The Commission of Lieutenant Beebe and Orderly Book of Bezaleel Beebe’s Company are both held in the collection of the Litchfield Historical Society. Reference information is available on our archival database for the Beeb Family Collection containing both items, linked here.

Commission Transcript

JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Esq;

Captain-General and Commander in Chief of His

Majesty’s Colony of Connecticut, in New England.

To Bezaleel Beebe Gent. Greeting.

You being by the General Assembly of this Colony, accepted to be Ensign

of the first Company or Trainband in the Town of Litchfield

reposing special Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage

and good Conduct, I do, by Virtue of the Letters Patent from the Crown of

England to this Corporation, Me thereunto enabling, appoint and impower You

to take said Company into Your Care and charge, as their Ensign

carefully and diligently to discharge that Trust; exercising your

inferior Officers and Soldiers in the Use of their Arms, according

to the Discipline of War: Keeping them in good Order and Government, and

commanding them to obey You as their Ensign for His Majesty’s

Service. And you are to observe all such Orders and Directions as from Time

to Time You shall receive either from Me, or from Other your superior Officer,

pursuant to the Trust hereby reposed in You. Given under my Hand and the

Seal of this Colony, in Hartford the 19th Day of May

in the 12th Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord GEORGE the

Third, KING of GREAT-BRITAIN, &c. Annoque Domini 1772

By His Honor’s Command,

George Myllys SECR’Y. Jonth; Trumbull

---

Orderly Book Transcript

November 16^th 1776         This Day was the Day

that our friends & fellow Soldiers was either killd

or taken who were on York Island.  This Fatal day

was a most dismal day to us.  In it fell the Flower

& Glory of our Regiment, the chief and the best

officers and Soldiers that their was in our Regiment

NB I came from there on the 14^th so I escaped with

just the skin of my teeth. &c