Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23,901, Jonathan Cushman, Mass.

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(3-1776)
SERVICE
Mass.
Cushman, Jonathan
NUMBER
W. 23,901
Elizabeth
CONTENTS

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1565
Maine
Elizabeth Cushman decd.
Widow of Jonathan
who died on the [blank] 
of [blank] in State of Maine
who was a Pri & Sgt in the [blank] commanded by Captain [blank] of the  [blank] commanded by [blank] in the Revolution
for 5 Mos 4 days Private
7 mos 18 days Sergeant

Inscribed on the Roll of Portland
at the rate of 55 Dollars 60 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836. End 4" March 1841

Certificate of Pension issued the 10th day of
Octr. 1853 and Sent to
Hon H. Hamlin
Senate US.

Arrears to the 4th of {blank}
Semi-annual allowance ending
he died on 30 Jany 1842

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 7, 1838. }

H.R. Weightman Clerk 
Book D. Vol 1. Page 23

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[handwritten checkmark]
14.767
Elizabeth Cushman
Wid. of Jonathan
July 7th 1838


Hon. H. Hamlin
U. S. S.

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State of Maine
County of Oxford SS.
On this third of August in the year 1852 personally appeared before the Court of Probate held at Paris within and for said County Elizabeth Martin a resident of Turner in said County of Oxford aged fifty nine years who being first sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7th 1838 that she is the child [illegible] daughter of Jonathan and Elizabeth Cushman late of said Turner deceased. That she believes her late father the said Jonathan Cushman served many Campaigns during the Revolutionary war. that he was a resident of Kingston Massachusetts during said war, that she have often heard him speak of being in the service of his Country during said war at Cambridge and Rhode Island and other places the particular names she does not now recollect, that soon after his service in said war he

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was married to Elizabeth of Plympton that in the year 1789 as she has been informed by her parents aforesaid they (her parents) removed to the State of Maine and soon into the town of Turner where they lived until the sixth day of April 1814 when her father the said Jonathan Cushman died having her mother the said Elizabeth Cushman lived a widow until the thirteenth day of January in the year 1842 at which time she died in said town of Turner and she makes this declaration for herself an in behalf of the serving children of the said Elizabeth Cushman to wit Artemas Cushman, Hosea Cushman, Benson Cushman, Bradford Cushman and this declarant for the purpose of obtaining the amount of pension due their mother, the said Elizabeth Cushman under the Act aforesaid at the time of her death
[signature] Elizabeth Martin
Subscribed and sworn to on the day and year first above written in Open Court Before Me 
Job Prince Judge

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State of Maine
County of Oxford ss.
I George K Shaw register of the Court of Probate in and for said County being a Court of record herby certify that Job Prince whose proper signature id affixed to the foregoing declaration of Elizabeth Martin and the Affidavit of Abigail Record Tina Bradford and Ebenezer Cushman is Judge of said Court and that full faith and according to his oath as such in and our of Court -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the Seal of said Court and subscribe my name this seventeenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two - 
[signature] 
Geo. K. Shaw

[illegible seal]

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
Plymouth County, Town of Plympton
The following Marriages consummated by Rev. Ezra Sampson
Jonathan Cushman to Elizabeth Whitten December thirteenth, seventeen hundred and eighty 
"I certify that the above is a true Coppy of the record, with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in fair legible figures, as follows:
"December 13th 1780.Wm. H. Soule Town Clerk
I, Wm. H. Soule, 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 coppy from the records of said town, with the
exception above named, as certified by me Wm. H. Soule Town Clerk
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me, this fifth day of August AD. 1852 Isaac Wright 
}Justice of the Peace

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss.

I certify that Isaac Wright before whom the accompanying acknowledgement was made, was at the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace for the said County, duly authorized to administer oaths and take acknowledgements, and that his signature thereto is genuine
Witness my hand and the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of the said Commonwealth
for Plymouth County this ninth day of August A.D. 1852
Wm H. Whitman  (signature)
Clerk of the said Court

[seal]

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I, Ebenezer Cushman of Paris in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged Seventy years on oath depose and say that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Cushman who was an uncle of mine, and Elizabeth Cushman his wife late of Turner in said County that I resided within forty rods of said
Jonathan Cashman when he resided in the town of Kingston, Mass that I was a small boy when they removed to Maine not more than seven or eight years old that I removed
to the State of Maine in the year 1814 and was well acquainted with them till the time of their death, that the said Jonathan Cushman died, according to my best recollection in the spring after I removed to Maine in
February, that his widow the said Elizabeth Cashman died in said Turner about to years since that I was at her house a short time before her death and think she died in the winter of 1842 that she left the following as her only surviving children to wit Artimas Cushman, Hosea Cushman Benson Cushman Bradford Cushman and Elizabeth Martin 
Ebenezer Cushman (signature)

State of Maine
County of Oxford ss. August 3d 1852 
personally appeared Ebenezer Cushman a credible witness and made oath as to the truth of the above affidavit by her subscribed
Before me  Job Prince Judge of Probate for @ County

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Revy
WIDOW, &c.
No. 23901
Elizabeth Cushman
Wid of
Jonathan Cushman
Sergt Rev War
---
Act July 7th 1838

index: Vol A , Page 163

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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14,767

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Will the com, please inform me where Elizabeth Cushman resides, & who is her atty, so I can forward the accompaning letter to her - The
the paper on file I believe will give the information
[illegible]
H. Hamlin

Please return letter with your reply
Comm of Pen [Commissioner of Pensions]

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No 14.7677.
Elizabeth Cushman
dec. widow of Jonathan
me [Maine}
Hon H Hamlin Dec 11 1852
Same June 24 1853

act July 7 1838

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11565

Maine
Elizabeth Cushman decd
widow of Jonathan
who died on the [blank]
of [blank] in the State of
Maine
who was a Private in the [blank] commanded
by Captain [blank]
commanded by [blank]
in Revolution
for 12 mo. 22 days

Inscribed on the Roll of Portland
at the rate of 42 Dollars and 45 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 4th day of
March, 1836. & Eng 4 March 1841

Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd day of Sept. 1853  and sent to 
Hon H Hamlin
of Hampden Maine

Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semiannual allowance ending [blank]

She died in '42 - 30th Jany

Revolutionary Claim,
Act July 7, 1838.}

H. R. Weightman Clerk,
Book Dv Vol. 1. Page 23

[Across the page is written the word "Cancelled."]

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Sept 7 mos & 8ds
Pri 5 mos & 4 ds }

Married 1780
He died 1874.
Elizabeth Cushman died 30 Jany. 1842
Artemas Cushman, Hosea Cushman, Benson Cushman,  Bradford Cushman, Elizabeth Martin
X there not mentioned in certificate Clerk Errors. They occur in all the evidence and
his certificates


[seal]
STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY SS. 

Clerk's Office of the Supreme Judical Court.

I Hereby Certify, That Job Prince was at the date of the annexed attestation, a Justice of the Peace, within and for the COUNTY OF OXFORD, in said State, duly commissioned and qualified to administer oaths, and take acknowledgements of deeds, and other instruments in writing, and that the signature to the certificates annexed, purporting to be his, is genuine, and that to his acts and attestations as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the Official Seal of said Court, and subscribed my name, this fifteenth day of March A. D. 1853
Clerk of said Court,
E. Winter (signature

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State of Maine
Probate Court
County of Oxford} SS.

Be it known that on this fifteenth day of March in the year 1853 It has been satisfactorily proved in open Court, being a Court of Record that Elizabeth Cashman late of Turner in said County was the widow of Jonathan Cushman late of said Turner and that she died on the thirtieth day of January 1842 and that she left Artemas Cushman, Benson Cushman, Bradford Cushman, Hosea Cashion & Elizabeth Martin as her only surviving children, and that said children are now living 

[seal]
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of said Court and subscribed my name this fifteenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
Geo. K. Shaw. (signature) 
Register of Probate for said County

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"Elizabeth Cushman widow of Jonathan Cushman died January thirtieth eighteen hundred forty two"
I certify that the above is a true extract from the Records of the town of Turner with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows "January 30th 1842"

Hira Bradford Town Clerk


I Hira Bradford on oath depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk of the town of Turner in the County of Oxford and State of Maine and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town with the exception as above certified by me
Hira Bradford
State of Maine
County of Oxford SS. August 16th 1852

Subscribed and sworn to
Before me Job Prince Judge of Probate for said County

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"Jonathan Cushman died April Sixth eighteen hundred fourteen"
I certify that the above is a true extract from the Records of the town of Turner with the exception of the date which is expressed on the Record in fair legible figures as follows "April 6th 1814"
Hira Bradford Town Clerk  (signature)

I Hira Bradford on oath depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the town of Turner in the County of Oxford and State of Maine and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town with the exception as above certified by me
Hira Bradford (signature)

State of Maine
County of Oxford} SS. August 16th 1852
Subscribed and sworn to Before Me
Job Prince Judge of Probate for said County (signature)

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Payment to be made at Portland
by Geo. F. Emery
Agent for paying pensioners in the Agency of Maine

Recorded in the Pension Office, in Book D. Volume 1. Page 23. by

H.R. Weightman (signature)  Clerk.

[written faintly under the signature}
entered in com off******

[Across the page is written the word "Cancelled."]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Claim for Military Service.

I certify that, in conformity with the line of the United States, of the 7th July 1838, Elizabeth Cushman, decd. widow of Jonathan Cushman, who was a private in the Revolution, was entitled
to pension, and having died on the 30th of January 1842, her only surviving children Artemas Cushman, Benson Cushman, 
Bradford Cushman, Hosea Cushman and Elizabeth Martin are entitled to the amount at the rate of forty two , 45/100 dollars per annum from 4 March 1836 to 4 March 1841.

Cancelled

Given at the Department of the Interior this twenty third day of September one thousand eight hundred and fifty three
R. McClelland
Secretary of the Interior
Cancelled

Examined and
Countersigned

L.P. Waldo
Commissioner of Pensions.

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Aug 23. 1812
Please examine the case of Elisabeth Martin herewith sent you & let me know the result-
Yr Ob Sr
H. Hamlin
Com. of Pen

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Elizabeth Cushman, decd,
widow of Jonathan Cushman
Maine
She died 30 Jany 1842
N July 7. 1838

Admitted
Private 12 mos
sergeant 7 m 18 das
Private 5 m 4 das
22 das - from March
4. 1836.5 years-

at  $55.60 per annum
only surviving children.
Artemas Cushman
Benson Cushman,
Bradford Cushman,
Hosea Cushman, and
Elizabeth Martin.

Enclose certificate to
Hon Hannibal Hamlin
Hampden
Maine

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Brief in the case of Elizabeth Cushman, dec'd, widow of Jonathan, Oxford ounty and State of Maine
Act July 7. 1838.

Claim, "original" 

Proof exhibited, (if original.)
s it documentary, or supported by Rolls ? If either, state the substance. 
Service - Documentary-
Marriage & Deaths
Record & Parol
Identity - Parol & circumstantial
children surviving - Parol, duly certified

(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?


Name and residence of Agent
Hon. Hannibal Hamlin (signature)
Hampden Me

S. G. Dodge (signature)
Examining Clerk

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Turner (Me) Oct 24. 1833

Sir -
A Pension Certificate was issued from the Dept of the Interior bearing date the 23d of Sept 1853, for the amount
due Elizabeth Cashman decd, said Certificate was number 11.565 and payable to Artemas Cashman, Benson Cashman, Bradford Cushman, Hosea Cushman & Elizabeth Martin "at the rate of forty two 42/100  dollars per annum from 4 March 1836 to 4 March 1841" And my object in this communication is to call your attention to the proof of service accompanying the application
of Elizabeth Martin on which said Certificate was issued, and see if there is not an error in casting the amount to which they are entitled. I think it is not enough by more than twelve
dollars per annum - will you reexamine, and inform me whether or not there is an error and Oblige
Your Obt Sert
Job Prince

LP Waldo 
Coms of Pensions

L P Waldo
Court of Pension

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Elizabeth Cushman
deceased
Me
Brief

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Elizabeth Cushman, decd widow of Jonathan
Oxford Co. Maine July 7. 1838 -

Service 7 mos 18 d & 4.M. 28 das & 6 das
Private 12 mos 22das

Certified by Secy of State of Mass.
The 2 last tours of service identified by declaration made to procure the certificate, and the 1st tour more general & not directly identified; yet rendered probable as being in the vicinity of R.I. claimed, in the adjoining County to that in which Jonathan lived and at the same point at which  the roll of his last service was dated, leaving the inference that it also was regarded as R.I. service; and if so, it comes within the description of service claimed before the date of the Secy's certificate.

Death of Jonathan, Apl 6 1814, of Widow Jany 30. 1842, and marriage Decr 13, 1780, proved by town records- 
Identity, parol & circumstantial surviving children - duly certified - Artemas, Benson, Bradford & Hosea Cushman, & Elizth Martin.

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I am well acquainted with Job Prince & Hira
Bradford - Job Prince is a Jus. of the Peace, & his signature is genuine
Mr Bradford is a worthy & credible man & his statements are entitled full faith & credit
H Hamlin

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Pension Office
June 24th 1853

Sir
I have the honor to inform you that a certificate of Court has been received, intended to show the date of the death of Elizabeth Cushman, widow of Jonathan, of Maine, and the number and names of the children surviving her, and I find that it appears from it, that only three children survive; whereas, an affidavit accompanying the original papers, shows that there were five living some time since.  The Court must furnish the evidence upon which it based its certificate.   No agent is mentioned in the papers.   You filed them last year.
I have the honor to be,
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Svt,
LP Waldo (signature) 
Commissioner


Hon. H. Hamlin
Hampden, Maine

[sideways]
Error - The name included but overlooked

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Elizabeth Cushman widow of Jonathan Cushman died January 30th 1842
A true copy of record Attest  Hira Bradford Town Clerk

I Hira Bradford on oath depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the town of Turner in the county of Oxford and State of Maine which office I have held more than twenty years last past and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town of Turner and I further say that I was well acquainted with the said Elizabeth Cushman, deceased, and made the record of her death myself; and that she left Artemas Cushman, Benson Cushman, Bradford Cushman, Hosea Cushman, and Elizabeth Martin as her only surviving children and that the said Artemas, Benson, Bradford, Hosea, and Elizabeth are still living

Hira Bradford
State of Maine
County of Oxford, July 18th 1853
Then personally appeared Hira Bradford, well known to me as a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him described before me
Job Prince Justice of the Peace

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State of Maine Probate Court
County of Oxford SS
Be it known that on this nineteenth day of July in the year Eighteen hundred fifty three; it has been satisfactorily proved in open Court being a Court of Record by the foregoing affidavit of Hira Bradford that Elizabeth Cushman widow of Jonathan Cushman late of Turner, died in Turner on the thirtieth day of January in the year Eighteen hundred forty two, and that she left Artemas Cushman Benson Cushman Bradford Cushman, Hosea Cushman and Elizabeth Martin as her only surviving children, and that said children are still living 

And I further certify that the same facts were proved in this Court at a former session and a certificate ordered to be made thereof, and if not made in conformity to the facts proved (as suggested by the letter of L.P. Waldo Commissioner hereto annexed) it was an error of the Clerk in making the Certificate 

In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the official seal of said Court and subscribed my name the day and year first above written Timothy Ludden Judge

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I, Jacob Bailey of Leeds in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine on oath depose and say that I am in the eighty second year of my age and that I became acquainted with Jonathan Cushman late of Turner in the County of Oxford in this State deceased in the year 1787 and continued to be intimately acquainted with him to the time of his death which took place according to my best recollection in the year 1814, that when I first became acquainted with him the said Cushman he resided in the town of Kingston in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and was then reputed to have been a Revolutionary soldier, that he removed into this State some sixty four or sixty five years ago and moved on to a farm that he purchased of me (which was a possessory right) he subsequently moved into the town of Turner where he died as before stated leaving a widow by the name of Elizabeth who died about ten years ago in the same town
Jacob Bailey

State of Main County of Oxford February 9th 1853 then personally appeared Jacob Bailey a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him subscribed. Before me
Job Prince Justice of the Peace

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I Robert Fuller of Sumner in the County of Oxford aged sixty four years on oath depose and say that I was well acquainted with Jonathan Cushman late of Turner in said County of Oxford that he was reputed to have been a Revolutionary Soldier that my mother was a sister of the said Jonathan Cushman and I have often heard her relate many incidents in relation to his service in the Revolutionary war, that he was a resident of Kingston in the Commonwealth of Mass during said war. I have frequently heard her speak of his the said Cushman suffering in the Company at Cambridge guarding the captive troops, that he was attacked with the small pox while there and came very near loosing his life. that my mother is now dead and that the said Jonathan Cushman died in said Turner according to my best recollection in the Spring of 1814 and that his widow with whom I was also well acquainted died in Turner aforesaid in the winter of 1842 and that I am acquainted with her children by Artemas Hosea Benson, Bradford and Elizabeth Martin whom she left and that they are now living 
Robert Fuller 

State of Maine Oxford ss. March 9th 1853. Then personally appeared Robert Fuller a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the above affidavit by him Subscribed Before Me Job Prince Justice of the Peace

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I Abigail Record of Brookfield in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged Eighty six years on oath depose and say that in the year 1789 I removed into the State of Maine with Jonathan Cushman late of Turner deceased, that we moved from Kingston Mass and that I made it my home in the family of said Cushman for many years after he removed to Turner that he the said Jonathan Cushman died in Turner nearly forty years age and that his widow Elizabeth Cushman died in said Turner about ten years ago, that I was acquainted with the said Jonathan and his and Elizabeth Cushman before they moved to this State and ever since to the time of their death and that the names of their surviving children are Artemas Cushman Hosea Cushman, Benson Cushman Bradford Cushman and Elizabeth Martin. That the said Jonathan and Elizabeth Cushman were married some years before they moved into this state and had four children then living Abigail her X mark Record

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State of Maine Oxford County July 15th 1852 
Then personally appeared Abigail Record a credible witness and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by her subscribed Before me Job Prince Judge of Probate for said County

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Commonwealth of Massachusetts Secretary's Office, Boston June 19 1852. 

I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears of that the name Jonathan Cushman is borne On rolls of the Company of Capt. Benjamin Dillingham Stationed at Dartmouth in Sea Court defence, as Sergeant, from April 16. 1776. 7 months & 18 days

On roll of Capt. Ebenezer Washburn's Co. Col. Brooks to Regt of Guards, at Cambridge, as private from Nov. 1777 to Apl. 3. 1778 "4
 mos & 28 days"

On roll of Capt. Henry Sennes Co., Col. Hathaway Regt. on Rhode Island Service from Aug 2 1784. 6 days Roll dated at Dartmouth 

[sideways: That requisite 6 mos service rot allow any pension]

There appears to be no further evidence of the service of any one of the name.

*This service was performed by Jonathan Cushman S. File 29, 744 who was pensioned for it in 1833 thus it will be seen that this woman's pension was erroneously allowed to her children, their father having died in 1814. July 8, 1918
J.S.C.

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The Secretary of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Roles in this
office of the service of my late Father
Jonathan Cushman of Kingston Mass
in the war of the revolution-
He resided in the town of Kingston
during the revolution and it is believed
that the said Jonathan Cushman served
in a number of Campaigns during said
war, that he served one Campaign under
Capt. Ebenezear Washburn at Cambridge &
in the Vicinity of Boston and also, at
Rhode Island but I do not know who
he served under -The
Secretary is requested to furnish all the
information of his service during said
war in whatever capacity as it is believed
he served in many campaigns,
but I am not able to state which [illegible] or the
place of service or names of the officers
more particularly,
Witness my hand this tenth day of May 1852
Elizabeth Martin
Signed by the said Elizabeth Martin daughter
of Jonathan Cushman in my presence
Ezekiel Martin Justice of the Peace

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And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence
of said facts, the application hereto annexed
was filed in this
Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the
search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said
application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts
and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal
of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
[Illegible] Walker
Secretary of the Commonwealth