Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,046, Weston Clarke, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
R. 2
Clarke, Weston
S. 40,046
CONTENTS

Weston Clarke S. 40, 046 R. Is.

I have been thinking of you and the things that have happened since we were children. It seems like a lifetime ago. I hope you are well and happy. I have been thinking of you and the things that have happened since we were children. It seems like a lifetime ago. I hope you are well and happy.
Yours sincerely,
Israel H. Taylor

40.046 INVALID.
Rev
File No. 40.046
Weston Clarke
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 69
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Master Clarke
943
Sept. 10/10
con

On this twenty sixth Day of June A D 1820 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record within & for the County of Newport State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Weston Clarke in the seventy first Year of his Age a Native Citizen of & a resident in said County of Newport who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oaths declare that he served in the revolutionary War five Years or thereabouts - first eight Months when the troops were first raised to besiege Boston in Captain Ebenezer Haggis Company next about one Year as a private in Capt n John Carr's Company which company was soon ordered to join Col s Lyetts Regiment in the Jerseys afterwards I enlisted in the State Service in this State in which remained for a few Months and from that service enlisted for three Years as a Private in Captain Sylvanus Shaw's Company in Col s Israel Angell's Regiment in the Continental Service and served my time out and obtained an honorable Discharge as will fully appear by documents lodged in the Office of the Secretary of War accompanying my originals Declaration dated 21 st April 1810 and on which Declaration and Documents a pension Certificate dated 9 th June 1810 and numbered 948 was granted from the War Office and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 10 th March A D 1810 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  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 10 th March 1810

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.
Weston Clarke
All the real Estate I possess is one quarter of an acre and eight Rods of Land with a small dwelling house thereon standing being twenty two feet in length and fourteen & half in width - one story in height and which my Neighbors assisted me in building the house & Land cannot be estimated at more than _____ 150
The whole of my furniture would not sell for more than - - 20 $ 170
I have no income whatever and no debts due to me except about one Dollar - and I owe some for Doctors bills and other persons for necessaries the sum of one hundred Dollars -
My age as before stated is over seventy - in an infirm state of health and disabled from doing much labor by a stiffened limb occasioned by a Cat of a Chisel -
My family consists of a Wife and four Children -
the the age of my Wife 54 Years and very infirm my eldest son - 10 Years old an Apprentice in Newport eldest Daughter 16 Years - works out by the Week for her support second son 13 Years works out in the summer for his support third son 10 Years lives with us at home
Weston Clarke

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Court of Common Pleas for the County of Newport May Term 1820.
I hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereto annexed, are truly copies from the records of said Court, that in the opinion of the Court, the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is One hundred twenty Dollars. I further certify that said Court is a Court of record within and for the County of Newport, State of R. I. & P., being so constituted by statute & proceeding according to the course of the common Law, possessing original and unlimited jurisdiction in all civil cases and keeping a record of its proceedings.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Twenty sixth Day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred twenty and fourth of American Independence
By order of Court H. Cranston Clerk

Rhode Island Rolls.
(943)
Weston Clarke Capt Shaw R.I. Private
3 years 1777 to 1780
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 21 st of April 1818 Rhode Island Line
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th of June 1818 and sent to Nicholas Taylor , Esq., Newport, Rh. Island.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.
Semi-Annual
4 months 14/30      $ 35.73
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
3 Years
Continued
Newport, R.I.
1820. Newport. R.I. Application sent to H. Cranston Esq. 26 Sept.

Weston Clarke
Correct Dff

State of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations.
NEWPORT, ss.
On this Twenty first day of April 1818, before me the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Newport, personally appears Middleton  Weston Clarke aged Sixty eight years, resident in Middletown in the said district  county , who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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:" That he the said Weston Clarke enlisted in Greenwich in February 1777 in the State of Rhode Island in the company commanded by Captain Sylvanus Shaw in a Regiment  corps by Col. Israel Angell . ; that he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States, until the 5th  February 1780 , when he was discharged from service in Morris Town State of New Jersey , that he was in the battles of Red Bank & of Monmouth
and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me, the day and year aforesaid.
Nich. Taylor
Weston Clarke
I, Nich. Taylor Judge, &c. as aforesaid, do certify, That it appears, to my satisfaction, that the said Weston Clarke did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress.
Newport April 21 st 1818
Nich. Taylor
Clerk's Office Court of Common Pleas County of Newport
April 23 1818
I hereby certify that Nicholas Taylor Esquire whose signature is affixed to the above statement & certificate is Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Newport State aforesaid in testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court Robert Royers Clerk