Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,268, Comfort Beebee, Conn.
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Service: Conn. 
Beebee, Comfort
Beebe, Lydia

Number:
W.17.268
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4336
Connecticut
Lydia Beebee
Widow of Comfort Beebee dec.

And who died on 10th, September 1812. 
of Hartford in the state of Ct. 
who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Allen of the Regt. commanded by Col. Welk in the Ct. line for 2 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ct.
at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Octo. 1839 and Seat Nathl. C. Smith E. Hampton Ct.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839 $250.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Ma. '40. 40.00
$320.00

Act July 7, 1838.

Recorded by D.D. Addison, Clerk. 
Book 9 Vol. 150 Page 168
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1 July -81-5959

Lydia Beebee

Con.

Act. 7 July 38-

On Roll
1 July 81. 3 years on Capt. Dorrance in May '83

Around 2 years pri
80$

no deduction

Nathl. C Smith
E. Hampton
Con.
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Declaration
 In order to obtain the benefit of the act of  Congress, of the 7th July 1838-instittuted, "{illegible} granting  half pay pensions to certain
widows ------------------------------------------
State of Connecticut
County of Hartford, Bristol Probate District-
      On this fourteenth day of May in eighteen hundred + thirty, {nine persons called} appeared before the County Probate witness for the district of Bristol in the county of Hartford in the state of Connecticut the Widow Lydia Beebee-a resident in Bristol in said county of Hartford  aged seventy three years -who being first  duly sworn according to law,doth on her oath , make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress , passed July 7th 1838-entitled "an act granting half pay + pensions to certain widows"--That she is is the widow of Comfort Beebe (sic) who was a private soldier in the Army of the Revolution, and that she often understood from her late husband to wit, the said Comfort Beebee discussed +from many other persons (
{illegible}, and she verily believes that the following facts to be correct +true-viz, that her late Husband the said Comfort Beebe, enlisted into the army of the revolution sometime in the year seventeen hundred eighty one,for the period of three years, as a private soldier +belonged to a company
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which formed a part of the Regiment commanded by Col. Samuel B. Webb, in the Connecticut line, the Capt, who commanded the company to which my said [illegible] husband belonged, for some part of the time & at least I have understood to be a Capt. Collars the said Regiment, belonging to Gen. Huntington's Brigade. My said husband resided in the town of Colchester in Connecticut, at the time of his said enlistment, that he spent much his time while in said service with his said company & Regiment at & near the highlands on the Hudson River in the State of New York, that he commenced the march southward previous to the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at the southward but in consequence of a sickness he did not provide for with the army, but returned on to the said Hudson River. That he remained several months in the service of the United States after [illegible] was settled to complete the period of his service enlistment, fully serving out the period of his said enlistment of three years as I have always understood & believe. I have often seen his discharge, but it has been lost or destroyed for a number of years. 
She further declares that she was married to the said Comfort Beebe on the fourth day of January one thousand seven hundred & eighty seven at Chatham in Connecticut by the late Rev. Leonard Parsons there of said Chatham, now deceased, that her husband has aforesaid
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Comfort Beebe, died in the State of New York
on the 10th day of September in the year eighteen hundred twelve
that she was not married to him prior
to his leaving the service, but the marriage
took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred ninety four viz, at the time above stated-
Sworn to & subscribed
on the [illegible] year
above written before
the Court of Probate within
and for the district of
Bristol, in the County
of Hartford in the
State of Connecticut
Lydia Beck



Tracy Peck Judge of Probate
is
Bristol Probate District
I Tracy Peck, Esq. Judge of the
Court of Probate for the District
of Bristol, do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lydia Beebe for a pension
In Testimony Whereof
I have hereunto set my
hand & affixed the seal
of said Court this 14 day of
Mary A. D. 1839
Tracy Peck
Judge of Probate
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Rev Widow, &c.
File No. 17268
Lydia Beebee wid. of Comfort Beebee
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 7, 1838
Index:-Vol. 1, Page 52
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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I Gideon Goff of Wethersfield
Hartford County State of Connecticut of lawful age after being duly
cautioned to speak the truth do
depose and say that Comfort
Beebe was a soldier in the revolutionary
War and served in this
Regiment command by Col Samuel
B Webb and I the said Gideon
Goff served in the same Regiment
with the said Comfort Beebe the
time of time which the said
Beebe served in said Revolution
I am not certain but the impression
on my mind is that he
served three years I further depose
and say that I am now in the
seventy eighth year of my age and
served almost seven years in the same
Regiment in which the said
Beebe served viz under Col Samuel
B Webb
Gideon Goff
&
to Wethersfield 14th March 1839
Personally appeared the above [illegible]
witness in any bond of [illegible] made
named Gideon Goff oath to the above
deposition before me
Ebenezer Goodah Notary Public
notary [illegible]
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To the Hon War Department or whom it may concern
this may certify that I
Elisha Niles of Chatham in the County of
Middlesex & State of Connecticut aged 75 years & 2 months Depose & say, that in the Spring of 1782 I Enlisted in the Town of
Colchester, New London County & State of Connecticut, to serve as a
private in the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army for
the term of Twelve months or One year from the 24th of March 1782
that soon after I was mustered by a Continental Officer, & in a short
time was ordered with a number of other recruits Under the Care of a Continental Office to proceed Join the Regular Army where we soon arrived at the Connecticut [illegible] - in the highland - near west point
State of New York where we was mustered again by by Thomas Gro[illegible]
Lieut Col Commandant of the 1st
Connecticut Regiment Muster Master
I was placed & annexed to Capt Simon Spalding Company in the 1st Regiment
In a few days after joining the Army, I found three of my former
acquaintance, that belong to the same town & Society that I did
[illegible] Colchester that I had been acquainted with for a Number of years
and knew that they had enlisted into the Continental Army for 3 years
or during the war my impression is for 3 years they belonged to the 3rd Connecticut regt commanded by Col Samuel B Webb. General Huntington's Brigade Capt not Recollected, the names of the person referred to was Richard Beebe, Comfort Beebe, and Henry Horton.
Shall say that I firmly believe that they had been in the Service 12 months Before I joined, & that they Served the the year that I was there say from March 1782 until I was discharged in March 1783, and
Enlisted for 3 years undoubtedly serve until the British evacuated New York
about the 1st of November following I enlisted during the war was Discharged [illegible] Documents in the War Department payroll
will Determine the fact,
And further I depose & say that Comfort Beebe
above named After the close of the war &
the army disbanded Returned home & not long after Married to Miss Lydia Cook
Respectable young woman in Chatham County & State aforesaid
Beebe by his good conduct was promoted
to the Rank of a commissioned officer in the militia in the town of Chatham, further the deponent saith not. Elisha Niles

Middlesex County of Chatham April 25th 1839
Personally appeared Elisha Niles signer of the above deposition and made
oath to the truth of the same, & that he is credible witness in any
Court of Record - Before me Nath C. Smith Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Middlesex County
Chatham June 18. AD 1839
I the subscriber Rufus Smith hereby certify that it appears by the Registry of Marriages now in my possession which were
kept by the late Rev. Samuel Parson now deceased formerly Pastor of the 3d Congregational Society in the Town of Chatham that there is the following entry -
Married January the fourth one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven Comfort Beebe and Lydia Cook
That the above extract is a true copy of the Record with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows (Married Jan. 4th 1787 Comfort Beebe and Lydia Cook)-
I Rufus Smith above named depose testify and
say that I hold the office of Pastor in the third Congregation Society in the town of Chatham County of Middlesex and State of Connecticut that the above extract from the
Records of Samuel Parsons deceased formerly Pastor of the third Congregational Society in said Chatham are true with
the exception above named, as certified by me
Rufus Smith Pastor
Sworn before me Nath. Smith Justice of the Peace,
B.
State of Connecticut Middlesex County
I John Fisk Clerk of the County Court of County of Middlesex
do certify that Nath C Smith
Esq was on the 25 of April last & now is a
Justice of the Peace within & for said
County of Middlesex as [illegible] on file
in my Office & that his name subscribed
to the preceding Certificate mark A.
B. are his proper hand Writing & 
Signatures - In Testimony
whereof I have hereto set my Hand &
affixed the seal of sd Court this 14
day of Aug
A.D. 1839
W Fish Clk
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State of New York
Monroe County
John Webster of the Town of Rush
in the County of Monroe and State of New York being duly Sworn says he was well acquainted with Comfort Beebe of
the Town of London in the County of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts since the year 1804 or 1805, that a part of the time he (illegible insert) lived within a few rods of this deponent, afterwards, this deponent Removed from the Town of London to the Town of Avon in the then County of Ontario, Now
Rush, Monroe County, and State of New York.
that some time in the fall of the year 1812 the said Comfort Beebe called at the house of this deponent at the then Town of Avon in the County of Ontario and state aforesaid and was then and there taken ill and on the tenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand hundred and twelve died, at the house of the deponent at Avon aforesaid in
the County and State aforesaid and further this
deponent says not.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 20 day of August 1839
John Webster

John Lewin
Commissioner of
deeds for the Town of
Rush Monroe County
& State of New York

State of New York
Monroe County
Thankful Webster being duly sworn says she is the wife of John Webster the foregoing deponent, has heard the
foregoing affidavit subscribed by him read, and knows the same
to be true & further says not.
Sworn and subscribed before me this
20 day of August 1839
Thankful Webster

Commissioner of deeds
John Penn for Rush Monroe County
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CONN. BEEBEE COMFORT W17268
             BEEBE
                   LYDIA
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Connecticut East Hampton Augst 14th 1839
J. L Edwards Comm of Pensons
Dear Sir
Inclosed
are the affidavits relating to the service of Comfort Beebe in the Revolutionary War and other documents in order to obtain a pension for Lydia Beebe the widow of Comfort Beebe for further particulars of his time of service may be had at the war office any communications relating to this application
may be sent to Nath C. Smith, East Hampton Connt your attention to the same is requested to relieve the poor widow
Respectfully your
Nath C. Smith