Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 27,415, Joseph Green, Mass.
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SERVICE
Mass.

Green, Joseph (Colored) 
Sarah

NUMBER
W. 27415
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[Handwritten text to left]
Date of death not on A.B.

Massachusetts 387
Sarah Green
Worcester in the State of Massa
 who was was a ______ in the_______commanded
Captain________of the _______________commanded
widow of Joseph Green decd 
late a private in the
Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll of Mass.
the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of Jany 1837 
and sent Hon. L. Lincoln H. of Reps

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $440.00
Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 37
40.00
_________
$480.00

{Revolutionary Claim,
June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by D D Addison   Clerk
Book A  Vol. 1 Page 51
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DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed, July 4, 1836. 
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, SS. 

ON this fifth day of January, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty seven, -  personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate for said County, now sitting. Sarah Green,  a resident of Brookfield, in the County of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy two years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836.

THAT she is the Widow of Joseph Green, late of Worcester in said County, who died on or about the 18th of April 1786: that her said Husband was married to the said Sarah, on the 31st day of January 1782, by Rev. Archibald Campbell, as appears by the certificate of Tisdale Harlow, which accompanies this application, - at the time of our marriage, the said Joseph belonged to the Continental army, being a private in the Revolutionary war, and had been in said service for some years previous to said marriage, but was, at the time of said marriage, at home on a furlough.  immediately after our marriage, we both went on and joined the army, my husband taking his place in the same station that he formerly occupied in Capt. Adam Baileys company, in the second Massachusetts Regiment, commanded by Col. Sprout. My said husband enlisted for service, during the War, at the time he first  entered said service, and after the "during the War's men" were [illegible phrase]   from the  army, [illegible phrase] left said service, and returned home to Easton, we were living at time of our marriage, and stayed there some time, and then I removed to Brookfield, where, and in the vicinity of that place I have since resided - my said husband was with me a part of the time I lived in Brookfield, previous to his death, which took place Worcester, at the time aforesaid - I have no evidence of his service, except what accompanies this application - but respectfully refer to the muster Rolls and other papers, now in the War Department at Washington, transferred from the office of the Secretary of this State, where I have been informed the name and time of service, of my said husband will appear - I have heretofore received from the Treasury of this State, the bounty allowed to me, as such Widow, for the services of my said husband - and respectfully pray, that I may be placed on the pension list of the United States, under the act of July 4 1836, and furnished with certificate, entitling me to receive such pay as my said husband would have been entitled to receive, under said Act, as I have never married since my said husband's death, but have continued, and still remain his widow.
Sarah  Green her + mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
Before me, JW. Barton [signature]
Judge of Probate for said County. }
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the above mentioned Joseph Green was a revolutionary soldier, and served as stated in the foregoing application, that the said Sarah Green is a person of truth, and is a credible person, and that said statement is entitled to credit. 
JW Barton [signature]
Judge of Probate for said County.

I Theophs {Theophilus} Wheeler, Register of the Court of Probate, - do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Sarah Green, a widow, for a pension, on account of services rendered by her Husband. 

In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this sixth day of January, in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven.
Theoph.s Wheeler Reg [signature]
[seal]

I also certify, that Willian Adams and William Jennison, Esquires, are Justices of the peace for said County of Worcester, and that their signatures to the Depositions hereto annexed appear to be in their own proper hand writing. 
Theophs Wheeler Reg [signature]

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Sarah Green
Worcester County
Massachusetts.

471

1 July 77 - mar - 
Final  Settlements [illegible]

Aom.d
2 years pri
80$
no deduction
Hon L Lincoln
H.R. [House of Representatives]
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January 31th 1782 Joseph Green a Melatto fellow a soldier belonging to the Continental army and Sarah Phillips a Melatto girl of Easton were Married by me. 
Archibald Campbell Pastor [signature] 

Recorded by Matthew Hayward Town Clerk 

A true copy of Record 
Easton Decr 23, 1836 }  Tisdale Harlow town Clerk [signature] 

Bristol SS: Commonwealth of Massachusetts-
I hereby certify that Tisdale Harlow is town Clerk for the town of Easton and keeper of the records of said Town.  And I further certify that the above certificate is his hand writing - 
Easton December 24th 1836 
John Selee [signature] 
}Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Bristol
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November 30, 1932
BA–J/XL
Joseph Green – W.27415

The data given herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.27415, based upon the military service of Joseph Green in that war.

Joseph Green a mulatto, enlisted, date and place not stated and served during the Revolutionary War, a part of the time in Captain Adam Bailey’s Company, Colonel Sprout’s Second Massachusetts Regiment. While at Easton, Massachusetts, on furlough, he married Sarah Phillips, a mulatto girl of said Easton. Their marriage took place January 31, 1782, and was recorded on the records of the town clerk of Easton. The widow stated that after their marriage, she returned with him and joined the army and was discharged with him at the close of the war. The length of her service and the nature of it are not given.

Joseph Green was executed April 18, 1786, at Worcester, Massachusetts. The widow stated that her husband was “hung for stealing”.

Soldier’s widow, Sarah, was allowed pension on her application executed January 5, 1837, at which time she was seventy-two years of age and resided in Brookfield, Worcester County, Massachusetts, where, it was stated, she had lived for forty years.

There is no reference to children.

This history to be furnished if ever called for.
It was written just to have a record of negro soldiers.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I, Jonathan Stevens of North Brookfield in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do testify and say that I am acquainted with the Widow Sarah Green (called the mulatto black) in Brookfield, and have for many years last past, as she has lived in this vicinity the greatest part of the time for over forty years. And in my family a long time, and I have heard her converse about her marrying to *Joseph Green* and about his death, stating that he was hung at Worcester for stealing, and that Green’s widow had never to marry again, and such statements that she made are certainly very correct, she being in the army with Green in Col. Sprout’s Regiment and Capt. Adam Bailey’s Company, and that Green was deserving the war and that she was discharged with Green when the services of the men were discharged — and she stated many other circumstances that took place in said regiment which gives me reason to believe that as belonging to the same regiment at the same time, and she told all the circumstances about being married to Joseph Green at Easton which I find to be true by the records which I found, and I have full belief that she was married to Joseph Green in said year and think I should have known it if not so. I went to Preston to the Clerk’s office of the Superior Court to find when Joseph Green was hung but could not find the time, but found the time that Green whose troop by the Superior Court at Worcester to be hung which was on the 18th day of April 1786, as it stands on the records.

Jonathan Stevens

Worcester, January 5, 1837. Then the above named Jonathan Stevens personally appeared, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, and I further certify that said Stevens is a man of truth and entitled to full credit.

William Jennison, Justice of Peace
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Sarah Green—
Worcester County,
Massachusetts.
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I, Daniel Gilbert, aged North Brookfield in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being seventy-three years of age, do testify and say, that Sarah Green, the relict (widow) of Joseph Green, (colored) lived as a near neighbor to my mother, until she — I then lived and I am very sure that on the afternoon of the day in which her husband was understood to be hung at Worcester, she was at my mother’s, and talked much about the event. That Sarah Green, this lived with Mrs. Baskin & lived with her several years, either before or after the execution of her husband. After she left Mrs. Baskin, she lived for some years more in the town of (I think) with Dea. Jedediah Stevens. She was at my house about four years since and told me she was a single woman and I believe has remained single and unmarried since the execution of her husband Joseph Green. I am sure the deponent’s entire word.

North Brookfield, Dec’r 28th, 1836
Daniel Gilbert

Worcester, December 28, 1836
Personally appeared the above-named Daniel Gilbert and made oath that the above Deposition by him submitted is true.
Before me, William Adams, Justice of Peace

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above-named Daniel Gilbert, Esquire, and that he is a person entitled to full credit and belief in his testimony as a witness.
William Jennison, Justice of the Peace, Worcester County
January 6, 1837
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Rev 
WIDOW, &c.

File No.  27.415

Sarah Green 
widow of
Joseph Green
Pri. Rev. War

Act June 7 '32

Index: Vol. A, Page 293

(Arrangement of 1870.)
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts

By His Excellency EDWARD EVERETT,
Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.

To all whom it may concern:

Know Ye, That John S. Lee, Esq.
is a Justice of the Peace for the County of Bristol,

in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court; that the within Attestation is in due form, and by the proper Officer.

In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed this twenty-fourth day of December, A.D. 1836, and in the Sixty-first Year of the Independence of the United States of America.

By His Excellency the Governor,
Edward Everett

John P. Bigelow, Secretary of the Commonwealth