Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12173, Ashbel Beach, Conn.
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SERVICE
Conn.

Beach, Ashbel

NUMBER
S. 12173
Carded
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8797 Utica
New York
Ashbel Beach
of Oneida Co. in the State of New York
who was a private in the company commanded
by Capt Watson of the regt commanded
by Colsay [?] in the Ct. Ma
line for 20 m 11 dy.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 67 Dollars 87 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of Apl
1833 and sent to
J. Richardson W Hartford

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $135.74
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept- 33.93
$19.67

Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk,
Book [?] Vol. 4 Page 43

[annotation]
Date of death Nov. [??]
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11419
Ashbel Beacher
Declaration New Hartford
Oneida County New York
Ashbel

admitted.
20 mo. 11 days. Private.

40
20
6.66
1.21
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67.87
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State of New York
Oneida County
On the Eleventh day of September in the year 1832
Personally appeared in open Court before the judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in said county
now sitting, Ashbel Beach a resident of the Town of
New Hartford, County of Oneida and State of New York aged
Seventy Seven years who first being duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress passed [on]
the 7 day of June 1832. This deponent says that he was
born in the 4 day of April 1755 in the Town of Litchfield
& County of Litchfield & State of Connecticut has no record of
his age that he entered the service of the United States
in the revolutionary war under the following officers and
served as herein after stated this deponent says that he
lived in the Town of Hartland Litchfield County & State of
Connecticut that in the fore part of the month of April 1775
he entered into the service in the revolutionary war as a volunteer
private in Capt John Watsons Company and Col Hinmans Regiment of state
troops the officers all belonging to Litchfield County the company 
marched from Hartland to Albany New York, thence
to Fort Edward Fort George Ticonderoga to Crown Point there
Joined Col Hinmans Regiment when Genl Philip Schuyler
took the command this deponent says he remaind there
untill October when the regiment was joined by Genl Montgomerys
Army and marched to St Johns after a stay of one or two
days the troops were all ordered to retreat to the Ile of Oicnois[?]
where the troops remaind several days, then under the
command of Genl Montgomery the troops were all ordered
to and took Chamberlee where Capt Watson was shot through
the body but recovered after taking Chamberlee the Army
marched to the siege of St Johns being then under the
immediate command of Genl Montgomery the British forces
surrendered this fort on the 3d day of November 1775 to the
American army from thence we returned with the prisoners
taken to Crown Point and continued at that place
untill the 25 day of December 1775 at which time Capt
Watsons Company to which I belonged was discharged. I was
then a distance of nearly 300 miles from home and on the
3 day of January 1776 arrived home having served nearly
nine months in this expedition, in the fore part of April
1776 I again volunteered and entered a private into Capt Stephens
Goodwins Company & Col Gays Regiment of Connecticut State
Troops then living in Goshen Litchfield County & State of Connecticut 
where the company were order to March for New 
York on arriving at Norwalk Landing. Capt Goodwins Company
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sailed for New York where the company joined the regiment remained several
weeks and on the 4 day of July 1776 was order on the Grand
Parade under the inspection of Genl Washington at which
time the declaration of Independence was read to the American
Army. I was one of the soldiers who demolished the statue
of George the 3 then standing in Bowling Green New York and made
it into bolls we then were order to Brookline Long Island I was at
the battle fought the 27 August 1776 on Long Island at which
time Lord Sterlin Genl Sullivan, Genl Woodhull were taken
prisoner with a large number of the American troops
and was in the retreat of the American Army from Long
Island to New York on the 29 day of August 1776, and was in
the retreat from New York on the 15 of September same year
I was in the engagement at White Plains where the
American Army was intrenched was then under the
command of Genl Washington after this engagement
the troops fell back to Philipsburgh at this place Genl
Washington took all the regular or continental troops
and marched to New Jersey and left the regiment
to which I belonged at that place after a few days the
Regiment marched to North Castle [Chair?] where our
head quarters were and constantly kept guards at
Singsing and Terry Town and scouted down to the
British line near Kingsbridge untill the 25 day of
December 1776 at which time the Regiment was discharged 
I was then about 200 miles from home and
arrived home on the first day of January 1777 having
served about nine months, in April 1777 I was
again called out in a militia tour to Danbury Connecticut
at which time Genl Worcester was mortally wounded
and Danbury taken by the British and in October 1777 I
was in a tour and marched from Goshen to Greenbush & at
the taking of Genl Burgoin at Stillwater N York
in Capt Isaac Pratts Company. I was drafted in the fall
of 1778 and served a tour of about six weeks at Redhook
on North River in Capt Aaron Nortons Company from Goshen
I volunteered and served a short tour at New Haven
when it was taken by the British and Fairfield and
Norwalk were burnt I was called out on several
alarms and served short tours untill the close of the war
I resided in State of Connecticut untill 1788 when I moved
to Whitestown then Montgomery County New York the Town
County having been divided is now called New Hartford
Oneida County where I have resided 44 years has no recollection
of ever receiving any written discharge I declare
that in the several intestments [?] and tours during the Revolutionary
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war I served according to my foregoing statement
with twenty one month in the Revolutionary Service
[crossed out lines]
and does not know of any surviving witness that can be obtained
to identify the aforesaid services I hereby relinquish every claim whatever
to a pension or annuity excepting the present and declare that my
name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
Ashbel Beach
Subscribed & Sworn the day & 
year aforesaid 
J. B. Read Dep Clerk

I NeedhamMaynard residing in the town
of New Hartford do hereby certify that I [corrected from"we"] are well acquainted with
Ashbel Beach who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration
that I believe him to be seventy seven years of age that he is reputed
and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been
a soldier in the revolution and we concur in that opinion from more
than forty years acquaintance which I have had with the said Ashbel
Beach and having resided in the same neighbourhood and I
believe him to be a man of undoubted truth and veracity.
Needham Maynard
Subscribed & sworn the day & year aforesaid
J. B. Read Dep. Clerk

I Noah Coe a Clergyman of the Town of New Hartford do hereby
certify that I am well acquainted with Ashbel Beach who subscribed 
and sworn to the foregoing declaration that I believe
him to be seventy seven years of age that he is reputed
and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have ┃
been a revolutionary soldier and I concur in that opinion
Noah Coe
Subscribed & sworn the day & year
aforesaid 
J. B. Read Dep Clk

and the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the
investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories 
prescribed by the war department that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served
as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears
to them that Noah Cole who has signed the preceding
certificate is a Clergyman resident of the town of New
Hartford and that Needham Maynard who has also
signed the aforesaid certificate is a resident of the same
town and is a credible person and that their statement
is entitled to credit
By the Court
C. Hayden, First Judge
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I George Brown Clerk of the Court of Common
Pleas in and for the County of
Oneida do hereby certify that the
foregoing is the original
preceding of the said Court
in the matter of the application
of Ashbel Beach for a pension
In testamony whereof I have
here unto set my hand and seal of office
this 17th day of September AD 1832
Geo. Brown Clerk
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State of New York
Oneida County ss  
Personally appear before me the undersigned
a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Ashbel Beach
who being duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that
he is seventy seven years of age and this deponant further saith
that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory
he cannot sware positively as to the precise length of his service
but the two last campaigns in which he enlisted [???]
full recollection viz this deponant saith he enlisted on the fore
part or first of April 1775 for nine months a private and served
in Capt Watsons Company untill the 25 day of December 1775
and this deponant saith the second compaign he again enlisted
 a private on the first of April 1776 into Capt Stephen Goodwins Company
and served in this expedition untill the 25 day of December 
1776 and this deponant saith he was again called out in
April 1777 and verily believes he served ten days at Danbury and in
October 1777 at the taking of Genl Burgoye, and served in Capt Isaac
Pratts Company not less than two weeks and in the fall of the year
of 1778 he served then being drafted in Capt Aaron Norton Company
not less than six weeks at Redhook in North River this deponant
saith that in 1779 he volunteered and served 10 to 15 day when
[illegible] were burnt by the
British this deponent saith he was called out several times in short
tours of alarm untill the close of the war this deponant saith that according
to the best of his recollection he served not less the periods he
mentioned below and in the following grades[?] for one
year and nine month a private in the Revolutionary 
war and for such service I claim a pension and further this
deponent saith not-
Ashbel Beach
Sworn and subscribed
this 19th day of January 1833
before me
Jonathan Richardson Justice Peace

I do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with the
above named Ashbel Beach who subscribed the foregoing
affidavit he is a resident of the village of New Hartford he is 
a credible person and his affidavit is entitled to credit
Jonathan Richardson Justice Peace
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Clerks Office
Oneida County ss

I George Brown Clerk of said County
do hereby certify that Jonathan
Richardson Esqr before whom the written
affidavit purports to have been taken
and sworn was at the date of
the same one of the Justices of the Peace
in and for said County and duly
authorized to act as such Justice
that I am well acquainted with his
hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed
to the within affidavit is genuine

Witness my hand and seal of office this 20 day of
January 1833
Geo. Brown Clerk
Jos. B. Read Dep Clerk

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11419
Ashbel Beach
Declaration New Hartford
Oneida County New York

admitted
20 mo. 11 days. Private

40
20
  6.66
  1.21
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67.87
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No 11419
Ashbel Beach

admitted
20 mo. 11 days. Private

4.5.6.17

14 Set 76
11 Dc .

Jonathan Richardson
P 147.
Agh
New Hartford

New Hartford
Oneida Co
N. Y
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No 11419
BRIEF in the case of Ashbel Beach of New Hartford County
of Oneida in the State of New York
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
[line]
3. How old is he?
77 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
Period. | Duration of Service. | Rank |  Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
 | Years, Months, Days. | As a |

In 175 April | about 9 [months] | private | Capt. Jno Watson - Col Hinman
1776 April | " 9 [months] | " | Capt.  Goodwin - Col Gay
1777 April | [blank] | [blank] | No Officer named
" Octr  | [blank] | [blank] | Capt. Isaac Pratt.
1778 fall  | [blank] | " | Capt. A. Norton

Declares he served 21 months in the Revolutionary service

5. In what battles was he engaged?
at taking of Chambly fort
Battle at Long Island - at White Plains - at taking of Burgoyne
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
at Hartland Connecticut
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by 
incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
traditional evidence-
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
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I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above
James Old[?] Examining Clerk
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January 19, 1934
Ashbel Beach - S. 12173
BA-J/AWF Rev

William C. Wright, President
The Oneida Historical Society
Park Avenue and Elizabeth Street
Utica, New York

Dear Sir:

Ashbel Beach was born April 4, 1755 at Litchfield,
Connecticut, the names of his parents are
not shown.
While residing at Hartland, Connecticut, Ashbel
Beach enlisted early in April, 1775 and served as a
private in Captain John Watson's company, Colonel
Hinman's Connecticut regiment; he was in the battle of
Chambly and the Siege of St. Johns, and was discharged
at Crown Point, December 25, 1775. He enlisted
early in April, 1776 and served in Captain
Stephen Goodwin's company, Colonel Gay's regiment; he
was one of the soldiers, who demolished the statue
of George the Third on Bowling Green, New York, was
in the battles of Long Island and White Plains, and
was discharged, December 25, 1776. He was on the
alarm in April, 1777 about ten days, when Danbury was
was taken, no officers given. He served in October,
1777, two weeks in Captain Isaac Pratt's company at
the taking of Burgoyne. In the fall of 1778, six
weeks in Captain Aaron Norton's company, and in 1779
ten or fifteen days, when New Haven, Norwalk and Fairfield 
were attacked.
This soldier, Ashbel Beach, resided in Connecticut
until 1788, when he moved to Whitestown, New 
York, which was later, New Hartford, Oneida County,
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New York.
Ashbel Beach was allowed pension on his application
executed, September 11, 1832, then residing
in New Hartford, New York.
There are no data in his claim relative to 
the family of Ashbel Beach.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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[first page]
1910 Aug 4 Hist. to
C. Beach, V.L.K.
1934 Jan 18, hist. to The
Oneida Hodorical Society
N.Y. See letters in Ben
Junin Alexander R. 84

[second page]
Rev War

12173
INVALID.

File No. 12,173
Ashbel Beach
Priv. Rev. War

Act: June 7 1832
Index:-- Vol. A Page 29
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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A.R.D

[stamp]
U.S.
PENSION
OFFICE

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Jul
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1910
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St. Louis, July 28, 1910,
James L. Davenport
Commissioner of Pensions,
Dear Sir:
I am desirous of learning
in what regiment & company my grandfather
Ashbel Beach served in the Revolutionary War.
To the best of my recollection he lived originally 
in Conn. at what is now known as Merideu,
or else at or near Wallingford, New Haven Co.
Afterwards he moved to Oneida Co. N.Y. near
Utica.
Several years ago my records were
burned & I am desirous of learning whether
he is on record in your Dept. as from Conn, or N.Y.
& his Regt. & company,

Respy
O. Beach,
3932 Cook Ave
St. Louis
Mo.

[stamp]
AUG 1 - 1910
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information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension
on file in this Bureau. Ashbel Beach S. F. 1217e

DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT | LENGTH OF SERVICE | RANK | OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. | STATE
 | | |CAPTAIN | COLONEL |

Apr. 1775 | 9 mos | Pvt | John Watson | Henman | Conn.
Apr. 1776 | 9 mos | "  | Stephen Goodwin | Gay | [blank]
Apr. 1777 | 10 days | [blank] | at Danbury Conn. | [blank] | [blank]
Oct. 1777 | 2 weeks | [blank] | Isaac Pratt | [blank] | [blank]
Fall of 1778 | 6 weeks | [blank] | Aaron Norton | [blank] | [blank]
1779 10, or 15 days | [blank] | At New Haven when it was attacked. | [blank] | [blank]

Battles engaged in, Chambly, St. Johns, Long Island, White Plains, Laking
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Hartland Litchfield Co. Conn.
Date of application for pension, Sept. 11, 1832. This cl was ad.
Residence at date of application, New Hartford, Oneida Co. N.Y.
Age at date of application, born Apr. 4, 1755 at Litchfield, Conn.
Remarks: [blank]