Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41489, Osborn Clark, N.C.

SERVICE
NUMBER
NC
Clark, Osborn
S. 41489
CONTENTS

41 489 Revy INVALID.
File No. 41 489 Osborn Clark Pri New Mar
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 89
[Arrangement of 1870.]

4,669 North Carolina
Orphan. Black Private Capt Stephenson N.C. 4
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 9 th of June 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of Nov r 1818 and sent to J. J. Strantley Esq r . Clerk of the Ct. of Craven co. N.C.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 2. 3/4 mo. 22. 90 Semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th Mar. 1819. 48 "
$70. 90
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

10th Regiment, Osborn Clark Serjt 1 st June 1777. 3 years, private June 1778.
The above is a true abstract from the Musterroll of the N o Carolina Continental line in the revolutionary war
Given under my hand 10 th June 1818.
W m Hill Secretary of State

Ozborn Clark
Adm. H. d.

State of North Carolina
To the Honorable the Secretary of War of the United States.
The Petition of Osborn Clark of the County of Pitt in the State of North Carolina a Citizen of the United States, sheweth - That he entered the service of the State of North Carolina as a soldier at the Commence- ment of the War of the Revolution, was marched to Norfolk in Virginia and to Sunbury in Georgia his term of service expired while he was in South Carolina and he returned to North Carolina and in the fall of the year One thousand seven hundred seventy seven he enlisted as a private in Captain Silas Sears Henson's Company in the tenth Regiment of the North Carolina Continental line, and marched to Valley Forge in Pennsylvania where the tenth Regiment was distributed to complete other and deponent passed into the second Regiment of the North Carolina Continental line and into the Company com- manded by Captain Benjamin Coleman. and served in that Regiment as a private in all its arduous services in the North & in its march to Charleston where deponent was taken prisoner, detained in a prisonhip by the enemy until he was discharged discharged at

James town in Virginia and received his discharge at Williamston - his discharge he entrusted to an agent to settle his pay after peace and it has never been returned to him - deponent served more than seven years of the War of the Revolution against the Common Enemy. deponent is in the sixty fifth year of his age, is in indigent circumstances, has a family and needs the assistance of his Country for his support, and prays the benefit of the Act of the last Congress providing for his case -
Ex 100 100 100
Sworn to 9th June 1818 in open Court
J. S. Stuart
Hugh Pugh Gerald, Daniel Tolar and Isaac Perkins make oath that they were soldiers of the Continental line of the State of North Carolina in the war of the Revolution and know that the petitioner Osborne Clark served more than two years as a private soldier in said line - deponents believe he served as stated in his petition but having been themselves a portion of their term on different service they did not serve with him in the whole of his service -
Sworn to 9th June 1818 in open Court
J. S. Stuart
Hugh Pugh Gerald Daniel Tolar Isaac Perkins

State of North Carolina & f Craven County
Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions June Term AD 1818
The foregoing affidavits of Osborn Clark, Hugh Pugh, Serrell, Daniel Tolar and Isaac Perkins being taken and subscribed in open court. It is ordered that it be certified to the Secretary of War of the United States, that it appears to the satisfaction of this court that the petitioner Osborn Clark did serve in the revolutionary war against the common Enemy as stated in his petition and that said Osborn Clark is now in reduced circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.
Witness James G. Stanley Clerk of the court aforesaid under the seal of said court at Newbern this 20th day of June AD 1818-
H. G. Stanley Clerk