Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34699, Moses Clark, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Clark, Moses or Clarke
S. 34699 B. L. Wt 725-100
CONTENTS

Notification sent December 12 th 1820 to Hon. J. Nelson House of Representatives
Massachusetts Roll 1871
Moses Clark Capt Putnam Private Mass Line - War
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 of July 1818 and sent to D A White Esq  Newburyport Mass 
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1 st 1818  Semi-annual 
5 Mo 4/30 — $41. 67
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
7 years
Continued Newburyport April 1820

(- 725 -)
Moses Clarke _____
priv:
5 th Mass. Regiment
for N o 726 - see file N o 3 -
718 & 719 _____
_____ " _____
Warrant issued January 16 th 1879
Hon. J. Nelson

War Department. Section of Bounty Lands.
Sir,
- I return you herewith your discharge of the _____ Line which you sent to this Office some time since for examination.
Whenever you shall have duly identified yourself in conformity with the United Regulations herewith enclosed & returned it & other documents to the Secretary of War, together with a proper authorization for the signature of a receipt upon the record, - the Military Land Warrant to which you are entitled will be issued.
Respectfully, Your Obedient Servant.

Moses Clark.
Cable party co.
5 th Mar. 1874
(X) (Plut) (Examined) I found (Correct)
adm o -
White

We, the subscribers, Do hereby Certify, that Moses Clarke, who is now making application to the Secretary of War for a pension allowed by an act of Congress of the United States, "to provide for certain persons, engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the revolutionary war" is known to us, as a Citizen of the said United States, residing in said Newburyport, and in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Given under our hands at Newburyport this thirtyfirst day of March in the year of our Lord 1818
Step Howard
Selectmen
Arthur Gilman
John Scott
Prescott Spalding
Aaron Parden
Overseers of the Poor
Nathl Marsh
Nicholas Johnson Jr

I, Moses Clark of Newburyport in the County of Essex Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on Oath do testify and declare, That I served in the war of the revolution in the Army of the United States, as a private soldier in the continental establishment, from the commencement until the end thereof. That I first enlisted in Captain Putnam's Company, in the Regiments commanded by Colonel Hutchins (and served one year, and afterward) enlisted to serve during the war, and entered as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Gates in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment under Colonel Rufus Putnam. that John Tucker of Gloucester in said County of Mass was the recruiting Officer under whom I enlisted where deposition has recently been forwarded to the Honorable Secretary of War (and to which I ask leave respectfully to refer. That at the close of the war when the Regiment to which I belonged was disbanded, I was absent on furlough of forty days on a visit to my family during which time I was sick (and under the care of Dr Charles Coffin of Newbury (and was not sufficiently recovered to be able to join said Regiment in season to obtain a discharge until the army was entirely broken up.
Philip Bagley
Moses I Clark Mark.
I do further swear that from my reduced circumstances I am in need of the assistance of my Country for support
Attest V. Washburn
Moses I Clark Mark
Apr 11 1818

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Daniel A. White, Judge of the Court of Probate of the County of Essex, in the said Commonwealth, do certify that Moses Clark personally appeared on the first day of April instant & made the declaration aforesaid by him first signed before me under oath, & also appeared on the third day of April instant & made the additional declaration aforesaid, by him signed, before me under oath, that the annexed certificate of the Selectmen & Over- seers of Newburyport, who are well known to me as such is entitled to full faith & credit; and that it appears to my satis- faction that the said Moses Clark served in the revolutionary war as set forth in his said declaration.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the said Court this fourth day of April in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and eighteen.
D. A. White

Revolutionary Claims
Additional declaration of Moses Clark, inscribed on the pension last roll of the Massachusetts Agency - Pension Certificate Numbered 1871. dated July 16th 1818.
I Moses Clark of Newburyport, in the county of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts labourer, in addition to the declaration by me made before the Honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, June term 1820, and annexed to a schedule of my estate and income exhibited to said Court at said term, and in explanation thereof, as required by the Honorable Secretary of War, do further swear, That my wife is fifty nine years of age - that she is afflicted with Asthma, and has been mostly for the last two years confined to her bed by sickness and unable to do anything towards the support of the family. - That I have one daughter named Mary, now eighteen years of age, who lives in the family with me, and occasionally takes in work, the avails of which has heretofore contributed to the support of the family. That I have another daughter, named Eliza seventeen years of age, who is of weakly constitution, unable to labour, and entirely devoted when able to nursing and assisting her mother. - That I have a son, Stephen Merrill nearly seventeen years of age, who has, by reason of mental derangement, or the influence of evil passions been a subject of deep and cruel distress to both his parents, so that in fact, and in truth, he this appearer, has in consequence of his own infirmities and the unhappy situation of his family, been reduced to such suffering circumstances, that but for the aid which he has received from the bounty of Government, and the Charitable assistance of benevolent friends, he must have thrown himself and wife, entirely upon the town in which he lives for support. He further swears, that the Schedule which he has exhibited of his property to the Court above referred to, is in no respect whatsoever false or colourable, but that which he verily believes to be appraised and estimated at the full extent of its then value - that the same is now so reduced by reason of the continued sickness of himself and his wife, since said Schedule was exhibited, that were those who have charitably assisted him rigidly to require payment of him, he would be left entirely destitute of property.
Teste W. Wood, Juge
Moses + Clark mark

We the subscribers Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Newburyport, having perused the within written Affidavit or declaration of Moses Clark, and examined the Schedule of his Estate and Incomes, as exhibited to the C. C. C. Pleas June term A.D. 1820. Do hereby Certify to the Honorable Secretary of War, our opinion and belief that said Schedule and declarations are true. and that said Clark is by reason of his reduced Circumstances in life, in actual need of the assistance of his country for support.
December 6 th 1820.
William Croft J. H. M. Mansfield Dan l D. Smith Anth y Knap W m Davis Step n Frothingham Selectmen & Overseers of the Poor

Common-wealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss. Town of Newburyport
Be it known to all whom it doth or may concern, that on this Sixth day of December, in the year of our LORD, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before me William Woart, Notary Public for the County of Essex, by legal authority admitted and sworn; and a Justice of the Peace and Quorum, in and for said County residing therein, personally came Moses Clark, whose name is signed to the aforesaid affidavit, and made solemn oath to the truth of the same. And I do hereby certify, That William Cross, Stephen W. Manslow, and Daniel Swift, Esquires, whose names are affixed to the aforesaid certificate, are Selectmen; and that Anthony Tinsley, William Davis and Stephen Mattingham, whose names are also to the same certificate affixed are Overseers of the Poor of the said Town of Newburyport, and acting as such. —
In testimony whereof I do also hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of Office the day, month and year last above written.
W. Woart, Not Pub of Ins. Paix

Moses Clark
1871
Worth
He must state the age, name and ability of his children to work
Conc.
S
Dec 15, 1820
Sent to
Hon. J. Nelson
H.R.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Moses Clark.
resident in Newburyport
in said Circuit, who is named in
Pension Certificate No. 1871 —
now in his possession, of which the
following is a true copy, to wit,
WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,
Moses Clark late a private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
***** L. S. *****
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this Sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
House and about five rods of land, under mortgage to Priscilla Pearson, and at the time of the passing of the act of Congress of March 1818 was under mortgage for its full value; but the bounty of the Government granting to him a pension as a soldier of the revolution, has enabled him to discharge the mortgage in part, leaving it incumbered only with the demand for twenty dollars & 12 1/2 ————— $100 —
Sundry articles of household furniture viz 1 old desk $1. 3 Tables $2. 50. 6 Chairs $1. 50 1 small looking glass $2 flat irons 40 cts bracketry ware $2. Iron pots $2. tea kettle and gridiron 25 cts an Iron shovel tongs & trammel $1 coffee pot 20 cts warming pan 40 cts bellows, brushes, and sundry small articles of glass and other ware $1. 50 ————— 15. one half of a pew in Rev. C. W. Milton's meeting house ————— 10.
he holds a patent for 100 acres of land allowed to him for revolutionary services, but having no other property whatsoever, and being indebted to his physicians and others for assistance to himself and family, it is considered that a fair estimate of its value over & above what he owes is ————— 10 $ 135

That he is a labourer - Sixty two years of age - broken in his Body and unable to labour for his support - his family consists of a wife, and three children - and that he is entirely dependent on the bounty of Government for their support.
That he served in the army of the United States, in the war of the revolution, from the commencement to the end thereof, Massachusetts line of the army, as stated in his declaration before the Hon Daniel S. White on his application for pension April 1 st 1818.
Teste, S. Minot
his Moses S. Clark mark
Essex July 10. 1820 Then the above named Moses Clark made solemn oath that the said Schedule & declaration by him subscribed are true, before me,
Stephen Minot, Judge of said Court

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Stephen Minot a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Moses Clark do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Moses Clark much
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Moses Clark took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me
Stephen Minot Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred and thirty five dollars
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17th day of July A. D.
1820
Attr.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk

Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., _____, 189___
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Moses Clark , a soldier of the Revolutionary War, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Not stat Rev War priv Putnam Gales Hutchins Putnam Mass        
Battles engaged in, none mentioned Residence of soldier at enlistment, Town not stated Date of application for pension, May 31, 1818. Residence at date of application, Newburyport Mass. Age at date of application, 60 years Remarks: His pension was allowed
Very respectfully,
A. Hubbard San Francisco Cal.
Commissioner.

34 699 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 699
Moses Clark
Rev  Rev was
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 75-
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1893 Feb. 3.
Hist. to A. S. Hubbard, San Francisco, Cal. F.S.

Board of Managers.
JNO. W. MOORE, U. S. N., President, Mare Island.
CALIFORNIA SOCIETY
R. S. GRAY, Secretary, 1053 Centre St., Oakland.
CHAS. J. KING, Treasurer, 323 Front Street.
E. BURKE HOLLADAY, 636 Clay Street.
A. W. CORLISS, U. S. A., Fort Robinson, Neb.
CHAS. H. WARNER, 322 California Street.
FRANK K. UPHAM, U. S. A., Litchfield, Ill.
CHAS. E. BLAKE, Sr., Senior Vice-President, Crocker Block.
J. ESTCOURT SAWYER, U. S. A., Junior Vice-President, Presidio.
A. S. HUBBARD, Registrar, 819 Market Street.
W. S. MOSES, Marshal, Masonic Temple.
DANIEL CLEVELAND, San Diego.
J. R. ROBINSON, 738 Post Street.
San Francisco, Cal.
Aug 20 th 1892
Genl. G. B. RAUM Commissioner of Pensions
Dear Sir
Please furnish me with the military record of Moses Clark (war. 1776) who lived and died in Newburyport Mass. as it appears in his application for a pension on file in your department. Respectfully A S Hubbard Registrar

I think this election right to be called before Congress as the same never had his death
Hon. J. Nelson —

Newburyport January 2 d 1819
Honorable J. C. Calhoun
Secretary of War of the United States Washington.
Sir
Please to deliver Hon. Jeremiah Nelson the Warrant which may be allowed me for bounty land for my services as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, in the service of the United States, and accept his receipt for the same as that of
Sir very respectfully
Your most Obedient
Servant his
Moses + Clark mark
Witness
John Chickering
Mr Brock will please to deliver this order to Mr Stewart & oblige his Servt
J Nelson

To the Honorable J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War of the United States of America.
The petition of the subscriber formerly a private Soldier in the service of the United States
Respectfully represents
That at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, he enlisted into the army of the United States, and after having served one year, enlisted to serve during the war, in the company commanded by Capt Gates, the fifth Massachusetts Regiment under Col: Rufus Putnam. That from the time of his first entering the service until the end of the war, he served his country faithfully as a soldier, and was never absent from his duty, without the consent of his commanding Officer. That a short time before Peace was declared, he was permitted to visit his friends on a furlough for forty days before the expiration of which time he was again taken sick, and under the care of a Physician, remained until the Army was disbanded. That at the time the soldiers were discharged from the service, there was due to him considerable pay for services the amount of which he is unable now to recollect, but supposes the returns of the officers in the war office will show, and to which he asks leave respectfully to refer. — That never having received the arrearages of pay due to him as aforesaid nor the bounty land allowed by Congress to the soldiers who served during the war, he respectfully prays, that the same may be now allowed to him, in such way & manner as shall be deemed just and reasonable (and as in duty bound will ever pray.
M c Intire
his Moses T Clark mark

I Moses Clarke of Newburyport in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do depose, testify and declare that I was a private soldier in the Army of the United States during the Revolution - that at the commencement thereof I enlisted to serve for one year, at the expiration of which time I enlisted at Cape Ann to serve during the war; in the Company commanded by Capt Gates in the fifty Massachusetts Regiment (under Col Rufus Putnam - and I think John Tucker was the recruiting Officer under whom I enlisted. That from the time of my so enlisting as aforesaid until the close of the war I continued in the discharge of my duty and was never absent from the service of the Army unless on furlough. Just before the close of the war I was taken sick and having obtained a furlough from Col Rufus Putnam for forty days, I visited my friends at Cape Ann and at Newburyport - being again taken sick I remained at Newburyport under the care of Dr Charles Coffin, until information was received that Peace had been concluded and for considerable time afterwards - The Regiment to which I belonged was then stationed at New Windsor, nearly three hundred miles distant from the place where I was sick and being destitute of money I was unable to make any application for a discharge, or for arrearage of more than a year's pay then due to me, until the Army was disbanded, and notwithstanding any way in which I could obtain either. It has ever since remained - I do further testify, that I have never made application by myself or by any other person for me for the arrearages of pay due to me, nor for the bounty land, allowed by Congress to such soldiers as served during the war - until this time.
Witness Sam l Fuller
Moses X Clarke Mark
Essex ss Newburyport - Be it known by these presents that on this Seventeenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace for the County of Essex residing therein personally came Moses Clarke above named and made Oath to the truth of the above written Affidavit before me W m Wash Justice of the Peace

I Charles Coffin of Newbury in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Physician, do depose testify and declare as follows viz. That Moses Clarke whose name is signed to the within written deposition, was at the close of the war of the revolution (so called) under my care sick and unable to proceed on to join his Regiment at the time the same was disbanded after Peace. That having carefully read over said Clarke's deposition within written I do believe the statements made therein is true.
Charles Coffin
Essex ss. Newburyport March 19th 1818. Then Charles Coffin Physician above named personally came and made oath to the truth of the above written deposition by him subscribed
before me M c Worth Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Doctor Charles Coffin whose name is subscribed to the above Affidavit & know him to be a Gentleman of great integrity & uprightness & entitled to full faith & confidence in what he has he has above testified — 23 Dec r 1818
John N. Nelson Member of Congress
If there is no other objection but the want of a discharge the applicant will be allowed his pension
J. C. B.

I John Tucker of Gloucester County Essex, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, depose, testify & declare. That in the Revolu- tionary war I held a commission of Lieut in the Company under the Command of Capt Grates in the Fifth Massachusetts Regiment under the Command of Rufus Putnam Esq in the service of the United States. —
I also depose that Moses Clark who is now making application for County Land, then belonging to said Gloucester, & now living in Newburyport in said County of Essex, was a private soldier of my enlistment in said company, he enlisted to serve during the war, & did faithfully serve until late in July A.D. 1779. at which I resigned; but belonging to the same Town often heard from him as remain- ing in the service as aforesaid.
I have no doubt but his name was borne on the Roll until the end of the war, as he was a good soldier & particu- larly attached to the service & his Country.
And I further depose, that I am of opinion he would have obtained an ho- norable discharge, but for his being sick & absent on furlough, when the war closed.
John Tucker
Essex ss. Town of Gloucester.
Be it remembered, that on this eigh- teenth day of March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & eighteen, before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County, duly appoin- ted & sworn, personally came John Tucker above named & made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition as him subscribed. Rev. Henry Phelps Im. Pairs.

I the subscriber hereby certify that the within named Deponent is a respectable citizen of the said Town of Lancaster. Henry Phelps.

I John Tucker of Cape Ann in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do depose, testify and declare as follows viz That in the war of the Revolution I held a commission of Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Cap t Gates in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment under Colonel Rufus Putnam, in the service of the United States. — That Moses Clark, who is now making application for his bounty land, then belonging to said Cape Ann and now living in Newburyport in said County of Essex — was a private soldier in said Company — he enlisted to serve during the war, and did faithfully serve until the end thereof, at which time he was absent on furlough. — I do further testify that had said Clark been present at the time when the Army was disbanded, he would have been entitled and was entitled and would no doubt have received an honorable discharge. That his not having received it must have been occasioned by his absence when the Army was disbanded.
Essex ss Town of Gloucester
Be it remembered, that on this _____ day of March in the year of our LORD one thousand, eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex, duly appointed and sworn personally came _____ above named and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above written deposition, by him subscribed.
I William Rogers of Cape Ann in the County of Essex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do depose, testify and declare as follows viz — That during the Revolutionary war I was a private soldier in the Company commanded by Cap t Gates at one time, and in the fifth Massachusetts Regiment under Col l Rufus Putnam, in the service of the United States — That Moses Clark formerly of said Cape Ann and now living in said Newburyport, enlisted into the same Company, to serve during the war, and did faithfully discharge his duty, until the end of the war — I served with him from the commencement of the war until the Peace, at which time he was absent on furlough and as I understand Sick at Newburyport aforesaid — I do know that he served during the whole war — and I do believe that his not having received a regular discharge

discharge with the others was occasioned by his being absent from the Army at the time it was disbanded.
William Rogers
Essex ss Town of Gloucester,
Be it remembered, that on this eighteenth day of March in the year of our LORD, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Essex, duly appointed and sworn, personally came William Rogers above named and made solemn Oath to the truth of the above written deposition by him subscribed.
Rev. Henry Phelps Jus. Pacis.
I the subscriber hereby certify that the above named Deponent is a respectable citizen of the said Town of Gloucester.
Henry Phelps.