Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 18582, Gideon Beaman, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Beaman, Gideon Dolly
W. 18582
CONTENTS

2566
Massachusetts
Gideon Bearman
of Worcester in the State of Mass who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain [blank] of the Regt commanded by Major Ducken in the War line for 6 mos
Let it
E. G. Prentiss Sept 24, 1858 (in view)
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th day of Nov 1832 and sent William Gerrison Worcester Mass
  Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832  $30 --    Pemi=ant. allowance ending 4 Mar 33  10 --     $40 --  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J H [blank] Clerk, Book D. Vol. 2 nd Page 95.

Commencement of Narratives
Cause of lawsuit
On the fourteenth day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty eight, formerly appeared before her Excellency Judge of the Court of Probate for said County (Dolly Beaman a resident of Sterling in said County aged seventy years, the being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress of the 7th of July 1838 entitled an act granting half pay and pensions to Rebel widows
That she is the widow of Gideon Beaman late of said Sterling deceased, who was a soldier of the Revolution and a pensioner of the United States under the act of 1831. He left her always dependent on her for her subsistence and she remembers going into the service but she cannot tell that year it was - he went to Holliston in the County guarding the regular there. He belonged as she believes to the Company of Capt. Isaac Haskell, but she cannot state any further particulars of his service. She reports the bills in the last department must come to the extreme total in her said husband's cause.
She further declares that she has never received from the said Gideon Beaman or said Sterling by the Rev. Theodore Holcomb the Minister of the Gospel, on the sixteenth day of November in the year eighteen hundred and eighty six. This adieu that there is no record evidence

of her marriage. She was married at the house of her father Solomon Lillie, since her father and mother and Sister Deborah were present, and also some of the small children of the family, but there is no one living who was old enough to remember it but her sister Sister Deborah, whose deposition is respectfully referred to. She has had nine children by her said husband and she believes that their births were recorded upon the town records, but these records were burnt sometime after her marriage and she does not know whether the births of her children were recorded or not. They are all recorded in their family bible and a transcript of that record, verified by the deposition of her son Ezra Beaman is to accompany this her declaration.
She further declares that her husband the deceased Gideon Beaman died on the fourteenth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five and upon his decease she as his widow drew the dower of his farm then due her. That she has remained his widow ever since his death. That she was not married at the time of his leaving the scene, but the marriage took place previous to the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and thirty five, as by reference to the proof annexed will appear. I hereby and submitting the foregoing years also written
Dorothy Beaman
Deputy
Mr. Beaman Judge of the Court of Probate for said County

THE NEW TESTAMENT
Of our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST,
Newly translated out of the ORIGINAL GREEK;
And with the former
TRANSLATIONS
Diligently Compared and Revised,
By His MAJESTY's special Command
Appointed to be Read in Churches.
EDINBURGH:
Printed by the ASSIGNS of ALEXANDER KINCAID, His Majesty's Printer.
MDCCLXXX.

(A) Gideon Beaman Born December 13 th 1787
Mary Beaman Born February 13 th 1790
Deborah Beaman Born March 13 th 1792
Dolly Beaman Born November 6 th 1793
Elizabeth Beaman Born July 11 th 1798
Emilia Beaman born January 11 th 1800
Lydia Beaman born November 11 th 1802 Grandma Louisa Beaman
Born December 8 th 1808 Louisa Beaman Born November 12 th 1811

DECLARATION, in order to secure the benefit of the Act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
COUNTY OF WORCESTER, ss.
ON this seventh day of August , in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred and thirty two , personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Probate within and for said County, now sitting, Gideon Beaman a resident of Sterling , in the County of Worcester , and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 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 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 he enlisted into the service of the United States, as a Volunteer, in the latter part of September, or early part of October, 1779, with Reuben Wilder, Samuel Kilburn, Joseph Larkin, and served in the company of Capt. Ephraim Hartwell, and Lieut. Ruggles, under Major Fitchman, for the full term of six months, being the term of his enlistment, and was regularly discharged, or dismissed, at Rutland in said County of Worcester on the — day of March, or April, 1780, at the end of his said enlistment — That he was stationed during his said service, at said Rutland, in guarding prisoners taken with Genl. Burgoyne, at the time of his surrender, in 1777, they having been removed to said Rutland for safe keeping — That he the said Beaman resided in Lancaster, now called Sterling aforesaid, when he entered the said service — and thence marched through Holden to said Rutland — That he was not engaged in any Battles during said service — That he has no documentary evidence of his said service, but relies on the accompanying affidavits of Walter Pollard and Reuben Wilder, to corroborate his aforesaid statement as to service —
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
Gideon Beaman
Byron Root Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester

We  a Clergyman residing in the  and hereby certify that we are well acquainted with  who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be  years of age, that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and we concur in that opinion. Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above mentioned applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. And the court further certifies, that it appears to them that  who signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the  and that who has subscribed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Nathl D. Dinsmore Judge of Probate for the County of Worcester
Theophilus Wheeler, Register of Probate for said County of Worcester, 2 Clerk of the Court  do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Gideon Beaman for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Probate Court this seventh day of August - in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty two.
Theophilus Wheeler Register of Probate for the said County of Worcester in Massa- chusetts
see 25.6 no. 1160274 Gideon Beaman Wormwood County Massachusetts. No 6295

V 504 Dolly Beaman. widow of Gideon
Mass.
Act 7 July '38
Mass
Married in 1787
Vol 25 p 120. or for No 278.
C. G. Frenship Worcester Mass.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester, ss.
I, Charles G. Prentiss, Register of the Court of Probate for the County of Worcester, do certify, that David Burton is the Judge of said Court, duly commissioned and qualified, and that his signatures to the papers hereto annexed are his own genuine signatures.
I further certify, that Moses Thomas and Thomas H. Blood are Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, and that their signatures to the papers hereto annexed are their own genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I do hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court this seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and thirty eight.
Chas. G. Prentiss, Register

Deborah May of Sterling in the County of Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts being twenty three years of age, do here and say, that I am the sister of Polly Heman of said Sterling and have a great recollection of being present at our father at the time she was married to Gideon Heman, by the Rev. Mr. Holcomb of said Sterling. I know of no one living like was present but myself, unless it were some of the younger children who were too young to remember the event. My father sent for me to come to the wedding and I remember riding up horseback with my oldest child Deborah who was about one year old. She was born October the 22, 1785 so that the marriage of my said sister must have taken place in the fall of the year seventeen hundred and eighty six. She has had a large fam- ily of children, I believe nine. We have always lived near each other, and I know that her said husband died in the winter four or five years ago, and my said sister has never been married since
Deborah May

Commonwealth of Massachusetts county of ... Aug. 12. 1838. Then personally appeared Deborah May within name who is a person of truth, and made oath that the above deposition by her submitted is true - R. ...
My Brother Judge of Public Justice Court
Daily Recorder
Worcester July 14th 1838
I certify that I have been acquainted with the above named Deborah May for forty years to wit that I have lived in the same town with her & she has ever been considered a person of undoubted veracity. Hopes Thomas father of the Peace

I Miss Thomas of Sterling in the County of Lancaster and State of Massachusetts, do depose and say that I have been acquainted with Gideon Newman and Polly Newman his wife for forty years. They were respectable people, he was a selectman of the town & they were both Members of the Congregational Church in Sterling. No one to my knowledge ever questioned the fact of their marriage. I myself took from the Jenny Bille in the possession, the leaf which is annexed to her declaration marked (A) and the record I am confident is in the handwriting of Mr. Newman. I also procured from the Clerk's office of this town, the annual transcript from the town records which agrees with the little record above referred to. I further depose that the records of said town of Sterling were burnt in the fall of the year 1794. The said Gideon Newman died about five years ago and the said Polly Newman has remained his widow ever since. Moses Thomas
Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Lancaster ss. Aug. 17. 1838. Then personally ap- peared Miss Thomas who is known to me as a respectable and man of truth, and made oath that the above deposition is true - before me Samuel D. Allen Judge of Probate for said County

At a legal meeting of the qualified voters of the town of Sterling Monday held on the fifth day of March 1838 - Chose Thomas H. Blood Town Clerk -
Then the above named Thomas H. Blood was duly qualified by taking the oath that he would faithfully & impartially observe the proceedings of the town in town meetings, to make a correct record of the same - and in all the duties of the said office faithfully to perform the same until another shall be chosen and sworn in his room.
Woses Thomas Justin Pease.
Extract from the records of the town of Sterling. Sterling Aug. 14 1838 - T. H. Blood Town Clk

Gideon - born December 13 th 1787 Mary - born February 13 th 1790 Deborah born March 13 th 1792. Polly born November 6 th 1793. Elizabeth born July 11 th 1798. Emilia born January 11 th 1800 Ezra - born September 6 th 1802 Gamaliel Sawyer born December 8 th 1808 Joannah White born November 12 th 1811. Children of Gideon & Polly Beaman. Extract from the town records of the town of Sterling J. H. Blood Town Clerk. Aug. 14 1838
W. Gideon Beaman died Jan y 14 th 1833. 66 yrs Extract from the town records of the town of Sterling Sterling Aug. 14 1838 J. H. Blood Town Clerk.
M rs Levi May died April 15 th 1836. Extract from the town records of the town of Sterling Sterling Aug. 14 1838. J. H. Blood Town Clerk.

No. 4295 Gideon Beaman
Private
6 Months
Adm D
$20-
Wm Jennison Esq
Worcester Mass.

BRIEF in the case of  Gideon Beaman of the County of Worcester  in the State of Meas.  (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? 69 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.     In 1779 — 6 — As a Private Gen. McTearman, Capt. Hartwell, H.P. Ruggles  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Sterling now called Lancaster  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Depositions  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  No G. Leryman's Certificate. 
I certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Levin Bell Examining Clerk.

information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. Gideon Beaman wid File 18572
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Sep. or Oct. 1779 6 mos. Pvt Ephraim Hartwell Major Tuckerman Mass.                                                   
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Leicester now Sterling Worcester Co. Mass.
Date of application for pension, Aug. 7. 1832. His ch. was al.
Residence at date of application, Sterling Mass.
Age at date of application, 69 died Jan'y 14, 1833
Remarks: Soldier married at Sterling Mass. Nov. 16, 1786. Polly daughter of Jonathan Wilder. She was allowed pension on an application executed Aug. 13, 1838, while a resident of Sterling Mass. aged 70 yrs. Children: Gideon b. Dec. 13, 1787. Mary b. Feb. 13, 1792. Deborah b. Mar. 13, 1792. Polly b. Nov. 6, 1793. Elizabeth b. July 11, 1798. Emilia b. Jan'y 11, 1800. Ezra b. Sept. 6, 1802. Gamaliel Sawyer b. Dec. 8, 1808. Joanna White b. Nov. 12, 1811.
Very respectfully,

1908 Nov. 6 Hist. Soc. V.G. Mary Louisa Holman m.
Rey WIDOW, &c.
File No. 18582
Delly Blamman Widow of Gideon Blamman Prin Rev. War
Act: Febry 2 nd  148
Index:—Vol. 24 Page 53
[Arrangement of 1870.]

10.607.
Massachusetts
Dolly Beaman
Widow of Gideon
who was a pensioner under the Act of 32 and who died on the 1833.
of Worcester in the State of Mass.
who was a Priv: in the Comp'y
commanded by Captain _____ of the
Reg't commanded by Maj: Duckerman in
the Mass line for Crimoz.
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass
at the rate of 20 Dollars
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29th day of Mch 1839 and sent to
A. Ray Present
Total amount,
$
[Act July 7, 1838.]
Recorded by Geo. Shurman Clerk,
Book D Vol. 1 Page 53 .

-503-504-
Hon. J. S. Schwenke
Commr. of Pensions
Washington City.

MS overter. (mfs) August 17. 1838.
Sir,
I enclose the papers in the cases of Esther Stone, Dolly Beaman and Deborah May, applicants for Pensions.
In each of these cases, the applicants desire that the benefits, when granted, be sent to
Your obedient servant, Chas. G. Pratt.
Hon. J. S. Edwards, Commr. of Pensions.

N o 4295 Gideon Beaman
M m Jennison Esq r Worcester Mass

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims , of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Gideon Beaman which require further proof or explanation.
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? yes V. * Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled? yes VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? yes VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832? yes VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? yes X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? yes

XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service? no XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it? no XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had? XIV. † If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility? yes in one instance And is the official character and signature of the magistrate certified by the proper officer under his seal of office? yes XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service? yes XVI. ‡ Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? yes XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered? yes.
 EXPLANATORY NOTES.
* QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____ year _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____. For _____ months and _____ days, I served as a _____; and for such service I claim a pension.”

It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
†QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the end of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

Prof. L. Edwards Esq
Corr d of Pennsylvania
near Sep r
Dear Sir,
Prof. Prout,
Museum of Godeffroy,
20th December,
Aug 28, 78

Aug 28/48
Aug 28/48 Ames
Feb 28 Edward Jr
Com. of Business from day Cliff Ray
Ally Ray
Aug 28, 48 Dolly Brannon, Mdm of Gordon

Sir,
Washington Aug 28. 1848.
I have before me your letter of Sep. 24. 1838. to C. B. Prentiss Esq. In the case of Mrs. Dolly Bearman, Widow of Hideo. in her application for the benefit of act July 7. 1838.
I now enclose her declaration under the provision of the 1 July 48. clarifying the act 1838 and the subsequent acts thereto.
I remain your most resp. Servt Alex. N. Taylor
J L Edwards Esq. Comm. of Pensions

V
504
St. & G. G. Prentiss Sept. 24, 1838

Massachusetts 8513.
Dolly Beaman widow of Gideon who was a Private in the Regt
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 day of March 1849 and sent to
A. Ray Present
[Acts of March 3, 1843, and June 17, 1844.]
Recorded in Book A Vol. 2 Page 26,

Aug 14 th .

Hon. Lewis Cass - Secretary of War, Washington,
Sir - I have been requested to take charge of the enclosed cases of Gideon Beaman and Isaac Moore, applicants for pensions - I therefore forward them to your department for adjudication. And you will please forward any answer in relation to them, to
Your obedt. & very humb. servt William Garrison
Worcester, Mass. } Aug. 8. 1832. }
P.S. A letter from Col. Isaac Davis of this place, which I forwarded to your Department, with the application of Asa Chase, some weeks since, will be considered by you, I trust, as a sufficient voucher for my right of agency in these cases, without further evidence.
W. G.

Waller Pollard's
Affidavit.

I Walter Pollard of Stockbridge in the County of Windham and State of Vermont, testify and say that in the latter part of the year 1778. or 1779. which I cannot recollect, I enlisted as a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, for the term of six months, and immediately went to the town of Rutland in said County of Windham; that Gideon Beaman then of that part of the town of Danvers, which is now Shelburne, where he now lives, was a soldier in the Company to which I belonged, which was commanded by Capt. Ephraim Hartwell of Pompton. James  James Ruggles of Rutland was the Sige t both in said County of Windham, that he and Beaman did serve in said Company during the term of six months, and at the completion of said term of six months, we were all discharged. Shelburne August 4, 1832. Walter Pollard
Wp Witness my hand August 4, 1832. Personally appeared the above named Walter Pollard, subscribed and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit. Before me, Hon. Justus Justin of the Peace.

I, Reuben Wilder of West Boylston in the County of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged seventy years, testify and say that, in the latter part of September, or early part of October, 1779, I enlisted into the service of the United States, as a Volunteer, in the Company of Captain Ephraim Hartwell, Lieut. Ruggles, under Major Tuckerman, for the term of six months, and served out my full term of six months, and was regularly discharged or dismissed at the end of said term, in March, or April, 1780, at Rutland in said County, where I had been stationed as a guard of some of the prisoners taken at the surrender of Genl. Burgoyne and his army, in Oct. 1777, they having been removed to said Rutland for safe keeping.
That I well know that Gideon Beiman, now of Sterling, formerly a part of Lancaster in said County, was a soldier in the same Company with me, and served during the whole of said six months; we helped together some of the time, and frequently slept together. and I have no doubt I saw him every day during the said service.
Witness,
W. Garrison.
Reuben his X Wilder mark
Worcester, ss. August 7, 1832. Then the above named Reuben Wilder personally appeared, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition, by him subscribed with his mark. and I further certify that, in my opinion, the said Wilder is a credible witness.
William Garrison, Justice of the peace.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester ss. I Abijah Bigelow, clerk of the Judicial courts, held within and for the county of Worcester, do hereby certify, that Alexander Dustin, Esquire, before whom the within and annexed Affidavit of Walter Pollard was made and sworn to, and that William Jennison, Esquire before whom the within Affidavit of Reuben Wilder was made and sworn to are Justices of the Peace within and for said county of Worcester, and that their signatures thereto appear to me to be in their own proper handwriting. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the county Seal, this fourth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Abijah Bigelow, (clerk)

Commonwealth of Massachusetts County of Worcester, ss.
On this twenty second day of August eighteen hundred and forty-eight, personally appeared before Samuel Houghton a justice of the Peace in & for the County of Worcester, Dolly Beaman, a resident of Sterling in said County, seventy nine years of age, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain a pension agreeable to the laws of July 7, 1838, also the act of March 3, 1843, & June 17, 1844, with a Resolve of Congress passed on or near the first day of August 1844. That she is the widow of Gideon Beaman of Sterling aforesaid, who was a soldier in the War of the Revolution, & received a pension of Twenty dollars per annum under the laws of June 7, 1832. That she now claims anew, a pension for the services he rendered, agreeable to her former declaration & evidence on file in the pension office which has been withheld from her, and she further declared that she is still the widow of the said Gideon Beaman.
Dolly Beaman
Sworn to subscribed, on the day and and year first above written, and I certify that the declarant is personally known to me, the widow of Gideon Beaman as she declared.
Before me Samuel Houghton justice of the peace

No 504.
Dolly Beaman widow of Gideon Naps
Married 1787 Husband died 1833
Older 6 mos pri. $ 20 per Ann.
Act '38
43844
48
A Ray Present.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston August 24 1848
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Samuel Houghton was a Justice of the Peace for the County of Worcester,
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
W. B. Cushing
Secretary of the Commonwealth.

18-182
U.S. DEPT. OF JUSTICE RECORDS BRANCH
[Faint, mirrored handwritten text, likely bleed-through from the reverse side of the page]
OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10 MAY 1962 EDITION GSA FPMR (41 CFR) 101-11.6 5010-106-01

MARY LOVERING HOLMAN GENEALOGIST 84 GAINSBOROUGH ST. BOSTON, MASS.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me the pension Record of Gideon Beaman of Sterling Mass, a Revolutionary Pensioner.
Thanking you I am
Sincerely yours
Mary Lovering Holman
23 Oct. 1908.