Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23,175, Obed Commins, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Commins Obed.
S. 23 175
CONTENTS

New York. 24.844
Obed Commins of Livingston w. in the State of New York. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Stebbins of the Regt commanded by Col. Kalish in the Mass. Mil line for 2 years
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of March 1834, and sent to Hon. P. C. Fuller H. of Reps. U.S.
Arrears to the 4th of March. 34 $240. — Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep r . 34 40 $280 —
{ Revolutionary Claim, Not June 7, 1832.
Recorded by Ele. Brown Clerk Book 6, Vol. 5 Page 130

Obed Cummings
18080
Asheville
Pa.
Am. Univ.
Perwpt 2 years Chsfee 8/8
direct answer to C. H. Bryan Geneseo Livingston Co N. York
Wm P. C. Fuller

State of New York
Livingston County ss On this twenty eighth day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the court of common Pleas of the county of Livingston in the State of New York now sitting in the said county of Livingston and State of New York Obed Cummings a resident of Geneseo in said county aged seventy 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 act of congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein after stated that about the first of June 1775 this deponent then being a resident of New Bedford  Sheffield in the State of Massachusetts enlisted in the Captain John Stebbins of Deerfield in the said State of Massachusetts and that he enlisted in the town of New Marlborough in Massachusetts State that his company was mustered at Norfolk and marched to Prospect Hill near Boston where he joined the Regiment commanded by Colonel Gales which was under the command of General Putnam that he arrived at Cambridge about the time of the commencement of the Bunker Hill Battle but that owing to excessive fatigue in marching this deponent and his comrades were not permitted to join the Regiment until after the Battle that he enlisted for the term of eight months and remained with the said Regiment at Prospect Hill and near that place till the expiration of the term of his enlistment. that he was not in any battle during said time. that he was in a slight skirmish with a small party of the enemy at Sickmore's point who had come out to take cattle at the expiration of the foregoing enlistment this deponent again enlisted in said service for
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8. the term of our year under Captain John Soles that he enlisted at Prospect Hill that he remained stationed at Prospect Hill a short time when they were moved to Dorchester where they built a fort where he continued till the British quit Boston when this deponent was marched into the town where he remained till the time 12. of his enlistment expired that during this part of his service his officers were as follows the Gen- eral was Putnam. the colonel's name is not recalled neither is the name of either of the field or staff officers known to him. he thinks that Major Boy was attached to the Regiment a short time - that his captain's name was John Soles. that after the expiration of this term of enlist- ment he went to sea. that about two years afterwards he went into the said United States Service again for the term of four months as a kind substitute for a man whose name this deponent does not recollect that the place where he entered the said service on this occasion was Cambridge near Boston Massachusetts that he was marched from thence to the place called Larry town in the State of New York near the south part of the State where he remained during the term for which he had enlisted as a substitute 4. to wit for four months When the company were kept on guard principally. that during the time of this service he was not attached as he recollects to the body of any Regiment so that he does not know who were his officers has forgotten their names that he served out the whole time of this enlistment. and then went back to Cambridge near Boston in Mass- achusetts some time in the summer where he remained

6- no officers and till late in the fall when he enlisted as a kind substitute for a man whose name he has forgotten that the place of his enlistment was Cam- bridge aforesaid the time for which he enlist- ed was Seven Months that he immediately marched with his company to Danbury in Connecticut that the troops with whom he marched to Danbury were Militia from Portsmouth, that he was dismissed after serving six months when he returned to Cambridge Aforesaid, that the same winter he was again enlisted as a kind substitute at Cambridge aforesaid for another man whose name this deponent cannot now recollect, that he cannot recollect the Officers under whom he served but that he was enlisted for five months that he was marched to a place near Kingsbridge, where some British were encamped, and that they succeeded in driving them from the same, That his term of five Months having expired he was dismissed, and returned home, to Niscayuna in the County of Albany and State of New York, where he remained until April of the year 1781. when he again enlisted for during the continuance of the war in what he supposes were the Regular Troops of the United States , in a company comm- anded by one Captain Job Wright, which company was commanded by one Colonel Willett, whose Christian name this deponent does not recollect, that soon after his enlistment he was marched to Ballston in the county of Saratoga where he lay with the said Captain Wright's company as a guard to prevent the depredations of the Indians till some time in the fall of that year when he was marched to Canajoharie on the Mohawk River in the State of New York Aforesaid to join the Regiment that he remained at Canajoharie aforesaid during the succeeding winter. That they were employed in building a Block House, and acted as a Guard

to the Inhabitants in that vicinity, That some time in the course of the ensuing Spring the Regiment was marched to the German Flatts in New York aforesaid where they remained quartered till the next Spring, That during the time they were stationed at German Flatts aforesaid they were frequently engaged in Skirmishes with the Indians, That during the winter aforesaid the company to which this deponent belonged was marched to Oswego for the purpose of taking the Fort at that place, that he was marched under the Command of Adjutant Furdy, and Colonel Willett aforesaid, that owing to the severity of the weather and the perfidy of an Indian Pilot to whom they were entrusted they did not succeed in the Enterprise, that he returned to German Flatts aforesaid where he remained till the succeeding June or July as near as this deponent can recollect when he was dismissed, in consequence of the news of Peace, which was communicated to the soldiers under his command by the aforesaid commanding officer, that he was in the service for the term of two years at least at the time of his last enlistment.
At the particular interrogatories of the court this deponent further declares that he was born in Cumberland near Providence in the State of Rhode Island on the 16th of May 1762 That the Bible containing the Record of his age is in the possession of his Step Mother in Oneida County in the State of New York, That when he went into the service he resided in Sheffield in the State of Massachusetts as above stated That since the Revolution he has lived in Niscayuna in Albany County New York, that he has lived in the town of Weston in Oneida County aforesaid, in Clarence Erie County New York, and that he now lives in Genesee Livingston County New York as aforesaid That when first called into the service he enlisted under Captain John Stibbing as stated

above. That the Regular officers with whom he was with were those stated above, That he received a discharge in writing of one year's service under Capt. Soles aforesaid which was given him by Genl. Putnam, but that the same was burned with the defendants House some eighteen years ago. That he is known to Calvin H. Bryan Esquire and Gibrulon Swift whose certificate is hereunto annexed, That he knows of no person living who can testify to his services and that he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state
Subscribed and sworn in open court the day and year aforesaid S. G. Heaven Dep Clerk
for Obed + Cummings Mark Witness S. G. Heaven
State of New York
Livingston County ss. We Calvin H. Bryan a counsellor at Law residing at Geneseo in the county of Livingston and state of New York aforesaid and Gibrulon Swift of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Obed Cummings who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be aged Seventy Years; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion. Sworn & subscribed the } 24th day of day & year aforesaid }
in open court S. G. Heaven Dep Clerk
H. Swift
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he stated. And the court

further certifies that it appears to them that Calvin H. Bryan and Zebulon Swift who have signed the preceding certificate are Residents in Genesee aforesaid that they are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to full credit.
Chauncy R. Bond
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Livingston do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Obed Cummings for a Pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this twentyeighth day of December in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three
Chauncy R. Bond Clerk by J. G. Raven Dep Clerk

Resolution 23 175 INVALID.
File No. 23,175
Obed Communs
Rev Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 78
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, March 3 d 1834.
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 "Obediah Cummins," as a private, is borne on a Muster Roll of Capt. Joseph Stebbins' Company, in Col. Jonathan Brewer's Regt. where he is allowed from May 12 th to August 1 st 1775. for services and travel two Months and twenty one days. m d 2-21 Obed Cummins claims for further services under Capt. Stebbins, in 1775; but the roll after August 1 st in 1775, is not found in this Office. Obed Cummins also claims for services under Capt. John Soules, in 1776; but the roll he describes is not found in this Office.
Edward D Bangs Lieut

— Edwards Esq
Pension Office

4: January 1834
— Edwards Esq. Pension Office
Sir, I yesterday received the enclosed from C. H. Bryan Esq. of Livingston County, New York. If you will state to me when it may probably be taken up, it will save you perhaps the trouble of a personal application, with which application you must be excessively annoyed. : & if you will address, under cover to me, any communication intended for Mr. Bryan, I shall be obliged
Respectfully
Yr obbt servt
R. C. Fuller

Town of Sullivan
Madison County ss: I, Ellis A. Fonda being duly sworn, deposith saith, that in the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty one, in this deponent was in the service of the United States, & Adjutant of the Regiment serving in the war of the Revolution, under the Command of Colonel Willet - That sometime in that year, Captain Job Wright took the Command of a Company after wards attached to said Regiment, which Company was marched to Ballston in Saratoga County, to guard the surrounding Country, where they remained until the fall of that year, when they marched to a place near the Mohawk River, now called Canajoharie & were there employed during the winter in building a Block House - That in the following Spring they were marched to German Flats on said River, where they remained until the next winter being some time in the forepart of the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty three - That this Deponent then took the Command of the said Company, to which Obed Cummings then belonged as a private soldier - That the Regiment was marched sometime in the month of February in the last mentioned year, to make an attack upon the Fort at Oswego - That upon that Expedition this deponent had the Command of the said Company formerly Commanded by Capt Job Wright, & continued the Command of the same until the Regiment returned to German Flats - That the said Obed Cummings served as a soldier in said Company in said Regiment while this deponent had such Command, & continued so to serve thereafter, until the Regular discharge of the Garrison at German Flats, which this deponent believes was in the early part of the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty four - And this deponent further saith, that he has no doubt, that the said Obed Cummings did serve in the said Company, thus Commanded by the said Capt Wright from the Spring of the year One Thousand Seven Hundred & Eighty one, to the month of January, One Thousand Seven hundred & Eighty three at which time this deponent became acquainted with him at German Flats, in the said Cummings then belonging to said Company -
And this deponent further saith, that the said Cummings discharged the duty of a soldier during the time he was under the Command of this deponent, while he remained in the service thereafter, with fidelity, according to the best knowledge & belief of this deponent - & further saith not -
Sworn this 21. day of November 1877 before me
Ellis A. Fonda
Deputy French Justice

State of New York Madison County Clerk's Office } ss: I, Andrew S. Sloan, Clerk of the said County, do certify that Jairus French, before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn, and also whose name appears to the Certificate below, was a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, at the time of the date of the same - And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit and Certificate to be his proper hand writing and signature - Witness my hand and seal of Office this 23 d day of November 1833 -
A. Sloan Clk.
This certifies, that Abigail Fonda the within named deponent is well known to me, in my belief is fully entitled to credit - That the within deposition was taken before me -
Jairus French. Justice