Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4240, Benjamin Green, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Green Benjamin
R. 4240
CONTENTS

29. 275
Eugene Green
Revolutionary Claims
Kentucky
1893
Wm R. P. Letcher
Coalbrookdale Nov 2nd 1853 Agent to E & O Co -

State of Kentucky Mercer County
On this 5 th day of March 1834 personally appeared in open court before the Worshipful Justices of said County now sitting. Benjamin Greer a resident of said County of Mercer and State of Ky. Aged Eighty eight years who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the service of the united States with under the following named officers and served as here in stated. That he entered as a private in Capt. Wallace's Company he does not now recollect whether Infantry, Artillery or Cavalry service and marched from Stafford County Virginia where he then lived and to the South in the Battalion commanded by Major Williams he does not now recollect who was the Colonel that com- manded the Regiment, he thinks it was Ward They marched to North Carolina and returned through Virginia to Baltimore and from thence to Phil- adelphia where they were stationed for some time from thence they returned to Baltimore where they were honably discharged having fully served nine months he thinks it was in 1776 or 7. That he served, he states solemnly upon Oath that he served nine months faithfully and that his memory has greatly failed him so that he cannot recollect all the circumstances of his service, he does not recollect certainly the year he entered the army, he knows it was some where in Stafford County when he joined the army after his discharge he was employed to pilot

Affidavit boats in the Potomac & Chesapeake bay which was the cause of his not serving more in the war he knows of no person by whom he can prove his services and he has no documents tending to establish it; having long since lost his discharge He here by relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year after said -
State of Ky. S 30th Mercer County
Benjamin his Greenfield mark
We John Brown a Clergyman residing in the County of Garrard & State of Ky. and near the residence of old Benjamin Green, and Stephen Stone residing in Mercer County Ky. and near said house to the sd Benjamin Green who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that he believes he to be eighty years of age hereby Certify that we are well acquainted with him that we believe him to be eighty sixty years of age and we know he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides. When been a faithful soldier of the Revolution and we fully concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribed The day & year afd.
John Brown Esq Stephen Stone Esq

State of Kentucky
Merer County Sess 3 March County Court 1834
Benjamin Green John Brown and Stephen Stone this day came into Court and swore to the respective statements by them subscribed and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories presented by the War Department that the above named Benjamin Green applicant for a pension herein was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states, and the Court further certify that it appears to them that John Brown who has signed the preceding Certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Garrard and that Stephen Stone who has also signed the same is a resident in the County of Mercer and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit —
I Thomas Allen Clerk of the Merer County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Benjamin Green for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 3 rd day of March 1834
Thos Allen

The further Declaration of Benjamin Green made in order to enable him to obtain the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832.
Deponent states that he is not certain whether he served as a regular soldier, or volunteer, what he received for his service was in paper money, and worth but little. He knows he served faithfully nine months in the army of the United States, and was honorably discharged at Baltimore. He recollects no additional fact or circumstance connected with his service. He recollects two of his brothers, Samuel & John Green. Samuel served with him nine months when they were discharged, and then both of his brothers Samuel & John enlisted under Captain Wallace for during the war, and marched to the south and returned no more until the war ended the last time heard from them they were living in Maryland which was about fifty years ago. He recollects the names of those who served in mess with him, to wit, Samuel Green, George Donathan, Hosea Roger, George Howins, and John Garnett, as he stated before he does not now recollect whether they were considered regulars or volunteers. He will recollect that his brother Sam. & John, served as regulars afterwards for during the war, he recollects one other circumstance, that when they marched to the south they tried to force the officers to discharge them and they refused and were marched back to Baltimore and were stationed there as guards until discharged. He knows of no person living in this state by whom he can prove his service, and he has no knowledge of the residence of any of his messmates of living. He makes this a part of his previous declaration, his claim is but small but strictly just, and if allowed he can enjoy it but for a few more winters at farthest he is now in his 88 th year and will abide the decision of the Department and further sayth not, Benjamin by Green

The deposition of Stephen Stone taken behalf of Old Benjamin Green Deponent states that he is well acquainted with Benjamin Green who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing Declaration and knows that he is respected in the neigh- bourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, he knows that he is strictly a man of truth and is so considered by all who know him and he is fully convinced that he served in the war of the Revolution as he sets forth in his Declaration, Deponent believes Old Green to be the age he upon oath himself to be. Signed & sealed this 27 th April 1834.
Stephen Stone
State of Kentucky
Mercer County ss. I Isaac Pearson a Justice of the Peace and one of the Judges of the Mercer County Court do hereby Certify that Benjamin Green subscribed to the foregoing Declaration; and Stephen Stone subscribed to his said Deposition personally appeared before me and made solemnly both to the declarations by them respectively subscribed. And I further certify that said Green, and Stone are highly credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to full faith & credit. Given under my hand & seal this 27 th day of April A.D. 1834.
Isaac Pearson
State of Kentucky Mercer County ss.
I Thomas Allen Clerk of the Court for the County aforesaid do certify that Isaac Pearson Esq. whose name is subscribed to the foregoing Certificate is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly Commissioned and qualified and as such full faith and credit is and ought to be given to every of his official acts as such. and I do further Certify that Stephen Stone is a man of Credibility
In Testimony whereof I have here- unto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my Office this 27 th day of April 1834.
Thos Allen

4240
P. O.
Benj n Green
Service: _____
REJECTED
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contr
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Hon. W. V. Setchell
3. March 1835
O. C.
Record Vol. 26 p. 111

War Department
Pension Office
March 3, 1835
Sir,
The declaration of Benjamin Green has been examined, and filed with the suspended cases in this Office. If he served as a regular soldier, he should produce the testimony of two witnesses who had a personal knowledge of his service, and also state why, if he served in a regiment belonging to the continental establishment, he did not long since apply for a pension under the act of March 18, 1818. If he served as a militia man, he could not have been in service so long as six months.
It is difficult, and often  indeed impracticable, I have the honor to be to arrive at the truth in the investigation of very unfaithfully a claim like this. The applicant alleges that he Yours Resp't Servt. is not certain whether he was a regular soldier, or a Volunteer volunteer. It is all important that the Dept. should know in what service he was engaged. He gives the name of a Colonel Wooden, who served in the continental army. If he belonged to his regt. he should state the fact in positive terms, and prove his service by two credible witnesses, according to the rule laid down in note (j) in the enclosed printed sheet, as his name is not on the rolls of containing the names of the officers and soldiers who belonged to same regt. which Det. Wm. R. P. Fletcher W. commanded. If he was a House of Representatives volunteer or militia man,

he could not have served more than three months at one period, and as he says that he served nine months it is known that he should be particular in designating the several  particular terms which he of service which he performed, and such other particulars should be given as the enclosed printed rules direct. It is a very doubtful occasion which it is a difficult matter
I have the honor
Rev. Dr. P. Schuch
3. March 1835
O. B.
Recd. Feb. 26. 1835

Surplus
See letter to Hon. R. P. Letcher N. H.
3 March 1835
let 4 Jan. 1836 B. - R. M. Johnson
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