Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 25,664, John Green, R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R.I.

Green, John
Amelia

NUMBER
W. 25,664
B.L.M-26705_160_55

CONTENTS
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20,552
New York

John Green of Rensselaer Co in the State of New York who was a Sergeant in the Comp. commanded by Captain Austin of the Regt. commanded by Col. Brown in the Rh [Rhode] Island line for 21 months

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
[at a] rate of 105 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum [to commence] on the 4th day of March, 1831.

[Certificate] of Pension issued the 21 day of Sep. 1833 and sent to A. G. Hammond Berlin

[Arrears] to the 4th of Sep. '33 [1833] $262.50
[Semi]-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar. 24 [1834?] 52.50
$315.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by Go C Stiles Clerk,
Book E. Vol. 4, Page 50.

Shipd - [illegible] letter to all
Agt Feb. 26, 1835 - do. to Geo Reynolds & R Bentley 9 May 1835

[vertical]
Lett to R Bentley 20th April 1835
" " ["Lett to"] A G Hammond 3d June 1835
1st Aug. " [1835]
Let to Wm Green [illegible] March 19, 1843
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3,785
New York Albany

Amelia Green widow of John Green RI who served in the Revolutionary war, as a Sergeant.

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 32 Dollars 83 Cents per annum, to commence on the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the 2d day of March 1854 and sent to Francis A. Dickens
Present

Recorded on the Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853, Page 74 Vol. 04
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In the matter of John Green
application for a Pension
140.48

Dec 49 - Sharon

admd
21 mo. Sergt.
105$
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Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7, 1832.

Form for State Troops, &c.
Printed & Sold by Kentile & Harper, 8 State-st. Troy, N.Y.

State of New York
County of Rensselaer [flourish bracket] ss.
On the Ninth day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before the Judge of the ["Court of" crossed out] Troy Majors [Mayor's] Court now sitting, John Green a resident of Berlin county of Rensselaer and State of New York, aged Seventy Eight years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

That in Year 1775 he resided in the Town of Westgreenwich [West Greenwich] in the state of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island], that at about the time of the battle of Lexington he enlisted in said town of Westgreenwich [West Greenwich] as a minute man in the Militia under Captain Benjamin Gorton in a regiment Commanded by Colonel Nathaniel Brown and was put under drill, that he remained as such minute man as long as he remained in the state which was till [until] March 1779 - that in the fall and winter of 1776 ending in December he served three months in garding [guarding] the shore under Captain Jeremiah Austin in the Regiment aforesaid during this time he served as an orderly sergent [sergeant] - That at about this time the militia was divided into two parts who served alternately one month each - that under this organization of the Militia he served in the Year 1777 Seven months six months of which was doing his own duty and one Month in the fall he went in Captain Michael Spencers [Spencer's] Company as a substitute for one Joseph Whitman of Eastgreenwich [East Greenwich] that during aforesaid six months he served as orderly sergent [sergeant] once the one Month as a substitute he served as an under sergent [sergeant]. That in the Year 1778 he served as above mentioned one half the time which made Six months during all which time he served as orderly sergent [sergeant] excepting two months of which he served as Sergent [sergeant] major and did adjutants [adjutant's] duty in the regiment aforesaid which was then joined to Colonel Carson's regiment and under the command of Colonel Brown of Scituate (not Col. Nathaniel Brown) as commidant [commandant]. that in the Year 1779 in the month of January and February he did one month duty as aforesaid - that during the whole of the above service he was generally engaged in garding [guarding] the shore and mostly stationed at Greenwich Newtown in the town of Eastgreenwich [East Greenwich] and at Quidnesick [Quidnessett] neck in the same town - that he also during said time was in General Spencers [Spencer's] attempted expedition against Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] in 1777 and in General Sullivans [Sullivan's]
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aforesaid during this time he served as an orderly sergent [sergeant] - That at about this time the Militia was divided into two parts who served alternately one month each - that under this organization of the Militia he served in the Year 1777 Seven Months six months of which was doing his own duty and one Months in the fall he went in Captain Michael Spencers [Spencer's] Company as a substitute for one Joseph Whitman of Eastgreenwich [East Greenwich] that during the aforesaid six months he served as orderly sergent [sergeant] and the one Month as a substitute he served as an undersergent [under sergeant] - That in the Year 1778 he served as abovementioned one half the time which made Six Months during all which time he served as orderly sergent [sergeant] excepting two months of which he served as Sergent [Sergeant] Major and did Adjutants duty in the regiment aforesaid which was then joined to Colonel Carson's regiment and under the command of Colonel Brown of Scituate (not Col. Nathaniel Brown) and commidant [commandant] - that in the Year 1779 in the Month of January and February he did one month duty as aforesaid - that during the whole of the above service he was generally engaged in garding [guarding] the shore and mostly stationed at Greenwich Newtown in the town of Eastgreenwich [East Greenwich] and at Quitnesick [Quidnessett] Neck in the same town - that he also during said time was in General Spencers [Spencer's] attempted expedition against Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] in 1777 and in General Sullivans [Sullivan's] expedition on Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] in August 1778, during this last expedition was the time abovementioned when he was sergent [sergeant] major and did the duty of the Adjutant - that he does not recollect the identical officers who commanded his company at the various times when he was in the service but at those times he was under the following officers he knows and under some of them a number of times a peace [piece] - to wit Captains Gorton & Austin aforesaid and Captain Alexander Hopkins, Captain Joseph Draper, Lieutenant Thomas Comstock, Ensign Nicholas Myers, Captain Benjamin Corps, Lieutenant Caleb Green & Ensign Joseph Weaver - that he recol ["recollects" split across pages]
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lects ["recollects" split across pages] that he served under the following field officers in addition to the above viz. Colonel Waterman of Warwick and Major Alvin Wait of Coventry - That in the spring of 1779 in the month of March he removed to the State of New York to what is now the town of Berlin County of Rensselaer & State of New York That in said Year he entered the service in said place last aforesaid as a volunteer and was called out by Captain Samuel Shaw and was in service under him during that ["4-" in margin] year as an Orderly sergent [sergeant] for at least four months - that during this last service he went on an expedition to Fort Edward and one to Schoharry [Schoharie] and one to Cherry Vally [Valley] and one to Shoharry [Schoharie] Creek & to [illegible] &c, all in the said State of New York - That he has no documentary evidence of his services and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure except what is hereunto annexed who can testify to his services -

To the Inscribed Interrogatories put by the Court he answers
1. He was born in Westerly in the State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] aforesaid in the year 1754 -
2. There is a record of his age in the town Clerks [clerk's] office in said town of Westerly - 
3. He lived when he entered the service as above stated and continued there as above stated till [until] 1779, when he removed to where he now and has ever since lived in Berlin State of New York as aforesaid
4. & 5. To these Interrogatories he refers to the above statement -
6. He never received a written discharge
7. He is known in his present Neighborhood to John Reeve Puller & Burton Hammond who can certify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution -
John Green

State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss [flourish bracket] Job Green of Brunswick in the state last aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was acquainted with John Green above named during the war of the Revolution that in Sullivans [Sullivan's] expedition in Newport he [illegible] deponant [deponent] service as an adjutant and knows that the said John was also there and served as a sergent [sergeant] - that he also knows he the said John was in the service at Greenwich Newtown and knows generally that he was a soldier of the revolution and also believes that the statement of the said John as above given is true and further says not -
Job Green

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid [flourish bracket] Archibald Bull Clerk
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And the said John Green -
["He" crossed out] hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any,) only on that of the agency of the State of [blank]
John Green

Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk

We, William Satterlee a Clergyman, residing in the town of Berlin and Alonzo G. Hammond residing in Berlin hereby certify that we are acquainted with John Green who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Wm. Saterlee
A. G. Hammond

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull

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 William Satterlee who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the town of Berlin and that Alonzo G. Hamond & Job Greene who has also signed the same affidavit are ["is a" crossed out] residents in the towns of Berlin & Brunswick and ["is a" crossed out] are credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I, Archibald Bull Clerk of the ["Court of" crossed out] Troy Mayors [Mayor's] Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Greene for a pension.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ninth day of August 1832.
Archibald Bull
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[illegible]: Wm. Valentine Oct. 6" 15 5
Vol. G. 131.

63.075
act. March 5/35
apl - 12 - 1853

Amelia Green widow of John Green - Sergt.

Applicant refers to her papers for Pension under act. Feb 3d 1853 in support of her bounty claim.

No. 26,705 iss May 22/56

N.Y. Feby 53 - 3985

[illegible] 17/86
[illegible]
Rd I

Wm. Valentine
Albany N.Y.
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Additional evidence
Amelia Green widow of John Green decd.
Act 3d Feb. 1853

Revolutionary
Boynton
Feby 2/54

Francis A. Dickins
Atty
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State of New York
County of Rensselaer } ss

on this fifth day of October A.D. 1853 personally appeared before the Justices Court of the City of Troy in the County & State aforesaid Amelia Green a resident of the town of Berlin in the County of Rensselaer and State aforesaid aged sixty three years, who first 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 on the 3d day of February 1853, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war that she is the widow of John Green who was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary Army (as will appear by his Certificate of Pension hereunto annexed) and belonged to the Rhode Island Militia as will appear by documents on file in the war department

She further declares that she was married to the said John Green on the third day of July Eighteen hundred and thirty six [1836]; that her said husband died at Berlin in said County on the 31st day of July AD 1838 that she was not married to him prior to the to second day of January Eighteen hundred [1800] but at the time above stated. She further declares that she is now a widow

In presence of Chas E Brintnall
Amelia Green
x her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before
Charles E Brintnall
one of the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Troy
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Rensselaer County
State of New York
Troy Justices Court [flourish bracket] s.s.

I Prentiss L Jones, Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Troy (The same being a court of Record having a clerk and seal.) Do hereby certify that Charles E Brintnall before whom the foregoing Declaration was made and the annexed affidavit was sworn, was at the time of taking such declaration and affidavit one of the Justices of said Court duly authorized to take the same and that his signature signed thereto is in his proper and genuine hand writing

In Testimony whereof I have this sixth day of October 1833 set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court.
PL Jones
Clk Jus Court
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State of New York
Rensselaer County [flourish bracket] Ss

On this fifth day of October AD 1853, personally appeared before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Troy Lucy Anne Green & Esther H Randolph of the Town of Berlin in said County who being duly sworn according to law declare and say that they knew John Green & Amelia Green that they were present at wedding of said John & Amelia that they were Married in the Town of Berlin in said County on the 3d day of July AD 1836 by on [one] Asa Coon a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Rensselaer and that they the said Lucy Ann Green and Esther H Randolph were both present & witnessed the ceremony of said Marriage
And that they knew the said Amelia Green to be the widow of the said John Green
Lucy An Greene
Esther H. Randolph

Sworn before and subscribed before me on the day and year preceding written and I hereby certify that the above are credible witnesses
Charles E Brintnall
One of the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Troy

["and I hereby certify that the above are..." crossed out]
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Additional evidence required by letter from Pension Office of 13th Sept 1853 in case of Amelia Green widow of John Green decd.

act 3d Feb. 1853

[illegible]
F. A. Dickins
atty

These papers must be returned

John Green's Pension Paper
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Certificate for obtaining a Pension under the Act of June 7, 1832. _ Printed and Sold by Kemble & Hooper, 8 State st, Troy.

STATE OF NEW YORK,
Rensselaer County, [flourish bracket] ss.
Be it known, that before me, Asa Coon, a justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, personally appeared John Green and make oath in due form of law, that he is the identical person named in the Original Certificate in his possession of which (I certify) the following is a true copy:

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM
I Certify that in conformity with the law of the United States of the 7th of June, 1832, John Green of the State of Newyork [New York] who was a sergeant in the revolutionary Army is entitled to receive One Hundred & five dollars [blank] cents per annum during his natural life, commending 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 21st day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three [1833]
Lew Cass
Secretary of War

(L.S.)
Examined and Countersigned, [flourish bracket]
J. L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions

That he now resides in Berlin, Newyork [New York] and has resided there for the space of Fifty seven years past and that previous thereto he resided in West-Greenwich R.I.
John Green

SWORN and subscribed before me,
this 5 day of March 1835 [flourish bracket]
Asa Coon J. Peace
The word "past" is interlined in fifth line above between the words "years & and."
Asa Coon J. Peace

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, John Green of Berlin N.Y. a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States do hereby constitute and appoint Rensselaer Bentley of Berlin N.Y. my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name, to receive from the Agent of the United States for paying Pensions in the city of ["New York," crossed out] Albany my Pension from the 4th day of September 1834 to the 4th day of March 1835
WITNESS, my hand and seal, this 5th day of March 1835

Sealed and delivered in presence of
Asa Coon
DW. Struter

John Green

STATE OF NEW YORK,
Rensselaer County, [flourish bracket] ss.
BE IT KNOWN, That on the Fifth day of March 1835 before the subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County, personally appeared John Green above named and acknowledged the foregoing Power of Attorney to be his act and deed.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand the day and year last above mentioned.
Asa Coon J. Peace

N.B. The deposition as well as the Power of Attorney must be signed by the Pensioner and every interlineation, erasure or alteration of a word or figure must be noted in due form by the Magistrate.

The word "Newyork" was erased and the word "Albany" inserted before signing.
Asa Coon J. Peace
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July 2nd 1836

Married John Green to Amelia Gavit both of Berlin

Present George N Greenman & Schuiler Greene.

State of New York
Rens Co. SS.
Town of Berlin [flourish bracket]

On this 27th day of January, 1854 personally appeared before me, Edgar R Green Town Clerk of said town of Berlin who being by me duly sworn doth depose & say that the above is a true copy of the record being the Docket of Asa Coon a Justice of Peace of this town for the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & thirty six [1836] and now deposited & on file in my office
E. R. Green Town Clerk Town Berlin

Sworn & subscribed on the day & year above written before me
R. R. Allen Justice peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
RENSSELAER COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE. [flourish bracket] ss.

I, Ambrose H. Sheldon, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that R. R. Allen before whom the annexed affidavit was made, and whose name is thereto subscribed, was, at the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto subscribed is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this thirty first day of January A.D., 1854
A. H. Sheldon, Clerk.
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Personly [Personally] came before me Thomas P Saunders official Court Judge Jefferson County State of Newyork [New York] Asa Coon of the town of Adams Jefferson County and State of Newyork [New York] and being duly sworn dipose [deposes] and says that he personly [personally] knows John Green dicased [deceased] of the town of Berlin, county of Rensselaer and State of New York was a revolutionary pensioner and I am very confident the only revolutionary pensioner of that name in said town having myself been a resatent [resident] of that town for many years and frequently assisted them in making out their papers to draw pensions. I think had there ben [been] an other pensioner of that name I should have known him. This deponant [deponent] further depose [deposes] and says that about the fourth of March 1834 I assisted the above named John Green in making out his papers to draw his pension from the 4th of September 1834 to the 4th of March 1835 that he then made affidavit before me that he was the Identical John Green named in his certifficate [certificate] of pension that was in his hands which I myself also knew. I also at the same time took his acknowledgement of a power of atorney [attorney] Rensselaer Bently [Bentley] to draw said pension. This Deponant [Deponent] further depose [deposes] and says that on the evening of the third of July 1836 I solumnised the marriage of the above named John Green and Amelia Gavit accordin [according] to the viseages [visages] of the Church that the said Amelia is now the widow of the above named John Green if she is living which I have no dout [doubt] of and lives in the aforesaid town of Berlin and I was at the time of the marriage an active Magistrate of the above said County
Asa Coon
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On this 19d day of January 1854, Asa Coon being duly sworn says that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is in all respects true, and I further certify that I am well acquainted with said Asa Coon and know him to be a credible witness.

T. P. Saunders
Special County Judge
Jefferson County
Counsellor
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
JEFFERSON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, [flourish bracket] ss

I, JOHN L. MARSH, Clerk of the County of Jefferson, do hereby certify that T. P. Saunders Esq., whose name is subscribed to the certificate of proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof of acknowledgement, a Special Co. Judge, in and for said County, duly authorized to to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof, or acknowledgement is genuine; and further, that the said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the Laws of this State.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of said County, this 20th day of January 1854.

John L. Marsh Clerk.
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Bounty Land
Act March 3, 1855

63,075

Forwarded by Wm. Valentine of Albany N.Y.
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From Wm Valentine of Albany NY.

DECLARATION.
REVOLUTIONARY WIDOW FOR BOUNTY LAND.
State of New York
County of Rensselaer [flourish bracket] ss.

On this third day of April 1855 before me H. E. Denision a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, personally appeared Amelia Green aged sixty four years, a resident of Berlin in said county, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration, in order to obtain the Bounty Land to which she is entitled under the act of Congress, passed March 3d, 1855, that she is the widow of John Green who was Sergeant in the Revolutionary War, and for the service of her husband aforesaid she now receives a pension at the rate of thirty-two Dollars & eighty three cents per annum, under the act of Congress, passed Feby 3d 1853 - For evidence of the services of her husband aforesaid, this declarant refers the Department to the evidence on file in the Pension Office at Washington, and requests the Land Warrant forwarded to her Agent, Wm Valentine of Albany NY

She further declares that she is now a widow; and that she has not received or made application for bounty land under this or any other act of Congress.

Amelia Green
x her mark

Subscribed and Sworn to before me, this 3d day of April 1855.
H E Denison Justice Peace
I certify that Amelia Green is the identical person above named and described. And I further certify that I have no interest whatever in the result of the matter above referred to.
H E Denison Justice Peace

STATE OF New York
County of Rensselaer [flourish bracket] ss,
John Whitford and John Wilcox of Berlin in said county, who are credible and competent witnesses, being sworn, deposeth that Amelia Green is the identical person above named and described.
Sworn and Subscribed before me, this third day of April 1855 [flourish bracket]
H. E. Denison Justice Peace

John Whitford
John Wilcox

State of New York
COUNTY of Rensselaer [flourish bracket] ss.
I, A H Sheldon Clerk of the County aforesaid, Do hereby certify, that H. E. Denison is and was at the within date, a Justice of Peace within a for said County, duly qualified and authorized by Law to administer Oaths for general purposes, That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe his signature within written is genuine.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the official Seal of said County, this Ninth day of April 1855
A. H. Sheldon CLERK
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John Green
Renssealear [Rensselaer] county
New York

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A. G. Hammond
Berlin N.Y.
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BRIEF in the case of John Green of Renssealear [Rensselaer] Co. in the State of New York
(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? [blank]

3. How old is he? 78

4. State his service, as [illegible] annexed.
[Row headings] Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
[Row 1] substitute In 1776. 3 months. As a sargeant [sergeant]. Capt. Gorton, Capt Austin, Col Brown
[Row 2] do [substitute in] 1777. 7 months. As a 6 mo. orderly 1 mo. "under" sargeant [sergeant]. Capt Spencer
[Row 3] 1778. 6 months. As a orderly & sargeant [sergeant] major. Capt Hopkins
[Row 4] 1779. 1 month. As a sargeant [sergeant] major. Capt Draper
[Row 5] At least 4 months. As a orderly. Capt Shaw

5. In what battles was he engaged? [blank]

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? West Greenwich R. I.

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? living witness & traditionary

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Not connected as required

I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

F. Bradford
Examining Clerk
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John Green N.Y. Albany 105$. act 7 June 32 when last pd.
[illegible]

4 apl '40

10% 4 Sep 1834
IH
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R Bentley
20th April 1835
O.C.
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War Dept.
Pension off
Apr 35 [1835]

Sir
In reply to your enquiry of 10th inst [of this month] I have to state that the allegations of service upon which John Green was [illegible] allowed a pension are inconsistent with the legal terms of the militia service of R. Island. It is believed that some of the alleged terms embrace the agregate [aggregate] of service tours which the regulations require should be seperately [separately] & distinctly setforth [set forth]. 

The grade of sergeant should be sustained by producing the warrant or accounting for its non-production

In addition to the defects apparent in his papers, it is proper to apprise you that a letter has been forwarded to this office in which the writer asserts that "he did not do one month duly in the Revoy. war" &c. and that it is the opinion of almost all the people of Berlin that his pension ought to be stopped.

R. Bentley esqr
Berlin N.Y.

act 7 June
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Renssalaer Bentley Esqr
Berlin
Renssalaer [Rennselaer] County
NY
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Albany, April, 17, 1835

Dear Sir
Agreeably to your request I have called at the Pension Office and made the inquiry requested. The agent here has suspended the payment of John Greens [Green's] Pension of Rennsalear [Rennselaer] County, in accordance with the vague & indefinite direction from the War department to suspend John Greens [Green's] pension, without designating which, when there are on his Book some 6 or 8 of the same name. The agent advised that you address James L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
Washington

on the subject,
your obt svt
A Sykes
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N.Y. Apr. 17

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

John Green
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Berlin April 10, 1835

Mr. J. L. Edwards,
Sir,
I presented the Pension Paper of John Green for 6 months Pension from 4 Oct. 1834 to 4 March 1835, at the Pension agency Albany, where I was informed that his Pension was suspended - as Mr. Green was one of the first Pensioners whose claim was allowed in this place, and no doubt having existed as to his claim, it is thought there must be some mistake - By informing me on reception of this letter why the above named Pension is suspended you will much oblige

Yours &c.
Rensselaer Bentley
Sol. John Green Esq.

P.S. Mr. Green's Pension is recorded in book E. Vol. 4. Page 50 by G. C. Stiles, Clerk - Mr. Green was a Sergeant & is put on the Pension List at $105.00 per Annum.
R. B
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Rensselaer Bentley
July 22, 1839
G. C.

Record [illegible] page 382
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War Dept.
Pension office
July 22d 1839

Sir,
I have received your letter of the 15h inst [of this month]. The amount overpaid to John Green must be retained, as we cannot direct any payment letter made to his heirs while he stands on our books as a debtor. The petition of the Town Clerk and others to which you allude cannot be sent from this office, consistently with our rules.

Rensselaer Bentley, Esqr
Berlin, N. York
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Berlin NY
October 1 [flourish bracket] 1834

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[vertical]
Oct 5
Jno Green
N.Y.
20552
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir,
In your communication to me you refuse to return me a petition which was addressed to Congress by James J. Murray, Thomas T. Gray & others in behalf of John Green Esq relating to his Pension - I Have seen and conversed with part of the signers of that Petition, who are much dissatisfied with the course which has been pursued - The petition was not intended for your department, but was merely handed you for the purpose of giving you some information upon the subject of Mr. Green's services in the Revolutionary war, and was not called for by mistake, when I was in Washington - In behalf of the signers, I therefore demand the Petition - that it may be used in such a manner as they shall direct - I hope you will think proper to return them their Petition, and save them the trouble of calling for it in some other manner -

Yours &c.
Rensselaer Bentley,
In behalf of the Petitioners.
Berlin, N.Y. Sep 28, 1839.
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Pension Office 31 Jany 39.

Sir,
The claim of the representatives of the late Mr. John Green referred to in your letter of the 29th, inst. to [amass?] of pension has been examined.- In the month of Feb. 1835 a [caveat?] was filed in this case which induced a impression of Mr. Greens [Green's] pension.- It appears on investigation that the individual who reported that the pensioner had never been in actual service a month was not written to credit. But on a re-examination of the original papers it was found that his claim had been admitted upon insufficient evidence.- He was therefore required in order to being restored to the pension roll to specify his service in the manner prescribed by the regulations of the Department and to provide further proof.- It was alleged in his declaration that he enlisted in 1775 as a minute man in Capt Benj. Gorton's comp. and continued in service as a minute man until 1779. That in 1776 he served 3 mo in Capt Austins [Austin's] comp. That
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Pension Office 31 Jany 39.

Sir,
The claim of the representatives of the late Mr. John Green referred to in your letter of the 29th, inst. to [amass?] of pension has been examined.- In the month of Feb. 1835 a [caveat?] was filed in this case which induced a impression of Mr. Greens [Green's] pension.- It appears on investigation that the individual who reported that the pensioner had never been in actual service a month was not written to credit. But on a re-examination of the original papers it was found that his claim had been admitted upon insufficient evidence.- He was therefore required in order to being restored to the pension roll to specify his service in the manner prescribed by the regulations of the Department and to provide further proof.- It was alleged in his declaration that he enlisted in 1775 as a minute man in Capt Benj. Gorton's comp. and continued in service as a minute man until 1779. That in 1776 he served 3 mo in Capt Austins [Austin's] comp. That
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about that time the Militia were [cassed?] he served 6 months in 1777 as one of a class every other month and on month as a substitute in 1778 6 months, in 1779 one month and after his removal to Berlin 4 months under Capt. Samuel Shaw.- Minute-men was excepted from classification their duties and terms upon which they were engaged were likewise wholly different from the classical Militia and it may be said that there is no well authenticated case in which an ordinary Rhode Island Militia man belonging to a class served in any one year more than three months during the war.- The witnesses Edward Green whose statement is more in conformity with what is now known, of the Militia service of that state says that John Green served two months in 1777 in Col Browns Regt and subsequently one month under Capt Burnet, one month in Spencers [Spencer's] expedition, one month in Sullivans [Sullivan's] expedition and one month in 1779 under Capt Shane ["for" crossed out] but it appears from the rolls of Capt. Shane that the tour in his company
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was one month and 17 days, which added to the service in Rhode Island is 6 months & 17 days which is allowed from the time the suspension up to the time of the pensioners death.-

Hon Henry Vail
House of Reps.
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No. 2445

Amelia Green, widow of John Green
Let. F A. Dickens Sept 13/53
(RI)
To same Oct. 20/53
(RI)
To same Jan 6/54 
including "additional proof" folio
Revy 13th Sept. 1853
""" 15" Feb: 1854.
Act 3d Feby 1853
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Suspended -
offered 6 mos and 17"
Decd [illegible] 1839
Let. to J. Taliaferro
May 5/40

[upside down]
act 7 June 1832
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[left hand side]
Agency Book shows -
Death - Ref. -- June -- 1839

[right hand side]
Let. Pen. agt. 26 Feby 35
- Geo. Reynolds 9 May --
- R Bentley 20 Apl --
- AG Hammond 3 June -
- 1. Aug -
- R Bentley 7 Decr. -
- AG Hammond 4 May '36
- J. Green 17, July 37.
- A.G. Hammond 17 July 38
Hon. H. VAil 31. Jany 39
R. Bentley 22 July 39
- 5 Octr. -
Hon. J. Taliaferro 5 May 40
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63,075
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[Stamp]
ALBANY
APR
10
N.Y

L. P. Waldo Esqr
Comr of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

[vertical hand writing]
2
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Mar / 25th 1853
Amelia Green.
wid of John.
Rensselaer Co:
N.Y.

Sergt. 6. mo: & 17d;
act/53
$32.83 per an:
[illegible]: Feby: 3d. 1853.

Revy

Francis A. Dickens,
Present.

[vertical type]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIO,
Pension Office, Official Business.
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Brief in the case of Amelia Green, widow of John, Rensselaer County and State of New York.
act 3d. Feby: 1853.

Claim, {"original," ["or "for increase.")" crossed out]

Proof exhibited, {if original.}
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.

Husband was a pensioner under the act of 7" June. 1832.
Marriage proven by the magistrate who performed the marriage service for the parole proof.

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
[blank]

Francis A. Dickens Esqr.
Present.
Name and resident of Agent

J. C. Boynton.
Examining Clerk
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Rens 15 Feb 1854
9330

Pension Office
February 15th 1854,

Sir,
The claim of Ms. Amelia Green, widow of John, has been again examined (together with the additional evidence refiled on the 2nd inst:) and suspended. The children of John Green, have twice made application to this Office for the arrears of pension due to their father at his decease and in both instances the papers have been returned to a member of Congress who was preparing such claim, As the children could be entitled only in case their father left no widow living, it is but just to presume, that proof was made, that no widow survived said John. Some explanation is required upon this point. It would be advisable to present the statement of some of his children (under oath) in the matter. It seems somewhat singular that the widow has not heretofore made application for the arrears due her deceased husband at his death.

Some explanation upon this point is also required from the applicant. Evidence of her name previous to her marriage to said John, must be filed. She will be required to prove beyond a doubt that she is the widow of the identical
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John Green, who was a revolutionary pensioner of Rensselaer County, New York, Additional evidence of her husbands death is required.

The witnesses Cynthia M. Baker, Phebe Potter, Rowland Thomas, Lucy Ann Green, & Esther H. Randolph, are not certified to be credible. Such certification must be filed.

Very Respectfully
L P Waldo
Commissioner

F. A. Dickens Esq
Present
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R. 18 Jany 1854. 9258

Pension Office
Jany 16th 1834

Sir,
Upon a thorough examination of the papers filed in support of the claim for a pension of Ms. Amelia Green, alleged widow of John Green, I am constrained again to suspend the case.

There is not satisfactory proof the marriage. If there be a record proof it must be submitted, and if not that fact must be satisfactorily shown. Is the Justice (Asa Coon) who married them, still alive? If so, his testimony much be adduced. If he is dead, the proof of that fact is required. The witnesses in the case must be certified to be credible. The certificates of credibility not singned [signed] by the Judge, cannot be regarded as complying with our rules upon this point. Additional proof is also required identifying the present claimant as the widow of the pensioner named
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in the copy of the pension certificate filed in the case. You will readily admit the necessity of these precautions, when informed that the children of the said soldier made application for the arrears due him, in the year 1839. The papers filed by them were returned to the Hon. H. Vail, and it cannot therefore be ascertained what proof was submitted, but as their right to whatever was due does not appear to have been at all contested, it is fair to presume that the satisfactorily proved that there was no widow of the soldier then living, as such proof was indispensable. This matter, must of course, be also explained. I return you the copy of the certificate and additional evidence, &c, filed 13th Sept. 1853, referred to above, to enable you the better to comply with these requirements.

Very Respectfully
L P Waldo
Commissioner

F. A. Dickens
Present

(Gettis)
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Revy WIDOW, &c.

File No. 25664
Amelia Green wid of John Green
Sergt Rev War

Act Feb 3d 53
Index: Vol. A, Page 293

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Amelia Green
application for arrears
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State of New York
Rensselaer County [flourish bracket] Ss

On this fifth day of October AD 1853 personally appeared before the Justices Court of the City of Troy Amelia Green of the Town of Berlin in said county aged sixty five years, who being just duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the ["benefit of the pen" crossed out] back pension that may be due John Green of the town of Berlin Deceased and to which he was entitled under the act of Congress passed June 7h 1832 or any other act. And for proof of his service she refers to documents on file in the war department

She further declares that she was married to the said John Green on the third day of July 1836; that the said John Green her said husband died at Berlin in said county on the 31st day of July 1838

She further declares that she is now a widow

In presence of
Chas E Brintnall

Amelia Green
x her mark

Sworn to and subscribed before
Charles E Brintnall
one of the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of Troy

State of New York
Rensselaer County
Troy Justices court [flourish bracket] ss.
I Prentiss L Jones Clerk of the Justices court of the city of Troy the same being a court of Record having
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a clerk and seal, I Do hereby certify that Charles E. Brintnall before whom the foregoing Declaration was made and the annexed affidavits were sworn was at the time of taking such declaration / affidavit one of the Justices of said court duly authorized to take the same, and that his signature signed thereto is in his proper and genuine hand writing

In Testimony whereof I have this sixth day of October 1833 set my hand and affixed the seal of said court
P L Jones
Clk Jus Court
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State of New York
Rensselaer County [flourish bracket] Ss

On this fifth day of October AD 1853 personally appeared before the Justices of the Justices Court of the City of NY Varnham Green of the town of Berlin in said County who being duly sworn according to law declares and says that he was acquainted with John Green late of the Town of Berlin in his life times and that he knows him to be the identical John Green mentioned in the Certificate of Pension hereunto annexed and that Amelia Green who makes the annexed declaration is the widow of the said John Green
Bernum Green

Sworn and subscribed before me
Charles E Brintnall
One of the Justices of this Justices Court in the City of Troy - and I hereby certify that the above is a credible witness
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May
1853
&
1832
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Washington 23d May 1853

Sir,
Enclosed I have the honour of presenting to you the claim of Mrs. Amelia Green widow of John Greed decd for a pension under the act of 4d Feb. last - and also for the amount of pension due her late husband under the act of 7 June 1832.-

Yours respectfully
Francis A. Dickins

To the Commissioner of Pensions
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[left side, vertical text]
John Green, act 7th June 1832, $105. per annum:- Paid to 4h Sept. 1834, no date of death on our Books, therefore, it is a mistake that the Children ever drew any portion of the arrears of a Pension. There are several John Green's on New York Roll, but John Green at $105 per annum has been paid as above stated.-
[illegible]

[right side]
Pension Office
Sept. 9, 1853

Sir, In this case it appears from the papers that the children of the pensioners applied for arrears due at the time of his death.

The widow now makes application - If arrears were paid, please state (in addition to the usual certificate) to whom they were paid &c.

Very respectfully
Your obt servt
S. Cole
For Commissr

F. Burt Esqr
Present
(see the other side.)
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John Green, act 7th June 1832, $105. per annum:- Paid to 4h Sept. 1834, no date of death on our Books, therefore, it is a mistake that the Children ever drew any portion of the arrears of a Pension. There are several John Green's on New York Roll, but John Green at $105 per annum has been paid as above stated.-
[illegible]
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Is the amount due deducted - offered 6 mo and 17 days, the children appear to be applying = Did they accept? ask auditor - was widow then living?
___
Widow now applies -
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W Green & Bro
Mar 17 1843
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344
Pen off
March 17th 43 [1843]

Gentlemen
Your letter respecting the claim of John Green decd. has been duly considered & in my reply I must be excused from embodying the contents of the numerous letters commencing in May 35 [1835] and ending with that of 5 May 1840 to the chairman of the committee which has charge of the case as likely have no doubt been communicated to you -

It will be sufficient to remark that he received considerably more before payment was arrested than he could have been entitled to in his life time if his claim had been correctly adjusted at 6 mo 17 days service - children are not in their own right but may become the recipients of what is due to a deceased parent - In this case there is nothing due to the parent at his death on the contrary he has recd much more than he was entitled to.

Messrs Winter Green & brothers
Berlin N.Y.
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Hon J. Taliaferro
May 2nth 1840
O.C.
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Pen: off
May 2nd '40 [1840]

Sir
I have the honor to return you the petition of Sarah Bean and in reply to yours of 1st to state that her late husband was a pensioner under the act of 7-June 32 [1832] and that the joint resolution of 7 July 38 [1838] removed the difficulty in her claim which by the act of 4 July '36 [1836], the death of her late husband subsequent to the passage of that act, had theretofore interposed

Her claim should be assented under the act of 4th July '36 [1836] & joint resolution of 7. July 38 [1838] agreeably to our regulations

The petition & papers of the children of John Greed decd are also herewith returned & in answer to your enquiry I have the honor to state that the allowance for 6 mo. 17 ds service which was offered in my letter to Hon. H. Vail of 31 Jany '39 [1839] was not accepted & of course has not been drawn -

Hon J. Taliaferro -
A.R.
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May 1 1840
D Crump
John Green
By Messenger {
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Comm: [room?], 1st of May 1840

Dear Sir,

Has a Pension for six months service been allowed & paid to John Green, or to his Heirs, from the time of the suspension of said Green's Pension, till [until] his death? Your answer & a return of the enclosed papers will oblige dear Sir, yours very respectfully

John Taliaferro

J. L. Edwards [illegible]
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House of Representatives
29th January 1834

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions

Sir
I enclose a petition asking for the arrears of pension due to John Green, deceased, who is alleged to have been unjustly stricken off the pension Roll. I am acquainted, personally, with some of the persons who have signed the petition, and the others are known to me by reputation - Of all of them I can affirm that they are the most respectable inhabitants of the Town of Berlin, in my district, and that entire confidence may be had in their statement. The petition is enclosed to you, and recommended to your favorable consideration, under the belief that you have power to do justice in the case.

Very respectfully your obed Servant
Henry Vail
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Nov 16

John Green
ACP

J. L. Edwards Esq.
(Com. of Pensions)
Washington D.C.
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Berlin, Rensselaer Co. N.Y. Nov 9, 1839

Sir,

Yours of Oct. 5th has been received, in which you state that the Petition of "J. J. Murray & Others" in case of John Green, deceased, being on file in your office, cannot be returned - a copy is requested as soon as you can make it convenient to sent it -

Respectfully yours &c,
Rensselaer Bentley

J. L. Edwards Esq.

P.S. Direct as before to "Berlin, Rensselaer Co. N.Y. -
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N.Y. Feb 5
[illegible]
Jno Green,
20,332

[Stamp] BROOKLYN, N.Y.
FEB 2

James L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions
Washington D.C.

[Stamp] FREE
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Brooklyn Long Island N.Y.
Jany. 31, 1838

My Dear Sir
Inclosed [Enclosed] is an affidavit sent to me from John Green Seq. with request that I would forward on to you, in hopes that it will aid in reinstating him to his pension which you probably recollect has been suspended - I can only add that I hope this with other testimony that he has previously furnished to the department will be sufficient to reinstate him for such service as it may appear from all the circumstances disclosed; he may be entitled to although it may be less than the amt of his present warrant -

Nor has hertofor [heretofore] said & sworn that he cannot be more [illegible] than he has been -

Verry [very] Respectfully yours [illegible]
A. G. Hammond

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Com. of Pensions }
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Comm of Pensions
Washington -
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Berlin Rensselaer County N.Y.
July 24, 1835

Dear Sir

Inclosed [Enclosed] herewith is all the additional testimony that can be procured in relation to the Revolutionary services of John Green Esq. and also the sworn Certificates of the principle municiple [municipal] officers of this town in relation to his Character and the general belief of the truth of his representation in relation to his services - it is supposed that sufficient evidence is thereby furnished to restore him his pension - the amount of certificates might have be [been?] extended to any number but it is believed that the inclosed [enclosed] is sufficient to counteract any allegations of an individual destitute of moral Character at home and whose [illegible] representations must have Indicated upon unprovoked mallice [malice] - will be viz please inform me whether he will be restored and also communicate the necessary information to enable him know all that may be necessary in relation to his pension -

I have the honor to be Verry [Very] Respectfully Yours &c.
A. G. Hammond

James L. Edwards Esq.
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A. G. Hammond
Augt. 1835
G. C.

Record For 27 Page 227
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War Department
Pension Office
August 1, 1835

Sir,
The additional evidence in Support of the claim of John Greene enclosed in your letter of the 24th ulto [last month] has been examined - On a carrfull [careful] review of the Statement recorded in his original declaration it is evident that his claim was in advertantly [inadvertently] admitted - 

It is alleged that he entered in Captain Gortons company as a minute-man in the grade of a Sergeant [Sergeant] and continued therein as a minute man untill [until] he left the State in 1779: That in 1776 the Militia was divided into two parts that under such classification he served ["three" crossed out] seven months in 1777 sixen [six?] months in 1778 and three months in 1776 and that in 1779 he served ["three" crossed out] four months
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in Captain Shaws company in the State of New York - To which it is objected that the Rhode Island Militia was called out for short terms, only surely exceeding fifteen days at any one time - There is no evidence in the Department of ["any" crossed out] such long terms of service in Capt Gortons Company as set forth in this case; It may be added likewise that ["if" crossed out] the claimant could not [crossed out text] have been included in the classification mentioned and at the same time a minute man ["as alleged" crossed out] -

Before the claim to four months service in Captain Shaws company can be investigated the names of the regimental officers must be given

Claimants often confirmed a men [illegible] to serve with actual service
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Mr Greene should make a supplemental declaration in open court specifying with as much accuracy as possible the duration of each time of actual service rendered & should  show by which authority he was appointed a non commissioned officer and should explain the nature of his engagements both in the State of Rhode Island and New York

A. G. Hammond Esq
Berlin
N.Y.
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Berlin Rensselaer County N.Y.
Aug. 24, 1835

Dear Sir
Directly after I forwarded to you the additional evidence in support of the claim of John Green in my communication of the 24th ult. I received the accompanying affidavit of Edward Green who resides some three hundred miles from the applicant in the County of Allegany [Allegheny] who had been written to to furnish any information he might have in relation to the services of the applicant

Soon after, I received yours of the 18th Inst. in which it is stated that "It is alleged that he entered Capt. Gortons company as a minute man in the grade of a sergeant & continued therein as a minute man until he left the state in 1779, that in 1776 the militia was divided into two parts, that under such classification he served seven months in 1777 six months 1778 & three months in 1776 and that in 1779 he served four months in Capt. Shaws company in the State of New York - To which it is objected that the Rhode Island Militia was called out for short terms only rarely exceeding fifteen days at one time - There is no evidence in the department of such long terms of service in Capt. Gortons Company as set forth in this case - It may be added likewise that the claimant could not have been included in the classification mentioned & at the same time continued a minute man -

Now it is thought that on a review of his original application it will be found that he claimed nothing for any services he rendered as a minute man that circumstance being mearly [merely] mentioned as being in accordance with the parts and to show his [illegible] to service his country at all times & that although he enlisted as a minute man subject to a call at any time still he did not thereby exempt himself from the performance of his regular duties as a militia man but was [illegible] off & did his duty as such & never was called & under his enlistment as a minute man for any period for which for which he claims compensation but all his services for which he claims compensation even rendered under the classification although there was no formal disbanding of the minute man - with this explanation it is believed that that part of his statement is made perfectly consistant [consistent] - To the objection that there is no
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evidence in the department of such long terms of service of the Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] Militia and especially of Captain Gorton it is answered that in addition to the statement of the applicant & the various affidavits already furnished in this case in confirmation of this fact the accompanying affidavit is positive in this respect as to the month at each particular time & certainly one month under Captain Gorton & no period short of a month is mentioned by the deponant [deponent] and it will be observed that as far as he [pretends?] to state facts he swears officially from his own knowledge -

The accompanying affidavit also goes to prove some of the four months service in the state of New York and sets fourth [forth] the names of the officers

Mr Green cannot set fourth [forth] any more specifically than he has done the duration of each term of service nor any more fully the nature of his service but of this he is sure that he has not "confounded the [illegible] he serve with actual service" but that he has faithfully served all the time he has set fourth [forth] in his original application & that he rendered all such service as a sergent [sergeant] that he was appointed such sergent [sergeant] by the Commissioned officers of the company that being then the custom in the Militia & no warrants were ever then given to non-commissioned officers in the militia - that the applicant ever heard of -

With these explanations & the additional evidence herewith sent it is [illegible] this department will be satisfied -
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the deposition of Joseph Bailey of Westgreenwich [West Greenwich]
AD 1835
J==B

[upside down] John Green -
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the deposition of Joseph Bailey of Westgreenwich [West Greenwich] in the County of Kent of Lawful Age and Engaged According to Law testifyes [testifies] and says that I was with John Greene [Green] at Tivertown [Tiverton] one Months as a soldier under the Command of Benjamin Gorton and Captain Alfred the Deponant [Deponent] says that he was at Eastgreenwich [East Greenwich] with the said John Green one other time and further the Deponant [Deponent] says Not
Joseph Bailey

the above Deponant [Deponent] was Carfully Cautioned and under sollam [solemn] oath at the time of Deposing Before me taken and acknowledged the 17 day of Saptember [September] in the year 1835
Caleb Bailey J. Peace

I hearby [hereby] Certify that Joseph Bailey the above deponant [deponent] is a man of truth and Vorasity [Veracity] and worthy  of Credit
Caleb Bailey Justice Peace

I hearby [hereby] Certify that I was formilly [formally] ["and" crossed out] acquaintid [acquainted] with John Greene [Green] and Consider him to be a man of truth
Caleb Bailey
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R Bentley NY
7 Dec 1835
O.C.

Recd Vol 38 pa 95.
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War Dept
Pension off
Decr. 35

Sir
Enclosed herewith is a copy of my letter to you of 9 May last in the case of John Green, which has been returned to this office as a dead letter in consequence of its being direction to Berlin Connt [Connecticut] instead of Berlin New York -

Rensselaer Bently [Bentley] Esqr
Berlin
N. York
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July 17
Jno Green
N York

J. L. Edwards Eq.
(Com. of Pensions)
Washington
D. C. 

Central Berlin
July
Page 85

Mr. J. L. Edwards
Berlin July 11, 1837

Dear Sir,
After my Pension was suspended in 1835 you informed me that it would be necessary to procure more proof relative to my service, and that the testimony of my fellow citizens as to the reputation ["of my" crossed out] I sustain as a Revolutionary Soldier, and the character I sustain in the community might be of use to me - I have procured both which I believed would be satisfactory - My Papers were put into the hands of Mr. A. G. Hammond who informed me after visiting Washington that I should probably get my Pension again, and from the information received from him I expected to have received it long before this time - If it has been granted, you would do me a particular favour by giving me information of it. -

Most Respectfully
I am your Obdt Servant
John Green
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Berlin N. Y.
July 16

J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D. C.

July 22
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Berlin, Newyork [New York]; July 15, 1839

Sir,
In restoring the Pension of John Green of this town on the 31st of last January, for six months & 17 days - from the time of its suspension till [until] his death, the heirs wish to be informed whether that balance can now be drawn by them, or whether it is to be allowed to the government as a drawback upon what has formerly been paid him -

If it can be drawn, application will be made to the Pension agency at Albany, if not they wish to have no further trouble about it. - Please give the information and oblige your Obedient Servant.

Yours, &c,
Rensselaer Bentley

J. L. Edwards Esq.

P.S. The Petition handed you be me last winter, when I called in company with H. Vail, member of Congress, signed by Supervisors, Town Clerk, & Justices of the peace of this town, directed to Congress, I wish you would have the goodness to enclose to me, as I forgot to call for it before leaving Washington last Winter -
R. B.
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J. Green
NY
17 July 1837
GC

Record 42 Page 344
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War Depr
Pension Off
July 17, 1837

Sir,
In [illegible] to your letter of the 11th. inst. I have to inform you that no evidence has been received here sufficient to justify this Depr. in restoring ["your p" crossed out] to you the pension which was formerly had to you.

Mr. John Green,
Central Berlin,
N. York
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Gideon Myers Deposition
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I Gideon Myers of Adams in the County of Berkshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years do testify & say - I am acquainted with John Green of Berlin, in the years 1777 & 1778 he was in the service of the revolution I served in the same regiment with him a part of the time saw him frequently the regiment was commanded Col Brown at the time of Sullivans Expedition he was on the Island & entered there as a sergeant in 1778 I came off of the Island in the same vessel with him this service was in the State of Rhodeiland [Rhode Island]
Gideon Myers

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire Ss September 14th 1836
Personally appeared Gideon Myers to me known for thirty years of good reputation for truth & veracity & made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed
Before Nathan Putnam Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Berkshire Ss. I Charles Sedgwick Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth for the County of Berkshire do certify that Nathan Putnam Esq of Adams in said County is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County & was a Justice of the peace duly commissioned & qualified & acting as such on on the fourteenth day of September 1836. & that the signature to the above certificate to the deposition of the Gideon Myers purporting to be his is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this nineteenth day of September Eighteen hundred & thirty seven [1837]
Chas Sedgwick Clerk.
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A. G. Hammond
3d June 1835
G. C.

Record Vol 27 Page 79
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War Dept
Pension Off
June '35 [1835]

Sir
In reply to yours of 28 ult [previous month] respecting the suspension of John Greens pension, I have to inform you that before he can be restored he should in conformity to the regulations detail upon oath the period length & grade of each term of service however short and procure satisfactory evidence from some of his surviving comrades & ancient neighbors in R. Island. The testimony of his fellow townsmen of Berlin as to his character, is important to rebut the unfavorable representation from one of them - Altho [Although] the Dept may be unable to estimate the due weight of any caveat which may be recd yet it would be a heedless insensibility to its duty to go on in the face of such caveat to pay out the public money - any reasonable distrust will justify a suspension untill [until] it is removed by satisfactory evidence.

A. G. Hammond esqr.
Berlin
N.Y.

act 7 June
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Com. of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

[vertical handwriting]
May 9
Jno Green
N York
let apl 20th
No 20,552
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J. L. Edwards Esq.
Berlin May 4 1835

Dear Sir,
Your letter of April 20th has come to hand. With regard to any defects in making out John Green's services for which a Pension was allowed him, I am not going to investigate at present - although I have been informed that every thing required of him in order to entitle him to a pension, was made out.

Mr. Green informs me that no warrants, to his knowledge, were given the non-commissioned officers in Rhode Island at the time he served there as such.- But this part of the subject can be better illustrated by Mr. A. G. Hammond, who made Mr. Green's Pension Papers, than by me. Mr. Hammond is not out of town, when he returns he will probably attend to it.

My object in this communication is merely to make some few observations relative tot he letter that has been written from this place about Mr. J. Green's service, and the "opinion of the people of Berlin." What the writer says, I think will be proved to be entirely destitute of truth - and the people of this town, as far as I have been able to ascertain their minds, feel as though an injury and a gross insult had been offered to one of its most respectable inhabitants.

Mr. Green has resided in this place ever since the Revolutionary War - since which time he has held the office of ["the" crossed out] Justice of the peace for Forty years, has been twice elected a member of the state Legislature, besides holding various other offices - all of which he has filled with honour to himself, and satisfaction to his constituents. He has likewise long held the office of deacon in the church to which he belongs, and of which he is one of its brightest ornaments. With regard to "the belief of the people here that he ought not to draw a pension," I have never heard such an opinion advanced, to my recollection, but on the contrary, his claim seemed to be considered almost unquestionable.

If the above statements are sanctioned by all the inhabitants of any notoriety in this place, (and I have no doubt they will be,) and by all others, as far as Mr. Green is known, and if the other statement shall rest upon bare assertion, it will show most conclusively that it has been made through envy, without any regard to truth, to injure Mr. Green.

If the writer of that letter states facts, they ought to
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be known; and he of course will be able to sustain them - if he has stated nothing but falsehood, his name ought to be known that he may be held up to publick [public] scorn. as this is a matter of publick [public] nature, Mr. Green would feel much obliged if you would give him the name of the writer. People in general, when accused, wish to know the name of their accusers.- A statement will be made to you by the people of this town, upon this subject, as soon as convenient.

Yours Very Respectfully,
Rensselaer Bentley
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George Reynolds
9. May 1835
G. C.

Record. Vol 17 page 17
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War Dept.
Pension Office
May 9, 1835

Sir,
I have to request that you will cause to be prepared and send to this Office affidavits to show the general belief in the neighborhood where John Green resides, that he was not a revolutionary soldier. An early answer is requested.

Mr. George Reynolds
Berlin
Rensselaer Co.
NY
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James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Berlin N.Y.
May, 28.

[vertical handwriting]
June 22
Case Jno Green
N.Y.
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Berlin Rensselaer Co. NY.-
May 28, 1835

Dear Sir
John Green Esquir [Esquire] a worthy & much respected Citizen of this town it seams [seems] has incurred by some unknown means the displeasure of some malicious individual of this community in so much as to induce a communication to your department attempting to have his pension stopped - By Your communication to Mr. Bentley of the 20th ult. [last] it appears that your correspondant [correspondent] stated that "he (Mr. Green did not do one months service in the Revolutionary War & that in the opinion of almost all the people of Berlin his pension ought to be stopped" - Now sir every word of this is false and must have been conceived in malice & brought forth in malignaty - I do not know from my own knowledge that Mr. Green was in the service of the Revolution, nor do I know that there was a Revolution not being then in existance [existence] but I am as well satisfied of the one as the other and among all Mr Greens acquaintances his services as he states them is as much believed as the history of the Revolution is itself - I have seen a copy of the letter sent you by Mr R. Bentley in relation to this matter & fully concur in all that he has said - In Your letter to him above refered [referred] to it wold [would] seam [seem] that the pension was "inadvisedly" allowed and that "it is believed that some of the alleged terms imbrace [embrace] the aggregate of several terms" if the drafting of his application will admit of any such construction it is not in accordance with his intentions - he intended to allege an aggregate of service within the time actually served & can concienciously [conscientiously] allege more service then is claimed for in his application - Mr Green is now extremely anxious to know what he must do to satisfy the department so as to con[tinue]
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[con]tinue his pension, he now considers of it of vast importance not on account of the amount of money attached to it for his circumstances are fortunate such as to make that a matter of little consequence, but his reputation as a man and his high pride as an old Revolutionary soldier, dearer than all besides is wounded - deeply wounded -

Will you sir through me direct what he shall do to satisfy the department by which he shall be enabled to "expunge" this foul blot from his hitherto spotless escutcheons -

I have the honor to be
Very Respectfully
Yours &c,
A. G. Hammond

J. L. Edwards Esq.
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J. L Edwards Esq. Com. of Pensions,
Sir,
In relation to the inquiries made about the Pension of John Green, of Berlin, Rensselaer Co. N.Y. we wish to ascertain whether the following affidavits are in your office or not - Those of Edward Green, Gideon Myers, Jason Babcock, and Penelope Reynolds - and likewise a Certificate of character from the town offices - These were put into the hands of Mr. A. G. Hammond, after the suspension of ["his" crossed out] Mr. Green's Pension, to forward to your office - but as Mr. Hammond moved from Berlin about that time, we do not know whether they were sent or now. We should like to know if the affidavits of Job Green, Joseph Bailey and Nathan Straight are in your office.

Mr. Green's Certificate was dated Sep. 21, 1833, and was suspended previous to March 1835 - A letter was sent to your office, stating, that ["it was" crossed out] Mr. Green "did not do one month's duty in the Revolutionary War, and that it was the opinion of almost all the people in Berlin that his Pension ought to be stopped." This letter appears to come from an unknown individual, and is presumed to be unsustained by any proof, or respectability of character in the writer. - George Reynolds is the person, who it is presumed sent the letter - having procured a young student at law to write it for him, not being competent to write a letter of that description himself. It was reported in Berlin that Mr. Reynolds was called upon by your department to substantiate what he had asserted - this it is presumed has not been done, as it would be very difficult to impeach Mr. Green's character in any respect where he was known - If these are facts, all we have against Mr. Green, is the assertion of a man, who, it can be proved by respectable men, now in this city, is entirely destitute of moral character, and who has been a notorious drunkard for more than 20 years.- On the other hand, ["we" crossed out] in addition to the state[ments]
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[state]ments and affidavits upon which his Pension was first allowed, we have the Certificates of the supervisor, Town-Clerk, Justices of the peace, Post Masters, the Rev. Wm Satterlee, &c. declaring him to be a man of truth and integrity, and entitled to full confidence - and in addition to this, are the affidavits of Edward Green, who certifies positively to his services for more than Five months, and believes he served in other places at other times; likewise the affidavits of Gideon Myers, Jason Babcock, and Penelope Reynolds, who entirely refute under oath, the assertions made in the letter alluded to - and sustain the former allegations of Mr. Green.

In addition to all this, as further proof of the justice of the claim, you are referred to the petition forwarded by the present supervisor, Town Clerk, all the justices of the peace, the former justices and supervisors of the town of Berlin - who feel as though it would be an act of justice to restore his pension till [until] the time of his death, which took place in August last - This would be a blessing to his widow, and would be in accordance with the feelings of the people generally of the vicinity in which he lives.

January 29, 1839.
Very Respectfully Your Obdt. Servant
Rensselaer Bentley
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A. G. Hammond
July 17, 1838
O.C.
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War Dep
Peni Off
July 17, 38 [1838]

Sir
The general statement of Gideon Myers in which he alleges that ["served" crossed out] he served in Col. Browns Regt. at the time of Sullivans expedition to R.Id with John Green now of Berlin N.York, does not remove the objection heretofore communicated -

A. G. Hammond Esqr
Berlin
N.Y.
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To the Honourable, the Congress of the United States, represented in Senate, and House of Representatives:

We, your petitioners, of the town of Berlin, county of Rensselaer, and state of New York, would respectfully represent, that we have been long and intimately acquainted with John Green Esq. deceased whose name was struck from the Pension List Roll some years since, after having drawn his pension for several years - this we have reason to believe was done without sufficient testimony being adduced, to warrant such a course - this may be ascertained by making the necessary examination at the Pension Office. We would further represent that the said John Green has long resided in this place, that he has been honoured with the station of member of the assembly of the state of New York for 2 years - that he has filled the office of Justice of the peace in this town for 36 years, and that of Town-clerk for about 25 years, besides filling other official stations, with honour to himself and satisfaction to his constituents - that his character for truth, honour and integrity, has been held in the highest estimation; and that entire confidence should be given to his statements, relative to his services as a Revolutionary Soldier. In addition to the testimony and statements upon which his pension was first allowed, additional testimony we are informed has been adduced; and his pension being still withheld, we therefore entreat you honourable body to restore said Pension, to the said John Green, from the time it was suspended till [until] his death which was in august last. And as in duty bound we will ever pray.

Berlin N.Y. December 28. 1838.

James J. Murray - Supervisor.
Thomas T. Gray - Town Clerk.
Asa Coon Justice Peace
James Shaw Justice Peace
Alson G Niles Justice Peace

John Whitford
Benjamin Vars
Daniel Jones
William Jones [flourish bracket] Former Justices of the Peace for the town of Berlin-

Winter Green
John Vars [flourish bracket] Former Supervisors of the town of Berlin.
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Addl Evidence
John Greene
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.

Charles F. Mallary Town Cleark [Clerk] in and for the Town of Berlin in said County being duly sworn says that he has been for many years well acquainted with John Green of said Town of Berlin a revolutionary pensions whose pension this deponant [deponent] understands has been suspended -

That the said John Green is man of excellent moral character whose statements in the opinion of this deponant [deponent] may be relied upon with perfect confidence

That the said John Green has for many years been an acting Magistrate in the said Town of Berlin and held various other posts of honor and trust in said town and has ever had a great share of the confidence of his fellow Citizens and that as far as has come to the knowledge of this deponant [deponent] it is universally believed that he was a soldier of the revolution and that any statements he has made in relation to his revolutionary services may be relied upon as true - and further says not -

Sworn and Subscribed before me this 16th day of July 1835 [flourish bracket] Charles F Mallary

A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds

I Certify that I am acquainted with Charles F Mallary the above deponent and that he is a man of truth and veracity, and of good moral Character and entitled to full credit -
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds
Page 109

State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.

Winter Green Supervisor in and for the Town of Berlin in said County being duly sworn says that he has been for many years well acquainted with John Green of said Town of Berlin a revolutionary pensioner this deponant [deponent] understands has been suspended

That the said John Green is a man of excellent moral character whose statements in the opinion of this deponant [deponent] may be relied upon with perfect confidence - That the said John Green has for many years been an acting magistrate in the said Town of Berlin and held various other posts of honor and trust in said towns and has ever had a great share of the confidence of his fellow Citizens and that as far as has come to the knowledge of this deponant [deponent] it is universally believed that he was a soldier of the revolution and that any statement he has made in relation to his revolutionary services may be relied upon as true - and further says not -

Sworn and subscribed before me this 18. day of July 1835
A. G. Hammond Com. of Deeds

Winter Green

I Certify that I am acquainted with Winter Green the above deponant [deponent] and that he is a man of truth and veracity and of good moral Character and entitled to full credit -
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds
Page 110

State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.

Asa Coon an acting Justice of the peace in and for the Town of Berlin in said County being duly sworn says that he has been for many years well acquainted with John Green of said Town of Berlin a revolutionary pensioner - whose pension this deponant [deponent] understands has been suspended.

That the said John Green is a man of excellent moral character whose statements in the opinion of this deponant [deponent] may be relied upon with perfect confidence - That the said John Green has for many years been an acting Magistrate in the said Town of Berlin & held various other posts of honor & trust in said town & has ever had a great share of the confidence of his fellow Citizens and that as far as has come to the knowledge of this deponant [deponent] it is universally believed that he was a soldier of the revolution and that any statement he has made in relation to his revolutionary services may be relied upon as true - and further says not

Sworn & subscribed before me this 7th day of July 1835
A. G. Hammond Com. of Deeds

Asa Coon

I Certify that I am acquainted with Asa Coon the above deponent & that he is a man of truth and veracity & of good moral Character and entitled to full credit - 
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds
Page 111

State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.

Daniel Jones an acting Justice of the peace in and for the Town of Berlin in said County being duly sworn says that he has been for many years well acquainted with John Green of said Town of Berlin a revolutionary pensioner whose pension this deponant [deponent] understands has been suspended -

That the said John Green is a man of excellent moral character whose statements in the opinion of this deponant [deponent] may be relied upon with perfect confidence - That the said John Green has for many years been an acting magistrate in the said Town of Berlin and held various other posts of honor and trust in said towns and has ever had a great share of the confidence of his fellow Citerzans [Citizens] and that as far as has come to the knowledge of this deponant [deponent] it is universally believed that he was a soldier of the revolution and that any statement he has made in relation to his revolutionary services may be relied upon as true - and further says not

Sworn and subscribed before me this 2nd day of July 1835
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds

Daniel Jones

I Certify that I am acquainted with Daniel Jones the above deponant [deponent] and that he is a man of truth and veracity and of good moral Character and entitled to full credit -
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds
Page 112

State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.

Joseph Crandal an acting Justice of the peace in and for the Town of Berlin in said County being duly sworn says that he has been for many years well acquainted with John Green of said Town of Berlin a revolutionary pensioner whose pension this deponant [deponent] understands has been suspended -

That the said John Green is a man of excellent moral character whose statements in the opinion of this deponant [deponent] may be relied upon with perfect confidence - That the said John Green has for many years been an acting magistrate in the said Town of Berlin and held various other posts of honor and trust in the said town and has ever had a great share of the confidence of his fellow Citerzens [Citizens] and that as far as has come to the knowledge of this deponant [deponent] it is universally believed that he was a soldier of the revolution and that any statement he has made in relation to his revolutionary services may be relied upon as true - and further says not

Sworn and subscribed before me this 7th day of July 1835
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds

Joseph Crandall

I Certify that I am acquainted with Joseph Crandal the above deponant [deponent] and that he is a man of truth and veracity and of good moral Character and entitled to full credit
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.

Jeffery W. Thomas a post master in and for the Town of Berlin in said County being duly sworn says that he has been for many years well acquainted with John Green of said Town of Berlin a revolutionary pensioner whose pension this deponant [deponent] understands has been suspended -

That the said John Green is a man of excellent moral character whose statements in the opinion of this deponant [deponent] may be relied upon with perfect confidence - That the said John Green has for many years been an acting magistrate in the said Town of Berlin and held various other posts of honor and trust in the said town and has ever had a great share of the confidence of his fellow Citerzens [Citizens] and that as far as has come to the knowledge of this deponant [deponent] it is universally believed that he was a soldier of the revolution and that any statement he has made in relation to his revolutionary services may be relied upon as true - and further says not

Sworn and subscribed before me this 18th day of July 1835
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds

J. W. Thomas

I Certify that I am acquainted with Jeffery W. Thomas the above deponant [deponent] and that he is a man of truth and veracity and of good moral Character and entitled to full credit
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.

John Reeve a post master in and for the Town of Berlin in said County being duly sworn says that he has been for many years well acquainted with John Green of said Town of Berlin a revolutionary pensioner whose pension this deponant [deponent] understands has been suspended

That the said John Green is a man of excellent moral character whose statement in the opinion of this deponant [deponent] may be relied upon with perfect confidence - That the said John Green has for many years been an acting magistrate in the said Town of Berlin and held various other posts of honor and trust in said town and has ever had a great share of the confidence of his fellow Citezens [Citizens] and that as far as has come to the knowledge of this deponant [deponent] is it universally believed that he was a soldier of the revolution and that any statement he has made in relation to his revolutionary survices [services] maybe relied upon as true - and further says not
Sworn and subscribed before me this 17th day of July 1835
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds

John Reeve

I Certify that I am acquainted with John Reeve the above deponant [deponent] and that he is a man of truth and veracity and of good moral character and entitled to full credit -
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.

Penelope Reynolds a widow woman now residing in the town of Berlin in said County aged Eighty six years being duly sworn says that during the war of the Revolution she resided near & was well acquainted with John Green, who then resided in the town of Westgreenwich [West Greenwich] in the state of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] - that she has been well acquainted with and known him ever since the revolution up to the present period - That she then resided with her husband near neighbors to the said John Green - that her said husband & the said John Green both belonged to the same Company & were in the service together - that the year after the war broke out & she thinks in the year 1776 but at what particular time in said year she does not recollect but believes in the summer her said husband & the said John Green entered the service under Captain Jeremy Austin and went to Greenwich new town & served four months that she understood at the time that the said John Green was first sergent [sergeant] of the Company that from that time the said John Green was in the service as she understood at the time every alternate month from that period till [until] he moved to the state of New York which this deponant [deponent] believes was in the spring of 1779 - that it was said at the time & she verily believes he served as a sergent [sergeant] for all the period he was in the service - that she so understood from her husband at the time who was generally with him - that she is unable to say how long he the said John Green was engaged in actual service but she has no doubt that from 1776 to 1779 he must have served at least Seventeen months - and further this deponant [deponent] saith not -

Sworn & subscribed before me this first day of July 1835 [flourish bracket]
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds

Penelope Reynolds
+ her mark

Rensselaer County Ss.
I certify that I am acquainted with Penelope Reynolds the above deponant [deponent] & that she is a person of good moral character and for truth & veracity is intitled [entitled] to full credit -
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss.

Jason Babcock of Petersburg in the said county aged seventy nine years being duly sworn says that in the year 1779 he this deponant [deponent] was in the militia service of United States in the state of New York stationed at Fort Edward in said State - that John Green in the fall of that year was also in the service & stationed at the same place - that this deponant [deponent] & the said John Green did not belong to the same company but the said deponant [deponent] then knew the said John Green & knew that he was ["first" crossed out] sergent [sergeant] of his (the said Greens) company that he frequently heard the said John Green call the roll of his company - how long the said John Green served at that time this deponant [deponent] does not know that this deponant [deponent] has known the said John Green from that period up to the present time & that he has every been considered a man of truth & veracity & entitled to full credit - 

Sworn & subscribed before me this 1st da of July 1835 [flourish bracket]
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds

Jason Babcock

Rensselaer County Ss.
I Certify that I am acquainted with Jason Babcock the above deponant [deponent] & that he is a man of truth & veracity & entitled to fill credit.
July 1, 1835.
A. G. Hammond
Com. of Deeds
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State of New York
Rensselaer County

I Henry R. Bristol Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Alonzo G. Hammond Esquire before whom the foregoing affidavits of Charles F. Mallory, Winter Green Asa Coon Daniel Jones Joseph Crandall Jeffrey W. Thomas Penelope Reynolds & Jason Babcock - appear to have been Sworn was at the times of taking the said several affidavits one of the commissioners of Deeds in & for the county aforesaid appointed and sworn and duly authorized to take said affidavits also that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner and verily believe that his signatures to the certificates affixed tot he said foregoing affidavits are Genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand affixed the Seal of the said county this 21st day of July 1835

Henry R Bristol Clerk
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No 1

F. A. Dickins
Atty.
Page 119

State of New York
Rensselaer County [flourish bracket] Ss

on this twelfth day of May A.D 1853 personally appeared before me Nathan T. Burdick a Justice of Sessions of said County Amelia Green widdow [widow] of John Green deceast [deceased]: a resident of Berlin in the county and state aforesaid, aged sixty three years who being duly sworn ["declares and says" crossed out] 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 on the 3rd February 1853 granting pension to widdows [widows] of persons who served during the Revolutionary war; that She is the widdow [widow] of John Green who was in the Revolutionary [illegible] dockuments [documents] on file in the [illegible] department at the City of Washington that she was lawfully married to the above named [illegible] on or about the Second day of July 1836 and that he died on or about the [illegible] July 1838 and that she was not married to him prior to the second of January eighteen hundred [1800] but at the time above stated

She further declares that she is now the widdow [widow] of John Green
In presence of 
Samuel Hanna
Nathan T. Burdick

Amelia Green
x her mark

Subscribed and sworn before me the day & year above written
Nathan T. Burdick Justice of Sessions of said County of Rensselaer
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
RENSSELAER COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE [flourish bracket] ss.

I, HENRY A. CLUM, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that Nathan T. Burdick Esq before whom the annexed affidavit was made, and whose name is thereto subscribed, was, at the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, & Justice of the Court of Sessions in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto subscribed is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this twenty first day of May A. D. 1853

Henry A. Clum Clerk
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State of New York
Rensselaer County [flourish bracket] Ss

On this twelfth day of May A.D. 1853 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county and State aforesaid, Pheby Patter and Cynthia Baker who being duly Sworn declare that they are personally and well acquainted with Amelia Green widdow [widow] of the late John Green who died on or about the thirty first day of July one thousand eight hundred and ["fifty" crossed out] thirty eight [1838] and was present and saw their marriage on or about the same of July one thousand eight hundred and thirty six [1836] and that she still remains his widdow [widow]
Phebe Potter
Cynthia M. Baker

Subscribed and sworn before me on the day and year above written
D. B. Green Justice Peace
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
RENSSELAER COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE [flourish bracket] ss.

I, HENRY A. CLUM, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that D. B. Green Esq before whom the annexed affidavit was made, and whose name is thereto subscribed, was, at the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto subscribed is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this twenty first day of May A. D. 1853

Henry A. Clum Clerk
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Berlin May 12th 1853

Know al men by these presents that I Amelia Green do hereby enstitute [institute] and appoint Francis A Dickins my true and lawful agent and attorney to prosecute the claim of Joh [John] green for any amount of Revolutionary Pension on increase of Pension that may be due John Green and me as the widdow [widow] of said John Green, and I hereby authorize any said agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claims, on file in the department at Washington City - or elsewhere to file additional evidence or arguments - and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claims, which certificate I wish made payable to Samuel Hanna of the City of Troy - to appoint [illegible] more substitutes under him for the purposes herein exposed - and to do all things that I might or could do where I present - hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and agent that lawfully do in the premises witness my hand and seal this 12 day of May AD 1853 signed and seald [sealed] in the presence of 
Samuel Hanna
D. B. Green

Amelia Green
x her mark

State of New York
Rensselaer County [flourish bracket] ss
On this 12th day of May A.D 1853 before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid - personally appeared Amelia Green and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be the act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned - in testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand the day and year aforesaid
D. B. Green
Justice Peace
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State of New York
Rensselaer County Ss
Town of Berlin

On this 12th day of May A.D. 1853 I examined Amelia Green widow of John Green deceased & considered her health such as to render her incapable of going to open court a distance of some 22 miles.
Rowland Thomas M.D.

Sworn an subscribed before me the day and year above written
R. R. Allen Justice

I Certify that I am acquainted with Dr Rowland Thomas, and know him to be a very respectable man, and a practicing Physician - March 1, 18[illegible]
Russell Sage
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STATE OF NEW YORK,
RENSSELAER COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE [flourish bracket] ss.

I, HENRY A. CLUM, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify that R. R. Allen Esq before whom the annexed affidavit was made, and whose name is thereto subscribed, was, at the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature thereto subscribed is genuine.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said County, this twenty first day of May A. D. 1853

Henry A. Clum Clerk
Page 126

Berlin N.Y.
Jun 17

Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Com. of Pensions
Washington D. C.

[vertical handwriting]
Jan 24 '43 [1843]
NY.
John Green
Page 127

Berlin, Rensselaer Co. Newyork [New York] Jany 10, 1843

J. L. Edwards Esq Com. of Pensions

Dr [Dear] Sir,
We the undersigned, heirs of John Green deceased, whose Pension was stopped some time in the year 1834, having full confidence in the justice of the claim upon which his Pension was first allowed, believe that there must have been some oversight or error in the proceedings by which his Pension has been withheld. We therefore feel anxious, not only in justice to the memory of our deceased father, but to satisfy ourselves, that a re-examination of this subject may be made - and in order that we may have a better understanding of the whole transaction, we respectfully ask you to furnish us with a copy of the whole proceedings including those up on which his Pension was first allowed, together with all the subsequent action upon the subject.- This would give us all the necessary information, and would paint out to us what, if any thing more should be necessary to be done, in order to satisfy you of the justice of his claim.

By complying with this request, you will greatly oblige
Your Obt. Servants
Vernum Green
Winter Green
John Green
Gardner Green
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State of New York
Allegany County [flourish bracket] Ss

Edward Green of the Town of Alfred in the County and state afore said aged seventy five years being duly sworn According to Law saith that he is a Brother of John Green of the Town of Berlin in the county of Rensselaer state afore said that he knows of the said Green serving his country in the Revolutionary War as follows to wit as a sergeant Two Months at Eastgreenwich [East Greenwich] in the state of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] in the 1777 in the Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] Militia in a Regiment commanded by colonel Nathaniel Brown also one month at Quitneset [Quidnessett] Neck as a sergeant in the spring of 1777 in company of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] militia commanded by Captain Asa Bennets also in Spencer Expedition in the fall of 1777 in a company of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] Militia commanded by Captain Benjamin Gorton the said John Green served one month as a sergeant in sullivan's Expedition in the year 1778 also month in the year 1779 as a sergenant [sergeant] in the Newyork [New York] Militia at Ford Edward in a company commanded by Captain Samuel Shaw and in a Regiment commanded by Colonel Henry R. Van Rensselaer and also this Deponant [Deponent] understood at the close of the war and Ever since that the said John Green served at other times and Places in the War of the Revolution and this deponant [deponent] verily believes that the said John Green did service at other places as reported this deponant [deponent] also says that all the services he has herein enunciated and stated definite he knows that the said John Green done for his country in the Revolutionary War from the fact that this deponant [deponent] was also in the same service

Subscribed and sworn to Before me this 17th day of June 1835
Edward Green

Willard Larribee a Judge of the Court of common pleas of Allegany County
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I also certify that I am personelly [personally] acquainted with Edward Green who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit & know him to be a man of truth and that his statements are Entitled to full confidence
Willard Larrabe
a Judge of the County of Common Pleas
Allegany County

State of Newyork [New York]
Allegany County ss

I Judson W Sheerman Clerk of said County do hereby Certify that Willard Larribee Esqr Before whom the annexed Affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of common please [pleas] in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed there to be his genuine hand writing and signature. witness my hand and the seal of the ["County" crossed out] Court of Common Pleas of said County this 3rd day of July AD 1835
Wm Sheerman Clerk

the above a true coppy [copy] of the original certificate taken by me John Green
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the Deposition of Nathan Straight of Westgreenwich [West Greenwich]
AD 1835
N=s
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the Deposition of Nathan Straight of Westgreenwich [West Greenwich] in the County of Kent of Lawful Age and Engaged According to Law testifyes [testifies] and says that I was with John Greene sun [son] of Joseph Green at tivertown [Tiverton] and quitneset [Quidnessett] as soldiers under the Command of Benjamin Gorton Capt and according to Best of my knowledge the sd [said] John Greene was a sergants [sergeant] and further the Deponent [Deponent] say Not

Nathan Straight
+ his mark

the above Deponant [Deponent] was Carefully Cautioned and under sollem [solemn] oath at the time of Deposing Before
Caleb Baily J. Peace

taken and acknowledged this 17th day of september=1835

I here by testifys that the above deponat [deponent] is a man of truth and Verasity [Veracity] and Worthy of Credit
Caleb Bailey J Peace