Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,550, Moses Greenwood, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE NUMBER
Mass. Greenwood, Moses Abigail W. 19,550
CONTENTS
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80 Middlesex
10902 Massachusetts
Moses Greenwood of Middlesex in the State of Mass who was a Pri & Corpl in the Company commanded by Captain Leland of the Regt commanded by Col Doolittle in the Mass line for 18 months Private 6 " Corporal
[illegible]
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 82 Dollars _ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued to 13th day of May 1833 and sent  Matthew Metcalf Hopkinton Mass
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $164.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept " 41.00
$205.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by D D Addison Clerk, Book E Vol. 200 Page 28
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Reported
1448.
Massachusetts Abigail Greenwood widow of Moses Greenwood who was a Corpl & Private in the Mass. line 
per 18 mo Private
6 " Corpl
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 82 Dollars _ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of August, 1843 and sent to Tho. Bulfinch, Boston, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 1 Page 43.
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5885 Moses Greenwood.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex ss.
On this thirtieth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable Judge of the Court of Probate, in and for the county of Middlesex aforesaid, now sitting Moses Greenwood, a resident of Hopkinton in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th AD  1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
That in March 1775 he enlisted into a company of minute men in the town of Holliston commanded by Capt. John Leland and on the nineteenth of April following he marched to Cambridge in said company and soon after he arrived at Cambridge he enlisted into a company commanded by the said Capt. Leland in Col. Doolittle's regiment for the term of eight months and that he served as a private under the said Capt. Leland until the seventeenth of June when the battle was on Bunker Hill which battle he was in, but Capt. Leland was afraid to go in to the battle and that is the last he saw of his Captain that summer. General Puutnam was trying to drive him into the battle with his sword but our Lieutenant whose name was Burbank took command of the company and took them into the battle and our Major whose name was Moore was killed in the battle and after the battle Jacob Miller of Holliston took command of the company and he also did the duty of a Major and our company was called the Major's company and that he remained in said command performing the duty of a private until the latter part of December when the term of his enlistment expired and he was dismissed and returned home to Holliston, and that said Company was stationed on the Common in Cambridge until the battle on Bunker Hill and after the battle it was stationed on Winter Hill in said Cambridge.   And that in the month of June 1776 he enlisted to go to Ticonderoga in Capt. Chamberlain's Company and Col. Ephraim Wheelock's Regiment and Gen. Brickate's Brigade and that he marched in said company from Holliston to Ticonderoga and he remained at Ticonderoga doing the duty of a private in said company until some time in the next December when the term of his enlistment
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documentary evidence, that he never received but one written discharge and that he did not think of any value and has lost it, that Col. David Brewer of Framingham who served with him eight months at Cambridge and a part of the six months at Providence and Benhamin Pond who served six months with him at Ticonderoga and Ephraim Read who served six months with him at West Point and in the [illegible] are still living and their affidavits are hereunto annexed which is the best evidence he has been able to obtain
And that he was born in Sherburn on the ninth day of June 1753 and that there is a record of his age in Sherburn a copy of which is hereunto annexed.  And that he lived in Holliston when he was called into the service and remained here till a few years after the Revolutionary War when he removed to Hopkinton, and that he has lived in Hopkinton ever sice. And that he is known to the Rev. Nathanail Howe, Benjamin Pond and Rev. Thomas Bucklin in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
We hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any state. 
Moses Greenwood

We Nathanael Howe a Clergyman, residing in the Town of Hopkinton and Matthew Metcalf, residing in said Hopkinton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Moses Greenwood who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Nathanael Howe
Matthew Metcalf

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
S P P  Fay, J Prob
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
And the Court further certify that it appears to them that Nathanael Howe who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in Hopkinton and that Matthew Metcalf who has also signed the same, is a resident in Hopkinton, and is a credible person; and that their statement is entitled to credit.
S P P Fay, J Prob

I, Isaac Fiske, Register of the Court of Probate in and for the county of Middlesex do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Moses Greenwood for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hands and seal of office on the day and year aforesaid.
Isaac Fiske

I also certify that Matthew Metcalf whose genuine signature is set to [illegible] of David Brewer, Benjamin Pond and Ephraim Read hereunto annexed, is a Justice of the Peace [illegible].
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
 and seal of office this day and year above said.
Isaac Fiske
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Haveing examined the Records of the Town of Sherburne for the date of the birth of Moses Greenwood, now of Hopkinton, I hereby certify that the following is a true copy of the original record now in my possession:
"Moses Greenwood the son of Caleb and Waitstill Greenwood was born on the 9th day of June 1753."
Attest. Dalton Goulding, Town Clerk
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I David Brewer of Framingham in the county of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Esquire, aged eighty years, testify and say that I served ten months from and after the latter part of April 1775 in a company commanded the fore part of the time by Capt. John Leland and the latter part of the time by Jacob Miller who also did the duty of a Major, in Col. Doolittle's regiment stationed at Cambridge near Boston, and that Moses Grenwood, who now resides in Hopkinton in said county of Middlesex served as a private in the same company with me eight months from the latter part of April to the latter part of December 1775.
And I do further testify and say that I served six months from and after the latter part of June 1778 in a company commanded the fore part of the time by Capt. Simon Edgell and the latter part of the time by Capt. Griffith ad that I was a corporal and the Capt. sent me with a part of the company from Framingham to Providence and when I got to Holliston a town adjoining Framingham, the said Moses Greenwood joined the same company for six months which was on the last of June or the first of July and he  marched with me to Providence and did the duty of a Corporal in Col. Wade's regiment, about a fortnight before the Captain came on and pretty soon after the Captain came on to Providence the said Moses Greenwood was taken out of the company to work on his trade, which was a blacksmith for the Army and I stayed in Providence with him about one month when I was ordered on to Rhode Island and left the said Moses Greenwood at work in the shop at Providence, and I did not see him again till after I came home and that I have never heard in any way or manner that the said Moses Greenwood left the service before his time was out.  
David Brewer