Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 1979, James Clark, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Clark, James
R 1979
CONTENTS
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No James Clark dec Ohio
Jas. E. Stewart June 7 1836
1979
June 7 1836.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
1979
P. O. _____
James Clark
Service: _____
Va.
Enlisted: _____
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Discharged: _____
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Application filed: _____
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Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
Recognized. _____
Contract
Cert. of Dis. _____
Searched for _____
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The State of Ohio Darke County ss. Before me the undersigned Probate Judge in and for said County personally appeared Charles Mason aged fifty one years last July a resident of Darke County Ohio who makes solemn oath that he was well acquainted with James Clark Sen late of Shelby  the said County Ohio deceased, That he well knew that said James Clark was known, and generally esteem- ed in the neighborhood and vicinity in which he resided as a Soldier of the Revolution, That he has seen papers exhibited by said Clark as his discharge or certificate of his Service, That first he came acquainted with said Clark in the year One thousand eight hundred and twenty two — and was at the burying of said James Clark, and well remembers that it was intended by the Citizens and Military Companies in the vicinity to bury said decedent in Military Honors, that the inclemency of the weather it being in July Eighteen hundred and thirty two, only prevented his being interred as a Soldier of the Revolution in the grade of his officer and the honors of a Soldier of said War, Hee further States that said said Clark at the time of his death was about Seventy four or five years, That said said Clark left a widow him surviving who died about a year three years after the decease of her said husband, Said Clark left the following his children him sur- viving viz M c Lagen, William, Abel, Rebecca, Hannah, Virginia and Horatio R Clark, all of whom are now deceased excepting Horatio R and Rebecca, Said Affiant further States

That he has seen the Record of the birth age and marriage of said parties, and other papers as evidence of the Service of said James Black all of which excepting the Family Record is now lost or misplaced by Said Affiant from his boyhood up to the death of said Black lived within a few miles of said Black and further states that said Black was a man in good repute and when statements with his papers other evidence was by all who knew him regarded as a Rebellious Soldier and denominated a Fug. Major in. said war that affiant always understood that said James Black entered the Service in said War in Amherst County Virginia
And further deponent saith not sworn to and subscribed before me the 22 nd day of Dec AD 1855, Charles Mason A. B. Alderson Probate Judge

State of Ohio County of Dark } ss
on this 30 th day of May 1856
Before me A R Calderwood, Probate Judge within and for the County and State aforesaid. Personally appeared Horatio N. Clark, aged 36 years a Resident of the County and State aforesaid who being cautioned and then sworn in due form of Law, doth declare according to the best of his knowledge and belief, that he and Rebecca, are the only surviving children and heirs of James Clark & Nancy his wife who was a Fife Major in the Revolutionary war that he entered the service of in Amherst County State of Virginia, in behalf of the United States, about the
and continued in the war til the end of the war and that his Father James Clark and his Mother Nancy Clark, was married in the state of Virginia in September 1809, and her name before marriage was Nancy Clark, according to the Family Record Remaining in the Family
and that his Father James Clark said Fife Major died in February 1832, in Shelby County Ohio and that his Mother Nancy Clark, wife of said Fife Major James Clark, died 1833
and Further More by these Presents he Constitutes and fully impowers and authorizes Irrevocably W illiam Heat of Greenville Ohio & James E Stewart of Washington City D.C. his true and lawful agents and Attorneys for him and in his name and stead to examine into to prosecute demand and Receive from the United States Officers his Rights in all and in any Manner or claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land that may be due him as son of James & Nancy

Clark, who did having the same, undrawn as in Right of Law custom or Equity he may be intitled to in witness whereof he he has here unto set his hand and seal
Attest
A. R. Calderwood, Horatio N. Clark Seal
Sworn to and Subscribed and acknowledged before me this 31 st day of May AD 1856, as witness my hand and seal of the Probate Court of said County
A. R. Calderwood Probate Judge