Schuyler County, Illinois, Revolutionary Pensioners
RevolutionaryPensioners The declarationsof a number of revolutionary soldiers, sworn to in order to obtain theprovision made by acts of Congress for their benefit, are found in theearlier pages of the county records. Henry Green a resident ofSchuyler county, appeared before the county commissioners court on thefourth of June, 1827, and made such a declaration. He enlisted in March,1779, in Maryland, “in the regiment commanded by Col. Thomas Wolford inthe line of the state of Maryland on the old continental establishment.”He served till the close of the war and was discharged at Annapolis, Maryland.Green received the desired pension which he … Read more