Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15,580, Jeremiah Bean, Mass. N. H.
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Mass          Bean, Jeremiah        W. 15,580
NH              Lydia
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1171
New Hampshire
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Jeremiah Bean
of Rockingham in the State of NH
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captian ____________________ of the Reg't commanded by Col. Poor in the NH line for 22 mos for 1775
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Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of October 1832 and privt Peter Chadwick ( ) NH
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Arrers to 4th of Sept 1832                    $109.99
Semi-anl. allowence ending -1 Nov 33     36.66
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                                                             $146.65
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{Revolutinary Claim}
{Act June 7 1832}

Recorded by H Mc Blair Clerk,
Book D   Vol 1st   Page 143.

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Right side:
See letter 4 Sept 37
J kelly
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1658
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Portsmouth New Hampshire
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Lydia Bean
widow of Jeremiah Bean dec'd.
who died on the 17th December 1835
of Rockingham in the State of NH
who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain _____
of the regt commanded by Col. Poor N.H. in the N.H. line for 22 months
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Inscribed on the roll of Portsmouth NH at the rate of 73 Dollars 33 cents, per annum, to commence on the 17th December 1835.
(4th day of March, 1831 CROSSED OUT)
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Certificate of Pension issued the 23 day of Dec 1837 and Leut John Kelly Exeter N.H.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1837             $146.66
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Mar  $36.66
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                                                                  $183.33
                                                       {Revolutionary Claim}
{Act July 4 1836}
{Section the 3}
Recorded by D D Addison Clerk
Book A   Vol 2   Page 22
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State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham ss

On this thirteenth day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Justices of the Superior Court of Judicature now sitting at Exeter in said County Jeremiah Bean a resident of Hawke in the County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged Seventy eight years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 - That he enlisted the last of June 1775 in the service of the United  States in the New Hampshire line in the company commanded by Captain Philip Tilton, in Colonel Enoch Poor's Regiment for the term of Eight months, and served at the term of his enlistment at Winter Hill and in the neighborhood of Winter Hill in Massachusetts and at the expiration of said term was regularly and honorably dismissed but received no written discharge.

That about the first of June 1776 he again enlisted for the term of five months in a company commanded by Captain David Quimby in Colonel Wingate's Regiment of New Hampshire Militia, and marched through Charlestown New Hampshire and through Vermont to the neighborhood of Ticonderoga where he was stationed and remained with said Company during the whole term of his enlistment and was regularly dismissed but received no written discharge

That in 1781, he thinks in the month of May, he was hired by the Town of Newbury for nine months service in the army of the United States and served that time - was in
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Captain Jenkins Company in Col Poors Regiment in the Massachusetts Line but whether on the Continental establishment or in the militia. He knoweth not- that he marched through Massachusetts, crossed Connecticut over at Springfield and joined his regiment at Peeks Hill in New York. Soon After joining the regiment it was marched to White Plains and then to West Point at which place he was detached from said regiment and placed in the commissary there as a writer to Commissary Elchehin and he continued in the service until the month of Febrauary 1782 when he was honorable discharged and recieved a written discharge which he has lost. -
That he was born at Exeter in said County  of Rockingham in the year 1754: - that he has no record of his age other than in his family Bible;- that he was living at Brentwood in said County of Rockingham when he called into service each and all the times above mentioned;- that he continued to reside at said Brentwood after the Revolutionary War until he removed to the town of Havenhill aforesaid about forty years of age when he has ever since resided and hre he now resides; that he does not recollect the names of the regular officers who were with the troops where he served his last term above mentioned excepting as above stated. also that at White Plain Rev. W Smith of Hawke Massachusetts was a chaplain of the regiment or officiated as much: - that he recived no written discharge except the one above mentioned which he jhas lost; that he is well known to Abraham L French a clergyman of Hawke aforesaid and Rueben Sanborn of said
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Hawke and many others who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution that he has no documentary evidence of his services; - and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure as to his last mentioned term of service. 
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He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity acept the present and dulards that his name is not on the Pension roll of the agency of any State
                                      (signed) jeremiah Bean

sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
         Attest  P Chadwick  clerk

w Abraham S french a clergyman and Rueben sanborn both residents in said Town of Hawke hereby certify that we are well acquainted Jeremiah Bean who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that we believe him to be seventy eight years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion 
 (Signed) Abrm S French
      Rueben Sanborn
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Attest  P Chadwick Clerk
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And the sac'd Court do hereby declare their opinion that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier, and served as he states

I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of judication for the County of Rockingham of the state aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing entails the ongoing proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Bean for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this Nineteenth day of August Anno Domini 1832
P Chadwick Clerk of the
Court Rockingham County

And the Sac'd Court do hereby declare their opinion that after the investigation of the matter putting the interrogatories prescribed by the local department that the before named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states and the said Court further certifies that it appears to them that Abraham S French who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman residing in said town of Hawke & that Reuben Sanborn is also a resident of said Hawke and entitled to full credit

I Peter Chadwick Clerk of the Superior Court of jurisdiction do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of Jeremiah Bean for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed this seal of said Court this nineteenth day of August Anno Domini 1832
P Chadwick Clerk of the
Court Rockingham County
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Declaration
In order to obtain the benefit of the third
Section of the Act of Congress of the 4th of July 1836

State of New Hampshire
County of Rockingham
On this thirteenth day of July AD 1837 personally appeared before the Hon John Harvey Judge of Probate for said County, at a Probate Court then holden at Exeter in and for said county, Lydia Bean, a resident of Danville in said County (formerly called Hawke) and in said State of New Hampshire, aged eighty on 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 4, 1836: - That she is the widow of Jeremiah Bean late of said Danville (formerly Hawke) deceased, who was a revolutionary soldier and served in the Revolutionary Army of the United States as a private soldier therein, and at different periods of the revolutionary war and in different companies, in all amounting as she believes to the period of twenty two or twenty three months of service. She does not recollect the precise time, term or period of his different services, nor the officers under whom he served but for evidence of his service she refers to the rolls and records of the War Department of the United States and particularly to the Declaration of the said Jeremiah Bean on his application for a Pension and
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the evidence accompanying the same and confirmation thereof on which Declaration and Evidence the application of the said Jeremiah Bean for a Pension was allowed and he was placed upon the Pension list and was afterwards until the time of his death a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States. She is not certain as to the date of his Pension certificate but thinks that he was a Pensioner for five or six years before his death.
She further declares that she was married to the said Jeremiah Bean in the month of March in the year 1778, and as she believes on the eighteenth day of that month, at Brentwood in said County, by the Rev Nathaniel Trask then the settled minister of said Brentwood; Loammi Bean, a cousin of her said husband, was married to Mehitabel Smith, by the said Mr Trask the two couple went together to Mr Trasks house, stood up together, and were married at the same time.
She further says that in the Spring after they were married, she believes in May her husband with said Jeremiah Bean, enlisted into the Revolutionary Army and served as a soldier until the next December when he returned to Brentwood, and the next Spring she with her said husband commenced housekeeping.
She further says that her said husband Jeremiah Bean died at said Danville (then called Hawke) on the seventeenth day of December
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AD 1835 and that she has ever more remained and still is a widow - as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed

W [illegible] John Kelly (signature)
Lydia her X mark Bean (signature)

Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written
John Harvey Judge of Probate (signature)

And the said Court hereby declares its opinion that the applicant aforesaid was married at the time and as she states, that the said Jeremiah Bean died at the time in her Declaration stated and that she hath since his death remained and still is a widow - and the Court also certifies that the said applicant is a credible person and that her statement is [illegible] to credit

John Harvey Judge of Probate (signature)

I John Kelly Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lydia Bean for a pension

In testimony whereof I have hereunto at my hand and the seal of said Probate Court this nineteenth day of July AD 1837
John Kelly Register of Probate
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June the 19 - 1778 - huldah Jean was Born
September the 10: 1780 Lydia Bean was Born
July the 25: 1782 Abigail Bean was born
March the 2: 1785: Jeremiah Bean was Born
June the 16: 1787: nathaniel Bean was Born
October the 31: 1789 SuSanna Bean was Born
Aperil the 3: 1792: Elizabeth Bean was Born
September the: 19: 1794: gilman Bean was born
May the 3: 1797 - James Bean was Born

B
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June 19 1778 Huldah Bean was born
September 10 1780 Lydia Bean was born
Ringstown July 25 1782 Abigail Bean was born
Hawk March 2 1785 Jeremiah Bean was born
Hawk June 1 1787  Nathaniel Bean was born
Hawk October 31 1789 Elizabeth Bean was born
Hawk Aprill 1792 Susanna Bean was born
Hawk September 14 1794  Gilman Bean was born
May 3 1797 James Bean was born

(various name spellings were scribbled)
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[illegible] for a sable cloath, one yard and four inches wide, the length three quarters of a yard long.

January 31 1775
This day reconed and settled all book accounts, dues debts and demands from the beginning of the wourld to this day and finde due to Mr. Nathaniel Bean and [illegible] one pound ten shillings and three pence old [illegible] afs Nathaniel Bean [illegible]  Hugh Smiley
{illegible handwritten notes}
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I Lydia Bean widow of Jeremiah Bean late of Danville (formerly Hawke) testify and say that I do not know of any Family Record of my late Husband's family other than on the papers hereto annexed - the first of which marked A. was a leaf in his old account book and was torn from it in my presence by Joseph Graves Esquire on the twelfth day of October in stunt for the purpose of forwarding it to Washington and the records of our childrens births on said leaf was in the hand writing of my late husband.
The second paper marked B. was found pinned to said Account book, and was taken from said book at the same time, by said Graves, for the same purpose, and in my presence, and the record thereon is also in the hand writing of my said husband. - I further say that I have searched for other records and can find none and believe that no other exists.
Lydia Bean 
her X mark (signature)

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham SS  October 27, A.D. 1837
Then Lydia Bean above named made solemn oath the foregoing affidavit by her [illegible] is true 
Before me Joseph Graves Justice of the Peace
I certify that the said Lydia Bean is a credible person and that her statement is entitled to credit.
Joseph Graves. Jus, Peace.
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I, James Bartlett, of Danville testify and say that I was acquainted with the late Jeremiah Bean deceased a Revolutionary Pensioner - and with his hand writing - and from my acquaintance with his hand writing am satisfied and have no doubt that the record of his childrens births on the papers hereto annexed marked A. & B. use in his the said Jeremiah's proper hand writing
James Bartlett  

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham SS.
October 27, A.D. 1837

Then James Bartlett above named made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him signed is true.
Before me Joseph Graves, Jus. Peace.

I certify that she said James Bartlett is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Joseph Graves, Jus. Peace.

I, Elizabeth M. Smith testify and say that I am a daughter of the late Jeremiah Bean deceased and acquainted with his hand writing and have no doubt that the record of his childrens births and the purpose hereto annexed and marked A. & B. are in his own hand writing. I further testify that I do not know of any other family record which my father kept or had. 
Elizabeth M. Smith (signature)

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham SS
October 27, A.D. 1837
Then Elizabeth M. Smith above named made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed is true
Before me Joseph Graves. Jus, Peace.

I certify that the said Elizabeth M. Smith is a credible person and that her statement is entitled to credit.
Joseph Graves. Jus, Peace.
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I, Joseph Graves testify and say that on the twelfth day of October A.D. 1837. I called at the house of Mrs. Lydia Bean in Danville to ascertain if any Family Record of her late husband's family was in existence - a faithful search was made among his books and papers and nothing was found excepting the annexed leaves - the first of which marked A.  I found in an old Account Book of the said husband Jeremiah Bean, and I severed it from said Book in the presence of Mrs. Bean. The paper marked B. was pinned to said Account Book and taken from it by me at the same time. -- and I found no other record whatever.
Joseph Graves. 

Rockingham ss October 28, 1837
Then Joseph Grave Esq who I certify is a person of good reputation for truth and whose statements are entitled to credit, made oath that the foregoing affidavit by him [illegible] is true.
Before me John Moore Jr Justice of the Peace

State of New Hampshire Rockingham ss
I John Kelly Register of Probate and Clerk of the Court of Probate for said county do hereby certify that Joseph Graves Esq on the 27th day of October 1837 was & still is a Justice of the Peace for said County and that the signatures purporting to be his to the certificates [illegible] to the foregoing affidavits of Lydia Bean, James Bartlett & Elisabeth M Smith, are genuine and in his proper hand writing       I further say that John Moore Jr Esq is on this day a Justice of the Peace for said county and that the foregoing signature purporting to be his is genuine and in his own proper hand writing.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and the seal of said Court of Probate this 28th day of October Anno Domini 1837
John Kelly  Register of Probate (signature)
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3348
Jeremiah Bean
N H
[illegible]
Col [illegible] regt  [illegible] July 1776 
[illegible]

Enoch 22 months
Adm'd JLE
$13.33
To P Chadwich
Exeter  N H
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3548
BRIEF in the case of Jeremiah Bean
Hawke of Rockingham Cy in the State of N Hampshire
(Act 7 June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  Open Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmary?  -----

3. How old is he?  78

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

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Period.  Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
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Years, Months, Days.  As a    Gen.

In 1775
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March 17, 1932

BA-J/AWF

Miss Claribel Warren
10 East Main Street
McGraw, New York.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter relative to Jeremiah Bean, a soldier of the Revolutionary War.

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim W. 15580, based upon the Revolutionary War service of Jeremiah Bean.

He was born in 1754 at Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

While residing at Brentwood, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, he enlisted the last of June, 1775, and served eight months as a private in Captain Philip Tilton's company in Colonel Enoch Poor's New Hampshire regiment.  He enlisted June 1, 1776 and served five months as a private in Captain David Quimby's company in Colonel Wingate's New Hampshire regiment.  He enlisted in the spring of 1778, and served in Captain Jenkins' company in Colonel Poor's Massachusetts regiment, at West Point was placed in the commissary store, where he served until the following February.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Hawke, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

He married March 18, 1778 at Brentwood, New Hampshire, Lydia Sanborn.

He died, December 17, 1835, at Danville (formerly
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Hawke), New Hampshire.

The widow, Lydia, was allowed pension on her application executed, July 13, 1837, then a resident of Danville, New Hampshire, and was eighty-one years of age.

The children of Jeremiah Bean and his wife Lydia-

Huldah     born June           19, 1778
Lydia            #   September 10, 1780
Abigail         #   July             25, 1782   
Jeremiah      #   March           2, 1785
Nathaniel     #   June            16, 1787
Elizabeth      #  October       31, 1789
Susanna       #  April               3, 1792
Gilman         #  September   14, 1794
James           #  May               3, 1797

Their daughter, Elizabeth M. Smith, was in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, in 1837. Jesse Smith of Danville, New Hampshire in 1837 and aged forty-six years, stated that he married a daughter of Jeremiah and Lydia Bean.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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N. H
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No 15580
Lydia Bean
Widow of Jeremiah Bean
P in Rev War
Act: July 4  36
Index: Vol A, Page 52

1924 Feb 8 Hist to Catherine C Wood  awy
Henry Sloper  N. 16528
1929 Aug 14 Hist to Louise M McLain Esq
1939 [illegible] 17
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I, Ephraim Robinson Town Clerk of the Town of Brentwood in the County of Rockingham, certify, testify, & say that I have carefully examined the Records of s. Town, and do not find therein the record of any marriage between Jeremiah Bean and Lydia Sanborn - I further say that by the Records of said town it appears that the Rev. Nathaniel Trask became the settled Minister of said Brentwood in 1752, and his Ministry closed with his death which was about 1789 - and I further say that the marriages solemnized by him during his ministry were not generally returned or recorded on the Town Books - and I do not find the record of more than one solemnized by him during his whole Ministry in said town
July 18, 1837             Ephraim Robinson T. Clerk

Rockingham ss.  July 18, 1837
Then he said Ephraim Robinson made oath that the forgoing affidavit by him subscribed is true - and I certify that the said Ephraim Robinson is the Town  Clerk of the town of Brentwood in said County.
Joseph Graves. Justice of the Peace.
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I, Eliphalet B. Wood of Brentwood
in the County of Rockingham and State of New
Hampshire, was well acquainted with Jeremiah Bean a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States late of Hawke (now Danville)
deceased and his wife Lydia Bean, and since his death which happened in December A.D. 1835. The said Lydia has remained and still is a widow.
July 18, 1837.        Eliphalet B. Wood (signature)

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss. } July 18. 1837.

Then Eliphalet B. Wood above named made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true.

Before me Joseph Graves. Justice of the Peace.

I, certify that the said Eliphalet B. Wood is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.

Joseph Graves. Jus. Peace.
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham     July 10, 1837

[illegible] Enoch B Hook abovenamed made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true.
Before me Joseph Graves, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the said Enoch B Hook is a credible person and that his statement is entitled to credit.
Joseph Graves,  Jus. Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham

I, John Kelly, Register of Probate for said county and clerk of the court of Probate for said county, do certify that Joseph Graves is a Justice of the Peace for said county and that the signature purporting to be his on this paper and on the two papers annexed are genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court of probate this 10th day of July AD 1837.
John Kelly, Register of Probate
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Lydia Bean
New Hampshire

Suspended
See letter 4th Sept 1837 John Kelly
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Hon J L Edwards
Comm Pensions
Washington
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Exter N H Nov 8 1837
Hon J L Edwards
I have been requested to forward the accompanying affidavits in support of the application of Lydia Bean for a pension, and trust they will prove satisfactory.
I also return the affidavits by you sent back, for my signature, with my apology for the omission, when before sent to your department.
 Will you inform me (that Mrs. Bean may be informed) of the result of her application?
Respectfully yours,
John Kelly
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Jeremiah Bean N.H. Act 7 June 1832
to what time paid?
Pen Office
Sept 4 1837
Died 17 Dec 1835, 
paid to that [illegible]
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I, Dorothy Morrill of Brantwood, aged seventy seven years and more testify that I was acquainted with Jeremiah Bean and Lydia Sanborn before they were married.  The said Lydia then lived in the next house to me. I remember that she said Lydia was reputed to be in circumstances which made it desirable that she should be married soon.  The said Jeremiah had been courting her for some time.  Her situation was talked about and I well remember that she and the said Jeremiah were published and married a few months before the birth of their first child.
They were married early in the spring and their child was born in the summer following. 
This was in the year 1778 according to my best recollection.  I was not present at their marriage but heard it talked about, both before they were married and afterwards, and the fact of their marriage was never doubted.
Dorothy Morrill

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham     October 27, 1837
There Dorothy Morrill abovenamed made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed is true.
Before me, Joseph Graves, Jus. Peace

I certify that said Dorothy Morrill is a credible person and that her statement is entitled to credit.
Joseph Graves, Jus. Peace.
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I, Ephraim Robinson Town Clerk of Brentwood in the county of Rockingham, depose and say that I have made search for the church records kept by the Rev. Nathaniel Trask formerly minister of said Brentwood for twenty years or more, ending in 1779 and have not been able to find any.  After Mr. Trask's death, his papers, as I learn went into the hands of his maiden daughter and after her death what of them remained into the hands of her brother, who is also dead.  And the records are scattered and lost.  There are some papers of the old gentleman's remaining in the hands of his granddaughter but no records of marriages for any period of his ministry remaining that I have been able to find, and I believe that none such exist.
Having been for several years past Town clerk for Brentwood I have had occasion to look for records of marriages and have made the search above mentioned and have endeavored to ascertain if some fragments of his records might not e found, but have never been able to find any.
Ephraim Robinson
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham
I, John Kelly, Register of Probate and Clerk of the Court of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Joseph Graves Esq was a Justice of the Peace for said county on the 27th day of October AD 1837 and on the 6th day of November AD 1837 and still is so, and that the signatures purporting to be his on this paper are genuine and in his own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said court of probate at Exeter in said county this 8th day of November AD 1837.
John Kelly
Register of Probate
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Hough Nebr
May 14 1929
Pension Department
Washington DC

Can I find record of pension to Jonathan Bean of Brentwood or Exter [illegible] or of Jeramiah Bean services in Revolutionary their having applied for pension.
Sincerely yours,
Louise M McLain

sent Dec 9, 1924
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10 E Main St
McGraw, NJ
Feb 15, 1932

Bureau of Pensions
Washington DC

Gentlemen:
Does the name of Jeremiah Bean of New Hampshire appear upon the Pension List of Revolutionary soldiers?
If so will you please send me whatever information is available concerning him.
Yours very truly,
(Miss) Claribel Warren
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Louise M. McLain
Hough
Nebraska

Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, T.15580, it appears that Jeremiah Bean was born in 1754 at Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
While residing at Brentwood, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, he enlisted the last of June, 1775, and served eight months as a private in Captain Philip Tilton's Company, Colonel Enoch Poor's New Hampshire Regiment.
He enlisted in the spring of 1778 and served nine months (nine months crossed out) in Captain Jenkins' Company, Colonel Poor's Massachusetts Regiment. [illegible handwritten note]
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 13, 1832 while a resident of Hawke, Rockingham
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County, New Hampshire.
He died at Danville (formerly Hawke), New Hampshire, December 17, 1835.
Soldier married at Brentwood, New Hampshire, March 18, 1778, Lydia Sanborn.
She was allowed pension on her application executed July 13, 1837 while a resident of Danville, New Hampshire, aged eighty one years.
Their children:
Huldah born June 19, 1778
Lydia born September 10, 1780
Abigail born July 25, 1782
Jeremiah born March 2, 1785
Nathaniel born June 16, 1787
Elizabeth born October 31, 1789 (married Jesse Smith [crossed out)
Susanna born April 3, 1792
Gilman born September 15, 1794
James born May 3, 1797
On December 9, 1924 you were furnished the history of Jonathan Bean, R3843 and the history of a soldier of the Revolution is furnished only once to each person.
Very truly yours,
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section

February 8, 1924

Katherine C. Wood
University Place,  Nebr.

Madam:
I (have to [crossed out]) advise you (that [crossed out]) from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.15580, it appears that Jeremiah Bean was born in 1754 at Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire. 
While residing at Brentwood, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, he enlisted last of June 1775 and served eight months as a private in Captain Philip Tilton's company, Colonel Enock Poor's New Hampshire Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
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August 13, 1832 while a resident of Hawke, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.  He died at Danville (formerly Hawke) New Hampshire, December 17, 1835.
Soldier married at Brentwood, New Hampshire, March 18, 1778, Lydia Sanborn, she was allowed pension on her application executed July 3, 1837, while a resident of Danville, New Hampshire, aged eight one years.
Their children:
Huldah   ----
Lydia born September 10, 1780
Abigail born July 25, 1782
Jeremiah born March 2, 1785
Nathaniel born June 16, 1787
Elizabeth born October 31, 1789 married Jesse Smith
Susanna born April 3, 1792
Gilman born September 1, 1794
James born May 3, 1797

Respectfully,
Commissioner
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P, Sargent's affidavit
for J Bean
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Jeremiah Bean
3548


wce
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I, Phinehas Sargent, of New Chester of [illegible] do testify and say that I was well acquainted with Mr. Jeremiah Bean in the Revolutionary War, that I served in the same company, that he now resides in the town of Hawke, State of New Hampshire and County of Rockingham. That he enlisted as a militia soldier under Capt David Quimby then of said Hawke for the term of five months and marched to Ticonderoga and joined the regiment of Col. Wingate.
The said Jeremiah Bean enlisted the first of June anno domini 1776 and was discharged in November of the same year and I often saw him in the service of the United States during the abovementioned five months.
Phinehas Sargent
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham     July 5, 1832
Personally appeared the abovenamed Phinehas Sargent and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed is just and true.
Isaac Webster, Justice of the Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham    July 5, 1832 Phinehas Sargent, who signed the above affidavit has a good reputation for truth and veracity.
Isaac Webster, Justice of the Peace
I Peter Chadwick, Clerk of the Superior Court of {illegible] for the county of Rockingham in the State of New Hampshire do hereby certify that Isaac Webster before whom this and the annexed affidavit were sworn is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County of Rockingham and that the signatures to the certificates thereon are in his own  handwriting.
In testimony which I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county this thirteenth day of August Anno Domini 1872.
P Chadwick, Clerk of the Court Rockingham County
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I, Sherburn Sanborn of [illegible] do testify and say that Jeremiah Bean now of Hawke served in a company of infantry in the time of the Revolution War, eight months or ther about commencing the last of June AD 1779 at Winter Hill in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  Said company was commanded by Capt. Phillip Tilton and belong to the regiment commanded by Col. Poor and I served at the same time in Capt [illegible] Rowe's company.
Sherburn Sanborn

State of New Hampshire 
Rockingham/Poplin                 July 12th 1832
Personally appeared the abovenamed Sherburn Sanborn and made solemn oath that the above affidavit is true.
Before me, John Scribner Justice of the Peace

Rockingham
I hereby certify that the reputation of the above said Sherburn Sanborn is good for truth and veracity.
John Scribner, Justice of the Peace
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I, Peter Chadwick, Clerk of the Supreme Court of [illegible] for the County of Rockingham in the state New Hampshire do hereby certify that John Scribner is a Justice of the Peace within and for said county of Rockingham and that I believe that the signatures to the written certificates are in his own handwriting. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court this thirteenth day of August Anno  Domini 1832
.P Chadwich, Clerk of the Court Rockingham County
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I, Philip Tilton of East Kingston of lawful age do testify and say that Jeremiah Bean, now of Hawke, served in a company of infantry in the time of the Revolutionary War at Winter Hill and I was Captain of said company and the said Jeremiah Bean was a good soldier and served in my company from June 1775 eight months or thereabouts.  [illegible] company belonged to the regiment commanded by Col. Poor.  Errors excepted. 
Philip Tilton

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham     July 5, 1832
Personally appeared the abovenamed Phillip Tilton and made solemn oath that the above affidavit by him signed is just and true, before me.
Isaac Webster, Justice of the Peace

Rockingham July 5 1832
I hereby certify that the above Phillip Tilton who signed the above affidavit has a good reputation for truth and veracity.
Isaac Webster, Justice of the Peace
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2372
Lydia Beans
New Hampshire
-
Portsmouth (unintelligible)
The applicant respect
fully requests that
any communications
in relation to the
subject of her application may be made
to
John Kelly of
Exeter NH

Admitted
Pr. 22 month,
$73. 33/100
died 17 Dec 1835
John Kelly Esq
Exeter
N. H.
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I Jesse Smith of Danville in the
County of Rockingham and State of New Hampshire aged forty six years testify and say that I named a daughter of Jeremiah and Lydia
Bean of said Danville, and am and for more than nineteen years have been well acquainted with the said Jeremiah and his wife and family
the said Jeremiah died at said Danville (then Hawke) on the 17th of December
AD 1835, and was at that time a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States his wife the said
Lydia Bean survived him and is still
living and has remained a widow from
the time of the said Jeremiah's death
to this time

Jesse Smith

Rockingham ss June 13. 1837 Then said Jesse Smith made oath that the foregoing
affidavit by him subscribed is true.

I.B. Hoitt Justice of William

I certify, that the said Jesse Smith is a credible 
person and his statement is entitled to credit

I. B. Hoitt Justice of Willam
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I, Abraham Morrill of Brentwood in the County of Rockingham aged seventy six years do testify and say that I have lived in said Brentwood from my birth - that town being my native place -- I was in my childhood well acquainted with Jeremiah Bean late of Danville, formerly Hawke, in said County deceased, who was also a native of Brentwood and whose home was in that town untill after he left the United States Army; and I have kept up an acquaintance with him since his  return from the Army, and to the time of his death, which occurred in December 1835. I was also well acquainted with Lydia Sanborn of Brentwood who in the
1777 or the year 1778. not sertain which was married to and become the wife of the said Jeremiah Bean.

My Father with whome I lived till I was twenty
one years old, lived about one mile Easterly from
said Bean's father and about one mile
Westerly from said Lydia Sanborn's father.

I knew of the engagement between the
said Jeremiah and Lydia was knowing
to their said courtship and read their publishment, that is, the notice posted up by the
Town Clerk of said Brentwood according to
law, that the said Jeremiah and Lydia intend
to marry - Soon after the publishment
was out I heard of the time when they were to
be married, and afterwards, and immediately, heard and understood that they were
married accordingly - and they were ever
after reputed to be man and wife - and it
was never as I suppose doubted that they were so.

They always from the time when they
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were said to have been married lived together
as man and wife, and had and brought up
large family of children. After his marriage,
he went in to the Army of the United States ┃
in the Revolutionary war and was a soldier
in it a considerable time but I do not know
how long a time. I recollect the time of the marriage of the said Jeremiah and Lydia by the circumstance of its taking place near the time
of the death of an Aunt of mine who was at the
time of her death a near neighbour of Miss Sanborn's  father.-- I am distinct in my recollection of the said Jeremiah's having been in the Revolutionary Army after his marriage -
It was but a little while after his marriage
that he went into the army and left his wife at
his father's where she continued a part if not the
whole time of his absence. The said Jeremiah
was at the time of his death a Revolutionary
Pensioner of the United States. Abraham Morrill
State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss
July 13. 1837

Then Abraham Morrill above named made
solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed is true

Before me Joseph Graves, Justice of the Peace

I certify that the said Abraham Morrill is a
credible person and that his statement is
entitled to credit.
Joseph Graves Jus. Peace
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I Mehitable Chase of Deerfield in the County of Rockingham aged seventy six years testify and say that I was a native of Brentwood in said County and my name before my first marriage was Mehitable Smith. In my childhood and youth I was well acquainted with Jeremiah Bean and Lydia Sanborn both of Brentwood I  was acquainted with them when they were engaged to each other it was the same time of my engagement with my first husband Loammi Bean who was a cousin of said Jeremiah Bean, and the said Jeremiah & Lydia was married together at the same time & place that the said Loammi and I were intermarried, we all four stood up in the floor and were all married at one and the same time, to wit, on the eighteenth day of March A.D. 1778 by the Rev. Nathaniel Trask then Minister of Brentwood. I saw them married, and afterwards the said Jeremiah Bean went into the Army a Revolutionary soldier, but I do not
know the particular time he was in the Army.
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the said Jeremiah Bean deceased about
one and a half year since
Mehitabel Chase

State of New Hampshire
Rockingham ss
July 8, 1839

Then Mehitabel Chase above named made solemn oath that the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed is true

Before me
David Haynes J. Peace
I certify that the said Mehitabel Chase is a credible person and that her statement is entitled to credit
David Haynes  J. Peace
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State of New Hampshire
Rockingham  ss.
I John Kelly Register of Probate
for the County of Rockingham and Clerk of the Probate Court for said County do
certify that Ira B Hoitt, Joseph Graves and David Haynes are Justices of the Peace of the Peace for said County and that each of them was a Justice of the Peace at the time of signing the foregoing papers and that the several signatures purporting to be them or either of their signatures are genuine

In Testimony where of I have hereunto
set my hand and the seal of the said
Probate Court this 13th day of July A D 1837
John Kelly
Register of Probate