Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 33896, Cuff Whittemore, Continental Mass.
Page 1

(8-1776)
SERVICE

Continental     Whittemore Cuff (colored) S. 
                                                       33896
Mass
________________________________________________
CONTENTS
Page 2

[left side of page]

13,956
R
Massachusetts

Cuff Whittemore
of West Cambridge in the state of Massachusetts
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by
Colonel Shepherd of the Massachusetts
line for the term of yy war

Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts
at the rate of 8. Dollars per month, to commence on
the 1 of April 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 10 of July 1819 and sent to 
Judge Davis,
Boston

Arrears to 4th of March 1819          |   89~3
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819 |   48~
                                                         $137.3
Deed
Jan 26, 1826

Continued
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}

[right side of page, written vertically]

Notification sent to Abraham Bigelow on
22d September, 1820, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Page 3

[handwritten]

No 138
Cuff Whittemore
yy war
Shepard Mass'tts
Regt
Inape certificate as to claimants circumstances wants
Page 4

To the Hon^ble, John Davis Esq^r & District Judge of the US in Massachusetts district &cc ---
[illegible line of text]
Respectfully makes known, Cuff Whittemore of ^ [illegible] Cambridge [illegible] District
that he is intitled to a Pention agreeable to an Act of Congress and he hereby [crossed out: affirms] makes oath that he was a Soldier in the Army of the US in the Revolutionary war and that he Enlisted when about Twenty two years of age - in the year Seventeen hundred and Seventy five in the month of May and Served in a Company Commanded by Capt. Benj^n Lock of Cambridge which Company was arranged in the Regiment Commanded by Col. W^m Bond - in the first Eight Months Servis - and in May following he again Inlisted with Capt Agony in Said Colnl Bonds Regiment for one year: at the End thereof I again Inlisted under Capt Pope in the fourth Rigement [sic] Commanded By Col. Shepherd During the war & Continued in the Service until the End of the war and Received an Honorable discharg [sic] = I am now nearly Seventy years of age without any property or any of the Common Comforts of life
West Cambridge April 1 1818

Cuff X [his Mark] Whittemore

Massachusetts District Ss.}
Boston 1 April  AD.  1818}
     Sworn to before me 
            [Signature] M Davis
                          Dis't Judge
                          Mass. Dis't
Page 5

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, ss.
Boston September 22 A.D. 1818
IT appearing to my satisfaction that Cuff Whittemore
subscriber to the annexed declaration, sworn to before me, did serve in the revolutionary
war against the common enemy, as stated in said declaration, I now transmit the testimony
in the case, with the proceedings had thereon, to the Secretary of the department of
war, pursuant to the directions of the Act entitled "An Act to provide for certain persons
engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary
war;" the testimony and proceedings in the premises being the declaration aforesaid,
with the document [illegible]
together with this certificate.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the
seal of the District Court of the United States for this District
to be hereunto affixed.
[signature of M Davis]
Judge of the District Court U.S.
Massachusetts District.
Page 6

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, 88.

8 May 1819.
I AM satisfied that the above named, Cuff Whittemore by reason
of his reduced circumstances in life, is in need of assistance from his Country for support.

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF WAR.

[signature of Jno Davis
District Judge U.S.
Massachusetts Dist.
Page 7

36
Cuff Whitemore
Charleston
13956
July 1819
[illegible]
1820
Page 8

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
MIDDLESEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Concord, within and for the Country of Middlesex, on the second Monday of June A.D. 182 [illegible]
Before the Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Esquire, Chief Justice, and WILLIAM WETMORE, and STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires, WILLIAM WETMORE, and STEPHEN MINOT, Esquires Associate Justices of said Court.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Cuff Whittemore resident at Charlestown in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 13956 now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit, WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM. I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818, Cuff Whittemore late a Private in the army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of eight dollars per month, to commence on the first day of April  one thousand eight hundred and eighteen L.S. Given at the War Office of the United States, this tenth day of July one thousand eight hundred and nineteen 
J.C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE, containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding expected, to wit, He has not any estate real of personal being one of the paupers of the said town of Charlestown He served faithfully during the Revolutionary war in the Massachusetts line and was regularly discharged at the end of same he is seventy five years of age and very infirm and has no family and is unable to support himself reference is requested for an account of his services in the Revolutionary war, to his original declaration on file in the War department he being now incapable of describing them from age and great bodily and mental infirmity
Page 9

except that being a prisoner when General Burgoyne and his Army were captured and ordered to take care of his Carger for a few moments he mounted him + returned to the American Camp, he is a man of colour.

Cuff Whittemore + his mark

Sworn to + declared before Wm Wetmore Judge &c.
Page 10

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon.Wm. Wetmorea Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,

I, Cuff Whittemoredo solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and 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 threreby 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 eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, 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. So help me GOD.

Cuff Whittemore + his mark 

Middlesex ss. C.C.C.P.JuneTerm, A.D. 1820 

Then the abovenamedCuff Whittemore 
took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me,
Wm. WetmoreJudge of said Court.

I, ABRAHAM BIGLOW, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify, that the foregoing Oath, and 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 hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Cambridge, in said County of Middlesex, on this 20th day ofJuly 1820 

Attr.Abraham Biglow [/handwritten]
Page 11

October 31, 1931

BA-J/EEL

The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 33896, based upon the military service of Cuff Whittemore, in that war.

Cuff Whittemore, a man of color, enlisted, place not stated, in May, 1775, and servedeight months as a private in Captain Benjamin Locke's Company, Colonel William Bond's Massachusetts Regiment; in the following May, he re-enlisted served in Captain Daniel Egery's Company, Colonel William Bond's Massachusetts Regiment, length of service one year; and at the termination of this service again enlisted served in Captain Pope's Company, Colonel Shepard's Fourth Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged at the close of the war. It was stated that he was a prisoner at the time of Burgoyne's surrender and was ordered to take care of his charger for a few moments, when he mounted the charger and made his escape to the American Army.

He was allowed pension on his application executed April 1, 1818, aged nearly seventy years.

In 1820, he was a resident of Charlestown, Massachusetts, and then stated that he was aged seventy-five years.

He died January 26, 1826.

There are no data as to his family.

---------

This history to be furnished if ever called for.
It was written just to have a record of negroes.
Page 12

33896 

Rev  INVALID.

File No. [handwritten] 33896
Cuff Whittemore
Priv Rev War 

Act: 18th March 18-- 
Index:---Vol.  2, Page  450 

[ Arrangement of 1870 ]
Page 13

depotiseon of Solomon Bowman

A
Page 14

I Solomon Bowman being Calld on to depose do Testify and Say that in the Month of May 1775 Being then a Leutnant in the Earmy of the then United States I Inlisted a Black man By the name of Cuff Whittemore in the Eight months Service and he Served out the Term Inlisted for as a Good Soldier and in the Month of March or April 1776 I Continued as Leut in the Same Regiment as in the Year 1775 and Said Cuff Whittemore again Inlisted into Capt Daniel Agery's Company of whome I was the first Leut in the year Served and the Said Cuff Served his full time out and did his duty as a Good Soldier - and at the End of Said year Served I Continued no longer in the Army but I  understood that Said Cuff Whittemore Inlisted again into the Army of the United States during the war and that he did not Return home until the peace took place or at the End of the war and that he had an Hon-- Discharg and that Said Cuff is now living and in needy Circumstances - and further Sayeth not

Solomon Bowman

Middlesex Is Town of west Cambridge Sept 24 1818---
[illegible] personally appeared before one Solomon Bowman ---
and made Solomon oath that the above deposition [crossed out] the above [/crossed out]
by him Subscribed Contains the whole truth and nothing but the truth Relative to Such nature & things as in there is Contained

J Wellington Justice of the peace