Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15777, Charles Clark, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Clark, Charles
S 15777
bearded
CONTENTS

15777 INVALID.
File No. 15777
Charles Clark
Br Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 70
[Arrangement of 1870.]
15

18.070
Maine
Charles Clark
of Kennebec in the State of Maine who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Savage of the Regt. commanded by Col Howard in the Mass. Militia time for 6 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 21 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of July 1833 and sent to R C Non Present
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $43.32 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 10.83
$54.15
Revolutionary Claim, Not June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Book E
W. L. Wells Clerk Vol. 4 Page 7

24070 Chas. Clark
Private - Mass'tts troops.
Service Co. Howard's regt. 6 1/2 months
6 1/2 months as a private
Proof
Rev. Stone a Clergyman
Eliz. Shaw a credible witness.
Applicant can procure no other evidence.
adm'd
6 1/2 mo. fri
$21. 66
Rev. L. Rose
Augusta, Me.

I Daniel Stone, a Clergyman, of Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine, upon oath testify & declare, that I well know the within named Charles Clark, who I believe to be seventy two years of age. I have known him upwards of twenty years. He is a man of veracity and entitled to credit.
Daniel Stone
State of Maine,
Kennebec, p:
Subscribed. Sworn to this 2 d day of April 1833, the deponent a credible witness & a highly respectable Clergyman residing in said Augusta.
Before me, Wm. Woart, Justice Peace,

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
STATE OF MAINE, } ss. KENNEBEC COUNTY, }
ON this 2 nd day of April A. D. 183 3 personally appeared in open Court before the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Judge , a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court, of said State, Charles Clark a resident of Augusta in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, aged seventy two years, 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, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year 1779 with Captain Daniel Savage and served in Col. Howard's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops under the following named officers: viz. Savage Capt.
& Howard Col. That he enlisted in that Company Regiment as a private in April 1779 together with seventeen others, under said Capt. Savage to perform guard duty at Fort Western at Augusta & at times thro' the woods between that place & Penobscot river, for as long as said guard should be found necessary; that he served until the first of November of the same year, when having served six months & one half at least he was verbally discharged at said Fort Western.
And to the interrogatories propounded under the instructions of the War Department, he answers:
That he was born in Cumberland, Massachusetts, in the year 1761, where he presumes his age is recorded; that he was living in said Augusta when he entered the service & has ever since resided there. That he enlisted & was discharged as he has stated. That Jonas Clark was his Lieutenant. That he does not know of any one living who served with him who can testify to his services.
That any of his neighbors will testify to his character for veracity & their belief of his services. —
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State.
Charles Clark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. April 2 nd 1833.
Nathan Weston
And the said Judge before whom said Court was held does hereby declare his opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states.
Nathan Weston

I Eliab Shaw of Augusta, Maine in person on the Roll, aged seventy five years, upon oath state, that I well know the within named Charles Clark & fully believe that he served as he has within declared. At the time within mentioned as the period of said Clark's service. My home was at at Augusta & I well recollect hearing at that time that a detachment of men were stationed & employed as mentioned within by said Clark. I further state that I have always understood & believed & do now fully believe that said Clark served as he has within stated. I have been personally acquainted with said Clark for about fifty years & he is a man of undoubted veracity.
State of Maine Kennebec, p.
Eliab Shaw
Subscribed & sworn to this 2 d day of April A.D. 1833, the deponent being a credible witness. Before me. Wm. Moart. Jr. Justice Peace, —
State of Maine.
KENNEBEC, ss.—I, JOHN A. CHANDLER, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts held within and for the County of Kennebec, hereby certify that the Hon. NATHAN WESTON, Jur. before whom the within proceedings was had, is a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State; I also certify that the within contains the original proceedings of the said Judge  Court , in the matter of the application of Charles Clark for a pension. and that William Moart. Jr. is a Magistrate as above. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said Court, this 2 d day of April
A. D. 1833. —
J. A. Chandler