Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4289, Philip Greenwood, Md.
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Service - MD

Name - Greenwood, Philip and Sarah

Number - R.4289
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26636
Indiana
Philip Greenwood
of Monroe Co in the state of Indiana 
who was a private in the [illegible] commanded
by Captain Creigh of the regiment commanded
by Gen Bell in the Maryland line for 8 dollars a month.

Inscribed on the roll of Indiana 
at the rate of 26 dollars 66 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of April 1834 and Hon G L Kinnard H.R.

Arrears to 4th of March $80.00

Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Sept $13.33

Total $93.33

{Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832}
Recorded by Danl Boyd Clerk
Book E Vol 7 Page 112

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Order to pay 30 act 1837
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Declaration
State of Indiana
Monroe County

On this the tenth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before Andy Kinney President Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of said state and Abram Buskirk and Stephen P Seall associate Judges of the circuit court of said county now sitting being a court of record Phillip Greenwood a resident in said county and state aged seventy seven 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, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated court.

He was born in Frederick County in the State of Maryland on the twenty eighth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and fifty-five. HIs father's name was Phillip Greenwood.

On the year previous to the year in which the Battle of Germantown took place; he thinks it was the year seventeen hundred and seventy-six in the Month of June at the county of Frederick where he had lived and resided at the time of entering the service, from his birth in the state of Maryland, he enlisted or volunteered he is at a loss to say which perhaps it was both -he voluntarily enrolled himself in the service of the United States in the State troops of the state of Maryland in a [illegible] of corps called the "flying camp" in a company of foot commanded by Valentine Creighes Captain. The first lieutenant was William Smith or Phillip Smith he cannot recollect the
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the number of the regiment nor the name of the Colonel. The Majors name was Spence; in the brigage commanded by General Bell. One regiment was raised in Maryland and one in Pennsylvania. The name of the Colonel commanding the Pennsylvania regiment he remembers well from the circumstances of having been well acquainted with him before; it was David Canada. Said troops were subject to the higher and chief command of General George Washington and were part of the time especially the town here described under his immediate personal view and command. 

He the applicant entered said service in said "Flying Camp' for six months. At the time and place of his enrollment in said county he received eight dollars in continental paper money [illegible]. Said declarant and said troops rendezvoused at Bently Tavern on the Frederick Town Road fifteen miles there from. He was marched to Frederick town to receive their arms and was detained there one week. He and said troops got their arms and were marched to Philadelphia City in Pennsylvania. Hence up Delaware by water thirty miles to Trenton in New Jersey. Hence to Princeton in said state. Hence to Brunswick in said state. Hence to Ambry in said state. There to Elizabeth in said state. Hence this declarant marched with a sergeant guard to guard a powder wagon up to Fort Lee. Here Washington was stationed with his army. This applicant was ordered with a sergeant's guard from Fort Lee to Top on North River and was there a guard some days. After which they marched back and rejoined the army under General Washington. Fort Washington was taken on Saturday and on the Sunday following witnessed Washington order he this applicant was marched to a
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place called Berrien Point on North River with fifty men including himself and put on picket guard to remain a week but received orders by express next morning (Monday) to return to headquarters of General Washington at Fort Lee but before the declarant and little detachment arrived at Fort Lee it was captured by the British; after General Washington had ordered the provisions to be destroyed having no baggage wagons and horses they having been previously set to Winter Quarters; General Washington having also ordered the [illegible] cut down to prevent the pursuit of the British. He was at the calling down of Brunswick Bridge though not of the fatigue party. After the loss of said Fort Lee and crossing Second River, he with said fifty men joined the residue of the company to which he belonged and the main army of Washington. He with the whole army crossed the Delaware at Trenton. The six months had expired before he arrived at Trenton; over and above which when he got there he had served a week or more. At said last place said Flying Camp troops were disbanded and the applicant discharged. He received from his Captain a written discharge which he has since lost. Said Flying Camp was more harassed then other species of troops in the service. Captain Mance afterwords Major by promotion joined the Flying Camp troops with a company of all single men, healthy and robust and in high spirits - This company were remarkably thinner as well as the troops generally before and after their arrival at Trenton and before they reached home by the great number of deaths. During this Flying Camp service, he received fifty shillings per month in continental paper money. Three dollars of which was not at one time) the best not with more than one in [illegible] of the time not so much. This was all
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the pay he received during said service. He served in said tour of duty said six months and one week in addition thereto faithfully and to the acceptance of his officers. He was dismissed about the last of November in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-six. After being dismissed at Trenton, they went to Philadelphia and stayed there a week waiting for their pay in addition to the above time. He received no other or further pay than as mentioned. From his age and failure of memory and the circumstance of his being not well acquainted with them, he cannot recall the names of any other officers; nor recall any other circumstances of consequence.

In the month of September in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven as well as he can remember he was drafted in the militia of Maryland in the service of the United States at and then living in the county of Frederick in said state, and in the company commanded by William Beshears who resided on Bush Creek in said county in the regiment commanded by Baker Johnston Colonel, a lawyer of Fredericktown in the Brigade commanded by General Smallwood his first name he cannot now recall to memory. He was drafted for two months. He was marched across Susquehanna at the sign of the Cross Keys. Hence to Downingtown on the Lancaster Road. Hence marched with the object of joining General Wayne at the Paoli in Pennsylvania. But the British getting between his troops and General Wayne he with his troops did not join him until the day after it was expected to do so which they did/joined General Wayne at the Red Lion. Hence with General Wayne he was marched to the little Conestoga Valley. Hence to Panic
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creek when he joined the main army under General Washington. Hence he was marched with the main army moving down into the vicinity of Germantown in Pennsylvania. He was in said army on the left wing in the Battle of Germantown. From sunrise until eleven o'clock of the day of said battle this declarant was warmly and perilously engaged in it firing as he best thinks upwards of seventy rounds.

The Dutch regiment commanded by Colonel Mulenburgh marched through Germantown fighting as they went being as well as he recollects the right wing. General Sullivan he thinks commanded the left center division and General Wayne the right center division. Sullivan, Wayne, and Mulenburgh's divisions commenced the attack about the same time about three fourths of an hour after which General Smallwood engaged in the battle and the enemy was driven out but finding the enemy reformed in their rears, the division of General Smallwood was by him ordered to retreat and which by some divisions had retreated. In the retreat this applicant in consequence of the smoke missed his division and fell into the ranks of General Sullivans division where he fought until he got out of ammunition.

The whole army soon after this retreated and this applicant in the said division of General Sullivan whilst in such division and about the time of a retreating evolution he was slightly wounded by a grape shot passing by and grazing the left side of his head. Being stunned and enveloped in smoke, he knew not his location until a British soldier called out to him my prisoner at which being swift on foot he fled the British soldier chased him about two hundred
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yards when this declarant overtook General Sullivans division and formed in his ranks; upon which a retreating fire being made the British soldier in him fled back to his own ranks.

They this applicant and American army had to retreat several miles from and before the British firing divisions alternately forming retreating after firing and covering each other's retreat.

After the battle this declarant and the whole army marched back to illegible Creek.

He was stationed at illegible Creek some time he cannot now state how long and was marched again down to Germantown and was there only a short time.

He was dismissed in Pennsylvania at a couny the name of which he either never knew or has forgotten. He was a changer at the plea and thinks he knew nothing of it or the proper. It was not very far from the Valley Forge he thinks.

He served out his said two months fully and to the acceptance of his officers.

he was dismissed he thinks in November after the commencement of his tour aforesaid.

He received a written discharge from his said Captain William Beshear which he has long ago lost, it being he believes worn out by carrying it about or nearly so and perhaps laid in some dresser a place of keeping papers was lost a long time before it was observed to be missing.

He received fifty shillings per month during this tour last aforesaid in continental paper money of which several say four or five
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dollars was little better than one in illegible.

Under all said officers in all said towns he served faithfully and fully his periods heretofore described to the acceptance and satisfaction of his officers.

He has never received any further or greater pay for his services than as herein mentioned.

He has no documentary evidence of any part of his services nor does he know of any person or persons whose testimony of any part of his services he could procure except that of the persons herewith certifying and those of his other neighbors to the same effect.

He hereby relinquishes every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.

After said services in the Revolutionary War he resided in the County of Bartly about three years in the state of Virginia. In the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five he thinks it was he removed to the State of Kentucky what county then embraced the place of his location he is not certain if any was organized where he then resided. He resided in Kentucky until four yours ago when he removed to the Monroe County in the State of Indiana where he has resided said five years and now resides.

He has no record of age in his possession, nor has he had for many years it is probably he thinks in the possession of one Peter Hansinger in the Rederick County Virginia.

He cannot recollect any other names of officers, nor circumstances of importance. From the weight of years and hardships
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his memory has coincidentally failed especially of dates and names of men and places. But he can and does swear positively that he did serve at least six months and one week in said first tour and at least fully his said two months in said second and last tour making in all eight months and one week at least.

He was constantly on duty during said periods - said company were a species of Infantry.

He states that he could not procure the certificate of a Clergyman conveniently none living in his neighborhood who know him and those who may have known him in neighborhoods where he formerly resided, he cannot procure without great difficulties if at all.

He is known to Isaac Bowen, Allen Parnham, [illegible] Hill, James Wright and others of his neighbors who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his having been a soldier of the revolution.

He has had the seven interrogatories with the exception of the seventh prescribed by the war department put to him and has answered them so far as he is able and faithfully in the body of this declaration.

Sworn and subscribed to this day and date before written in open court.

Phillip Greenwood
His X Mark
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11556
Sarah Greenwood
Philip
Ind
Act 7 July 38
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State of Indiana
Owen County

On this second day of December 1843 before me John Hilsabeck an acting justice of the peace in and for the county and state aforesaid personally came Mrs. Sarah Greenwood a resident of said county of Owen aged Seventy-nine years and who after being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of congress passed the 7th July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pension to certain widows to wit:
That she is the widow of Philip Greenwood deceased late of the county of Owen who was a soldier in the army of the revolution and served some length of time as a militiaman. She thinks but does not remember to what line of the militia he belonged nor in what state he lived when he entered the service and on account of said service in said army was granted a pension during his natural life at the rate of twenty six dollars and sixty six cents per annum. She further declares that she being unable to state the names of the officers under whom the service of her said husband in the said army was performed the line of militia in which the said service was performed that state in which her said husband lived at the time he entered the service will for the names of said officers was well as the duration and character of the said service, the state in which he lived when he entered the army refer to the evidence contained in the papers composing the matter of the application of her said husband for the aforesaid pension granted him. She further declares that she has no documentary evidence in favor of her claim save the above application referred to. She has no record of her marriage with the said Philip he never having been able to write and it was neglected, nor does she know of any person living by whom she could prove the fact. She further declares that she was married to the aforesaid Philip Greenwood in the fall of the year 1788 in the state of Pennsylvania west of the mountains but does not recollect the county and that her husband the aforesaid Philip Greenwood died on the firth day of September 1822 and that she still remains the widow of the said Philip Greenwood never having intimacies since the death of her said husband. Sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year aforesaid.

John Hilsabeck - JP

SEAL

Sarah Greenwood
Her X Mark
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State of Indiana
Owen County

I John Hilsabeck the within subscribed magistrate certify that the within declaration is personally know to me and is a lady of respectability and I certify that she is from actual bodily disability prevented from appearing in court in testimony where of I have here unto subscribed my name this the 2nd day of December 1843

John Hilsabeck - JP  SEAL

State of Indian
Owen County

I Thomas C Johnson Clerk of the circuit court of the county of Owen do certify that John Hilsabeck Esquire is a magistrate as above and that he is and was at the above date duly elected commissioned and qualified to act as such and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine and is entitled to credit.

In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the said court at Spencer this day of December AD 1843.
T C Johnson - Clerk

State of Indiana
Owen County
At a county court of the Board of Commissioners of Owen County duly organized began and holden at the Court in Spencer on the first Monday of December 1843 - it is ordered by the court to be certified and recorded that the proceedings have in the matter of the application of Mrs. Sarah Greenwood for a pension have before John Hilsabeck Esq this 2nd day of December 1843 - be and the same are now submitted to the court and are now approved and sanctioned by the court.

In testimony whereof
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I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at office in Spencer this 4th day of December 1843

Isaac Heaton - Clerk
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11556
Sarah Greenwood
MD
Sent to J W Davis
Jany11th 1845

4289

Act July 7th 1838
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[illegible]

House of Representatives
January 3 1845

Sir

Permit me to call your attention to the enclosed communication from Mr. T C Johnson and to ask that you will answer through me at your earliest convenience the interrogatories he there in proposed.

Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Jno W Davis

J L Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
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REJECTED

4289

Sarah Greenwood

Enlisted: Blank
Discharged: Blank
Applications Filed: Blank

Alleges: Blank
Re-enlisted: Blank
Attorney and PO - Blank
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30258

Phillip Greenwood
Ind
for 1776 p $8
$26.66

Some light writing crossed out - but very hard to read.
Can make out Mr. Brewer

and the words in the case of the state from what time the Flying Camp were  - Apr 1824

Hon G L Kinnard
H.R.
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We Isaac Bowen, Allen Parham and Basil Hill residing in the neighborhood of Philip Greenwood who now is an applicant for a pension hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Phillip Greenwood who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration and that we believe him to be seventy seven years old of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid by the said Phillip Greenwood and this [illegible] in open court.

Isaac Bowen
Allen Parham
His X Mark
Basil Hill

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories subscribed by the war department that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Isaac Bowen, Allen Parham and Basil Hill who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the neighborhood of the said Philip Greenwood and are credible persons and that their said statements or certificates is entitled to credit. And they also said county further certify that it appears to them that said applicant could not procure the certificate of a clergyman without too much inconvenience being in the vicinity. Our said court is a county of Record.

A Kinney
Abran Buskirk
S P Seall

State of Indiana
Monroe County

I Jacob B Lowe Clerk of the circuit and other courts of said county of Monroe in said State of Indiana do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Phillip Greenwood for a pension. said court is a court of record.
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this {cut off]
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Land Office, Annapolis, Apr 8th 1834

I hereby certify that it appears by a muster roll of Captain Valentine Creagers Company of the Flying Camp remaining in the office that the name of Philip Greenwood appears upon said roll, to have been enrolled as a private on the 19th day of September 1776 to serve in the Flying Camp

George G Brewer
Rep Pen Office W.S.M.

The applicant Philip Greenwood also states in his declaration that he served in the drafted militia. I however do not find his name upon any of the rolls of the drafted militia; the flying camp was only six months in service.

G G Brewer

Rep Pen Office W.S.M.