Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 12132, Daniel Beers, Conn.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Beers Daniel
S 12132
CONTENTS
barred

6727 New York
Daniel Burns
of Tompkins in the State of New York who was a Hf & Pri. in the Comp. commanded by Captain Stap of the Regt. commanded by Col. Webb in the ★ Conn. time for 6 mos. Hf 3 $11.00 Priv. 3  ★
Continental Conn. Records compiled Jan. 20/65
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 38 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 3rd day of April 1833 and sent to Mrs. F. Ferris Ithaca
Arrears to the 4th of Ma '33 $118.33 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4th Sep '33 29.33 $146.65
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by C. H. Hill Clerk. Book E. Vol. 4. Page 13.

6727
New York
6727
Danice Reers
acomb
5.11.12.16
July 31 1832 Nov 8 1832
P-28
Woodcock & Ferris
Ithaca
NY

6727
BRIEF in the case of  Daniel Beers, Danby,  Co. of Tompkins in the State of New York.  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 75 years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     June In 1775 6 Infan Gen. Cap t Jos. Hooker, Col. C. Webb   April 1776 "over a month" private Cap t Jas Clark   June 1776 6 " Cap t B. Beach, Col. Banfield   April 1778 1 " Cap t D. Nichol   August 1779 3 " do, Col. Banfield    "After this was in several short tours"
 5. In what battles was he engaged?  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Stratford, Fairfield co. Conn.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Intimate Tradition.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
W. Fawcett Examining Clerk.
Handwritten calculations: 366 19 276 6 98 58

In the matter of Daniel Beers Supplemental afft.
admt 17 mo Lifer/pri
$282.2 $92.22
admt 6 mo Lifer 11 mo pri
of office this eighteenth day of January eighteen hundred eighty three Daniel Beers

Personally appeared before me Chauncy S. Heath the undersigned a Justice of the Peace of the County of Dutchess, in the State of New York. Daniel Beers who being first me duly sworn deposes that saith that by reason of old age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his Service, nor the names of all of his officers, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below under the following officers & in the following grades:
First for six months as a musician under Colonel Charles Webb Adjutant Charles Webb Jr. Captain Joseph Hoyt. Lieut Yates. Ensign Odell. Sergeant Stephen Batts.
Second for one month as a musician under Captain James Clark. Lieut Ephraim Middlebrook. Does not recollect the names of the other officers.
Third for six months as a musician under Colonel Canfield, Captain Elijah Beach. 1 st Lieut Benjamin Nicolls. 2 nd Lieut St John. Sergeant Gideon Peet. Corporal David Barsda.
Fourth for one month as a musician under Capt David Nicholls. Sergeant John French. Does not recollect other officers during this period.
Fifth for three months as a musician under Colonel Canfield, Captain David Nichols. Lieutenant John Peck. Sergeant David Wilson.
That he served in all seventeen months which he can swear to positively & for which he claims a pension.
Daniel Beers

Subscribed & sworn before me as aforesaid this eighteenth day of January eighteen hundred & thirty three C. G. Heath J.P.
I Samuel Love Clerk of Tompkins County in the state of New York do hereby certify that C. G. Heath Esq. whose name is subscribed to the above affidavit of Daniel Beers was at the time of subscribing the same a justice of the peace of the said County of Tompkins duly sworn for that purpose & I further certify that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said justice & that I believe the signature subscribed to said affidavit to be his proper signature.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of office this eighteenth day of January eighteen hundred & thirty three Sam. Love Clerk
In the matter of Daniel Beers Supplemental afft.
adms 17 mo life estate
22 92.22
adms 4/25/38 6 mo life 11 mo per

Daniel Boers
No 6727
166 17 4 556 2 666 93.2 2

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.
STATE OF NEW YORK, Tompkins COUNTY, ss.
On this 17 th day of July personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Dyer & Timiney now sitting, Daniel Beers a resident of the town of Danby in the county of Tompkins and state of New York, aged seventy 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers and served as herein stated.
That in the month June 1775 at the Town of Stratford in the County of Fairfield & State of Connecticut he enlisted under Captain Joseph Hoyt of the town of Stamford as a fifer and served in Col. Charles Webb's Regiment of the Connecticut State Troops for the time of six months and marched to Horse neck and was encamped on Griggs Point for a short time then moved to New Haven staid there about one week then moved about one week then marched to Boston same Company same Regiment and was stationed on Cambridge near Cambridge staid there until discharged in December following - was in a skirmish on Liberty's Point , Gen. Gage  Washington  Lee & Putnam returned home to Stratford and in April 1776 Volunteered under Captain James Clark and went to New York & fortified on  under Governor's Island over a month the prior time is not recalled, returned home, and in June 1776 enlisted under Captain Elijah Beach in Col. Campbell's Regiment as a fifer at Stratford as a fifer served for six months and went with the Regiment up through Massachusetts & Bennington Vermont to Ticonderoga and stationed on mount Independence where he staid until his six months was expired in December following was then discharged & returned home was in no battles Genl Morgan came down

and landed on the three mile point Knudsen St Clair who commanded - In the month of April 1798 was drafted for about a month's service went to the town of Rye Westminster County did duty his time out in Captain David Nichols Company in the Battles, returned to Stratford In the month of August 1799 was again drafted at Stratford for three months service was marched to west point and did duty under Captain David Nichols in Col. Canfield Regiment and served out his time at West point was discharged at West Point In November following was in no Battles, Re-enlisted Genl. H. Douglass returned to Stratford, after this went out several times with the militia but short times, went to Fairfield when that was burnt has no documentary evidence and that he no knows of no person but Josiah Burns who affidavit is herunto annexed whose testimony he can prove who can testify to his Service
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declare 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 Soree Clk
Daniel Beers

The following questions were propounded by the Court to the applicant.
1. Where and in what year were you born?
Answer. Was born at Stratford Hartford Co. Connecticut in the year 1757
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so where is it?
Answer. There is a record in the town book at Stratford - I also have one
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war; and where do you now live?
Answer. Was living at Stratford when called into service. Since the war lived in Connecticut till moved to Litchfield Co. N.Y. 20 or 21 years ago - I soon moved to Danby, Tompkins Co. where I now live
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute; and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer. I enlisted for two terms of 6 months - the other times I was drafted
5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served; such continental and militia regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service.
Answer. I knew Generals Washington, Putnam & Lee - I don't name the regiments particularly - I knew Col. Stark's regiment at Boston the North - also Col. Poor's regiment - The first 6 months we had cutting fascines, keeping guard, fortifying different places around Boston - at the North we were often in reconnoitring parties, sometimes fortifying
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer. In the first Campaign I received no written discharge - at West Point I received a discharge from Col. Mansfield but it is now lost
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer. Doct. Elbert Curtis, Benjamin Jennings, Uriel Clark, Jonathan B. Gosman
WE, Lewis Beers Cluettman residing in the town of Danby and county of Tompkins and State of New York, and Eliza Dootittle residing in the same place, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Beers who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, and that we believe him to be twenty five years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, }
Samuel Love & Eliza Dootittle
Lewis Beers Eliza Dootittle
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that David Beers & Eliza Dootittle who have signed the preceding certificate are residents in the town of Danby and county of Tompkins and are creditable persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
Samuel Love Clerk of the Court of Oyer & terminer for the County of Tompkins do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of David Beers for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this
26th day of July 1839.
Samuel Love

State of New York
Tompkins County ss: Josiah Beers of the Village of Ithaca County of Tompkins State of New York aged twenty nine years, and I have sworn says that he was born in Stafford Connecticut and resided there until to the commencement & through the Revolution war - That in the Spring month of May  or thereabouts of 1775 this deponent enlisted and went to St Johns - That he understood from his father & his brother Daniel whose affidavit is herunto annexed that he enlisted & went to Boston that after his brother & this deponent returned from there he saw the clothes he wore, and does believe he served as he has stated and that in the summer of 1776 this deponent served in the Campaign at New York and his brother Daniel he understood went to Connecticut & served six months in Capt Brack's Company - He also understood that he served at other times during the war - and further saith not -
Sworn in open court
✓ Josiah Beers
Sam. Dore
I further certify that the above named Josiah Beers is a person of credibility and that his statement is entitled to credit
Sam. Dore

In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Daniel Beers - a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
S. File 12,132
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     June 1775 6 mos. Fifer Joseph Hait Charles Webb   Apr. 1776 1 mo. ✓ James Clark ✓   June 1776 6 mos. Fifer Elijah Beach Canfield   Apr. 1778 1 mo. David Nichols ✓   Aug. 1779 3 mos. " " Canfield    Also went to Fairfield where it was burned, and several other short tours not specified.
Battles engaged in, No battle. - sk. at Techmere Pt., Mass.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Stratford Conn.
Date of application for pension, July 17, 1832.
Residence at date of application, Danby, Tompkins Co., N.Y.
Age at date of application, Born in 1757 at Stratford, Conn.
Remarks:

RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Briefed by L. D. L.
Claim No. _____
Certificate No. _____
Claimant _____
Soldier Daniel Beers
Service Conn.
Additional Service Rev. War
No. _____ claim, State records _____, 190_____
No claim, combination records _____, 190_____
REMARKS:
No claim except I# 12132

Reuben
12132 INVALID.
1908 Dec. 23. Hist. to Hon. H. R. Wilson p.
File No. 12,132
Daniel Beers Fif th & Peir Boer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 28
[Arrangement of 1870.]

HARRY R. WILSON, PRESIDENT JUDGE, EIGHTEENTH DISTRICT, CLARION, PA.
December 10th, 1908.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:-
Please send to me at your earliest convenience the historical record, as shown in your Department, of Mr. Daniel Beers and his widow, if any. He was a United States soldier in the war for Independence in 1776 and fought against the British at Ridgefield, Connecticut, as stated in a history prepared some time ago by J. H. Beers & Co., of Chicago.
Awaiting your reply, I remain,
Yours Truly,
HR Wilson,