Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 16997, Roswell Beebe, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Beebe, Roswell Frisbee, Sarah
W. 16997
Former widow
CONTENTS

Det. Pen. Ag. May - Aug. 19:39
Det. S. Knapp, Ag. 20:39.
Det. to W. H. Clarke
Aug. 21st 1840
do. Secy of War 9 June -
- " " 18 Nov. -
W. H. Clarke Dec. 21st 1841
Same Jan. 11th 1842
New York - 1,214.
Sarah Grisbee,
widow of formerly Roswell Beebe, who died on the 23 d March 1776 - of Columbia in the State of N. York, who was a Lieut. in the Comp y commanded by Captain of the Regt. commanded by Van Schaick in the N. York, time for 9 mo. 10 d days
Increase for $106.66
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 124 Dollars 44 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th day of Aug. '39, and sent to J. G. Floyd, Troy, N. York.
Arrears to the 4th of March - $995.52 Semi-annual allowance ending
$2.22
$1087.74
Special,
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 rd .
Recorded by R Burdine Clerk Book A Vol. 2 - Page 108

State of New York Columbia County ss.
On this 12 th day of June 1837 before me personally appeared Sarah Frisbee, a Resident of the town of Canaan and County of Columbia aged 85 years who after being duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832 also the act of 4 th July 1836 and the amendment thereto passed in the year 1837, That she is now the widow of Colo. Philip Frisbee Esquire late of the town of Canaan and County of Columbia deceased, and that before her marriage with the aforesaid Philip Frisbee she was the widow of Roswell Beebe of Kings district and Albany County now Canaan and Chatham and Columbia County who in his life time belonged to the army of the United States, for whose services she claims a pension under the acts aforesaid. She further declares that she was married to the aforesaid Roswell Beebe her first husband, on the 15 th day of February 1770 at the dwelling house of Major Martin Bube in New Concord society in Kings district Albany County, the marriage ceremony was performed by a clergyman of the name of John Richards of the above named society, who many years since removed from the society aforesaid, into some one of the New England States and as she believes is now dead, she has no record of her marriage and has no other means of proving her marriage with the aforesaid Roswell Bube for whose services she claims a pension, than the testimony of Jeps letter whose Affidavit is herunto annexed, and further that Roswell Beebe aforesaid died as she has been informed by those who were present, and as she verily believes on the 23 rd day of March, 1776, whilst in the service and army of the United States at Montreal in Canada, of the small pox; and further after the death of Roswell Beebe her first husband, she married Philip Frisbee on the 9 th day of December 1779; and further that the aforesaid Philip Frisbee her late husband died on the 12 th day of March 1813, and that she has remained a widow ever since his death; And further this declarant saith that she lived with her former husband the aforesaid Roswell Beebe in the society of New Concord

and Kings district until the month of May 1775, and as she verily believes on the first days of the month he went into the service of the United States as Lieutenant in Captain Baldwins Company the company marched to Albany from this place and thence to Fort Edward, her husband after being absent for about a month or six weeks returned home with recruiting orders, and did enlist a number of men in the vicinity of New Concord, after remaining with his family and friends for about two weeks, he left and never returned after his death his friends sent home to this Declarant his trunk and clothing, and as she believes his commission as a captain, she has been in the possession of it for a number of years but now believes it is lost - the time for which her husband the aforesaid Roswell Bube engaged to serve in the army is not known by this Declarant she would refer to the proof of such service hereto annexed and further she has used all due diligence in endeavoring to procure testimony to prove her husbands services, but has not been able to procure any other than that annexed, and further that she is not able to write her name, but is under the necessity of making her mark
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
her Sarah X Frisbee mark
Before me Michael  Matthew one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Columbia
And the said Judge doth hereby declare his opinion that Sarah Frisbee who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration is now the widow of Colo. Philip Frisbee, late of Canaan deceased, and that the said Philip Frisbee deceased on the 12th March 1813, and that the said Sarah is now a widow and has remained so ever since the death of her late husband aforesaid, and further that the said Sarah upon her marriage with the aforesaid Philip Frisbee was the widow of Captain Roswell Bube, deceased, and that she was married to the said Roswell Bube the 15th Feb. 1770 and before his service in the Revolution and that the said Roswell Bube served in the grade and length of time as stated in the Deposition of Samuel Doy hereto annexed, and further that owing to lameness and infirmity the said Sarah is unable to attend the Court Michael  Matthew one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Columbia

State of New York Columbia County ss.
On this 3 d . day of May 1838 before me personally appeared Sarah Frishew a Resident of the town of Canaan, County and State aforesaid aged 86 years who first being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say, in order to enlarge her pension under the act of 4 July 1836, that she is the Widow of Col. Philip Frishew late of the town of Canaan deceased, that before her marriage with the aforesaid Philip Frishew, she was the widow of Lieut. Roswell Becker of Col. Goose Van Schaick's Regiment in the Colony of New York in the years 1775 & 76, that her husband the aforesaid Roswell Becker enlisted for 8 months in 1775 into Capt. Hezekiah Baldwin's company, that according to the best of her recollection he entered the service of the United States on or about the first of May 1775 and for proof of such enlistment she would refer to the affidavit of Samuel Daly now in the pension office and also to the Declaration of Moses Mlyer of the town of Astoria Col. County, New York, she said Mlyer as she has been informed, is now a pensioner under the act of 7 June 1832. The said Mlyer belonged to Capt. Jacob Pratt's company, in the same Regiment (viz. Goose Van Schaick's) in which the declarant's husband was, and she has good reason to believe that the said Mlyer now receives 8 months pay for the same term of service in the same Regiment that the aforesaid Roswell Becker her husband served viz from the 1 st of May 1775 to 1 st Jan. 1776. For a further confirmation and proof she sends attached hereto 3 letters which were written to her by her husband the aforesaid Roswell Becker at the time they purport to have been written, the letters are in the own proper hand writing of her husband the first is marked A. and dated "Lake George June the 16 th A.D. 1775" in which he says

We have been to Picondaraga and by orders have returned back again to this place, until further orders from the Com- mittee, I suppose in order for the Yorkers to be in Regiment by themselves the latter being dated June 16. 1775 and his commission being dated June 28. 1775 shows that he served by brevet, for this Deponent is sure that he went away from the place as a Lieut. that his term of service for which he first engaged was out on the first Jan. 1776, and that he again enlisted or engaged to serve longer viz to the 15 April 1776 see his letter to this Deponent Dated "Montreal January the 1. 1776" used marked B . She further saith that the last letter she ever received from her husband is hereto annexed and marked C . "Dated at Montreal Feb. 23 at 12 o'clock 1776 he survived till the 23 March following. She also annexes "a list of officers" of the four regiments raised in New York in 1775 then in Canada as they ranked on 28 February 1776, in which list Horace Balch's name is found as 2 d Lieut. She had supposed that his rank was Capt. from his having commanded the company but finds she was mistaken in his rank. This Deponent believes she is entitled to pay for his first engagement from the first May 1775 making £8 per mo for his second engagement from 1 Jan. 1776 to the 15 April 1776 or to the 23 March 1776 the day of his death should the Com. of Pensions decide that no pay should be allowed for services engaged to be performed but cut short by the death of the soldier and further this deponent sends accompanying this deposition the original Certificate granted her by the War department and further saith that Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me Sarah X Frisbee mark
J. G. Ford
Commissioner of Deeds
I certify that owing to old age and debility the aforesaid Sarah Frisbee is unable to write her name
J. G. Ford Com. of Deeds

State of New York
Columbia County p.
On this 12 th day of June 1837 before me personally appeared Roswell B. Frisbee a Resident of the town of Canaan County and State aforesaid of lawful age, who first being duly sworn, doth depose and say that he is the son of Philip and Sarah Frisbee and further that his father Philip Frisbee died on the 12 th March 1813, and that his mother Sarah has since widow ever since the death of his father the aforesaid Philip Frisbee, and further that his mother the aforesaid Sarah now resides in the family of this Deponent in the town of Canaan at the former Residence of his deceased father, that his father and mother have told this Deponent that he was named Roswell B. to bear up the name of Roswell Bube his mother former husband, and further that this Deponent has often, among his father's papers, seen an old Commission purporting to be Roswell Bube's, and according to the best of his recollection it was a Captain's Commission he this Deponent has made faithful search for the same but from inquiries among his family he is now satisfied that the Commission is lost - and further saith not -
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid before me
Roswell B. Frisbee M edard Potter one of the Justices of the County Courts of Columbia County
I certify that Roswell B. Frisbee who has sworn to and subscribed the above affidavit is well known to me, and further that he is esteemed a man of strict truth and veracity
M edard Potter one of the Justices of the County Courts of the County of Columbia

11/13
10
anah Babe all
See Concorde
Feb. 23, 1926

Dear Wife
C
I received your letter dated the 13 th Instant which informed me that you and our Babies were in a comfortable State of health and they found me with joy and elation in the like Happy situation Let us my Dear Join and give him the Praise who Searcheth the hearts and tries the reins of the Children of men from whom all our mercies flow Thanks Be to god that I am yet numbered among the living and in health as I hope these Lines will find you and our family and all our friends in St. Concord I must be short the Bazaar at Nashua is now with me But cannot wait
your Letter seemed to accuse me with Neglect of writing to you were I to see you I am certain you will Be Convinced that I have Improved every opportunity my not writing to Capt. while was I expected Capt. Baldwin
PERCE, ROSWELL

was to set out within a week after and he promised that he would deliver them safe with his own hands. But I heard to the contrary I am yours Dear Husband Joseph Baker
With my kind Love to you to you I Return you thanks for sending your love to me tell Mamma and Tony Dady will come home in the Spring if alive and well this from your sincere friend and kind Parent.
Dated at of Russell Baker Montreal Feb 7 1775 at 11 o'clock
PP tell father Baker I Return him thanks for his letter I heard it to Colonel Elmer a number of People was By the Col. Baker his sides says I love here more that was Deacon Baker. Grancy is fresh in my
BEERE, ROSWELL

Montreal Janry. y e 1 st 1876
My Loving Wife
I once more write to let you know that I am well and hearty I never was so fat in my life as I am at this present time. I am returned in our morning paper Present fit for Duty thanks Bee to God that I can thus Write with truth. and I hope these Lines will find you and our Children in as good state of health as they leave me. I embrace this opportunity for to Remind you of the promise I made of Returning By Newyears Day which now is allmost past I suppose you spare not to attend to me in neglect in which indeed I Will not altogether undertake to justify my Self in being so long absent from my family tho' it rather happened for the want of troops to escort this place and assure that I have unexpectedly met With through many Coldness or Disrespect for her I sincerely profess to Love and Esteem above Earthly things therefore Let me intreat you to Calm your fears and add a little to your patience for a few Days at the End of which I shall feel free to be with you and render you a Better account of my Business as I well hope to your satisfaction. I have nothing strange to write at present But what Capt Baldwin as he is in coming home can relate I have Engaged to Serve my country till the fifteenth of April least to be Dismissed Sooner if the Service will admit I am in hope to come home some time this winter if the troops arrive which are expected if not I shall Return some time in April if alive and well I want to hear from you But Don't Expect that Before I Return as we are at so great a Distance from Each other.

10 Indianapolis
Mrs. Samuel Babel wife of Joseph Babel & son in the Continental all
New Leonard

I am now in Canada and I hope you and our Children are well in Newcombs I long to be at home to keep New year with you all But alas that can't be But my thoughts fly through the air as swift as the rays from your dear hand Lot of mine to Be this Detained or kept from my family But you one knows forsook in this troublesome world to let us join as one and Drink this health as Speedy and happy Reunion Between Great Britain and America my Best regards to all Relatives and Engineering friends in Newcombs So I conclude wishing you all a happy New year I remain your most loving Husband
Roswell Beebe
My Compliments to Mr Hill I trust Business goes on very well I would have you keep in my house and take care of my family until I return and you shall receive a handsome your trouble perhaps I shant be at home before planting if not marriage for the Best till I come anna remember to give love to your Sister Daniel Be a good boy with my darling mine your mother and always all her lovingfull. Communes peace Be with you all

A Lake George June the 16 th AD 1775
My Dear and Loving Wife these few Lines are to Inform you that I am in A good State of health at present. altho' I am at a grate Distance from my family and yet a live and well. Thanks Be to God for it. it grieves me when I think of my wife and poor little Innocent Children So much that I cannot write what I would tell well they and Anna. their Father is well and sends his Love to them. our Camp is Now Encamped in the woods on the East side of Lake George how soon we shall Be Removed from there God only knows. I heard from you last night which is a grate Comfort to me. I have not time to write this I just tell News came to me in a letter from Lieut Rowleys wife to him write to me as oft as you can. Remember this that while I am Absent from you that you must Conduct yourself as father and mother Both if it is so Defined By our God that I am never to Return again to you in this world. my hearty prayers to Almighty God is that we may Behave our selves while here on Earth So that when we come to die we may Die in the Lord and receive a glorious immortality and join hastily to all the heavenly

Remember My Love to fathers and mothers Sisters and Brothers and all my friends John and Roderick this morning is gone out in the woods hunting where Boath and Hunt when they went away
We have been to Ticonderoga and by orders have returned back again to this place until further orders from the Committee of Safety in order for the Yorkers to be in Regiments By them selves we had news when at Ticonderoga that the Regulars and some of the Canadian troops were building a fort at Crown Point which is about 12 miles this side of St John their design is to build this fort is not known to us at present
Yours
my Love to Mrs Hill and Aunt Elizabeth Lord and his family I want to hear from you all I cannot write you all separately

tell James Simon Doly that John has hard Be Sies very with the plump But his power is turn and is ageting better fast he is now at Ticonderoga But we Expect him as soon as possible among us
my Love to Mr Richard and his family I beg of him to Rememe me in all his petition.
farewell
This from your Love your and husband until Death shall us from each other Roswell Beebe

Let to J. G. Ford, Sept 21. 1838.
To J. G. Ford June 12, 1839.
New-York.....1214.
Sarah Trisbee, formerly widow of Roswell Beebe, decd.
who died on the 23 d of March, 1776. of Columbia in the State of N. York
was a Lieut. in the _____ commanded by _____ of the Kept. commanded Col. G. Van Schaick the N. York line for 8 Mos. Lieut.
25 yrs = $112.55.
Inscribed on the Roll of New-York (A.) at the rate of 106 Dollars 66 Cents per ann. to commence on the 4 th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 26 day of July, 1837 and sent to J. G. Ford, Red Hook, N. York
Arrears to the 4 th of March 1837. = $ 639.91 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sept. " - 53.
$64.
{ Revolutionary 9 Act July 4, Section the 3
Recorded by S. S. Elliott Book A. Vol. 1, Page
76 33
9
Jan. 1836, }
Clerk, 130.

219 th July 3 rd Sarah Frisbee widow of Mr Philip
4 July '36 Columbia Co N.Y.
for P.W.
19

Sir
Red Rock June 28. 1837
Enclosed I send you the claims of Sarah Frisbee of the town of Canaan Col. County for a pension you will confer a favor by so far examining them as to ascertain if any facts evidenced within her reach are necessary to establish her claims. I have particular reference to the proof necessary to establish the fact of his being a captain - the commission is lost as also the Lieut. commission - might not Roswell Buel belong after the termination of the 8 months service to the Conn. Line, as Lathrop Allen it appears who was his Lieut. a little previous, belonged to Samuel Elmore's Regiment - please direct us in this matter as it has always been said that Roswell Buel who formerly belonged to this place was a Capt. in the Revolutionary War, an examination of the Records of Connecticut for the years 1775 & 76 would determine that point - if you have time
Yours J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions,
J. G. Ford
Direct" J. G. Ford Red Rock Col. County N.Y. "

Friday
Small Aug 16
Miss
L. Edwards Esquire Cam. of Pensions Washington D.C.

application of Sarah Frisbee of Col. County N.Y. for an increase of her pension under the act of July 4, 1836 - you say that the examination of her claim has been deferred by reason of the absence of the pay roll of Capt. Baldwin's company
I wish you examine the letter sent you with her application written by Roswell Beebe her former husband & dated Fort George June 16 th 1775. The letter is marked A. This shows that Beebe must have been in the service of the United States prior to the date of his commission which was dated June 28 th 1775
I find on examination of the Records of the Colonial Congress of this State that the oldest commissions granted by that body were dated June 28, 1775. I wish you to examine particularly the letter referred to in your possession, by that you will perceive that York State troops were at the North at Fort George & Piconderoga some time before the formation of Colo. Van Schaick's Regiment for Beebe says nothing about Colo. Van Schaick, but supposes they the New Yorkers were waiting to get them into a Regiment by themselves as it appears they after wards did. The New Yorkers therefore must have acted without commissions previous to 28 June 1775

of his early up to his death, & by Samuel Doyl's testimony also in your possession that he served at least from the June 16. 1775 to the 23 March 1776 the day of his death making 9 months and 7 days    1776. 2. 23  {    1775. 5. 16    9 mos. 7 days   
Now the distance from Lieut. Roswell Babb & Capt. Baldwin's in New Canaan & New Concord to Albany is 26 miles from Albany to Fort George 62 miles from Fort George to Scanderaga about 33 miles & traveling the 33 miles over again make in all 154 miles travel he must have performed before the 16 June 1775 - now we find him in actual service proven by documen- tary and oral testimony 9 mos. & 7 days I ask is it unreasonable to suppose that he must have been engaged in traveling and stopping at the different stations through which he passed 23 or 24 days longer making in all 10 months service.
you will please send me a certificate of the amount you may think proper before the 4 Sept. or if your mind is not fully made up send the original certificate and let her draw till such time we obtain more testimony
Yours J. G. Ford
Please send me a copy of forms under act of July 7. 1838 J. G. Ford

Let. to J. G. Ford ("G. C.") June 12, 1839.

State of New York Col. Co. Clerk's Office
I William Miller. Clerk of
the County of Columbia do hereby certify that Joseph G. Ford before whom the annexed Affidavit purports to have been taken was on the day of the date of the same a Commissioner of Asses in and for said County duly Com- -missioned and sworn & further that I am acquainted with his hand writing & believe the signature to be his own hand writing with my hand and official seal this 24 th day of September Eighteen hundred & thirty eight
W. Miller
Clerk

Sept 21 H. R. O. SEP 18 NY.
J. L. Edwards Esquire Comm. of Pensions Washington
1214

Troy Sept. 17. 1838
Sir
Some time last spring I sent you a package including the Certificate of Widow Sarah Frisbee of the State of New York, and with it an application by her for an increase of her pension I have heard nothing from it since, will you please write me if received what disposition is made of it
Yours J. G. Ford
J. L. Edwards Esquire direct your letters
" J. G. Ford Troy
N.Y. "

June 8, 1841
paper care of Sarah Frisbee on Pk 36 Rond. N. York
PAID
Pension Office,
C. L. Edwards, Comr. of Pensions Washington
wait answer from Secy of Comt.

Sir,
Hudson New York May 31. 1844,
I enclose you Mr. Peter Hagner letter to me as evidence to show that Roswell Beebe, the first husband of Sarah Fiske & for whose services she now receives a pension under act of 4th July 1834, was a Captain in Wooster Regiment from November to 23 d March 1776.
M rs Sarah Fiske is pensioned now for her late husband's services in Goose Van Schaick's N. York Regiment.
I thought that my letter of the 28 th instant was sufficiently explicit.
M rs Sarah Fiske was first married to Roswell Beebe who died in Montreal March 23 d 1776. She subsequently married Mr. Fiske. He died his widow, of course she is now called Fiske.
This evidence is intended to apply to the case of M rs Sarah Fiske & it is claimed that she is entitled to an increase of pension in consequence of Roswell Beebe having been promoted while in service from a Lieutenancy to that of a Captain as stated by me in this & in my former letter.
Captain Lathrop Allen states that he served under Roswell Beebe in Canada & his statement on file in your office is referred to.
Respectfully Yours,
Wheeler, A. Clarke
Hon. S. S. Edwards,

A
William c Miller Esquire
Clerk of Columbia County Hudson

Shroy Sept. 24, 1838
Sir
Last spring I sent by W. Mr. Holdridge of Chesterfield a Pension Certificate of Widow Sarah Elsbree of Kennebec County accompanying the same, were a number of letters written in 1775 & 1776 intended as evidence to enlarge her pension. Her disposition was also taken by me and was attached to the same and wanted your certificate to show that I was at the time of taking it a Comr. of Deeds in and for said County. I sent them in an unsealed envelope requesting you to annex the necessary certificate and direct it to the Comr. of Pensions or rather it was directed to him it only wanted sealing.
This day I have recd a line from the Comr. of Pensions that no such papers have come to his hands I wish you to write me immediately if you know anything of the papers and if so what disposition you have made of them. The papers from Keene were sent some time in May last. It is about go at the best or rather no go at all help me out of it or I shall not come to Keene and will for your County blank.
Yours sincerely J. G. Ford
William Miller Esquire
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22. 10
Jan 28 In at
my
J. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Sir
Troy Jan. 22. 1839
Sometime in the month of Oct. last, the papers relating to the claim of Widow Sarah Frisbee of the State of New York for an enlargement of her pension certificate, were transmitted to the War department, since which I have received no communication on the subject. If you have the papers I wish you to examine in addition to the matter therein contained (for the enlargement of her pension). The pay-roll of Colo. Goose Van Schaick's Regiment in 1775 & 76 and you will there find as I believe that the said Roswell Bube (who was formerly the husband of Sarah Frisbee) in the company commanded by Capt. Hezekiah Baldwin, after the said Baldwin's time expired which was on Jan. 1. 1776, took the command of the company from the 1 Jan. to the 23 March following the day of his death this time I had supposed he would have been entitled to a Captain's pay, though he ranked no higher than a Lieut. I wish you to be particular in the examination for I have not the least doubt of the facts. They are  It is clearly set forth in the Affidavit of Samuel Doty who was a member of the company and whose affidavit is attached to the original papers and declaration of the said Sarah Frisbee
1 We say that Roswell Bube was a Lieut. in Capt. Hezekiah Baldwin's company, long before the date of his com. which is June 28. 1775 as will appear by his letter by us to you forwarded, we find that 28 June 1775 is the oldest date of commissions under the New York Colonial Congress but notwithstanding the troops went to the North and had taken many important posts previously 2 that he served as Captain the last part of his time viz from Jan. 1. 1776 to the 23 March following for which he was entitled to and obtained Captain's pay and further that his first term of enlistment and service must have been at least 8 months or from 1 May 1775 to 1 Jan 1776 and then as Captain or commandant from 1 Jan 1776

to 23 March following at which time he deceased at the small for at Montreal making
8 month service as Lieut. &
2 moths 23 days as Captain
We find Roswell Buel as appears by his letter heretofore sent you and formerly written to his wife, on the 16 June 1775 at Lake George - having been to Picendaroga and returned back again this would make 6 1/2 month to 1 Jan. to this add the time going to and from Picendaroga one and you may in all probability have an other half month which will make 7 months. Then the time spent in organizing tarrying at Albany Fort Edward and Fort Geo. and we have one month more making 8 months to first Jan. and this conclusion is strengthened by the testimony of Samuel Doty which you have, and also by the declaration of others belonging to Colo. Goose Van Schaicks Regiment
I have conversed with Moses Myer of the State of New York who belonged to Capt. Joel Pratts company in Colo. Goose Van Schaicks Regiment. he says that he now draws from the United States for 8 months service in said Regiment viz from May 1. 1775 to Jan 1 1776 on which day his term of service expired and he returned home. you will please see his declaration
I wish you to write me if Sarah Frieses papers for an enlargement of her pension are or are not received and please send me the law (and regulations by the department) granting bounty lands to certain Soldiers of the Revolution
I am Sir with respect yours
J. L. Edwards Esquire
J. G. Ford
direct " J. G. Ford Troy N.Y. "

Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 16,997
Sarah Michie
Widow of
Samuel Bell
First War
Act July 4 th 86
Index: Vol. a , Page 254
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Sarah Fribbe
Great Falls. N.Y.
L. Edwards Esquire
Coun. of Pensions Washington

Sir
Troy June 6 1839
Some time in the fore part of Oct. last past. I caused the original certificate of Widow Sarah Frisbee of Canaan Columbia County & State of N.Y. to be forwarded to your office accompanied by an application for an increase of her pension. The papers were made out soon after the drawing of March 1838. The papers were sent to the County Clerk of Col. for some necessary certificate, and he was to have forwarded to the War department, but through neglect they were not sent till Oct. as above stated. He then informed me that he had sent them on. I now wish you to act upon the claim as soon as you possibly can, if according to your Rules you cannot immediately act, upon it please order the Agent at Albany to pay Widow Sarah Frisbee the amount of Pension which is now due her which is about 106 dollars or from 4 March 1838 to 4 March 1839 the reason is the old has become very uneasy in consequence of the great delay, and she says she wants the money she has a daughter who is very poor who in a great measure is dependent on her for support. We had rather you would act upon it immediately if practicable if not pursue the other course. These are the months that have passed since the papers have been at Washington, Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. April & May direct your letters to W. J. G. Ford Troy (N.Y.) J. G. Ford

From
W. H. Clark Hudson N.Y.
To J. L. Edwards Esq. Comm. de

Hudson N York Jan'y 3 rd 1842.
Sir.
I enclose you my deposition showing that M c Sarah Fisher authorized me to apply for an increase of her pension.
The evidence relied upon of said Roswell Beebe, having served as Captain in Wooster Connecticut regiment is the following.
By your letter of August 21 st 1840 it appears that the rolls in your possession show that there was a Lieutenant Roswell Beebe in Van Schaick N York regiment until a late date in Nov. 1775. Said Beebe died in Canada March 23 rd 1776. If he had continued Lieutenant in Van Schaick N. Y. Regt. until March 23 rd 1776, the Rolls would have shown the fact. The rolls show that he was a Lieutenant until late in Nov. 1775. The inference from that fact is that he served in some other capacity and in some other Company or Regt after he ceased to be L t in the N. Y. Regt.
The rolls of Wooster regiment will show

the time when Roswell Beebe became Captain in that regt. as it is presumed. And the identity can be inferred from the fact that he left the N. York service in Nov. 1775 & commenced in the other at the same date. It is also an uncommon name. and that with the other circumstance of his being dis- continued in the N. York troops would warrant the inference of identity without the rolls showing the precise time of his transfer & promotion.
There was a captain Roswell Beebe of Wooster regiment in 1775 & 1776.
The evidence of this will be found in the statement of Nathaniel Allen made out of 1818. And by the 3 d Auditor's Letter now in your possession which shows that $1300 were paid to Roswell Beebe Captain in Wooster regt.
We claim that Roswell Beebe served as Captain in Wooster regt from the latter part of Nov 1775 to 23 d March 1776 say 4 months. Which would entitle the said Sarah Tibbetts to an increase of her pension of about —

$26.68 per annum
All which is respectfully submitted,
I remain most respectfully and truly yours.
Wm H Clarke
Hon J. L. Edwards.

M c H. Clarke deposition
in M rs Sarah Fink's case

State of New York
Columbia County } J. Wheeler. H. Clarke of Hudson in said county being sworn says that he was engaged with Joseph G. Ford Esq. in the app n of Mrs. Sarah Frisbee for a pension as widow of Roswell Bube.
That this deponent made an effort to obtain evidence of said Bube having served as a captain in Wooster Connecticut Regt. before Mrs. Frisbee made her declaration and was unsuccessful in that effort.
That since Mrs. Frisbee obtained her pen- sion she has authorized this deponent to apply for an increase of her pension upon the ground that said Bube while in service was a portion of the time a Captain in Wooster regt.
Sworn & Subscribed Wheeler. H. Clarke.
Before me this 3 rd January 1842
Richard Carrington Justice

I certify that Whulen H Clarke the deponent in the foregoing deposition is a credible person & witness - Jan'y 3 d 1842. Richard Carrington Justice
State of New York } Columbia County } ss. I, Jeremiah A Van Val- -kinburgh Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Richard Carrington before whom the foregoing deposition was taken was at the date thereof one of the justices of the peace in & for said County duly authorized to take such deposition.
That I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said justice and truly believe his signature to said deposition & certificate to be in his hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said County
this 3 d January 1842.
J Van Valkinburgh Clerk.

Nov 24. 1841
Hon J. D. Edwards Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Hartford. Nov. 22 d 1841
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Sir,
I received yours of the 18 th inst. saying that you wrote me in June last, requesting the evidence in this office of the services of Roswell Beebe in 1776 & 86. As there is no evidence of service in this office of either officers or soldiers, except the acts raising troops and officers commissioned. I handed your letter to the Comptroller for examination and answer. As this office is sustained by fees of office only, at an expense to the occupant of $ 5.00 per diem, I have very little time to spare in answering letters or doing business without compensation, which I have often done for applicants at your office.
Respectfully Yours Royce Wilkinson
P. S. I have handed your last letter also to the Comptroller and requested him to answer it as to said service.

I am Very Respectfully Your most ob. Servt. John H. Haggan
Mr Haggan Letter
To be used in Mrs Sarah Frisbie's Case widow of Roswell Beebe.
Whalen Clarke Hudson N.Y. Nov. 1840
Wheeler H. Clarke Esq. Hudson New York.

Treasury Department 3 d Auditors Office 14 th April 1840
Sir -
I have received your letter of the 10 th instant, acknowledging the receipt of mine of the 7 th , and asking "to be informed how much was paid Captain Beebe in Wooster's regiment & how long he served in it" - and also asking for information in respect to Lathrop Allen's services as Lieutenant or cap. t in Wooster's regiment in 1775 & 1776 - and further asking for information in relation to Daniel Marthing's services in cap. t Jones company of the North Carolina line -
In respect to cap. t Roswell Beebe, I have to state, that it appears from the account books of the Revolutionary Army, that he received for the pay of his company the sum of $1306 \frac{77}{90} - The records do not enable me to state how long cap. t Beebe served in Wooster's Regiment -
He does not appear from the records that Lathrop Allen was an officer in Wooster's Regiment - They show that there was a Captain Lathrop Allen in Elmore's Regiment, but how long he served, as an officer thereof, is not ascertainable from the records -
I have examined such of the records of the North Carolina line as have been preserved, without finding the name of Daniel Marthing, either as an officer, or soldier -

I am Very Respectfully Your most Ob't S't. John Hagan And
Mr. Hagan (Letter)
To the need in the Sarah Fisher Case widow of Russell Beebe.
While at Clarke Hudson New York
Wheeler H. Clarke Esq. Hudson New York.

Isaac Finislee K.S. act 4 July 36 adm. No 124

Mechanics Bank
New York 22 nd August 1889
Sir
Agreeably to the request contained in your Letter of the 20 th Inst, I herewith enclose your Letter, relative to the case of Mrs Sarah Frisbee, formerly the widow of Roosevelt Beebe
I am Very Respectfully Your Oth Servt S. Knapp Post by Sylvester Spencer Chf Clk Pension Office
36 N.Y.
James S Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions Washington

Treasury Department 3 d Auditors Office 24 th April 1840
Sir,
I have to state, in reply to your letter of the 22 nd instant, that the entries on the books do not show at what date the sum of $1306 77 / 100 , mentioned in my letter of the 14 th instant, was due to Capt. Roswell Beebe's company - The Journal which would probably have furnished that information has been lost -
I am very Respectfully
(Your most Ob.S ts )
John H. Agn r Aud
Wheeler H. Clarke Esq d
Hudson
New York.

Aug 19. 40.
Pension Office
Hon d ,
M rs .
Fristoe
Col. L. Edwards
Com r . of Pension
Washington

Sir,
Joseph G. Ford of this county & myself were jointly engaged by Mrs. Fiske to obtain for her a pension under an act of July 14th 1830, for the services of her first husband Rowell Beebe who died in Canada 23 rd March 1840. Mr. Ford wrote to your department & was ostensibly the only agent, he living near Mr. Fiske it was more convenient for him to pay the principal attention to it.
Mr. Ford has since left this county and consequently I have been engaged to attend to Mrs. Fiske's business in applying for an increase of her pension.
The inclosed letter of the 3 rd Auditor will show what we before claimed that Rowell Beebe was at the time of his death a Captain in under Wooster Connecticut Regiment, &c.
The additional claim is for the difference between Lieutenants & Captains pay for several months - caps
For proof you are referred to Samuel Allen's statement under act of 1818, Capt. Allen was a resident of this county. I have before me a copy of his statement made in 1820 1821 in which he says that he was a Sergeant in Captain Baldwin's company until the latter part of Dec r 1775 when he was appointed a

Lieutenant under Captain Roswell Beebe in Genl Wooster Regiment. - You have allowed Mrs Beebe only for services as Lieutenant.
I presume you will be governed by your records & they show that Roswell Beebe was a Captain the latter part of Decr 1775, and he died 23 d March following making at least 3 Mos s as Captain.
If Roswell Beebe was Captain before Capt Allen was appointed under him I presume you will allow it, Capt Beebe & Genl Allen were probably appointed by the Legislature of Connecticut or some other competent Authority.
The Records at the 3 d Auditor Office will show probably how long Capt Beebe served as Captain.
$130 h . 77 would probably pay a company about 4 Months, I have tried to find the period of his appointment as Captain but cannot, but presume you can. The time of his death is proved, Please attend to this as soon as in turn.
Respectfully Yours,
(Wheler, H. Clarke),
Hon J. L. Edwards,
Hudson & York Aug 15 1846

Payment to be made at Albany, by J. W. Olcott, Esq. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of Albany,
N. York. Issue new certificate 9 mo. 10 days V. cut $124.44 1 / 100
deduct what has been recd—
S. G. Ford esq Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book A. Vol. 1, Page 130 by N.Y.
S. A. Elliot, Clerk.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I certify that, in conformity with the 3d section of the law of the United States, of the 4th July, 1836, Sarah Frisbee ————— of New-York, formerly widow of Roswell Beebe, deceased, ————— who was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War,
is entitled to receive one hundred & six dollars and sixty-six cents per annum, during the time she may remain unmarried , commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March and 4th of September.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this twenty-sixth day of July, ————— one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven.
J. B. Poinsett
Secretary of War.
Examined and Countersigned. S
J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions.

France 1876
Julien John J. L. Edwards Esq. app D. & R. R. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D. C. D. C. appoint J. L.
Henry
Patronage
March 24

Troy May 29, 1838
Sir
I send you the affidavit of Widow Sarah Friesen formerly widow of Lieut Roswell Beebe, of the Colony troops raised in N.Y. in the spring of 1775 annexed are letters written during his service to his wife the aforesaid Sarah, which show that he must have been in the service earlier than the date of his commission which appears to have been by the records of the Committee June 28, 1775. I have examined the records of the Colonial Congress and find no commissions of an earlier date issued by that body for any officer, by what authority the officers of that day did act We have you to determine satisfied ourselves that Roswell Beebe engaged for at least 8 months, such is the opinion of the oldest inhabitants of the neighborhood from which he entered the service. I saw Moses Myer of the town of Austerlitz County of Columbia & State of New York, who tells me that he belonged to Capt. Joel Pratt's company in Goose Van Schaick's Reg. and that he now draws for 8 months, and that Hezekiah Baldwin's company belonged to the same Regiment. see also the Dep. of Samuel Dey with her former declaration - I send also the original certificate granting her You will please direct your letters to J. L. Edwards Esq., Commissioner of Pensions
"J. G. Ford" Troy N.Y.

2,193
Sarah Fisher formerly widow of Roswell Beebe.
Married before the war.
Service as Capt after Smr as Lt not duly sustain.
Adm D
Smr Lieut.
$106.66
No deduction due in '76
J. G. Ford Red Rock N.Y.

State of New York } Secretary's office }
Certify that the following persons were appointed officers of a Company in the Second Regiment raised in the Colony of New York for the Continental Service Commanded by Colonel Goose Van Schaick in the year 1775 to wit:
Hezekiah Baldwin Captain. June 28.
Nathaniel Rowley 1 st Lieutenant do
Roswell Beebe 2 d Lieutenant do
all which appears by a list of Officers of the four Regiments raised in the said Colony in the year aforesaid entered in a book in this office marked "Military Committee" 1775. 1776. 1777. 1778.
Given under my hand and the seal of this Office at the City of Albany the Tenth day of June in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty Seven.
Arch d Campbell Dep. Secretary

State of New York
Columbia County ss. On this 27 th day of May 1837, before me personally appeared Samuel Doty, a Resident of the town of Ghent, County, and State aforesaid aged eighty-one years the 4 th of June next, who after being sworn according to law, doth on his oath depose and say that during the Spring of the year 1775 he resided at a place called New Concord, then Kings district Albany, County and Colony of New York (now Canada Columbia County) that sometime in the month of April 1775 a company of foot was raised in Kings district for the Continental Service. The Officers of the company, he will recollect, they were the following to wit. Hezekiah Baldwin of New Canada Society or parish Captain Nathaniel Rowley of New Concord Society or parish 1 st Lieutenant, Roswell Beebe of New Concord Society 2 d Lieutenant and Luther Allen of New Canada Society Orderly Sergeant, all the Officers aforesaid were well known to this Deponent, and residents of the same town or District; the company was raised for 8 months. this Deponent at the time wished to enlist into the company, but was prevented by, his Master Perez Humble with whom this Deponent was then serving an apprenticeship at Blacksmithing; John Doty a brother of this Deponent, active at the time, and the company marched as he vividly believes, on the first of May 1775 and as he understood to Albany, this Deponent knew nothing of the company more till Lieut. Roswell Beebe, after an absence of some weeks returned home to Kings district with recruiting orders: This Deponent having now obtained liberty from his master immediately enlisted as a private in the aforesaid company, and on the return of Lieut. Beebe to the army this Deponent accompanied him, and joined the Regiment commanded by Colo. Goose Van Schaick. Some time in the month of August, at Fort George; at this place this Deponent and the aforesaid Lieut. Beebe continued to perform the duties of Soldiers until late in the fall when they took the Lakes and went by water to Montreal in Canada.

Their time of engagement and service having expired on the first of January 1776, at this time Captain Horatio Baldwin and Lieut. Nathaniel Rowley having returned home Lieut. Roswell Beebe was promoted to the Rank of captain and Lathrop Allen to a Lieut. Captain Roswell Beebe raised a company for 4 months to this company this Deponent immediately united and performed the duties of a private in the aforesaid Roswell Beebe's company and under his command till the small pox prevailed in the continental army, Captain Roswell Beebe was there inoculated with it and died of the same on or about the 23 day of March 1776, the command then fell on Lieut. Lathrop Allen under him this deponent served until the 2 day of May, 1776 completing his engagement. Lieut. Allen was then made a captain and this deponent continued in his company and joined Colo. Samuel Elmore's Regiment of the Connecticut line some time in the month of June 1776 this Deponent subsequently marched to Fort Stanwix and continued in Captain Lathrop Allen's company and Elmore's Regiment for one year.
This Deponent was well acquainted with Captain Roswell Beebe and Sarah his wife before the said Beebe entered into the continental service, though this Deponent was not present at their marriage, by common consent and common report, he firmly believes they were legally husband and wife, this Deponent further saith that after the decease of the aforesaid Roswell Beebe in the army his widow Sarah married the late Colo. Philip Frisbee of the town of Canaan deceased, and further that she is now the widow of the aforesaid Philip Frisbee deceased, and further saith not.
Sworn and subscribed
the day and year aforesaid
before me J. G. Ford Commissioner etc. Francis Grotz
I certify that I am well acquainted with Samuel Doly who has sworn and subscribed the above deposition, and further that his character for truth and veracity is fair and his testimony entitled to full credit as a witness
J. G. Ford Commissioner etc.

State of New York Columbia County ss.
On this 5th day of June 1837, before me personally appeared Jesse Titter a President of the town of Chatham County of Columbia and State of New York aged eighty(83) three years, who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath depose and say that he is well acquainted with Sarah Frisbee widow of the late Colo. Philip Frisbee of the town of Canaan in the County aforesaid deceased, and further that the said Sarah who now resides in Canaan, at the late Residence of Colo. Philip Frisbee deceased, was before her marriage with the aforesaid Colo. and the widow of Captain Roswell Beebe deceased a man with whom this Deponent was well acquainted, who died as this deponent has been informed at Montreal in Canada of the small pox, and further this Deponent saith that some time in the month of February 1770 he was present and saw the aforesaid Roswell Beebe married to Sarah Waterman daughter of the late Samuel Waterman deceased, both the aforesaid Roswell Beebe and Sarah Waterman, with this Deponent were at the time Residents of the Society of New Concord in the present Town of Chatham Columbia County; the marriage was at the house of Major Martin Beebe (Uncle to the aforesaid Roswell Beebe) whose Residence was also in the same society; and further that the marriage ceremony was performed by a clergyman of New Concord Society by the name of John Richards, who long since removed from the Society and as this Deponent has been informed is dead, and further this Deponent saith that he well knew the aforesaid Colonel Philip Frisbee deceased and has lately seen his widow Sarah Frisbee who (now residing in Canaan) is the same person whom he saw married to the aforesaid Roswell Beebe, and further from old age and debility he is unable to write his name and further saith not sworn and subscribe the day and year aforesaid before me J. G. Ford Commissioner etc.
Jesse Titter X Mark

I certify that Jesse Vetter who has sworn and subscribed the within affidavit is well known to me, and further that his character for truth and veracity is fair and unimpaired and that his testimony as a witness is intitled to full credit J. G. Ford Commissioner S.
State of New York 3
Columbia County 3
§ I James Storm Clerk of the County of Columbia do hereby certify that Meeteed Butler before whom the affidavits of Sarah Frisbie, and Roswell B. Frisbie purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for said County. And also that Joseph G. Ford, before whom the affidavits of Samuel Doty and Jesse Vetter purport to have been sworn, was at the date thereof a Commissioner of Oaths in & for said County.
And further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Meeteed Butler and Joseph G. Ford and very believe their signatures to the said affidavits and also to the certificates of Credibility, by them subscribed, to be their own proper handwriting and signatures.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto, in the absence of James Storm, set my hand, and affixed the Seal of the said County of Columbia this 30 th day of June 1837.
Richard Carrigen
Deputy Clerk