Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21223, Samuel Green, Conn.
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Conn.          Green, Samuel       W.21223
                   Tamazen
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Reported  ( on first half of fold)

3793
New York  Albany

Tamazen Greeb
Conn.
Widow of Samuel Green

who was a Private

in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
80 Dollars _______ Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.

Certificate of Pension issued the
13th day of Dec. 1843

and sent to

Maxwell & Tyler
Elmira, N. York
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A

l.   page 106.
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6855

New York
Samuel Green 
Of Elmira in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler of the Connecticut line, for the term of five years 1778

Inscribed on the Roll of New York --------------
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14th of May 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 1st of Feby 1819
and sent to the Hon. Daniel Crager
House of Representatives to States

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818  
3 18/31 +  4/30  NP.  29.70
Semi-annl. all'ce ending 4th Mar. 1819   48.00
$77.70

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued
Tioga County

(written vertically on second fold)

Notification sent the 1st Dec. 18, 1820 
to Hon. C. Baker  H. R. u. P.
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xa
Copy of 
Samuel Green's oath &
Schedule

6055

March 1819
C


Hon. C. Baker
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At a Court of Commonpleas held at Spencer in and for the County of Tioga in the State of Newyork (sp)  on the first Tuesday in September 1820.
Present
Hon. Mr. Gamaliel H. Barstow First Judge
Caleb Baker}
Joshua Ferris}
Joseph Speed}     Esquires Judges

(Copy)
Tioga County SS.  On this 6th day of September 1820 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Commonpleas in and for the County of Tioga aforesaid being about of record established do by the laws of the State aforesaid Samuel Green aged fifty-eight years, resident in the Town of Chemung in the County and State aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows:
That he enlisted in the year 1778 in the County of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut, in a company commanded by Captain Comstock in Colonel Chambers' Regiment in the Connecticut line: was afterwards transferred into Col. Isaac Sherman's Regiment; that he was again transferred to Captain Denick or Ten Eyck's Company in Colonel Webb's Regiment: & that he there remained until discharged in the year 1783; that that (sic) he served five years and some months in the said Revolutionary service and in the continental establishment.  That he has received a Certificate from the Secretary at War by which he is inscribed on the pension list roll of the Newyork (sp) Agency No. 6855 and bearing date the first day of February 1819 grounded on a declaration previously made and forwarded to the War department and dated as he believes on the 14th of May 1818.  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 not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled.  "An act to provide for certain persons engage in the  land and naval services of the United States in
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in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me:  nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed & by me subscribed.  That my occupation is that of a farmer, but by reason of the Rheumatism and the infirmities of age he is incapable of pursuing hard labor.  That his family who now reside with him are his wife who is fifty eight years of age, and four children, towit (sic)  Lydia aged Twenty Two years who has for three years past ben unable to do such kind of labor as girls in her situation generally do, and in very ill health:  Tammy aged fifteen years and upwards, who is almost an entire cripple by both her elbows having been dislocated; one of which has never been set. William aged 9 years, and Anson aged 4 years & upwards.
Sworn before me in open Court}
the 6th of September 1820}  (signed)  
              Samuel Green
                  X his mark
(signed) G. H. Barstow first Judge

Schedule of property
1 Small Yoke of Oxen            $40.00
1 Cow (about 9 years old)     $12.00
4 Old knives & forks                   .50
5 Cups, Saucers plain Ware         .50
                                              --------
Carried  up                            $53.00


Amt. book up                       $53.00
1 Old pot                                  1.00
1 Old Teakettle                          1.00
2 Bowls                                        .50
2 Old Tin Basons (sic)                  .50
Total                                       $56.00

                        
Debts due by me:  
To D. Spring for  for attendance & medicine as a physician                                    $32.00
To S. Hopkins a merchant, for family necessaries                                    $16.00
To Elijah Buck  In Execution about $14.00
                                                       ---------
                                                       $62.00
Due to me
From Sands Warren for Labour (sic)       $10.00

Sworn to and declared in open}
Court before the Judges there of}
on the 6th September 1820}  
                 (Signed) Samuel Green  X his mark
(Signed) Gamaliel H. Barstow First Judge

State of Newyork (sic)}
Tioga County  SS. }
Henry Wells Esquire Sheriff of the said County being duly sworn deposeth (sic) & on his oath says that he is personally acquainted with Samuel Green the pensioner above mentioned and also with the situation & circumstances of the said Samuel Green and that he verily believes that the Statement of 


(Signed)  Gamaliel H. Barstow First Judge
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property made by the pensioner above named is substantially correct. 

Sworn to on this 8th day of }  
September 1820 in open Court }
Gamiliel H. Barstow first Judge }  
(Signed)  Henry Wells

State of Newyork (sic)}
Tioga County Ss. }

I Thomas Maxwell Clerk of the Court of Commonpleas of the said County of Tioga (being constituted about Record by the laws of the said State of Newyork (sic) proceeding according to the course of the Common law with a jurisdiction in point of amount unlimited, keeping a Record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment) do hereby certify that the foregoing oaths & Schedule are truly copied from the Records of the said Court: and further that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the foregoing Schedule is Fifty six Dollars
In Testimony where of I have hereunto Set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court this 11th September 1820

Tho. Maxwell Clerk
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In the matter of 
Samuel Green with
the United Sates

see  Chandler's Connt  (?)
Roth

Correct
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State of New York}
Tioga County} SS.

On this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Eighteen, before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Tioga.  Personally appeared Samuel  Green, aged fifty five years, resident in the Town of Chemung, in the County of Tioga , aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for sertain (sic) persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war:" That the said Samuel Green enlisted in the Town  of Fairfield in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut in the company commanded by Captain Samuel Comstock of the Connecticut Line as a private soldier and in Cols. Chamber's  Regiment and Genl. Person's Brigade sometime in the spring of 1778. And that he continued in the service of the United States until the termination of the Revolutionary war when he was discharged from Service at West Point in the state of New York.  And that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his county for
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support; and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.  And he, the said Samuel Green, further saith (sic) that at the time he removed into this county about twenty years ago he left his discharge with his Brother in Connecticut since which (as he is informed) has been lost. 

Samuel Green    X  his mark

Sworn to and declared before me the day & year aforesaid - 

Caleb Baker
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I, Caleb Baker, Judge  SC as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Samuel Green did serve in the Revolutionary War against the common Enemy as stated in the proceeding declaration and that his said service were continued. 
And I do further certify that the said Samuel Green is in reduced circumstances and really needs the assistance of his Country for support as stated in the forgoing declaration.
And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me on the subject to the Secretary for the department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress - Dated May 14, 1818.

Caleb Baker
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State of New York}
Tioga County Clerk Office}  SS.

I certify that Caleb Baker Esquire was at the time of signing the within certificate, and now is, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said County of Tioga, duly enrolled, authorised (sic) and empowered, to act as such; that the signature to the said Certificate is the own proper handwriting of the said Judge, and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his official acts. 

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of my said office to be affixed the first day of September A. D. 1818.
Matt. W Carpenter Clk

(Written vertically)
In the matter of Samuel Green with the United States.

see.  Chamber's Conn. Roll

Correct
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10109
Mrs. Tamazen Green
NY
Act  7 July  38
m   87  d 39

aomd ?

2 yrs pri

80$

Maxwell & Tyler
Atts.  Elmira NY
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At a Circuit Court held at Elmira in & for the County of Chemung in the State of New York (the same being a Court of Record have a Clerk & Seal) on the 29th day of May in the year 1843.

Present  Hon. Robert Monell 
              Circuit Judge 6th Curcuit
J. Dunn}       Esq. 7 Judges Chemung
E. Banks}    County Circuits

On the 29th day of May 1843 personally appeared in open Court before the Judges aforesaid Tamazen Green a resident of the town of Chemung in the said county of Chemung aged Eight years and upwards who being first duly sworn doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 7, 1838 and the act of Congress approved the 23rd day of August 1842 amendatory thereof and the act of Congress passed 3rd March 1843.  That she is the widow of Samuel Green who was a soldier of the Connecticut line in the war of the Revolution and served in Capt. Comstock's company in Col. Chambers Reg. in Connecticut line, was transferred to Col. Isaac Sherman's Regiment, and again to Capt. Denick or Ten Eyck's & Company in Col. Webb's Regiment, & was placed on the pension roll of the United States under the act of 18 March 1818 by certificate number 6855 Dated Feb. 1, 1819 & signed by John C. Calhoun then Secretary of War.  And she refers to the paper on file in the War Department accompanying his application for a pension & the rolls in said Department for proof of his services.  She further declares that her maiden name was Tamazin (sic) Battison, and that she was married to the said Samuel Green at the Parish of Green's Family? in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut on the 15th March 1787 Seventeen hundred eighty seven by the Reb. Hezekiah Ripley, a minister of the Presbyterian church then a resident of the that parish.  That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Green died on the fourth day of October 1839 eighteen hundred thirty nine in the said county of Chemung:  that she was not married to him prior to his leaving
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the service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four, towit (sic) at the time above stated: and that she still remains the widow of the said Samuel Green.

On the day & year above}
                Tamasen (sic) Greeen ____  her mark
written before}

S. L. Rood, Clerk of said Court

I Simeon L. Rood Clerk of the Court above mentioned do certify that the foregoing dictation and the succeeding? affidavit are the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Tamazin (sic) Green the widow of Samuel Green deceased for a pension.
Witness my hand & Seal of Office
the 29th day of May 1843.
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Marriages

March fifteenth one thousand seven hundred & eighty seven 
Samuel Green and Tamazine Batterson

I John S. Hyde of the parish of Greensfarms town of Westport, County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut that the above is a true copy from the original Church Records of the congregational church in said Greensfarms, with that of the date is  expressed on the record in the following figures & word,

1787

March 15 Samuel Green & Tamazine Batterson

John S. Hyde  Deacon of the congregational church in Greensfarms

I John S. Hyde above named depose and say that I hold the office of Deacon of the Congregational church in the parish of Greensfarms aforesaid that said church is now without a Pastor and that I have the care and custody of the records of said church and that the above is a true extract from the records of said church with the exception named in my certificate above, and I further depose and say that in said church record the marriages recorded follow each on page headed "Marriages" in the same way that the above extract from record is made.
John S. Hyde

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County SS. Westport  May 19th 1843
Personally appeared John S. Hyde who hath subscribed the foregoing deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me.
Alva Gray  Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield}
County Court Clerks office}  Bridgeport

I Wm. H. Noble Esq. clerk of the county court within and for the county of Fairfield aforesaid and keeper of the seal thereof and of the commissions of the Justices of the Peace for said county hereby certify.

That Alva Gray Esquire was on the 20th day of June 1842 and ? has been and so con? until the 20th day of June 1843 a Justice of the Peace within and for said county duly appointed commissioned and sworn, with power by the laws of this state to administer oaths & take acknowledgment of & ads and other ?  That  I am acquainted with his hand writing and that the signature to this ? purporting ? his in his genuine official signature. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the said court, this 23rd day of May 1843
Wm. H. Noble
Clerk
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Tamazen Green
application under act of March 3d 1843
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3984
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State of New York Chemung County Ss on this 5th day of September 1843 personally appeared before the subscribed a Justice of the peace of said county Tamazen Green of said County aged Eighty one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of th provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War: That she is the widow of Samuel Green a soldier of the Connecticut line who was a pensioner under the act of March 18, 1818 at $96 per year by certificate No. 6855, That she was herself a pensioner under the act of July 7 1898 & the amendments thereto and has lately received her pay amounting to five years pay at $20per year at the Pension Agency in Albany N.Y.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
            her
Tamazen   X  Green
           mark

Sworn before me the fifth day of Setpr 1843 the declarant being to me personally known & makes her mark from wans of education.
Simeon Rood
Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Chemung County Ss. 
I S. L Rood Clk of said County do certify that Simeon Rood Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was then the same bears date a Justice of the Peace of said County duly qualified that his signature above subscribed is genuine. Witness my hand & seal of office the 5th Sept. 1843
S. L. Rood Clerk
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3984
Sept. 11 /43
Tam Green
March 3 1843

$80 per annum
Maxwell & Tyler
Elmira 
N. York

Free

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Comm. Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Elmira Sept. 6 1843

Sir
I enclose declaration of Tamazen Green under act of March 3, 1843

Yours etc.
Maxwell L Tyler

J.S. Edwards Esq.
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Free

JS Edwards
Comm. Pensions
Washington DC

10.109
March 7, 1843

NY 
July 7 1838
Tamazen Green
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Elmira June 2d 1843

Hon. J L Edwards

Sir

We enclose the papers in the application of Mrs Tamasen Green for a pension under act of July 7 1838 and the supplementary acts 

Yours &c
Maxwell & Tyler
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Rev.
Widow, &c

File No. 21223
Tamazen Green
widow of 
Samuel Green
Dis. Rev War

Act March 3d 43
Index: Vol. A, Page 291
[Arrangement of 1870]
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7521

New York
Tamazen green
widow of Samuel Green
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 and who died on the 4th Oct, 1839 of Chemung in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____________________ of the ___________________ commanded by Col. Chandler in the Conn. line for 2 years pri.

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars ___________ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of August, 1843 and sent to Maxwell & Tyler Elmira, N.Y.

Whole amount due ....... $400.
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Thomas Lumpkin, Clerk
Book A Vol. 2 Page 80

(facing page - Rev tuyl 19)