Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 17,448, Abner Green, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Green Abner
S 17,448
CONTENTS
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28.275
Connecticut
Abner Dyer
Underwriting in the State of Conn. he was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Morgan of the Dept commanded by Col McCallum in the Conn. Col. on the line for 7 Mts.
Acting Agent 6 May 1835 A. T. Linsley - to same 9 Dec 1835 W. Field 26 May 1835 H. A. T. Linsley 36
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 23 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of May 1831 and No. 10 of 1831 to Abner Dyer
Arrears to the 4th of March 1831 $69.99 Semi-annual allowance ending Sept 1831 11.67 $81.66
Revolutionary Claim, Not June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. H. Addison Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 3 Page 10

Homer Green
Canterbury 6! 30.807
See paper of Clifton Prentiss for reasons of suspension letter upon the to of 1840 Mwate Yma May 6 1835 Adm'd
Prentiss allowed 1 mo in Morgan's Company
Send the certificate to Andrew S. Jackson of Canterbury 6!

Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th . 1832:
State of Connecticut Windham County Probate District of Plainfield vs Plainfield.
On this 16 th day of January 1834, personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate, within and for the District of Plainfield, now sitting. Abner Green a resident of the Town of Canterbury, in the County of Windham, within said Probate District, in the State aforesaid, aged 78 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 of the United States, passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated.
1 st Term of service:
On the 15 th day of August 1779, I was drafted from the Connecticut Militia, for a tour of Military duty, for two months, and on that day at the Red River Falls meeting House, then in Preston (but now Griswold) in the State of Connecticut, I entered into, and joined the Company of Connecticut Militia commanded by Captain Morgan, as a private, and marched with said Captain Morgan's Company to Groton, and was stationed near Groton Fort, in Connecticut, where the Company was put under the immediate command of Col. McAllen - Col. Sedgwick having the command within the Fort. Asa Partridge was the Lieutenant of said Company, and Benjamin Morgan won the Ensigns of said Company. both from said Preston. I served in said Company two months, and at the expiration thereof, to wit, on the 15 th day of October 1779 was Discharged.

at said Groton, and returned home to said Preston. For proof of this service, I offer the depositions of Abiah Prentiss who served with me, as a member of the same company.
2 d Term of service.
Immediately after I arrived home as stated in the preceding part of my declarations, to wit, on the last day of October 1779 upon an alarm from Groton, the aforesaid Company of Capt. James Morgan was again called into service, and ordered to repair to Groton Fort; I was accordingly drafted again from the Connecticut Militia, and on the last day of October 1779, I joined the same Company, commanded by Capt. James Morgan, at the parade ground near the Rev. Levi Foster's Meetinghouse, and marched with said Captain and Company back to Groton Fort, but did not serve within the Fort; said Company was again placed in Col. McAllen's Reg t and remained at Groton a week or ten days, and in consequence of a movement of the enemy's ships from the harbour of New London in an-easterly direction, our company was ordered to Stonington Point. In compliance of that order, Capt. Morgan's company marched to Stonington Point, in which company I was, and remained there about a week, when the British ships, which had anchored off, hoisted sail, and departed. Our Company then returned to Groton, and remained there, until the last day of November 1779 when and where I was discharged, and returned home to Preston aforesaid.

3 d Term of Service
On the 1 st day of April 1780. Nathan French of said Preston, was drafted for a two months tour, and at his request with the acceptance and approbation of Capt. James Morgan, I became the substitute of the said Nathan French, and on the parade ground of said Company near the meeting house of the Rev d Levi Hart, in said Preston, on the 1 st day of April 1780, I entered Captain James Morgan's Company, of Connecticut Militia, and marched from thence to Groton Garrison, and when we arrived there said Company with myself a member of it, was placed in the Regiment, still under the command of Col. McClelland where I served until the 1 st day of June 1780, as a private, and who then and there discharged, and returned home to Preston.
4 th Term of Service
Capt. James Morgan's Company had not been more than one week discharged, as stated in the last preceding term of service, when a new alarm was made, and an order for Capt. Morgan's Company. I was again drafted, for a tour of two months more, and made immediate preparation for marching. On the 15 th day of June 1780, according to my best recollection and belief, said Company was again mustered at the Rev d Levi Hart's meeting house in said Preston, where and when I joined the said Company of Connecticut Militia, as a private, and marched again to said Groton, and with

said Company, joined Col. M c Clure's Regiment, and served in the same until the 15th. day of August 1780, when I was discharged with the residue of said Company, had returned home to said Preston. The Company was still commanded by said Capt. James Mazar. And the reasons which called out his Company so frequently, were our location adjoining to Grotton which, that year was the scene of constant Alarms. The Regiment to which our Company was attached, was called Col. M c Clure's Regiment, although he was not all the time in service at Grotton, in person, while I was there.
The proof of these four several terms of service, I have caused to be annexed to my declaration, and is to be found in the Affidavit of Elisha Prentiss, who was a member of the same Company with me.
I am unable to produce any other proof than his. I am myself very poor, and if there were other witnesses alive, I have no means of finding them or obtaining their testimony. I am old and have bodily infirmities, but my memory is good and perfect.
I never received any written discharge, and have no documentary evidence of my services, in my possession, and know of none.

I hereby relinquish every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of the agency of my State.
Interrogatories. 1 st When, and in what year were you born? Answer. I was born in the town of Preston in the State of Connecticut on the 14 th day of December 1755. and am now 78 years old
2 d Have you any record of your age, and if so when is it? Answer. I have none, nor never had any.
3 d When were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
Answer. I lived in the town of Preston, in the State of Connecticut, that part of said town which is now called Griswold, when I went into the service of the United States, and returned there again, and there resided until the year 1798 when I moved into the town of Canterbury where I now reside.
4 th . How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer. I have in the body of my declaration answered this interrogatory.
5. State the names of your regular Officers who were with the troops when you served; such continental & militia regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answered in the body of my declaration.

6th Did you ever receive a discharge from the service and if so, by whom was it given, and when did you receive it.
A. I never did receive any written discharge. There are the names of persons to whom you are honored in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the revolution.
Answering - Andrew S. Judson and Ebenezer Sanger, they being two of the Select Men of Canterbury, I have no acquaintance with any clergyman in Canterbury or its vicinity, who knows any thing of my revolutionary services - the clergymen now living in Canterbury being young men from other states, without acquaintance here, except for a few months past.
Abner Green
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Attest John F. Gordon Clerk of Probate.
We Andrew S. Judson and Ebenezer Sanger both of the town of Canterbury, in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, being two of the Select Men of the said town of Canterbury, do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abner Green, and have been well acquainted with him for the last twenty years, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 78 years of age, that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Andrew S. Judson Ebenezer Sanger } Select Men of Canterbury

Windham County ss. Canterbury January 13 th 1834. Personally appeared Andrew J. Seward, and Ebenezer Sanger, signers of the foregoing Affidavit, by them subscribed, they being two of the Select men of said town of Canterbury, to me well known to be credible witnesses, and before me made solemn Oath to the said affidavits by them subscribed. Attest. Rufus Adams Justice of the Peace
And the said board of Probate do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after hearing the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above named Applicant, was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the board further certifies that it appears to them there is no clergyman, in the Parish where the said Abner Green resides, who is acquainted with him or his services as a revolutionary soldier. And the board, further certifies, that it doth also appear to them, that Andrew J. Seward and Ebenezer Sanger are two of the Select Men of said town of Canterbury and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit. John F. Gordon, Clerk of the board of Probate within and for the District of Pomfret do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said board, in the matter of the application of Abner Green, for a pension. In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and seal of Office this 16 th day of January A.D. 1834.
Attest. John F. Gordon Clerk of Probate

I Eliza Partridge of the town of Groton in the County of New London, in the State of Connecticut, aged sixty nine years, testify and say that I am well acquainted, with Abner Green of the town Canterbury in the County of Windham and State of Connecticut, now here present, and do say that in the month of August 1779, and as near the 15 th day of August 1779 as I can recollect, Capt James Morgan then of Preston in said New London County, mustered a Company of Connecticut Militia, partly by draft and partly by enlistment, on a two months term of service in the army of the revolution. I was one of the privates in said Company mentioned as aforesaid, and I further say that said Abner Green was drafted from the militia of said State to serve in said Company for said term, and according to said draft, the 1 st Abner Green joined said Company with me at Mr. Harts Meeting house so called then in said Preston, under the command of said Capt James Morgan, as I verily believe on the said 15 th day of August 1779, and marched with me in said Company to Groton, and joined Col. McEllers Regiment. Col. Sedgwick having the command of the Post, where said Green served with me in the several company two months from the time we entered said Company, and on the 15 th day of October according to my best recollection, we were both discharged and returned home. In Patridge was Lieut. & Sergt. Morgan an Ensign of said Company. Immediately after we had arrived home, and as I verily believe the last day of October 1779, upon an alarm, said Green and I again joined the same Company under the command of said Capt James Morgan, at the Res. Mr. Harts Meeting house, and again march together in said Company, back to Groton after being

on which said company was ordered to Stormington Plains where we both remained one week and upon the arrival of the British fleet said company was ordered & marched back to Groton, and there remained in Col. M'Callum's Regiment until the 1st day of Nov r 1779 making one month's service which time, said Green served as a private in said company.
On the 1 st day of April 1780, Nathan Herick was drafted from the Connecticut Militia, to serve a two months tour in the Spencerville Company of Col. James Morgan, and on the day last aforesaid, said Henry Green as a substitute for said Herick, became a member of said Col. Morgan's Company, and marched from said R d to Fort M'Nanghose to Groton with me and served with me in said company from said 1 st day of April 1780, the term of two months in said Col. M'Callum's Reg t and on the 1 st of June our term expired and we were both discharged and returned home together.
About one week after we arrived home from the last tour, another alarm called us both into the service again, and as I verily believe about the 15 th day of June 1780, said Green was drafted as a private and joined the same company as before, and marched again with me to said Groton, and served two months more with me in the same company and Regiment, and about the 15 th day of August 1780, he was discharged with me and returned.
Attestating Sunday 9. 1834
Eliza Prentice V

State of Connecticut, Windham County ss. Contested January 9th 1834. Personally appeared Elizer Prentiss, signer of the foregoing affidavit, well known to me, to be a credible person, and a credible witness, and before me made known oath to the facts stated in said affidavit. Attest. Andrew T. Judson Justice of the Peace
I John S. Gordon, clerk of the Probate Court, within and for the district of Pomfret, in the State of Connecticut, certify and make known, that Andrew T. Judson, who has signed the foregoing certificate as a Justice of the Peace, is a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Windham, and that his signature thereto affixed, is genuine. And I do further certify that Rufus Adams Esq. who has subscribed the foregoing certificate as a Justice of the Peace, is a Justice of the Peace, within and for the County of Windham, and that his signature thereto affixed is in his own proper hand writing.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 16 th day of January 1834.
Attest John S. Gordon Clerk of Probate

From the papers on file in the pension claim, S.17448, it appears that Abner Green was born December 14, 1755 in
Preston (which was later Griswold), New London County, Connecticut.
He stated that while residing in said Preston, he enlisted and served as a private in Captain James Morgan's company in Colonel McClellan's Connecticut regiment, as follows- from August 15, 1779, two months; from the last day of October 1779, one month; from April 1, 1780, two months; from June 15, 1780, two months.
He was allowed pension on his application executed January 16, 1834, at which time he was a resident of Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, having moved there in 1798.
The payment of his pension was discontinued in 1836, as a report from the Comptroller's Office of Hartford, Connecticut stated that there was no evidence of service of Captain James Morgan subsequent to 1779.
The length of service required by the Act of June 7, 1832, under which he applied, was six months, and he failed to establish proof of six months service.
There is no reference to wife or children.
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Abner Green and family moved to Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut in 1798. His application for pension was executed January 16, 1834. S 93642

17 448 INVALID.
File No. 17 448
Abner Greene
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 448
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1931-Nov. 27-Herl. to Richard P. Freeman for money B. Bishop See Abel Green S. 43642 a/c

Hon. A. J. Jackson
June 18 th '36
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Records V36) page 32

War Dept
Pension Off
June 30
Sir
I have the honor to inform you that the Comptroller of Court in reply to a letter from this office has certified that the pay tables furnish no evidence of the service of Capt James Morgan subsequent to 1779. This goes to confirm the decision of the Dept that Abner Green who alleges 4 terms of service in Morgans company  company amounting in the aggregate to 7 months principally after '79 could not have rendered a military service to which could entitled him to pay rations for six months at the period of its rendition & to the bounty of the act of 7. June 32 at this time
Hon C. S. Judson Ho R R

Abner Green
Lewistown Pa. Jan. 13
Free
To Hon d Andrew T. Judson, Member of Congress, Washington City D. C. —
Abner Green

I Niver Spalding of the town of Griswold New London County and State of Connecticut, now aged seventy two years, depose and say, that in the war of the Revolution I was a soldier in the company of Militia of the town of Preston in said County commanded by Daniel Gate, and Abner Green then of S. Preston, now of Canterbury in Windham County was also a soldier in said Company. I well re- collect, that after the massacre at Gros- ton Fort that I was about a short time at Brooklyn and on my return I heard that the said Green was drafted into the service in the war of the Revolution, where he was ordered This deponent does not now recollect but has no doubt of his being in the service at this time. This deponent has ever been well ac- quainted with the S d Green from the time of our war to the present and has no doubt of his being in the service as stated by him. Dated at Griswold July 12 1836 — Niver Spalding

State of Connecticut ss New London County } ss Spencer, Jan'y 12 th 1881. Then personally appeared Oliver Spalding the within named deponent, a person to me well known as a credible witness, and made solemn oath to the truth of the within affi- davit by him subscribed in my presence before me - Samuel C. Morgan Notary Public -

Sir,
By the request of Mr. Abner Green I forward you the affidavit of Mr. Spalding which you will observe is not very particular as to dates. His recollection on the subject was rather vague, but this is all that he could sign. I could not learn from Mr. Spalding what period of service he will substantiate. He said you wanted other witnesses as to his being captured and that was all. If he fails for the want of proof as to any particular time, I hope you will give me a statement of what is required I will put him on the stand for other testimony. Will thank you to bear in mind my friend Capt. Green.
Very respectfully Your obedt. Servt. J. C. Morgan.
To Hon. N. S. Judson. Membt. of Congress.
Quincy City July 12 1836

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Hon S S Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
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Comptrollers Office Hartford Connecticut June 7th 1836
Sir
In answer to your enquiry of the 26th of May, I would say, that I have not found any evidence of the services of Capt James Morgan subsequent to 1779
I have the honor to be Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Wm Field
Hon S S Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Rev. A. J. Johnson
J. L. Edwards
Com. of Presby
1000 N. 2nd St
A. T. Judson Co.
Canterbury Conn.
Yours Affec Thos Green

War Department Pension Office May 5-1885
Sir,
On a re-examination of the papers of Mr. Green in connection with the evidence of the National Board of Capt. Morgan's Company derived from the Books of the pay table it appears that the Company lived on some claims for a very short time, but the regular time of service of two months each stated in the declaration of Mr. Green appears to have been inadvertently allowed.
The agent at Hartford has been directed to make Mr. Green no further payment until orders to that effect have been given which will only be done on satisfactory proof of actual service.
I am Respectfully Yours S. J. Smith J. B. Edwards
at T. Hudson Co. Contending - Cont.

Dear Sir,
John E. Young
A. T. Judson Esq. Present --
Hon. D. Young H.R.

Canterbury Jan'y 17 1834
Hon. E. Young Sir
I wish you to take particular charge of the enclosed application of Abner Green, for a pension, and when you have leisure carry it to the Office, and send me the certificate. Your Obt. Servt. Andrew J. Spence