Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 650, David Beach, Conn.
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Printed index card

Conn.
Beach, David
Elizabeth

Number R.650
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No 132
Elizabeth Beach
no of David
Son
act 29 July 1848
Mammie 1794
SS Hubbon
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State of Connecticut
New Haven County
Milford

I Asa M Train, Pastor of the Second Congregational Church in said Milford, do hereby certify that I this 31st day of January 1849 examined the records of said chruch from the 1st of January 1790 to the 1st of january 1800 and find the following records of the marriage of Elizabeth Beach, widow of David Beach of Plymouth.
Viz
Married David Beach and Elizabeth Mennin Jan 27 1794 and the date of the marriage is expressed on the records in fair legible figures as follows "Jan 27th 1794" January twnety seventh seventeen hundred and ninety four

Asa M. Tain
Pastor of 2nd Ch Milford

I Asa M Train above named depose and say that I now hold and have held the office of Pastor of said church for the space of twenty eyars and have the charge of the records, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said church

Asa M. train, pastor

Sworn before me this 31st day of january 1849
L. N Beardsley Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut Milford
New Haven County js
I Jonas G French clerk of the court of
Probate for the District of Milford do
hereby certify that Lucius N. Beardsley
is a Justice of the Peace, in and for New
Haven County commissioned, sworn,
and duly authorized by ban to administer oaths and that the signature
within, purporting to the his; is his
genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have
hereinto set my hand
and the seal of said Court
this 31st day of Jan 1849.
Jonas G French h. Clerk
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State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield
Probate District of Plymouth

On this 26th day of April 1845 personally appeared before the Court of Probate for the District of Plymouth, Elizabeth Beach a resident of said Plymouth in said County of Litchfield, aged seventy five 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 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of David beach who was a private soldier in the army of the revolution then a resident of Milford in the County of New Haven and State of Connecticut aforesaid, afterwards a resident of Plymouth aforesaid. That her late husband the said David Beach entered the service of the United States by enlisting or being drafted into the Militia of the State of Connecticut sometime in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine as a private soldier and that he served under the command of Lieutenant James Davidson. That said Lieutenant James Davidson was commandant of a guard kept at a place called Barnwells Farms in said Milford on Long Island Sound for a number of the last years of the Revolutionary War. That said guard was stationed on the farm where my father John Merwin then lived and where my brother Samuel Merwin now lives.
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that my said husband David Beach served
in said Guard under said Lieutenant James
Davidson from the fall of seventeen Hundred
seventy nine as aforsaid till the close of the
Revolutionary War
  That she has no documentary evidence
of his services but can prove the same by
the deposition of her brother Samuel Merwin
of Milford aforsaid, and by her late Husbands
brother Thaddeus Beach a Revolutionary
Pensioner residing in said Plymouth
  He cannot state the precise time when he
executed the services, but is confident that he
performed more than two years continual service on the Guard at said Burwells
Farms in said Milford
    He further declares and says that
she was married to the said David Beach some
time in the month of January Seventeen Hundred 
Ninety Three; ley to the Rev William Lockwood then
Pastor of the first Church in said Milford
  He cannot recollect the precise day on which she was married and she has no 
accord to prove the marriage, but she offers
the depositions of Samuel Merwin of said Milford & Thaddeus Beach of said Plymouth, both
of whom were present at her marriage
-- 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 -- is at the
time of above stated - That he removed from
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the town of Milford with her said husband David Beach to the town of Plymouth in the year seventeen hundred ninety five and that she lived with her husband in said Plymouth till the time of his death and that she has ever times resided in said town of Plymouth. That her said husband David Beach died at said Plymouth on the thirtieth day of December eighteen hundred and thirty one and that she has neve since been married.

Sworn and subscribed on this day and year above written before the said Court
Elizabeth Beach X her mark
In presence of
Calvin Butler
Tracy Peck

On the same day and year first above named, before the same Court of probate, personally appeared Thaddeus Beach a resident of Plymouth aforesaid renown to this Court as a credible witness in said State of Connecticut aged eighty years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his depose and say that he is a brother of David Beach aforesaid and that he resided with his father Olenda Beach at Barwell Farms in Milford aforesaid during the Revolutionary War about one hundred rods from where a guard was left on the shore of Long Island Sound under the command of Lieutenant James Davidson and knows that his brother David Beach performed service in said guard more than two years before the close of the Revolutionary War. He further deposes and says he was present at the marriage of his brother David
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Beach with Elizabeth Merwin that they 
where married in the fore [illegible] of the year
Seventeen Hundred and ninety three by
the Rev William Lockwood then Pastor
of the first church in said Milford,
and that she continued to live 
with his brother David Beach s his wife till his death
and that he died on the thirteenth day 
of December Eighteen Hundred & thirty one
and that he was present at the 
funeral of his said brother David Beach in
said Plymouth, and that the said Elizabeth
has ever since continued to reside
in the said Plymouth as widow of the said David Beach

Sworn & subscribed the day and
year aforesaid before the said court of
probate Thaddeus Beach

May 9, 1845

I Calvin Butler Clerk of the court of 
probate for the district of Plymouth in the county of 
Litchfield and State of Connecticut do hereby certify
that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of said court in the matter of the application 
of Elizabeth Beach for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereto
set my hand and affixed the seal
of office of Plymouth this 26th day of April A.D 1845
Calvin Butler Clerk
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Blank page which looks to be a photo or cover.
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Ex'r. INVALID
No. 600
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 8, 1870
REJECTED
Elizabeth Beach
P.O
Service:
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application Filed:
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney
P.O.
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Plymouth, CT
Jan 22
Doct L. F. Beardsley
Milford
New Haven County Conn
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State of Connecticut Plymouth January 20th 1846
Litchfield County
I Elizabeth Beach of the town of Plymouth,
County of Litchfield and State of aforsaid, widow of David Beach, do hereby constitute and appoint Hon Samuel D Hubbard M. C.
my true and lawful attorney respectfully to 
[illegible] quest the commissioner of pension to
examine the [illegible] of the office, for proof of the revolutionary service of my dais husband --
who served for the term of two year, in the company of lieutenant James Davidson, state 
[illegible] as do stationed at Burwells Farm,
Milford County of New Haven, state aforesaid
[Illegible] that the service referred to was
performed, during the two last years that
a guard was stationed at the place [illegible]
[illegible] -- and it is [illegible] that it was
during the year 1780 & 1781
It is further [illegible] that the rolls of the 
company - of said lieutenant Davidson
was sent Washington, with the pension
claim of Huchen Unidle, under the act
of 7th Issue 1832
I do hereby revolk a pauer of Attorney given
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By me at a former date and recognize no other
person as my attorney in the case but the Hon
Mr. Veulbard aforesaid and respectfully
request that commissioner of pension will
grant me such a pension under the act of the 
7 July 1838 as I am justly entitled to
In presence of
Nathan Beach
Lucy Case
Elizabeth Beach
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House of Representatives
Washington Feb 13th 1846

Hon L Edwards
Sir
Herewith I transmit to you the power atty of Elizabeth Beach of Plymouth State of Connecticut & also the letter of M Beach by exploratory of he writ of the four and the wishes of M Beach as consistent with the rules of your office I now feel much obliged if you will have the necessary examinations made & [illegible] me with the results. 

Respectfully yours
S D Hubbord
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Plymouth Ct May 6
Revolutionary Claim Act of June 4th 1838
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J.S. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington D.C.

11895 May 9, 1845
Elizabeth Beach

No 11896
Elizabeth Beach
[illegible] of David
Act July 1838

Rejected [illegible] after 179?
FREE (stamped)
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State of Connecticut
Office of Secretary of State ss I hereby certify that William Strong Esq. of the Towne of Milford in the County of New Haven in said state was on the 24th day of June A.D. 1844, duly appointed and commissioned by his Excellency Roger S. Baldwin Esq. Governor & a Notary Public in and for said State - that he is by law authorized and empowered to administer oaths take depositions acknowledgements of Deeds and that his commission will expire on the [seal covered date]
of June A.D. 1846   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said State of Hartford this 26th day of April A.D. 1845

[signed] Dan L. Tyler
Secretary of State

[illegible United States seal]
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Saml Merwins
Deposition
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I Samuel Merwin of Milford in New Haven County and
State of Connecticut aged 70 years, depose and say that my Father
John Merwin resided in that part of the Town of Milford called 
Burwells farms, and that I now reside on the same farm where he
resided on. I further depose and say that during the war of the
of the revolution there was a guard kept to said Burwells
farms on the shore of said Furnes which is on the king Islandson and
said guard was under the command of Lieut James Davidson
for a number of the last years of said revolutionary war
I further depose and say that I was well acquainted with said guard
as I then and now live on the same land where the guard house
was under the same spot,
I further depose and say that David Beach there of said Milford
and afterwards of Plymouth in the County of Litchfield in this
State and since deceased, served in said guard at said Burwells
Farm, at least for the two last years of said revolutionary war
I further depose and say that the service of the said guard was
instant and not precedent for they kept guard every night
I further depose and say that the said David Black was married
to my sister Elizabeth at my Fathers House in said arms by the rev
William Lockwood in the prepart of the month of January 
1793, said Lockwood was then pasture of the first Church in said
Milford. I further depose and say that I had already 
understood the said Lockwood did not keep [] [] of
all the Marriages in his society
Milford 16th April 1845
Represent of
Samuel Merwin
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Strong
Mark
Lewis Brick
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State of Connecticut New Haven County Milford the
16th day of April AD 1845
Samuel Merwin
Personally appeared before me
the subscriber and signed and made oath in due form of
Law to the truth of the foregoing deposition
in testimony whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of Office this day
and year lot above written
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William Strong Notary Public
Mr Samuel Merwin who signed and made
oath to the foregoing or within is personally
know to me to be a man of truth and
veracity and his deposition is entitled
to full faith and credit
William Strong Notary Public
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Comptrollers Office, Connecticut
Harford March 11. 1846
On application for evidence of the service of
David Beach in the war of the Revolution
said to have served under James Davidson
at Burwells Farm in the Town of Milford
New Haven County and State of Connecticut. No
roll of James Davidson is found in this office,
but the following evidence of his service is found,
under date of March 28 1779 a Bill for medical
attendance against the State of Connecticut for a
soldier under the command of Serg James Davidson
at Milford
12 - 13 - 0
which was paid by order on the Treasurer who
a Bill of Abatements on several persons, they being
employed as guards of the Post at Burwells Farm
under Sergeant James Davidson"
Also the following
26 January 1780 War- Dr
to order on Treasurer J Sergeant James Davidson
pay roll Coast Guards
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3507. 12.7
A Carrington, Comptroller
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Sir
Milford, Connecticut
January 31st 1849.
Herewith you will receive the
Comptrollers Certificate, and the proof
of the marriage of Elizabeth Beach
widow of David Beach) who now applies
for a pension under the Act of 29th of July
1848.
It may be proper to make the following
explanation
Mrs Beach applied for a
pension, several years ago, under the
Act of 7th July 1838 and undoubtedly
believed that she was justly entitled
under that act but before her
supposed claim was adjutant, her
Attorney died
Subsequently I was
requested to present the case, and
as I was informed that there would be
no difficulty probably in proving her
marriage, I note to you requesting
you to ask of the Commissioner of
Pensioner, some further information
in the case, and soon received the