Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4283, William Greenfield, Conn. Continental Green Mt. Boys
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                      
Conn
Continental
Green Mt. Boys

Greenfield, William
Prudence

NUMBER
R.4283

CONTENTS
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Declaration

In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836

State of Ohio
County of Huron} Lct

On this 28th day of May 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Common pleas within & foresaid county of Huron; Prudence Greenfield a resident of [strikethrough] Hartland [strikethrough] Fairfield in said county aged seventy nine 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 4 1836 - That she is the widow of William Greenfield Senior now deceased who early in the spring of the year 1775 enlisted as a volunteer in a militia on unto man into a Company commanded by a Captain Dennison in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Seth Warner. He was first a Sergeant in said company – it at her said Husband first served at Lexington & Bunker Hill. That the said Col. Warner the same season marched his troops including the said William to Lake Champlain and they took Crown Point. They were called “the Green Mountain Boys". Sometime after they marched under the command of Gen Schuyler & they took Chamblee & St. Johns. He the said William was appointed Quartermaster of the Regiment & she understood he served in that capacity one year which appeared by his writings which are now lost. They there remained & kept Garrison for some time - they then proceeded down South to Connecticut. The next winter following proved to be very severe & cold & the Troops suffered very much for want of provisions & Coats. [Strikethrough] After [strikethrough] the Defeat at Quebeak (Quebec) [strikethrough] where a? served [strikethrough] they demolished all the forts at Chamblee & St Johns & proceeded down the Lake to Crown Point. The Declarant understood that her said Husband the next season was employed in
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strengthening the works at Ticonderoga and Independence. That in or about June 1777 General Burgoyne attacked the Forts and after a hard struggle Gen’l Lt Clair abandoned the Forts & ports and Lake Champlain & the retreat of the americans was conducted under such disadvantages that they were obliged to leave all their heavy cannon & a great part of Baggages & stores in said ports.  There was a Battle between said militia & some of the British troops & they lost a Colonel Frances who was with said Gen’l Warner One Lane M Ray was kilt by an Indian hatchet who he join as a Corps Tour after death. That her said Husband was at Saratoga when Gen’l Burgoyne was taken & was also at the Bennington Battle – at this time the Northern Campaign was closed & the troops were discharged in the month of October 1777 & paid off in Continental money her said Husband had a discharge [strikethrough] which she ? his death has been in her possession [strikethrough] which [strikethrough] she [strikethrough] was handed to her son William now living which it appears he has lost . That he was born in New London Connecticut Dec’r 16 1756 & that he was a resident on Stephen Town state of N York when he first entered into Gen’l [?] service. The said William [?] on then returned home & made farm Dearland & she then, whose said deponent was Prudence Hinkly, married him the said William [?] on the 25th day of December 1777 having been for a considerable time over these years & more previous thereto engaged to him. That her said Husband died on the 18th day of September 1829 in Fairfield, Huron County said State of Ohio where she the Declarant now resides. There was a record of the said Marriage in a Family Bible which Bible was burnt in a School house in Stevenstown in the State of New York

That after she
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the declarant was married to her said Husband he enlisted as a Volunteer into a Company commanded by Captain William Douglas the name of the Colonel of the Regiment she doesn’t now recollect. That when the British came to & made an incursion to New London in as she thinks 1781, he went & served there & was there at the summer after the British left that place he had many conflicts with the Tories- among other sacrifices a Tory Woman by the name of Ruth Greenman threw a Brand of Fire in his face & left a Scar which remained during the on evidence of his life. That he was after this & after her said Marriage to the Declarant went in the service of the limited State various times at various places. That he served under one Colonel Bentley as a Lieutenant as much as one year to the end of the war. That her & said Husband was last seventy five years old when he died.

And the Declarant says she has no Documentary Evidence in support of her said claim that she has remained a widow ever since the decease of her said husband and also says that owing to her old age & loss of memory, in some degree, she cannot exactly remember the precise length of her & said Husband’s services as a [?] yet she further believes he served at least as many as five years in the whole. The Declarant says the reason why her said Husband never Applied to the Government for a Pension who, as he said, that he could live without it & Consider he had some property which was for some time an objection on the [?] of the Government. The present applicant
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is now old & & infirm & depends on her children for her living-
Prudence Greenfield
her X
{Witness Lewis B Sturges marte}

Sworn and subscribed to the year & day aforesaid
D Gibbs clk H.C.P.

We Abijah Benson & Abner Darling & the said Benson residing in Fairfield in Huron County Ohio and said Darling of Burton in said County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the widow Prudence Greenfield who has sworn to & subscribed to the within & foregoing declaration. That we believe her to be seventy nine years of age that she is the widow of William Greenfield [?] now deceased who was reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resided at the time of his decease to have been a Soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion that the said Prudence is a person of truth & veracity
Abijah Benson
Abner Darling
X his mark
[Witness Lewis B Sturges}

Sworn and subscribed to the year & day aforesaid
D Gibbs clk H.C.P.

And the said Courts do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that the said William Greenfield [?] was a Revolutionary Soldier served as is stated as within & that the above named Abigail Benson & Abner Darling are credible persons & their statement is entitled to Credit & said Court also found that Mrs. Prudence Greenfield who has been sworn to & subscribed to the within declaration is [?] the widow of said William & is a person of truth & veracity
O Bomerd Presd Jus of Pe
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Prudence Greenfield
Otero (ao6)
Suspe

Ex by
S. A. Peugh
Jan 20 - 52
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[typed form, completed by hand]

POWER OF ATTORNEY – Revolutionary Pension Claims.

Know all Men by these Presents, that I William Greenfield of Fairfield, in Huron County, of the State of Ohio, son of William Greenfield my Father who was in the Revolutionary service , also of Prudence Greenfield, Widow of William Greenfield so do hereby constitute and appoint Samuel A. Peugh of Washington City in the District of Columbia my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of the Heirs of William Greenfield for any amount of Revolutionary  Pension, [strikethrough] or Increase of Pension, [strikethrough] that may be due; I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to the Heirs, to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.  Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises & hereby revoking all other letters of powers of Attorney made by me in the promises

Witness my hand and Seal this 2nd day of January A.D., 1852
Wm Greenfield

Signed and Sealed in the presence of 
Benjamin T. Hunt
E. H, Peugh }
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Claim of
Act of

State of Ohio 
County of Huron }ss.
Be it known, that on this second day of January, in the year A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared William Greenfield a resident of Fairfield in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the only son of William Greenfield, deceased, who was a soldier in the service of the Revolutionary War. That Prudence Greenfield, deceased, also was the widow of William Greenfield whose son also heir, that Prudence Greenfield was an applicant for a Revolutionary Pension, under the government of the United States.

That he has been informed that the said Pension ought to be allowed; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as his Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Wm Greenfield

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me.
Benj T. Hunt
Notary Public

I, Benj T. Hunt Notary Public, in and for said County do hereby certify that William Greenfield who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth.
Benjamin T. Hunt
Notary Public

I, Henry Brown, Clerk of the Com. Pleas Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Benjamin T. Hunt, before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Notary Public in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the same thereunto subscribed, is his signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this sixth day of January A.D 1852.
H. Brown, Clerk
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State of Ohio
County of Huron }ss.
It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me Benjamin T. Hunt Notary Public that Prudence Greenfield was the widow of William Greenfield deceased. Also that she was an applicant for a pension, under the government of the United States.
That she died on the fifth day of November A.D. eighteen hundred and forty leaving surviving heir William Greenfield, Prudence West, wife of Timothy West, deceased and Anna Goodrich, rife of Daniel Goodrich.
And that the above said William Greenfield, Prudence West, and Anna Goodrich are now the identical and the only surviving children of the aforesaid Prudence Greenfield, deceased.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this 2nd day of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty two.
Benjm. T. Hunt
Notary Public
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FAMILY RECORD

MARRIAGES.
Wm Greenfield and Abby Cole
This couple joined together in the Bands of Matrimony July 8 1806

William Greenfield Senior & Prudence Hinckley
This couple was married December 25th 1777

Copy of our old one which was burnt

State of Ohio Huron County [illegible] on the 26th May 1838 before the Court of Common Pleas for said county personally appeared William Greenfield aged fifty nine years, son of William Greenfield Senior a Revolutionary Soldier & made solemn oath that this leaf was this day cut out of the Family Bible of my said Father, deceased.

Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Wm. Greenfield
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FAMILY RECORD.

BIRTHS.
Wm. Greenfield Junr
born February 26 1779

Abby Greenfield
born March 30 1782
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State of Michigan
County of Washtenaw  S.S
Personally Appeared before me William R. Perry A Justice of the peace within said County, Charles Kellogg aged sixty seven years, and on being duly sworn according to Law on his Oath Declares and says that he was formerly acquainted with William Greenfield Senior and his wife Prudence more than fifty years ago - and that they had three children named - William Junior, Prudence and Anna  and that the two said Daughters married Timothy West + Ladock Titas - Titas is now dead which now leaves Anna his widow living in Cayuga County State of New York.
William and his sister Prudence West are now living in Huron county (or that vicinity) in the State of Ohio.
That under the act of Congress of 1818 he was one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas in the county of Cayuga and that he obtained a number of Pensions for Revolutionary soldiers and that the said William then consulted him the deponent relative to obtaining a pension for him - But it appeared that he was the owner of too much property to obtain one under that Law - of course he did not apply; and this deponent doesnt recollect of any other obstacle to his then being entitled to a pension.
There is no doubt resting on the deponents mind respecting his lawful marriage.
It was understood and reported by Russell Brockway Joseph Coats and others who were personally acquainted with the said William from early youth that he had served in the Revolutionary War and that he was a man of truth and veracity.
My first acquaintance with the said William Greenfield was in the town of Gadway County of Saritoga New York afterward for a length of time in [illegible] Coyuga County - and the common report was that he enlisted into the northern army in the town of Stephentown Bessaler County N, York and that he was at Berrington battle. I always considered

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him to be a man of truth and veracity and although it is out of my power to specify much of particular relative to his service, I always thought him to be deserving of the favorable notice and kind attention of the public authorities and favorable consideration of the public at large.
Charles Kellogg

Subscribed and sworn before me this tenth day of June A.D. 1841. Wm R. Perry Justice of the Peace

State of Michigan
Washtenaw County}ss.
I Leonard C Goodale Clerk of said County do certify that William R. Perry is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly elected and qualified to act as such and by law authorized to administer oaths and take affidavits and that the above signature purporting to be his is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this tenth day of June in the year eighteen hundred and forty one.
L. C. Goodale, Clerk

Charles Kellogg
Deposition
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The papers of Prudence Greenfield of Ohio under act- of 1836 on the suspended or rejected files.

The papers of Russell Green of Mass a pensioner under act of June 7th 1832.
for B. B. Chapman
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Elyna O. Feby 7 1851

Dear Sir
[illegible] of 29th Jany is this day received. In it you speak of having found proof in case of Comfort Barnes of 7 mos service. I hope we shall be able to prove more in this case. I was in hoping that Hardings case was a good one. Perhaps we shall yet find something satisfactory. You say nothing of the case of David Clark - have you no proof of service. You say nothing of the case of Thos Hartford? I wrote you Nov 25th at Hartford giving the particulars of this case. Lest you did not receive my letter I will say that she (the widow, Prudence Greenfield) applied for a pension about the year 1837 and her papers you will find on file at Washington, containing a large amount of proof. She never recd a pension & her son has employed me to try for him. The widow died 1840 three months of his service can be proved by the records at Boston, but he served during the whole war.
Will you examine the papers at Washington and see how much is proved. I would like to hear from it soon as they are very anxious.
I have some six or eight other cases that I have
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[illegible] and if you have a mind we will undertake them together and divide whatever per cent or fee we get for obtaining them equally between us. If you will so state in a letter to me including those we may have on hand, as heretofore agreed upon, I will immediately send you what information & facts I have been able to gather in regard to them.
Very truly yours
Geo T. Smith

Please accept my thanks for the docs you have so kindly furnished me. Our court is now in session.
Regds G. T. S.

Geo T. Smith
Elyna O. Feby 7th 185-
Answered Feby 15th 1851

B. B. Chapman Esq
Washington D. C.
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Williamsville Erie Co. N. York Nov 23d 1850

Dear Sir:
My father Russell Green deceased late of the county of Berkshire in the state of Massachusetts was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States under the act of the 7th June 1832. My mother Patience Green survived my father for several years and died without receiving the pension to which she was entitled. You will be pleased to call on the Commissioner of Pensions and examine the original papers of my father now on file in the pension office and see what rights may be due the surviving children of my mother and oblige.
Very Respectfully Yours
Abel Green

To B. B. Chapman Esq
Washington City
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Norwalk H Cy Ohio Jan 18 1842

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner &c

Sir
In the case of the widow Prudence Greenfield which you for a long time having had under consideration I now enclose to you the deposition of Jonathan N. Hinckley of the state of Michigan - a very old man who testified positively to her marriage with William Greenfield, viz that he was present at their marriage. That said William was a Revolutionary soldier. That he lived with the said Prudence while her husband was absent in the army. That he always understood he served in the army a great part of the war and that he served at Ticonderoga until Burgoyne was taken at St Water. And that his rank was that of a Quarter Master Sergeant &c &c.
Although he & other witnesses whose depositions I have before sent to you have not specifically testified to the particular places & times when William Greenfield deceased served. Yet I presume to ask whether he did not serve a considerable
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time during the Revolutionary War so as to entitle the widow to the provisions of either the Law of 1836 or 1838 - What amount she shall be allowed we willingly submit to your discretion in doing justice to the applicant as well as the Government. We respectfully request a [illegible] of the testimony heretofore forwarded to you - viz - the Declaration sworn to by the widow, Judge Kelloggs, deposition of Michigan. The deposition of Gersham Hinckley - formerly sent to you and I believe one or two others which are all probably on your files - the pen David Under which the names of the heirs to the widow I believe I have sent to you. I understand they are William, Prudence and Anna - who are all in indigent circumstances and need very much what can be granted to them.
If there should appear to be any formal defects in any of the papers - please to notify me.
I am very respectfully
Your ob sevt
Lewis B. Sturges
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[stamped]
FREE

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

Jn at July 19
Ohio
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Norwalk Ohio 12 1858

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner &c

Sir
As Congress will in this have adjourned you may probably have less [illegible] in your office; you will permit me again to ask your attention to a number of claims for pensions which I forwarded to you sometime since. I believe they are nine in number viz
Widows Schoolpraft - Cartwright - Greenfield - Burrell & Swan
others in form of Daniel Nossel, Samuel White, Moren Hull & Thomas Buckingham. All except one live considerably distant from this & their anxiety is such they are constantly coming in to enquire of the result .
Will you as soon as convenient inform me of the decisions which will much oblige the applicants.
Your respectful servant
Lewis B. Sturges
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Free

J. L. Edwards Commissioner Pensions
Washington City

North Fairfield
Ohio Jan 24

Jan 30 1844
Ohio
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Fairfield Huron Co Jan 25th 1844

Dear Sir
Col Greenfield retuned your his thanks for your Honorable Communication to him respecting the widow Greenfield Pension .
Viz I received your communication which was dated February 5th 1843, which informed me that your honor no papers in support of her claim since your letter to me which was dated 12th December 1842. That letter I have just received with one more from your honor dated February 8th 1842.
This information I have wanted ever since the widow made her first application to your honor for her pension, agreeable to the act of Congress. You refer me to the widows counsel Mr. Sturges of Norwalk.
He informed me that the late act did not require [illegible] proof from records and officers. For officers can be no proof after they are dead unless they have signed some paper of record and that paper is often worn out or lost by some accident and especially by militia men that is called on by the enlistment of alarm and proclamations of different officers in the Union and then transferred from one company to another and from one regiment to another. Where they was the most wanted and then make no further record then to discharge them. And pay them in Continental money.
And then under the [illegible] of Liberty they would volunteer again where ever our country was invaded and then discharged again by some other officer without making any regular return to our General Government.
That class of soldiers is what Congress intended to relative as I suppose by those making good circumstantial witnesses that they was actually in service of the United States
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However this question I presume was settled in your mind when your honor called on the widows counsel to prove her marriage.
Which was [illegible] as difficult to prove for the witnesses was all dead excepting her two young brothers that remained with her when her husband was in the Eastern army. Now sir, if you believe that she was married you have the same proof that her husband was actively in the Eastern army although you have no written record of either.
Yet you have the widows affidavit to both facts, yet one is positive proof and the other is circumstantial but who doubts either.
Likewise the widow stated in her affidavit that her husband was in the northern army previous to her marriage and that he was attached to Seth Warners regiment and that her husband was in Bennington battle. But your honor stated to her counsel that Warner was not in that battle for you had no record of it at Washington.
But you have Major Underhills affidavit to that point if I am not mistaken. That you saw both Wm Greenfield and Warner in that battle and describe the Col Dress on that day.
Also, she stated that she saw the discharge, that General Schuylor gave him after the surrender of General Burgoyne and that is now lost.
And there is no record of it, but who doubts it if she stated the truth in other points who will doubt the whole affidavit if not then we ask the honorable commissioner Mr. Edwards the privilege of coming under the late act of Congress for I am poor and needy.
Now Dear Sir,
Will your Honor permit me to apply to you for counsel in this singular case.
Do you not believe that there has been many

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hard fought battle in the United States and many papers relative there to, that has never been put on record [illegible] at the city of Washington if so, would it not be hard for our Government to treat them officers and soldiers with ingratitude for their merit when positive proof could not be made. 
We ask mercy on the principle of merit.
For your further consideration I have sent three more affidavits to the pension office, dated September 1843. I return Mr. Edwards, my sincere thanks for his information relative to this said pension.
Very Respectfully yours
Wm. Greenfield

Hon. J. L. Edwards
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Hon. Secretary at War
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To the Honorable Secretary of War Dear Sir
Col. Greenfield wishes to solicit your honor for counsel and information respecting the petition or application of widow Prudence Greenfield made to the War Department for a pension for the services rendered to the United States by her deceased husband in the Revolutionary War.
He wishes information respecting the decision, if any, at the [illegible] of Justice. If there is no decision yet made then he wishes to solicit your honors counsel respecting the necessary proof that the Law requires in this case and the judicial privilege the court has in his power to prove the facts now stated before him.
Or could it now, at this late hour of the day be legal justice in him to receive circumstantial witness to prove the reality of the above mentioned statement and for your further consideration.
I have a wish to make a few more remarks.
At this period of time, it is entirely out of my power to make proactive proof for since his death all of his papers have been destroyed.
And all his officers and soldiers that were once living witnesses to these acts are now dead. But they have left their common report which is still alive to this present day, that they saw William Greenfield a soldier both in the Northern and Eastern Armys during the greatest share of time of the American War. Who can doubt the reality of those reports that has been in circulation for more than seventy years. Facts is a jewel in the court of justice, two much reported to be thrown away upon this principal alone. We have a wish to ask for our privilege with others, agreeable to the promise of Washington and the former acts of Congress.
When he said the claims of every soldier would be liquidated as soon as the circumstances of the Nation would presume
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and for your further consideration I will make a few remarks on the witnesses - 
If I mistake not Gershome Hinckley stated that he was present when William Greenfield first enlisted into the United States Army and the command of Col Seth Warner and this circumstance took place in the first commencements of the Northern War.
And Major Underhill stated that he saw Warner and my father in Bennington Battle. Which was near the close of the Northern campaign. My mother stated that he returned home to the town in the fall after the surrender of Burgoyne and they were married.
The Revnd Jonathan N. Hinckley stated that he was present at their marriage and tarried with my mother in the absence of my father, when he was a soldier in the Eastern Army under the Proclamation of Governor Trumbull.
Mr Jotham Austin states that he and Capt Bentty raised a company of volunteers previous to his march and they did not return til after Arnold burnt the city of New London but remained in the service of the United States until the close of the war, in the struggle with the Indians and [illegible] on Little Hook River in York State.
The corresponding witnesses cooperated with the Common Reports which give strength to the proof of facts, that would more fully appear if the records had not been destroyed at the city of Washington.
And furthermore - the Hon Charles Kellogg stated that there was not a doubt resting in his mind respecting the services rendered by William Greenfield in the United States Army.
For my father once applied to him for assistance to obtain his pension from our Government when he had living witnesses for to testify to the truth of those reports, then in circulation in our Country which proved the facts to him without a doubt.
Viz Joseph Coats, Russel Brockway and others.
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And if his services to the United States was then true, they are now true. And will remain true until they become lost in the revolutions of time. And if he has never received any compensation from his government in his lifetime.
Congress has made provisions for his widow. And we his penury. He was can but sweetly hope that your honor will never suffer such noble acts of gratitude to fall into such a volume of river so long as you may have such a conspicuous part to act toward its attainment.
Permit me to make one more remark and I am done. If I mistake not all the witnesses state that my father William Greenfield was a man of truth and veracity. Which I consider is the mainspring to moral liberty. And it would be reasonable for us to believe him so far as his statements cooperate with the witness.
Some of them have stated that he was a commissioned officer, both in the Eastern and Northern army of the United States. I have often heard him and others state the same. And have seen his papers to that effect and have often him repeat the story of his sufferings with the cold and hunger up and down Lake George and Champlain in the winter and show us his frost bitten feet and hands and the scars of his wounds that he received in the defense of his country. But it was a cordial to his feelings when he considered the struggle was for liberty and independence.

Now, our only prayer, to the seat of Justice, is to dispose of this subject as they are proper. Fully believing that we his heirs will be reasonably rewarded for the merits of our deceased father.

Respectfully yours,
Wm. Greenfield

Hon Secretary at War
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Greenfield 19th September 1843

Hon Sir
I received your communication dated Feb 10th 1843. I was much pleased when you informed me that the case of Prudence Greenfield was not yet dismissed. But the case was yet open to receive further testimony. Her hears can but return your honor than thanks for your gratitude to them.
It was not our intention to wait for our witness to die but to procure them. But with all our fond care it is now out of our power to make positive proof.
Now my Dear Sir
It is with great reluctance that we poor heirs must wade through this sun of embarrassment in order to make a public statement relative to our parents papers and military campaign in the Northern and Eastern army of the United States War previous to our births.
Yet truth is like a diamond in the dust that never dies.
We have stated all the facts in our applicants agreeable to the best of our recollection.
We will submit our case to your honor.

Respectfully your humble servants
Wm Greenfield

Hon J. L. Edwards
Pension Office

PS. Please to direct your letter Greenfield Huron Co Ohio
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Norwalk Huron Co Ohio 23 Feb 1841

Mr. Edwards Commissioner

Sir
I ask again your attention to the application now that two years since of Mrs Prudence Greenfield widow of William Greenfield, a Revolutionary Soldier. Your answer dated July 20th 1838 was duly recd requiring for the proof of his services owing to the men to [illegible] of his old acquaintances. We have not been able to obtain the testimony until this time.
I now enclose to you the affidavit of Gershom Hinckley of Onondaga County State of New York swearing positively to said Williams services the times & the time of his marriage to the applicant Prudence which I trust and flatter myself will be satisfactory to you as to the true important points of service and marriage.
The widow died 5th November 1840 and it will be noted by you that Hinckleys deposition was completed on the 1st of November 1840, four days previous to her death, which brings it within the principle of your late decision in the case of the widow Mary Cartright decease.
I enclose to you the names of the heirs of Mrs. Greenfield
If anything further is required please inform me.
Your respectful Servt
Lewis B. Sturges
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Norwalk H. Ct. Ohio June 1838

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
More than two months since I sent to you the following application for pensions viz in favor of Mary Schoolcraft, Martha Burwell, Mart Cartright, Samuel White, Thomas Buckingham, Moses Hull & Daniel Nesser. The three first from old widows of Revolutionary Soldiers. I now in addition send to you in favor of Anne Levan & Prudence Greenfield, widows of Elias Levan & William Greenfield, Revolutionary Soldiers. To all of which I wish to call your attention as to these widows permit one to ask, that they are very aged, are immigrants to this new country. From the very remote places of their birth & former residences where the comrade deponents of their husbands lived in their early lives & are now dead & of course no particulars any can be forwarded to be prosecuted. I have however complied with the rules so far as I understand them, prescribed by your department, as to the good characters which I hope & trust will be satisfactory in establishing all the important facts necessary for a correct decision. These widows are all according to my opinion something their advance ages remarkable for the intelligence & for their good memories.
In the other cases under your consideration, I believe I have complied substantially with the order of your department. As early a decision as convenient will much oblige the applicants. And yours most respectfully,
Lewis B. Sturges
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Norwalk Ohio June 1841

J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner &c

Sir
I again respectfully ask your attention to the case of the heirs of Mrs Prudence Greenfield the widow of William Greenfield, a R. soldier deceased. First to the widows declaration - according to my recollection she swore that after her husbands other campaigns he enlisted as a volunteer & served in the Eastern service in N. London & other places, which was after his marriage to the applicant, which by other testimony took place as early as Dec 1777. This testimony is confirmed by Jothan Austin whose deposition is now sent to you. There is a circumstance necessary to explain to you respecting this Austin - you will observe by the caption of his deposition that it is dated by the Justice Ira Blackman in Erie County. This county was set off by a law of this state since the Justice was elected for Huron County then & now living in [illegible] his commission now continues for more than one year having been elected & commissioned for 3 years. It is the express law of the state that when there is a division of the county that the Justices of the old county elected before the division shall continue to exercise their authority the remainder of the time of their commission in their own county where first elected. C. Austin the deponent swears that William Greenfield the husband, served as much as two years at the East & at New London after his marriage & his Northern campaign in Capt Douglas company as a volunteer. I have also sent you the deposition of David Underhill a former inhabitant of Vermont respecting the important services of Col Seth Warner & Capt Davison at the North and the respectable character of Wm Greenfield & family. [illegible] a better character in any country than David Underhill.
I also send you the deposition of Charles
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Kellogg of the state of Michigan. This gentleman, it appears, was intimately acquainted with William Greenfield and his wife more than fifty years ago and knew their present children, gives their parents a high character and mentions the circumstances of importance.
This Judge Kellogg, as he is called & was formerly a Judge of the Common Pleas of the County of Cayuga State of New York, and was a member of Congress for that District, as I am informed, about the year 1820 or 21. 
I also enclose to you the finding of the court of Common Please for Huron County of the names of the heirs of the widow P. Greenfield viz William Greenfield, Anna Titus widow of Ladeck Titus & Prudence West wife of Timothy West.
Although I am sensible we have not been able to procure positive testimony precisely according to your requirements and yet I am confidence you will agree that in allowance might be made on account of the distance, of the times, when William Greenfield service, the deaths of his former acquaintances and very probably on account of the life [illegible] of documents in the war department, for I think there can be questions that William Greenfield did at various times perform important service for his country and that his representatives now living are entitled to the reward by virtue of the beneficent provisions of Congress and that they ought not to be defeated by objections of a technical virtue.
You will observe that he served as a Lieutenant for a considerable time. For how long does not appear. I also refer you again to Gershom Hinckleys deposition.
I am very respectfully
Your obt svt
Lewis B Sturges
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State of Ohio Erie County Ss
Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace within and for said county, Jotham Austin of Berlin in said County aged sixty five years and being duly sworn on his oath declares and says that he was acquainted with William Greenfield then a Revolutionary Soldier as early as the year of 1779, that he understood the said William was in the Northern Campaign for some years, that after he had served in said campaign the said Greenfield in consequence of a Proclamation of Governor Trumbull the then Governor of Connecticut to raise a corps of volunteers, the said Greenfield then living at Stephentown County of Bacalear State of new York enlisted into a company of volunteers to serve in the Eastern service of Connecticut. That said company was commanded by William Douglas as Captain and William Greenfield as Lieutenant, that the deponent says he understood said Greenfield served as much as two years, and that he was at New London when the British came to and destroyed that place by fire. That after that event he understood said Greenfield served at different places in behalf of the United States until the end of the war. That said Greenfield returned after his said service to said Stephenstown where the deponent was acquainted with him for a number of years. The deponent further understood that said Greenfield served as a Lieutenant under said Douglas. He doesn't remember the name of the Colonel of the regiment under whom said Douglas served.
Jotham Austin

Subscribed & sworn before me this 23 day of June AD 1840 and I further certify that the said Jotham Austin the deponent is a person of truth & veracity as far as I know.
Ira Blackman, J. Peace
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The State of Ohio
Huron County Ss} I Prudden Alling Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Huron do certify that Ira Blackman is a lawful magistrate as above, duly elected commissioned and qualified as such in said county for a period of time not yet expired, and since which time of election to the township in which he resides has been, by law, attached to the county of Erie, and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his are genuine. In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court at Norwalk this 23d day of June AD 1841.
P. Alling Clk, H, E, P

Jotham Austins
Deposition
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Anna Titus
Affidavit
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State of Ohio
Huron County} Personally appeared before me Hosa B. Pierce a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, Anna Titus aged 59 years May 1843, residence in the township of Lock County of Cuyuga New York. In being duly sworn deposeth and saith that she is the youngest daughter and child of William and Prudence Greenfield now deceased, and that she was well acquainted with many circumstances relative to her father's military campaign in the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States.
And that she had frequently seen all his army papers from her infancy up to a few years previous to his death.
One was a Sergeants warrant given him by Capt Charles Dunason dated early in spring of 1774 or 5 she cannot recollect which. Another one was a Quartermasters commission in Col Seth Warners Regiment and was dated shortly after his Sergeants warrant, but the signors name she cannot be positive but thinks it was George Clinton.
Another paper was his discharge from the Northern Army signed by General Schuyler dated late in the fall of 1778. She thinks that she is positive it was after the surrender of Burgoyne for on the 25th day of December 1777 he was married to Prudence Hinckley and early the next spring he was appointed a Lieutenant under Capt William Bentey and immediately marched into the Eastern Army under the Proclamation of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut and in that campaign my father remained in the service of the United States until the close of the war.
I do not recollect who signed his lieutenants commission but I believe it was Gov Trumbull. I do not remember of seeing any discharge in this campaign or any other papers worth mentioning.
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the deponent further states that her father in the year of our Lord 1818 made an application to the Hon Charles Kellogg for a pension agreeable to a late act of Congress. The judge then and there examined all his papers and witnesses and then said publicly there was not a doubt resting on his mind respecting the honest claims that my father then had on our government for his pension except one - and that was he then had too much property for to take the benefit of that act.
Of course he did not apply but a few years afterwards he became poor and needy, and was expressive to his children and remained so until the day of his death which took place on the 18th day of September 1829 - aged seventy five years and nine months.
Then his widow Prudence was living in the town of Fairfield Huron County Ohio.
And if I mistake not, she made her petition for a pension in the year 1836, now all her witnesses must be circumstantial for all of my father's papers and witnesses is dead and destroyed, and not one can any branch of our family now find.
Witness names that went before the Hon Judge was Joseph Coats, Russell Brockway, Capt Seth Burgess and others, all of them men, was of Truth and veracity, and always stated that they was well acquainted with my father, both in the Northern and Eastern army as above stated, and the Deponent further states that the above story has always been stated for truth and that she upon her oath believes the above mentioned statement to be bonded and true, and without contradiction, yet it is with great reluctance that the deponent must make an affidavit and state all those amount military maneuvering that took place with her father previous to her birth. Yet she considers it no sin to state this narrative, as he related it to her.
The deponent further states that she has often and repeatedly heard her father and other old soldiers state that he was in Saratoga and Bennington Battles likewise old Ticonderoga. Likewise Borough and Mountain dependence. And a great number on Lake Champlain that there names is now out of her mind.
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However his suffering was great with cold and hunger, some of his males who frozen on his hands and feet.
One circumstance she well remembers took place on that lake, General Schuyler sent my father which was then a Quartermaster in Col Warners regiment stationed at or near the head of that Lake to a Fort at or near the outlet of said lake, don't recollect the name. After three slay loud of oakum for the wadding of cannon and that journey must be performed on the ice with great danger.
However with all his fond [illegible] two of his teams and men fell through the ice and was drowned. But one man was left with him and his name was golden in this situation. They soon came to another opening in the ice where no retreat could be made, doth before and doth behind.
Yet with great exertions they gained the opposite shore all wet and extremely cold, night was coming on where no relief could be found, they made ever exertion to save those lives yet poor Golden froze to death running on the ice. And the next morning the commissary officer of the fort found my poor father frozen and senseless in his stays but by medical was restored to life again. And that receipt for that load of oakum my father has shown me with his other army papers.
And one more receipt he received that every man witnessed whenever he shoed the barroom, on his frozen fingers and toes.
Likewise I have heard him state all the particular circumstances relative to the savage murder of Ginny McGray and finding her black servant girl alive secreted in the cellar, and Warners men retreating before the savages. He received one bad wound in the right cheek in a battle fought by the Indians and Torys at Maloomscork near Old Horse River.
He was at the surrender of Burgoyne and was discharged from the Army by General Schuyler 1777, was then married and enlisted again in 1778 and remained in the United States army until the close of the war as above mentioned.
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Now to sum up the whole story of my father's military campaign in the United States Army.
I do believe that his first enlistment was in 1774 when the whole country was in alarm, and that his captain gave him a Sergeants Warrant in order to encourage him in his enthusiastic support for liberty, and Col Seth Warner gave him a Quartermasters Commission in order to encourage the youth in his bravery and still keep him out of danger. And then in the year of 1777 he caused him to have an honorable discharge.
Which influenced his superior officers to give him a Lieutenancy which encouraged him to stay until the close of the war and give him a spirit to love his government to his death.
And further this deponent saith not.
Anna Titus

Sworn before me this 4th day of Sept AD 1843
Hosea B Pierce Justice of the Peace

Anna Titus
Affidavit
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David Underhill
Deposition
Finding of the Court
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State of Ohio Huron County Ss

At court of the Common Pleas held in and for said county, on the 14th June AD 1841 satisfactory evidence was adduced in Court to prove that Mrs Prudence Greenfield was the widow of William Greenfield Senior a Revolutionary soldier deceased to the time of her death which took place on the 5th day of November AD 1840.
That the only children and heirs at law of said widow are William Greenfield now living & residing in Hartland in said county, Prudence West wife of Timothy West of Fairfield in said county and Anna Titus, widow of Ladeck Titus of the town of Locke in Cayuga county state of New York, deceased.
Benj Summers J. H. C. P.

State of Ohio Huron County Ss
I Prudden Alling Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do certify that the above evidence is taken from the records of my office and do also certify that the Hon Benjamin Summers is an associate judge of said court and that full faith & credit is and ought to be given to his attestations as such, and that the signature or signatures to the annexed depositions purporting to be his are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my official seal this 14th day of June AD 1841.
P. Alling Clk
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State of Ohio Huron County Ss

Be it known that on the 18th day of June AD 1841 before me Benjamin Summers one of the associate Judges of the court of Common Pleas for said county personally appeared David Underhill of [illegible] in said county aged seventy six years and being duly sworn on this oath declares & says that he resided and lived in the town of Dorset in the county of Bennington state of Vermont constantly from the year 1769 to the year 1789 which is a court thirty miles from Saratoga that he well knows Colonel Seth Warner from the beginning of the Revolutionary War to the year 1778, [illegible]. That said Warner commanded a regiment of American troops [illegible] in said [illegible] enlisted among them were militia. The deponent well remembers the battle of Saratoga but does not know that said Warner was in that battle, nor does he know that a Capt Denison was in it. But he does know that said Warner was in the battle of Hubbardton in said county, which took place before the battle of Saratoga. That the battle took place on the retreat of the American Army from Ticonderoga.
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towards Bennington - General Starks being at Bennington hearing that a detachment of British Troops under Burgoyne were on the march towards Bennington in order to destroy the American stores not a little out of Bennington. [illegible] hundred British and in a Battle killed & took prisoners amounting to nine hundred. Gen Starks took the prisoners to confine them in Bennington meeting houses. Col Warner was not in this battle.
Col Warner afterwards on the same day of Stark's battles met a new inforcement from Burgoynes army engaged in Battle with them killed many and dispersed the remainder & pursued them on [illegible] as many as 20 miles. The last inforcement was commanded by a Major Greene of the British army. The deponent from his acquaintance on with said battle his name & character fully believes he served in the American army from the beginning of and was to the years 1778 and 1779 at least. And there can be no question of the fact that he served in those Northern campaigns.
The deponent was not personally & particularly acquainted with William Greenfield Senior. He remembers to have seen & knew his character and he and his whole family were very respectable. Col. Seth Warner was remarkably excited for his heroism & personal bravery. he was born in Woodbury State of Connecticut & removed to Vermont before the Revolutionary war. He was 6 foot 2 inches in height - a spare raw boned man - large & stout - of a long favored countenance - large eyes - bold in his general appearance & area - very companionable for the most part - plain & affable - but not much prohibited.
David Underhill

Sworn & subscribed on this 18th day of June AD 1841 and I also certify that David Underkill the above deponent
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Gershom Hinckley
Deposition
case of Mrs Prudence Greenfield
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State of New York
Onondaga County
Town of Salina }ss.
Gersham Hinckley of said town being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was personally acquainted with William Greenfield of Steventown of Albany now Bansaler county New York. That he first became acquainted with him in the spring of seventeen hundred seventy five. Saw him at his brother Archibald's in said town, was knowing to said William Greenfield engaging or volunteering into the service of the United States in said spring of 1775 under Capt Charles Denison of Steventown N.Y. in the militia and that he served under him in the Northern Army in the capacity of a Sergeant for six or eight months and was in the said army for the most of the time after his enlistment in 1775 until 1777 or 1778 when he returned home and was married in December to Prudence Hinckley of Steventown N.Y. That he recollects this circumstance most clearly because it was the first wedding he had ever attended in his life. Recollects a man by the name of Hull married them. That the said William Greenfield was a man of [illegible] & action and of good character. That he lived with his wife Prudence Hinckley and remained her husband to his deponents knowledge until he died. And that the deponent was informed that said Greenfield served in said army after his marriage until the army was disbanded at Saratoga which deponent believes to be true. And deponent further saith that he has been credibly informed, and has no doubt truly informed, that said William Greenfield died in Fairfield township Huron County Ohio on the 18th day of September 1829 and that his wife Prudence Greenfield has remained his widow ever since to this date.
Gershom Hinckley

Sworn and subscribed Nov 1st 1840 Before me
J. P. Hicks, J. P.

I do hereby certify that Gershom Hinckley whose signature is attached to the above affidavit is a man who I have been acquainted with for more than twenty years & that I can cheerfully say that no man of my acquaintance stands higher for truth and veracity than he does. Dated Salina Nov 1st 1840
Jonathan P. Hicks J.P.
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State of New York
Onondaga County}ss. I Grove Lawrence Asst Judge of the county courts in & for said county do certify that I am personally acquainted with Gershom Hinckley who has made the within affidavit & who is now present & acknowledges that he made such affidavit at the time it was dated. He is a resident of the town of Salina, the same town in which I reside in said county & his reputation is good & full faith & credit is due to his statements either under oath or [illegible].
Given under my hand at the town of Salina in said county this 17th day of February A.D. 1841.
Grove Lawrence Asst Judge of Onondaga County Courts Counsellor

State of New York
Onondaga County} ss
I Charles T. Hicks (Clerk of the said County) do certify that Jonathan P. Hicks Esquire before whom the written affidavit purports to have been sworn, was at the date of the same, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature. And I do further certify that the Hon. Grove Lawrence whose name is subscribed to the above certificate was on the day of the date of the same First Judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for the said county of Onondaga and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of office this 17th day of February 1841.
Chas. T. Hicks Clerk
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State of Ohio
Huron County} Ss.
Personally appeared before me, Hosea Pierce a justice of the Peace in and for said county Prudence West eldest daughter of William and Prudence Greenfield, now deceased, aged sixty two years December 1842, now residing in the township of Fairfield Huron County Ohio, Deposeth and Saith upon her oath 
That she was well acquainted with many circumstances relative to her father's being in the army of the Revolutionary War.
She had repeatedly heard him and others state that he was both in the Northern and Eastern Army during the greatest share of the war and she candidly believes the report be true for she always considered her father to be a man of truth and she never heard any man contradict that story.
And that she had seen his papers to that effect. One was a discharge that the commanding general gave him, she thinks it was signed by General Schuyler after the surrender of Burgoyne 1777. This one her father showed her on or near the day that he applied to the Hon. Charles Kellogg for his pension.
His other papers she believes to be correctly stated by her brother and sisters affidavits having them read in her hearing, and she further states that her father always stated in his lifetime that he acted as Quartermaster in the Northern Army and Lieutenant in the Eastern Army.
And that he first enlisted under Capt. Charles Denison 1774 or 5 she thinks. However - 74- and the second time under Capt William Bentley of Stephentown Ranselar County New York where he married Prudence Hinckley and left her with Jonathan N. Hinckley her brother in the year of 1778 and went into the Eastern Army
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and marched into the Eastern Army under the proclamation of Governor Trumbull of Connecticut.
he was at New London when the city was burnt and remained in the United States army until the close of the war under the command of his superior officers.
How the governor arranged or disposed of his troops is now out of my recollection.
Yet I well recollect the frequent statements that my father and others made respecting this campaign and how much the inhabitants suffered by the British burning their buildings and property with our Traitor Arnold.
Agreeable to my recollection my father enlisted into the American Army in the spring of the year 1774 and returned home in the fall of the year 1779 to the arms of his affectionate wife quite worn out in his youth. Struggling for the liberty of his country.
He stated that he was in Bennington Battle and Saratoga battle, and suffered much on Lake Champlain with cold and hunger as my sister Anna has just related in my hearing. Likewise I have often seen his frost bitten hands and feet as she has stated, and the scars on his right [illegible]. You often mentioned the bravery and sufferings of Col. Seth Warners men, when on the Northern Lakes - one was when Warner stormed a certain Fort where General Schuyler had a sister then living the general order was not to for at the White House. However, that rider was countermanded by Major General Worster.
And the White House was soon inflamed, and the fort was taken. I have heard him relate the story as an eye witness, relative to the death of Ginny McCray and of their retreating before the savage Indians from the Northern Lakes to [illegible] and the surrender of Burgoyne.
And further the deponent saith not.
Prudence West
Sworn before me this 4th day of Sept AD 1843.
Hosea B. Pierce Justice of the Peace
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[stamped]
REJECTED

4283
P.O.
Prudence Greenfield

Service: ____________
Enlisted: _________, 18__.
Discharge: ____________, 18 __.
Application filed: ________, 18__.
Alleges: ______________
Re-enlisted: _______________
Attorney: _________
P.O. _____________
__________Recognized __________ Contract
__________ Cert. of Dis. 
Searched for __________, 18__.
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Prudence Greenfield
Wm
Ohio

Suspended

See let (this letter in claim of Elias Shaw R10331) 20 July 1838 L. B. Sturges let to do 19th April 1840
to same July 16, 1841
to same Feb 8, 1842
Hon G. W. Sweeney Dec 12 42
Hon G. Sweeney Feby 13 same
Feb 14, 1843
Let to Wm Greenfield 27 Feb '44
to Wm. Hunt Mar 24 '47
Act 4 July 1836

4283
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Heirs of Wm Greenfield

Wm Greenfield Jun
[illegible]
Now living in the township of Florence, Erie County Ohio

Prudence West wife to Timothy West
Fairfield Huron Ohio

Anna Titus Widow to Zadock Titus Lock
Cayuga Co N. York

Prudence Greenfield died November the 5 1840. Fairfield
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Death & Heirs of widow
Prudence Greenfield
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Washington 
March 2d 1847

Sir:
You would oblige me by furnishing me with information as to the situation of the claims of Prudence Greenfield, in light of her husbands (Wm. Greenfield) services in the Revolutionary war, mentioned in the communication of Wm. Greenfield enclosed to you herewith. With your answer be pleased to return the communication.
I have the honor to be
very Respect Sir
[illegible]
William Hunt

J. L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
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Paw Paw Mich
3 Jany 1842

Mr. William Greenfield
Florence
Erie County Ohio
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State of Michigan
Van Buren County}ss.
I Jeremiah H. Simmons Clerk of the County of Van Buren in the state of Michigan do certify that Horace Humphrey before whom the within affidavit purports to have been taken was at the date of said affidavit, a acting Justice of the Peace in & for said county, duly qualified and authorized by law to take the same; & further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice & believe his signature thereto is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said county and subscribed the same at Paw Paw in said County the first day of January 1842.
J. H. Simmons, Clerk
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Dear Nephew
South Haven Van Buren Co Mich. Dec 30 1841

Yours of Dec 1st came to hand a few days ago. I have taken the earliest opportunity to attend to the business you requested. A Justice of the Peace happening in the neighborhood the affidavit has been made out and will be sent to the county clerk tomorrow and forwarded immediately.
Jonathan N. Hinckley
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State of Michigan
County of Van Buren}ss.
Personally appeared before me Horace Humphrey a Justice of the Peace within and for said county Jonathan N. Hinckley of South Haven in said county in the seventieth year of his age and on being duly sworn according to law, on his oath, declares and says that he was acquainted sixty years or more with William Greenfield and his wife Prudence Greenfield and that they were lawfully married and had three children named William, Prudence and Anna. That the said William Greenfield hath been a soldier in the Revolutionary War and that he the deponent was particularly acquainted with the circumstances in relation to his marriage and of his return into the army for the deponent attended the wedding and remained in his sisters company in the absence of said William, the length of time that his campaign lasted the deponent does not recollect. Common report was that the said William Greenfield was in the army a great part of the time through the war and was a man of truth and veracity. It was a common report that he was at Ticonderoga and with the army until Burgoyne was taken at Still Water and that his rank was Quartermaster Sergeant. He was married at Stephen town Van Rensellaer County N.Y., removed to Little Hoosack as it was then called, the said deponent remained with his wife while he was in the army, he moved from thence to Pittstown, from thence to Galloway Saratoga County, thence to Sempromius Cayuga County and from thence to Fairfield Huron County Ohio. There he died and his wife Prudence also.
And further the deponent saith not.
Sworn to before me this thirty first day of December eighteen hundred and forty one.
Horace Humphrey Justice of the Peace
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William Greenfield
Affidavit
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State of Ohio Huron County }ss.
Personally appeared before me Hosea B. Pierce, a Justice of the Peace within and for said county, Wm. Greenfield of the above mentioned county aged sixty four years February 26th 1843.
Oldest son of William and Prudence Greenfield and on being duly sworn according to law, on his oath declares and says - agreeable to his own personal knowledge by papers handed him by his father William Greenfield and the statement made by him and Joseph Coats, Russell Brockway, Seth Burgess and others too numerous to mention at this time, and by my intimate acquaintance with those old Revolutionary soldiers, all of them men of truth and veracity,
there is not a doubt that rests on my mind but the said William was a commissioned officer both in the Northern and Eastern army of the United States War with Great Britain in the Revolution.
And this deponent further states that his father did give him some papers previous to his death, respecting his services in the war, one was a Sergeant's warrant signed by Capt. Charles Denison, Captain of a company of United States volunteers dated if I mistake not, early in the spring of 1774, Stephenstown, Ranselaer County, New York for the rank of Quartermaster in Col Seth Warners regiment and I think that paper bore date November 1776. I do not now recollect who signed it.
I had several other papers that was signed by Col. Seth Warner and General Schuyler, them was provision returns, and receipts for camp equipment.
One more paper which was signed by General Schuyler was a discharge from the Northern Army of the United States mentioning his rank, dated if I mistake not in the fall of 1777. There was some other papers relative to his campaign in the Eastern army if I mistake not they was signed by Governor Trumbull of Connecticut, dated 1778, if I mistake not one was a Private Commission wrote on parchment holding the rank of a Lieutenant. I do not recollect of seeing his discharge in that army.
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and furthermore this deponent states that he received all the above mentioned papers from the hands of his father William Greenfield and loosely deposited them with his own military papers until the year of our Lord 1836, in the month of June if I mistake not, I saw no further use for our old army papers. I therefore committed them to the flames, not intending however to destroy our old military commissions and discharges.
Yet I do believe that my fathers papers was all committed to that flame.
For now not one can be found. And furthermore the deponent thinks that he can safely state that his father was a man of truth and veracity, and that he would die in fighting for the liberty of our country.
And that he was repeatedly from his youth up to his father's death been instructed by him, and other soldiers in the same army, that he the said William Greenfield served our Country under the authority of the above mentioned papers signed by men of authority then in officers. Which had the attendance to lead him into many a hard fought battle on Lake Champlain and Lake George, Bennington, and Saratoga to many to now mentions which bound him to suffer much with his wounds, cold and hunger. This statement the deponent saith that his father and others has made in his hearing ever since his infancy. Which he believes to be a true history and without fraud. And further the deponent saith not.
Wm. Greenfield

And that the whole time would amount to four or five years services.

Sworn before me this 4th day of Sept AD 1843
Hosea B. Pierce
Justice of the Peace
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This may certify that Wm. Greenfield the within deponent is a man of truth and moral honesty and that I have been acquainted with him some twenty years.
Sworn to this 4th day of Sept 1843 Hosea B. Pierce Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Huron County Ss}
I Prudden Alling Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Huron do certify that Hosea B. Pierce is lawful Justice of the Peace of said county duly elected commissioned and qualified and that the three affidavits enclosed herewith purporting to be signed by him are the genuine signatures of said Pierce.
In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name and affix the seal of said court at Norwalk this 12th day of September AD 1843.
P. Alling Clerk H.C.P.
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V 3596

Prudence Greenfield Pension Papers

Ohio
Prudence Greenfield Decd
Ohio

Act 4 July 36
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State of Ohio Huron County Ss
Personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas within & for said county on the 28 May 1838 Timothy West residing in Fairfield in said county and William Greenfield of Florence in said county, the former sixty years old & the latter aged fifty nine & being duly sworn declare & say that they have frequently seen the discharge of William Greenfield Senior after the expiration of the services of said Wm. Senior in the Revolutionary War & the said William, one of the affiants, says it was delivered into his hands by his father, said William Senior, with other papers which said discharge has been by him accidentally lost.
Timothy West
Wm. Greenfield

Sworn to & subscribed the 28th May 1838
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State of Ohio Huron County Ss
I David Gibbs, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said county do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Prudence Greenfield for a pension. And that the Hon. B. Bowen is presiding Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit ...of the Court of Common Pleas within & for said State of Ohio and that his name subscribed within is his signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 28th day of May AD 1838.
D. Gibbs Clerk H.C.P.