Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,619, Abel Cushing, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Cushing, Abel
S. 34,619
CONTENTS

10,835
Massachusetts.
Abel Bushing of Chesterfield in the state of Mass who was a captain in the regiment commanded by Colonel Shepard of the Mass line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 th of May, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 th of May 1819 and sent to E. H. Mills Esq. South Ampton, Mass.
  Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819. 9 mos.  76.12    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 th Sept. 1819.  48.00    Total  $124.12  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Abel Bushing Contested
Application of Abel Bushing for Pension from the State of Massachusetts

I am by occupation a day labourer and have no other means of support for myself and family consisting of a Wife and four Children. My health particularly my eye sight was much injured by hard work & sickness while in service from which I have never recovered. my Wife is fifty four years old & is quite infirm one of my Daughters is 22 years old and very weakly. George Russell Cushing my Son 15 years old is deaf. Martha my daughter twelve years old is a Cripple Mary the youngest aged nine years.
Abel Cushing

No 91
Abel Cushing
10.835. Chesterfield
10.835.
19 May 1879
Sep. 1879
C

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, begun and holden at Northampton, within and for the County of Hampshire, on Wednesday, the fifth day of July, and de die in diem to the sixth day of said month A. D. 1820 :
PERSONALLY APPEARED, in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County, created such by the Laws of the Commonwealth Abel Cushing aged fifty six years, resident in Cheshire in said County, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows :
In 1779 I served 3 months in Rhode Island as a Volunteer in 1780 I served six months in Fort Mifflin near Philadelphia and in the Winter of 1781 I enlisted for three years and was mustered in Boston I think about 6th March some year in May following I joined the army and was put into the Brigade under Genl Patterson in the Regt commanded by Coll M c Pherson I continued uninterruptedly in the service as a soldier in said Regiment until the thirty first of Dec r 1783 when I was honorably discharged as well upon my discharge now in the War Office in Washington the said Regiment being then under the Command of Coll Hovey, I ask you to give me a pension Certificate No 10,833 bearing date May 19-1819 under an application made
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 following schedule by me subscribed.
  One Loom 6.00 Two Ovens 2.00 One p ce Anderson 2.00   Three large Iron Wires 2. One iron Stove 2.50 One Stove & Stove 6.00   Two little do 1. One meat Box 50 One tin pail 25   Two old Chairs 1. One old Box & two Kegs 85 Two old wooden pails 25   Two old Chest 1.50 One old Cedar Box & Tub 50 Three old hoes 50   One old do 50 Two plates 25 Two old Axes 1.25   Three Tables 1.00 Six tea cups Saucers plates bowls & glasses 3.25 One Baskethouse 80   One Chest of drawers 1.50 Six chairs & stools 50 Two Meat bags 50   One old Wring dish 50 White plates Tea pot Can & B-Nes 1.56 One Wash tub 75   One Socky Dish 50 One bread trough 12 Three Iron handles 2.   Three Iron Pottles 1.50 Three pepper plates & 1 pepper platter 50 Four Iron Spoons 25   One pot 1.75 Three Cather pans 35 One Skimmer 6   One Spatula & Scabbat 75 Two flat irons 75   Two Baskets 70   $44.12 
Sworn to, and declared, on the sixth day of July 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, Josiah Dwight Clerk.
I, JOSIAH DWIGHT, Clerk of said Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule which follows it, 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 Forty four dollars, and sixty two cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Sixth day of July 1820.
Josiah Dwight

Abel Cushing
Private
Col Shephards Regiment
Massachusetts Line
1781-3 years
Service a company too early for Roll
X

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Hampshire ss.
Be it now known that on the twenty first day of May 1818, before me Samuel Putnam one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth personally came & appeared the above-named Abel Cushing and Elijah H. Dills and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration & deposition by them respectively subscribed. And it appearing to my satisfaction that the said Cushing died in the revolutionary war for more than nine months against the common enemy, & that he is in reduced circumstances in life, & stands in need of assistance from his country for support, I do now transmit the testimony & proceedings taken that before me, to the Secretary for the department of war, pursuant to the Act of Congress made for that purpose.
Given under my hand and the seal of said Court the day & year last aforesaid
S. Putnam Jut S. J. Court of Mass t .
J. Josiah Dwight clerk of all the Judicial courts of said county of Hampshire, do hereby certify that the above named Samuel Putnam is a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Common- wealth, that the above signature is genuine, being the proper hand writing of said Judge & that the seal annexed is the seal of said Court.
Josiah Dwight Clerk

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Hampshire County ss
On the twentieth day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eighteen before the  the Samuel Putnam one of the Judges of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth personally came & appeared Abel Cushing a citizen of the United States age a fifty five  forty years resident in Chesterfield in the county of Hampshire who being by me first duly sworn according to law took on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the pro- vision made by the late act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land & naval service of the United States in the revolution or war" that he the said Abel enlisted in Hingham in the county Plymouth in the Commonwealth into the company commanded by Captain Seth Bannister & regiment commanded by Col. William Shephard in the Massachusetts line for the space of three years from the month of first of January 1781. that he served in the said Corps in the service of the United States against the common enemy until the thirty first day of December
Barnes Copy

1783, when he was honorably discharged as will appear by the discharge hereunto annexed & that he is in reduced circumstances & stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support & that he never has received any pension from the United States or any individual state for his services or any part thereof -
Abel Cushing
Elijah H. Mills Member of Congress from Massachusetts being duly sworn deponeth & saith that he has for many years last past been personally acquainted with the above named Abel Cushing. That he knows him to be poor in reduced circumstances in life and that he stands in need of assistance from his country for support. May 21. 1818
Elijah H. Mills

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS, WASHINGTON, D. C.,
834619
In reply to your request for a statement of the military history of Abel Cushing , a soldier of the Revolutionary war, you will please find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Jan. 1781 3 yrs. Corpl Seth Bannister Wm. Shepherd Mass.          
Battles engaged in, none men.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Chesterfield Hingham, Mass.
Date of application for pension, May 20, 1818
Residence at date of application, Chesterfield, Mass.
Age at date of application, 54 years.
Remarks: No record found of Caleb Cushing.
Walter G. Faxon.
Very respectfully,
Hartford, Conn.
Drawer 55.
Commissioner.

34 619 Rev INVALID.
Incl. by Miss Hiss to Walter C. Taxon, New Haven Hartford Conn.
File No. 34 619
Abel Cushing Corp Rev me
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 94
[Arrangement of 1870.]

BY THE HONOURABLE
MAJOR-GENERAL K N O X,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
Abel Caskey  Corporal in the Fourth Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the Thirtyfirst Day of Decr.
1783
H. Knox
By the General's Command,
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
John H. Bondy  Adjt Genl

M. G. BULKELEY, PRESIDENT. J. C. WEBSTER, VICE-PRESIDENT. J. L. ENGLISH, SECRETARY.
ACCIDENT DEPARTMENT.
6 Aetna Life Insurance Company,
Hartford, Conn., Feb. 17. 1894.
Hon. William Lochren, Commissioner, Bureau of Pensions. Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:--I desire to obtain a certificate giving the services rendered by Abel Cushing of Chesterfield, Hampshire County, Mass. in the war of the Revolution.
Please have it show when he entered the service, how long he served and in what capacity, also when and for how long he received a pension.
If your records show it, please say if this Abel Cushing was the son of Caleb Cushing not found
Did this Caleb Cushing also serve in the war of the Revolution and if so, when and in what capacity?
I desire to obtain this information so as to verify records partially incomplete which I have found referring to these two men, and trust you will be able to supply the desired data.
Thanking you in advance for your attention to the matter I remain,
Yours respectfully,
Walter C. Faxon
From Walter C. Faxon, Drawer 55. Hartford, Conn.