Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16715, Norman Clark, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Clark, Norman
NUMBER
S. 16715
CONTENTS
carded

4138. New Hampshire New York
Norman Clark of Canajoharie in the State of New York who was a Lieut in the company commanded by Captain _____ of the reg t commanded by Col. Holman in the May line for
Inscribed on the Roll of _____ at the rate of 103 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 th day of Jan y 1833 and sent to _____ less 60 cents (for Ref d )
Arrears to 14th of Sept 1832 $ 151.99 Semi-ant. allowance ending 21 Mar 33 51.66
$206.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. H. Blair Clerk D. Vol. 5 th Page 83.
In Writ 7 Oct 1834 to J. M. Plummer P. Cyt. = Do. to P. Cyt. Sept. 25. 1834 do. to Hon. D. Wolcott Jan. 29. 1835 Set to Benj. Clark June 2. 1835. Fr Cir. N.Y. Agency " " " On cur. Fr. Albany - June 9. 35 To N. Hampshir, for annu 4 th Sept 1834 - June 17. 1834 1836 Sept 27 Wm J. Rose with history Prior
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6 April 1838 for annu 4. March to 23 May 1842. Age notified 7 Dec 1844

State of New Hampshire } for County of Coos
On this twenty third day of July One thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared before me Joseph Esquire Westcott one of the Justices of the peace within and for the County of Coos Norman Clark of Clarkville in said County and State of New Hampshire aged eighty eight years and upwards who being 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 th 1832: - That he this deponent was born in Newton in the County of - Worcester and State of Massachusetts December 12 th 1745 where record of his age may be found - That he this deponent lived in Princeton in the County of Worcester and State last aforesaid when called into the service and that he continued to live there untill July 31 st 1826 when he removed to this place. that he this deponent enlisted as a minute man in the year 1774 and served as such about twelve months previous to the Battle at Lexington, under the Command of Captain Booms Moore the only officer whom now he recollects. that on the day of said Battle orders came to Captain Moore to repair immediately to Lexington with his men which orders were complied with, but when he this deponent arrived there the enemy had retreated, and he pursued them to Cam- -bridge where he remained until an army of eight months men were organized, when he returned home having been absent about five weeks. - - - - That in the year 1776 he this deponent aided in raising a company of men for the defense of the City of New York that orders came to the officers of the militia of Princeton to enlist 17 men that being their proportion of the number then called for upon the receipt of which the officers immediately called out their men and endeavoured by all proper methods to persuade men to come forward and enlist but to no purpose the day passed away. and not one had signed the enlisting orders the soldiers were dis- -missed to meet again early next morning when all endeavors to induce them to sign the enlisting orders proved unavailing and the day far spent and seeing no prospect of obtaining the compliment of men required, he this deponent notwithstanding the pressing call upon him to remain at home went forward and put his name to the orders, after which the whole number wanted was in a few minutes obtained, and the same evening he this deponent was unan- -imously chosen Lieutenant and afterwards received a regular Commission as such Signed by Colonel Nicholas Dike which commission he has lost, that the said Company was commanded -

by Captain Flint and belonged to the Regiment of which Weeks was Major and Raimant was Lieutenant Colonel and Jonathan Holman was Colonel that he this deponent left Princeton with said Company on or about the 15 th day of July in the same year and travelled through Rutland, Brookfield &c. to Springfield from thence down Connecticut River in boats to Hartford, from thence by water to Newhaven and from thence through Hurl Gate to the City of New York where he arrived arrived on or about the twenty seventh day of the same month in the same year. that he this deponent was stationed in said City about three weeks and then ordered to Greenwich where he remained until the fourteenth day of September of the same year, and on the morning of the same day was requested to take the command of the Brigade guard which request he complied with, and about an hour after he took the command of the said guard, was ordered to repair to the breastwork about five rods from the bank of the South river where he and his men remained while the enemy passed up the river and landed a mile or two above them. soon afterwards he this deponent received orders to dismiss this guard and take the command of the Captain Captain Flint's Company of which he was Lieutenant (the Captain being absent) and to retreat, but the enemy having advanced so near before the orders reached him that his whole company came very near being taken prisoners, but who effected a retreat without the loss of a man and on the evening of the same day joined the main Army at Harlem heights. When On the following day about nine o'clock in the forenoon the American and British forces commenced an attack and about the same time the Colonel of the regiment to which he belonged received orders for as many of his troops as would volunteer to turn out immediately and go into battle. the Colonel asked him this deponent if he was willing to take the command of a company of volunteers and go into action he replied that if it was necessary he was willing, and accordingly led his men immediately to the scene of action where many of his men fell and he this deponent was wounded by a musket ball passing nearly through his left thigh, which was taken out on the opposite side to where it entered, after which this deponent was carried to the Hospital distant about a mile from the scene of action, where he became extremely ill in consequence of his wound so much so that his life was despaired of. here he remained about a month and then was removed to a Hospital in New Jersey where he remained five or six weeks, suffering extremely from the effect of his -

wound - that on his recovering so far as to be able to leave the Hospital he was permitted to return to his Family and reached home in a very delicate state of health on or about the 25 th of December of the same year, and he this deponent further says that he occasionally suffered from the effect of his wound for many years.
That in the year 1777 when General Burgoyne was approaching Albany he this deponent as a volunteer about the last of August or first of September of the same year started from Phenix and travelled through Templeton, Deerfield across Connecticut river, over the green mountains through Williamstown, Cambridge and Bennington to Saratoga and put himself under the command of General Starks who ordered him to take the command of a company and march to a certain place. (name forgotten) to cut off General Burgoyne's retreat in case he attempted it. - that he this deponent remained at or in the immediate vicinity of Saratoga, constantly on duty, until the surrender of his Army of which he was a witness, and that he was soon after dismissed. and that he this deponent has received no pecuniary compensation for his services and sufferings other than his ordinary pay for six months, and that in a depreciated currency, that he is so far deprived of his sight as to be unable to read or write, that he is unable on account of his age and want of sight to attend at Lancaster the nearest place where a Court of record is held, that he this deponent has no documentary evidence and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services. - that it is his desire in case a pension be granted to him that the same be paid, for deponent's use, to his son Benjamin Clark of the City of New York counsellor at Law. - That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Witness Joseph P. Wiswell Sarah H. Wiswell
Norman Clark by his special order before the subscribing witnes- ses

I Joseph Wiswall one of the Justices of the peace within and for the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire hereby certify that on the twenty third day of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty two the above named Norman Clark to me well known personally appeared before me, that from his own dictation I carefully reduced to writing the foregoing declaration and then carefully read the same to him in such way that he heard and understood the same, and that thereupon the said Norman Clark upon his solemn oath taken before me, declared, that the facts stated in said declaration are true according to his best knowledge recollection and belief, and I do further certify that the said Norman Clark sustains a fair moral character, that his age is eighty eight years and upwards, that his judgment and memory appear to be good and that he is so far deprived of his sight as to be unable to read or write.
Joseph Wiswall Justice of the Peace
We Joseph Wiswall residing in the Town of Clarksville County of Coos and State of New Hampshire, and Sarah Wiswall wife of said Joseph Wiswall and daughter of Norman Clark who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration residing in the same Town hereby certify that he is eighty eight years of age and upwards that it has always been understood in the family and neighbourhood that he was at the battle of Bunker Hill as Lieutenant in the revolutionary war where he was wounded that he sustains a fair moral character and is unable on account of his age and want of sight to attend at Lancaster, (distant forty five miles from his place of residence) the nearest place where a court of record is held.
Clarksville July 24 1832
Joseph Wiswall Sarah Wiswall
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Before me Benjamin Drew Justice of Peace
State of New Hampshire Coos ss
I Adkins N. Brackett Clerk of the Superior Court of Judicature for said County of Coos, do hereby certify that Joseph Wiswall & Benjamin Drew are both acting Magistrates for said County, qualified by law to administer oaths, that the above are their proper signatures, & as such are entitled to full faith & credit.
In testimony of which I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this Thirtieth day of July A.D. 1832.
A. N. Brackett Clerk.

In the matter of the application of captain Norman Clark formerly a Lieutenant in the Mi- litia of the State of Massachusetts for a Pension under the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832 entitled "An act Supplementary to an act for the relief of the decreasing officers & soldiers of the Revolution"
State of New York City & County of New York ss. Benjamin Clark of the City of New York, Counsellor at law, one of the People called Quakers being duly affirmed, declares and says, that he this affirmant is now aged Fifty eight years & upwards; that he is a Son of the above named Norman Clark; that he thinks he recollects his said Father's return from the army, late in the year 1776, or early in the year 1777; he distinctly recollects that the ball, with which his said Father said he was wounded in his left thigh on Harlem Heights, in an engagement between the American and British forces, was preserved in the family for many years; that since this affirm- ant's earliest recollection, it has been uniform- ly stood and believed in the family and in the neigh- -borhood, at Princeton in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, where his said Father resided until about Six years last past, that his said Father in the said year 1776 volunteered as a Lieutenant, and was Commissioned as such in the Militia, or State Troops of Massachusetts, for the defence of the City of New York, where he went with his company & was wounded in his left thigh, by a musket ball passing nearly through it, while engaged with a detachment of the British Troops on Harlem Heights, and that he was afterwards present at the capture of General Burgoyne and his army.
And this affirmant further says, that his Father is now aged eighty eight years and upwards, & is infirmary in body, and has nearly, or quite, lost his sight, and that he now resides at Clarksville, in the County of Coos and State of New Hampshire, which is about Two hundred miles from Princeton, his former place of residence.
And this Affirmant further says, that having

understood that his said Father had lost his commission, he this affirment has recently, and since he heard that his Father's papers in relation to a pension had been sent on to the War Department, caused the old papers of his said Father, which he left at Princeton aforesaid, to be searched, he is informed and believes to be true, was found, the annexed paper writing, dated Milton, Massachusetts Feb y 1792, purporting to be a certificate from Colonel Jonathan Holman as to his said Father's services & wound, that he believes said certificate to be genuine, & to speak the truth, & that the said Jonathan Holman departed this life many years since.
And this affirment further says, that as he is informed and believes to be true, there was also found as aforesaid, among the papers of his said Father, the paper herunto annexed endorsed "Commission" partly in print and partly in writing, purporting to be a Commission, by the Mayor part of the Council of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England, under the Seal of the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, to the said Holman, Esq r , as "Second Lieutenant of a Company to be raised in the County of Worcester for the service of the Continent, whereof Joseph Flint was Captain". That this affirment many years ago saw the said Commission among his Father's papers, that the same came to the hands of this affirment on or about the Twenty ninth day of September last past & not before; that he verily believes the same to be genuine.
And this affirment further says, that he does not know whether his said Father had or had not a Commission as Captain while acting under the orders of General Stark, at the time of the capture of General Burgoyne, & that, if he ever had such Commission, he verily believes the same has been lost or destroyed & cannot now be found.
Affirmed this fourth day of December 1832. before me
Benjamin Clarke
Sam l H. Wells Esq r the United States for the Southern District of New York

13.236
Norman Clark
5 th 8 th 11 th 12 th 06
Jan 5 th 1833
Wm. W. Weeks A.R.

BRIEF in the case of  Norman Clark  of Clarksville in the State of N. Hampshire  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? — before a Justice of the Peace  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? it does so appear by the oath of the applicant  3. How old is he? 88 Years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. As a Gen.     In 17 States that he enlisted as a Minute Man in 1774, and served about 12 months. under Col s Boon & Moore, in Mass s .   States about 5 weeks service immediately after the battle of Lexington.   States that, he was appointed a Lieutenant in a Reg t Com d by Col s Jon s Holman, in 1776. and set out with his Com p y for N. York on or about the 15 th July, and returned to his home about the 25 th Dec r , same year.   Further states, that about the 1 st Sept r . 1777. he volunteered, and had the command of a Com p y under Gen l Stark, and continued on duty until the   3. In what battles was he engaged? States that he was engaged in the battle of Saratoga, and continued on duty until the surrender of Burgoyne. Harlem Heights  
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Princeton Mass s
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence alone
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The papers are duly authenticated
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Examining Clerk.

In the Matter of the Application of Captain Norman Clarke for a Pension under the act of June 7 1832.
Affm. of B Clarke etc
Hon. J. W. Weeks H.R. Dec. 19. 1832

I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Affirmant Benjamin Clarke, that he is a highly respectable member of the Bar in this city, and is a gentleman of undoubted integrity and veracity.
New York Dec 4, 1832
Jam R Botts.

Col. Holmans
Certificate
Mormon Church J. S. H. 16.7.15 - Mace.

Sturton, Massachusetts Feby 1792
This may Certify, that I the subscriber, commanded a regiment of Militia, from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in the battle of Harlem Heights, on the 16 th day of September, 1776; At which time & place, Mr Norman Clark a lieutenant in my Regiment, recieved a severe wound by a Musket ball through his thigh, whilst doing his duty as a good & brave Officer.
Witness my hand. Jonathan Holman Col.

Colony of the Massachusetts-Bay
The Major Part of the COUNCIL of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New-England,
To Nauman Clarke Gentleman Greeting.
YOU being appointed Second Lieutenant of a company to be Raised in the County of Worcester for the Service of the Continent whereof Joseph Haskell is Captain
By Virtue of the Power vested in us, WE do by these Presents, (reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and good Conduct,) Commission you accordingly.—You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Second Lieutenant in leading, ordering, and exercising said company in Arms, both Inferior Officers and Soldiers; and to keep them in good Order and Discipline: And they are hereby commanded to obey you as their Second Lieutenant and you are yourself to observe and follow such Orders and Instructions as you shall from Time to Time receive from your Superior Officers
Gen: Bowdoin M c Greenleaf W m Boomer Caleb Cushing Winthrop Gushing S. Hattar Jabez Fisher B. White W m Phillips John Taylor
GIVEN under our hands and the Seal of the said Colony, at Watertown the Third Day of July in the Year of our Lord, 1776.
By the Command of the Major Part of the Council.
John Lowell Esq Secy
W 16.715
Dan d Davis J. Patten D. Sewall D. Hopkins
AM OR TR

4081 WAR DEPARTMENT. 1886 a RECEIVED SEP 3
New York
Sept 2, 1886.
Wm. J. Roe.
For information touching military service of his grandfather, Norman Clark, during Revolu- tionary War.
1 st Indorsement.
✓ Mar Department.
Sept 3 rd 1886
Respectfully referred to the
commissioner of Pensions and the writer as advised.
By order of the Secy of War
Jay Stone Actg Chief Clerk
OFFICE SEP-7 1886 PENSION

F 16.715 Norman
OFFICE OF
The Hydrogen Company of New Jersey,
No. 35 Broadway, (Room 77),
New York, Sept 2 nd 188 6
To Hon William Endicott Secy of War Sir.
My grandfather Norman Clark of New Hampshire served in the war of the Revolution, was disabled in battle; and (as I find from certain correspondence) received a pension, dating - as I make it out - from March 1 st 1831. He acknowledges receiving a pension certificate in a letter dated February 9 1833. His attorney in the matter was Benjamin Clark of No 330 Pearl Street, New York.
I should be exceedingly grateful for any further and exact information in regard to the facts in the case of said Norman Clark, a certified copy of his pension with details (if anything be of record) touching his services and etc. If you can put me in the way of getting the facts I shall esteem myself fortunate.
Respectfully William J. Roe.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
April 16 th 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The Adm: of Notman Clark, dec., a Pensioner on the Roll of the Concord, N. H. Agency, at the rate of one hundred and three Dollars and 33 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March — to the 23 rd May 1842,
Respectfully, yours,
William L. Harris
Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

13236 Naman blank
1 Mo. P. 5 Mo. P.
$103:33 per ann
W. J. M. Weeks AR

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Norman Clarke
which require
further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? Yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? Yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? No VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? Yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? No IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? Yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? None XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? Yes XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? The 5 th 6 th & 7 th are not answered answer to the 1 st 2 nd 3 rd & 4 th are embodied in the Declaration
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
‡QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Norman Clark
Off 4138
Inv. File 16715
Am? April 7. 1834

Mechanics Bank New York April 5. 1834
Sir
The Enclosed Papers in the cases of Elijah Dean & William Barrett, being executed before a Surrogate have given rise to the question, whether the authentication of Pension Powers by that Officer will be satisfactory to the War Department.
I Enclose the Papers in the case of Norman Clark who resides in New Hampshire; his Son Benjamin Clark Esq. of this City states that his Father being blind wishes him to receive his pension as it falls due in this City and for that purpose requests that you will be pleased to order, that the future, as well as the present payment, be made here; This is the same case respecting which The Hon C. W. Lawrence recently called at the 3 d Auditor's Office at the request of Mr Clark to explain a variation between his signature to his power of Attorney and that subscribed to his declaration under which he obtained his Pensions.
I also enclose a Paper in the case of Peter Emery a Pensioner on the Roll of the 10 th

Agency residing in the Province of upper Canada.
The name of John Guy a Sergeant a $120, Certificate dated 13 th February 1834 has not yet been reported to this Agency.
I am very respectfully
Sir
Your obedt Servt J. Fleming President & Pension Agt
James L. Edwards Esq re Pensioner of Pensions

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Where a record of his age Dec 12 1743 Norman Clark - died May 23. 1842 - Born in Newton Middlesex Co Mass Dec 12 1743 In July 1832 of Clarkville, Coos Co NH aged 88 years & upwards - Lived in Princeton Worcester Co Mass until July 31. 1826 when he removed to Clarkville NH He first enlisted as a minute man at Princeton in 1774 serving about 12 mos previous to the battle of Lexington (April 19. 1775) under Capt Boas Moore & on the day the hostile force marched to Lexington he was ordered to that place but when he arrived there the British had retreated & he followed in pursuit to Cambridge where he remained until an army of 8 mts had been organized when he returned home after an absence of 5 weeks. In 1776 he aided in raising a Co of men for the defence of New York City & was chosen Lt & afterwards rec d a Com y from the State as 2 d Lt in Capt Joseph Flint's Co dated July 3. 1776 - & Jonathan Holman was Colo - They marched to Springfield, from there by boats down Con t River to Hartford & by water to N Y City - where he arrived about July 29 th & was stationed at Greenwich until Sept 14 when he was ordered to the Com d of the Brigade guard which occupied the breast work on the shore of the North river & where the enemy passed in sight up the river & landed a mile or two above them - Soon thereafter he was ordered to dismiss the guard & take command of his Co in the absence of Capt Flint & to abandon the breast work but before this order reached him the enemy had advanced so near that he & his whole Co narrowly escaped being captured, but he succeeded joining the main army at Harlem without the loss of a man - The next morning he was engaged in the battle at Harlem in which he rec d a wound in his left thigh by a musket ball which was extracted from the opposite side & was sent to the hospital about a mile distant & became so ill that his life was despaired of - He was in about a month taken to a hospital in N J where he remained about 6 weeks until able to return home to his family which he reached about Dec 25 1776
In 1777 when Genl Burgoyne was approaching Albany he volunteered the last August or Sept 1. He started from Princeton going through Durdall to Saratoga & put himself under the Com d of Genl Stark who gave him the Com d of a Co y which was stationed to oppose any attempted retreat of the enemy. He remained on duty at or in the immediate

vicinity until the surrender of Genl Burgoyne which he witnessed when he was soon discharged
He was unable to read or write from impaired sight
Sarah Lewis wife of Joseph Myrwall J. Pease a daughter of Noorman Clark & residing in Clarksville
State in Dec 1832
Benjamin Clark Counsellor at Law of N Y city as witness, aged 58 yrs upwards is a son of Noorman Clark that the musket ball extracted from his wound was preserved in the family for many years
The following is a copy of a certificate filed with his application for a pension
Sutton Mass Febry 1792
This may certify that I the Subcriber Commanded a regt of Militia from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the battle at Harlan Heights on the 16 day of Sept 1776, at which time & place Mr Noorman Clark a Lieutenant in my regt rec d a severe wound by a musket ball through his thigh while doing his duty as a good & brave officer
witness my hand Jonathan Holman Col.