Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 6,623, Isaac Beeman, Conn.
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Conn
CONTENTS
Beeman, Isaac
144
NUMBER
S. 6.623
carded
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Isaac Beeman
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State of New York
Columbia County ss
BEEMAN,
ISAAC
On this twenty first day of
August in the year of our lord one thousand
Eight hundred & thirty two personally
appeared before the undersigned Uel Lawrence
Esquire one of the Justices of the peace of the
town of Austerlite - the County of Columbia
aforesaid Isaac Beeman a resident of the
town of Ghent in the County of Columbia
& State of New York aged seventy seven 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
that he
passed June Seventh 1832
enlisted in the Army of the United States
the year Seventeen hundred & twenty
five with & under Captain Elionar Curtis
& served in the regiment of
Col Hanman under them & General Schuyler
 & when this Deponent enlisted he
resided at Kent Connecticut. & went
to Ticonderoga under the aforesaid officers
This deponent then enlisted for seven
months & was dismissed after he had
served five month & some days
of
then discharged by his offices - Consequent

Beeman, Isaac
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of poor health a few days before his two months had [illegible] & in the summer of Seventeen
hundred & seventy six went with the militia
to New York & served for two months in
the Company of Captain William Cogswell
under Colonel Hinman & General
Sullivans Brigade was then
discharged & in the fall of the same
year went with a company of Volunteers
to hous meek & served for two month under
Col Tibbells & Col Wesly & was then demised
with the company & went home & the
month of April 1777 enlisted - the Standing
Army for Eight months & commanded his
his the first of May of the same year
named the agent at New Milford
Manhato Peekskill & found the remainder
of the liment under under Lieutenant
Miles & at Peekskill under Capt Hall &
Col Swifts righent & Emma Huntington
Bugade & remained at Peekskill for
about four months & then went
across the son through the Jersey
Pennsylvania & remained then in
Philip was in the Germantown
Battle the month of October 1777
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and on the last day of December was
discharged & then returned home to out in
Connecticut having been actually engaged for
about nineteen months in the army in all & at [illegible]
times
& at caffeine at this Deponants had
able to go to Hudson which is the only place
this County when there is a court of
record being old & infirm & hereby is
every claim what ever to a pension or any
us the promise and he declares that his
name is not on the pension roll of any
Agency in any State

Isaac Beeman

Sworn & subscribed the
day & year aforesaid
Uel Lawrence Justice of the Peace
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14537
New York
Isaac Beeman
Columbia in the State of N York
was a private in the Compy commanded
by Captain Hill of the Regt
commanded by
Col Swift - in the Cont line for 
18m

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
the rate of 60 Dollars - Cents per annum,
commence on the 4th day of March, 1831

certificate of Pension issued the 30 day of May
1833 and sent to A. P.
Holdridge Spencertown Columbia Co

Appears to the 4th of March 1833  $120-
-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833  30
$150
Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by George Taylor Clerk,
Book E Vol. 4 Page 15
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Do. Crump
22640

Isaac Beeman
Columbia
County
New York
on the Rolls
A. P. Holdridge
Spencertown
Columbia Co. N.Y
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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Pension Office,
183
Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has
been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of
your case in a tabular form
On comparing these papers with the following rules, and
the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed,
before a pension can be allowed.
The notes and the regulations will shew what is
necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed,
you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: 
You will, when
you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and
you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your
claim.

[Chart] Statement, shewing the service of Isaac Beeman, Columbia
Ny

Period when the Service was
rendered.
Enlisted
1775
do 1776
Volunteer
1777
Continued

Duration of the
claimant's service.
Year

Months
 6
2
2
 8

Rank of
the
claimant.
private

Names and Rank
of the Company
officers under
whom he served.
Capt
Curtis
Capt
 Cogswell
Capt. Hill 

Names and Rank
of the General and Field officers. 
Col
 Herman
Gen Sullivan
Col Swift

Battles in which the applicant was
engaged.
[illegible]

Country through
which he marched.
New Milford
 Pickshill 
Jerseys
Gennanton

Place of abode
when he entered
the service, and age at the present period.
77
Kent
Conn

Evidence by which the declaration is supported.
tradition
two witnesses
prove the
services of the
applicant one
Generally, the
other special
tour

I am, respectfully
Your obedient servant,
the declaration
 
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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The following regulations have been adopted:
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army,
and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all
persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who
were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to
Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are
also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged
in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:
1. The Regular Troops.
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.
4. Indian Spies.
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming
the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance
, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of
Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is
considered a Court of Record.
REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.
of
On this
DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.
Ste, Territor
County of
day of
A.B. a resident (b) of
personally appeared (a) before
aged (c)
in the county of
and State, Territory or District
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 provion made by the act of Congress, passed
June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d)
served in the
(e) regiment of the
line, under the following named officers:
with
and
Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served
under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the
town or county and State in which he resided when he enered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged,
and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons
who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he
declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of
the Agency in the State of
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
A.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion
tionary soldier, and served as he states.
(g) that the above named applicant was a revoluof
the Court of
hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of
for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this
day of
& c.
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be
found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia
except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and
subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
(k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the
hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with
subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be
and C. D. residing in (the same)
who has
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.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And then will follow the certificate of the Court.
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after
putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary
Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A.B.
who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the
and that C. D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the
and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I,
Clerk of the Court of
contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of
for a pension.
do hereby certify that the foregoing
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
of office, this
day of
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission
; but it neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if
possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the ser
upon the transaction.
&c.
vices of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will
also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful
in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his
alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal
means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted
; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected.
All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there
subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account
of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State
troops of Virginia.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war
, and where do you now live?
And if a substitute, for whom?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute?
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such
Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.
G. ┃
To a Solder
Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given
and what has become of it?
(Tune has become of it?
Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify
as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are
requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court,
without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons - one of whom should be
the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from
their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed
and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that
one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character
and standing of other persons, giving such certificates.
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct
proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the
enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject.
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before
required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the
proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to
perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record,
or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper
Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a
Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is
his genuine signature.
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before
the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the
declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure
, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period
of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the
opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.
low the rule laid down for his guidance.
The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will
conforming to the rule.
The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not
The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.
The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served.
very continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the
the clamant must state, 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. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the
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---yeardays
, I served as a -- For months anddays
, I served as amonths
, andand
for such service I claim a pension."
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 miners
too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that 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
able. It must, in every case, be clearly shown 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 aupursuit
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they 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
The law makes the relinquishment indispensable.
The opinion of the Court is always required.
The Clerk must give his certificate in every case.
must fix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no pubpapers
.
seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the
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 conin
the affidavit, or other papers 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.
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 claimant's 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 wit-
, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
The notes from to are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops. The proof required by rule is
note applies to continental troops only.
This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
Bradgod
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Petitioner for a pension for Mr Isaac Beeman & clerks certificate & affid
Isaac Beeman 22640
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State of New York 
Columbia County
I do hereby certify that on
the third day of August one thousand eight hundred & thirty two.
At my office in the town of Chatham
County of State aforesaid
Personally came before me
John Cohoon,
who being by me duly sworn depose
relative to the service done
by Isaac Beman
lately of the aforesaid town of
Chatham
now residing
at Ghent in said County,
during the Revolutionary War
 in the Army of the United States
1775
[illegible] forth appear by reference
to the affidavit,
Subscribed and sworn as aforesaid
and that I have for eight or
in
years past been
acquainted with
John Cohoon he residing in
those of Nassau
the
Rensselaer
County, the adjoining town of the town of Chatham my place of residence and that during this term of time althought not intimately acquainted with John Cohoon, yet then has nothing evil or disrespectful was come to my knowledge of said John Cohoon, but do believe that his general reputation is, in good honest old man
I do further certify that the persons, to wit, Amma Pitts and David Ray who made their deposition before me on the third day of August AD 1832, relating to the general repudity of Isaac Beeman, having been an old Revolutionary

Beeman, Isaac
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soldier in the United States Army, That with the two latter gentlemen I am [illegible] for a number of years, personally and intimately acquainted, and I do most make satis[illegible] that they are men of the high respectability, good in society, a character unspotted for honestly truth and veracity. Mr Amasa Pitts an honest old farmer, Mr David Ray a merchant, and now the Town clerk of his town. Given under my hand at Chatham Columbia County State of New York This fourth day of August 1832
David Carshon
Justice of the Peace

Petition for a pension for Mr Isaac Beement clerks certificate & affid'vt
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State of New York
Columbia Count
James Crandell of the town of
Ghent in the County of Columbia aged
Sixty nine years having duly affirmed
says that he knows Mr Isaac Bement the
& has betwist thirty & forty years and
believe him to be a man of truth & being
& would believe him under oath this
Deponant further saith that from his
[illegible] with the said Isaac
Beemont being old & infirm is unable
to go to Hudson as this deponent
Believe & further this deponent saith not

James Crandell

Sworn & subscribed this
fourth day of Febry
1833
before me
William Niles Justice of the Peace
BEEMAN,
ISAAC
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State of New York
Columbia County J. Richard Carrique Deputy Clerk in
the absence of Joseph D Monell Clerk of the said County Do hereby
Certify that Uel Lawrence, and William Niles before whom the
preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn, and also David Carshore before whom the following affidavits purport to
have been sworn was at the dates of the same Justices of the Peace
in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with
the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe their
names subscribed to the said affidavits to be the proper hand
writing and Signature
Witness my hand and seal of the said
County this Ninth day of February 1833
Richard
Carrigen
Deputy Clerk.
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State of New York
Columbia County
I John Cahoon of Napan in the
County of Rensselaer and State of New York aforesaid
being duly sworn do depose and say that I am well
acquainted with Isaac Beeman late of Chatham in
said Columbia County but then that I formerly
did at Kent in Connecticut and that said Beeman resided
in an adjoining town now Warren that on or about
the first of May AD 1775 we both enlisted in the
service of the United under Captain Eleazar Curtiss
Lieutenants Morgan Noble and Jirah Swift in Colonel
Hermans Regiment
and marched from said Ghent by
Shiffield Greenbush Still Water Fort Miller, Fort Edward
Fort George thence by water across Lake George to Ticonderoga
when we remained it about the first of December
following and then dismissed and that said he
whole of said term unless he was dismissed with some other
on account of ill health a few days before the
term of service expired and further that on
arriving at
Ticonderoga we were put under command of General
Schuyler

John Cohoon

Sworn and Subscribed before me
this third day of August 1832
before me David Carter
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York
County of Columbia
We Amasa Pills and David Ray
of the town of Chatham in the County
of Columbia aforesaid being duly sworn did deponent
and say that we are well acquainted with Isaac
Beeman late of said Chatham but now of Ghent in
said County and that we believe him to be Seventy
seven years of age; that he is reputed and believed in
the neighborhood where his has resided say
forty years or upwards, to have been a solder
in the
revolution, and that we concur in that opinion

Amasa Pitts
David Ray
Sworn and subscribed
this third day of August 1832
before me David Carson
Justice of the Peace

BERMAN ISAAC
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6623
Rev War

INVALID.
File No. 6623

Isaac Beeman
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 1832

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