*cemetery records Asbury Clark United Methodist Church Cemetery, Anderson Co., SC.

Clark, Matthew    VA.   R2004 
(transcribed from the handwritten document by Elroy Christenson 8/4/05)

State of South Carolina }
Pickens District             }     on this 6th day of October 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Honorable Richard Garrett the first duty Judge at Pickens Court of Pickens District.  Mathew Clark of Anderson District aged nearly seventy years, who being duly sworn in open court according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed 7th of June 1833 That Shortly before he became Sixteen years of age he being then underage permitted to enlist in the regular Service and having two Brothers in the regular Service he made an application and was permitted to join Capt Hatchers Company googeland or Gochesland County in the State of Virginia under the command of Col Flemming afterward under the command of Major Morris- that  the army with whom he Served joined the army under Genl Command of Genl Washington when he came on from the north to oppose the progress of Lord Cornwallis that he was present at the Capture of Cornwallis with the army under the command that he was detached as one of a guard under the command of Capt Pier G. Convey part of the persons to the back part of Virginia that before they reach the place of detention he was left by the commanding officer of the guard to take care of some who were sick and not able to march that owing to this circumstance and the time of his Service expiring about this time he did not obtain a regular discharge.  In answer to the first interrogatory the said Mathew Clark Saith he was born in Googeland in Googsland County in the State of Virginia on the 7th February 1763 –
In answer to the Second he Saith that his time of his birth was recorded in his Fathers family Bible which remained in the possession of his fathers family when he left Virginia
In answer to the third he Saith, that he lived with his father in Goochland County, Virginia at the time he joined Capt Hatchers Company and before stated after he sworn for about a year as before statd he returned to his father & lived with him for a few years , He afterwards lived about two years in Prince Edward County in Virginia from whence he removed to Penaleton District South Carolina where he has lived ever since.
 In answer to the fourth he saith he was permitted to join Capt Hatchers Company a short time before he was of the proper age to enlist, that he received (?asens) & service as a regular soldier.
In answer to the fifth he saith that he was before named the officer with whence he served.
This deposition saith that he knows of no  discrepentary testimony that he evermore with, forevermore  have been so lazy about finding Virginia where his service were rendered to proved his service aforesaid. 
He hereby relinquishes Every claim whatever to afore said or acertainy , except the present, I declare, that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state. 

Matthew Clark


We David Sloan and Robert Anderson residing in Pickens District in the State of South Carolina do hereby certify that we have been well acquainted with William Clark who has  sent scribed and sworn to the above declaration that he is subjected, I believe in his neighborhood where he redsides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinio9n . Sworn to and subscribed this day & year before said in open court before, Wm S. Keith Clerk. 
        D. Sloan
        Rbt. Anderson

Aca the said – Court do hereby declare their opinion of the examination of the matter & after causing interrogating the subscribed by the War Department to be fest & as swered to the applicant that he was a soldier of the Revolution & served as he has stated in his declaration – that the court further certifies that David Sloan & Robert Anderson who have signed the proceding certificate reside in Pickens district, South Carolina, & that They are credible persons whose certificate is entitled to due for the & credit.  
            Richard Gauth

I W. L. Keith Clerk of the Court A General ?(sophist) & courier Pleas to hereby certify that the foregoing certains to original prceddings on the applicaton of the (?taking) Clerk for a Pension
 
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand & (?scne) of officer this fifth day of October 1832
            Wm. L. Keith
            Clerk of the court
            Of Pickens District



A letter in the file undated but on letterhead form “Dept of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C.  , …………………….., 1900”

Stated:
“ His claim was rejected on the grounds of insufficient proof of six mos. Service as required by the Act of June 7, 1832 under which he appl. “ 

December 15th, 1840.

"I give and bequeath unto my beloved Daughter Martha Jane one half of my claim 
to the plantation whereon I now live, also two thirds of my plantation on waters 
of the twenty three Mile Creek, except one acre which I give and bequeath unto 
John Barret whereon the Methodist Church Stands and one fourth of an acre for 
each grave yard for the use of the Methodist denomination of Christians forever 
adjoining land of J. B. Earle, D. J. Morris and others...."
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From the "Diary of Micajah Adolphus Clark's visit to South Carolina in 
1857"

"....on July 22 I went down to Anderson and took dinner with Uncle Edmond Webb 
and at 4 p.m. started for Centerville neighborhood, ten miles; passed by where 
Grandfather Matthew Clark died and where I boarded in 1840 and 1841.... Then 
went over to Wm. Bolt's, who married Martha Clark, a young aunt of mine, who 
lived at my grandfather's old place near Centerville, where I took dinner.  
Found Wm. Bolt to be a nice young man.  His wife is a very sprightly, 
intelligent and lively business woman.  They have two children, named Mary Jane 
Elizabeth and Hannah Ann Matilda.  The old place looked quite ancient, yet 
familiar; the same house in which my grandfather lived when I was born.  A short 
time after I got there old Grandmother (at least Grandfather's last and third 
wife) came in.  She was much delighted to see me.  In a few minutes more my 
other Aunt who had been sent for came in, who married Abraham Bolt and lived 1/2 
mile from there.  I found her to be a beautiful, interesting young woman; had 
been married about six months.  I enjoyed their company very much.  About 2 
o'clock I left them and went up to the old Asbury Church where I was first 
taught to go to church.  There my grandfather and grandmother lie entombed.  I 
got off my steed and walked around the graves and then took a seat and gave way 
to sad reflections.  I thought of the thousand of times I have seen them and 
been at their house, of the many religious and moral examples they had taught 
their children and through them have handed down to their grandchildren; and I 
felt grateful to them for the good examples given me in my youth.  These 
passages of scripture occurred to my mind: "They rest from their labors and 
their works do follow them." ...........

[The South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. LIV, No. 1, January 1953]

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