Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 6118-100, for Jabez Lord, Connecticut
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[stamped with a star]
service     number
Conn.  Lord, Jabez   B.L. Wt. 6118-100-pvt.
Issued Aug. 23 - 1790
No papers
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Rocky Hill, Conn.
July 25, 1935
U.S. Pension Bureau
Washington, D. C.

[stamped] Received Jul 26 1935 
[illegible] Reader 12 Vets. ABM

Gentlemen, -
I am seeking verification of the Revolutionary War Service of Moses Beecher of New Haven, Conn. Family records state that he served three months in Capt. Van Dugen's company and later as privateersman under Capt. Smiley. Records in the Conn. State Library state that he did and also the he did not receive a pension. One such record gives application no 707 as having been sent in by his widow, Dorcas. Will you please sent me whatever you have regarding his war service?
The same family records state that Jabez Lord, also of New Haven, and father of the aforesaid Dorcas Beecher, received gifts of land from the government for his war service and that he purchased other such gifts from his brothers-in-arms. Can you give me any information regarding this, or direct me to the department likely to have such information?
Resp. yours Thomas E. French
27 Pratt St. Rocky Hill, Conn.
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The National Archives form VAM-51 12-5-41
Bounty Land Warrant Record Card*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
Name Lord, Jabez 
Grade Private Line Connecticut
Warrant 6118 Acreage 100 Issued Aug. 23, 1790
to-not shown

*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of ""Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800"" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.
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RA-J/ILL
Moses Beecher R. 707
Jabez Lord B.L.Wt. 6118

Mr. Thomas E. French
27 Pratt Street
Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Moses Beecher of New Haven, Connecticut and Jabez Lord, who received land from the Government, and whose daughter, Dorcas, married said Moses Beecher.
A search of the Revolutionary War records has been made and the following records are furnished you herein regarding Jabez Lord and Moses Beecher, soldiers of Connecticut, in that war.
JABEZ LORD - B.L.Wt. 6118
The records of this office show that warrant #6118 for 100 acres of bounty land was issued August 23, 1790 on account of the service of Jabez Lord, private in the Connecticut Line, War of the Revolution. There are no statements on file made by the applicant for this bounty land because of the destruction of papers in such early applications for bounty land when the War Office was burned in 1800; no further data in regard to this soldier.
MOSES BEECHER - R. 707.
The data given herein regarding Moses Beecher are found in the papers on file in his claim for pension, R. 707, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
Moses Beecher was born December 1, 1766 in New Haven, Connecticut; the names of his parents are not shown. He lived with his father
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on the west of New Haven at the time he rendered his first service in the Revolutionary War.
Moses Beecher enlisted in April of May 1781, in Captain William Van Deursen's company, later commanded by Captain John Warner, and served as waiter to Lieutenant Joseph Peck six months; said company was raised for the defense of New Haven Connecticut. In April of May 1782, he entered on board a privateer sloop, name not given, commanded by Captain Daniel Jones, served six months as "one of the hands" during which period their sloop captured two whale boats, two other British craft, and had an engagement with another whale boat; in November 1782, he went on the [Omit Letter of Marque next time] brig "Iris", commanded by Captain Smiley, was in an engagement with the British brig "Hawke" was embargoed at Havanna during the winter, returned in May as far as the Capes where they were chased ashore in the Chesapeake by the British brig "Digby", fought and captured her, following which a gale ensued in which both vessels went into pieces; the crew barely escaped and the prisoners were lodged in the jail in Northampton, Virginia.
Moses Beecher applied for pension on account of his service in the Revolutionary War on August 6, 1832; he was then a resident of New Haven, Connecticut, which place had always been his home. His claim was not allowed as service as waiter or as privateer was not provided for by the pension act under which he applied.
Moses Beecher married in May 1788, Dorcas, whose maiden name is not shown, nor the hames of her parents given.
He died in February 1852, survived by his widow, Dorcas Beecher; in 1853, she resided in New Haven, Connecticut, aged then about eighty-four years.
In 1835, Frederick Beecher, the only surviving brother of Moses Beecher, was a resident of Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut. He stated that he was born September 18, 1763, and that he served a short tour during the Revolutionary War.
Very truly yours,
A.D. Hiller,
Executive Assistant to the Administrator.