Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 695, Benjamin Becker, Continental (Penn.)

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Penn.)
Becker, Benjamin Beckes or Bacchus
R. 695
CONTENTS

Ex'r.
INVALID.
REFUSED
Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1865.
Benjamin Becker
P. O. For Bacchus
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____
Discharged: _____
Application filed: _____, B
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____

18460 Henry Beekman Groom Dut to Genl. Haring Nov 17. 1846
695
Ref. 1818.

State of Indiana Pike County set.
March Term 1822.
On this twenty sixth day of March one thousand eight- hundred and twenty two personally appeared in open court Benjamin Parker a resident citizen of the County of Pike aged sixty nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress of the 18 th of March 1815 and the 1 st May 1820 that he the said Benjamin Parker enlisted for and during the war on or about the 15 th day of December in the year seventeen hundred & seventy seven in the company of Captain Thomas Wylie of the Regiment of Artillery and artificers commanded by Colonel Benjamin Flowers - then stationed at or near Carlisle in the State of Pennsylvania on the continental establishment and in the summer of 1779 procured a discharge from Major Charles Lubin of said Regiment on his furnishing a substitute by the name of Cooper French to serve out the war - which discharge is lost he has no other evidence now in his possession of his said services except an order of command dated 15 th Nov r 1778 signed by Major Charles Lubin of said Regiment which is accompany this - and in pursuance of the Act of the 1 st of May 1820. I solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th of March then and eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval services of the United States in the Revolutionary war" passed the 18 th day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person

in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule here to annexed and by me subscribed, to wit: Four head of horses, fifteen head of cattle, three hogs, and eleven pigs, six chairs, one table, one Broomcorn, two pots, one oven, three beds & bedding, two plows, two pair of gears, four water pails, one tottall four cask & barrels, one old wagon, one hundred and twenty five acres of land, twenty three acres of which is improved.
And the declarant further states that his occupation is that of a farmer but that from old age he is unable to labour that he has a wife aged about fifty years, and five orphan children living with him by whose labour he and his wife is supported.
Benjamin Becker.
Affirmed and declared to in open court on the 26 th day of March 1822.
The court are of opinion that the above mentioned property is worth the sum of six hundred and five Dollars.
I Robert Patten Clerk of the Knox Circuit Court State of Indiana, do hereby certify that the foregoing statement and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of said court, and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said court, that the total amount of the value of said property exhibited in said schedule is six hundred & five Dollars - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Vincennes, in the said State of Indiana this 2 nd day of April A.D. 1822.
R. Patten Clerk

18460v
Benj n Beckles St. Louis 6 o Indiana.
Robert Burtin, Vincennes, Ind a
Rec d 29 Apr 1822.
Rejected. Worth $6.05
see letter to R. Burtin 23 May 1822—

Nov 6, 1846
Rev. James L. Beck, Jr.,
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Bloomington Indiana October 30. 1846.
James S. Edwards Esqr.
Sir I wish to know for the benefit of Mrs. Sally Beckes whether or not Benjamin Beckes ever made further application for a pension under the acts of 1818 & 1820 as an indigent Soldier of the Revolutionary war which application was made by him when living in Knox County Indiana and was rejected.
It is thought he further prosecuted his claim under the act of 1823 and when he had removed to White County in the State of Illinois; - He was disallowed in 1822. and if not he did after that time renewed his application his widow thinks she is entitled to the arrearages or amount to which her deceased husband had sought - please inform me on the above subject so far as your custom is in such or similar cases with any remarks you deem necessary.
Respectfully Yours Obl. Servt.
George W. Hardin
p.s. The names are Sally Beckes widow of Benj. Beckes