Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 2261-400, James W Green, N.C.
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SERVICE N.C.
Green, James W.
NUMBER B.L.W. 2261-400
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James W. Green
No. 2261
Issued June 24, 1839
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Clearler Town South Carolina 17th of June 1839
Dear sir,
Enclosed is a set of papers which I have this morning received from Columbia in this state about 120 miles distance will you sir do me the particular to examine this claim as early as practicable and if satisfactory share if we have the warrant and let say you benefit for it or if there is any defect in the claim please advise my son of it in (illegible) that he may also advise me before leaving here which I expect will be in eight or nine days 
and truly oblige you
(illegible) (fold in paper)
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South Carolina
Richland District
Know all men by these presents that we Lucy P Green pf Columbia in the State of South Carolina as the widow of Allen Jones Green late of Columbia County and as the guardian of Allen J Green, Halcot P Green, Lucy J Green, Frederick L Green and John S Green his children and heirs at law, and Mary C Izard an adult daughter and heir at law of the said Allen Jones Green do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Winthrop of Washington City our time and lawful attorney with powers of substitution, for the said Lucy P Green as widow, and her said wards as the children and heirs at law of Allen Jones Green deceased, and for Mary C Izard who is also a child and heir at law of the said Allen Jones Green who was the one and only heir at law of James W Green deceased reputed to have been a surgeon of the North Carolina line off the Army of the Revolution to ask demand and receive from the county land due in right of the services of the said James W Green as a surgeon of the said North Carolina line of the Army of the Revolution; and to deposit the said warrant when so received with the Commissioner of the General Land office, and to ask demand and receive and receipt for the certificates or land script due them and am said attorney is hereby authorized and empowered to do and perform all things necessary to be done in and about the earnings which we might ourselves do, if personally present- writing our hands and seals at Columbus this fifteenth day of June in the year of our lord on thousand and eight hundred and thirty nine signed sealed + delivered in presence of 
James S. Guignard 
Lucy J Green (seal)
Mary C Izard (seal)
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State of South Carolina
Richland District
Personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the said District Lucy P Green and Mary C izard signee and seals to the Power of Attorney on the preceding page, and acknowledged the same to be their voluntary act and deed for the formally therein named; and being duly sorn according to law also say that to the best of their knowledge and belief James W Green the father of Allen Jones Green late husband of the said Lucy P Green was a surgeon of the North Carolina line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to the end of the war their knowledge upon this however being denied from the information of others and they further say that neither they nor as far as their knowledge of information extends, the said Allen Jones Green late husband of the said Lucy P Green ever  received a warrant from the United States for the bounty land due in right of the said lawyer James W Green; neither do they believe that he in his lifetime ever received the same or applied his right to it in any manner whatever- Sworn subscribed and acknowledged before me this fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty nine
James S Guignard
Clerk of Court 
Quorum ex offices 
Lucy P Green
Mary C Izard
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South Carolina
Richland District
In the Court of Ordinary
At the Court of Ordinary held in and for the District of Richland in the State aforesaid on the fifteenth day of June A.D. 1839 it was proven in open Court to the satisfaction of said Court by the oath of W F Delausome that Lucy P Green widow, and Mary C Izard, Allen J Green, Halcot P Green, Lucy J Green, Nadine L Green and John P Green are, the first the widow and the latter the children and only heirs at law of Allen Jones Green late of said District deceased who was the one and only heir at law of James W Green late of Halifax North Carolina deceased, refuted to have been a Surgeon of the North Carolina line of the army of the Revolution; and adhered to be certified accordingly.
I James S Guignard Judge of the Court of (illegible) ordinary in and for the said District do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy from the recent (illegible) in this office, there being no clerk to the said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office as (illegible) this the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and (illegible) nine.
James S. Guignard
judge of the Court 
of Ordinary
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South Carolina
Richland District
Office of the Commissioner of the Court of Equity
I Edward J Arthur Commissioner of the Court of Equity in and for the District of Richland in the State aforesaid do hereby certify to all whom it may concern that Mrs Lucy P Green was appointed the guardian of the persons and property of her minor children Allen J Green, Halcot P Green., Lucy J Green, Frederick L Green and John S Green by the order of the said Court of Equity on the sixteenth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Columbia this fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty nine
Edward J Arthur
C.E.R.D.
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May 11 1922
Alice M. Hogsett,
341 Clarkson Street 
Denver, Colorado.
Madam:
In reference to your letter dated the 30th ultimo, you are advised that it appears from the records of the Bureau that James W. Green of Halifax North Carolina, was a surgeon of the North Carolina Line Revolutionary War and served as such to the end of the war and that 100 acres of bounty land issued June 24 1839 on Warrant No, 2261 to Lucy P. Green, Mary C. Izard, Allen J. Green, Halcot P. Green, Lucy J. Green, Frederick L. Green and John S. Green; the first named Lucy P. the widow and the others the children and only heirs at law of Allen Jones Green of Richland District South Carolina deceased, who was the one and only heir of James W. Green of Halifax North Carolina, deceased.
There is no further data on file as to his service or family and the date of his death is not on record.
Very respectfully,'
Washington Gardner
Commissioner
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Denver Colo. 3/30 1922
Bureauu of Pensions Washington D.C.
Will you please send me the Rev. Record of James W. Greene (or Green) of North Carolina. Also his genealogy as much as is on record 
Sincerely yours 
Alice M. Hogsett
341 Clarkson St.
Denver Colo.
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$1.00
William Goidou Esq
Chief Clerk in the (illegible) of Bounty lands
War Office
Washington City
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THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
BY HIS EXCELLENCY.

Patrick Nobel Esq
Govenor and Commander-in-chief in and over the State aforesaid
To all whom these presents shall come,
This is to certify that James L. Guiguard Esq before whom the power of attorney on the first page of the sheet annexed signed by Lucy P Green and Mary C. Izard was executed and on the record page acknowledged, and whose certificate is continued on the third page of said sheet is clerk of the court of Common Pleas, Judge of the Court of Ordinary + office a Justice of the Peace Quorum for Richland District in the State aforesaid, and that E. J. Arthur Esq whose certificate appears upon the fourth page of said sheet is clerk of Commissioner of the Court of Equity for the District of Richland 
THEREFORE, All due Faith, Credit and Authority is and ought to be had and given their Proceedings and Certificates as such.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my Hand and caused to be affixed the Seal of the State, in the Town of Columbia the fifteenth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Thirty nine and in the Sixty Third year of the Independence of the United States of America
By the Govenor
William Laboide
Secretary of State