Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,274, Paul Beebe, Conn Continental
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SERVICE Conn Continental
Beebe, Paul 
Mary 
NUMBER W.17.274
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Dead. See letter to S. W. Wood, 29 Dec 1836

Notification sent September 11th 1820 to Ebenezer Learned, New London, Connecticut

Connecticut Roll
Paul Beebe 
Private 
Connecticut line 
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of April 1818 
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th of May 1818 and sent to Jeremiah G Brainard Esq. New London, Conn. 
Arrearages to 4th Septr 1818 
4 months 29 /30 $39.73 
{ Revolutionary claims, Act 18th March, 1818,} 
Continued War at different periods 
Longest term 3 years 
[illegible] New London
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Examined with original Rolls Aug. 1883, CSP. 

142
Connecticut
Mary Beebe 
widow of Paul Beebe deceased 
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818 
and who died on the 13th March 1834 
of New London Co. in the State of Ct. 
who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Hale of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Webb Conn. In the Ct. 
line for 2 years 
Inscribed on the Roll of Ct 
at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of Sept 1838 and sent Wm P. Cleveland Jr. New London Ct. 
Arrears to the 4th of March 1838 $160.00 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept 40.00 
$200.00 
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D H Addison Clerk
Book J. Vol. 1st Page 166
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State of Connecticut 
New London 
On this 6th day of April 1818 before me Jeremiah G. Brainard a Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut personally came Paul Beebe of the town of Waterford in New London County & being duly sworn according to law and the usage of said State did on his said oath by me to him administered declare & say that in the summer of the year 1775 he enlisted as a private in Capt Nathan Hales company in Colo Charles Webbs Regiment for seven months & marched to Roxbury that he served out said time & at the expiration thereof enlisted on or about November or December 1775 for the term of one year as a private in Capt Nathan Hales company in the Regiment commanded by Colo Charles Webb & went to Flatbush on Long Island & thence to North Island & thence to White Plains When his term of service was expired he was discharged at White Plains but from time & accident his discharge is lost. He afterwards enlisted for six months in Capt Jonathan [illegible] company in Col John Ely’s Regiment & was marched to [illegible]. He afterwards enlisted for three years in Capt Elisha Ely’s Company in Colo Charles
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Webbs Regt in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment & served the whole of said term during which he was transfered to Colo. Jon [illegible] Regiment and at the end of his said last term of enlistment honourably discharged at Morristown in New Jersey but this discharge is lost from time and accident 
He further states that he was at the Battles of Princeton & Trenton in New Jersey, in the attack on Statten Island under Lord Sterling and that at the storming of Stoney Point he was severely wounded in the right thigh by the enemy & has from the liberality of the United States government received a pension of forty five Dollars a year for these three years last past which pension upon his being admitted to the benefit of the late law of Congress for the relief of the officers & soldiers of the war of the Revolution, he hereby relinquishes. He is a Native & resident citizen of the United States & from his reduced circumstance he needs the assistance of his country for support.
Paul Beebe
Sworn before me on the Day and Date aforesaid  I witness whereof I have caused the Seal of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut to be hereunto affixed the Day Mount and year aforesaid 
Jeremiah G Brainard a Judge of the Superior Court of the State of Connecticut
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I Jeremiah G Brainard Judge &c as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Paul Beebe did serve in the Revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary of the department of war pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. The foregoing declaration was made to me as the aplicant declared in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War 
New London}
April 6, 1818}
Witness the seal aforesaid 
Jeremiah G Brainard a Judge of Superior Court of state of Connecticut
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State and District of Connecticut, ss. 
On this 1st Monday of August 1820, personally appeared in open Court, before the New London City Court holden at in & for the City of New London within the County of Newlondon in said State, on the 7th day of August 1820, the same being a court of record, proceeding according to the course of common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, Paul Beebe aged sixty years, resident in the town of Waterford in said State, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows: That he the said Paul Beebe enlisted for the term of three years in the Spring of the year 1777 in Providence in the State of Rhode Island in the company commanded by Captain Humphreys in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jonathan Meigs in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment: That he continued to serve in the said corps until the expiration of his enlistment which was three years when he was discharged from the said service in Fishkill in the state of New York That he made a declaration to obtain a pension under the law of the 18th of March 1818, as nearly as he can recollect, having no minutes, on the sixth day of April 1818; and had transmitted to him a certificate for a pension from the Secretary for the Department of War, No. 417 -- 
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 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;" 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 than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Paul Beebe 
That I am by occupation a labourer am now infirm having a serious injury in the right side which arose from lifting a boat at Fort Washington that he is also lame in the right knee which was occasioned by a wound received at the storming of Stoney Point from buck shot discharged at him by the enemy which have ever since been lodged in the knee & for which wounds he received a pension from the United States but [illegible] the same to take that provided by the act of the 18th of March 1818 that he has a wife named Mary aged sixty three years who has been subject to fits for fifteen years past & has in one of her fits [illegible] her foot very badly & in another put her shoulder out of joint so that the arm is now quite useless that his family consists of himself his wife a daughter Eunice aged fourteen years & a grand Child named James aged four years which said child he has been compelled to take home that his property consists of an old one story house & four acres poor land worth one hundred thirty dollars 
one [illegible] worth $10
six chains which cost 8 a piece & are worth $0.50 
1 Tea Kettle $0.25 
Old broken brown ware $0.050
two old tables $0.50 
two chests one with and one without lock $1. 
one pig $ 2.25 
6 old broken Knives & forks $0.25 
1 doz
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cracked & whole earthen plates $0.36 6 tea cup & saucers & [illegible] teapot $0.37 1 old deranged chest of drawers which cost $ 0.84 
Making in the whole One Hundred Forty Six Dollars & eighty cents. That during the last winter his wife & daughter were both sick & under the care of a Physician to whom he is now indebted for his services to an amount of about Fifty Dollars which he has no means of paying except by sale of his small house & land 
Paul Beebe 
Sworn & declared to on the seventh day of August 1820 
W F Brainard Clerk 
 
William F. Brainard Clerk of the New London City Court do hereby certify that the foregoing oath & schedule thereunto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court and 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 One Hundred forty six Dollars & eighty cents
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said Court on this 7th day of August 1820 
Wm F Brainard Clerk of of the New London City Court 

Ebenezer Learned Esqr New London Conn’t  11 Sept. 1820

Paul Beebe
417

Sept [illegible]
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State of Connecticut 
New London County } ss
On this sixth day of August AD 1838 personally appeared before the Honorable Court of Probate for the District of New London in said New London County Mary Beebe a resident of the Town of Waterford in the County of New London and State of Connecticut aged Seventy Eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain Widows. 
That she is the widow of Paul Beebe late of said town of Waterford deceased who was a private in the army of the Revolution and made his application for and received a pension under the law of the United States passed in 1818 That his name was inscribed on the pension list roll of the Connecticut agency until his death on the 13th day of March 1834. That the said Paul Beebe as your affiant believes entered the service of the United States in the Revolutionary Army sometime during the year 1775 and in that year enlisted into Capt Nathan Hale's Company in Col Webb's Regiment at said New London and from thence went with the other recruits to Roxbury in Massachusetts: and after the British left Boston
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the said Paul Beebe went with his company from thence to New York and joined the Continental troops at Flatbush on Long Island. [illegible] with the army from Long Island, was in the battle at White Plains and after the expiration of his term of enlistment returned home. That he the said Paul Beebe shortly after his return enlisted into the company commanded by Capt Caulkins in Ely’s Regiment for six months and went with the company to Providence R.I. that prior to the expiration of this term of service the said Paul Beebe enlisted for three years in Ely’s Company in Webb’s Regiment. that he served the full term of three years in Webb’s & Meig’s Regiments. was one of the volunteers at the storming of Stoney Point Fort and was there wounded in the thigh was afterwards engaged in the attack of the Fort on Staten Island under Lord Stirling and crossed with the troops from Elizabethtown Parish in New Jersey on the Ice to Staten Island in the hard winter of 1780 to make the attack and after his term of three years had expired he was discharged and returned home in 1780. That he the said Paul Beebe in the Summer and full of the year 1781 was in the service of the United States at New London he was in the company commanded by Capt Jabez Beebe father of said Paul Beebe 
Mary Beebe
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and was called into service in case of alarm at New London several times during that and the year following. And your affiant further states that when the said Paul Beebe entered the service he resided in that part of the town of New London now Waterford, and that the records of the War Department of the United States contains evidence of the particulars of the service [illegible] by said Paul Beebe and in support of this claim she further declares that she was married to the said Paul Beebe on the sixth day of May in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty two. that she knows of no record evidence of same marriage except that contained in an old Bible formerly belonging to Jabez Beebe the Father of said Paul; but by whom that record was made she cannot state, as she was not acquainted with it until very lately. That her husband the aforesaid Paul Beebe died on the 13th day of March 1834. that her marriage took place previous to the first day of January Seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated and that she has remained a widow ever since that period and now is the widow of same Paul Beebe 
Mary Beebe 
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year before written before said Court Ebenezer Learned Clerk and the said Court of Probate
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for the District of New London do hereby certify that Mary Beebe who has signed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration is a credible person and that her statement is entitled to credit 
I Ebenezer Learned Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of New London do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings in the said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Beebe for a pension. And I further certify that Henry Douglass is Clerk of the Town of New London and that Wm P Cleveland Jr is a Justice of the peace for the County of New London. And that the signature Wm P Cleveland Jr Justice of the peace to the [illegible] depositions of Patience Maynard, Ebenezer Darrow, Zurviah Darrow and Henry Douglass hereto annexed are the genuine signatures of said Wm P Cleveland Jr In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court of Probate this 9th day of August AD 1838 
Ebenezer Learned Clerk
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State of Connecticut 
New London County ss 
Waterford August 8 1838 
On this eighth day of August AD 1838 Personally appeared before me the subscriber, a Justice of the peace for the County of New London Patience Mainard [sic] wife of Ebenezer Maynard of the Town of Waterford in said County who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath depose and say. That she was the second wife of Captain Jabez Beebe formally of Waterford deceased and lived with him for several years preceding his death. that prior to his death the said Jabez Beebe gave to your Deponent a large family bible containing a record of the Births Marriage, and deaths of a member of [illegible] and that among others there is the following record. 

Record “New London May 6th 1782 This day Paul Burke & Mary Rogers was married at the house of Esq. Joseph Harris who performed the matrimonial ceremony being on Sunday eve’g” 

between the word ceremony in said record and the word being there appears to have been an erasure of two words, what the words erased were or when made Deponent cannot tell. She has been in possession of said Bible for more then thirty years during all which time the record has been as it now is. following the above there is also the record following Elizabeth Beebe was born May 15th 1783 
Deponent further says that said
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Jabez Beebe deceased was the Father of Paul Beebe deceased the husband of Mary Beebe formerly Mary Rogers who is still living and that said Elizabeth the record of whose birth is the recorded was one of the children of said Paul and Mary Beebe

Paience Maynard

In presence of Ebenezer Maynard  Wm P Cleveland Jus 

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year within written Before me and I do hereby certify that the said Patience is a credible witness 
Wm P Cleveland a Justice of the peace
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Rev. & 1812 War Section.
[illegible]
Mrs. C. S. Carroll, 
713 Fulton St., 
Troy, N. Y. 
June 11, 1924.
Madam:  
I have to advise you that from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, W.17274, it appears that Paul Beebe, a resident of New London, New London County, Connecticut, enlisted in the summer of 1775 and served one year and seven months as a private in Captain Nathan Hale's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment, and was in the battles of White Plains, Trenton and Princeton. He enlisted soon after for six months as a private in Captain Jonathan Caulkins' Company, Colonel John Ely's Connecticut Regiment, but before his time expired he enlisted in the spring of 1777 and served three years as a private in Captain Elisha Ely's Company , Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment, and Captain Humphreys' Company, Colonel Jonathan Meigs' Connecticut Regiment, and was in the battle of Stony Point where he was wounded in the right thigh, and also in the attack on Staten Island. He was called out on alarms at New London several
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times and in the summer and fall of 1781 was in the service at New London, Connecticut, in Captain Jabez Beebe's (his father ) Connecticut Company, length of service not stated. 
While a resident of New London County, Connecticut, he was allowed pension from January 7, 1813, on account of disability resulting from said wound received at the battle of Stony Point. He died at Waterford in said County March 12, 1834. 
Soldier married in said County May 6, 1782, Mary, daughter of James Rogers. She was allowed pension on her application executed August 6, 1838, while a resident of Waterford, Connecticut, aged 78 years. 
In August 1820 soldier gave his age as 60 years and referred to a daughter, Eunice, aged 14 years, and a grandchild, James, aged 4 years. A daughter, Elizabeth, was born May 15, 1783. 
The records do not show that soldier ever lived in New York. 
Respectfully, 
Acting Commissioner.
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Rev 
WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 17274. 
Mary Beebe 
Wid. of 
Paul Beebe 
Priv. Rev. War
Act: July 7, 1838 
Index: Vol. 1, Page 52 
Arrangement of 1870. 
1924. June 11 - Hist. to Mrs. C. S. Carroll, um
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278 A Aug 14 
7 July 1838
Mary Beebe
J L Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D C
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New London Aug 10th 1838

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Dear Sir 
Herewith I forward the application of Mary Beebe for a pension under the law of the 7 July 1838 
Your obst 
Wm P Cleveland Jr
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Ledyard 13th Dec 1836 
Honoured Sir, 
Herewith you have the power of Mary Beebe widow of Paul Beake late of Waterford County Deceased. I would respectfully request you to examine the same, and if correct, I would thank you to transmit it to the Pension Agent at Hartford with instructions to pay balance due. 
I would thank you to inform me at what period the said Paul Beebe's last period of service expired He was married to the said Mary, as I am in formed in May 1781 or 82. I think in 1782 
Be please to inform me at what period the services of Henry Mason expired he was married, as I am informed to Ama Williams April 21st 1782 and he died April 24th 1836 - was pensioner under act of 1832 as Sergt of Artillery pension $120 per annum Certificate date 23 July 1833 & Signed by “John Robb” 
I remain Sir very respectfully your friend and humble servant 
Samuel W Wood 
Hon James L Edwards Commissioner of Pensions,
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Paul Beebe, Connecticut roll - act 1828. Up to what time paid? 
Pen office 
Dec 29. 1836  To the 4 March 1834 JH 
Paul Beebe Con. Act March 18,1818 
to what time paid?
Pen Office Augt 30, 1838 
Died 13th March 1834, paid to that period JH
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Connt 59
Recd 15 Aug. 1820 
Con 
J. L. Edwards Esquire 
Pension Office Washington
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New London 10 August 1820 
J. L. Edwards Esq. 
Sir 
Enclosed is the application of Paul Beebe with the proof for a continuance of his pension. When a decision is had upon the subject, I will thank you to inform me as Beebe lives at some distance from any post office 
Yours with Respect 
E P Learned
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278 
Mary Beebe 
admitted 
Per [illegible] $80
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State of Connecticut 
New London County 
}ss
New London August 8th AD 1838 
I Henry Douglass of the town of New London in New London County in the State of Connecticut Do hereby certify that I have examined the records of said town of New London of Births Marriages and deaths, and find on the 123d page of said records the following 
“Paul Beebe & Mary Rogers were married” (May the Sixth Seventeen hundred and Eighty two) 
And I the said Henry Douglass do hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date of said marriage which is expressed on said record in fair legible figures as follows May the 6th 1782 
Henry Douglass Town Clerk 
I Henry Douglass above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the County Town and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me 
Henry Douglass
In presence of
L W Wood
Wm P Cleveland Jr
Sworn before me the day and year above written 
Wm P Cleveland Jr Justice of the peace 
I hereby certify that said Henry Doughs is a credible witness 
Wm P Cleveland Jr Justice of the peace
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State of Connecticut 
New London County 
Waterford August 8th 1838 
On this Eighth day of August AD 1838 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the County of New London Ebenezer Darrow of said town of Waterford aged Eighty two years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say. That he is a pensioner of the United States, that he well remembers Paul Beebe late of said Waterford deceased who was also a pensioner and with whom Deponent was well and intimately acquainted from his youth, that when boys they lived near each other in said New London now Waterford and were intimate. That Deponent is also well acquainted with Mary Beebe of said Waterford widow of said Paul Beebe and was also well acquainted with said Mary Beebe before she was married to said Paul. that she was the daughter of James Rogers formerly of that part of New London now Waterford deceased. Deponent further testifies that he was present when said Paul Beebe was married to said Mary Rogers, they were joined in marriage by Joseph Harris Esq who was at that time a Justice of the peace for the County of New London, at the house of said Joseph Harris esq. situate in town hill so called in said New London the Sunday evening previous to the first Monday in May in the year seventeen hundred and Eighty two. the first Monday in May was a training day and the marriage took place in the spring following the year when the town of New London was destroyed by the British. Zurviah
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Darrow wife of Deponent, William Darrow deceased mother of Deponent, Jabez Beebe deceased brother of said Paul and Jane Beebe deceased a cousin of said Paul were all present at the marriage. Said Paul Beebe and Mary his wife lived together (and had several children) until said Paul Beebe’s death in the spring of the year Eighteen hundred and thirty four (1834) and Deponent further testifies that said Mary Beebe has not married since the decease of said Paul Beebe, but still remains his widow 
Ebenezer Darrow X his mark
In presence of 
Sally Darrow 
Wm P Cleveland Jr
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year within written Before me. and I do hereby certify that the said Ebenezer Darrow is a credible witness.
Wm P Cleveland Jr Justice of the peace
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State of Connecticut
New London County
} ss
Waterford Aug 8th AD 1838 
On this Eight day of August 1838 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the peace for the County of New London Zurviah Darrow wife of Ebenezer Darrow of said Waterford aged Seventy Eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath depose & say That from her infancy she was well acquainted with Paul Burke deceased and his wife Mary formerly Mary Roger. that when deponent was married the said Paul & Mary were present and stood up with us, and afterwards when said Paul & Mary were married Deponent & her husband stood up with them said Paul Beebe and Mary Rogers were married by Joseph Harris Esq a Justice of the peace at the house of said Jos Harris Esq in said New London in the spring of the year 1782 seventeen hundred and Eighty two. I was married the March before said Paul was married that said Paul Beebe died in the spring of the year 1834 and the said Mary Beebe has not married since but now is the widow of said Paul Beebe.

Zurviah Darrow X her mark

In presence of 
Sally Darrow
WM P Cleveland Jr

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above written before me and I do hereby certify that the said Zurviah Darrow is a credible witness.
Wm P Cleveland Jr a Justice of the Peace
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713 Fulton St 
Troy N. Y.
May 7-24 
Com Pensions 
Washington, D.C. 
Dear Sirs: I have found in your pension records a man by name of Paul Beebee who belonged to Meigs regiment and fought at Stoney Point who received a pension from January to August 1813. 
Can you inform me where the man resided at this time? He was born in New London Conn. but did he ever live in Marshall Oneida Co. N. Y. ? 
Respectfully yours 
Mrs. C. S. Carroll

U.S. PENSION OFFICE
L
MAY 9 1924
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713 Fulton St. Troy N Y
April 3 - 1924. 

U. S. PENSION OFFICE
E
APR 7 1924

Comm of Pensions 
Pension Office Wash. D.C. 
Dear Sirs:-- Can you supply me with proof of service in the Revolutionary war of one Beebe who was probably born in New London Conn. about 1756. or any data necessary for me to join the D.A.R. which you may have in connection with him. He had a daughter Elizabeth who married Wm. Tower born Feb 5 - 1802
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Any information will be greatly appreciated by me 
Mrs. Chas. Stowell Carroll
I understand this Beebe was a pensioner