Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 10,408, James Beebee, Conn. Continental
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SERVICE Conn Continental
Beeber, James  or Beebe or Bebee
NUMBER
W. 10,408
CONTENTS
Mehitabel
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New York Albany
Mehitable Beebe
of Onondaga in the State of NY
who was a              in the              commanded
by Captain Conn of the                 commanded 
by                in the
for widow of James Beebe decd who was a captain in the Revolution.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York Albany
at the rate of 48 Dollars 00 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of Octo
1836 and sent Victory Birdseye Pompey NY

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1836 $640.00
Semi=anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 37 240.00
                                                $2880.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act 1836}
Recorded by D D Addison Clerk
Book A  Vol. 1  Page 27

Dend. [unk] formed by
a letter from V. Birdseye
to Hon. Tomlinson see
letter Hon. G. Tomlinson Feb. 23, 1837
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State of New York
Onondaga County} ss. On this 22nd day of July 1836 before the undersigned George Pettit one of the Judges of the County Courts in & for said county, personally appeared Mehetebel Beebe a resident of Pomprey in said county, aged eighty one years & upwards, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth his her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions, made by the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of James Beebe who was a captain in the army of the United States in the Revolutionary War, in the first instance, in the second Connecticut Regiment, as will more fully appear by the Commission of the said James Beebe as such captain, which is hereto annexed, and , in the second instance, in the corps or company of [unk] miners, as will also appear by his commission as such captain in the said corps of supers and minus, which is also hereto annexed.- that her said husband served as such captains for the term of four years & upwards, being from the 25th December 1777 to the 8th of June 1781 according to her best recollection & belief, & that he was discharged from the service as such captain, on the 8th of June 1781 as will appear by the certificate to that effect endorsed on the back of the commission last above mentioned. She further says that her said husband was in the Battle of Monmouth, as she has repeatedly understood from him, & that he frequently compliance, that he was so over powered with the heat, by his exertions on that day, that he should never see a well day afterwards. She knows that he was always afterwards infirm in health, & that he [unk] it
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to the effect of the heat & over exertion on that day. She further says that one winter during the time that her said husband to serve as captain as aforesaid she visited him in camp at Reading in the State of Connecticut where a part of the army were then stationed & that he procured a room of a relative there in which she & her said husband lived during the said winter, he quartering with her at the house of his said relative & doing duty daily in camp. That General Putnam was commanding officer of the troops stationed at Reading during the winter aforesaid, while to living at Reading with her said husband she saw two men [unk]; one, a deserter from the Brittish who had [unk] into our army & then had deserted again, the other was a Tory by the name of Jones who had deserted & drove cattle to the enemy, that from his aged failure of recollection she cannot specify with certainty what county it was that she so lived at Reading with her said husband, but she knows that it was during the time that he so served in captain in the army of the Revolution. That the two annexed commissions are the only documentary evidence she has or can produce to her knowledge to show the said services of her said husband as such captain aforesaid nor does she know of any witness by whom his said services can be proved. Her said husband had served two cam. in the army of the Revolution prior to his appointment as captain as aforesaid as she always understood from him. She further says that she was married to the said James Beebe on the fourth day of June in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven, and that her husband the aforesaid James Beebe died on the twentieth day of September
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in the year one thousand eight hundred & twelve & that she has remained a widow every since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written.
Mehetebel Beebe
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before me.
George Pettit a Judge of Onondaga County Courts

And I the said Judge do certify that I have been acquainted with James Beebe, above named in his lifetime, & partially acquainted with Mehetebel Beebe & that she cannot, from age & bodily infirmity, attend the Court, but after putting such interrogatories to her as seem to me appropriate, & from her appearance before me at the place of her residence, in Pomprey, I am satisfied of her competency of mind & memory to make the foregoing declaration & that her statement is entitled to credit & belief.
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County
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State of New York
Onondaga County ss. John Middlebrooks of the town of Faberus in the Count of Onondaga & State of New York aged seventy years & upwards, himself a pensioner of the United States, personally appeared on this twenty second day of July in the year one thousand eight hundred & thirty six before the undersigned one of the Judges of the Onondaga County Courts  in the State aforesaid. He being duly sworn according to law, doth depose & say that he is personally acquainted with Mehetibel Beebe now present & that he has been acquainted with her for sixty years & upwards, that he was born & brought up in the same Parish with her in the town of Stratford in the State of Connecticut. That she was the daughter of Samuel Fairchild of Stratford aforesaid. The Deponent further saith that he was also well acquainted with James Beebe, the husband of the said Mehetibel. That he was well acquainted with him before he entered the army of the Revolution & continued to be acquainted with him untill the time of his death. That Deponent knows that in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy six he the said James Beebe assisted in enlisting a company of troops for the revolutionary army to which company was raised principally in the neighborhood where the said James Beebe & this Deponent then resided to wit in the town of Stratford in the State of Connecticut. That he  [unk] said James Beebe at the head of the company having the command when the said company was marched from Stratford aforesaid. He the said James Beebe being as Deponent understood the Lieutenant of the company & the captain- which was captain
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Beach remaining at home for a week or 10 when he went on home center to join the company. The deponent further saith that in the year one thousand & seven hundred & twenty seven according to his best recollection & believes he understood the said James Beebe was appointed a captain in the revolutionary army. That deponent frequently saw him the said James Beebe while at home an visits to his family from the army after he was appointed a captain as aforesaid & while he was reported to belong to the army. That shortly before the [unk] he cannot now recollect how long precisely the said James Beebe returned home from the army as a discharged officers & that he always through life enjoyed the reputation of having served as a captain in the Revolutionary army.
Deponent further saith that he is confident in his recollection that in the year one thousand seven hundred & seventy seven the said James  Beebe was married to the said Mehetibel Fairchild, the aforesaid Mehetibel [unk] now present. That this deponent was not present at the wedding but the fact was then consistently reported & received among the inhabitants of the town where they lived that they were married. That the father of the said James Beeb e was a clergyman in Stratford aforesaid at the time the said marriage altho he has saw him dead many years. That the said James Beebe & his said wife during his life & from this knowing in society of said James Beebe & his said wife before & after the said marriage he has
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no doubt that they were married at the time above alleged he never heard a suspicion or surmise to the contrary. Deponent further saith that the said James Beebe died at Onondaga in the State of New York in or about the year one thousand eight hundred & twelve having been accidently drowned as was the general reputation among his friends & acquaintances & which this deponent believes to be true. Deponent further saith that the said Mehetibel Beebe the widow of the said James Beebe has not married since the death of her said husband but has remained a widow & further this deponent saith not.
John Middlebrook
Subscribed & sworn to by the said John Middlebrooks before me this 22d day of July 1836 & I certify that said Deponent is a credible witness.
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga County Courts
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that deponent knew that the said James Beebee died on or about the twentieth day of September in the year eighteen hundred & twelve being accidentally drowned. he was found several days afterwards & brought to the village at anondass Hill where his family then resides & there buried. This deponent was at his funeral. Deponent has ever since the death of her said father resided with her said mother & knows that she has never married since the death of he said James Beebee but yet remains a widow. Deponent further saith that the leaf of a Bible hereto annexed is taken from a Bible which the said James Beebee owned during his lifetime & in which Bible& on said leaf he had commenced a family record of his own age & that of his wife & their marriage & that she knows that the record to begun written in leaf hereto annexed of the ages of the said Janes Beebe plus wife & of their marriage is all in the proper handwriting of her said father the aid James Beebee. She believes it was copied by him from a like Record in a former family Bible but which had become battered Y torn to Pieces She further says that it has been the uniformly received reputation in the family & among the circle of their acquaintances that the said James Beebee had served as a Captain in the Army of the Revolution & further she saith not
Hepzibah Beebee

Subscribed & Sworn to by Hepzibah Beebee}
the day & year above written before me}
& I do certify that she is a credible witness}
George Pettit Judge of Onondaga 
County Courts
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THE 
NEW TESTAMENT
OF OUR
LORD AND SAVIOR
JESUS CHRIST.
TRANSLATED
OUT OF THE 
ORIGINAL GREEK.
AND WITH THE FORMER TRANSLATIONS DILIGENTLY
COMPARED AND REVISED
BY THE SPECIAL COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY KING JAMES I, OF ENGLAND.
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PRINTED AT WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, BY ISAIAH THOMAS, JUN. 
FOR ISAIAH THOMAS.
Sold by him in WORCESTER. Sold also by said Thomas and Andrew, at Faust's Statue, No. 45, Newbury Street, BOSTON; and by said Thomas and Thomas, in WALPOLE, Newhampshire
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1801.
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James Beebee the son of Mr. James Beebee as Minister of a Presbetteran Church in Stratford Connecticut was born the 11th Day of Decr in the year 1751.
Mehetibel the Daughter of Daniel Fairchild Esqr of Stratford Connecticut was born Decr 9th 1754 and was married to James Beebee in the 4th day of June 1777 and their children and names are as follows
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Trumbull ^ Sept 19th D 1856
This certifies that I have examined the Church Records of North Stratford now of Trumbull, of which I am Clerk of sd Church and on examining sd records, do find in the hand writing of the Revd James Beebee formerly Pastor of sd Church the following record
June 7th D 1777
James Beebee and Mehitable Fairchild both of this place entered the bonds of marriage 
Ali Brinsmade } Clerk of sd Church
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Bridgeport September 19 1836
Personally appeared Ali Brinsmade and made oath to the truth of the above certificate and subscribed the same in my presence. Before me who is a person of Respectability well known to me
Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED
For James Bebee Esquire Greeting. We, Reposing especial trust confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, and Fidelity DO by these present constitute and appoint you to Captain in the Company's of [illegible]appen and Miners in the Army of the United States to [illegible] as such from the 2d day  August 1779; You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duty of a Captain by doing and performing all manner of things thereunto belonging, And do Strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers, under your command, to be obedient to your orders, as from time to time, as you Shal receive from this, or future Congress of the United States, or Committee of Congress's for that purpose appointed a Committee of the State, or commander in chief for the time being of the Army of the United States, or any other your Superior Officer, according to the rules and discipline of War, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commissioned to continue inforce until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of the States.
Witness Hon [illegible] Sam Huntington, Esq President of the Congress of the United States of America, at Philadelphia the [illegible] day of February 1780, and in the Fourth year of our independence
Sam Huntington President 
Entered in the Wat Office and examined by the Board West[illegible] Secretary of the board of war.
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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN CONGRES ASSEMBLED

To James Beebee Esquire Greeting, We reposing especial trust and confidence in your Patriotism, Valor, Conduct and Fidelity, DO by these presents vestiture and appoint you to be a Captain in the Second Connecticut Regiment in the Arm of the United States to take rank as [illegible word] from the 25 day of December AD 1777. You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the duly of a Captain to doing and performing all manner of things [illegible word] belonging. And [2 illegible words] charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your command to [illegible words] your orders as from time to time as you shall from this or a future Congress of the United States Committee of Congress for the purpose appointed a Committee of the States or Commander in Chief for the time being the Army of the United States or any other your superior Officer [illegible word] by the rules and [illegible word] of the purpose of the trust upon [illegible word]. This Commission to continue before until revoked by the future Congress the Committee of Congress before mentioned of a Committee of the States.

Entered in the War Office and examined by the Board

Witness this [illegible name] President of the Congress of the United States of America [illegible date] day of March 1779 and in the [[illegible word] year of Independence

[illegible words] of the Board of War
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Revy WIDOW, &c.
Rev
File NO. 10408
Mehitable Beebe
wid. of
James Beebe
Capt. Rev. War
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Act: June 7" 1832
Index:-- Vol. A, Page 50
[Arrangement of 1870.]
Mehitable Beebe
N.Y.
War o. Sec let to V
Birdseye Sept 7
1836
Act 4 July 1836
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free

VBirdsey Bertmenter
Pompey N.Y.

Sit J. L Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington


2406.00
  240.00
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2640
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Pompey Onondaga Co
New York  October 3. 1836

Sir
I enclose you herewith further proof in support of the application of Mrs Mehetebel Beebee for a pension. If the proof be admissable in point of form & not it will be formed [unknown word] satisfactory in substance. The record evidence for ou [unknown word] a aged widow in the town it does not exist. But the Church Records if entitled to consideration will supply that Debut. Mrs Calertin of the town & church have given their certificates. they have no [unknown word] & I suppose their certificates should be satisfactory but they have added their affidavits and I perceive that the Justices can to there two affidavits have omitted to certify to their character for credibility proceeding upon the presumption that their official character was proof of their standing. I hope you official duties will permit an early attention to the documents now furnished as that is defects are found they maybe point out to me to that I can remove them 
Very respectfully
I am, Sir, your
obdt
Victory Birdsee
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Pompey, Onondaga Co N. York
Octr. 21, 1836
Sir
about the 5th October inst I forwarded to you  an additional Budget of testimony in the case of Mehitable Beebee's application for a Pension the rest of which has not been acknowledged. At least I have Recd no admission of the Rest of it. I should not have should any want from the first that seen had before admd the rest the former communications. If the latter ends it has arrived safely & it be not according to to your usages to acknowledge it, you need not now. But if it has miscarried I should be glad to be advised by the part that I might take measures to replace it. [unk] [unk] contained the certificate of the town Clerk in Trumbull- altho affdts of Nathan Fairchild, Agur Tomlinson, Mary Brinsmade, Samuel Fairweather, David Booth, & Phebe Nichols.

The testimony was collected for me by my excellent friend, J. U. Tomlinson, the father of the senator from that State- Gov Tomlinson and I observed some interlimations in the depositions. If for them or any others want of compliance with first form
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the Depositions a proof should have to be taken De novo - I should be glad to be advised of the part as soon as a compliance with your other official Duties may permit
Very Respectfully
I am. [illegible]
V Birdseye
Novr J L Edwards Esq
Court of Pensions
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per V. Birdseye
Port Marion
Pompey N.Y.

Mr. J.L. Edwards Esquire
Commissioner of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington
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Pompey Onondaga County
New York August 2 1836
Sir,
While I was a member of the 14th Congress from this district I had occasion to trouble you relative to serve for Pension cases these [illegible] on me. If indeed some are the same  Mrs. Edwards as I presume who then had charge of the Pensioner in. The Uniform courtesy & attention which I then  sit. reviewed at your hands will I hope be promptly bestowed are the case now forwarded to [illegible]. for I believe it is as deserving as any that ever came under your eye.
It is the case of Mrs. Mehetebel Beebee the widow of Capt. James Beebee of the Revolutionary army his two commissions which are attached  to the papers are as I read the Regulations of your Department the best evidence of his services. The only difficulty would [illegible] to be as to her actual marriage to him previous  to his discharge from the [illegible]. the family Record from the Bible made with Capt. Beebees own hand prior to his death ( Which occur in 1812. when no notion to fabricate could exist is [illegible] in [illegible] with that [illegible] J. Middlebrook as a resident of same  Parish with Capt. [illegible] his wife at the time of this marraige was a part of [illegible] [illegible] at the time it took place that they have said him cohabited as husband & wife. this assumption never to traditionary fact that Capt Balen never as later in the application. she could have testified to the traditionary reputation of their marriage according tot he family Brown- not [illegible] of course [illegible] her own recollection of [illegible] that is omitted. but free of Mrs. Beebees [illegible] who would have been
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likely
to be at her wedding now survive - & she having remembered [illegible] 250 or 300 miles from the part of the country where she was married - it is not the work of a moment to consult those whom might infer to have been present. If however the testimony of this saint is not sufficient - we will try the subject of a exploration in Connecticut - For which reason & because Mrs Bebee is now fully in such precarious health that she can not very [illegible] enjoy the county of her Country. I would ask as prompt an attention to her case as I am Rules of [illegible] will permit. 
If I now [illegible] this act (4th July 1836) Mr Bebee is entitled to a pension with such of the full pay of a Captain in the Corps of [illegible] from the 4th of March 1831.
As to the reputability of Mrs [illegible] I refer you with [illegible] to the Revd Wm Taylor the present minister of Congress from this District & who met have known them for 15 years - also to the New James H Tomlinson Esq of that true [illegible] the father of the present Senator from the State Gov Tomlinson the [illegible] Mr Tomlinson [illegible} & believed in the family of Capt Bebee's father [illegible] as During the War & was well acquainted then with M Burbury he must able to State the traditionary parts of this marriage at a time sufficiently [illegible] to living her case written the law & of the service of her Husband as Captain
I can Division where Mrs Bebee's care need be addressed to her at this
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[illegible] or to me for her
Very Respectfully
I am, for & cer
Victory Birdseye
Mr. J L Edwards
Comr of Pensions
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Deposition in support 
of the application of 
Mrs Mehitable Bebee
for a Pension under
the Act of 4 July 1836
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County of Woodbury
Be it remembered that on this 8th Day of August 1836 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace within and in Litchfield County duly commissioned & sworn Mrs Sarah Burritt of Roxbury in said County who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath depose and say that she is well acquainted with Mehitable Beebee of Pompey in the County of Onondaga & State of New York the said Mehitable being the sister of said Sarah and daughter of Daniel Fairchild Esquire formerly of Stratford in the County of Fairfield in said State of Connecticut said Mehitable is now the widw of James Beebee decd   This Deponent knows that the year the Deponent was twelve or thirteen years old the said Mehitable was married to a James Beebee son of the Rev Mr Beebee the Clergyman of the North County in said Stratford the month she is unable to state and that the said marriage was performed at the house of said Daniel Fairchild her father in the presence of this Deponent and the father & mother of this Deponent   The ceremony of marriage was performed by the [illegible] Rev Mr Beebee
This Deponent sayth that the said James Beebee was received & treated by the family of her father as the Husband of said Mehitable
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and cohabited with said Mehitable as her husband The Deponent well remembers he was absent a good while after marriage in the army as it was then [illegible] understood and believe in the family of her father, and well recollects his return to the family & his wife at different times during the war He was a Captain in the army of the revolution as you the Deponent then understood & believes
This Deponent was seventy one years of age on the 26 Day of July 1836
Other persons besides those mentioned by the Deponent were present at the marriage but the Deponent is now unable to remember their names
Sarah Burritt
Sworn and subscribed before me on the day and year aforesaid
Chas B Phelps Justice of Peace
I certify that the aforesaid Sarah Burritt who subscribed the foregoing Deposition has been personally known to me for some years and that the reputable woman of fairy & [illegible] reputation and a credible witness
Chas B Phelps Justice of Peace
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State of Connecticut SS
Office of the Clerk of the County Court in & for the County of Litchfield
I Origen S Seymom Clerk of said Court hereby certify that Charles B Phelps Esquire is & for more than a year last past has been a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly qualified & authorized by the law of this State to administer oaths & that the foregoing signature purporting to be the signature of the said Charles B Phelps is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of said Court this 10th day of August 1836
Origen S Seymom, Clerk
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[illegible]
Department
Pompey N.Y.
J L Edwards Esquire
Court of Pensions
War Department
Washington City
N Y Aug 31
Act 4 July 1836
Mehitable --
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Pompey, Onondaga Co. New York
Aug: 24. 1836
Sir
I have sent 3 letters of the other instant acknowledging the rest of Mrs. Mehitable Bebee's application for a pension & saying that Record [illegible] be produced of the marriage where it [illegible]
I was not sure that it does exist in their case - I have however written a [illegible] to have the Records examined & have to be soon advised of the Result. 
I had however before written to obtain more position proof if that cert of marriage of Mrs. Bebee from a letter of her should it turn out that the records and the time - I enclose her offered [illegible] although she does not remember the day or month - she does the marriage & that I whose it means when he was written 12.06.13.3 seems of age - This by calculation with how the marriage became him in 77.07.02. Either year would be before the last Discharge of Capt. Bebee it seems to me that this proof should be sufficient - If the Record evidence is obtained it shall be [illegible] to your department unless I am hold this affidavit
Very Respectfully
Yours
Victory Birdseye
Mr J. L. Edwards for
Court of Pensions
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Comptrollers Office
Hartford Connecticut
Sept 9th 1836
I certify that the nae of Leutenant James Beebe appears of the Pay Table Books in this office and is named as belonging to Col C Webbs Regt and is charged Oct 17th 1777, "Feb 16 Blankets recd of S.M. Stratford for the use of the Company to which he belongs pr Receipt" S.15.17 he is also charged May 15th 1778, "To 12 Blankets received of S.M. Stratford for use of the Company to which he belongs pr Receipt, did his recruits S.26.13."
The same of Capt James Beebe also appears on the pay table Books of the Connecticut Line where he is credited Jany 1st 1780, "By balance for his services Continental Army S 241-11-" he is also charged May 7th 1781 To order on Treasurer the same amount
Wm Field Comptroller
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } SS Stratford Sept 12th 1836
This certifies that I have examined the town Records of the Town of Stratford of which I am Clerk for the purpose of finding the record of the marriage of Capt James Beebe to Mahetebal Fairchild formerly of that part of said Stratford now called Trumbull and do not find their marriage Recorded in said records - And I also further certify that the practice of Recording marriages during the Revolutionary War does not appear by said Records to have been a general thing
Josiah Gorham Town Clerk
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Stratford Sept 13th 1836
Personally appeared Josiah Gorham & subscribed in my presence & made oath before me to the truth of the foregoing certificate
John Goulding Justice of Peace
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Nathan Fairchild of the Town of Huntington county of Fairfield & State of Connecticut: a pensioner of United States, Deposeth and Saith that he was well acquainted with Capt James Bebee who resided in the Town of Turmbull in sd County during the Revolutionary War and remembers that sd Bebee commenced serving the United States in the first of the War and was at the taking of St Johns at Lake Champlain and served in that Campaign as ensign and the next year at Ticonderoga and that he afterwards was a Luit & then a Capt in the Continental Line also Remembers that he was in service until the latter part of the War but cannot Remember particulars in regard to the time he served in different Campaign but knows he performed several campaigns in the course of the War also Remembers that he was a married man during the War and that Mehitable Fairchild a distant Relation of Deponent was his wife further Deponent saith not 
Nathan Fairchild
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Bridgeport September 12 1836
Personally appeared Nathan Fairchild and subscribed & made oath to the forgoing Deposition who I certify is a person well Known to me and is a credible Witness and that I have full confidence in the Truth of sd Deposition 
Sworn & Subscribed Before me
Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace
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Agur Tomlinson of Huntington County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut, a pensioner of the United States Deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with Capt James Bebee & his wife Mehitable, and Remembers that said James Bebee belonged to a company Raised in the Town of Stratford in said County by Col Saint Martin said Bebee was clerk of said company in a Campaign to the Northward and was at the taking of St Johnson 1775 and served the United States seven months in sd Campaign. The reason that he knows of said Bebee service in this Compaign is that Deponent was a private of Capt Smiths Company and was at the taking of St Johns and in the same service for seven months in the same Regiment as said Bebee and Remembers that said Bebee was a Capt in the Continental line after said Campaign - Col Watarburns commanded said Regiment
Agur Tomlinson
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Bridgeport Sept. 20. 1836
Personally appeared Agur Tomlinson and subscribed and made oath to the above Deposition who I certify is a credible Witness his statement is entitled to full credit
Sworn & Subscribed before me
Isaac Sherman
Justice of Peace
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The Deposition of Widow Mary Brinsmade of the Town of Trumbull County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut. Deposeth & saith that she is 81 years old and is the daughter of the Revd James Beebee Decd who was for many years an ordained minister over the Parish of North Startford now called Trumbull before, during & since the Revolutionary War - and that James Beebee who married Mehitable Fairchild who is now said James Widow that has lately applied for a Pension was her own Brother and son of said Red James Beebee - Remembers her said Brother James went to the Northward in the first of the Revolutionary War & was at the taking of St Johns and Remembers that he was a Lut & Capt in the time of the Revolutionary War but does not know how much service her performed but thinks he served until nearly or quite the close of the War Remembers hat her sd brother James was Married by her Father the Revd James Beebee before named to Mehitable Fairchild in the Parish of said North Stratford in the Summer of 1777 thinks it was in June and Also Remembers that said James was in service after he was married to Mehitable also Knows that said Mehitable has never married [illegible] but is now living as she supposes in the Town of Pompey in the State of New York as the Widow of said James, that said James was drowned in the year 1818. The reasons that she knows & remembers what she has stated is that said James was her Brother and Resided in the same Parish with him
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during the Revolutionary War and remembers dais Mehitable his wife went to visit her husban after they were married when he was encamped at West Point on the North River remembers his coming home on furlow after they were married.
Mary Brinsmade
And the reason that she knows that said James & Mehitable were lawfully married is that she was present at the Wedding when his father the Revd James Bebee married them
Mary Brinsmade
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} SS Trumbull September 21 1836
Personally appeared Mary Brinsmade and subscribed and made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition who I certify is a Credible witness well known to me and I believe her Testimony is true - 
Sworn & subscribed Before me
Isaac Sherman
Justice of Peace
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Samuel Fayerweather of the Town of Weston in Fairfield County State of Connecticut a pensioner of the United States Deposeth and saith that  he was well acquainted with Capt James Bebee & his wife Mehitabel during the Revolutionary War said Bebee & his sd wife having Resided during the Revolution in the Parish of North Stratford in the Town of Stratford in sd County (now called Trumbull) Remembered sd Bebee was in service most of the War & saw him in service as a Captain in the Continental Line at West Point at saw his wife Mehitabel in camp with him there cannot state particulars as he did not belong to his Company but belonged to the same Town with sd Bebee his impression is that said Bebee served in a Campaign in 1776 as a Lut in a Company to the Northward
Saml Fayerweather
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Bridgeport September 10 1836
Personally appeared Samuel Fayerweather and made oath to the above Deposition who I certify is a credible Witness known to me 
Sworn & Subscribed before me
Isaac Sherman
Justice of Peace
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In the case of Mehitabel Bribeis application for a pension
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Further Proof
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David Booth of the Town of Trumbull in the County of Fairfield & state of Connecticut a pensioner of the United States Deposeth & saith that he was well acquainted with Capt James Bebee of the Town of Trumbull in sd County & who resided in sd Trumbull during the Revolutionary War Remembers said Bebee entered the service of the United Stated in the first part of the Revolutionary War as ensign or Lut and went to the Northward and was afterwards Lut & Capt in the Continental Line and served in a number of Campaigns and was in service a considerable part or all the War and that he was married in the early part of the War to Mehitibal Fairchild by the father of said Capt James Bebee whose name was the Revd James Bebee and who was the Regular Ordained Minister over the Parish called North Stratford now called Trumbull and whose Parish at the time of the Revolution was a part of the town of Stratford of sd county the reason that Deponent Remembered the foregoing parts is that he resided in the same neighborhood with sd Capt James Bebee during the Revolution and deponent married the sister of said Capt James Bebee and also remembers courting his wife who lived in the House of the Revd James Bebee whose said Capt Bebee lived with his wife and perfectly remembered said Capt Bebee coming home from the Army to visit his wife further Deponent saith not. David Booth
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County - } SS Bridgeport September 12 1836
Personally appeared David Booth who subscribed and made oath to the foregoing Deposition who I certify is a person well Known to me and is a credible Witness and I have full confidence in the Truth of sd Deposition
Sworn & Subscribed Before me
Isaac Sherman Justice of Peace
Phebe Nichols the wife of Stiles Nichols of Bridgeport in Fairfield County State of Connecticut Deposeth & saith that she lived before & during the Revolution near neighbor to Capt James Bebee's wife in the Parish of North Stratford and think she saw said James Married to Mehetibal Fairchild (that her [illegible] is strong that she was at the Wedding)
by this and James Bebee his father who was the ordained Minister over said Parish which marriage took place in the part of the War and Revolution Capt Bebee was on service long after they were married and that she went to Riding and lived in camp with him one Winter
Phebe Nichols
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield} ss Bridgeport September AD 1836
Personally appeared Phebe Nichols and subscribed and made oath to
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to the foregoing Deposition who I certify is an old Lady of the first Respectability well known to me as a credible Witness and I fully believe her statement is True 
Sworn & Subscribed before me
Isaac Sherman
Justice of Peace
State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss Bridgeport September 22 1836
I Roswell S Nichols Clerk of the Probate Court in and for the District of Stratford in said County and State aforesaid do hereby certify that Isaac Sherman is a Justice of the Peace in and for said Fairfield County, duly commissioned and qualified and that his commission expire on the 20 of June 1837 - that his signature to the foregoing Depositions of Nathan Fairchild, Agur Tomlinson, Ali Brinsmade, Mary Brinsmade, Samuel Fayerweather, David Booth & Phibe Nichols are all his genuine Signature - And I furthur certify that John Goldeng signature to the Deposition of Josiah Gorham 2 page of this Instrument is genuine & that said Goldeng is Justice of the Peace in & for said Fairfield County duly commissioned & qualified whose commissioner expires on the 20 June 1837.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Probate Court the day and year above written
Roswell S Nichols
Clerk
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I Mark Moore Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the District of Stratford County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut hereby Certify that Roswell S Nichols is Clerk of said Court that he foregoing is his signature with the seal of said Court thereto annexed Date at Bridgeport in sd County.
September 22 AD 1836
Mark Moore Judge
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I Mark Moore Judge of the Court of Probate in and for the District of Stratford County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut hereby Certify that Roswell S Nichols is Clerk of said Court that he foregoing is his signature with the seal of said Court thereto annexed Date at Bridgeport in sd County.
September 22 AD 1836
Mark Moore Judge
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No. 71
Mehitabel Beebe
Mihitabel Beebees
application form
Pension
under the act of 4th July
1836
Admitted
Captain 1 years
$480
Mehitabel Bebe
widow of 
James Bebee
Victory Birdsey Esq 
Pompey
New York
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State of New York
County of Onondaga } ss:
Cornelius Younglove Deputy Clerk of the said County, to Certify that George Pettit Esquire, before whom the preceding affidavit purport to have been sworn and also by whom the preceding certificate purports to have been made was at the dates of the same, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Please in and for the said County, duly Commissioned and qualified. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the final of said affidavit, and to the said Certificate, to be his proper hand writing and signature. Witness my hand and seal of office this 30th day of July in the year 1836
C Younglove Dep. Clk.