Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 11084, Jesse Green, N.C.
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Service Number
NC Green, Jesse W.11084
Mary B.L. Nt. 49,031-160-55
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2560
North Carolina
Jesse Green of Johnston in the state of N. Carolina who was a Private in the compy commanded by Captain Thomas of the Regt commanded by Col Johnson in the No. Ca. line for 9 months from 1781 -

Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina at the rate of 30 Dollars - cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.

Certificate of pension issued the 30 day of Nov 82 and sent to R. Sanders Smithfirld N.C.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1832 -                    45.-
Semiannual allowance ending 4 Mar 33    15- 
                                                                  $60.-
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832

Recorded by Nathan Rice Clerk
Book D Vol 8 Page 31

Set to Jesse Green and to John Muske each under date July 25 1843.
Set to John McLeod a
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Died 13 Nov 1878   No 631

North Carolina
widow of Jesse Green
who served in the Revolutionary war,
as a Private
N.C. (Raleigh) Knoxville agency.
Rate 96 Dollars 00 cents per annum.
Commencing July 27th 1868
[illegible]
Certificate dated June 8th 1869
and sent to V.W.Walker Esq
Recorded  on Roll of Pensioners under act February 3, 1853 Page 222 Vol.
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Vol. G. 141.
Act of Mar 3
Decr 3. 1855.
225.709
Mary Green widow of
Jesse Green ded Private
Private N.C. Mila
Revolutionary War
Ins Feb 53
N.C. June 32-1224
Dodge
John C Codner
Smithfiel
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State of North Carolina 
Johnston County }  Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions 
August session 1832

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7, 1832.

On this 27 day of August 1832 personally appeared  in open court  the court of Pleas and Quarter sessions for Johnston County now sitting Jesse Green a resident of Johnston County state of North Carolina aged sixty eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath saith the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th 1832.
That he entered the service [illegible] the following named officers and served as [illegible].
First was  [illegible] [illegible] of Johnston county on malitia [militia] [illegible]of North Carolina about the year 1781. I volunteered under the command of Captain Nathan Whitfield for the term of six months, was mustered at Johnston County court house, thence marched to Hillsborough and was there put under the command of colonel John Herritage, thence to lowesbury, thence to Tarborough, thence through the country to Kinston  by [illegible] thence to Ely[illegible] but having six persons  there sent them to and [illegible] Jno Herritage who had them discharged, thence  [illegible] the county to Kingston, thence up to Johnston Court house and was there discharged my six [illegible] was [illegible] Colonel Jno Herritage and Captain Nathan Whitfield. but I have lost or mislaid the [illegible]. I have no documentary
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months in said county under the command of Captain [illegible] Thomas was marched by him to Halifax Joined other companies then and was placed under the command of Colonel Jonas Johnston, we were there joined by 22nd and 23rd regiments of Continental troops under the command of Colonel              and Captain John McCourt and Captain Benjamin Coleman. Command companies belonging to said regiments and Lieutenant Thomas Gibson was also [illegible][illegible] them some time, marched to Tarborough. Thence to Newberry thence to Wilmington, which places we went to [illegible] by [illegible], but the British was [illegible] the [illegible]; thence to Kingston and was then discharged and have lost the muster the [illegible] [illegible] no documentary evidence of his service. I know of no person that can prove this service. Shortly after  this I [illegible] of the Capture of Lord Cornwallis.
I hereby relinquish every claim to a pension or annuity except the present and I declare that my name is not on the pension role of the agency of [illegible]state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.  [signed] Jesse Green

I Amos Atkinson do hereby certify that I was [illegible] [illegible] with Jesse Green believe him to be sixty eight years of age. I served six months with under Captain Nathan Whitfield and marched with him as [illegible] in the past [illegible] of this declaration. Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid [illegible].  [signed] Amos Atkinson (his mark)

We Josiah O Watson Elias Barnes of Johnston County hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Jesse Green who has [illegible] and sworn to teh above declaration that [illegible] him to be [illegible] eight years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.     [signed] J O Watson  Elias Barnes
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State of North Carolina County of Johnston
On this 27th day of November A.D. on one thousand eight hundred and fifty five
personally appeared before me, a justice of the peace, within and for the county and State aforesaid
 Mary Green aged near fifty seven years a resident of Franklin County in the state of North Carolina who being duly sworn according to law, declares that she is the widow of Jesse Green deceased, who was a Private in the War of the Revolution and drew a pension of thirty dollars per year under act of 7th Jan 1832
SHe further states that she was married to the said Jesse Green Johnston County North Carolina about the winter of 1830 by one William Wall a Minister of the Gospel and that her name before said marriage was Mary Price; that her husband died at his residence in Franklin County North Carolina on the Ninth day of February A.D. 1853 and that she is now a widow.  She further declares that she has not heretofore made application for Bounty land under this or any other act of congress.  She refers to [illegible] and files in support of this her claim.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 2, 1855.
She hereby appoints John C Codner, of Smithfield North Carolina, her true and lawful Attorney irrevocably with power of substitution to prosecute this her claim for land to receive the certificate or warrant when issued, and do all other acts necessary and proper in the premises.
Mary Green
We William H Price and Martha Green of Franklin COunty in the State of North Carolina
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State of North Carolina 
Johnston County }   I John H Keneday clerk of the court of pleas and Quarter Sessions for Johnston county [illegible] do certify that F. Phillops esq whos [who's] name appears to this foregoing certificate was at the dates thereof an acting Magistrate for said county duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine.

In witness where of I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at office this 27th day of November AD 1855 [signed] J H Keneday Clk
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[crossed out- 6311]
Mary Green
[crossed out- act 1853]
[crossed out- Old, War]
[crossed out- Wrong]
Act 3 Feb 1853

11,084

[stamp on left side of page]
Pension office US
April 13 1882
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U.S. Pension Agency
Hon W.W. Dudley
Commissioner of Pensions
I hereby report that the name of Mary Green 
widow, Act 3 Feby 1853 who was a pensioner on the rolls 
of this agency under certificate no 6311 and who was last paid $8 on 13th November 1878 has been dropped because of death.  Pd M.V. Green on R.Ur. from 4 Sept 78 to 13th Nov 1878 amt 18.67
Very Respectfully,
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Declaration of Mary Green
A.D. 3rd Feb 1853
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State of North Carolina 
[illegible]                          } ss    On this 17th day of February AD eighteen hundred and fifty three, personally appeared before me Wm. Stone and acting Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid, Mary Green whose maiden name was Mary [illegible] aged fifty five years  a resident of said county and state, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the second section of the act of Congress passed 3rd , day of February, 1853.
     That she is the widow of Jesse Green deceased, [illegible] of Johns County, State aforesaid, who was a  private soldier of the North Carolina Militia in the War of the Revolution, and a pensioner of the United States at the rate of thirty dollars per annum; was placed on the North Carolina pension roll in Nov 1832, and continued to draw his pension semi annually untill[until] the fourth of September 18hundred and forty three, as well as she can recollect, when his pension was discontinued {as her husband the said Jesse Green was informed by letter she thinks, from the war department) on account of his having signed, and made oath before John Watson Esq of Johnson County N.C. to a paper containing false statement; which declarant well knows was all together unintentionally done by her said husband Jesse Green, and that he was grossly and wickedly imposed on by  John Gully of Johnson County N.C. a man of infamous character she understands and whose oath she understands, has since been set aside by the Court of Johnson County; that her daughter  Martha Green saw the said John Gully she says, when he [illegible] the papers on her father; but did not know at that time, what his object was, in  doing so; that her daughter says that he , Gulley, did not hand to her father, the said Jesse Green, the same paper which he read to him for him to sign and make oath to, but, handed to him a paper which he had not read to him; (and that her father who was sick and helpless at the time, and was, from then, untill his death,)
Signed and made oath to the papers which Gulley handed to him, and had not read to him, perfectly inocent,[innocent] and unconcious [unconscious]of it's contents, as he afterwards was convinced.
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do his deep mortification,  The Declarant knows that her husband the said Jesse Green was a man of Hight respectability and truth, was a member of the Baptist church for a number of years before his death, was a man highly respected, and of [illegible] character, as the people of Johnson County N.C. who were well acquainted with him, will generally certify to, she thinks; and a man who she [illegible] be believes would not, have made a false statement, on oath knowingly, to have saved his right arm. Declarant thinks that her said husbands pension was discontinued after the [illegible] Sept 18 hundred and forty three as before stated, and that he never drew a pension any more during his life. She further declares  that she was lawfully married to the aforesaid Jesse Green in Johnson County N. Carolina sometime in the month of [illegible] that the day of the month she does not recollect, by old W. William Wall who was a minister of the Gospel, that her said husband Jesse Green departed this life on Wednesday the [illegible] day of this month February  18 hundred and fifty three, and that she is now a widow.  Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me Wm Stone JP         [signed] Mary Green (her mark)
I the said Justice of the Peace hereby certify that I am personally aquainted [acquainted] with Mrs. Mary Green widow of old W. Jesse Green deceased, who has this day made oath and described the foregoing declaration before me, and know her to be a woman of truth, and that full faith and credit is due to her oath. Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of February A.D. 1853 [signed] Wm. Stone JP

State of North Carolina 
Franklin County  }  On this 17th day of February AD 18 hundred and fifty three, personally appeared beofre me Wm. Stone an acting Justice of the Peace within and for the County and state aforesaid, Martha Green aged [illegible][illegible] years, a resident of said county and state, who being duly
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sworn according to law, testified on her oath, that she was present when John Gulley of Johnson N.Car. Together with John Watson Esq of said county of Johnson come to her fathers home in Johnson County to get his testimony respecting the services of two old gentlemen who John Gulley said were in the service of the United States in the war of the Revolution, by the name of Capps and some other name she does not recollect; that her father she thinks told him that he knew that Capps or Coats (she does not recollect which was the name) was in the service in the war of the Revolution, but, that he did not know anything about the services of the other man whose name she cannot recollect. That the said John Gulley read one paper to her father which he said was right; and Gulley instead of the paper which he had read to her father; and which her father said was right, handed to her father for him to sign and make oath to, another paper which he had not read to her Father; and he signed it and made oath to it, perfectly inocent [innocent]and unconcious [unconscious] that he was doing rong [wrong]; and which he regreted [regretted]  (she is very confident) untill [until] the day of his death, which took place on Wednesday the month last.  She further testifies that her father at the time he signed or made his mark and made oath to the paper above mentioned, was sick, and quite helpless, was quite childish, and was no very particular as he was intimately acquainted with Gulley and did not entertain  (she thinks) the slightest thought that he would deceive him.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above written before me Wm Stone JP  [signed Martha Green (her mark)

I the said Justice of the Peace, hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Miss Martha Green who has this day sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me, and know her to be a lady of truth and that full faith and credit is due to her oath. Given under my hand and seal this 17th day of February, AD, 1853.  [signed] Wm Stone JP

I Young Patterson Clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the
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county of Franklin in the state of North Carolina, certify that William Stone before whom the foregoing declaration and affidavit was made, and whose genuine signatures appear to the foregoing, is an acting Justice of the Peace within and for our said County, and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts as such.

In testimony whereof , I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 19th day of February A.D. 1853 [signed] Y Patterson CCC
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Jesse Green
North Carolina
No 5979
from 1781 Private
none months
$30.
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BRIEF in the case of Jesse Green
of Johnston County in the State of North Carolina
(Act 7th June, 1822).
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge: Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 68 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
 [chart follows}
Period | Duration of Service. | Rank | Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served |
Volunteered/drafted  In 1781 } 6 months | As a Private | Col John Heritage
Capt Needham Whitefield
Col. Jonas Johnston
Capt Theophulus Thomas |

5. In what battles was he engaged:
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service: Johnston County NC
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, incidental evidence, or by the rolls? One living witness impact & Traditionaary
6 Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?

X [box marked] Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
C. Litte 
Examining Clerk
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and 1812
section
[illegible]

November 19, 1929

Mrs.R.C.Rutledge
4400 Yupon Drive
Houston, Texas

Dear Madam:

     I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War [crossed out- war of 1812] pension claim, W.11084, it appears that Jesse Green, while residing in Johnston County, North Carolina, enlisted in 1781, and served six months as a private in Captain Nathan Whitfield's Company, Colonel John Herritage's North Carolina Regiment.

     Shortly after the above service, he moved to Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and while residing in that place, enlisted and served three months as a private in Captain Theophilus Thomas' Company, Colonel Johnston's North Carolina Regiment.

     He also stated that he served in the North Carolina Militia, no dates, details of service or officers names given.

     He was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1832, while a resident of Johnston County, North Carolina, aged sixty-eight years.

     He died February 9, 1853, at his residence  in Franklin County, North Carolina.

     The soldier married in December, 1823 or in the winter of 1830, in Johnston County, North Carolina, Mary Price. She was allowed pension on her application executed February  17, 1853, while a resident of Franklin County, North Carolina, aged fifty-five years. In 1868, she was residing in Greene County, North Carolina, and stated that since 1861 she had lived in Nash, Wilson and Greene Counties with her children, whose names are not given.
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She died November 13, 1878.
A daughter, Martha A., was aged twenty years in 1853 and then resided in Franklin County, North Carolina.  One Martin V. Green was living in 1879, no relationship stated; the name Martha Ann Green, also appears.
Very Truly yours,
Earl D. Church
Commissioner.
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Rev. and 1812 Wars 
Section ER 1 February 8, 1929 

Honorable Lee S. Overman United States Senate Washington, D.C.
 
My dear Senator: 
In response to your letter of February 6, 1929, I have the honor to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.11084, it appears that Jesse Green, while residing in Johnston County, North Carolina, enlisted in 1781 and served six months as a private in Captain Nathan Whitfield's Company, Colonel John Herritage's North Carolina Regiment. 
Shortly after the above service, he moved to Edgecombe County, North Carolina, and while residing in that place, enlisted and served three months as a private in Captain Theophilus Thomas' Company, Colonel*Johnston's North Carolina Regiment. 
He also stated that he served in the North Carolina Militia, no dates, details of service or officers names given. 
He was allowed pension on his application executed

*Name Jonas Johnston is given in claim but Heilman says Col Jonas Johnston of NC was killed in 1779 and it is not known whether sol. had mis stated the first name or if he were a Col. Jonas Johnston.
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August 27, 1832, while a resident of Johnston County, North Carolina, aged sixty-eight years.
He died, February 9, 1853, at his residence in Franklin County, North Carolina.
The soldier married in December, 1823 or in the winter of 1830, in Johnston County, North Carolina, Mary Price. She was allowed pension on her application executed February 17, 1853, while a resident of Franklin County, North Carolina, aged fifty-five years.  In 1868, she was residing in Green County, North Carolina and stated that since 1861 she had lived in Nash, Wilson and Greene Counties with her children, whose names are not given.
She died, November 13, 1878.
A daughter, Martha A. was aged twenty years in 1853 and then resided in Franklin County, North Carolina. One Martin V. Green was living in 1879, no relationship stated; the name Martha Ann Green also appears.
In order to identify the record of a particular soldier of the Revolution named John Lee who served with the North Carolina Troops, it is suggested that as much as possible of the following in formation be given con-
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cerning him approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service and given name of widow.

WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.

[ this document is likely the second page of a larger document. ther first word is "concerning"]
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Mary Green
N.C.
Act 1853
 Brief




Dodge
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Brief in the case of  Mary Green widow of Jesse
Johnston County and State of North Carolina 
2d sec  Act Feb 3 1853.

Claim , (oriignal", [crossedout - or if for increase"]
Proof Exhibited, (if original)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or Supported by rolls? IF either, state the substance.

   Jesse Green was pensioned under Act of June 7, 1832, at $30 and struck from the rolls on account of a false affidavit which it appeared he had made in support of the claim to pension of another person. It is proved that John G. Gully read to him one affidavit and without his perceiving the cheat, substituted another to which he subscribed and swore, innocent of its contents. The late developments, disclosing the numberous frauds of Gully, afford full confirmation of these statements.

Marriage and Identity proved by [illegible].
(if for increse)
 Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim?  If so, what?

    (I was assured by several persons of the [illegible] of Mrs. Greens claim on my recent visit to Johnston County, and was only prevented by the [illegible] of other engagements from visiting her.)

Jesse Green died February 9th, 1853.



[signed] S.G. Dodge Examining Clerk

Name and residence of Agent
Thomas Lumpkin 
Present
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State of North Carolina 
Johnston County

On this 27th day of November AD 1855 personally appeared before the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the county and state afforesaid [aforesaid] [crossedout- Polly] Mary Green a resident of Franklin County state afforesaid aged about fifty seven years who being first duly swron according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed February 3d AD 1853 that she is the widow of Jesse Green who was a private in the North Carolina Militia war of the Revolution and drew a pension of thirty dollars per year under the act of 9th June AD 1832 She further declares that she was married to the said Jesse Green to the best of her memory in the winter of one thousand eight hundred and thirty that her husband the said Jesse Green died on the ninth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty three and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will [illegible] fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed. [signed] Mary Green (her mark)
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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before [signed] Harry Johnson JP

I Mary Green do [illegible] and appoint JC Codner to [illegible] this my claim for pensnion and for any amount that may be due for the service of my said husband for revolutionary[illegible] to [illegible] the certifier or warent [warrent] when issued and generally to do all act necesary for [illegible] the [illegible]  [signed] Mary Green (her mark)

Subscribed and acknowledged before me the 27th [illegible] 1855 for the purpose therein expressed.  [signed] Harry Johnson JP
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State of North Carolina 
Johnston County  }

I John H. Keneday clerk of the court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county afforesaid [aforesaid] do certify that the foregoing  contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Mary Green for pension and that Harry Johnson esq whos [whose] signature appears to the foregoing certificate is a Justice of said court and that his signature thereto is genuine In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at office in Smithfield this 27th day of November 1855. [signed] JH Keneday Clk
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Now comes William H. Price and Martha Green who [illegible] duly sworn according to law declare that they were well acquainted with Jesse green [illegible]  a pensioner of the United States and were present at his death and burial that [illegible] in [illegible]  county on the Ninth day of February  one thousand eight hundred and fifty three that they are well acquainted with his widow Mrs Mary Green who is now applying for pension that we have known them for the last eighteen years that the said Mary Green and Jesse Green lived together as husband and wife [illegible]  the  what time of our acquaintance with them and that said Mary Green has remained his widow ever since his death [illegible]  in Franklin County near her and him a [illegible] [illegible] of all the [illegible]  [illegible]  [illegible] [illegible] [signed] William H. Price (his mark)  Martha Green (her mark)

John E. Earp
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 27th day of November 1855 and I certify from the appearance and statements of the affiants that they are credible persons.  [signed] Harry Johnson JP
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Now comes William H Price who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he was lviing about three miles from Jesse Green of Johnston County North Carolina when his pension from the United States was stoped that he was  at the house of said Jesse Green and he informed him that John G. Gully had promised him to pay him the amount of his pension as long as he lived as he Gully had been the cause of it s being stoped that the went to [illegible]  Gully (for Jessy Green) on that promise but could not find him at that time 
at another time  he went with Jessy Green to S. Gully on the same [illegible]  Gully then said to Jessy Green that as he Guly had been the cause of his pension being stoped he would pay him the same amount the balance of his life and at that time let him have some Molases and other articles and said to Jessy Green that he could come at another time which was then stated and he would pay him the balance then due at the [illegible] [illegible]  he again went with Jessy Green to se [see] Gully but he then refused to pay him as before agreed upon Green then said to him that it
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was hard to be treated so in his old age that he then charged Gully with reading one paper to him any giving him another to sign which Gully didnot dispute that he has known Jessy Green for twenty years before he died that he was a man of truth and no doubt a churchman in the strictest sense of the word He has often heard Jessy Green speak of this affair and say that it was hard after suffering what he did in the war to be cheated out of it by the misconduct and deception of others. [signed] William H Price (his mark)

The foregoing affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me on this 21st day of February 1857 and I certify that I know the affiant to be a credible witness. [signed] William Stone JP

State of North Carolina 
Franklin County  }   I Young Patterson Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the county aforesaid do hereby certify that William Stone Esq whose name appears to the foregoing certificate was at the date of [illegible] of an acting Magistrate for said County duly commissioned and sworn and that his signature thereto is genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said court at office in Louisburg This twent first day of February AD 1857. [signed] Y Patterson CCC
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State of North Carolina
Wake County      }

This day W.H. Price and J. W. Green personally appeard before me B. S. Strickland one of the acting Justices of the Peace in and for the county of Wake and made oath in duo forme of law that Mary Green was the lawful married wife of Jesse Green and is now his widdow [widow] and that the said Jesse Green has bin [been] dead about fifteen years and his said widdow [widow] drawd [drew] a pentian [pension] up ot the war and that she was and is [illegible]  to the United States government sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of May 1868
List
[signed] B. S. Strickland JP   J W Green  W H Price (his mark)
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Power of Attorney
Jesse Green
to 
Geo M PHillips
Act 1832- N. Carolina
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dropped on 1832

Power of attorney- Revolutionary Pension Claims

Know all Men by these Presents, that I, Jesse Green of  [crossed out - Johnston ] Franklin County, North Carolina  Hereby constitute and appoint George M Phillips my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute  [crossed out- the claim of]  my claim for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase in Pension , that my be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which certificate I wish made payable to myself, and I herby authorize my said Attorney to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might, or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and continuing all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Witness my hand and Seal this 1st day August A.D. 1851      [signed] Jesse Green (his mark)

Signed and Sealed in the presence of }
Isham S. Oneal.
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Claim of
Act of 

State of North Carolina  }  SS.
Franklin County

        Be it known, That on this 1st day of August A.D, eighteen hundred and fifty one, before the undersigned,  a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Jesse Green a resident of                 in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the same said Jesse Green who was a Revolutionary Pensioner at the rate of thirty Dollars per annum; that he has been informed that the said Pension ought to be [crossed out- increased] renewed; that he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.

Sworn to and subscribed, the day                                    [signed] Jesse Green  (his mark)
and year aforesaid, before me.         }
[signed] J.S. Williams J. Peace

I, Jordan  S. Williams Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Jesse Green who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim a therein set forth. [signed] J.S. Williams J. Peace.

I , Young Patterson Clerk of the County Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Jordan S. Williams before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed , is his signature.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal this seight day of August A.D. 1851. [signed] Y Patterson Clerk
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STATE OF 
COUNTY OF                }ss.

It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me 

that                                 was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $ per annum and that  died on the  day of eighteen hundred and leaving surviving and that the only surviving child of the aforesaid.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office this one thousand eight hundred and fifty.

[ This paper had many gaps and was not very clear.]
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State of North Carolina
Wilson County

On this 9th day of May A.D. one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight personally appeared before me B. F. Briggs clerk of the County of [illegible] and Quarter Sessions of the County and State aforesaid, the same being a Court of Record Mary Green aged about sixty five years, a resident of Green County in the State of North Carolina who being duly sworn according to Law, declares that she is the identical Mary Green, who was a pensioner on the roll of the agency at Fayetteville and has pension certificate (is last); that she has resided since the first day of January A.D. 1861 as follows: in the counties of Nash, Wilson and Greene, that during this period her means of Subsistence have been dependent on her Children not-bearly able to do anything herself and that she has not borne arms against the Government of the United States or she has not in any manner encouraged the rebels or manifested a sympathy with the cause and that she was last-paid her pension on the [blank] day of March A.D. 1860 to the best of her recollection.  This application is made for the purpose of securing a restoration of her name to the pension rolls, and of obtaining a new pension Certificate, such as she may be entitled to under existing laws, reference being made to the evidence heretofore filed in the Pension Office to substantiate her original claim.

[signed x] Mary Green her mark

Witnesses
Martha X Green
M V Green
[signed x] John Morgan his mark
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Also personally appeared Martha Ann Green, John Morgan and Martin V Green residents of Green County persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who being by me duly sworn say that they were present and saw Mary Green make her mark to the foregoing declaration: and they further swear that they have every reason to believe from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be and they further swear that they have no interest in prosecution of this Claim.

Martha A. Green
M V Green
[signed x] John Morgan his mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 9th day of May A.D. 1868 and I hereby certify that I have no interest direct or indirect in the prosecution of this Claim and that the Contents of the foregoing and the following oath was made known to the affiants before  Signing B. F. Briggs Clerk

I Mary Green do solemnly swear  in the presence of Almighty God that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the union of the States thereunder that I will in like manner, abide by anad faithfully support all laws and proclamations which have been made during the existing rebellion with reference to the Emancipation of Slaves So help me God
[signed x] Mary Green her mark
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State of North Carolina
Wilson County  }
      This day personally appeared before me B.F. Briggs clerk of the Court of Please and Quarter Sessions for the state and county aforesaid Martha Ann Green and Martin  V Green residents of Greene County and make oath that Mary Green was the lawful married wife of Jesse Green and is now his widow- and that the said Jesse Green has been dead about fifteen years and that the said Mary Green his widow drew pension up to the late war- and that she is still the widow of the said Jesse Green deceased.  [signed] Martha A Green   MV Green


Sworn and subscribed before me this the 9th day of May AD 1868. [signed]  B.F Briggs Clk  
[Stamp] Department of the interior
Pension office 
May 16, 1868
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Rev. Pen Claim                   Washington DC
Act 3d Fey 1853                 8th April 1857

Sir

     In answer to your letter of the 6th[illegible] relating to the Pension claim of Mary. Widow of Jesse Green of N.C. act 3d Feby 1853. I have the honor to state - That the affidavits of Martha Green and William Price- were furnished for the only purpose of explaining how Jesse Green was imposed upon and came to make the affidavit which conflicted with his former statement of his service. It is [illegible] by the evidence sent by me that Jesse Green was made to sign another and different statement from the one which he supposed he was executing and that the man thus imporing a fraud upon him. promised to pay the annual amount of his pension.
     I cannot perceive how the affidavit of Martha Green and Wm. Price contradict the statements of Jesse Green. Will you please re examine this case.   Very respectfully yours J. T. Stevens

Geo C. Whiting Esq
Comm of Pensions
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Washington DC
Oct 14th 1857

Geo C. Whiting Esq
Comm of Pensions

Sir,
I herewith enclose [illegible] over  letter authorizing me to act as his attorney in the case of Mary Green, N.C. Widow of Jesse Green Act 3rd Feb 1853. In your [illegible] letter to me mailed 30th July , 1853, you request that a declaration should be made by Mrs Green [illegible] , Act 3rd Feb 1853. marc 27th Nov, 1855.  [illegible] also reqd me to prove the character of Jesse Green who was dropped from the Pension roll under Act 7th June 1832 for giving his affidavit in the case  [illegible][illegible] himself- I refer you to the affidavits of Matheas Wilder Senr
Wm H Price and Martha Green[illegible] his general reputation in particular the oath of Wider who swor he had known him forty years. This old man was gorssly imposed upon as you will see by the affidavits of Price and Martha A Green. Justice to the [illegible] I hope will promptly [illegible] to see that all his [illegible] patriotism in his county. Indepenence for [illegible] he so valiantly fought should  [illegible]
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I respectfully ask that you will take this case up [illegible] and after calmly examining all the papers filed in the case, that you will place Mrs Green on the pension roll under Act of 3d FEb 1833, for 13 months service  (see complete certificate of N.C), and reinstate her husband Jesse Green at an increased rate say from 9 months to 13 months  and [illegible] him from the time he was stopped to his death as shown by the comptrollers certificate he being pensioned with NC to reference to said record proof which he knows nothing of  All of which we humbly pray for, by 
Yrs respectfully
TH Lumpkin Atty
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Rev. [Revolutionaray] Pen. [Pension] claim
Washington D.C.
28th March 1857.

Sir
I have the honor to enclose Power
of Atty to my self in claim for Pension of
Mary Green. Widow of Jesse of North
Carolina Act 3d Feby 1853.
I also include additional evidence being
the affidavits of Wm H. Price & Martha
A Green.
The husband Jesse Green was A
Pensioner in N.C. Roll at $30 per year, but
owing to an afft made by him in another
Pen [pension] claim, his name was stricken from the roll.
The enclosed evidence is such to explain how
the afft came to be made.
Martha A Green, shows that a man
named John G Gully, who was prosecuting the
Pension claim of a Mr Brady came to the
said Jesse Green with a paper which was
read & which he supposed he signed & swore
to. them another paper & one of which Green
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had no knowledge of the contents was substituted
in the place of the one read
I am informed then this Jesse Green
was a very old man & such an imposition
may easily have been made
The enclosed afft of Pens shows
that by after the Pensioners name was stricken
from the Roll. this man Gully promised
to pay him the amount of the Pension.-
Will you please examine the enclosed
in connection with the case
Very Respectfully Yours
J. T. Stricken

Hon Geo C. Whiting
Com of Pensions
Present.
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Treasury Department
Second Comptrollers office
April 7th 1858

Sir,

Application has been made to this office by Jno M Rose, Attorney of Mary Green widow of Jesse Green, Decd; late a pensioner, under the Act of 7th June 1832, on the Roll of the Agency at Fayetteville, N.C., for the pension of said Jesse Green  [illegible] March 4th 1845 when last paid to February 9th 1853 when the pensioner died. It is alleged that the payment of this pension was "suspended" by order of the Pension office and that recently the suspension has been removed by the same authority. I have, therefore, to request if these statements are true, that you will inform me when the order suspending the pension was issued to the pension Agent, and also, when the suspension was removed.
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     It is also stated by Mary Green that the certificate issued to her late husband, never was in her possession, and cannot therefore be surrendered. If the records of your office show what disposition was made of this certificate, please inform me.
     The information asked for is necessary to enable me to decide whether or not the pension claimed is payable at the Treasury, and , also, as to the sufficiency of the voucher presented.

Very Respectfully 
Yr. Obdt.Servt.
J Madison [illegible]
Comptroller

Geo: C. Whiting, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Treasury Department
[unknown] Comptrollers Office
May 4, 1858.

Sir,
A communication has been, this
day, received at this office from
John M. Rose, Esqr requesting the
return of the papers in the case
of Jesse Green decd [deceased] late pensioner
on the Fayetteville N. C. Roll, Act
7th June, 1832 Concerning which
I had the honor to write you on
the 7th [unknown]; but before
complying with his request,
I have thought it better to
Call your attention to the
Case.

Very Respectfully
[illegible]
Madison Cutts
Comptroller

Geo C Whiting, Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
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Jesse Green &
Amos Atkinson

[illegible] Case
Then R. M Saunders - says he saw Jesse Green - 

Sully was w/ the agents in the case - 
was now wary around [illegible]
Saunders ____ as the _____ of print, -

[illegible]
Minty Cotes case - the facts - Swore to the same story for her husband Arthur could not find her papers
23 (of) October, 1867
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Act 3d Feb 1953
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Smithfield N C 30th Nov 1855

Sir
Herewith I forward the declaration and [illegible] of Mary Widow of Jesse Green for pension under act of 3d February 1853 you will please forward all [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] to Smithfield North Carolina 

J C. Codner

Hon J Minot
Com of Pension
Washington
DC
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N.C.   Green, Jesse     W.11084
                     Mary     B.L.Wt.49.032-160-55
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22s.709
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Smithfield NC 30th Nov 1855
Sir
Hereinwith I forward the application of Mary widow of Jesse Green for Bounty land act of 3d March 1855 your will. Pleas forward all commentary of this to pertaining to Smithfield NC
Very respectfully your
J. C. Codner
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Smithfield NC 20 th Aug 1855

Hon Comr of Pensions
Washington
DC       }   Sir

I have been requested to ascertain the cause of suspension in the case of Jesse Green whos name was [illegible] on the pension rolls of North Carolina at $30 per annum under act of 7th June 1832 His widow is now living and through her friend gives me the following statement that J G Gulley came to their house during Mr Greens life time read to Mr Green a statement which Mr Green said was correct that said Gulley then took the paper and placed it with some others which he then held in his hand that she Mrs Green left the room and soon returned as she entered the door Mr Gulley hastily took from the hand of Mr. Green a paper (which Mr Green had signed) and folded it up and put it out of sight She then said to Mr. Green that paper is not the one that Gully read to you Gully immediately left the house and soon after the pension of Mr Green was suspended they say on account of the affair here referred to
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I am informed that Mr Green was a man of unquestionable veracity a member of a church in good standing + that his church did not think proper to object to him on that account. I am informed that the most clear + satisfactory evidence can be added to prove that Green did not intentionally make a statement to favor any [illegible] that was [illegible] with the principles of truth
it is the intention of the parting to present the claim in behalf of the Widow if there is any hope of is allowance you will pleas forward any communication here to pertaining to Smithfield North Carolina
Verry Respectfully yours
J. C. Codner
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No 79.P.)H

I put this upon your desk because I presume you [illegible] the question involved in Codner's letter when you wrote to him on the 19th of September 
Triplett

Geddes
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Smithfield NC  2 Oct 1856 

Sir
Your letter of 29 Sept 1856 further 
?   ?   the claim Mary widow of Jesse
Green for Revolutionary pension enclosed in my letter accompanying
the affidavit of M Wilder  I asked that a copy of the affidavit with the name of the Magistrate to be furnished ?  ?in which it was alleged that Jesse Green had sworn falsly to support the claim of an other soldier with a ? to investigate the charge with the request be complied with or am I to understand  that the commissioner declines to comply with the request
Verry  Respectfully yours
J C Codner
? J Minot
Com of Pension
Washington DC
(Sat 3d Feb 1853)
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State of North Carolina
Johnston County
Now came Mathew Wilder who being duly sworn according to law deposes and says that he was acquainted with Jesse Green later a revolutionary pensioner for about forty years before his death that for near thirty years before his death he was intimately acquainted with him and a member of the same church that he was an exemplary person both in mind and conduct (to the best of his knowledge and belief) and was generally considered by his neighbors a Christian and a man of truth and on who on no consideration could have been induced to have sworn falsely or to have spoken a falsehood
Matthew Wilder Sir
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Mr. James E Heath
Washington City
commissioner of pensions

Jesse Green
NC 

Stanhope NC
Dec 23th
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December the 19th 1857 Ms James E Heath
I take the opportunity to send you a few lines by the Request of Mr Jessee Green He is A Revolutionary sholger He has drawn his pencer money from the time the draw up to 1842 or 43 or fore I dismember the laste year he draw I want to know the reason he failde to draw the laste time He sente to the olde man can make Every suficiente proof that He was A faithful sholger and it is A shame that the olde man is caste off from drawin His money
it my desire that you wood make A moderate shriek in the office and sende me an answer ~ faith with the olde man is uperwards of A Hundred years old and has A family with Him and He is disable to worke and as needey as any home. On your honor [illegible] its A shame that the olde man shood suffer for he is one of the fathers of the country if you can see any chance for him Sende to the seeker either your leter to Stanhope  nash county NC and state in your leter whats for me to do I am green in the bisness I like to understand the bisness so no more at present
and Remain yours
Lameante Dece 19th 1857
Wm B. Bergeron
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additional
testimony in
the case of
Mary Green
Of N.C. Act
3rd Feb 53
Th Lumpkin
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State of North Carolina
Comptroller's Office
I, William J. Clarke, Comptroller of Public Accounts in and for the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that it appears of record in my office, among the payments made by said State to sundry persons for Military services in the Revolutionary War, as follows, to wit:
Jesse Green
Book No. 2 page 31 (British lb) 17 S 1 specie
"      "   "       " 38 (British lb) 6 S 1 D 6 "
"       "   3       "  8, (British lb) 11 S 14  "
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 9th day of May 1853.
Wm. J. Clarke Compt'r
(seal of office affized to the left)
34. 16, 6
(long division handwritten at the bottom of the page) 
20
8| 696
87
$43,50
13 months
claim
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Washington
May 2nd 53

Sir,
Enclosed is the declaration of Mary Green, widow of Jesse Green of N.C. Act 3rd Feb 1853

I am very truly
Th Lumpkin
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Washington D.C.
May 11th 1853
Sir
I herewith enclose a certificate of the Capt. of N.C. showing service of Jesse Green who was  a pensioner under the Act of 7th of June 1832, and dropped from the roll for reasons set forth in his widows declaration Mary Green under the Act of 3rd Feb. 1953.  This certificate of service clearly shows that Jesse Green was justly entitled to his pension, and if so considered, his widow is entitled for an increase of his pension and also arrears from the time he was dropped to the period of his death, and again be placed on the role under the Act of 3rd Feb, 1853.
I am [illegible], very [illegible]
TH Lumpkin
Hon L.P. Waldo,
Comm. of Pensions
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Washington, Sep. 27, 1851
Sir
I herewith enclose the application of Jese Green, who was a Pensioner in the State of North Carolina, under the Act of 1832 for renewal of his Pension under said Act.
I am,
Very Respectly
[illegible signature]
Geo. M. Phillips

J.E. Heath Esq.
Court of Pensions
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Jesse Green which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?    yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?    yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV.  Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?   yes


V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so-definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?  yes


VI. Has he given the names if the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulation?    yes



VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?


VIII. Has the Court given his certificate? yes


IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?  yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?   yes
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2
XI.  Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? No

XII.   If the clergymans's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?  No

XIII.  If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such cannot be had?  One living witness in party

XIV. +If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magitrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? Yes
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? Yes

XV.  Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI.  ++Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? Yes

XVII.  Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answerd? Yes

EXPPLANATORY NOTES.
Quere V.  In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace & c. A.B> who, being duly sworn, desposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent  loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, by according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For ___ year __ months ___ and ___ days.  I served as a ___,  For ___ months ____ days, I served as  a ____; and for such service I claim a pension."
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase [italicized] about three or four months [un italicize] is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.

In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he  must prove his service by two credible witnessed, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

[ page 3]
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6311
Increase
Brief in the Case of Mary Green Widow of Jesse Green Private Rev War Raleigh Green County and State of No. Carolina
Act [illegible] Feb 3, 1853

CLAIM FOR NEW PENSION CERTIFICATE, 
PROOF EXHIBITED, 
Pensioner app 30 per annum.  Certificate returned.  Claims increase under 13th Sec Act July 27/68
Identity and continued widowhood shown

Admitted May 26, 1869 to pension adj 96 per annum to commence July 27, 1868 deducting pay [illegible]

W. E. Trask
Examining Clerk,

Name and residence of Agent.
R.W, Walker
Present 
[illegible initials]
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Goldsboro, N. C.
February 22, 79
Hon. J. A. Bently
[illegible]
I wrote to you sometime back for Wm Green son of Mary Green a pensioner and you sent me the necessary blanks.  I must trouble you again for advice.  Mrs. Green was paid last the 4th of Sept 78 and died the 13th of Nov following.  Consequently there is but little due her.  The amount of the expenses are considerably larger than the amount due Coffin $7.50 [illegible] bill 25.00 Medicine $12.90 burial clothes $16.00 [illegible] hire $20.00 in all $81.40.  I have just seen Mr. Green and he says that he is advised that the Gov will pay the whole expenses and before fixing up his papers.  I have concluded to write for  your advice.  Will the Govt. pay the actual expenses or only so much of them as the
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As requested, I give the
Name of Pensioner C

Mary Green widow of Jese Gree a Private
in the Revolutionary War.
No of Pension 6311
Received in Pension office Roll of Pensions under act-
Feby 3 1853 Page 222 Vol.
26.

Cost paid Sept 4th
1878 died Nov. 13th, 1878
Paid at agency at Knoxville
TN DS Boynton
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Raleigh 6311
Restoration Brief in the Case of Mary Green widow of Jesse
Wilson County and State of North Carolina
2nd Act Feb 3 1853
Claim for New Pension Certificate
Proof Exhibited
A [illegible] pension roll of No Carolina $30 per annum. Paid up to March 4. 1861.
Certificate alleged to have been lost
Personal identity by attey a widowhood shown
Restored Jun 20 1868 to a pension at $30.00 per annum commencing March
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Mary Green
Widow of Jesse
North Carolina (Johnston Co)
Act 3d Feb '53- 2d sec

Admitted
Private
Ar $30 per annum from 
February 9th 1853, when he
died

Payable to Claimant

Atty
Thos Lumpkin
Present
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Pension Office, Dec 31. 1857
The third auditor will please certify
the date to which Jesse Green, who was
a pensioner at rate of $30 per annum
in the North Carolina rolls under act of
June 7, 1832, was paid
Very respectfully
S Cole
for court

3. Auditor Office
Jany [illegible]
Mr. Jesse Green NC
Act June 7 1832
who [illegible] appears
to have been paid to
[illegible]
Very Respy
[illegible] Jamisson
auditor

Whiting esq
Commis of pensions
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Jesse Green NC
act 1832
allon at 
$30
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[postal stamp]
Smithfield
 NC
Nov 30

Act 3d March 1855

Free


[initial "to" line blacked out]
Com of Pens
Washington
D.C.



[written on left side of envelope]
225709
Page 76

[top of page partially torn off]

[missing month] 2d 1853

Appl of Mary
Green widow of Jesse

NC   32
_______
2560

Act of 3d Feby 1853

Revy.

Ths Lumpkin
Present

[Bottom right corner of page]
Department of the Interior
Pension office, Official Business
Page 77

1629
Mary Green
Widow of Jesse
N. Carolina

Thos. Lumpkin July 30/53-
J C Codner  Aug 25/53-
Same Dec 5 1855 - same
Sept. 29, 1856 = same Oct
30 1856=


3 Feby 1833
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1629
Mary Green
Widow of Jesse
N.Carolina
Thos Lumpkin  July 30
1853- J.C. Codner August
25, 1855. Same Dec 5, 1855-
same Sept 29, 1856- same
Oct 30, 1856- J. T. Stevens 
April 6, 1857 - same
April 11, 1857- T Lumpkin
Oct 23/57

Act Feby 3, 1853
Page 79

49.031

[illegible][illegible]
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Admitted for
Bounty land. but 
duration of service
as proved too indefinite
to warrant restoration
of pension- so far
as i am advised 
from a somewhat
cursory examination
Dodge.
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Smithfield NC Sept 20th 1832

Sir,
Herewith I forward he affidavit of M. Wilder Esq in the care of Mar Wid of Jesse Green for Revolutionary Pension Act of 3d Feb 1853 if such affidavits wil [will] avail anything I can procure an number even more [illegible] to establish his reputation I have fully satisfied myself that it is a just claim and if the matter had been properly investigated  (at the time it occurred, would probably have led to the conclusion of a person engaged in procuring fals [false] testimony and who it is generally believed still continues the practice as heretofore it is respectfully asked taht a copy of the affidavit of Jesse Green (in which it is alleged that he swore falsly to establish the claim of another person (referred to in your letter of Dec 5th 1855) with the name of the Magistrate date and [illegible] sent to me for examination if the request is complied with I think it wil [will] enable me to unvail[unveil] the
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mistery [mystery] in this case and probably show clearly that the claimant never should have been stricken from the pension rolls.
Very respectfully yours
[signed] JC Codner



[crossed out- PS I}
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J C Codner
and [illegible]
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Smithfield NC 8th Oct /57
Thos Lumpkin Esq
Washington DC   } Sir
Your letter of the 24th Sept 57 is before me and contents duly considered. You are of the opinion that you can procure the allowance of the pension for Mrs Mary Green widow of Jesse Green deceased and also the amount due the soldier you are at liberty to act as assistant atty in the case and the commissioner of Pensions will please recognize you as such. I have reports in the case that are at your disposal if you desire them [illegible] to me and they will be at once forwarded I am fully satisfied that this
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is a just claim and it was from the misconduct of a former attorny that the claim was originally suspended in fact I could now point out facts that would Hause the agent at present but decline doin so from the fact that I have heretofore clearly and [illegible] pointed out cases of the kind which have passed [illegible] by this department
Yours very respectfully
J.C.Codner
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                           Greene Co. N.C> May 16th 1868

Hon. Jos H Barrett
Commissioner of the Interior
         Washington D.C.


                 Sir,
                     Under existing circumstances, I have
completed with the requirements described in your letter to me, and also through of the printed circular as well as I could at the time, in getting Mrs. Green name entered in the pension notes from this state. I trust that all is right, and that I may have the pleasure soon of receiving her money to the end that she may be receive from the rev straighten circumstances with which she is now surrendered.
Contrary to which I had supposed, she feels clearly that she has been loyal to U.S. Government all the time, and opposed to the war from the beginning, and kept all_ of ? as long as she could, including her ? son. I send the certificate of  Mr Price and Green , in addition to the then prev, submitted to satisfy you ? actual she is the widow of Jesse Green, therefore ? and is still his widow. It is our ? to get the Seal of the County Court Clerks of ? but it can be done if necessary, I hope however it is not necessary as there is much, ? in that ? ?Much have been to the Agency from where she received her money before if there is anything yet to be done before she can ? please inform me with ? the ? submitted. Please express to me as ?
Very Respectfully

D. G. W. Ward
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6311
North Carolina 
Mary Green
widow of Jesse,
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of 30 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence
on the 9th February, 1853

Certificate of Pension issued
12th day of Dec 1857
and sent to 
Thomas Lumpkin 4 May
Present

[torn page] on Roll of Pensioners under act
[torn page] 3, 1853, Page 212 Vol X

Secy of Interiors
Jany 5, 1858
Second Comptroller May 5/58

Jesse Green [illegible] act 18
July 25 1845
Page 88

Rev. and 1812 Wars Section.

June 18, 1925

Venetta M. Green
Fairfax, Missouri

Madam:

     I have to advise you, that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W-11084, it appears that Jesse Green enlisted in Johnston County, North Carolina in 1781 and served six months as a private in Captain Nathan Whitfield's Company, Colonel John Herritage's North Carolina Regiment.
     Shortly thereafter he enlisted in Edgecombe County, North Carolina and served three months in Captain Theophilus Thomas' Company, Colonel Jonas Johnston's North Carolina Regiment.
     He as allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1832 while residing in Johnston County, North Carolina, aged sixty-eight years. He died in Franklin County, North Carolina, February 9, 1853.
     He married in Johnston County, North Carolina, in December 1823 or 1830, Mary Price.
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     She was allowed pension on her application executed February 17, 1853 while residing in Franklin County, North Carolina, aged fifty-five years. She died November 13, 1878
     Their daughter, Martha Ann, was twenty years old in 1853 and a son, M--. V-- Green was living in 1879.
Respectfully 

Commissioner
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Alexander Love Chapter
Daughters of the American Revolution
Houston, Texas

Mrs. R.C Rutledge, Corresponding Secretary Yupon Drive

Rev.War 1776

                       September 27,1929

U. S. Pension Office
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs,
               Will you kindly send me any information you have concerning service and so forth of Jesse Green, of N.C. James Hill probably of Wayne Co. Va. or Ga. 
Also Thomas Townes of Va.
              for. October 8,'29
Thanks, 
Mrs. R. C. Rutledge

Postmark Pension Office U. S. Oct. 1,1929
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Francis E. Warren, WYO. Chairman
Reed Smoot, Utah           Lee S. Overman, N.C.
Wesley L. Jones, Wash.    William J. Harris, Ga.
Charles Curtis, Kans.         Carter Glass, Va.
Frederick Hale, ME.        Kenneth McKellar,Tenn
Lawrence C. Phipps, Colo./Edwin S. Broussard, LA
Henry W. Keyes, N.H     John B. Kendrick, WYO
Hiram Bingham, Conn.   Royal B. Copeland, N.Y
Tabker L. Oddie, Nev.    Carl Hayden,Ariz
Gerald P. Nye N.Dak.     Sam. O. Bratton, N.Mex
   Kennedy F. Rea, Clerk


 United State Senate,
Committee on Appropriations
Feb. 6th, 1929.

Hon. Winfield Scott, Commissioner,
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Commissioner:

     I will thank you, if possible, to give me the pension records of James and William Holland,
Jessee Green and John Lee. These men all served
in the Revolutionary War and were from North Carolina,

                   Sincerely yours,
                  Lee S. Overman
                         U.S.S.
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3-049.
Ex M H F   Div. Revo 1812 Wars Sec
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
WASHINGTON, D. C. Mch 20, 1925
The attached letter is respectfully returned
with the information that the data furnished is
not sufficient to enable this Bureau to make intel-
ligent answer to the queries therein contained.
Please fill out such of the blank spaces below
as the information in your possession will permit,
and return to this Bureau.
1st name of widow
Name of soldier Jesse Green
address of a soldier at
enlistment & after service

State where enlisted North Carolina
Date of birth
Date of death
If unable to furnish company and regiment
give names of commanding officers.

Return attached letter with reply.
Hays Haymaker
Acting Commissioner
6-246
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Fairfax, Mo.
April 9, 1925

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington DC

Dear Sir: 
     I am not able to furnish dates of birth and death of Jesse Green also unable to furnish company and regiment and commanding officers name, bur from volume one of the army accounts in North Carolina Jesse Green served in the Revolutionary War, also in the printed state records of North Carolina
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under this heading.
North Carolina Revolutionary
Pensioners under the acts of 1818 and 1832 as reported by Secretary of State to Congress in 1835. Could you look up those records and see if Jesse Green's record is there.
Yours Truly
Venetta M. Green
Fairfax, 
Missouri

[stamp]
Pension Office
US 
Apr 11 1925
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Fairfax, Mo.
Mar. 16, 1925.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C
Dear Sir
I am trying to become
a Daughter of the Amerian
Revolution and could
you give me a record
of Jesse Green

Yours truly
Venetta M Green
Fairfax,
Missouri
[stamp] Mar 18 1925 US Pension Office
[stamp] Apr 11 1925 US Pension Office
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NC
Rec WIDDOW, &c.
File No. 11084
Mary Green
wid. [widow]
Jesse Green
Pri [private] Rev. [Revolutionary War]
Act: Feb 3" 1830  July 27 1868
Index:-Vol. A, Page 288
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1880 Jany 27. Letter & [illegible]
Martin V Green. Goldsbon
[illegible] orders $76.00
Certificate mailed Nov 
Cancelled 
Reimb Cert P.C. & order $7[illegible]
& notice to claimant mailed
June 13/83 Reimb [illegible]
to 3d Auditor
C D A
1925 June 18  Hist
Venetta M Green

1929- Feb 8 Hist to Hay Lee S. Overman M.E.E
1929, Nov 19 Hist to Mrs R.C Rutledge, M.E.E

[illegible] well-
[illegible] accruerd
[reimburse]
[illegible] expenses
Watt
[illegible]
Waynebo N.C.
[illegible]
231881
[illegible]
6.50 to P.A
Feby 24/82
[illegible]
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Now comes Martha A Green who being
duly sworn according to law deposes and says
that she was at the residence of Jesse Green
a Revolutionary pensioner residing in Johnston
County N Carolina while he was in receipt of a
pension there was one John G Gully come to
the house of said Jerry Green and a person with him who represented himself to be Jack
Watran said Gully said he wished to prove
something in reference to the service of a Mr
Brady and immediately commenced reading
a paper to Mr Green which he Jerry Green
said was correct Gully then laid the paper
down that he had read & handed Mr Green
another one which he signed and
Watran then swore him without teling
him that he had signed another paper and
not the one that had been read to him the
whole affair was done in a very harried
manner just as the buisness was being finished
Jerri Greens wife came in Gully had falsified
the papers & put them in his pocket Then
Mr Green asked him to stop and read
the papers in her presence He said he had
not time but could tell her what was in
them she (Mrs Green) said she did not wish
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him to tell but desired that the papers should
be read Gully then refused to read them and
left the house with the man Watran I saw
the whole affair of changing the papers the Man
Watran saw it also but did not tel Mr Green
I was a Girl & feared to say any thing about
it until after they were gonn I then told him
how the affair was conducted and he was
much displeased because I didnot tel him
while the men were there
Marthy A Green. x her mark

The foregoing affidavit was sworn to and
Subscribed before me on this 21st day of
February A D 1857 and I certify that I know
the affiant to be a credible witness
William Stone JP

State of North Carolina
Franklin County
I Young Patterson Clerk
of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for
the County aforesaid do certify that William
Stone by whos name appears to the
foregoing certificate was at the date
thereof an acting Magistrate for said
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County duly commissioned and sworn
and that his signature thereto is genuine
In witness whereof I have hereunto
Subscribed my name and affixed
the Seal of said Court at office in
Lewisburg this Twenty first day
of February AD 1857
G. Patterson CCC
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[left side of page]
DECLARATION
OF
Mary Green widow of Jesse
Green- Private Rev'y War.
 
For
Increase of Pension
(under section 13, Act July 27, 1868.)

Pearson Printer, corner of 9th and D.sts

[right side of page]
[stamped]
Department of the Interior
Pension office
 May 22 1869
Page 101

DECLARATION FOR INCREASE OF PENSION.
(Under section 13, act of July 27, 1868.)
-
STATE OF North Carolina
COUNTY OF Green
.
On this 12 day of May A. D. one thousand eight hundred and
sixty nine, personally appeared before me [illegible]
within and for the county and State aforesaid, Mary Green
aged 69 years, a resident of Green County
in the State of North Carolina, who being duly sworn according to law, declares that
she is the identical person to whom was granted pension certificate No. 6.311, payable at
Raleigh N. C. at the rate of two dollars [50 cents] per month, issued under
the act of Feb 3rd 1853; that she makes this declaration in order to secure the
increase of her pension to which she is entitled under the thirteenth section of the act of July
27, 1868, and that she still remains the widow of Jesse Green.


My post office address is as follows: Case of J. A. Jones, Raleigh
North Carolina

And he hereby constitutes and appoints R. W. WALKER, of Washington, D.C., her
attorney to present and prosecute this claim, and authorizes him to receive and receipt for any certificate,
check or draft that may be issued for the same to her order, and to do any other act or thing necessary
or that she might do if personally present, with full power of substitution and revocation, hereby coun-
termanding all former authority that may have been given for the above specified purpose.

Two witnesses who write must sign here.
B. F. Briggs
A. G. Brooks
 Mary Green x her mark

Also personally appeared B. F. Briggs and
A. G. Brooks, residents of Wilson County
N.C. persons whom I certify to be respectable and entitled to credit, and who, being by
me duly sworn, say that they were present and saw Mary Green
make her mark) to the foregoing declaration; and they further swear
that they have every reason to believe, from the appearance of the applicant and their acquaintance with
her that she is the identical person she represents herself to be, and that
they have no interest in the prosecution of this claim, and that she still remains
the widow of Jesse Green.
R. F. Briggs
A. G. Brooks

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 12 day of May A. D. 1869; and
I hereby certify that I have no interest, direct or indirect, in the prosecution of this claim.
And I further certify that the foregoing affidavits were read over and fully explained to affiants
before signing.
A Dames
Clerk of the Superior Courts

1. Here state the official character of the person administering the oath, Clerk of the Superior Court
2. This declaration must be executed before a JUDGE or Clerk of a court of record.
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[illegible]
6311
North Carolina
Mary Green
widow of Jesse Green
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at a rate
of 30 dollars 00
cents per annum, to commence on
mar 4th 1861.

Certificate of Pension issued
27th day of June 1868.
and sent to
Claimar Claimant
care of D G W Ward
Statenburg N.C.

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3. 1853, Page 212 Vol. H
George B Whiting
[illegible]
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Payment to be made
at Raleigh
by Chas H Belvin
Agent for paying Pensioners, in the
Agency of 
North Carolina
Payable on the 4th September and 4th 
March
Recorded in the Pension Office on the
Roll of Pensioners under act February
3d 1853, Page 212 Vol H
George B Whiting
[stamp] May 22 1869 Pension Office
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6311 Restoration
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
WIDOW'S PENSION

I certify that, in conformity with the 2d section of the act of February 3, 1853
Mary Green
widow of Jesse Green
who was a private in the Revolutionary War, is inscribed on the Pension List, at the rate of Thirty  dollars and ___ cents per annum, commencing on the 4th day of March 1861, and continuing for life unless she should again marry, in which case the Pension is not payable after the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior, this twenty seventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight.
N. T. Otto
Acting Secretary of the Interior
Examined and countersigned
James A. Morgan
Acting Commissioner of Pensions