Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Reg. 234855-1855, John Bean, N H.
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N. H.

BEAN, JOHN
B.L. Reg. 234855-1855
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
BOUNTY LAND FILES

Act of 1855, rejected 234 1855
Veteran John Bean
1776 Grade Private
Service
N.H.
CAN NO. 1765
BUNDLE NO. 78
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set : S. B. Allen Sept 24/56

234.855

Act Mar. 3 '55
Feb. 13. '56

Olive Bean, wid.
John Bean [illegible]

N. N.

Revy. war

No Papers

Stillman B. Allen
Kittery Point, Me.
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Application for Additional [word struck through] Bounty Land for Widows, -- Act of 1855.

State of New Hampshire 
COUNTY OF Belknap ss.

 On this thirty first day of Jany in the year 
eighteen hundred and fifty six, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Mrs. Olive Bean aged [illegible] years, a resident of [illegible] in the State of New Hampshire, who being duly sworn according to law, on oath declares that she is the widow of John Bean
deceased, who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain forgotten, See below
in the N. H. Regiment of W. S. Troops commanded by --- in the war of the Revolution with Great Britain, declared by the United States on the 4th day of July, 1776 (Revolutionary War) for the term of about Seven months and continued in actual service in said war for more than fourteen days; that she was married to the said John Bean at [illegible] on the [illegible] day of [illegible] in the year 1810 by [illegible] minister of gospel, that her maiden name was Olive [illegible] that her said husband died at Moultenboro on the 21 day of July in the year 1836 and that she is now a widow.  For proof of thes facts she refers to her application for Bounty Land under the act of September 28th, 1850, upon which she received a LAND WARRANT, No ___ for ___ acres, which she has since legally disposed of, and cannot now return.  [All of the foregoing from "her application for" is lined out] The Muster Rolls of said Troops- she says also that her said husband enlisted from Moulonbough in New Hampshire in about the year 1777 for nine months and was in the battle of Bennington -- sometime after this he was taken sick and in counquence of [illegible] he was discharged before the expiration of the time for which he enlisted -- she also says that Nicholas Folsom and Robert Bryant served with her husband and drew a pension but that her said husband did not draw a pension. She also says that she has made diligent search and can find no public or private record of her marriage
with said John Bean -- and she presents affidavits as the best evidence she can admits of
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the BOUNTY LAND to which she may be entitled under the Act approved March 3d, 1855. She also declares that she has never applied for nor received, under this or any other act of Congress, any Bounty Land Warrant whatever and she hereby appoints STILLMAN B. ALLEN, Esq. of KITTERYPOINT, York Co., Maine, her Agent and Attorney to present and prosecute her said claim, and asks the Hon.
Commissioner of Pensions to send her Warrant, when issued, to said Mr. Allen, who is fully authorized to receive the same and who will transmit it to me.
( Sign here your full name.)
Olive X Bean
her mark

We, Samuel Bean & Bradbury Robinson residents  of [illegible] upon our oaths, declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by the above named Olive Bean 
in our presence, and that we are personally acquainted with Mrs. Olive Bean and know that she is the identical person she represents herself
to be, and that she is now a widow. We are disinterested witnesses.
Signatures of Witnesses.
Samuel Bean
Bradbury Robinson

The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me the day and
year first above written : and I certify that I know the affiants to be respectable and credible persons ; and that Mrs. Olive Bean, the said claimant, is the identical person she represents herself to be, that she is of the age above stated and that I have no interest in this claim.
John C. [illegible]
Justice of the Peace
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The undersigned, citizens of [illegible] in the State of New Hampshire, being duly sworn, on oath depose and say that in his life time he was  well aquainted with the within named John Bean a Revolutionary soldier who died at Moultonborough on or about the 21 day of February in the year 1836 - we then were and ever since have been acquainted with his widow Mrs. Olive Bean -- said parties lived together for many years as man and wife and were always
reputed o be such-- No doubt ever existed but what they were lawfully married - Said Mrs. Now is the said John's widow -- we have no interest in  in her claim 
Samuel Bean
Bradbury Robinson

State of New Hampshire 
County of Belknap ss Jany 31 1856. Personally appeared the above named deponents whom I certify to be reputable and credible persons [illegible] and made oath to the foregoing statement. I am disinterested -- 
John C. [illegible]
Justice of the Peace

[Section below as produced by AI; mostly illegible]
State of New Hampshire
Court Common
as
Tel
The Office by 150
Samuel C. Baldwin, bank of said Court, hereby certifythat

John C. Moulton before whom the above depo
in was made and who has thereto subscribed his name was
the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace in said
qualified to administer
attes &c. and that his saluting thereto is genuine.
interested in
in testimony whereof I hereto set my hand
and all the way of said Court this South
day of July A.D. 1856
C. Baldwin Clerk
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES
Form VAM-51
12 - 5 - 41

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*

Division of Veterans' Administration Archives

NAME  Bean, John
GRADE Private
LINE Virginia

WARRANT NUMBER 11901

ACREAGE 100

ISSUED September 2, 1790
to -- not shown-

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.
Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.