Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 44175, Mancer Greene, R.I.
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( 2 - 1776 )
SERVICE
RI
Greene, Mancer
or Mansier
NUMBER
S. 44175
CONTENTS
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44 175
INVALID.
Revy __________________
File No. 44.175
alias Mansier Greene
Mancer Greene
Pri      Rev  War
_________________________
Act: 18  (March 15"March 18
ndex: - Vol. 3 , Page 205
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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{13518}
New York.  4
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Mancer Greene, alias
Mansier Greene
of Rensselaer Co in the State of N York
who was a private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Olney -of the Rhode Island
line, for the term of 9 months
_______________________[double line]
Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8
Dollars per month, to commence on
the 20 of April 1818
________________________[double line]
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of July 1819
and sent to John L Cushman
Esqr. Troy, N. York
__________________________[double line]
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819 10 mos. 11/30  6/31       83.96
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1819
                          48~
                      $131.96
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
Dead
See roll-
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It appears by the Regimental Book, That Mancer Greene, Sometimes
called Mansier Greene ^now residing in Rensselaer County, State of New York, inlisted for, and served the continued
term of Nine months a Private Soldier in the Regiment commanded
by Lieutenant Colonel Commandant -Jeremiah Olney, in the
Rhode Island Line on the Continental Establishment, and
that he was honourably discharged from said Regiment at
Saratoga in Said State of New- York on the twentieth day of December 1782, being the expiration of the term of his said enlistment.

Providence April 16.th 1819. 

Jno S Dexter Major of said
Regiment, eodem tempore'. -
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Mansir Greene
a Soldier
__________________
Mansir Green
20 Ap 1818-private
Varnum's regt One year
Rhode Island line
[sentence "Further proof of service required" X'd through]
Admitted on Major
Dexters Certificate
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State of New York}
Rensselaer County}
On the 20th" day of April 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of Rensselaer Common Pleas personally appeared Mansier Greene aged Sixty four resident in
the Town of Petersburgh in the State afforesaid who being by
me first duly sworn according to Law on his Oath doth
make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision 
in made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to
provide for certain Persons engaged in the Land and Navie Service of the United States in the Revolutionary War-
That the said Manser Greene enlisted in the year 1775
in the Town of Coventry in the State of Rhode Island
under Captain Edward Johnson in the Regiment commanded
by James M. Varnum for the Term of Eight
Month /that he faithfully performed his duty for and
during the said Term of his said Enlistment -that he
then enlisted under Captain Christopher Smith in the
Regament[Regiment] last mentioned for the Term of one year -in the
said Town of Coventry in the State of Rhode Island that
he on the 16th" day of June 1776 was detached from his
said Regament[Regiment] into Collonel[Colonel] Knox Regament[Regiment] of Writing
in Captain Fosters Company - that he was stationed at 
Fort Washington in the State of New York on York isle
and & was taken prisenor[prisoner] on the 16th day of November 1776
carried to New York & Imprisoned until the first day of January 1777 - when he was paroled that he left New York in
a verry[very] ill state of health- & by the assistance of Friends
in the State of [illegible-ink smear]idt he arrived at home in
the State of Rhode Island- that the priseners [prisoners]taken
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at Fort Washington were not exchanged untill [until]the close
of the War- that he faithfully performed his said severall[several]
Terms of service- in the service of the United States against 
the common enemy- That he was in the battle of Fort
Washington and that he has infirmities received from hard fare
for during the said term of his service & that he is in reduced
Circumstances and stands in need of the assistance 
of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services-
Sworn & declared before me}
the day and year afforsaid[aforesaid]}
               Mansier Greene [signature]

I Daniel Gray Esq. Judge  of Rensselaer Common Pleas do certify that it appears to my satisfaction
that the said Maner Greene did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration
against the Common Enemy and I now transmit
the proceedings and Testimony taken taken and had
before me to the Secretary of the War Department
pursuent[pursuant] to the Directions of the of the afforsaid[aforesaid]
act of Congress April 20th". 1818
Daniel Gray [signature]
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I Daniel Gray Judge of Rensselaer Common Pleas
aforesaid do from my own personal knowledge
further certify that the within named Manser
Greene is in reduced circumstances stands in
need of the assistance of his Country for
Support-
Daniel Gray[signature]
State of New York
Rensselaer County Clerks office } I certify that Daniel Gray Esquire whose
Signature is affixed to the foregoing declaration and
Certificates or as on the Twentieth day of April last past
Judges Court of Common Pleas In & for the County of Rensselaer-
[ Seal affixed to left margin- Rensselaer County]
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my name & affixed the
of the said Court this Twelfth day of June A.D. 1818-
Joseph D Selden Clerk
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

Name  Greene, Nathaniel 
Grade  Sergeant
Line  Massachusetts

Warrant Number  4220
Acreage   100
Issued   Aug.7,1789
     to Anspach and Rogers~
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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9,1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.