Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4278, John Green, Continental Mass. Res.

SERVICE
NUMBER
continental
Green, John Waitstill
R. 4278
Mass res
CONTENTS

No 7782.
Waitstill Green, widow of John. Massachusetts Act 7 July. 1838.

DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows."
State of Massachusetts, } County of Norfolk } ss.
On this third day of April in the year eighteen hundred & fortyone . Before the Subscriber, Judge of the Probate Court for Norfolk County in said Commonwealth, Personally appeared in Open Court Waitstill Green a resident of Roxbury in the county of Norfolk aged seventy nine years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of John Green late of Roxbury deceased, and that said John Green her late Husband performed one hour of duty of time months duration, as a soldier & Artificer in the Army of the Revolutionary War, which service was performed in Captain Joseph Bayres Company, of Colonel Flowers Regiment of Artillery Artificers.
She further declares that she was married to the said John Green , in Boston on the fifth day of April in the year seventeen hundred and eightyfour ; that her husband, the aforesaid John Green died on the seventeenth day of April in the year Eighteen Hundred & Eight , that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz: at the time above stated.
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me,
Waitstill Green
Isaac Dyer Judge of Probate

I. Ebenezer Seaver of Roxbury in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Being sworn do on oath testify & say that I am Seventy Seven years of age and that I was born and brought up in said Town Roxbury. I knew John Green, and his wife Waitstill, whose family name was Seaver. Said John Green, his wife Waitstill and their Family were near Neighbours of mine for more than Fifty years. Said John Green informed me frequently during his life time that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and exhibited to me his Gun & Cartridge Box which He said was the same one used by him while in the aforesaid Service. Said John Green died according to the best of my recollection of a Paralytic shock in the year Eighteen hundred & Eight, and left the above mentioned Waitstill Green his widow, who is still living near my residence in Roxbury and has not married since the death of her late Husband John Green aforesaid
Ebenezer Seaver
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Norfolk ss April 3 rd 1841. Subscribed & sworn to by the said Ebenezer Seaver who is a credible witness before me S. Leland Judge of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
County of Norfolk. Jonathan H. Cobb Register of the Court of Probate within & for said County of Norfolk hereby certify that Sherman Leland is Judge of said Court of Probate & that Robert Rose is a Justice of the Peace within & for said County of Norfolk & that their respective signatures on this paper are genuine & true.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court of Probate this sixth day of April A.D. 1841.
Jonathan H. Cobb Reg. Prob.

Extract from the Register of Marriages in Trinity Church Boston.
" 1784. " April 5. John Green to Wastel Seaver."
" The above account of marriages is just & true. " Attest Samuel Parker Min st ."
" Boston, Tuesday in Easter Week, April 13 th 1841. . . . }
It appears by the records of Trinity Church Boston, that "John Green and Wastel Seaver" were married by the Rev d Dr r Parker on the "fifth day of April in the year of our Lord One Thousand sixty seventy hundred and forty eighty four."
I, John L. Watson certify that I hold the records of Trinity Church Boston, & that the above is a true extract from the records, with the exception of the date wh ch is expressed in the record in fair legible figures, as follows 1784, April 5 th .
Low monument the of Nassau street Dorchester County B.S. Sworn and subscribed, this sixteenth day of April, 1841, before me R. L. Boston, Just ice of the Peace .
John L. Watson, Min st of Gospel, Trinity Church Boston

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Suffolk ss: I, Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, hereby certify that the Col. L. Porter Esquire is a Justice of the Peace duly commis- sioned & qualified within said County of Suffolk & that the signature written upon the opposite side of this sheet purporting to be the signature of said Porter, is genuine.
Witness my hand & the Seal of said Municipal Court hereunto set this sixteenth day of April A.D. Eighteen hundred & forty one.
Thomas W. Phillips, Clerk

No. 7782.
Letter to Reuben Radwin, April 27, 1841.
Same to Klingensmith 27 Apr 1841
H 278
Act 7 July, 1838.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1870.
REJECTED
1878.
P. O.
Waitstill Green
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____ REJECTED _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

John Green d 1806
Watsill Green m. 84 s.
9 m. Antipen. 18 Ayus. Col Henry

May 29. 1841.
Mr. A. L.
FREE
J. G. Edwards Esquire Pension Office 604 Washington

Land Office at Genoa May 25 th 1841
Sir
I regret exceedingly that your letter of the 27 th April last has remained unanswered, when it was received at this office it was sent to the Auditor General's office and when returned to this office I was absent by sickness.
Enclosed you have a certified extract from the Books in the Auditor General's office and an extract from the list of soldiers entitled to Donation land now in the office of the Sur. Land Office.
Yours respectfully Your obedt Servt
R. M. Graham
J. G. Richards Esq., Pension Office City Washington
Walter Green Map

Waitstill Green Mass.

Return of the Pennsylvania Line, entitled to Donation Lands, Reported by the late Comptroller General
   Rank Regiments Acres No.     John Green Private Saps y Min t 200 2101 10 th Dist  
I do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of so much of original entries in Donation Land book as relates to John Green remaining in the office of the Secretary of the Land Office of the State of Pennsylvania.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Office, at Harrisburg the 25 th day of May A D 1844.
R. M. Cain Dep. Secy of Office

Cavalry 4 th Regiment 1782.
We and each of us whose names are hereunto subscribed, do acknowledge to have received from Major Thomas B. Bowen and Captain Francis Beatty, Agents for the late Pennsylvania Line, the Several Sums opposite to our names respectively, in certificates dated July 1 st 1784, bearing interest at six per cent, from Jan y 1 st 1783 signed by John Pierce, Commissioner, and described as below, being for the Balance of a Settlement between the United States and us for Pay to Jan y 1 st 1783.
   date of Issue no of Certificate Names Sums Signers   Dollars 90 th     Aug t 17 th 1785 76.080 James Dickey 49. 15 James Dickey   " 12 th " " 81 John Green 94. 15 John Green   Nov r 5 th " " 82 Bennett Renshaw 100. - Bennett Renshaw  
Auditor General's Office of Penn yl
Harrisburg May 8 th 1811
I certify that the foregoing is a correct copy of the original entry in my roll Book A. page 136. in file in this office
Jacob Broom
pro Geo: R. Espy
Aud t Gen l

Boston, Massachusetts.
April 16 th 1841.
Sir
I transmit herewith the papers of application for a Five years pension by Mrs Waitstill Green, widow of John Green deceased.
Be pleased to give this case the usual course of investigation, and forward the result to me.
Very Respectfully sir I am your Ob t Servant
Reuben Baldwin
J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm re of Pensions Washington