Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2610, Dexter Green, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Pol.
Green, Dexter or Greene
N. 2610
Mary
CONTENTS

181.
New York Albany
Mary Green
widow of Deyter Green
who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
R.I. LINE
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of May 1849 and sent to
Archibald Bull
Smy
ded on Roll of Pensioners under act 1848, Page 157, Vol. 1
29th
Book D.

New York 14/7/91.
Dexter Green
of Sand Lake in the State of N.Y. who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Converse of the Regt commanded by Col M'Lane in the Cozon d State line for
2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of N.Y. at the rate of $10. Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 25. day of June 1833 and sent to Archibald Bull, Troy, N.Y.
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 - 160. " Semi-ann. allowance ending 1 st Sept r - 40. "
$ 200. "
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Francis F. Francioni Clerk Book C. Vol. 4. Page 57.
Letter to H. S. Van Epps & Dec r 1834

Dexter Green No 1425; application for pension
Weymouth Court December Term 1832. The Court order the within to be taken as the original declaration the same having this day been sworn to as the same now stands - Dec. 6. 1832 By order of the Court Archibald Bull Clerk
Application was made by D. Green for a pension in Feb. 1821. Reference is made to those papers on file Arch d Bull
adm d 24 m a pri 80 H

Declaration, in order to obtain
Act of Congress of June 7, 1832.
Form for State Troops, &c.
Printed & Sold by Kemble & Hooper, 8 State-st. Troy, N.Y.
State of New York, County of Rensselaer City of Troy } ss.
On this Seventh day of August 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Mayors Court of the City of Troy now sitting, Leslie Green a resident of Grand Island county of Rensselaer and State of New York, aged Seventy five 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, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. That he enlisted in the Town of Killingly, county of Windham in the State of Connecticut into a Company commanded by Palmer Corvise in a Regiment commanded by Robert M c Lean (or M c Leland ) for three months. That he marched with the Company to Providence in the State of Rhode Island. That he did not receive a mutton discharge. That he served the whole term of enlistment. That he enlisted at the same Town in the year 1777. for nine months in the month of March. marched with the Company to Providence aforesaid and was attached to the same Regiment under the command of Major Gen Sullivan That he served for the whole term of enlistment. That he did not receive a mutton discharge. That he enlisted the third
3 mos in 1776
9 mos

time the 28 th March 1779, in the Town of Providence for one year, that he en- year ed immediately into the service in the Company of Artillery commanded by Isaac Pitman in the Regiment commanded by Col. Robert Elliot & stationed during the whole of this enlistment in Highlands Ferry Port - That he received a regular discharge but did not preserve it his discharge was signed by Col Elliot - That he enlisted the fourth time in the month of April 1780 for 1 year one year in the Town of Providence in a Company of Artillery command- ed by Capt. Gideon Westcott in the Regiment commanded by Col. Robert Elliot. That the company to which he belonged was stationed at Bristol for about three months at Warren about four months and the residue of the year at Providence - That he was in the engagement or siege called Sullivan's expedition - That he was born in the Town of Cranston Providence Plantation in the year 1757. That there is a Record of his age in the Town in which he was born - That he lived in the Town of Gloucester in Rhode Island when called into the service - That he has lived in the State of Con- necticut, Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts & for the last 34 years in the State of New York. That Major Hagg the same that was killed by the Crown Bays so called in Livingstone Manor was an Officer under whom he served That Stephen Gregory, Artemas Lyman, William S. Avery, Gideon Butts and others residing in the County of Rensselaer are personally acquainted with me. Has no documentary evidences of his services - He knows of no living witnesses by whom he can prove his services
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he de- clares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, or (if any,) only on that of the agency of the State of
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk
Deeter Green
We, _____ a Clergyman, residing in the _____ and Gideon Butts Thomas Thompson residing in Sand Lake, Rensselaer County hereby certify that we are acquainted with Deeter Green who has subscribed and sworn to the above de- claration; that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Archibald Bull Clerk
Gideon Butts Thomas Thompson
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolution- ary Soldier , and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Gideon Butts who has signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the Town of Sand Lake and that Thomas Thompson who has also signed the same, is a resident in the said Town of Sand Lake and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit, and that there is no clergyman residing in the vicinity of the said Deeter Green who is acquainted with him.
I, Archibald Bull Clerk of the Court Froy-Mayers Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Deeter Green for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this Eighth day of August 1832.
Archibald Bull Clerk

17,254. Dexter Green Rensselaer Co: N.Y. 1 st Aug t . 1820.
Col o . Elliott's reg t artillery, Rh. Isl d . line, March, 1781. to March, 1783.
new declaration, dated 1 st August, 1820.
Schedule of property, $ 8  \frac{75}{100} }
Suspended.
Rejected 13 Mar: 1823. see letter to applicant.
John G. Watson, Agent Albany, New-York.

STATE OF NEW-YORK,  Rensselaer County  Troy, Mayor's Court
On this first day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court, (being a court of record in and for the said city — according to the solemn adjudications of the Supreme Court of this state, and being a court which proceeds according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and possessing the power of fine and imprisonment) Dexter Greene aged Sixty one years, resident in the town of Nassau — in said County who, being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: on the 28 th day of March 1781 in Providence R. Island he enlisted for one year under Capt. Isaac Pitman in Robt. Elliott Regt. of Artillery of the R. Island line which time he served out — That at the time he was discharged to wit about the 28 th of March 1782 he enlisted again for one year in Capt. Gideon Worteght in the same Regt. and line as above mentioned That on or about the 28 th of March 1783 he was discharged at Newport R. Island — That his discharge is lost — That on or about the 18 th day of March 1818 he made his declaration on oath before his honor Ambrose Spencer Esquire one of the judges of the Supreme Court etc. but has never received any returns from the war office — That his wife is aged 46 years, that he has six children dependent on him for support of whom the oldest is sixteen years and the youngest a little over three years old — That he has no trade but is a common laborer for which his age almost disqualifies him —
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 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.
(Signed) Dexter Greene
Schedule
  Real estate None   1 Hog $2. 1/2 doz old chairs $1.30 — 4 hens & chickens 87 1/2 cts $4.37 1/2   1 Pot of tattle $1.25. 1 Tea tattle 50 cts — Frying pan 37 1/2 cts Table 50 cts — 2.62 1/2   1/2 doz Knives & forks (old) 37 1/2 cts 1/2 doz Tea cups & saucers 25 cts 2 Water pails 25 cts 87 1/2   2 pewter basins 37 1/2 cts 9 Plates 50 cts 87 1/2   Debts due or income None $8.75 
That for the last three years his wife has not enjoyed good health and is not able to render him any assistance towards supporting their family during 6 months was unable to help herself —
(Signed) Dexter Greene
STATE OF NEW-YORK,  City of Troy ss:
I Joseph D. Alden Clerk of the Court of common pleas called Mayor's Court held in for the city of Troy — do hereby certify, that the foregoing affidavit and the 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 property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Eight Dollars and Seventy five Cents . In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this first day of August 1820
Joseph D. Alden Clerk.

No 237. Application of Mary Green widow of Dexter under act of July 29, 1848. N.Y.
Maria 1798 Husband died 1837 Adm o N.Y. Sur. Ct. #80 per An. ft 4 March 1848. Nicholas D. D. S. Droog St. Court.

H Jones Clerk Grey N.Y.
State of New York
Rensselaer County } ss.
On this Thirteenth day of November in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred forty eight, before the Justices of the Justices Court in the City of Grey, in the County & State aforesaid, being a Court of Record, personally appeared Mary Green, a resident of the Town of Greenbush, in the County and State aforesaid, aged Seventy three years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed 29 th July 1838. That she is the widow of Dexter Green, late of the Town of Sand Lake in the County of Rensselaer, deceased, who was a Soldier in the army of the Revolution, and served as is set forth in his declaration, on file in the office of the Commissioner of Pensions; as she verily and truly believes; That the said Dexter Green was a United States pensioner, under the act of Congress of the 7 th June 1832, at the rate of Eighty dollars per year, according to her best recollection & belief. That the pension Certificate of the said Dexter Green was surrendered & left at the Pension Office in the City of Albany, after his death, & at the time of the payment of the balance due thereon after his death. She further declares that she was married to the said Dexter Green, at his dwelling house in the Town of P'keepsie in the County of Rensselaer, by Robert McChesney a Justice of the Peace, of said Town on the 15 th day of November - in the year One thousand seven hundred and ninety eight. That she never had any certificate of her said marriage or other documentary evidence of the same. That her husband the aforesaid Dexter Green, died in the Town of Sand Lake on the eighteenth day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven; That she was not married to him prior to her leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second of January, eighteen hundred, viz., at the time above stated. And she further declares that her oldest child, who was born subsequent to her said marriage will be fifty years of age the ensuing summer. She further swears she is at present a widow, and that she never before has made an application for a pension.
Sworn & subscribed, on the day & year above.
written - said affiant or declarant having signed the same by making her mark, because of the tremulousness of her hand she was unable to write
Mary X Green Mark
J. Fairchild Wells
Justice of the Peace

State of New York
Rensselaer County } ss. John Hyndorn of the city of Troy in the County & State aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose & say, That he is now seventy seven years of age; That he was intimately and well acquainted with Doctor Green, late of the town of Sand Lake in the County & State aforesaid, who was at the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner; That a personal acquaintance with said Green ex- ceeded sixty years, and in verity commenced in the childhood of said Green and this deponent; and this deponent further says that the said Doctor was twice married; and after the death of his first wife, the said Doctor Green was married to Mary Melius then a resident of the Town of Brunswick in the County and State aforesaid; and this deponent further says that he was present at the time of the marriage of the said Doctor Green and Mary Melius, which took place in the year One Thousand Seven hundred & ninety seven or eight, in what month of the year he cannot precisely state; but recollects that it took place in cold weather, that they were married at the house of the said Doctor Green in the said Town of Brunswick, by Robert M c Cluskey then a Justice of the peace of the said Town of Brunswick; that he recollects dis- tinctly that John Ely, now a resident of the said Town of Sand Lake was also present at the wedding of the said Doctor Green and Mary Melius and several others who are now dead. That the said Mary Melius is the widow of the said Doctor Green, and now resides in the said Town of Green- bush with Edwin Green her son. That the said Robert M c Cluskey the Justice who performed the said marriage ceremony, removed from this Coun- ty to the west, and has been dead somewhere between thirty & forty years.
Sworn to this 10 day of November 1848. before me
H. Robertson Jr Justice Peace Rensselaer
John Hyndorn

Gilbert Robertson Jr. the Justice before whom the within affidavit was taken, Do certify that the person herein described is a man of fair character and entitled to full credit as a credible witness. November 10 th 1798.
G. Robertson Jr. Justice
State of New York
Rensselaer County v. John Clint. of the Town of Poestenkill late the town of Wane Lake being duly sworn, says that he is now about seventy four years of age. That he was well acquainted with Deacon Green, & Mary Melius described in the annexed affidavit of John Hyderm, and that this deponent distinctly recollects, being invited to the wedding, which he attended, and arrived there a very short time after marriage ceremony was performed, which was performed by Robert M c Keeney then a Justice of the peace of the Town of Pownall in said County. That the said marriage took place in the fall of the year 1798 which he distinctly & positively recollects. And the reason of his so being certain & positive is, that he was married himself about one year thereafter, and he well recollects, that he this deponent was married in the fall of the year, to wit the seventeenth day of October 1799. And further this deponent says, that the said Deacon Green, now he has been informed & believes a Revolutionary pensioner at the time of his death, which took place some eleven years ago & upwards. Deponent was not at the funeral, and therefore does not distinctly recollect the day - and further says not.
John Clint
Sworn and subscribed this 12 th November
18-18. before me J. Fairchild Wells
Justice of the peace
I certify that John Clint, above named is a credible person entitled to full credit as a witness.
J. Fairchild Wells
Justice of the peace
Russell Lee Conner D. ... Second ...

From the petition Jan 12. 1808
John Clift
15-18. before me J. Fairchild Wells
Justice of the peace
I certify that John Clift above named is a credible person entitled to full credit as a witness.
J. Fairchild Wells
Justice of the peace
Rensselaer County
Troy Justices Court 255. I Prutiss L Jones Clerk of the Justices Court of the City of Troy.
(The same being a court of record having a clerk & seal) Do certify that J. Fairchild Wells and Gilbert Robertson Jr. the Justices named in the foregoing declaration of Mary Green and affidavits of John Wydown & John Clift and hereto annexed are now sworn at the time of subscribing their names thereto, Justices of the aforesaid Court duly commissioned & sworn and acting Justices in said Court and that the signatures thereto by them signed are their genuine signatures & proper hand writing and that said declaration and affidavits were taken & made in open court.
In Testimony whereof I have herunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said Justices Court this 25 day of November in the year 1808.
J. L. Jones Clerk
Just Court

Free
Santa Fe Feb 18 th M. G.
J. J. Edwards
Commission of Pensions
Washington City D. C.
Feb 24 Boston Mass My Oct 1878 P. 14791

Sand Lake Feb'y 18. 1835
Dear Sir
Several of the Friends of Dexter Green has as I am informed troubled you considerably in respect to obtaining his back Pension from 1818 to 1831. I hope however you will have patience with me in addressing you this once more on the subject - Mr Dexter Green informs me that his Brother Arter Green from the State of Rhode Island has obtained his back Pension, and also informs me that he was in the same service in which his Brother was Engaged - now therefore as Mr Dexter Green is in very necessitous circumstances you will confer a favour on me and help the needy by informing me what proofs are necessary in order to entitle him to his back Pension and if he cannot produce such proof - I hope Congress will accept of a bill and pass it for his relief - if we had fought as our forefathers have for Liberty we should expect that something would be done for us - He is not able to work and has quite a family to support and has only the Eighty Dollar Pension to provide for his family with for a Year - please answer this as soon as possible -
Yours with respect A. L. Manants
To J. L. Edwards Esq Washington
Please direct to me at Sand Lake Rensselaer Co A. L. M.

Prov
WIDOW, &c.
File No. 2610
Mary Green Widow
Dexter Green Pr. Rev. War
Act: July 29, 1848
Index: —Vol. A Page 285
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Troy N. Y. Jan 91. 1849.
Hon James L. Edwards, Comm-Pensions
Sir
Several weeks since I transmitted to your Department the application of Mrs. Green widow of Dexter Green (late a U.S. Pensioner) under act of July 29. 1848. for a pension. Will you the goodness to inform me, whether the application has been acted on and its fate —
Respectfully Yours & Nicholas Dull

17.254
Dexter Green, Rensselaer Co. N.Y.
Rejected - See letter to Clairmont, 13 March 1823, and to Mrs Scoby, 13 th March 1826. —

31 2 29
1.00
96
104.54

April 14/49 Mary Green
29 July 181-
Mary
Miss S. P. [unclear] Mrs. [unclear] Washington City
FREE

also Albany. N.Y. Roll act 7 June 1832 Sterter Green, Fri. $80 per annum, Calo Died 18 th Feb. 1837 P st to his estate. 1837

Case of Dexter Green
Sent on affidavits of service to the War Department in Feb. 1821 which he supposes are on file & may be referred to
Witnesses names { Nathaniel Carpenter { Artemas Green { of Cranston R.I.

Troy N.Y. April 11. 1849.
Hon. James S. Edwards Sir
The application of Mary Green, widow of Decker Green who was a Revolutionary Prisoner under act of 1832, has been on file several months. Mrs Green is a very aged and infirm, old Lady - and if anything is to be obtained for her relief upon this application, it will be a good fund, that will keep her from the poor House - Her application is under act of 29. July 1848. And if it can without great impropriety be acted upon by your Department soon, it will have a tendency to the great relief of a worthy, infirm, and miserably poor applicant - Please let me hear from this Case as soon as propriety will permit -
Respectfully & truly Yours &c Orchibad Bull

Nov 24
202 L. declin.
Dexter Green N.Y.
J. S. Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions Navy Department Washington City

In the matter of the application of Dexter Green — State of New York Albany County ss —
Dexter Green being duly sworn says that some time in the month of Fe- bruary of the year 1820 his Pensions Papers were made out & sent on as he is informed to the War department & that it is supposed they still remain at Washington. That in those Papers it was truly stated that he the deponent served in Colonel Elliott's Regiment — but it was omitted to be stated that this deponent also served nine months under Colonel McEllen's Regiment under Capt David Richmond & in his company —
And this deponent further says that he enlist- ed as a Private Soldier Marine for nine months the & served as such during said time. That said Regiment was a part of the force stationed at Providence Rhode Island that he was employed on board the ship Providence under command of Commodore Whipple & was there employed as a Marine in the Revolution- ary War against the common enemy —
And this deponent further says that he believes he shall be able to ascertain the particular time at which he entered the service as aforesaid & also the time of leaving it
Dexter Green
Sworn before me this 5 20 th day of Nov r 1834 by Dexter Green who I certify is to me known
John L. D. S. Judge Albany County Court Commissioner

City of Albany Nov 30 th 1834
Dear Sir
Mr (Doctor) Green whose affidavit is herewith transmitted to you in reply to a letter from you in answer to the one recently written by him to you concerning his Pension - stating that Col d Elliott's Reg t did not belong to the Continental line - but on examining Mr Green I find that he had served a separate time in a Reg t belonging to the Continental line & entitled him to his Pension under the law of 1818 - his having already given you some trouble in this matter would have prevented my again doing so but Mr Green seems to be a very deluded man though in very poor circumstances - at the loss of your being able to direct him how to obtain his back pay has induced me again to write you upon the subject -  I wish you upon the receipt of this to be kind enough to write me how the State procured whether his having the necessary papers made out now would authorize those whose duty it is to give him his back pay since 1818 to the present time or from the time he made his declaration in 1820. or what other course would be proper - Whether he would be obliged to petition Congress or not - the multiplicity of your duties ought to prevent my being obliged to you. But as my very limited experience in the  such matters makes me the more awkward in advising him I have felt obliged to do so in hope that it would render his success more certain - if you will therefore give me such information as you can without inconveniencing yourself too much will most assuredly aid the cause of humanity & every man's obligation
Yours very Respectfully G. I. L. Edwards Esq r W. D. Van Epps

Arthur Greene of Cranston in the county of Providence of lawful age and engaged according to law testify and say, That Dexter Greene, who is now in my service enlisted in a company commanded by Captain Isaac Pitman in the Regiment commanded by Col Robert Elliot in the State of Rhode Island &c on the 28 day of March A 1778 for one year and faithfully served his time of enlistment out Then he in the first part of April 1779 enlisted in a company commanded by Gideon Wierout in said Robert Elliot's Regiment for one year and served until the regiment was disbanded in the month of March 1780 when said Dexter Greene was honorably discharged from the service of his country. The above service was upon the continental establishment further the deponent saith not.
Arthur Greene
State of Rhode Island &c
Nov r Feby 22 1820
Then Arthur Greene made oath to the foregoing deposition Before me Walter Master C & S S Clerk

State of Rhode Island ss
Providence
February 22 d 1820
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Nathaniel Carpenter and Stephen Green who signed the annexed depositions, and they are men of character and respectability and are to have full faith and credit given to what they say under oath. In Testimony of the truth of which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Seal. Done at Providence in the County of Providence this the day and year aforesaid.
Witness: Wheeler Austin Esq. S d & S d Reas.

I Nathaniel Carpenter of Cranston in the county of Providence of lawful age and engaged according to law testify and say. That Dexter Greene who is now in my house interested in a company commanded by Capt Isaac Pitman in the Regiment commanded by Col Robert Elliot in the State of Rhode Island Le on the 28 day of March 1778 for one year and faithfully served his time out, then he in the first part of April 1779 interested in company commanded by Gideon Westcoat in said Robert Elliot's regiment for one year and served until the regiment was disbanded in the month of March 1780 when said Dexter Greene was honably discharged from the Service of his Country the above Service was upon the Continental Establishment, and further the deponent saith not
Nathaniel Carpenter
State of Rhode Island Le Providence Feby 22 1820 Then Nathaniel Carpenter made oath to the foregoing Deposition Before me Wheeler Martin 62668

State of Rhode Island &c Providence Providence July 22 d A 1820
I Dexter Randall Esquire Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas. certify that Wheeler Austin Esquire who signed the annexed certificates and before whom these depositions hereto annexed were taken is Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Providence
Dexter Randall (Clk)