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Note: http://66.225.216.7/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I0686&tree=1 From the Revolutionary War record of Thomas Beddow (Beddo): "I was born January 23, 1761, in Prince George County, Maryland, where I resided during the revolution near Nottingham and in the direction from there towards where the Federal City now is about 22 miles from Marlborough. I was enrolled in the militia a year or two after the Declaration of Independence. A year or two after being enrolled was drafted or called into actual service for nine months. This was about the first of April; I cannot recollect the year, but I think it was a year or two before the taking of L. Cornwall is at Yorktown, Virginia. I served under Capt. Thomas and Lt. Jack Green. This company to which I belonged, [Truman] first mustered at a little town or place called Grubtown; and one company the nearest to our permanent station a little below Hannah Brown's Ferry on the Patuxent River in Maryland. We were stationed here with 2 or 3 other companies under the command of Col. Benjamin Skinner. This place was near headquarters during my whole tour of nine months of service. During the whole time we were stationed there, the enemy was hovering about us, and we were compelled to keep an active guard on patrol. While we were stationed at the Ferry, the enemy in the night attacked, Marlborough and plundered and burnt some part of it. We marched to the relief of this place, but the enemy had made its retreat before we arrived there. Some time before the attack on Marlborough., I was one night standing sentry at the Ferry. The alarm was given and all our sentries were called in to our station. Our whole force was mustered expecting an attack from the enemy. At this time our Lt. Green left his post and secreted himself in a hay marsh, until the alarm was over. For this con duct Lt. Green was afterwards tried by a Court Marshal for cowardice, and was dismissed from the army. After I had served my tour of nine months I was discharged at our station near the Ferry about the last of December. Some time after the revolution I left Prince Georges County and settled in Albemarle County, VA. near a place called Port Republic about 11 miles from Charlottesville. I resided there until the month of August, 1828. I went to Rockingham Co., and left t here in 1831. When I left there and removed to the state of Ohio, I settled in Delaware County, September of 1831." The war record of Thomas Beddow also shows that August 1852, his widow, Sarah applied for a widow's pension. According to the report, Sarah was then about ninety three years old. Thomas had tied November 10, 1851. He h ad received a pension in 1832, when he was 71. She asked for a continuance of the pension of $30 per year. She stated that she married Thomas in Prince George County, Maryland in 1777, the month and date she could not recollect. The pastor was one Reverend Thomas Cliggit (sp) of the Protestant Episcopal Church. She supplied affidavits since she had no record of her marriage. William, her son accompanied his mother, and declared that he was born in 1780 -- the Bible page shows 1779 ... a census of 1850 shows 1781. From Theo Beddow's history.
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