Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 5,215, Isaac Green, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Green, Isaac
S. 5,215
CONTENTS
carded

2342.
Massachusetts
Isaac Green
of Middlesex in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain of the regt  by Captain  by Col Pycote in the Mass line for 1 year & 23 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 55 Dollars 88 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23 rd day of Nov 1832 and put Samuel Dana Norton Mass
Arrear to 14th of Sept 1832 $ 83.82 Pension allowance ending 21 Mar 33 27.94
$111.76
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by H. M. Blair Clerk Book 2 Vol. 27 Page 54

Declaration of N o 1
Isaac Green
Contains three papers—
N o 1. 2. 3.
Please to send my Cert a to my Agent Sam. Dancu Esq. Gaston Mo.

To the Hon Lewis Cass Secy of War etc
Isaac Green, of Ashburnham in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts represents, that he served in the War of the Revolution for the space of seventy months. He enlisted for the term of one year to commence 1 st Jan y AD 1776 in Capt. Morse Company of Col. Prescotts Regiment of Mass ts forces, he proceeded with his Regiment to New York and was with them in all their services untill the latter part of Summer or first part of the Fall, when he was taken sick removed to Stamford Connecticut where he remained until the first part of Winter or latter part of the Fall but he can not give dates, which will appear more certainly in his former declaration, under which he was admitted to the benefits of the Act of March 18. 1818 his pension Certificate is No 14.3811. —
2 ly When Burgaynes troops lay at Winter Hill he enlisted (as he believes) for six months, he was ordered into Capt. Munt's Company of Adon, in Col. Gernicks Regiment he was stationed at Winter Hill and there did duty for the space of five months, and was dismissed at that place. In this last Campaign he was a Sargeant in Capt. Munt's Company. —
When he went into the service he lived at Pepperell Mr. with his Father Col. Green Adjt. of Col. Prescotts Reg t in the 8 th Mass ts Line, his Father was severely wounded at Bunkerhill. — From Pepperell he removed to Ashburnham, where he now resides. He is now Twenty five years old. —
And he

He relinquishes every claim whatever, to a pension or annuity, whatever except the present, and declares that his name is not to his knowledge on the pension roll of any the Agency of any State.
And he now prays that he may be admitted to the benefits of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. Dated the 28 th of July AD 1832
In presence of
Isaac Green
Worcester July 28 th 1832 Personally before me the Subscriber & Justice of the Peace for said County Isaac Green who subscribed the above declaration and Release and acknowledged the same to be his Volun- tary Act.
Sam Darrow

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex
ss.
July 28.
1832
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth
Isaac Green who subscribed the annexed  Declaration  Declaration
and made solemn Oath, that the same is just and true in all its particulars according to the best of his knowledge and belief
Sam d Dana

116. Isaac Green
14,304
Sep 1819 New York

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the County of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A. D. 1820
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice,
and
WILLIAM WETMORE, and } Associate Justices STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, } of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Isaac Green resident in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. H. 384, now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the late a "18th March, 1818, Isaac Green "Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the "Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight "dollars per month, to commence on the 18th day of May one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this 17th "day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit,
"A bond given to him by one Daniel Raymond joint with a mortgage on real estate to secure its fulfilment to being in & deliver to him the said Green the following articles annually during his life dated Feb. 11. 1819 viz.     Six bushels of rye 11 do Indian corn valued at  $15.00    2 bushels wheat 6 do barley  7.50    1/2 bushel white beans 150 lbs. pork 80 lbs. beef  12.70    4 barrels cider 12 lbs. lard  5.50    12 lbs. flax 8 lbs. cotton 16 lbs. brown sugar  4.65    8 lbs. sheep wool 6 lbs. sole leather  3.75    12 bushels potatoes & garden sauce  2.00    1/2 bushel salt 10 cords wood  17.25    Improvement of 20 rods of land  1.50    The keeping of two cows annually  20.00    The use of a horse when wanted do.  2.00    Also all necessary doctoring nursing and house room during his life.  $91.65     Amount carried over   

Amount brought over - $91.65
Personal property of said Green viz.
1 sleigh & harness 10.00 3 old saddles 5.00 3 old chests 2.50 17.50 10 old chairs .75 3 old tables & 1 light stand 3.00 iron ware and steelyards 4.30 } 8.05 2 old brass kettles & warming pan 2.25 bellows & looking glass .50 } 2.75 Earthen pewter tin & glass ware 5.50 boxes knives and forks 1.25 } 6.75 Pails tubs churn & cooper's tools 3.00 rakes dry casks and cider barrels 3.20 } 6.20 Meat barrels & butter kegs 2.25 bread trough & sieves 1.00 3.25 2 wheels loom & weaving utensils 3.50 bible & other books 3.75 } 7.25 Old baskets, sickle & shears .50 1 pig & trace chains 1.25 1.75 A note of hand against Abel Ames valued at 15.00 15.00 Do. " " " James Barrett 14.23 Do. " " " Oliver Kendall 9.00 Do. " " " Daniel Raymond jun. 10.00
Also a claim of one hundred & ten dollars against a Turnpike Corporation supposed to be uncollectable for forty years or more to come - - - - -
Amount of Personal property in possession - - $101.73
And the said Isaac Green justly owes to Isaac Green jun. the amount of a note of hand dated March 1, 1820 for four hundred dollars and about seventy nine cents $400.79
Isaac Green
And the said Isaac Green having been first sworn according to law does on his oath declare that he enlisted into capt. Joseph Morse's company in the Regiment commanded by col. William Prescott Massachusetts line, January 1 st 1776 for one year and served accordingly; was sick in September 1776 at New York and on the retreat was carried with the other sick to Stamford; by which sickness he was so injured that his health has never been good since - all which is particularly stated in his original declaration on file in the war office dated May 13 th 1818 that he is 83

years of age, a husbandman by occupation but from ill health and particularly on account of a hernia he is totally unable to labor - that he has no fam- ily except his wife Prudence aged 52 years very fee- ble and able to perform but very little labor.
Isaac Green.
Sworn & declared to before me
Samuel Dana Judge."
and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. Samuel Dana a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
" I, Isaac Green do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my prop- erty, 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD. Isaac Green
Middlesex ss. C. C. C. P. June Term, A. D. 1820
Then the abovenamed Isaac Green took and subscribed the aforeswritten Oath before me,
Samuel Dana Judge of said Court.
I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and 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 the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is nothing
annual income mostly one hundred & fifty five units
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 21 st day of July 1820.
Attr. Abraham Biglow

There is an Invalid pensioned of the same name on the roll - - if the appl t is that person, he must transmit to the War Dept his pension certificate, before he can be placed on the Roll under the Law 18. March 1818. - if he is not - make affidavit to that effect - Dec 12. 1819

Isaac Green
No 2.
Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Boston - at the U States Branch Bank -
$400
Recorded

Rev War
5215
INVALID.
File No. 5215
Isaac Green
Brut Rev War
Act: June 7 th 1832.
Index:—Vol. M , Page 150
[Arrangement of 1870.]

14-384 Massachusetts
Isaac Green of Middlesex County in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private — in the regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott — of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts — at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence the 13 th of May 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 st of Sept. 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana Esquire Groton Mass t
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1819. 15 m. \frac{19}{31} + \frac{4}{30} — 125:93
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th March 1820 — 48:
$ 173:93
{ Revolutionary claim, { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Discontinued
Certification sent to Abraham Brigham Esq. 22 September 1820. Massachusetts,

I Isaac Green of Ashby, formerly of Pepperell in the Common Wealth of Massachusetts Do depose & say that I am not nor have ever been to my knowledge placed on the pension list of the United States nor of any individual States and having lately applied to the Hon ble Secretary of War to be placed on the pension list pursuant to the Act of Congress passed March 18. 1818 for the relief of the Officers, and Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army, whereby if I had been on any pension list it would be necessary for me to relinquish such pension, I do hereby declare that I never received from the said United States any money pension or other Gratuity and I do release, and acquit to the said States all claim to any pension other than what I may be en- titled to, under the Act aforesaid. —
Isaac Green
Common Wealth of Massachusetts
On the twenty third day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Nineteen, before me the Subscri- ber a Justice of the Peace throughout the same Common- Wealth

Wealth personally appeared Isaac Green of Ashley in the county of Middlesex, who was the Son of Adjudant William Green of Lynnfield and of Col. Prescott's Regt. of Minute men, and being first carefully examined and duly cautioned, made solemn Oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is just and true. —
Sam l Dana

Isaac Green
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To Whome It may Concern — we the subscribers of Ashby in Mass ts do certify that Isaac Green who is said — was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution is now in indigent Circumstances Ashby June 11 th 1819 Oliver Kendall (Selectmen Robert W. Burr } for Ashby

I Samson Woods now of Groton in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Do depose and say that I served as a Soldier in the war of the Revolution - My Father was the Major of Darts Cotts Regiment and I had some knowledge of the Army, and at the age of sixteen I enlisted for the years service as a Trooper in Capt Joseph Moore Company in the Regiment aforesaid - And at this time I well knew one Isaac Green then of Pappineuill now of Ashley he was the son of William Green the Adjutant of said Regiment, & belonged to said Moore Company, I distinctly remember him at Sewells farm in Cambridge, he marched south as to New York, & afterwards being sick was in the hospital at Stamford in Conn. Some time the Genl of Arty my said Father came to Stamford where I then was, with a lame foot, and inspected the Sick list of our Regiment, some he ordered on to join the Regiment, & some he gave leave to return home of which last number the said Green was one he having undergone a most severe sickness. —
Samson Woods
Commonwealth of Massachusetts On this fifth day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Nineteen, before me the Subscriber Chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit and a Justice of the Peace throughout the same Commonwealth, personally appeared Col. Samson Woods and made Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true in all its parts — And I Certify that the above named Samson Woods Esq. is well known to me as a Citizen of good credit wholly disinterested in the application of Isaac Green to be placed on the Pension list And that he

And that he is entitled to full faith and credit in all places and before all tribunals —
Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid
Lam d Dana

I Isaac Williams of Pepperell in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby depose and say that I served as a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, and belonged to Capt. John Nutting Company of Col. John Prescott Regiment of the Massachusetts line for the years service which commenced the first of January AD 1776 - And I well know and remember that one Isaac Green who then lived near to me in Pepperell (whom I have always known & who now resides at Ashley in said Commonwealth,) belonged to the Army during the same period, he was of Capt. Morley Company in the same Regiment, on the third of Jan'y AD 1776 I enlisted at Brattle Street in Cambridge, the said Green was there & belonged to said Company, I remember, at Governors Island, & that he went to Stamford being sick, I saw him in Oct. at that place & knew that he belonged to that years service, tho' I did not see him dismissed at the expiration of his term - I knew the Officers of said Regiment who have all died. - and I have understood that the Company Officers of said Morley Company have all died.  J. S. Williams
Commonwealth of Massachusetts In the first day of July in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and Ninteen before me Samuel Dana Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle circuit and a Justice of the Peace throughout said Commonwealth personally appeared Capt. Isaac Williams and made Oath that the above deposition by him subscribed is just and true in all its particulars - And I Certify that the said Isaac Williams is a person of respectable character now residing at Pepperell in said Commonwealth, that he is entitled to full faith and credit in all places and before all tribunals, and that he is wholly disinterested in the application of Isaac Green to be placed on the Pension list. -  Given under my hand the day and year aforesaid -  Sam. Dana

Isaac Green
Private
46 to 47
Prescott Mass ts Reg t
Proof of service in Prescott's regt.
2 pages certificate as to indig- ence required.
Submitted

To the Honorable JOHN C. CALHOUN, Secretary of the Department of War of the United States.
I, the undersigned Samuel Dana , Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Middle Circuit, (comprehending the Counties of Essex and Middlesex) in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being a Court of Record, duly established by Law, Do hereby certify, That on the thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  Isaac Green personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said Isaac Green did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, upwards of nine months.
Wherefore, in pursuance of the directions of an Act of Congress, made and passed the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," I have transmitted the said Declaration to you the said Secretary, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises, as the said Act may require.
In testimony of all which, I have caused the Seal of said Court to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand within the said Circuit, the thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen .
Sam l Dana
I Samuel Dana Chief Justice above named do further certify that the above named Isaac Green is a person in indigent circumstances, & entitled to relief under the Act of Congress relating to Pensions.
Sam l Dana

N o s. Certificate of Edward D. Bangs in the case of
Isaac Green
Parole
1 year & Mr. & 23 days
$55,88
Sam Dana Esq
9th
1878

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Oct. 25 1832.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents, relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that Isaac Green served as a private soldier in the company of Capt. Simon Hunt in the regiment of Col. Jacob Gernish for the space of 4. months & 23. days. from the 24. th of July 1778.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy
I further certify that the rank is not designated on the Pay Roll from which this Certificate is taken, but that the name of Isaac Green stands No. 4. on the Roll.
Edward D. Bangs. Secy

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, _____
Isaac Green _____ late a Private _____ in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to com- mence on the 13 th day of May one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen -
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this 17 th day of September one thousand eight hundred and nineteen _____
E. C. Balcom
Secretary of War.

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Isaac Green

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered, that on the thirteenth day of May in the year of our Lord One Thousand, Eight-hundred, and Eighteen before me Samuel Dana Chief justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the middle Circuit comprising the Counties of Essex and Middlesex, in the Commonwealth aforesaid being a Court of Record duly established by law, comes Isaac Green of Ashby in said County of Middlesex and on Oath declares that he suffered in the war of the revolution against the common enemy One year and six  five months. He entered the Army against the first of January in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety six upon the Continental establishment for one year, was placed in the Company of Capt. Joseph Morse, in Col. William Prescott Regiment in the Massachusetts line, he proceeded with that Regiment, in the month of March after he enlisted from Lowell's Point, in Cambridge to New York, and was encamped in Governors Island, in the harbor of New York and continued with his Regiment in that Company, until he completed his term of eleven months  one year then returned home, by reason of sickness, and arrived at his residence in Danvers about the last of November, his health having been so impaired, that he has never wholly recovered it since.
He afterwards served six months in General Burgoyne's Army at Cambridge in Massachusetts in the Company of Capt. Simeon Hunt, in Col. Jacob Gerrish Regiment, and was regularly discharged.
He is now Sixty one years of age, has a small property, but being unable to labor, he can not acquire property in that way and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support.
Isaac Green
Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to at Groton in said County of Middlesex the day and year aforesaid.
Sam. Dana