Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13,328, William R Greene, R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
RI

Greene, William R.
or Green,
Esther

NUMBER
W.13.328

CONTENTS
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Greene, William R.
R.I. W13328
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Hopkinton March the 21st AD 1781

These may Certify all Persons whom it may Concern that this Day appeared William Rathbun Greene son of Capt William Greene of Westerly and Esther Johnson Daughter of Nathaniel Johnson Now Residing in Hopkinton both in King County State of Rhode Island & were joined together in the Honorable Estate Marriage by me

Father Clarke Elder
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2476
Rhode Island

Esther Greene widow of William R. Greene decd [deceased] who died on the 31st January 1837 of Washington Co. [County] in the State of RI who was a Private in the Compy. [company] commanded by Captain Gavit of the Regt [Regiment] commanded by Col. [Colonel] Noyes in the R.I. line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of R. Island at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 31st January 1837

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Jany. [January] 1839 and sent Hon. E. Haley Ho. of Reps. [House of Representatives]

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1838 $200.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '39, $40.00
$240.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d & joint resolution of July 8 '38}

Recorded by D. D. Addison Clerk,
Book A Vol. 2d. Page 89
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27504
Rhode Island

William R. Greene of Westerly in the State of RI who was a private in the Comp [company] commanded by Captain Gavit of the Regimt [Regiment] commanded by Colo. [Colonel] Noyes in the R.I. line for 24 months pri [private]

Inscribed on the Roll of RI. at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of July 1834 and sent Wm. P. Newell Esqr. Kingston RI.

Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834. $240
Semi-annual allowance ending 4th Sep $40
$280

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by George Taylor Clerk,
Book E Vol. 2 Page 11


let 18 Jan 1838 to N. F. Dixon
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Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June seventh A.D. 1832.
State of Rhode Island
County of Washington [flourish bracket] ss.

On this 7th day of June 1834, personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of Probate of the Town of Charlestown in said County of Washington, now sitting in said town William R. Green [Greene] a resident of Westerly in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island, aged seventy four 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 1832, that by reason of old age & the loss of memory he cannot detail the dates & many other particulars of his services, yet according to the best of his knowledge & recollection, he entered the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution under the following named officers & served as herein stated -

That is to say - In December 1775 he was enrolled in the second company of militia in said Town of Westerly, then, according to his recollection, under the command of Capt. John Gavit, now deceased, whose Lieutenant was Stephen Saunders - Between the time he became a member of said company, in Decr. 1775, and Decr. 1776, he was often detached from the Company under one or more of its officers performed numerous terms of service in Col. Noyes' Regt. from fifteen to thirty days each, amounting in the aggregate to not less than three months, in guarding on the Southern Shores of said town of Westerly the inhabitants & their property against the incursions of the enemy from the sea.

The first of Decr. 1776, William Green [Greene], the father of this declarant, then being a private soldier of the militia in said Westerly & drafted for a tour of duty of one month, this declarant took his father's place and as his substitute performed his said tour of service guarding against the enemy at Point Judith in said county of Washington in Col. Noyes' Regt. The names of the company officers in this months service he has forgotten [? and guarded on the Hazard House as cased].

Between the last of Decr. 1776 & the last of Decr. 1777, he was divers [diverse] times drafted from said second company for divers [diverse] tours of service, of from fifteen to thirty days each, amounting in all to, at the least, five months, which he served out guarding against the enemy on the Southern Shores of said Westerly, under the officers of said company, who, he thinks, were during that period, Gavit Cap., Saunders
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Lieut Bliver Ensign, in Col. Noyes' Regt and under a draft from said company he served one other month on guard at Point Judith in South Kingstown in said county in the Spring of 1777 in Col. Noyes' Regt. and was guarding at the Hazard House.

Between Decr. 1777 & the last of Decr. 1778 he was many time drafted from said company for periods of service of fifteen & thirty days each amounting in all to full six months, which he served out under the officers of said company in Col Noyes' Regt. guarding the shores of said Westerly against the enemy. In August AD 1778, he was drafted from said company & marched, he thinks under Captn. Gavit, by the way of Bissell's Mills & Bristol to [illegible] Island of R Island, when he served thirty days for Sullivan's expedition in Col. Noye's [Noyes'] Regt.

Between Decr. 1778 & the last of Decr. 1779, he was divers [diverse] times drafted from said company for divers [diverse] tours of service of from fifteen to thirty days each, which amounted in the aggregate to not less than five months which he served out under the [illegible] officers of said company & in Col Noye's [Noyes'] Regt, guarding against the enemy on the Southern Shores of said Westerly. Between Decr. 1779 & the last of Decr. 1780, he performed under draft from said company for towers [tours] of service of from fifteen to thirty days each the least four months served watching & guarding against the enemy on the Shores of said Westerly under the [illegible] officers of said company & in Col. Noye's [Noyes'] Regt. and within the same periods in this month of August 1780 he was [illegible] in said company to the Four Corners, near the village of Wickford in North Kingstown in said county of Washington, under, he thinks, Capt Bliver in which he served fifteen days under Lieut Col. Maxson, when he was discharged & returned home to said Westerly; & there during the year 1781, when he was still a private of said second company, he was often detached thence from under the officers thereof & ordered to the southern  Shores of said Westerly & then stationed divers [diverse] periods of ten to thirty days each amounting in all during that year 1782 to not less than three months which he faithfully served against the enemy in Col. Noyes Regt.
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In his service on the shores of said Westerly his principal place of rendezvous was on Noye's Neck & in guarding they ranged from Watch Hill Point round to the Charlestown line. all his said services were in the grade of a private.

And the said William R. Green [Greene] declares that he faithfully performed all the aforementioned periods of service; and he further declares that he was, as he has always been informed by his parents that he was born in said town of Westerly on the 22d of Decr 1759, where from the time of his birth to the present time he has resided, except from 1791 to 1795, when he resided in the adjacent town of Charlestown;

but has been told by his parents that the [illegible] of his birth that he knows of no record of his birth or age
is suggested on the records of the town of Westerly, that he does not remember even to [illegible] any written discharge from any of his service or, [illegible] that he was verbally discharged therefrom by his commanding officers; that he has no documentary evidence of any of his said services; that he is not acquainted with any clergyman in his county or neighbourhood, but refers to Christopher Rathbon & Charles C. Greene (as well as to other accompanying depositions) who are his neighbours of this Town of Westerly who testify as to his character & their belief that he was a soldier 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.

Taken, Subscribed, and Sworn to in Open Court
Witness
Samuel Stanton P. Clk

William R. Greene


We Christopher Rathbon & Charles K. Greene, of Westerly, County of Washington, do hereby certify & state we are well acquainted with William R. Greene, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy four years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion

Taken, Subscribed, and Sworn to in Open Court
Witness - Samuel Stanton P. Clk

Christopher Rathbon
Charles R. Green

And the said court do hereby declare that they are
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well acquainted with the afsaid [aforesaid] William R. Green [Greene] who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that they consider him a person of truth and declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter & after putting the investigations presented by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states. And the court further certify that it appears to them that Christopher Rathbun & Charles K. Greene who have signed the preceeding [preceding] certificate on said court of said Town of Westerly, are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Samuel Stanton Clerk of the Court of Probate within & for the Town of Charlestown do hereby Certify that the preceeding [preceding] contents of this Sheet of paper Embrace the original proceedings of the aforesaid Court in the Matter of the application of W. R. Greene for a Pension.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this office this 7th day of June 1834.

Samuel Stanton P. Clk.
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Samuel Champlin of Westerly in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island on oath deposeth & saith, that he is seventy five years of age, that he is well acquainted with William R. Green [Greene] of said Westerly and was so acquainted with him in the revolutionary war, he the said Green [Greene] belonged to a company of the militia in said town of Westerly commanded by Capt. John Gavit & when this deponent was not abroad out of the county in the service, he was [illegible] to the service in said company & was frequently called into the service in said company on the shores of said Westerly, particularly on Noye's Neck & remembers the said Green [Greene] then often in the service of Col. Noye's [Noyes'] Regt. at different periods of the revolution against the enemy; but the particular periods or amount of the said Green's [Greene's] service he is not at this period able to state, but he is satisfied & his services continued through the revolution & that they were any considerable

Samuel Champlin
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State of Rhode Island
Washington County SS.
Town of Westerly June 13th 1834

Personally appeared before me Samuel Champlin, who before me gave & subscribed the preceeding [preceding] deposition & was by me thereto fully sworn according to law:

I further certify that the said Champlin is known to me that he is a credible witness & that his testimony is entitled to credit.

Benjamin Gavit Justice Peace
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Joseph Saunders of Westerly in the County of Washington & state of Rhode Island deposeth & saith, that he is seventy six years of age, that from his birth to the present time he has resided in said town of Westerly & from his earliest recollection has been intimately acquainted with William R Greene of said Westerly, who has from his birth lived a neighbour of this deponent; that during the war of the Revolution this deponent & the said Greene belonged to a company of the militia in the town of Westerly commanded by Capt John Gavit and under drafts on detachments from said company he well remembers that he & the said Greene from year to year during the war under said Captain & the other officers of said company performed divers [diverse] tours of service together guarding against the enemy on the shores of said Westerly, of from fifteen to thirty days at a time; the dates of the aforementioned tours their [illegible] on aggregate, this deponents memory will not at this time enable him to state, but he knows those tours were [frequent?] from the year 1776 to the close of the Revolution, & particularly which the enemy [illegible] the guard of Rhode Island, this deponent also remembers, that the said Greene was often
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detached or drafted to guard on said shores of Westerly when this deponant [deponent] did not serve with him - The deponant [deponent] also remembers that he & the said Greene served one tour together of a month on [illegible] on Point Judith in South Kingstown in the County of Washington, he thinks in 1777. He also knows that the said Greene served on the Island of Rhode Island at the time of Sullivan's Expedition, in the Summer or fall, he thinks, of 1778, -

He also remembers that he & the said Greene were ordered in said company & Served on the Four corners, so called near the village of Wickford in said county of Washington in the summer of 1779, or 1780, how long this latter service was he is not now able to state - The aforementioned services on the Shores of Westerly, at Point Judith for R. Island, was in Col. Noye's [Noyes'] Regt. but he does not remember who commanded the Regt. at the Four Corners.

Joseph Saunders


State of Rhode Island - Washington County SS. Town of Westerly, June 4th, 1834 - Personally came Joseph
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Saunders the above named deponent, who before me gave & subscribed the preceeding [preceding] deposition & was by me duly sworn to the same according to law,

do certify that the said Saunders is personally well known to me, that he is a person of veracity & that his testimony is entitled to credit

Benjamin Gavit Justice Peace


Sanford Noyes of Westerly in the County of Washington & State of R Island on oath deposeth & saith, that he is seventy three years of age; that he knows said Wm R Greene of said Westerly, was a private in Capt John Gavit's company of the militia during the war of the Revolution, that said company during several years of the Revolution, particularly during the period the enemy occupied the Island of R. Island, was constantly in the service guarding against the enemy principally on the shores of said Westerly, one half of the company serving alternately from fifteen to thirty days at a time, and though this deponent cannot detail the services of the said Greene, yet he has not doubt that he the said Greene
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regularly performed his tours of service against the enemy during the war; several of which the deponent [illegible] remember, though the services of the company were not so constant after the enemy evacuated the Island of R. Island, yet they continued to be considerable to the close of the Revolution.

The reason why this deponent cannot detail specifically the services of his own knowledge of all the members of the company is, that he was detached from the company & served on a guard of thirteen [illegible] & a part from the rest of the company as well as from the said Greene & said company belonged to Col. Noye's [Noyes'] Regt.

Sanford Noyes


State of Rhode Island Washington County ss. Town of Westerly, June 7th, 1834

Personally came Sanford Noyes the above named deponent & gave & subscribed before me the preceeding [preceding] deposition given by me there to duly sworn according to law - I also certify that I am well acquainted with the said Noyes - that he is a respectable & credible person & that his testimony is entitled to credit.

Benjamin Gavit Justice Peace
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31285
William R. Green [Greene] of Westerly RI

Admitted
24 Months Private
Cap Gavit Colo. Noyes

Wm. P. Newell Esqr.
Kingston RI
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Samuel Brown of Westerly in the state of Rhode Island on oath deposeth & saith, that he is Eighty years of age, that he was acquainted with William R. Green [Greene] of said Westerly during the war of the Revolution & has lived within a few miles of the said Green [Greene] ever since the revolution, that this deponent served several months against the enemy in the Revolutionary war at Point Judith in South Kingstown in said State in Col. Noye's [Noyes'] Regt. and remembers that the said Green [Greene] served there in said Regt. at the same time this deponent served there, he thinks in Capt. John Gavit's company of the militia. This deponent also performed divers [diverse] tours of service of from fifteen to thirty days each in
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the militia against the enemy is said Westerly from year to year during the Revolutionary war in Col. Noy's [Noyes'] Regt. and well remembers that the said Green [Greene] was much in the same service & though this deponent cannot now recollect the particular periods of the said Green's [Greene's] Services or the aggregate amount of them; yet he recollects [no one more?] in the service on the Shores of said Westerly guarding against the Enemy than the said Green [Greene] & can safely say the said Green [Greene] performed much service there in the militia under Col. Noyes during the Revolutionary War.

Saml Brown


State of Rhode Island
Washington SS. Town of Westerly
April 25th 1834
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Samuel Brown the abovenamed deponent, who before me gave & subscribed the preceeding [preceding] deposition & was by me duly sworn thereto according to law - I further certify that the said Brow nis personally known to me that he is a credible witness & that his said deposition is entitled to credit.

Jed. W. Knight Justice of the Peace



State of Rhode Island
Washington County Ss.

I Samuel Helme Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County and State Aforesaid do hereby certify that Jedediah W. Knight was on the Twenty fifth day of April 1834 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Commissioned & qualified and that Signature annexed to the preceeding [preceding] Certificate regarding Samuel Brown I believe to be the proper hand Writing of the said Jedediah W Knight and that Benajah Gavit was on the Seventh and thirteenth days of June 1834 a Justice of the Peace on and for said County duly Commissioned and Qualified & those Signatures annexed to the preceding Certificates regarding Sanford Noyes, Joseph Saunders and Samuel Champlin I believe to be the proper hand Writing of the said Benajah Gavit

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the Seal of said Court of Common pleas this Sixteenth day of June AD 1834

Sam. Helme Clk
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Washington ss. State of Rhode Island &c

On this 10th day of June - 1837 personally appeared before Israel Chapman, Esquire, a justice of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the County of Washington, Esther Greene, a resident of Westerly, in the County & state aforesaid, who, before her marriage, was Esther Johnson, now aged seventy six years, who being duly sworn  according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision, made by the act of Congress, passed July 4th 1836, that she is the widow of William R. Greene, late of said Westerly, now deceased, who was a soldier of the revolution, in the military services of the United States. That is to say, the said William R. Greene, as he in his life time, soon after she was married to him & separately afterwards, was to the time of his decease, told this declarant, & she likewise he told her the truth, in the year 1775, he was enrolled a private in the second company of militia in said Town of Westerly, then & most of the period of the revolution commanded by Capt. John Gavit who was succeeded in the command thereof in 1780 or 1781, by Capt [illegible Bussey?] & continued to be enrolled as a private of said Company to the end of war of the revolution; & from the time he was first enrolled in the company in 1775, to the close or near the close of the revolution, he performed [guard?] of the [illegible] terms of service, mostly under drafts from said company, lived some times as a substitute for his [father?] the William Greene, who was also liable to do
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revolutionary service in said company, for the most part in Col. Noye's [Noyes'] Regm from ten to thirty days each against the enemy, on the shores of said Westerly, at Point Judith, Boston Neck & Wickford in said county of Washington & also Bristol, Tivertown [Tiverton] & in the Island of Rhode Island in the counties of Bristol & Newport, amounting in all to more than two years service; and this declarant says that he distinctly remembers, that the said William R Greene between the spring of 1781, & the close of the year 1872, was various times ordered under the officers of the aforesaid company into the service against the enemy, on the shores of said Westerly & the Island of Rhode Island, for periods of fifteen to thirty days, each, and that when he returned home he informed her, she believes, correctly, that he served those periods [illegible] places against the enemy: But, was much as the said William R Greene applied for & drew a pension for his aforesaid services during his life under the act of Congress June 1832, this declarant refers the department to his declaration & the evidence accompanying it in the pension office, in support of his claims for a pension of the same amount of the [illegible] by the said William R. Greene, which he thinks was eighty dollars per annum.

And the said Esther Greene says, that she said William R. Greene, when he performed his aforesaid services, resided in said Westerly; that She has no documentary evidence of said services. She further declares
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that she was married to the said William R. Greene, on the twenty first day of March 1781, in Hopkinton in the aforesaid county of Washington, by Joshua Clark [Clarke], Elder, as may be seen by the original certificate of said marriage, which from the time of its date to the present time has remained in possession of this declarant and which will be herewith transmitted to the Pension Office.

She further declares, that her husband, the said William R. Greene died on the 31st day of January 1837 at said Westerly & that she has remained a widow every since that period, as will now fully appear by reference to the [illegible] hereto annexed.

Witness
Israel Chapman

Esther Green [Greene]
x Her Mark

Sworn & subscribed on the day & year first above written before me.

I also certify that the aforesaid applicant Esther Greene, is known to me; that she is a person of veracity & in my opinion her testimony & her preceeding [preceding] declaration are entitled to credit and that I have taken the preceeding [preceding] declaration of the said Esther Greene at her residence in said Westerly, because by reason of her infirm health, she was not able to go abroad to attend a court of record.

Israel Chapman
Justis [Justice] of the Court of Com Pleas
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No V3100

Esther Greene
Rhode Island
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Charles K. Greene of Westerly in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island on oath testifies & says, that he is thirty three years of age; that this deponent lived in the same house in said town of Westerly with the late William R. Greene of sd [said] Westerly, at the time of his decease which this deponent knows to have occurred on the 31st day of January AD 1837. This deponent further says that Esther Greene of said Westerly, who resides with this deponent, was the wife of the said William R. Greene, at the time of his decease, & has ever since the period of the said William R's decease, remained his widow. This deponent also says he is the son of the said William R. Greene & Esther Greene.

Charles R. Greene


Washington Ss.
State of Rhode Island &c.
Westerly August 19th 1837

Personally appeared the above named Charles K. Greene, who before me gave & subscribed the preceding deposition & was by me thereunto duly sworn according to law. I further certify that the above deponent is well known to me, that he is a credible witness, & that his testimony & his preceding deposition are entitled to credit

Nathan F. Dixon Jr. Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island &c.
Washington Sc.

I Asa Potter Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Washington aforesaid, being a Court of Record, do hereby certify that Israel Chapman whose signature is subscribed to the certificates regarding Esther Green [Greene] & Nathaniel Sheffield is & was on the 10th June 1837 one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in the County aforesaid duly elected, commissioned and qualified according to Law, fully authorized to act in his said capacity, & that his signature aforewritten is genuine -

I further certify that Jedediah W. Knight was on the 10th day of June A.D. 1837 a Justice of the Peace in the town of Westerly in the County aforesaid duly elected, commissioned & qualified according to law, fully authorized to act in his said capacity, & his signature aforewritten is genuine.

I further certify that Nathan F. Dixon Jr. is & was on the 19th day of August 1837 a Justice of the Peace in the aforesaid town of Westerly duly elected, commissioned & qualified according to law fully authorized to act in his said capacity; & that his signature aforewritten is genuine.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 12th day of September in the year 1837 -

Asa Potter Clk
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No: 13328
Esther Greene
Widow of William R Green
Pri Rev War

Act: July 4th 36
Index: - Vol. a, Page 289

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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V
Esther Greene
Rhode Island

Rejected
See letter 18th Jan.
1838 to N. F. Dixon jr.

husband died after passage of act of 4 July 1836.
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Nathaniel Sheffield of Westerly in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island on oath saith he is fifty [illegible] years of age; that this deponent was well acquainted with William R. Greene late of said Westerly deceased, & lived in the same neighbourhood with the said William R at the time of his decease & attend [attended] on his when he died & knows that the said Greene died on the 31st day of Jany. 1837 at said Westerly. This deponent further says, he is well acquainted with Esther Greene of said Westerly who was the wife of the said William R Greene at the time of his decease & who has remained the widow of the said W R. ever since the period of his decease.

Nathaniel Sheffield


Washington ss. State of Rhode Island &c
June 10th 1837

Personally appeared the above named deponent, who before me gave & subscribed the preceding deposition & was by me thereto duly
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sworn according to law. I further certify that the said deponent Nathaniel Sheffield is well known to me, that he is a  credible witness, & that his testimony & his preceeding [preceding] depositions are entitled to credit.

Israel Chapman
Just of the Court of Com Plees [Pleas]
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Samuel Brown of Westerly in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, on Oath deposeth and saith, that he is eighty four years of age; that from early life he was well acquainted with William R. Green [Greene] late of said Westerly deceased and knows that the said Green [Greene] during the War of the Revolution, was a private in the second Company of Militia in said Town of Westerly, commanded a part of the time by Capt Gavit and a part of the time by Capt Berry, and that said Green [Greene] performed in said Company, divers [diverse] Revolutionary services and this deponent particularly remembers that the said Green [Greene] performed under the said Capt Berry a term of thirty days of service against the Enemy on the shores of said Westerly in the fall of 1781 in Col Noyes' Regiment where this deponent service at the same time under Capt Pendelton

Saml Brown


State of Rhode Island
Washington Sc. Westerly June 10th 1837

Personally appeared the above named deponent Samuel Brown, who before me gave and subscribed the preceding Deposition and was by me thereto duly sworn.  I also certify that the said Brown is well known to me, that he is creditable witness and that his testimony and his preceding Deposition are entitled to credit.

Jed W. Knight Justice of the Peace
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Esther Green [Greene]
wid of
Previously entered
see No 3100

William E Green [Greene]
R.I.

Married 1781
died 1837
Act July 4 1836

Allow $80 per ann from Jan 31. 1837


Recd 23d Oct '37

Hon. E Haley
HOR [House of Representatives]
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Declaration.

In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of July 4, 1836; and of the joint act or resolution of Congress passed July 7, 1838.

State of Rhode Island
Washington County [flourish bracket] ss.
On this 19th day of December A.D. 1838, personally appeared before George D. Cross Esq. one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, being a Court of Record and having a Clerk & seal, Esther Greene a resident of Westerly in the County of Washington aforesaid, aged seventy eight years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836, and the joint act or resolution of Congress passed July 7, 1838, that she is the widow of William R Greene late of said Westerly deceased, that her husband (the said William) was a pensioner of the United States under the act of June 1832, and needed a pension of Eighty dollars, or thereabouts, per annum. -

She further declares that she was married to the said William R Greene on the Twenty first day of March, seventeen hundred & eighty one [1781], by Elder Joshua Clark [Clarke], that her husband (the aforesaid William R Greene) died on the thirty first day of January, eighteen hundred & thirty seven [1837], and that she has remained a widower since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.

Esther Greene
+ her mark

In presence of
George D Cross
Saml W Wood
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The within declaration sworn to and subscribed by the within named Esther Greene on this 19th day of December 1838, before me, and I certify that said Esther is a credible person and that her testimony is entitled to credit. And I further certify that she is by reason of bodily infirmity, unable to attend the Court of Common Pleas within named, at the usual place of holding the same.

Test. George D Cross Justice Court of Common Pleas
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William York of Westerly in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island, being duly cautioned and sworn, deposeth and saith, that he is fifty eight years of age; that he has always been well acquainted with William R. Green [Greene] late of said Westerly from his youth to the time of said Green's [Greene's] death; that he died one year ago last winter and according to the best of deponents recollection on the last of January; that he was at said Green's [Greene's] home at the time of his death and assisted in laying him out. He further says that he is well acquainted with Esther Green [Greene] the widow of said William R. Greene [Greene], and has been acquainted with her from his Childhood; that the said William and Esther had a large family of Children, the oldest of whom William R. Green [Greene] Junr [Junior] would now if living be (in the opinion of the deponent) upwards of fifty five years old; that the said William R. Green [Greene] Jun [Junior] and deponent were boys together and was (as deponent thinks) about two years younger than himself; that the said Esther Green [Greene] now resides in Westerly aforesaid, and has remained a widow since the death of the said William R. Greene as deponent veryly [verily] believes and further deponent saith not.

William York


State of Rhode Island
County of Washington [flourish bracket] ss. December 18, 1838.

Personally appeared William York above named who gave and subscribed the preceeding [preceding] deposition and made solemn oath to the to the truth of the same according to Law.

I further certify that said William York is well known to me, that he is a person of veracity, and that his said deposition is entitled to credit

Jed. W. Knight Justice of the Peace
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Job B. Clark of Hopkinton in the County of Washington and State of Rhode Island being duly cautioned & sworn, 
testifieth and saith the he is seventy two years of age; that he is well acquainted with Esther Greene of Westerly in the County aforesaid widow of William R. Greene late of said Westerly deceased, and has been so acquainted for many years, that said Esther's maiden name was Esther Johnson, and where a young woman she resided in his Father's family, and was married there to William R. Greene by deponents father, Joshua Clarke, now deceased, who was an Elder of a Baptist Church in said Hopkinton; this deponent was present at the marriage, which took place, according to his best recollection, in the last of the winter or first of the spring of the year 1781; that the said William R. Greene died in said Westerly as this deponent is informed, and believes about two years ago; that said William and Esther had a number of Children; and that said Esther has resided in said Westerly since the decease of her said Husband, and has not since married, but now remains the widow of said William R. Greene, as this deponent believes

Job B. Clarke


State of Rhode Island
County of Washington [flourish bracket] ss. December 19th 1838
Personally appeared Job B. Clarke above named who gave and subscribed the preceeding [preceding] deposition and made solemn oath to the truth of the same marriage according to law.

I also certify that the above named Job B. Clarke Esqr. is well known to me, that he is a person of veracity, and that his said deposition is entitled to credit.

Jed. W. Knight Justice of the Peace
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Hopkinton March the 21st AD One thousand seven hundred and Eighty One [1781]

These may Certify all persons whom it may concern that this day appeared William Rathbun Greene son of Capt William Greene of Westerly and Esther John daughter of Nathaniel Johnson now Residing in Hopkinton both in [Washington?] County State of Rhode Island and were joined together in the honourable Estate of Marriage

By me Joshua Clake [Clarke] Elder.
Entered. March the 20th AD 1782.

[illegible] Joseph Crandal Town Clerk

State of Rhode Island
Washington County [flourish bracket] Sc. Westerly December 19h AD 1838.

I Jesse Maxson Clerk of the Town of Westerly in the County of Washington aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that the above is a true Coppy [copy] of the Record, with the exception of the dates of the year which is Expressed on the Record in [illegible] figures as follows "AD 1781"
Certified by Jesse Maxson Town Clerk

I Jesse Maxson abovenamed depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the Town of Westerly above mentioned and that the above is a true Exhact [exact] [illegible] from the Records of said Town as Certified by me
Attest Jesse Maxson Town Clerk

Sworn to before me
Jed W. Knight Justice of the Peace
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State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations
Washington Sc Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas December 20th AD 1838

I hereby Certify that George D Cross Esqr is one of the Justices of the Court of Common pleas for the County aforesaid and that the foregoing declaration of Esther Green [Greene] is Genuine, I also Certify that Jedediah W Knight Esqr is one of the Justices of the Peace for the Town of Westerly in the County aforesaid and that the foregoing Signatures purporting to be his and attached to the deposition of William York Job B Clarke and also to the certificate of Jesse Maxon are Genuine

In testimony where of I have here unto Set my hand and the Seal of the Court the Day and Year above written

Matthew Waite Clk
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J. L. Edwards Esqr.
Commissr. of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Westerly R. Island October 23d 1837

Mr. J. L. Edwards.
Sir,

I find among the papers of the late William P. Newell Esqr of South Kingstown, a communication from the department, stating that the case of Bridget George of Charlestown pension applicant, had been filed with suspended cases, & that further proof of the marriage was necessary. Herewith I send the depositions of Elizabeth Primus & Mary Champlin. I also send the declaration & evidence in the case of the widow Esther Green [Greene] of Westerly. If the evidence in these cases are satisfactory & sufficient, by forwarding to me the certificates, you will oblige your obt. servant.

Nathan F. Dixon Jr

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