Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 5816, Thomas Beddow, Md.
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SERVICE- Md. 
Beddow, THomas or Beddo Sarah
NUMBER W. 5816
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Ohio
Thomas Beddo
of Delaware Co. in the State of Ohio who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Trueman of the Regt command by Col. Skinner in the Maryland line for 9 Months from 1779 and 80
Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 30 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd day of March 1833 and sent to Reynolds Clerk of Delaware Co Ohio
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $60.00
Semi anl allowance ending 4 Sept 1833 $15.00
$75.00
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by F J Evans Clerk, Book E VOl 8 Page 2
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[top and bottom of document blackened and unreadable - few words in the middle readable]

per annum, to
the 4th day of March
11 November 1821
Certificate of Pension issued the
21st day of April 1854
sent to
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Thomas Beddo 
Application for Pension
20123
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The State of Ohio
Delaware County 
Be it remembered on this twentieth day of November in the year Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Two, personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Delaware, now in session, THomas Beddo a resident of Delaware Township in the County of Delaware aged seventy one 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 act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
(Illegible) Thomas Beddo on my said oath sates that I entered into the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated to wit.
I was born January 2nd 1761, in Prince Georges County Maryland; where I resided during the Revolution near Nottingham and in the direction from there towards where the Federal City is now is about 22 miles from U. Marlborough.  I was enrolled in the militia a year or two after the declaration of Independence.  A year or two after  I returned I was drafted and called out into actual service for nine months.  This was about the first of April; I cannot recollect the year but I think it was a year or two before the taking of S. Cornwallis at Yorktown Virginia.  I served under Capt Thomas Truman and Lieut Jack (illegible) the company to which I belonged first mustered at a little town a place called Grubtown; and our company then marched to our permanent station a little below Hannah Browns ferry on the Patuxent river in Maryland.  We were stationed here with 2 or 3 other companies under the companies under command of Col Benjamin Skinner. This place was our head quarters during
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My whole tour of nine months services.  During the whole time we were stationed there the enemy were hovering about us and we were compelled to keep up an active guard and patrol.   While we were stationed at the Ferry the enemy in the night attacker Lower Marlboro, and plundered and burnt some part of it.  We marched to the relief of the place but the enemy had made their retreat before we arrived there.  Some time before the attack of the enemy on Lower Marlboro, I was one night standing sentry at our station at the Ferry.  The alarm was given and all our sentries were called into our station.  Our whole force was mustered and expecting an attack from the enemy.  At this time Lieut Jack Swan left his post and secreted himself in a hay marsh until the alarm was over.  For this conduct Lieut Swan was afterwards tried by a court marshall for cowardice and was dismissed from the Army.  After I had served my tour of nine months I was discharged at our station near the Ferry about the last of December.  Some time after the revolution I left P George County and settled in Albermarle County Virginia near a place called Port Republic about 11 miles from Charlottesville. I resided there until the month of August 1828 went to Rockingham CO left there 1831. When I left there and moved to the state of Ohio. I settled in Delaware County in September 1831.  I have lost my discharge and have no documentary evidence and know of no person for whom testimony I can procure who can testify to my services. I hereby relinquish all claim whatever to any pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the Pension roll of any agency in any state.
Sworn to and subscribed to this day and year aforesaid 
Thomas Braddo
his mark
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Mr. James Cave and Elam A Viking residents of Delaware Township in said County and residing in the neighborhood of the within named Thomas Beddo hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the said Thomas Beddo who has sealed and sworn to the foregoing declaring that we believe him to be seventy one years of age, that he is a reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in this opinion. 
Sworn and subscribed to the day and year aforesaid. 
Elam Vining 
James Cave 
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 solider and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Elam A. Viking and James Cave who here signed and sworn to the preceding certificate are resident in the Township of Delaware and county aforesaid and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I Thomas Reynolds clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the 2nd Court in the matter of the application of Thomas Beddo for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my office this 20th day of Nov. AD 1832. 
T. Reynolds clerk 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
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The State of Ohio
Delaware County
On this thirtieth of August 1832 personally appeared before the Probate Court of the County aforesaid (being a count of Record) Sarah Beddo a resident of Delaware County State of Ohio aged Seventy three years, who being duly sworn by me according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provisions made by the Actos of Congress passed on the 2nd February AD 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.  That she is the widow of Thomas Beddo who was a private in the War of the Revolution and that he received a pension certificate dated the twenty second of March One Thousand Eight and Thirty Three from the War Office signed Lew Cas Sic  etc so 7710 for thirty dollars per annum.
She further declares that she was married to the said Thomas Beddo in Prince George County, State of Maryland by one Rev Thomas Cliggits of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven the day and month not directly recollected.
That her husband the aforesaid Thomas Beddo died at the county of Delaware State of Ohio November the Tenth One Thousand eight hundred and fifty one (1851) of old age he being in the opinion of applicants considerably over ninety years of age.
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She further declares that she is still a widow; that she knows of not any public record of her marriage to said Thomas Beddo that she has no private record of her said marriage and that the accompany affidavits are the best evidence that she is able to procure of her said marriage.
Sarah Beddo- her mark 
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of Aug. 1852
D. T. Fuller 
Probate Judge 
The State of Ohio
Delaware County
On this thirteenth day of August AD 1852 personally came Mr. Beddo who being by me sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he is the son of said Thomas and Sarah Beddo that according to the best information he has, that he was born in the year seventeen hundred and eighty; that from his earliest recollection up to the times of his father's death which was on the tenth day of November eighteen hundred and fifty one that during all the time that he was acquainted with them that they always lived together as husband and wife, that he never heard the lawfulness of their marriage questioned; that he has often heard them talk over the subject of their marriage and they always agreed in their statements that they were married in Prince George County Maryland by one Rev. THomas Cliggit that they have had nine children of whom three were living at the last infor
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mation
 William Beddow
Sworn and subscribed before me this 30th day of August AD 1852.
D. T Fuller 
Probate Judge 
The State of Ohio
Delaware County
On this thirteenth day of August AD 1852 personally appeared before me, Mariah Beddo, wife of said William Beddo who being by me duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that according to the best information she has that she is fifty five years old that she has know said Thomas Beddo and Sarah Beddo for thirty eight years before the death of said Thomas Beddo which was the tenth of November Eighteen Hundred and fifty one that said Thomas and Sarah Beddo during all the time affiants was acquainted with them lived together as husband and wife. Affiant has had conversation with many aged persons who had been acquainted with them the time of this marriage up to the time of the deponents conversation allowed to, had then been any question as to the legally of said marriage said persons would have known its and affiant believes she would have been informed of the same affiant has always believed and do believe that they were lawfully husband and wife. 
Mariah Beddow
Sworn to and subscribed before me
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this 30th day of August AD 1852.
D. T. Fuller
Probate Judge
The State of Ohio
Delaware County
On this 30th day of August 1852 personally came Henry Hogden aged 56 years being sworn by me in and form of law deposith and saith that he has been acquainted with said Thomas and Sarah Beddo. Also Wm Beddo and wife; that he acted as justice of the peace before whom said Thomas  (illegible) annually appeared for to make out his papers for to procure his prension for the last 13 years and affiant has no double from the many conversations he has had that they were lawfully husband and wife and that said William Beddo is a son of said Thomas and Sarah Beddo and that he is of the age he represents himself before me this 30th day of August AD 1852 
D. T. Fuller 
State of Ohio Delaware County 
Personally appeared in open Court, the son of said Sarah Beddo and made the foregoing declaration and was duly sworn to the same; also the said William Beddo.  Mariah Beddo and Henry Hodgden who were each duly sworn.
Witness my had and official seal this 30th day of August AD 1852.
D. T Fuller
Probate Judge
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The State of Ohio Delaware County
Before me Henry Hodgden a Notary Public
duly authorized by law to administer oaths in
and for the County aforesaid personally appeared
William Beddow who being sworn according to law
deposeth and saith that the accompanying
record of his father (who was a Revolution
pensioner of the United States) children
ages is the original record taken from the family Bible 
by affiant.
William Beddow

Sworn and subscribed to
this 30th day of March 1854
before me
Henry Hodgden
Notary Public
(seal)

I certify that the above named William Brown
is personally known to me and is a man of
truth and veracity and his statements are 
entitled to full credit and that he cites the
accompanying leaf from an old bible in which 
the letters were of the old fashioned kind especially the S's,  the date obscured
Henry Hodgden
Notary Public
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20123
Thomas Beddow
Ohio

Admitted for 9 mo
from 1780 --
$30.

Th Reynolds Clk
Delaware CH
Ohio
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BRIEF in the case of Thomas Beddow
county of Delaware in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 71
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
drafted in 1779 or 80

Duration of Service.
Years Months Days.
-------9 -------

Rank
As a
"

Names of General and Field Officers
under whom he served.
Gen.
Capt Trueman, Col Skinner

5. In what battles was he engaged? None
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Prince Georges Co Md.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by
incidental evidence, or by the rolls? traditionary
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No clergyman

X Certify that the foregoing statement and the 
answers agree with the evidence in the case above
mentioned.
Chs W Forrest
Examining Clerk.
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Thomas Beddo which require
further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason
assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? No

V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he
served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension
he is entitled?

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
June 7, 1832?

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished
from any other seal?
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary
service? No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtain
ing it? No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one
living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. +If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness
or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct?

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct?

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered? 2,5,6,7

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how
long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he
cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ______
year______ months, and _____days, I served as a _____
For ______months and _____days, I served as a _____,
and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served,
and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the
pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too
indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions
merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the
officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the
applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed
in any civil pursuit.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must
prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of
the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the
regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths
must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate
must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not
written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate
must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass
under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly
attached to the certificate.
In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the
certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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1914 Feb. 22. Hist to Hon.
Frank B. Willis M.C. letter
his claim of Alexander
Kingman S. 4731

Revy WIDOW, &c.
File No. 5816
Sarah Beddow
Wid.
Tho Beddow
Prot. Rev. War
Act: Feby, 2d 48 
Index: -- Vol. A, Page 49
{Arrangement of 1870.]
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Pension Office
Apr 19, 1854

Sir
Please state to what
time the within named
Thomas Beddo was paid
Very respectfy
F. Burt

11 Nov 57
(illegible)
For Courier

Fr Burt Esq
30 Audr

Paid to 11 Nov. 1857
the day of his death
F. Burt
Auditor
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Upper Marlbough 7th Feby 1854

Mr Henry Hodgden

Prfer 
Yours of the 31st at making inquiry in
regard  to Marriage license granted to Thomas Beddo & Sarah Sullivan (illegible)
Only marriage license  record Commence 20th May 1777 & I have Examined from that time to 1781.& do not find that any such license ever granted.  In
1777, a Clergyman Marrying person, were required to send lists of the same to the State department at Annapolis Maryland & it is possible upon Examination there you go may be able to ascertain the fact
Respectfully & C
Owen Norfolk  Clk of the
C.C. for P.G. City
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Galena, March 17th 1834
Sir
In Sept 1832 I forwarded the application 
of Sarah Beddo widow of Thomas
Beddo a Revolutionary pensioner of the U.S. for
a continuance of the pension to his. It was 
suspended for further proof of his marriage.  No
record evidence can be obtained, the 
accompanying proof is the best evidence she knows
of to furnish the department

The name is spelled different by members
of the same family some Spelling it Beddo and
other, Beddow but it is here all the same name
Yours with Respect
Henry Hodgden

Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Sarah Beddow
widow of Thomas
Ohio

Act Feby 2. 1848
admitted
at $30 per annum
from Novr 11. 1851 (when
he died)

Certificate payable
to the Claimant

Agent
Henry Hodgden
Galena
Delaware Co
Ohio
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Breif in the case of Sarah Beddow, widow of Thomas
Delaware County and State of Ohio
act Feby 2. 1848

Claim, (original)

Proof exhibited, (if original)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Thomas Beddo, of Delaware Co. O. pensioned under act of 1832
died Nov 11, 1851. ($30 per annum)
Marriage proved by record and panel
Widowhood by panel

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since admission of the claim?  If so, what?

Name and residence of Agent
Henry Hogden
Galena
Delaware Co
Ohio

S. G. Dodge
Examining Clerk.
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State of Ohio Delaware County ss:
i D. T. Fuller Judge of the Court of
Probate (which is a Court of Record) holden at
the office of said Judge, in and for said County
of Delaware, do hereby certify that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Thomas Beddow was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of Thirty dollars per annum; now a resident of the County of Delaware in the State of Ohio, and died in said County in the State of Ohio on the 10th day of November Eighteen Hundred and Fifty one.  That he left a widow whose name is Sarah Beddow
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court at Delaware this 20th day of February
A.D. 1854
D. T. Fuller Judge
of Probate Court
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STATE OF MARYLAND
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
Annapolis, February 21 1854
Henry Hodgden Esq
Dear Sir, I have the honor to inform you that
we have no Record of Marriages in this department.
It would give me much pleasure to oblige you had I the means of so doing.
Respy
Your Obt sert
Nathaniel Cox
Secy of State
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Galena. April 7th 1854
Sir
Accompany is the required certificate
of my being duly commissioned as a
Notary Public, and the Original record of
of the deaths of the Beddo family the fathers name who was a revolutionary invariably stated he could not write his name and it is spelled in his pension certificate Beddo having the off this was probably done by the person who made out his papers
Henry Hodgden
Yours with Respect
Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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65 
Sept. 16/52
Sarah Beddo,
Widow of Thomas, Ohio,
February 2d 1848
Henry Hodgden
Galena, Ohio
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Galena Sept 10th 1852
Sir
Accompanying this is the application of Sarah Beddo widow of Thomas Beddo was a Revolutionary Pensioner for the pension due her as his widow, the pension certificate is withheld to enable her to draw the arrears of pension due at the time of his death
Yours with Respect, Henry Hodgden
Hon J E Heath
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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Galina October 15th 1853

Sir

I [illegible] the request for information respecting the application of Mrs. Sarah Beddo widow of Thomas Beddo a revolutionary pensioner of the United States, application made in 1852. I wish to know if granted if not what more is required to entitled her to the pension her husband drew in his life.

Yours with Respect
Henry Hodgden

Hon L P Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
THE STATE OF OHIO,
Secretary of State's Office.
I, WILLIAM TREVITT,
SECRETARY OF STATE OF THE STATE OF OHIO,
DO HEREBY CERTIFY,

(etching)
Osgood & Blake, Printers

That Henry Hodgen was, on the 20th day September 1932 appointed as a Notary Public within and for the county of Delaware, in the State of Ohio duly commissioned as such; for the term of three years from that date is the proper officer to take attestations; and that his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit, as well in Courts of Justice as thereout.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Ohio, at Columbus, the (illegible) day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four.

William Trevitt
Secretary of State
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The State of Ohio Delaware County SS
Personally appeared before me Henry Hodgden a Notary Public in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized to administer oaths. William Bedew who being sworn in due form of law (illegible) and faith that he is as always informed and believe a son of Thomas and Sarah Beddo that his father was a Revolutionary pensioner.
That the following is a (illegible) copy of the family record kept in the family bible Mr William Beddow son of Thomas & Sarah Beddow was born  Oct the 13th 1779
Nathaniel Beddow was born June 4 1782
Sandy Beddow was born May 10th 1785
Thomas Beddow was born August 5 1787
Richard Beddow was born June 18 1787
Mchael and (illegible) (twins) were born August 17 1794
Levi Beddow was born Sept 11th 1797
That the above Beddows were all children of said Thomas and Sarah Beddow that affiant was raised with his said father and mother Thomas and Sarah Beddow and made it his home with them until he was 22 years old and after that he (appeared) lived in the State of Virginia not more than two miles and after moving to the State of Ohio he had lived within one mile of them and always was informed by them and all other (illegible) persons that they were lawfully married and never heard it questioned by any person whatever. My mother had brothers and sisters living near my father's residence in Virginia and they
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always in the presence of affiant (illegible) my father as a brother in law and claimed (illegible). Affiant further stated that said Thomas Beddow affiant's father always in my presence. Claimed and conducted towards said Sarah as his lawful wife, and from every circumstance affiant had not the least doubt of their being lawfully married
Sworn and Subscribed this 9th day of March 1854 before me
Henry Hodgden
Notary Public

The State of Ohio Delaware County SS
Before me W Hodgden Notary Public in and for the County aforesaid duly authorized to administer oaths personally appears James Jones who being sworn in due form of law (illegible) and faith that he has examined said William Beddow's family bible which contains the family record and (illegible) copy in said Wm Beddow's affidavit a second copy affiant had for fifteen years before said (illegible) Beddow's death (illegible) acquainted with him and family and the said Thomas always in affiant (illegible), and claimed said Sarah as his lawful wife.
James Jones
Sworn and subscribed to this 9th day of March 1854 before me
Henry Hodgden
Notary Public
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The State of Ohio Delaware County SS
Before me Henry Hodgden a Notary Public in and the County aforesaid personally appeared James Cave who has sworn in due form of law (illegible) and faith that he was personally acquainted with widow names Sarah Beddo for the last twenty eight years first in the State of Virginia and then in the State of Ohio that said Thomas Beddo and Sarah Beddo during all the time that affiant was acquainted with them lived together as husband and wife said Thomas (illegible) claimed her as his lawful wife, Affiant knew said Sarah Beddo's father, Mother, brothers and sisters and never heard any person question or doubt but that they were legally married and from all affiant has seen heard and know if they had not been lawfully married affiant has not any doubt but he should have heard of intimated which he never did, and affiant truly believes him to be lawfully married
(illegible signature)
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 9th day of March 1854 and I certify that I have been personally acquainted with the aforesaid Wm Beddo James Jones and James Cave for many years and their statements are entitled to full credit as they are men of (illegible) truth and voracity, and further state that I was personally acquainted with said Thomas Beddo (illegible) for fifteen years before his death having done business frequently for him and when in my presence he always claimed her as his lawful wife told of her marriage and in short fought his Revolutionary War and I never heard it doubted in (illegible)
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(illegible) but what she was his lawful wife 
Given under my hand and official seal this 9th day March 1854
Henry Hodgden
Notary Public
(seal)