Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 23893, Ephraim Cushman, Continental Mass.

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Continental Mass.
Cushman, Ephraim Mary
W 23893
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9984 Q
Massachusetts
Ephraim Bushman
of Amherst in the state of Mass. who was a Sergeant in the regiment commanded by Colonel Learned of the Mass. line, for the term of one year
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 20 th of April, 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 29 th of Apr. 1819 and sent to Genl. Leavitt, Esq. Greenfield, Mass.
  Arrears to 4th of Mar. 1819. 10 mo. 24 d.  83.96    Semi-ann. all'ce ending 1 st Ap. 1819  48.00     $131:96  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Not entitled
Information sent July 28th 1820 to James D. Dugdale, Northampton, Mass.

Rep d
Massachusetts 2816
Mary Cashman
widow of Ephraim Cashman who was a Private in the Revolution
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 d day of Nov r 1843 and sent to Edward Dickinson Amherst, Mass.
[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book 1. Vol. 1. Page 39.

Map. Dec 10 add. proof May Cushman
Rev. Dr. Charles G. Loring 100 Nassau Street New York City
for
Epiphany Cushman Mary H. H. H. Newburyport

December twenty fourth Seventeen Hundred Eighty. — Then the Ephraim Cushman and Miss Mary Hacket both of Middleboro, was Married by me. Eben s Sprout Justice Peace.
I Allen Shaw certify that the foregoing is a true copy of the Record of said town of Middleborough with the exception of the date which is expressed in fair legible figures as follows — Decem r 24 1780.
I Allen Shaw above named depose and say that I hold the Office of Town clerk in the town of Middleborough, County of Plymouth Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that the above is a true extract from the Records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me. Middleborough Sept r 10 th 1838.
Allen Shaw Town clerk of Middleborough.
Sworn before me } And Thompson justice of the Peace Middleborough Sept, 10 th 1838

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
County of Plymouth
Clerks Office Sep 10 1858
I M c Arthur Clerk of the Judicial Courts in the said County of Plymouth hereby certify that Israel Thompson appeared before whom the foregoing deposition was sworn to in a justice of the Peace for the said County of Plymouth duly commissioned & qualified - and that his signature before written is genuine, testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court on the day & year aforesaid
J M c Arthur

weather extraction station
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Sir: I send the evidence of marriage in case of Mary Cashman's application for Pension. I supposed that it was sent with the papers in her case, forwarded some days since.
Please put it in file with them. & send me the result as soon as you can come to one.
Yours respectfully Edward Lockwood
Amherst Mass. Dec. 6, 1838.

No 28
Ephraim Cushman
9984 - Anhurst
April 1819
NOT ENROLLED
Sep 1819.

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, Ebenezer Dyer aged sixty six years, resident in Dunstable 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: he enlisted early in the year 1776 for one year into Capt Wood's Company in Collo Shepard's Reg t and served out the time in the Massachusetts Line he was regularly discharged at the end of his enlistment, he applied for his Pension on the twentieth day of April 1818 and obtained his Certificate therefor No 9984
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. Thirteen Acres of Land with an old house thereon
 securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the following schedule by me subscribed. Thirteen Acres of Land with an old house thereon $2600.00  One old Cattle 5.00 One old Wagon 5.00 One Pig 8.00 One Chest with drawers 3.00  One Table 50. One old Chain 50. One Sowing Machine 75. One line 40. One set harness 20.  One old pot 25. One Tea kettle 20. one Spade 10. One set Tongs & Shovel 17.  = 24.07  Debts due from me viz To Sam l Cook, Mr 82. Joseph Cook 6. 72. Jacob White 2. 20. Lucinda Watson 90.00 Enoch Whiting 3. 40 H. Wright Shung 2. 65. W m Kellogg 11. 48. Sarah Kellogg 15. 98 Chester Dickinson 1.00 Ramson Dickinson 1.00 Abijah Dickinson 50  $284 07 153. 20 
I am a London carrier but from my age & one of my hands being rendered almost useless by Rheumatism am unable to labour. I have a Wife aged sixty four & infirm & unable to do much for her support. I have two Children who live with me but they are able to support themselves and not more.
Ephraim Cushman
Sworn to, and declared, on the _____ before the said Court.
Attest.
day of July 182 Isaac 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 two hundred eighty four dollars, and Seven cents.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this Smith day of July 1820.
Josiah Dwight

3342 Mary Cushman
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E. Dickinson Amherst Mass.
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Mary Cushman Cabin Mediation
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DECLARATION.
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress, of the 7th July, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows,"
State of Massachusetts, } ss County of Hampshire }
On this first day of November A.D. 1838, personally appeared Mary Cushman personally appeared before me
a resident of Amherst in the county of Hampshire aged eighty two years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An Act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows;" That she is the widow of Ephraim Cushman who was a* Private in the Army of the Revolution , for which he received a pension from the United States of Ninety Six dollars per annum, under the act of Congress of March 18. 1818. during his life - & after his decease, she applied for & received, as his widow, the arrears of pension money then due - She further declares that her maiden name was Mary Hacket , & that she is the widow of the said Ephraim Cushman , deceased, about stated. For evidence of the service of the said Ephraim reference maybe had to the papers on file in the War Department at Washington.
She further declares that she was married to the said Ephraim Cushman on the twent fourth day of December in the year seventeen hundred and eighty ; that her husband, the aforesaid Ephraim died on the twent sixth day of February eighteen hundred & thirty two . that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, viz. : at the time above stated.
Sworn to, and subscribed, on the day and year above written, before me, he Attest Edward McMillen  Mary Cushman Ephraim Cushman judge of Probate mark
* Here insert the rank the husband held in the army, navy, or militia, as the case may be, and specify the service performed, as directed in rule numbered one of these regulations.
I hereby certify that the said Mary Cushman the aforesaid applicant cannot from bodily infirmity attend court - Ephraim Cushman judge of Probate

I, Samuel F. Lyman Register of the Court of Probate in and for the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings before the Judge of Probate of Probate of said County in the matter of the application of Mary Cushman for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the said Court this second day of November A.D. 1838
Samuel F. Lyman Reg Prob.

Rev. and 1812 War Section. Am
AWJ
August 5, 1925
E. F. J. Tafe 424 S. Broadway Los Angeles, Calif.
Sir:
I have to advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, W. 23893, it appears that Ephraim Cushman was born in February 1754, place not stated.
He enlisted at Roxbury, Massachusetts, in 1775 and served eight months as a private in Captain Benson's Company, Colonel Cotton's Massachusetts Regiment.
He enlisted January 1, 1776 and served one year as private in Captain Wood's Company, Colonels Learned and Shepard's Massachusetts Regiment.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 20, 1818, while a resident of Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. He died February 26, 1832.

Soldier married at Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, December 24, 1780, Miss Mary Hacket, both of them at that time resided at said place. She was allowed pension on her application executed November 1, 1838, while a resident of Amherst, Massachusetts, aged eighty-two years.
A son John R. was thirty-nine years old in 1843 and resided at Amherst, Massachusetts. Two children were referred to in 1820, names and ages not stated.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

Hist. to A. F. Cushman, C 59 Wall St., New York City; Mrl. Heir to A. N. Cushman, F. D. N. N. Washington Hl, 1917 Jan. 25: Heir. to M. & C. A. F. Cushman. Aut- 1925-Aug. 5: Heir to E & J. Tafe See letter in Wm. Ashley R 283
Rev
WIDOW, &c.
Oct. 16/94 Apr. 17/95 501
File No. 23893
Mary Cushman wid. of Epiphanius Cushman Rev. Rev. war.
Act: Mch. 3 rd 1843.
Index:—Vol. A , Page 152
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Northampton, Massachusetts.
Dear Sir
Sept. 16 th 1920
I am requested to write you respecting an application for a Renewal of a Pension in favour of Ephraim Gashman of Amherst in this County which has been discontinued by the Secretary of War. He exhibited to the Court here a schedule of his Property amounting to $204.77 of which was Real Estate $260 .. and Personal Estate
24.77 204.77
He exhibited also a schedule of the Debts he owed amounting to
153.87
leaving only the pileful sum of — $ 130.20
He now says he did not give an exact list of the Debts he owes - that several other Debts have come against him since his application which he then did not think of to the amount of
57.00 $ 73.20
The object of writing this is to request information whether the Honble Secretary of War will accept of a new application, with the evidence of credible Witnesses proving the Debts he owes & has stated to be justly due from him - or whether such new application may be presented to the Court here in the first instance - and in either case whether the Secretary will again consider the subject & alter his decision -
All are well at your Mother's
With respect & friendship
Yours Samuel Hinkley

2863
May Washburn
Pension declaration
July 1873.
$66:66 per ann
Edward Dickinson Amherst Mass

State of Massachusetts County of Hampshire P.
On this twenty first day of July 1843. personally appeared before the subscribers a justice of the Peace in & for the said County, Mary Cushman a citizen of Amherst in the County aforesaid, aged Eighty seven years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to claim the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed on the 3. March 1843. granting pensions to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War.
That she is the widow of Ephraim Cushman, who was a private in the army of the Revolution the Regiment or the Corps, or the company, the officers in which, or under whom he served. She can not recollect. She recd the sum of sixty six dollars & 66 2/3 cents as the annual amount of the pension which she was entitled to under the Act of July 7. 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow. Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written.
Mary Cushman
Ref
Edward D. Mason Justice of the Peace

Con. St. of Massachusetts County of Middlesex ss. July 21. 1843.
Then personally appeared Mary Chapman whose name to the foregoing declaration is well known to me, to be a credible person, & made their oath to the truth of the facts therein contained.
Before me Edward Dickinson Justice of the Peace

I John R. Cashman of Althost in the County of Hampshire & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged thirty nine years, testify & say, that Mary Cashman, who has made the foregoing application for a pension as my Mother - that she has been on pension for five years under the Law of July 1838, and that she is still a widow residing with me. John Cashman
County of Hampshire ss
July 21.
Mr. [?]
Personally appeared John R. Cashman subscribed to the foregoing application, and oath to the truth of the same, he being a person to me, to be a credible witness.
Edward D. Newman
Justice of the Peace

Nov 26.
3342
Mass.
7 July 1838
6/10
Washington
1818-
Ephraim
From
James J. Edwards Esq Commission of Peuters Washington City D. C.

(MP.) Athens Nov. 22. 1838.
James L. Edwards Esq Sir:
I enclose you Declaration of Mary Cuthman for a Pension, with evidence of her marriage.
Kindly examine the papers, & return me a Certificate for her, when you can do it.
If any thing is wanting, please write me.
Yours respectfully
Edward Dickinson

Massachusetts - 2799.
Mary Cushman widow of Ephraim Cushman
who was a pensioner under the Act of 18. Mar. '18 and who died on the 26. Feby. 1832, of Hampshire in the State of Mass s who was a P er . in the Comp y commanded by Captain  of the Reg t commanded by  in the Mass s line for 20 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass s pensioners at the rate of 66 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 12. day of May 39, and seal sent E. Dickinson, Dukeville, Mass s
Arrears to the 4th of March - $199.98 Semi-annual allowance ending
33.32
$133.31
{ Act July 7, } 1838. }
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk, Book A Vol. 1 - Page 80.

Massachusetts (9,984)
Ephraim Cushman, Prior: served 1 year in 1776-
Amount of 1 st schedule dated 6 July 1820
  Real estate  $ 260.00    Personal estate  24.00     $ 284.00  
Amount of schedule under act of March 1823.
  2/3 of an acre of land  $10.00    Personal estate  11.58 3/4    29 Apr 1819  $ 21.58 3/4  
Claimant aged 69 - by trade, a cordwainer - wife aged 68, able to do but little - no other in family.
Accounts for the decrease of his property, by sale of all his real estate except 2/3 of an acre, under an execution amounting to $128 56 / 100 , and dated 30 th March 1821. Copy of execution & sheriff's return is exhibited.
Restored to roll under Law 1. March, 1823 & Notification sent on 30 th April, 1823, to the care of S. Stoddard, Northampton, Mass:
Sept: 19-
Commencing on 25 March, 1823
Restore

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, Samuel Wells, Clerk of the Judicial Courts of the Commonwealth, for the County of Hampshire, do certify, that Edward Dickinson Esquire, whose signature is affixed to the certificate on the paper hereto annexed, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace, within and for said County, duly commissioned, and acting under the authority of this Commonwealth; and that full faith and credit is and ought to be given to his acts and attestations done in that capacity; (and) that I am acquainted with the hand-writing of the said Edward Dickinson and believe his signature to said certificate is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said Commonwealth, this Twenty Sixth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty three
Samuel Wells
Clerk.

I Foxwell Thomas of New Salem in the County of Franklin Testify and say that Ephraim Cushman of Sanbornt in the County of Hampshire, served under the continental est. in the revolutionary army in the same company with me, for the term of one year from the first of January 1776 to the last day of December in the same year, in the Regiment then commanded by Col s Shepherd and Capt. Isaac Woods Company — Foxwell Thomas
Franklin Co. Jan y 8. 1819.
Then Foxwell Thomas personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed Before me Varney Pearce Just. of the Peace.
I James Shaw of New Salem in the County of Franklin, testify and say that Ephraim Cushman of Sanbornt in the County of Hampshire, served in the revolutionary army under the continen- =tal establishment in the same company with me from the first of January 1776 to the last day of December in the same year, in the Regiment commanded by Col s Shepherd and Capt. Isaac Woods Company — James Shaw
Franklin Co. Jan y 8. 1819.
Then James Shaw personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed Before me Varney Pearce Just. of the Peace.
I certify that Foxwell Thomas & James Shaw subscribers to the foregoing affidavits contain the reputation of men of undoubted character — Varney Pearce Just. of the Peace

Concurred with the late H. H. H. H. Franklin - June 9 th 1849 - I hereby certify that the within named Vernon Goosey is a respectable Magistrate in Osser County - And I further certify that the within record on due exam- ination had, it appears to my satisfac- tion that the within named Frank Thomas & James Strane are credible & disinterested witnesses
John L. Smith, Judge

Ep. Mr. Cushman
Learned Mass Rep
Appears to have served 1 year
Adm.
It? for proof of service

I Ephraim Cushman, a Citizen of the United States resident in the Town of Ashhurst in the County of Hampshire in the State of Massachu- setts, do hereby declare that I belonged to the Army of the United States in the rebellion known as the War. In the year 1873 I entered the service for eight months, I served during that term in the company of Capt. Bangs, in the Regiment of Col. Cather of Massachusetts. Immediately after that I entered the service again for one year, I continued in the service until a few days before the expiration of my term of one year, when being sick, I was regular- ly discharged. And I had a Writings purport- ing that I was discharged on that account, but I have lost it & do not know what has become of it. The company into which I enlisted for the year's service was com- manded the first part of the time by Capt. Wood, & the Regiment was commanded the first part of the time by Col. Larned & the last part of the time by Col. Shep- herd of the Massachusetts line. I am a poor man, & by reason of my reduced cir- cumstances in life, am in need of assist- ance from my Country for support. Dated the 20th Day of April A.D. 1878 Ephraim Cushman
State of Massachusetts Franklin Co. April 20th A.D. 1878. The above named Ephraim Cushman made oath that the foregoing De- claration by him subscribed is true Before me Josiah L. Smith, Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas

To the Secretary of the Department War,
I the undersigned, Judge of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Western Circuit in the State of Massachusetts, which included the County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that from the Testimony given it appears to my satisfaction that the before named Ephraim Cookman served in the Revolutionary War against the common enemy as he has set forth in the Declaration of Service by him subscribed, & that by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he is in need of assistance from his Country for a support —
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the Court this the 20th day of April A 1878
John L. Cook

Schedule
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Wamphire ss At the Court of Common Pleas begun and held at Northampton within and for said County on the fourth Monday of March in the Year of our Lord 1823
On the twenty fifth day of March aforesaid. Personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record for said County of Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction Ephraim Cushman of Amherst in said County aged sixty nine years in February last, 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 the 18 th of March 1818 the first of May 1820 and the first of March 1823. That he the said Ephraim enlisted at Roxbury near Boston in January 1776. into the Company Commanded by Capt Isaac Wood in Col d Learned's Regiment afterwards the Regiment was Commanded by Col d Shepard, for one year in the Massachusetts line, in the Continental establishment in the Revolutionary War and he continued to serve in said Company & Regiment until the expiration of the year and was regularly discharged at Bedford near the White Plains in the state of New York in January 1777.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or in any manner, disposed of any 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 18 th day of March 1818 And that I have not now 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 since the exhibition of my first Schedule the following changes have been made in my Property,

First Schedule of July 5 th 1820
13 Acres of land with an old house on it 2600. 00. all taken & set off by Execution except about two thirds of our share as stated in new schedule
  1 Old Saddle 5.00 It is nearly worn out & is in new schedule   1 Old Wagon 5.00 is worn out & the old iron on it is sold   1 Chest with drawers 8.00 Since since disposed of for my support   1 Table .50 Some are worn out and the rest are in the new schedule   3 Old Chairs .50   1 Cooking Pot .75   1 Axe .40   1 set Harness & saddle .20   1 Old Pot .25   1 Tin Kettle .20   1 Spider .10   1 pair Tongs & shovel .17   $281.07 
Debts due from me viz
To Jonathan Fowler 14.82 to Joseph Gault 6.72 to Sarah White 2.20 to Lucinda Watson 90.00 to Enoch Whitney 3.40 to Wright Strong 2.65 to William Kellogg 11.48 to James Kellogg 15.68 to Christa Dickson 1.00 to Priscilla Dickson 1.00 to Abijah Dickson .50 to William Kellogg 3.45 $153.20
2 nd Schedule of March 21 st 1823
Schedule of the Estate of Ephraim Cushman of Auburn in the County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts applicant for a renewal of his Pension under the act of Congress of March 1 st 1823
  Real Estate. about two thirds of our share of land about one rod wide and over one hundred rods long $10.00   19 shoe making Vats at 12 1/2 cents each 2.37 1/2   10 " " " 6 " " " .60   1 Shoe making bench .25   1 Hammock. Prison Awnings etc 1.00 

Candlestick & Lamps 16 00 Sheet 4.20, one old butter 1.00
Butter 1.00 00 Sold this 1.00 = $21.58 3/4 March 21 st 1823 Ephraim Cushman
We the subscribers testify and say that we have received the property contained in the above schedule shewn unto us by Ephraim Cushman above named as his property; and are of opinion that the sum set against the respective items are their true values. Ephraim Roberts Daniel Dickinson Israel Pluget
Hampshire ss March 21 st 1823 Personally appeared Ephraim Roberts Daniel Dickinson and Israel Pluget above named and made oath to the truth of the above statement by them subscribed before me
I hereby certify that Ephraim Roberts Daniel Dickinson & Israel Pluget above named are disinterested and credible witnesses. Thomas G. Dole Clerk of the Court.
Thomas G. Dole Esq. Justice of the Peace
I further testify and say under oath I have a Wife aged sixty eight years who is a lame woman and unable to do much work. I have no other family I am a Cordwainer by trade, but my fingers on both hands are almost drawn up to the palm of my hands with Rheumatism so that I am almost deprived of the use of hands. I have had my Real Estate mostly taken from me since my first Schedule was returned, an Execution for debt issued to David Watson executed, and the rest which is appraised at ten dollars is in my last schedule - I am very poor and infirm and cannot support myself without the aid of my Country as by Charity I obtained my Pension for my services in the Revolutionary War as by my certificate No 9984 will appear under the law of 18 th of March 1818. I was dropped from my Pension on account of my property.
Ephraim Cushman
William Woodard Jun. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hampshire. do hereby certify, that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Ephraim Cushman did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the foregoing declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months under one engagement

on the Continental establishment - I also 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 twenty one dollars and fifty eight & one half cents
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty fifth day of March. 1823.
J. Stoddard Jr Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas
Israhaim Cushman

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HAMPSHIRE ss.
To the Sheriff of our County of Hampshire, or his Deputy,
GREETING.
WHEREAS Lucinda Watson Wilton & John Ephraim Ely both of Amherst in said County and administrators on the estate of Daniel Watson deceased
By the consideration of our Justices of our Circuit Court of Common Pleas holden at Northampton, within and for our County of Hampshire, aforesaid, on the fourth Monday of March Inst. recovered Judgment against
Ephraim Cashman of Amherst aforesaid for seventeen
120. 92 7. 39 128, 31 25 128 56 14. 49 143 05
for the sum of One hundred twenty dollars, and seventy three cents, damages, and seven dollars, and thirty seven cents, costs of Suit; as to us appears of Record, whereof Execution remains to be done;
WE command you, therefore, that of the Goods, Chattels or Lands of the said Ephraim within your precinct, you cause to be paid and satisfied unto the said Lucinda & John at the value thereof in money, the aforesaid sums, being One hundred twenty eight dollars and thirty one cents, in the whole, with twenty five cents more for this writ; and thereof also to satisfy yourself for your own fees; and for want of Goods, Chattels, or Lands of the said Ephraim to be by me shewn unto you, or found within your precinct, to the acceptance of the said Lucinda & John to satisfy the sums aforesaid,
WE command you to take the body of the said Ephraim and me commit unto our Gaol, in Northampton, in our county of Hampshire, aforesaid, and detain in your custody, within our said Gaol, until he pay the full sums above mentioned, with your fees, or that he be discharged by the said Lucinda & John the Creditors, or otherwise by order of law. Hereof fail not, and make return of this writ, with your doings therein, into the office of the Clerk of our said Circuit Court of Common Pleas, at Northampton, within three months from the date hereof.
Witness, John Hooker Esq. at Northampton, the thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty one
S. Stockard Jr.
Clerk. Pro Tem
Hampshire April 28 th 1821 Then Personally appeared Daniel Fellaga Barnes Post and Ephraim  Whorth all publishers in said County and made solemn Oath that in appraising such real estate of the said Ephraim Cash- man as should be shown them to satisfy this Execution and affix they would act faithfully and impartially according to their best skill and judgment before me Attorney  Conkey  Jus Pacis

Hampshire April 28 th 1829. We the subscribers being chosen appointed and sworn to appraise the real estate of said Cushman as is described to us to satisfy this Execution and all fees have accordingly on this twenty eighth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one according to our best direction and judgment appraised a certain tract of land lying in Crompton in said County shown to us for the purpose aforesaid and bounded and described as follows that is to say beginning at a stone 9 stones East of the house and at the fork of the highway running thence South 59° west twenty three rods on said highway to a stone 8 stones thence South 79° West twenty rods to a stone 10 stones thence South 76° west on said road twenty rods & twenty links to a stone 8 stones at the corner of Joseph Crompton's land thence South 16° East seventy rods and twenty links to the river thence North 67° 30' thirty minutes East on said river three rods to a stone 8 stones thence North 28° East eighty six rods & ten links to the first mentioned corner containing fourteen acres and one third of an acre at the sum of One hundred and forty three dollars and five cents to satisfy this Execution and all fees and have set out the same by metes and bounds the same being the land on which the said Cushman now lives
Benoni Frost Daniel Kellogg Ephraim Roberts
Hampshire April 28 th 1829. The within named Cushman not having satisfied this Execution by money or other personal estate and the creditors not finding any and therefore proper to levy the same on the debtor's real estate by the direction of the creditors Attorney I this day levied this Execution on the debtor's real estate on the above described land which is particularly described by the return of the appraisers Benoni Frost chosen by me Daniel Kellogg chosen by the creditors Attorney and Ephraim Roberts chosen by the debtor they being disinterested and discreet men and freeholders in said County of Hampshire whom I caused to be sworn faithfully and impartially to appraise such real estate as should be shown to them by the creditors Attorney to satisfy this Execution and all fees and they have accordingly levied the above described land and did appraise the same to be worth one hundred and forty three dollars & five cents & no more and I delivered to Thomas Crompton Esquire the creditors Attorney a true and proper copy of the above described land who accepted the same in full to satisfy this Execution and all fees - I therefore return this Execution satisfied in full debt & cost.
Zephaniah D. Dyer Dep. Sheriff
Ex. returned Ex. 27. 21. Cushman
Hampshire June 16 th 1829. The foregoing is a true copy of the original filed in the Regis rs & Exec rs by Levi Lyman Regis r .
True Copy of Record.
Attest. Levi Lyman Regis r
fees $1.00

W23893
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Ephraim Cushman a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1775 8 mos. Pvt. Benson Cotton Mass.   Jan 1 1776 1 yr. Isaac Wood Learned & Shepard          
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, res. at Roxbury Mass.
Date of application for pension, Apr 20 1878. His cl. was ab.
Residence at date of application, Amherst Hampshire Co. Mass.
Age at date of application, 64. b. 328-1754 Feb. 26. 1832 -
Remarks: Sol. mar. at Middleborough Plymouth Co. Mass. Dec. 24. 1780. Miss Mary Hackett both of them resided at said place. She was ab. pens. on him ap. no. Nov. 1. 1838 while living at Amherst Mass. as &c. A son John R. was 39 yrs old & a res of Amherst in 1843. Two children were referred to in 1820. Age & etc not stated.
Respectfully,

REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE.
O. W. & N. Div.
MEMORANDA.
Please supply as much as possible of the data called for below.
Full name of soldier:
Ephraim Cushman, born at Middlesex, Mass. Feb. 20, 1757
Place of residence before service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Leicester, probably Amherst, Mass. Hamp. Co.
Place of residence after service:
(Town, county, and State, if possible.)
Adams, Franklin Co. Mass Westmoreland N. H. Amherst, Mass. Co. Mass
Date of death (as near as possible):
Oct. 26, 1832 at Amherst Hampshire Co. Mass.
Christian name of widow:
Mary Hackett, Ganton Mass. Died at Amherst Jan. 1, '49
Did either he or his widow receive a pension?
He was a U.S. Pensioner for several years.
Remarks:
Served in war of Revolution. Exact time of service not known. Probably enlisted from Amherst, Mass.
Your name and address:
A. G. Cushman 501 G. St. S. W. Washington D. C.

AVERY F. CUSHMAN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW, 59 WALL STREET.
NEW YORK,
October 9th
18 94
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Ephraim Cushman served in the war of the Revolution going from Middleboro, Mass. He was subsequently a U. S. Pensioner. I desire to ascertain his period of service, his rank, if any, and the regiment troop or organization to which he belonged. Can you give me this informa- tion and oblige
Yours truly,
Avery F. Cushman

J. GRANVILLE MEYERS A. V. CUSHMAN GEORGE W. REA
LOCAL AND LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CABLE ADDRESS: "MYCUSHREA," WASHINGTON WESTERN UNION CODE
LAW OFFICES OF MEYERS, CUSHMAN & REA ATTORNEYS AT LAW COUNSELORS IN PATENT CAUSES WASHINGTON LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY BUILDING 9TH AND F STREETS, N. W. WASHINGTON, D. C.
Rev see PATENTS DESIGNS TRADE-MARKS COPYRIGHTS
Jan. 16, 1917.
Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D. C.
Sir: Attention of Revolutionary Bureau.
Please furnish me with statement of service of Ephraim Cushman in the Revolutionary War.
Thanking you for your attention to this, I am,
Yours very truly,
A. V. Cushman
AVC-H.

A. V. CUSHMAN, PATENTS AND PATENT CAUSES, WASHINGTON, D. C.
Mar. 19/95
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions:-
Sir:-
I enclose herewith relating to the Revolutionary services of Ephraim Cushman and request that the information necessary to support application for admission to the Sons of the Revolution be furnished.
If there is any change for the better please notify me that I may wait same.
Respectfully A. V. Cushman