Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 668, Henry Beard, Continental Penn.
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Service Continental Penn.
Beard, Henry
Biaird
Baird
Elizabeth
Number R 668
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See letter to Hon J.L. 
Adams April 22, 1837 to April 24, 1837 Hon G.H. Chapin
Let 25 July 1838 to O.D. Richardson

18.844
 New York
Henry Beard of Lyons in the State of New York who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Capt. Vanheer of Washington's line for the term of 3 years from 1777.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20th of November 1822.

Certificate of Pension issued the 12th of Dec. 1822 and sent to O. Seymour, Esq.
Canandaigua, N. York

Portion of semi anl. all'ce ending 4 mar 1823 27.96
8 mos 11/30 4/30 $27.96
{Revolutionary claim,}
{ Act 18th Mar, 1818 }
1st May 1820
Vol. 5 Pg 128
Ontario Co. [New York]
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Ontario Common Pleas
Henry Beard's Certificate
Capt. Bertholomew Vanheers corps of Dragoon
Washingtons Life Gds
See final statement Cert:
Vol 4 Pg 26
Admitted
Lyons
Ontario Co [New York]
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State of New York  }
Ontario County      }  SS
On this twentieth day of November 1822 personally appeared in open court being a court of Common Pleas, in and for said county and constituted a court of record by proceeding according the course of the common Law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings and recognized as such court by the laws and judicial decisions of said state 
Henry Beard aged sixty four years resident in the town of Lyons in the said county who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows
Viz that he enlisted in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight into the service of the United States for the term of three years in the Company of Light Dragoons commanded by Capt. Bartholomew Van Hier which served as General Washingtons life guard and that he served in said company during said term of three years and at the expiration of said term was honorably discharged at New Windsor in the state of New York and he has a weakly wife to support and by reason of age and infirmity is unable to labor much. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March One thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 Congress 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 or 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 that what is contained in the Schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed Viz
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Goods Belonging to Henry Beard of Lyons
One Cow & Calf $15.
3 sheep @ 3.75 3 small hogs @ $6.00 $10.35
1 table @ 2.00 2 chairs at .75 - 1 meat barrel. 50 $3.25
1 flour barrel .25 1 doz silver teaspoons @4.50 $4.25
2 Iron table spoons 12 1 small tub 19 .31
1 Bake Kettle@ 1.00 1 dish kettle damaged .37 $1.37
1 spider .75 - 1 tea kettle .75 6 plates .31 $1.81
3 cups and saucers 12 2 bowls .25-1 teapot .12 .50
6 runs of woolen yarn 1.50 3 knives & forks .50 $2.00
1 Bible 1.50 1 bed & bedding 15.00 $16.50
1 horse saddle and bridle $50.
$105.36
deduct bed & bedding $15
$90.36

And in addition to the above schedule by an act of the Legislature of the State of Pennsylvania I am to receive from the Treasurer of said state forty dollars a year out of the unappropriated monies if any there should be as a pension for the wounds which I received while in service of the militia of said state of Pennsylvania.

Henry Beard [signature]

Subscribed & sworn this 20th}
day of November 1822 before}
me a Judge of the Court of      }
Common Pleas in said county  }

 Moses Atwater [signature]


At a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court House in and for the county of Ontario before the Judges of said Court on the twentieth day of November of the term of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two.
Present Nathaniel W. Howell
Moses Atwater
Micah Brooks
Philetus Swift &
John Price - Judges
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Ex Parte [underlined]

In the matter of Henry Beard a person making application for a pension residing in the town of Lyons in the county of Ontario. The said Henry Beard having exhibited a schedule subscribed by him containing his whole estate and income his necessary clothing and bedding excepted in pursuance of the act of Congress of the United States entitled "An act in addition to an act 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 eighteenth day of march one thousand eight hundred and eighteen passed May 1, 1820 and having taken and subscribed and produced to this court the oath by the said schedule and duty considered the premises are of the option that the property contained in the said schedule is of the value of Ninety Dollars and thirty nine cents and they hereby order their Clerk to certify the same in due form.

State of New York  }
Ontario County      } SS

I Ralph Sester Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said county do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule are truly copied from the records of said court and I further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount of value of the property contained in the said schedule [carrot inserted] excepting the pension herein mentioned [end of carrot] is ninety dollars and thirty six cents and no more.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this 20th day of November 1822
Ralph Sester Dep [deputy] Clk [clerk]
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[right-hand side of page]
X3595
Elizabeth Beard decd
Pennsylvania

[left-hand side of page]
Hereunto annexed
Sworn to and subscribed in open   }
court on this 4th day of June 1838 }
before Stephen Reeves
Judge of [illegible]
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State of Michigan   }
County of Oakland  } SS

On this 4th day of June, 1838 personally appeared before [carrot inserted] me [end of carrot] [illegible] court of the county of Oakland in the state aforesaid.
Elizabeth Beard a resident of the County of [illegible] in said state, aged eighty eight years, who being  first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of congress passed July 4, 1836: 
That the widow of Henry Beard who was a private soldier in the army of the Revolution and who when he died was a United States Revolutionary Pensioner, residing in the State of New York & whose being awarded his last pension money in the year, she thinks of 1831 that according to the best of her knowledge and belief said Henry Beard entered the service by voluntary enlistment at the commencement of the Revolutionary war, and left the service when the army was disbanded at the close of the war,  was in the battle of Brandywine where he was wounded, and in the battles of White Plains and at Peoria, that he enlisted first for three years and then for during the war & served till the peace of 1783, that he enlisted in York County in Pennsylvania, that she was legally married to said Henry Beard in March 1782 in New Windsor, Orange County, New York by the Rev. Mr. Moffit a Presbyterian minister of the gospel and that she received from him a certificate of said marriage and carefully kept it till the year 1810 or 1811, when her husbands house was burnt & the said certificate burnt up with it, that her husband died the 14th day of February 1830 at  Clarendon, Orleans County, New York, and that she has no documentary evidence of any of these facts in support of this her claim & that she has remained a widow ever since said husbands death as will more fully appears by reference to the proof hereunto annexed.

Elizabeth Beard [signature]

Sworn to and  in open}
Court the 4th day of June 1838}
before Stephen Reeves
Judge of Probate
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At the same time & place mentioned in the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Beard, personally appeared before the said Probate
Court for said County, James Beard a resident of said Shiawassee County, Michigan & who being duly sworn according to law doth depose that he is the son of the above named Henry Beard & said Elizabeth Beard, that he is fifty three years old that he has had five brothers, four of whom are now living as he believes, & has had one sister, all the children of said Henry & Elizabeth, that ever since his first remembrance until the death of his father, 
his father & mother lived together as husband & wife, brought up the family as husband & wife & were always reputed as husband & wife
that his said father was a Revolutionary pensioner & died in the year 1830 in Clarendon Orleans County, New York, and he
doth further depose that he has seen the marriage Certificate mentioned in said declaration of his mother the said Elizabeth, which was signed by the Rev Mr. Moffit - this was in 1810 before the said house was burnt.   Until that year said Henry Beard's house was burnt & that certificate was no doubt burnt up in it, as it was to mentioned then that all the papers were burnt & that he never saw it afterwards and he doth further depose that said Elizabeth his mother has never been married since the death of said Henry Beard.

James Beard [signature]

Sworn to & subscribed in    }
open Court the 4th day       }
of June 1838, before            }
Stephen Reeves
Judge of Probate
At the same time & place mentioned in the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Beard,  personally appeared before the said Probate Justice for said County, Gideon Drake a resident of Shiawassee County, Michigan; & who being duly sworn according to law doth depose that he has been personally and intimately acquainted with the above named Henry Beard & Elizabeth Beard & lived a near
neighbor to them in Lyons N.Y. from sometime near the year 1802
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to the year 1822, at which last mentioned time he the deponent removed from Lyons to Allegany County N. Y. & was often back to
Lyons & generally saw said Henry & Elizabeth, and during all that time they lived together as husband & wife, were always so reputed, & in that relation brought up a family of children, &
that said Henry died some 7 or 8 years since & was a pensioner of the United States when he died, and that since the death of said Henry said Elizabeth has never been married to [carrot inserted] his [end of carrot] knowledge or belief. And that he is well acquainted with James Beard son of said Henry & Elizabeth, & knows him to be a man of truth.

Gideon Drake [signature]

Sworn to & subscribed in   }
open Court the 4th day of  }
June 1838 before                }
Stephen Reeves                     
Judge of Probate

State of Michigan    }
Oakland County      } SS

I Stephen Reeves Judge of the Probate Court of said County do certify that James Beard & Gideon Drake the persons who made the foregoing depositions are credible witnesses and I do further certify that on hearing the foregoing testimony it appears to the Court & the said Court is of opinion that said Elizabeth Beard was lawfully married to Henry Beard during the Revolutionary war
& before the time of service of said Henry had expired; that said Harry died the 14th day of February 1830, that said Elizabeth is the widow of the said Henry Beard, that she has not been
married since the death of said Henry, & that her declaration aforesaid is in all respects true.
In testimony of which I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court at Pontiac in the County of Oakland the 4th day of June 1838.
Stephen Reeves
Judge of Probate
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Ex'r  INVALID
REJECTED [stamped]

Elizabeth Beard
wid. of Henry

[rest of form blank except a checkmark next to Attorney:]
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Henry Beard
R 668
{Coutl
{Pa.

Am. Claims, Cl. 9
and List of 1835 for
Pa. do not show Inv.
pension.
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State of Pennsylvania}
Adams County          } SS

Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County Michael Clapsaddle, aged Seventy two years last February who being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith, that he was a Sergeant in Captain Frederick Kurtz's Company in Colonel John Andrew's Battalion of in General Washington's Militia in the
service of the United States in the year 1777, that Henry Beard was a private soldier in the aforesaid Company & was wounded at Chesnut [Chestnut] Hill, in an attack made by the British, by a ball passing thr'o his hip & near to his groin. Deponent further saith that he assisted to carry the said Henry Beard in a blanket, across the Swedes fort to the White
horse. Deponent further saith that the said Henry Beard was sent to the Hospital at Lancaster, & that after he recovered, this Deponent saw the said Henry after he had
enlisted in the standing Army in the Dragoons commanded by Captain Mathomen Vanhare & continued in the service to the close of the War, was taken prisoner & got home about the [carrot inserted] time [end of carrot] Cornwallis was taken & this Deponent further saith not -

Michl Clapsadle [signature]

Sworn & subscribed
the 27th day of September
Anno Domini 1822
Before me
Russell
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Adams County - Set In the State of Pennsylvania
William McClellan Jr.  Prothonotary 
of the Court of Common Pleas in 
land for the County of Adams Do 
Certify that Alexander Russell Esq 
whose name is subscribed to the 
foregoing deposition is and was at the time
of subscribing the same a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned
to all whose official acts and deeds full faith
and credit is given - witness my hand 
and seal of office this twenty seventh day
of September A.D. 1822 -
R W Wilson for W. McClellan Jr.
Prothy



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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County SS

Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace in & for the said County Stephen Beard aged sixty seven years last February who being duly Sworn,
According to Law Deposeth & saith that he was a Privat dragoon in Captain Fankins  comp in the service of the United States and that the said Henry Beard was belong to the said camp that I belong to for the term of three years & this Deponent further saith not

[illegible] Baseth [signature]
Sworn & subscribed
the Ninth day of
October AD 1822
Mor Lewis

Pennsylvania
Berks County ss I Marks Jno Biddle, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Berks County do hereby certify that Mordecai Lewis, Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the above, was at the time of taking and signing the above affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County duly authorized and Commissioned and to that all acts done by him in that capacity full faith
and credit are due and of right ought to be
given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Reading this 14th day of October AD 1822
for
Marks Jon Biddle Prothy
Elijah Dechert
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State of Pennsylvania
Berks County ss
Personally appeared before me the subscriber
one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Philip Smith, aged Sixty Six
years last March past, who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was a Corporal in Captain Bartholomew Van Heer's Cou' of Light Dragoons, in the service of the United States, that Henry Beard was enlisted in the year 1778 for the Term of three years as a private in the aforesaid Company
and to the best of his memory, the said H. Beard served the above time out, and this deponant further saith not.
Philip Smith
Sworn & Subscribed
the 12th October A.D.
1822
John Guldin
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Pennsylvania
Berks County I Marks Jno. Biddle, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Berks County do hereby certify that John Gulden Esquire, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing affidavit, was at the time of taking and signing the same and ever since has been a Justice of the Peace in and for the Said County, duly authorized and Commissioned and that to all acts done by him in that Capacity full faith and Credit are due and of right ought to be given.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said Court at Reading this 14th day of October AD 1822
for Mark Jno. Biddle, Prothy
Elijah Dechert
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Inc al Feb 25
Michn
Wm Baird

James L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington

Hon. Jno. Norvell
Senate US

1822
    64
1758
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Senate Chamber,
Washington, Feb. 24, 1839.

Sir, 

If you can enable me to comply with both branches of the within letter, you will oblige,

Very Respectfully,
Your most ob.t servt.
John Norvell

James L. Edwards, Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
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Senate Michn
Apl 19

J L. Edwards Esq
Com of Pensions
Washington City

From O. D. Richardson
Esq April 19 1839

[stamp]
PONTIAC APR 6
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Pontiac, Michigan. 7th Ap. 1839
J. L. Edward Esq

Com of Pensions,

Sir - I have lately rcd a communication from
the Hon. John Nowell US. Senator from this State, enclosing a letter from you to him of the date of March 1, 1839 relating to the claim of
Elizabeth Baird to a pension. I have just seen some of the heirs of the applicant who inform me she died sometime in August which is since the time when she made her application for a pension.  That application was made upon the ground of her being the widow of Henry
Beard deceased who was on the Pension Roll on account of Rev. services.

You will do those interested as heirs a favor by writing me whether
1. The application which she formerly made under oath & which is now on file in the Pension office, can in case of her death, be used for the purpose of enabling the heirs to obtain the pension under the Act of July 7, 1839?
2. Whether the other proof attached to her said application, & also on file same,
can be who on the application by the heirs?

If there be blank forms & directions which it is necessary to follow in this claim by the heirs, please send them to me.
Your most obt serv [obedient servant]
O D Richardson
Richardson
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Henry Beard N.Y. Act March 18. 1818
to what time paid?
Pen: Office
July 25, 1838
pd to 4 Sep 1829 Died 14th Feb 1830
JH
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July 26 45
10
Comm of Pension office 
in the War Department
Washington D.C.

Hy. Baird
NY roll Decd 31 or 2
12 Dec 22 [marked in pencil]

[stamp]
TERRE HAUTE JUL 19
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Terre Haute July 17th 1845.

to the Com. of the Pension office
in the War Department

Sir, Henry Baird decd was a pensioner, and recd a pension until the time of his death in 1831 or 32. he was a Soldier during the Revolutionary War, Line of the Pennsylvania troops, he sometimes spelled his name Baird, he lived and died at Albion Orleans County New York.  he was married as early as the year 1774 or 1775. to Elizabeth McDaniel with whom he lived until his death, she remained
his widow until her death in the year 1839.
during their marriage they had four children three of whom are now living, and the
writer of this is one of them, we wish
to know whether she was not entitled to a pension during her life time after his death, and if so, she not having applied for it, we
wish to know whether we cannot now apply for it and get all that she was entitled to have drawn. If so we shall be much obliged to you if you will forward us instructions & such directions as will enable us to obtain it, we are
in great need and if it is our right we want it.
Truly yours,
Alexander Baird
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Apl 24
Hy. Beard
NY Roll 1818

Com
12 Dec 22
21 Mar

Free
G VA Chapin

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Pension Court
Washington
D. C

[stamp]
LYONS NY
APR 18
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Lyons Wayne Co. N.Y.
April 16th 1837
Sir,
Henry Beard, a soldier of the revolution, who received a pension of $96 per annum, died in
February 1830, leaving a widow to whom he was married before the close of the revolutionary war.  she is still living and is quite infirm and poor.
I am requested to inquire whether her case comes within the provisions of the act of
July 4th 1836?  And whether she would be
entitled to a pension on making proof of the facts above stated?
You will confer a favor by answering the above inquiries as soon as may be convenient.
Very respectfully
your obt Svt.
Graham McChapin
J. L. Edwards Esqr
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[A cover for a letter]

FREE
James L. Edwards Esqr. Com. of Pensions
Washington City

3595.      Mar 16
Michg. 
4 July 36
[An illegible stamp and writing]
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James L. Edwards Esqr
Com. of Pensions.

Sir - I herein enclose to you the declaration of Elizabeth Beard widow of Henry Beard deceased who was a Rev Pensioner of the State of N.Y.  He died you will perceive the 14th day of February 1830 - & as his heirs of that portion of his pension which was due at the time of his death, you are respectfully referred to the documents on file in your office to aid you in deciding on 
this application. 

Whenever a decision shall have been made by you, please write informing me of the result.

Very respectfully your
most obt Sevt
O D Richardson

Pontiac, Michigan
June 7. 1838.