Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13198, Willard Green, Conn.
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[Printed form completed in handwriting]
3-1776
Service
Conn
Green, Willard
Number
S. 13198
carded
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11.899
Pennsylvania
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Willard Green 
of Wysox in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Spalding of the Regt commanded by Col Grovenor in the * NY [struck out] [illegible] line for two years
* Conn. Line Records corrected Febr 14/06
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
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Certificate of Pension issued the 11 day of July 1831 and sent to D. F. Barstow. Towanda
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Arrears to the 4th of March 1833	     $160.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept. “	40.00
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	                                                      $200.00

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 6, 1832.}
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk
Book E Vol. 5 Page 21
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County ss:
On this tenth day of December AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Bradford County being a court of Record Willard Green a resident of Wysox Township in said county aged seventy years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he the said Willard Green, shortly after the termination of the Indian warfare on the Susquehanna & in the Valley of Wyoming where his father was killed by the Indians, enlisted into the Continental Army at Stroudsburgh Pennsylvania in April 1781 in a company commanded by Capt Simon Spalding in the regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Grovenor in the line of the State of Connecticut. on the United States continental establishment   that he continued to serve in the continental army at different stations on the north rive from April 1781 to February 1783 at which time he left the army on a furlough to return home to Wilkes Barre.  while at Wilkes Barre he was informed by Capt Spalding that he need not return that the army was about to be disbanded. He served previous to his enlistment aforesaid nearly three years at & near Wilkes Barre as a volunteer. He commenced this service in Sept 1778. Soon after the Wyoming massacre & continued steadily in the service till April 1871 when he joined the army & marched to the North river as aforesaid. The same Capt
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Spalding under whom he served on the North River as aforesaid had command of the company to which he belonged at Wilkes Barre  Zebulon Butler, Col had command of the regiment or part of a regiment at Wilkes Barre.  He was in no general battle during the above services. but while at Wilkes Barre was engaged in several skirmished with the Indians, and while on the North River he took part in a partial engagement at Croton below Peekskill. He knew a number of Regiments on the North river. He thinks Col. Meigs commanded one Col. Willis one. Col. Butler one. Col. Swift one. His own, or the regiment to which he belonged was commanded part of the time by Col. Durkee & part of the time by Col. Grosvenor aforesaid. General Huntingdon he thinks had command of this part of the army. He has no documentary evidence and he knows of no person, other than those whose testimony is hereto annexed, whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He was born in Pauldings Town in Duchess County NY in 1782 Jan. 29th. He has no record of his age. He resided at Wilkes Barre Luzerne Co Penna where he entered the service. & he lived at Wilkes Barre four or five years after the war was over. When he went back to Duchess County & resided there 6 or 7 years when he returned to Wilkes Barre where he resided till 1803. when he removed with his family to Wysox Township Bradford County where he now resides  He was a volunteer while he served at Wilkes Barre.
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while he was in the State of New York he served as a Substitute for John Carey his stepfather. He never recd any written discharge. William Myer  Harry Morgan  Joseph M Piollett of Wysox and Thomas Elliott William Kuler James Elliott & Horace Mix of Towanda in Bradford County are persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood and can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution. He hereby relinquishes all claims to any pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension list roll of the agency of any state
[signed] Willard Green
Sworn & subscribed in open court Dec. 10 1832
[signed] J P Bull [illegible]

We Jonathan Stevens residing in the Township of Wysox & James Elliott residing in Towanda Bradford County Pa hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Willard Green who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration   that we believe him to be seventy years of age. that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
[signed] Jonathan Stevens
[signed] James Elliott

Sworn & subscribed in open court Dec 10. 1832
J P Bull Prob
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigating of the matter and after putting the Interrogations 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 Jonathan Stevens & James Elliott signed the proceeding certificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit

I James P. Bull Prothonotary of the Common Pleas of Bradford County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the matter of the application of Willard Green for a pension – and that in the sixth line from the top of this page the name “Willard Green was erased & the names “Jonathan Stevens & James Elliott” interlined by me
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this 11th day of December AD 1832
for J P Bull Prot
[signed] E. S. Goodrich Dept
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13198
Rev War
File No. 13, 198
Willard Green 
Priv. Rev. War
Act: June 7th  1832
Index: -- Vol. [blank], Page [blank]
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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J L Edwards Esq
Comr of Pension
Admd
2 years
$80 –
D. F. Barstow Esq
Towonda
PE
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[illegible] on roll
J L Edwards Esq
Sir.
I herewith enclose the claims of Willard Green & John Hill. I believe the objections contained in the briefs accompanying them are obviated. Be pleased if certificates are granted to enclose them to me
Very respectfully your obt. sevt 
[signed] D F Barstow
Towanda Bradford County, Pa  29 April 1833
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State of Pennsylvania 
Bradford County ss
I James P Bull Prothonotary & Clerk of the Court of Quarter Springs of Bradford County aforesaid do certify that Jonathan Stevens before whom one of the annexed affidavits purports to have been sworn & subscribed and whose certificate appears upon the back of said affidavit now is and was at the time of taking of such affidavit and the making such certificate and associate Judge of the several courts at said county. That Elisha Goodrick now is and was at the time of the taking of the affidavit purporting to have been taken before him, the clerk of the Orphan’s Court of said county – and that D. F. Barstow before whom the affidavit of Willard Green purports to have been sworn & subscribed now is and was at the date thereof a justice of the peace of said County & that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Jonathan Stevens Elisha S Goodrich and D F Barstow and know that the several signatures purporting to be theirs are genuine. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and official seal this 29th day of April AD 1833
[signed] J P Bull
Prot
[a large paper star is attached to the document – no print is legible]
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State of Pennsylvania 
Bradford County ss
On this 27th day of April AD 1833 personally came before me one of the justices of the peace in & for the county aforesaid Willard Green an applicant for a pension under the law of the United States of the 7th June 1832. To whose declaration this affidavit is annexed who being by me duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he does not know of any clergyman, whose certificate he can procure, who can certify to the facts certified to by the citizens to wit Jonathan Stevens & James Elliott and further saith not.
[signed] Willard Green
Sworn & subscribed the 27th day of April AD 1833
before me [signed] D F Barstow Jus Peace

I D F Barstow the justice of the peace before whom the above affidavit is taken & sworn do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with the said Willard Green for some years past. that his reputation for truth & veracity is perfectly fair and that full faith and credit may given to his statements
Witness my hand & seal this 279th day of April 1833
[signed] D F Barstow Jus Peace [hand drawn circle with “seal” written inside]
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Deposition of
Ambrose Gaylord

Willard Green 	
Pension

From : D F Barstow
M:C
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State of Pennsylvania 
Bradford County ss
On this 22d day of June AD 1830
Before me the subscribed one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the said County of Bradford personally came Ambrose Gaylord Aged Seventy four years who being by me sworn according to Law doth depose and say that he was a Soldier in the Company Commanded by Capt Simon Spalding in the Regt Commanded by Colonel John Durkee, being at that time the 1st Regt of the Connecticut line on the Continental Establishment  that he was well acquainted with Willard Green and that the said Willard Green served in the said Company & Regt to the best of his knowledge a part of the year 1779 and during the year 1780 and part or whole of the Year 1784 He does not now know the term for which Green enlisted but he had heard that he had taken the place of an Other person ^who had enlisted to serve during the war^ & was serving in his stead. Of this however has no positive knowledge but both before and ever since the revolutionary war ^he knows the same Green^ and well remembers that he served as aforesaid. In the years aforesaid but does not recollect when Green left the Army
[signed] Ambrose Gaylord
Sworn & Subscribed before me the day and year aforesaid
[signed] Jonathan Stevens Associate Judge

Pennsylvania
Bradford County ss
I Elisha S Goodrich Clerk of the Orphan court do certify that Jonathan Stevens before whom  the above affidavit purports to have been sworn & subscribed now is and at the date thereof was an associate judge of the several court of said county & that I am acquainted with the hand writing of said Judge & believe that above signature purporting to be his to be genuine  In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said court this 28th day of July AD 1832
[signed] E. S. Goodrich Clerk O.C.
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Deposition of William Huyck accompanying the application of Willard Green
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State of Pennsylvania
Bradford County ss
On this 25th day of July 1832 Personally appeared before an orphan court held at Towanda in and for the County of Bradford William Huyck aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath depose and say that he was known Willard Green ever since about the year 1779 that he in 1779 or 1780 or some part of it resided about the Garrison at Wilkes Barre Now Luzerne County Pennsylvania  that the said Green was in the habit of Mounting Gard & performing military duty in defense of the Country  That the said Willard Green served in a Continental Company in the garrison commanded by Captain Simon Spalding, and that when that company marched from Wilkes Barre to the Army at the Highlands or to the Hudson River Willard Green marched with them about the beginning of the year (if his recollection is) of 1781. And was absent untill the last of the winter or the spring of 1783. he knows nothing of the terms of his enlistment if he Green was enlisted, but at that time understood that Green had Enlisted & was Serving in the Army during his absence while his mother & relation & friends remained at Wilkes Barre
[signed] William Huyck
Sworn & Subscribed in open court the day and year aforesaid
 In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the  court this 28th day of July AD 1832
[signed] E. S. Goodrich Clerk

I also certify that I am acquainted with William Huyck and that he is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to full credit
[signed] E. S. Goodrich Clerk O.C.