Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32760, Eliphalet Green, Mass.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
Green, Eliphalet
NUMBER
S32760
CONTENTS
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Massachusetts
Eliphalet Green
Hampden Co. Massts
17.889 R

Private in Col. Elisha
Porter's Regt Massachtts
line, 9 months. Feby to
November, 1776.
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on 
10 ,of July, 1820.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 16 of Oct. 1820, and sent to John Ingersoll, act,
Springfield, Massachusetts
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1820         $14.7.
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4. March     48
                                          1821.   $62.7
1m. 22
       ___   
       31
& 4/30.

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 13th March, 1818.}
and 1st May,
1820.
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17, 181.
Eliphalet Green,
Hampden County, Mtts.
10. July, 1820.-
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Col. Elisha Porter's
regiment, Massachusetts
line, February to Novr. 1776
No property  Admd, 
Not found on the rolls
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The testimony, in this case,
does not explicitly prove
the applicant's service
9 months in continuance
on continental established.

John Ingersoll, agent
Springfield, Massachtts
Recd. 26. July, 182
October 1820

[page is torn along the bottom edge any other words are lost]
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COMMONWEALTH OF
[Image of an eagle with a branch in its beak is between ]
MASSACHUSETTS.

COUNTY of Hampden  SS.

On this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, before the  Circuit
Court of Common Pleas the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampden


Eliphalet Arson aged Sixty three
years, resident in Willburham in said County of Hampden first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: In the of our Lord 1774 he enlisted as a private man at Granby in the State of Massachusetts [illegible] in April following marched to Cambridge near
Boston in the Company Commanded by Capt John Cowle & Regiment commanded by Col
Ruggles Woodbridge that he continued to serve in said Company untill January 9,1776 when he was discharged from said service
at said Cambridge that during the aforesaid time & service he was in the battle fought at Hogg Island near Boston in 1775 also in the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775 that afterwards to wit about and first of February 1776 he again
enlisted for the term of one year at said Granby in the company commanded by Capt Josiah Lyman in the Regiment commanded by Col. Elisha Porter in the line of the State of Massachusetts in the Continental establishment that he continued to serve in said last mentioned Corps as near as he can recollect untill about the last of November next following (Vis) in 1776 when he was discharged at Mount Independence by a written discharge signed by Wm Clajon by the General Command the date of which has now become illegible said discharge accompanies
this application.

[the next lines are along the fold of the form and difficult to read]
And I do solemnly [tear and water stain] property of [ink blot], contracts, of debts, due
[strike through date hereto annexed, and by [water stain] absorbed] or any other property except Company[water stain]  clothing & Bedding. 

SCHEDULE [STRUCK THROUGH]

And the said Eliphalet Green further on oath declares that his wife is infirm and aged & that they are both dependent on charity & the Assistance of their son with whom they live, for subsistence that their said son is destitute entirely of property & has a wife and six children to support, except one daughter
who is put out to service- and that he said Green is himself infirm by age and in consequence of having broke two of his ribs one of his legs since he was discharged from said service- that he was tied [difficult to read may be bied]to no particular trade and when able to Labour at all he labours at Farming & gardening

Eliphalet Green

Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July 1820 before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas at the John Ingersoll [difficult to read Court]

I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule 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 [struck through total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is] Said Greene has no property. [struck through Dollars and Cents]

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this Seventeeth day of July 1820
Clerk of the Court for the County
of Hampden

John Ingersoll
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Head Quarters[illegible word]
[Illegible three words] [illegible two words]

[page is torn and a portion of the first word is gone] This is to certify that the within named soldier has been discharged from the Legions of the Northern Army of the United States, on [struck through request] account of their badly Disability on request by Surgeon specially appointed to the  Morale Major General[illegible]

To all whom it may concern
By the General Foreman
Wm. Clajon
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Mount Independence [the page is torn at the top so words are missing]
Ast. of Capt. Josiah Lyman the whole of my wages to the present Day 

Eliphalet Green

[what look like file notations run along the side of the document] Green, Eliphalet
Mass S 32760
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I Francis Town of Belchertown in the County
of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the age of sixty three to testify & say that in the month of March in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & seventy six I knew Eliphlet Green was enlisted as a soldier in the Company commanded by Josiah Lyman Capt & in the regiment Commanded by Col Elisha Porter, that on or about the eighteenth of said March the company set out on their march for Canada P[rivate] Green was one of the company that went on & accompanied the regiment to Quebec and continued with the regiment till about the last of November when on account of sickness he was discharged by the Surgeon. Next following the said Green enlisted into said company according to my best recollection in the month of February seventeen hundred & seventy six-I enlisted into said company in January & Green soon after me, tho' we were not marched for Canada till about the eighteenth of March and further the deponent saith not. 
Francis Town [signature]

"When on account of sickness he was
discharged by the Surgeon.", interlined
before grainy tooth

Hampshire Co
On the twenty ninth day of May in the year of
of our Lord eighteen hundred & twenty the appeared deponent (Francis Town) was cautioned & examined & sworn to the truth
of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
taken at the request of Eliphet Green & to be and at the of office of the Secretary of War of the United States for the purpose of obtaining a pension for the Green under the act of March 18th 1818. I further certify
that I am personally acquainted with the Town the deponent & that he is a man whose
testimony may be relied on as true-
before Mark Doolittle
Justice of the Peace
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(Francis Town) was continued and examined
of the foregoing deposition by him duly citation taken at the request of Eliphalet Green
& to be and at the of office of the Secretary of War of the United States for the purpose of obtaining a pension for the Green under the act of March 18th 1818.  I further certify that I am personally acquainted with the Town the
deponent & that he is a man whose testimony may be relied on as true- before 
Mark Doolittle Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss

I Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth for the said County of Hampshire certify that Mark Doolittle Esq is a Justice of the peace in & for said County & that his signature to the foregoing certificate is his proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereto subscribed my name & affix the seal of said Court this twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty.
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Josiah Dwight
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I Justus Moore of Dunfield [this may be an incorrect transcription of the town name] in the County of Hampden and Commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age I on oath do testify Deposed say that I am acquainted with Eliphalet Green now present in Wilbraham in said County and that I was knowing to said Green, being in the Revolutionary service a
soldier in Colonel Porter's regiment of Infantry being the same Regiment to which I was attached that I first saw said Green in said Regiment in the month of May 1776 between Montren & Quebec on the river St. Lawrence & afterwards at Mount Independence, when or where he was discharged I do not know but I saw him said Green in the Service in said Regiment in the month of November
1776 at  Mount Independence
Justus Moore

Hampden ss. July 10th 1820 Then personally appeared Justus Moore the above [deponent and struck through]  named deponent and   made solemn oath that the above statement
by him subscribed is true before me
Justice Willard
Justice of the Peace
I also certify that the above named Justus Moore is a credible witness
Justice Willard [difficult to read] Jus. Peace


Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampden ss.
I John Ingersoll Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said County of
Hampden do certify that Justice Willard Esqr is a Justice of the Peace within & for the County of Hampden aforesaid duly commissioned & qualified agreeable to Laws of this Commonwealth and that full faith
and credit is and ought to be given to all dits [illegible] done by him in said County and that the above Signature is his proper hand writing - In testimony whereof I have hereto
set my hand & affixed the seal of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said County this seventeenth day of July in year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred & twenty
John Ingersoll
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I Asa Smith of Halifax in the County of Windham & State of Vermont of Lawful age do testify & say that in year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & seventy six was a resident and inhabitant of Belchertown in the
County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was well acquainted with Eliphalet Green now of Wilbraham in the County of Hamden & Commonwealth as there of Granby in said Commonweath and the man is now present with me & I know him to
be the same Eliphalet Green. Further the deponent saith that in the month of Jany 1776 at Belchertown he together with the said Eliphalet did enlist with the Company then commanded by Capt. Josiah Lyman in Colonel Elisha Porter's regiment raised under the
Continental establishment and marched directly to Canada where we served together in Capt. Lyman's Company till the following November when I was taken sick and returned home on furlough and [lost] the said Eliphalet in said Lyman's Company further. Now the deponent saith not Asa Smith
Halifax  Sept. 24th 1820

State of Vermont
Wicham County SS.

Halifax Septr 20th 1820
Personally appeared Asa Smith the Signer
[strike through] to the above affidavit by him subscribed & made solemn oath to the truth of the same before me
Jedediah Stork, Justice of the Peace
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Asa Smith
affidavit

State of Vermont
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Windham County Court Clerk's Office
Brattleborough, Septem. 20th 1820.
I certify that Jedidiah
Stork, Esquire, is one of the Justices
of the Peace within and for the
County of Windham aforesaid, duly
commissioned as such, and that the
signatures of the within
certificates is in the hand writing
of the said Justice-
Witness my hand and the
Seal of said Court the day
and year above written.
James Elliot, Clerk.

This may certify the within named Asa Smith is a neighbour to me, that I have been intimately acquainted with him for twenty years, that he is a man of good moral, & [verified] character, & a man of truth by general reputation

Jedidiah Stark Justice of the Peace
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32760
Revy INVALID.
File No. 32, 760
Eliphalet Green
Pri Rev War
Index: -- Vol.
Act: 18th  March 1818 
Index: - Vol. 2, Page 493
[Arrangement of 1870.}
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Eliphalet Greene
Hampden Co. Mtts.
10. July, 1820.
Col: Elisha Porter's
Regiment. Masstts. line
February to Nov. 1776

Not found on the rolls
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It is required, that
two or more disinterested
and credible persons, certified as such
by the judge, prove esplicitly, on
oath, from their own knowledge,
9 months service of the
applicant, in continuance
on cont'l establishment.
John Ingersoll, agent
Springfield. Mass
22 Aug 1820
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I Gideon Stebbins of Belchertown in the County of Hampshire & State of Massachusetts testify & say that I received orders some time in the winter of one thousand seven hundred & seventy five & six to recruit men for
the service of the revolutionary war. That ┃
I did enlist a number of men immediately upon receiving such orders & among them was Eliphlet Green. I cannot testify the exact time which I enlisted the P [Private] Green but I believe it was about the first of February. We marched the eighteenth day of March & I know we were in [illegible for illegible] after
the P [Private] Green enlisted. Several weeks before we marched, I should think more than a month & I believe six weeks, I was Lieutentant 
in the Company which Green went in & in which Josiah Lyman was Captain & Elisha Porter was Colonel. & further the
deponent saith not.
Gideon Stebbins

Hampshire August 15th 1820 The above named Gideon Stebbins I being duly cautioned & examined & sworn to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed taken at the request of Eliphlet Green & to be used at the War Office for him in obtaining a pension
[struck throgh] under the law of Congress passed in March 1818 & May 1820.
I further certify that I am acquainted with
the Gideon Stebbins & that his character is good and his statements entitled to full credit.

Attest Mark Doolittle Justice of the Peace
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire SS.
I Josiah Dwight Clerk of the Supreme
Judicial Court of said Commonwealth for the
said County of Hampshire certify that Mark Doolittle Esquire is a Justice of the peace in & for said County & that his signature to the within
Certificate is his proper hand writing. In Testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my name & affix the seal of said Court this
twenty fifth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty
Josiah Dwight