Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19600, Barnabas Clark, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Clark, Barnabas
NUMBER
S. 19600
CONTENTS
carded

Massachusetts 32090
Report
Barnabas Clark
Plymouth Co in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Allen of the Regiment commanded by Col. Smith in the Massachusetts line for 16 mo 9 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 54 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Novem- ber 1843 and sent to D. D. Addison Present
Arrears to the 4th of September 1843 $ 679.12 Semi-annual allowance ending 27.17
$ 706.29
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Geo C Ames Clerk Book 6 Vol. 2 Page 15

Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Plymouth County ss. On this thirty first day of May eighteen hundred and sixty three, personally appeared, in open Court, before the Hon. Philip Wood, Judge of the Court of Probate in and for said County, now sitting; Barnabas Clark a resident of Rochester in said County, aged eighty 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 Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 -
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated viz.
Three Months under Capt. Stephen King whose Lieutenant was Leah Sears - This service was performed at Roxbury and vicinity in the Commonwealth aforesaid and in 1776 as he verily believes -
Nine Months under Capt. Allen in Col: Smiths Regiment at Westpoint in the State of New York - He cannot recollect the year of this service - He recollects that the British then had possession of New York City - He thinks and believes that Amos Spear then of Bridgewater in said County of Plymouth served in the same Company with him - And he refers to the rolls at Washington for the evidence of this service -
He also thinks and believes he served six Months under a Capt. Shearman or Shearborn or some such name at Rhode Island - Cannot name the year - He does

recollect that the Capt. under whom he enlisted, died, and then Capt Shearman or Shearborn took or was appointed to the command of the company - He also thinks and believes that Capt. Shearmans Company was in Col. Halls Regiment and that his brother Cornelius Clark, who has deceased was a soldier in the same company -
He also thinks and believes, that at another time he served the  three other months on Rhode Island; but does not recollect the name of any of his Officers or when the service was performed -
He also thinks and believes he served six months at the Fort in Fairhaven near New Bedford, in the Commonwealth aforesaid under Capt Benjamin Dillingham whose Lieutenant or Ensign was Eleazer Hathaway & that while in this service, a considerable part of said Fort was built by the soldiers then there stationed -
He also thinks & believes he served three months at Bristol in Rhode Island under Capt Gyles Cottle; but does not recollect in what year said service was performed -
He further says he served in the Revolutionary War at other times in other campaigns; but does not recollect enough about them to state further particulars - He however well recollects that he served in said war more than thirty six months in the whole - He further says that he expects and intends, if possible,

to furnish additional evidence of his services aforesaid, or so much thereof as will amount to twenty four Months.
He further States that he was born in Rochester aforesaid on the 25th day of October 1760.
That he has no record of his birth to his knowledge -
That he has always resided in Rochester aforesaid from his birth to the present time -
That he resided in said Rochester at the time he was called into service & thinks he was always a volunteer -
That he cannot state the names of the Regular Officers more particularly than he has already done -
That he received a discharge at the end of the Nine Months service aforesaid at Westpoint in the State of New York, which has been lost by time & accident, and that he does not recollect of receiving any other discharge at the termination of his other campaigns or services -
That he was a private soldier & never had a Commission while in the army -
That he intends to annex hereto affidavits of some aged persons who were acquainted with him in his early life & have ever been acquainted with him ever since.

He further states that he did not apply for a pension under the Act of Congress of March 18. 1818 because he had a farm and some personal estate - That he did not apply earlier for a pension under the Act of Congress of June 7. 1832 because he still had the same farm and could obtain a comfortable living therefrom by his labor - But now he is so far advanced in age and his ability to labor is extinguished, and his farm will not support him by letting it to tenants, he is compelled to seek the bounty offered him by the Government under the law aforesaid -
He further states that soon after the passage of the Act of Congress of June 7. 1832 he had a conversation with some of his friends relative to the procuring a pension under said Act and was advised that he must prove his services by living witnesses and that it would cost him more than a large sum of money nearly all he should get -
He here states the names of several aged persons, to whom he has been known for seventy sixty years or more who can testify as to his character for veracity and of their belief of his services as a soldier in the Revolution - viz. Spencer Ellis, Allen Marshall, Melchiah Clark, Mrs. Lydia Bassett, and Mrs. Mercy Lumbard -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to to pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension.

roll of the agency of any state —
Witness John Bassett A Bassett
His Barnabas for Clark Mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above mentioned —
Wilkes Wood J. Probz
Plymouth Co. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon. Wilkes Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the above is his true & genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the Seal of said Court this thirty first day of July 1843
Jacob H. Lord

I Melchiah Clark of Rochester in the County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty two years, do testify that that that I always resided in Rochester aforesaid, that Barnabas Clark of said Rochester is second cousin to me - That said Barnabas Clark always resided in Rochester and I have been acquainted with him from my earliest youth, and have lived within two or three miles of him for the last forty five years, and previous to that, within three or four miles. He was, in youth, apprenticed to David Edwards, of said Rochester, and during his apprenticeship, he the said Barnabas Clark, as I understood at the time, entered in the Army of the Revolution, but for what precise time he made his first enlistment, if I have known, as I probably have, I have forgotten. As I understood, at the time, he afterwards served in the Army of the Revolution during my absence at sea. It was matter of public reputation and report in the community where he lived that he was in the military service of the United States during the War of the Revolution. I have known him from youth, as I have before stated, and he has been of good reputation for truth in the community.
Melchiah Clark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Plymouth ss. May 30. 1843. Melchiah Clark made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit before me the undersigned: And

I further certify that said respondent has long been known to me; and that he is of good reputation for truth.
C. J. Holmes. Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Wiltshire County ss. I Amos D. D. D. Register of the Court of Probate in for said County, do hereby certify that Charles J. Holmes, whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of the Peace throughout the Common- wealth of Massachusetts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this first day of June 1843 A. D. D.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Wiltshire ss.
I, James Sprague, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Wiltshire, do hereby certify that Charles J. Hoskins, Esq., whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate, is a Justice of the peace throughout said Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, this fifth day of October, in the year Eighteen Hundred and Forty Three.
J. Sprague

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19 600 INVALID.
June 8. 1897 - History Mr. John E. Bowman Highland House Goshen, Mass.
File No. 19.600
Barnabas Clark
Die New Mar
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 79
[Arrangement of 1870.]

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pension Washington

Fauntler Oct. 7. 1893
Sir,
Herewith are the applications of Barnabas Clark and Lydia Pratt for Pensions which have been returned to be certified anew — The former was first forwarded to you about the 11 th of August and the latter about the 17 th of August last —
Very Respectfully Yours. A. Parsons
J. L. Edwards Esq. Com r of Pensions Washington —

Highland House,
F. E. Hawkes, Prop'r.
Goshen, Mass., May 20 1897
Hon H. Clay Evans, Commissioner of Pensions. Sir
I would respectfully ask for any information on the files of the Pension Bureau concerning Barnabas Clack , a soldier of the Revolution , supposed to have enlisted at Middleboro' Mass. It is understood that his widow Judith (Hoar) Clack who died Nov. 13, 1841 was pensioned on account of his service in the Rev. olution
Yours respectfully,
(Rev.)
John Elliot Bowdoin

Nov 9. 1843
Dr
Barnabas Clark
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Thurs. Sept 21
Daddie
Committee of Printing

Washington Nov r 9 th 1843
10 th Sir,
Some ten days since I left a memorandum with you, in the case of Barnabas Clarke, under the act of 1832 - it is an original claim from Mass. and was forwarded by J. B. Babbitt Esq., of Taunton, on the 10 th of August last . Mr. B. has requested me to attend to it, and have the certificate forwarded to him.
As this claim is one month behind its turn, I again beg your attention to it.
In haste
Yr. mo. ob t Serv t
D. M. Addison
J. S. Edwards Esq. Commr of Pensions

N 33.599 Barnabas Clark
Mass-
Act 7. June '32
Secy. 16. mo. 9ds /ni
adm'd 16 mo 9 ds /ni 54:33
Ad. Adm'd Present

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, June 21 1845
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Parnabas Clark, is found upon the Pay Roll of Capt. Myles Company in the 13th Regiment from July 26 to April 21 where he served Nine Months.
The name of Parnabas Clark is found upon the Pay Roll of Capt. Benjamin Dillingham Company having enlisted April 27, 1776, served four months.
The name of Parnabas Clark is also found upon the Pay Roll of Capt. John Churchhill in Col. Dazells Regt of Service in Rhode Island from August 25, 1778 to Sept 15, 1778 served 20 days.
The name of Parnabas Clark is also found upon an order to the Treasurer of the Commonwealth for services in Rhode Island dated July 2, 1782.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this

Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances which tend to satisfy me of the identity of the party described in the application with the individual who rendered the service.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Jno A. Bolles Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Andrew Patten Esq. Dear Sir,

To John A. Noble Esquire Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts -
Sir,
I have employed Samuel Mawditt of Taunton in the County of Bristol, to procure the necessary evidence of my services as a Soldier in the war of the Revolution -
I served three Months under Capt. Stephen Wing whose Lieutenant was Judah Sears - This service was performed at Roxbury vicinity and as is believed in 1776 -
Nine Months under Capt. Allen in Col. Smith's Regiment at West Point in the State of New York - Cannot recollect the year of this service - Thinks one Speers of Middlewater was one of the Company -
Six Months under a Capt. Chearman or Chearborn or some other such name at Rhode Island - Cannot name the year - The first Capt. died & then Chearman or Chearborn had the Command of the Company - Thinks the Company was in Col. Harris Regiment - Cornelius Clark was a member of said Company - Three or Months more in Rhode Island - Does not recollect the name of his Officers or time when the service was performed - Believes it was in Sullivan's Expedition -
Six Months at the Fort in Fairhaven under Capt. Benjamin Dillingham whose Lieut. or Ensign was Eleazer H. Hathaway - Helped build the Fort -
Three Months at Bristol in the State of Rhode Island

under Capt Baker Little - Does not recollect the year -
Served in the Revolutionary war at other times in other campaigns but do not recollect enough relative thereto, to state the particulars - I served in all more than thirty six months -
May 31. 1843.
Witness
John Bapst
Thomas His Clark mark

Taunton June 1. 1842
Sir,
Herewith is the authority of Barnabas Clark of Norchester in the County of Plymouth in regard to his application for evidence of his services in the Revolutionary war — I therefore wish you to cause an examination of the rolls to be made according to the statements of his said services and if found, please forward me a certificate thereof by Mail — Mr Clark states that he served in all, more than 36 Months — That he is now unable to state the particulars of all said services — It is important to him that he should procure evidence of 24 Months service — He has made his declaration for a pension, somewhat similar to his statement herewith directed to you — Inclosed are three dollars which I understand to be the maximum of the fees in such cases
Very Respectfully
Your. & A. Gassett
John D. Sleeper Esq. Secretary of the Com. of Mass. Boston —