Hepsibah Beebe (1782 - 1860)

Born 1782 in Stratford, Connecticut

Ancestors

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Biography

Unmarried

Genealogical Records

Military Records

• Secondary Source, William Martin Beauchamp, Revolutionary soldiers resident or dying in Onondaga County, N.Y.; with supplementary list of possible veterans; ^[1] Data Extract:

1. )Onondaga, NY. Rev War Soldiers; Page 130: Biography of Capt. James Beebee.
   1. ) Onondaga Hill Cemetery, tombstone inscription: | To the memory of | JAMES BEEBEE | who served in the | Army of the Revolution. | died Sept 20th 1812 | Aged 60 years.|
   2. ) Onondaga Hill cemetery, where two daughters lie beside him, Betsey, who died Aug. 24, 1810, aged 23 Years, and Sarah, who died Nov. 7, 1810, aged 21 years. His wife, Mehitable (Fairchild) Beebe died in Pompey, Dec., 1836 aged 82 and is buried on the Birdseye lot, where also sleeps her daughter Hephsibah, born in 1782--died in 1860, and Electa Beebee, 1783-1860, the wife of Hon. Victory Birdseye. A son named Lewis, died in Fayetteville. In 1790 Capt. Beebee was living in Stratford, Conn. The final syllable of the name is now shortened. He married in Danbury, and immediately left for the army with a company he had raised, when the British destroyed the stores near the coast He was in the Battle of Brandywine and Monmouth, being wounded in the latter. He was also at Valley Forge where Mrs Beebee came on horseback to meet him, not having seen him since the wedding. In 1793 he moved to Solon, NY., and two years later to Pompey, settling three miles east of Pompey Hill. Some years later he went to Onondaga Hill, where he owned and kept the public house near the Court House, and also kept the jail. In 1812 he was custodian of the old arsenal, supplying troops going to the frontier Jasper Hopper was his deputy, and his failure to secure a receipt for supplies made it necessary for his superior to go to Oswego. On his return he was drowned in the Seneca River. Some debtors escaped from the jail while the funeral services were in progress, and the family had to make good the debts.

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Sources

1. ↑ Beauchamp, William Martin, Revolutionary soldiers resident or dying in Onondaga County, N.Y.; with supplementary list of possible veterans; Onondaga Historical Association, The McDonnell Co., Syracuse, NY, 1913. Public Domain.

Other Sources

• Clifford Beebe Genealogy ((917) page 209