Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,974, Thomas Clark, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
★ Clark, Thomas ✓
NUMBER
S. 36,974
CONTENTS

12. 216
R Maine
Thomas Clark
of _____ in the state of _____ who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Wigglesworth of the Maine line, for the term of 2 Years
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 13 of July 1819 and sent to Josiah Merrill Thomas Clark
Arrears to 4th of May 1819  $7 43 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 15 Sept 1819
10 24 4 30 31 $13 5 43
{ Revolutionary claim, - } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued
Cop of the same age
Publication dated July 22nd 1820 by Josiah Merrill, Collector, Maine

36974 INVALID.
Rev
Rev
File No. 36,974
Thomas Clark
His Rev Mrs
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 80
[Arrangement of 1870.]

101
Thomas Clark
Alma
12.216
Sept 1841
Newell

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the eleventh day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER, Judges of said Court.
ON this eleventh day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared before Josiah Stebbins a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Thomas Clark aged almost eighty years, resident in Alma in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a Corporal in the company commanded by Capt. Davis in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Wigglesworth in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the seventh day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 12.216 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner 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 18th day of March, 1818: 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Thos Clark
Sworn to and declared, on the 11th day of July A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Jonah Stebbins One of the Judges of the said Court.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Nothing & no income but my pension being supported wholly as a pauper
Thos. Clark
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Thomas Clark who, by occupation am a husbandman which I am unable to pursue by reason of superannuation.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     None, I reside with the family which supports me.  Thos. Clark  Attest Nat. Coffin Clk   
STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 Nothing  dollars and cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventh day of July — A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin
{ Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

Thos. Clark
Mass line
13 th Col. Wigglesworth
Regt
March 20-1777 }
Jany 5-1779 }
Correct by Roll For Mr. Lufkin's case. See Case of Jas. Robinson
(Decorative flourish)

I Thomas Clark, of Alma in the County of Lincoln and District of Maine, a citizen of the United States, on oath declare and say: That in the spring of the year 1777, I enlisted for three years with Lieut. Christopher Wood- bridge, in the war of the revolution, on the continen- tal establishment, in the Massachusetts line, into the company of Capt. Davis, who was afterward cashiered and succeeded by Lieut. Woodbridge, and the regiment of Col. Wigglesworth. I was at the capture of Burgoyne, and the battles of Monmouth and Rhode Island. In the autumn of the year 1778, at Providence in the State of Rhode Isl- and, being worn out with hard service and suf- ferings, I was taken sick, and attacked with a sort of fits, which confined me to the hospital for several weeks. I then received a pass entitling me to draw provisions in Boston on my way home, which I did. I arrived home and re- mained in a distressed state, wholly unable to join the army, and a respectable physician the late Judge Rice of Wiscapet, certified the same, as I understood the rules and usages

and I never was called upon to return. of the army required; My fits continued for seven years; I feel remains of them to this time, and have never been a well man fit for labour since. From my entering the army in the spring of 1777, I continued in actual service in the company aforesaid as a first corporal more than nine months: I am confident it was more than a year and a half. I faithfully discharged my duty and left the service in the manner I have men- tioned.
Thomas Clark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Lincoln ss. On the seventh day of April, A.D. 1818, Thomas Clark above mentioned, personally appeared before me Josiah Stebbins, a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Second Eastern Circuit, and made oaths to the truth of the foregoing Declaration by him sub- scribed. Josiah Stebbins.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,
May 29 1819
BY THIS I CERTIFY, That it appears by public, official documents remaining in this Department, that Thos Clark served as a Soldier in Capt. Woodbridge's Company, and Col. Smith's Regiment, (being one of the Regiments in the Massachusetts Line, and on the Continental Establishment,) in the American Army, in the War of the Revolution, from March 20 th 1777 to Jany. 5 th 1779 , being one years and ten months. namely — when he was discharged
Alden Bradford
Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I the subscriber, being a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, do hereby certify to your Honor, that Thomas Clark , a citizen of the United States, now resident in Alna , in the said County of Lincoln , in the District of Maine, on the seventh day of April , A. D. 1818,
made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor; that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an Act, entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary war," passed March 18, A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other is evidence produced by said applicant, are hereunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor, that after a full examination of the said applicant, and a careful consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that from his reduced circumstances he needs the assistance of his country for his support.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the Seal of the said Court to be hereunto affixed, this seventh day of April , in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
Josiah Stebbins.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
LINCOLN, ss.
I THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Lincoln, hereby certify that the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS , Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is a Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, comprising the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto this certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand:—Dated at Wiscasset, in said County of Lincoln, this day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and