Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34646, Samuel Beaty, Penn.
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(S-1776)

SERVICE NUMBER

[handwritten Penn. Beaty, Samuel S.34646]

CONTENTS
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16.\,449.
Maryland.

Samuel Beaty, (R) (illegible) co. y in the state of Maryland, who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Atlee, of the Pennsylvania line, for the term of 14 mos. Feb '77 to April 1777 (undoubtedly an error as 14 mos. would end in April 1778) 

prescribed on the Roll of Maryland at the rate of 8 dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of April 1819.

certificate of pension issued the 8th of Feb 1820 and sent to hon. Stevenson Archer, member of Congress for Mary'd.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819  38.66
semi-anl allowance ending 4 March 1820 48.66
4 mos 25/30}                $86.66

Reinstated (illegible) 21, 1823
(illegible.....)  {Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March 1818.}
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Samuel Beaty
Privet
Cecil County MD
Col Atlee's, Penna
Jan'y or Feb 1776 to
April 1777
14 Months
10 April 1819Hon: Stevenson Archer
Member of Congress
for Maryland

Application
Samuel Beaty
for a pension
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State of Maryland
Cecil County to wit.

Samuel Beaty, a citizen of the United States of America and at this time residing in Cecil County in the state of Maryland, doth depose, declare and say that he enlisted in the month of January or February 1776 in a company of Infantry commanded by Captain Samuel Watson, belonging to the Pennsylvania Line, being the Second Pennsylvania Regiment then commanded by Colonel William Allen; that this deponent enlisted for the term of one year, at the expiration of which he was discharged at Philadelphia in the beginning of April 1777, by a Major Joseph Woods of Philadelphia and which said discharge this deponent hath long since lost, and that this deponent by reason of his indigent circumstances needs the assistance of his country for support

That (illegible) Maryland Cecil County To Wit April 1829, then appeared in open court the above named Samuel Beaty, and made oath upon the Holy Evangely of Almighty God, that the several facts and circumstances stated above are just and true.
Signed: James Sewall

Maryland Cecil County to wit.
It appears to the satisfaction of the undersigned judges of the Judicial District of Maryland, comprising the counties of Talbot, Queen Anne's
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Kent and Cecil, that the before named Samuel Beaty served in the Revolutionary War upwards of nine months on the Continental Establishment, and that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support.
Signed:  Rich. Earle, Lemuel Purnell

State of Maryland, Cecil County 

I hereby certify that Richard T. Earle Esq. and Lemuel Purnell Esq., gentlemen before whom the foregoing declaration appears to have been made, and whose names are above subscribed, were at the time of so doing and still are two of the judges of the second judicial district of the State of Maryland, duly commissioned and qualified and sworn and to all whose acts as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in courts of justice as thereabout.

Om testimony whereof I have set my hand and affix the seal of my office this seventeenth day of April eighteen hundred and nineteen 1819.
Signed:  Samual {illegible}, clerk of Cecil County Court
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Copy
Samuel Beaty
Oath schedule 
As a pensioner under
the late Act of 
Congress
16.449
March 1820
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State of Maryland Cecil County To [unreadable]
On this 14th day of September 1820. Personally appeared in open court being a court of record for the second judicial district of the state of Maryland proceeding according to the Court of the common Law with a Jurisdiction unlimited in amount of keeping a Record of its proceedings Samuel Beaty aged sixty eight years resident in Cecil County in said district who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows. That he enlisted at Battle Swamp in Cecil County in February in the year 1776 in the Company commanded by Capt Samuel Watson in the Second Pennsylvania Regiment commanded by  Col Saintclair, that he enlisted for One Year which time he served and received a discharge which discharge he has since lost and that he receives a petition under the Act of Congress dated March 18th 1818. The number of this certificate is 16.449
And I do solemley swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th 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 to dimmish it or to bring myself within the provisions of the Act of Congress Entitled an Act to  provide for certain persons engaged in the Revolutionary War passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor that any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debt, due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me sworn to in open court.
Subscriber James [unreadable]
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Schedule
Two Horses, two Cows, Household furniture of an indifferent kind, the whole not exceeding in value Seventy Dollars, That he has a wife aged about seventy two, one son named Samuel aged about twenty six, one daughter named Jane aged about twenty three, that he is a shoemaker by trade but from age and infirmities he has not been able to follow his trade for five years past.
Samuel Beaty Esquire

Sworn the 14th Sept. 1820. Before me the
Subscriber Chief Judge of the second Judicial
District of Maryland composed of the Counties of Talbot, Queen Anne and Kent and Cecil County aforesaid
R. O. Earle

I, James Sewall Clerk of Cecil County Court
Do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule hereto annexed, are true copies 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 Seventy Dollars ---
In testimony thereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 14th day of Sept 1820.
James Sewall Clerk of the
Court for the County of Cecil
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Old case
There is an error in this
statement which should
be corrected. St. Clair
was the full Colonel &
Allen was at Lt. Col.
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This is to Certify this I Samuel Beaty Senor [sic]- aged Sixty Eight Years did in the Year 1776 at a Lublick house in Cecil County Known by the name of Battleyswamp Inlist in a Company ^of infantry Commanded by Capt Samuel Watson Attached to Second Regiment of the Pennsylvania line under the command of William Allen [illegible word crossed out] and Arthur Sinclair ["Lieutenant in" crossed out] Colonel -- did Rendesvouze [sic] in Charlestown in Scc" County for a short time and in February did march to Philadelphia and after joining The Regiment left Sd" place in the begining [sic] of March for Albany in the State of New York from thence ^to Tycondoroga [sic] on Lake Champlain From thence to fort Chamblec at the East End of Lake Champlain in lower Canada -- from thence down the River Sorrell to the River St Lawrence and down S-d River to within three [miles crossed out] Mile of Quebeck [sic]and there being met by our Army for which We ware [sic]a Reinforcement then on the Retreat was obliged to retreat Back up Sd River St. Lawrence to a place then called pointdeshanbo at which place we made a Stand but was afterward forced to Evacuate From thence to the three Evertown on S"d River at which place Captain Samuel Watson died a Short time Previous to the Battle of Said place immediately after his the Said Captain Sam-l Watson Desceam Thomas L Moore of Philadelphia took the Command of Said Company and being still on the Retreat up said River untill [sic]we came to the mouth of the Sorrell River and there being Reinforced by three Regiments on their way to Quebeck [sic] under General Thompson made a stand and Evicted some fortifications at Which time the British advanced as far as the three Rivers our Army being ordered Down to attack them, but being Reputed Was again forced to retreat to our fortifications and from thence To fort Chamblec which place ^we set fire to with a considerable number of Vessels
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And left them in flames from thence to fort S"t Johns at the Narrows of Lake Champlain which place we also set on fire -- from thence to the Isle axnoix Then called the Isle of Nore at which place the British and Indians Killed a number of our men from thence to Crownpoint on Lake Champlain at which place Colonel Allen left his Regiment And came to Philadelphia towards the latter End of June and as Soon as Independance was declaired he never Returned to his Regiment Again this I presume is the reason why he is ^not Knowing Colonel Sinclair Then alone had the comand [sic] of the regiment in the beginning of July We came to Tycondoroga [Ticonderoga] the troops then being ordered to repair the Old french lines and likewise a large fort on Mount Independance On the opposit [sic] side of the lake where we continued untill [sic] october When Burgoyue with his forces made his appearance within Being Prepaird he thought broper not to attackt [sic] but retreated Into canada the troops Continued at tycondoroga [sic] under the Command of General Gates untill December when General Wayne took command --- and toward the last of February 1777 the 2nd and 4th Regiments Let said Place for Philadel[hia and in April was Discharged by Major Joseph Wood     Samuel Beaty Senor [sic]

P.s.  I might Readily mistake the rank of Colonel - Sinclaire and Allen at this distance of time as both had the Title of Colo"ls & had the command of the 2d Regt untill Allen Disappeared when Colonel Sinclair alone took the command   Samuel Beaty Senor
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Port Deposit, Cecil Co. Md. Feby 15th-:1850
Hon John B. Floyd
Sec of War.
     Dear Sir: - I hereby Certify that Mrs Jane Connelly of this Town, is the daughter of One Samuel Beatty, a Revolutionary Soldier, who fought bravely through the war.   He has been dead Some twenty five years. Previous to his death he received a pension from the general government, and one from the Legislature of Pennsylvania __ For many years before his death, I acted as his agent in procuring his allowance, and for this reason, his daughter, Mrs" Jane Connelly, requests my Signature as a voucher on her behalf.   She has heard that Congress has made ^some provision for the Surviving Children of the Soldiers of the Revolution:  And if Such be the case, I can assume you that these can be none more deserving than Mrs Connelly.  She is in very limitted [sic] Circumstances ___ far advanced in years and has been much aflicted [sic] in body of late.   Samuel Beaty has left Many decendents [sic], but Mrs Connelly is the only Surviving child; she is a very worthy woman, and I take pleasure in accommodating her to your favorable consideration
 I am, Very Respectfully,
Your obd-"t Svt_:
Jo"s G Nesbitt
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May 29, 1937

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

BA-J/MCS
Samuel Beaty, S.34646

Mr. Edwin B. Graham
362 So. Negley Avenue
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your request for the Revolutionary War record of Samuel Beaty whose pension certificate was issued February 8, 1820.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in pension claim, S. 34646, based upon the Revolutionary War Service of this Samuel Beaty.
The date and place of his birth and the names of his parents were not given.
He enlisted in January or February, 1776, at a public house in Cecil County, Maryland, called Battle Swamp and he rendezvoused at Charlestown. He served as private in Captain Samuel Watson's company which after his death was commanded by Captain Thomas L. Moore, in Colonel St. Clair's Pennsylvania regiment. He was discharged in April, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1819, at which time he was living in Cecil County, Maryland. He then signed as Samuel Beaty, Senior.
In 1820 he was sixty-eight years of age and was a resident of Cecil County, Maryland. He then referred to his wife, name not stated, as aged about seventy-two years, to his son, Samuel, aged about twenty-six years, and to a daughter, Jane, aged about twenty-three years.
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In 1859 it was stated that Mrs. Jane Connolly of Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland, was the only surviving child of the soldier, Samuel Beaty, "who had been dead some twenty-five years" In 1859 one James Touchstone of Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland, stated that Mrs. Jane Connolly was his aunt.

There are no further data relative to family.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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James Touchstone
March 3
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[illegible] Office
March. 3rd 1859.
Sir.
My letter together with the Certificate of J.G. Nesbitt " [illegible] adressed the Secty: of War.  In relation to the Supposed Claim of Mrs. Jane Connolly. to a pension as the surviving child of Samuel Beaty. he been referred to this Office for reply.
     There is no law under which Mrs. Connally would be entitled to anything .  in virtue of her father's Services.

James Touchstone
Fort Deposit
Cecil Co.
Md:
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34646
INVALID.
File No. 34,646
Samuel Beaty
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:--Vol. 2, Page 34
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1931 June 11 Hist to Mrs
C. W. Tomlinson, UCA
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1937 May 29, First to Mr
Edwin B. Graham. M.C.S.
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1938 Oct. 15 - Mr. Edwin B Graham
advised only Saml. Beaty - see letter
in Joseph Beatty - S.35188.
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1938 Nov. 28. Further information to Edwin
B. Graham. See letter in Rev. John Beatty - W.5803-JLL
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War Department
Pension Office
July 26, 1821
Sir
I am directed by the Secretary of War to inform you that he has reconsidered your claim to a continuance of the pension under the acts of Congress providing for Revolutionary Officers and Soldiers: and although the amount of your property is Small, yet as your service was very
Short, he does not consider you entitled, on principles of equity, to the provisions of the law. Your name cannot therefore be reinstated on the pension list.
I am, respectfully,
Yr. Obt. Svt.
J. L. Edwards

Mr Samuel Beaty
Cecil County
Maryland
.
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September 23d 1822.
We, the undersigned, inhabitants of Cecil County, Maryland, have long known and
ally, who was inscribed in the pension list in consequence of having served fifteen
months during the revolutionary war, and has since been dropped from such solely on account of his service having been short, as would appear from a letter dated War Department, Pension office July 26, 1827. His indignant circumstances are well known to us, knowing an aged wife dependent for support of his feeble pension. She has recently experienced a serious diminution of his little Stock, by the loss of a horse worth at least forty dollars - Which is not to say that if his case is embraced by the same granting pension, his wants, his age and the arduous valor of his service in Canada, all done for the aid of his country; duly  impressed will be made; we recommend his case in  its special manner.
With consideration, hoping that you may find it equally commiserate with your duty as with humility to restore his name to the list, from the date from when it was dropped.
We are yours with high respect.
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good fellow citizens and obedient servants.
James Gray
Samuel Ramsay
Robert Carter
George Michell
James Galbraith
Henry Hollingsworth
George Kidd
Caleb Parker
Carnell Cooley
Fran LeBaron
David Rowland
James L Carter
Wm Chow
George Gale
Jacob Conrad 
Joel Reynolds
James Nesbitt
Joseph Gurlie
Lorne Deposit
George Davidson
John Nesbitt
Woodrow Abraham
David Gilmour
T L Savin
Hy S Stiles
J.C. Calhoon, Secretary of War
George W. Lightener
Cornelius Smith
George C. Jenner
[Note: A number of signatures are illegible.)
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Maryland Cecil County Lot
I hereby certify that I have a personal
knowledge of the greater part of the persons
whose names are hereunto subscribed, and
believe them to be resident of Cecil County &
Gentleman of respectability. I further certify 
that I am personally acquainted with Samuel
Beaty the person recommended in the written Petition and although I have no accurate knowledge of his circumstances, believe him to be poor, and know him to be a worthy and deserving man.
In testimony where of I have 
hereunto set my hand & seal
of Office this twenty eighth
day of September 1822
James Sewall Clk
Cecil County
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(check mark) James Touchstone
Port Deposit Md
Feby 24. 1859

(check mark) 
Transmits application on behalf of Mrs. Jane Connolly daughter of a Rev. soldier for a pension.

(check mark) Respectfully referred to the Commission of Pensions
[illegible March 1 '59} Moses Kelly Chc Clk
Respectfully referred, with it's enclosure to the Hon. Secretary of the Interior-
War Dept
28. Feby.1859}

Rec'd 1 Mch '59
Wm Rhett
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Feby 24th 1859
Port Deposit, Cecil Co. Md
Hon. John B. Floyd
Sec. of War,
Dr Sir.__ 
I am requested by Mrs. Jane Connolly who is my
Aunt, to forward the enclosed certificate to you__
If there has been any provision made by Congress, for the relief of the Children of the soldiers of the Revolution, I hope you will have the goodness to reply to this communication.
I have the honor to be, In,
Very Respectully
you
Obedt, Svt.
James Touchstone
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Samuel Beaty
The magistrate who administered the oaths should certify to the credibility of the witnesses.
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State of Maryland
Cecil County
On this 22nd day of October 1819. before me the Subscriber, one of the Justices of the Peace for said County, appears John Sterrett Senior, and makes oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that sometime during the months of January or February 1776, he was
at a public House in said County, commonly
called Battle Swamp, when Samuel Beaty
enlisted as a private in the continental Service,
and that he marched away with the Troops, and after serving the term for which he had enlisted, he, the said Samuel Beaty, returned to the House of William Patton, where he had lived previous to his enlisting.
Sworn before Thos. L. Savine
Cecil County ss.
I hereby certify that David Patton & John
Sterrett Snr. whose depositions were taken before me on the 22nd day of October 1819 respecting Saml Beaty Snr, are men of strict
veracity. The former viz David Patton is now a member of the Legislature of Maryland for this County, whose standing in point of veracity cannot be doubted. The latter is of no less credible. Both of whom I am well-acquainted with, and do not hesitate to say that their testimony is & ought to be entitled to full credit. 
Given under my hand & seal at Port Deport this 4th day of January 1820. Thos L. Savine
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State of Maryland
Cecil County, to wit
On this 22nd day of October 1819, before me the Subscriber, one of Justices of the Peace for said County, appears David and Patton, and makes oath on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that sometime during the
months of January or February 1776, he was at a Public House in said county commonly called
Battle Swamp, when Samuel Beaty enlisted as a
private in the continental Service, and that he
marched off with the troops, and after serving
the term for which he had enlisted, he, the said
Samuel Beaty, returned to the House of this
deponent's Father, where he has lived previous
to his enlisting.
Sworn before Tho. L. Lewin

State of Maryland Cecil County
I hereby certify that Thomas L. Savin Esqr Gentleman, before whom the above acknowledgment appears to have been made, and whose name is thereto signed, was at the time of taking and Signing the same and still one of the State of Maryland's Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned qualified, and sworn and to all whose acts as such due faith and credit are and ought to be given as well in the Court of Justice as thereon.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the public seal of my office this day of November 29.
James Sewall
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1002 Stanley Blood
Ardmore Okla
May 30, 1931

Bureau of Pensions
Revolutionary War Section
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sirs:-

One of my ancestors, Samuel Beatty served
in War of the Revolution in the Continental
line in Pennsylvania. He was pensioned in Cecil County, Maryland.  Just what data do your records show about him, if any. I am particularly anxious to learn his wife's
maiden name.

Yours truly
Mrs. C. W. Tomlinson
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PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
State Headquarters
418 Fulton Building, 107 Sixth Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Telephone Grant 2122-2123
May 6, 1937.

Officers 1937
Hon. John S. Fisher. President
Lawrence E. Hickman, Esq., Vice President
William J. Aiken, Esq., Vice President
Robert M. Ewing,  Esq., Vice President
Malcolm Macpherson, Secretary-Treasurer
J. Donald Babb, Registrar
Rev. Charles W. Maus, D.D., Chaplin
Fred C. Houston, Esq., Chancellor
Lewis C. Walkinshaw, Esq., Historian
Edwin B. Graham, Genealogist
Edwin F. G. Harper, Esq., National Trustee

Board of Management
John W. Anthony
Col. Franklin Blackstone
Jacob Erdman Cope
Frank J. Forsyth
John R. Haudenshield
Frank G. Love
Capt. J. Clark Mansfield
Capt. Harry L. McKain
Dr. Robert M. Sherrard

Delegate at Large
Dr. Clifton G. Hughes

OFFICE OF THE GENEAOLOGIST
362 SO. NEGLEY AVENUE
PITTSBURGH, PA

Reply to this address.

Pension Department,
Revolutionary War,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:
In re: SAMUEL BEATTY
The Penn'a. Archives, 3rd Ser.Vol.23, page 546 shows
"Samuel Beaty, pr. P.L.2-8-1820". This under heading of Penn'a. Pensioners.
I take this to have been a National pension and so this letter to you. I would like to record of this man, as shown on papers connected with this pension, especially his family. Mention may be made in those papers giving his wife and children and that seems necessary for me to connect the lineage with a certainty.
My line of tracing is, John (1), Samuel (2) and John (3), and it looks as though all were in the Revolutionary War.

Thank you.

Yours very truly,

Edwin B. Graham, State Genealogist
for the S.A.R.Society.
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PENNSYLVANIA SOCIETY
SONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
State Headquarters
418 Fulton Building, 107 Sixth Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Telephone Grant 2122-2123
May 6, 1937.

Officers 1937
Hon. John S. Fisher. President
Lawrence E. Hickman, Esq., Vice President
William J. Aiken, Esq., Vice President
Robert M. Ewing,  Esq., Vice President
Malcolm Macpherson, Secretary-Treasurer
J. Donald Babb, Registrar
Rev. Charles W. Maus, D.D., Chaplin
Fred C. Houston, Esq., Chancellor
Lewis C. Walkinshaw, Esq., Historian
Edwin B. Graham, Genealogist
Edwin F. G. Harper, Esq., National Trustee

Board of Management
John W. Anthony
Col. Franklin Blackstone
Jacob Erdman Cope
Frank J. Forsyth
John R. Haudenshield
Frank G. Love
Capt. J. Clark Mansfield
Capt. Harry L. McKain
Dr. Robert M. Sherrard

Delegate at Large
Dr. Clifton G. Hughes

OFFICE OF THE GENEAOLOGIST
362 SO. NEGLEY AVENUE
PITTSBURGH, PA

Reply to this address. May 6, 1937.

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Pension Department,
Revolutionary War,
Harrisburg, Penn'a.

Gentlemen:

In re: SAMUEL BEATTY
Pennsylvania Archives, 3rd Series, Volume 23, page 546 shows-
"Samuel Beaty, pr. P.L. 2-8-1820"
This appears  under heading "Pennsylvania Pensioners, and I am unable to tell from this whether it was a National or State pension, so this letter to you asking for information.
I would like to have record of papers filled with this claim, particularly the name of wife and his children, if given.
My tracing shows the line as follows (1st) John, (2nd) Samuel, (3rd) John and it look as though all three were in that war. May I have what information, if any, is given in this connection, assuming that this was a State pension. Thank you.

Yours very truly,

Edwin B. Graham,
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November 28, 1938.

BA-J/ILL - See letter.
John Beaty-W. 5803
John Beatty-S. 22644

Mr. Edwin B. Graham
363 South Negley Avenue
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter of November 21, in further quest of the Revolutionary War Beatty records. You state that one John Beatty came to America prior to the Revolutionary War and settled in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, and that two of his children were Joseph and Samuel, Samuel having settled in Westmoreland County, where he married Margaret Lemmon.

There is no claim for pension on file based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a John Beatty who was old enough to have been the father of Joseph Beaty (S. 35188) or of the Samuel Beatty (S. 34646) whose records were furnished you October 15, 1938 and May 29, 1937, respectively.

The record has been found of a John Beatty (S. 22644) who emigrated to this county and of a John Beaty (W. 5803) of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Those records are furnished you herewith as they may aid you in your research.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.
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June 11, 1931

Mrs. C.W. Tomlinson
1002 Stanley Boulevard
Ardmore, Oklahoma

Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
MCS:MLB

Dear Madam:

You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 34646, that Samuel Beaty enlisted in January or February, 1776, at a public house in Cecil County, Maryland, called Battle Swamp, and served as [handwritten comment "rendezvoused at Charleston"] private in Captain Samuel Watson's company which after his death was commanded by Captain Thomas L. Moore, in Colonel Saint Clair's Pennsylvania regiment. He was discharged in April 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 10, 1819, at which time he was living in Cecil County, Maryland.
In 1820 he was sixty-eight years of age and was a resident of Cecil County, Maryland. He then referred to his wife, name not stated, as aged about seventy-two years, to his son, Samuel, aged about twenty-six years, and to a daughter, Jane, aged about twenty-three years.
In 1859 it was stated that Mrs. Jane Connolly of Port Deposit, Cecil County, Maryland, was the only surviving child of the soldier who "had been dead some twenty-five years".

Very truly yours

E. W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner