Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4239, Asa Green, Mass.

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Green, Asa Martha
R. 4239
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34033 Isa Green du o
Maine 4239

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress Passed June 7 th 1836 -
State of Maine
Hancock ss - On this sixth day of March A.D. 1837. Personally appeared in open court before the Hon. Job Nelson Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate within & for the County of Hancock aforesaid now sitting Asa Green a resident of Deer Isle in the County of Hancock aforesaid, aged seventy three years, 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 & served as herein stated - That he enlisted in the Massachusett Militia at Leicester in the County of Worcester where he then resided about the middle of Aug. 1781 & marched to West Point on the North River the plan of operations & arrived there the first of Sept following. That he enlisted at this time for three months & remained at West Point that length of time the company in which he enlisted was commanded by Capt. John Cutler - Brown & Beals were the Lieutenants. The Regt. was commanded by Col. Luther Drury. That he was honorably discharged at West Point the last of Nov. 1781. That he had a written Discharge which he has since lost. Does not recollect the name of the Officer who signed the Discharge but think it was the Col. That he entered the service of the United States again at said Leicester where he then resided on the first of June 1782 for the term of six months as a private in the Company of Capt. John Drury & was principally employed in driving the government teams from the County of Worcester to Patts Kill & thence to West Point & so down the Hudson to Plank's Point & other places in New York by this enlistment he was liable to be called as a soldier, or otherwise, as he should be ordered, That he served as above stated under his last enlistment the full term of six months & was honorably discharged at West Point in Dec. 1782.

That he was born in Leicester aforesaid - That he has no record of his age - That he lived at said Leicester when he entered the service - That he lived at said Leicester a few years after the war, when he moved to Dur Isle where he has resided for forty years
That Asa Matthews & David Bryant were knowing to his services whose depositions are annexed showing the same
That Richard Hawes & Charles K. Tilden are his neighbors & can testify to his character for truth & veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
- Asa Green
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid -
J Nelson Judge of Probate
We Richard Hawes & Charles K. Tilden -
Residing in lasttime aforesaid hereby certify that we well acquainted with Asa Green who had subscribed & sworn to the above declaration we believe him to be seventy three years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, & that we concur in that opinion -
Richard Hawes
Charles K. Tilden
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
J Nelson Judge of Probate
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier

I Asel Matthews of Leicester in the County of Worcester On Oath, depose & say, that I belonged to a company of Milicia commanded by Capt John Cullen, Lieutenants Brown & Meals. - the said Matthews a private in said Comp y in the service of the United States. that in August 1798 said Company Marched for West Point on the North river, the place of rendezvous, & arrived there the first of Sept r following, and term of enlistment was three months after arriving at the Point. said Company was under the command of Luke Dowsy A Col. com d . - That Asel Green then of said Leicester, & now of Ber- - Isle in Main, was a private in said Comp y then, & now well known to me, that he continued in said Comp y to about the close of Nov r following which completed the term of enlist- ment & then the company was discharged by the commanding Officers.
Asel Matthews
Leicester March 28 th 1826.
Then personally Appeared the Above named Asel Matthews & subscribed, and made Oath to the truth of the foregoing statement, and I do certify that he is well known to me as a man of truth.
Austin Flint Justice of the Peace.
Worcester ss. I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the original now on file in my office.

recorded as he states. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Richard Haines & Charles K. Holden who have signed the preceding Certificate are residents in the town of Castine aforesaid & are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit.
J Nelson Judge of Probate
I, H. Z. Williams Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Hancock aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Asa Green for a Pension - I further certify that Job Nelson is Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Hancock aforesaid, & that the above signatures purporting to be his are genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this sixth day of March A.D. 1837.
H. Z. Williams Register of the Court of Probate

State of Maine
Hancock ss-
At a Court of Probate holden at Castine within & for said County before the Hon. Job Nelson Esquire Judge on the first day of August A.D. 1838.
I hereby certify, that it was satisfactorily proved to said Court, that Asa Green late of Deer Isle in said County of Hancock, died at said Deer Isle, on the thirtieth day of July A.D. 1837 - That he left a widow, Martha Green, now living at said Deer Isle -
Given under my hand & seal of Office this first day of August A.D. 1838 -
Joseph L. Rice Register of Probate -

Power of attorney
case
Wm S. Green
son of Asa Green
Ex Lyda Hassler
Oct 1852

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of Maine
County of Hancock S S }
Be it known that before me
Charles N. Liden a Justice of the Peace personally appeared William S. Green aged 46 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that he is the Son — of Asa Green — who was a Revolutionary Soldier, or Pensioner of the State of Maine and that he died on the thirtieth day of July — 1837 — and that his mother named Martha Green died on the Eighteenth day of January — 1849 — and that they were married on the  day of  in the year 17  and that they were residents of Deer Isle in the State of Maine and that they resided there about fifty years, and that he resides in Deer Isle aforesaid — and that furthermore He BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorises irrevocably and with powers of substitution—F. E. Hassler of Washington City, D. C., as his true and lawful Attorney for him and in his name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government Officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due him as Son — of Asa & Martha Green — who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity he is or may be entitled.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF he has on this nineteenth day of June — 1852, hereunto signed his name and affixed his seal.
William S. Green { }
Witness: Jonathan Pepsy
Witness: William Haskell
Signed, Sealed, acknowledged and Sworn to before me, on this nineteenth day of June 1852.
Charles N. Liden J. P. { }
At the same time personally appeared before me Charles N. Liden a Justice of the Peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Jonathan Pepsy — and William Haskell — residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself, that he has always heard it said and it is generally believed by the community that Asa Green — was a Revolutionary soldier and that William S. Green — was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the Son of the said Revolutionary Soldier.
Jonathan Pepsy { } William Haskell { }
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written.
Charles N. Liden J. P. { }
State of Maine County of Hancock
} to wit:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Charles N. Liden Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court , this Twenty ninth day of June , one thousand eight hundred and fifty two .
Parker W. Pease Clerk.
* If a Widow applies state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."

I, Asa Green, of Plymouth in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont, aged nearly seventy-six years, depose and say, that I served in the Revolutionary War and am enjoying a pension for my service. Before I entered the army, I lived in Leicester in the State of Massachusetts, in which town of Leicester I was born and there lived until I was about fifteen years old when I moved to the town of Spencer which adjoins Leicester, and from Spencer went into the service. While I lived in Leicester, I resided within a mile and a half, or thereabouts, of my namesake, Asa Green, son of Thomas Green. The name of my father was Benjamin Green. Said Asa and myself attended the same school in different years, and I well knew him from my earliest boyhood. Said Asa was about four years younger than myself, according to my best recollection.
In the month of September 1781, I enlisted into the company of Capt. John Cutler, in the Regiment of state troops from Massachusetts commanded by Col. Luke Drury, for three months. Soon after Before we reached our destination, the said Asa Green, my namesake, entered the said company of Capt. Cutler, as a private. Soon after we arrived at West-Point, New York, I was taken ill, and was removed to the hospital where I was confined about eight weeks. For a few days after I left the hospital I continued somewhat out of health, and went on duty, during those days, but once or twice. Soon, however, I was ordered to the river and put to the duty, with others, of getting, or taking up the great chain, at West Point, that had been thrown across the North River at that place. By reason of my confinement in the hospital, and not being on duty for the few days succeeding, I am unable to recollect having seen my said namesake Asa Green, for many weeks from the time he came to West Point; but, when I went to help take up the chain, he was also there and helped take it up, and, as near as I can recollect, we were about two weeks in taking it up.

When we got through the laborious and dangerous duty of taking up the chain, I was discharged. This was a few days previous to my three months term expiring.; For those that worked in getting the chain were promised their discharges when that was gotten up - I cannot recollect whether I left said Asa Green, my name-sake, there. It is so impressed on my memory as to cause me to believe, that said Asa, while working at said chain, was hurt and went into the hospital; but I dare not positively affirm it to have been the fact. I know nothing of any other military service of said Green - The word "before" erased - and the words "soon after" interlined - also, the words "for many weeks" interlined - all before signing by the deponent
Asa Green
State of Vermont
Windsor ss. - 3 Windsor, June 28 th 1837 Then personally appeared Asa Green, the above named affiant, and made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed contains the truth and nothing but the truth
Before me Carlos Coolidge Justice of the Peace
And I certify that the said Asa Green, the affiant, is a respectable citizen and a credible witness -
Carlos Coolidge Justice of the Peace

Asa Green
Macon
Sm. Ld. Hezekiah
Macon, May
4 1837 W. K.
Macon, Apr. 1838
- Do. to Hon. J. Fry, jr. H.
R. 28 Dec. 1838
Henrietta Williams - (notice of filing dd. and money) 9.1839
Ad 7/10 1839

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1863
4239
P. O. _____
Isa Green
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

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I David Briant of Leicester in the County of Worcester, do on oath depose & say, that I belonged to a Company commanded by Capt John Drury, in the United States Service, in the Year 1782 that said Comp. entered that service the first of June and continued in it, six months. that said Company was put to driving teams from the County of Worcester, in Mass, to Peekskill, Thence to West Point, & many other places in New-York, and that Asa Green, then of Leicester, was a private in said Comp. then, well known to me, & since, that he continued in said Company six months, which was the term of our engagement and was regularly discharged. ~ ~ David Briant
Worcester ss. October 29 th 1836. - Personally Appeared David Briant & made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed. According to his best recollection, and I do certify that he is well known to me, & has been for more than fifty years, & is of undoubted veracity. before me ~ Austin Flint, Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss. I, Joseph G. Kendall, clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Worcester, do certify, That Austin Flint, Esquire, is a Justice of the peace in and for said County, and that his signatures to the signatures  certificates attached to the Depositions of David Briant and Asa Matthews, hereto annexed, are in his own proper handwriting. I also certify that said Flint was such Justice on the twenty eighth day of March, 1836, and hath continued to be such Justice from that time to this. —
In testimony whereof, I hereto my name, and affix the Seal of said Court at Worcester, this twentieth day of February, in the year 1837. —
J. G. Kendall

I John Nelson, Minister of a Congregational Society in Leicester in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts do testify and say that I have been personally acquainted with Dea. David Bryant of this town for many years & believe him to be a person of strict veracity —
John Nelson
Worcester J. October 4 th 1839 —
Personally appeared the Rev. John Nelson and made oath to the truth of the above certificate. before me. — Austin Flint just. of the peace.
N.B. by examining Dea. Bryant's deposition you will see a certificate of the Clerk of the Court that I am a magistrate, or justice of the peace. — Austin Flint —
Leicester October 4 th 1839 —

Me Oct 1832.
L. Edwards Esq.
Commission of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
See

State of New York Oswego County } ss
I Jabez Baldwin of Sandy Creek in the County of Oswego and State of New York, aged seventy five years, do depose and say - that in the latter part of the year seventeen hundred and eighty one I was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army of the United States, and served at West Point N.Y. three months in the company of Capt. John Cutler in the Reg t commanded by Col. Drury. Asa Green of Leicester in the County of Worcester Massachusetts was a soldier in said Cutlers' company with me at the time above stated. I was intimately acquainted with said Asa, having been brought up near together and were playmates until we enlisted. Towards the latter part of the three months service at West Point as above stated, I, together with about fifteen other soldiers volunteered to take up the great chain that was stretched across the River at the Point. Said Asa Green was one of our number and when we labored in taking up said Chain. While at work in taking it up said Green by an accidental blow from a handspike or lever at the windlass that he was using, was wounded in the rim of his belly, which produced a breach and disabled him from further duty. According to my best recollection said Green was carried to the hospital and finally discharged on account of said wound and permitted to go home. Our party succeeded in getting up the Chain, but were not discharged as we were promised we should be by Gen. M c Dougall for said service, but continued in the Army during the remainder of the three months.
Jabez Baldwin
State of New York Oswego County } ss
I certify that on this 9 th day of Feb. 1858, before me personally appeared Jabez Baldwin the above named Affiant and made solemn oath that the facts set forth in the above Affidavit by him subscribed are just and true: And I certify that said Jabez Baldwin is a credible witness.
Hiram H. H. Judge of Oswego County

State of New York Orange County Clerk's Office I Daniel H. Marshall Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Hiram Hubbard, before whom the within affidavit was taken, was, at the date of the jurat thereunder matter, a Judge of the County Courts in and for said County; that I am well acquainted with his hand writing and that I do believe the signature to the said Jurat is the genuine hand writing of the said Judge. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 15 th day of February A.D. 1838. D.H. Marshall Clerk
Seal of Daniel H. Marshall Clerk

State of New York } Oswego County } ss.
I, Iaher Baldwin of Sandy Creek in the County of Oswego, and State of New York, aged seventy five years, do depose and say, that in the latter part of the year seven-teen hundred and eighty one, I was a soldier in the revolutionary army of the United States and served at West Point N.Y. three months in the company in the Company of Capt. John Butler in the Regiment commanded by Col. Drury. Asa Green of Leicester in the County of Worcester, Massachusetts, was a soldier in said Butler's company with me at the time the said Asa having been brought up enlisted. Towards the latter part of the three months service at West Point as above stated, I, together with about fifteen other soldiers, volunteered to take up the great chain that was stretched across the river at the point. Said Asa Green was one of our number and with us labored in taking up said chain - while at work in taking it up, said Green, by an accidental blow from a handspike, or lever at the windlass that he was using, was wounded in the rim of his belly, which produced a breach, and disabled him from doing further duty. According to my recollection, said Green was carried to the Hospital, and finally discharged, on account of said

said wound, and permitted to go home, Our party succeeded in getting up the chain, but were not discharged, as we were promised we should be, by Gen. M. Dougal for said ser- -vice, but continued in the army during the re- -mainder of the three months.
State of New York } - Oswego County } ss. Jabez Baldwin.
I certify that on this 9 th day -ed of February 1838, before me personally appear- -ed Jabez Baldwin, the above named affiant & made solemn oath that the facts set forth in the above affidavit by him subscribed, are just and true. And I certify that the said Jabez Baldwin, is a credible witness.
Hiram Hubblell Judge of Oswego County Court.
State of New York Oswego County Clerk's Office, ss.
I, Daniel H. Marsh -bell before whom the within affidavit was taken, was, at the date of the jurat then under written, a Judge of County Courts in, and for said County, I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and that I do believe the signature to the said Jurat is the genuine handwriting of the said Judge. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said County this 13 th day of Feby A.D. 1838.
Daniel H. Marsh Clerk.

Hancock Co.
State of Maine.
On the 22 day of March, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight — I Pearl Spofford, Notary Public by legal Authority admitted & sworn & bloodling in Deer Isle County & State aforesaid at the request of Martha Glean Widow of the late Asa Glean of said Deer Isle noted & copied an original deposition of which the foregoing is a true copy
Thus done at Deer Isle aforesaid & my Notarial Seal aforesaid this year & day last written.
Pearl Spofford Notary Public