Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 705, William Beebe, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Beebe, William
P. 705
CONTENTS

Ex'r.
INVALID.
REC-700
REJECTED
Acts of July 14, 1802, and March 3, 1873.
William Debee
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

Rejected
See letter to H. Curtis Esq. Mount Vernon Ohio, 12. Jany. '35.
705.

State of Ohio, County of ...
On the 16 th day of October 1834 personally appeared in open court before the judges of the Court of Common Pleas ... William Baeke a resident of Chester Township ... aged twenty eight years on the fourth of August last, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make make the following declaration in order to obtain the act of Congress passed June 7-1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. Sometime in the month of April 1781 Declarant volunteered under Captain Isham Baeke (who resigned in a short time after which the command devolved on Solomon Rogers) to guard the store at New London and was in the service two months. In the early part of July 1781 declarant was drafted in the Company of Capt. Richard Duchane. John Duchane was col. to guard the said store at New London until the same was burned. During this last two months the prisoners in the prison ship in the river threatened to kill the guards while they were asleep in the store burned that day and their escape in the small boat where they were saved in a swamp three miles from the prison ship and 1/2 mile from the mouth of the river or creek. Declarant with five more proceeded in search and found them and took them back. After the burning of New London declarant was stationed at Fort Trumbull under the command of Capt. Duchane and remained there two months when on the arrival of some regular troops declarant received a regular verbal discharge. One month after his discharge declarant returned under Captain Richard Duchane at Fort Trumbull in the capacity of Minute Man in which service he continued for eighteen months being until the end of the war. Declarant was in no regular battles but several skirmishes. Declarant hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name
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of the agency of any state is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state -
Declarant was born at New London in Connecticut on the fourth of August 1785 and was living at New London when first called into service some years  some years after the termination of the war. Moved to Madison County, Ohio where he lived 18 years when he moved to Knox County Ohio where he has since lived - Declarant has no record of his age - He entered the service as an volunteer, was afterwards drafted and returned a second time. Declarant has no record of his age. Declarant never received a military discharge
Given to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid Sworn to before me in open
Court this 6. day of Oct 1834. Wm H Reece
Alex Elliot H. Clerk
We Freeman Strong a clergyman residing in the neighborhood of William Buel and Enos Miles residing in the neighborhood of William Buel hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Buel who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be 79 years of age on the 4th of August past that he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Freeman Strong Enos Miles
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Alex Elliot H. Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that after investigating the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named William Buel was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Freeman Strong who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in Knox County Ohio and that who has signed Phoebe Squire who has signed

is a resident in Knox County Ohio and is a credible person and the statement is entitled to credit.
I Alexander Elliott clerk of the court of common pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing (or like) the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of William Buel for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 23 rd day of Dec r A D 1834.
Alex r Elliott Clerk.
Declaration of William Buel

32, 4853 Mrs. Bebee Ohio
Ohio Dec 30 William Bebee Ohio
Replied did not see six months see letter 3 Jan 1833 to N. Case
W. Parkhurst Pension Office Custis St. Louis Ohio
Washington D.C. H. H. H.
Spec

M t Vernon Ohio Dec. 23 d , 1834
Dr Sir enclosed I send you the pension claim of Wm Brubaker being decided upon please report by letter to this place directed to the applicant or yr most obt
H Curtis
Commissioner of Pensions