Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S.45265, Elijah Beardsley, Conn
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(3-1776)

SERVICE: Conn
Beardsley, Elijah
NUMBER: S. 45265
CONTENTS: [blank]
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Notification sent to the Pensioner care of Saul [?] Henkle Esq 30 April 1823 Springfield Ohio [/left side]

[right side]8745
Ohio
Elijah Beardsley
of Butler Co. in the state of Ohio who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Swift [Heman Swift] of the Connect[faded] line, for the term of 3 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 6 of June 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 1 of April, 1819 and sent to [illegible name crossed out] Henry Weaver Esq Hamilton
Butler Co Ohio

Arrears to 4th of march 1818 . 8 mos 25/30 . 4/31 71.69
Semi-anl all'ce ending 1t Sep 1819 48-
[total] 119.69

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}
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[left side]
Elijah Beardsley
6 June 1818 Private
Col Swift / Sherman { Connecticut
Three years
[the word 'Correct' is written very lightly in pencil underneath this entry]

[middle] Hon. J C Calhoun [John Caldwell Calhoun] Esq
Secretary of War
Washington City [illegible]

[right side, written sideways]
Hamilton Ohio
[?]th June 1818

[the word 'Free' is written  lightly beneath this]
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State of Ohio Butler County } SS.

Before the subscriber Daniel Millikin an associate judge of the court of common Pleas for the county of Butler in the State of Ohio personally came Elijah Beardsley who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that on the first day of January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven [1777] at the town of New Fairfield in the county of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut he enlisted as a  common soldier into the company of Phineas Beardsley Lieutenant James Barns & Ensign Sled into the regiment commanded by Colonel Heman Swift this deponent does not recollect the number of the regiment nor does he know whether the regiment was ever numbered said regiment was then commanded by Brigadier General Huntingdon [Huntington] in the Connecticut line to serve as a common soldier for three years this deponent further saith that on the thirteenth day of May in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine [1779] he was selected and joined a company of light Infantry commanded by captain Chamberlain & on t the thirteenth day of June in the year last mentioned the said last mentioned company joined in a regiment commanded by colonel Sherman on the North river between Pitchhill & Fish Kill this deponent further saith that he faithfully served the United States as a common soldier until he was discharged he was at the
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taking of Stony point & continued under the command of general Wayne until he was discharged this deponent further saith that on the twenty ninth day of December in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy nine [1779] at Bearskin Ridge in the State of New Jersey he was discharged & received a discharge in writing from Philip B. Bradley Colonel commandant, which written discharge he has lost. This deponent is not positive that Philip B composed a part of the said Col name but as to this he is not certain from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support and further saith not & further saith not

sworn to & transcribed before me this 6th day of June 1818 
Dan Millikin } Elijah Beardsley

State of Ohio Butler County } SS
I Dan Millikin an associate judge for the cour of common pleas within and for the county of Butler aforesaid do hereby certify that from the above deposition it is prove to my satisfaction that Elijah Beardsley on the first day of January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy six [1776] enlisted as a common soldier into the company of Phineas Beardsley into the regiment of Colonel Heman Swift in the Connecticut line
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that he served the United States as a common soldier in the revolutionary war against the common enemy upwards of nine month and that from his reduced circumstances in life he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this 6th day of June A.D. 1818

Dan Millikin 

The State of Ohio Butler County S
I John Reily Clerk of the court of common pleas of the county of Butler aforesaid do certify that Daniel Millikin Esquire before whom the deposition and certificate within stated were taken and made was at the time of the taking and making thereof one of the associate Judges of the said court of common pleas of the said county of Butler and that to all his official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given.
In tesimony where of I have here unto set my hand and official seal at Hamiltion [Hamilton] the sixth day of June one thousand eight hundred and eighteen. [1818]
John Reily
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State of Ohio Clark County } 
On this [blank] day of [blank] 1823 personally appeared in open court being a court of record [?] in and for the County aforesaid Elijah Beardsley aged sixty two years residing in the County aforesaid 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 in the year 1777 on the first day of said year in Capt Phineas Beardsley company in Col Heman Swift's Regt of Connecticut line and marched to Rick's Hill [unsure about this] in the state of New York in the month of April wintered the next winter at Valley Forge and went from there with the armies to Princetown N.J. and returned to [?] and wintered in Danbury Con. [Connecticut] in the same company under the command of Capt Chamberlin in the spring returned to the highlands was attached to Col. [?] Regt of light infantry under Gen Wane at Fort Montgomery and was at the taking of Stoney Point and remained in said Brigade until December then rejoined Swift's Regt at [?] ridge and was discharged from the army on the 29th of said month _ Original declaration dated sixth 6th June 1818 and the number of his Pension certificate is 8743 and 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 or
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or in any manner [?] of my property or any [?] thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it and  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 services of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1878 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 any income other than what is contained in the schedule. hereunto amend and by me subscribed (Viz) one lot of ground containing something less than two acres appraised at [?] dollars, one horse saddle and bridle at twenty dollars / Plow $3 Gears $1 6 chairs at 25 cents, $1.50, [?] irons 1.50 Shovel and Tong, $2, Table $1.25 [?] pot and tea kettle $1.25 1 woolen cloak $3 6 pewter plates 75 cents 2 Earthen dishes 75 cents 4 Bowls 25 cents tea pot 50 cents 2 square dishes 37 1/2 cents 2 [?] 25 cents 4 tumblers 25 cents 6 table plates old 12 1/2 cents, 1 decanter 37 1/2. 1 coffee pot 25 cents 6 knives and forks 50 cents bread basket and platter 50 cents one shot gun $2 axe and hoe 1 dollar [?] cracked 50 cents 3 old pewter spoons - 5/ [?] 75 cents old chest 25 cents Total $74.87 1/2 
Elijah Beardsley
And that he is by occupation a farmer but unable by reason of advanced age and ill health can by cer-
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-tificate enclosed) is now and has been for five years passed unable to perform manual labour.
And that my family living with me are as follows my wife Sally aged fifty nine years of a hardly midling [middling] constitution, my daughter Laura aged twenty years also Marilla eighteen years.
Elijah Beardsley
Sworn and declared in open Court this 12th March 1823
Saul Henkle Clerk

Whereupon it was ordered that a copy of the above declaration and schedule be duly certified by the Clerk of this Court to the War Department, and that the value of the property contained in said scheduled be fixed at seventy four dollars and eighty seven and a half cents.

The State of Ohio
Clark County
I Saul Henkle Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the county aforesaid do certify the above to be a true copy of the schedule and declaration of Elijah Beardsley and of the order of said Court and Witness my hand and official seal at Springfield this 2nd April 1823
Saul Henkle Clk
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In reply to your request of [blank] for a statement of the military history of Elijah Beardsley a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) [crossed out] application for pension on file in this Bureau.


Dates of Enlistment or Appointment. | Length of Service. | Ranks. | Officers Under Whom Service was Rendered. | Captain. | Colonel.| State

[These were very faint, take with a grain of salt]

January 1, 1777 to | May 13 1779 | Private | | Phineas Beardsley | Heman Swift | 1st Conn.

May 13, 1779 to | Dec 29 1779 | [blank] | | Chamberlain | Meigs | Right Infantry

discharged at | [blank] | [blank] | | [blank] | [blank] | [blank] 

Basking Ridge N.J. | [blank] | [blank] | | [blank] | [blank] | [blank] 

Battles engaged in, Stony Point 
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enlisted at New Fairfield, Conn.
Date of application for pension, June 6, 1818. His claim was allowed
Residence at date of application, in 1823: Clark Co., Ohio
Age at date of application, in 1823 - sixty-two years
Remarks: in 1823 he returned to his wife Sally aged 59 daughter Laura aged 20 also Marilla ag 18 year.

Respectfully,
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Commissioner.
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45265
Reg INVALID
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File No. 45265
Elijah Beardsley
Prin Rev War
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Act: 18 March 1818
Index: - Vol. 3, Page 34

{Arrangement of 1870.}

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1906 No. 8 - History to Mrs. Mary B. Ringle
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State of Ohio
Clark County
SS

Be it remembered that on the 11th day of March eighteen hundred and twenty three
Personally appeared before me the undersigned an acting Justice of the Peace on the county aforesaid Ambrose Blount a practising [practicing] Physician and surgeon in the county and state aforesaid who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has been personally and intimately acquainted with Elijah Beardsley of the county of Clark and State of Ohio aforesaid for several years past and during nearly he two last years past he said Beardsley has laboured under very considerable disability and bodily infirmity - particularly labouring under advanged [advanced] state of his respiratory and digestive organs with weakness and general debility of his limbs and joints and further this deponent saith not.
Ambrose Blount
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above written in witness where of I have here unto set my hand and seal
[illegible signature]
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The State of Ohio
Clark County
I Saul Henkle Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid and certify that R. Renick Esq. before whom the within certificate appears to have been sworn to was at that time and still is an acting justice of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn into office and to whose official acts as such full faith and credit are due as well in Courts of justice as thereof Witness my hand and official seal at Springfield this 3rd day of April 1823
Saul Henkle Clk
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The State of Ohio
Butler County
SS
Be it remembered that on the sixth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three Personally appeared before me James Cummings a Justice of the peace in and for the county afforsaid [aforesaid] John Rickey practising [practicing] physician and surgeon in the County of Butler and State of Ohio after being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he has been acquainted with Elijah Beardsley of the county and state afforesaid [aforesaid] from August eighteen hundred and ninteen and that during this time he the said Elijah laboured under very considerable disability and complained particularly of dispepsey [Dyspepsia] and other hemorroidal affections together with an usual weakness in the joints of the knees and dificulty [difficulty] in breathing and further this deponant saith not.
John Rickey
Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and date above written
James Cummings
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The State of Ohio Clark County SS
This day personally appeared the undersigned [?] before me R. Renich one the the Justice of the pease [peace] in and for the county afforesaid [aforesaid] and deposeth and saith that has been acquainted with Elijah Beardsley of said county for several years past and that during the two last years of his acquaintance the said Elijah has labored under a difficulty of Breathing dyspethia [dyspepsia] and [?] weakness in his [?] and a general debility further this deponant saith not
Wm A Needham

Sworn to and subscribed before me In testimoney [testimony] whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 3 day of [?] 1823
R Renich LS

The State of Ohio
Clark County
I Saul Henkle Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County aforesaid do certify that R, Renich Esq before whom the above deposition appears to have been taken on this day is an acting Justice of the peace within and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and sworn into office unto whose official act as such full faith and credit are due [?] Courts of Justice as thereas witness my hand and official seal at Springfield this 3rd day of April 1823
Saul Henkle Clk
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1604 9th Ave.
Greeley Colo.
Oct 31, 1906.

Com. of Pensions.
Wash. D.C.

Dear Sir. - Will you please give me any data you may have concerning Elijah Beardsley, son of Capt. Phineas Beardsley.
Both, according to family history, served with the th Conn. Regt. It also says he was one of the Boston Tea Party.

Yours Truly
Mary Beardsley Ringle.
Greeley, Colo.

[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE A NOV 5 1906 [/stamp]