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	Subject:	Re: Eliza Mariah Greene m. Asa Stillman Coon
	Post Date:	March 13, 2008 at 20:34:41
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Susan Here is the John Greeneb.in CT my research keeps leading me to. not sure if this is the right line add this to your Rrv War Patriot pension list if you can use it Herbie, there are five pages in the pension file that are all written out in longhand about his service. These are the pages I will type out for you. I will do it right here in the email as I read them. Often punctuation is missing & spelling is bad, but I will be typing it exactly how it reads so I apologize if sentences seem to run together or names aren't capitalized and words are spelled wrong. beginning of page 1 State of New York Onondaga County On this thirtieth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court before the Vice Chancellor of the seventh circuit as a court of chancery held for said state at Onondaga in the county of Onondaga now sitting John Green a resident of the town of Spafford in said county aged seventy one years in May last past, 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 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated, that some time about two years previous to the time Fort Griswold in Connecticut was taken by the Brittish under Benedict Arnold, some time in the month of June he was drafted for two months service in the service of the United States, deponent then belonged to a malitia company in the town of Plainfield, Windham county, State of Connecticut commanded at that time by Captain Joshua Bottom. That deponent was ordered to go to New London and there be mustered for said service, that deponent went as ordered to New London and was (unknown word) mustered in a company commanded by Joshua Dunlap as Captain who also resided at said end of page one beginning of page two Plainfield- Thomas (Caguin?) of the town of Voluntown in said state was Lieutenant. Deponent was detached with seventeen others of said company to (boat?) wood on the sound about ten miles distant for the use of said Fort Griswold- Deponent remained in said service two months, was then discharged and went home to Plainfield, he had no written discharge, he doesn't remember the name of any other the officers belonging to his company, Col. Ledyard then commanded said Fort Griswold, that in June 1781 deponent took the place of one Cyrus Spalding of said town as his substitute to go into the service of the United States for the period of six months being the time for which said Spalding had been drafted to serve, deponent was ordered to go to the town of Lebanon in Connecticut to be mustered, deponent went as ordered was mustered by Lieutenant (Beman?) at Lebanon and was then ordered to join the continental army at White Plains in the county of West (Clinton?) and state of New York, he went as directed and at White Plains deponent was attached to a compainy commanded by Captain (can't read last name might be Stillard???). The company marched to Peekskill Landing- at said Peekskill this deponent with twenty four other men taken from the several companies end of page two beginning of page three were detached as a guard for general Parsons and were ordered to go to Stamford near Horseneck in Connecticut , that they were marched under command of Lieutenant (Depeese??)- Major Laurence was with General Parsons- that deponent with said men performed said service at Stamford above, three months, said General Parsons (then?) set out to go to camp near West point, got as far as Danbury and said Parsons was then taken sick, that deponent was detained to attend said Parsons in his sickness he remained there about three weeks- General Parsons recovered his health and deponent was directed to join his company at Peekskill or Highland opposite Westpoint, deponent went as ordered joined his company and remained there until the expiration of six months the time for which said draft was made & was then discharged and went back to Plainfield, while deponent was at Stamford as aforesaid he went with the detachment of twenty (four?) men then with said Parsons to New Rochelle and manned five or six whale boats lying there & took three wood sloops used by the enemy for carrying wood into New York, they took a hay sloop used for carrying forage and a ten gun sloop in which Arnold sailed to New London at the time he took Fort end of page three beginning of page four Griswold and killed said Col Ledyard. Deponent further saith that he (received?) a written discharge at the time he was discharged as (last?) aforesaid. That his father took it after he returned and he has not seen it since, he has no documentary evidence of the facts above stated nor does he know any person living by whom the (sum?) or any part can be proved except John L. Bottom of Sempronious in the county of Cayuga whom affidavit is herto annexed, 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- deponent was born in the town of Preston adjoining said Plainfield, deponent has a record of his age in the Bible given to him by his father and in his handwriting it is there stated that deponent was born on the sixth day of May 1761. Deponent lived in the town of Plainfield (from?) the next year after the commencement of the Revolutionary war, until it closed, he lived in Plainfield at both periods of his entering the service as aforesaid that after peace deponent moved to a place then called Maple Town in Rensselaer County, state of New York from there to Hoosack in the same County end of page four beginning of page 5 There to Petersburgh in the same county, remained there until about twenty years ago he moved to the town of Nelson in Madison County and state of New York where (lived?) six years. from there he moved to the town of Otisco in Onondaga County, remained there about six years and there moved to Spafford in same county where he now resides, this deponent further saith that he is known to Daniel (Tinkham?), Daniel Baxter, John Baxter, Benjamin Stanton, Silas Gillet & (last name unclear, could be a Mr Barker), all of said Spafford who can testify as to his character for truth & veracity and the reputation of this deponent as a soldier Sworn to and subscribed this day & year aforsaid signed by John Green signed by Daniel Moseley Circuit Judge Vice Chancellor and the said court doth hereby declare its opinion that the above named John Green was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor Onondaga County I Silas Gillet of Spafford in the county of Onondaga state of New York do certify that I am well acquainted with John Green who has made and signed the above declaration and further that said Green page five ends here, don't know where the rest of Silas Gillet's affidavit is.