Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 19,542, William Green, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Green William Abigail
NUMBER
W 19.542
CONTENTS
8 x 2

334
Massachusetts
William Green :
of Ashlee in the State of Mass who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Morse of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Prescott in the Mass. Line line, for the term of 2 yrs from December 1775 to 17
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. Line at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 24th day of Mar 1831 and
Certificate of Pension issued the 21st of Aug 1822 and sent to Hon. J. Dana Foster Middlesex Mass
the Roll on _____ day of 182 _____ and notification sent to at _____ Pension commencing on the of _____ 182 _____
Amount due on 4th of } Mar 1802 $ 80 semi annual } Sept " 40 $120
{ Revolutionary Claim, Acts March 18, 1818, May 1, 1820. }
7 June 1832
Recorded Book 20
Vol 2 Page 54-

4302
Massachusetts
Abigail Green the widow of William Green Esq who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
payable to children
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
including Aug. 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the day of and sent to
J. J. Bulfinch Boston Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 52 Vol. 2
Reported
Mar 11/49
Set to Roll Janus. Sept 1849

Declaration William Green / No. 4 This case contains the Papers No. 1. 2. 3. 4
PO
adm. for 2 years
$80 per ann
Paul Dana
W. Green
Super
Middlesex Cy
Mts
PO Aug. 16-1832

To the Hon Louis Caps Secy of War William Green of Ashby, in the County of Middlesex, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, represents, That he served in the war of the Revolution two years, and eight months.
1. Before that war commenced, he was a minute man in 8 mo. the Town of Pepperell (where he then resided) in the Compa- ny of Capt. John Nutting, in Col. Prescott's Regiment, of which his father, William Green, was Adjutant — About 10 o'clock in the morning of the 19 th of April 1775 our Company departed from Pepperell, and reached Cambridge (Menotomy) that night, having found many dead soldiers lying in the way and he continued in the same Company, till near the time of Bunkerhill Battle, when he went home for a short time, but returned to Camp soon after & took the place of one David Blood and was a Substitute for him, in the same Company until the eight months was completed. —
2 o The last of December A.D. 1775. he enlisted for one year 18 mo. in Capt. Hovey's Company, in Col. Prescott's Regt. for one year to commence the 1 st of Jan y 1776, he was stationed at Sewell's Point, in Cambridge entitled after the British evacuated Boston, when he proceeded with his Regiment to New York and continued with them, in all their services and hardships during that year, when three Regiments, retreated from Governor's I- -land, in August, and on the 15 th Sep r . he retreated from New York, and afterwards having served out his year, the Regiment was dis- missed, and each one took his own way home. —
3 o In 1778. 9 mo a detachment of men was called for, to fill the ranks of the Army for nine months, when he went from Pepperell with several others to Fort Con- stitution in NY and was there, when the Battle of Monmouth was fought, and soon, after the recruits were dismis-

Attributed among the Continental Regiments, and he was put into Capt. Silas Pierce Company, in Col. Michael Jackson's Regt, and continued with them, was at Danbury in Connecticut and other places, until his nine months was completed, and he returned home, but he can not recollect whether any discharge was given him. —
44. Some time in the year AD 1779 — He was hired by the Town of Pepperell to do a turn of duty for three months, he went away in the summer, the rest of the Soldiers had been gone two or three days, and two Recruits were wanted, to supply the place of some, who had failed. Samson Wood & himself, were engaged, and proceeded on, to Gallowshill in New York, where they joined the Continental  Regiment and went into Capt. Bowker's Company in Col. Rest , in a few
days Wood and himself  himself were ordered to join a party to go to Fish Kill to make coal, and was in the coalizing party under Lt. until we served out three months!
Woods went to Capt. Bowker, who directed, that when our time was out, we might depart, without joining the Company, and the Lt. who commanded the party
dismissed us. — He the 3 rd Regt continued to live in Pepperell
until the year AD 1785 — when he removed and went to settle in Ashby 1785 where he has ever since resided —
He was seventy seven years old last January. —
On the 12 th Sep r 1819 he was admitted a Pensioner under his the law of the United States, passed 18 March AD 1818 is No 15.075. and remained on the list, until he was dropped therefrom for the alleged cause of having property. —
He now relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present one, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, to his knowledge —
And he

And he now prays that he may be admitted to the be- nefit of the Act approved June 7. 1832 — Dated at Grafton in the County of Middlesex AD 1832
July 23 d 1832 —
Impressum of
W m Green
Wallis Little of Shirley Ms Thos Hopkins of Groton Ms
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Middlesex July 23 d 1832 William Green above named personally appeared and acknowledged the above in- strument to be his voluntary Act & Deed Before me Lem. Dana Justice for all the Counties in the Commonwealth —
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex
ss. July 23 d
1832
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, within and for all — — — the Counties in said Commonwealth
William 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
Lem. Dana

Abigail Green
9303
Abigail Green
Mass.
act 1 July 38
n 85.
admnd
2 yrs pri
$500
Paul Gerrish
St. Lawrence
7 Townsend Harbor
Mass.

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7 th July 1838 entitled An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows
State of Massachusetts } Middlesex County } ss
On this eighth day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty three personally appeared before the Court of Probate holden within and for said County of Middlesex the same being a Court of Record Abigail Green a resident of Ashby in said County aged eighty years who being first duly sworn 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 William Green who was a private in the War of the Revolution and received a pension from the United States at the rate of eighty dollars per annum that her said husband at the time she married him lived in Pepperell Massachusetts and his father who was at that time alive lived in said Pepperell and his name was William Green for the evidence of her said husband's service in said War she would refer to his papers that were put on file in the pension office at the time of his receiving a certificate for a pension. She further declares that she was married to said William Green on the tenth day of March Seventeen hundred and eighty five that her husband the

aforesaid William Green died on the first day of May eighteen hundred and forty three that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time before stated Abigail Green
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first above Before written in open court
Before me
J. P. P. Fay Judge of Probate for the County of Middlesex
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss
I Isaac Fisher Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex hereby certify that the Hon. J. P. P. Fay is the judge of said Court & that his signature above written is his genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said Court this eighth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and forty three
Isaac Fisher Reg

DECLARATION
In order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of 2d February, 1848, entitled, "An act making further provision for surviving Widows and Soldiers of the Revolution."
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS, Middlesex COUNTY,
} ss.
Ashby
On this Twenty fourth day of September 1848, personally appeared before the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county aforesaid,
Moses Green, Abigail Hapgood, Lucy Weatherly, William Green, Emerson Green, Amos Green, and Sophia Andrews, all the children of Abigail Green late of Ashby deceased, who being first duly sworn according to law do on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the acts of Congress, passed on the 2d day of February, 1848, granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary war. That the said Abigail Green was the widow of William Green, who was a resident of said Ashby and was a private in the war of the Revolution, and that she was the identical person who drew a pension under the act of Congress passed June 17th 1844 on the account of her late husband aforesaid, at the rate of eighty dollars per year. And we further declare that she was said William Green's widow at the time of her death, which was on the sixth day of August the year eighteen hundred forty eight at the age of eighty four years.
Moses Green Abigail Hapgood Sophia G Andrews Emerson Green Lucy G Weatherly Wm Green Amos Green
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written In presence of Wm G Hapgood Just Adams
Before me Just Adams Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above declarants are personally known to me to be the children of Abigail Green late of Ashby deceased who was a pensioner as they declare.
Just Adams Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss
of the county and state aforesaid, do hereby certify that Just Adams is a Justice of Peace, in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified and that his signature above written is genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this

Children of Abigail Green Payable to from 4th March to 6 Augt 48 L18 4s
Ad act 1848 at $80 per annum End 9 6 Augt 1848. Payable to surviving Children (names within)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston October 14 th 1848
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Joel Adams was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
M. B. Hall
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Groton July 6 th 1843
Extract from the records of the town of Groton, County of Middlesex & Commonwealth aforesaid, viz.
"A list of marriages returned by Rev. Daniel Chaplin to the Town Clerk of Groton, one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, March tenth, William Green Jun r of Pepperell to Abigail Ames of Groton."
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows. "1785 March 10"
John Boynton, Town Clerk of Groton.
I John Boynton, above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town, County & State aforesaid, and that I have the custody of the records of said town and that the above is a true extract from said records with the exception above named as certified by me John Boynton
Middlesex ss July 7. 1843.
Then personally appeared the above named John Boynton and made oath to the above statement. before me.
Benj ap Elix Justice of the Peace

I Moses Green of Ashley in the County of Middlesex aged fifty seven years testify and say that I am the son of William and Abigail Green. That my father the said William Green was a pensioner in his life time at the rate of eighty dollars per annum as near as I can recollect, that the said William Green died on the first day of May one thousand eight hundred and forty three that my mother the said Abigail Green is still the widow of said William Green and I further testify that the said William and Abigail always lived together as man and wife since my remembrance
State of Massachusetts } Middlesex County } ss Groton August 7 1843 Moses Green
Personally came Moses Green a credible witness and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me Benj. P. Dike Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex ss. I Elias Perkins Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for the County of Middlesex, do certify that Benjamin P. Dike Esquire, is a Justice of the Peace within said said County, and that his name subscribed to the foregoing Certificate, is his genuine signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court the 8th day of August 1843
E. Perkins Clerk

Wm Green

May 10, 1900.
Hon. John P. Sweeney,
House of Representatives.
My dear Mr. Sweeney:
In reply to your letter dated and received the 14th instant and the enclosed letter from Mr. Abner S. McGrath of Wilton, Maine, I have the honor to advise you that the Revolutionary War pension records fail to afford any information in regard to either of the Jonas Greens described in said letter.
In the claim of William Green , Wid. File 10542, it appears that he was born in 1755, and before the Revolution he was a minute man in the town of Pepperell, Massachusetts, in Captain John Nutting's Co., Colonel Prescott's Regt., and on April 19, 1775, marched to Cambridge; he was at Lexington the day of the battle and continued in this service as a Private eight months.
His father, William Green, was Adjutant in Colonel Prescott's Regt. and was wounded at Bunker Hill. In December, 1775, he enlisted in Captain Joseph Morse's Co., Colonel William Prescott's Regt., Massachusetts Line, and served one year. From June, 1777, he served under Captains Benjamin Brown and Silas Pierce, in Colonel Michael Jackson's Regt., nine

Hon. John P. Swasey.
months, and in 1779 served three months in Captain Bowker's Co. He was allowed pension on an application executed October 12, 1818, while a resident of Ashby, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts.
Soldier married at Groton, Massachusetts, March 10, 1785, Abigail Ames, and died May 1, 1848. She was allowed pension on an application executed August 8, 1848, while a resident of Ashby, Massachusetts, aged eighty years. She died at Ashby, Massachusetts, August 8 or 10, 1848, leaving the following children: Moses, Abigail, Hargood, Sophia G. Andrews, Emerson, Lucy G. Witherbee, William and Amos.
In the claim of Simon Green, Wid. File No. 14835, whose age is not stated, it appears that while a resident of Pepperell, Massachusetts, he was a minute man in Captain John Nutting's Co., Colonel William Prescott's Regt., and on April 19, 1775, marched to Cambridge and served as Sergeant eight months; enlisted January 1, 1776, as Sergeant, under Captain Morse, in Colonel William Prescott's Regt., and served one year. His brother William who served with him states that they were in the battle of White Plains. He married at Townsend, Massachusetts, May 29, 1777, Deborah Woods, and died May 18, 1817, at Townsend, Massachusetts. She was allowed pension on an application executed August 28, 1838, while a resident of Townsend, Middlesex Co., Massachusetts, 80 years of age.

Hon. John P. Ewsey.
A son George is referred to. No other family data.
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.

SIXTIETH CONGRESS.
R OD, WILLIAM S. GREENE, CHAIRMAN. WILLIAM E. HUMPHREY, ALBERT DOUGLAS, WILLIAM W. WILSON, JOHN P. SWASEY, EDMUND H. HINSHAW, THOMAS SPIGHT, E. STEVENS HENRY, JOSEPH A. GOULDEN, WILLIAM M. CALDER, HARRY L. MAYNARD, GRANT E. MOUSER, FRANK CLARK, GEORGE W. FAIRCHILD, WILLIAM E. COX, WILLIAM W. FOULKROD, JOSHUA W. ALEXANDER, GEORGE C. STURGISS, JOHN H. ROTHERMEL. JOHN T. SWIFT, CLERK.
House of Representatives U. S., Committee on The Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Washington, D. C.
May 14th
Hon. V. Warner,
Pension Commissioner,
City,
My dear sir :-
I enclose a letter from a constituent of mine in Wilton, Maine, and also a letter which I received from the War Department. I am sending both to you to ask if you can give me any further information about the soldiers inquired about by my constituent.
Please return to me with your reply both letters which I send to you. Thanking you in advance for your kindness, I am
Very truly yours,
John P. Swasey

Leominster Mass Oct 7
O M T N 1893
Commissioner of Pensions
Gentlemen —
Will you kindly give me details concerning the Revolutionary service of William Green (Capt) He received a pension and his Widow after his death received one paid to her by a Forcensed party at Ashby Mass William Green was buried in Ashby

Respectfully
Mrs M. N. Hadley. Leominster, Mass.

RECORD DIVISION. Congressional Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L.D.L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier W m Green
Service Mass.
Additional Service Rev. War
Pippins, Mass.
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190._____
No claim, combination records _____, 190._____
REMARKS:
No claim except W.#19542 Pippins Mass. " #23157

Oct. 17-1908. Hist. to Mrs. M. N. Kelley Seminole Mass.
Nov. 12, 1908. To above - place of birth & death not stated 1909 May 19 Hist. to Hon. J. P. Denny
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 19542
Abigail Green Widow of William Green Prior Rev. War.
Act: Febry. 2 nd  148
Index: - Vol. 28 Page 296
[Arrangement of 1870.]

7957
Massachusetts.
Abigail Green — widow of William Green —
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18 th March 1818 and who died on the 1 st day of May 1843 of Middlesex in the State of Massachusetts who was a Private in the company — commanded by Captain Morse of the Reg t commanded by Col. Prescott in the Massachusetts line for two years —
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts. at the rate of — 80 — Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 4 th day of Dec. 1843, and sent to P. Gernsh Townsend Harbor, Mass.
Total amount, $400,00
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by W. Buile Clerk, Book 7 Vol. 1 Page 59

15.076 Massachusetts
William Green
of Ashley in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded Colonel Prescott of the Massachusetts line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 12 of October 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 12 of Sep 1819 and sent to Samuel Dana Esq. Boston Massachusetts
Arrears to 4th of Sep 1819 86.22 Semi-ann. all'ee ending March 1820 48.00 10 Mo \frac{20}{31} \frac{4}{30} $134.22
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
SR

4718.
Massachusetts
Spokane
Abigail Green widow of William Green who was a Private in the Peru Regiment
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Jan y 1844 and sent to Paul Gerrish Townsend Heights Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A 43. Vol. / Page

5026
Decem 22/1843
Harriet Beecher Stowe Hartford March 3/1843
Will
Miss Abigail Dyer 3 March 1843 John Brown J. G. Colbourn Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C.

Townsend Harbor Massachusetts
Dec r 16 th 1843
Dear Sir within is the application of Abigail Green and Lucy Johnson for one years pension. Please Return To me directed Townsend Harbor. Mass.
Your Obed t Servant Paul Gerrish
J L Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions

I Simeon Woods of Groton in the State of Massachu- setts do depose & say that among other services which I per- formed during the war of the Revolution I was in the year service (so called) which ended the thirty first of December AD 1776, in the Company of Capt. Joseph Moore in Col. Prescotts Regiment of the Massachusetts line — and I well know Capt. Wm Green now of Ashby, then of Pepperell in Me. and know that he also belonged to said Company we belonged to the same Town were intimately acquainted my brother was the Major, this brother was the Adjutant of the Regiment, we were constantly together during the whole year (excepting about five weeks) that I was at Stamford in Con- necticut, when I returned to the Regiment, I found him said William there and on the first of January AD 1777 we were dismissed at Peekskill in New York & returned home to- gether to our residence in Pepperell. —
Simeon Woods
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the fourth day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and Nineteen before

before me Samuel Dana 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 d Samson Woods and made Oath that the annexed Defini- -tion by him subscribed is just and true —
And I certify that the said Samson Woods is entitled to full faith and credit before all tribunals and in all places & that he is disinterested in the application of William Green to be placed on the pension list —
S 11 Sam. Dana

No 3) Affidavit of Robertson Laken in the case of Wm Green

I Robinson Lakin aged 78 years Do depose and say that I served in the War of the Revolution and was in the eight months service at Cambridge as by my declaration, on file in the Pension Office will appear.
And I further testify and say that I well know Capt. William Green now of Asbury, but who then lived at Pepperell and that he belonged to the same Company with myself, and served in the same Campaign in Col. Prescott's Reg t of which his father William Green who was wounded at Bunker Hill was Adjutant. — Robinson Lakin

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. July 25 th 1832
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth Robertson Laken well known to me as a deserving credit to who subscribed the annexed Deposition
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. Dana

Jas. L. Edwards Esq re

Sir,
Merchants Bank
Boston 27 Oct r 1848
The enclosed Court Certificate should be filed with the Declaration in case of Abigail Green dec d , forwarded with other Declarations on 14 th inst.
Very Respectfully
Your obed t serv t
G. S. Bulfinch
Jas. L. Edwards Esq. Com n of Pensions.

I Jonas Blood of Groton, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do declare, and say that, in the Revolution- ary Army, at the commencement of that War, and I enlisted upon the Continental establishment, for one year in Capt. John Nutting Company, in Col. Prescott's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line, and at that time, I knew Capt. Wm. Green - now of Ashby, who then lived near Pappanville where I did, & know that he belonged to the year service, that he transferred to Capt. Moses Company of that Regiment, his Father, was an Adjutant, in the minute men, in Prescott's Re- giment, he was wounded at Brattle Hill battle, when he could be removed, was carried home, I remember his Kettleman, at Sewell's Point, and afterwards at New York. I frequently saw him, there, and about two weeks before our time expired, we marched into New Jersey, much against our will, as we should be so much farther from home, when our time should expire, and I did not return in Company with said Green, but know he was not dismissed until his time was out — Jonas Blood + mark in presence of Martha Dana July 29.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
On the twenty ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred, and Nineteen before our Lord Samuel Dana, 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 Jonas Blood and made Oath that the annexed Declaration is just and true — And I certify that the said Jonas Blood is a man of veracity, and entitled to credit, before any tribunal, and in all places, and that he is disinterested in the application of Wm. Green to be placed on the pension list —
Sam d . Dana

To whom it may concern.
We whose names & situation are annexed to this Paper do Certify when it may concern, that we know Capt. W m Green now resident at Ashby in Mas a . the said Green, has generally been a very hard laboring and industrious man, when his family was young, & little expensive, this land new & productive, he acquired a small Estate, which he managed, in a prudent, economical manner, but his Children have been  been more expensive, by reason of up  up  up  up , & his fam ly , less productive, & his own ability to labor on  on it lessened. his circumstances are reduced, so much as in our believe, to entitle him to the benefit of the Act of Congress for the relief of the Officers & Soldiers of the Revolutionary Army.
Oliver Kendall Robert W. Brown for Ashby Rev. S. Willard, Town Clerk
Amos Willington for Peabody for the County of Middlesex

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Middlesex ss. July 28 th 1832
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace, within and for all the Counties in said Commonwealth
annexed Deposition Solomon Gilson who subscribed the
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

I Solomon Gilson of Groton Me. aged seventy three years Do depose and say that I was a Soldier in the War of the rebellion — And in the first eight months service I will remember William Green son of adjutant Green of Dippinell and Kansa that he was at Cambridge in that Campaign a Soldier in Capt. John Nuttings Company in Col. Pres- cotts Reg t to which I also belonged. Solomon Gilson

Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March next, in Boston at the U. S. Branch Bank
No. 24 William Green
Securia
$4

War Department.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
William 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 Twelfth day of October one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Twelfth day of September one thousand eight hundred and Nineteen
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War.

5025
A. Green
$80 per a
Paul Gerrish Townsend Harbor Maine

Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Middlesex County
ss
Be it known that on this eleventh day of December 1843 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Abigail Green a resident of Ashby in said County and Commonwealth aged eighty 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 on the third day of March 1843 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War. That she is the widow of William Green who was a Private in the Revolutionary War and served as she verily believes as stated by her in her original declaration for a pension under the law of the 7th of July 1838 to which declaration and the papers accompanying the same and also the papers of her late husband the said William Green now on file in the War department she would refer for a more particular statement of his services for the proof of her marriage, identity, and the time of her husband's death. She further declares that she was pensioned under said act of 1838 at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum which amount is made payable to her from the 4th day of March 1836 to the 4th day of March 1841 at the agency in Boston Massachusetts.

and this declarant further alleges that she has not intermarried since the decease of her said husband but is now and ever since has been the widow of said William Green deceased as will more fully appear by the proof hereunto annexed and further she saith not
Abigail Green
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year first within written
Before me
Paul Gervish Justice of the Peace
I Silas Witherbee of Ashby of lawful age on oath testify and say that I am well acquainted with Abigail Green the foregoing applicant and know that she was the wife of William Green who was reputed to have been a Soldier in the War of the Revolution said Abigail Green was a pensioner under the law of 1838 at $80.00 per annum as stated by her and has not intermarried since the decease of said William Green but is now and ever has been the widow of said William Green since his decease
Silas Witherbee
Commonwealth of Massachusetts } S S. December 11th 1842 Middlesex County } Personally came Silas Witherbee a Credible

witness and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is true
Before me
Paul Ginnick Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston December 14 th 1813.
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Paul Gerrish was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex.
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Thos. A. Dole
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

William Green - private Col Prescotts Regiment Massachusetts Line 1776 - 1782
80. Enlistments in 1777 for one year
Proof of service in Prescotts regt. required.
Admitted

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 twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen  William Green personally appeared and made and subscribed the declaration which is hereunto annexed.
from which it appears to me, that the said William Green did serve in the War of the REVOLUTION, against the common Enemy, more than 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 twelfth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen .
Sam d Dana
I Samuel Dana Chief Justice above named Do further certify, that William Green named in the annexed Declaration is a man in reduced circumstances, and intitled to relief under the Act of Congress of March 18. 1818. Sam d Dana

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Be it remembered, that on this twelfth day of October, in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Eight Hundred, and Eighteen before one, Samuel Dana Chief Justice, of the Circuit Court of Commonwealth, for the middle Circuit, comprehending the Counties of Essex, and Middlesex in said Commonwealth, being a Court of Record, duly established by law, Came William Sperry of Ashley in said County of Middlesex, and on Oath declared, that he served in the war of the Revolution, against the common Enemy, six years and eight months. — He entered the Service at the commencement of that war, was at Lexington on the day of the Battle, and continued nearly all the time till the capitulation of the eight months service. — Some time, in the month of December in the year of our Lord, One Thousand, Seven Hundred, and Seventy Five, he enlisted upon the Continental establishment for one year, was in the Company of Capt. Morse, Pangerfield Lieut., in Col. William Prescott's Regiment, in the Massachusetts line, with this Regiment, he was stationed at Cambridge and proceeded to New York, by the way of New London, was encamped on Governors island, and continued with this Regiment in the vicinity of New York, until he completed his term on the last day of December then next, no discharge was given him, his Company was dismissed, and he returned to his residence which was then in Pepperell, in Massachusetts.
In the month of June Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven the said Town of Pepperell procured him to go into the Army upon the Continental establishment, for nine months he returned to Worcester, and from there proceeded to West Point, in New York, and was there received by two Continental Officers, whose names he does not recollect, he was ordered on to Gategate duty, until the Army arrived, when he was ordered into the Company of Capt. Benj. Brown in Col. Michael Jackrons Regiment in the Massachusetts line, in this Company he proceeded to down the North River, and in this Company he continued until he completed his term of nine months, but whether he received any discharge, he does not know, Capt. Brown directed him to convey his horse, to Leicester in Massachusetts where he did and returned again to his residence in Pepperell.
In 1779, he went again to New York for three months in Capt. Bowlers Company, in the Regiment, and he completed his term and was again dismissed.

Since he left the service, he has acquired some property, has had a small farm on which he has lived and raised a family; this farm he began when it was new, when its some first brot in, it was more productive, but has declined for some years, and some of his Children by reason of long sickness, have been a source of heavy expense — He is now sixty three years old, and so far his ability to labor, with major and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of assistance from his Country for support. — W m Green
Thus made, taken, subscribed and sworn to, at Groton in Said County of Middlesex, the day and year aforesaid
Sam. Dana

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Middlesex County ss.
I Isaac T. Dyer of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Middlesex aforesaid, hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited that Abigail Green widow of William Green, was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States, that she resided in Ashby in said County of Middlesex & that she died at said Ashby on the sixth day of August last (1848) & that she left seven children only at her decease, whose names are Moses Green, Abigail Hapgood, Lucy G. Wetherbee, William Green, Emerson Green, Anna Green, and Sophia G. Andrews, who are all of full age and now living.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court this twenty first day of October in the year Eighteen hundred & forty eight.
Isaac T. Dyer