Display Patriot - P-133761 - John CLARK/CLARKE Sr

John CLARK/CLARKE Sr

SAR Patriot #: P-133761

The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.

State of Service: MD Qualifying Service: Sergeant

DAR #: A022431

Birth: 1743 / / England
Death: abt 1830 / Butler / KY

Qualifying Service Description:

August 1776, he served as a Sergeant under Captain Thomas Bell in the regiment of Colonel Moses Rawlings and was discharged in August 1779

Additional References:

Revolutionary War Pension File S35839

Spouse: Jane XX;
Children: John C Jr;

Members Who Share This Ancestor

Date Approved	Society	ACN	SAR Member Info	Lineage via Child	View Application Detail
2006-05-16	MO	25023	William L Wood (112619)	John

Burial:

Butler County Courthouse_(C-0381054)

Location:

Morgantown / Butler / KY / USA

Find A Grave Cemetery #:

2816788

Grave Plot #:

Grave GPS Coordinates:

37.225550 / -86.683230

Find A Grave Memorial #:

n/a

Marker Type:

SAR Granite Monument

SAR Grave Dedication Date:

12 Oct 2024

Comments:

Image taken and provided with permission from compatriot Roger Southerland (KY) member 198258
GPS coordinates are for the monument on the Butler County KY courthouse lawn.
Patriot Jacob Borah was living in Butler County, KY when he died. Pension payments were being made to him there.
No entry found in Find-A-Grave - Oct 2023

Directions to Cemetery / Gravesite:

Photo: 1 of 1

Author: Roger Gayle Southerland

This biography was edited and/or possibly augmented by PRS staff.

John C. Clark, or Clarke, was born in 1743 in England.

He was married to Jane [surname unknown]. In his 1822 pension records state that she was 60 years old. They had at least one child:
John C. was born in 1786 and married Beneta Hughes.

He filed his pension papers in Logan County, Kentucky, on 11 September 1820, at age 78. Pension records state that he later moved to Butler County, Kentucky. He enlisted in Maryland in August 1776 and served as a Sergeant under Captain Thomas Bell in Colonel Moses Rawlings's regiment. He was in the Battles of Trenton and Brandywine and in a skirmish at Brunswick. He was discharged in August 1779.

He describes that his service discharge papers, signed by Colonel Rawlings/Rollins, were accidentally lost in the house of his brother-in-law when the house was consumed by fire. He reports that he could hardly work due to his advanced age and in such reduced circumstances that he stood in need of his country's assistance.

The Patriot died in 1830 in Butler County, Kentucky. He was one of 31 of Butler County, Kentucky's Revolutionary War veterans honored by a monument dedicated on 12 October 2024 on the Butler County courthouse lawn in Morgantown, Kentucky. His gravesite is unknown.

Sources:

Revolutionary War Pension file S35839

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