Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28683, George Clark, Conn.

SERVICE
Clark, George
NUMBER
S. 28683
CONTENTS

Albany 31,586
George Clark
of Onondaga Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Prior of the Reg't commanded by Col. Bradley in the Conn. line for 7. months & 9 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 24 Dollars 33 1/3 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th day of January 1839 and sent to Grove Lawrence, Esq. Syracuse, N.Y.
Arrears to the 14th of Sep. '38 182.50 Pension allowance ending 4 Mar. '39 12.16
$194.66
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by D. Brown
Cler
Book E. 2 - Vol. 4 Page 12

34,692 George Clark Pension Papers
Capt. Prior Col Bradley
Ent d  to 29 May '77 disch d 9 th June 1878
mo 7 & 9 amys Admitted mo 7 & 9 amys Not on roll of pay List
went to Grove Lawrence Syracuse NY
Hon. W. Taylor H.R.

State of New York
Onondaga County ss On the 30 th day of November 1838 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Onondaga & State of New York George Clark a resident of the Town of Onondaga in the County of Onondaga State of New York aged Eighty two years on the seventeenth day of November 1838 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 enlisted in the army of the United States in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven on the first day of March in that year for the term of nine months as a private soldier under Captain Prior who was afterwards promoted to the Office of Major & that he served in the Company commanded by Captain Abner Prior aforesaid till after the surrender of Burgoyne when he was transferred to Colonel Morgans Regiment. — Captain Abner Prior's Company was in the Regiment commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Mead & Colonel P. B. Bradley in the Connecticut line in the Continental Army — that he resided in the Town of Windsor County of Hartford & State of Connecticut at the time of his enlistment & enlisted in that town under the said Captain Abner Prior; that he was immediately for the small pay on the day he enlisted & was sick with it about ten days with several others that were immediately at the same time & as soon as we were able to travel & about ten days after the said enlistment we joined the army then in the County of Westchester in the State of New York under the command of General Washington we marched through New Jersey & was in the Battle of Brandywine — that late in the fall of that year they was transferred to Colonel Morgans Regiment of Riflemen & continued with them till near the middle of December two weeks after his term of enlistment expired & after the other soldiers who had enlisted in the same company with this applicant under Captain Prior had been discharged

This Deponent was then promoted by Col. Morgan to return to his Company then lying near the Schuylkill & then received his discharge - That he has lost his discharge not supposing it of any consequence he took no special care of it; he was discharged by Colonel Bradley in whose Regiment he first enlisted which discharge was granted about the twentieth day of December 1777. - When this deponent returned from Colonel Morgan's Regiment to the Regiment of Colonel Bradley near the Schuylkill his Regiment had gone into huts for the winter - This deponent made application to the Honorable Joshua Forman First Judge of the County of Berks on the ninth day of April 1818 & made affidavit & got a Certificate from said Judge under the act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the Revolutionary War That William Webber of the town of Berksburg applied at the same time this deponent did to said Judge & he obtained his Pension - This deponent's papers were returned as this deponent was informed by said Judge Forman for the reason that this deponent's name was not found on the rolls of the army & this deponent was required to prove proof - This deponent then went to the City of Hartford to find some persons that served with this deponent in the army, in the month of February 1820 & this deponent found Daniel Porter & Robert Westland both of the town of Windsor in the County of Hartford & State of Connecticut this deponent got them to make affidavit of this deponent's services with them in Colonel Philip B. Bradley's Regiment as found taken before Jonathan Brace Judge of the Court for the County of Hartford as found at this deponent procured a Certificate from Thomas Christy Clerk of the Court certifying that the said Jonathan Brace was the Presiding Judge of said Court of Hartford which said affidavits Clerk's Certificate & the affidavit made before said Judge Forman with the Certificate of said Judge are all herewith annexed. - This deponent was informed by said

Judge on bringing the said affidavits to him that they were sufficient but that a law had been passed requiring persons to make a schedule of their property & present it to the court & on making out a list of this deponent's property it then amounted to over two hundred & fifty dollars & said Judge then told this deponent that the claim of this deponent would be rejected & this deponent did no more about it at that time & some years ago this deponent moved to the Territory of Michigan & resided there till about six weeks since with one of this deponent's children - This deponent has used up all the property he has except the sum of land in Michigan worth not over two hundred dollars one half of said land is owned by my son Miles Clark - this deponent has said that he was entitled to a pension by the state law & returned to the town of Brundage aforesaid to reside with his son in Law about six weeks since; where this deponent intends to spend the remainder of his life. - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. -
Sworn to & subscribed The 30th day of year aforesaid. George Clark Grove Laronum Street Judge of Onondaga County & Common Pleas Court
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier as he states
Grover Laronum } Oliver B. Spence } Judges of Lyman Willard } Onondaga Common Pleas
J. Elijah Rhoads Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Onondaga & State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of George Clark

for a Pension. —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal at the office this 30 th day of November 1838
E Rhoades Clerk

We Daniel Robert Westland both Porter of Windsor in the County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, do testify and say that, in the Month of May 1777 we enlisted as private Soldiers into the Company commanded by Cap n Abner Diner, in the Reg t commanded by Col. Philip B Bradley, to serve during the revolutionary War, that the L t Col s name was M c Leod, that we joined the Army some time in the Month of July or beginning of August following, and we then found in said Company and Reg t George Clark then belonging to Windsor in said County, but now to Nassau County in the State of New York - who we understood and believe had some time before enlisted into said Company to serve for nine Months, that he continued to serve in the same until some time in the Winter following, and until after the Reg t had gone into Quarters at Valley Forge in the State of Pennsylvania, which we think was the latter part of Dec r - and according to our best recollection and belief we saw him in said Company as late as the 20 th of Jan y 1778 -
Daniel Porter his Robert Westland mark -
State of Connecticut } County of Hartford February the 8 th A D 1820 -
Personally appeared Daniel Porter and Robert Westland of Windsor in said County, who are both credible witnesses, and made solemn oath that the facts stated in the foregoing deposition, by them subscribed are true - before me
Jonathan Brace Judge of the County Court for the County of Hartford aforesaid. -

I Thomas Chesler clerk of the country court of the county of Hartford in the State of Con- necticut certify that the Hon- able Jonathan Brase is the Presiding Judge of said court
& I believe that the signature of his name on the preceding page is his signature. Hartford February 8. 1820.
Signed & sealed with the seal of said court
Thomas Chesler clerk

Connecticut
George Clark
Not on Rolls JN
See remarks in the case of Paul Fry
War Dept.
Pen. ? off or
26 May 1816
(Signature)

State of New-York, } ss :— Onondaga County. }
I, Joshua Forman , First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Onondaga, in the State of New-York, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that George Clark ————— of the town of Marcellus ————— in said county, did serve in the Revolutionary War, against the common enemy, as stated by him in his declaration on oath hereunto annexed, made before me 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 Revolutionary War:” 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 aforesaid act of Congress.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the said Court to be affixed, this Ninth ————— day of April ————— in the year 1818.
To J. C. Calhoun, Esq. } Secretary for the Depart- } ment of War of the United } States. }
Joshua Forman

State of New York Onondaga County } S: George Clark being hereby from saith that on or about the first day of March in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven he enlisted for Nine Months as a private soldier in Captain Priors Company in the Regiment commanded by first Colonel Mead in the Connecticut line in the Continental Army that he joined the army in Dutchess County & then marched with the army under the command of General Washington thro New Jersey & was in the action at Gunnem Town - That late in the fall of the year he was transferred into Col. Moyans Regiment of Riflemen and acted with the same on several parties until the middle of December which was about two weeks after his time of enlistment expired & after the other soldiers who had enlisted for the same term in Captain Priors Com. many had been discharged - That that defect was then permitted by Col. Moyans return to to his company then lying near the Schuylkill and then received his discharge - which he has since lost - That he was in actual service under said enlistment more than Nine Months That he is now aged sixty one years that he was raised in the town of Marcellus County of Onondaga in November last, & from his reduced circumstances in life he is in need

of assistance from his country for support — further with roll — George Clark
soon to be delivered before me this ninth day of April in the year 1810 —
John Forman First Judge of Probate Court New —
9. Record of...
George Clark Not on Rolls J.M.
See remarks in the case of Paul Gray New Dept. Perry's office 26 May 1815

Sir
I send you enclosed the pension papers of Mr George Clark As soon as the case is examined please inform the Hon George Lawrence Syracuse N.Y.
Respectfully Yours W. Faylor
Hon J L Edwards Comm te Pensions
H. R. Jan 14 / 15 1 st 1839

263 Furman St., Syracuse, N.Y. June 17, 1930.
Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sirs:-
The General Asa Danforth Chapter, D.A.R. of this City is planning to place stones and bronze markers at the graves of the following soldiers who are buried in this Onondaga County, but who have no head stones. Local histories say that they were pensioners of the War of 1776. Do your records confirm this statement?
Yours truly, Frances C. Coleman Mrs. Charles W. Coleman.
For the Regent of the Chapter.
George Clarke: 82 yrs. old in 1840: living with David D. Fellows. Richard Reed 63 in 1820: no wife nor children. Benjamin Robinson: 64 in 1820: wife Sarah Winston he is said to have died in 1828. William Abbe: Children. Nathan, Isabel and Lizzie.

28683
Rev INVALID.
1930 June 20, Mrs. Chas. W. Coleman adv. that Geo. Clark was pensioner, V.R.O.
File No. 28,688
George Clark
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 78
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section
MCS:MLB
June 20, 1930
Mrs. Charles W. Coleman 263 Furman Street Syracuse, New York
Dear Madam:
I advise you that the records of this bureau show that pension was granted on account of the services of the following soldiers of the Revolution:
William Abbee, W. 20556, a resident of Onondaga, Onondaga County, New York, in 1818, aged sixty years.
George Clark, S. 28683, a resident of Onondaga, Onondaga County, New York in 1838, aged eighty-two years on November 17, 1838.
Benjamin Robinson, S. 43980, born in November, 1756 and was a resident of Onondaga, New York in 1818.
Richard Reed, S. 43908, a resident of Onondaga, New York, in 1819, aged sixty-two years.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN Acting Commissioner