Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R 2003, John Clark, Va. Born In Pa.

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Clark, John Clarke Mary
R 2003
Born in Pa. CONTENTS

Illinois 19.704
John Clarke
of Greene in the State of Illinois who was a Private in the Co. commanded by Captain Downing of the Regt. commanded by W m Williams in the Virginia line for two years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Illinois at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Aug t 1833 and sent to Mortimer Kennett. Care of Mr. [?]
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 — 160 — Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep r 33, 40 —
$200.-
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W m H. Palmer Clerk, Book 6, Vol. 8, Page 55.

State of Illinois Greene County
On this 22 nd day of January 1833 personally appeared before the judges of the County Commissioners Court a court of record in the said county of Greene John Clarke a resident of the Carrollton election precinct in the county of Greene and State of Illinois aged sixty eight years on the 12 th day of August next 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 th 1832
That he entered the service of the United States as a volunteer he thinks it was in the year 1778 or 1779 which he cannot recollect but he is confident it was one of these years. That from this time till 1782 he was frequently out in the public service as a volunteer to repel the war parties against the incursions of the Wyandotts & Shawnee Indians who frequently invaded that part of the country in which this deponent lived which was then called Ohio County in the North Western part of Pennsylvania now Virginia ten miles West of the town of Washington in Pennsylvania. That this deponent was too young to be enrolled in any company of militia but when he went into actual service as a volunteer he mostly went with Captain Timothy Downing, Company of Col. Williamson's Regiment. That the people of the country who volunteered for service were distributed about in small parties who reconnoitered the country to ascertain the movements of the Indians, to hunt their trails & follow the same notice to the inhabitants of their movements. This deponent says that this Keith & Terrace was frequent with him as a volunteer. That he was in Teeters' fort on the waters of Buffalo Creek in Ohio County then supposed to be in Pennsylvania but since ascertained to be in Virginia for a period of six months during the years of 1778 & 1779. That the danger from the Indians became so threatening from the frequent depredations of the Indians, that the people of the country found it necessary to take refuge in the forts and military stations of the country. That during this time he was under the command of Captain Samuel Teeters of the Riflemen. That this deponent with the company his officers made frequent expeditions out from the fort into the adjacent country. This deponent thinks that he spent a period or military post formed by the militia called Daddridge's fort in said Ohio County during the years of 1779 & 1780. That he was in this fort for several months he cannot recollect the exact time under the command of Captain Teeters Samuel Teeters. In the year 1781 this deponent was with Captain Timothy Downing at a military post in the same county about twelve miles from the Ohio river. That where they remained for several months upon which they often went out in scouting parties.
That on the 26 th day of May 1782 he thinks it was, that he & others with Captain Downing at their heads rendezvoused on the Mingo bottom about eighteen miles above the present site of Cincinatti in Virginia, on the North West side of the Ohio river, when we joined others amounting to about 489 men & filed under the command of Col. Crawford. We marched across the present State of Ohio to the Sandusky Plains. That on the fifth day of June the Indian forces were about five hundred consisting principally of the Wyandotts and Shawnees & made their attack about four o'clock P.M.

Colonel Williamson was the second in Command and was very anxious to attain Col. Crawford permission to charge the enemy but he denied him on horseback, but it was denied him. We occupied a strip of timber on the west side of a small prairie the Indians occupied the timber land on the East side of said Prairie about fifty yard from us the engagement with occasional capitulations was kept up to the second day in the night; we were broken by the rush of the Indians upon us. It was supposed that the Indians had discovered our preparation to retreat as they were reinforced from all quarters more numerous than we were, perhaps about three to one, we broke & fled, Col. Crawford was taken prisoner & put to death by the Indians in a cruel manner. This detachment retreated with Col. Williamson with about one hundred & fifty men who kept in a body; the next day about eleven o'clock this detachment, James Allen & Robert McBride of his neighborhood were in advance of the main body & passed through a piece of timber for about a quarter of a mile. We had proceeded through the timber without suspecting danger but when the main body got into the timber they were attacked; but they kept up a regular orderly retreat without much loss, were not pursued beyond the timber. During the skirmish Capt. Downing above named killed the half Moon a principal Chief of the Shawanese he thinks. This detachment this time of action was separated from the main body by the Indians between us. We continued our retreat upon ascertaining that we could not join our main body. In the course of the afternoon met with Capt. Houghland who he thinks lived in the neighborhood of Redstone now Brownsville in Pennsylvania. They next day we four marched together till in the night on the old trail of an Indian mound; on our arrival as we afterward learned. They had taken some of our old horses & made them which led us to suppose it to be the trail of our own party. Finding that in crossing a creek before dark that the stones were wet on the bank from the splashing of the water we concluded that we were within a short distance of them, & continued our pursuit for an hour after dark, when we discovered in the wood a few rods off of us a fire. Captain Houghland showed a determination to go to the fire. I requested permission not to go. He hailed them & enquired "Who is there?" The answer was, Friend, with the Indian pronunciation as this detachment thought, she so expressed herself to Captain Houghland; she proceeded toward their fire & observing no one near the fire, she hesitated in her advance, when some one from the Indian camp, in good English exclaimed, Captain Houghland is that you, he answered yes, & proceeded to the fire when he was instantly shot. And there was a general discharge of 60 or 100 guns in our direction but without any harm to either of the party we soon got together & abandoning our horses kept on our way toward home, on the seventh day of our retreat we reached the mouth of the Ohio the place where we started. This Expedition occupied several weeks but how many this detachment cannot recollect. That soon after his return he went on a voluntary under Col. Williamson with a body of seventy or eighty men for a few days down the Ohio River in pursuit of a body of Indians who were said to have crossed the river below. This detachment can safely say that the time he was in actual service during the war of the American Revolution more than one year through his service .

He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present she declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state. This deponent also says that his service ended only with the war of the revolution. He removed from the place of his residence in Virginia in 1783 into Kentucky near Danville where he resided for about a year. He then removed into Fayette County near Lexington where he remained about seven years. He then went into Bourbon County where he stayed near three years. He then went into Fleming County where he remained about three years. He then went into Clark County in Ohio where he resided with his family eleven or twelve years. He then removed to the State of Illinois into Madison County. There he thinks was about the year 1809 where he has resided nine or ten years. He then went into Marion County in which he thinks he resided about ten years. After three years next spring he removed into Green County where he now resides. This deponent says that he has no documentary evidence to support his claim. He never received any discharge from any officer under whom he served in writing his discharges all having been verbal. He never served with the regular troops & has no witness in this country to prove his services. He has no written record of his birth or age. He was born in Lancaster County Pennsylvania and removed in his infancy into Ohio County Virginia. He was born as he has always understood in the year 1765. He can refer to Franklin Perry James Hardy & others as men who are acquainted with and can testify to my good character my reputation as a soldier of the revolution.
John Clark
We James Turney, counsellor at Law of Carbondale in said county of Greene and Jacob Fry, Sheriff of the said county, Illinois,
do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Clark who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him fifty seven years old that he is reputable and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution that we concur in that opinion.
Subscribed & sworn to in open court
James Turney Jacob Fry

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and lived as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that John Clark who has signed the preceding Certificate is a man of good character and that James Muncy, Joseph Fry who have signed the preceding Certificate are known to this Court to be men of good character and credible witnesses, entitled to full credit.
J. M. Mounts } Cyrus Newman } Judges
State of Illinois, Greene County } 2
I, Mortimer Kennett Clerk of the Court for the county aforesaid, do, hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Clark for a pension, in testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 22nd day of Jany 1833.
Mortimer Kennett Clerk
24424

State of Pennsylvania Green County Pa.
John Clark. The applicant for a pension above named being duly sworn doth depose and say that accor- ding to his best recollection & belief he served the United States as a private soldier during the revolu- tionary war two years, and that said service was performed under military offi- cers of the State of Pennsylvania regularly com- missioned that when he entered the service it was under such officers who were regularly called into the service as the necessity required by public authority; but of this fact he has no proof nor does he know how to obtain it should you concerning into the country in which he served. He has not the means to pay the expenses of this inquiry nor does he know that such proof can be obtained and this applicant also says that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory from his youth when some of his services were performed he cannot state particularly or precisely the time & length of his service; nor can he undertake from the course of service to specify the manner of his service more particularly than he has done in the foregoing declaration except as to the whole time he undertakes to say particularly that he served at least two years in all and from the course of service can he add to the preceding declaration as to the names of the officers he served under or any other material particular & that during his military service he was not engaged in any civil pursuit subordinate to human in open court The 3 rd day of June 1833 John Clark.

State of Illinois Greene County ss. The judges of the County Com- missioners Court of said County of Greene do certify that John Clark named in the forego- ing declaration as an applicant for a pension came into Court on the third day of June 1833 & made the preceding supplementary declar- ation for the purpose of obtaining a pension & subscribed the same & was duly sworn to the same in open court: and that James Mowry who signed the preceding Certificate in behalf of said John Clark is a preacher or minister of the gospel in good standing with his church this statement is entitled to credit that he & the other persons signing said certificate are residents of said County of Greene
Jesse L. Mowry J. Mowry
Cyrus Peterson
J. Mowry
I Mortimer Kennett clerk of the court for the county of Greene in the State of Illinois do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of John Clark for a pension that the preceding Certificate purporting to be signed by the judges of said court are their proper signatures. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my signature & seal of office the 4 th day of June 1833
Mortimer Kennett
John Clark

State of Illinois Greene County ss:
Be It Known that on this the eighteenth day of January A.D. one thousand eight hundred and fiftyfive before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Absalom Clark, a resident of said Greene County in the State of Illinois and to me personally well known, and made Oath according to law that he is the child (son) of the identical John Clark whose name, under act of Congress granting to certain Revolutionary Soldiers, their widows or orphans Pensions &c., has been placed on the Pension Rolls as a Resident of Greene County in the State of Illinois at the rate of eighty dollars per annum.
That he is credibly informed that the said Pension may and ought to be raised from its commencement and during its continuance; that he is directly entitled and interested as a claimant in said increase and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence as may best may use in prosecuting said Claim.
Countermanding and Revoking all Powers of Attorney and Warrants heretofore given I hereby constitute and appoint Milford D. Wyatt of Carrollton, Greene County, Illinois, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the Claim of John John Clark aforesaid for any amount of Revolutionary Pension or Increase of Pension that may be due; and for the purpose of establishing additional service by the Soldier for whom Military duty in the Revolution the aforesaid Pension was granted, I hereby authorize my said Attorney to apply to and obtain from State Archives or other sources certified proofs of such service. To examine all papers and documents in relation to said Services on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere; to file addi-
himself

additional evidence or arguments and to receive for my benefit the Certificate for Increase which may be issued in satisfaction of said claim which Certificate I wish made payable at the Pension Agency of this State, to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Agent and Attorney shall lawfully do in the premises.
Lewis M Smith
Ralph W Ray
Abalom Clark (Seal)
Sworn to subscribed and acknowledged before me the day and year above written; and I hereby certify that I believe, and from facts and circumstances of a reliable nature, I know the said Abalom Clark to be the identical person he has above declared himself to be, that he is directly interested in said claim as set forth as the identical party therein interested as alleged and in whose claim I am in no wise interested.
I further certify that I have been personally well acquainted with the said Abalom Clark for many years - during which time he has been a resident of Greene County Illinois and that he is a man in whose statements implicit confidence is placed by those of the community in which he resides or wherein he is known and that I knew the said John Clark soldier as aforesaid in his life time.
Lewis M Smith J.P.

State of Illinois Greene County } ss:
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Clerk of the County Court of Greene County in the State of Illinois and ex-officio Recorder of Civil Commisaires within and for the same, that John Clark deceased mentioned by the said Absalom Clark, his child, in the foregoing Power of Attorney and Affidavit, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, at the rate of eighty dollars per annum, and that he died on the thirteenth day of September eighteen hundred forty four leaving surviving the following named widows and children, to wit: Polly (Mary) Clark, widow, and Absalom Clark, Nancy Atkins formerly Nancy Clark, Rebecca Wollingsfora formerly Rebecca Clark and Miranda or Miranda Ryan formerly Miranda Clark, one none others - that the said John Clark deceased, as above stated and at the time stated at Greene County Illinois. It is further certified that Lewis W Lick Esq., before whom the preceding Affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was at the time of so doing and now is a duly authorized Justice of the Peace in and for said County and State, and that his signature thereto is genuine; and further, that in the within claim for Increase of Pension John has no degree interest.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office, at Carrollton in said County this the 18 th day of January A D 1855 Francis Plads Clerk

State of Illinois } Greene County } ss:
Personally appeared the undersigned Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State of said Absalom Clark personally well known to me to be the identical Absalom Clark who made the foregoing power of attorney and affidavit and who hereby certifies that he is a citizen of Greene County Illinois and a man of high moral character truth and honesty, and after having been duly sworn according to law - on oath declares that his said Father John Clark deceased mentioned in the foregoing declaration of power of attorney died at the said county of Greene in the State of Illinois on the 13 th day of September A.D. 1844 - and that the said Mary Clark his widow died at the county of Scott in the State of Illinois on the 2 nd day of April A.D. 1846 - That the said Mary Clark resides now at Paris Linn County Iowa - The said Rebecca Wollingsford resides now at Muscatine County Iowa, and that the Miranda Bryan resides at Warren County Iowa - all of whom are mentioned in the foregoing certificate of Francis P. Veeder Esq. County Clerk for and within the said county of Greene State of Illinois and the accompanying letter written to this affiant by Joseph Bryan contains all the information in his possession at this time relative to what became of his deceased father's said letter marked (A) in the margin and attached hereto - Personal certificate
Absalom Clark
Attest J. S. Simpson, J. H. Brown
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 18 th day of January A.D. 1855 and I hereby certify as above or preceding and that I have no interest herein
Louis M. Smith J.P.

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Clark a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his and (or his widow's) applications for pension on file in this Bureau. R. F. 2003.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1778 or 1779 Served at various times until end of war, amounting to Over 1 yr. Pri. Timothy Downing Williamson Vo.   1779 & 1780 Samuel Heaters ✓   May 26 1782 Timothy Downing Crawford  
Battles engaged in, In battle with Indians at time Col. Crawford was captured. Residence of soldier at enlistment, Ohio Co., Virginia. Date of application for pension, Jan. 22, 1833. His cl. was sl. Residence at date of application, Greene Co., Ills. Age at date of application, B. Aug. 12, 1765, Lancaster Co. Pa.
Remarks: Soldier mar. Mary _____  who was b and June 9, 1763  (date & place of marriage not stated)  (place of burial not stated) He died in Greene Co., Ills. Sept. 13, 1844, and she died Apr. 2, 1846 in Scott Co., Ills., leaving the following children: Absalom, Nancy Atkins, Rebecca Wallingsford and Miranda Bryan. (Jacch)
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
1 st Greene Co. Ills. Sept 13, 1844.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1879.
REJECTED
1912. Nov. 9. History to Blanche L. Clark. Letter with S.F. 4 C 700 Fr. Michael M. Baker.
2063
P. O. _____
Mary Clark
Service: widow of John
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

19.704 John Clarke Illinois
- Adm 2 years.
Matineus Kennebec Carrollton Illinois.

War Department Pension Office 17. Aug 1833
Sir
The evidence in support of your claim has been examined. The act of the 17. June 1832 under which you claim a pension

Cornwall Pa June 16
No 27
No 27 order
Mr. J. P. Schuyler Esq.
Commr of Pensions Washington City D.C.
Dear

Carrollton June 15 th 1833
J. L. Edwards Esqr
Enclosed please find the papers in relation to the claims of Daniel Allen Silas Cain & John Clark for pensions — when examined please transmit the decision in each case to me
Respectfully
Yours &c
Mortimer Kennett
J. L. Edwards Esqr Washington City D. C.
Dan l Allen New cases taken out

No 15,256
Mary Clark, decd. widow of John Ill
Rejected, was not a wid- ow July 7 1838. Died before 3 rd of March 1857, T o No proof of mar- riage -
M. D. Wyatt Jany 31 1865
2003
July 7 1838

Carrollton Ill.
Jany. 18 th /55.
Mr. D. Wyatt.
Recd. Jany. 25 th /55.
Ans - 27 th
John Clarke, Ill & 1852 Claim for an instance of fur- niss Cole
Proof referred to the Comt. of Pensions & Mt. W. so informant at Auditor's Office Jany 27 th 1855.
John Wilkinson Andrew
Mr. Randall

Canollton Illinois
Jan - 18 th 1855
Hon G nd Auditor U.S.T. Washington D.C.
Yrs Please find herewith enclosed pension papers of Absalom Clark & others - children and heirs of Sam of John Clark, late of Greene Co Ill d . I presume you will find all the facts as alluded to & necessary relative to the Pensions Certificate on file - showing the amount due -
I think the facts proving my parties auth or or rather stolen by estate of Absalom Clark and also proven before the Clerk of the County Court and as certified by him are sufficient - as all the facts are known here where the parties once all resided - Col. John J. Hardin who was Col 1 st Regt Ill s Vol s - Mex Mexico & fell in the Battle of Buena Vista, as you will see from the papers had the matter in hand & filed the Pension certificate - very Respectfully & addressed _____ M. J. Myatt
Canollton Greene Co Illinois

than officer in Packson and perhaps
you may be able to find them at Smith's office and he had the many of handones business Benjamin took the Bibel with the family record John Clarke was borne august the 12 day 1765 Mary Clarke was borne June the 9 day 1763 father died September the 13 day 1844 Mary Clarke died April the 2 day 1846 now you can act as you please if there is no attestation in the law it will be a hard case if hardon and Smith could not get it it distres mother to think she could not draw it she thought she was abandon to us and I had to try every way to comfort her many times with tears in my eyes to be her try to talk and tell me war a better she was wanted but her young could not tell you can act for mirandey and dow the best you can I could do nothing benjamin was present with us at Packsonvill the time she died but I now turn to some thing else crops was very good in the country wheat both fall and spring wheat was good water good and corn is first rate in this part of the country I have corn that will make 80 bushels to the acre and good corn that will make 50 bushels to the acre corn is worth 25 to 30 pr. bushel wheat spring 30 to 40 pr. dollar per bushel will be worth from 40 to 50 pr. hundred the emigration is very large this fall and land is raising very fast land I could have but last summer at 4000 to 5000 dollars have sold for six thousand I have nothing to write to you at present but shall remain your brother and sister till death write to me when ever you can from
Jacob Bryan to Absalom Clarke and family

than officer in Jackson and perhaps you may be able to find them at Smith offer and she had the many of hard ones because Benjamin took the Bibel with the family record John Clarke was borne august the 12 day 1765 Mary Clarke was borne the 9 day 1763 father died September the 13 day 1844 Mary Clarke died April the 2 day 1846 now you can act as you please if there is no attestation in the name it will be a hard case if Hardon and Smith could not get it it distress mother to think she could not draw it she thought she was abandoned to us and I had to try every way to comfort her many times with tears in my eyes to see her try to talk and tell me what a bout she was wanted but her young could not tell you can act for Miranda and do the best you can I could do nothing Benjamin was present with us at Jacksonville the time she died for I now turn to some thing else crops was very good in the country wheat both fall and spring wheat was good oats good and corn is first rate in this part of the country I have corn that will make 80 bushels to the acre and good corn that will make 50 bushels to the acre corn is worth 29 to 30 per bushel wheat spring 50 to 60 per bushel perche will be worth from 4 to 5 per hundred the emigration is very large this fall and land is raising very fast land I could have but last summer at 400 dollars acres have sold for six thousand I have nothing strange to write to you at present but shall remain your brother and sister till death Write to me when ever you can from Jacob Bryan to Absalom Clarke and family

State of Illinois } Green County } ss. Francis P. Vreda clerk of the County Court and ex-officio Recorder of Civil Commissions in and for said County do hereby certify that Lewis W. Link, Esq. whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate to which this is attached and before whom the affidavit was made was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected, commissioned, and qualified, and that full faith and credit is, and of right ought to be given to all his official acts as such
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Carbondale this 18 th day of January 1888 Francis P. Vreda Clerk