Guilford-Randolph County NcArchives Military Records.....Clark, George Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com June 15, 2006, 2:50 am Pension Application Of George Clark, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 554, Application #S3157 GEORGE CLARK-“That he was born in York County in the state of Pennsylvania, on the 22nd day of June in the year of our Lord, 1749. That he is now eighty-four years old…He entered into the service of the United States during the revolutionary War as a volunteer, in the year, I think 1776, in Guilford County, state of North Carolina, in a company commanded by Captain BELL. There was no colonel or other superior officer in command. We were taken on a tour of service against the Tories. We took a great many and carried them to Guilford Courthouse and put them in jail. In this tour I served three months.” “I volunteered the second time in said year 1776 [summer-fall of 1776] as well as he now recollects in the County of Guilford, state of North Carolina, in a company commanded by Captain COLLIER, which was attached to a regiment commanded, I think, by Col. PAISLEY. The army was commanded by Gen’l RUTHERFORD and marched against the Cherokee Indians over the Tennessee River. We burned twenty-eight towns, had some skirmishes, but no battle. In this tour he served three months as a private soldier.” “That he volunteered the third time in Guilford County, N.C. in the year 177_ (he does not remember the date) [siege of Charleston was in May 1779, per Heitman] in a company commanded by another Captain BELL, marched into South Carolina in a regiment commanded by Col. PAISLEY, with the intention of going to Charleston, but we were stopped at Camden and remained at Camden until the tour of service expired. In this tour he serviced as a private soldier three months and returned home.” “He again volunteered in Guilford County, N.C. as a private soldier in a company commanded by the same Captain COLLIER (he cannot recollect the date, but it was during the revolutionary war). Our company was attached to a regiment commanded by Col. PAISLEY and this whole were under the command of Gen’l. MARTIN. We marched towards Wilmington, N.C., but before we reached that place, we received word that a battle had been fought with the Tories near a bridge (the name of which I forget)-[Moore’s Creek Bridge-per Heitman, February 27, 1776] and the Tories defeated. In this tour, as a private soldier, four or five weeks.” “That he served at intervals as a minute man, many unimportant tours, sometimes of a week, sometimes shorter periods, and sometimes longer ones, but he makes no account of this service as he cannot remember their duration. He was ready as a minute man at New _____ the ____. He does not remember to have received any discharge from his officers. If he did, he has long since lost them. He knows of no person living by whom he can prove his service except a part of them which is established by the deposition of Col. JAMES DOUGAN and ROBERT DOUGAN, whose depositions are herewith transmitted, etc, etc.” Attached was a statement from JAMES and ROBERT DOUGAN, which contained an item of interest: “That GEORGE CLARK was a volunteer in Captain BELL’s company, the first volunteer service in North Carolina in the commencement of the Revolutionary War and performed tours of duty during the war when called upon until peace was made. I served with said CLARK at Camden in a tour of three months under the same Captain BELL, also three months against the Cherokee Indians under Captain COLLIER and many other services I cannot account for, not having a distinct recollection of them.” “Being informed a few years ago that a story was put in circulation that said GEORGE CLARK was a Tory, and was with Col. FANNING, a Tory, I hereby an oath, certify that said report is false as circulated, that said GEORGE CLARK was not with Col. FANNING at the killing of Colonel BEDFORD [Probably BALFOUR] and Captain JOHN BRYANT, being that night and morning in my company and my brother ROBERT DOUGAN and others. And that said CLARK was a true friend to the country during the whole struggle foe our independence…etc, JAMES DOUGAN” “ROBERT DOUGAN being next examined on oath, saith that the night that Col. BEDFORD and Captain JOHN BRYANT above alluded to was killed by Col. FANNING, the said GEORGE CLARK was most part of the night on duty with him, watching the Tories, and he and said CLARK frequently met during said night and exchanged salutes and gave information to each other of what passed, and that he, CLARK, remained in company next morning and traveled with me about four miles on my way home, etc, etc. ROBERT DOUGAN.” File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/clark134gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb