Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23573, Daniel Beckler, Mass.
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I, Daniel Beckler, a resident citizen of the United States of America, an inhabitant of Massachusetts in the County of Oxford State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, 
that in the month of June AD. 1777 I enlisted into the army of the United States of America on the continental establishment for the term of three years as a private soldier in Capt. Abraham Hunts company, Col Joseph Vose's regiment and Gen. Glover's brigade in the Massachusetts line, in which company I served the full term of the three years as aforesaid and received an honourable discharge, since accidentally lost. 
I further testify that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, and that I am not found on any pension list of the United States. Daniel Beckler.

I Edmond Dean of Paris in the County of Oxford and State of Massachusetts, do testify and say, that I was in the continental service in the revolutionary war with the above named Daniel Beckler. I was not in the same regiment, but I frequently saw him in said service and I have no doubt that he served [ ] the service of three years as he has above stated. 
Edmond Dean

I James Packard of Greenwood in the county aforesaid, on oath declare, that I was in the continental service in the revolutionary war with the above named Daniel Beckler, and saw said Beckler [very ] frequently in said service, and to my certain knowledge said Becckler served for more than one full year as he has above stated, and I have not the least doubt that said Beckler served the whole time of three years as he has declared in the above declaration by him subscribed. 
James Packard.
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Elizabeth wife of said Daniel  63  not able to work much by reason of age & lameness

Daniel Beckler 

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State of Maine
County of Oxford ss.

On the 26th day of November 1836 personally appeared before Hon. Stephen Emery, Judge of Probate of [of Probate] for said County of Oxford, Elizabeth Beckler, resident of Greenwood, in the county of Oxford, in said State of Maine, aged 79 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 provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 4. 1836.
That she is the widow of Daniel Beckler, who was a private in Army of the Revolution. he enlisted in 1777 for the term of three years, and served in the Company commanded by Capt. Francis Greene, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Joseph Vose & Whose name was inscribed on the Pension List of the United States, under the law of the 18th of March, 1818, Certificate No 5619. and who was honorably discharged at the expiration of said term.
She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Beckler, on the  ___ day of June, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Daniel Beckler died, on the 25th day of March 1830: and that she has remained a widow ever since that period, as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereunto [annexed].
her mark X Elizabeth Beckler

Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written Before,  
Stephen Emery, Judge

And I, the said Judge, do hereby certify ..

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I, Frank Miller of Waldoboro in the County of Lincoln in the State of Maine, aged about seventy two years, do testify depose and on oath declare,
that Daniel Beckler, late of Greenwood in the County of Oxford in this State and who formerly resided in Paris in the County of Oxford, was well known to me, when he was a young man. He then lived in Waldoboro aforesaid, and about the time of the commencement of the Revolutionary war, he married my sister, Elisabeth Miller of said Waldoboro.
He had enlisted a short time before his marriage, into the United States army, and soon after went and joined the army in company with Charles Wallis, or Walk, Charles Heavner, Peter Legler, and some others from this town, all of whom have drawn pensions, as Revolutionary soldiers, they having enlisted for three years.
Said Daniel Beckler died five or six years ago at said Greenwood and said Elisabeth Beckler now lives in said Greenwood.
I knew my brother-in law, the
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aforesaid Daniel Beckler left Waldoboro to join the army after his marriage with my sister, as aforesaid, because he came to my father's and informed him, that he was going to the army and requested him to bring his wife home and keep her, during his absence, and my father did so.
And after the war said Beckler returned and took his wife and child and settled in said Waldoboro.
Frank Miller

words "and child" [interlined] before the oath was administered. Witness, Isaac G Reed

I have struck out the names of [Christian Hoffses] & Valentine Mink.
Isaac G. Reed

State of Maine
Lincoln Ss.
October 31, 1836
Subscribed & sworn to