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Philip Bessom Got Their Money Back The heirs of Captain Philip Besom Jr., whose vessell, the Hannah, was captured by the French about a hundred years ago have at last received their share of the French Spoliation Claims. Atty. Seccumb, who has had charge of the case, succeeding in settling afafirs in about two years, and the sum involved has been divided among the sixty or more heirs. There are four heirs in Marblehead. Messrs. Joshua L, Eleazer and Philip E. Graves and Mrs. William Caswell. It was rather singular that in the final settlement not a Marbleheader named Bessom should have recieved a share' ( Marblehead Messenger, 26 January 1900) And from the book 'The Quiet Adventurers in North America' by Marian Turk: 'There are thousands more descendents of the above (Besom) family in America. An interesting list of some of the grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren about the year 1899, is included in a record named Distribution of Award by Congress, in behalf of the next of kin of Captain Philip Bessom, lat of Marblehead, Mass, who died 1839. Evidently, he was of some service to the American government and was awarded long after his death $23, 180, which was divided between 65 descendants, in amounts varying between $26.65 and $639.51. The surnames involved are listed alphabetically below, with the towns where the recipients resided. Please note that while these descendants of the Bisson family in Jersey, there are others not listed: Bubier, Lynn, MA Caswell, Lynn and Mhead, MA Cogswell, Dayville, CT Colby, Lynn, MA Collyer, Lynn and Revere, MA Dennis, Peabody, Manchester, MA also Clayville, VA and in NY Graves, Mhead, Allston and Lynn, MA Green in RI Harris, Taunton, MA Haskins, Richmond, VA Haywary, Middletown, CT Heath, East Douglas, MA Homan, Albany, NY Hoskins, Cawnpore, India Howard, Wilmot, NH Knight, Boston, MA Lovejoy, RI & Thomsonville, CT Lyon, in Lynn,Stoneham, Ipswich, MA and St. Paul, MN Maxwell, Lynn, MA Miller, Baltimore, MD Parsons, Baltimore, MD Ploof, Lynn, MA Quarles, Richmond, VA Rosencrantz, Richmond, VA Roundy, Wilcox, AZ Seccomb, Boston, MA Shillito, Cincinnati, OH Shumway, Vassar, MI; ATtleboro, MA; Dayville, CT; Evanston, ILL; Plymouth, MA; Danielson, CT Simonds, Lynn, MA Stevens, Danielson, CT Stinness, RI Stokes, Dayville, CT Tyler, Highland Park, Richmond, VA

Birth	13 Jul 1760	Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage	27 Jan 1795	Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States - Elizabeth Lewis
Death	7 Mar 1836	Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
Title (Nobility)		Capt.

Spouse	Elizabeth Lewis (1770 - 1848)
Child	Hannah Besome (1797 - 1866)

Father	Philip Besome (1728 - 1797)
Mother	Sarah Bubier (1734 - 1802)
Sibling	Mary Beesom ( - 1832)