Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 680, Jacob Beasley, N.C.
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SERVICE
N.C.

Beasley, Jacob

NUMBER
R. 680
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Jacob Beasley -
32.637 -

Hon W B Shepard
H R
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State No Carolina
Currituck ss
On this 27th day of August 1834
Personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of
said Court now sitting Jacob Beasley a resident of
Ronoak Island in the County of Currituck and State 
of North Carolina aged seventy two 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 passed 7th June 1832
That in the year 1778 being then sixteen years old he
was placed on the muster list and was in July 1778
placed under the command of Capt Belsher Daniel
of Ranoak Island as a soldier to guard the coast
from Currituck Inlet to Cape Hatteras, that the
soldiers were at different points of Coast, between the
aforesaid points from the time before mentioned to wit
the month of July 1778 to the close of the war in 1783
The company in which he was had frequent skermishes 
with the small brittish vessels that were sent
into the sound for the purpose of plundering the Inhabitants 
and in the time they took several small vessels
belon[g]ing to the enemy, but he does not now remember
the names. He does remember that they took one small
armed vessel that went up the sound to Edenton & took
two small amercan vessels and on her return the company 
in which he was meet the enemy off the mouth
of Alligator River and took her and liberated the
American vessels. The company also seen one British
vessel on shore at North Landing. He further states
he thinks the company took as many as ten or twelve
vessels during the time he was in the service.
The Declarant states that Samuel Jarvis was his
Colonel during the whole time he was in the service
and he knew no other field officer.
Declarant was born on Ronoak Island and
has never resided out of the County of Currituck
and he knows no boddy by whom he can prove
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his service except Mrs Sally Daniel who was the
wife of Belsher Daniel his captain & he hereunto
annexes her affidavit. Declarant has no record
of his age but he remembers to have seen his age recorded
in his fathers family Bible, but that the bible was taken
posession of by one of his brothers & he does not know where
it can be found. Declarant has not & never did
have a discharge because he never left the service
untill the war ended & he did not think a discharge
was then necessary. Sworn & Subscribed the day
and year aforesaid
Sworn before me
Spence Hall C.E.E.
his
Jacob + Beasley
mark

We Jonathan Lindsey and Samuel Davis residing in
Corrituck County do hereby certify that we are well
acquainted with Jacob Beasly who has subscribed &
Sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to
be of the age of seventy two years and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood where he resides
to have been a soldier of the revolution and that
we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Sworn before me
Spence Hall C.E.E.
J Lindsey
his
Samuel + Davis
mark

And the said Court do hereby declair there opinion
after the investigation of the matter and after
putting the interogations prescribed by the war
department, that the above named applicant was a
Revolutionary soldier and served as he states
and the said Court do further certify that Jonathan
Lindsey and Samuel Davis who have signed the
foregoing certificate are credible persons and
that the applicant for a pension the said Jacob
Beasly lives at a distance of about sixty miles from
this place and that it would be very inconvenient
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and expensive for him to bring a clergiman from
his neighborhood to sign this certificate, and the
Court further certify that it appears to them upon
examination that Sally Daniel who has sworn to
the annexed affidavit is credible & a respectable
woman

Sally Daniel maketh oath that she was born and
raised upon Ronoak Island that she is seventy four
years of age that she has all her life resided in Currituck
County & been acquainted with Jacob Beasley
this applicant from a child she states that she was
the wife of Belsher Daniel and that the said Belsher
was captain of a company during the war and was
stationed on Currituck Banks between Currituck 
Inlet and Cape Hatteras and she knows that
Jacob Beasley was under the command of her husband
and was in his company during the war &
she believes that the said Jacob Beasley served
as a soldier as much as five years during the war
Sworn before me
Spence Hall, C.C.C.
her
Sally + Daniel
mark

I Spence Hall Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter
Sessions for Currituck County do hereby certify that the
foregoing contains a true copy of the original
proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the
application of Jacob Beasley for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of office this
10th day of September and of our Independence 
the 59th Anno Dom 1834
S Hill C.C.C.
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Jacob Beasely
Act of 1832
N.C.
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State of North Carolina
County of Pasquotank
Be it Known that on this ninth day of February A. D. 1853 before me, the 
undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mathias Cahoon
and his wife Barbara Cahoon, born Beasely
resident of Elizabeth City in said County, and made oath according to him that said Barbara is the
daughter of Jacob Beasely who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of
the Pension Act of [blank]
That she is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or
arguments as my Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint SAMUEL M. KNIGHT, of
Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Jacob Beasely for
any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents
in relation to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive
for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City, D. C. Agency;
to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were I personally present.
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises, daving that my said Attorney is
not to [illegible - reuse?] the money for same claim should the same be allowed until further empowered.
In Presence of S. Davis Grice JP
his
Mathias x Cahoon
mark
her
Barbara x Cahoon born Beasely
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Sworn to, Subscribed, and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said
Barbara wife of sd Mathias Cahoon be direct interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party
therein alleged and that I am in no way interested in said claim
S Davis Grice JP

State of North Carolina
County of Pasquotank
It is Hereby Certified, that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions
for Pasquotank County that Barbara Cahoon born Beasely
the party who has sworn to, and
acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney, is the daughter of the reputed soldier aforesaid. I further certify,
that S  Davis Grice Esq. before whom the preceding affidavit and Power of Allorney were made and
acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his, I believe to be
genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office,
this the ninth day of February 1853
James W Hinton Clk

[printed notes]
1. Claimant's name or names in full. -2. Post Office address.
3. That he is the identical man, or, that she is the widow of the identical man, or, that he or she is the legal heir of the identical man, &c. &c.
4. Leave this line blank. -- 5, "He is," "she," or "they are." -- G. Revolutionary soldier's full name. -- T. Claimant's signature -- S. Claimant's name -- Magistrate future.
10. "Identical," "widow of," or, "chard of." -- 11. Magistrate's name." -- 12. Clerk's signature.
N. B. -- Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number.
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Ex'r. INVALID
No 680
[crossed out: Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873]
Jacob Beasley
[rest of service record is blank]
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N C
Jacob Beasley
N.C. see 1832

Hon. J. Minot
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Jacob Beasley
North Carolina
Suspended
Lrk 18 July 1835
Hon Wm B. Shephard
C. C. Tucker Aug 27/55
680
Act - 7th June 1832
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Washington D.C. Aug 20th 1855.
Hon. J. Minot.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir.
Enclosed please
find a certificate from the Comptroller of North 
Carolina, indicating the period of service of Jacob
Beasley in the war of the Revolution. Mr Beasley's
Claim for a pension under the act of June 7. 1832,
(from N. Carolina) is now on file in your office.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Chas. C. Tucker
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State of North Carolina
Comptroller's Office
I Geo. W. Brooks Comptroller of the Public
Accounts in and for the State aforesaid
do hereby certify that it appears of record
in my office among the payments made
by said State to sundry persons for Military
service in the Revolutionary war as follows
Viz,
Jacob Beasley £16..10.. 8, specie as per
Indent No. 2265 dated 26th day Aug, 1783
In testimony whereof I
hereunto subscribe my name
and affix my seal of
Office in Raleigh on the
6th day Febr 1835
Geo. W. Brooks, Compt.
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REVOLUTIONARY PENSION CLAIM.
ACT OF 7. June 1832.
Jacob Beasley
North Carolina
Suspended.
POWER OF ATTORNEY
TO EXAMINE CLAIMS.
CHARLES C. TUCKER,
Attorney,
Present.
25. Sep. 54.
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Power of Attorney.
Know all men by these presents: That we Mathias Cahoon &
wife Barbary Cohoon
do hereby constitute and appoint CHAS. C. TUCKER, of Washington City, D. C., my true and lawful Agent
and Attorney to prosecute the Claim of Jacob Beasley for any
amount of Revolutionary Pension or increase of Pension that may be due under the provisions of the Act of
[blank] or any other Act or Resolution of Congress, and I hereby authorize my said
Attorney to examine all papers and documents in relation to said Claim on file in the Departments at Washington
City, or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments, and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for
said Claim, and to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed: and to do all things
that I might or could do, were I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney
may lawfully do in the premises.
WITNESS my hand and seal this 26 day of June 1854.
in presence of
W W Williams JP ss.
Suls
Mathias Cahoon
her
Barbary z Cohoon
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STATE of North Carolina
Pasquotank County ss.
On this 26 day of June 1854, before me a Justice of the Peace
in and for the County and State above mentioned personally appeared Mathias Cahoon & his wife
Barbary Cahoon and acknowledged the foregoing power of Attorney to be their act and deed for the purpose
therein mentioned.
W W Williams JP

STATE of North Carolina
Pasquotank County ss.
On this 26 day of June A.D. 1854, before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace
in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Mathias Cohoon & his
Barbary Cohoon residents of said County, and made oath according to the law that they are the identical
persons who executed the foregoing power of Attorney, and that they are
directly interested in said Claim, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as
our said Attorney may use in prosecuting said Claim.
W W Williams JP
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written.

STATE OF North Carolina
COUNTY OF Pasquotank 
I James W. Hinton Clerk of the Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions do
hereby certify that W. W. Williams Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavit and
acknowledgement were made and who has thereunto signed his name, was at the time of so doing a Justice of the
Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that all his official acts as such
are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto signed
my name and affixed my official seal this
27 day of June 1854
James W Hinton Clk