Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 35870, Mathew Cummings, Va.

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

[3-1776]

SERVICE
Va [Virginia]

Cummings, Mathew
or
Cummins, Matthew

NUMBER
S35870

CONTENTS

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

6428
Kentucky [large] 4

Mathew Cummings
of ..... Co. in the State of Kentucky
who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Hawes of the Virginia line for the term of Two years

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of November 1818

Certificate of Pension issued the 3 of Febr [February] 1819 and sent to Hon. W. Robertson House of Representatives

[crossed out Arrears to the 4th of Sept. 1818]
Semi=anl. [annual] all’ce [allowance] ending 4 March 1819 29.83
$29.83

{Revolutionary Claim}
{Act 18th March, 1818}

[Illegible very light writing]

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller’s Office,
August 2d, 1839

Sir:

Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled “An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States,” Six of nine chile”n [children] of Mathew Cummings a Pensioner on the Roll of the Kentucky Agency, at the rate of eight Dollars [crossed out and    Cents] per month, under the law of the 18th March 1818, have been paid that part of his pension at this Department from the 4th of March 1833, to the 8th Aug. 1833, the day of his death.

Respectfully, yours,
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner Of Pensions,
Present.

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[The following is so faded that it is scarcely legible. Certified in Mercer County KY, 13 Nov 1818] I Mathew Cummins do hereby state on oath that on the 15th day of July 1780 I enlisted with Capt. Thomas Overton of the 2 d Virginia Regiment of the continental line in the revolutionary war commanded by Col Sam’l Haws [sic: Samuel Hawes] and was afterwards transfer’d [transferred] into Capt. John Denham’s [Archibald Denham’s?] company of the 1st Virginia Regt commanded by Col Rh. Campbell [Richard Campbell] & then march’d [marched] to the South to the aid of Genl. [Nathanael] Greene as a regular soldier the place where I enlisted was at Charlotte courthouse, in the state of Virginia. I was in the battle of Guilford [Guilford Courthouse NC, 15 Mar 1781] and was again transferd [transferred] to Capt. Sansoms [probably Philip Sansum’s] company of the said 1st virginia Reg’t [Virginia Regiment] & was march’d [marched] to the battle of the Eutaw Springs under Brigadier Genl [General Isaac] Huger and was there taken prisoner on the 8th day of Septr [September] 1781 having originally entered for eighteen months & having served faithfully as a regular soldier [illegible word] I was detain’d [detained] a prisoner in a Prison Ship at Charleston until the 3d day of November 1782; my Colar [collar] bone was broke at the Battle of the Eutaw & my Col was killed at the same place, and after my release I return’d [returned] home having been badly treated while a prisoner; During the late war I had six sons out under Harrison & Jackson at once & I never for my services during the revolutionary war receiv’d [received] a cent of pay. I further state that I am now old & unable to labor hard for my support & reduced in my circumstances so that I stand in need of assistance from my country for support. I hereby relinquish all further Claim I may have for a pension – I can further state that I was in the battle of Brandywine in the year 1777 [11 Sep] as a Militiaman under Capt. [illegible] Allen[?] of Col. Dunlaps[?] Regt. 
[signed] Matthew Cummins

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State of Kentucky
Mercer County SS
of November County Court I Thomas Allin Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing certificate was produced into open Court and sworn to by Mathew Cummins as the law directs and ordered to be certified by [paper torn] 
In Testimony whereof I Have Hereunto set my Hand and affixed the seal of my said office this 13th day of November 1818 
Tho. Allin

State of Kentucky}
Mercer County} I Samuel Mcafee Presiding Justice of the Mercer County Court do hereby Certify that Thos Allin is Clerk of sd [said] Court & that full faith & credit is due to all his official acts and that the above certificate is in due form of Law and I further certify that I am fully satisfyed [satisfied] of the truth of the within affiant as to the circumstances and service of the sd [said] Cummins. 
Given under my hand this 8th day of December 1818 – 
Saml McAfee JP

[written sideways] Mathew Cummings Cirt 1818 Novr [November] or to be Cirt--

[written sideways] 2d Va Col. Campbell [Haws? too light] July 80 till Nov 82 Admitted

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State of Kentucky
Mercer County SS
of November County Court I Thomas Allin Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing certificate was produced into open Court and sworn to by Mathew Cummins as the law directs and ordered to be certified by [paper torn] 
In Testimony whereof I Have Hereunto set my Hand and affixed the seal of my said office this 13th day of November 1818 
Tho. Allin

State of Kentucky}
Mercer County} I Samuel Mcafee Presiding Justice of the Mercer County Court do hereby Certify that Thos Allin is Clerk of sd [said] Court & that full faith & credit is due to all his official acts and that the above certificate is in due form of Law and I further certify that I am fully satisfyed [satisfied] of the truth of the within affiant as to the circumstances and service of the sd [said] Cummins. 
Given under my hand this 8th day of December 1818 – 
Saml McAfee JP

[written sideways] Mathew Cummings Cirt 1818 Novr [November] or to be Cirt--

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Schedule of Matthew Cummings

Not entitled

Hon. R. M. Johnson
Great Crossing
Kent.

[written sideways] Matthew Cummings Certificate Examined

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State of Kentucky, 
Franklin Circuit Sct October Term 1820 
On yesterday the 16th day of October One thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the said Circuit and held in the County of Franklin Matthew Cummings Sen’r. [Senior] resident in the said County of Franklin within the said Circuit who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his Oath declare. That in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six [1776] he enlisted in Captain William Corvans[?] Company, in Col. Thomas Clarks Regiment, and went to Amboy in Jersey in seventeen hundred and seventy seven I was transfered [transferred] to Captain Askins Company in Col Dunlaps Regiment; at Brandywine battle July 15th seventeen hundred and eighty I Matthew Cummings Sen’r. [Senior] enlisted in Captain Overton’s Company in the second Regiment of Virginia troops commanded by Col. Samuel Hawes, and was transfered [transferred] to Captain Denams Company in the first Regiment commanded by Col. Dick Caswell [Gen. Richard Caswell of NC?], and marched to South Carolina to Gilford [Guilford] battle, and after that battle marched to the Eutaw battle, and was taken prisoner, and ten of our men, and Col William Washington, and my Col was killed on the 8th day of September seventeen hundred and eighty one, and was prisoner fourteen months on board a prison Ship, called the Esk and got my right shoulder broke by a Grenadier; and out of Eleven sons I had six at one time under Harrison and Jackson in the last War. 
Matthew Cummings

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And I Matthew Cummings a pensioner of the United States, at this time seventy years of age and of no trade (except that of a farmer) being frail in body, do hereby solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain person engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. I also state that my Wife is 66 years of age, and all my children have left me, and what work I want done on the plantation I have to hire, and I consider myself unable at this time to endure hard labour so help me God. Matthew Cummings 

A Schedule of the whole Estate and income of Matthew Cummings a pensioner of the United States under the act of Congress of March 18th 1818 as per certificate of Secretary of War bearing date Feb 3d 1819 No. 6428. 
101 Acres of poor broken & stoney [stony] land of a 3d rate quality $333.33 1/3
One Ball faced Horse twenty years old 10.00 
One Grey & Roan Horse $30. Two Milk Cows} 
and Three y. g. Cattle} 64.00 

Amount carried forward $407.33 1/3

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Amount brought forward $407.33 1/3
Six head of Sheep $6. One kettle, one pot and}
Oven without a Lid $7.} 13.00 
One half dozen old chairs ½ knives & forks} 
and spoons}
4.00 
Dollars 424.33/3

Matthew Cummings Senr [Senior] appeared in Open Court and being first duly sworn according to Law made oath that the statement contained in the foregoing affidavit and schedule and contained.
Philip White and [Illegible name] also appeared in open Court and made oath that they are well acquainted with the said Matthew Cummings and that they believe the statements made in the preceding affidavit and Schedule are true.

State of Kentucky}
Franklin Circuit Sct}
I Thomas Allin Clerk of the Court aforesaid do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records 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 Four hundred and twenty four Dollars and thirty three and one third cents.
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my private seal no Seal for my Office having been provided on the tenth day November One thousand eight hundred twenty & in the 29 of the Commonwealth 
F. P. Blair C.C.

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Matthew Cummins
papers

[written sideways] T Pullone of Ky March 1819

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County of Franklin and State of Kentucky 
On this day I visited Mathew Cummins at his own house resident in said County aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the first of May 1820 that he the said Mathew Cummings enlisted for the term of during the war on the fifteenth day of July in the year 1780 in the State of Virginia, in the Company Commanded by Capt. Overton, in the Regiment commanded by Richard Campbell in the line of the State of Virginia on the 2nd Virginia Continental establishment that he continued to serve in the said corps untill [until] the Battle of the Eutaws [Eutaw Springs] when he was taken prisoner by the British and remained in confinement fourteen months and never received his pay, that his name has been place on the pension list, and drop’d [dropped] therefrom on account of property. tho [Though] he is now old and helpless unable to work and all his children left him on a poor piece of land, that he is not able to work, he has a wife old and infirm, and cannot support himself without the assistance of his Country.
And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820 I do solemly [solemnly] swear that I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818; and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war, passed on the 18th day of March 1819 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

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The schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
A Schedule of the whole estate of Mathew Cummins at this time. Seventy acres of land por [poor] and stony 
one Cow  - - - value 
I am by occupation a weaver} $150. 
my family consists of my wife one} 
daughter myself and orphan child
[signed] Mathew Cummins 

That since the exebition [exhibition] of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property My daughter a widow has got thirty two acres of my land for which I received about thirty dollars worth of trade to live on, my old bald horse sold to my son for firewood and rails, my two cows killd [killed] for meat

We the undersigned being first sworn state on oath that the property now owned by Mathew Cumming as exhibited by the above schedule being valued by us to the best of our Judgment is worth one hundred & fifty dollars in specie 
Given under our hands this 11th day of November 1823
Midel Workensmith
Burrus Griffee

Franklin County Sct 
Sworn to before me this 11th day of Nov. 1823 
Jas Mc Brayer. JPFC

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State of Kentucky 
Franklin County Sct 
I James McBrayer a Justice of the peace and member of the County Court holden for the County aforesaid where the declarant resides, do hereby certify that the above nam’d [named] Mathew Cummins is from a fall and wound in his side in his old and debilitated situation, in which state of body as I credibly inform’d [informed] he has been for near six weeks unable to attend the next Court and I do not think from his present appearance he will be able to attend either the Court holden in this month or the subsequent Court 
I have therefore in pursuance of the act of Congress of the first of March 1823 attended at his place of abode and administered the foregoing Oath 
Given under my hand and seal this 11th day of November 1823 
James McBrayer JP FC {Seal}

State of Kentucky} 
Franklin County} Sct 
I Willis A Lee Clerk of the Franklin County Court do certify that James McBrayer before whom the above affidavit of Matthew Cummins, was made, is a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid duly commissioned and qualified and is also one of the Judges of the County Court aforesaid. I also certify that the said Schedule and oath have been admitted to the record of said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is one hundred & fifty dollars in specie, 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Frankfort this 11th day of December 1823 and in the 32d year of the Commonwealth 
att Willis A Lee Clk [Clerk]

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[typed form, with handwritten responses]

35870
Revy INVALID [written sideways] Own

File No. 35870

Mathew Cummings
[crossed out Matthew Cummins]

Pri Rev War

Act: 18 March 18--

Index: - Vol. 2, Page 95

[Arrangement of 1870.]

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[left side of page] Kentucky 
Matthew Cummins aged 73 yrs very infirm - a has been confined for the last 6 weeks to his house in consequence of a fall & a bad wound in his side.
Wife 69 yrs old - one daughter & an orphan child makes all his family at home with the parents ages not stated 
= served 2 yrs from 1780, & was then taken prisoner 
1st Sched. (16th Oct. 1820) 
101 acres of poor, broken stoney [stony] land, valued at $ 333.33- 
1 Horse, 20 yrs old $10 - 1 other house $30 - 2 Milch Cows & 3 young Cattle $34 - 6 head of sheep $6 1 kettle 1 Pot & 1 oven without a lid $7. ½ doz.: old chairs, $4.-- whole Amt $424.33
[Illegible] 10 March 1821 - Application for restoration as pr his 2d sched; (11th Nov. 1823.) exhibits 70 acres of land poor a stony valued at $150 -- including [Illegible] 
He states that since his first 

[right side] schedule he sold to his widowed daughter 30 acres of the 100 for $30, for by to live on –
1 old horse sold to his son & was for fire wood & rails - 2 Cows killed for meat - 2 persons make affidavit that amt of property in schedule is not worth in specie more than $150. –
Applicant not being able to leave his home the Judge attends on him, & took the proceedings as authorized by the act of March 1823 - The proceedings are duly certified by the Clk. of the court.
Hon. J. P. Moore, in a late note to Mr. Edwards states that 
“Cummins ask for a restoration to the Pension list I personally know him to merit it.” --- 
Dead 
Letter to 3d Auditor R B Macafee 30 July 1839. -- Paid at the Treasury [Illegible] act of the 6 April 1838 from 4 March 1833 to 8 Aug 1833, the day of his death Agt [Agent] notified 9 Aug 1839.

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1 March 1823
Kty [Kentucky]

Matthew Cummins

Rec’d [received] 3 Jan. 1824

Hon. T. P. Moore, H. R.

[written sideways] J. L. Edwards, Esq.
War Department

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Certs for a restoration to the Pension list. I personally know him to meet it. 

J P Moore
Jan 2 1823