Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23667, John Green, R.I.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
R.I.

Green, John

NUMBER
S.33667

CONTENTS
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24323
New York
John Green
Montgomery in the State of New York
He was a Sergeant in the Comp commanded by Captain Lobbs of the Regt commanded by Col. — in the ["New York" crossed out] R.I. [line] for 26 months Private
2 " [months] Sergt 

Inscribed on the roll of New York [at] the rate of 30 dollars 00 cents per annum [to] commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Nov 1833— and sent to D. Wright 
Amsterdam

Arrears to the 4th of Sep. ‘33 [1833]  $75
Semi-anl allowance ending 4th ‘34 [1834] $15
$90

{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}

Recorded by G.C. Stiles Clerk,
Book E. Vol 4. Page 102.

Paid at the treasury under the act of the 6th April 1838 from 4th Sept 1838 to 4th Sep 1839. Agt notified 3d June 1840
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28.181
John Greens’s pension papers

John Green
NY

From 1780 private
Sergt 8 months.

Pr. 6 ? 20
Sergt. 2 10
$30

D. Wright 
Amsterdam, Montgomery, NY
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Declaration of John Green, to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832

State of New York
County of Montgomery [flourish bracket] SS

On this ["tenth" crossed out] Eleventh day of September in the year of our Lord 1833 - personally Appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of Montgomery County aforesaid Speicl [Special?] Court being now in Session, John Green a resident of the town of Broadalbin in the County of Montgomery aforesaid and state aforesaid. Aged Seventy five years on the thirteenth day of April last, who being just duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration - in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of congress passed June 7, 1832 - That in ["August" crossed out] the year 1780, the said John Green entered the United States Service as a private soldier & served for the term of five ["six" crossed out] months

That ["he was sixteen" crossed out] the above five ["six" crossed out] months service were performed in Captain Thomas [illegible]'s company. Said John Green enlisted into said Capt. [illegible]'s company to help make the quota of man [required?] in the town of Middletown in the State of Rhodeisland [Rhode Island] to fill up the Regiment of Blacks commanded by Colonel Christopher Green, the blacks of said Regiment being reduced at the time
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said John Green Enlisted therein to one company, the remainder of said Regiment was composed of white soldiers 

Colonel Green commanded said Regiment during the time Said John Green was in the Service as a aforesaid,  Col. Samuel Ward was the Lieutenant Colonel that commanded said Regiment, & Ebenezer Flagg the major -- said John Green says that according to the best of his recollection he was [illegible] the aforesaid service in the month of August of the year last aforesaid, but is not positive as to the time of the commencement - but he continued to serve for the term of ["six" crossed out] five months & was then discharged - but received no written discharge - whilst said John Green was in the service as aforesaid the company and Regiment to which he belonged were most of the time in the town of Middletown on the Island of Rhode-Island, being stationed there as a military guard, during the six months the regiment received orders as said John Green understood to March to New York, the Regiment did March to East Greenwich on the main land, & encamped there for about two weeks & then returned to Middletown again where it remained
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untill [until] said John Greens [Green's] time of service period - & he left service at the time said John Green entered the service as aforesaid he marched in middletown [Middletown] aforesaid, during the performance of the aforesaid service said John Green acted as a private soldier.

In the spring month of July, 1781 - said John Green again entered in the service of the United States as a volunteer for one month & served one month as a seargeant [sergeant] in Captain Phillip Trappings company, said company belonged to a Regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Potter, Samuel Bissell was Lieutenant & William Bliss ensign of the company to which said John Green belonged during said months service, during said months service the company & Regiment to whom said John Green belonged were stationed at the Fort on Brentons [Brenton's] Neck in Newport Rhode Island - where said said John Green entered the months service last aforesaid he was a resident of middletown [Middletown] aforesaid

Immediately after the expiration of the last months service said John Green volunteered to service another month in the United States service, in the said Captain Trappings company
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and the Regiment was --- during the last months service commanded by Col. Thomas Tillingham said John Green volunteered to serve during the last mentioned month as a seargeant [sergeant] in said company, soon after the enlistment for the last month, the surgeon of the Hospital at Newport aforesaid, where this said company & regiment were then stationed wanted a steward and said John Green was detached by said Captain Trappings & ordered to attend at said Hospital & there the said John Green [illegible] served out the remainder of said last mentioned month as steward at said Hospital, Doctor [illegible], acted as surgeon of said Hospital at this time -

The said John Green further states that shortly after the commencement of the revolutionary war he joined a company of minute men commanded by Captain Thomas Peckham of Middletown aforesaid and continued a member of said company for two years, the object of forming said company was to have an organized Corps to [illegible] at a minutes warning in guarding the Island of Rhode Island in the state of Rhode Island - during the
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time that said John Green was a member of said company of minute men he was three or four times called into the service but the precise time that these calls were made or the length of time of each call said John Green cannot precisely state from the great length of time which has elapsed, old age & consequent loss of memory But said John Green says that according to the best of his recollection he served not less than one month during the said two [illegible] which said months service is [illegible] and where that [illegible] before stated said John Green recollects that whilst he was a member of said company of Minute Men the British Naval [illegible] an attack upon Prudence Island in Narragansett Bay said [four?] was under the command of Commodore James Wallace

Several houses on said Island were burnt, at this time said company of minute men & said John Green with them were called into the service & [illegible] in the service two weeks -

Said John Green was born in the town of Middletown on the Island of Rhode Island & State of Rhode Island
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on the 13th day of April 1758 - as appears from a Record of said birth in the Bible of said John Greens [Green's] father, which he believes to be correct, said bible is now in the possession of & owned by this said John Green.

Said Bible is the only word he has of his age except what has been taken or copied from it. Said record was made by his Father 

during the whole of the Revolutionary war said John Green resided in Middletown aforesaid & continued to reside there untill [until] the 1789 - when he removed to Saratoga County in the State of New York & resided there untill [until] the year 1795, when he removed to Montgomery county aforesaid in which County he has ever since resided

he never received a written discharge from the service - [illegible] to the Reverend Aaron Seamans ["& Greene" crossed out] of Northampton ["Broadalbin" crossed out] & Doctor John G. Sweet of Florida both of the County of Montgomery who are well acquainted with me and will certify as to my character for veracity and their belief of my having performed revolutionary service

said John Green also refers to
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The affidavits of Fones Cole - Isaac Peckham hereunto annexed to sustain and corroborate his statement of the performance of Revolutionary Service -

& the said John Green in conclusion claims a pension for 5 months serviced performed under -
Capt Thomas Cole as -
herein before stated as -
a private, and for - 2. months
service under Capt Trappings -
as a seargeant [sergeant] as -
herein before stated -
& for ["one months service" crossed out] - 1. months
under [illegible] Capt Peckham as
herein before stated as
a private soldier -

And the said John Green hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state -

Said John Green says that the service performed in Capt Thomas Coles [Cole's] company as herein before stated was performed under the following circumstances William Weetin just enlisted into said company for the term of six months but was found on being prescribed to the
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[Muster master?] was found deficient in size & rejected this said Green then enlisted in his place & performed the remainder of the period six months service, which then the said John Green says was more than six months but which he puts down in his claim for a pension as only five months -

John Green

Sworn to in open Court
11th September 1833
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk
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We Aaron Seamans a Clergyman of Northampton & John G Sweet, physician of Florida [New York] both of Montgomery County - hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Green who has subscribed and sworn to the preceding and annexed declaration that we believe him to be seventy five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion - and we do further certify that said John Green is a man of reputable and fair standing in [illegible] & his statements entitled to [illegible] & credit -

And the said John G. Sweet further states, that he has been acquainted with said John Green for upwards of forty years -

Sworn to in open Court
11th Sept. 1833

Aaron Seamans
John G. Sweet

Geo. D. Ferguson, Clerk
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Montgomery County Ss Fones Cole of the Town of Broadalbin in the County of Montgomery being duly sworn doth depose and say that during the revolutionary war this deponent served one month in Captain Trappings company, at the Fort at Brentons Neck in Rhode Island -

- this deponent says that John Green who made the preceding and annexed declaration served in said company during said month as orderly seargeant [sergeant] of said company - at the end of said month this deponent left said company - deponent says he has heard the preceding declaration of said Green [illegible] & that the statement therein in relation to the first months service in Capt. Trappings company this deponent knows to be [illegible] - & further says not

["Isaac Peckham
x his mark" crossed out]

Fones Cole

Sworn to in open Court
11th Sept. 1833
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk
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Montgomery County Ss Isaac Peckham of the town of Johnstown in the County of Montgomery being duly Sworn doth depose and say that he is well acquainted with John Green in the annexed declaration named & has been acquainted with him ever since & during the revolutionary war, during said war this deponent lived in Middletown on the Island of Rhode Island, and this deponent knows & well remembers that said John Green Served as a soldier in Capt. Thomas Coles [Cole's] company during the said war as stated in the preceding declaration, this deponent says that he has heard said declaration read & he ["gives" crossed out] hereby confirms the statement of said Green therein contained as to his service under Captain Thomas Cole, with the exception that according to this deponents [deponent's] recollection & belief said Green served in said company for the term of six instead of five months as therein stated - said company during said service was attached to a Regiment called the Black Regiment commanded by Col Christopher Green

Sworn to in open Court 11th Sept. 1833
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk

Isaac Peckham
x his mark
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after an investigation of the Matter, & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named John Green the applicant was a revolutionary Soldier & served as he states: and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Aaron Seamans who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident within the town of Northampton in the county of Montgomery aforesaid, and that the said John G. Sweet who has also signed the same is a Physician residing in the town of Florida and is a credible person; and the said Court further certifies that it appears to them that Fones Cole of the town of Broadalbin in said County and Isaac Peckham of the town of Johnstown in said county are credible persons, and that the Statements of the said Aaron Seamans, John G. Sweet, Fones Cole and Isaac Peckham is entitled to credit.

I, George D Ferguson, Clerk of the Court of Common please in & for the said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Green for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office this eleventh day of September 1833.

Geo: D. Ferguson
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23667
Revolution INVALID.

File No. 23,667
John Green
Serg Rev War

Act: June 7 32
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 161

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
May 29th, 1840.

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same as the Treasury of the United States," John Green, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Thirty (30) Dollars and [blank] Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838, to the 4th Sept. 1839.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12-5-41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME Green, John
GRADE Private "in the LINE Sappers and Miners"
WARRANT NUMBER 13116
ACREAGE 100
ISSUED June 29, 1789 to Matt. McConnell, assignee

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*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.