Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 2,766, Joseph Cummings, Mass. Ri. Vt.
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Cummings, Joseph            W. 2,766
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19.094
Pennsylvania R
Joseph Cummings Serg't of Covington township in the state of Pennsylvania who was a Sergeant in the company commanded by Captain Williams's of the regiment commanded by Colonel Sproat, in the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year in 1780.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of March 1823. 
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Certificate of Pension issued the 15' of Oct'r 1823 and sent to Sam'l Moffet, Esqr Wilkesbarr, Pa
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Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1823  $49.23
Semianl. all'ce ending 4 March 1824  48.06
6 mos. 4/31 $97.09
{Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18, 1818, and May 1, 1820, &c.} 1st March 1823
Luzerne Co'y
2766
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[verso]
let:18Oct:41 to Geo. H. Wells,
Let to 2d Comptroller March 17, 1857

[recto]
5876
Pennsylvania
Mary Cummings widow of Joseph Cummings, dec'd who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818, and who died on the 15 May 1830, of Luzerne Co in the State of Pennsylv'a who was a private in the compy commanded by Captain Pray of the reg't commanded by Col. Sproat in the Mass. R.I. N.H. line for 2 years.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Philadelphia at the rate of 80 Dollars [blank] Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Oct'r 1840, & sent to George H. Wells, Esq. Wilkesbarre, Penn'a 
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Arrears to the 4th of Mar 1841  $400.00
Semi-annual allowance ending [blank]
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk,
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 148,
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Declaration In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838, Entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows."
State of Pennsylvania of the County of Luzerne} On this seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty personaly appeared before me Hon. William S. Ross, an associate Judge of Luzerne County and State aforesaid, Mary Cummings, (who from bodily infirmity can not attend the Court,) a resident of Wilkes-Barre Township in the County of Luzerne and State aforesaid aged eighty six years 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 7th 1838. Entitled "an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows": That she is the widow of Joseph Cummings who was a Sergeant in the Army of the Revolution and a pensioner, from the fifteenth day of October 1823 untill the day of his death, in conformity with the Laws of the United States, of the 18th March 1818, 1st May 1820, and 1st March 1823. She further declares that she was married to the said Joseph Cummings on the sixth day of March in the year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, that her husband Joseph Cummings Died on the fifteenth day of May in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place
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Previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz. at the time above stated.
/s/X her Mark Mary Cummings
Witness present
/s/E. W. Sturdevant, /s/Geo H. Wells
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written, before 
/s/Wm S Ross Associate Judge }
I Wm. S. Ross do certify that the within named Mary Cummings, the applicant, from bodily infirmity is unable to attend Court.
Sept'r 7th 1840 /s/Wm S. Ross Associate Judge
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State of New York
Ulster County } ss
On this twenty second day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace in and for the County of Ulster and state aforesaid John H. Bevier a resident of the Town of Shawangunk county and state aforesaid, aged thirty five years and made oath in due form of Law that it appears on the records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Shawangunk that Joseph Cummings and his Wife Mary Terwilliger, have had children baptised in said church viz, Charity February the sixth seventeen hundred and eighty four. Peter December the twenty sixth seventeen hundred and eighty six, and Sarah born December the twentieth seventeen hundred and Eighty Eight. 
The above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date which is expressed om the record in fair legible figures as follows viz 1784 Febry 6. Joseph Cummings Mary Terwilliger } Charity }
Joseph Commons Maria Terwilliger } Peter }
The above baptised by the Rev Stephen Goetschius this 26th day of December 1786. 
Joseph Cummins Mary Terwilliger } Sarah [illegible] 20 Dec 1788
I John H. Bevier above named depose and say that I hold the office of pastor in the Reformed Dutch Church above mentioned in the county Town & state aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said Reformed Dutch Church with the exception above names as certified by me.
/s/John H. Bevier Pastor of the R. D. Church of Shawangunk
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 22nd day of September 1840}
/s/Jansen Bruyn Justice of the peace
I John H. Bevier above named depose and say that I am the present pastor of the Reformed Dutch church in the Town of Shawangunk county and state aforesaid and that from the present regulations of this church and from the knowledge which I have of the custom of the Reformed Dutch churches in general I am fully persuaded that children of parents who were not lawfully married would not have been admitted to the holy ordinance of Baptism on the responsibility of their parents as those evidently were. 
Signed at the Parsonage of Shawangunk this Twenty second day of September Eighteen hundred and forty. 
/s/John H. Bevier Pastor of the R.D. Church of Shawangunk
Sworn and subscribed on the day and year above written before me }
/s/Jansen Bruyn Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Ulster County }ss: I, John Ferguson Clerk of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that Jansen Bruyn Esq'r before whom the foregoing affidavits of the Rev'd John H. Bevier purport to have been taken and subscribed was at the dates of the same a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Ulster aforesaid. And further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice and verily believe his signature to the said affidavits are genuine. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the said County this 24th day of September 1840 - 
/s/John Ferguson Clerk.
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State of Newyork
Ulster County } ss on the 22nd day of September in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and Forty personally appeared before me Sarah McClean a resident of Shawangunk Township in the County of Ulster and State aforesaid aged Seventy Six years who being first duly sworn according to law doth depose on her oath the following declaration to wit that she was present at the marriage ceremony of Joseph Cummings and Mary Terwilliger and that they were married by the Reverend Mr. Vanness in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty three but does not Recollect in what month that said marriage Ceremony was performed in the Township of Shawangunk in the County of Ulster and State aforesaid and also that the said Vanness was the pastor of the Reformed Dutch Church in Shawangunk Township County and State aforesaid and also that the said Joseph Cumming and his wife moved away from the Circle of her acquaintance but does not know where about forty five years ago and then they had four children Charity-Peter-Sarah-and Abraham and since they the said Joseph Cummings and his wife moved away his wife paid her this deponent a visit about thirty years ago. and since the last mentioned time She has frequently heard of said Joseph Cummings and his wife Living in the State of Pennsylvania but does not know in what town or County 
/s/X her mark Sarah McClean
Sworn before me this 22nd day of September 1840 and Subscribed 
/s/Jansen Bruyn Justice of the peace
I Certify that the above named Sarah McClean to me is personally known and that she is a person whose credibility ['is' crossed out] may be relied on with Safety and that I have the utmost Confidence in the truth of the above Statement and that the name of Sarah was wrote on erasures before the foregoing was executed 
/s/Jansen Bruyn Justice of the peace
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State of New York
Ulster County }ss: I, John Ferguson Clerk of the County of Ulster do hereby certify that Jansen Bruyn Esq'r before whom the foregoing affidavit of Sarah McLean purports to have been subscribed and sworn was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in & for the county of Ulster duly elected and sworn and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe his signature to the said affidavit is genuine. 
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affix'd the Seal of the said County this 24th day of September 1840 - 
/s/John Ferguson Clerk -
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See Register page 24. 
Joseph Cummings Sergt Colonel Sproat ['Richmond' crossed out] Reg't 1776 for one year July 3d 1818.
['The Rep'n a' crossed out] The Line to which Col. Sproat belonged must be stated in the declaration - Ret'd for evidence & correction as stated in mem'o
The Certificate of the Judge as to reduced circumstances of Applicant is wanting - now sent
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12 Mass. Joseph Cummings - Payroll Co. 8 July 80 - see Mass rolls }
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss. 
On this third day of July AD 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of common pleas in and for said County in the Seventh Judicial district in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania personally appears Joseph Cummins aged sixty five years next November resident in Covington Township in the County of Luzerne in the Commonwealth aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions 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 Cummings enlisted at Roxbury near Boston in the month of April AD 1775 for eight months in Captain Caleb Richardson's Company in Col'n Timothy Walker regiment in the Massichusetts line and served the term of his enlistment as a private (see the annexed Certificates) - That about the second week in January AD 1776 he enlisted in Rhode Island for one year in Capt. Isaiah Wescott's Company  in Col'n Richmond's rigement in the Continental service in which service he continued one year as a Sargeant {That about the first of April AD 1777 he enlisted at Rhoad Island for one year in Cap't Samuel ['Johnson's' crossed out] Robison's Company in Col'n Lyon's Regiment and that he continued in the United States Army as a private for one year.}
That about the month of May 1778 he enlisted in Rhode Island for one year in Cap't [blank] William's Company in Col'n Sproat's regiment and served one year as a private - 
That about the first of June AD 1779 he enlisted in Vermont for nine months in Capt [blank] Dyer's Company in Col'n Herrick's regiment in the United States service and served nine months as Sergeant [blank] That about the month of April AD 1780 he enlisted in Vermont for one year in Cap't [blank] Williams Company in Col'n Sproat's regiment and served one year in
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the United States Army as a private; during this year's service he was transfered to Capt John Prey's (Pray) Company in Col'n Shepard's regiment - He next enlisted in Vermont in July AD 1781 in Capt. Joseph Briggs Company in ['Capt' crossed out] Col'n Herrick's regiment under the Command of General Ethan Allen for five months with General Sullivan - and in the attack in Cornwallis in the Harbors of Rhode Island &c. - And that he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his County - And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said Services. 
/s/X his mark Joseph Cummings
Sworn & Subscribed & Declared before me the Day & year aforesaid }
/s/Jesse Fell
I Jesse Fell Associate Judge of the Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne in the eleventh Judicial district in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Joseph Cummings did serve in the revolutionary War, as stated in the proceeding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony taken and and had before me, to the secretary of the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned Act of Congress. 
/s/Jesse Fell
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss } I Andrew Beaumont Prothonotary of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Luzerne do certify that Jesse Fell Esquire is and was at the time of taking and certifying the foregoing Deposition an Associate Judge of the County of Luzerne afor'd in the eleventh Judicial District of Pennsylvania that the Signature is his own proper hand writing and that due faith and credit are due to his Official acts & Deeds as such. 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Court of said County at Wilkesbarre in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Eighteen
/s/Andrew Beaumont Prot.
I Jesse Fell as aforesaid Do Certify that I have known the applicant Joseph Cummings and have no doubt but he is very poor, old and Infirm and unable to Support himself by Labour. Given under my hand at Wilkesbarre March 2d 1820 - 
/s/Jesse Fell
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Revy WIDOW, &c. [initials: own]
File No. 2766
Mary Cummings Widow
Joseph Cummings, Pri Mass Line
Act: July 7, 1838.
Index: - Vol. A, Page 160
Arrangement of 1870.]
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Rec. Oct 14. 1823, 
Samuel Maffet Wilkesbarre Pen - 
1780 one year I think should be admitted - all things cons'd -
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7409.
Mary Cummings Wid of Joseph Penn
Act July 7 1838
Married 1783
died 1830 
Allow 2 yrs pri $80 per ann. Mass line 
Capt Pray. Col Sproat.
Geo H. Wells Esq Wilkes Barre Penn
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: Oct 18, 1841, In at Pa. Mrs. Cummings]
[postmark: WILKESBARRE PA OCT 4]
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq
Comm of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Wilkes Barre Oct. 14th 41 - 

J. L. Edwards Esq
Dear Sir, 
Mary Cummings the widow of the late Joseph Cummings a pensioner under the United States, applied for a pension under the Act of Con. of July 7th 1836 or 1838 I forget which, and drew the Money $400.00 some time in ['April' crossed out] March last, the original Certificate was forwarded to the Philadel'a pension office before the money could be drawn - You will now please inform me whether she is entitled to any thing further and if so how she is to supercede the necessity of the said Certificate - I am quite certain it was the Act of 1836, and that she drew a five year pension. 
Please forward a blank if necessary I think her application was made some time in Oct. 1840 - 
Yours &c /s/Geo. H. Wells
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[handwritten letter]
Wilkes Barre Pa. oct 19th 1840

J. L. Edwards, Esq.
Sir, 
Herewith is enclosed the application of Mary Cummings the widow of the late Joseph Cummings a pensioner under the United States, for the benefit of the act of Congress of July 7th 1838. with the following affidavits & documents in support of said application, to wit, 
The affidavit of the Rev. J. H. Bevier, The affidavit of Sarah McLean, The affidavit of Anderson Dana, and the Pension certificate of the said Joseph Cummings - 
When a decision is made upon this case you will be pleased to transmit the result to me at Wilkes Barre Luzerne County P.A. 
Respectfully Yours
/s/Geo. H. Wells
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Joseph Cummings d 1830
Mary m. 1783 S.
Apl 75 8 mo's Capt Richardson Col Walker }
Jun 76 12-s't Josiah Westcott R.I. Col. Richmond }
Apl 77 12 Sam'l Robinson Col Lyon} RI
May 78 12 on William Sproat Mass
June 79 9 S't Dyer. Herrick Vt.
Apl 80 on 12 Williams, Sproat Vt. during the year when he was transf'd to Sheppard's (Shepard) Reg't
July 81. 5. Briggs, Herrick
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Payable semi-annually. The first payment on this Certificate will be made on the 4th of March in the year 1824, at Philad'a by the Bk: U. States.
Recorded by Eben'r Stout Clerk, in Book B, Vol. 7 page 78 
Examined and countersigned by J. L. Edwards
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War Department. 
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I CERTIFY that, in conformity with the Laws of the United States, of the 18th of March, 1818, 1st May 1820, & 1 March 1823 - 
Joseph Cummings late a Serjeant in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty three.
[official seal affixed] GIVEN at the War Office of the United States, this fifteenth day of October one thousand eight hundred and twenty three. 
/s/J C Calhoun
Secretary of War.
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss }
I Stephen Vaughn Prothonotary (Pro tem by appointment of the court) of the Court of Common Pleas and Clerk of the several Courts of Luzerne County do hereby certify that William S. Ross Esqr. before whom the foregoing or within affidavits of Mary Cummings and of Anderson Dana Esq. purport to have been subscribed and taken was at the respective dates of the said affidavits was an associate Judge in and for the County of Luzerne & State aforesaid, and further that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said associate Judge and verily belive his signatures to the said affidavits are genuine 
[county seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and offered the seal of the said County this 16th day of October AD 1840
/s/Stephen Vaughn Prothonotary PT by appts of the Court
No 7409
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County }ss
On this sixteenth day of October in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and forty personaly appeared before me the undersigned, an associate Judge of Luzerne County and State of Pennsylvania, Anderson Dana a resident of Wilkes Barre Township County and State aforesaid, aged seventy five years and to me personaly known, who (after being duly sworn according to Law) doth upon his oath depose and say, that sometime in the year of Our Lord one thousand and eight hundred he became acquainted with Joseph Cummings and Mary his wife in the County of Luzerne and State aforesaid, and that by his books he finds that Joseph Cummings had dealings with him from October the twenty fourth in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred, up to July in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty six, that Joseph and Mary Cummings lived together as man and wife, and were respected husband and wife untill the day of his death, which must have been some time in the year of Our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty, that this deponent knows three reputed children of the said Joseph Cummings and Mary his wife viz. Peter, Abraham, and Nathan that since said Cummings Death his widow Mary Cummings has lived in the neighbourhood and in
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This deponent's house for about one year and six months immediately previous to May last (said house being within two hundred rods from deponent's own residence) when the Overseers of the poor took her away (meaning the said Mary Cummings) to another part of the Township some three or four miles from his this deponent's residence, that the said Mary Cummings has not been married since said Joseph Cummings' death, or at least this deponent is satisfied that he would have known if she had been, and further that she the said Mary has been very feeble for several years last past, and further this deponent thinks that she the said Mary must be between eight five and Ninety years of age, that this deponent has heard that the said Joseph Cummings and Mary his wife came from the State of New York, also that Mr. James Stark has informed this deponent that he had drawn pention money for said Cummings, and also this deponent thinks that Mr. Abraham Thomas informed him that he had drawn a pension for the said Cummings and this deponent has heard said Cummings say that he drew a pension but does not recollect the amount - 
/s/Anderson Dana
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written, before }
Wm J Ross Associate Judge.
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[addressed envelope]
[margin notes: no 7409. Oct 22.40 Pa act July 7. 1838 Mary Cummings]
[postmark: WILKESBARRE PA OCT 19]
FREE
J. L. Edwards Esq'r
Com'r of Pensions - 
Washington City D.C.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
Luzerne County ss
Before me Jesse Fell one of the Judges of the Court of common pleas in and for said County in the 11th Judicial District in the said Commonwealth personally appeared John Nagle to me well known who being by me duly sworn according to Law doth depose and say That he was an enlisted Soldier in Capt Ferguson's Company of nine months men he enlisted some time in the Spring in the  year 1775 but cannot recollect thee exact Day Col'n Arnold's regiment and if remembers right these Reg't was in the Brigade commanded by Col'n or General Arnold - and whilst in that Service at Lexington he became acquainted with Joseph Cummings the present applicant that he belonged to Col'n Timothy Waters's regiment in the same Brigade with himself and belong'd to Capt. Richardson's Company - that after this the regiments were seperated and about 2 years afterwards he saw him at Bennington in Col'n Hay's Regiment in the Army - 
/s/John Nagel
Sworn & subscribed before me Apr 8th 1822
/s/Jesse Fell
I Jesse Fell as aforesaid Do certify to the Secretary of War that the applicant as well from my own knowlege of him as also from other Information is old and in very indigent circumstances and is unable to support himself by Labour 
Given Under my Hand at Wilkesbarre Apr. 8th 1822
/s/Jesse Fell
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss}
I Samuel Maffet Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for Luzerne County do certify that Jesse Fell Esquire is and was at the time of taking and certifying the within Declaration an Associate Judge of the County of Luzerne aforesaid in the eleventh Judicial District of Pennsylvania that the signature is in his own proper hand writing and that due faith and credit are due to his official acts as such - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County Court of Common Pleas at Wilkes Barre in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two - 
/s/Samuel Maffet Prot.
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehannah County }ss
Be it remembered that this fifth day of May - In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three at Montrose in the said County of Susquehannah Before me David Dimock Esquire one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, it being a Court of record, Personally appeared Ichabod Fuller of the Township of Bridgewater in the said county aged about seventy six years and Martha his wife aged about seventy four years who being first severally sworn according to Law did depose and say - That Ichabod deposed as follows that is to say that he is acquainted with Joseph Cummings now living in Covington Township Luzerne County and has well known him since he was eleven years of age - that as this deponent understood, in the year 1776 in Captain Roswell Smith's Company Colonel Richmond's Regiment in the State of Rhode Island and saw him march in the said Company - he enlisted for one year - this deponent heard frequently of said Cummings during that year, this deponent frequently heard from him while in the army that year - In January 1777 said Cummings returned home after having served the year in the army and as this deponent understood regularly discharged - This deponent from hearing frequently from Cummings, from hearing of him thru' his neighbours knows that he regularly served his time and period of enlistment - 
/s/Ichabod Fuller
And the said Martha, upon her solemn oath says that she is well acquainted with the facts stated in the above deposition of her husband, and that in addition thereto she deposeth that she is the sister of the said Cummings that she frequently saw letters from him while he was in the United States service in Capt Smith's Company also mentioned during the said year - that she was at home at her father's after said Joseph Cummings returned home as stated above by Ichabod Fuller, and that she at that time saw the discharge of the said Joseph Cummings from the said service in Captain Smith's Company and Col. Richmond's regiment - 
/s/X her mark Martha Fuller
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State of Pennsylvania
Susquehannah County Ss.}
I the within named Davis Dimock associate Judge as there mentioned do certify that the within named Ichabod Fuller and Martha were duly sworn according to law to the within deposition and that the said Ichabod and Martha are credible and disinterested witnesses and that I am sattisfied the said Joseph Cummings served the within mentioned period in the United States served as there stated in the Army of the revolution 
As Witness my hand and Seal this 5th day of May AD 1823 - 
/s/Davis Dimock [facsimile court]
State of Pennsylvania
Susquehannah County }ss
I, Asa Dimock Junior, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Susquehannah do certify that the within and above named David Dimock is and was, at the time of the above deposition and attestation an associate Judge of the said Court of Common Pleas, it being a court of record, and he being duly commissioned and sworn and that full faith and credit ought to be given to his official acts as such, and that his signature is in his own proper hand writing - 
[court seal affixed] In Witness whereof I have herewith set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at Montrose in the said County; this sixth day of May In the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty three - 
/s/Asa Dimock Jr. Prot
Again certified after Interlining this attestation as to the "signature" Witness my hand the Seal aforesaid this fifth day of June A.D. 1823 - 
/s/Asa Dimock Jr. Prot.
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JL Edwards
Joseph Cummings
"Sam'l Maffet, Esqr. Wilkesbarre Pa."
not found on rolls. 
Pension office 26 June 1823.
It appears by the Records in this office, that  the original declaration was returned for amendment, on the 5th June 1820, directed to Jesse Fell, Esq of Wilkesbarre Pa. and ['that' crossed out] it has not since been received here. let the date, and due execution of it, be properly authenticated.
Let applicant prove his service, for 9 months, on the continental establishment by the affidavits of 2 credible & disinterested witnesses, duly certified to be such. or by the certificate of an officer.
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County } ss. - 
On this fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two personally appeared in open Court it being a Court of record, to wit the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Luzerne in the State aforesaid Joseph Cummings aged sixty eight years and upwards, resident in the Township of Covington & County and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his  oath declare and say that he served in the revolutionary war, in the Rhode Island line in Capt Roswell Smith afterwards Capt Isaiah Westcott's company in Colonel Richmond's regiment one year as a Sergeant, that he served in Capt Dyer's Company of Colonel Herrick's regiment of the Vermont line for nine months and performed several other services more particularly stated in his original application to be placed on the Pension list, at this time about to be made - 
And I the said Joseph Cummings do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred & eighteen and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of the 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 eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen & 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 - 
/s/X her mark Joseph Cummings
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court 4. Ap'l 1822}
/s/Samuel Maffet Prot.
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Property and Estate of the within named Joseph Cummings - 
Real, Personal and mixed - none
I am by Trade a House Carpenter but am disabled by the rheumatism and not able to work - I have a wife named Mary sixty years and upwards of age also troubled with the rheumatism - I have three sons under low circumstances living out and supporting themselves by labour - and four daughters living away in different states, married and with families. I have no children living with me a grand child eight years old lives with me - her father is dead - 
/s/X his mark Joseph Cummings
Sworn and Subscribed in open Court 4 April 1822}
/s/Samuel Maffat Prot. 
State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss } I Samuel Maffet, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Luzerne (the same being a Court of Record) Do 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 is is the opinion of the said Court that the Total amount in value of the Property of the said Joseph Cummings is nothing, as exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule. 
[court seal affixed] In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court at Wilkesbarre this third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two - 
/s/Samuel Maffet, Prothonotary Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County aforesaid
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State of Pennsylvania
Luzerne County ss.
On this fourth day of April in the year of our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and Twenty Two before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, in the eleventh District Judicial of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, it being a Court of record, personally appears Joseph Cummings aged Sixty Eight years last November residents in Covington Township, County of Luzerne and Commonwealth aforesaid, who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of, and provisions made by, the late act of Congress of the 18th March A.D. 1818 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 Cummings, served in the Revolutionary war in the Rhode Island Line ['as a Corporal' erased]  in Captain Roswell Smith's afterwards Captain Isaiah Westcott's Company in Colonel Richmond's Regiment one year as a ['Sergeant' crossed out] Corporal that he enlisted then about the second week of January A.D. 1776, was discharged after serving one year, about the same time in the year 1777 - That he enlisted almost the middle of April A.D. 1777 in the Vermont Line, is Captain [blank] Dyer's Company in Colonel Herrick's regiment as a sergeant, that he served nine months the time for which he enlisted and was discharged in January of the last year about nine months after his enlistment that he was in the battle of Rhode Island with General Sullivan, and was at the taking of Burgoyne's - that he performed a number of the services in the War, but is now only able to get proof of those - the other services were more particularly stated in a former application - 
That he is now in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country and has no other evidence of the same now in his power than that was submitted. 
/s/X his mark Joseph Cummings
Sworn and subscribed and declared before me the Day and year aforesaid the number of battles first being interlined - 
/s/Jesse Fell
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I, Jesse Fell, associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne, in the eleventh Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the within name Joseph Cummings served in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration against the Common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and Testimony stated and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, pursuant to the directions of the within mentioned Act of Congress, and I do further certify that I have known the said Joseph Cummings and that he is very poor, old, and infirm, and that he is in reduced circumstances and by reason thereof stands in need of the assistance of his country. In Testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand & Seal at Wilkesbarre April 4th 1822
/s/Jesse Fell associate Judge [facsimile seal 'Seal']