Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14,543, Stephen Cree, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass
Oree, Stephen Hannah
NUMBER
W.14.543
CONTENTS

4132
Massachusetts
Hannah Gree widow of Stephen Gree deceased
who was a pensioner under the Act of and who died on the 15 th October 1821 of Essex Co. in the State of Mass. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Hodge of the Regt. commanded by M c Ginnish in the Mass. line for 7 mos 22 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 25 Dollars 77 Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 st day of Sept. 1839 and sent Thos Gage Gengelova Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839 $ 90.19 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 4th 1839. 12.88
$ 103.07
{ Act July 7, 1838. }
Recorded by N. K. Addison Clerk. Book 9 Vol. 1 st Page 81

V 4533
Wannuck Creek of Stephen N'apachusett.
vol 18 p 149 not on roll. Joseph Lee on roll. admitted for 7 mats and 22 des Pn. #2577 on roll vol 18 p 149 150 from 3 Feb 1778 to 3 April following - 2" 1 Capt. Dodge Col. Gerrish mat. no. no roll Capt. Bangs 400 1780 same Bn. died 15 Oct 1821
Ac 57 July 38.
Thomas Gage Georgetown. Mass.
ms. A. 9. 2. 10

(Declaration)
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1838. Entitled, "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Essex County ss.
On this twenty-seventh day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.
Personally appeared before me Daniel A. White Esquire, Judge of Probate for said County of Essex. Hannah Gree, a resident of the town of Danvers in said County, aged eighty years and upwards, who being first 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 act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838. entitled, "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." That she is the widow of Stephen Gree, late of Topsfield, in said County, deceased.
That said Stephen Gree enlisted as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Robert Dodge, in Colonel Johnsons Regiment for the term of four months, commencing in the month of July in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven. and that he did serve said term at Still-water, and other places in the state of New-York, he was in the Battle of the seventh of October and at the surrender of Burgoyne's Troops on the seventeenth day of the same October in said year 1777.
That he again enlisted as a private in the Company of guards commanded by Captain John Dodge in Colonel Jacob Gerrishes Regiment, and did serve in said Company from about the twelfth day of November in said year seventeen hundred and seventy-seven till the third day of April in the year seventeen hundred and seventy-eight. which service was that of guarding Burgoyne's Troops, at Cambridge and other places in the vicinity of Boston Massachusetts, making a term of four months and twenty-two days.
That he again enlisted as a private in the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Gould, in Colonel Wades Regiment, for the term of three months, commencing about the first of July in the year seventeen hundred and eighty. and that he did serve said term at West-point and other places within the said state of New-York.
All which service was in the Army of the United States, in the War of the Revolution.
(The foregoing statements are made according to the best of her knowledge and belief.)
For

For evidence of said Green service, she asks leave respectfully to refer to such papers and documents as may be on file in the War Department at Washington, and also to such as she may be enabled to annex to this declaration, in support thereof, and of her claim to the benefit of said Act.
She further declares that she was lawfully married to said Stephen Green at Holden  Holden in the County of Worcester in said Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the twenty-seventh day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, by the John Child, Jr. P.M. late of said Holden  Holden deceased.
That her husband, the aforementioned Stephen Green, died at said Lopsfield, on the fifteenth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one.
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place prior to the first of January one hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated.
That since the decease of her said husband, she has never intermarried, but is still remaining the widow of said Stephen Green.
For evidence of her marriage to said Stephen Green, his death, and of her present widowhood, she asks leave to refer to such papers and documents, as she may be enabled to annex hereto in proof thereof.
Sworn and subscribed, the day (note, the word Holden, interlined, & Worcester year 2, before signing) and year first above written, Hannah Green
Before D. H. White Judge of Probate

I Paul Davis Town Clerk of Holden in the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts do hereby certify that I have examined the Records in the Town of Holden and find as follows Stephen Gree and Hannah Smith, both of Worcester were married February twentyseventh Seventeen hundred and eighty-seven by John Child Just. Paris,,
I further certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "Feb y 27. 1887,,
Paul Davis Clerk of the Town of Holden
I Paul Davis above-named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Holden in the County of Worcester & State of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said Holden with the exception above named as certified by me -
Paul Davis Clerk of the Town of Holden
Holden January 4. 1889.
Sworn before me -
Samuel Daman Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Worcester, ss. I, Joseph G. Kendall, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Worcester, do certify, that Samuel Daman, Esq. above named, is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, and that his signature to the above certificate is in his own proper hand writing. In testimony whereof I hereto set my name, and affix the seal of said Court, at Worcester, this fifth day of January, in the year 1889. —
Joseph G. Kendall Clerk

Cree, Stephen. (Mass.) N. 14.543.
A pay roll of Capt. Wodge's co. Reol. Gerrish's Mass. regt from day of engagement to Feby. 3, 1778, has been removed from this case to be sent to the War. Dept.
Sent to War Dept. Jany. 16, 1913.
L. H. Feb 28. 1911

Map
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 14543
Hannah Cree Widow of Stephen Cree Prin: Mass Som.
Act: July 7 th 1838
Index:—Vol. A , Page 154
[Arrangement of 1870.]

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
ESSEX, ss.
I, JOHN PRINCE, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, within and for the County of Essex, do certify, that Hon. Daniel A. White is Judge of the Court of Probate within and for said County. That
Thomas Cage & John L. Hood Esquires, are Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, and that their signatures hereon are genuine.
WITNESS MY HAND, and the Seal of said Court of Common Pleas,
January 11. A. D. 1839. John Prince Clerk.

Elizabeth Knowlton, wife of Nathan Knowlton, of Wenham in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged fifty-five years, do testify and say that I was formerly well acquainted with Capt. John Dodge of Wenham aforesaid, who was as I have always understood, an officer in the Army of the Revolution. In 1812, I married with Isaac Dodge a son of the aforesaid Capt. John Dodge, this same Capt. John Dodge died in 1811. testate, having made his son Isaac, (my late husband) executor of his last will and testament, and as such the said Isaac came into possession of all the books and papers, muster rolls and other papers and documents which were his father's, retaining possession thereof until his own death, which took place in 1826, upon the death of the said Isaac (my late husband) I administered upon his estate, and as his Administratrix, I took possession of all his books and papers, and of all the books and papers of which he had legal possession, and I have since retained possession of the same, among the papers of which I then took and have since had possession, was the pay roll of the said Capt. John Dodge's company at Winter Hill, for between two and three months service, performed by various individuals, (whose names are born thereon) next previous to the 3 rd day of February in the year 1778, as the said roll indicates, which roll is hereto annexed, except a small piece thereof, containing the names of the privates numbered from 20 to 39 inclusive, which small piece has been lost in some way unknown to the deponent. That part of the roll hereto annexed bears the name of Stephen Gree - wherein he is made up for two months and twenty-one days service, and received £2. 14. 0 as bounty therefor, as appears by his own signature, all as set forth in

in my former deposition, accompanying the application of Hannah Ene, widow of said Stephen Ene, heretofore made.
Elizabeth Knowlton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Essex ss. June 10 th 1839. Then Elizabeth Knowlton above named, personally appearing, subscribed the aforesaid affidavit in my presence, at the same time made oath to the truth thereof, and I certify that she is a credible witness,
Thomas Gage, justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Essex, ss. Probate Office.
I Nathaniel Lord junior, register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that Thomas Gage esquire, before whom the affidavit hereto annexed of Elizabeth Knowlton purports to have been taken, is a justice of the peace for said county; and his name, subscribed to the certificate thereon, is his genuine signature, to me well known.
Given under my hand and seal of office this eighteenth day of June, A.D. 1839.
Nath. Lord Jr.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss. PROBATE OFFICE.
I Nathaniel Lord junior , register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that on the sixth day of May , A. D. 1811, the last will and testament of John Dodge , late of Wenham in said county, gentleman, deceased, testate, was duly approved and allowed; that
Isaac Dodge ,
of Wenham in said county, gentleman, is named executor in said will; that he then accepted his said trust, and gave bond according to law for the faithful discharge thereof; as appears by the records in said office, and that it does not appear by said records, that said
Isaac Dodge  to  the  above  mentioned  Isaac  Dodge Given under my hand and seal of office, this eighteenth day of June , A. D. 1839.
Nath. Lord Jr.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss. PROBATE OFFICE.
I Nathaniel Lord junior, register of probate for said county, hereby certify, that on the 'second day of January, A. D. 1827,
Elizabeth Dodge, of Wenham in said county, widow, was appointed administratrix of the goods and estate of Isaac Dodge, late of Wenham in said county, gentleman, deceased, intestate, having given bond according to law for the faithful discharge of her said trust; as appears by the records in said office; and that it does not appear by said records, that said Elizabeth Dodge has become disqualified to act in her capacity of administratrix as aforesaid.
Given under my hand and seal of office, this eighteenth day of June, A. D. 1839.
N. Lord Jr.

To the Commissioner of pensions
Washington

Georgetown Essex Co Mass. June 22. 1839.
To J. L. Edwards Esq r Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir,
Yours of the 27 th Ult. relating to the application of Mrs Hannah Lee, widow of Stephen Lee, dec d , has been received, in which you inform me that "her husband's name is not borne on the rolls of Capt. Mabet Dodge's Company, from July 1777, for 4 months, as alleged."
I have not been able to find any evidence of that service, other than that originally forwarded with said widow's application, viz; the affidavit of Capt. Benjamin Gould, who is a very worthy man, but is quite aged, and probably is mistaken as to the given name of the person by the name of Lee, borne on said Capt. Mabet Dodge's roll for 1777. —
You further inform me that, "the rolls of Capt. John Dodge's Company up to February 1770, do not contain the name of the claimant's husband; but it is found on the roll from 3 d February to 3 d April 1770, being 2 months 21 days. The other alleged term under Capt. Benjamin Gould, of 3 months, will not make 6 months service; and as the law requires 6 months service, the claim cannot be allowed," &c.
And you further say, "The papers have been filed with rejected cases," &c.
Now Sir, will you please examine the evidence herewith forwarded to your department, and see if it is not sufficient to prove the service of the said claimant's husband for two months 21 days next previous to the 3 d February 1770. I can but think you will find it sufficient, it seems to me to have every appearance of being an original and genuine pay roll, and you will observe that it is made up to the 3 d February 1770. " Exclusive " and then please to observe the roll you find in your department, for 2 months 1 day, service, from February 3 d to April 3 d — and I presume you will there find the word inclusive .

"inclusive" annexed, at any rate it is upon a pay roll now running among the said Capt. John Dodge's file of papers which I have examined. If the above is proved, then we have — — — — — 2 months 21 days, and from February 3 rd to April 3 rd 1870 inclusive — 2 " 1 day By examining the roll of Capt. Benjamin Gould's company, I find Stephen case entered the service June 30 th 1860, was discharged on the 10 th day of October following, making — 3 " 11 " and being 240 miles from home was allowed for 0 " 12 " more making in all — 3 months 15 days Please refer to the subscriber.
I am respectfully Yours &c, Thomas Gage.

J. L. Edwards Esq. Commission of Justices, Washington

Georgetown, Essex Co Mass. Jan y 14. 1839.
To J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir,
Enclosed her-
-with, I forward the application of Hannah Lee, now of Danvers in said County of Essex, Widow of Stephen Lee late of Topsfield in the same County, now deceased, for a pension under the Act of Congress of the 7 th of July 1836. — The proof in this case appears to be clear and full, and I have no doubt will be corroborated by the rolls in your department, — please refer to the subscriber at "Georgetown, Essex Co Mass."
and Obey Yours &c
Thomas Gage.

I do not wish to have this Roll Separated from the other declaration & other papers.
J. L. E.

I Benjamin Gould of Newburyport in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged eighty-seven years, and upwards, on oath, do testify and declare, that formerly I was well acquainted with Stephen Lee of Topsfield in said County of Essex now deceased; and do know that he served as a private in the Company commanded by Captain Robert Dodge in Colonel Johnsons Regiment, for the term of four months from the first part of August in the year seventeen hundred seventy-seven, which service was in the Army of the United States, in the War of the Revolution, and was performed principally in the state of New-York - was at the surrender of Burgoyne Troops on the seventeenth day of October in said year - all the above is according to the best of my recollection. My means of knowing the above stated facts are, that I was a Lieutenant in said Captain's Robert Dodge's Company during said term of four months, and in the same service. -
Benjamin Gould
State of Massachusetts, Essex County ss. October 20. 1830.
Then the above named Benjamin Gould made oath, that the above written affidavit subscribed by him in my presence, is true. And I do further certify that he is well known to me and is a credible witness. -
Attest, Thomas Gage, justice of the peace.

I Elizabeth Knowlton of Wenham in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now the wife of Nathan Knowlton of said Wenham, but lately the widow of Captain Isaac Dodge of said Wenham, deceased, and while a widow as aforesaid, was the executrix of said Isaacs Estate, and as such, took possession of all said Isaacs papers and documents, found in his possession at the time of his decease, and have ever held, and now have possession of the same, among which are sundry Muster Rolls and Rolls of payments made to various persons for services in the army of the United States, in the War of the Revolution. — Which Muster rolls, and rolls of payments, with other military papers, came into the said Captain Isaac Dodges hands, as the executor of the last Will and testament of the late Captain John Dodge, father of said Isaac, and late of said Wenham deceased, who was a Captain in the army of the United States, in the War of the Revolution, for several years as appears by said rolls, among which rolls, there is one headed as follows, viz:
"Muster roll for pay due to the noncommissioned officers and Soldiers  for in John Dodges Company Col. Jacob Gerrishes Regt. of Guards, State of Massachusetts Bay at the rate of 40$ per Month from the 3 rd of February 1778 to 3 rd of April following both days included,"
Then follows the names of the noncommissioned officers & soldiers, among them is the name of "Stephen Cree" made up for 11 months days £ 2 1 4 — Said Stephen Cree has signed a receipt on said roll for said sum. —
There is also another pay roll (which should have been stated first) headed as follows, viz:
"Pay roll for Capt Dodges Company, Col. Gerrishes Regt. from the State of Massachusetts Bay at 20$ per month as a bounty, for Noncommissioned Officers and soldiers from the days for their engagements, to the 3 rd day of February 1778 exclusive."
Then follows the names of the noncommissioned officers & soldiers, among them is the name of "Stephen Cree" made up for 11 months days 2 21 = 2.14.0 — Stephen Cree has receipted upon said roll for said sum. — The foregoing are true extracts from said rolls,
Elizabeth Knowlton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex County ss. October 22. 1838. Then Elizabeth Knowlton above named, made oath, that the foregoing are true extracts from from pay rolls in her possession as above stated } Before Thomas Gaye, justice of the peace and she is a credible witness, —

I Elijah Cummings of Topsfield in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, now aged Seventy-seven years, on oath do testify and declare that I was well acquainted with Stephen Gree late of Topsfield in said County, now deceased, and do know that the said Stephen Gree, enlisted as a private in a company then commanded by Captain Benjamin Gould in a Regiment commanded by Col. Nathaniel Wade, that he served as such private in said company at West Point in the State of New-York, in the war of the Revolution, in the service of the United States, in the year one thousand seven hundred and Eighty, the campaign commencing in June and closing in October of that year. My means of knowing these testimonies are - that the said Stephen Gree enlisted with me, into the said company that he served, therein, with me, the full term, faithfully until we were discharged in October as above stated.
Topsfield Oct. 25. 1838.
Elijah Cummings
State of Massachusetts Essex County ss:
October 25. 1838. Then personally appeared the above named Elijah Cummings and made oath to the truth of the above written deposition subscribed by him in my presence. I do further certify that he is well known to me, and is a credible witness.
John G. Blood Just. Peace

I John D. Peabody of Ipsfield in the County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged fifty-eight years and upwards, do testify and say, that formerly I was well acquainted with Stephen Gree, late of said Ipsfield, deceased, and do know that he died on the fifteenth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one, my means of knowing the above stated fact, is, that said Gree was not only a townsman, but a neighbour of mine, and my practice has been, both before and since the death of said Gree, to make an entry in my memorandum book, of all deaths which have for many years occurred, in said Ipsfield, and come to my knowledge, and I find his death there entered, as having taken place at the time above stated, and I well remember the time of his death, and have not the least doubt of his having died at the time above stated.
And I further testify and say, that I am well acquainted with Hannah Gree, who is now making application for a pension, and do know that she is the widow of said Stephen Gree, and that she is now living in Sanders in said County of Essex, and that she has not intermarried since the decease of the said Stephen.
John D. Peabody
State of Massachusetts, Essex County ss, January 9 th 1839. Then the above named John D. Peabody made oath, that the above written affidavit subscribed by him in my presence, is true. — And I do further certify that he is well known to me, and is a credible witness, Attest. Thomas Gaye, Justice of the Peace.