Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23659, John Green, Conn.

SERVICE
Conn.
Green, John
NUMBER _____
S. 23659
CONTENTS

Duplicate Certificate issued 20 Nov. 1841, and sent to H. G. Ferris Esq Skaneateles, New York Skaneateles.
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6 th April 1838 from 1 st September 1840 to 1 st March 1841. Ag st m th d ay April 26 th 1842
6006 New York John Egan
Spafford in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Bolton of the Regt. commanded by Col. Sedgwick in the Connecticut line for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of Feb. 1833 — and sent to H. G. Ferris Esq. Skaneateles N.Y.
  Arrears to 14th of Sep. 1832  $ 39.99    Semi-ann. allowances ending 14 th '33  13.33     $ 53.32  
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832 }
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk Book D. Vol. 5 Page 139

In the matter of the application of John Green for a pension of Spafford Onondaga Co. N.Y.
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8 mo. pri
$26.66

I am well acquainted with the Hon. Daniel Morely Vice Chancellor of the 7 th Circuit of New York & his handwriting & I certify that the signature to the within paper Daniel Mor- -ley Vice Chancellor is his proper handwriting I also certify that I know that the within paper are the identical papers that passed before said Vice Chancellor Feb y 14. 1833
A. G. D. & R. M c

State of New York Cayuga County ss. On this twentysecond day of October A.D. 1832. personally appeared before me Gershon Mowe one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in & for the County of Cayuga and State aforesaid I have Bottom of the Form of Sempronius in said County and made oath in due form of Law that he is personally acquainted with John Green of the Town of Spafford in the County of Onondaga and State aforesaid, that he became ac- quainted with said John Green when he was a small boy the deponent and said Green were brought up in the Town of Plainfield in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut that he knew said John before during the period of the revolutionary War, that John in June in the year 1781. then was a draft of Men made in the Company of Malitia in said Plainfield that among others one Ebenezer Spalding was drafted and one Benjamin Gallop was also drafted that said draft was for six months; that said John Green hired as a Substitute in the place of said Spalding and this deponent hired to go into the service as a Substitute for said Benjamin Gallop. That this deponent & said Green were ordered to go to the Town of Lebanon in Connecticut to be mustered that said Green & this deponent did go as ordered were mustered at said Lebanon by Lieu- tenant Beman, and was then ordered to join the Continental Army at White Plains

In the County of Westchester and State of New York, then proceeded to said last men- tioned place and joined said army they were put into different companies said Gun was put into a company commanded by Captain Stillwell - they marched to Peekskill landing Willis Clift was the Major - that after making to Peekskill the Companies in which then disponer & said Gun were separately attached this disponer did not see said Gun afterwards until after the Evacuation of said place draft, & until after they returned home to Plain- field - This disponer for the said that his bodily infirmity is such that he is unable to go to Onondaga County or even to go from home as any greater distance than he can walk and he is unable to walk more than one or two three miles at once - foref Bottom Sworn before me this day of year aforesaid.
Garthorne Moore a Judge of lay Com Pleas
I hereby certify that the above named John Bottom cannot in my opinion attend Court at the Court house in Onondaga County by reason of bodily infirmity and that I have been well acquainted with said
John Bottom for several years last past and that he sustains a good reputation for truth and veracity -
Dated October 22 1832. Garthorne Moore a Judge of lay Com Pleas

in the County of Westchester and State of New York, then proceeded to said last men- tioned place and joined said army they were put into different companies said Gun was put into a company commanded by Captain Stillwell - they marched to Peekskill landing Willis Clift was the Major - that after marching to Peekskill the Companies in which they disponer & said Gun were attached & the disponer did not see said Gun afterwards until after the Evacuation of said place draft, & until after they returned home to Plass- =pied - This disponer further saith that his bodily infirmity is such that he is unable to go to Onondaga County or even to go from home at any greater distance than he can walk and he is unable to walk more than one or two three miles at once - so that Bottom Sworn before me the day & year aforesaid.
Gardner Morse a Judge of lay Comptroller
I hereby certify that the above named John Bottom cannot in my opinion attend Court at the Court house in Onondaga County by reason of bodily infirmity and that I have been well acquainted with said
John Bottom for several years last past and that he sustains a good reputation for truth and veracity -
Dated October 22 1832. Gardner Morse a Judge of lay Comptroller

State of New York
Onondaga County ss. On this Thirteenth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Vice Chancellor of the Seventh circuit as a Court of Chancery held for said State at Onondaga in the County of Onondaga now sitting John Green a resident of the Town of Spafford in said County aged Seventy one years in all his last part, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated; that some time about two years previous to the time Fort Griswold in Connecticut was taken by the British under Benedict Arnold, some time in the month of June he was drafted for two months service in the service of the United States, before that time belonged to a Militia Company in the Town of Plainfield Windham County State of Connecticut commanded at that time by Captain Joshua Bottom that disposal was ordered to go to New London and there be mustered for said service, that disposal was ordered to New London and was organized and mustered in a company commanded by Joshua Dunlap as Captain who also resided at said

Plainfield - Thomas Cagwin of the Town of Voluntown in said State was Lieutenant Disposed was detached with seventeen others of said company to boat wood on the Sound about ten miles distant for the use of said Fort Griswold - Disposed remained in said Service Two months was then discharged and went home to Plainfield for had no written discharge, he does remember the names of any others the others belonging to his company, Col. Sedyard then commanded said Fort Griswold; that in June 1781. Disposed took the place of one Cyrus Spalding of said Town as his substitute to go into the Service of the United States for the period of six months being the time for which said Spalding had been drafted to Service, Disposed was ordered to go to the Town of Lebanon in Connecticut to be mustered Disposed was ordered was mustered by Lieutenant Beman at Lebanon and was then ordered to join the Continental Army at White Plains in the County of Westchester and State of New York, he went as directed and at White Plains Disposed was attached to a company commanded by Captain Stillwell the Company marched to Peekskill Landing - at said Peekskill this Disposed with twenty four other men taken from the several companies

deponant with twenty four other men taken from the several companies
were detached as a guard for General Parsons, and were ordered to go to Stanford near Horse neck in Connecticut that they were marched under Command of Lieutenant Depeere - Major Lawrence was with General Parsons, - that deponant with said men performed said Service at Stamford about, three months, said General Parsons then set out to go to Camp near Westpoint got as far as Danbury and said Parsons was then taken sick, that deponant was detained to attend said Parsons in his sickness he remained there about three weeks - General Parsons recovered his health and deponant was permitted to join his company at Peekskill or Highlands opposite Westpoint, deponant went as ordered joined his Company and remained there until the expiration of six months the time for which said draft was made from them discharged and went back to Plainfield, while deponant was at Stamford as afore- said he went with the detachment of twenty five men then with said Parsons to New Rochelle and manned for a set whale boats lying there & took them wood ships used by the enemy for carrying wood into New York, they took a Hay ship used for carrying forage and a ten gun ship in which Arnold Sailed to New London for the time he took Fort

Edward and killed said Col Selyard deponent further saith that he recei- =ved a written discharge at the time he was discharged as last aforesaid that his father took it after he retur- =ned and he has not seen it Since, he has no documentary evidence of the facts above stated nor does he know any person living by whom the same or any part can be proved except John L Bottom of Senpronius in the County of Cayuga whose affidavit is hereto annexed; - He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that in name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State - deponent was born in the Town of Preston adjoining said Plainfield; deponent has a record of his age in the Bible given to him by his father and in his handwriting It is there stated that deponent was born on the 14th day of May 1701 Deponent lived in the Town of Plainfield from the 14th year after the commencement of the Revolutionary war, until it closed, he lived in Plainfield at both periods of his entering the service as aforesaid that after peace - deponent moved to a place then called Maple Town in Rensselaer County State of New York from there to Hoosack in the same County

then to Peterborough in the same County remained there until about twenty years ago he moved to the Town of Nelson in Madison County and State of New York where lived six years from then he moved to the Town of Otto Co in Onondaga County, remained there about six years and then moved to Spafford in same County, where he now resides. This deponent further saith that he is known to Daniel Trusk- ham Daniel Barber John Barber Benjamin Stanton Silas Gillet all of said Spafford who can testify as to his character for truth & veracity - and the reputation of him to and subscribed this deponent as a soldier the day & year aforesaid John Green
Daniel Mosely Concise Judge Vice Chancellor
And the said Court doth hereby declare its opinion that the above named John Green was a revolution- ary soldier and served in the States
Daniel Mosely Vice Chancellor
Onondaga County I Silas Gillet of Spafford in the County of Onondaga State of New York do certify that I am well acquainted with John Green who has made and signed the above declaration and further that said Green

is a man of truth and veracity and further that it is generally reported and believed in the neighborhood where said Green resides that he was a revolutionary sol- dier and that I concur in that opin- ion.
Sworn to & subscribed the day and year first above
Silas Gillett Daniel Moseley Justice of the Peace
And the Court further certifies that it appears to said Court that Silas Gillett who has subscribed the above certificate and sworn to the same is a resident of Spofford aforesaid and is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit
Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor
I Daniel Moseley Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Seventh Circuit for the State of New York do hereby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the appli- cation of John Green for a pension —
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this 30 th day of October 1832
Daniel Moseley Deputy Clerk

John Green
ctf. 6006
ctf. 24, 323 h. 1958-

Gene Source and no
490 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, N.Y. June 28, 1905
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
John Greene was a pensioner of the Revolution, living at Spafford, Onondaga Co., N.Y. in 1840 . He was born in Rhode Island about 1760-61. His wife was Mary Hill. He lived at Little Hoosick, Rensselaer Co., N.Y., and at Spafford where he died.
I am desirous of learning his parentage, early residence, place of enlistment and facts about his service.
Does his application for a pension reveal these facts?
Any information regarding this particular John Greene will be gratefully received.
Yours Truly Frank L. Greene

Reproduction
23659
INVALID.
File No. 23659
John Green Pr's Rev War
Act: June 7 th 89 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 161
[Arrangement of 1870.]
July 18, 1905 History to Frank L. Greene, Brooklyn, N.Y.

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
State of New York
County of Onondaga ss.
On this first day of September 18 41 , before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Onondaga personally appeared John Green who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Stillwell in the regiment commanded by Colonel Cliff in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of New York that he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the sixth day of September 18 40 at or near the Village of Borodino in said County, in said State he lost or the said certificate was clandestinely taken from his possession and he has been unable to find it since that said Certificate Certified that deponent was entitled to the yearly sum of twenty six Dollars and fifty six cents, that a part of the time of his service was under Captain Dunlap a part which was for about two months that he served six months under Captain Stillwell - the name of the General was Parsons it was the first Connecticut Regiment - Deponent is aged and very much out of health & cannot recollect more particularly the names of his officers that were in the company the day of September 18 40 . Deponent had his said Certificate used it at Skaneateles in said County to draw his pension that on the fifth of said month he called on his sons near Borodino & there had to see his Certificate then staid over night the next day he went to his residence in Spafford about
Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.

two miles distant that he carried his said certificate in his hat that on arriving at home he looked for his certificate found to his great surprise that it was not there, whether some person took it out which intentionally & clandestinely or whether he lost it one of his boys he does not know - that he employed Freeman G. Jewett of Skaneateles to obtain his pension that said certificate was obtained in the year 1832. or 1833. and which he does not now remember  Sworn & Subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid  John Green  Mr. Solomon Jones of the peace
State of New York On this five day of September 1841. before Onondaga County ss. me the subscriber a justice of the peace for the said County of Onondaga personally appeared John Green who on his oath declares that he well knows the above named John Green to be the same person described in the above affidavit - except that he does not know anything in regard to his service as a soldier therein stated deponent knows that he assisted said John Green in the year 1832. or 1833 which he cannot now state to take the necessary proceedings to obtain his pension and that he received his pension Certificate for his pension & delivered the same to him - Depo- -nent does not recollect the yearly amount or

Sum which said Green was entitled her according to his recollection it was something less than thirty Dollars -
F. G. Dewett
I certify that the above affidavit was sworn & subscribed to before me the day & year aforesaid by Freeman G. Dewett who is well known to me and who I certify is a person of Veracity
J. S. Freeman Justice of the peace
State of New York } Onondaga County } ss:
I Lewis J. Gillet Deputy Clerk of the said County do certify that John S. Freeman Esquire before whom the preceding affidavit purport to have been sworn, was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County
and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the pursuit of the said affidavit, to be his proper hand writing & signature. Witness my hand and the seal of said County, this 6 th day of September 1841.
Lewis J. Gillet, Dep. Clerk.

18.135
John Green
contd
Hon d F. G. Jewett

BRIEF in the case of John Green of Spafford in the State of N. York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? in open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 71 years in May last  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. As a Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen.   Years, Months, Days.     June   year not specified  In 17 2 Private Capt. Bottom & Dunlap - Connecticut and Col. Ledyard   June   1781 (Substitute) 6 " Capt. Stillwell Gen. Parsons  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Plainfield Connecticut  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence, and one living witness who testifies to the six months term of service  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? they are not attached according to the Regulations 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Wm Gordon Examining Clerk.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
April 11 th , 1842.
Sir:
Under the date 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 at the Treasury of the United States,"
John Green
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, New York, Agency, at the rate of Twenty six — Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1840, to the 4 th March 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
William B. Tassie COMPTROLLER.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

11. Sep 1841
Mr Stewart,
To the Commissioners of Pensions
Washington City
11/11/41

Skaneateles, Onondaga Co. N.Y. September 8. 1841
To the Commission of Pension,
Sir
Enclosed I send you an affidavit of John Green of Spafford in this County, showing that in 1832 or 1833 a certificate for a pension of $26.66 was issued to him and that he has lost the same, also my affidavit of his identity - Green is aged and infirm & may be mistaken in regards to the name of his officers &c. but I know that he had a certificate and that his original papers on which it was issued were sustained by the records of the War Department his name appeared on the rolls of the army according to his declaration -
Green is not only aged & infirm but needy he is very poor and will be much obliged if entitled, to a new certificate to receive with as little delay as possible - You will please enclose it to me - as he will get it through me sooner than he would if directed to him -
Respectfully
Yours
H. G. Jewett

Hon. Victor Bindseye
Mem. Congress
Washington

Sir
I have this day enclosed affidavit to the Com. of Pensions showing that John Green of Spafford had a Certificate showing him entitled to a pension of $26.66/100 annually - paid to him in 1832 & 1833. In which he lost in Sep 1840 and requesting the issue of a new Certificate. I should have sent the papers to you but thought it possible that you might leave Washington before it would reach them - if you should receive them before you leave you would much oblige an old Soldier from sending to them or the Pension Office large its consideration as once -
Respectfully
Yours
A. G. Dewitt
Skamatcha Sep 8. 1841
Hon. V. Budseye
Will Mr. Edwards please answer the inclosed & address the answer to Mr. Jewett Bridgewater