark
of Southington in the state of Conn t who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Baldwin of the Continental line, for the term of three years
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 th of May, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 th of Apr 1819 and sent to J. S. Hooper, Esq Middletown, Conn t
Arrears to 4th of Oct 1819. 9 mo. 8 d. $ 71.06 Semi-ann. all ce ending 1 st Apr 1819 48.00
$122.06
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Less as Nov 1818 $ 71.06 Do Do Do 27.03 Difference $ 37.03 48.00 Discontinued $ 83.03
Application sent to Thomas H. Foster Esq 19 Oct 1820 Harford Connecticut.

1147 Connecticut
Elisha Clark
of Southington in the State of Connecticut who was an Artificer in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Baldwin in the Connecticut line for Three years Continental
(Dropped from Invalid rate)
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 11 11 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of October 1832 and entitled Pensioner Southington Cont
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 $214 Semizant. allowance ending " 72
$288
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. L. Bullock Clerk, Book I, Vol. 39 Page 36