Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 32772, Peter Green, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Green, Peter (colored)
S. 32772
CONTENTS
2

Application sent September 20. 1820 to E. Alvah, Clerk C.C. Mass. Greenfield Mass.
Date of death not on ob
4949 Massachusetts Roll
Peter Green (Moss) New York } Private Line } Capt. Pills 182- }
in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 d of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 th of Decem r 1818 and sent to Jonathan Leavitt Esq. Judge Greenfield Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818. 4 \text{ mo } 4 \frac{13}{30} — 35:46 semi-ann. all ce ending 4 th March 1819 — 48: —
$ 83:46
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Upwards of One Year
Continued
Cohoes - Franklin Co.

32 7 72 Rev INVALID.
over
File No. 82,779
Peter Green
His Rev par
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 493
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Peter Greene (Negro) m.w. Van Cortland N.Y. Reg
1782 to 1783
See Roh
Correct

I Peter Green (a man of colour) a Citizen of the United States now resident in the Town of Cobain in the County of Franklin and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do on oath declare that I belong to the Army of the United States in the Revolutionary War.
I entered the Service as near as I can recollect in the Spring of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three  eighty nine  eighty  to  eighty three during the War in a company commanded by Captain Pell in Colonel Courtland's Regiment in the New York Line and I continued to serve in this company until the close of the War and was then honorably discharged in the Spring of the year at Snake's Hill (so called) N.Y.
When I left the Service I received a written discharge from the same (for as I suppose for I am unable to read or write) which I kept for several years but I afterwards put it into the hands of one James Ruse to enable him to procure a Deed of my Bounty Land which I had sold him which stand I received as a Bounty from the State of New York. I am now above sixty years of age - I am wholly destitute of property and in reduced circumstances in life and stand in great need of assistance from my Country for support.
Writed at Greenfield in the County Commonwealth aforesaid this twenty second day of April A.D. 1818
Attest: Saml. Wells Jr. Peter his X Green Mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Franklin ss. April 22 d - A.D. 1818
Then personally appeared Peter Green signer to the foregoing Declaration and made solemn oath to the truth of the same Before me J. S. Smith Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas

I Rufeus Avery late of Colrain aforesaid Esquire do testify and say that Peter Green within named is a very poor but I believe an honest man and I think he stands in great need of assistance from his country for support. Writed this 22 nd day of April A.D. 1818
Rufeus Avery
Signed to the Day & year last of said. Before me John L. Lewis, Judge of P.
To the Secretary of the Department of War I the Subscriber Judge of the Circuit Court of common Pleas for the Western circuit in the State of Massachusetts which includes the County of Franklin aforesaid do hereby Certify that from the Testimony aforesaid it appears to my satisfaction that the before named Peter Green served in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy as he has set forth in his Dec- laration within - & that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his country for support. — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the court aforesaid the 22 nd day of April A.D. 1818. —
John L. Lewis

4949
Peter Green
Colrain
4949
Dec 1818
Cent 20 pp
1820
Mar 1820

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on Monday the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de die in diem to the fifteenth day of the same month,
PERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Peter Green
aged seventy years, resident in Colrain
in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the
Revolutionary War as follows: I entered the service in the year 1779. in the company of Capt. Capt. Samuel Pill in the regiment of Col. Phillipp Cortlands of the New York line on the Continental establishment, and continued in the service of the United States until the spring of 1783.
My original declaration is dated the 22 d of April 1818 and my pension certificate numbered 4949
I am a labourer, but by reason of a bad breach I am unable to do but little work. I have been partly supported by the town.
My family consists of a wife and two children. My wife, Peggy is about thirty seven years of age and is not a healthy woman. My daughter Lettie is about thirty years of age and partly blind, and by reason of fits is very infirm. My son James is ten years old
And I have no property of any kind, necessary clothing and bedding excepted

and I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March, 1818 ; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, 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 18th day of March, 1818 ; 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.
Peter his X Green mark
Sworn to and declared, on the tenth day of July A. D. 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, E. Alvord CLERK.
I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records 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  that the said Peter Green has no property required by law to be exhibited
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of July, 1820.
E. Alvord CLERK.