Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14480, Job Clark, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass
Clark, for Esther
N. 14480
CONTENTS

4247
Massachusetts.
Esther Clark
widow of Job Clark
who was a private
in the Massachusetts Militia line Mass
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 23 Dollars 33
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 day of January 1844 and sent to C. P. Huntington
Northampton Massachusetts
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1 Page 38.
Rep 8 Jan. 1844

Rev Mr Wiley to Mrs Esther Bonds marriage

"Marriages"
"Job Clark & Esther Bent November"
I Charles Wiley of Northampton County of Hampshire Commonwealth of Massachusetts of full age do testify depose & say that I hold the office of Pastor in the First Congregational Society in the Town of Northampton State aforesaid. That the above is a true extract from the records of said Parish kept by the Rev. Solomon Williams my predecessor in said office with the exception of dates which are expressed on the record in Latin legible figures as follows "1782". "November 21" or in letters seventeen hundred & eighty two, & twenty first - And further saith not -
Sept. 6 th 1838 -
Chas. Wiley
Pastor of the First Congregational Society aforesaid
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } Then personally appeared Hampshire ss Sept. 6. 1838 } Charles Wiley above named and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed Before me C. B. Huntington

2280
Esther Clark
C. P. Huntington Northampton agent Mass.
Esther Clark 2280
wid of Job
Mass.
Manned 1782
died 1828
Ad July 7. 1838
Allow 7 th mo pri $23.33 per ann
Vol. 21. p 210. abst. of Capt. Clapp's milage 1776 Col Woodbridge no roll.
Vol. 18. p 123 2nd P. 1777 on roll
C. P. Huntington Northampton Mass.

State of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. On this fourth day of September 1838 personally appeared before the Judge of Probate in Her said County Esther Clark a resident of Northampton in said County aged seventy seven years also being first duly sworn according to law. Both on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "an act granting half pay pensions to certain widows". That she is the widow of Job Clark late of said Northampton deceased who was a private soldier & volunteer in the militia of Massachusetts & served in said militia in the war of the Revolution nine months. Said Job served four months in Capt Joseph Lyman's company in Col Woodbridge's Regiment at Ticonderoga as a private. She cannot state from her knowledge as to the full term of service but she recollects of often hearing said Job say in reference to the first pension law that he was out nine months & only wanted three months to entitle him to a pension under that law. She expects to prove that no doubt that said Job served at Ticonderoga two months in 1777 in April & May in Capt Clapp's company in the capacity of a private in the militia of Massachusetts. She has often heard said Job say he became twenty one when at Ticonderoga. Said Esther & Job were married November 21, 1782 in Northampton by Rev Solomon Williams in the Court House. There is a record of said marriage in her family Bible which has always been in her custody & that this is a true copy as follows "Job Clark & Esther Clark were married November Twenty first seventeen hundred & eighty two" expressed in said record in full by the figures - that her husband died on the ninth day of May 1828 that she was not married to him prior to his leaving said service but prior to January 1794 at the time above stated that she has been since married.
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written Before.
Esther Clark Mark
William C. Linsley Judge of Probate

Either blank.
I, Samuel J. Lymen Register of said Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Esther Clark for a pension -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office this fourth day of September A.D. 1838 -
Sam l J. Lymen Reg t of Prob.

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14480
Esther Clark widow of Job Clark Pr. Rev War
Act: March 3 d 48
Index:—Vol. A , Page 136
[Arrangement of 1870.]

2489
Rep'd
Massachusetts
Esther Clark,
widow of
Job Clark, Decd:
who was a pensioner under the Act of _____ and who died on the in 1828 — of Hampshire in the State of Massachusetts who was a private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the Reg't: commanded by Col: Woodbridge in the Mass: Militia line for 7 months, private —
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 23 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of April 1839 and sent to C. P. Huntington, Northampton, Mass:
Arrears to the 4th of March 1839 $ 70.00 Semi-annual allowance ending _____ 11.66
$81.66
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by M. Stuart Clerk, Book A — Vol. — 1 — Page 80

4857 Nov. 29/43.
Cls. March 3/43,
Shop. 10
E. Clark
D. Smith
Colin... by... J. ...
Open at Police Office

Sir
With these amended applications. Our Court of Probate has always been heretofore held a Court of Record, by the department at Washington as far as I know. If the Bureau changes its rules & practice, agents are not in fault unless advised thereof. — Yours with respect
C. D. Huntington
Washington D. C.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Charles P. Huntington Esquire, before whom the annexed depositions (3) were taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
IN testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this Second day of October A. D. 1838
Sam F. Lyman Register of Probate.

2280
Thos Lyman
Job Clark

3 I Asa French of Northampton Massachusetts of lawful age do testify depose & say that in the war of the Revolution I was well acquainted with Job Clark of said Northampton & knew him till he died. Said Job was a private in the militia of Massachusetts in the war aforesaid in the company of Captain Joseph Lyman in Col. Woodbridge's regiment in the same company with myself. Said Job enlisted as a volunteer at Northampton in the summer of 1776. We marched to Ticonderoga & said Job & myself served seven months. His widow never married again after the decease of said Job. And further saith not - Northampton October 1838.
Asa French
his mark
Lucinda French
Witness
Lucinda French
C.P. Huntington
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hampshire ss. Oct 2 1838.
Then the above named Asa French a credible person appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. Before me
C.P. Huntington
Justice of the Peace

I Thomas Lyman of Northampton Massachusetts a revolutionary pensioner aged eighty one years do testify depose & say that I knew Job Clark from a boy until his decease. We were called the "two white heads", & were near neighbors. In the year 1777 in April said Job & myself enlisted as volunteers & privates in the company of Capt Simon Clapp, (Col. not recollected), in the militia of Massachusetts in the war of the Revolution & served two months at Ticonderoga returning - June. We worked together in the service driving logs into the lake for a bridge. I have also known his widow from a child & know that she has remained the widow of said Job since his decease, which was in May 1828. And further saith not - Sept 4, 1838. Thos Lyman
Sept 4, 1838. Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss. Then personally appeared Thomas Lyman above named & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him, a credible person to me known, subscribed.
Before me
C. P. Huntington
Justice of the Peace

1857 Esther Clark - $23:33 per an
C.P. Huntington Nathan John Maps agent.
1857 Nathan John Maps agent.
1857 Nathan John Maps agent.
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State of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss. August 3 d 1843
On this third day of August personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the Peace in for said County Esther Clark a resident of Northampton in said County aged 83 years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by Act of Congress passed on the 3 d of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of Job Clark who was a private soldier in the Revolutionary War & served in the Army of the United States at Ticonderoga, Bunker Hill & at other places for the times as stated in the application of said Job Esther, but which said Esther cannot from her defective memory now state, but refers to said application. The annual amount of the pension which she received under the Act of July 7 th 1838 was twenty three dollars & thirty cents. She further declares that she is still a widow. Sworn to & subscribed Esther Clark on the day & year her mark above written by said
Witness,
Before me
C. P. Huntington Justice of the Peace.
Pamela Foover
Hampshire ss Nov 25, 1843. I further certify that said Esther Clark is personally known to me that she was pensioned under the Act of July 7, 1838.
C. P. Huntington
Justice of the Peace.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Charles P. Huntington Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Charles P. Huntington and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court for said Commonwealth, this twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Samuel Wells
Clerk.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire ss - I, Samuel F. Lyman Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire do hereby certify that Charles P. Huntington Esquire before whom the foregoing declaration was sworn, was at the date thereof one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County of Hampshire duly and regularly appointed and that the signature thereto subscribed purporting to be his I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 3 rd day of August A.D. 1843
Sam l F. Lyman Reg d of Probate