Pension Application of John Green: S37960
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
Virginia Rockbridge County towit
On This 15th Day of September 1818. Before Me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the General Court of Virginia Personally appeared John Green aged 66 years & Resident of the County of Rockbridge and State aforesaid & made the following Declaration on Oath (In order to obtain the Provisions made By the Late act of Congress Entitled an act to proved for certain persons Engaged in the Land & naval Service of the united States in the Revolutionary War) That He the said John Green enlisted either in the Month of January or Febuary in the year 1775 [sic] in the County of Goochland & State of Virginia as a Private Soldier in the Regular Army of the United States on the Continental Establishment in the Company Commanded By Capt. Samuel Woodson of the 9th Regt. Virginia Line & that He Remained attached to s’d Company & to the service of the U. States untill His Discharge which He Received on the 14th of December 1777. signed By Brig’r Gen’l. P Muhlenburg [sic: Peter Muhlenberg] (& which Discharge is Herewith Exhibited) Near the Gulph Mills in Pensylvania that whilst He was in the s’d army He was in the Battles of Brandywine [11 Sep 1777] White Horse [or Skirmish of the Clouds, 16 Sep 1777] & another the Name of Which not now Recollected & that He Has no other Evidence of His Having Been in the s’d Revolutionary Army – nor knows of none other than his Declaration & His Discharge & that from His Reduced Circumstances He Needs the assistance of His County for Support –
Virginia, Rockbridge County SS.
On this 31 day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record for the County aforesaid which proceeds according to the course of the Common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of their proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment, John Green aged sixty eight years resident in sd County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. That he enlisted either in the month of Jan or Febr in the year 1776 in the County of Goochland and State of Virginia as a private Soldier in the regular Army of the U States on Continental establishment in the Company Commanded by Capt. S Woodson of the 9th Regt Virginia line & that he served in said Company and army untill his discharge which was on the 14th day of Dec’r 1777 & that he was in the Battles of Brandywine White Horse and one other, as will appear by his former declaration dated 14th Sept’r 1819 & I the said John Green do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 & that I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with an intent thereby 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 during the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th day of March 1818 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 & by me subscribed to wit. Six Cups & Saucers two pots and one oven and nothing more except my Bed and wearing Clothes. that his occupation is that of a planter, but that he is entirely unable to pursue it. that none of his family is living with him but that he lives with one of his sons who is about 28 years of age and who is in indigent circumstances
John hisXmark Green