Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,188, Caleb Greenleaf, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Greenleaf, Caleb
S 29/88
CONTENTS

21.025 Massachusetts
Capt. Jonathan
of Essex in the State of Mass who was a Master in the Company commanded by Captain Wain of the Regt commanded by Col. Gery in the Mass line for Cambridge,
And
Inserted on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 day of May 1833 and Lieut. G. Allen Wareham Massachusetts
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $40 00 Semi-annual allowance ending March 1833 10 00 $50 00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by N. H. Coburn Clerk, Book Vol. Page 29
Spec 75

Butcher 10.108

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS: COUNTY OF ESSEX, ss.
On this twenty fifth day of September A. D. 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the HONORABLE DANIEL APPLETON WHITE, Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, now sitting, Caleb Greenleaf , a resident of Haverhill , in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts, aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth, on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832:
That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated:
In October 1777 he enlisted as a volunteer in the militia for three months in Capt. Samuel Huse's company in Col. Jacob Gerrishes regiment; he went as a private and as a substitute for Timothy Greenleaf of Newburyport where he then lived and whence he marched on the ninth day of November following to Winter hill in Charlestown Mass. and joined the garrison there for the purpose of guarding the prisoners taken, in the battle of Saratoga, from General Burgoyne's army. He remained at Winterhill, six months and was dismissed sometime in May 1778 but received no discharge -
Col. Brooks commanded another regiment which was stationed there -
Capt. Kimball of West Newbury, Capt. Dodge of Ipswich, Capt. Devereux, Capt. Pool and Capt. Titcomb commanded other companies in the same regiment.
There were none at Winter hill but militia. That part of the company went home from

the Service before him, and part afterwards
That he was born at said Newburyport (then Newbury) on the 16 th of August 1759 - that he supposes that there is a record of his age in the town books of Newbury. Rev. Abijah Cross, Isaiah Webster and Abijah Atwood will testify to his character for veracity and their belief in his services as a soldier of the revolution, they all reside in his immediate neighborhood
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Caleb Greenleaf
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
D. H. Spence
JUDGE OF PROBATE.
We, Abijah Cross a clergyman, residing in Haverhill aforesaid, and Isaac R. Howe Esquire, a magistrate, residing in Haverhill aforesaid, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Caleb Greenleaf who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 73 years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
Abijah Cross Isaac R. Howe Moses King attested

I William Tappan of Newburyport in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts bricklayer aged seventy two years on oath testify and say that I am well acquainted with Caleb Greenleaf of Haverhill in said County husbandman that I know that said Greenleaf marched from Newburyport aforesaid, on the ninth day of November Anno Domini 1777, in Capt. Samuel Huse's company, as a private to Winter Hill in Charlestown Mass. and there remained for the purpose of guarding the prisoners from Burgoyne's army till the time of his discharge in May 1778: the time of his enlistment was six three months but he served more My means of knowing the above facts are that I was a messmate with him in the same Company - W m Tappan
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Essex ss. £ Newburyport September 18. 1832 Then William Tappan above named personally appearing made oath that the above declaration by him subscribed is true before me.
Stephen Minot, Jus. Peace
Essex ss I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with William Tappan above named and that he is a credible person - and his statement is entitled to full belief. Stephen W. Mansfield Newburyport Sept r 18. 1832 Jus. of the Peace

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the abovenamed applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Abijah Cross who has signed the preceding Certificate, is a Clergyman resident in Haverhill and that the said Isaac N. Howe who has also signed the same is a Magistrate resident at Haverhill and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
D. H. White Judge of Probate
Signed and sealed anew, this thirtieth day of May, A.D. 1833.
Nath. Lord Jr.
I, NATHANIEL LORD Junior, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Essex aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Caleb Greenleaf for a pension. Also that Moses Wingate and Stephen Minot Esquires are justices of the Peace and the Quorum for the said County of Essex and their signatures to the annexed certificates are genuine
IN TESTA NY WHEREOF I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this twenty fifth day of September A. D. 1832.
Nath. Lord Jr.

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Caleb Greenleaf Map
Private 6 Months
1606
May 21 1835
P 104
M. C. Miner Hammerhill Map

BRIEF in the case of Caleb Greenleaf 60 of Essex in the State of Mass (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 73  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Octo In 1777 enlisted Subsisted 6 As a Private Gen. Capt. Hues Col. Gerrish  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? None  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Newbury Port Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional one living witness  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Sayler
Examining Clerk.

29 188 Rev INVALID.
File No. 29,188
Caleb Greenleaf Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 165
[Arrangement of 1870.]

13108
Caleb Granleaf
Charles Minot Esq Haverhill Miss

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Caleb Greenleaf which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yy II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yy III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yy V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yy VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yy VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yy VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yy IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yy X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yy

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? yes
XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?
XIV. † If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath, certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses? yes
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct? yes
XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes
XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes  no
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: "Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For _____ year _____ months, and _____ days, I served as a _____ For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension."

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.