Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,689, for Samuel Snow, Rhode Island
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(3-1776)
Service Number
RI Snow, Samuel S.17689
Contents Carded
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Samuel Snow
Capt.
2 years
$280
[illegible]

Claimant
Providence 
RI.
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Providence 20th Oct 1832

Honble Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington

Sir,
Having been some months absent from the state of Rhode Island & having no documents with me, I have been unable to forward to you at an earlier date a copy of an account passed & settled with the General Assembly of Rhode Island so long ago as April 1784. By that account you will observe that for the two last years of my service my pay was forty dollars per month, and in conformity with the last pension act I am justly entitled to for dollars per month pension. I feel fully persuaded you will readily admit the justice of my claim and will with pleasure forward to me a pension certificate drawing to that amount.
I remain with great respect Sir, Your obedient & very humble servant.
Samuel Snow
Enclosed I hand you my old pension certificate
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By His Excellency
Samuel H Arnold
Governor, Captain-General and Commander in Chief of the State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. 

Be it known that the name "HENRY BOWEN," to the aforewritten attestation subscribed, is the proper hand writing of Henry Bowen, Esquire, who, at the time of subscribing the same, was Secretary of the State aforesaid, duly elected and qualified according to law:  Wherefore unto his said attestation full faith and credit are to be rendered.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of said State to be affixed, at Providence fourteenth day if September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two and of Independence the fifty-seventh.
Samuel H. Arnold
BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.
Henry Bowen, Secry
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Samuel Snow
[illegible][crossed out]RI.
[illegible] 1777 2 years[crossed out]

Samuel Snow Captain Colonial [illegible] 1777 2 years [crossed out]

Admin @
11 months_Apl 1779 to [illegible]
1780. in Elliott, R. Island Rg@

To the [illegible]
Providence, R.I.
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I Samuel Snow of Providence [illegible] do declare that early in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven, I engaged in the service of the United States & on the twenty third day of June in that year, was appointed a third Lieutenant in Captain Taber Westook Company of Artillery, in the Regiment commanded by Col Robert Elliot, in which capacity I served until February one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight, when I appointed a Captain Lieutenant in Captain Carlisle's Company in the said Col. Elliotts Regiment & in that capacity served a little more than two years, & in June one thousand seven hundred & eighty, I was appointed a Captain in Col Christopher Greenes Regiment Infantry, & that my while term of service was upwards of three years, which will appear by the enclosed commission papers. If any further proof should be necessary I could send on my Cincinnati Diploma, signed by General Washington, in which he says. 'Be it known that Samuel Snow Esq a captain in the late Armies of the United States is a member of the Society of Cincinnati':
I further state, that after the close of the Revolutionary War, I entered into benefits & after experiencing many changes I at length obtained a sufficiency to [illegible], which I enjoyed many years, but since then having met with [illegible] incident to there engaged in Commercial [illegible]. I am now [illegible] to
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a state of dependance & fool, however painful, the necessity of applying to my country for that assistance which it has been pleased to grant to the old soldier towards his support.
Samuel Snow

Rhode Island District 10 Sept. 1818
The sd Samuel Snow made solemn oath &
the truth of the foregoing Declaration by
him Subscribed - He also exhibited
to me Cincinnati Diploma Signed by Go. Washington and I am satisfied of his need
of the assistance of his necessity for Support
by the certificate of [illegible] & [illegible] of this town merchant of the first respectability.
David Howell
District Judge.
Rhode Island District
In Providence the 10 Sept 1818
I certify that the signature of the Judge and
the seal of the District Court, of the United States for said District are hereto office

Witness Benjamin Cowell
A R I District
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5158,
Rhode Island
Samuel Snow
of Providence the State of RI
who was a Capt in the company commanded
by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded
by Col Elliot in the RI line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of RI
at the rate of 480 Dollars - Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 4th day of Feby 1830 and sent Claimant Providence R Island

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $720
Semi anl. allowance ending [illegible] 240
$960
Revolutionary Claims Act June 7, [illegible]
Recorded by [illegible] Clerk, 
Book D. Vol. 337 P 34.

Dead
Letter to Pension Age 30 [illegible]
said at the Treasury [illegible]
the act of the [illegible]
1838 from 4 March 18[illegible]
to 17 May 1838. Agt Notified
2 Nov 1839.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
 Second Comptroller's Office,
October 21st, 1839.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April 29
 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The child of Samuel Snow, decd, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Rhode Island Agency, at the rate of four hundred & eighty Dollars and [crossed out] Cents [crossed out] per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1838, to the 17th May, 1838, the day of his death.

Respectfully yours, 
[illegible] K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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Mr Edwards

I am personally acquainted with Samuel Snow Abiel Brown & Nathaniel Elliot mentioned in the Pensioners act of May 20th 1830 & request you to [illegible] this certificate & deliver them to me

[illegible]
Washington [illegible]
May 31 1830

Zachariah Allen Esq
Providence R.I.
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[illegible] State of Rhode Island with Samuel Snow Capt Le Artillery

1784 April To 8 mo 21 days service as Lieut. from June 1777 to 16th March 1778 at L10.  87 0 0
To 24 Mo Service as Capt. Lieut. from March 1778 to 16th March 1780 at L12  288 0 0

To 4 Mo 6ds Extra pay as Adjutant from 10th Nov 1779 to 16th March 1780 at l4.[illegible] 16  20 3 2

To amt of Cash pd for clothing L53.0.11 is in real value  4 17 7

400 0 9

To Balance Brot down
L291.4.1 is in doll 970 68

By amount cash recd for Wages L395.3.2 in value  53 3 4
By 5 mo 15 days subs is term money recd in April, May, June July & Augt 1779 L44.11 is in real value  2 12 5

By amt of clothing recd in 1778 & 1779  53 0 44

Balance due 
Samuel Snow  291 4 1

400 0 9

A True Copy taken from the books as examined & passed by the General Assembly

Samuel Snow

Rhode Island District [illegible]
In Providence October 19th 1832 Then personally appeared the above named Samuel Snow and made oath to the truth of the above and subscribed by him in my presence before me
John Ryman
District Judge U.S. 
for Rhode Island District
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letters to Hon. T.
┃ Geo H.R. Feb. 13.
19. 1828.
unto
case of Captain
Samuel Snow, of
R. Island, who served
11 months in Col Elliot's regt
Suspended
until the question
shall have been
decided whether
the R.I. Brigade was
on the continental estab
lishment or not--
War Dep
Pen off
25th July 1821
Sep
19
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to
Ruth
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Feby 7. 1828
Rel to
Military Pensions
April 29, 1828
Bill reported for S. Snow [illegible] 283
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Decem 5, 1828.
Refd. to Comm cc on Milty Pensions
Dec. 16th 1829
Ref. to Com Mil. Pensions
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$20 per month, from 1 Jan. 1828, at
May 20 1830
Hon. T. Burges
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20th Congress
1st Session
Congress of the United States
In the House of Representatives
Feby 7th, 1828.
On motion of Mr. Pearce,
Resolved, That the Committee on Military
Pensions be directed to inquire into the propriety of
placing on the pension roll Samuel Snow, an
officer in the Revolutionary war.
Resolved, That the said Committee be
directed to inquire into the propriety of placing on
said roll Abiel Brown and Samuel Eathforth
soldiers in said War.
Attest
Mary Clair Clarke
Clerk
Papers wanting
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Sir
War Department
Pension Office
February 19. 1828
On referring to your former letter respecting Messrs
Snow, Brown and Elliot. I find that you requested to be
furnished with the papers in their cases, and further asked that
if the originals could not be sent from the Office, copies might
be sent to you. I cannot give such a certificate as you desire perhaps;
but I will state the facts, and I have no doubt that their cases present
as strong claims as those of many others who receive pensions. The
certificate is herewith enclosed.
I have the honor to be
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt
J.L. Edwards
Hon. T. Burges
House of Representatives
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9458
Rhode Island
Samuel Snow of Providence in the State of R. Island
who was a Lieut in the company commanded
by Captain Westcot of the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Elliot in the
line, for the term of one year
from
1777 to
1778
Inscribed on the roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of twenty Dollars per month, to
commence on the first day of January 1828
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 of May
1830 and sent to Hon J. Burges 
Gibsons Boarding house. City of Washington
Arrears to 4th of March 1830 $522.58
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending 4 Sep 1836
120
Rec vol. 3
Book D. fol. 133
$642.58
Revolutionary Claim,
Acts March 18, 1818,[crossed out]
and May 1, 1860. [crossed out]
20 May 1830
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9,458
Rhode Island
Samuel Snow
4
of Providence in the state of R. Island
who was a Lieutenant in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Elliott of the R. Island
line, for the term of eleven months
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island
at the rate of 20 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 10th of Sept 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 17 of Apr 1819
and sent to
the Pensioner provise
Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. [illegible] $116.58
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819 120
$:236:58
Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
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State of Rhode Island
& Providence Plantations
[illegible] Office
May 27th 1818.
It appears of Record in this Office that Samuel
Snow was appointed a Captain in Col. Christopher
Greens Regiment, by the General Assembly, as the Captain on the first Monday of July, AD. 1780
Samuel Eddy Snow
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Being requested by Capt. Samuel Snow, to have our opinion of
his present situation, we state that said Snow has been
known to us many years
that he was formerly engaged in [illegible] being unfortunate became a Bankrupt & notwithstanding his
exertions lines that period, he has continued poor & but for
the assistance of friends, must have suffered great distress
Capt. Snow, so far as has come to our knowledge, has through
life supported a good character for honor & honesty he
was indebted us at the time of [illegible] to a considerable
amount. no part of which has ever been paid & we have no longer
any expectation of recovering any part.  we fully believe him
to be entirely directed of property
Brown [illegible]
Providence Sep. 10. 1818.
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17689
INVALID.
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File No. 17,6892
Samuel Snow
Capt Rev War
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Act: June 7 32
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 357
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Saml Snow
Granted
$20 per mo.
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I HEREBY certify that the accompanying pages numbered
from one to two are truly copied from the
original in the Department of War.

J.L. Edwards

BE IT REMEMBERED, That James Lewis Edwards, who has
signed the foregoing certificate, is charged with the general superintendence
of the Pension Business in the Department
of War, and with the safe-keeping of the
Rolls, Books, Papers, and Documents, on
file in said Department, in relation to said
business; and that to his attestations full
faith and credit are and ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed
my name, and caused the seal of the
Department to be affixed, on this 13th
day of February in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
of James [illegible]
Secretary of War.
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I Samuel Snow of Providence & Do declare, That early in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven, I engaged in the service of the United States, & on the twenty third day of June in that year, was appointed
a third Lieutenant in Captain Jabz Westcots Company of Artillery, in the
Regiment commanded by Col. Robert Elliot, in which capacity I served until February one thousand seven hundred & seventy eight when I was appointed a Captain Lieutenant in Captain Carliles Company, in the
said Col. Elliotts Regiment, & in that capacity served a little more than
two years, & in June one thousand seven hundred & eighty, I was appointed a
Captain in Col. Christopher Greens Regiment of Infantry, & that my
whole term of service was upwards of three years, which will appear by the
enclosed Commissions & papers.
If any further proof should be necessary I could send on my Cincinnati
Diploma, signed by General Washington, in which he says, "Be it known
that Samuel Snow Esq. a Captain in the late Armies of the United States
is a member of the Society of Cincinnati" &
I further state that after the close of the Revolutionary War, I entered
into business & after experiencing many changes I at length obtained a
suffiency to place me in easy circumstances, which I enjoyed many years, but since then having met with misfortunes incident to those engaged in commercial pursuits, I am now reduced to a state of dependance & feel.
however painful, the necessity of applying to my country for that assistance
which it has been pleased to grant to the old soldier towards his support
Signed, Samuel Snow
Rhode Island District 10 Sept. 1818.
The sd Samuel Snow made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Declaration by him subscribed - He also exhibited to me his Cincinnati Diploma signed by Geo. Washington and I am satisfied of his need
of the assistance of his Country for support by the Certificate of Missouri
Brown & Ivers of this Town merchants of the first respectability.
(Signed) David Howell
District Judge.
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2
Seal
Rhode Island District
In Providence the 10 Sept 1818
I certify that the signature of the Judge and the
seal of the District Court, of the United States for said District are hereto affixed -
Witness (Signed ) Benjamin Cowell
Clk. R.I. District
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report
Samuel Snow
granted
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in the case of Samuel Snow of Providence
refered to the Committee on Military Pensions
they report
That the said Snow served as an
officer in the Revolutionary war upwards
of three years, on the 23d day of June 1777
he entered the service in R Island as third Lieutenant in the company of artillery commanded by Capt Jaber Wescost in the Regiment commanded
by Col Robert Elliot. He said in that office
untill february 1778 & was then appointed
Captain Lieutenant in the Company of Capt
Carlile in the same regiment. In this capacity he served upwards of two years. In
June 1780 he was appointed captain of a
company in Col Christopher Greens
regiment of Infantry in which he continued untill he was honourably discharged. He is poor; & in great need of the aid of his country for his support [illegible] as it appears seventy years old
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State of Rhode Island and
Providence Plantations
Secretarys office Sept 14th 1832
I Certify that at the session of the General
assembly of said State holden in the first
Monday of July one thousand seven hundred
and eighty, Samuel Snow was appointed
Captain in Col. Christopher Greene's Regiment,
as appears of record in this office.
Witness Henry Bowen Secry
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Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington.
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Newport 2nd July 1821

My dear Sir,

The bearer of this, Captain Samuel Snow
is a respectable gentleman of this State, who bore a meritorious part in the War of the Revolution, and has since been variously
& honorably employed in Commercial affairs, He was for some
time our Consul at Canton, uniformly retaining the good opinion of his fellow Citizens, He has not however been able to retain his fortune earned by uncommon industry & enterprise, He has been singularly unfortunate, and is now destitute, so much so as to be a claimant under the pension Law, He wishes an opportunity to present his Papers & case to you personally, and I am
in hopes, that as he purposely takes the opportunity when it is
presumed you may enjoy something like leisure, that you may
not be unable to decide upon his case,

With the highest sentiments of Respect Esteem
I remain, My Dear Sir
Your Obedient Faithful Servt
William Hunter

Hon John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington
4
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

[illegible]
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Arcade Bank
Providence May 16th 1838

Sir
Samuel Snow late a pensioner on the Roll of this agency under the act of June 7, 1832
has lately deceased and has left no widow and only one child, a son, who is a consul of the U States resident at Canton. The administrator wishes to be informed, if in this case, the armay now due may be paid to him on production of proper Vouchers
Very respectfy
Js [illegible]
S Waterman Prest
for H Green Clk

J.L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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War Dep Pension Office July 25. 1821-
Received of James L. Edwards, who has the
keeping of the Pension Rolls, two commissions granted to me by the Governor of Rhode Island during the revolution, the same having been filed by me when I first obtained a pension under the act of 18th March 1818; and being by him considered unnecessary vouchers.
Samuel Snow
I also received at the same time, my schedule of property transmitted to the War Dept. under the act of May 1. 1820.
Samuel Snow
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Hon John C. Calhoun
Secy of War
Washington City
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Providence July 16, 1821-

Sir
Permit me to introduce to your notice the bearer hereof, Samuel Snow Esq. of this Town a gentleman of high respectability, and late [crossed out] a Captain in the army of the Revolution, but whose pecuniary concerns, compel him to ask of his Country that remuneration for his services which they so justly merit, and to which he is entitled
by the act of Congress
With the most respectful consideration
Hon. J.C. Calhoun
I have the honour to be,
[illegible]
your obt Serv-
N.B. Knight

Hon. J.C. Calhoun
Secy of War-
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Honorable J.C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington
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Providence July 16. 1828

Sir
The bearer of this is Capt Samuel Snow
a revolutionary Officer reduced by mission terms to a state of Indigence. He wishes to obtain provided by Congress for Officers in
his situation, and I know of no one more
justly entitled to the [illegible] of his Country
He now is, & has been for many years a worthy member & Secretary of the Society of Cincinnati in this State -made his [illegible] in aid of the funds of the Society on its first formation as a Cap in Colonel Greens regiment in which he served with reputation. He  requests me to state these facts within my own knowledge. I have done so and leave
him to the Justice of his Country-
I am respectfully
your Obedient Servant
D. Lyman
Honorable J.C. Calhoun
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Copy of an order from Col. Christopher Greene to Major Flagg

Sir
I am directed by General Heath to order Capt. Snow to take the command of the Forts at Tiverton, he is to have forty men, those that have served in the artillery if there be that number, if not he is to pick out a number to make the compliment.
(Signed) yours C Greene
Major Flagg

The above is only in evidence of my having served under Col Greene's command after my appointment in his Regiment, & the pay of a Captain in the Infantry is so well known to have been Forty dollars per month that it seems unnecessary to add more on that subject.
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Samuel Snow

Payable semi-annually. The first
payment on this Certificate will be
made on the 4th of September
next, in Providence at [illegible]
the Branch Bank [illegible]

Recorded
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War Department
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Samuel Snow, late Lieutenant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Rhode Island Agency, at the rate of Twenty dollars per month, to commence
on the tenth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this seventeenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and nineteen.
JC Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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I hereby certify that Samuel Snow Esq was appointed Lieutenant in June 1777, & in February 1778 a Captain Lieutenant, in the Regiment of Artillery commanded
by Col Robert Elliott, which Regiment, together with Col Crarys & Tophams formed the Rhode Island Brigade, raised by the State in December 1776, for the defence of this & the United States, That the said Sam Snow continued in active service from his first appointment to the16th of March 1780. when the Brigade was discontinued
Gabriel Allen
Pay Master to
Col. Jophams Regt
Providence RI
Sept 3d. 1818.
Rhode Island District
I certify that on this day the tenth day of September 1818 formally came before me the above named Gabriel Allen & made oath to the certificate by him above inscribed-
Benjamin Cowell
Comms authorized to
take depositions & to be
used for the District Judge
for R. I. District
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Jamaican L. Island 29 Aug' 1818
I hereby certify that Samuel Snow Esq. Captain Lieutenant of Artillery in Col Elliotts Regiment joind with his company the
command of Col C Greene whose Regiment was station at
East Greenwich sometime in the fall of 1778 and continued
in that station to the best of my remembrance until the
evacuation of Newport in 1779 I have no returns or documents in my possession which enable me to State the exact time of his service under Colo Greenes Command but believe it to have been about one year
Samuel Ward Leiut
Colonelin Colo Greenes Regiment the
years 1778-79.80