Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40741, Lemuel Beamon, Conn.
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State of Connecticut for Town and County of Litchfield, March 9th 1818.
Lemuel Beamon of the town of Warren in the County of Litchfield aged sixty years, being duly sworn, testifies and says that on the 19th day of February 1777 he enlisted during the war of the revolution in the company of Captain Albert Chapman, that he served on the continental establishment in various companies in the second Connecticut Regiment that he last served one year or more in the company commanded by Captain Timothy Taylor in said regiment, that he served the United States in the war of the revolution  against the common enemy from the 19th of February AD 1777, the date of his enlistment, to the end of the war for more than six years and until he was regularly discharged on the 7th day of June 1783 by the enclosed discharge under the hand of his Excellency George Washington then commander in chief of the American army. To which discharge a certificate for six years faithful service in annexed signed by the Heman Swift, Colonel of said regiment. That he the said Beeman is poor and by reason of his reduced circumstances in life is in need of assistance from his country for support. That he is a native of Warren and is settled there.  — Lemuel Beaman.

State of Connecticut, Litchfield, March 3th 1818.
Personally appeared Lemuel Beamon signed of the foregoing affidavit and made solemn oath of the truth of the same before me,
James Gould, a Judge of the Superior Court.