Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File [BLANK], Richard Clark, Va.

SERVICE
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Va.
Clark, Richard
Va. Half Pay
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VIRGINIA CLAIMS Index
{Under the Act entitled "An act to provide for liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia." Approved July 5th. 1832.
   Name. Register of claims. Register of letters received. Letters written. Communications received from officers of the State of Virginia and the general government relative to.   From Subject. To. From.     Clark Richard 55, 95, 187, 352, 399 604, 605.  

70 Treasury Department, Office of Auditor for the Interior Department,
Washington, D. C.,
August 9, 1898.
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir:
I return herewith papers in the claim of Col. Attila Cox, administrator of Lieut. Richard Clark, deceased, of the Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Line, Revolutionary War, for Half Pay for Life, under Act of July 5, 1832, and have to state that an examination of the records in this office of payments under said act, known as "Virginia Claims for Half Pay" fails to disclose the payment of any such claim in the case of said Richard Clark.
Respectfully yours,
Robert S. Pearson, Acting Auditor.
L.

O. W. & N. Div.
W. L. C.
Department of the Interior.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
August 6, 1898.
Respectfully referred to the Auditor for the Interior Department with request that he state whether a prior claim by the heirs of the within named Richard Clark was settled during the period the Treasury Department was charged with the execution of the act of July 5, 1832.
An old record book which is supposed to have been transferred from the Treasury Department indicates that such a claim was made, but no papers relating to it can be found here.
Commissioner.
AUG 10 1898
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Commissioner of Pensions, Interior Dept., Washington D.C. Dear Sir:-
I enclose you the application of Col. Attila Cox, Administrator of Lieutenant Richard Clark, deceased, of the Illinois Regiment Virginia State Line Revolutionary War. The claim is under the act of the 5th of July, 1832. The evidence in support of this claim will be found in the history of Gen. George Rogers Clark, who formed and commanded the Illinois Regiment until the close of the Revolutionary War, which history was written by Hon. Wm. H. English candidate for Vice President of United States upon the ticket with Gen. Hancock for President. Published in 1896 at Indianapolis Indiana. If you have not this history I will get a copy and carry it to you, or send it at once.
Yours very truly,
S. J. Trabue

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STATE OF KENTUCKY ) COUNTY OF JEFFERSON ) Set. CITY OF LOUISVILLE )
To Chf. _____ Div. Action _____ JUN 13 1898 COMMISSIONER
The Columbia Finance & Trust Company by Attilla Cox President, states that administration has been granted upon the estate of Richard Clark , deceased, who was a resident of Louisville at his death in the month of March 1784,. He joined the Illinois Regiment, Captain Robert Todd's Company, of the Revolutionary war, in March 1779 as a private. He served in that company until June 1779, when he was appointed a lieutenant in said Illinois Regiment and served there until the close of the war. Said Richard Clark was allowed 2156 acres of land in the Illinois Grant opposite the City of Louisville. He was allowed 2666 2 / 3 acres of bounty land by Virginia. The number of the warrant is 2684 , and was located in the state line of Virginia, situated in what is now Kentucky, and West of the Green River. 1,000 acres of said warrant was located by his brother-in-law, William Croghan, 1000 acres located in his own name on said warrant, and the balance 666. 2 / 3 acres in the name of Edward Dowse. The Board of Field officers which sat in Richmond on the 2 d day of February 1782 and 13 th day of April 1782, reported Richard Clark entitled to half pay and commutation with interest in lieu thereof, which has never been received and is now claimed under the laws of Virginia and the Acts of Congress of the 5 th of July, 1832. The facts set forth are reported in the second volume pages 1000 and 1001 of W.H.English's (late of Indianapolis, Ind.) history of the territory Northwest of the Ohio River, in what was then Virginia. The Congress to relieve Virginia passed the Act of the 5 th of July 1832, promising half pay for life and commutation in lieu thereof, to all Virginia soldiers of the said State
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who continued in the service to the close of the war. The following is a copy from W. H. English's history, pages

1000 and 1001:
Richard Clark was born in Caroline County Virginia on the 6th of July, 1760, (See Vol.1 pages 37-38) and there lived until he joined Captain Robert Todd's Company in 1779, of Illinois Regiment. He was commissioned Lieutenant in the Illinois Regiment in June 1779, and continued in the service thereafter until the close of the war, (See 1st Vol. page 373 Conquest of Country Northwest of the Ohio River).
Jonathan Clark was the oldest son of John Clark the father of General George Rogers Clark, and was the first to join the army as a private in the Continental line, and met with promotion until he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. (See 1st Vol. of the aforesaid book, page 38).
State of Kentucky } County of Jefferson } scl.
Attilla Cox says that the statements contained in the forgoing paper, so far as they relate to his personal knowledge, are true, and so far as they relate to information and belief he believes to be true.
Attilla Cox
Subscribed and sworn to before me by Attilla Cox This 7 th day of June 1898. My Commission will expire at end next General Assembly