Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 35213, Thomas Cummings, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Cummings Thomas.
P. 35213
CONTENTS

18238
Maine Roll.
Thomas Cummings.
of Standish in the State of Maine who was a private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney of the Mass s line, for the term of one year.
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine Agency. at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 28 of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 of July 1821 and sent to the Hon. E. Whitman.
Portland. Maine
Arrears to 4th of March 1821 $ 273.83
Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sep 1821, " 48.
34 mo 3/30 4/31 $ 321.83
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
1 May 1820.
page 39 vol 13.

N 295. Thomas Cumming
Copy
Adm & Co LL.D

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland — within and for the District of Maine, on the second Tuesday, being the eleventh day of January and by adjournment from day to day, on the day of one in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
ON this eleventh day of January in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Thomas Cummings aged Sixty six, — years, resident in Standish — in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revo-
make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the 10 th March 1810 and the first day of May 1820. That he the said Cummings in the Spring of the year A. D. 1775 enlisted as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Senn in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney for eight months — that he served in said company six months, and then enlisted for a year in the Company commanded by Captain Tobias Fernald in the same Regiment, and served in said Regiment during a year or twelve months in succession and was discharged at Fort George in January 1777. The first six months of my first enlistment I served at Cambridge and while I was in the year service I was at Boston, Scituate and Fort George. I made a similar declaration to the foregoing on the 28 th day of April 1810 before the Honorable William Widgeon Esquire, which was forwarded together with the deposition of James Rand to the War Department and returned for further proof of service. I then procured the deposition of Samuel Tille of Gorham and enclosed that together with my original declaration to the Hon. C. Whitman then in Congress — And have never heard of its being received, nor Whitman does not recollect it. And I presume it must have got lost or been miscarried —

sion, numbered was granted. And I do 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, 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 ; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Witness Jos Phe
Thomas his X Cummings mark
Sworn to and declared, on the eleventh day of January A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Albion H. Barris
U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real estate — I have none
Personal estate — An old cow and a few mean utensils for family use is all I possess — I have no income and am a poor old man
Witness,
John P. Paine
Thomas his X Cummings mark
Sworn to June 11 1821
Before
Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Thomas Cummings who, by occupation am a Salt-er — which I am not able to pursue by reason of Rheumatism and the infirmities of age
   NAMES.  AGES.  Capacity of each to contribute to their support.   
Wife Susan
50
Poorly able to take care of herself and me
Witness John P. Paine
Thomas his X Cummings mark
Sworn to June 11 1821 Before
Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, JUNR. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 fourteen dollars and thirty seven cents, and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eleventh day of January A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty- one
John Mussey Junr.
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
$14.37

35 213
Rev INVALID.
File No. 35 213
Thomas Cummings
Rev Rev 1850
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 94
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Mr. Brewster Rec D 26 July 1861
The Honorable The Secy of War Washington Col o

N o 295. Thomas Cummings
Duplicate copy

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. DISTRICT OF MAINE, ss.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland - - within and for the District of Maine, on the Second Tuesday, being the eleventh - - day of January and by adjournment from day to day, on the day of one in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable ALBION K. PARRIS, Judge of said Court.
ON this eleventh - - day of January in the year above written, personally appeared in open Court, the same having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Maine District, Thomas Cummings aged Sixty six - - years, resident in Standish. . . in said District, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolu-
make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the Acts of Congress of the eighteenth of March 1818 and the first day of May 1820 - That he the said Cummings in the Spring of the year A.D. 1775 enlisted as a private soldier in the Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Dunn in the Regiment commanded by Col. Phinney for eight months: - that he served in said Company six months - and then enlisted for a year in the company commanded by Capt. Tobias Fernald in the same Regiment, and served in said Regiment during a year or twelve months in succession and was discharged at Fort George in January 1777. The first six months of my first enlistment I served at Cambridge - and while I was in the year service I was at Boston, Ticonderoga and Fort George - I made a similar declaration to the foregoing on the 28 th day of April 1818 before the Hon ble William Widgery Esquire which was forwarded together with the deposition of James Rand to the War Department and returned for further proof of service - I then procured the deposition of Samuel File of Gorham and enclosed that together with my original declaration to the Hon. G. Whitman then in Congress - and have never heard of its being received. Mr. Whitman does not recollect it - and I presume it must have got lost or been mislaid

more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the day of  A. D. 181  , and in which said declaration his Certificate of Pen-
sion, numbered
 was  .
And I do 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, 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 ; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is particularly described on the back hereof, also subscribed by me.
Witness Jos. Pope
Thomas his X mark Cummings
Sworn to and declared, on the eleventh day of January A. D. 1820.
BEFORE
Albion H. Barris
U. S. District Judge for the District of Maine.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz:
Real Estate
I have none —
Personal Estate — An old cow and a few mean utensils for family use — is all I possess — I have no income and am a poor old man
Witness Jos. Pohe
Thomas his X Cummings mark
Sworn to Jan'y 11. 1821 Before
Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me Thomas Cummings who, by occupation am a so abler — which I am not able to pursue by reason of rheumatism and the infirmities of age
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Wife Susan. Witness Jos. Pohe Sworn to Jan'y 11. 1821 Before 60 poorly able to take care of herself and me his Thomas X Cummings mark Albion H. Barris U. S. Dist. Judge  

MAINE DISTRICT, ss.
I, JOHN MUSSEY, Junr. Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules 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 fourteen . . . dollars and thirty seven cents. and no more
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eleventh day of January A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one
(Duplicate copy)
A handwritten signature in cursive, reading "John Mussey Junr.", with several loops and flourishes.
Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
14:37

J. L. Edwards Esq., War Depart.

Portland July 17. 1821
Sir -
Herewith I return you Judge Widgery's certificate with the attestation of the Clerk - Enclosed also is an other transcript of the record from the District Court of Cummings' second application. The former copy I handed you last winter upon which you wrote me the letter which I forwarded to you in my last letter. When I handed you the first copy it was accompanied with sundry proofs of Cummings' services - Those papers must be on your files - I am a little surprised that you should now find it unrecalled that you returned Cummings' first application to me for further evidence as nothing of that was intimated to me during the last winter when I was

repeatedly making inquiries concerning those papers and trying to ascertain what had become of them. I gather  gather also from your last letter that you cannot now find the documents I handed you in behalf of Cummings last winter. Those I am certain were never returned to me - and if the former were it is extremely strange that I cannot find any thing of them and am without the least recollection of ever having had them.
Yr.oble serv t
Franklin D. Sherman

Rep's Hall Jan. 19. 1821
Dr. L. -
Enclosed are sundry papers for the purpose of proving Thomas Cum- mings' right to a pension - If the enclosed proof would have been sufficient to have entitled him to be placed on the pension list from April 1818, as the papers then beforehand have been casually lost, I hope his pension will be granted to commence accordingly. I suppose the original of the enclosed declaration has been forwarded to you.
Your obedt servt
Erskine Whitman
J. L. Edwards Esq -

Judge Wadsworth's Certificate, for Thomas Cummings J H

I William Wadsworth, associate justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the first Eastern Circuit in the State of Maine. Do hereby certify That Thomas Cummings of Standish in the County of Cumberland made application to me as Judge of said Court, on the twenty eighth day of April A. D. 1818, among other appli- cants, to certify his services in the Revo- lutionary war, in order to obtain his pension, under the act of March 18 A. D. 1818. I did certify his the said Cummings's services in the same manner I did for others who have received their pensions
Wm Wadsworth
Associate Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in the 1 st Eastern Circuit
Attest. Joseph Pope - 11
State —

State of Maine Cumberland ss:
I William S Vaughan clerk of the Judicial courts for the County of Cum- berland, certify, that William Wadsworth Esq. whose signature is affixed to the within certificate, is one of the Associate Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said County. ~
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and the Seal of said Court, this eighteenth day of July Anno Domini 1821 and in the forty sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America
Wm S Vaughan

I certify that Joseph Pope within named is a person well known to me and that he is a part of the peace as he has within described him- self.      Erskine Whitman
Jan. 19. 1821

I George Bradbury of Portland late Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the County of Cumberland State of Maine testify & say That sometime during the sitting of Congress the last Session Mr Thomas Crumming of Standish handed me certain Affidavits required by the Act of Congress of 18 th March 1818 taken before W m Widgey a Judge of the Circuit Court of Pleas Common, in the first Eastern Circuit, then the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, requesting me to give an Official Certificate that the said Widgey was Judge &c in the customary form, which I accordingly gave and the Affidavits with my Certificate were then inclosed in a letter by me directed to the Hon. Ezekiel Whitman Member of Congress with a Request that he would do what was needful in the affair - This letter with the the said inclosure was by me sealed up & directed & handed to the said Thomas Crumming to be forwarded by mail
Geo Bradbury
State of Maine Cumberland ss. Jan y 11. th 1821- Subscribed and sworn to Before me - Joseph Pope, Jus. Peace

I Samuel File of Gorham do testify and say That I am well acquainted with Thomas Cummings of Standish - I know that in the last of the year 1775, or in January 1776. said Cummings enlisted with me in the company commanded by Capt. Tobias Fernald in the Regiment commanded by Col. Phinney for one year - and that he continued to serve the whole year and was discharged at Fort George in January 1777, at which time I was also discharged and we returned together. I made a similar affidavit to this a year ago for said Cummings which I un- derstood he sent to Washington
Samuel File
State of Maine
Cumberland ss Jan y 11. 1821. Personally appeared the above named Samuel File and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed - whom I certify to be a credible witness
Joseph Pope, Jus. Peace

I James Rand do testify and say, that in the last of the year 1775, or in January 1776, Thomas Cummings of Standish enlisted for one year in the company commanded by Capt. Tobias Fernald in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Phinney. And that he continued to serve in said company twelve months - I was a Soldier in the same company, and was discharged at Fort George with said Cummings and returned with him - James Rand
State of Maine Cumberland ss - Jan y 11 th 1821 - Personally appeared the above named James Rand, who is a credible witness, and made oath to the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed. Before me Joseph Pope, Jus. Peace