Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 8069, Samuel Bebee, Continental (Mass)
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Service Number
Continental (Mass) Bebee, Samuel S 8069
Carded
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Hio 29.717
Samuel Bebee
Madison Co. in the State of Ohio
was a Fifer until in the (blank space) commanded.
Captain (blank space) of the Regt commanded
Col Crane in the Massachusetts
for 2 year
Continental Line Sept 21/04
Records corrected
ibed on the Roll of Ohio
rate of 104 Dollars per annum,
omence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of Feb.
1833 and sent to (ineligible) J.
Mclane H.B.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep.'34. 364.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 March 35 52.00
$416.00
Revolutionary Claim
Act June 7, 1832
ed by D. Brown Clerk,
2 Vol. 8 Page 4

On side page
Date of death
not on AB
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[very faint scan and much bleed-through from reverse of page]

Samuel Bebee

17403

Con

I.[?] L. E.
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District of Ohio. SS
Madison County Court of Common pleas
of the term of July 1820 (July 3rd
Personally appeared in oppen court being a court of record
for the said County of Madison in the state of ohio Samuel
Beber aged fifty five years and upwards residing in
said district in the county of Madison aforesaid who
being first duly sworn according to law doth on
his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary
armies as follows. (ineligible) in the Regiment of Col Crane
of artillery in the company of service ordered by Capt
John Bryant under Genl (ineligible) as a fifer by name
of Samuel Beber >>> and this declares further
states that he has heretofore applyed to the war
office for a pension under the act of Congress
of 18th of March 1818 and has received from that
department a certificate signed and sealed by the
secretary of the war department dated 6th of June
1820 and numbered 17.403 and that he has not
received any part of the pension money provided
by the aforesaid act. And the aforesaid declarant
so solemnly swear that I was a 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 the ac of Congress
or called an act to provide for certain persons engaged
in the land and naval services of the United States in
the Revolutionary war, (ineligible) on the 18th day of March 1818
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and that I have not nor has any person in trust for my any property in trust for me any property or securities debts or contracts due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.

And this declarant further states that he is a farmer by occupation, That he owns the fee simple of no lands whatsoever, but is in possession of one hundred acres which he has only a Verbal Contract for and lives at sufferance under Walter Davis that he has eight children all of whom all of whom [sic] only two live absent and disconnected with this deponant [sic] and are in moderate if no [=if not?] poor Circumstances and wholly unable to contribute much if any to the declarants support - That one of the two children remaining with this declarant is a cripple in his hip and affected with fever sores in his lower limbs and is a burthen rather than increase of the declarants means of supporting himself and wife (who is also of the age of fifty six years) and a daughter of thirteen years of age. The declarant further states that he is infirm being being [sic] not only by crippled by hard service and age but by reason of having had his ribs broken and back hurt thru a fall from a building

Schedule of all the real and personal
Estate necessary clothing & Beding [sic] [illegible]
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of Samuel Bebee the above petitioner

1 Colt 3 yrs old - - $40.00
1 Mare  - - - - - - -  30.00
1 Do [=ditto] old  - 20.00
1 Cow  - - - - - - - - 15.00
1 Yearling  - - - - - -  5.00
5 Grown Hogs & several pigs 30-00  - - - - - 140-00

A Trifling amount of farming  }
tools and other little furniture}   - - - - - - - - - 10-00
amounting to not more than }  
Property worth  - - - - - - - - - -  - - - - - - -- -150-00
Dues  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   50-00
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  200-00
Debts  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -   100-00
Ballance [sic]   - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 100-00

Sworn and declared on the third day of July 1820 before me

John Moore CK [? =Clerk]
C B [illegible]

[signed by mark]
            his
Samuel + Bebee
          mark


The State of Ohio }
Madison County  } SS [=scilicet]

I Stephen Moore [letter illegible] Deputy Clrk of the Court of Common pleas for the County aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true copy from the records in this office, and do further certify that it is the opinion of the this said Court that the total amt of property of the above declarant [sic] is $100-00

Given under my hand and Seal of office this 19th day of Septr 1820

Stephen Moore [illegible]
B.B.. [illegible]
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON       December 27, 1933
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Honorable Chester C. Bolton    
House of Representatives     
Washington, D.C.

[typed to right of address block]
BA-J/EEL
Samuel Bebee S.8069



My dear Mr. Bolton:

The data furnished below are obtained from the papers on file in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.8069, based upon the military service in that war of Samuel Bebee.

[written in right margin] See Mass S&S. VOL I Page 886 for sol. [or rol?]

The date and place of birth and the names of the parents of Samuel Bebee are not shown in the papers in the pension claim.

He enlisted in Springfield, Massachusetts, in February, 1778, served as a fifer in Captain John Bryant's Company, Colonel Mason's 
Regiment of Artillery and in Colonel John Crane's Regiment of Artillery; length of service, three years.

[additional note written in right margin] Capt Bryant does not seem to have served in Col Crane's Regt. See Keitman

After the Revolution, he resided in the state of Massachusetts for about three years; then moved to New York and thence to Ohio.

He was allowed pension on his application executed July 15, 1818, while residing in Madison County, Ohio.

In 1820, he stated that he was then aged fifty-five years and his wife, fifty-six years; he did not give her maiden name or the date of their marriage. He also stated in above year that he had eight children, only two of whom were residing with him: a son, whose age was not given and a daughter, thirteen years old; no names are given for any of the children.

In 1818, one Gideon Beebe made affidavit in Washington County, New York, in support of soldier's claim for pension: no relationship was shown and there are no further family data.

[further marginal note] There is act. [=acct] for pen. [=pension] for Gideon - so I did not state that he served with him. His name was signed Beebe.  Sam'l's signed My mark Bebee

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

[handwritten note in left margin]
Date of death
not an AB
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Increase to $109[? or 104] per annum as a fifer of artillery 
issue new certificate and sent [sic] it to Hon J. McLene.  H.R note on roll
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[left page, handwritten]

1933 - Dec. 27- Hist. to Hon Chester C. Balton.

1934, Jan. 7- Hon C.C. Balton [illegible written above Balton - perhaps Eret ? ] add
records previously published

[right page, printed form]

8069 [handwritten at top of page]

RevWar [handwritten]

INVALID.
[decorative rule]
File No. 8069
Samuel Bebee
Priv. Rev. War
[decorative rule]
Act: June 7th 1832

Index: -- Vol. 1st.   Page 27

[Arrangement of 1870.] [printed, in brackets, on form]
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The Honorable

The Secretary of War

Washington City
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The Honorable the Secretary of War, Washington

Sir

I herewith inclose [sic] the Vouchers of Samuel Bebee an applicant for a Pension, hopes the Papers now forwarded to the War Department, will be deemed Sufficent [sic] to grant Bebee a Pension Certificate.

Judge Curry having resigned as an associate Judge, sent Bebee's Papers to me to forward to the Department of War.

S Baskerville
Ass: [=asst] Judge

Madison County }
30th March 1820 }
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Sam[uel] Bebee


Payable on the 4th March and 4th September of each year, by The Pres. Br[? abbreviation?] Bk[? abbreviation?] W.S, in Chilicothe, Ohio,

No pension is payable until the arrival of one or the other of the above dates, after the issue of a Certificate. 

Payable to 4th March 1820, but thereafter no payment can be made before exhibiting a
Schedule of property


Registered, by [illegible]
Clerk, in book B, volume 11
pPage 4.
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War Department.

REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.

I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818,

["Cancelled" has been written across the following paragraph. Neither date nor reason given.]

Samuel Bebee late a Fifer in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension list roll of the Ohio Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the fifteenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and eighteen

GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this Sixth day of June one thousand eight
hundred and twenty

JC Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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Mr Samuel Beebee

Township of Darby

Madison County

State of Ojio
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We the subscribers severally certify that Samuel Beebe [illegible] Enlisted as a fifer in a Company Commanded by Capt. John [crossed out] Bryant in the Town of Springfield State of Massachusetts and in a Regiment command[ed] by Col. John Crayne in a corps of Artillery, and at the United States Elabortary [perhaps the Springfield armory?] in the said Town of Springfield, for the term of three years, that he enlisted in the forepart of the year one thousand Seven Hundred and seventy eight that the said Samuel Beebe [illegible] served in the said Company of Artillery at the afforesaid Elaboratory in the Town of Springfield and in the service of the United States for the term of three years in company with the first of the under written subscriber[s] and two years of the time the Latter subscribers were in the same service in the same company -- and that at the end of three years from the time of the Enlistment of the said Samuel Beebe [illegible] he was honourably [sic] discharged from the service

Greenville Washington County} Gideon Beebe
January 24th 1820                   }  James McEtherron

State of New York    }
Washington County } Ss [=scilicet]
Personally appeared before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the said County of Washington Gideon Beebe and James McEtherron the signers of the above certificate and severally made oaths that the same is true -- and that they are both persons to me well known

Phinehas Hitchcock Justice of the peace

State of New York    }
Washington County } Ss   I Daniel Shepherd Clk. [=clerk] of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington do certify that Phinehas Hitchcock Esqr before whom the above affidavit was made was at the time & still is one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County acting under the authority of the said State & that the name Phinihas Hitchcack   subscribed to the above certificate is his hand writing

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the said Court January 27th 1820
D Shepherd Clk
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Recorded by Benjn. [=Benjamin] L Beall
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No 17.403
War Department,
PENSION OFFICE,
Nov 14, 1821

SIR:
You are hereby informed that the Schedule of your property has been examined, and the Secretary of War has directed your name to be continued on the Pension Roll.

You will be paid, at the ensuing semi-annual payment in March next, the sum that may be then due from the time of suspending
your pension.  Funds for the purpose will be transmitted at that time; but no arrearages will be paid previous thereto.

I am, respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
J.L. Edwards

To Mr. Samuel Bebee
U. S. Pensioner.
of Madison County Ohio
Care of Stephen Moore Jr Esqr
London Ohio
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Ohio 17.403
R
[double rule]
Samuel Bebee
of Madison Co'y [=County] in the State of Ohio who was a fiffer [sic] in the regiment commanded by Colonel Crane of the Massachust. line, for the term of three years.
[decorative double rule]
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio at the rate of 8 
Dollars per month, to commence on the 15 of July 1818
[double rule]
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of June 1820 [?]
and sent to S. Baskerville
London, Ohio.
[double rule]
Arrears to 4th of March 1820          157.41
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1820  48.
19 21/30 [?]                                     $205:41

{Revolutionary claim,  }
{Act 18th March, 1818.}

[illegible

[right hand column]
See letter 2 Augt 1834 to [illegible] do [=ditto] 25 Augt 34, do 8 Sept '34. do '5 Oct[?] 1834 to Nov J. McLene

[running vertically down right edge of page]
{illegible] sent to Stephen Moore Jr Esqr 14 Nov 1831
London Ohio
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Jan 19

Ohio

Saml. Bebee [sic]

Act Mar 18, 1818.
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blank back of page
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London O[hio?]

July 19th 1818               [illegible]

The Honorable J.C. Calhoun Esq
Secretary of War
Washington City
Ca [??]
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Samuel Beebe of Madison County State of Ohio deposeth and saith. That on the 20th day of February 1778. he enlisted in Capt. Bryants Company Col. Masons Regt. in Genl. Knox's Artillery State of Machusets [sic] in time of the Revolutionary War when he served three years, and was then discharged at Springfield, and which discharge he has lost and that now in the advance of life and from his humble circumstances he needs the assistance of his County rendered by the act of Congress of the 18th of March last

Madison County Ss [=scilicet]
Personally appeared before me, the aforesaid deponent Samuel Beebe and being duly sworn deposeth and saith, that the above statement is correct and true.

Given under my hand and Seal this 15th day of July 1818.

James Curry an Ass: [=Asst?] Judge
for  Madison County

The Honorable J.C. Calhoun, Secretary of War, Washington.

Sir.  Samuel Beebe, the present applicant for a pension, lives in my neighborhood. From what knowledge I have of him, and his circumstances, and from statements made to myself by him; have no doubt of his having been in service, nor of his need of the assistance tendered by his Country.

James Curry ass: Judge
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156[?]

Jas. Curry, Esqr. Judge
London, Ohio.

Recd. Augt. 3d. 1818

1 Case[?]

Samuel Bebee is found on the rolls -- Does the claimant spell his name in this manner? -- Let the line [underlined] and capacity in which he served be stated and the evidence of two disinterested and credible witnesses, duly taken and authenticated be produced.
16 apl [=April] 1819

[new hand]
Found on rolls as a fifer [underlined] which rank the witnesses assign to him

Admd. [=Admitted]
6 June 1820
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The State of Ohio }
Madison County  } Ss [=scilicet]

I John Moore Clerk of the court of common pleas for the county aforesaid, do certify that James Curry whose signature is affixed to the within deposition and certificate was at that time and now is one of the Associate Judges of the court of common pleas for the said County of Madison, + that all due faith and credence is and ought to be given to all his official acts as such as well in Court of Justice as Without[?]

In testimony whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed the seal
of said Court this sixteenth day of July
AD 1818

John Moore  Clerk
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Madison County }
State of Ohio      }

Before me Thomas Killgore a Justice of the peace personally appeared Samuel Beebe and made oath in due form of law that he is the Identical Samuel Beebe named in the inclosed [sic] Certificate  and further the said Samuel Beebe deposith and saith that he enlisted a Fifer in the Army of the Revolution in the Regiment of General Knox Colonel Crain and Capt John Briant and served three years under said Capt After he was discharged he resided in the State of Massachusetts about the space of seven years from thence he removed to the State of New York and from thence he removed to Ohio where he has for the space of about nineteen years last past and still lives here in Ohio Madison County Canaan Township

his
Samuel + Beebe
mark


Sworn to and subscribed before me this 8th day of Jan Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Five 

Thomas Kilgore
Justice of the peace

Madison County }
State of Ohio      }

Know all men by these presents that I Thomas Killlgore [sic] before whom the fourgoing [sic] affidavit was made have the most satisfactory evidence (viz) by Personal Knowledge that he is the Identical Samuel Beebe whom he represents himself to be and for whom the enclosed certificate was originally Issued as witness my hand this 8th Jan 1835
Thomas Kilgore
J.P.
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Madison County } Ss [=scilicet]
State of Ohio      }

Personally appeared the above named Samuel
Beebe and made oath that he has not drawn any pension money on the enclosed certificate since the 4th of March 1834

Sworn too [sic] and subscribed before me this [?]th day of Jan 1835

Thomas Kilgore
Justice of the Peace

The State of Ohio Madison County Ss

I John Moore Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County aforesaid do certify that Thomas Kilgore Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit appears to have been made was at that time and now is one of the
acting Justices of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly Elected Commissioned and qualified that full faith and credit are and ought to be given to all his official acts as such, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at London this 10th day of January AD 1835
John Moore, Clerk
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A. G. 201 Beebe, Samuel
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War Department, A. G. O., December 22, 1933.-To the Director of Pensions.

1. Inviting attention to the basic communication and copy of reply thereto.

[signed] James F McKinley
Major General,
The Adjutant General,
By [illegible initials]

1 inclosure. [sic]
( Copy of A.G. letter)
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WAR DEPARTMENT
THE ADJUTANT GENERAL' S OFFICE
WASHINGTON
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A. G. 201        December 22, 1933.
Beebe, Samuel
(12-18-33)ORD

Honorable Chester C. Bolton,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Bolton:

I have your letter of December 18, 1933, in which you request the military record of Samuel Beebe, said to have served in the Connecticut militia, and to have been on the pension list of 1832 from Harpersfield, Ohio,.

The name Samuel Beebe has not been found as of any Connecticut organization in service during the Revolutionary War.

In view of the statement that Samuel Beebe was on the pension list in 1832, I am transmitting your letter to the Director of Pensions, Veterans Administration for further consideration and reply.

Very respectfully,

James F. McKinley
Major General,
The Adjutant General.
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MEMORANDUM

Date December 13, 1933
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From Director of Pensions
To Mr. Black, Chief Clerk
Subject BEEBE, Samuel

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service 1832?

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The attached communication from Hon. Chester C. Bolton in which he requests information as to what the records disclose 
regarding the service of the veteran above referred to, is referred for your consideration and reply.   Mr. Bolton's letter has been 
acknowledged.

[signature] EW Morgan
E. W. MORGAN
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CHESTER C. BOLTON
220 DISTRICT OHIO

COMMITTEES:
APPROPRIATIONS
RIVERS AND HARBORS

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Congress of the United States
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.
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December 12, 1933.

Personal [underlined]

Hon. E. W. Morgan,
Director of Pensions,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Morgan:

Would you please give me what information your records disclose regarding the service of Samuel Beebe, private Connecticut militia, and was on the pension list of 1832 from Harpersfield, Ohio.

Thanking you,

Most Sincerely,
[signed] Chester C Bolton

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Our [? handwritten]

Honorable Chester C. Bolton
House of Representatives
Washington, D.C.


My dear Mr. Bolton:

Reference is made to your letters of December 18, 1933, addressed to the Adjutant General, War Department, in regard to Samuel Bebee, [underlined] and the husbands of Selina Hendry and Hannah Skinner, soldiers of the 
Revolutionary War, which letters have been referred to this office for further reply.

In response to your letters of December 12, 1933, addressed to this office in regard to these soldiers, their records were furnished
you on December 27, 1933, as found in the respective claims for pension based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON       December 27, 1933

Honorable Chester C. Bolton
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Bolton:

Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War records of four soldiers of the Revolutionary War, all
of Ohio, on account of whose services United States pensions were granted: Samuel Bebee, Joseph Harper, and the husbands of Selina
Hendry and Hannah Skinner.

Their records are given herewith.

Very truly yours

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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December 13, 1933

MB

Hon. Chester C. Bolton
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Bolton:
Receipt is acknowledged of your letter dated December 12, 1933 in which you request information as to what the records disclose regarding the service of Samuel Beebe who is alleged to have been a pensioner in 1832.  Your inquiry is being referred to the Chief Clerk, Veterans Administration, who has jurisdiction in the matter.

Respectfully,

E. W. Morgan
Director of Pensions

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December 13, 1933
Director of Pensions
Mr. Black, Chief Clerk
BEEBE, Samuel                                MB

The attached communication from Hon. Chester C. Bolton in which he requests information as to what the records disclose
regarding the service of the veteran above referred to, is referred for your consideration and reply.  Mr. Bolton's letter has been acknowledged.

E.W.Morgan

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