Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32763, Cleophas Green, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Green, Cleophas
S. 32763
CONTENTS

6,462
Massachusetts Roll
Cleophas Green Capt Blanchard Private
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War Continental and Mass
scribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of June 1819 and sent to John Davis Esq. Mayor Boston
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 4 mths \frac{28}{30} — 39 46 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 48 —
$ 87 92
Ex rs rights { Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Concord
Boston
Dear
Since at the Treasury in the Act of the 18th March 1818 from 4 March 1807 to the 3 June 1837, the day of his death. Age notified 96 March 1839
Pension to John Davis Esq. Mayor of Boston

No 232
Cleophas Green
Sept 10th 1880
Service ad
Correct

United States Massachusetts District
Cleophas Green of Holliston Mass ts a resident citizen of the United States maketh oath That he served as a private soldier in the war of the Revolution on the Continental establishment for the term of three years , in Capt n Blanchard's Company, Colo d Henry Jackson's Regiment Gen l Knox, Brigade; Massachusetts line that on the 31 st Day of December A D 1783 he received an honorable discharge, which he now produces
That by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for support
Cleophas Green
Massachusetts District Jr.
Boston 7. April 1818.
Sworn to before me
W m Davis
Dist d Judge Mass. Dist d

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston June 10
A. D. 1818
Cleophas Green
IT appearing to my satisfaction, that Cleophas Green subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid, with the accompanying documents marked A. together with this certificate.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
M c David
} Judge of the District Court U. S. Massachusetts District.
ED HL OL

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and sealed the seal of the District Court of the United States for this District to be hereunto affixed.
MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston 18 January 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Leopoldo Green by reason of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.
J. Davis
{ District Judge U. S. Massachusetts Dist.
TO THE SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

69.
Cleophas Green
6462
Residence
Jan 20 1819

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 January A. D. 1820.
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
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, Cleophas Green resident
Holliston
in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 6462 , 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 late 18th March, 1818, Cleophas Green  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 seventh day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . "Given at the War Office of the United States, this 20th day of January one thousand eight hundred and eighteen . L. S.
J. C. CALHOUN, 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 $170 -   1 Cow 18 1 service g - 77 -   1 live pot 250 1 small do 150 - 4 -   1 old chest with drawers 250 1 chest 80 3 30   1 tea kettle 75 1 spider & 1 small kettle 84 1 57   3 waste tubs 150 3 baskets 75 2 25   1 churn & 3 old barrels 1 00   2 old spinning wheels 0 50   4 old tables 150 3 old pails & 1 butter box 50 2 00   Dry eases & 1 bread trough 1 50   Earthen pot, 4 earthen pans 0 50   Fin mace & 1 pewter platter 1 00   1 flat iron 1 skillet & 1 looking glass 1 27   Crockery ware 225 earthen & glass do 1 2 25   Fire shovel tongs & audiron 1 25   169 72 

  Amount bro't over . . . . . 169 72   1 Gridiron 1 pair of bellows . . . . . 0 -   1 shave 1 axe & 2 hammers & 1 chisel . . . . . 1 75   5 chains knives & forks . . . . . 1 75   1 plough & 1 beetle . . . . . 1 00   1 pair of Cards sold in me . . . . . 0 75   $175 97   Cleophas Green
And the said Cleophas Green being first duly sworn doth on his oath declare, that he served in the war of the Revolution four years and eight months, he was in the first eight months service, then he engaged upon the Continental establishment for one year in Cap Peter Company in Col Seth Reed's Reg of the Massachusetts line he engaged in the last three years service was in Cap John Blandiard's company in Col Henry Jackson's Reg t of the Mass a line, was in the battle of Long Island at Flatbush taken from the Infantry and placed in Cap Johnson's company Cap Morton chief in command and in some skirmishes.
He is sixty seven years of age by occupation a husband man but by reason of an hernia unable to labour much his family consists of himself & his wife Mary aged seven by one affected with a dropsy and unable to perform much labour  Cleophas Green "

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, Cleophas 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.
Cleophas Green
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Cleophas Green took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Sam d 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 one hundred & twenty five dollars & ninety seven 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.
Attr.
Abraham Biglow

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
March 8 th 1839.
Sir:
Under the act 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," the children of Cleophas Green, a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars and Cents per month  annum , under the law of the 18 th March, 1818, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March, 1837, to the 2 d June, 1837, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
Wilson S. Tarris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

32764 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32764
Cleophas Green
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 1818
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 498
[Arraignment of 1870.]