Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 2423-100, Clement Green, Continental Md. Residence
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(3-1776)

Service - Continental

Name
Green, Clement or Clemens or Clemenus

Number B.L.Wt. 2423-100

MD Residence
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Clement Green is entitled to the proportion of land allowed a private of the continental line for three years service.
Sam Coleman

Council Chambers
May 26th 1793 - James Wood

Edward Jenkins is entitled to the proportion of land allowed a private of the continental line for three years service.
Sam Colman

Council Chambers
January 21st 1799 - James Wood

John Fopp is entitled to the proportion of land allowed a private of the continental line for three years service.

Sam Coleman

Council Chamber
February 22nd 1799 - James Wood

George Young is entitled to the proportion of land allowed a private of the continental line for three years service.

Sam Coleman

Council Chamber
Feb 22nd 1799 - James Wood

Know all men by these present that I Edward Jenkins of Montgomery County and State of Maryland late soldier in the service of the continental army and in Col. Armands Legionary Corps do make, construct, and appoint Clement Green of Montgomery and state aforesaid my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the Register of the Land Office all warranty of lands due for my services in the said Legionary Corps hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney shall legally do in the premises.
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 2nd day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight

Edward Jenkins
His X Mark 

SEAL

Signed, sealed and witness in the presence of Ens. Campbell
John Higdon
Thos Jenkins

Montgomery County Court

Be it know that on that on the 2nd day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County came Edward Jenkins and acknowledged the above letters of Attorney to be his act and deed Given under my hand the date last
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above written
Ens. Campbell

State of Maryland Montgomery County

I do hereby certify that Eneas Campbell, Gentleman, before whom the aforegoing acknowledgment appears to have been made was at the time of making and signing the same and still is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the county aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and to all such acts by him made do faith and credit is and ought to be given as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office this 22nd day of June 1798

Upton Beall - Clerk
Montg. County Court

SEAL

A copy of papers on file in the Virginia Land office.

Test. 
S H Parker - Reg L. Office
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Case of Clement Green

illegible
7 July '47
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State of Maryland
At a court held at Rockville for Montgomery County July [illegible]1847 satisfactory residence upon the oath of Brice Letters was [illegible] in court to prove that Clement Green late a soldier under Armand Legion in the war of the revolution later of Montgomery County State of Maryland deceased and that the following named children are the only heirs at law that survived  the said Clement Green to wit Elizabeth Swearinger who has intermarried with a [illegible]  Swearinger Clemens Gren and Zachary Green.

Sworn to in open court
S.T. Stonestreet

State of Maryland Montgomery County

I Samual T Stonestreet Clerk of Montgomery County Court do certify that the above evidence is taken from the record in my office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my official seal this 5th day of July 1847.

S.T. Stonestreet
Mont Co. Clerk
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Clemonous, alias, Clement Green

No 2423

Alexr Ray
Present
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Washington
Oct 8, 1846

Sir

I herewith enclose an application from the heirs of the late Clement Green who was a soldier in Col. Armand's Corps, during the war of the revolution. The claim as you will perceive is for Land Bounty.

I remain
very respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant

Alex Ray

J.L. Edwards. Esq
Comm of Pensions
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State of Maryland
Montgomery County

I Elizabeth Van Swearing Clement Green and Tikey Green's only heir at Law of Clement Green late of said county deceased do upon oath testify and declare to the best of their knowledge and belief that Clement Green did enter the service of the United States in the year 1777 and served as a private soldier in Armand's corps to the end of the war of the revolution.

And further declare that they have never received a warrant for the bounty land promised to said Clement Green on the part of the United States nor do we believe that he ever received it or transferred his claim to it in any manner whatsoever [illegible]

Know all men by these present that we the undersigned heirs at law of the said Clement Green dec'd. do hereby constitute and appoint Alexander Ray of Washington City to be our lawful attorney for us and [illegible] to decease and receive from the Secretary of war of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due to us aforesaid and our said attorney is hereby authorized and empowered as our duly appointed and constituted agent and attorney to surrender to the Secretary of War [illegible] of the United States to bounty land warrant that may issue to me and in our names and received receipt thereon and our said attorney is hereby further constituted with
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authority to receive for us to sell, dispose of and transfer and assign the scrip that may issue in virtue of this power of attorney and he is also empowered to constitute or appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purpose herein specified and all the lawful ]illegible] of our said attorney is hereby ratified and confirmed by these present.

Rob W Willitt

Witness our hands and seals this 12 day of July 1847

Elizabeth Van Swearingin - SEAL
Her X Mark
Clement Green - SEAL
His X Mark
Tekey Green - SEAL
Her X Mark

Montgomery County State of Maryland

Personally appeared the above named Elizabeth Van Swearingin, Clement Green and Tekey Green - the subscribers to the foregoing declaration and made oath to the same and in my presence acknowledged the power of attorney thereto found to be their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.

Witness by law the day and year above written.

Rob W Willett - JP
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State of Maryland, Montgomery County

I hereby certify the Robert W Willett Gentleman before whom the aforegoing affidavit appears to have been made and whose name is thereto subscribed was at the time thereof one of the State of Maryland Justices of the Peace in and for said county duly commissioned and sworn and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said county court this 12th day of July eighteen hundred and forty-seven.

Saml T. Stonestreet - Clerk
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Treasury Department

Registers Office, Jan 8, 1847

It appears from the revolutionary records in this office that on the 26 August 1782 a certificate of registered [illegible] was issued to Clemens Green a private in Armands Legion for sixteen dollars and 94 cents which certificate with the interest thereon amounting to $44.50 was paid to Van Swearingin administrator of the estate of said Clemens Green of Montgomery County Maryland.

R H Gillet