Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4238, Arthur Green, N.C.
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Service: N.C
Green, Arthur 
Number: R. 4238
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
___N.C._______    Green, Arthur

NUMBER
R. 4238

CONTENTS
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State of (unable to decipher)
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On this 6th day of Jan-uary in the year of our Lord
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N. 6.  Greene, Arthur    R. 4238
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a small bag and have covered cost of [illegible}
Sworn to and subscribed before me 6th January 1835.

Elias Green X his mark

Wm Hitchcock
Justice of the Peace

Personally appears before me is Wm Hitchcock acting Justice of the Peace for White County delegate Rackley and Elias citizens of the County of whence to personally and after time someone in said form of cases.  Upon this oath do say that they are well acquainted with the above named Arthur Green that they believe him to be of the age of seventy eight years and appears that he is reported and believed to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur is the opinion and believe his statements to be true.

Sworn and Subscribed before us 6th January 1835.
Wm  Hitchcock
Justice of the Peace

Micajah Rackley X his mark
Elias Green X his mark

I William Hitchcock am of the acting Justices of the Peace for White County, do certify and hereby declare my opinion upon this investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogations aforesaid presented by the War Department that he above named applicant Arthur Green was revolutionary soldier and served the thirteen states and that the said Micajah Rackley and Elias Green who have signed the preceding  {illegible} of White County, and that they are [illegible] entitled to full audit and that their statements is true and entitled to credit.
Wm. Hitchcock
Justice of the Peace
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State of Tennessee
White County Seal
I James Land Clerk of the Court of {illegible} and Quarter Sessions in {illegible} for the county of White aforesaid Do hereby certify that William Hitchcock Esquire endorsed & subscribed to the forgoing sumoned affiants and {illegible} is now {illegible} at the {illegible} of subscribing his name {illegible} as such {illegible} of the acting Jurors of the {illegible} for said County of White duly commissioned and qualified to act as such, and that fall forth and {illegible} is {illegible} and should be given to all his official acts and {illegible} as such that he the said William Hitchcock is a member of the County Court of said County of White, (
{illegible} that said Court is a Court of arms.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court affirm this 9th day of January A D 1835. and of the Juriprudence of the United States fifty eighth {illegible}.
Jacob A. Land Clerk
of White County Court
32.136
Arthur Greene
Wm Hitchcock Tennessee 
Hon J. B. Forester
H.R.
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State of Tennessee
Jackson County 
On this fifth day of December Eighteen Hundred and fifty one. Personally [illegible] before me the undersigned was acting Justice of the Peace for Jackson County Martha Green a resident of said County aged ninety three years who having first duly sworn according to said oath as sworn oath make the following declaration in order to  obtain the benefit of this provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th 1932 July 4th 1836 and July 1838 and all subsequent acts for the benefit of Widow and Soldiers of the Revolutionary was that she is the widow of Arthur Green who was a soldier of the Rrevolutionary War.  She further declares that she was married to the said Arthur Green Franklin County North Carolina on the spring day of [blank] Seventeen Hundred and or on Eighty nine and that she was not married to the said Arthur Green previous to his serving the army but the marriage took place at the time above stated. 
 She further swears that she is the widow of the said Arthur Green and has remained one
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War.  Since the death of her [illegible] and that she has never before made any application for a Pension.

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above before me 
Reuben H. Dowell
Justice of the Peace

Martha Green X her mark

State of Tennessee Jackson County  I Reuben H. Dowell as acting Justice of the Peace for said county hereby certify that I am personally acquainted with Martha Green and from her family information she is not able to attend court to make the foregoing declaration given under my hand and that this fifth day of December 1851
Reuben H. Dowell
Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee
Jackson County on this 5th day of December 1851personally [illegible] before me an acting Justice of the Peace for said county James Allison and Amos Maxwell who are persons entitled to full faith and [ineligible] over who are [ineligible] his intrusted and makes oath that they are personally acquainted with Arthur Green and Martha Green for
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thirty three years since that the said Arthur Green family of White County Tennessee and on the 22nd day of May Eighteen Hundred and Thirty sever and that Martha Green who makes the written declaration is the widow of the said Arthur Green and has remained a widow ever Since the matter of her said husband sworn to with subscribed before me on this day and date above.
Reuben H. Dowell
Justice of the Peace
James Allison
Amos Maxwell
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Eighteen Hundred and fifty one
Jaames Allison
Martha Green X her mark seal
Amos Maxwell

I Reuben H. Dowell a Justice of the Peace for said county hereby certify that Martha Green comes before me this day and acknowleges that due Execution of the Power of Attorney and that she [illegible] it for Mrs. June [illegible] contained given under my [illegible] and seal this fifth day of December 1851.
[signed] Reuben H. Dowell 
Justice of the Peace

State of Tennessee Sampson W. Cassetty Clerk of Jackson Jackson County Court hereby certify that Reuben W. Dowell whose given signature appears to the foregoing declaration and affidavits  is and was at the time of so doing an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Jackson, State of Tennessee duly commisioned and qualified and his acts as instituted to full credit and that our County Court is a court of record in testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of applicant office in Gainsboro this 28 day of January 1852
Sampson W Cassetty Clerk
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33607

Arthur Gree
Ten.
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Dec 19

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

Hon. W. B. Campbell
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House of Representatives
Dec. 19, 1837

Sir
     Have you on file the declaration of Arthur Green of White County Tennessee who is an an applicant for a pension - The declaration was sent to the Hon J B Forrester and the applicant has not heard from it since. Please inform me if you have it, and if anything additional is wanting to entitle him to a pension.
               Very respectfully
                         W B Campbell

J L Edward Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
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Copy of Original  (double underline)       
Pension Office
Apr. 16, 1852

Gent,
     In answer to the application of the heirs of Hannah Davis, de'ed (deceased). widow of Jonathan Davis, for a pension, I have to inform you that under a recent decision of the Secretary of the Interior, the case cannot be re-opened.
     More than five years having elapsed since the claim was last adjudicated & no additional evidence having been presented in the meantime, the application cannot now be considered.
      The same objections to the cases of Phebe Waddle, widow of Jno Waddle, Arthur Green (double underlined), Jas. Moore & Judith Hickman, wid. of Benj. Hickman.


Messrs Moore  & Dibrell
Sparta, Tenn
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Hon. W B Campbell
Dec 20 1887
[Tenn]
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       War Dept.   [ ] Office
      Dec 20. 1837

Sir
        In answer to your inquiry [..] the case of Arthur Green I have to inform you that the letter to the Hon. J. B. Forrester after 24th March 1836, on extract form which is herewith enclosed will their objections to his claim.

Hon W. B.. Campbell
H. R.
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4238

P.O.
Arthur Green

Service: ______________

Enlisted:  REJECTED   ,18--
Discharged:   ___________, 18--
List of 1852 gives foll. reason for suspension: "For period, length & grade of service & names of company to field officers"

Application filed: ________________________

Alleges: ____________________________
Re-enlisted________________________

Attorney: ___________________________
P. O. ___________________________________

_________ Recognized.  ________Contra
_______ Cert.. of Dis.  Searched for  __________, 18--
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Arthur Green
Tennessee


Hon. J. B. Forrester
HR
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State of Tennessee
White County              October Sessions AD 1835

       And now on this day being the 15th day of October A. D. 1835 before this [Justice] of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions in and for the County of White appeared the same Arthur Greene the aforementioned applicant for a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States of the 7th June 1832 and after being sworn in due form of law says that the facts stated in said petition are true, as the claim stated and that he hereby relinquishes any claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the [present] and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of any agency in any state. 
Sworn to in open Court upon the 15th day of October 1835
Jacob A. Lane Clerk     
Clerk of White County Court

Arthur Greene X his mark   sealed

We Micajah Rackley and Elias Green residing in the County of White in the State of Tennessee hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the Arthur Green, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have a been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that [].

Sworn to and subscribed in open Court 15th October 1835
Jacob A. Lane Clerk of White County

And the said Court do hereby acclaim their [ ], after
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the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further certifies that is appears to claim that Micajah Rackley and Elias Green, residing in the County of White also (,) has also signed the same are credible persons and has their statement is entitled to credit. 
                             David Snodgrass [ ]
                             Sims Dearing [ ]
                             Lewis Pettit [ ]

State of Tennessee
White County                October Sessions 1835

                                   Jacob A Lane  Clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter Superior Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Micajah Rackley for a pension.  
                         In Testimony whereof hereunto have set my hand and seal of Office this 15th day of October A.D. 1835 and of the Independence of the United States the sixtieth year.
                               Jacob A Lane Clerk
                                of White County Court