Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37,024, Benjamin Green, Mass.
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(3-1776)
Service
Mass.
Green, Benjamin
Number
S. 37,024

Contents
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5641.
Maine
Benjn Green
Private
Capt Burbank  
Mass
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Dis. Maine
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 23 rd April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Jany 1819 and sent to Judge Parris Paris M.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818             $ 35.20
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4 Mar. 1819    48
                                                          $83.20
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.

Continued

[Note along the side of the card] Application sent May 14th 1819 [illegible] Maine
Aug 1824 AB
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Benjamin Green
Private
Brewers Reg.
Massachusetts Line
April '77.   3 years
23 April 1818
Admitted
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I Benjamin Green of Otisfield in the County 
of Cumberland & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy years on oath declare that at Gorham in said Commonwealth in the month of April A.D. 1777 I enlisted
into the army of the United Colonies of America in the Company commanded by Captain Burbank in the Regiment commanded by Colonel John Brewer in the
Massachusetts line & continued to serve in the same company as a private soldier in the continental establishment in the war of the revolution the term of three years from the time of said enlistment, at the expiration
of which time by the permission of General Learned I left the service having no written discharge & having completed the term of my enlistment, during which I was at the taking of Burgoyne & in several battles. I further testify that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I am in need of assistance from my country for support, am not borne on any pension list & am a resident citizen of the United States
Benjamin Green
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Otisfield April 22. 1818

Hon Albion K Parris Judge of the United States
in and for the District of Maine

W. Benjamin Green of this Town is in reduced circumstances of life having a numerous family dependingupon him; he being a cripple and
far advanced in life which renders him unfit for hard labour, on this account we think he needs assistance from his Country agreeable to the provision of a Law of Congress passed March 8. 1818
Grinfill Blake
Nathan Wight ⎬
Selectmen of
Otisfield
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I James Means of Westbrook in the County of
Cumberland State of Massachusetts do testify and say that I was a Lieutenant in a company
commanded by Silas Burbank in the revolutionary [illegible] that I enlisted Benjamin  Green of Gorham, now of Otisfield in said County on the first day of January A.D. 1777 for the term of three years; and that said Green continued to serve during the time for which he enlisted, and was honorably discharged at Fishkill in the State of New York from said Burbank Company, twelfth Massachusetts Regiment.
James Means

Cumberland SS. Wertbrook May 12. 1816. Personally appeared James Means Esquire and made oath the tenth of the foregoing deposition by him signed 
Before me Moses Quimby Just. Peace
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, SS.
To Moses Quimby or Jonathan
Sparrow, esq. of Westbrook and
Hezekiah Frost or Charles Johnson of
Windham  in the District of Maine

Greeting

WHEREAS, at a special District Court of said United States for the Maine District [illegible] at Paries in said District, on the twenty third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Benjamin Green of Otisfield in said District presented an application to the Judge of said Court, setting forth that he served as a private
Soldier in the war of the revolution on the continental establishment against the common enemy, and requesting that an enquiry may be inserted into the circumstances of his case, and
that such further proceedings may be had touching the premises as arre prescribed by An Act of Congress passed March 18, 1818, entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," in order that he may be placed on the Pension List of said United States:--And whereas in the course of the examination have had , it appears that the testimony of sundry persons, who served with the applicant in the revolutionary army, at present residing in or near the 
towns of Westbrook or Windham
aforesaid, is necessary and material in support of said applicantion-

THEREFORE, to the end that the testimony aforesaid may be had, and by virtue of the power vested in this Court by the laws of the United States, you or either of you are hereby appointed and [illegible] at the proper expense of the applicant, to take the depositions of such persons as he may cause to come before you, touching the application aforesaid, and in particular as to the time when the applicant entered the service, the time and manner of his leaving it, the company, regiment and line to which he belonged , and whether the service was performed on the continental establishment, or in the militia of either of the States; and such depositions, when taken, and your certificate of the administration of the usual oath and of the credulity of the deponents, together with this Dedimus Potestatem, you will certify and return to the Judge of said Court without unnecessary delay.
GIVEN under my hand and seal at Paries in said District, the day and year first mentioned.

Albion K. Parris

Judge of the United States in and for the District of Maine.

Cumberland. SS. Westbrook May 12, 1818. Pursuant to the foregoing order I have taken the deposition of James Means Esquire and hereby certify that the said deponent is a person of undoubted credibility.
Moses Quimby
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty third
day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, personally came Benjamin Green the application named in the papers hereunto 
annexed, and after being duly cautioned and examined, made oath that the several statements by him made in the annexed application, signed in my presence, are wholly true. And the said applicant further offered in evidence the deposition of James Means, who served with said applicant in the revolutionary war, taken before Moses Quinby, a respectable
magistrate appointed by Dedimes for this purpose also the certificate of Grenfell Blake & Nathan Wight [illegible] officers of the corporation to which said applicant belongs, relative to his circumstances in [illegible]
are hereunto annexed. 

And it appearing to me in the examination here had, that the several persons above named are credible witnesses, I do hereby admit the annexed declarations as evidence, and certify the same as being satisfactory
proof to me that the said Benjamin Green the applicant, served as a private soldier in the revolutionary war, against the common enemy,
for the term of nine months and upwards to continuation on the continental establishment. And I do further certify, that from the declaration of the applicant made before me, under oath as aforesaid, it does appear
that in consequence of his reduced circumstances in life, he is in need of assistance from his country for support; all which I do hereby certify and transmit to the Secretary of the Department of War, agreeably to the provisions of an Act of Congress, passed March 18, 1818, entitled ""An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war."

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused my official to be affixed the day and year first mentioned.
Albion K. Parr
hige of the rated States in and
for the District of Maine.
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N 290 Benjamin Green
Copy
5641
March 1819
what county is
Olesfield in ?
Cumberland County
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
DISTRICT OF MAINE
At a District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland within and for the District of Maine, on the first Tuesday, being the fifth day of December and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty ninth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.

ON this twenty ninth day of December in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Benjamin Green aged seventy five years, resident in Otisfield in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Burbanks in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Brewer in the line of the State of Massachusetts, on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 5641 was granted.  And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818 ; and that I have no, nor has any person in trust for me, and property or securities, contracts, or debts due to me ; nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed ; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.

Benjamin Green

Sworn to and declared, on the twenty ninth
day of December A.D. 1820

Before Albion K Parris
U.S. District Judge for the
District of Maine.
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SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz.

Real estate    I have none
Personal estate    I have nothing but a few ordinary articles in the room were I live.
I have no income and am a very poor old man.  It is owing to sickness that I have not been able to apply sooner for the continuance of my pension.

Benjamin Green
Dec. 29 1820
Sworn to
Albion K Parris
U.S. District Judge
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MAINE DISTRICT, SS.
I, John Massey, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do
hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Three dollars and seventy eight cents and no more.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty ninth day of December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty
John Mussey Jun
Clerk of the U. States District
Court for Maine District.
$3.78
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July 9, 1937
The Quartermaster General
Memorial Branch
War Department
Washington, D.C.

Benjamin Green
S. 37024
BA-J/AWF

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for information relative to Benjamin Green, Revolutionary War soldier from Gorham, Maine, died August 4, 1824 in Otisfield, Maine.

The data furnished herein were obtained from
papers on file in pension claim, S. 37024, based
upon the service of Benjamin Green in the War of the Revolution.

The date and place of birth of this soldier
were not given, nor were the names of his parents stated.

Benjamin Green enlisted at Gorham, Massachusetts (District of Maine), sometime in April, 1777, served as a private in Captain Burbank's company, Colonel Brewer's Massachusetts regiment; he was at the capture
of Burgoyne, and in several battles, length of service three years.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 23, 1818, at which time he gave his age seventy years and living in Otisfield, Cumberland County, District of Maine.

In 1820, he stated that he was seventy-five
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years old.
A "numerous family" of the soldier, Benjamin Green, was referred to, only names stated were, his wife,Sarah, aged seventy-two years in 1820, and Betsy, aged then, twenty-one years.

The soldier died in the month of August, 1824.

The application for headstone for Benjamin Green is returned herewith. There was no correspondence enclosed.


Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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37024
Reg INVALID.
File No. 37,024
Benjamin Green
Pri   Rev  Wad
Act: 18 March 18
Index:- Vol. 2, Page 203
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1937 July 9 list to Memo Branch