Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4,301, Coggeshall Green, R.I.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
R. I.
Green, Coggeshall
NUMBER
S. 4301
carded
CONTENTS
[blank]
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5827.
Rhode Island
Coggeshall Green
of Providence in the State of RI who was a Sergt in the Company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Col. Babcock in the RI line for 2 years
Inscribed in the Roll of RI at the rate of 120 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of pension issued the 18th day of Feby 1833 and sent to [illegible] Benjm Hay Present
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $180 - 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 21 [Mar?] '33 60 - 
[Total] $240 - 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by [illegible] H M Blair Clerk,
[torn] D Vol. 3rd Page 114.
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
County of Newport} sc.
On this Twenty third day of January 1833 personally appeared Before me, Arnold Hazard one of the Justices of the Peace for the town of James Town, Coggeshall Greene a resident of said James Town in the county of Newport and State of Rhode Island  and Providence Plantations aged eighty five 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, AD 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following Officers and served as herein stated.
In the Month of February 1776 he enlisted as a Serjant [Sergeant] in Captain James [illegible] Company in the Regiment then commanded by Col. Henry Babcock, who was afterwards Dismissed from the Command of said Regiment and Col. Christopher Lippet (then the Lieut. Col. of said Regiment) was Promoted to the Command of said Regiment. The Regt was raised by the State of Rhode Island for the term of one year, and he continued to do the Duty of a Serjant during the whole time for which the Regiment was raised. The Regiment was first [imbodied?] & organized in Newport R.I. where we remained on duty until the middle of August, and then was ordered to march to Harlem (near Kings Bridge) [NY] to join General Washingtons Army, & from thence to the White Plains, where we arrived in the evening & the next morning was attacked by the British Army the Engagement lasted about two hours & many were killed on both sides, Our loss of [Am]ericans was said to be five hundred after which [we] crossed the North River into the Jerseys where we remained until the term of One Year was Ended for which Regiment was raised & having served One year for [whi]ch I enlisted I Received a Discharge given me by
Wm Jones
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William Jones then our Commanding Officer, which discharge I have lost, not expecting it would ever be of any use to me care has not been had to preserve it. [Illegible] in January following I joined Captain Waits Company of Volunteer Militia in which I acted as second Sergeant and was ordered to March to Boston Neck in the State of Rhode Island to gard [guard] those shores from the invasion & Plunderings of the British forces, I continued a Serjant on duty under the command of Captain Wait two Months, at the expiration of which time, Col. Thomas Potter took command. Two months on duty in Boston Neck & then at the time of General Sullivan's expedition went on the Island of Rhode Island with army Commanded by General Sullivan, and continued two Months on duty during the Expedition. I joined a Company of Minute Men (so call^d) under the command of Captain Parker and served as a Serjant under his command, three Months, and was ordered out and Marched to the shores on all the alarms which the Country was then continually Harrased and distressed with, during the Term of Two Years, This alarm service was performed at different short periods, sometimes on duty three or four days & then return home for a day or two & then again ordered out immediately on duty and was as such & more than Six Months in actual [illegible] and the said Coggeshall Greene further says that he was in the Continental and State service more t[han] two years. Agreeable to the foregoing statement to say
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To Say.
One year in Babcock & Lippets Regmnts  12 Mont [Months]
Two Months in Cap^t Waits Compy... 2 mo.
Two Months in Cap^t Potters Compy ... 2 Mo
Two Months in Sullivans Expedit^n ... 2 Mo.
Six Months in Alarms ................................. 6 Mo.
Three Months in Cap^t Potters Minute Men ... 3 Mo.
[Total] 27 Mos.
Is two years & three Months
And the said Coggeshall Greene further says, that he was in service as a Serjant in State and Continental Service Two Years & Three Months
[signature] Coggeshall Greene
And he names Samuel C. Cottrell & David W. Clarke as two persons who are acquainted with him and who will testify as to his Veracity and to the belief of the neighborhood where he Resides in Regard to his services as a Serjant of the Revolution
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever 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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid - 
[signature] Coggeshall Greene
[signature] Arnold Hazard Justice Peace
We Samuel C. Cottrell & David W. Clarke Residing in the same place hereby certifies that we are well acquainted with Serjant Coggeshall Greene, who has subscribed and sworn to the above Declaration, that we believe him to be eighty five years of age, that he is reported and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a Sarjent in the Revolution, and that we concur
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in that opinion.
Samuel C Cottrell
David W Clarke
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
[signature] Arnold Hazard Justice Peace
And he further states that he was born in the Town of South Kingston in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island on the twenty fourth day of October 1748 that at the time he entered the Service aforesaid, he resided in the Town of South Kingston in the State aforesaid and where he has ever resided excepting the time he has resided at James Town (Nine years) and that he hath no Record of his age.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
[signature] Coggeshall Green
And I the said Arnold Hazard do hereby declare in my opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Serjant, and served as he states, and I do further Certifie that it appears to me that Samuel C Cottrell & David W. Clarke who has signed the preceding Certificate are Residents in the Town of James Town in the County of Newport, and are Credible Persons, and that their statements is entitled to Credit. And I do further Certifie that the said Coggeshall Green is a very infirm, Lame, Invalid, That he has not been able to go from the Fire to his Bed without the use of [illegible] and other assistance, for more than Five years past, & is in all Respects too Feeble & weak to go before a Court to make his Declaration - and I the s^d [said] Arnold Hazard do hereby Certifie that the foregoing contains the Original proved & [several words cut off at the bottom of the paper] in the matter of the declaration of Coggeshall Greene
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[words cut off at the top of the page]
[this page is a copy of the previous page that includes the declaration of Coggeshall Greene except for the following that appears cut off on the original page]

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office, this twenty third day of January AD Eighteen hundred and Thirty three
[signature] Arnold Hazard Justice Peace
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Rev War
4301
INVALID.
File No. 4301
Coggeshall Green
Sergt. R. I. line
Act: - Vol. H, Page 149
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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22.268
Coggeshall Green
Rhode Island
Sergt Infy 2 years
Admd
$120 -
Col. Benj, Fry of R. I.
Present
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Capt. Henry Fews
Deposition
June 9: 1832
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The Deposition of Henry Few of Newport in the County of Newport and State of Rhode Island of Lawful age and Engaged according to Law, testifies and says that some time in the Month of February AD 1776, I was Seargent in Capt. James Few's Company In the Regiment then Commanded by Col. Henry Babcock who soon after was discharged or Dismissed from the Command of said Regiment and Col. Christopher Lippet took command and that Coggeshall Green now Residing in Jamestown in the County of Newport and State aforesaid Enlisted about the same time as aforesaid and to my Certain Knowledge the Said Coggeshall Green Served in said Regiment Six Months and upwards
[signature] Henry Fews
State of Rhode Island County of Newport in the town of Newport this 9th Day of June AD 1832 Personally did Henry Few subscribe to the above Deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same
[signature] Wm. Ennis Jus. Peace
The above named Henry Few further says that (himself) Left Col. Lippets Regiment before the year expired "that the Noncommissioned Officers and Soldiers Inlisted to serve, and cannot Swear" that Coggeshall Greene served the whole year, and he do's [does] not doubt but he did.
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I hereby certify that I have been acquainted with Henry Few subscriber to the within Deposition and never heard but what the said Few stood fair as to truth and Veracity - 
[signature] Wm. Ennis Jus. Peace
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY
Lemuel 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
afore-written 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 this
thirtieth
day of January
in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three and
of Independence the fifty seventh
[signature] Lemuel H. Arnold
BY HIS EXCELLENCY'S COMMAND.
Henry Bowen Secry
[ribbon and seal affixed to the left]
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I certify that Arnold Hazard named in the annexed papers was at the time his signature to the same was affixed and is now a Warden of the Peace and a Justice of a Court of record under the laws of R. island Feby 16th 1838
[illegible] J. Pearce
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State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations
Secretary's office Jan. 30th AD 1833
I Certify that at the date of the annexed certificate signed William Ennis, the said William was a Justice of the Peace for the town of Newport. That at the date of the certificate signed Samuel Helme, the said Samuel was clerk of the Court of Common Pleas and General sessions of the Peace for the County of Washington, both duly elected and commissioned as appears of record in this office. I further Certify that by law the freemen of the town of Jamestown aforesaid have power to appoint Wardens [underlined] in said town who have the powers and duties with Justices of the Peace in other towns
witness [signature] Henry Bowen Secry. [Secretary]
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The Deposition of Jabez [possibly Boass or Boss] of South Kingston in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island of lawful age and engaged according to Law testifies & says that some time in the Month of February 1776 I enlisted in Capt James Fews Company, In the Regiment then commanded by Col. Henry Babcock who soon after was dismissed from the Command of said Regiment, and Col. Christopher Lippet took command and that Coggeshall Green now residing in Jamestown in the County of Newport & State aforesaid Enlisted about the same time that I did, and to my Certain knowledge the said Coggeshall Green served in said Regiment one year & was with me Honorably Discharged [words crossed through: at [illegible] in the State of New York]
[signature] Jabez Boss
State of Rhode Island County of Washington
[words crossed through: & State of Rhode Island Has] In the town of South Kingston this [15th?] day of Augus[t]  [paper creased here] came Jabez Boass[?] Subscriber to the above Deposition and made Solemn Oath to the truth of the above
Before me Matthew Waite Jus. Peace
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Washington County sc} Clerk Office Court of Common Pleas & General Sessions of the Peace April 7th AD 1832 I Samuel Helme Clerk of the Courts aforesaid do hereby Certify that Matthew Waite Esq. whose certificate is hereto affixed was on the fifteenth day of August - AD 1820 a Justice of the Peace for the Town of South Kingston legally chosen & Qualified as the Law
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[the beginning of this document is a copy of the previous document, a certification of Matthew Waite, except for the part below which was cut off in the previous document after " chosen & Qualified as the Law"]
requires, that full faith & credit ought to be given to his Certificate throughout the United States, I Also certify that I am well acquainted with Matthew Waite Esq. signature & pronounce the Signature to be genuine. I also certify that the Seal here is the proper Seal of the Courts Aforesaid
[signature] Sam. Helme Clk of the Courts aforesaid
[seal affixed to the left]
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The National Archives
Form VAM - 51
12-5-41
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*
NAME Green, Cuff
GRADE Private
LINE Rhode Island
WARRANT NUMBER 3160
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED May 4, 1791 to - not shown - 
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 4
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Green, Daniel
GRADE Fifer
LINE Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER 4222
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED Aug. 1, 1789
to Thomas Cushing-
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are
registers of bounty land warrant issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent
dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.