Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 3982, John Green, Green Mountain Bays Mass. New York
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Service
Green Mountain Boys
Mass
New York

Green, John
Sarah

Number
W.3982

Contents
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3524

Ohio, Pittsburgh Agency

John Green
of Geauga in the State of Ohio 
who was a Private in the Company commanded
by Captain Baldwin of the Regt. commanded 
by Col. Warner in the Massachusetts
line for 2 years from 1776


Inscribed on the Roll of Pittsburgh Agency
at the rate of 80 Dollars per annum 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of December 1832
and sent to Paine and Phelps, Chardon, O

Arrears to 4th of Sept.  1832  120-
Semi-anl, allowance ending 4 March 1833   40

$ 160

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk,
Book D Vol. 2  Page 132

W.D. McBride  Mar 17/54
W.D McBride April 21/55
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11777

Ohio Cleveland

Sarah Green deceased

widow of John Green
who died on the 31 March 1837
of    in the State of 
who was a private in the    commanded
by Captain     of the   Commanded
by      in the Revolution
line for 2 years

Inscribed on the Roll of Cleveland
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents
per annum to commence on the 31st day of March 1837.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of August 1855.  and Sent to 
W.D. McBride
Mansfield

{Revolutionary Claim,}
{Act July 7, 1838}

Recorded by G. T. Gettes Clerk
Book D  Vol. [A? or 1?]  Page 389
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John Green
Pension Declaration
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The State of Ohio
Geauga County. Ss
On this tenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before E. Lane, J. C. Wright, J Collett Judges of the Supreme Court now sitting John Green a resident of the town of Concord in the county of Geauga and state as aforesaid aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his own oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. 

That this deponent entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served in the manner and at the times herein after set forth that in the spring of 1776 he enlisted in the Massachusetts state line of troops of Lanesborough in the county of Berkshire in said state under Colonel Seth Warner for the term of nine months. That soon after his enlistment, the army commenced its movements and marched through the state of Vermont crossed Lake Champlain and continued marching until they arrived at St. John's in the province of Upper Canada. That the army remained here some two or three days when they again commenced marching and then their next place of encampment was at Montreal, here they stopped some three or four days weeks, and until the English Army received a reinforcement from Quebec, when they were compelled by superiority of numbers to retreat back to St. John, here they encamped but it was of that duration ere the small pox and some other disease broke out in the army and carried off nearby one half of their number  - - those that survived marched down
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down to fort Ticonderoga in the State of New York situated on Lake Champlin [Champlain], here he remained some length of time and were finally discharged at this place and according to the best recollection of this deponent it was in the month of November in the fall of 1776. That for the services rendered in this campaign he was paid off in Continental money-- and from which he never realized any thing either of profit to himself or advantage to his family.
And this deponent further says that after his leaving the army at Fort Ticonderoga he returned home to his native town of Lanesborough that while home the Indians of the tribe of "Cog no was goes" residing in Vermont became turbulent and threatened the inhabitants of that state with destruction. That this deponent was one of a party of volunteers that was raised at Lanesborough for the purpose of quelling the Indians, and that he marched into Vermont in company with the rest twice for that purpose and never received any compensation for the same.
That this deponent in the month of January in the year 1777 left Lanesborough and went to Albany in the State of New York and while there enlisted in the state troops for the term of three months under the command of Captain Baldwin who had charge of a company of Volunteer Rangers. That during his stay in Albany he kept a garrison and that the Lieutenant's name of
said garrison was Van Buren who as this deponent believes was a Dutchman- that after serving his said term of three months he was discharged by said Baldwin and from him received a regular-
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certificate of said service, which said certificate together [of such - crossed out] with others he received for services rendered during the Revolutionary war this deponent has lost by reason of moving from one place to another since the war. 
And this deponent further says that shortly after the expiration of said enlistment under Baldwin at Albany, he again re-enlisted under the same captain and marched with him together with his company of Volunteer Rangers to fort Constitution situated on the easterly side of the Hudson river in the said State of New York and there remained for the term of three months the length of his enlistment. that prior to his receiving his discharge, they destroyed fort Constitution as it was in a very dilapidated state, and that shortly afterward the Americans commenced building West Point on the West side of the river. That for the services rendered here and at Albany he received no pay not even continental money. that after this deponent received his discharge for his services at this last mentioned place. he again returned to Lanesborough to his family.

And this deponent further says. That he went as a volunteer from Lanesborough in company with a number of other volunteers from the same town of to Burlington in the State of Vermont, and that after his arrival there he enlisted for the time of three months. That General Stark had the command of the army and that the company which he belonged to was under the command of Capt Daniel Brown one of the party who left Lanesborough in company with this deponent.
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That this deponent was at the battle of Bennington in said state which took place as near as he can recollect some time in the forepart of the month of September 1777. That after said Battle he followed Gen Stark with his army into the state of New York and was present at the battle of Stillwater in said state, and further that he was at Saratoga with the army when Burgoyne Surrendered to Gen Gates and that during the whole of this campaign he was in the company and under the said Capt Daniel Brown of the town of Lanesborough as aforesaid

For the services rendered under Brown this deponent received no pay and that after said enlistment he returned home to Lanesborough merely for the sake of
seeing his family and that after remaining some weeks with them he joined the Continental Army and enlisted for the term of six months in Captain Hitchcocks
company and one Col Sprouts regiment. That he marched from Lanesborough across the State of Massachusetts into the State of New York and so down the Hudson River to West Point and that he remained here some weeks but as to what number this deponent is unable to recollect and therefore cannot state the same.
That while here the army received some reinforcement from different parts of the union, and shortly afterwards took up the line of march, crossed the Hudson River and so marched down to the Northern part of the State of New Jersey to a place called by the Indians "Toteway Falls" now better known by the name of "Pascaick Falls" near the vicinity of the village of Patterson in said state and that the army remained here
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all winter without any engagements that during their stay here the army was called out to storm Staten Island south of New York, but in consequence of the guides proving traitor the plan was abandoned And that in the month of March 1778 this deponent marched with the army back again to West Point in New York and was then regularly discharged by Captain Hitchcock and from him also received his pay for said services in continental Money and that after this he returned home to Lanesborough in said State of Massachusetts and never again entered the army. But that he served the full periods of the several times for which he enlisted as above mentioned.

And the deponent further says that he has not in his possession any documentary evidence and that he knows of no person or persons living who served in any of the above enlistments whose testimony he can procure, and further that he knows of no person who can testify to his services rendered during the Revolutionary War.

Lastly that this Deponent relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension annuity he may have a right to and that he hereby declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
John Green

Affirmed and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Edward Paine 2nd. Clerk
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I, Solomon Thompson, son in law of the applicant residing in the Township of Concord in the County of Geauga and State of Ohio hereby certify that I am forty nine years old, that I have been well acquainted with John Green who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration when he & myself lived near neighbors in Virgel [Virgil] in the State of New York for the space of twenty years. That he was then reputed and believed to have been a revolutionary soldier, and I Henry Green of the age of thirty eight years Son of the said applicant certify that I have always resided with or in the neighborhood of my father and that his public reputation where he is known as that of a revolutionary soldier and that we both of us [illegible] is true. & that we believe the applicant to be seventy six years old, and has been in this Country a little more than 4 years
Henry Green
Solomon Thompson x his mark
Sworn & Subscribed to in open Court
Edward Paine 2nd Clerk

We Samuel Baldwin & Jacob Morse of said Concord certify that we are well acquainted with the above applicant, & believe him to be of the age of 76 years, and that his statement is entitled to credit - we are also acquainted with Henry Green & Solomon Thompson & I believe them also certified to credit
Lemuel Baldwin
Jacob Morse
Sworn & Subscribed to in open court
Edward Paine 2nd Clerk
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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 there is no clergyman residing in the town of Concord the residence of the said applicant but that Lemuel Baldwin & Jacob Morse who have signed their names to the preceding certificate are credible persons and that the statement set forth in their said certificate is entitled to credit 
Edward Paine 2nd Clerk

I, Edward Paine, 2nd clerk of the Supreme Court in & for the County of Geauga do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of
John Green for a pension.

In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this eighteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Edward Paine 2nd. Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Geauga County
I Edward Paine Junior Clerk of the Supreme Court of the State of Ohio in and for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that on the tenth day of August last John Green filed in said Court then sitting at Chardon in the county aforesaid the foregoing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 and that he affirmed to the same in open Court, but that in the hurry of business the words " in open Court" were omitted, in my certificate of said affirmation.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of said Court at Chardon aforesaid on the thirteenth day of December A.D. 1832
Edward Paine 2nd Clerk
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The State of Ohio
Sandusky County ss. 
On this tenth day of February A D 1854
Personally appeared before me John Bell Probate Judge in and for said County of Sandusky: Diana Thompson a resident of now Ottawa County but formerly the same territory was in Sandusky County Ohio who being duly sworn according to law makes oath and says that she is the only surviving of John Green and Sarah Green wife of said John Green, whose maiden name was Sarah Straght, both of whom are now deceased
That her father John Green was a soldier in the army of the Revolution and was a private in said army and in said war in the corps.
And further make oath and says that said
John Green her father made application for and was allowed by the government of the United States a Pension as such Revolutionary soldier during the year 1832 and that he drew a pension for about five years from the United States, at first at the of Eighty Dollars per annum for a time and affiant believes that afterwards for a time received it at the rate of Eight dollars per month or Ninety six Dollars per annum, which pension was paid him at the Agency at Pittsburgh State of Pennsylvania,
That said John Green the said Revolutionary
Pensioner died in Sandusky County Territory which has since
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been set off and is now called Ollawa County State of Ohio on the 31st day of March AD 1837. Leaving his widow Sarah Green the mother of this deponent who lived in the same township viz Harris township Ottawa County, formerly Sandusky County Ohio until the Second day of October AD 1845. When she also died, without receiving from the United States
any pension pay or bounty land from the United States as the widow of said John Green who was a pensioner of the United States as aforesaid,
And I, the said Diana Thompson make this declaration for the purpose of obtaining any arrears of pension due to my said father John Green or bounty land, and to receive or obtain the pension or arrears of pension due to my said mother, Sarah Green under the act of July 4th 1836 or any other act of Congress. I being the daughter and only child of said Revolutionary parties 
 Deponent further says that the accompanying pension certificate No 3524 dated Dec 26 1832, was in the lifetime of my said father John Green in his possession and used by him in obtaining, his pension pay, and that the same paper was in the possession of my said mother at her death and has since till now been in my possession and that my said father deceased was the identical person named in said certificate.
Diane Thompson
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Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written and I certify that I believe the said Diana Thompson to be the person she represents herself to be.
In testimony whereof I have caused the Seal of the Probate Court of said County to be affixed and subscribed my name at Fremont the day above Stated.
                                    John Bell Probate Judge
         
 State of Ohio
  Sandusky County SS
Personally, came before me John Bell Probate Judge in and for Sandusky County Lynus Trask of lawful age who being duly sworn according to law on oath declares and says, He was acquainted with John Green now deceased in the year 1829. That he knows said John Green applied for a and obtained from the United States a pension for services as Revolutionary Soldier, That said Green made application and obtained said pension as affiant thinks in the year 1831 or 1832 or 1833, That Diana Thompson who has this day appeared before the Hon John Bell Probate Judge of Sandusky County, is the daughter of said John Green and Sarah Green his wife. That affiant further states that said John Green and Sarah his wife are both dead, and died in Harris township now Ottawa formerly Sandusky County, and that the said Sarah widow said John Green & mother of Diana Thompson above mentioned survived the said John Green
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about seven or eight years.
                                      Lynus Trask

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 10th
day of February 1854 and I certify that the
above named Lynus Trask is personally
Known to me and is a Credible Witness. 
In testimony where of I have caused the Seal of the Probate Court of said County to be affixed and Subscribed my name at Fremont the day
and year above written.
                                        John Bell, Probate Judge
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Joseph Morse of lawful age being duly
Sworn on oath says he was acquainted with
John Green a Pensioner residing in Harris
township formerly in Sandusky County Ohio,
but since set off and now in Ottawa County
That he knew said John Green about Seventeen
or Eighteen years ago, that he knows said
John Green was a Revolutionary pensioner because affiant was a Justice of the peace of Salem Township in the same County and as such
made out at one time and authenticated a pension voucher for said Green, who drew his pension pay at Pittsburgh State of Pennsylvania
as affiant thinks at the rate of Ninety Six
dollars a year, affiant knew that said
John Green and his wife as  old people lived
on Thompsons farm and called Mrs Thompson
their daughter and she called them father &
Mother affiant further says that said John Green died a number of years since that his widow survived him a number of years and has since died, as affiant is informed & believes Affiant does not know of any surviving child of said John Green & wife excepting Mrs Thompson.
                                  Joseph Morse

Sworn to and subscribed this 11th day of February 1854 and I certify that said Joseph Morse is personally known to me and is a credible witness.
In testimony the Seal of the Probate
Court of said County & my name the day and
year above stated
                                John Bell Probate Judge
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Know All Men by these presents that I
Diania Thompson of Ottawa County Ohio and the daughter of John Green and of Sarah his wife
who was Sarah Straght, they now decd and in their life time resided in Sandusky County Ohio and my Father John Green in his lifetime and when in Sandusky County Ohio in the year 1832 claimed and obtained from the Government of the United States a Pension Certificate at the rate of ______Dollars per month which pension was granted him for Military service in the Revolutionary War as a member of _ of 
 Captain ______ Company in the regiment of State ________ commanded by
Colonel _________ in the Revolutionary war, 
which said Pension my Father John Green
continued to receive from the United Sates until his death which occurred in Sandusky County Ohio on the 31st day of March 1837 and said pension was paid to the Revolutionary pensioner by the pay agent of the State at Pittsburgh State of Pennsylvania. and his widow the Mother of the applicant survived her husband still residing in Sandusky County Ohio until the 2nd 
day of October 1845 and died without applying for or obtaining from the Government of the United States a Pension as the widow of said Revolutionary soldier.
And I Diania Thompson daughter and only Surviving child of said Revolutionary parties 
constitute and appoint Homer Everett & Wm D. McBride my true and lawful agent & attorneys to prosecute the Claim of said Sarah & John Green for a Revolutionary pension or increase of Pension or bounty Land, that may be due under the act of Congress
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of the United States of the _  of _ 1836 or any other act of Congress which may be applicable in the case and I hereby authorize my said agent and attorney to Examine all papers & documents in relation to said Claim, or file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere to to file additional Evidence or arguments and to receive the Certificates or Bounty Land Warrant which may be issued for said Claim which Certificates I wish payable to my Self Diania Thompson only surviving Child of John Green & Sarah Green his widow Decd. and I hereby authorize my said attorney and agent to do all things that I myself might or could do more I personally present hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said attorney & agent shall Lawfully do in the premises Witness my hand and Seal
Diana Thompson (seal)
This 10th Day of Feby 1854
Sealed and delivered in presence of
Lynus Trask
John Ball
State of Ohio Sandusky County on this 10 Day of February Before me the Probate Judge in and for Said County and State aforesaid personaly came Diana Thompson who I know to be the identical person she represents herself the Daughter of John Green & Sarah Green
and Sarah Green his widow and that her father John Green was a revolutionary Pensioner and She acknowledges the foregoing powers of attorney to be her act and Deed and I have no interest in the result of said Claim and am not concerned in its prosecution.
Witness the seal of the Probate
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Court of Said
County and
my name at Fremont the day
and year above stated

John Bell
Probate Judge
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Diana Thompson residing near Elmore in
the County of Ottawa State of Ohio being sworn on oath declares and says,
that I am the same Diana Thompson who
is claimant for a pension due to my deceased
mother Sarah Green That I have this day exhibited to the Hon Lyman Gelpin probate
Judge of Sandusky County Ohio a certain
family bible, which purports to be and is a
family bible purchased and owned and
kept by my said father John Green ever
since I was a child that said John Green and his wife Sarah for a number of years lived in my husbands family, and were supported by him and myself and I was familiarly acquainted with the bible above mentioned after my fathers death my said mother kept this bible at my house till near her death and gave it to me, and that it has been in my
keeping ever since That as long ago almost
as I can remember memorandum of my fathers and mother names, and a memorandum of the time of their marriage were in said Bible on a page Numbered 677 Entitled Family record, I think the name of my father and mother were written by some of their relatives I mean the names at the heads of the
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Separate columns on the page, I do not know certainly who wrote those names, But I am
quite certain that the memorandum on the
left hand column of the page which is in the
words & figures John Green & Sarah Straight
was married in the in the year 1781 October
the 13 day" is in my fathers handwriting
and was written by him. I have had brothers and sisters they are all dead. There is a memorandum of their respective names and date of their decease on page 680 of said bible. Excepting my brother Henry Green who died in the County of Ottawa County about as near as I can recollect and his death is not recorded, the death of my mother
is mentioned on the same page 680 on the right
hand column, this memorandum was made by my daughter. Affiant further says that said bible contains no memorandum of births, but it was kept by said John Green and Sarah Green as their family bible and family record, and the affiant
is the only living child of said John Green and Sarah Green
And further that said memorandum is the only record evidence of such marriage in her possession to produce.
                              Diana Thompson


Sworn and subscribed before me this 21st day of July 1835
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Lyman Gelpin
Probate Judge

Nancy E Trask of Ottawa County being sworn on oath declares and says that she has been acquainted with the bible this day exhibited to the Hon Probate Judge of Sandusky County from early childhood and recollects it well for the space of near forty years past, that at her earliest recollection it contained the memorandum of the marriage of John Green & Sarah Straight on the left hand Column of page 677, that while said
memorandum was in it used and kept as their family record by said John Green and Sarah Green. I believe said memorandum of Marriage is in the handwriting of said John Green. Affiant says that all the children of said John & Sarah Green
are dead excepting Diana Thompson who lives near Elmore in Ottawa County state of Ohio.
That this affiant has no interest in this claim made by said Diana Thompson for her mothers pension
                              Nancy E Trask

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of July 1855
                   Lyman Gelpin Probate Judge
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Lynus Trask of Ottawa County Ohio being
duly sworn on oath declares, that for may years
he has been intimately acquainted with the
family and descendants of John Green the
father of Diana Thompson, That from the family record and other circumstances he is now convinced and believes that said John Green and Sarah Straight were married On the 13th day of October 1784. That said John Green died March 31st 1837, and said Sarah Green died Oct 2 1845, in what was formerly Sandusky but is now Ottawa County, That all the children of said John and
Sarah Green are dead , Excepting Diana Thompson. That he has often seen the bible this day presented to the probate Judge of Sandusky
County and believes it to be the family bible
and record of said John & Sarah Green . And  affiant has no interest in this case.
                           Lynus Trask

sworn to and subscribed before me this 21st day of July 1835
                                    Lyman Gelpin Probate Judge
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Page 677
FAMILY RECORD
MARRIAGES. John Green
MARRIAGES. Sarah Straight
John Green  & Sarah Straght was married in the year 1781 October the 13 day.
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Page 680
FAMILY RECORD
DEATHS.
John Green Died April 5th 1815
aged 24 years 10 months
Nineteen Days old
_____________________
John Green Senior
Died March the 31 1837 Aged 80 years 
three months 18th day
________________________
olive Green Died July the 4 1831 Age
44 years 3 months 25
_______________________

Amy Green died  December 17th 1787
Age 8 years 1 mon ┃
24 days
_____________________________
Sarah Green Died
Oct the 2nd 1845
Aged 84 years 2 months and 8 days
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The State of Ohio
Sandusky County SS

I Lyman Gelpin Probate Judge in and for the said County of Sandusky do hereby certify and declare as follows:
That on the 21st day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty five,
Diana Thompson, Nancy E. Trask, and Lyman Trask, whose several written affidavits are hereto annexed by me, personally came before me and made oath to and subscribed their said affidavits
respectively before me and in my presence that they the said Diana Thompson, Nancy Trask,
and Lynus Trask are credible and respectable persons, and competent to testify and that said several affidavits were respectively distinctly read to them in my presence and hearing before they
signed the same.
I further certify, that at the same
time and place, the said Diana Thompson
exhibited to and deposited with me the
family bible mentioned in said affidavits
which Bible has been carefully inspected
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by me, and I find it to be an old book apparently long used as a family Bible and by inspection thereof and the proof adduced I am satisfied it was the family Bible and family record so far as a
record of that was kept of the John Green and Sarah Green mentioned in the said affidavits
annexed,
I found between the Old Testament and
Apocrypha in said Bible, two leaves which
were originally inserted printed and bound therein for the purpose of a family record, which leaves with the memorandum made thereon as exhibited to me I have this day cut out from said Bible, and attached to this statements and certificate to be forwarded on page 677 of which the Name of John Green is written at the top of the left hand and the name of Sarah Straight, at the top of the right hand Column,  and under the name of John
Green the memorandum of the marriage of
John Green and Sarah Straight showing they
were married on the 13 October in the year
1781, On the other leaf page 680 there are memorandum of the death of five different persons, and that said Bible does not contain any record or memorandum of births
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I further make known that its satisfactorily proved to me and I therefore certify, that Sarah Green wife and widow of John Green died unmarried on the Second day of October in the year 1845 in the County of Ottawa (formerly part of Sandusky)  County in the State of Ohio, That said Diana Thompson is the daughter of the said John & Sarah Green, and is their only living child. I have attached the said leaves of said Bible to this certificate, by a red tape and red sealing wax & I have no interest in any way in this claim, of Said in Diana Thompson upon the United States, nor am I in any way interested or employed in the prosecution thereof.
In testimony of all which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Fremont
Ohio this 23d day of July AD 1835
                       Lyman Gelpin Probate Judge
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John Green
Ohio
No 3866,
from 1776 private
2 year $80

11. 12. 16.


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sent letter 23 Nov
E. Paine
Chardon
Ohio
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Brief in the case of John Green
of Geauga County in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 76 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. Spring 1776 enlisted


Duration of Service. 9 mo.
Years, Months, Days

Rank Private
Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Col Seth Warner Massachusetts State Troops
_____________________
1777
3 mon
Private
Capt Baldwin
Van Buren
State
Massachusetts State Troops
__________________________
1777
3 mon 
Private

 Genl Starck
Capt Dan'l Brown
Vermont
_________________________________-
1777
6 mon 
Private
Col Sproat's regiment
Cape Hitchcock's company U.S. Troops

5. In what battles was he engaged? Bennington Stillwater & Saratoga
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Berkshire County Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary
on Mass Roll for 6 mos
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
Examining Clerk.
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December 16, 1930


Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
FEL

Mrs. C. B. Finefrock
215 W. Third Street
Port Clinton, Ohio
Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 3982, that John green was born in Lanesboro, Berkshire County, Massachusetts .
While residing in Lanesboro, Massachusetts, he enlisted in 1775, and served nine months as a private in Captain Nathan Pierce's Company under Colonel Seth Warner, was in the expedition to Canada and in the retreat from
Montreal.
Soon after the expiration of this service, he went on expedition against the Indians in the State of Vermont, dates of this service not given.
In January, 1777, he went to Albany, New York, and there enlisted in Captain Baldwin's Company of Rangers served six months.
He subsequently enlisted, date not given, and served months in Captain Daniel Brown's Massachusetts Company, was  in the battle of Bennington, also in the battle Stillwater and at the surrender of Burgoyne.
He enlisted in 1780, exact date not given, and served six months as a private in Captain Hitchcock's Company, Colonel Sprout's Massachusetts Regiment.
After the Revolution, he lived in Virgil, New York.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
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August 16, 1832, while residing in Concord, Geauga County, Ohio
The soldier married October 13, 1781, place not stated,
Sarah Straight.
He died March 31, 1837, aged eighty years, three
months and fifteen days, and she died October 2, 1845, aged eighty-four years, seven months and eight days. Both died in Harris Township, Sandusky (later Ottawa), County, Ohio, where they had moved to reside with Solomon and Diana Thompson.
A son, Henry Green, was aged thirty-eight years in
1832. He died in Ottawa County, Ohio, date not given.
A daughter, Diana Thompson, was a resident of Ottawa County, Ohio, in 1854, and then stated that she was the only surviving child of the soldier, John Green and his wife, Sarah Green. Nancy E., daughter of Diana Thompson, married Lynus Trask, and in 1855, she and her husband were residents of Harris Township, Ottawa County, Ohio.
The following appears on the family records
John Green, Jr. died April 3, 1815, aged 24 years, 10 months and 19 days.
Olive Green died July 4, 1831, aged 44
years, 3 months and 25 days.
Amy Green died December 17, 1797, aged 8 years, 1 month and 4 days.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.
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Port Clinton, Ohio
Nov. 28-1930
Bureau of Pensions
Washington
Gentleman
Our D.A.R. chapter are anxious to learn if John Green enlisted from Lanesborough Berkshire Co. Mass. in 1776 was a pensioner, in fact we would like to get
any thing of interest in regard to This Rev. soldier for we find that he is buried in our Ottowa Co. &
want something authoritative.
I would like also to know if you have the name of Israel Harrington, we were told he fought all through the Rev. war but can not learn from which state
he enlisted.
Thanking you for this as well
a past favors, 
C.B. Frink
215 W. King St.
Port Clinton
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REJECTED
4280
P. O.
Service:
John Greene
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.

Recognized.                     Contract
Cert. of Dis. Searched for
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 3982

Sarah Green ┃
Wid, ┃
John Green ┃
Private Rev War
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Act March 3D/43, June /44
Index: -- Vol. A Page 286
Arrangement of 1870.]


1930 - Dec 16. Hist to
Mrs C.B. Finefrock.  [EE?]
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Jno Green D. 31 March 1837
Sarah Green 2 Oct 1845
Married 1781
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Diana Thompson surviving child
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The State of Ohio
Sandusky County SS
I, Samuel Manahan, of the township of Harris in the County of Ottawa, State of Ohio, being duly sworn on oath say and depose, that I am a resident of the said
township of Harris Ottawa County and state of
Ohio, That I am a land holder and resident farmer of said township which was formerly within the County of Sandusky and have resided there a space of thirty years last past That about seventeen years ago I became
acquainted with John Green and Sarah Green his wife in said Township, The said Green and wife were aged people and came to reside with Solomon and Diana Thompson in said township, with whom they continued to reside until they died. The old gentleman
said John Green died some years previous to the
death of said Sarah his wife. I know that said John Green and Sarah Green called each other husband & wife, and in their intercourse and dealing acted to and
of each other as such. That they were by their
neighbors and the community reputed and understood and recognized to be man and wife, That
they recognized and owned said Diana Thompson to be their daughter and the said Diana recognized called and treated them as her father and mother, and treated them both during their lives after I knew with kindness and affection. 
I never heard any thing against their valid marriage and I believe from the facts I have stated and from my observation of and intercourse
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with said John Green and Sarah Green that
they were lawful man and wife, and that said
Diana Thompson is their legitimate daughter and
rightful heir, The John Green that I allude to was said to be a Pensioner of the United States. He received a pension, and died in Harris township aforesaid, I am in no way related to said Green or said Diana Thompson, and have no interest in any application of Either of them in any claim against the United States or
any other matter whatever.
                                          Samuel Manahan
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 27th day of March 1855 by Samuel Manahan.
                               Lyman Gelpin Probate Judge

I, Linus Trask of Harris township Ottawa County
Ohio being sworn on oath depose and say as follows
I am the son in law of Diana Thompson who is claiming from the United States in this case as heir of Sarah Green deceased, but otherwise have no interest whatever in said claim, Affiant further says, in the year 1832 at Concord in the County of Geauga State of Ohio he first became acquainted with John Green, and Sarah Green wife of said John Green, That he knew them well from that time until they died, they were his wife's grandfather and mother. The said John Green and Sarah Green were then and always after reputed
to be husband & wife lawfully married, and affiant never knew or heard any report or rumor or any suspicion expressed to the contrary, Affiant has also for about the same length of time known Diana Thompson their daughter; she was always reputed by said John & Sarah Green & all who knew her to
be their legitimate daughter. And from what
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I have seen and heard of the said Sarah
Green & John Green .I do not doubt that the
were lawfully married but do not recollect
that I ever heard where their marriage took place nor at what time, they were old people when I first knew them. I further
believe that Diana Thompson is their legitimate
daughter born of them in lawful wedlock. The 
said John and Sarah Green subsequently moved
from Concord O to Harris township
then Sandusky but now Ottawa County where the said John died, his wife said Sarah survived him several years and died in the same
township in which I now reside.
                            Linus Trask
Sworn to and subscribed, by Linus Trask this 28th day of March 1855 before me
                                        Lyman Gelpin
                                       Probate Judge

I, Nancy E Trask of Harris Township Ottawa
County and State of Ohio being first duly sworn
depose and say, That I am daughter of Diana
Thompson now residing in the same township and
any the wife of Linus Trask. John Green and
Sarah Green who both died in Harris township
aforesaid were my grand parents, I remember
back about thirty seven or thirty eight years ago
they were then residing in the town of Virgil
& State of New York, I have all the time with the exception of about six months resided near them
from my earliest recollection they were considered
and treated by the neighbors, friends and
by my mother as husband and wife, I have heard them talk of the incidents of their marriage
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but I cannot recollect if they  ever told me of the time and place they were pretty old people when I first recollect them and I was a child.
I never knew nor did I ever hear a report rumor or suspicion against their lawful marriage, my mother Diana Thompson always told me to and I always treated them as my grandfather and mother.
And from what I saw of their conduct and know of their intercourse since I was old enough to remember, I have not the least doubt they were lawfully married
I have no interest in the application of my mother for back pension or any other claim except that she is feeble and I would be glad to see her getting help.
Nancy E Trask
Sworn to and subscribed before me by Nancy E Trask this 28th day of March 1855
Lyman Gelpin Probate Judge
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Manahan, and on the 28th day of March in the year aforesaid Linus Trask and Mary E Trask, iffiants [affiants] in the foregoing depositions personally appeared before me at my office in the Town of Fremont in said County, That the foregoing depositions were severally read to them by me, respectively. That they were severally sworn according to law, that the Statements in Said depositions by them respectively made were true, and they each subscribed their names thereto respectively in my presence. II further certify that they are of lawful age, and in my opinion are respectable and credible witnesses. I further certify that I have no interest in this claim or the prosecution of it
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hands and affix my Seal of Office at Fremont Ohio this 28th day of March A.D. 1855
Lyman Gelpin Probate Judge
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I John Bell of the town of Fremont in the
County of Sandusky in the State of Ohio, late a
member of the 31st Congress of the United States do hereby certify and make known, That I was personally acquainted with John Green who died in Harris Township now Ottawa but formerly Sandusky County, That said John Green was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. I am also personally acquainted with Samuel Manahan of said Harris township, and know him to be a reliable credible and honest man of good standing wherever he is known I am also some acquainted by reputation with Linus
Trask and Nancy E Trask, I have this day examined the foregoing statements made by said Manahan, & Linus & Nancy E Trask before Lyman Gilpin Probate Judge of Sandusky County and do not hesitate to say that I believe all their statements to be true and impartial, and upon this testimony and what I have others heard
and known I believe that John Green was lawfully married to said Sarah Green I further say that I have no interest in this Claim or the prosecution of it.
                                            John Bell
                                            March 31st 1855
                                            Fremont Ohio
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Mansfield Ohio
July 25th 1855,
Sir
herewith enclosed I forward, further testimony
in support of the claim of Diana Thompson, (daughter of John & Sarah Green), to pension. Bounty Land &c, for the military service of her father, John Green, during the revolutionary war,
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Wm D. McBride




Hon L. P. Waldo
Commission of Pensions
Washington City
D. C.
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War Department
Letters
John Green Case
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War Department
Pension Office
December 16, 1828
Sir
In answer to your letter of the 27th ultimo, respecting the case of John Greene, I have to state that the service performed by him under Colonel Warner will not entitle him to a pension, as the regiment commanded by that officer was not on the continental establishment
so early as 1775, the time at which the claimant is stated to have served under him, and the law under which he claims, provide for those only who served on that establishment. The service performed by the claimant in Colonel Sproat's regiment, appears from our rolls to have been for six months only. As the law of the 18th of March 1818, under which claims of this kind are made, requires a service of at least nine months under one period of enlistment, he cannot obtain a pension under the last described service.

I am, respectfully
Your obt. Servt
James L. Edwards

Eleazer Paine Esq
Chardon
Geauga County,
Ohio
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Hon. Lewis Cass
Secretary of War
Washington
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Chardon Dec 15. 1832
Hon. Lewis Cass Sec. of War
Sir
The enclosed pension paper have been amended according to the directions contained in the accompanying "briefs". It will be seen by reference to the brief with the papers of John Green that there is a
reason assigned for not having the certificate of a Clergyman.
Mr Eleazer Paine who had the  charge of these claims, is dead, and the business has been put into our hands
very respectfully
Paine & Phelps
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of John Green which require
further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing so?
IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he
served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension
he is entitled?
yes
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
yes
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832?
Yes
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
 Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal?
yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary
service?
No
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? yes See the opinion of the Court in the Declaration

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one
living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
yes
XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who
administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under
his seal of office?
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?
Yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how
long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, an in the following grades: For_____ year_____months and ______days, I served  and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too definite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which be belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
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Sarah Green dec'd
Widow of John
Ohio

Admitted July 7 1838
2 years  Pri $80 per
annum from
31 March 1837 when her
husband died  to 2 Oct 1845 when
she died.
---
except 2 years
Pay to Diana Thompson
only child

letter to
W.D. McBride Esq

Mansfield, Ohio
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Pension Office
April 21st 1855
Sir
The testimony which accompanied your letter of the 5th instant is sufficient to show that Diana Thompson is a child of Sarah Green, who was the widow of John, and who, at his death, was a pensioner on the Ohio (Pittsburgh) roll, at the rate of $80 per annum.  But it must be shown, before we can satisfactorily adjust the claim, when Sarah Green was married to the said John, as on that fact, the character of the allowance in her right depends. If it cannot be shown by the production of an original family record, it may be shown by a copy of the marriage license, or of an original entry from the town or church records of the town where the parties resided when they were married.
See the Regulations under the Act of July 7th 1838, herewith sent, for the mode in which the date of the marriage must be established.
A court of record must also certify when Sarah Green died, as also to the number and names of her children now living.
I am respectfully,
Your Obt. Svt.
L P. Waldo
Commissioner
W.D. McBride, Esq.
Mansfield,
Ohio.
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Mansfield Ohio August 18th 1855
Sir,
I enclose to you, the letter of the Commissioner of Pensions, dated April 21st, 1855, in the case of Diana Thompson, daughter of John & Sarah Green, the claimant for pension due to her mother, Sarah Green.
The letter I send you, may be an aid in obtaining the papers of Diana Thompson, to which Mr Waldo, referred in his letter of the 21st of April, and which papers you do not find on file. In your letter of the 7th instant you refer to papers having been recd. purporting to be further testimony in support of the said claim. They were obtained & forwarded ,to show When John & Sarah Green were married & that the claimant was the only surviving child.
I am very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt.
W. D. McBride
Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington City
D.C.
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Brief in the case of Sarah Green decd widow of John 
Ottawa County and State of Ohio
act July 7 1838 &c

Claim, ("original,")

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Her husband was a pensioner under the act of June 7 1832 at $80 a year
Family Record for proof of marriage
Her identity as the widow of the pensioner, his death
her death and the fact that Diana
Thompson is the only child proved by credible
witnesses agreeable to our Regulations

Name and residence of Agent
W D McBride Esq
Mansfield
Ohio

Thornton Triplett
Examining Clerk
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Mansfield O. April 5th 1855.
Sir
I herewith forward you further testimony as to the marriage of John Green and Sarah Green, deceased, who was the Father and Mother of Diana Thompson, who claims back pay due to her Mother Sarah Green at her death.
The pension Certificate of John Green (the Revolutionary Pensioner) who was late of Ohio, and who was the Father of the Applicant is in the Pension Office with the papers in support of the claim of Diana Thompson, to said pension pay.
Very Respectfully
Your obt. Svt.
Wm D. McBride
Hon L P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pension
Washington City
D.C.
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15339
Sarah Green decd
Widow of John
Ohio
W D McBride Aug 7/55

July 7 1838
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Pen offic[e] Aug 18 1855
Sir
Please inform me when John Green of Ohio Act 1832 at
$80 a year was last paid,

Very Respectfully
S. Cole
C. C

R J Atkinson Esq
3 auditor

Triplett
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John Green paid to 4 March 1837

W. H. Parson
Actg Auditor

Aug 20/ 55
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rec 10 Dec. 1828
Eleazer Paine

20.786
John Greene
New York
Rejected [illegible] letter 
to E. Paine Esq. 16th
Dec. 1828
War Department Pension Office
Washington

4280
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Chardon Geauga Co Ohio
Nov 27- 1828

Sir-

A Mr John Greene has called on me for aid in 
obtaining a Pension for Revolutionary services -- says he enlisted in 1775 for nine months at Lanesborough in the State of Massachusetts in the company of Infantry commanded by Capt Nathan Pierce in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner in the Massachusetts line & served about eleven months and again enlisted in 1780 for 8 months in Capt Hitchcocks
Company of Infantry in Col Sprouts Regiment of the Massachusetts line & served about eight months & was discharged at West Point in the State of N. York
He has no discharges or other vouchers-- wishes to know whether a Record of his services can be found in the
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war office & what evidence of identity reduced
circumstances &c will be required or in short, what course he must pursue to cause his name to be placed on the Pension List -

Respectfully
Eleazer Paine

Hon P. B. Porter
Secy  War
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Mansfield O. August 13th 1855
Sir,
Your letter of the 7th is recd, requesting information
as to the pension claim, to which the additional testimony, you refer belongs, as you can not find the papers in the case heretofore presented. In Feb  [March - crossed out] 1854. the Claimant and Diana Thompson, daughter of John & Sarah Green dec'd late of Ottawa Co Ohio, applied for arrears of Pension due to her, [?] has
papers, Showing her Father John Green had been a revolutionary Soldier & afterwards in 1832 became a pensioner of the  US (with her papers in support of her claim she forwarded the old Pension certificate of her father to the Pension Office,) and he drew pension
pay at Pittsburgh PA  untill his death viz 1837. leaving (him surviving) his widow Sarah Green, Mother of Diana Thompson, the Widow, lived untill Oct. 1845, and died in Ottawa County O. not having applied for nor obtained pension, after the death of her husband, (some 8 years time) the daughter Diana Thompson wishes to obtain the pay due under the Laws of Congress to the widow of the said John Green, from his death untill the date of her death, and
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When the papers were recd by the Commissioner, 17th of March. 54 by his letter, required further proof of the marriage of John & Sarah Green, and on the 28th of March 1855. Testimony of several persons, (who had long known the old people), was obtained in Ottawa County, and it was forwarded to the Pension Office 14th of April 1855, L.P. Waldo. was satisfied by the testimony, as to the fact of their having been married, but not of the date of the Marriage, admitting the heirship of Diana and that pay was due her, but Mr Waldo required record Evidence of the date of the marriage, which would govern the amount of pay due to Mrs. Thompson the daughter of the said revolutionary parties. The additional testimony in support of the claim, to which you refer in yours of the 7 inst, is the testimony Mr Waldo, last required, to wit the date of the Marriage of John & Sarah Green, the two reports of Hon L P Waldo, referred to in the Case I have, and can forward them to you, if you request.
In the affidavit made by Diana Thompson 9th of Feb 1854, the Pension Certificate referred to in the case I have and can forward them to you, if you request. In the affidavit [duly?] made by Diana Thompson 9th of February 1854, the Pension Certificate, referred to of her of her Father, was forwarded. It was No 3524, for $80 per annum
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under the act of June 7th 1832. Given at the War Office of the US, 26th of Dec 1832, 
 But in the papers on file in
the office, the applicant claims her father afterwards Obtained 8 dollars pr month 96 per year, and payable at Pittsburgh PA. Diana Thompson the only surviving heir
of John Green also claims Bounty Land for the military service of her Father, during the revolutionary War,
I am, very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Wm D. McBride



Hon J Minot
Commission of Pensions
Washington City, D. C.
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Payments to be made
at Pittsburgh, Pa
by the Presd. U S. Br.: Bk-
Agent for paying Pensioners in the Agency of Ohio
Pittsburgh Pa.


Recorded by N. Rice, Clerk, in Book D Vol. 2, Page 132
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WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, John Green of the State of Ohio, Pittsburgh Agency, who was a Private in the Army of the Revolution is entitled to receive Eighty --- dollars and no cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September, in every year.

Given at the War Office of the United States, this
26 day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty -two
Lew Cass
Secretary of War.


Examined and Countersigned
J. Edwards
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9622
Ohio  Cleveland
Sarah Green decd
widow of 
John Green
who was a private
in the Revolution

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
 8 Dollars no Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
ending 2d October 1845.

Certificate of Pension issued
the 22nd day of August 1855
to W.D. McBride
 Mansfield O

Acts of March 3, 1843, and
June 17, 1844.

Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 204

W D McBride Aug 29 1833
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Mansfield Ohio, March 9th 1854
Sir,
I herewith enclose you papers in support of the claim of Diana Thompson, (only child of John &
Sarah Green) her Father John Green was a pensioner of the US, for service in the revolutionary war, and died 1837 leaving his widow Sarah Green, who survived her husband some 7 or 8 years & did not receive any Pension from the Government "
This applicant, the daughter of said revolutionary private, wishes to obtain any back pay due her Father, John Green, or any amount of Pension due to her mother Sarah Green, after the death of the revolutionary Soldier, her Husband, & before the death of said Sarah Green, and as the said Diana Thompson, the applicant believes her Father John Green, served during the entire revolutionary war and should be entitled to Bounty Land, wishes to  obtain a Warrant if Due to her.
I also enclose you the older pension Certificate of John Green.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Wm D. McBride



J. P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D C