Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32762, Aaron Greenwood, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Greenwood, Aaron
S. 32762
CONTENTS

Greenwood, Aaron Mass S32762

Aaron Greenwood of the 5 th Massachusetts Regiment is hereby discharged the Service of the United States he having served for the term of three Years for which he engaged
Given under my hand at Quarters Soldier's Fortune this Twenty Eight day of February 1700
Whom Concern
Ezra Peckham
Lt. Colonel Comm d

Edward Bangs, Esq; Judge, Westminster, Worcester County, Massach ts .
Aaron Greenwood, Massachusetts line Revolutionary Claim.
found on the rolls.
Correct.

State of Massachusetts
I Aaron Greenwood a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Gardner in the County of Worcester in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on the first of March, A.D. 1777
I entered and was engaged in the land service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the twenty eighth day of Feb. 1780
as a private soldier against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Capt's Joseph Morse's Company Col. Reuben Posthams Regt. Genl. Nixon's Brigade. Col. Posthams being absent at the time, Lieutenant Col. Newhall, of the same Regt, gave me the discharge hereto annexed and that I left the service on the 28 th Feb. 1780
and that, by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of sixty two years
And I hereby relinquish all claims to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Aaron Greenwood
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this 27 th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and 18 pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me,
Edward Bangs Judge C. C. Comstock
the abovenamed Aaron Greenwood and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me the said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true.
Given under my Hand and the Seal of said Court, the day of the date aforesaid.
Edward Bangs

32 762 Rev INVALID.
File No. 32,762
Nelson Greenwood
St Peter Mass
Act: 18 th March 1818 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 498
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1963
Massachusetts.
Aaron Greenwood, Capt Morse private, Massachusetts line, — 1777 — 3 years —
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 27. of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27. of July, 1818. and sent to the care of Edward Bangs, Esq; Westminster, Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. $: 34.13.
4 months, \frac{8}{30} $: 34.13.
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Gardner, Worcester Co.