Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17, 290, Daniel Beach, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn.

Beach, Daniel
Comfort

NUMBER
W17.290
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Notification to pension 
Agent Hartford, Jany 17, 1839.
Connecticut - 2481
Comfort Beach,
widow of Daniel Beach, decd.
who died on the 30th of March, 1825 of Fairfield Co. in the State of Connt. who was a pri. in the compy commanded by Captain Z. Coe, of the Regt commanded by Col. J. Lewis in the Connecticut line for 6 months private.
Conn.
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 20 Dollars -- Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16th day of January, 1839 and sent to Hon. T. T. Whittlesey
H. R. 
Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1838 $150.00
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 M. '39 10.00
$160.00
{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act July 4, 183-}
{Section the 3d}
Recorded by S. A. Elliot  C
Book A, Vol. 2 Page 78.
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield/Bridgeport
On this 28th day of May  AD 1838 personally appeared before the Court of Probate in and for the District of Stratford om said county and state aforesaid Comfort Beach, a resident of Trumbull in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration, in [illegible] too her former declaration made before said court in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 4, 1836.  She further declares that according to the best of her knowledge and belief her husband Daniel Beach performed two tours of service in the Revolutionary War in the year 1776 as a Corporal viz. the first tour of six months under Capt. Zachariah Coe as stated in her former declaration in a company of volunteers.
Also in the militia foot company of North Stratford which in the time of the revolution was a Parish of Stratford in said county which company was commanded by said Capt Zachariah Coe and said Daniel was a corporal of the same which company was ordered to New York before the city was taken in the summer of 1776 which was a draft  for three months [illegible] the soldiers of said company died of [illegible] distemper and some that were sick [illegible] discharged before their time was out but
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Said Daniel served the whole campaign for the proof of which additional campaign of 3 months, she refers to the depositions of Everard Curtis and Thomas Hawly annexed.
Attest Isaac Sherman, Clerk  
Comfort Beach [her mark]

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me Samuel Stratton Judge and the said court do hereby declare them of union after investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations presented by the War department,
that the above named applicant is the widow of Daniel Beach a Revolutionary Soldier and who served in this additional campaign as she states.
Samuel Stratton Judge

Attest
Isaac Sherman clerk
I Isaac Sherman clerk of the court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the additional declaration of Comfort Beach for a pension and that Ali Brensmade Esq is a Justice of the peace in and for said Fairfield county duly commissioned & qualified,
that his commission will expire the 20th of June 1838 
and that his signatures to the depositions of Everard Curtis & Thomas Hawly are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and Seal of [illegible] this 6th day of June 1838
Isaac Sherman
clerk
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State of Connecticut}
County of Hartford} ss Bridgeport
On the 23rd day of October AD 1837 personally appeared before the Court of Probate in and for the District of Stratford in sd County and State aforesaid Comfort Beach a resident of the town of Trumbull in sd County and State aforesaid aged 83 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 4th 1836.
That she is the widow of Daniel Beach of Trumbull decd. who was a Corporal of Infantry in the Army of the United States in the War of the Revolution.  That according to her best knowledge and belief the said Daniel volunteered as a Corporal in the Parish of North Stratford in now called Trumbull which in the time of the Revolution was in the Town of Stratford in sd County into a Company of infantry foot Troops under command of Capt Zachariah Coe of sd parish for six months service and that said Daniel marched from sd North Stratford to the City of New York from there on to Long Island and was employed on Long Island in building fortifications that he commenced said service in the fore part of the year 1776 and continued in sd service until after the City of New York was taken at least six months  that said Company was raised by authority of the State of Connecticut.  that said Coe was the Captain of said North Stratford Militia Company & sd Daniel Corporal of the same when they [smudged] and raised a company in sd Stratford in the Spring of 1776 to fortify New York & Long Island as aforesaid said Militia Company belonged to Col Ichabod Lewis
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That in April 1777 after she was married and Daniel he then belonged to the North Stratford Militia Company and was a corporal of said company when said company was ordered into service at the time Danbury in Connecticut was burnt that he was in service as a Corporal at this time at least two weeks that said militia company was commanded by said Capt Coe, Lieut Epraim Middlebrook and Ensign David Nichols in this term of service said Middlebrook was killed at the time Danbury was burned a a place called Ridgefield.  She often heard Danuel say one Elijah Summans was shot alongside of him and that he was near to Lt. Middlebrooks when he was shot.  That said company of militia belonged to Col Samuel Whiting regiment and Gen Gold S Sillamans brigade.  Col Whiting surrendered Col Lewison 1777.
That in the spring of the year 1777 or 1778 her husband was drafted as a Corporal  from said North Stratford Militia Company into a company of Connecticut State Guares for two months service and was stationed in the Town of Hartford in said county. Cannot say who commanded said company thinks it was Capt Coe but the company belonged to Col Whiting and Col Gold regiment in Gen Gold S Sillamans brigade.  Remembers Elnathan Beerrs who is dead was drafted from said company at the same time.
That in the summer of 1777 when the town of Hartfield in Connecticut was burnt that her husband was a Corporal in [illegible] militia company when said company was ordered into service and went to the towards Newhaven and followed the Brittish up to Hanfield.  At the time Hanfield was burnt
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and was in service at this time at least one week in said company that said Northstratford company at this time was under command of Capt David Nichols and belonged to Col Samuel Whiting's regiment in Gen Gold S Silllaman's brigade, has no documentary evidence to prove his service nor does she know what has become of his discharges.  She remembers said Daniel telling that when they were discharged from the company of 1776   discharge was written by Genl Washington and in the writing of the discharge he made the capital letters like printed letters. Heard said Danuel say he was in the City of New York when the Brittishe shipping on the North River side commenced firing on the city.  Thinks he served 2 campaigns in New York in 1776, one in said [illegible] company and one in said militia company and that said Danuel was born in said Northstratford parish December 11 1753.
That said Daniel was born in said Northstratford parish August 31 1754.
Has a record at home of both of these births in the bible and in the same bible has a record of this marriage to said Danial.  That said Daniel was living in said North Stratford parish when called into service and lived there until he died, was called into service as a volunteer then drafted.
That she claims she ought to be allowed for 
6 months service in 1776
2 weeks in 1777
2 months in 1777-1778
1 week in 1779
 [totals] 8 , 3   
Eight months & 3/4 as corporal

She further [illegible] that she was married to the said Daniel Beach on the 3rd day of April in the
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year seventeen hundred and seventy seven; that her husband, the aforesaid Danuel Beach died with consumption on the 30th day of March AD 1825, and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as well more fully appear by refferences to the proof hereto annexed, and that her maiden name was Comfort Beach daughter of Ephraim  Beach of North Stratford Parish.
Comfort Beach, her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, Samuel Stratton, Judge
Attest: Isaac Sherman, Clerk

And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after investigation of the matter and after [illegible] the interrogatonis inscribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant is the widow of Danuel Beach who was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as she stated. 
Samuel Stratton, Judge
Attest Isaac Sherman, Clerk

I, Isaac Sherman, Clerk of the court afforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Comfort Beach for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal of office this 23 day of October AD 1837.
Isaac Sherman,  Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss. Trumbull August 1st 1837

I Ali Brinscmade of Trumbull in sd County of Fairfield being Clerk of the Congregational Church in sd Town do hereby certify that on the records of sd church which appears to have been made by the Revd James Beebee who was then an ordained minister of the Gospel of sd Church  at the time of which record was made, which at that time, the Church was situated in the Town of Stratford in sd County, call ed the Parish of North Stratford (now Trumbull) in words following. ss.

April 3rd AD 1777 Daniel Beech & Comfort Beach both of this place were married.

And I further certify that I am well acquainted with Comfort Beach of Trumbull who is now applying fot a pension & reside in the neighborhood with her & consider her a very credible character and undoubted for the truth and veracity, and it is reported & believed in the neighborhood witnesses, Daniel Beach decd, resided that he was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and I concur in the opinion.

Ali Brinsmade
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford - [illegible]  August 1, 1837
Personally appeared Ali Brinsmade Esq and subscribed and made oath tr 23, 1837o the foregoing certificates who I certify is a gentleman in the commission of the peace for said county is a credible witness well known to me.
Sworn and subscribed before me,
Isaac Sherman, Justice of the peace

I, Samuel Stratton, judge of the court of probate within and for the district of Stratton hereby certify that Isaac Sherman is Clerk of said court, that the foregoing are his signature with the seal of said court hereto annexed.
Samuel Stratton. Judge
Annexed Bridgeport October 23 1837
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Eli B Beach of Trumbull in Fairfield County State of Connecticut, 47 years of age, deposeth and saith that he is a son of Daniel & Comport Beach of sd Trumbull and that said Daniel Beach died at said Trumbull on the 30 day of March AD 1825 with consumption and that said Comfort had remained the widow of said Daniel ever since that period. And he further testifies and says that he remembers hearing his father the said Daniel Beach relate about his service in the Revolutionary War that he was Corporal in the Militia of North Stratford Parish when the war of the Revolution commenced and that he went into service as a Corporal on 1776 in New York and Long Island cannot say who commanded the Company in this campaign nor how long he served but his impression is that he served at this time for several months and remembers hearing him relate about serving on the Guard on Fairfield one term and also in Stratford one term cannot say how long also heard him say he was in service when Danbury was burnt was near to Arnold was near to Arnold & Col Whiting at the Battle of Ridgefield and that he saw Gen Arnolds horse shot under him at that time also heard him say that he was in the Battle of Fairfield when that Town was burnt all his service was as a Corporal.

Eli B Beach

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} ss Bridgeport December 1 AD 1837

Personally appeared Eli B Beach and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition before me who I certify is a credible witness well known to me.

Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace
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Rev
WIDOW, &c.
No. 17290

Comfort Beach

Widow
of
Daniel Beach
Pri Rev War
-
Act: July 4th 36
Vol..1 Page 53 -
Arrangement of 1870.}
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Comfort Beach - ct
Suspended
See let. to Isaac Sherman
April 23,1838
do-slo-3rd Sept '28
slo- clo-18th Oct '38
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Claim
forepart of 76 - Zacch. Coe - served in New York untill [until] after its capture -- CMO
2nd decl. & proof
July 76 before N. York was taken same officer.  3 mo Capt Coe Col Lewis
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76 Capt Tacch Co New York Contl Line
77. apl "  ". Danbury  " 0 c 14
77 or 78. perhaps bod Fairfield Compl 34d 2.00
79. Decmr Nichols
New York towards N Haven -7
x 2 -15
5-6
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Samuel M Ufford of the Town of Stratford in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut a pensioner under the Act of June 7 1832 deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Daniel Beach of Trumbull & his widow Comphy Beach who is now applying for a pension during the Revolutionary War and resided next neighborhood to sd Daniel during the Revolution and remembers perfectly well that said Daniel enlisted in the Winter of 1776 in the fore part of that year for six months in a foot volunteer company in said Trumbull (at the time called North Stratford) under Capt Zachareah Coe which company was raised to go to New York & Long Island to fortify always understood sd company was employed in service o Long Island to fortify there & in New York remembers Eben Ufford (who is dead) Thomas Stratton & Samuel French (who is dead) belonged to sd company also remembers that said Daniel enlisted and served as a Corporal of sd company Capt Coe, resided also in the neighborhood of deponent at the time he raised said company and deponent testifies and says that he fully believes said Daniel other terms of service but he cannot remember to specify particulars in relation to other campaigns, was not in service with sd Beach.

Samuel N Ufford


State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Bridgeport October 19 1837

Personally appeared Samuel M Ufford and subscribed and made oath before me to the truth of the above deposition who I certify is a credible witness well known to me.

Issac Sherman
Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Bridgeport

I Isaac Sherman Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the District of Stratford in said County and State aforesaid hereby certify that Isaac Sherman, Thaddeus Beardsley Jr, & Francis Beach are Justices of the Peace in and for sd Fairfield County duly commissioned and qualified; that their commissions will expire in June 1838 and that their signatures to the depositions of Ali Brensmade, Samuel M Ufford, Thomas Strutton, Ebenezer Nyde, Mary Beach and Eli B Beach are all their genuine signatures.

Given under my hand and the seal of said Probate Court the 1st day of December AD 1837

Isaac Sherman
Clerk
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Thomas Stratton of the Town of Bridgeport in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut 79 years of age deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Daniel Beach & Comphy his wife of the Parish of North Stratford in the time of the Revolutionary War and remembers that said Daniel Beach enlisted in said North Stratford in the first part of the year 1776 into a company of Foot Troops Infantry under Capt Zachariah Coe of said Stratford for six months to go to North York and Long Island, that said Daniel enlisted and served in sd company on Long Island as a Corporal of sd company six months, also deponent remembers that there was snow on the ground when sd company was, in service on the Island and also remembers that Gershon Turney was a sergeant of sd company & Saml French, Reuben Beach, & deponent was a private of said company and served in sd company with sd Daniel Beach does not know any reason except him self alive who served in sd company. Deponent fully sure in his own mind that said Daniel Beach served six months in sd Company in New York & on Long Island is a corporal of sd company (sd Capt Coe belonged sd Town of Stratford)

Thomas Stratton

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} ss Bridgeport October 19, 1837

Personally appeared Thomas Stratton and subscribed & made oath to the truth of the above deposition before me who I certify is a credible witness well known to me.

Isaac Sherman
Justice of Peace
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I Ebenezer Hyde of the town of Huntington County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut a revolutionary pensioner of the United States aged seventy eight years testifyeth and saith that he well remembers Daniel Beach of Trumbull in said County formerly a part of the town of Stratford in sd County. I also remember of serving with said Beach at Fairfield two months under Col Gould and General Tillaman. I do not now recollect the year that said service was performed in. I am positive that said Beach served two months. I remember that said Beach quartered in the same house with myself.

Ebenezer Hyde


State of Connecticut Fairfield ss Huntington August 14th 1837

Personally appeared Ebenezer Hyde who signed the above deposition in my presence who is known to me whose deposition is entitled to credit and made oath to the same before me.

Thaddeus Beardsley Justice of Peace
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Trumbull Fairfield County State of Connecticut

Mary Beach aged eighty four years here in testifies that Daniel Beach of sd Town County and State aforesaid did serve a campaign under Capt Coe in the city New York in the year 1776 and also did serve a tour at Danbury in Connecticut in 1777 and also served in the Militia at New Haven West Haven, & Fairfield. 

Mary Beach her mark X

Trumbull Fairfield County State of Connecticut

Personally appeared before me Mary Beach and was sworn to the truth of the above endorsement by her subscribed and attested before me.

Francis Beach Justice of Peace

And I further certify that said Mary Beach is well known to me and is a credible witness. Trumbull December 1st 1837.

Francis Beach Justice of Peace
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Comptrollers Office
Harford Connecticut
Nov 16th 1837

I certify that the following entry appears on a book in this office under date of September 5th 1777 to wit, "Coast Guards Dr To The State of Connecticut for Col Samuel Whitings Roll for the service of his Regiment at Fairfield &c from March to August 1777." viz 
Wages of Field & Staff Officers       244.14.0
" Capt Elijah Abils Company      166.12.2
"  " Ebenezer Hills    do     153.11.10
" " Zachariah Coe's    do     134.14.0
There appears to have been nine other companies in the same service belonging to said Regiment, and are credited in the same account.
The name of Capt Zacariah Coe appears on a Roll  headed as follows, to wit, "A Ration Bill of the Officers in Col Samuel Whitings Regiment of Guards, it being the 4th Regiment of Militia in the State of Connecticut, and raised for the defense of said State in March 1777 and stationed at Fairfield & Stratford &c by order of Brigadier Gen Tilliman," and he is credited for 34 days of service.
I further certify that the name of Daniel Beach has not been found.

Wm Field Comptroller
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2481
3043
Comfort Beach
widow of Daniel
Connecticut
not 6 mo probally
admit
6 mo pri
20 $
No deduction
Hon. T.T. Whittlesy
Fees-0.75
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At a General Assembly of the Guard and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut in New England in America holden at New Haven in said Colony on the second Thursday of October, being the eleventh day of said month, and continued by several adjournments to the twenty fifth day of the same months, [unk] [unk] 1775.

This Assembly do establish Zachariah Coe to be Captain of the 10th Company ot [unk] in the fourth Regiment in this Colony.

Officer of the Secretary of the State of Connecticut Nov 23rd AD 1837

I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of record in this office. In testimony of which I have hereto affixed the seal of this State at the date aforesaid.

Royl R Hinman Secretary of said State
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[illegible] stamp
10
Isaac Sherman Esq
Bridgeport Ct
4
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Report to
An. T. T. Whittlesey
HR
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Hereby testify that I find on Records in this office, at the October session of the Genl Assembly 1774, that Beach Tomlinson was appointed a Lieutenant of a company or train blend in Ripton in the fourth regiment in this Colony, and at May session 1776 Beach Tomlinson was commissioned a Captain of the seventh company in the fourth Regiment in this Colony, and that Zachariah Coe was commission as Captain of the 10th company in the 4th regiment at the October session of said assembly 1775.

In testimony of which I have hereto affixed the seal of this State and signed the same at the office of the Secretary of the State of Connt Nov 3d 1838.

Royal R Hinman Secretary
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W Sherman
Sir
I find an act in Dec 1775 that one fourth of the Militia be selected with as many others as could be enlisted, to be raised to stand in readiness and that the Cols or Chief officers of the Regt of Militia, should give orders to the Captains to call their companies together & enlist a 4th part of the same and be organized as minute men. This is all the Land offense except whose men were raised, and the names of the officers mentioned on the record, in neither of which do I find the names of Coe or Tomlinson. I have examined the record with care. I send you herewith a certificate for the officers required by you.

Yours

R R Hinman
Hartford
Nov 3d 1838

Search, certificate $1
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Evered Curtis of the town of Trumbull, County of Fairfield, & state of Connt, a pensioner of the United States, under the act of June 7th 1832 deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Daniel Beach of sd Trumbull the husband of Comfee Beach who is now applying for a pension and served with him in the militia, first company, belonging in the Parish of North Stratford, now called Trumbull, in sd county. Furthermore deposeth and saith that sd Daniel Beach served with him, in the Co aforesd in the campaign at New York, which service commenced in July AD 1776 and continued at least three months. We were commanded by Col Schadbert Lewis, our captain was Zachariah Coe of sd North Stratford Parish, Ephreim Middlebracks Lieut, David Nichols Ensign. Do not distinctly remember that sd Beach was an officer. Further the deponent saith not.

Evered Curtiss

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} ss Trumbull May 15th AD 1838

Personally appeared Evered Curtiss and subscribed to the above deposition, and made oath to its truth, before me the subscribing authority, I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with sd Curtiss & that he is a credible witness.

Ali Brimsmade Justice of the Peace
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Thomas Hawley of the town of Trumbull, County of Fairfield, and State of Connecticut, a pensioner of the United States, deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Daniel Beach of sd Trumbull the husband of Mrs Comfee Beach who is now applying for a pension and served with him in the militia foot company, belonging in the Parish of North Stratford, now called Trumbull in sd county.

Further saith that Daniel Beach served with him, in the Co aforesaid in the campaign at New York which service commenced in the summer of AD 1776 do not distinctly recollect the month when commenced, my impression is that sd campaign continued at least three months. Said company was commanded by Zachariah Coe of sd Parish, Ephraim Middlebrooke Lieut, David Nichols Ensign.

Further saith, he strongly believes that sd Daniel Beach served as an officer in sd co thinks as a corporal.

Further deponent saith not.

Thomas Hawley

State of Connecticut
Fairfield County} ss Trumbull June 5th AD 1838

Personally appeared Thomas Hawley on oath an subscriber to the above deposition before the subscribing authority, I hereby certify that I am acquainted with sd Thomas Hawley, and that he is a credible witness.

Ali Brinsmade Justice of the Peace
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Thomas Stratton of the Town of Bridgeport in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut a pensioner of the United States, deposeth and saith that in addition to his former deposition relative to the service if Corporal Daniel Beach, in Capt Zachariah Coe Company, of Stratford in 1776, he would further state that the deponent enlisted in the Town of Stratford into said Capt Coe Company in the winter of 1776, thinks it was early as January and proceeded with said Company to Long Island and was employed between Brooklin & Flatbush in throwing up an entrenchment many miles in length and continued in said service for 6 months as near as he can recollect and about the time a recruiting officer from Stratford to Long Island and that deponent at this situation, then enlisted at the close of said service into a company of Con. State Troops under the command of Capt George Benjamin, and deponent says he remembers that Joseph Wooster who is the only person that is within his knowledge now living except himself & that belonged to Capt Coe's company was, the fifer of said Company a part of the time in which said company was in service, and also remembers that Capt Coe & said Wooster who was waiting to him as well as fifer to his company left the service before the term was out and the service was continued under one of the other officers, cannot now recollect which and deponent perfectly well remembers that Elnathan Turney Ruben Beach [unk] Joseph Hulford, Joseph Wooster, [unk] and said Daniel Beach was [unk].
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Served with him in said company and does not now recollect that any of the company left the service except Capt Coe & said Joseph Wooster before the time for which they enlisted for was out and deponent says that he cannot be mistaken as to the fact that Daniel Beach and the others mentioned served with him in said campaign as well as others that he does not now recollect and that said Daniel was a Corporal of said company.

Thomas Stratton

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} ss Bridgeport Sept 13, 1838

Personally appeared Thomas Stratton and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition before me who I certify is a credible witness well known to me.

Isaac Sherman
Justice of Peace
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Joseph Wooster of the Town of Huntington in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut, of lawful age, deposeth and saith that in addition to his former deposition relative to the service of Capt Zachariah Coe commencing in January AD 1776, he would further state, that he does not recollect how long said company was raised for, but he knows how long he served & when he commenced by a memorandum referred to in his former deposition, and which memorandum he now gives up to accompany this deposition. And deponent further testifies and sys that the officers if said company, as he believes were militia officers, and were taken from 2 of the different militia companies of Stratford in said County, viz Capt Zachariah Coe from the North Stratford company, Lieut Beach Tomlinson from the Ripten company.

And he further states that said volunteers co belonged to Col Wards regiment, called the Fairfield regiment of Infantry, colony of Connecticut Troops, which company went from said Stratford to Long Island near New York to fortify on Long Island, and think sd company continued in service after he left, he was young at the time of sd service, and served in sd company as a musician, and a waiter to Capt Cor, he remembers that, Thomas Stratton now a resident of Bridgeport was a soldier in swd company under Capt Coe in sd campaign, also remembers that Gershom Turney and Roger Carrey were privates in sd company, the other soldiers of sd company does not now recollect.

Joseph Wooster
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January the 15th Day 1776
Then Listed into service of the United Colonies
On the 23rd marched for New York
February the 2d - Came home
Marched off again the 17th Instant
Returned home again the 29th of March and our wagers goes on untill April 
The [illegible] from the time that I listed untill my wagers stop is 2 Months and a half & two Days.
My wagers is 2 = 4
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Huntington Nov 13th [unk]

Personally appeared before me the subscribing authority, Joseph Wooster & subscribed & made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, who I certify is a credible witness well known to me and that sd Wooster presented to me the memorandum of his service hereto attached at the time he subscribed his deposition.

Ali Brinsmade Justice of Peace
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Mostly illegible document
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} ss Trumbull

On this 14th day of November 1838 personally appeared before me Ali Bransmade a Justice of the peace in & for said Fairfield County. Comfort Beach a resident of said Trumbull who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath, hereby correct her first declaration for a pension, made before the Court of Probate in and for the District of Stratford in sd County in as much, relatable to the first term of service therein stated, viz. that which is stated that Capt Zachariah Coe company of volunteers for 6 months service in the winter or spring of 1776 belonged to Col Ichabod Lewis Militia Regiment. She would now state that said Capt Coe company in which her husband Daniel Beach served at least 6 months, commencing in January 1776 as a Corporal was a volunteer enlisted company & not Militia and belonged to Col Wards Regiment called the Fairfield Regiment & Genl Gold S Sillumans Brigade of Militia as before stated, which was entirely a separate campaign from the Campaign under Capt Coe in the [unk] of 1776 when New York was taken and if any of the terms of service for which she has claimed is for a longer period than she is justly entitled to. She respectfully requests that her certificate may be granted for the term that the Commissioner of Pensions shall prove that she is entitled to and the reason that she now makes this additional declaration and explanation before a Justice of Peace.
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instead of the Court of Probate is that she is so old and inferior and living many miles from the Judge of Probate, it would be very inconvenient & expensive for her to make this additional delclaration before a Court of Probate.

Comfort Beach her mark X

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year before written. Before me

Ali Brinsmade Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Bridgeport

I Ira Sherman Clerk of the Probate Court within and for the District of Stratford in said County & State hereby certify that Ali Brinsmade & Thaddeus Beardsley Jr are Justices of the Peace in and for sd County duly commissioned and qualified; and that their signatures to the depositions hereto annexed of Comfort Beach, Joseph Wooster, & Agur Tomlinson are genuine.

Given under my hand & the seal of said Court this first day of January AD 1839.

Ira Sherman Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield

I Joseph Wooster of Huntington in the State and County aforesaid, deposeth and saith, that I enlisted in the service of the United Colonies, Jany 15th 1776 and marched the same month on Long Island under the command of Zachariah Coe of Stratford, who then lived in the Parish of North Stratford now Trumbull, belonging then to the sd town of Stratford.

I further say that I served as a waiter for Capt Coe and a musician, my term of service was two months ad half, I do not recollect whether Daniel Beach the husband of wid Comfee Beach who is now applying for a pension served in sd company or not, but I do very well recollect that Thomas Stratton who is now living in the town of Bridgeport was in service of sd company; Capt Ce I think left the service at the same time that I did, but do not recollect distinctly that all of sd company did, neither how long this campaign lasted after I left. We were under the command of Lieut Colonel Ward and Major Douglass.

I further state that the following is from my memorandum book, January the 15th day 1776, then listed into the service of the United Colonies, & on the 23d marched for New York, February the 2d came home, marched off again the 17th [unk], returned home again the 29th of March and our wages goes on until April the 1st, from the time I listed until my wages stop is 2 months and a half & two days.

Joseph Wooster

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} ss Huntington Aug 29th 1838

Personally appeared Joseph Wooster & subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition, before me the subscribing authority. I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with sd Wooster & that he is [unreadable] the above extract is a true copy from his memorandum book.

Ali Bransmade Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield} ss Bridgeport Sept. 14. 1838
I, Ira Sherman Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the District of Stratford in said County & State hereby certify that Isaac Sherman & Ali Brinsmade are Justices of the peace for sd County duly commissioned and qualified that their commissions will expire in June 1839 and that their signatures to the depositions of Joseph Wooster & Thomas Stratton hereto annexed are Genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of sd Court the day & year above written.
Ira Sherman Clerk
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[illegible] stamp
Isaac Sherman Esq
Bridgeport
Ct
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Oct 30 1838
Dear Sir/
Enclosed you have a certificate for Eb [illegible] as I find it on  
our [illegible].  I have examined the records in the Secretary's office for the years 1775 & 76 and do not find Capt Coe commissioned.  I find on state records under date of May 1776 that Andrew Ward was appointed Col. of the regiment ordered to be [illegible] this [illegible] to serve in the Continental Army with 
this [illegible]. Capt Coe was not among them.  We find Capt Zachariah Coe in 1777 under Col Whiting on a roll of  [illegible] rations for 34 days nothing earlier.  I regret that I cannot give you something more satisfactory.
Yours Truly
Henry Kilbourn, Compt
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Agur Tomlinson of Huntington in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut eighty two years of age a pensioner under Act of June 7 1832 deposeth and saith that at the commencement of the Revolutionary Wr his father Beach Tomlinson was a Lieut of the Militia Company of Ripton Parish in the Town of Stratford in sd County in that part now called Huntington that in the latter part of the year 1775 or beginning of 1776 a regiment of Infantry was raised by Col Ichabod Lewis called the Fairfield Regiment in sd County of Fairfield and that a company was raised in said Stratford in sd regiment by enlistment and that his father volunteered as a Lieut aforesaid & joined said volunteer company in sd Stratford & that Capt Zachariah Coe was  Capt of the Militia company of the parish of North Stratford in sd Stratford who also volunteered to command said company that said company went from sd Stratford in January 1776 to New York & Long Island to fortify those places and served at least two months I remember that my father went from said Ripton Parish in sd campaign in January & returned in the month of March following, and that in the Autumn of 1776 following he was raised to be Captain of sd Ripton company when said Ripton militia company was ordered to the defense of New York at the time the City was taken.
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& ,y father commanded sd Ripton Militia Company in this 2nd campaign in 1776 when the City was taken also sd Capt Coe when he returned from the campaign under Col Lewis, resumed his command of said North Stratford Militia campaign and went into service with sd militia company in the Autumn of 1776 when New York was taken. I did not live in the same Parish with Daniel Beach the husband of Comfort Beach who is now applying for a pension therefore do not recollect whether said Daniel Beach belonged to sd company or not but should believe it would be very natural for him to go with Capt Coe as he belonged to said North Stratford Parish.

Agur Tomlinson

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Huntington December 12th 1838

Personally appeared before me Agur Tomlinson well known to me and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above deposition and in the truth of which I have full confidence.

Thaddeus Beardsley Jr Justice of Peace
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Report to
Hon T. T. Whittlesey
HR
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State of Conn.
Bridgeport
January 3, 1831

J L Edwards Esq.
Sir, I send you further evidence relative to the service of Daniel Beach which I think fully removed the objection to allowing the claim of Mrs Comfort Beach.  Relative to the service under Capt Coe in the winter of 1776 you will see by referring to his first declaration it was never claimed to be militia service but that Capt Coe was a militia Capt and volunteered as such to command [illegible] company and be reference to the letter of the Secretary of State to 
 me hereto annexed, the reason is explained and Col Icahabod Lewis of Stratford was at that time Col. of the 4th militia regiment, to which Cap Coe and [illegible] Beach Tomlinson belonged and from the deposition of Agur Tomlinson (who is a son of Beach Tomlinson).  I presume Lewis also volunteered as a Col in Col Wards regiment of volunteers and that the witnesses in  [illegible] of said winter campaign as naturally called it, Col Lewis regiment as Col Wards, probably the company in [illegible] regiment were many volunteeres and exercised together, but repaired to New York and Long Island
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in squads and were employed in fortifying them but as to the fact that Capt Coe commanded the [illegible] volunteer company in the winter campaign  of 1776 and also the North Stratford company of militia in the fall of 1776 when New York was taken, and that Daniel Beach served with him in both campaigns there cannot be a doubt, and if you shall judge on reviewing the case that the claim of six months for [illegible] campaign is too much you will please allow as many months as you shall judge she is justly entitled.
I do not know as it is possible to show from any prior evidence how long this company was in service.
 I would refer you to the Pension declaration of Thaddeus Beardsley of Huntington Con. under Act f June 1832 who is now living but is so feeble in body and mind as not to be competent to give testimony, who I have recently been informed, served in [illegible] winter campaign under Capt Coe in 1776 and has probably been allowed a pension on that service and who also I think it likely served in the North Stratford militia company under Capt Coe un the fall of 1776 when New York was taken as said Beardsley and Daniel Beach both belonged to  [illegible] North Stratford
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Parish during the Revolution, if so his papers well show how long he served in sd campaign. Also the pension applications of Mr Curtis & Mr Hawley under Act of 1832 who are witnesses to prove the service of Daniel Beach when New York was taken, well show how long they served in that campaign sd Col Ichabod Lewis commanded the 4th Regt of Infantry to which sd North Stratford Militia company belonged and was in service with sd Reg in New York in the fall of 1776 when the City was taken and by referring to the to the pension papers of the [unk] Abiah Lewis of Con. under Act of 4th July 1836 I think you will find the compt certificate showing that Col Lewis rcd the money for the service of his Regt. I have not been able to obtain evidence from the Comptroller to show who drew the money for sd winter campaign then is very few records to be found relative to the payment of the Troops in 1776. Mrs Comfort Beach is in indigent circumstances and I verily believe she is justly entitled to a small pension.

Yours very respectfully

Isaac Sherman

P.S. if you do not consider the evidence well justify your allowing her corporals pay please allow privates pay
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
Bridgeport
Sir,
 I herewith return your letter of the 3 of August last objecting to the claim of Mrs Comfort Beach, the principle objection appears to be that the 2 terms of service claims was one and the same in 1776. I think by a careful examination you will be satisfied that Danuel Beach performed 2 terms of service in 1776 as fully proved.  The first term by J Stratton who was with him 6 months in Capt Coe company on Long Island, which was a volunteer company, and 3 months in the militia company of North Stratford in the autumn of 1776 as proved by Everand Courtez and Thomas Hawley who were both with him in the 2 campaigns in New York.
One objection is that the claimant _non witness) in her first declaration even alluded to but one service in 1776 which you will see by a reexamination of her first declaration, it is states in words following:
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Thinks he served 2 campaigns in New York in 1776, one in said volunteer company and one in said militia company.
When Mrs Beach applied to me to make out her claim, she stated at the first that her husband, the said Danuel served 2 different campaigns under Capt Cox in 1776 on Long Island and New York, but when her declaration was made she did not know of any proof that could be found for the campaign in the militia company in New York in the autumn of 1776, and that service was then  but incidentally alluded to and after the claim was suspended it was discovered that he did serve a second campaign in 1776 which will account for the expressions in her first declaration of referring to the service being in New York when the city was taken [illegible] which ought to have been confined to his service on Long Island and as proved by {illegible} Stratton and it was then found that Mr. Curtis and Hawley served with him in the 2nd campaign and on that discovery she made a
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2 declaration.
I am personally acquainted with all the witnesses who are all persons of respectability and their testimony is entitled to full credit.  Mr Stratton on whom she relied for the proof for the 6 months campaign is an aged man but one of those whose memory and faculties is retained in a remarkable manner and on whose deposition the widow Jerusha Dayton of Stratford Connecticut has been allowed 6 month service for her husband in said Capt Coe company in 1776 on Long Island, which is the same campaign for which Mrs. Beach claims 6 months.
I have taken the deposition of Joseph Wooster and Mr Straton again explaining the service more fully than his first, which deposition I now send you, and I think on a careful examination of all the papers you will be satisfied that her claim is a just one and fully proved.
Yours respedtfully,
Isaac Sherman
Mr. Stratton has allways stated in conversation with me on the subject of said 6 months campaign that at the close of said campaign
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he enlisted again on Long Island into Capt George Benjarns Comp of Stratford and you will se by referring to your letter to me accompanying the Penson papers of Mr Sally Burrett of Stratford, the w of Joseph Burrett which letter I returned to you, that it is therein stated that Capt George Benjarns Co was not authorized by the Assembly of Con to be raised until third June session in 1776 which circumstances proves that Mr Shatton is probably correct as to the time of the service under Coe, as Mr Woosters deposition hereto annexed shows conclusively that said service commenced in January 1776.
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield
Bridgeport

Sir,
I send you the additional declaration of Comfort Beach, widow of Danuel Beach deceased and on behalf of Mrs Beach I wish you to send the certificate for such an amount of service as from the proof you may judge just and reasonable either as a private or corporal.
I have no doubt but she is entitled to more than 6 months pension, when her first declaration was made she did not then know as she could make proof for 3 months militia service in the City of New York in the autumn of 1776.
I would refer you to the Comptrollers certificate accompanying the pension application of Abigail Lewis of Bridgeport, the first wife of Reuben Nichols, deceased, to show how the militia companys were [illegible] through Col Ichabod Lewis by the State of Connecticut which Capt Zachariah Coss, militia company of North Stratford belonged to his regiment.  I believe you have allowed the widow Jerusha Dayton for 6
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months service by her husband Andrew Dayton of Stratford in said count, a few months since which 6 months was in said Capt  Zachariah Coss company on Long Island in the winter and spring of 1776. The same company and same service for which Mrs. Beach claims 6 months, and if there is anything to be found at the comp. office relative to said 6 months service it may be in his certificate accompanying said Daytons declaration.
Yours very respectfully,
Isaac Sherman
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State of Connecticut
County of Hartford
Bridgeport

Sir,
I send you the pension application of Comfort Beach of Trumbull, the widow of Danuel Beach, deceased and you will if you please forward  her certificate to me.
Yours very respectfully,
Isaac Sherman

J L Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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War Department
Pension Office
Augt. 3rd 1838

Sir,
In the case of Mrs. Comfort Beach the statement and evidence of an additional term has been examined and filed with the other papers. 
It is now alleged that her late husband entered the service under Capt Z. Coe early in July '76, and marched to New York before its capture in a tour of 3 months.  This conflict with his former statement that he entered the same company in the forepart of '76, and served 6 months in New York terminating his tour after the capture of New York.  It is believed that they are one and the same term; first, because the three month tour was not even alluded to in the original claim, either by claimant or witnesses, who estimated the tour to N. York is 6 months; Second, because one of the witnesses expressly names E Curtiss, as a comrade in the tour whose testimony is relied on to establish this addition
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additional tour of 3 months - 3d.-  because there were no 6 month men in service in New York from Connecticut before May '76.  The two  terms as disclosed by the evidence of different persons, are incompatible with each other, regarding the service in '76 (described by one of the witnesses as having taken place early in that year, and continued for 6 months and repeated by other witnesses as commencing later in that year and terminating at the end of 3 months) is but one term of 3 months - the aggregate of the service alleged even if the other terms were allowed, will be less than 6 months, the minimum provision of the Act of 7 June 1832.
Very respectfully,
yr.mo.ob.svt.
J L Edwards
Isaac Shearman, Esqr
Bridgeport,
Connecticut
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[stamp] WASHINGTON COTY D.C. APR 23

J L Edwards
Commr of Pensions
Isaac Sherman, Esq
Bridgeport,
Connecticut
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War Department
Pension Office
April 23, 1838
Sir,
The papers in support of the claim of Mrs. Comfort Beach, widow of Daniel Beach, deceased, have been examined and filed with this office.
The first alleged term of service commencing early in 1776 for six months in the State of New York is not even alluded to in the certificate of the Comptroller.  That certificate should explicitly state the term of service claimed for, and there how far his records either confirm or discredit the allegation.  This should be done in relation to each term of service except the term at Fairfield in 1777 which he certifies to be thirty-four days although estimated in the proofs at two months.
There is no evidence that any part of the Connecticut militia served as much as six months continuously in 1776.  There were some five months' men raised in June, 1776 for service in New York who must have commenced their service about the period assigned to the termination of the alleged six months term of her late husband.
It is improbable that the aggregate
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of the service
amounted to six months.-
I am, respectfully
your obt sert.
J L Edwards


Isaac Sherman, Esq.
Bridgeport,
Connecticut