ABBEVILLE COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA - REV WAR PENSION - CLARK, Thomas ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/sc/scfiles.htm ************************************************ Contributed for use in the SCGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette 18 Jul 2006 Pension Application Of Thomas Clark, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll ___, Application #S10451 Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, December 10, 1832, Thomas Clark, aged 67 years: “He was born in the state of Pennsylvania, Lancaster County. When he was 5 years old, he being an orphan and bound out to one McGaher, he removed with him to South Carolina, Chester District, at which place he resided until he performed duty. He first volunteered under Captain John McClure, Lt. Hugh McClure, ensign not recollected, the superior officers not recollected. In truth, he was then too young that the matter of names have in a great degree, escaped his memory. He does not recollect how long he was to serve.” “The expedition was intended to join General Sumter. In their march to join him at Rocky Mount, or rather, in the neighborhood of it, he was taken a prisoner by the Tories and immediately carried to the British lines commanded by Colonel Turnbull. He was often exhorted to join the British Army, which he resolutely refused and was kept as a prisoner ?where [or when] until an opportunity presented itself to escape, which he effected.” “He then joined as a volunteer, Captain Francis Carlisle’s company for 3 months as a militia man, and he shortly afterwards joined Colonel Pickens at Whitehall. During that 3 months he was not engaged in any battle but was mostly at headquarters at Bacon’s Bridge 20 miles above Charleston.” “At the expiration of 3 months, he returned home, but very shortly after he volunteered for 3 months more under Captain Moses Liddle [?Little], lieutenant and ensign forgot. Major Noble commanded the battalion. He thinks there was no colonel until they joined General Greene’s army at Bacon’s Bridge. The whole 3 months he spent at Bacon’s Bridge, and being discharged, he returned home.” “Shortly after his return home last mentioned, there was a call for men to guard the frontiers against the Indians and he enlisted for 9 months under Captain Robert Carruthers, and was marched to, and stationed at Fort Independence on Rocky River; and there he re___ until the whole 9 months had expired and then discharged.” “Very soon after this he volunteered for 3 months as a militia man under John Norwood, still to protect the frontiers, and this service he also performed, staying the most of the time at the house of said Norwood as that was the point thought most necessary to be protected. Some of this last service was performed after peace was made between Great Britain and America, though not much of it.” “After the war, he settled in Abbeville District, SC. From there he removed to Georgia, Elbert County; from there to Tennessee, Ray County; from Tennessee to this state, Jefferson County, about 16 years ago. From there he removed to that of Tuscaloosa near 2 years ago, and in this latter county he yet resides.” “At the expiration of service at the ____ tours when he had performed them, he does not remember that they were given no writing, he thinks they were not, though in this he may be mistaken; at any rate he is incapable of showing one, for if he ever had one, it is lost.” “He has no register of his age. The way he ascertains his age is by the ? insertion of it in his _____ from the time of his becoming free, he hath kept in mind each successive year, so then he thinks he cannot be well mistaken in saying that e is 67 years old and will be 68 in February next.” “He has no documentary evidence and he knows of no person except Jeremiah Fields who can prove any part of his services, his stated annexed hereto, his proof of some portion of what he has performed in the Revolution for his country.” Bounty Warrant Claim: Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, March 20, 1856, Thomas Clark, aged 91 years: “That he is the identical Thomas Clark who was a private in the company of Captain Robert Caruthers, in which John Caldwell was 1st lieutenant in a regiment of South Carolina militia attached to the brigade commanded by General Andrew Pickens in the War of the Revolution. That he enlisted at Abbeville District, SC sometime in the spring of 1781 or 1782 for the term of 9 months and continued in actual service in said war for 9 months and was honorably discharged in Abbeville District, SC in the fall of 1782 or 1783. That he served a tour of duty also as a private in Captain Norrard’s or Norwood’s company, South Carolina militia in Revolutionary War…”