Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21,219, Russel Green, Mass.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Green, Russel Patience
W.21.219
CONTENTS
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Massachusetts
Russell Green 27118
of Hancock in the State of Mass who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Hitchcock of the Regt. commanded by Col Sproat in the Mass line for 6 months 20 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 22 Dollars 23 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 day of Jany 1834 and sent to HM Bishop Esq Lenox Mass
Arrears to the 4th of Sep 1833 $55.59
Sem-anl. allowance ending 4 March 34 11.11
66.68
{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.]
Recorded by George Taylor Clerk.
Book E Vol. 2 Page 30
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11,230
New York Albany
Patience Green Russell decd who died on the [blank] Erie Co in the State of New York who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain [blank] of the [blank] commanded by Col in the Revolution for 6 mo: 20 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 22 Dollars 23 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23d day of Decr 1851 and sent to B.B. Chapman Esq 
 Canandaigua N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending
{Revolutionary Claim
Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by H R Weightman Clerk
Book D Vol. 1 Page 171
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Russell Green
Hancock Ms
Application for Pension
[ ] Oct 9 1832
29.357
Private
6 mos & 20 days
On roll Capt Hitchcock
Col Sproat
HW Bishop
Lenox
Mass
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Berkshire, ss.
On this ninth day of October A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable WILLIAM P. WALKER, Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County of Berkshire, now sitting, Russell Green a resident of the town of Hancock in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy one 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 7 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. I was enlisted into the continental army for six months on the 29th day of June A.D. 1780 at Lanesborough in said County out of the company commanded by one Captain Daniel Brown now residing in Cheshire in sd county & I myself resided at the time of said enlistment in said Town of Hancock & under the command of one Captain David Wheeler was marched to Great Barrington in said County, where I was mustered & took the oath of allegiance, then I was immediately marched to Fishkill in the State of New York under one William Seymour a Sergeant, thence to West Point in said State, where I was ordered to join the 12th Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Colonel Ebenezer Sproat, being Deputy Inspector) Abraham Williams was Captain Commandant & Luke Hitchcock was Captain of the Company to which I belonged, I was marched to Fishkill where the regiment, in which I was, remained about three weeks, thence I marched with said Regiment about 20 miles south to the Town of Peekskill, thence I crossed the Hudson River to Stony Point, thence to Haverstraw, thence to Clarkstown, thence to Orangetown, thence to Stone Ridge thence back to Orangetown, at which place on the second day of October 1780 I was present at the execution of Andre, thence I was ordered to Totaway, now called Patterson in the State of New Jersey where I remained nearly
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two months, there I was ordered to West Point in the State of New York, where I arrived in the month of December 1780 there I was employed on board of a sloop in bringing provisions from up the Hudson River to West Point and at the expiration of six months from the time of my enlistment above mentioned I was honorably discharged by Abraham Williams Captain Commandant; my discharge I kept for three or four years when I put it into the hands of the assessors of the Town of Lanesborough aforesaid since which I have never seen it, I believe the same is destroyed. I belonged to the Brigade commanded by General Nixon; in the month of September 1781 I went as a minute man under Captain William Douglass of said Hancock to Saratoga in the State of New York. I was out 20 days in the month of October or beginning of November of the last mentioned year I was marched again as a minute man under one Captain Clark to Saratoga being out at this time twelve days. I was born in the Town of West Greenwood in the State of Rhode Island in the year A.D. 1760. I have no record of my age; I have ever lived in sd Hancock since the Revolutionary war; I am well known by the Reverend Frederick S. Parke, George S. Temks & August Smith Esq. all of said Hancock
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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
Russel Green
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W.P. Walker J. Probate
We Frederick S Parke a Clergyman, residing in the Town of Hancock in the County of Berkshire and Augustus Smith residing in Hancock hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Russell Green who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Frederick S. Parke
Augustus Smith
Sworn  and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
W.P. Walker J. Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their 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 soldier, and served as he states And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Frederick S. Parke who signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Hancock in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that Augustus Smith who has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Hancock in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
W.P. Walker J. Probate
I, HENRY W. BISHOP, Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Russell Green for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office of said Court of Probate, this ninth day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Henry W. Bishop Register of Probate
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[left side]2321 
Patience Green widow
of Russell Green
(crossed out-Decd Pensioner)
[right side] 2321
Patience Green
widow of Russell
N. York. 
Act 7 July, 1838.
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State of New York
Erie County Ss.
On this second day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight personally appeared before Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County of Erie, Patience Green a resident of Clarence in said County of Erie, aged seventy two years on the first day of March last, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July 7 1838, entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows," That she is the widow of Russell Green late of Hancock, Berkshire County Massachusetts, now deceased: That he was a private in a company of infantry & enlisted in the town of Lanesborough Massachusetts & she thinks the name of the Captain of the Company was Hitchcock in the Revolutionary war But cannot state positively what was the period of his service nor under what officers he served.
That she was married to him in 1783 at the age of seventeen years & after he left the service: That her husband the aforesaid Russell Green died on the Sixth day of October 1833, and was at the time on the Roll of Pensioners under the act of the seventh of June 1832 entitled "an act supplementary to the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution."
That the deponent resided in said Town of Hancock from the time of her intermarriage with said Russell
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Green in 1783 to the time of his death in 1833, & until she removed to the said County of Erie in June 1834 that she is now & had ever remained his widow since his death in 1833-
That she was married at said town of Hancock by the Revd Clark Rogers a Baptist Minister who has been dead several years that she has no family record of said marriage.
Patience [her X mark] Green
Subscribed & sworn this 2nd day of Oct. 1838 before me
RW Padelford 
Deputy Clerk of Erie Co
Erie County Ss.
Jeremiah Wiltse of Clarence being duly sworn deposes and says that the above named Patience Green is the widow of Russel Green deceased. That she came to the house of the deponent in June 1834 & according to the best of his knowledge & belief has never been married since the death of her late husband Russel Green. That he has always understood that the said Russel Green was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. That deponent married a daughter of said Russel & Patience Green in the year 1811 & that the said widow has resided in his family since 1834 most of the time.
Jeremiah Wiltse
Subscribed & Sworn 
before me this 2nd day of October
1838. RW Padelford
Deputy Clerk of Erie County
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State of New York
Erie County Ss:} I Cyrus K. Anderson Clerk of said County and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the minutes of the Court of Common Pleas held in & for said county on the the 2nd day of October A.D. 1838 and further that I have compared the foregoing with said original & that it is a true transcript therefrom of the whole thereof
[seal]In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court & County this 2nd day of October AD 1838.
C.K. Anderson Clerk
By R.W Padelford
Deputy Clk
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State of New York
Erie County Ss. 
On this 20th day of June A.D. One thousand eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the County and State aforesaid Abel Green a resident of the township of Clarence in the said County of Erie and state of New York aged sixty seven years on the 28th of July next who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows" that He is one of the surviving children of Patience Green deceased who was the widow of Russell Green who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and resided in the town of Hancock in the County of Berkshire in the state of Massachusetts where he died on the sixth day of October in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty three and at his death left a widow the said Patience Green to whom he was married in said town of Hancock in the County of Berkshire and state of Massachusetts in the month of February in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty three and that they the said Russell & Patience continued to live together in said town of Hancock as husband & wife from the time of their said marriage until the death of the said Russell as aforesaid That in the year following the death of her said husband the said Patience Green before the Probate Court of said Berkshire proved her identity as the widow of said Russell Green and drew the balance of pension due said Russell up to the day of his death That in the summer following his death she moved from the said County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts to the said County of Erie and State of New York where she continued to reside until her death which
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took place in the township of Clarence in said County of Erie & State of New York on the Eleventh day of December in the year A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty five and at her death left as her only surviving children Abel Green, Francis Green, Polly Bently and Sally Wiltsey residents of said County of Erie and Lydia H. Bivins a resident of Lorain County in the State of Ohio and Willet Green a resident of Washtenaw County in the State of Michigan That the Declarant is the eldest child of the said & aforesaid Russell & Patience Green and was born in the aforesaid town of Hancock and state of Massachusetts on the 28th day of July Seventeen hundred and Eighty four that he has a family record which gives the date of the births of the said Russell & Patience Green and of their children and which said record is herewith presented said record is in the handwriting of Patience Green and since it was written has been kept in the possession of the declarant That said Patience Green was a widow & unmarried at the time of her death
Abel Green
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court before me the day & year above written. Cyrus Griffin Special Deputy Clerk of Erie County
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Russel Green Born Dec the 27 1760
Patience Green his wife Born March the 1 1764
Abel Green Born July the 28 1784
Francis Green born Oct the 29 1786
Russel Green Born November the 13 1789
Sarah Green Born Dec the 14 1791
Job Green Born Oct the 7 1795
Willet G Green Born Oct the 23 1799
Polly Green Born Apr the 15 1802
Lydia H Green Born Dec 19 1806
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Rev. War Section.
September 27, 1915.
Mr. Henry Russel Drowne,
Fraunces Tavern,
Cor. Broad & Pearl Streets, 
New York City.

Sir: 
    In response to your letter dated the 22nd instant, you are advised that the papers in claim. Wid. File No. 21.219, Rev. War, show that Russel Green was allowed pension on his application executed October 9. 1832, While a resident of Hancock, Massachusetts.
    He was born December 27, 1760. at West Greenwich, Rhode Island, and was a resident of Hancock when he enlisted at Lanesborough. Massachusetts, June 29, 1780, under Captain David Wheeler. and marched to West Point. where he joined Captain Luke Hitchcock's company, in Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's 12th Massachusetts regiment, General Nixon's brigade, and served six months. 
    In September 1781, he served under Captain William Douglas at Saratoga; twenty days.
    In October or November 1781, under Captain Clark, he marched again to Saratoga; twelve days.
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    He married at Hancock, Massachusetts. in February 1783, Patience - - -. born March 1, 1764, maiden name not stated.
                        Their children were:
            Abel            born       July 28, 1784.
            Francis           "          October 29, 1786.
            Russel            "          November 13, 1789.
            Sarah             "           December 14, 1791.
            Job                 "           October 7, 1795.
            Willet             "           October 23, 1799.
            Polly               "           April 15, 1802.
            Lydia H.          "           December 17, 1806.

Soldier died at Hancock, Massachusetts. October 6, 1833. his widow patience died at Clarence, Erie County New York, December 11. 1845, and her pension was allowed in 1851. for the benefit of their surviving children: Abel, Francis and Willet Green, Polly Bently, Sally Wilsey and Lydia H. Bivins.
Very Respectfully,
GM Saltzgaber  
Commissioner.

            Russel Green - 2 -
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Elyria Lorain Co. Ohio Nov. 28th 1851
Sir
In reply to yours of the 11th inst in the case of Patience Green deceased widow of Russell Green under act of July 7th 1838 I have to say that you err in construing the declaration of Abel Green to say that the family record by him presented was ever in the possession of his mother Patience Green. The statement concerning the family record is in connection with his own age and was ment to be considered as his own family record. The comment that said record was in the handwriting of Patience Green (not the said or aforesaid Patience) needs explanation as the said Patience Green then named was as declarant informed me his own daughter whose name was Patience Green and the grand daughter of said Patience Green widow of Russell Green, and after I had drawn said declaration it occurred to me that it would have been proper to have named the distinction, but as it was not claimed to have been the family of Russell or Patience Green I did not think it necessary. You will further notice that the affidavit of Alonson Green, Alice Bently Lymon & Benj. Bivens clearly show the age of said Abel Green to be over sixty years. I herewith enclose the affidavit of Lymon  Bivins as explanatory of the declaration of Abel Green Mr Bivens is a neighbor of mine and a gentleman of the strictest integrity for truth
I am Very Respectfully Yours
B.B. Chapman
Hon Com. of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Russel Green
by Patience 
a Rev Pensioner
Erie Co. N.York
p 178
see Papers
S.B. True
Present
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[POWER OF ATTORNEY]
Know all men by these presents, That I Abel Green, of the County of Erie, and State of New York, for and in consideration of [blank] do hereby make, constitute, and appoint L. BLANCHARD TRUE of Washington City, D.C., my true and lawful Attorney, for me and in my name, to examine all papers filed in any Department or Office of Government, upon which a Pension was granted [blank] on account of the [blank] services of Russell Green and to obtain, by all lawful means, any and all additional amounts that may be due from the United States to said Russell Green, by virtue of said services, as [blank] in the Company of Capt. [blank] in the Regiment of [blank] and in the [blank] line of the forces of [blank]. And for good and sufficient reasons I do hereby REVOKE and CANCEL any and all other Powers of Attorney and authority which I may at any former time have given to any person or persons for the above specified purposes; and I do hereby vest the same irrevocably in my said Attorney herein appointed, said L. Blanchard True.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this Fourth day of May, in the year A.D. 1854
Abel Green [seal]
In presence of 
DW Hershey
BJ Hershey
State of New York
County of Erie }ss.
On this Fourth day of May in the year A.D. 1854, personally appeared before me John Hershey a Justice of the Term for said County duly authorized by law to administer oaths and take acknowledgments in and for the county aforesaid Abel Green the subscriber to the above, and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his free act and deed, for the purposes therein mentioned; and made oath in due form of law, that he is personally interested as one of the heirs of Russell Green in said claim.
And I further certify that he is personally known to me to be the identical individual represented.
John Hershey J.P.
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State of New York
ERIE COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. }ss: I, WILLIAM ANDRE, Clerk of said County, and of the Courts thereof, do hereby certify that John Hershey Esquire whose name is subscribed to the proof of acknowledgment of the annexed instrument in writing, was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Commissioner of Deeds for the city of Buffalo in said County, dwelling in said city, duly commissioned, sworn and authorized to take the same; and further, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to the said proof or acknowledgment is genuine; and further, that the annexed instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of the State of New York.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Buffalo, this 30th day of May A.D. 1854
W Andre Clerk.
"for proof of marriage"
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Brief in the case of Patience Green decd wid of Russell, 
County and State of N. York
acts 7 July 1838 &c
Claim, ("original, or [crossed out "for increase."]
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance
Husband was a pensioner at $22.23.
Evidence of marriage, Ages of children &c.
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent.
B.B. Chapman
of Ohio-Present
Kirby
Examining Clerk
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[written vertically left side] N.Y. Apl 12
Addl proof
Patience Green
[written horizontally] Free
Hon. J.L. Edwards
Comr. of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Hon. J L. Edwards
Comr of Pensions-
Dear Sir-
Enclosed are some additional supplemental Depositions in the case of Patience Green widow of Russel Green a Pensioner, deceased-
The papers in this case were forwarded to the Pension office last season, but I deemed some further proof of the marriage & death necessary, and am now able to furnish it I trust her case will be attended to with the least practicable delay.
Very Respectfully
S. Caldwell
Buffalo N.Y.
April.5.1839
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Patience Green decd.
wid of Russell,
N.Y.
Acts 7 July 38 &c
$22.23 [symbol for cents] per an to 11 Decr. 1845 when she died except 2 years
Payable to Abel Green, Francis Green, Polly Bently, Sally Wiltzey, Lydia H Bivins & Willet Green only children
B.B. Chapman
Canandaigua N.Y.
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Pension Office
Decr. 17.1837
Sir: 
In reply to your letter of the 14 inst: I have to state that you appear to be laboring under a mistake
11 Dec 43 She died
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Elyria Lorain Co Ohio
June 1851
Sir
I herewith enclose you the application of the surviving children of Patience Green widow of Russell Green for the benefits of the act of July 7th 1838.
You will please report to me your decision upon the same
Very Respectfully Yours
B.B. Chapman
Hon. Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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9.125
New York, Albany
Patience Green, decd widow of Russell
Mass
who was a private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 22 Dollars 23 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. & Ends 11 Decr. 1845:
Certificate of Pension issued the 23d day of Decr. 1851 and sent to B.B. Chapman
Canandaigua N.Y.
[Acts of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book W
Vol. 2 Page 76
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June 18, 1910.
Hon. Joseph R. Knowland,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Knowland,
In reply to your letter dated the 15" and received the 17" instant, requesting information for the Rev. John D. Hammond, #2041 Emerson Street, Berkeley, California, I have the honor to advise you that Russel Green was allowed pension on his application executed October 9, 1832, while a resident of Hancock, Massachusetts.
He was born December 27, 1760 at West Greenwich, Rhode Island, and was a resident of Hancock when he enlisted at Lanesborough, Massachusetts June 29, 1780, under Captain David Wheeler, and marched to West Point, where he joined Captain Luke Hitchcock's company in Colonel Ebenezer Sprout's 12th Massachusetts regiment, General Nixon's brigade, and served six months.
In September 1781, he served under Captain William Douglas at Saratoga; twelve days.
He married at Hancock, Massachusetts, in February, 1783, Patience-born March 2, 1764, maiden name not stated.
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There children were:
Abel born July 28, 1784, Francis born October 29, 1786, Russel born November 13, 1789, Sarah born December 14, 1791, Job born October 7, 1795, Willet born October 23, 1799, Polly born April 15, 1802, and Lydia H. born December 17, 1806.
Soldier died at Hancock, Massachusetts, October 6, 1833, his widow Patience died at Clarence, Erie County, New York, December 11, 1845, and her pension was allowed in 1851, (Wid. File No. 21,219) for the benefit of their surviving children; Abel, Francis and Willet Green, Polly Bently, and Sally Wilsey and Lydia H. Bivins.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Rev. War. HW
[seal of Sons of the Revolution] Sons of the Revolution
in the State of New York
Fraunces Tavern
Corner Broad & Pearl Streets
New York CIty
September 22, 1915.
Pension Bureau, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:-
Will you kindly send me the Revolutionary service of Russell Greene, a Private in Captain Hitchcock's Company and Colonel Sprout's Regiment, Massachusetts Troops, and in Captain William Douglas' Company, 1780 and 1781.
Yours very truly,
Henry Russell Drowne
Secretary.
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Jan. 24.1915.
Bureau of Pensions
Gentlemen:
Will you kindly send me the pension record of one Russell Green who was a private, Mass. Continental Line. Placed on Roll Jan. 27, 1834.
I think he enlisted from Lanesborough in 1780.
Also any family data if there is any connected
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He also was a resident of Hancock Mass.
Most Respectfully
Carro C. Croff
Mrs. J.B. Croff
184 East Genesee St
Buffalo, N.Y.
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SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
JAMES R. MANN, ILL., CHAIRMAN
IRVING P. WANGER, PA. WILLIAM M. CALDER, N.Y.
FREDERICK C. STEVENS, MINN. CHARLES G. WASHBURN, MASS.
JOHN J. ESCH, WIS. WILLIAM C. ADAMSON, GA.
CHARLES E. TOWNSEND, MICH. WILLIAM RICHARDSON, ALA.
JAMES KENNEDY, OHIO CHARLES L. BARTLETT, GA.
JOSEPH R. KNOWLAND, CAL. GORDON RUSSELL, TEX.
WILLIAM P. HUBBARD, W. VA. THETUS W. SIMS, TENN.
JAMES M. MILLER, KANS. ANDREW J. PETERS, MASS.
WILLIAM H. STAFFORD, WIS.
MRS. F.A. DONNELLEY, CLERK
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
COMMITTEE ON
INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE,
WASHINGTON, D.C.
June 15, 1910.
Hon. James L. Davenport,
Commissioner of Pensions.
My dear Sir:
I am in receipt of a letter from Rev. John D. Hammond, 2041 Emerson Street, Berkeley, California, reading in part as follows:
"There is a tradition in my wife's family that Russell Greene was a Revolutionary pensioner for many years; that he died in 1834, and that he was a son of General Nathaniel Greene."
Will you kindly send me such data as may be available upon this subject, and greatly oblige,
Very truly yours,
J.R. Knowland
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[Illegible pencil letters at top]

Falls City, Nebraska, September 14th, 1901

Dear Sir:

     I wish information in regard to the service of my grandfathers in the war of the revolution. My paternal grandfather was Thomas Wiltse of the Albany County district, New York State. There were two of his name. One of them enlisted under Robert Van Rensselaer in the 8th Regiment of militia. The other was a Tory [?] from the same district and taken prison at the battle of Mameroneck, or is said to have been, but possibly both traditions refer to the same person and one is false. I should like to the able to determine the truth or falsity of the tradition.

    O[? in pencil]  Russel Green was my maternal grandfather. He enlisted at Lanesboro, Birkshire Co. Mass in 1779, I thinnk. I should be glad to learn what the records say of him.

Yours respectfully,
Jerome Wiltse, Sr.
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[Printed form with handwritten answers]
[left side]
Rev [unreadable]
WIDOW, &c. 

File No. 21219
Patience Green
Widow of
Russell Green
Pri  Rev War

Act March 3d 43 & June 7th 44

Index: Vol. A, Page 291

[Arrangement of 1870.]
[right side] Oct-11-1901
Jerome Wiltse Sr
Falls City Neb.
1910 June 18. Hist to No. Joseph R. Knowland (symbol for cents]
1915 Feby. 2. History to Mrs. J.B. Croff [symbol for cents]
1915 Sept. 27. Hist. to Henry Russell Drowne. [symbol for cents]
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2321
V
Patience Green
N. York.
Let. to S Caldwell, June 11, 1839.
B. B. Chapman
Oct 11 1851.

Act 7 [Unreadable] 1838

V N. York
Patience Green
Let. to Hon. M Fillmore 3. Apl'. 3

Act July 1838
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[On left margin at 90 degrees, apparently a return address; only "NY" legible]

Post mark, only "ALO" (likely Buffalo) "JUNE 4" and "N.Y." legible: possibly 

Hon. James L. Edwards
Comm.  of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
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Buffalo June 4 1839

Dear Sir-

About the time of the adjournment of Congress, I was required to furnish some additional testimony in the case of Mrs. Elizabeth Fairchild widow of a deceased pensioner Nathl Fairchild.

And also in the case of a Patience Green, widow of Russel Green a pensioner [illegible character or two crossed out]

I forthwith furnished the additional evidence and was almost daily enquired of by these aged women, what is the prospect of their claims. Allow me to ask how soon I may give them promise of relief.

Very Respectfully Your Obt Sevt
Saml Caldwell

[In left margin opposite signature, the addressee] Hon. J. L. Edwards
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[Page appears to have been cut off at the top, with writing at right side, perhaps a date]

I Rufus Carpenter of Cheshire in the County of Berkshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts being sixty eight years of age testify that I was a six months man in the Continental service in the Revolutionary in the year A.D. 1780 and while in said service at said time I saw one Russel Green then a soldier in the same service in the Company of Captain Luke Hitchcock belonging to Colonel Ebenezer Sproat's Regiment in the Brigade commanded by General Nixon. The same Russel Green, having this day made his declaration of services by him done in said Revolutionary war before the Honorable Williams R. Walter, I well recollect this same Russel Green has according to my best belief lived in the town of Hancock in said County of Berkshire ever since said Revolutionary war.    Rufus Carpenter

Berkshire ss October 9th 1832 This day the above named Rufus Carpenter subscribed and swore to the truth of the foregoing statement
Before me Calvin Hubbell Justice of the Peace

Berkshire ss Oct 15 1833. I Henry W. Bishop Register of the Court of Probate within and for the County of Berkshire and one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the same County do certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Rufus Carpenter and know him to be a person of truth and entitled to credit.  I further certify that the said Calvin Hubbell has removed from the county of Berkshire and omitted to certify to the credibility of said deponant because at the time he made his certificate above written he did not know that the same was required and that in consequence of this omission and absence of said Hubbell I make this certificate. Henry W. Bishop Justice of the Peace.

[On left margin in pencil] Paper detached prior to June 18, 1910 [Initials?]
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire ss.
I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court being a Court of Record within and for the county of Berkshire do hereby certify that Calvin Hubbell Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was on the 9th day of October AD 1832 a Justice of the Peace in the aforesaid county and I also certify that Henry W. Bishop Esq is Register of the Court of Probate and Justice of the Peace within aforesaid county of Berkshire and that the signatures of the said Calvin Hubbell and Henry W. Bishop [superscript addition "purporting to be theirs"] are genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto  set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this fifteenth day of October A.D. 1833 --

Chas Sedgwick Clerk
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State of Ohio
Lorain County}Ss. I Myron R Keith Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas holden at Elyria in and for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court by the affidavit of Lymon and Benjamin Bivins who are persons entitled to credit That Russell Green was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and was a resident of the town of Hancock Berkshire County in the state of Massachusetts and died in said town of Hancock Berkshire County & state of Massachusetts on the sixth day of October A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three, that he left a widow whose name was Patience Green who died in the township of Clarence in the county of Erie in the state of New York on the Eleventh day of December A.D. Eighteen hundred and forty five and that she had not intermarried but continued the widow of the said Russell Green and that Abel Green, Francis Green, Polly Bently and Sally Wilsey of said Erie county in the state of New York and Willet Green of the state of Michigan and Lydia H. Bivins of the state of Ohio are the only surviving children of the said Patience Green deceased and that said Abel Green who is the oldest child of the said Russell and Patience Green is now upwards of sixty five years of age
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office at Elyria Ohio this Seventeenth day of May in the year of our Lord 1851
MR Keith Clerk
By H Wallace Deputy
The fact that the above named surviving children of Patience Green were the only ones left at her death was omitted through mistake in making out the foregoing Certificate but it is corrected in the foregoing or accompanying Certificate of the Clerk of the Court of the Court of Erie Count N. York where the Declaration of Abel Green was made.
B.B. Chapman of 
Elyria Lorain Co Ohio
To the Comr of Pensions
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State of Ohio | Be it known that before me Bird B. Lorain County| Chapman a Notary Public in and for the count aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths personally appeared Lymon Bevins a resident of the township of Amherst in the said county aged forty three - years who being first sworm according to to law doth on his oath say that he was formerly personally and intimately acquainted with Patience Green deceased and late of Clarence Erie County [superscript] and State of New York and widow of Russell Green and who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States that he is alos and has been for twenty years last past been intimately acquainted with Abel Green a resident of said town of Clarence and who is the eldest child of said Russel and Patience Green that said Abel Green had a daughter named Patience Green with whom this affiant was personally acquainted, that said Patience Green daughter of said Abel died in the aforesaid if Clarence in June in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight and that she was the granddaughter of the aforesaid Russell and Patience Green and their children and at the time of her death was a person of twenty years of age and this affiant remembers  of having seen within the past year a family record  purporting to have been one kept in the possession of said Abel Green giving the date of the births of the aforesaid Russell and Patience Green and their child and which he understood at the time was in the handwriting of said Patience Green daughter of said Abel Green and which record was made from one formerly kept by said Russell and Patience Green. Affiant married one of the daughters of said Russell and Patience Green which will in part account for his particular acquaintance with them and their family.

Sworn to and subscribed the 19th Lymon Bivins day of November A.D. 1851 before me and I do certify that said Lymon Bivins is a person entitled to credit and that the interlineation between the words "county" and "and" was made prior to the exucstion of the above by the affiant.

Bird B. Chapman Notary Public
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Town Clerk of Hancock Mass concerning Russell Greene
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Mr. B. B. Chapman
Dear Sir, 
Your letter of the 13th of Dec. 1850 is received And agreeably to your request I have carefully examined the Records of Marriages & Publishments & Births & Deaths and find nothing there recorded in relation to Russel Green & wife or of any of his numerous family with many of whom I was well acquainted.  [a sentence is crossed out here, which began "I have also examined"] The people here were very careless [crossed out "about"] family, the Clerks recorded only such facts as were presents to them. Mr. Robert Gardner about whom you wrote & also his wife has been dead several years.  Elder Rogers, the Baptist Minister has been dead may [sic] years & his family all removed to other parts.
I can think of no person in town at present that would be likely to furnish you with the information you desire.
Thus nothing so far.
Yours very respectfully,
C. Eldridge T. Clerk of Hancock Mass
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State of New York | ss On this twentienth day of June AD Erie County| One thousand Eight hundred and fifty one personally appeared before the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the County and State aforesaid Alanson Green a resident of the township of Amherst in said Erie County aged forty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he was born in the town of Hancock Berkshire County and State of Massachusetts where from his earlier rememberance he was personally acquainted with Russell Green and his wife Patience Green that said Russell Green died in said town of Hancock Berkshire County and State of Massachusetts in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty three and was at the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under act of June 7th 1832 and at his death left a widow the said Patience Green to whom he was married in said town of Hancock Berkshire County and State of Massachusetts over sixty eight years ago and this deponent has always been informed and verily believes that after the death of the said Russell and in the year following his widow the said Patience moved from said town of Hancock into the aforesaid County of Erie and State of New York where she continued to reside and remain the widow of the said Russell Green until her death which took place in the township of Clarence in said Erie County on the Eleventh day of December in the year Eighteen hundred hundred forty five and at her deat [sic] left as her only  surviving children the following persons to wit Abel Green, Francis Green, Polly Bently and Sally Wiltsey residents of said County of Erie and State of New York and Lydia H. Bivins of Lorain Count in the State of Ohio and Willet Green of Washtenaw County in the Stte of Michigan. That this deponent
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is the son of Abel Green who was the eldest child of the said Russell Green and Patience Green and that said Abel Green is nearly twenty years older than this deponent and deponent has always understood from his grandmother the said Patience Green that she was married over one year before the birth of the said Abel their eldest child who will be sixty seven years of age on the 28th day of July next. 

Alanson Green

Subscribed and sworn to before me, open court this day and year above written. 
C. Griffin(?) Special (?) Dept. Clerk of Erie County
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State of New York| ss On this 20th day of June Erie County?? A.D. One Thousand Eight hundred and fifty one before the Court of Oyer and Terminer of the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Alvin Bently a resident of the townshipof Amherst in said Erie County and state of New York aged fifty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he was born in the town of Hancock Berkshire Count in the state of Massachusetts where from his childhood he was acquainted with Russell Green and his wife Patience and their family that said Russell Green died in said town of Hancock Berkshire County Massachusetts in the year A.D. Eighteen hundred and thirty three and was at the time of this death a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the Law of Congress passed in June 1832 and that at his death left a widow the said Patience Green who in the year following his death moved from said state of Massachusetts into same County of Erie and State of New York where she continued to reside until her death which took place in said Erie County on the Eleventh day of December in the year Eighteen hundred and forty five and was a widow and unmarried at her death and left as her only surviving children to wit Abel Green, Francis Green, Polly Bently, and Sally Wiltsey residents of said Erie County Lydia H. Bivins a resident of Lorain County and Willet Green of Washtenaw County Michigan. Deponent has been intimately acquainted with Abel Green the eldest child of the said Patience and Russell Green for many years and he has always understood from the said Abel that he was upwards of ten years older than deponent and deponent has understood from the same Russell and Patience Green that they
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were married in the town of Hancock in the County of Berkshire & state of Massachusetts about (?) the close of the Revolutionary War. [Smudged "Alvin"}
Alvin Bentley
Subscribed and sworn to before me in open court the day and year above written C Griffin Sp... (?) Dep Clerk of Erie Co.
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State of New York, Erie County

At a session of the Court of Oyer and Terminer held at Buffalo in and for said country of Erie and state of New York on the twentieth day of June AD 1851 personally appeared in open Court Abel Green of said County of Erie and a credible person and on oath made & subscribed his declaration for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and permissions to certain widows".  Also in open court came Alonson Green and Alvin Bently resident of said Erie Country & persons entitle to credit & made & subscribed their affidavit touching said application to the court after investigating the matter do declare their opinion that Russell Green was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States  under act of June 7th 1832 and died in Berkshire County Massachusetts in the year of AD 1833. Left a widow whose name was Patience Greene to whom he was married in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty-three that she died in Erie County on the Eleventh Day of December AD Eighteen hundred fourth-five and was a widow at her death & left as her only surviving children Abel Green, Francis Green, Polly Bently, Sally Wiltsey residents of said Erie County and Lydia H. Bivens a resident of Lorain County Ohio and Willet Green of Washtenaw County Michigan and it
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