Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20938, Joseph Cushman, Conn.
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Conn.       Cushman, Joseph                      W20938
                                 Tabitha      BL,WE 14501-160-55
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10.666
Vermont.
Joseph Cushman
Of Norwich co in te state of Vermont who was a priavte in the regiment commanded by Colonel Isaac Sherman of the Connecticut line for the term of three years 1777- Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont at the rate of 8 Dollars per month to commence on the 14 of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 of May 1819 and sent to William Strong esquire  Hartford Vermont
Arrears to 4th of March 1819, $85.56
Semianl ending 4 sept 1819      48.00
                                                ___
                                                $133.56

Revolutionary Claim
Act 18th March 1818
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Tabitha Cushman Widow Joseph Cushman
[Illedgible]] Cushman of July

[on diagonal]
no 14501 ISS Jany 18/56
Rev War
ad 160 Acres Jan 15/56

[illedgible signature]
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Vermont
Mrs TAbitha Cushman Widow of Joseph Cushman Conn, who served in the Revolutionary war as a Private

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of Ninety six dollars  Cents per annum, to commence on the 1 day of July, Increased from $80
Certificate of Pension issued the 5th day of June 1851 and sent to Ira Davis, Norwich Vermont

Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2 1848 Page 47 Vol 3
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State of Connecticut, County of Tollandss County Clerks office
I Jeremiah Parish Clerk of the county Court in and for Tolland County Certify that Hiram Rider esq of Willington is a Justice of Peace within and for Tolland county duly & legally appointed-Commissioned sworn & acting in so capacity with power to administer oaths take depositions and acknowledge merits of deeds That his commission hears date the 20th day of June 1848 and will continue until the 20th day of June 1849 and so commission is now in this office and I further certify that the signature to the within Certificate purporting to be the official signa of sd Justice Rider is genuine.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of sd County at Tolland this 8th day of November AD 1848
Jeremiah Parish Clerk
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Joseph Cushman and Tabitha Johnson were lawfully joined in marriage January twenty fifth AD Seventeen Hundred Eighty Fine

I Gideon N Merrick depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of the town of Willington in the County of Talland and State of Conneccictu and the that above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception of the date which is expressed upon the record in fair legible figures as follows "January 25th AD 1785"
Gideon N Merrick
Town Clerk
Tolland Countyss Wilington Nov 3rd AD 1848 Personally appeared Gideon N Merick presonally known to be a respectable credible witness and Clerk of said town of Willington and made oath to the truth of the foregoing certificate by him subscribed sworn before me Hiram Rider Justice of Peace
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Joseph CushmanPrvt Colonel Chas Webb;s Regt Connecticut line
1777 to 1780

[perpendicular to the above]
Free
To the Sec for the assignment of war
Washington City DC
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State of Vermont, Windsor County SS}
On this 14th day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber one of the judges of Windsor County Court personally appears Joseph Cushman, aged 60 years resident of Norwich countyand state of ours- who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following deposition in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war- that he the said Joseph cushman on the first of March 1777 enlisted into the Connecticut Line of the Continental Army as a private Soldier for the term of three years in the 2 Connecticut Regiment Commanded by Col Charles Webb, said Regiment was soon after commanded by Col Isaac Sherman company cons by CAptain Jonathan Perkins Comapny was called the 2 Company in the regt and that he continued in said service until the 23 day of February 1780 when he recived an honorable written discharge from service which I discharge he has servie last and that on the of June 1781 he again enlisted into the same Regiment that aforesaid for the term of one year which tern he serve until 4 days of the ind thru of when he
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reveived a discharge signed by Col Isaac Sherman which has discharge is here withtransmitted and that he is in reduced circumstances and stark in need of the assistance of his Country for support and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services excepting his last discharge aforesaid Sworn to and declared before me the day and year last aforesaid
William Strong Chief Judge Windsor County Court
State of Vermont, Windsor CountySS} I william Strong Judge of Windsor County Court, do sertify that it appears to my full satisfaction that the said Joseph Cushman did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceeding declaration against the common enemy and now transmit the precedings and testimony for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress, I further certify that I am well satisfied that the said Joseph Cushman is poor  and in reduced increment process and stands in need of the assistance of his country for his support
William Strong
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69
Joseph Cushman
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State of Vermont, Windsor County....SS.}
At a special term of the Supreme court of Judicature, begunand holden at Woodstock in the county of Windsor, on the last Monday in July, anno Domini eighteen hundred and twenty.
On this first day of August 1820 being the Second day of said term, personally appeared in open court (the same Court being a Court of record agreeably to the laws of this State having the power of fine and imprisonment, &c) Joseph Cushman aged sixty two years resident in Norwich in said Cuonty of Windsor, who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows:: that in the month of March AD 1777 he enlisted in Capt Jonathan Parkers Company in Col Charles Webbs Regiment afterwards commanded by Col Isaac Sherman, further know of three years, which know he service in the aforesaid Companyand obtained his discharge and afterwards in the record of June  AD 1781 he enlisted in Capt David Dorrance's Company in Col Isaac Sherman's Regiment for one year which time he service in said Company of was discharged.
that he made his original declaration on the Fourteenth day of April 1818 has received a Penstion Certificate no  10.666 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by Gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed Vis 1 cow $12.50, 12 Sheep 12.00, 1 cast iron kettle 150   $26.00
1 old brass kellte 4.00, knivevs and forks .50, Tea kettle  .50, 1 iron bacon, 25,    5,25.  1 old chair .75, 1 wash tub x 2 pails 1.50, 1 old scythe of smath .75, 6 spoons .50.     3.50  2 old axes 1.00, 1 rake old 10, 1 hog thig 4.00 5 old casks 2.50, Tea pot, 38, Tea cups .20.    8.18.    1/2 dos plates 30, 1 chest drawers 2.00 2 pitch forks .50.    2.80, totalling $46.73
The declarant owes more than one hundred Dollars. that his only occupation a farmer and his family consists of a wife aged fifty two years  one daughter aged 22 years Susannah by name, always sick, one son Elisha aged 16 years. 
signed Joseph Cushman
Sworn to and declared on the first day of August 1820 before said Court Attest Benjamin Swan Clerk.

State of Vermont, Windsor County.... SS} I Bej Swan Clerk of the Supreme Court for the County of Windsor do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of the said Court And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is Nothing
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my and and affixed the seal of said Court, at Woodstock this fifth day of Sept 1820.
Benj Swan { Clerk of the Supreme Court for Windsor County.
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State of Vermont
Windsor Co SS On this 10 day of May AD 1849 personally appear before the Probate Court of the District of Hartford Tabitha Cushmana resident of Norwich in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged (80) eighty years, who being duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of teh provision of the act of  congress of July 7, 1838, and February 2 1848. That she is the widow of Joseph Cushman who was a Private in the war of the revolution and that he was pensioned under the act of March 18, 1828 at the rate of $96 per annum, that she was married to the said Joseph Cushman on the 25th day of January 1785, and that the said Joseph died on the 5th day of April, 1848 and that she still remains the widow of the said joseph Cushman.
Tabitha Cushman
Sworn to and subscribed on this day and year first above written,  Before
Jos B Danforth Judge
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State of Vermont
Hartford District
I Lyndon A Marsh register of the probate Court of said district, do hereby certify that this is a true record containing the original recordings of said Court in the matter of the application of Tabitha Cushman for a pension, depose by the large in due form of turn whereof. I do hereto affix  the seal of said Court, and subscribe my hand, this tenth day of May AD 1849
L A Marsh Register
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116.879Mrs Tabitha Cushman
Declaration and Application
for Bounty Land
1855
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State of Vermont, County of Windsor,
On this 29th day of March one thousand eight hundred and fifty five personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within card for the countycome state aforesaid TAbitha Cushman aged 86 years, a resident of Norwich in the State of Vermont who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Joseph Cushman deceased who was a private in teh Revolutionary war and she further sats that she is inscribed on the pension list in conformity with the act of February 2 1848.
She furthes discloses that she was married to the  dec'd Joseph Cushman in Willington in the State of Connecticut the 27th day January 1785 by one Lillybridge a minister of the gospel and that her name before the marriage was Tabitha Johnson, that her said husband died at Norwich Vermont the 5th day of April AD 1848 and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty cand to which she may be intitled under the act approved March 3, 1855
Tabitha Cushman

We Elias B Newton and William A Simonds residents of Norwich in the State of Vermont upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Tabitha Cushman in our presence and that we and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identified person she represents herself to be 
Wm A Simonds
Elias B Newton
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The forgoing declarations were sworn to and subscribed before me on that day and year above written and I certify that I know the applicants to be credible persons that the claiment is the person that she represents herself to be and that I have no interest in this claim
Elias Newton Justice of the peace.

State of Vermont Windsor county ss, I Norman Williams clerk of the County CoutWindsor in the state of Vermont do hereby certify that Elias Newton was at the date of the paper writing to which this is attached and still is a Justice of the Peace in and for said county duly qualified to administer oaths and take the acknowledgement of deeds and that his signature foregoing is genuine  In testimony whereof, I hereunto subscribe me name and affix the seal of said court at Woodstock in said County of Windsor this 9 day of April AD 1855
Norman Williams Clerk
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State of Vermont
Windsor County Norwich April 14, 1855
William E Lewis Town Clerk of the town of Norwich insaid county do hereby certify that it appears by the records of deaths of said town that Joseph Cushman died on the fifth day of april in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight  the record is in the words and figures following
"Joseph Cushman a soldier of the Revolution died at Norwich on the 5th day of April AD 1848 Aged 89 years
Received for record and 
Recorded March 1848
By W E Lewis Town Clerk

Certified by William E Lewis Town Clerk
State of Vermont Windsor Count ss Norwich April 14 1855, personally appeared before me William E Lewis above named known tby me to be the town clerk of said toen and keeper of the records of dDeaths of said town and who is a witness entitled to full credit and made oath to the truth of the matters contained in the foregoing certificate by him.
Signed Elias  Newton Justice of the Peace

N.B. Please make your returns to the care of Elias Newton Norwich Vermont and oblige me
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14.501
Nv ams

No
Tabitha Cushman
Vt
Hon J Collamore
Jany 9. 49

act 2 fby 48
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Joseph Cushman Ct act 18 March 1818 $9600 PM
To what time was he last paid
EA

Pd to 9th Mar 1848
BLK
Pension Office
May 18/48
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Norwich May 1st 1855
Dear Sir
By looking to the files in your office it will be seen that the husband of Tabitha Cushman was on the pension list from the beginning of granting pensions and that the widow was made a pension from the time of her husbands decease we have heretofore confidence to believe that the evidence we send you will be deemed sufficient to obtain the bounty according to the act. 
Please make your returns to me according to her request

LP Waldo Esq
Elias Newton
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I certify that Joseph Cushman soldier in the 6th Company 5th Connect Regiment has served within four days of the term of his enlistment commissioned him for a discharge.
Your Obt H servt
29th June 1782
 David Dorrance Capt
CT Command Sherman


Joseph Cushman Soldier in the 5th Connecicut regt having served within four days of the time for which he engaged, is hereby in discharged the army
Isaac Sherman L Colonel
5th Connect Regt
Connecticut Village highlands 29th June
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This may certify that the within named Cushman has returned his [illedgible] 
June 29th 1789
Elihu Sanford Sergt

joseph Cushman
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May 18/49
May 14, 1849
Ira Davis
Declaration of Tabitha Cushman to obtain benefits of acts of July 7, 1838 and Feb 2d, 1848 is the widow of Joseph Cushman of the Revolution
W Cole
act feb 48
Comm. Pensions
Dept of the Interior
May 17/49
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Norwich May 14, 1849
Dear Sir
Enclosed is the declaration of Tabitha Cushman before a coult of service as requested by your letter.  The proofs n the case are in the pension offices and as I learn from your letter satisfactry. I presume the certificate will be issued immediately.
Yours Respectfully
Ira Davis
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Washington City
Dec 27, 1848
Dear Sir,
In this day inclosed your papers for the pension of Tabitha Cushman widow of Jos Cushman a revolutionary pensioner & therin stated they are sent in by  A.J.Ocean Esq Now Sir, in that I made a mistake, they were sent in by Ira Davis Esq of Norwich Vt & I write this that the certificate may receive to wrong directions
Yours
J Collamore

ret J L Edwards Justice 
Comm of Pen
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House of Representatives
Dec 29, 1848''Sir Inclosed I send you the papers sent us by Avannah Spear in the cae of Tabitha Cushman for a pension as widow of Joe Cushman
Please to give them early attention.
Yours be
J Collamore
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Inc to $96 per ann orig $80 coing 1 July 1848
Montpelier
Ira Davis
Norwich Vt
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Norwich Vt May 29 1851
I herewith return the Certificate of Tabitha Cushman with her request that her Pension may be increased to $96 per annum, the amount recived by her husband
Yours very respectfully
Ira Davis
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june 1/49
Ira Davis
May 25/49
Rel to the pension granted to the widow of J Cushman of $80 per annnum a certificate of which he has rec? Thinks she is entitled to $96 per anum as her husband recd that amt while living.
W Cole will answer today
1 June Commissioner of pensions will please examine this case and answer the writer
Dept of the Interior
May 31/49
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Norwich Vt May 25 1849
Dear Sir
I have just received from the Department the Pension Certificate of Tabitha Cushman Widow of Joseph Cushamn deceased at an allowancce of $80 per annum.
Her Husband previous to he decease was pensioned at $96. per annum and you will percived that the act of July 1 1848 provides "That in all areas where a Pension may have been granted to any officer or soldier of the Revolution in his lifetime the evidence upon which such pension was granted shall be conclusive of the servies of such officer or soldier in the application of widow or woman who may have been the widow of such officer or soldier for a pension, and upon proof by her that she was married to any such officer or soldier prior to January 1st 1794 & that she is a widow, she shall thereupon be placed upon the Pension rolls at the same rate that such officer or soldier recieved during his lifetime" I presume the fact that the husband recived $96 per annum was overlooked in making the certificate for the widow.
Yours very respectfully
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Rev Widow &c
File No 20938
Tabitha Cushman
Widow of Joseph Cushman
Pri Rev War
Act Feb 2d 48
Index Vol A page 162
Arrangement of 1870
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116.879
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State of Connecticut
County of Tolland ss Willington, April
I Gideon N Merrick Town Clerk of the Town of Willington do hereby certify that I have examined the records of the town of Willington and do find a record that Joseph Cushman and Tabitha Johnson were lawfully joined in Marriage January twenty fifth Seventeern Hundred Eight Five with the exception of the date which is epressed in four legible figures as follows,
Joseph Cushman and Tabitha Johnson were lawfully joined in Marriage January 25th 1785
Attest Gideon N Merrick
Town Clerk
I gideon N Merrick above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town county and state aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town
Gideon N Merrick
Town Clerk
Willington April 4th 1855
Then personally appeared beforre me Gideon N Merrick Town Clerk of the town of Willington and made oath that the facts stated in the above and foregoing were true before me
Lucien Holt Justice of the Peace
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Joseph Cushman a Soldier of the Revolution died at Norwich on the fifteenth day of April in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and forty eight aged 89 years
Town Clerks office
Norwich Vt December 16 1848
I hereby certify that the above is a true copy of the record minus the exception of the dayte which is expressed in the record in the four legible figures as follows Joseph Cushman a Soldier of the Revolution died at Norwich on the 5th day of April 1848 aged 89 years. 
Attest W E Lewis Town Clerk
I Wm S Lewis above named depose and say that I hold the office of town clerk of the town of Norwich in the county of Windsor and State of Vermont and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Norwich with the exceptions above named as certified by me.
Wm E Lewis
State of Vermont
Windsor county of} Personally appearred the above named Wm E Lewis and made oaths that the foregoing is just and true this 18 day of Nov 1848
Before me Elias Newton Justice of the Peace
House of rerpresentatives
Dec 23 1848
I certify that Elias Newton is a Justice of the peace for the county of Windsor in Vermont
J Collamer MC
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Set to Ira DAvis June 1 1849
Do to Sec Interior June 16 1849
4831 Mont
Vermont
Tabitha Cushman
Widow of joseph Cusham who served in the Revolutionary war as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 80 dollars 00 cents per annum, to commence on the 5th day of April 1848
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of May 1849 and sent to Ira Davis Norwich Vt
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State of Vermont
County of Windsor ss.
On this 15th day of March AD 1851 before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Tabitha Cushman who being duly sworn according to law, upon her oath makes the folowing declaration, for the purpose of obtaining the full benefit of the act of congress passed July 29th 1848 and the joint resolution of the first of July 1848 to with
That she is the Widow of Joseph Cushman late of Norwich in said county deceased who was a Reolutionary Pensioner of the United States at the rate of $96(ninety six)per annum that since the decease of her said husband she has been placed upon the Pension Roll at the rate of $80(eighty) per annum and is now in the receipt of said pension.
And she further states that she has been advised that by virtue of the act of July 29 1848, and said joint resolution of the first of July 1848, she is entitled to receive the same rate of pension that her said husband received in his Life--time
She therefore herewith returns the certificate she now holds and prays that a new certificate may be issued to her for such increase of pension as she may be entitled to by law
Tabitha Cushman
Sworn to and subscribed this 15th day of March 1851
Before Me Elias Newton Justice of the Peace
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State of Vermont Windsor County, I Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that Elias Newton is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the 30th day of November in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty and will expire the thirtieth day of November next and that his signatured foregoing is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal  of said county court at Woodstock in said county of Windsor this 27th day of May AD 1851.
Norman Williams Clerk
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Payment to be made at Montperier by Th Reed Esq
Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of montpelier vt
Payable on the 4th SEptember and 4th March
Recorded in the Pension office on the roll of Pensioners under act February 2d 1848 Page 47 Vol 3
Th Sumpkin
Clerk
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Department of the Interior
Widows Pension
I certify that in Conformity the the act of February 2d 1848 TAbitha Cushman of Vermont. widow of Joseph Cushman, who was a Private in the revolutionary war is inscribed on the pension list at the rate of Eighty dollars per annum commencing on the 5th of April 1848 and continuing for life unless she should again marry in which case the Pension is not payable ofter the time of such marriage.
Given at the Department of the Interior
this 21st day of May
one thousand eight hundred and forty nine
T Ewing
Secretary of the Interior
Examined and countersigned
J L Edwards
Commissioner of Pensions
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No
TAbitha Cushman
wo of Joseph
act 2 July 1848
Maried 1783
husband died 5 April '45
[illedgible] $80 per an
mn 5 April 1848
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State of Vermont
Windsor county SS} On this 18th day of May AD 1848 Personally appeared before the subscriber a justice of the peace for the county of Windsor Tabitha Cushman a resident of Windsor in the County of Windsor aged 79 years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her free oath make the folllowing declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the act of Congress passed on the 2nd February 1848 granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the revolutionary war that she is the widow of Joseph Cushman who was a Private in the connecticut line of the Army of the revolution that he service in Col [space] regiment and was pensioned under the act of congress of March 1818, at the rate of ninetysix dollars per annum. That she was married to the said Joseph Cushman on the 25th day of January 1785 and that her husband the said Joseph Cushman died on the 5th day of April AD 1848, And she further declares that she is still a widow
[signed] Tabitha Cushman
Sworn to and subscribed so this day and year above written before me
Elias Newton Justice of the peace
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State of Vermont Windsor County, I Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court of the County of Windsor in the State of Vermont do hereby certify that Elias Newton is an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and qualified that his commission was dated on the 30th day of November in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven and will expire the thirtieth day of November next and that his signatured foregoing is genuine.
Given under my hand and the seal  of said county court at Woodstock in said county of Windsor this 29 day of June AD 1848.
Norman Williams Clerk