Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 17675, Solomon Cushman, N.H. Vt.
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
N.H.
Vt.

Cushman, Solomon
Sarah

NUMBER
W. 17675

CONTENTS
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3514 Let to [illegible] 
Jany 28 1852
Vermont
Sarah Cushman [illegible]
widow of Solomon Cushman
wo died on the
of in the State of
who was a Lt. Capt. in the commanded
by Captain of the commanded
by Vt in the Vert.
line
Inc. from $295.33
Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier
at the rate of 480 Dollars
per annum, to commence on the 4 day of
March 1831
Ending 18 June 1842
Certificate of Pension issued the 18 day of
Feb'y 1851 and sent to 
Arrears to the 4th of Hon C.B. Smith
Semiannual allowance ending Present
Payable to
children
Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 4, 1836
Section the
Recorded by [illegible] E. Robinson Clerk,
Book D Vol. 2 Page 340
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FAMILY RECORD.
BIRTHS.|DEATHS.
April 7
April 7th 1807 Died April 13
Benjamin Cushman born January 9 1811 B
Lysander Cushman was born April 28 1812 18
Maria Cushman was born June 6 1813
George Prevost was born January 29 1814
Valmore Brock was born Sept 14 1817
Earl Percy was born November 29 1818
Solomon Cushman was born March 1 1821
Amos Cushman was born November 24 1822
Harper Gafney was born July 28 1824
Sarah Phebe was born May 30 1830
[margin note: Those on this side are Grand Children] 
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE  UNITED STATES]
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FAMILY RECORD.
MARRIAGES.
[margin note: note those are the children of Solomon & Sarah Cushman]
[illegible] 13th 1807
Solomon & Sarah Cushman were married [illegible] 8th 1768
Sarah was Born Augt 29 1769
[illegible] 10 1772
[illegible] 26 1775
Solomon died july 4 1777
Benjamin Homer was born Sept ['1778' crossed out] 1778
Cyrus Curtis born Oct 14 1781
Allware Callis Sept 23 1778
Jemima was Born December 12th 1785
Solomon Cushman Departed this Life Novem 12 1798
Sarah Cushman wife of Solomon Cushman Departed this Life june 18th 1842
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
[margin note: CUSHMAN, SOLOMOM (N.H., VT.) W-17675]
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State of Vermont Orange County ss
On this 8th day of August one thousand eight hundred and fifty personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said County of Orange aforesaid duly authorized by law to administer oaths Benjamin H. Cushman a Resident of the Town of Tunbridge County of Orange & State of Vermont aforesaid aged 7(number smudged black) years and who being first duly sworn according to law to obtain the Benefit of the Provisions made by Congress by an act passed July 7th 1838 - also June 7th 1832 - and July 4th 1836 and including all other acts that may be necessary passed by Congress for the benefit of such as this declarant - That he is the son & heir of Solomon Cushman who served as a Captain in the War of the Revolution in the Army of the United States in the state of Vermont - against Great Britain and that his said Father Solomon Cushman died on the 12th day of November 1798 -
and his said Father was lawfully married to his said Mother (who was the Mother of said declarant and who made application to the United States and received a pension during her life from the United States but as this declarant believes there was a mistake made in granting said
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Pension to his Mother as this Declarant [illegible]
stands and is told his said mother obtained
a pension for his said fathers services [illegible]
[illegible] pay - as this declarant believes that
his said mother did receive the sum between
$2800 and $2900 ten years ago last September
as this declarant believes would make 
Lieutenants pay and that as his said father
Solomon Cushman was and did serve as a
Captain during said war of the Revolution
which would have a balance yet unpaid
by the United States due the heirs now
of said Captain Solomon Cushman as this
declarant is informed of [illegible] the sum
of $1400 and for this balance this declarant
now applies under said act of July
4th 1836 and all other acts as passed by [illegible]
for the benefit of such cases as said declarant

as the [illegible] rolls & master rolls [illegible]
sent to Washington and all the papers which
are name on file at the Pension Office in the
City of Washington and the Declaration of
his said mother and proof of his said
marriage all will be formed at the department
filed in the pension office for further
proof declarant respectfully refers to these
original papers and as this declarant further
states that the commission of his said father
as being Captain was also sent with his
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mothers papers to the Pension Office in the City
of Washington and that his said father
Capt Solomon Cushman died 1th day of November
52 years ago and his said mother
Sarah died on the 18th day of June eight
years ago last June past his father died
12th of November 1798 his said mother
died on the 18th day of June 1842 as aforesaid
and they left only two children [illegible]
them to with this declarant Benjamin H.
Cushman Sarah Tyler now the widow
of James Tyler deceased those two are all
and the only heirs living and this declarant
has the old family bible of his said
father and mother which contains in it
a family record made by his said father
while living in his own hand writing said
bible & family record has been safely kept by
said declarant and said family record is 
carefully taken out of said bible and attached
to this declaration the marriage and all is
in the handwriting of declarants said
father. Excepting his death & the death of
his said mother and it will be seen that
on the one side are grand children as noted
on the said family record this declarant
now prays to said commissioners of pensions
to grand said heirs the balance that may
be found due them as aforestated which
will be seen by the original papers in
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file none at the Department as this Declarant believes that it was done through a mistake in making out the certificate for his said Mother Sarah as aforesaid which will be discovered by the original Papers on file &c 
/s/Benjamin H. Cushman
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day of August A.D. 1850 - and I certify that I am well acquainted with Benjamin H Cushman he is Son & Heir to Capt Solomon Cushman and I have full confidence in the foregoing &c} 
/s/John H Woodward Justice of the peace

STATE OF VERMONT,
Orange County,....ss.} I, Joseph Berry Clerk of the County Court of the County of Orange in the State of Vermont, do hereby certify that John H. Woodward of Tunbridge in the said County of Orange 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 nine and will expire the thirtieth day of November next, and that his signature above written is genuine. 
[court seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court, this thirteenth day of August A.D. 1850
/s/Joseph Berry Clerk.
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Please to reply ['The Hon H. Walden' crossed out]
Sarah Cushman dec'd
In this Case of Capt Solomon Cushman it appears there is a mistake Either by the heirs of said Capt Cushman I believe he did serve at the commencement of the war as Lieutenant but if I am not mistaken he served three years or nearly three years as Captain - The Papers being all sent to Washington & on file at the Department - will correct - let the mistake be where it will - will the Department have the Goodness to search out those papers closely & if on Balance is found due the heirs - if further Testimony is required such a course will be taken as the Department see fit to point out - in reply - (if the family record is not sufficient) To prove that heirs & their claims - further Testimony will be sent to reply - To Hon H. Walden - 
/s/Jacob Slingerland
Hon J. L. Edwards
Com of Pensions
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V5225
Sarah Cushman Vt
act 4 July '36.
Jno N. Smith
Chelsea Vt.

Sarah Cushman Declaration
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State of Vermont
Orange County
District of Randolph ss} On this 26. day of November AD 1838 personally appeared before the honourable Court for the District of Randolph aforesaid being a court of Record, Sarah Cushman a Resident of Tunbridge in the county state & District afs'd aged 88 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 4, 1836. that she is the widow of Solomon Cushman of Tunbridge aforesaid deceased, formerly of Andover in the State of Connecticut. that we removed to Norwich Vermont, three or four years previous to the commencement of the Revolutionary war and resided there until after the close of said war & then removed to Tunbridge aforesaid. My husband the aforesaid Solomon Cushman went as a private or Corporal in an expedition to Canada. he left home in the fore part of  September 1775 and returned the last of December or first of Jany following ['in the' crossed out] he belonged to a Company commanded by Capt Curtiss of Hanover NH & John House Lieutenant but she cannot recollect the commander of the Regiment but thinks his name was Montgomery - Dan'l Lewis of Norwich - my brother also - this company she thinks were called New Yorkers. he went with the Company as far as Montreal and was there taken sick and was discharged from the Company & returned home to Norwich - after he returned home & remained a few weeks he was sent on an express to the American Army in Canada then at Montreal - to go & return as soon as possible, this express was from some of the Superior Officers in our army but she cannot now recollect who -
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And he was absent on this express about three weeks & returned - that in the Spring of 1776 he was out in the Service as Lieutenant in the Company commanded by Capt Abel Curtiss of Norwich in the Regiment commanded by John Wheelock, Col. or Maj. they were of the Country at Haverhill and in that vicinity building forts and doing military duty. he was gone till late in the fall of that year. She cannot tell how long he served this time but thinks he was out 8. or 9 months. that he was engaged in the recruiting service during the year 1777. - recruiting men for the three years service and for shorter periods that he was about on the s'd Service nearly the whole time that he recruited men for Capt Abel Curtiss' Company from April till some time in August of that year that about the first [illegible] of Sept 1777 - he went to New York as Lieutenant in Capt Bush's Company of Norwich in the Militia at the taking of Burgoyne and was there when he was taken. and that he returned from this expedition the last of Oct or first of Nov. that he was absent about two months that he was commissioned as Captain in the fall of 1777. that in the winter & spring following he was employed in the service enlistment men for the army and out in the service at Albany and that he was in the Service this year 1778. except about 2 weeks in September till late in the fall when he returned home think in 1779. he as out in this service several times but she cannot recollect distinctly the periods of service this year but she knows he was out as Capt. in the Service this year several months after this his health was poor and he was out but little afterwards she thinks he was in the service every year until the burning of Royalton and was called out at that time - she knows he was Captain and in the service for the term of about two years - She further declares that she was married to the said Solomon Cushman on the day of May AD 1768. at Lebanon Crank so called
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in Connecticut and that her husband the aforesaid Solomon Cushman died on the 12th day of November 1798. and that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appears by reference to the proof hereto annexed 
She further testifies that the warrants Master rolls orders and old papers hereto annexed have always been in her possession ever since the decease of the said Solomon Cushman and that many years since she destroyed a large quantity of his old papers, thinking them of no value
/s/Sarah Cushman
Sworn to and Subscribed on the day and year first before written 
before - /s/William Hebard Register
State of Vermont
Orange County ss
District of Randolph ss} I William Hebard Register of the Probate Court within and for the District aforesaid, hereby certify that on this 26th day of November AD 1838 personally appeared before said Court Sarah Cushman, and subscribed the foregoing Declaration, and made solemn oath that the same was true in due form of law.
I further certify that the said Sarah Cushman is a credible person, and that her statements may be relied upon. - 
[court seal affixed] In testimony of which I have hereto set my name and affixed the Seal of Said Court the day and year above written. - 
/s/William Hebard, Register
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3-525.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION. [initials: own]
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D.C., [blank], 19[blank]
In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of Solomon Cushman a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. W.F. 17675.
[column headings: DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.|LENGTH OF SERVICE.|RANK.|OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.(CAPTAIN.|COLONEL.)|STATE.|]
Sept 1775|Dec 1775|Pvt or Corporal|(Curtiss|Gen Montgomery)|Vt.|
 " |3 weeks|Express|(to the Army at Montreal.|[blank])|[blank]|
Apr 1776|8 or 9 mos|Lt|(Abel Curtiss*|John Wheelock)|[blank]|
Apr 1777 to|Aug 1777|[blank]|(recruited mess for Capt.|Abel Curtiss' co.)|[blank]|
Sept 20 1777|36 days|Lt|(Wm Heaton|Peter Olcott.)|[blank]|
Between 1777 & 1780|2 yrs|Capt.|([blank]|Timothy Bedel.)|N.H.|
[end of columns]
Battles engaged in, Stillwater
Residence of soldier for pension, Nov. 26. 1838. Her claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Tunbridge, Orange Co., Vt.
Age at date of application, 88 years.
Remarks: He married at Lebanon Crank, Conn May 26, 1768 Sarah Curtiss sister of Abel Curtiss* Solomon Curtiss died at Thetford Vt Nov 12 1798: Sarah Cushman died June 18 1842
Respectfully,
[blank] Commissioner. 
[margin notes: see list of records sent to War Dept on blue file jacket at back of this
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[verso]
Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 17675
Sarah Cushman widow of Solomon Cushman
Capt Rev War
Act: July 4th 36
Index: - Vol. A, Page 162
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[recto]
1914 Hist to Earl Cushman Selloes M.B.H.
1928 Apr. 14 Photos to A. w. DeGoosh, M.C.S.
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To - 
Capt. Solomon Cushman 
Colo: Bedel's Regiment 
(by Express) Cornish.
CUSHMAN, SOLOMON
(NH., VT.)
W-17675
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[handwritten letter]
Hanover 29th June 1778

Dear Sir,
Colonel Bedel is present; and I have consulted him respecting your going to Albany, who has determined that you should march with Lt. Stevens and your whole Company to that place - these are therefore present to my orders received to desire you to repair yourself from Cornish to this lace that I may see you. It will be [illegible] to take all your Company with you, but as to farther particulars I shall inform you when you get here - I would have you come here to night. - 
I am, yours, &c. affectionately - 
/s/John Wheelock. 
Capt. Cushman 
[receipt stamp: THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]
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5225
Sarah Cushman 
Wid. of Solomon Vert.
Act July 4. 1836
Married 1768
died 1798
Allow 5 mo 1 d. Lieut 
11 " 13 Capt
Vermont militia
$295.33 per ann
Jn'o W. Smith, Esq
Chelsea Vt.
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Muster roll of Capt. Solomon Cushman's co. Col. Timothy Bedel's regt. - Lt. Solomon Cushman's account, one page - one page of a commissary book - 3 receipts. 4 orders. Cushman, Solomon, N.H. or Vt.
Wid. File 17675
Sent to War Dept. Jan. 16, 1913.
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[verso]
3514.
Vermont
Sarah Cushman widow of Solomon Cushman, dec'd who died on the 12 Day of November 1798 of Orange Co in the State of Vermont ['who was a' crossed out] Lieutenant ['in the [blank] commanded by Captain' crossed out] Lieutenant ['of the [blank] commanded by' crossed out] Captain in the Ver't militia line for 5 mos & 1 day, Lieut and 11 mos & 13 days, Capt.
______
Inscribed on the Roll of Montpelier at the rate of 295 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
______
Certificate of Pension issued the 12th day of Feby 1841, & sent to John W. Smith, Esq Chelsea Vermont
______
Arrears to the 4th of March 1841 $2955.33
Semi=annual allowance ending 4 Sept '41 147.66
$3102.99
{Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3d}
Recorded by D. McCurdy, Clerk. 
Book C. Vol. 1. Page 39. 

[recto]
reported
Hon. H. Walden Augt 31st 1850
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Sarah Cushman dec
Act 4 July 1836
Vt
Montpelier Agt
Adm'd 2 yrs Capt
$480 per ann
ded'g former payts at $295.33, com'g 4 March 1831 & terminating 18 June 1842 payable to Sarah Tyler & Benjamin H. Cushman only surviving children 
Hon. C. B. Smith, Present
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Sol'o Cushman.
fall. '75 exp. to Canada. pri. Cap. Curtiss no proof
Spg 76 ending forty ds at near Haverhill Curtiss no proof. Lieut.
Apl. 19 '77 Lieut. Recruiting to Aug. 14. doc. proof. - 3m 25} Lt. 5. 01 1.6}
Sept. "  "  under Capt Heaton 36 ds  do - do - 
Dec. 15 " Capt to 31 March 78. payroll - 3.16}
Sept 78.  "  to Nov 27 " doc. proof. - 7.27}
79  "  several m's - no proof}
80  "  at the Burning of Royalton no proof} 11.13
married 1768. died 1798.
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State of Vermont.
Secretary of State's Office,
Montpelier, 11th Sept. 1839. 

I, Chauncey L. Knapp, Secretary of said state, do hereby certify that there is on file in this office a paper, purporting to be "A Pay roll of Capt. William Heaton's Company of Militia, under the command of Col. Peter Olcott, in the service of Vermont State, from the commanding officer of the Northern Department. Engaged September ye 20th 1777." I further certify that the name of Solomon Cushman appears upon said pay roll, as a Lieutenant, with an allowance of thirty-six days' service annexed.
I further certify that the said pay roll appears to have been duly paid from the  Treasury of this state, by order of Council.
[seal affixed] Given under my hand and Seal of office at Montpelier, this the 11th day of September, A.D. 1839. 
/s/Chauncey L. Knapp, 
Secretary of State.
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I Elias Stevens of Royalton in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged eighty five years next October a Pensioner of the United States depose testify and say that I was well acquainted with Solomon Cushman late of Tunbridge deceased during the revolutionary war and with wife now widow Sarah Cushman who now resides in said Tunbridge and remains the widow of said Solomon. About the first of April 1778. the said Cushman and myself enlisted and entered the service of the United States in Col. Beedles (Bedel) Regiment for the term of one year the said Cushman was Captain of a Company and I was Lieutenant in s'd Company and we were marched to Albany N.Y. where we remained a part of the summer and then returned. - Gen Stark served at this term of service eight months often heard the Said Cushman often speak of Going to Canada in fall of 1775. and returning the Spring following. this, I have from him and those who went with him and I have no doubt of the fact but have no personal knowledge of it - the said Solomon Cushman was out on Scouting parties with me and I have no doubt that he was out in other terms of service. he was an active
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man and always was ready to go on express when any was wanting - I know that the said Solomon Cushman and the Said Sarah Cushman lived together as husband and wife from the time he came to Vermont. Some years before the Commencement of the Revolutionary war up to the time of his death - and that she now remains a widow.
/s/Elias Stevens
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} Royalton Sept 28th 1839 personally appeared the above named Elias Stevens a person well known to me as a credible witness and was sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me
/s/Samuel Shuttleworth Justice of the Peace
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} I Norman Williams, Clerk of the County Court within and for the county of Windsor in the state of Vermont, do hereby certify that Samuel Shuttleworth was on the 28th day of September last an acting justice of the peace within and for said county duly commissioned and qualified and that the commission under which he then acted is dated November 7. 1838 and expired on the thirtieth day of November last - and that his signatures on this and the next page are genuine - 
[court seal affixed] Given under my hand and the seal of said Court this 11th day of December AD 1839
/s/N. Williams Clerk
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I Sarah Stevens of Royalton in Windsor County & State of Vermont aged eighty six years next October depose & say that I have been acquainted with the widow Sarah Cushman and her husband Solomon Cushman ever since Childhood. we lived at Lebanon Crank in Connecticut and near neighbours. She was Sarah Curtiss before marriage and they were married by Eleazer Wheelock at Lebanon Crank several years before the Commencement of the Revolutionary war I cannot recollect the year. and they have always lived together as husband and wife ever since, till his death and she resides in Tunbridge Vermont & remains his widow 
/s/X her mark Sarah Stevens
Attest /s/Samuel Shuttleworth 
State of Vermont
Windsor County ss} Royalton Sept 28th 1839 
Personally appeared the above named Sarah Stevens a person well known to me as a credible witness and was sworn to and subscribed the foregoing affidavit before me
/s/Samuel Shuttleworth Justice of the Peace
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[addressed envelope]
[postmark: CHELSEA Vt. FEB 5] FREE
[margin notes: feb 10. 1841
In at Vt. Sarah Cushman]
Hon. J. L. Edwards
Commiss. Pensions
City of Washington D.C.
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[handwritten letter]
Chelsea Feby 4. 1841 - 

Hon J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir
I rec'd yours several weeks since in relation to the Application of Sarah Cushman for a pension under the act of 1836. Stating that certain periods were allowed of his services as Lieut & Capt. and that for these periods she could have a Certificate. I have conversed with the old lady on the subject, and she is very positive that her husband served, four or five times the length of which is proposed to be allowed him - I hope, Sir, you will have the goodness to reexamine her case and in consideration that her Statement is corroborated by proof & the Rolls in part - as to her husband's service - that you will be disposed to allow a portion of the time previous to what you have allowed. I shall not be able to furnish any more proof, and must there at present accept of a Certificate for whatever you may deem proper to allow - 
Resp. Sir you obt Serv't
/s/John W. Smith
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[handwritten letter]
Washington 27 Nov 1850

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comm. of Pensions

Sir
I beg leave to ask your attention to the application of Benjamin H. Cushman and Sarah Tyler for an increase in the Pension heretofore allowed to their late mother Sarah Cushman of Vermont, who was the widow of Solomon Cushman a Captain in the war of the revolution. 
It is believed there is on file abundant evidence to show more than two years service by Captain Cushman
Very Respy Your Obt Serv't
/s/Caleb B Smith
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[handwritten letter]
Washington Jan. 26, 1852.

Hon. Jas. E. Heath Com'r of Pensions. - 
Sir,
The accompanying letter from Wm. B. Tyler tells its own story. The purpose or the propriety of the desired information, I know nothing about. - If convenient to furnish the information and perfectly proper, by so doing you will much oblige.
Most respectfully, Your Ob't servant.
/s/Wm. Hebard
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[handwritten letter]
Hon. J. L. Edwards

Dear Sir
Enclosed I send you the application & evidence which I have been able to procure in the Case of Mrs Sarah Cushman of Tunbridge in this County. 
I have been delayed in forwarding her papers partly in anticipation of getting additional evidence especially in relation to the marriage, & partly by the great interruption in my business by protracted sickness in my family & the death of my wife - I have tried in vain to find any record of the marriage in Connecticut or get any return from the Town Clk of Lebanon Crank or Parish Register & hope in the absence of Record proof that the testimony of Gen. Stevens & Wife will be deemed sufficient - 
Please make return to me. 
I am well acquainted with the applicant and consider her case a very plain one & hope I shall soon hear a favourable return - 
Resp Sir your Obt Serv't
/s/John W. Smith
Chelsea Orange Co. (Vt.)
Nov 27th 1840.
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I Benjamin H Cushman of Tunbridge in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged 60 years depose and say that I am the son of Solomon & Sarah Cushman. that my father the s'd Solomon died at Thetford Vermont on the 12th day of November AD 1798. I was then 20 years old and have a distinct recollection of the event - I have lived ever since in the same family with my mother Sarah Cushman and she is still living and resides with me and has not been married since the decease of my said father Solomon Cushman but still remains his widow.
/s/Benj'n H Cushman
State of Vermont
Orange County ss} Tunbridge Oct. 1, 1838
Sworn to and subscribed before me
/s/John W. Smith Justice Peace
I also certify that the said Benjamin H. Cushman is a person well known to me as a credible witness
/s/John W. Smith Justice Peace
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I Cyrus C. Cushman of Tunbridge in the County of Orange and State of Vermont aged 57 years depose and say that I am the son of Solomon and Sarah Cushman. the said Sarah is an applicant for a pension. My father the said Solomon Cushman died at Thetford while the family resided in ['Vermont' crossed out] Tunbridge on the 12th day of November AD 1798. I was then seventeen years of age and have a distinct recollection of the event - my mother the said Sarah Cushman is still living and resides with my brother Benj'n H Cushman, in the same neighbourhood with me and has not been married since the decease of my father Solomon Cushman but still remains his widow - 
/s/Cyrus C. Cushman
State of Vermont
Orange County ss} Tunbridge Oct. 1, 1838 - 
Sworn to and subscribed before me
/s/John W. Smith, Justice Peace
I also certify that the said Cyrus Cushman is a person well known to me as a credible witness 
/s/John W. Smith, Justice Peace
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I Solomon Hazen of Hartford in the County of Windsor and State of Vermont aged 79 years Last November, depose testify and say that I was well acquainted with Solomon Cushman formerly of Norwich, Vermont, who deceased several years since and I have also been acquainted with his wife Sarah Cushman now residing in Tunbridge Vermont. In the spring of 1778 in April according to my best recollection, I enlisted in the Company of the said Solomon Cushman who was Captain for the term of one year in Col. Bedel's Regiment, John Wheelock, Lt. Col. Elias Stevens 1st Lt. of the Company and I was out in his company at Albany & in the fort at Royalton and out on Scouting Expeditions about 8 months. when the regiments were dismissed, we were paid for 8 months service. I was out at the taking of Burgoyne in the fall of 1777. in Capt Joshua Hazen's Company, & I understood that s'd Cushman was there as a Lieutenant in Capt Bush's Company. 
I know that the said Cushman was out in the service at different times when I was out for several years but I cannot specify the particular periods of service - the s'd Cushman lived within half a mile of my father's from the time I was 14 years old until after the close of the Revolutionary war, and I was intimately acquainted with him & his wife Sarah Cushman and I know her still to be the widow of said Cushman. they lived together as man and wife and raised a family of Children. her name was Curtiss before marriage and I was well acquainted with her brother Capt. Abel Curtiss - and the other members of her father's family - 
/s/Solomon Hazen
Sworn to & Subscribed at Chelsea in Orange County July 5, 1839.
before me /s/John W. Smith, Justice Peace
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State of Vermont
Orange County ss} I Jason Steele Notary Public within and for the County of Orange aforesaid hereby certify that John W. Smith the magistrate before whom the foregoing affidavits were taken is a Justice of a Peace within and for the County of Orange duly commissioned and qualified and that he was in Commission as a Justice of the Peace  as afs'd at the time of the taking of the afs'd Affidavits and duly qualified to administer oaths - and that the foregoing signatures purporting to be his are genuine
[court seal affixed] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Office at Chelsea in said County this twenty fourth day of August AD 1840
/s/Jason Steele Notary Public
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[handwritten letter]
Washington 16 Dec. 1850

Dr Sir
I am informed that Mr Cole has examined the papers of Sarah Cushman, widow of Sol. Cushman Vt. & will report in favour of it, but has not time at present, to make out a report.
I am very anxious that this case should be disposed of as soon as possible & shall be greatly obliged to you if you can take the papers & make an examination of them
Very respy
/s/Caleb B Smith
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[handwritten letter]
The Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium
Boulder, Colorado, Jan 19, 1914. 
[receipt stamp: U.S. PENSION OFFICE. D JAN 22 1914]
Com. of Pen. 
Washington, D.C. 

Dear Sir: Have you any record of a pension being granted to Solomon Cushman of Tunbridge, Vt. for his service during the Revolutionary War. he was a sergeant one year, a Lieutenant and Captain for two years.
He was born Aug. 2, 1745 and died some time during the year of 1799. He was married May 26, 1768. At the time of his enlistment he lived in Norwich Vt. I do not know what troop, regiment, or squadron in which he was
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[handwritten letter]
The Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium
Boulder, Colorado,

enlisted. 
I have obtained the foregoing information from the Cushman Genealogy which is a relic in our present family. 
I am very much interested in this matter, and if you can add or correct any of these statements. I would consider it a great favor as I am seeking admission to the Sons of the American Revolution
Yours Sincerely 
/s/Earl Cushman Selloes.
332 Mapleton Hill
Boulder Colo.
Jan. 19. 1914.
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BUREAU OF PENSIONS Finance Division
April 10, 1928
Chief Rev & 1812 Division.
I have this day received from A. W. DeGoosh Cash in the amount of $ 15 cts, requesting photostat copy as per letter herewith. 
O. J. RANDALL
Chief, Finance Division.
J.N.K.
[overwritten: Apri. 14 1928 Copy sent out Finance Div. notified]
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[handwritten letter]
April 9, 1928

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Sir:
Please send me photostatic copy of one page, not certified, from Revolutionary War pension claim, W.17675, Solomon Cushman, widow, Sarah.

A. W. DeGoosh
c/o U.S. Shipping Board
Washington D.C. 

Received payment
Fifteen cents 
April 9, 1928
W. C. Stokes
Rev. & 1812 War Section
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1-681 [overwritten initials: CPS] 
SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE PHONE Branch 476 
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 22575
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work. 
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON 
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137. 192[blank] April 9, 1928 192[blank]
Please furnish work specified below. 
Bureau ordering PENSION Deliver to Room No. 5033 
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.) 
Title and description of job photostatic copy of one page from the Revolutionary War pension claim, W.17675, Solomon Cushman, widow Sarah.
No. of copies one Shall form be kept standing? [blank] [blank] days 
For further information see M.M.H. Finch Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541 
Approved: A. D. Wilkinson Actg. Chief Clerk of Bureau. /s/Margaret M. H. Finch Chief of Branch or Division 
NOTE: No order made "SPECIAL" unless statement showing necessity is written below and approved by Chief Clerk of Bureau ordering [blank] 
CHECK WORK DESIRED 
Duplicate 
Multigraph single of double space? [blank] Facsimile signature [blank] 
Mimeograph one side or both sides? [blank] Facsimile signature? [blank] 
Folding once or twice? [blank] 
Assembling 
Stapling Once? [blank] Twice? [blank] Side? [blank] End? [blank] 
Electric typewriter Fill in addresses? [blank] Dated? [blank] 
Addressograph from lists 
Envelopes, size [blank] Cards, size [blank] 
Proof list [blank] Pay rolls [blank] 
Labels (submit sample) [blank] Corrections [blank] 
Fill in letters [blank] Tabulation sheets [blank] 
Photostat x Size actual Official use? [blank] Repay? yes $0.15
Blue Print Size [blank] Official use? [blank] Repay? [blank] $[blank] 
Remarks [blank] 
(OVER)
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NOTE: Routine changes of addresses may be made on this blank without formal reference through or initialing of chiefs of branches or chief clerks of bureaus. [blank] 192[blank] (Date) 
INDICATE BY AN X IN PROPER SQUARE ACTION TO BE TAKEN. 
ロMake new addressograph plate } 
ロChange present addressograph plate } On list [blank] 
ロDestroy present addressograph plate } 
as follows: 
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FOR USE OF DUPLICATING AND ADDRESSING SECTION 
ADDRESSOGRAPH 
The above change was made [blank] 192[blank]. Operator [blank] 
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[typewritten letter]
[initials: MBH]
Rev. War. Section.

January 26, 1914. 

Mr. Earl Cushman Selloes,
332 Mapleton Hill,
Boulder, Colo.

Sir: - 
In addition to the military history of Solomon Cushman, Wid. File 17,675, Rev. War, you are furnished the following family data from the papers on file:
Solomon Cushman married May 26, 1768, Sarah Curtiss.
Died Nov. 12, 1798  Died June 18, 1842. 
Sarah born August 29, 1769, married James Tyler.
Solomon (illegible)  "  ---- 10, 1772.
Benjamin  "  ---- 26 1775, died July 4, 1777.
Benjamin Homes  "  Sept. 26, 1778, married Dec. 13, 1807 Phebe 
Cyrus Curtis  "  October 14, 1781.
Jemima  "  December 12, 1785.
Benjamin H. Cushman and Sarah Tyler, widow of James Tyler only surviving children in 1850.
Grandchildren. 
Benjamin Cushman born January 9, 1811.
Lysander Cushman  "  April 28, 1812.
Maria Cushman  "  June 6, 1813.
George Prevost Cushman  "  Jan. 29, 1814. 
Valmore Brock  "  September 14, 1817.
Earl Percy  "  November 29, 1818.
Solomon Cushman  "  March 1, 1821. 
William Amos Cushman  "  November 24, 1822.
Harper Gurney  "  July 28, 1824.
Sarah Phebe  "  May 30, 183-.

Very respectfully,
/s/G. M. Saltzgaber
Commissioner,