Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8612, Malachi Green, R.I.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
R.I.
Green, Malachi
NUMBER
S. 8612
carded
CONTENTS
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Ohio 27464
[crossed out - Rhode Island]
Malachi Green
of Providence. in the State of  R.I
who was a private in the Company commanded
by Captain Randall & Regt commanded
by Colo Tillinghast in the R I
line for 
12 months pri
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Inscribed on the Roll of R.I.
at the rate of 40 Dollars, [Blank]  Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of June
1834 and Sent to Benjamin
Cowell Esq Providence R I
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834 $120
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4" Sep  "  .. 20
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$140
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{ Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk,
Book E   Vol 2  Page 111

Cer to Pen Agent 2d Feby 1838.

To Ohio from 4 Sept 1837-8
Feby 1838 - Notification sent
to A. G. Brown, Athens, Ohio
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31191
Malachi
Greene
of the City Providence

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Benj Cowell Esqr
Providence R.I.
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Rhode Island District
County of Providence Sc

On this 27 day of May AD 1834 personally appeared in
open Court being a special District Court of the United States
in said District Malachi Greene resident in the City of
Providence aged 69 years who being first duly sworn
according to law doth on his oath make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of an act of
Congress passed June 7th 1832. viz He entered the war
of the Revolution & served as follows. In answer
to the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department he
answers and says
to 1.  He was born in Warwick in the
County of Kent
August 9 1764
2) His birth is recorded in the family Bible no.
where else as he knows
3) He lived in the Village of Patuxet in said
Warwick when he was first called into
service
after the war he resided in said Village until he was
27 years of age since then he has lived in Providence
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4ᵗʰ.  He volunteered as herein stated.
5ᵗʰ  He served under Captain Job Randall of Militia
Col. Thomas Tillinghast & Col. Benjamin Arnold
6    He never received any written discharge.
7  Samuel Budlong, William Waterman can testify to
of his services
and said Malachi further declares, that in the 1780, in
March according to his best recollection, there came orders
to draft a number men in said Captain Randalls 
Company. to go to the Island of Rhode Island, for a month
that the company was called together for that purpose
& that the Captain told them a draft must be made
unless enough would volunteer,- That as soon as the drum 
beat for volunteers, he immediately volunteered as a private and
signed an enlistment, to go to said Island and he
avers that a safficient number volunteered so that no
draft was made, & he went
to said Station and
he served out his time & was discharged.
And the said Malachi further declares that as soon
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He got home; in May following he joined an independent corps in his native village called the “Patuxet Rangers”.  This was an independent company not attached to any Regiment was chartered by the General Assembly of Rhode Island & was under the immediate command of the Governor.  By the rules & regulations they were always to be in readiness to march at a moment’s warning & the duties were arduous.  When not wanted at other stations they were stationed at a fort at Patuxet to guard against the enemy.  Altho [sic] when the applicant joined it its duties were not so arduous as they had been in preceding years, yet he avers that between said May & December he served seven months at least as a private in actual service either in said fort or at other places along the shores of Narragansett Bay. They were on duty a great part of the time.  In the year 1781 he served four months at least in like manner.  He avers that he served twelve months in all in actual service during the War in manner
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Aforesaid & all as a private for which he claims a pension.  He has no documentary evidence of his services, but he produces the testimony of Samuel Budling & William Waterman in his behalf.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension & declares that his name is not on the roll of the agency of state.
Malachi Green
May 27 1834
Sworn to in open court by the above named applicant.
Witness B. Cowell clk
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I William Waterman of Coventry in the County of Kent being now 71 years of age on oath do testify and say that I am well acquainted with Malichi Greene who is now present in Court.  I well remember that I joined the Patuxet Rangers in 1779 & according to my best recollection said Malachi joined it in the year after.  I remember will that said Company had a vast deal of arduous services to perform in watching the movements of the enemy & in the fort at Patuxet.  Said corps was under the immediate command of the Governor and was liable to do duty at all times & at a moment’s warning.  I have not the least doubt he served as he has stated in his declaration.  I never knew that
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that he ever was absent when the Corps was called out on duty.  It is out of the power of this defendant to state with exactness what portion of the time said Malichi was in actual service, yet he has no doubt he was in as much as he has stated (scratched out) (smudge) each year in his said declaration.
Wm. Waterman
May 27, 1834
Sworn to in open Court
B. Cowell  Clk
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I Samuel Budlong of Cranston in the County of Providence being now 70 years of age on oath do testify & say that I am well acquainted with Malachi Greene of Providence who is now present before me I have known him ever since we were boys together and I further testify that I well remember that in the year 1780 we were both privates in Capt. Job Randall's Company of Militia & in Col. Thomas Tillinghast's Regiment and in the Spring of that year there came orders for a number of men to be drafted out of said Company to go on the Island of Rhode Island for one month.  The Company was called together and the captain informed us that the draft must be made unless a sufficient number would volunteer.  And I well remember that the drum beat for volunteers, and I saw said Malichi turn out as one of the number required.  In a short time a sufficient number volunteered so that the draft did not take place.  I did not
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volunteer myself & therefore did not go.  But I have not the least doubt that said Malichi went & served out his time, as he engaged.  I saw him when he returned & understood he served.  In September following I joined the Patuxet Rangers a Corps or Independent Company of minute men under the command of Col. Benjamin Arnold when I well remember that said Malichi belonged to it also & had belonged to it for some months.  Our duties in the Company were very arduous we were stationed at the fort in Patuxet Village to watch against the movements of the enemy we were also called upon to march to other places & we always went when we were called.  I have no doubt said Malichi served as much as he has stated in his declaration.
May 27, 1834              Samuel Budlong
Sworn to in Court 
B. Cowell Clk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the investigations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states.  And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Samuel Budlong & William Waterman who have signed & made oaths to the preceding certificates are both residents in the town they state and are both credible jurors & their statements entitled to credit.
I Benjamin Cowell Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the forgoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Malachi Greene for a Pension.
     In testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this 29th day of May 1834
Benjamin Cowell Clk
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JW Evans     Jan 31
James L. Edwards Esq.
Court Pensions
War Office
Washington
DC
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Application for a Transfer
State of Ohio, Athens County
On this twenty fourth day of January in the year 1838.  Before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Athens, personally appeared Malachi Green, who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the Company of Rangers commanded by Col. Benjamin Arnold, acting as Captain of the same.  Which was not attached to any particular Regiment, also, to a company of Militia under Capt. Job Randall under the command of Col. Gray of Rhode Island in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the Pension Roll of the State of Rhode Island from where he has lately removed; that he now resides in the State of Ohio within the Cincinnati agency.  Where he intends to remain and wishes his Pension to be then payable, in future.  The following are his reasons for removing from Rhode Island to Ohio to wit:  for the purpose of accompanying and remaining with his daughter & son in law and their family who have also removed to Athens County, Ohio.
Sworn & subscribed to before me this day & year aforesaid.  A.G. Brown J.P.   
Malachi Green

State of Ohio, Athens County.  On this 24th day of January 1838.  Before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Athens, personally appeared Job Randall whom I certify to be a person of veracity, who being first duly sworn deposes & says that the above named Malachi Green is to him personally well known, and that he knows him to be the identical Malachi Green named in a Pension Certificate in his possession, bearing the date at the War Office of the United States, 9th June, 1834.  Signed by Lew Cass Secretary of War and numbered 27464.
Sworn to & subscribed before me.  Job Randall
This day & year aforesaid
A.G. Brown J.P.
I Joseph Dana Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Athens County, State of Ohio do hereby certify that A.G. Brown before whom the forgoing depositions purport to have been taken is an acting Justice of the Peace in aforesaid County, duly commissioned & qualified & that his signature above is genuine.  In Testimony whereof I have then unto set my hand & seal of office at Athens.  January 24, A.D. 1838.  Joseph Dana, Clerk
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Athens, Ohio
Jan. 25, 1838

Sir,
     I forward herewith the application of Malachi Green for a transfer.  He is desirous of having his transfer effected, so as to enable him to send to Cincinnati immediately after the 4th of March next.  When others in this vicinity send.  As the distance is considerable & it is more convenient and less expensive for a number to send at the same time.
Very Respectfully
A.G. Brown
J. L. Edwards Court P
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8612
Invalid
Rev.  War

File No.  8612
Malachi Green
Priv. Rev. War

Act:  June 7th, 1832

Index:--Vol.  1st, Page 151
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Providence May 30, 1834
 
Sir
I have the honor herewith to enclose the applications of Nathan Streeter, Malachi Greene, & Joseph Capron for pensions under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832.
I am respectfully yours
(Illegible)
Benjamin Cowell

J.L. Edwards Esq.
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Arcade Bank
Providence Feb. 5th, 1838

Sir
      Your form of the 2d inst. is received.  Malichi Green a Pensioner now on the roll of this Agency under the act of June 7th 1832, at Forty dollars per annum was last paid to the 4th of September 1837.  Shall cease to pay him therafter.

I am Very Respectively
yours 
Waterman, Pres.