Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 28,642, William Bean, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Bean, William
S 28,642
CONTENTS

3609 New York
William Dean
of Montgomery in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Fuller of the Regt. commanded by Col. Willard in the Continental line for 18 months
June 17 th Aug. 1833
Inscribed on the Rolls of New York at the rate of 60 Dollars per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 th day of Oct. 1832 and due to Ellis Palatine
  Arrears to 4th of Sep 1832  $ 90    Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 th 7 th 33  30     $120  
Revolutionary Claim, } Act June 7, 1832. } Ingrahamwell Clerk
Recorded by Book Vol. 5 Page 156
Letter to Pensioner 21 June 1836

State of New York Montgomery County S.S. On this 19th day of September A.D. 1832. Personally appeared in open court before the undersigned, of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County now sitting, William Allen a resident of the Town of Grafton in the said County of Montgomery State aforesaid aged forty five years the second day of December 1831. who being first duly sworn, deposes and says that he has made the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served in said state viz. Ebenezer Dyer was his captain, lieutenant & one Fuller (whose Christian name he does not remember) was his captain. The other was his captain. The other officers in said company commanded by said Fuller one Whitehouse was Colonel. The Major of the Regiment one Dyer was the Major of the Regiment which the company aforesaid belonged, which are all the field officers of said company aforesaid - that he entered the service of said company as a private on 29th April 1775. Left the service about the 18th January thereafter, and served nine months under Captain Dyer in said company aforesaid - that when he entered the service in said Captain Dyer's Company as aforesaid he resided in the Town of Fitchburg County of Worcester in the state of Massachusetts - that he served as a volunteer in said company - that he marched from Fitchburg to Bennington from thence to Concord & thence to Saratoga where some eight men of the Americans were killed by the British - from Bennington to Cambridge where he assisted in building three forts where he saw Genl. Washington, reviewing the troops - that from thence he marched in said company to Bunker's Hill where he was engaged in the battle called the "Bunker Hill" battle where General Warren was killed & returned after said battle to the Cambridge forts aforesaid where that is, at Cambridge, he remained in the service as aforesaid until about the 19th Jan y . 1876 when his time of service expired - afterwards he went to Dorchester where he volunteered as a private in the company of Capt. Pope (whose Christian name is not recalled) the other officers names in said company he cannot remember - Genl. Ward was one of the field officers - he entered Pope company

immediately after he had served his first-mentioned service of nine months, which was in Jan y 1776 when he entered Capt. Pope's Company - that he served three months & left the service in Capt. Pope's Company about in the month of March  April 1776 - during said three months he was stationed at Worcester  Wadsworth aforesaid under Capt. Pope - he cannot recollect any other field officers being at Worcester during said three months than Genl. Ward - that in the  the month of August 1776 he was drafted as a private for five months - at same time entered the service in Capt. Mcliam's Thurel's Company for said five months - one Boutwell was the lieutenant in said last mentioned company & cannot recollect the names of the other officers in said Company last mentioned - that from August 1776 to Jan y 1777 he served in said Capt. Thurel's Company - he resided at Fitchburg aforesaid when he entered the service under Capt. Thurel as aforesaid that he marched from Fitchburg to Picoaderoga where he served out said five months - Col. Aaron Hilliard commanded the Regiment in which Capt. Thurel's Company was - said Col. Hilliard he learned was  was at Picoaderoga during said five months - that he next entered the service again about the 15 th of Oct r  Nov r 1777 in the Company of Capt. Pope  Thurel for one month & served one month in said Company - he entered said Company at Fitchburg where he resided - & marched to Sandy Hill in said Thurel's Company where he remained when Genl. Burgoyne surrendered to the Americans - left about Oct r  Nov r 1777 & returned home - that he has no documentation or evidence that he knows of his service with the testimony he can procure who can testify to his services aforesaid - he hereby solemnly makes every claim abatement to a pension or annuity except the present pension that his name is as true as the Pension Roll of the army of any state - he says he was born in the Town of Epping in the state of New Hampshire in the year 1747 - that he has no record of his age - that he lived at Fitchburg in the County of Worcester in the state of Massachusetts when he rendered the services aforesaid during the revolutionary war - after the revolutionary war since then he resided in the Town of Windsor County of Windsor in state of New York - now lives in the Town of Openheim County of Montgomery state of New York that he served as a volunteer part of the time he served in the Revolutionary war & part of the time was drafted as aforesaid -

when he served at Cambridge as aforesaid Genl. Artemas Ward was with the troops until Genl. Washington arrived who then relieved the Fort at Cambridge & was with the troops where he served - he does not recollect any Continental or militia regiments at Cambridge as that he served from 19 April 1775. until Jan y following in & about Cambridge for nine months, during which time he was engaged in the battle at Bunker Hill - that he served three months at Dorchester under one Capt. Pope from Jan y 1776. to April 1776. that he served as a volunteer during said nine & three months - that he was drafted for five months from Aug t 1776. to Jan y 1777. in the Comp y of the Capt. Wm Thurrel Company & served said five months in marching to & staying at Fredericksburg where Col. Ethan Allen commenced at Mont-Hoppe - & when there one month under Capt. Thurrel & went to Saratoga until Burgoyne surrendered & served there from 15 Sept 1777. to 18 th Oct thereafter & shortly after Genl. Burgoyne surrendered he returned home having served about one month - He never got a discharge from the service except one which was given him at Fredericksburg by whom he does not recollect but he is sure that he served only as a private during the war of the revolution - that Jonathan Bacon & Jacob Gailin he is known to in his neighborhood who can testify to my character for veracity other bills of my services as a soldier in the revolution any one that I have & know of no evidence or proof of any person who can testify to my services in the revolutionary war -  Sworn & subscribed to this 19 th day of Sept 1832 before me in open Court.
William his Bean mark
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk
We Jonathan Bacon & Jacob Gailin residing in the Town of Spencer in County of Hampshire State of New York do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Bean who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration - that we believe him to be eighty five years of age - that he is reputed & he lived in the neighborhood where he resides to have a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion -  Sworn & subscribed this 19 th day of Sept 1832 before me in open Court
Jonathan his Bacon Jacob his Gailin mark
Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter after putting the interrogatories presented by the war department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier served as he states & the Court further certify that it appears to them that there is no clergyman in the neighborhood of the said Wm Bean & that Jonathan Bacon & Jacobailing who signed the preceding certificate being residents in the Town of P'keepsie, County of Ulster, State of New York are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit & that no clergyman resides in the neighborhood of the applicant.
I George D. Ferguson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in & for Ulster County in the State of New York do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of William Bean for a Pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of office this 19th day of September A.D. 1832.
Geo: D. Ferguson
Mr. Bean Application for a Pension
11618
admitted 18 m 60 B

No 1161.8
Wm Bran
admitted
John Nellis Agent Palatine Montg o Co N. York

No 11618
BRIEF in the case of W m Bean of Appenhim - County of Montgomery in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
85 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 1775 apl. 19 — 9 — private Gen: Capt. Fuller - Lieut. Bragg   1776 — 3 — " Col: Whitcomb - Major Sawyer   1776 Augt. — 5 — " Capt. Pope - Genl. Ward   1777 about 15 Sep: — 1 — " Capt. W m Thurrel - Col: Willard   " Capt. Thurrel -  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
at Bunker's Hill
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
at Fitchburg - Massachusetts
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
By traditional evidence
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.
James Ord
Examining Clerk.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
P. F. 28642
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of William Bean 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.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 19. 1775 Jan. 9. 1776 Pol. Fuller Whitcomb Mass.   Jan. 1776 3 mos " Pope ✓   Aug. 1776 5 mos William Thurrel Aaron Hillard   Sept. 15 1777 Oct. 18. 1777 Thurrel  
Battles engaged in, Bunker Hill Residence of soldier at enlistment, Fitchburg, Worcester Co. Mass. Date of application for pension, Sept. 19. 1832. His ch. was ab. Residence at date of application, Oppenheim, Montgomery Co. N.Y. Age at date of application, b. Dec. 2. 1747, at Epping N.H. d. Aug. 17. 1832 Remarks: No data as to family
Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
Continental?

28642
Rev INVALID.
File No. 28, 642
William Bean
Pin Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index: Vol. 2 , Page 32
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1913 Oct 16 Hist. to Mrs. Florence Zook V.P.H. 1923 April 28 Hist. to Mrs. J. J. Boe. (Frances G.) mmkts. 1924 Oct 8 F. A. Murphy advised of cost of copies - Qu. 1925 Apr 2. Copies mailed to F. A. Murphy aut.

Prison Office June 28, 36
Sir Please inform me to what time the prison of William Bean a prisoner on the New York roll under the act of June 7 th 1832 at the rate of $60- per Annum, a resident of the County of Montgomery has been paid
Yours &c
Wm Luce
John Harry Esq,
3 d Auditor off: &c.
He was paid to the 17 th August 1833 the day of his death
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Dunlap, Ill., Oct 10 1913
Pension Bureau
Will you please give me the following information to enable me to join the Daughters of the American Revolution.
I would like a copy of the application for a pension of William Bean of Fitchburg Massachusetts, a soldier in the revolution.
Mrs Florence Zook
Dunlap Ill.
Don't send this to the War Department as I already have all the information they can give. I want his pension record.

17.17.2. Revo.
241 East Sixty Ave. Roselle. N. J. February 14, 1923.
Commissioner of Pensions. Washington, D. C. Dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me the Revolutionary War Record of William Bean, who was born at Epping, New Hampshire?
I wish this record to enable me to join the Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Yours truly (Mrs. T. J. Goe) Frances G. Goe .

409 W. Second St., Dixon, Ill.
Oct. 2, 1924.
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:—
I have been told that the War Department would make, for a fee, photostat copies of the war record of Revolutionary War soldiers.
If this is true, I would like the war records of S28642 William Bean who marched from Fitchburg, Mass., Col. Asa Whitcomb's regiment and who had a pension; of Ebenezer Bean , born at Stratham, now Exeter, Vt.; and of Jabez Ayres , Col. James Converse's Worcester Co. Mass. regiment.
Will you please let

me know whether I can obtain any or all of these records and the fee?
Yours truly,
Fannie A. Murphy.

409 N. Second St., Dixon, Ills., March 25 1925. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C. Sir:—
Referring to yours of Oct. 8, 1924, Rev. and 1812 War Section:
I enclose P. O. order for $1. 45 / 1.00 for two photostat copies of the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 28642 of William Bean, who served from Fitchburg, Mass., in Col. Whitcomb's Regiment. I wish one of these copies certified.
I asked in a former letter for the Revolutionary War record of Jabesh or Jabez Ayres who had the rank of sergeant in Col. James Converse's Worcester Co Regt.

Request for Photostating (To be prepared in duplicate)
M 6
Ex. aw
OFFICE OF CHIEF CLERK
Job No. _____
Date Mar 28 25
Subject Rev. Dean Rev. S. 28642
2 copies of 1 pieces consisting of 4 pages to be (No.) (No.) (No.) forwarded when completed to the Rev. 1872 Wms Sect Division.
Remarks: Please make negative copies of each page
Approved:
W.E. Wilson
Chief Rev. 1872 Sec.
Chief Clerk.

M 233
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Finance Division
Mar 27 1925
Chief Rev. Sect. Division.
Sir:
I have this day received from Fannie A. Murphy M.O. No 341 854 for $ 1 45 , requesting copies post office address as per letter herewith.
Copies mailed to Fannie A. Murphy not 1925 ok AW, Apr. 2nd 1925
Respectfully,
O. J. RANDALL
Chief Finance Div.
26.62 L
4 pages = 60 4 " = 80 70 140

FINANCE DIVISION MAR 27 1925 BUREAU OF PENSIONS
and subsequently of private in Capt. Thomas Whipple's Co.
So far as I know, Jabez or Jabesh Ayres did not have a pension. Is there another section of the Department to which I could write for his record?
Yours truly, Fannie A. Murphy.

Rev. and 1812 War Section
October 8, 1924.
Fannie A. Murphy, 409 W. 3d St., Dixon, Ill.
Madam;
I have to advise you that if you wish photostat copies of the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 28642 of William Bean, who served from Fitchburg, Massachusetts in Colonel Whitcomb's Regiment, the same will be furnished you at the rate of fifteen cents a page, with twenty five cents extra for certification, if that is desired.
The number of pages to be copied is four.
The proper amount should be forwarded to this Bureau by money order, drawn to the order of the Secretary of the Interior.
The Revolutionary War records of this Bureau fail to afford any information in regard to a Jabez Ayres, under any spelling of that name.
In order to make a proper search of said records for
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Ebenezer Bean, the subject of your inquiry, you are requested to furnish as much as possible of the following data in regard to him- approximate dates of birth and death, places of residence at enlistment and after service, given name of widow.
Respectfully,
Washington Gardner
Commissioner.
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