Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17,295, Daniel Beeman, Conn. Mass. Green Mt. Boys.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
Mass.
Green Mt. Boys

Beeman, Daniel
Mary

NUMBER 
W. 17,295

CONTENT
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Connecticut 17775
Daniel Beeman
of Warren in the State of Connectt. who was a Pte. & Corpl. in the compy commanded by Captain Babcock of the Regt. commanded by Col. Easton in the Mass line for one year.
8 mos. Corporal 29.33
4 mos. Private 13.33
(total)  42.66

Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 42 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of Sept. 1833 and sent to N. P. Perry Esq Kent. Cont.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 33 -- 106.65
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1834  21.33
(total) $127.98

Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.

Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer, Clerk
Book E. Vol. three Page six.
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(left side)
Rept

(right side)
2112
Connecticut
Mary Beeman
widow of Daniel Beeman who served in the Revolutionary war, as a private & Corpl. Mass

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 42 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.

Certificate of Pension issued the 16 day of Sept. 1848 and sent to Geo. C. Woodruff Litchfield Ct

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 259, Vol. 1.
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Declaration of Widow Mary Beeman for pension
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State of Connecticut Litchfield County ss 
At Warren this 13th day of June A.D. 1846

On this 13th day of June 1846 personally appeared before Edwin M. Kellogg, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Litchfield, Mary Beeman, a resident of Warren in the County of Litchfield, aged eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 17th 1844 entitled "An act to continue the pensions of certain widows:" that she is the widow of Daniel Beeman who was a private and Corporal in the army of the Revolution and who was a pensioner under the act of the 7th June 1832, as by the original certificate now in the possession of said widow appears, which is dated the 19th day of September 1833 signed by Lew. Cass Secretary of War, and recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol. three Page Six.

She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Beeman on the 23d day of February 1779 that her husband the aforesaid
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Daniel Beeman died on the 30th day of April 1844: That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz, at the time above stated.
Mary Beeman X her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year written before 
Edwin M. Kellogg Justice of the Peace
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Certificate of Marriage Record
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"Daniel Beeman and Mary Bliss were joined together in marriage February Twenty Third one thousand Seven hundred and Seventy nine by Peter Starr Pastor"

I hereby certify, that the above is a copy of a record as made and appearing upon the Town record of marriages for the Town of Kent in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut, with the exception of the date which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures as follows "February 23d 1779"
Rufus Fuller Jr  Town Clerk of the Town of Kent

State of Connecticut County of Litchfield ss
At Kent this 9th day of June 1840 

I Rufus Fuller Jr above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town of Kent in the County and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Town of Kent with the exception above named as certified by me. 
Rufus Fuller Jr Town Clerk of the Town of Kent

Sworn before me
Edwin M. Kellogg Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut Litchfield County 
Probate Court District of Kent 
ss at Kent

On this 2d day of August AD 1832 personally appeared in open court before Nathaniel P. Perry Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate, for the District of Kent, aforesaid holding and constituting said Court now sitting, Daniel Beeman of Warren, in sd. County, said Warren was formerly a part of Kent, residing in said Warren, State of Connecticut aged seventy six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832. That he was born the 18th day of January AD 1756 in Kent then so called but that part in which he was born is now called Warren and is a district town, has no record of his age that he knows of, but has been informed that it was on the town record of sd. Kent, He resides in the State of New York, between Fort Edward and Fort George. That the place was called then Fort Edward, That the 1st of April AD 1775 he entered into the service of the United States at sd. Fort George
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and went directly into the fort into the company commanded by Capt John Stevens, Capt. Stevens left the fort in a few days after he the said Beeman enlisted & returned to Sufolk his the said Stevens residence, He left Lieutenant Peter Castle in command. He the said Daniel Beeman & company were transferred to anther company under the command of Capt Elisha Babcock from Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut in the Regiment commanded by Col. Easton of Pittsfield Massachusetts of the Massachusetts line. He the said Beeman further states, that he was then appointed Corporal, and assisted in keeping garrison at Fort George & Ticonderoga through the summer. Schuyler was General and the commanding officer. In the fall of said year he marched to the siege of Ft Johns on the Canada side. Brown was his Major, and he under him, About a week before Ft John was taken he marched on to Fort (illegible) nine miles from Ft John, on the river sound as soon as the Americans had taken Ft John he marched to the mouth of the River Sorrel. There lay a British vessel of war in the St Lawrence River against them,
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General Montgomery hen had the command Gen.
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1st Decr AD 1775 for four months into the Company under the Command of Captain Elisha Painter, from New Haven, Connecticut in the Regiment commanded by General Wooster of Connecticut. Lieutenants Peter Castle, of Kingsbury, or Queensbury,  State of New York and Giles Gaylor from Norfolk, Connecticut and served faithfully during said four months at Montreal afores'd in Keeping Garrison. That on the same day his term of four months expired in AD 1776 he again entered the service of the United States by enlisting at Montreal into a company commanded by Caption Joshua Staunton in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Warren. The Captain was from Salisbury Connecticut. thinks Warner was from Vermont State, enlisted for  five and half months and served that time as follows, immediately after enlisting at Montreal they marched to Quebec, arrive there about the 10th of April when Quebec was besieged & remained till the 4th July 1776 when Gen'l Burgoyne came there and he Beeman retreated back to the mouth of the River Ford. he Beeman had gone up from Quebec after a load of wheat and in his return to Quebec was
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met by this Company & the American army, on the retreat, from thereto St Johns he marched, and from thereto Montreal, on the 15th June then following he was detached from Capt Stanton, three of them Peter Gospel & Edward Dunstan were taken out of Capt Stantons Company & put under the command of Lieutenant Thomas Grosvenor, & sent down with a raft of timber of oak plank & cedar knees, for Walter Craft, to the mouth of the River Sorrel. About half way down the River St Lawrence they met General Burgoyne's army (which had caused the american army at Sorrel to retreat to St Johns) & was then coming up the river & he was then taken prisoner with fourteen of them by the British. Gen Burgoynes army a few of them came up by land also with the shipping. When he the said Beaman & the sd fourteen men were out on board of a man of war & kept a few days. Lieutenant Grosvenor was then taken from said ship, he was allowed one waiter, he the said Beaman went with him & they were out into a prison ship and taken to Quebec, and there on board of sd ship they remained until the last of August 1776. He the sd Beaman
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was then presented with a parole to sign, he was then put aboard of a transport with four or five hundred officers & soldier (there were four transports) and sailed out the mouth of the River St Lawrence down to New York, they lay at New York when they arrived the middle of Sept a few days, when by order of General Howe were carried to Elizabeth Town point, and then landed in the Jersey Shore, near the encampment of Genl Israel Putnam say 3 or 4 miles, to which place he want & waited 2 or 3 days, until Gen Putnam came in, he Putnam gave him and Gosper a writing, which he believes has lost, but says, he remembers how it read as follows, "This certifies Daniel Beaman & Peter Gosper prisoners from Quebec are not to take up arms during the present contest, unless exchanges are at their liberty to return home to Connecticut, are recommended to the charity of the People,
Elizabeth Town New Jersey Sept.......1776
(signed by) I Putnam Maj Genl"
This is as near as he can recollect.
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A part of the Parol which he the said Beeman signed at Quebec contained expressions like the following, among others,
"an to return home prisoner of war, not to take up arms during the present contest unless exchanged to return home to the Colonies which he belonged in, not to say or do anything to the hurt a dishonor of his Majestys honorable General Carlton."
That he the sd Beeman has for march in remembrance, also the following, "To be transported to New York to be set ashore where Genl Howe thinks is best."
He the sd Beeman returned & arrived home the 25th October 1776 in Connecticut, he did not land at Elizabeth Town until after his term of enlistment had expired. That he never received any discharge order from the said writing from General Putnam.
That Dan Carter, George Stain, Homer Sackett, Sherman Heartwell, Col Augustus Coleman to whom he is well known in his present neighborhood where he has resided ever since the year 1776, and who can testify to his
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character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
That he has no documentary evidence whatever in existence as he know of or any testimony further than the enclosed testimony of John Barlow and Samuel Hawes.
That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to, and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid.
Daniel Beeman
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court the day and year aforesaid.
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Court
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Daniel Beeman
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County} Probate Court District of Kent at Kent
On this 21st day of January AD 1833, personally appeared in open Court before Nathaniel P. Perry Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid holding sd Court now sitting, Daniel Beeman of Warren in said County, and is the same identical Daniel Beeman who before said Court made declaration on oath the 2nd day of August AD 18325 which declaration is herewith again transmitted to the War Department, and the said Daniel Beeman now in open Court as aforesaid being first duly sworn according to law, doth, make the following declaration in addition to the one aforesaid, to wit, that at the time of making his said declaration he felt very confident that it was the first of April AD 1775 that he first enlisted, if us troops were them raised he mist be mistaken, but he knows it was the 1st of the month & but a few days after Fort George came into the possession of the Americans, and eight or ten days before Ticonderoga was taken by Colonel Allen who headed the provincials, he knows that he served in the service of the United States in that enlistment as corporal for the term of eight months and thinks that it was the first of Jany AD 1776 that his time expired.
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instead of the first of Dec. as he before stated and that from reflection he thinks it was the 1st of Dec 1775, that he left Sorrel, to go to St Johns, and so over to Montreal, Genl Schuyler, Colonel Easton, or Eson, Major Brown, Captain Elisha Babcock, 1st Lieutenant Peter Castle, 2nd Leiut. Hyde, 1st Sergeant Eliphalet Castle, 2d Sergt Chester Bingham, 3d Lieut John Smellage, for further particulars refers to sd former declaration. That immediately on the expiration of his sd first term of service, he again enlisted as he now believes the 1st of Jany AD 1776 at Montreal into the company commanded by Capt Elisha Painter. The Colonels office was vacant. General Wooster commanded the Regiment, Peter Castle 1 Lieut, Giles Gaylord 2d Lieut, one sergeant name was Mitchel (1st Sergeant) and one name was Greg, and served there as a private was frequently and were generaly employed in waiting on Capt Painter and keeping garrison at Montreal 3 months instead of 4 for which time he enlisted. That as soon as his said term of 3 months expired he enlisted again as in his former declaration is stated as a private & served as a private, he was not in the company but a short time before he was taken prisoner, and did not become familiar with the officers names, in addition to the officers names mentioned in his first declaration, was one Beckhorn or Hornbeck as [unk]
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And the declarant further states that he cannot find or obtain any other or better evidence than that which he herewith sends and that there is no other evidence either documentary or otherwise that he can find or knows of. That in addition tot he names of those in his neighborhood heretofore mentioned, Buel Carter, Justus Locket, Josiah Fenney, Ethel Pect, Asahel Wedge, Elias Taylor, Capt Abner Everitt, Milton Curtis, Eben Strong, Joseph Bennett, to whom he is well known in his present neighborhood who can testify to his character for veracity and theur full belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
The reason why the Declarant states the 2d term of service to be 3 months instead of 4, is that he remembers it was the 1st day of April 1776, that he enlisted into the said Capt. Stanton's Company.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesd.
Daniel Beeman
Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid  in open Court.
Frank Chittenden Clerk for sd Court
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I, Charles Everitt, of Warren, Litchfield County, and State of Connecticut, residing in said Warren in the neighborhood of Daniel Beeman the foregoing applicant who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration hereby certify that I am well acquainted with sd Daniel Beeman and believe him now to be seventy seven years old that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and I fully concur in that opinion I never had a doubt to the contrary. I am a clergyman and in regular orders.
Charles Everitt
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Courts

And the sd Court does hereby declare its opinion in addition the opinion expressed as to the first declaration, that Daniel Beeman who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declaration sustains an irreproachable character and know to the Court as such, that his whole deportment & manner of relating his story is such as to convince the hearer of its truth. The sd Court also certifies that Charles Everitt who has subscribed the foregoing
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certificate is known to the Court as a clergyman in good standing & resides in Warren where he has resided for forty years & more & his statement is entitled to credit.
I Frederick Chittenden Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of sd Court in connection with those of the 2d Augt 1832 herewith sent on, in the matter of the application of Daniel Beeman for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of sd Court this 21st day of January AD 1833.
Frederick Chittenden 
Clerk of said Court

I Nathaniel P Perry Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid do certify that Frederick Chittenden is clerk of sd Court that he is duly sworn and that the signatures to these papers purporting to be his, are his own genuine hand writing, & signed by him & full faith & credit is due to the same. The seal affixed is the seal of sd Court.
Nathaniel P Perry Judge
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18 Sept 1835


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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County} Probate Court, District of Kent, at Kent
On this 20th day of May AD 1833, personally appeared in open Court before Nathaniel P Perry Esquire Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid holding sd Court, in open Court now sitting Daniel Beeman of Warren in said County, and is the same identical Daniel Beeman who made oath to the declaration of 2d August 1832 & 21st Jany 1833, herewith attached and sent on and in open Court now being first duly sworn according to law, doth make the following declaration in addition to those heretofore transmitted to the War Depart & returned. That his name is not David Beeman as it is entered on file but Daniel Beeman, as will be seen by referring to all the declarations of his. That although Capt Elisha Babcock was from Windham, Connecticut as his native place yet he thinks they were in the Massachusetts line for the Bills in which they were paid off were [unk] in Massachusetts, his pay in the 2d company was in continental bills. That he knows he had enlisted and was in the service of the United States, at fort George, when news came that Col Allen had taken fort Ticonderoga (called by the soldiers) fort to and he remembers it from this
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circumstances among others, that when the news arrived, liquor was handed out very free to the soldiers, and one John Vanhornam got drunk, and when drunk was easily offended, carried with him a large cane, to bed, that evening one Asa Chambers suggested the idea of having a little fun with Vanhornam and while Vanhornam was a sleep and the influence of his immoderate draughts, he unravelled a piece of rope, tied one to his cane, and the other to his (Vanhornams) privy parts, and then began to tease & trouble him, Vanhornam awoke and seized his cane not being within reach of Chambers, he threw it , and immediately then Vanhornam not only into a state of torture, but the soldiers into unbounded merriment.
That he is very confident that he served eight months in that campaign, yet there is a possibility of his not being right with one months. That he always called it eight months.
That there are no survivors of his several terms of service except those whose testimony he has sent on & are herewith again returned. Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Daniel Beeman
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open Court,
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Court
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And the sd Court would repeat in substance as before expressed its opinion that Daniel Beeman the applicant who subscribed and made oath to the foregoing declaration & declarations, is well known to the court, his character for truth & integrity always good and irreproachable, that his statement, ought to be believed if any human testimony is to be believed.
I Frederick Chittenden Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of of Daniel Beeman for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of sd Court this 20th day of May AD 1833.
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of said Court

I Nathaniel P Perry Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesd do certify that Frederick Chittenden is clerk of sd Court duly appointed & sworn and that the names purporting to be his to all the foregoing papers are his and all written in his own hand writing and the seal affixed is the seal of sd Court.
Nathaniel P Perry Judge
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Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MCS/HMM

July 18, 1929

Mr. L. B. Russell,
Comanche
Texas

Dear Sir:

I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 17295, it appears that Daniel Beeman was born January 18, 1756, in Kent, in the part of which was later called Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
While living in New York State he enlisted May 1, 1775 and served eight months as corporal in Captain John Steven's and Elisha Babcock's Companies, Colonel Easton's Massachusetts Regiment. While living in Connecticut he enlisted January 1, 1776, and served three months as private in Captain Elisha Painter's Company in a Connecticut Regiment commanded by General Wooster. He enlisted April 1, as private in Captain Joshua Stanton's Company with the Green Mountain Boys under Colonel Warner, was captured on the St. Lawrence River by the British and confined until paroled in September, 1776.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 2, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Warren, Connecticut.
He died April 30, 1844.
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He married February 23, 1779, in Kent, Connecticut, Mary Bliss.
She was allowed pension on her application executed June 13, 1846, at which time she was eighty-seven years of age and a resident of Warren, Connecticut.
There are no further data on file relative to his family.
The above noted is the history of the only soldier by the name of Daniel Beeman that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
In order to make a search of the War of 1812 records for a particular soldier surnamed Beman or Beeman, the first name is essential, and you should furnish as much as possible of the following data pertaining to him: approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, and first name of the widow.

Very truly yours,

EARL D. CHURCH
Commissioner
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17295
Mary Beman
widow of
Daniel Beeman
Corp Rev War
Act: Feb 2d 48
Index:- Vol. 1, Page 52
[Arrangement of 1870]

1913 Sept 8 Hist to Mrs Mabel Beeman
1921 Mar 16 Hist to Mrs G L Neff
1921 Mch 23 Hist to Mes J C Mosher
1921 APr 23 Hist to L D Beeman
1921 May 23 hist to Fannie White
1926 Jan 8 hist to Mrs Jos Schmerl
1929 July 18 hist to Mr L B Russell


No 284
Mary Beeman
Con
E. W. Kellogg, Jany 9, 1847
no agent
to be taken up when
called for
act 17 June 1844
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Daniel Beeman Connecticut, act 7 June '32 $42.66 per annum
To what time was he last paid?
G.C.A.
Pension Office       
April 21 1847} Paid to 4th March 1844
BLB
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373 
Connecticut
Mary Beeman
widow of Daniel Beeman
who was a private and corpl
in the Revolution
husband died 30th April, 1844

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
42 Dollars 66
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 30th April, 1844 when he died.

Certificate of Pension issued the
28th day of April 1847
and sent to E. M. Kellogg
Warren, Litchfield Co, Conn

[ACT of JUNE 17, 1844]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2  Page 50
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No. 3463

Declaration of Daniel Beeman made in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832
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We Benjamin Carter & George Starr both of Warren Litchfield County and State of Connecticut hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Daniel Beeman who has subscribed & sworn to the above foregoing declaration that we believe him to be seventy six years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been  a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.
Benjamin Carter
George Starr

Sworn to and subscribed on open Court the day & year aforesaid.
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Court
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And the said Court does hereby declare his opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named & foregoing applicant was a soldier of the Revolutionary War and served as he states, and has the appearance of being an upright honest man.
And the Court further certifies that there is no resident settled clergyman in the said Town of Kent and it would require time & expense in procuring one. That Benjamin Carter & George Starr Esq who signed the preceding certificate are well known to the Court are men of undoubted veracity are credible persons, resides in the neighborhood of the applicant and their statement is
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entitled to full credit.
I Frederick Chittenden Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Beeman for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 2d day of August AD 1832.
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Court
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I Nathaniel P. Perry Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Kent aforesaid do hereby certify that Frederick Chittenden is Clerk of the sd Court and is duly appointed and sworn and that his signatures purporting to be his to the foregoing following certificates are his and are genuine and in his own proper hand writing and the seal affixed is the seal of said Court. 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 2d day of August AD 1832.
Nathaniel P Perry Judge
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I Samuel Hawes of Warren Litchfield County & State of Connecticut aged 80 years and being duly sworn doth depose and say that in AD 1775 Daniel Beeman of Warren in sd County came to Ticonderoga when I was, he was them called corporal & was as I understood a soldier in service he did not belong to our regiment he had the appearance of a soldier & I have no doubt that he served as such at that time.
Samil Hawes

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County} Probate Court District of Kent ss at Kent
Be it remembered that on this 2d day of August AD 1832 personally appeared Saml Hawes subscriber to the foregoing deposition and in open Court made solemn oath to the truth of the facts therein contained. The said witness is a credible person and sustains a good character for truth and veracity.
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Court
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I John Burlow of Kent in the County of Litchfield and State of Connecticut aged eighty four years being duly sworn do depose and say that in the year 1775 at Ticonderoga, Daniel Beeman of Warren in sd County who hath made application for a pension under act of 7 June 1832 served as a soldier in the service o the United States, for the term of sixteen mots that he was taken prisoner by the British and detained by them some time as I then understood, I saw him repeatedly in the army & knew him well & now know him.
John Barlow

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County} Probate Court, District of Kent ss. at Kent
Be it remembered that on this 2d day of August AD 1832 personally appeared John Barlow subscriber to the foregoing Deposition and in open Court made solemn oath to the truth of the facts, therein contained and is a credible witness.
Frederick Chittenden
Clerk of sd Court
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No. 284
Mary Beemer
widow of Daniel
Con
act 17 June 1844

married 1779
husband died 30 April 1844


affidavits of
Wm Hopkins &
M. B. Strong
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I William Hopkins of Warren Litchfield County and State of Connecticut, of lawful age, do under oath depose and sau, that I am personally acquainted with Mary Beeman that she is the widow of Daniel Beeman deceased and that she remains unmarried.
Daniel Beeman died on the 30th day of April AD 1844, and that I was present at the time of his deceased, Warren June 13th 1846.
Wm Hopkins

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County} ss. Warren June 13th AD 1846
I certify that William Hopkins signer of the above deposition is a person of truth and veracity, and that he personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above deposition sworn before me.
Edwin M. Kellogg Justice of the Peace
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I Martin B. Strong of Warren Litchfield County and State of Connecticut, of lawful age, do under oath depose and say that I am personally acquainted with Mary Beeman, that she is now the widow of Daniel Beeman deceased, and that she has remained unmarried since the day of his death, and I further depose and say that the said Daniel Beeman died on the thirteenth day of April eighteen hundred and forty four.
Warren June 13th 1846
Martin B. Strong

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County} ss. Warren June 13th 1846
I certify that Martin B. Strong, the above deponent is a person of truth and veracity and that he personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the above deposition.
Before me,
Edwin M. Kellogg, Justice of the Peace
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State of Connecticut
Litchfield County} ss. at Warren
On this fourth day of March AD 1847 personally appeared before the Judge of Probate in and for the District of Litchfield within which said town of Warren is situated, Mary Beeman, a resident of Warren in the County of Litchfield and State aforesaid, aged eighty nine years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 17th 1844m entitled "an act to continue the pensions of certain widows," that she is the widow of Daniel Beeman, who was a Private and Corporal in the Army of the Revolution as by the original certificate will appear, which is dated on the nineteenth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and thirty three and is signed by Lewis Cass Secretary of War, is numbered 17755, and is recorded in the Pension Office, in Book E. Vol. three Page sixty; She also refers to the accompanying certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts.
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She further declares that she was married to the said Daniel Beeman on the twenty third day of February in the year seventeen hundred and seventy nine that her husband, the aforesaid Daniel Beeman, died on the thirteenth day of April AD 1844: that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz at the time above states.
Mary Beeman her mark X
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written. Before
Elisha L. Abernethy Judge of Probate for Litchfield District
And the said Court, doth hereby declare its opinion after the investigation of the matter, that the facts stated & set forth in the foregoing declaration of Mary Beeman are true.
Elisha L. Abernethy Judge of Probate for Litchfield District
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I Philip Wells Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Litchfield Connecticut do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Mary Beeman for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this fourth day of March AD 1847.
Philip Wells Clerk
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the act of Congress of the 2nd February 1848 entitled "an act making further provisions for surviving widows of soldiers of the Revolution."
State of Connecticut
County of Litchfield} ss. Warren
On this fourth day of September AD 1848 personally appeared before the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in & for the County of Litchfield aforesaid, Mary Beeman aged ninety years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2d February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she received the sum of Forty two dollars and sixty six cents annually under the act of June 17th 1844.
She further declares that she is still a widow.
Mary Beeman her mark X
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Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me, who certify that the above names declarant is personally known to me.
Edwin M. Kellogg Justice of the Peace

State of Connecticut
Litchfield County} ss. District of Litchfield
I Geo C. Woodruff Clerk of the Court of Probate in aforesd District do certify that Edwin M. Kellogg Esq is & on the 4th day of Sept. inst., was a Justice of the Peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified & by Law authorized to administer oaths and that the above signature which purports to be his is genuine.
Given under my hand & the seal of sd Court this 6th day of September 1848.
Geo. C. Woodruff
Clerk of sd Court


admitted
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Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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Connecticut Litchfield County
Warren March 31st 1847
Sir,
I herewith enclose to you the original declaration by Mary Beeman widow of Daniel Beeman, together with the certificate of the Secretary of State of Massachusetts.
It appears from that certificate that there are no rolls of Capt. Babcock or Col. Easton in that office. It is highly probable however that the service as corporal was under Capt. Babcock, and that the facts were as alleged.
This is a renewal of the application made in August last, and we refer you to the affidavits accompanying those papers to establish the identity of the applicant.
It is confidently hoped and presumed that you will consider the evidence now adduced as sufficient and satisfactory and that there will be no obstacle in the way of granting the pension.
The advanced age of the applicant renders it very desirable that there should be as little delay as possible in her participation of the bounty of her country.
I have the honor to be sir, with the highest respect, your obedient servt
Edwin M. Kellogg

Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Secretary's Office, Boston
February 9, 1847
I hereby certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Daniel Beeman, is borne upon a Pay Roll of Capt John Steven's company, in Col Arnold's regt for services at Ticonderoga, Crown Point &c, as a private from May 17 to July 6, 1773, 1 month and 21 days.
No rolls of Capt Babcock or Col Easton.
The preceding is all the evidence of service of any one of the name shown by the Military records in this Office.
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And I Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the Commissioner's letter of January 7, 1847 was filed in this Office; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said letter, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
John G Parfrey
Secretary of the Commonwealth
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STATE OF CNONNNECTICUT
LITCHFIELD COUNTY} ss. Litchfield
I Gideon H. Hollister Clerk of the COUNTY COURT of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Edwin M. Kellogg of Warren in sd County is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, and by Law authorized to administer OATHS and to take the acknowledgements of DEED, And that his commission was dated on the 20th day of June, A.D. 1846, that I am personally acquainted with his hand writing & that his signature to the accompanying instruments is genuine.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this 16th day of June A, D, 1846.
Gideon H. Hollister Clerk
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David Beeman
Daniel Beeman
not David

4.5.6.11.12.13
N. P. Perry
Kent

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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 Daniel (David) Beeman 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? not correctly, no troops were raised so early as April 1775

V. *Has he mentioned with precision with 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?
not with accuracy

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
no

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act 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?
no
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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 the neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
no

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
none sufficient

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?
[unk] appear that the best evidence is addressed

XIV. +If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?
Has the official character and signature of the magistrate been certified by the proper officer under his seal of office?

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?



EXPLANTORY 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, 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 the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner an 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.
+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 authenticated the papers is not written on same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by apiece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end 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.
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Jany 7 47
Warren Ct.
Jany 4 "
War Department
To Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Mary Beeman
Ct
sent in July
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State of Connecticut Litchfield County
Warren Jan. 4th 1847
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions
Sir,
An application for a pension for Mary Beeman widow of Daniel Beeman decd was mailed directed to your Department the fore part of last July. As no answer has been received by the applicant or her friends, the object of this communication is to ascertain whether the application has been received and if so what is the cause of [unk]
An answer is respectfully solicitated. Please direct to the undersigned.
With the highest respect your obedient servt
Edwin M. Kellogg
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No 284
Mary Beeman
widow of Daniel
Conn
act 17 June 1844

admd
8 mos Corporal $29.33
4 " pri                  13.33
                           $42.66
from 30 April 1844

E. M. Kellogg
Warren
Litchfield Co
Conn
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284
June 22, 1846
be
Mary Beeman
June 17, 1844


Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
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Litchfield, Illinois
August 27, 1813
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Sir-
Can you give me any information relative to the services of Daniel Beeman and Abner Everets, both of Connecticut, in the War of the Revolution?
I am descendent of both and wish the records to establish eligibility.
Yours truly
Mabel Beeman
905 Madison St
Litchfield, Illinois
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Dowagiac, Mich.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir
Will you please send me two copies of the military history of Daniel Beeman, who enlisted in the revolutionary war from Litchfield Co. Conn., as found in the pension records? My sister and I wish to join the Daughters of the Revolution and need the records.
Sincerely,
Fannie G. White
314 W Telegraph St.
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Bureau of Pensioners,
Revolutionary War,
Washington,
D.C.
Chicago
March
31st
1921

Gentlemen:-
May I be favored with a certificate of service of my revolutionary ancestor.
Daniel Beman or Beeman
born probably in or near Simsbury, Ct. about 1756
He served as Corp. and I am informed was at Quebec, etc. in Mass. Continental.
Your records will show his exact service, and shall be thankful to have whatever your records show in regard to family data. This is to use in identifying my ancestor for membership in Sons of American Revolution.
Thanking you for prompt reply, I am,
Sincerely,
L. D. BEAMAN,
Room 1333 Stock Exchange Building,
30 North LaSalle Street,
Chicago, Ill.
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141 Rustic Lodge Ave. W.
Minneapolis, Minn.
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir,
My Revolutionary ancestor, Daniel Beeman, was said to be a pensioner. Will you kindly send me a copy, data, that will aid me in joining the Daughters of the American Revolution.
The said Daniel Beeman
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was a soldier in the Connecticut Militia, Litchfield County.
Any information you can give me on the subject will be of great assistance to me.
Thanking you in advance I remain.
Very truly
Eva Park Mosher

Mrs. J. C.
Feb. 17, 1921
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2 ct stamped envelope enclosed

212 Courtland Street,
Dowagiac, Michigan
February 5th, 1921

To the Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
I have been told that my Revolutionary ancestor, Daniel Beeman, had a pension. Will you kindly send me a copy as I wish to join the Daughters of the American Revolution. The said Daniel Beeman was a soldier in the Conn. Militia, Litchfield County, said to have been wounded at Ft. Ticonderoga. Any information that you can give me on the subject will be of help to me. Thanking you in advance, I remain,
Yours truly,
Laurel Park Neff
(Mrs. G. L.)
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57 Cassandra Court,
San Francisco, Nov. 18 1925
Chief of Pension Bureau:
Please give me any information you can about Daniel Beeman a soldier of the Revolution, mentioned in "Connecticut In The Revolution" as having been a pensioner.
He is mentioned as being from Warren, Conn. There is also a Tracy Beeman mentioned. Can you give me any information about him? Orange Beeman born at Warren Conn. was my great grandfather. He may have been a son of one of these patriots. Please tell me what the records say of these men, who their children were, and the names of their respective wives. Thanking you, I am
Yours sincerely,
(Mrs. Joseph) Maida Schmerl
57 Cassandra Court
San Francisco,
Calif.
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L.B. RUSSELL
LAND TITLES AND GENBEOLOGY
COMANCHE, TEXAS
July 13, 1929
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs:
I am interested in learning what is showing by your records touching service of Beeman, Beman, or Beeman family in the War of 1812, probably from Vermont, but possible some of them may have emigrated elsewhere, before enlistment, wither from Connecticut or Vermont. I have not the printed list of pensioners published about 1840, and don't know that it included pensioner of 1812, if I had it.
Thanking you in advance for the information. I am courteously yours
LB Russell
[stamp] PENSION OFFICE U.S. JUL 16 1929
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L. B. RUSSELL
LAND TITLES AND GENEALOGY
COMANCHE, TEXAS
July 13, 1929
Bureau of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs:
I am informed that the Vermont records show revolutionary service by Daniel Beaman, and Daniel Beman perhaps also Beeman. 
1. What I am especially inquiring after now is to know if any pensioner of that name is on your rolls who lived first in Bermington until 1792, and then until his death in 1815, in New Haven, Vermont. If found, did his widow Hulda Beeman, who died about 1844, in New Haven town, succeed him in the pension claim?
2. What other pensioners of the name drew for services from Vermont?
Courteously yours
L B Russell
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In reply to your request of                , received            for a statement of the military history of                   a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension of file in this Bureau.
Daniel Beeman W. 17295

Dates of enlistment or appointment: May 1, 1775
Length of service: 8 mos
Rank" Corpl
Officers under whom service was rendered: Captain John Stevens, Elisha Babcock
Colonel Easton
State: Mass

Dates of enlistment or appointment: June 1, 1776
Length of service: 3 mos
Rank: Pvt.
Officers under whom service was rendered: Captain Elisha Painter, Gen. Wooster
State: Conn

Dates of enlistment or appointment: Apr 1, 1776
Length of service:
Rank: "
Officers under whom service was rendered: Captain Joshua Stanton, Colonel Warner
State: G. Mt. Boys
captured by the British on the St. Lawrence river, confined until paroled in Sept. 1776

Battles engaged in,
Residence of soldier at 1st enlistment, NY; 2d enl. Conn.
Date of application for pension, Aug 2, 1832. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Warren, Litchfield Co., Conn.
Age at date of application, Born Jan 18, 1756 in Kent, Litchfield Co., Conn., died Apr 30, 1844
Remarks: Soldier married Feb 23, 1779 at Kent, Conn., Mary Bliss who was allowed pension on her application executed June 13, 1846 while a resident of Warren, Conn., aged 87 years.
No further family data.
Very respectfully,

Commissioner
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Rev. & 1812 Wars Section
January 8, 1926 M.C.A.
Mrs. Joseph Schmerl
57 Cassandra Court
San Francisco, Calif.
Madam:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pensions claim, W. 17295, it appears that Daniel Beeman was born January 18, 1756, in Kent in the part of which was later called Warren, Litchfield County, Connecticut.
While living in New York State he enlisted May 1, 1775, and served with months as corporal in Captains John Steven's and Elisha Babcock's Companies, Colonel Easton's Massachusetts Regiment. While living in Connecticut he enlisted January 1, 1776, and served three months as a private in Captain Elisha Painters' Company in a Connecticut Regiment commanded by General Wooster. He enlisted April 1, 1776. as private in Captain Joshua Staunton's Company with the Green Mountain Boys under Colonel Warner, was captured on the St. Lawrence River by the British and confined until paroled in September, 1776.
He was allowed pension in his application executed August 2, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Warren, Connecticut. He died April 30, 1844.
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He married February 23, 01779, in Kent Connecticut, Mary Bliss. She was allowed pension in her application executed June 13, 1846, at which time she was eighty-seven years of age and a resident of Warren, Connecticut. There is/are no further data on file relative to his family.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner