Matthew Clark Family
Virginia/South Carolina


This line is still in need of much research if anyone has information on the Clark family of South Carolina or Alabama, I would very much like to know about it.
possibly Matthew Clark
b. 7 Feb. 1763 Goochland Co., Virginia
d. 2 Jun 1841 (formerly Pickens Co.) Anderson Co., South Carolina*
buried: Asbury Clark United Methodist Cemetery, Anderson Co., S. C

1m. Abigail Baldwin 10 Sep 1790
b 29 Jul 1769
d. 30 Apr 1811 Anderson Co., S. C.
buried: Asbury Cemetery, Anderson Co., S. C.
her father: Thomas Baldwin 
her mother: Nancy Bibb

2m. Martha Baldwin Chappel after Apr 1811
(widowed and sister of Abigail)
b.  ?
d. 3 Oct 1835
her father: Thomas Baldwin 
her mother: Nancy Bibb

3m. Jane Butler Morris 5 Sep 1836
b. 25 Dec 1799
d. 26 Feb 1864

his father:  (possibly Joseph Clark)
his mother: (possibly Hannah Hutcheson)

Children with Abigail Baldwin
Thomas Baldwin Clark
b. 29 Jul 1791 VA
d.  1847
buried: Old 16 Cemetery
m. 
Abner Clark b. 5 May 1794 VA d.
m.
Benjamin Clark
b. 5 Aug 1796 VA
d.
m.
James Green Clark
b. 9 Mar 1798 VA
d.
m.
Ambrose Clark
b. 4 Oct 1805 S. C.
d. about 1831-36 SC
m. Mary Rosamond

Children with Jane Butler Morris
Martha Jane Clark
b. 29 Nov 1837*
d. 9 May 1919*
buried: Asbury Clark Cemetery, Anderson Co., SC
m. William ("Bill") A. BOLT
(b. 30 Jun 1830 d. 12 Feb 1920)*
Mary Matilda Clark b. 3 Feb 1841
d. 28 Oct 1923 Anderson Co., SC
m. Abraham BOLT about 1857
buried: New Hope Methodist Church Cem., Anderson Co., SC
*cemetery records Asbury Clark United Methodist Church Cemetery, Anderson Co., SC.

Matthew Clark lived in Pendleton Dist. S. C. and Anderson Co., SC in 1832 when he applied for a pension for participating in the Revolutionalry War as a soldier.   He was denied a pension because he didn't provide enough documentation but it gives an interesting account of his service and moves from Virginia.  I have transcribed it here as faithfully as I could read the document including all the unusual spellings.  

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 stated 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 Pendleton 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 aforesaid 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 proceedings on the application 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. “ 

It appears from other Pension Application forms that his two brothers where Micajah Clarke b. 19 Apr 1755 who married Kiziah Harris and perhaps Shadrack Clark, who appears to be several years younger according to Barbara Dore.   If he is truely younger then there must be another male brother of Matthew that had enrolled before him since he was sixteen and got in as a special case.  

1810, US Census, South Carolina. Edgefield Co, Roll 62, p. 82

Abner Clark   1 0 1 1 1 0   /     4 0 0 1 0 0

1820 , US Census, South Carolina. Pendleton Co., roll 120 , p.235

Matthew Clark  males  1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
                       females  0 1 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0
Abner Clark     males   0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0

                      females   0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1

1840, Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama.

Abner Clark                  0 0 0

1840- Matthew Clark writes his will in Anderson Co., S. C. declaring that a plot of land be set aside for the Asbury Clarke Cemetery where he is apparently buried. 

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...."
______________________________________________________________


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]
According to church articles published about 1900, two of Matthew's great grand children took up the ministry, Charlton Clark of Washington, D. C. and Rev. Robert Clark of Dyersburg, TN.

1840, Leake Co., Miss. M704-216, p32 

0n the same page in Mississippi are both WW Clyde and James Clark.  I believe James may be the brother of Teresa.  James is 40-50 years old along with his possible mother.  Teresa should be 20-30 years old. 

 James Clark        males  0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0      
                         females  0 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0    (no slaves)
 W. W. Clyde      males  0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0                                      
                         females  2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0    (no slaves)

source:
US. Pension Revolutionary War Application 1832 #2004
U. S. Census records.
Dore, Barbara Yancy.  Records as of 5/5/05 on Rootsweb.com.    email -  RootsLady@rootslady.com

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