Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 19044, for Cushing Pratt, Massachusetts

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Maine 11.525
Cushing Pratt
of Cumberland to join the State of Maine who was a Dr. in the Company commanded by Captain Wilde - of the Regt commanded by Col Brooks. in the Mass. - Continental
2 Yrs Private. $ 80.00
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 80 Dollars - Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 15 th day of May 1833 and sent to J. Nafey, Portland, Me
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 160.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 1 Sept " 40.
$ 200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. P. Sprague Clerk, book E v Vol. 1 Page 42

Cushing Pratt Application for a pension
Nov. 1832
18999 ✓

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the sixth day of Nov r A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
On this sixth day of Nov r aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Cushing Pratt a resident of Westbrook in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, 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 benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers, and served as herein stated viz, about the first of Aug t 1776 - at Weymouth he enlisted in a Company of Militia commanded by Capt. Prapant, and marched to Nantasket in Boston Harbor & served there till the first of March following, when he was discharged - That about the last of April 1777 he enlisted under Col. Burbank and was employed on Castle William in Boston Harbor, as a pioneer building forts & Breastworks till the last of October or first of November following as near as he can remember - but is confident he served there six months. That about the first of January 1778 he went to Cambridge & served as a substitute for his father Samuel Pratt in Capt. Wildes Coy & Col. Brooks Regiment - and was stationed at Fort No. 2. near the College, and did duty in guarding Burgoyne's men for the term of three months - when his father having returned, he enlisted about the first of March in Capt. Wardes Coy and did duty as guard in Boston & on Dorchester heights - about three months - That in June 1780 at Weymouth he enlisted in a Company commanded by Capt. John Callender in Col. Cramers Regt. and went to New Jersey, and joined in Gen. Knox Brigade - and served in said Company in the Jerseys & in that quarter six months - said Company was a Company of Artillery - and was discharged about Christmas time. That he enlisted again in Sept. 1781 - at Weymouth in a Company commanded by Capt. John Lincoln in Col. Webb's Regt. for three months and went to West point - and served there and at the Siege of White Plains till the last of Dec r 1781 - & was there discharged - That he had no written discharge that he enlisted as a volunteer except in Capt. Wildes Coy when he went as a substitute for his father & served as a private
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Cushing Pratt
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
Ashur Ware
U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

This certifies that according to the records of the town of Weymouth Cushing Pratt son of Samuel & Abigail Pratt was born in Weymouth August 20th 1759.
Weymouth August 16th 1832.
John B. Hollis Clerk of said Town
Signed & sworn to below
Adams Warren
Judge of the U.S. for the Dist. of Maine
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Cushing Pratt for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventh day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two
John Nussey { Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

The said Cushing Pratt farther states, that he was born at Weymouth on the 20th of August 1759 — There is a record of his age a copy of which is annexed — That he resided in Weymouth when he first entered the service, and until the year 1790 — when he removed to Cape Elizabeth, Maine — from there to Westbrook, where he now resides —
Cushing Pratt
Signed & sworn to below
Asahel Wain
Judge of the U.S. Dist. Ct. Dist. of Maine
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Nussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Cushing Pratt for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this seventh day of November A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Nussey
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.

Cushing Pratt
Admitted 2 years $80.-
18999
J. Massey Portland Me

BRIEF in the case of  Cushing Pratt  Co of Cumberland  in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 79  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days. Gen.     1 st August In 1796. enlisted 4 Private Capt Soupan   1779. " " 6 " Col Burbank   1778 substitute 3 " Capt Wild Col Brooks   1 st March " " enlisted 3 " Capt Ward   1780 " " 6 " Capt Ballinger Col Brown   1781 " " 3 " Capt Lincoln Col Webb  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Bunker  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Weymouth Mass  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional & living witnesses and a Document  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? The Witnesses are not verified as Credible 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
George Taylor
Examining Clerk.

19044
INVALID.
File No. 19044
Cashier P.M.
P. Rec. 19044
Act: Same as 19044
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 305
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Cushing Pratt Secretarys Certificate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Aug. 6 th 1832.
3.17 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 that the name of Cushing Pratt is borne on a roll of Capt Joseph Trufant's Company in the State Service, & is therein stated to have served three months and seventeen days from Aug. 15 th 1776 —
1. Also on another roll of same Company, in which he is stated to have served from Dec. 1. 1776 to Jan. 1. 1777 one month —
Also on another roll of same Company, in which he is stated to have and enlisted Aug. 15. 1776, but Time of service not stated.
1.19 Also on a roll of "Capt. Samuel Ward's Company in Lieut. Col. Symms's detachment of guards doing duty in Boston & Dorchester" and is therein stated to have served one month nineteen days from March 9. 1778 —
3.28 Also on a roll of "Capt John Lincoln's Company, Col. Joseph Wells Regiment — and served therefor three months twenty eight days from Aug. 16. 1781. — Edward D. Sargent Secy

The name of Samuel Pratt is borne on the pay roll of Capt Silas Wild's Company in Col J. Brooks reg. and stated to have served from the 12 th day of Nov. 1777 to the 3 rd day of Feb. 1778. two months and twenty two days. also on another pay roll of Capt Silas Wild's Company in Col. Brooks reg. and is stated to have served from the 3 rd day of Feb to the 3 rd day of April, two months
Edward D Bangs. Secy

Cushing Pratt.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
By his Excellency LEVI LINCOLN , Esquire, Governor and Commander in Chief in and over said Commonwealth.
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Know Ye, That Gisher A. Kingsbury Esq ue , is a Justice of the Peace, for the County of Norfolk.
Levi Lincoln
in the said Commonwealth, duly constituted and commissioned, and that to his Acts and Attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given in and out of Court. And that his signature to the annexed papers is genuine.
In Testimony Whereof, I have caused the Public Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed, this eighteenth day of August A. D. 1832, and in the fifty seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America.
By His Excellency the Governor,
Edward D. Bangs Secretary of the Commonwealth.

I Asa French of Weymouth in the county of Norfolk and commonwealth of Massachusetts, a soldier in the war of the revolution, of lawful age do testify and say, that I am acquainted with Bushing Pratt of Westbrook, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, that I am knowing to said Pratt; having served six months in Capt John Catten. der's company of Artillery on Col. Crane's Regiment of State troops in the war of the Revolution in 1780 , when he was regularly discharged. Also that said Pratt served one other term of three months in Capt John Lincoln's company in Col Webb's Regiment of State troops in the war of the Revolution in 1781 , and was then regularly discharged.
ASA. French
Norfolk ss. Aug. 14. 1832 Subscribed and sworn to
before me
Fisher S. Kingsbury Jus. pac.

I Joseph Nash of Weymouth in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts, a soldier in the War of the Revolution of low full age do testify and say that I am acquainted with Linking Pratt of Westbrook in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine, that he served six months in the State troops of the war of the Revolution under Capt Callender in Col Brown's Regiment of Artillery in the year 1780 - also that he served three months in the State troops of the War of the Revolution under Capt John Lincoln in Col Webb's Regiment in year 1781. and was regularly discharged at the expiration of each of said terms. Joseph Nash
Norfolk ss. Aug 14. 1832 Subscribed and sworn to before me. Fisher A Kingsbury Jus. peace

I Thomas Vinson of Weymouth in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts an applicant for a pension under the law of June 1832 of lawful age do testify and say that I am acquainted with Cushing Pratt of Westbrook in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine and am knowing to his having served three months, com- mencing on the first day of January in the year 1777 as a volunteer in Infantry, 1st Lieut Capt Joseph Pool's Company of the State troops in the war of the revolution and was at the expiration thereof  then regularly discharged - and I further say that I was a Lieutenant in said Company and now have the roll thereof on which is borne the name of the said Cushing Pratt. —
Thos Vinson
Norfolk ss. Aug 14. 1832 Subscribed and sworn to before me - Fisher A. Kingsbury Jur. par.

I Bryant Newcomb of Braintree in the county of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massa- chusetts of lawful age do testify and say that I am acquainted with Ensign Pratt of Westbrook in the County of Cumberland and State of Maine and that I am knowing to his having served six months in the State troops under Capt. Collender of Col. Crane's Regiment of Artillery in June 1780 to some time in Dec. 1780 and was then discharged. when we come home together. Bryant Newcomb.
Norfolk ss. Aug 17. 1832 Subscribed & sworn to before me. Fisher A. Kingsbury. Jus pac.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
This may certify that Fisher A. Kingsbury, before whom the several foregoing affidavits of Asa French, Joseph Nash, Thomas Vinson and Bryant Newcomb were taken & sworn to, is a justice of the peace in & for the County of Norfolk and that signature annexed to each is genuine.

I David Lord of Braintree in the county of Norfolk and commonwealth of Massachusetts of lawful age do testify and say that I am acquainted with Cushing Pratt of Watbrock in county of Cumberland and State of Maine and that I am knowing to his serving in the State troops in the War of the Revolution under Capt Silas Wild in Col John Brooks' Regiment at Cambridge, that the term of service was six months, as your deponent verily believes, and commencing in Nov 1777 and that the said Cushing Pratt was discharged at the end of the term with myself, who was a soldier in the same Company. David Lord
Norfolk. Sept 18. 1832. Subscribed and sworn to, before me - Fisher A Kingsbury Jus. Pac.
N. B. The foregoing affidavit was taken after obtaining the certificate of the Sec'y of the Commonwealth that I am a justice of the peace for the reason that the witness was not sooner found - F. A. Kingsbury Jus. Pac.