Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34023, Ichabod Beckwith, Continental (Mass)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass)
Beckwith, Schabod.
5.34023.
CONTENTS

34 023 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34, 023  ann
Ebenezer Beckwith
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 34
[Arrangement of 1870.]

1886 Aug 19 Paul Beckwith present to take history
Notification sent July 29th 1820 to John Ingersoll, Springfield, Mass.
11. 149 Q
Massachusetts Ichabod Beckwith
of Lualow in the state of Massachussetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Innox of the Massachussetts line, for the term of One Year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachussetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 23 rd of November 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of May 1819 and sent to John Hooker Esq. Springfield Massachussetts
  Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819. 26.16   Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep. 1819. 48.00   3 Mo. \frac{P}{30} \frac{4}{31} $74.16   $74.16 
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Edward Beckwith New Know's Mass. Regt 76 - 1st dr @ 23 rd Nov 1818
[Handwritten signature/initials]
too early for Rule
Admitted

Ichabod Beckwith of Ludlow in the County of Hampden & Commonwealth of Massachusetts Husbandman upon oath makes the following Declaration -
That in January A.D. 1776 he enlisted as a private Soldier into the the United States Army then called the Continental Army for the term of one Year That he enlisted into Capt Stephen's Company & Col Knox's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line That he faithfully served in the capacity of a private Soldier during the whole of said term & was Honorably discharged but that said discharge is now lost & the Declarant further says that he served in the war in what was termed the Canadian Expedition & the said Declarant further states that he is now sixty six years of age & that he is entirely destitute of property & that he is infirm & dependent upon charity for his support & is urgently dependent upon his country for support
Nov 23.
Ichabod his Beckwith Mark -

I Solomon L. Fuller of Tanners in the County of Berkshire  Hampshire & state of Connecticut upon oath testify & say that in the month of December A.D. 1776 I was employed by Jacob Kendall of Litchfield to go to Williamstown to convey some Ichabod Beckwith who was then sick & unable to travel that I was well knowing to the enlistment of Beckwith for a year service & that he faithfully performed his duty as a private soldier according to the General report of his character at that time Solomon L. Fuller
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire ss Personally appeared before me I. L. Fuller whose name is made return oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him subscribed Edm. D. P. Justice of the Peace

As it remembered that in the 23 rd day of Nov. 1870 personally came before me John Hooker Esq. Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the Western Circuit in Mass ts the above named I hereby declare that the truth of the above declaration by him subscribed in my presence - and I do hereby certify that I am satisfied that the Applicant did serve in the Army of the Revolution as he has above declared - that he is no reduced circumstances in life & stands in need of assistance from his Country for support - and I do to connect the above with the above Affidavit of Col. S. Fuller Esq. who bears the reputation of an honest man - taken before Edm d Bliss whom I know to be a Justice of the Peace for the County of Hampshire, as the evidence in the case to the Secretary of the Department of War - given under my hand this 13 th day of July A.D. 1819
John Hooker
I John Ingersoll Clerk of Court do hereby certify that John Hooker is the Justice as before that the above is his hand writing
Witness my hand the 13 th day of July A.D. 1819 -
Albert John Ingersoll Clerk

Ichabod Beecher
11.149 = Ludlow
May 1816
[Handwritten signature/initials]
Sept 1817

COMMONWEALTH OF
MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY of Hampden
ss.
ON this tenth day of July 1820, personally appeared, in open court, before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas the same being a Court of Record and so established by a Statute of said Commonwealth, said Court being now in session at Springfield within and for said county of Hampden — Timothy Nash & Ashbel Burr Selectmen & Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Ludlow in the County & as such, Authorised & empowered to take care & provide for Ichabod Beebe aged Sixty Nine years, resident  who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: A pauper disabled in body & mind by reason of a fit of Dropsy — and by reason of that fit he is deprived of the power of speech — and is inscribed on the Pension Roll of the Massachusetts Agency — The Pension Certificate being in our possession and is dated May 20 th 1814 and numbered 11.149 —
Care of overseers of the poor of said Town has been supported wholly by public charity —
Ichabod Beebe is a labourer without family or means of support except by public or private Charity he has no property of any description except his necessary clothing.
Timothy Nash Ashbel Burr
Sworn to and declared on the tenth day of July 1820 before the Circuit Court of Common Pleas Attest John Ingersoll Clerk
John Ingersoll Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is that the said Ichabod Beebe  has no has no property.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, on this fourteenth day of July 1820.
John Ingersoll Clerk of the Court for the County of Hampden