Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4282, Thomas Green, R.I.

SERVICE
NUMBER
R.I.
Green, Thomas Mary
D. 4282
CONTENTS

Declaration.
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of being up, passed June 7 th 1832.
State of Rhode Island &c.
County of Washington ss. Town of Charlestown, on this 22 nd day of February 1833.
Personally appeared before me Horace Dineen one of the justices of the Court of Common Pleas, within & for said County of Washington Mary Greene, a resident of said Charlestown, aged seventy six years, who being first sworn, deposes according to law, doth in solemn affirmation make the following declaration, in order to obtain, in sight of her late husband, Thomas Greene, now deceased, the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832, that is to say, that in August 1779 at said Charlestown then she, the said Mary, was intermarried with the said Thomas Greene in said Charlestown from the time last above said up to the twenty seventh day of Decr. 1832, the time of the said Thomas's decease, she & the said Thomas lived together as husband & wife from said time 27 th of Decr. 1832. she has remained single & the widow of the said Thomas residing in said Charlestown, that from some some time in the year 1777 up to the time of her above mentioned intermarriage she lived and a pe- riod of about two years, she lived in the fam- ily of one William Greene in said town of Char- lestown, a brother of the said Thomas, and with- in one row half miles distance of the said Thom- as's place of residence at that time during the aforesaid period of about two years she was

remembers that the said Thomas was often called abroad & absent & as her his brother from city then told her in the course of the  time of the  Revolution said Charlestown near Boston Neck, at  sometimes he served on his own account at some times as a substitute for his brother William Green; and she also remembers hearing the said Thomas & others state that the said Thomas served a number of months in guarding the United States military stores & provisions in Charle- town of which Joseph Hoxie Esq. had charge. During the time she thinks that she lived with the said William as aforesaid & before her said intermarriage; and she further says that from the time of her said intermarriage in 1779, during the revolution she knows that the said Thomas was often absent, in guarding the stores of said Charlestown against the enemy as he then stated to her, for short periods, she should judge, of from ten to thirty days each - She she also heard the said Thomas as say that he served against the enemy on the Island of Rhode Island, but how long she can not tell. — And although she is perfectly satisfied that her said late hus- band performed much military service in discharge of his country whereby she is entitled, as his widow to a pension, yet as she, being a woman, was not of course in the service herself, as her memory is much impaired, she deems it unsafe for her to undertake to specify more particular

early than she has aforsaid, to his service, or to define their amount. She further declares that she was born in the month of Sept. 1756. in said Town of Charlestown, where she has ever since resided except about four years that she resided in the neighboring town of Hopkinton but has no record of her age or birth. It appears from a minutes record or record written in the family bible that the said Thomas from her later knowledge was born on the 23 d day of April 1759 and she under stood from the said Thomas as in his life time that that was the period of his birth. Other he was born always lived in said Town of Charlestown. That he never to her knowledge received any discharge from any of his services in the revolution, nor has he to her knowledge left any documentary evidence of any of his services; that she is not acquainted with any clergyman in her vicinity or neighborhood. But refers to, Brattle Street Church.
Her neighbors and friends in said Town of Charlestown who testify to her character for veracity & their belief that he said late husband was a soldier of the revolution. She hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to pension or annuity except the present & due love that neither her own name nor that of her said late husband is not to her knowledge on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state sworn to & subscribed the day & year above said.
Hooeie Berry Justice C.C. Blease Mary Green Before me. The Brattle St. B. Green & Robert Hayward residing in the Town of Charlestown hereby certify that she is an

well acquainted with Mary Groom who has been engaged to the  the late Thomas Green of said Charleston town here husband now deceased; that she believes the said Mary to be seventy five years of age & that the said Thomas was born on the 29 th day of June 1759. that he was reported in the neigh- borhood where he lived & that he was a soldier of the revolution & that she concurs in that opinion. I affirm  affirmed subscribed the day & year Bradick H Green affirmed before me. Robert Hazard
Hooeie Berry Justice C.C. Pleas
And I the said Hooeie Berry justice of said court as aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion, after the investigation of the rather interesting & interesting the said Mary Groom the above named applicant, that the said late husband was a soldier of the revolution & served as such state, and that the proceedings in life are recorded in said Charleston town with persons other than state one is entitled to credit. and I do further certify that the record of the foregoing declaration of proceedings before me, which was the dwelling house of the said Mary Groom in said Char- leston, is that the said Mary, by reason of old age & infirmity of body was unable to appear & unable to appear in court
Hooeie Berry Justice C.C. Pleas
I the said Hooeie Berry justice of said court of some time past, do hereby certify, that the foregoing on this sheet of paper contains the original proceedings by me before me on the matter of the application of Mary Groom for a pension. In witness whereof I have set my hand in my official capacity. This 22 nd day of July 1859 - Bradick H Green
Hooeie Berry Justice C.C. Pleas

Allen Green of Charlestown in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island aged Seventy seven years on solemn affirmation deposes & says that he was well acquainted with Thomas Green late of said Charlestown now deceased that during the revolution with Great Britain and ever since that time to the period of the death of the said Thomas, which he thinks was near the last of Dec r 1781. he and the said Thomas lived Neighbours within about one Mile of each other in said Charlestown this deponent is also well acquainted with Mary Green who at the time of the said Thomas decease and many years years next previous thereto was the wife of the said Thomas & is now his Widow & living in said Charlestown within about one Mile of this deponent that he thinks the s d Thomas at the time of his decease was in his Seventy third year that at the time the enemy took possession of the Island of Rhode Island & before that time and along time afterwards this deponent & the said Thomas belonged to a Company of Militia in s d town of Charlestown commanded by Capt. Amos Green When this deponent returned in the Month of Dec r 1776 or Jan y 1777 from Tiverton where & on the Island of Rhode Island he had been in the service several Months under Capt John Gavit he was informed by his Neighbours that the said Thomas Green was then from home guarding the Shores at Boston Neck under Capt Amos Green where he remained sometime after this deponent returned and afterwards when the s d Thomas and his s d Capt returned home both the said Thomas and s d Capt Amos Green told this deponent that they had been guarding the Shore and were stationed at the Smith House so called in Boston Neck near the South ferry this deponent does not know nor does he recollect that he was informed by any one how long the s d Thomas served at the term above mentioned, afterwards in what year he cannot now remember this deponent and the said Thomas served together one Month in said town of Charlestown guarding the public stores against the enemy under Lieutenant Beniah Lewis and in the Summer of 1778

this deponent recollects that when he was going on to the Island of Rhode Island in the second division of the Militia against the enemy in the latter part of August that he met the said Thomas & others of the first division of Militia who had performed their term of service on the Island as he then understood from them returning home how long the said Thomas served at this time this deponent does not recollect, and this deponent remembers that he and the said Thomas Green during the revolution either in a draft or detachment from the company of Militia that they then belonged to in said Charlestown near the commencement of winter were Marched to point Judith in South Kingston where under Capt Amos Green they served he thinks until the next Spring the year in which this service in point Judith was he cannot now positively state but the service there both of himself and of the said Thomas he distinctly remembers and that they were stationed during the winter in the Mumpfford or four chimney House. A short time previous to the enemys evacuating Rhode Island the said Thomas Green and this deponent were drafted or detached from the Militia for a Month service and Marched to the ten Rod road under Capt Beriah Lewis who was then Capt Amos Green, successor where we were encamped in the Eldrige House and served our time out near the Village of Wickford at this term of service this deponent thinks the said Thomas acted as Ensign. Although this deponent cannot detail particularly other services than those he has afore stated yet he understood from the said Thomas and others that during the war and since that time that he performed divers other services and sometimes as a substitute for others and this deponent has a general recollection of a considerable other Military services of the said Thomas during the war that he is not now able to detail
Allen Green
State of Rhode Island
Washington ss at Charlestown this 22 d day of Feb. 7. 1833 Personally appeared the above named deponent Allen Green Who before Me gave & subscribed the preceding

deposition and was by Me duly affirmed to thereto according to Law I also certify that the said Allen Green is personally well known to me that he is a credible witness and that his testimony is entitled to credit and I further certify that the cause of taking the proceeding deposition before me which was done at the dwelling House of the said Allen Green in Charlestown is that he by reason of old age and bodily infirmity was unable to go abroad and appear at Court
Hoosie Berry Justice C. C. Pleas
State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Washington D. G. Clerk's Office Court of Common Pleas April 24. A.D. 1833 I Samuel Helme Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that Hoosie Berry Esq. whose signature in his own proper hand writing are affixed to his Attestation of the Preceding Declaration of Mary Green for a perjury and to the preceding Deposition of Benedict L. Greene and Allen Greene was at the time thereof and now is a Justice of said Court of Common Pleas duly commissioned under the seal of said State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations qualified as such
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court the day and Year aforesaid
Sam l Helme Clk

Augustus J Lewis of Charleston in the County of Washington & State of Rhode- Island aged seventy three years, on oath deposes & say, that from the time he was a boy he was well acquainted with Thomas Green late of said Charleston deceased, he the said Thomas & his dep- onent most of their lives having lived within a shot distance of each other in said town of Charleston; that this deponent in the Revolutionary war with Great Britain & the said Thomas Green belonged to a company of militia in said Charles- ton commanded by Capt. Amos Green, that the this deponent was from the month of June 1777, to the last of March 1778, a period of nine months served in guarding the public stores & provisions then deposited in the buildings of Joseph Roxie in said Charleston & that during the aforesaid nine months the said Thomas Green & this deponent were roommates, was stationed there & served with him the same period & service - and this depo- nent remembers that when he commen- ced his aforesaid term of service the he found the said Thomas there in said service, but how long he had served then previous to that time this deponent does not know.
This deponent also remembers that during

the revolutionary war the said Thomas was frequently called out in the militia & served in guarding against the enemy on the shores of said town of Charlestown in Point Judith & Boston Neck, but he is not now able particularly to specify these periods of service.
He also thinks that the said Thomas was often in the service when this department was not with him. He knows was  from the general talk amongst the neighbours & acquaintances of the said Thomas that he was much in the service at these periods in both neck & Point Judith. And this department further says that he is well acquainted with Mary Gurn now living in said town of Charlestown who up to the time of the death of the said Thomas was his wife & is now considered in the neighbourhood where she & this department lives to be the said Thomas's widow.
Augustus Lewis
State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Washington Co } Supreme Judgement County Court Office Term 1833 on the Second Day of the Term which is the 23 day of said April Personally appeared in Open Court

The foregoing named Deponent Augustus J Lewis & in this Court Gave and Subscribed his foregoing Deposition & was there to testify sworn according to Law - and the Court further certify that from their examination of the said Augustus J Lewis and after due investigation of the matter they consider him a credible Witness & that his Testi- mony is entitled to Credit
I Matthew Meigs Clerk of the aforesaid Supreme Judicial Court do hereby certify that the foregoing on this sheet of paper contains the Deposition of the said Augustus J Lewis taken before said Court and the Original proceedings of said Court in the taking of said Deposition
In Witness Whereof I have here to set my hand & the Seal of said Court this 25 th day of April 1833 Matthew Meigs Clerk

Mary Green - widow of Thomas Green. Rip Adams 7th 1832. Rd

State of Rhode Island County of Washington
Be it Known, that on this 21 st day of January A. D. 1853 before me, the under-
dersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Amy Haszard Wife of Robert Haszard of R. and Daughter of Thomas Green and Mary Green Both Deceased resident of Charleston in said County, and made oath according to law that She is the Daughter of the Above Named Thomas Green who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of Mary Green his Widow
the Pension Act of 1832 that She is directly interested as a claimant in said pension and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or argu- ments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney, and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT , of Washington City , my true and lawful Attorney, to prosecute the claim of Thomas Green and Mary Green for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents in relation to said claim on file in the Department at Washington City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.
Wts Nathan Moore Hannah S Reynolds
Amy Haszard
Sworn to, Subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said
Amy Haszard to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party therein alleged.
Nathan Moore Justice Peace
State of Rhode Island County of Washington
It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in said County that Amy Haszard the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the Daughter of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify, that Nathan Moore Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office,
this twenty second day of January 1853.
John G. Clarke Clerk
1. Claimant's name or names in full.—2. Post Office address. 3 "That he is the identical man," or, "that she is the widow of the identical man," or, "that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man," &c., &c. 4. Leave this line blank.—5. "He is," "she is," or "they are."—6. Revolutionary soldier's full name.—7. Claimant's signature.—8. Claimant's name.—9. Magistrate's signature. 10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "child of."—11. Magistrate's name.—12. Clerk's signature.
N. B.—Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.

NB the Time of the Decease of Thomas Green Was the 27 th Day of December AD 1831 the Decease of Mary Green Widow of Thomas Green Was the 27 th Day of March AD 1836 Thomas Green and Wife Was Married September 1 st Day AD 1779 to Mr Samuel M c Knight these Lines are written for you to Make use of If Required By Request of Mrs Habbard Nathan Moore Justice Peace

for a statement of the military history of Thomas Green a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
R-428 N
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1777 Served at various times until close of war. - Anne Green Rebecca Lewis Draper R.D.  
Battles engaged in, Residence of soldier at enlistment, Date of application for pension, Feb. 22, 1832. Residence at date of application, Charlestown, Washington Co., R.D.
Age at date of application, He was born in 1756 at Charlestown, Pa. Soldier was born Apr. 23, 1729 at Land did March 27, 1832. Charlestown, R.D., Aug. 1779, Mary- Remarks: Charlestown, R.D., Mary-land, at Charlestown, R.D.
He died Dec. 27, 1831. He had a brother named William.
A daughter, Amy, married Robert Hazard.
The claim was rejected. Soldier died prior to passage of the act of June 7, 1832 and it was rejected by the Pension Office under the provisions of the widows acts of 1836 and 1838.
Very respectfully,
Wm. Abner M. Brockman

Mary Green
R 8 and 52. 36
Rev. L. P. Maclure
Pa.

Washington, July 21. 1884
Sir:
Mary Green, widow of Thomas, R.D., applied for the pension due her husband who was rejected because he did not live to 7 th June, 1836. The 2 o Section of the Act of '36, entitled her, as she lived after the 4 th March, 1831. I think the case is abundantly made out, and deserves a upua upon its merits.
Very Resp. Yours &c
J. H. C. [unclear]

R.P. Richmond, January 12 th 1856
Dear Sir
Has there been a pension allowed to the heirs of Thomas Green of Charles Town R.I. for service rendered in the Revolutionary War, within two or three years past.
They supposed they had a claim for a pension for the service of their father in the Revolutionary War. About three or four years ago. Received a letter from some gentleman at the City of Washington enclosing a power of Atty. for the prosecution of their claim, which they executed and sent back, with all the Evidence they could obtain, which their Atty. said was all that was needed in the case, and that he would attend to the same immediately. They have had no Return from him since they sent on the Evidence and the amount of his fee claimed.
They wish to know if the same has been granted.
Yours Respectfully
Widney Clarke for the Heirs of Thomas Green
To J. Minot Esq. Washington D.C.

29,034
Mary Greene Widow of Thomas Greene, died R.I.
Act 7 June 1832
Rescinded
Since before the passage of the act. Sept. 30 June 1835. W.P. Merrill
Let to F.F.C. Triplett March 23/54
" H.P. Clarke Jan 18/56 Same July 23/57

Richmond R.I. June 25/57
Sir
Has there been any Evidence filed in the (suspended) claim of the heirs of Thomas Green for pension for Revolutionary Service. since the 23 d of May 1854. And if so by whom, and of what character, and what further Evidence if any is necessary to establish their claim
Yours Respectfully
J. H. Clarke for the heirs of Thomas Green Decd.
W Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Binghamton N.Y. Jan 11 th 1908.
Enc
To The Commissioner of Pensions
Sir. I am at work getting out a genealogy of the line of the Green family to which I belong. I wish to find of the time and place of birth of an ancestor William Green 2 nd Thomas Green. his brother. also their record as revolutionary soldiers. They probably were both from the state of Connecticut. For the above information I shall truly feel under obligation.
Truly with respect Abner M. Brockway

Dec 14/98 Mrs A.W. Barker, C.S. See Ind. 222/61
Jan. 20, '08. Hist. to Abner M. Brockman.
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
1282.
P. O.
Mary Green
Service: wid. of Thomas
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Mary Green - 1832 Thomas - R. S. - 1832 George C. Whiting Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Mary Green - 1832 Thomas - R. S. - 1832 General R. L. Jan 15  G. Minot Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

29034 Mary Greene 4282
Miss Newell Kingston R.I.

Wickford Hazard of Charlestown in the County of Washington & State of Rhode Island on oath deposes & saith that he is forty nine years of age; that he was more or less acquainted with Thomas Green late of said Charlestown now deceased; and that in a conversation be- tween this deponent & the said Thomas in the year A.D. 1825 - the said Thomas stated to this deponent that he served against the enemy during the Revolution - any war in the second company of militia of said Charlestown guarding the military stores in s. Charlestown and several towns at Boston Neck in South Kingston  in said county & endeavored a part of the time at the Col. John Gardner house; that he served in North Kingston near the village of Wickford in said County; that deponent cannot now remember whether the said Green stated to him how many mo- ths he served at any or all the above mentioned places of service; but he remembers that he told

him that he served a part of the time under Capt. Armstrong & a part of the time under Capt. Beulah Lewis that a part of the time he was found at insign of said company - and that he had an insign com- mission.
Robert Hazard
Subscribed and sworn to in Open Court this 5th day of October 1833
Wm. Thos. P. Wells clerk

Bradi McLean of Charleston in the County of Washington State of Rhode Island deponeth & saith that he is sixty nine years of age that he during the whole of his passed life he has lived either in said Charleston or South Kingstown the adjoining town of South Kingstown in said county; that he is the son of Capt. Amos Green, late of said Charleston deceased who died during a last four years of the Revolutionary war commanded the second company of militia in said Charleston lives much in the actual service in the said County of Washington on the Island of Rhode Island against the enemy; This deponent also remembers that Thomas Greene late of said Charleston deceased was a member of said second com- pany during the Revolution & that after the said Amos ceased to be Capt. of said company Ben- ah Lewis was Capt. thereof; This

deponent remembers that the said Thomas Green was often in the service against the enemy during the war of the Revolution on the shores of Charleston & South- Keystone in said company under the of said captain his Col. Navy Dept.; This deponent also remembers of his the said Thomas being absent in the service in against the enemy on the Islands of A Island as it was then & some said by the mili- tary the said Thomas three months - This deponent also remembers that the said Thomas served a number of months guarding the public military stores in said town of Charleston. -
Bradick H Green
Taken subscribed and sworn to in Open Court this 5th day of October term 1893
W. H. Phelps Clerk

State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Washington County p.
Supreme Judicial Court October 24 th on the 5 th day of term. The Court further certify that from their examination of the said Robert Harara and Bradick H. Greene, and after due investigation of the matter, they consider them credible witnesses and that their testimony is entitled to credit
I, Thomas P. Wells, Clerk of the aforesaid Supreme Judicial Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the depositions of the said Robert Harara and Bradick H. Greene, taken before said Court and the original proceedings of said Court in the taking of said depositions. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 25 th day of November 1833
Thos. P. Wells Clerk