Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43631, Jack Green, Conn. New York
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(3-1776)
SERVICE     NUMBER
[handwritten]Conn.  Green, Jack (col)  S. 43631 [/
[/handwritten]
[handwritten] New York [handwritten]

CONTENTS
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[handwritten] New York Roll. 
918
Jack Green
Capt Child Private. 4
Connecticut line 1777. 3 years
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 

Inscribed on the Roll of [handwritten] New York
at the rate of [handwritten: Eight] Dollars per month, to commence
the 20. of [handwritten] April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of June
and Sent to the Hon R. Riker
New York. 

Arrears to 4th of September 1818

4 months 33/30 $40.80

{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

Bradley
Continued
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[handwritten] Jack Green
Soldier
correct
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State of New-York, ss. 
To the Hon. [handwritten] Richard Riker
Recorder of the City of New York, and one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New-York, which is a Court of Record of the State of New York. 

The Declaration under Oath of [handwritten] Jack Green - colored man
formerly a [handwritten] Soldier ----- engaged in the Service of the United States during the Revolutionary War, now a Citizen of the United States and resident of the [crossed out] City [handwritten] town [typeset] and County of [crossed out] New York, [handwritten] Westchester in the state of New York [typeset] respectfully sheweth, -----
THAT the said [handwritten] Jack Green ----- [typeset] sometime in the 
[handwritten] month of May in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and seventy seven enlisted in the service of the United States as a private soldier in Captain Childs company in the fifth Regiment of the Connecticut line commanded by Colonel Bradley for the term of three years and served during that time, at this expiration of the time for which he enlisted as aforesaid he received an Honorable discharge which he has
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the testimony in the case, and the proceedings had thereon, to the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War, to the end that such relief may be had in the premises, as is by law in such case made and provided. And in support of the facts above set forth, the said [handwritten] Jack Green ----- refers to his own affidavit and the affidavits of ---- hereafter set forth

Sworn F. P. Stevenson

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Jack  x  Green
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Frederick P. Stevenson -- a Lieutenant during the revolutionary war of the City and State of New York being sworn, saith, that he is well acquainted with Jack Green in the above declaration mentioned and who has subscribed the same in the presence of this deponent and distinctly recollects of having si[  ] the Honorable Discharge of the said Jack Green from the service of the United States in the revolutionary war that it appeared from the said Discharge that the said Jack to belong to the Continental Establishment that this deponent has seen the said Jack Green during the revolutionary war under the command of  Captain Benjamin Stevenson in the above Declaration mentioned who was this deponent.

Sworn before me this Second day of April 1818
[illegibile signature]
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City of New York Ss  Zachariah Christian being Juror says that he was in the army of the U. States & knows that Jack Green did serve the Revolutionary war on the Continental Establishment.

Sworn 2 April 1818

             his
Zachariah x Christian
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Jack Green
910
Sept 1878
Cou
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That he enlisted in May 1776 under Captain Child in the Regiment commanded by Col. Bradley on the Continental Establishment Connecticut line and served for the term of three years after which he was honorably discharged at Springfield  New Jersey which discharge he has since lost -- He then enlisted in the State service -- was in the battles fought at Germantown, Chestnut Hill and Monmouth
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Real estate.  None.
Personal Estate. Consists of
Two tables.
Two chairs
1/2 Dozen Knives + forks
My Occupation.  A Laborer.
am Sixty years of old and very infirm,
have a wife and four children
living with me --
My wife Laura Green aged 48 years
My children
Maria aged 11 years
John aged 9 years
Allen aged 6 years
& Thomas Green ages 3 years
And have no means of supporting
my children but what is obtained from the hard labor of my self and
wife or what is received as Charity --

Given in  open Court the 2d day of Sept. 1820 Perry Ferris clk
       his
Jack x Green
     Mark
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I, Benjamin Ferris Clerk of the city and county of New York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the city of New York, Do hereby certify, That the foregoing deposition and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the said Court: and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is about twenty five dollars.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, this fourth day of September 1820.
Benjamin Ferris
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May 15, 1933
BA-J/EEL
Jack Green-S/43631

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.43631, based upon the service of Jack Green, a colored man, in that war.

Jack Green was born in June, 1761, place not stated.
[Note in left margin] in Conn look page 198

He enlisted, place not stated, in May, 1777, served as a private in Captain Childs' Company, Colonel Bradley's 5" Connecticut Regiment, was in the battles of Germantown, Chestnut Hill, Whitemare and Monmouth and was discharged by Lieutenant Chapman, then commander of said company, having served three years.
[Note in right margin] Did not use 1776 as he used 1777 also & regiment was not organized until 1777. & he said he enl. in this co & regt.

He again enlisted, date and place not stated, and served at different times until the close of the war, as a private in Captain Benjamin Stevenson's New York Company, entire length of this service not stated.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 2, 1818, while residing in Westchester, New York.

He died May 15, 1830.
[Note in left margin] BB

In 1820, the soldier stated that his family then residing with him consisted of his wife, Tama, aged forty-eight years and his children, Maria, John, Allen and Thomas, aged respectively, eleven, nine, six and three years. There are no further family data.

This history to be furnished if ever called for it was written just to have a record of negroes.
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43631
Invalid
Reg
File No. 43,631
Jack Green
Priv Rev War
Act: 18 March 18[ ]
Index: Vol. 3 [?], Page 205
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State of New York
City and County of New Yor, SS.
I, Benjamin Ferris, Clerk of the City and County of New York, and Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said City and County, Do hereby certify, that Richard Riker, Esq. before whom the annexed Affidavits were made, and who hath subscribed his name to the Certificate also hereto annexed, was on the day when the said Affidavits were made and the said Certificate signed, Recorded of the City of New York and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, called the Mayor's Court of the City of New York, and duly commissioned and sworn. And further, that the said Court is a Court of Record of the State of New York, and that the signature of R. Riker subscribed to the said Certificate is the proper hand writing of the said Richard Riker.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this fifteenth day of April 1818. 
Benj. Ferris
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Clerk