Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 21217, Eleazer Green, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Nass.
Green, Eleazer Lucy
N. 21217.
CONTENTS
[Two columns of horizontal dotted lines for handwritten entries.]

11.871
R
Massachusetts
Eleazer Green
of Groton in the state of Massachusetts who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Greaton , of the Mass line, for the term of 2 years, War
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of June 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana, Esq. Groton, Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 11 mo. 4 d. $ 89. 3
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 . . . 48. -
Continued $ 137. 3
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
9 months in Greaton's Regt
Application and Certificate of Pension of Eleazer Green, Groton, Mass.

Massachusetts 194 Lucy Green of Middlesex in the State of Mass. who was a Mass in the commanded by Captain of the commanded by in the Mary Eleazer Greenlee late a Private of Artillery in the Revolution.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 100 Dollars - 67 - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of Nov. 1836 and sent to Baldwin Boston Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $550.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending Feb 1837 50.00 $600.00
July 4 1836 { Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by H. H. Addison Clerk Book Vol. 150 Page 57

Eleazar Green

Common Wealth of Massachusetts.
Be it remembered, that on the first day of April in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Eight hundred, and eighteen before one, Samuel Dana, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit (comprehending the Counties of Essex, and Middlesex, within the Commonwealth aforesaid) being a Court of Record by law instituted and established. Comes Lazar Green of Groton in said County of Middlesex, and on Oath declares that he served in the war of the Revolution for the space of five years ten months & six days the whole, at the commencement of the war, for the State of Massachusetts the Northern army, that he enlisted under Capt. John Fernald, and went into under Capt. Weston in Col. Grayson's Regiment, at the expiration of the term, he enlisted again on the North River, in the State of New York, and some time in the year One Thousand, Seven hundred and eighty, or eightyone, he, joined by a class of men, in the Town of Groton aforesaid to go into the Continental service, he first went to Boston and was there mustered, from thence he was ordered to Bunker Hill, when he arrived there, he was reported to Col. Crane, of the Artillery, who placed him in the Company of Capt. Leavitt of the same Regiment, which Company was then commanded by Lieut. Freeman, & he continued to command the Company while he belonged to it - in February, of the year 1783, as well as he can recollect he hurt his knee, remaining Wood from a mountain, so that he was rendered unfit for duty. He continued home with that hurt, untill May or June next following, when he was discharged, he well remembers that his discharge was signed by Genl. Knox, but he lost the same, about five years after he left the service, & he believes the same to have been destroyed by some one of his children, during the space of the three years he belonged to the Artillery, was always in the Company aforesaid in Col. Crane's Regiment. He is now sixty five years old, is wholly destitute of property, and by reason of lameness, and decrepitude, unable to labor, and has been for more than seven years supported by the State of Groton, assistance of others. -
Lazar Green
These made, taken, subscribed and sworn to, at Groton in the County of Middlesex aforesaid, the day and year aforesaid.
Saml. Dana

117 Eleanor Green
11871 June 19
Am

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June — A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice , and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
Groton In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Ebenezer Green resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 11. 871 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
“WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.”
“I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Ebenezer Green late a Private — in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the “Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first — day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen”
“Given at the War Office of the United States, this twelfth day of June — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. T. L. Edwards in the absence  J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War  for behalf of the Secretary of War. ”
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
“Real estate none Personal estate viz.
  1 table of the value of .87  2 chests .75  — — — —  $1.62    Andirons .85  shovel .33  4 old chairs .50  — — — 1.68    brockery, glass & tin ware .75  tub .25  — — — —  1.00    Ebenezer Green.  $4.30  
And the said Ebenezer Green having been first duly sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he served about five years as a private in the Revolutionary war — upwards of two years of said time in Capt. Constant Freeman's company of artillery in the Regiment commanded by Col. Crane Massachusetts line — all which is more particularly set forth in his original declaration on file in the war

office dated April 1, 1818- that he is sixty six years of age, a husbandman by occupation but has not been able to labour for nine years last past during which time he has been supported by the town of Groton until receiving his pension that he has no family except his wife Lucy aged fifty eight years. Eleazer Green
Sworn & declared to before me
Sam l Dana Judge. //

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana — a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
// I, Eleazer Green — do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD. Eleazer Green.
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Eleazer Green — took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana Judge of said Court. //
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW , Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record 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 four dollars & ten cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20 th day of July 1820
Atte.
Abraham Biglow

Lucy Green. Widow of Gleason Green Deceased
N o 562
3. Ac.
1818
$100 per ann,
Commencing 4 th March
1831
Rachel Baldwin Brim

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss. On this second day of November in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty six. Person- ally, appeared before the Hon. Samuel P. P. Fay Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Middlesex, Commonwealth aforesaid Lucy Green a resident of Groton, County of Middle- sex, and Commonwealth aforesaid, aged sev- enty four years, 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 4 th 1836. That she is the widow of Ebenezer Green late of said Groton deceased and that the said Ebenezer Green her late husband served as a soldier in the war of the Revolution and for two years and more was a private in Capt. Constant Free- mans Company of Col. Cranes Regiment of Artillery all of which will more fully appear on reference to the Records and Rolls on file in the war department and of the papers and docu- ments which were forwarded as proof in support of his claim to a Pension under the act of Con- gress of the 18 th of March 1818. which Pension the said Ebenezer continued to receive until his death which occurred over twelve years since She further declares that she was married to the said Ebenezer Green at said Groton

by Josiah Ladd Jr. Justice of Peace on the sixth day of April Seventeen hundred and sev- enty eight
That her husband the said Eleazer Green died on the 13 th of October 1824 and that she has re- mained a widow ever since that period as as will more fully appear by reference to the proof herewith annexed
Jucy Green
Subscribed & sworn to before me
J. A. Fay Wrote
I Asa Lewis of Boston in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do on oath testify and declare that I was formerly well acquainted with Eleazer Green late of said Boston deceased and that the said Eleazer was a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress 1818 which pension he the said Eleazer continued to receive until his death which occurred some eleven or twelve years since and left Lucy his widow who has not since married.
Asa Lewis
I Capt Butler of Boston, County of Middlesex Commonwealth of Massachusetts being sworn do on oath testify and say that I was formerly

were acquainted with Ebenezer Green late of this town of Groton deceased and that said Ebenezer Green was a pensioner of the United States since the 18th of March 1818 and died in said Groton about twelve years since leaving, leaving his widow who still resides in this town and has not since married
Caleb Butler
Middl. ss. Nov. 2 d 1836
Personally appeared Asa Lewis Healeh Butler both respectable citizens & credible persons (the latter being post master in Groton) I made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavits, by them subscribed respectively before me J. P. P. Fay Prob.
And the said judge of Probate does hereby declare his opinion, that the statements contained in the declaration of said applicants, who are a credible & respectable person are true - and that the same, as well as those of the affiants Lewis & Butler are entitled to full faith & credit J. P. P. Fay Prob.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middl. ss. I Isaac Dike Register of the Court of Probate in & for the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts hereby certify that Samuel P. P. Fay signed as Judge of said Court, & that his signature thereunto written is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this seventh day of November in the year Eighteen hundred & thirty six Isaac Dike Reg of Prob

Marriage certificate of Eleazer Green + Lucy Blanchard

Commonwealth of Massachusetts } }
Town of Groton Town Clerk's Oct 14. 1836           Office
I John G. Park do on oath declare that I am clerk of the Town of Groton in the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that I have the custody of the records of said Town. and that it appears by the said records that Mr Eleazer Green and Miss Lucy Blanchard both of Groton aforesaid were joined in marriage by Josiah Sawtell Esq Justice of Peace April 6 th 1778
John G. Park } Town Clerk
Middlesex ss. Groton October 14 th AD 1836. Then personally appeared John G. Park, he subscribed to the above certificate and made solemn oath to the truth of the above. Before me
W Bradford Wyllys Justice of Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Madison Is I Isaac Dyer Clerk of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify That Bradford Nephell Esq. is a justice of the Peace within & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & that his signature written within is his genuine signature.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this seventh day of November A D 1836
Isaac Dyer Clerk of Probate

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 21217
Lucy Green widow of Cleager Green Pro New York
Act June 1 st 32
Index : Vol A Page 291
[Arrangement of 1870.]

To whom it may concern
We the Subscribers, Selectmen & Overseers of the poor of the Town of Groton in Vt. Do Certify, that Eleazar Green who it is said, was a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and now belongs to this Town, is in poor & indigent Circumstances, wholly destitute, of property, & is unable to support himself. —
April 26. 1819
Noah Shattuck William Livermore Buckley Ames

Eleazar Green
March 1784
9 mo. in Greaton's regt. The Judge Advocate as to indigence required Fraser in the body of the Col.
Adm.?

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the first day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Personally appeared Ebenezer Green and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Ebenezer Green did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months. and the said Ebenezer Green is well known to me to be very poor and indigent.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
Sam d Dana
And I do further Certify, that the above named Ebenezer Green is very poor, & stands in need of relief for his daily support April 26. 1819. Sam d Dana