Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37041, Benjamin Greenleaf, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Greenleaf, Benjamin or Greenleaf
NUMBER
S. 37041
CONTENTS
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6723.
Maine.
Benjamin Greenleaf Private. 9 months. Capt Bancroft Maple Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 14. of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 20 of Jany 1819 and sent to Sere d Bailey Esq r Wiscasset, Lincoln,
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818 , 4 m  \frac{21}{30} th 37 u 60 emi-anl. all ce ending 1 March 1819 48 u
$ 85 u 60
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Wiscasset, Lincoln,
Maine.
Continued
Petition sent to Sere d Bailey Esq r 25 Oct 1820
Wiscasset Me

I Benjamin Greenleaf, of Leicester  Leicester in the County of Lincoln & District of Maine, being fifty nine years of age, on oath do testify & declare, that I am a citizen of the United States and resident in said Leicester - That some time about the fifteenth day of May 1778 I enlisted as a private soldier in the war of the revolution in the infantry on the continental establishment, & afterwards at Fishkill on the eighteenth day of June 1778 was received into Capt. James Bneroft's Company, in the eighth Massachusetts Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson, for the term of nine months next ensuing. - and I faithfully served out the said nine months and  and on the eighteenth or nineteenth day of March 1779, I was honourably discharged from the army at Pictskill by Col. Jackson, which discharge I have lost. -
And I further on oath testify & declare, that from my reduced circumstances I need the supp assis- tance of my country for support. -
April 13. 1818 -
Benjamin Greenleaf
(over

I also hereby relinquish all claims to any pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States if any may be or have been so allowed
Benjamin Greenleaf
Commonwealth of Massachusetts ss.
Be it remembered that on this fourteenth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war" made & passed on the 18th of March A.D. 1818. Personally appears before me Jeremiah Bailey Judge of the Court of Probate within the County of Bristol in the Commonwealth aforesaid and the same being a Court of record, the above named Benjamin Greenleaf and after due examination & caution to testify declare the whole truth, he made oaths to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; And, on examination duly made, it appears to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true
Jer Bailey
I John H. Sheppard Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Bristol hereby certify that the aforesaid Jeremiah Bailey is Judge of said Court of Probate above named, that his signature to this caption is genuine that the seal aforesaid is the seal of said Court —
John H. Sheppard.
John H. Sheppard

Benj. Greenleaf Private N. Jackson Mass. Eng. June 19 th 78 to March 17. '79
Admitted
April 14. 1818

I Abner Wade of Woolevick in the County of Franklin Commonwealth of Massachusetts testify I say, that I held the Commission of a Captain in the 8 th Massachusetts Regiment in the War of the revolution - that I am well acquainted with Benjamin Greenleaf of Wiscasset in said County, and that said Greenleaf served as a soldier in the Continental army in said Regiment com- -menced by Col. Michael Jackson in Capt. Ben- -crofts company, for the term of nine months from the time he was received at Fishkill the 18 th of June 1778 to the 18 th of March 1779, of the above said Company I was then Lieutenant, and he was discharged on said day by Col. Jackson at PEEKSKILL. -
Abner Wade

I Thomas Deeker of Brookton in the County of Lincoln aforesaid on oath testify & say, that I am well acquainted with Ben- jamin Greenleaf the applicant in the foregoing declaration. I am knowing to his enlisting into the Revolutionary Army in the year 1778 for nine months afaithfully serving out said time & obtaining a regular discharge at Pecks- -kill in 1779 - I enlisted with him at the same time - served in the same Company & was at the same time discharged, we came home together. Thomas Deeker
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Lincoln ss. June 22. 1818. Personally appeared before me Jer- emiah Bailey aforesaid, Judge of said Court of Probate, the aforenamed Abner Wade & Thomas Deeker & after due caution to testify the whole truth, they severally made oath to the truth of the depositions aforesaid by each of them respectively signed which said depositions were each written by me, & both signed in my presence, & each of said deponents are credible persons & their statements entitled to credit & belief. -
Jer Bailey

Benja. 67 Greenleaf
6723
Winthrop
EM
July
Barly

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
Real Estate 50 acres of poor land without much lumber or wood a small house & barn in a state of decay. seventy five dollars Personal - 1 yoke of oxen, forty dollars - 3 cows forty five dollars - 1 pair of two year old steers, twenty dollars - 2 of one year old ten dollars. A plough & harrow nearly worn out. five dollars { one swine four dollars & a little old furniture fifteen dollars I have no income except my pension, and I owe not less than two hundred & fifty dollars & have nothing due to me.
Benjamin Greenleaf
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Benjamin Greenleaf who, by occupation am a shipwright which I am not able to pursue by reason of infirmity & weakness from age & hardships.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     My Wife Rachel 54 infirm & out of health   Daughter Rebecca 22 common health & ability   Son Ebenezer 19 do.   Daughter Lydia 18 do.   Grandchild Henry Adams 8 not of ability to support himself   Do Alden Greenleaf 6 do -   my daughter Abigail 25 in a peculiar & distressing state of insanity which commenced from her sickness in Feb. 1817. & has continued ever since with such violence & aggravation that it has been necessary to keep her chained & confined. The misfortune is such, that our family is nearly broken up, & the expenses greater than I can bear. in consequence of which debts have accumulated upon me, the expenses of her support is not less than two hundred & fifty dollars per year & no prospect of a cure of the disorder.  
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk LINCOLN, ss.
STATE OF MAINE.
I, NATHANIEL COFFIN, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit, within the county of Lincoln, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 abited in the aforesaid schedule, is two hundred twenty four dollars and
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this twenty first day of June A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Nat. Coffin } Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of Lincoln.

STATE OF MAINE.
LINCOLN, ss.....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the second Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at Wiscasset, within and for the County of Lincoln, on the third Tuesday, being the twentieth day of June, and by adjournment from day to day, on the twenty first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable JOSIAH STEBBINS & EBENEZER THATCHER , Judges of said Court.
ON this twenty first day of June in the year 1820, personally appeared in open court .
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit, Benjamin Greenleaf aged Sixty years, resident in Wiscasset in said Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. Bancroft in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Jackson in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the fourteenth day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 6.723 was granted. 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; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Benjamin Greenleaf
Sworn to and declared, on the 21. day of June A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Ebenezer Thatcher
{ One of the Judges of the said Court.

To the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden at Windsor June 2 d 1820
The undersign'd, being acquainted with the circumstances & afflictions of Mr Benj a Green- leaf, feels it to be proper to testify in his favour. Owing to an insatiable voraciousness & in- same state of one of his daughters, his family expenses have been for four years much enhanced, & he & his family have been kept from providing the usual means of sup- ports. Mr Greenleaf & his family had been remarkably prudent & industrious, & had ac- quir'd a comfortable living; but in conse- quence of the dire calamity above mentioned, it seems to have been out of his power to provide things comfortable for his house- hold, & has in several instances receiv'd from his sympathizing neighbours the needed fruits of charity. So that the under- sign'd is persuaded that were Mr Greenleaf's character, circumstances, & the state of

his family exactly known, his case would be found within the purview of the benevolent & humane laws of his country, which kindly providing for the Revolutionary Soldier, needing its country. Having been a soldier himself in the Revolutionary War, he feels the more anxious that the deserving & needy should find favour.
Hez h Packard Pastor of the Church in Wiscasset
State of Maine Lincoln ss. 6 Col. P. June 21. 1820
I hereby certify that the Rev d Doctor Packard who has signed the above statement is a clergyman settled in the town of Wiscasset and a gentleman of high standing & respectability in his profession & wholly entitled to belief.
Ebenezer Root one of the Justices of the Court afore said

Anexed by order of Court
Attest Nat. Coffin Clerk

Benjamin Greenleaf Pursuer of Me Law 1818
from - Abad Joy
Abad Joy

State of Tennessee County of Lincoln
Spencer Greenleaf personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of State aforesaid on the twenty eighth day of October A.D. 1853 and being duly sworn according to law deposes and saith that he is the son and one of the heirs of Benj Greenleaf late of Tuscumbia deceased who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war and to whom a pension is probably due that he the deponent is directly interested in said claim. Spencer Greenleaf
Sworn and subscribed before me this twenty eighth day of October A.D. 1853 and I hereby certify that the said Spencer Greenleaf is a respectable person and I have full confidence in the truth of the above statement sworn to by him as being directly interested in said claim. Sam Page Justice of the Peace
Where all men by these presents that everyone Greenleaf late of Tuscumbia deceased to whom a pension was probably due, Spencer Greenleaf his son and heir does hereby appoint Andrew Gray of New York State only true and lawful Attorney for him and in any manner as directly interested in said claim for a pension and for his behalf to examine all the rolls at the war office and to do all and every thing in care of said claim to a pension that he might or could do if present in person
Witness my hand & seal this 28 day of Oct 1853 Signed & sealed in presence of Spencer Greenleaf Andrew Gray Sam Page

37 041 Ray INVALID.
File No. 37 041
Benjamin Greenleaf Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 203
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Hon d John C. Calhoun Secretary of War Washington

Hon John C Calhoun, D r Sir
Wiscapit August 8 1826
The peculiarly distressed situation of Mr Berg- Grenier & Family has induced me to take the liberty of stating it to you as I understand. He is applying for a pension. He has a daughter insane & at the same time so voracious that a dollar p day would not furnish food of the most ordinary kind equal to her appetite. He is obliged to keep her confined at great expence & trouble & by employing Physicians. He has expended & is indebt for a large sum & altho he is in of which can be taken from at any time by his creditors possession of a piece of poor land of no income. I should consider him as intitled to the munificence of Government as much as any & probably more than many who have obtained it. a desire to do all in my power to aid the distressed is the occasion of my troubling you, which hope you'll pardon & believe me to be with respect & Esteem
Your Most Ob t Humb. Serv t ,
Niel Wood