Mary Mitchell^[1]

1758 - 1843  (85 years)

• Name	Mary Mitchell
  Birth	1758	Pequea, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Female
  Death	28 Jul 1843	, Bedford, Virginia, USA
  Person ID	I28096	Master
  Last Modified	20 Jul 2021

  
  

  Father	Robert Mitchell,   b. 1714, Londonderry, Ulster, Ireland d. 25 Feb 1799, , Bedford, Virginia, USA (Age 85 years)
  Mother	Mary Enos,   b. 17 Aug 1718, Wilmington, New Castle, Delaware, USA d. 1799, , Bedford, Virginia, USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	1736	, , Delaware, USA
  Family ID	F7073	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1758 - Pequea, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA Death - 28 Jul 1843 - , Bedford, Virginia, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  State of Virginia, Bedford County On this 27th day of January 1840 personally appears, before the county court of Bedford, of said state, at its January term – held on the said 27th day of January 1840 at the courthouse of said county. Mrs. Mary Beard whose maiden name was Mitchell a respectable resident of said county aged 83 year; who 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, passed July 4th 1836. That she is the widow of Samuel Beard deceased of said county, who was a private in the Regular service in the Revolutionary War. That he enlisted under Cap. Gross Scruggs on the 10th day of February 1776, and served two years as a regular soldier – as will appear from the letter of the [illegible] Auditor – which is no doubt [illegible] she has frequently heard her deceased husband, Samuel Beard, speak of and relate his Revolutionary service – that he was at the Battle of Brandywine [illegible] to the north – that he drove on of the cannon – and Gen. Washington asked him if he could not drive out of the road so as to let the Army pass. And she, the said Mary Beard, further declares, that she was married to the aforesaid Samuel Beard after he had left said regular service, in said county by the Rev. John Holt, on the 8th day of September 1778 – and that after she had had two children by the said Samuel Beard her husband – on the 26th Sep 1779 and the other the 7th Sep 1780 – that the said Samuel Beard her husband was called into service in March 1781 to go to the Battle of Guildford on a six-weeks tour – and this being considered a case of emergency, it was to exempt him from a full tour – and she thinks, but is not certain, that he was under Capt. Campbell and she is also under the impression that he held an office of some kind on said tour to Guildford – she has frequently heard her deceased husband Samuel Beard in his lifetime speak of his being at the Battle of Guilford – and related many circumstances that took place there. One was that he saw Capt. Moore and [illegible] after they were wounded – before they died – and spoke of heaven as they suffered from their wounds on the field of battle. Indeed, no person has ever doubted that Samuel Beard her deceased husband was at the Battle of Guildford – common talk in the neighborhood and in the county where he was known especially among the old people – go to establish the fact that her deceased husband Samuel Beard was at the Battle of Guildford in March 1781 which was several years after they were married. That her husband the aforesaid Samuel Beard, died on the [blank] day of October 1814 – that she has remained a widow ever since that period, to the present time – as will more fully appear by reference to the proof [illegible] and now claims a pension at the hands of the general government, as the widow of Samuel Beard, in consideration of his aforesaid services. Mary Beard The foregoing declaration was provided and sworn to in open court and thereupon the said declaration together with the letter of Peter Haynes, the Auditor of the county of the marriage bond of Samuel Beard, the affidavits of Mr. James Mitchell, Mrs. Martha Neal, Thomas Patterson, James H. Brand, the certificates of Samuel P. Mitchell, George [illegible], David Saunders, William Reese, Benjamin A Donald, the certificate of affidavit of Robert C. Mitchell and an old [illegible] the affidavit of said James H Beard as a register of marriage and [illegible] (all speaks and [illegible] answers) being fully reviewed and inspected the court doth order it to be a certified to the War Office of the United States that the said Mary Beard (whose maiden name was Mary Mitchell) and the said Samuel Beard were lawfully married in this county on the 8th day of September 1778 by the Rev John Holt (since deceased) and continued to live together as man and wife until the [blank] day of October 1814 when the said Samuel Beard departed this life in this county and the said Mary has ever since remained his widow. And the court doth further certify that it appears to their satisfaction that the said Samuel Beard in his lifetime was a Revolutionary soldier. That he enlisted under Capt. Gross Scruggs on the 10th day of February 1776 and served a tour of two years from that period as a private in the regular service, that after his return from that tour he was as before stated married to the said Mary and then in the year 1781 was again called upon and served as an officer in the Militia from this county a tour of at least six weeks under the command of Capt Campbell and attached to Col [illegible]. During this service he was at the Battle of Guilford in North Carolina. And the court doth further certify that the said Mary Beard, James Mitchell (a minister of the gospel in the Presbyterian Church), Martha Neal, Thomas Patterson, David Saunders and James H. Beard are all persons of the highest standing and respectability and the [illegible] of each of them instilled to full faith and conduct. The said Saunders is himself a Revolutionary soldier and the presiding Justice of the Peace of this county. And the court doth further certify that Robert C Mitchell is clerk of this court and the said Samuel P. Mitchell, George [illegible] and William Reese and Benjamin A Donald each Justices of the Peace in this county duly [illegible] and qualified and the respective signatures of all of them to the papers hereto [illegible] that all [illegible] papers are genuine. In testimony [illegible] Robert C Mitchell clerk of the county court Bedford in the presence of said court have hereto set my hand and offered the said court this 27 day of January 1840 in the 64th year of the Commonwealth. Robert C Mitchell

  
  

• Sources

  [S761] Yates Publishing, Ancestry Family Trees, (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry Family Tree. http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=115220499&pid=284