Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 39327, Thomas Clark, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Clark, Thomas
S 39327
War of 1812 (Tenn. mil.)
CONTENTS
B. 1755 in Tenn. in 1820. wife Sally.

17/113 East-Tennessee
Thomas Clark, of Bledsoe Co. in the state of Tennessee, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel J. Neville, of the Virginia line, for the term of 5 years.
Inscribed on the Roll of East-Tennessee at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 17. of August, 1820.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21. of Sept. 1820 and sent to the pensioner, at Bledsoe Court-house. E. Tenn.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820. $ 4.94 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4. March 1820 48 "
Oct. 15 } 1821 $ 52.94 4 31 } 30 .. }
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. } and 1st May, 1820. }

17,380.
Thomas Clark, Bledsoe County, E. Tenn as 17. August, 1820.
Col o . John Neville's Regiment, Virg a line 1777 — 5 years.
found on the rolls.
Worth $20. Admitted
Applicant, at Bledsoe Court-house, East-Tennessee, 9. Sept. 1820.

State of Tennessee
At a court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for the county of Blount at the courthouse in Pikeville on the second Monday of August 1820—
On this 17 th day of August in the year aforesaid, being the 4 th day of the term aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of record so constituted by the Constitution of said State, and an act of the Legislature thereof, and having criminal jurisdiction to fine and imprison, Thomas Clark aged sixty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision of the act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1818 and the 1 st May 1820: That he the said Thomas Clark enlisted for the term of five years, or about on the day of day in the year 1777 in the State of Virginia in the company commanded by Captain Ashby in the regiment commanded by Colonel Neville in the line of the State of Virginia on the continental establishment that he continued to serve in said corps until the end of said five years when he was discharged from said service in Monk's corner in the State of South Carolina — that he was in the battles of Brandywine, Germantown and Stony Point — and that he has no other evidences now in his power of his said services except the evidence of Col. Miles Vernon hereto annexed — And the said Thomas Clark in pursuance of said act of May 1 st 1820 doth make also the following Oath and schedule and subscribes the same, that is to say: — I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of May 1818, and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of any property or any

part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to being myself within the provision 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 one in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debt due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed — that is to say: —
The corn and cotton growing on an acre and an four th of land I am permitted to occupy gratuitously;
One sow and four shoats; and one loom — all of which are of the value of twenty dollars,
And I the said Thomas Clark do further swear that I am by occupation a Weaver; but that in consequence of the wound I received in the breast at the battle of Brandywine, the exposure and toil I encountered in the revolution army, the additional exposure and toil I encountered in a campaign in the late war with England in General Celler's brigade of Tennessee militia, and in consequence of the infirmity and decrepitude of age and no longer able by my own labor to obtain a subsistence: That the family living with me are a wife named Sally of the age of sixty years who is unable to support herself, and a daughter named Jane of the age of eighteen who is only able to support herself by her labor and exertions — and that I have lost the certificate of my discharge from the revolution army —
Thomas his Clark mark

Personally appears also Colonel Miles Vernon, of the county of Bledsoe in the State aforesaid, in the court aforesaid, and being of lawful age, and being first duly sworn, deposeth: That he has been intimately acquainted with the above named Thomas Clark during about seventeen years; that this deponent esteems said Clark a man of good moral character of strict veracity; that said Clark is also so esteemed, and has ever during the period aforesaid been so esteemed by his acquaintance; that about five years ago said Clark showed this deponent a certificate purporting to be the certificate of Colonel Atville with respect to the revolutionary services and honorable discharge of said Clark; that this deponent commanded a company in the brigade of Genl. Collier in the late war, and that said Clark served as a private in said company; that he believes said Clark is now unable to obtain a support from his own labor, and that he has not the sufficient means of support— Miles Vernon
Whereupon the court, being satisfied that the said Thomas Clark did serve as a private in the army of the revolution on the Continental establishment for and during the term of nine months, together and longer, and that he has now neither the capacity nor the means to obtain a subsistence and support without the aid of government; and being also satisfied that the property mentioned in the above schedule of said Clark does not amount

in value to more than the sum of twenty dollars — it is ordered that the same be certified to the Secretary of the War department of the United States —
I Samuel Terry, Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Bleedon in the State of Tennessee aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing declaration, oath and sched- ule of Thomas Clarke and the affidavit of Miles Varnon are truly copied from the records of said Court — and I do further certify that it is the Opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is twenty dollars —
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed my private seal (there having been no seal of office furnished for said Court) at Office in Pukeville on the 17 th day of August in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twenty, and of our Independence the forty fifth
Sam l Terry Clerk

39 327 INVALID. Rev
File No. 89,827
Thomas Clark W. P. R. R.
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 89
[Arrangement of 1870.]