Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 12140, Friend Beeman, Conn.
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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Conn.
Beeman, Friend

Number
S12140

[?]arded

Contents
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[1st column of three-folded paper]

H. Allen 30. Dec 1841
Herman Allen [unintelligible]
The Treasury under
April 6th 1838 from
Feb 20 1938
July 22 1842

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Vermont  22.878
Friend Beeman
of Milton in the State of Vermont
who was a Private in the [unintelligible] commanded 
by Captain N. Stoddard of the Regt commanded by Colo Chandler in the Connect.
line for 3 years.
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Inscribed in the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum to commence on the last day of March, 1834

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Certificate of Pension issued the 6th day of Dec. 1839 and sent to Hon. Herman Allen. H of R

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Arrears to the 4th day of September 1833 - 2.00 - 
[unintelligible], allowance ending [unintelligible]4 Ma 34 - 40
$240 --

Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Wm R Palmer, Clerk
Book 6 Vol. 3 Page 54

[3rd column]
Letter to H.
Letter to Dead
25th 1842
Dead
Paid at the Act of 
Sept 4th to
[unintelligible]
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James Temple S. C. ad 1818,
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MADISONIAN OFFICE

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE

July 8th, 1842

Sir:

Under the Act of 6th of April 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,"

The child of Friend Beeman, deceased, late  ------------- a Pensioner on the Roll of the Burlington, Vt Agency, at the rate of Eighty --------- Dollars and ----------- Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the [unintelligible] of Sept., to the 20th Oct. 1838.

Respectfully yours,
[signature] Albion K. Parris
Comptroller

To the Commissioner of Pensions, 
Present.
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Friend Beeman
[unintelligible] 5 Mar 1819
/ Sep 1819

Not entitled.
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Revolutionary Claim, under Act of Congress, May 1, 1820
STATE OF VERMONT   }
Chittenden County, ss. } ON this 21st day of June 1820 personally appeared in open Court, being the Supreme Court, for the County of Chittenden and a Court of Record for said County, by an act of the Legislature passed March 2d 1797 --------------------- Friend Beeman --------------------- aged 71 years, resident in Milton in said County, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, declare that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: --
That he entered in the 1777 in Capt. Stoddards  in Col. Chandlers Regt. of the Connecticut troops as will [unintelligible] full [unintelligible] large appears by my original declaration made before the Hon. Truman Chittenden on the 24th day of April 1818 and in which a pension certificate has [unintelligible] date and number not recollected the pension certificate been mislaid----

And I do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the 18th of March, 1818; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congres [sic], entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary war," passed on the 18th day of March, 1818; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me: nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.

Schedule
One farm containing 60 acres of land in which is a small house $124
5 Cow   85
2 horses & 1 Team old Colt  85
A one horse  Waggon  [wagon] 30
1 Old Plough/Single harness/Chain/Yoke & other farming utensils    35
28 Sheep & 14 lambs   35
5 Hogs  20
2 One year old Colts   10
2 Calves   3
Amt $1503

I have no family but I owe in debts about $300.00.  I had the misfortune in May last to breaking my arm in such manner as renders me wholly incapable of laboring and I fear will make me a cripple for life.

Signed
Friend Beeman

Sworn to and declared on the 21st day of June 1820
Before sd Court in Open Court
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5 Cows 85
2 Horses & 1 Team old Colt  85
A one horse Waggon [wagon] 30
1 Old Plough/Single harness/Chain/Yoke & other farming utensils    35
28 Sheep & 14 lambs    35
5 Hogs  20
2 One year old Colts   10
2 Calves   3
Amt $1503

I have no family but I owe in debts about $300.00.  I had the misfortune in May last to breaking my arm in such a manner as renders me wholly incapable of laboring and I fear will make me a cripple for life.

Signed
Friend Beeman

Sworn to and declared on the 21st day of June 1820
Before sd Court in open Court By order of Court Attest ^(Signed)^ David Russell Clerk
State of Vermont         }
Chittenden County ss } David Russell Clerk of the Supreme Court, do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of said court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule, is Fifteen hundred and three dollars and ---- cents. ^and debts to the amt of $300.00. ^ In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this [blank] day of [blank] 182[blank] David Russell Clerk.
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County

On this 24th day of April at 1818 before me the subscriber one of the lawyers of the County Court for the said County of Chittenden, personally appearing Friend Beeman, aged sixty seven years resident in Milton in the said County, who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war" -- that he the said Friend Beeman enlisted in Connecticut in [illegible] 1777 in the company commanded by Captain Stoddard of the infantry, that he continued to serve in the said corps in service of the United States until [illegible] 1780 when he was discharged from services in the State of New York, that he was in the battles of Germantown -- Mud Island and Monmouth, & that he is in [illegible] circumstances, & stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services -- Sworn to & entered before me the day & year aforesaid.  Friend Beeman Truman Chittenden Assistant Judge of the County Court 
I Truman Chittenden of the County Court in & for said Chittenden County as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Friend Beeman did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy: & I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & heard before me to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the instructions of the aforementioned act of Congress --
Truman Chittenden, Assistant Judge
Chittenden County Court
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State of Vermont   }
Chittenden County S.}

Officer of the Clerk of the County Court for the said County of Chittenden

I hereby Certify that Truman Chittenden is now a Judge presiding in the said Chittenden County Court, & that his signature above set is genuine.     In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court this 22nd day of April AD 1818
             Nathan B. Haswell, Clerk


State of Vermont
Chittenden County   I Truman Chittenddon Appointed Judge of Chittenenden County  Court do hereby certify in addition to the above testified that it appears to my [illegible] that the above named Friend Beemon is poor and in reduced Circumstances and that he served in the Revolutionary War in the Connecticut line in Col. Chandlers Regt.  in Gen. Vernum Brigade dated at Williston this first day of February  AD 1819
                            Truman Chittenden
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Declaration of Friend Beeman for Pension
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County, Burlington this 25th Day of August AD 1830
On this 25th day of August 1830 I personally applied before the county holder at Burlington within and for the county of Chittenden aforeras bring a Court of Record of general and unlimited jurisdiction Friend Beeman of Milton in Laid County now resident in Laid County of Chittenden aged Eighty years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make this following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the Act of Congress of the 18 March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820, what he the Laid Friend Beeman enlisted for the term of Nine years in the Spring of the year AD 1777 in the state of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Colonel Chandler in the line of the State of Connecticut on the Continental Establishments that he continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of three years from the time of his enlistment when he was discharged from the services at a town in New York, the name of which at this distance of time he cannot recollect. What he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present, that his name has been placed on the pension list, that the No of his pension certificate is 7200, and that he never before exhibited a schedule of his property, because he has been unable by the exercises of his trade which is that of a house joiner together with the property which he owned on the 18th March 1818 to procure for himself, and wife who is now Seventy years of age, a comfortable subsistence until the first day of May 1830. He is wholly unable to pursue his trade or conduct to labor at all, and has been so for three years. His wife the only other person belonging to his family has been confined to her bed totally helpless since that 1st day of April 1830 so that she requires an extraordinary degree of care, much more than at his age and with his full health he is even able to bestow.
And in [illegible] of the Act of 1st May 1820 I do Solemnly Swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th Day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gifts, sale or in any measure disposed of my property or any part there of with intent there by so to disestablish it as to bring myself within the provisions of any Act of Congress entitled "An Act to Provide for Certain Persons Engaged in the Cause and Manual Services of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th March 1818, and that I have not nor has any other person in trust for me, any property or [illegible] [illegible}, court trials or debt due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed [illegible] by me [illegible]. Namely, our old because Chect. two fail
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kettle, 1 pot, 1 dish kettle, 1 [illegible], 1 tea kettle, 2 pewter platters, 5 chairs & 1 old table. This is all the furniture which I own exclusion of. necessary clothing and bedding. I own an old one horn wagon and Joseph story owes me a crown. This is all the personal estate I own. I have no intended whatever in any lands. 
        Signed   Friend Beeman

I further state since the 18th day of March 1818 the following have been made in my property, as was as I can with my any imperfect memory recollect. I then owned the following article namely 5 cows, 1 horn 23 years old, 20 sheep, 3 young cattle, 1 wagon, also of furniture, 1 bunan, 1 chest, 1 two pail kettle 1 pat, 1 dish kettle, 1 spider, 1 tea kettle, 2 pewter platters, 6 chairs, 1 table, 1/2 dozen knives & forks, crockery to the amount of three dollars, and 3 old jugs, one of the cows was afterward fatted in the fall of 1818, 3 chairs have worn out, the knives and forks are lost and broken, the crockery is all broken and the jugs are missing. I also owned 60 acres on the South part plot. No. 69 one half of the 4th division drawn to the school right and a ten acre piece of land in a [illegible] adjoining said school lot all in Milton. The School lot was subject to a rent of Eight dollars and thirty four cents to the town for the support of school.

Description of Property
60 acre lot/  half of school lot/ 10 acre [illegible]/ 4 Cows/ 1 house/ 20 sheep to/ 3 young cattle

names of pension to who disposed of
Joseph Story/ Joseph Story/ Joseph Story/ Joseph Story/ Orlando Beeman/ Harmon Petty gone to parts unknown/ O Beeman/ "-"

Time of Sale
18 Dec 1828/ "-"-" /"-"'-"/-/ 7 April 1824/ 1820/ 7 April 1824/"-"

Amount of money or [illegible] of property need in Return
To pay a mortgage to W. Ward        $381.40
To O. Beeman.      -----------------$100.00
1/2 pay Jospeh Story ------------- $121.00
to pay rent on school lot ----------   48.00
for myself & wifes support
from 18 Dec 1818 til 1st Aug. 
AD 1830  ------------------------ $212.00 
and the debts as stated 
in Jospeh Story affidavit ----------$138.82
                                              Total   $1001.22

/for 12 dollars cash/ for payment of [illegible] 
support

Sworn to and declared on this 24 day of August AD 1830 Before

I Nathan B. Haswell Clerk of the County Court for the County of Chitenenden and State of Vermon do hereby certify that it appear to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Friend
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Beeman did serve in the Revolutionary War as Stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy for the time of nine months under an engagement on the Continental establishment & I also certify that the foregoing oaths and the schedule thereto annexed are duly copied from the records of said Court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the Court the Other total amount in place of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is forty five dollars and ninety four cents. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 24th day of August AD 180

Nathan B. Haswell Clerk of the County Court of the County of Chittenden
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N. B. Haswell, Esqr.
Burlington,
Vt.

Admitted
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State of Vermont } 
Frankllin County  }

On this 23rd day of November AD 1818
Personally appeared Aaron Olds of Fairfield in the County and Given foresaid to being by me just duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is personally acquainted with Friend Beeman of Milton in the County of Ghittenden and State of Vermont, and the s'd Friend Beeman being now personally [illegible] the deponent says that he has been personally acquainted with s'd Beeman for nearly fifty years, that they served an appointment together that in the month of April 17777. This deponent entered at Captain Mallarts (sp?) Company and Colonel Chandlers Reg't during the war, that in the month of June following as the deponent believes, Friend Beeman enlisted for three years as this deponent then understood and now very believes on Capt. Stoddards Company and Colonel Chandlers Reg't and this deponent believes he served out the period of his enlistment he knows he was now there two years in s'd Regt. this deponent recollected, he [illegible] him at Peekskill when he joined that Reg't. at Haverstraw, at White marsh Hills and saw him after Battle of Germantown and after the Battle at Monmouth , which was about a year after s'd Beeman joined the service, [cut off] after Monmouth
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Battle run say [cutoff]  and the 3rd Went at Morristown This deponent recollected seeing him at Reading-but [illegible] recollection of seeing him at Morristown, this deponent knows he belonged to s'd Reg't for more than two years he has a perfect recollection of seeing him from time to time during the period and has no doubt but he served out the period of enlistment
                                     Aaron Olds

Sworn and Subscribed
before me this 23rd day
of November AD 1818
and I further Certify 
The deponent is a 
credible witness
                      Joseph D. Farnsworth, Chief Judge
                            Franklin County Court

State of Vermont   }
Franklin County Ss}
 I Horace Janes Clerk of the County aforesaid do hereby certify that Jospeh D. Farnsworth Esq. before whom the above affidavit was made was at the date thereof Chief Judge of the County Court within and for the County of Franklin , and that of [illegible] duly qualified for that purpose acting under the authority of this state and his name subscribed thereto is his own proper signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of s'd County of Franklin this 23rd day of November AD 1818 
                       Horace Janes, Clerk
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I Friend Beeman of Milton in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont, being duly sworn, do depose and say, in addition to my former affidavit sent to the War Department, that I was born in the town of Kent, in that part of said town now called Warren, in Litchfield County, State of Connecticut, and was seventy years old the 6 day of February now last part; I lived in Kent until I went to learn the joiners trade in Woodbury in said County, in that part of said town now called Washington, where I lived about three years until I come of age; then married and returned to Kent. In the year 1775 I enlisted under Capt. Curtis and remained in service until the January following when my time of service expired about a year afterwards I enlisted into the years service under Cap't Stoddard of the Continental Army, and remained in service untill dismissed. Afterwards I moved to Arlington Vermont. afterwards moved to Cornwall, Vermont; and about twenty two years ago I moved to Milton, Vermont, where I have ever since lived, and have ever since the Revolutionary War followed the business of a Farmer, and have never worked as the joiners trade but in a very few instances.
  I have two cosens (cousins) by the name of Friend Beeman, one of whom served in the Revolutionary Army, but I do not remember in what company, and I do not know to what part of the country they have gone, have also a son by the same name who served in this last war. Further I say not. Burlington May 3, 1820.                            Friend Beeman

State of Vermont   }
Chittenden County} Be it remembered that on this 3rd day of May AD, 1820, Friend Beeman of Milton in the County of Chittenden aforesaid, who is about five feet eleven inches high, hair grown white by age and his eyes grey, but by the appearance of his eyebrows his hair and eyes when young were black, or quite dark coloured, and his complexion dark, and appears to be of the age mentioned in the above affidavit, personally came before me, George Robinson, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Chittenden aforesaid, and being carefully examined and duly combined, made
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solemn oath that the facts set forth in the foregoing affidavit, by him subscribed are true. 
                   Geo.  Robinson, Justice of the Peace


State of Vermont 
Chittenden County Ss {. I Phineas Lyman Clerk of the county court within & for the County of Chittenden do hereby certify that George Robinson before whom the foregoing affidavit is given is a Justice of the Peace within and for the county of Chittenden duly qualified and acting under the authority of his state and that his name set hereto is his own proper signature and that said faith and credit ought to be given to his official acts. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and have earned the seal of the court to be affixed down at Burlington in the County of Chittenden afr'd this 9th day of May AD 1820
                          Phineas Lyman Clerk
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Rev. and 1812 
Wars Section 
EEL 
                                             May 20, 1930

Mr. L.B. Russell
Comanche
Texas

Dear Sir:
     I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 12140, it appears that Friend Beeman was born February 6, 1750, in Kent (that part later called Warren), Litchfield County, Connecticut. He moved to Woodbury, Connecticut, where he lived until he became of age, when he married and returned to Kent, name of wife and date of marriage not given.
  He enlisted in Connecticut, in 1775, specific date not shown, and served until in January following Captain Curtis' Connecticut Company. 

  He enlisted in the Spring of 1777, served as a private in Captain Nathan Stoddard's Company, Colonel Chandler's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battles of Germantown, Mud Island and Monmouth, and was discharged in 1780. 

   He afterward moved to Arlington, Vermont, then to Cornwall, Vermont, and about 1796, to Milton, Chittenden County, Vermont. 

   He was allowed pension on his application executed April 24, 1818, while residing in Milton, Vermont.

  In 1820, soldier stated "I have no family"; however in 1830, he stated that his wife name not given was aged seventy years.

   He died October 20, 1838, leaving no widow and but one child, Friend Beeman, who was born about 1777, and served as Private in Captain David Sanford's Company, 30th Regiment, U.S. Infantry, and was in the War of 1812. 

                           Very truly yours

                        E.W. MORGAN
                     Acting Commissioner.
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Friend Beeman                  S. File 12140

The certificate of discharge of soldiers son Friend Beeman as Private in Capt. David Sanford's co. 30th regt. infantry, dated inspector General's Office, Plattsburgh, June 17, 1815, has been removed from this claim, as said discharge constitutes the claim of the son for bounty land. This paper shows that he enlisted Apl 2, 1814, and was about 38 yrs. old when discharged.


Wt. 5012-160-1812- Flat Files
NWRs                     Nov. 11, 1905
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*left side transcribed as written*

1930 May 20. Hist.
to L.B. Russell EEL
1930 Dec. 19 Ad. Mr.
LB Russell to apply 
to CY for date of last
payment of pen. etc.
    EEL

*right side transcribed as written*

Rev. War

12140 
INVALID.

File No. 12140
Friend Beeman
Pri. Rev. War

Act: June 7th, 1832

Index:- Vol. A, Page 28

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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22877
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*Left side transcribed as written*

7200
Vermont

Friend Beeman
of Milton in the state of Vermont
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Chandler of the Connecticut line, for the term of 3 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont
at the rate of 5 Dollars per month to commence on the 24th of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 5th of May 1819 and sent to n.B. Haswell Esq. 
Burlington Vt.

Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819  10 mo. 7/30 6/0 = 82.89
Semi-anl all'ce ending 6 Sept. 1819  48.00

Total.  $130.89


{Revolutionary claim, 
Act 18th March, 1818}

not entitled


*Right transcribed as written*
Suspended. See letter 13
April 1820 to F. Beeman

Dropt from roll under act
May 1, 1820, and [illegible][illegible]
sent to David Russell
Burlington, July 11, 1820.

See letter Nov. 11. 1830 to A.G. 
Whittemore, Milton, Vt.
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June 25. '42
No'l Dandje

*Sideways text transcribed as written*
James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington State
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J.L Edwards Esq.  Com. of Pensions

[Illegible] is Junior Beeman Pension Certificate & other papers for the document from the clerk pensioning payment where in from 4 Sept to 4 Oct. than following a man owned but coming to a [illegible] [Illegible] men
Your Obt Servant 
Heman Allen

Burlington Vt. June 22, 1842
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I Samuel Richards of Cornwall in the County of Addison and State of Vermont depose and say that Friend Beeman formerly of Kent in the County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut now of Milton in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont was a soldier in the revolutionary war and served in the Connecticut line in Chandler's Regiment and Yeoman's Brigade I was a soldier in Warner's Company in Swifts Regiment and Isaac Beeman brother ofFriend Beeman belonged to the same company that I did which he was to an acquaintance with the said Friend Beeman & I saw him at different times & places in the army at Peekskill, at Haverstraw at White March Hills in Sylvania & I saw him after the battle of Monmouth and well know that he was a soldier in the army of the revolution & served a considerable time I understood that he enlisted for three years. 
                             Samuel Richards

State of Vermont
Addison County } s Middlebury Oct. 27 1818
    Personally appeared Samuel Richards the signer of the foregoing affidavit & made oath that the fact therein stated are the truth and nothing but the truth before Horatio Seymour Justice of the peace

I further certify that the above named Samuel Richards is a credible witness 
       Horatio Seymour Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont
Addison County Ss} I Sam Swift, Clerk of the County of Addison aforesaid, do hereby certify that Horatio Seymour before whom the within affidavit was made is a Justice of the peace within for the County aforesaid and that his name thereto subscribed is his own proper signature. 
          In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County at Middlebury this 27th day of October AD 1818. 
                             Sam'l Swift
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Dec. 30 1841
No Eva


*Sideways text transcribed as written*

James L. Edwards Esq. 
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Burlington, Vt. Aug. 23, 1841

Jas. L. Edwards Esq.
        Sir, I am requested to obtain a small amount of Pension which was due to Friend Beeman of Chittenden County  Vt. of the time of his death. he died the 20th of October 1838. The arrear I supporter from the 4th of March proceeding. Beeman died leaving no widow or child except this application whose name is Friend Beeman.
Will you enclose me the necessary blank to be filled with [illegible] as to the proof, & I will  endeavor to have it submitted so as to give you as little doubt as possible. 

      I am your Obt. Servt
       Heman Allen
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Friend Beeman
private
$80 per ann.

Hon. J.L. Edwards
Com'r of Pension

Hon. H. Hallen H. Regt.
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I Heman Allen of Burlington Vermont, now in  the city of Washington, depose and say that from the year 1802 to 1828 I served in the town of Milton for 6 months, that Friend Beeman resided in the same town as a [illegible] of above two & on say miles from me, I did continue to serve there. That I am well acquainted with him. In now a very old man. I guess he must be eighty years old, or nearly so. I am [illegible] [illegible] that he is the identical person who has performed his petition for a pension, as I have several times can [illegible] with him upon the subject & I believe, but am not sure that I was in Court when his declaration was made out. 
    I furthermore know that he has a son by the name of Friend and that this son was a soldier and the past war. He was in the service a considerable time, whether during the war I cannot say. 
                                 Heman Allen
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Sworn to & Subscribed before me a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Washington in the District of Columbia, this 5th day of December 1833. 
          S. Burch . 
J Peace
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Pension Office
Nov. 10th 1830


*sideways text transcribed as written*

Hon. J.H. Eaton
  Pension office
Washington
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                              Burlington Nov. 2nd 1830

Hon. John H. Eaton
Dear Sir
                       Enclosed I forward by direction of AG Whittemore Esq. The pension papers of Friend Beeman, as soon as a decision shall be made you will please to communicate the result to AG Whittemore of Milton Ver. 

                           Yours Respectfully 
                               Nathan B. Haswell
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Friend Beeman &
Orlando Beeman 
mortgage to 
Wm Ward
----------------
Copy
---------------
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Know all men by these present that we Friend Beeman and Orland Beeman both of Milton in the county of Chittenden and State of Vermont for the consideration of the sum of three hundred & twenty dollars & twenty five cents paid to our full satisfaction by William Ward of Milton aforesaid have given, granted, bargained and sold, and hereby do freely give, grant, bargain, sell and confirm unto him the said William Ward his heirs and assign forever, a certain piece of land lying and being in Milton aforesaid and described as follows, to writ, sixty acres off the south side of lot NO. Sixty nine in the second division & drawn to the right of Richard Sharp.
     To have and to hold the above said granted & bargained, promises with all the privileges and assurtenances (sp?) thereof to the said William Ware his heirs and assigns to his and their own use and behoof forever, and we the said Friend & Orland for our selves and our heirs, execution and administrators, do covenant with the said William Ward his heirs, Executors administrators and assign that until the consenting of these presents we are the sole owner of the premises, and have good right and title to convey the same in manner aforesaid that they are free from every incumbrance; and we hereby engage to warrant and defend the same against all lawful claims whatsoever .  In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this 16th day of March AD 1825.
      Provided nevertheless and it is hereby further understood that if the above named Friend Beeman & Orlando Beeman their heirs or administrators shall well and truly pay or were to be paid to the said William Ward his heirs or assigns three certain promissory notes in righting and executed by the s'd Friend Beeman & Orlando Beeman to William Ward all bearing even date with these presents, the 1st for seventy five dollars in one year from date the 2nd for one hundred and twenty five dollars & twenty five cents in two years from its date & the 3rd for one hundred & nineteen dollars & fifty cents in three years from its date according to the tones and effect of each of said notes, then the aforesaid need to be null and void but otherwise to be and remain in full force and effect. 

                  the erasure in the nineteenth line from the top made before signing.
           Friend Beeman.    SGS
           Orlando Beeman   SCS

sign'd sealed' & deliv'd
in presence of
Warren Harris 
Gideon Hoxsie
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State of Vermont.    {
Chittenden County  {

Milton March 16th 1825 Personally appeared Friend Beeman and Orlando Beeman signed and sealerrs of the foregoing written instrument and acknowledged the same to be their free Voluntary act and Deed.
Before me      Gideon Hoxsie Justice Peace

August 12 1825 Rec'd for Record and the above is a true copy of the original deed, attest Gideon Hoxsie Town Clerk


State of Vermont         {
Chittenden County ss.{    

Milton Town Clerks office July 24th 1830. I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy of Record examined by me.
attest Gideon Hoxsie Town Clerk
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Hon. H. Allen
Burlington Vt.
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Know all men by their presents thus I Friend Beeman of Milton in the County of Chittenden and State of Vermont having enlisted in 1777 in Capt. Stoddards Company of Connecticut troop in the Revolutionary Army, for three years, and having served out the full period of my enlistment, and for said service having received a pension Certificate which is hereto attached No. 7200 and dated the 5th day of March AD 1819, do hereby constitute and appoint the Hon. Heman Allen a Representative in Congress say true and careful attorney for me and in my name to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due me under the act entitled an act supplementary to an Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution; approved       1832 and I hereby fully authorize him, for me and in my name to surrender the annexed Certificate as may be issued, and to do and perform all and anything which may be required to enable me to receive such sum or sums for my back pension as may be found my due from the United State, hereby ratifying and informing whatever my said attorney may do in the hereinto.
    Setting my hand and seal at Burlington this 3rd day of June AD 1832

 signed Beeman
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Before me Nathan B. Haswell a Justice of the Peace in the County of Chittenden in the State of Vermont personally appeared Friend Beeman to me personally known as the names [illegilble] in the foregoing Power of Attorney and whose name is thereto subscribed and who is who the said [illegible] in the annexed Certificate and acknowledged the same. to be his art and deed, and who declared there the same was not given by names of any transfer or attachment, buy or seizure by any legal group whatsoever of the pay therein authorized to be named but that the said pay is intended to [illegible] wholly to his personal benefit
         Witness my hand this 2nd day of July AD 1832.         
       Nathan B. Haswell Justice of the Peace


State of Vermont 
Chittenden County }    I Nathan B. Haswell Clerk of Chittenden County Court do hereby Certify that Nathan B. Haswell before whom and at the time when the foregoing acknowledgement was taken was a Justice of the Peace. Duly qualified acting under the authority of this State, and that his name thereto subscribed is his own proper signature. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court at Burlington this 2nd day of July AD 1833.
             Nathan B. Haswell
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/ Enlisted/ Beeman

Payable semi-annually--- the first payment on this certificate will be made on the 4th of September next,  by Heman Allen Esq'r at Burlington Vermont- agent for paying M.L. Pen'n





Recorded
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      WAR DEPARTMENT

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY That, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818,
Friend Beeman late a Private in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Vermont Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the 24th of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. 
    
                   Given at the War Office of the United States, this fifth day of March one thousand eight hundred and nineteen. 


                   J. C. Calhoun 
                  Secretary of War.
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[Letterhead]

L.B. RUSSELL
LAND TITLES AND GENEALOGY
COMANCHE, TEXAS

[Handwritten text]

April 30, 1930

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, DC

Dear Sir:

The A.Y.O. records show that one Friend Beaman (surname also borne as Beeman, Beamont and Bemand) served in the Revolutionary War as a private in a Company known variously as Captain Nathan Stoddard's and Captain Samuel Sanford's Company, 8th Connecticut Regt. commanded successively by Col. John Chandler, Major Joseph Hart, and Col Giles Russell.

I also understand that a Friend Beeman (by whatever spelling) was pensioned under the Act of 1818 and also of 1832, and that this Friend Beeman resided in Vermont after the war, though he resided and served in Connecticut during the War.

What I am now inquiring to know is:
1.  Was the pensioner the same Friend Beeman (by whatever spelling) as the Friend Beeman mentioned by the A.Y.O.?
2.  If so, I would like to know every fact of family history shown by the correspondence in connection with this pension; also whether his wife Mary outlived him; if anything shows other members of his family, and if so, their names, and also the place of his last residence, and date of his death.  If necessary, will pay the fee for this examination. 

Courteously 
L.B. Russell

[date stamp] Mar 5 1930 Pension Office
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[Letterhead]

L.B. RUSSELL
LAND TITLES AND GENEALOGY
COMANCHE, TEXAS

[Handwritten text]

Dec 14 1930

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, DC

Dear Sir:

Referring to a letter received from your office under date of May 20, 1930, giving very satisfactory information regarding Friend Beeman, Pensioner in claim No. S 12140 you state that the pensioner died Oct 20, 1838.

One more question, if your records show the answer:  Was any administration had upon the pensioner's estate?  If so, in what jurisdiction, and to whom was any payment made, if any, after his death?  What I am after is, any record evidence that shows whether there were descendants named as distributees of his estate, and where this record may be found.  I presume it was in Connecticut if any such record exists.  At any rate, your records will show his address when the last payment was made. 

Courteously, LB Russell

[date stamp] Dec 18 1930 Pension Office
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December 19, 1930

Rev.& 1812 Wars Section
EEL
[signed initials illegible]

Mr. L.B. Russell
Comanche
Texas

Dear Sir:

You are advised that in order to secure the date of last payment of pension and the name and address of person paid in the Revolutionary War pension claim of Friend Beeman (S.12140), you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing all of the following data:

Friend Beeman, Certificate No. 22878, issued December 6, 1832, rate $80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Vermont Agency.

Very truly yours

E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner.