Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,510, David Cushman, Continental Mass.

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SERVICE
continental, Mass.
Cushman, David
NUMBER _____
S 10.5 10
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CONTENTS

CUSHING, DAVID (CONT., MASS.)
S-10510

David Bush of Connecticut, in the State of New who was a Private in the Com by Captain Hunt of the Regt. by Col. Jackson in the Rk. Btallion time for 2 Years
Mass. Continental Act 30/15 Records corrected
on the Roll of New York at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 1 day of March 1833 and to the said David Bush
Arrear to the 1st of Feb. 33 $ 2.50 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 M. 31 $ 10
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by [Signature] Clerk. Book E Vol. 1 Page 1
Read Serial No. 100000 under the Act of March 6th April 1833 from 4 Sep 1839 to 6 Dec 1839. Cgl. notified 21 April 1841.

Final settlement Tuscarora Regt.
old case
18380
David Cookman not on final settle of
New York rejected and returned to John Grover of Auburn 3 Years & 6 Mths. New York Sept 25th 1819-
applied for a Pension under the act of 1818 & was rejected on account of property -
No 21719 of Reg of Claims No 1 - returned to Mr Grover Auburn N. Y. for further evidence P. L. Tracy

old case
18380
David Cookman not on final settle of
New York rejected and returned to John Grover of Auburn 3 Years & 6 Mths. filed Sept 25th 1819-
applied for a Pension under the act of 1818 & was rejected on account of property -
No 21719 of Reg of Claims No 1 - returned to John Grover, Auburn N. Y. for further evidence P. L. Tracy
See letter to H. W. Soper. Sept 1833.

BRIEF in the case of David Bushman of Withers- field, Co. of Tennessee in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 69 - June 24 1832  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.     June In 1780 (Cont) 6 As a Gen.   Apr 1781 (Con) 3 Years. " Privateship Jerny. Col. Hunt   Col. Jackson   Col. Brandt Col. H. Smith   Col. Tupper   Col. Jackson   3 Yrs 6 Mths  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Longhouse April 1781 in quelling the mutiny in Philadelphia  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Bristol County Massachusetts  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? his own oath  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Correct 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
J. W. [Signature]
Examining Clerk.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 5 th 1841.
Sir :
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," Adm or of David Cushman, Rec d a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.Y. Agency, at the rate of Sixty Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept. 1839, to the 6 th Dec r 1839.
Respectfully yours,
William L. Harris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.

David Cushman
Declaration —
18380
Please make returns to
Honore M. Loper
Butavia
Genesee Co.
N.Y.
Examined

Declaration of David Cushman, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7-1832 State of New York } Genesee County, ss: }
On this sixteenth day of October in the Year eighteen hundred and thirty two, personally appeared in open court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas at the Court House in the Village of Batavia in and for the County of Genesee and said state of New York, now sitting, David Cushman, a resident of the town of Wethersfield in said county and state of New York, aged sixty nine years on the 24 th June 1832, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following declara- tion, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7-1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.
That in the month of June 1780, but on what day he cannot recollect, while he resided in New Bedford, in Bristol County, Massachusetts he enlisted for six months in the Regular Service of the United States, on the continental establishment in the Massachusetts line of militia and was enlisted by Capt. Henry Denny and was marched by him to Dannton, Massachusetts and was there inspected by a muster master whose name he does not recollect and was then ordered to Springfield where he was examined again and joined a party of recruits and had officers appointed and marched to West Point where he was put into Capt. Hunt's Com- pany and in the 8 th Regiment commanded by Col. Michael Jackson that he served the six months for which he enlisted and was sta- tioned a part of the time at Orangeburg, on the line of the Hudson River and twenty or thirty miles from West Point - that he was in no battle and received a regular discharge signed by Capt. Hunt and Col. Jackson which he has lost. - and there went home, which he thinks was in January 1781.
That he remained at home until the 1 st April 1781 and he then enlisted into the Regular, Continental Army for three years,

that he belonged to Capt. Thomas Brandt's Company in New Bedford which was classed and a certain number enlisted from each class. That a man by the name of Bolton, he thinks, mustered there at New Bedford, that he then went to Taunton and was mustered again and then to Springfield where he was again inspected and drew his arms and eating and was ordered to West Point. That he went immediately to West Point and was put into Capt. Buxton's Company, that Smith was Lieutenant and Harmon, Ensign; that Thomas and Miles were Sergeants. He was in Col. Dupper's Regiment and cannot recollect any of the field officers. That during the summer of 1781 he was stationed in the neighborhood of West Point for some time and then went to Orange town and was there when Major Andre was hung; that during the summer campaign he marched to King's Bridge and while there had a skirmish with the British - but he was not in the skirmish as he was placed on the Rear Guard. At King's Bridge the French joined the American army - that they went into winter quarters at what was then styled Hampshire Huts on the Highlands East of the Hudson River and South East of West Point. That in the Spring of 1782 he marched to what was called Nelson's Point on the East side of the Hudson River and then went to West Point when the troops left the fort. The whole Regiment went over to guard the fort and remained there until fall when they marched to Newburgh and there built huts and there the Regiment was broke up and he was put into the 8 th Reg t commanded by Col. Michal Jackson and wintered there and in the Spring of 1783 went to Stony Point and staid there for six weeks and then marched to West Point and thence to Philadelphia and encamped on what was called the Common and was ordered there to quell a mutiny among the American troops - after the company got there, the mutineers fled and only three were taken, one adjutant and two sergeants, who were condemned to be shot but were respited after they were brought out to be shot. That he arrived there in June and staid till the last of August or first of September and then marched back to West Point, wintered there and staid there until the expiration of the term for which he enlisted and received a regular Discharge in April 1784 signed by Col. Henry H. Jackson. That he served a short time afterwards as a substitute and finally left the service, he thinks in

June 1784 — That he made application for a pension in 1818 or 1819 under the first Pension Act, before Judge Grover, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Cayuga County, who then resided in Auburn — that he, the said applicant then resided in the town of Seneca, in the county of Cayuga — that he believes his name will be found upon the rolls in the War Department as having served in the Continental Service in the Massachusetts line — that the papers were forwarded to the War Department and he believes they still remain there and that his application was rejected on account of property qualifications — That one of his discharges was forwarded with his papers and he believes still remains in the Department.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any agency in any State —
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid in open court
his David G. Cushman Mark
Timothy Fitch Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states
Isaac Wilson Robert Earll Jr William M'Clintock
I, Timothy Fitch, Clerk of the said court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of David Cushman for a pension.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 16 October 1832
Timothy Fitch Clerk

Rev. War
10540
am
INVALID.
File No. 10,540
David Cushing ★
Rev. War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index: —Vol. A , Page 85-
[Arrangement of 1870.]
David Cushman ★ Records corrected. Oct. 30/95. R.

18380 David Cushman Soldier in the American _____ 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 thirteenth Day of June
1784 A. Williams B Smith By the General's Command,
C Selden Capt. & Adj.
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Charles Selden Adjutant

War Department Pension Office September 27. 1833
Sir,
The claim of David Cushman was examined and returned to you, without the benefit of the Documentary evidence herewith enclosed, which by being transmitted at a different time was separated from his papers.
I am Respectfully Dr. Obt. Servt. J L Edwards
H. U. Soper Esq Batavia N.Y.

War Department
Pension Office
September 4. 1833.
Sir,
The claim of David Kushiman has been examined, and his papers are herewith returned. His allegation of service in the continental army is not supported by the records of this Office, and the papers in support of his application, under the Act of 18 March 1818, were returned to Mr. Grover of Auburn, 25 Sep. 1819. He is therefore required to establish his claim by two credible witnesses agreeably to the rules applicable to such cases.
I am Respectfully Yrs. Obt. Servt J L Edwards
H. U. Soper Esq Batavia N.Y.

Admitted Private 2 years & upwards
D

Patavia N. H. Oct. 2 o '33
Sir,
I now re-enclose all the papers of Darius Cushman, with the letter received from the Department - which will entitle him to his pension -
Mr. Cushman has become somewhat impatient and is entitled to as early a hearing as consistent -
Simon Catlin and his friends are very anxious to hear from his application -
I am, with Respect,
Yrs: Off: Servt. -
H. M. Doper
Hon. J. L. Edwards, Commissioner of Pensions,
I should think by a memo. made on the old papers in red ink, that the Department formerly considered his claim sufficiently established, but that end was sent back for certificate as to property qualifications -

State of New York Cayuga County
On the twenty fourth day of May one thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me the subscriber one of the judges of the Court of Common Pleas for said County of Cayuga in said State Personally appeared David Bushman aged about fifty six years resident in the Town of Seneca in the said County of Cayuga and State of said who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oaths make the following declaration in order to obtain his pension or the provisions made by the late act of Congress by the late act of Congress is titled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war. The said David Bushman enlisted in March in the year 1781 into Captain Burtons Regiment Canajoharie in Col. Grippes Regiment being the 10th Massachussetts Regiment and continued to serve in the said Regiment until about the 10th  10th of December 1782 and was then transferred into the 8th Regt. Commanded by Michael Jackson Col. Forts Town Company and was again transferred into the Annovers Regiment and continued there to serve until the 13th day of March 1784 agreeable to his discharge hereunto presented and for the said he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of assistance of the County of Cayuga and for the said David Bushman
Sworn before me John Brown Clerk of Cayuga County Pleas

I John Grover Judge of Cayuga Common Pleas in and for Said County do hereby certify that it appears to me that  David C. Guber  the as I stated in the preceding declaration against the Common Pleas and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and heretofore before me to the Secretary of the War Department pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress dated the 27th day of May 1819  John Grover Judge of Cayuga Com. Pleas
John Grover Judge 105 Auburn, N.Y. May 1 st 1819
Personally came before me Winthrop Young and David C. Guber to me known to be credible witness who being duly sworn say that David C. Guber the within plaintiff is in ordinary circumstances and stands in need of assistance of his country for support and that they have no inter- est in the said litigation and further say not  Sworn & Subscribed Before me the 27th day of May 1819  Winthrop Young David C. Guber  John Grover Judge of Cayuga Com. Pleas

STATE OF NEW-YORK, Cayuga County,
} J. P.
I CERTIFY THAT John Grover by whom the annexed proof or acknowledgment was taken, was on the day of the date thereof, a Judge of the Court of common pleas in and for the County of Cayuga, duly commissioned and sworn as such Judge and that full faith and credit are to be given to his acts in that capacity. I FURTHER CERTIFY, that I am well acquaint- ed with the hand writing of the said John Grover and verily believe the signature to the annexed certificate to be his hand writing. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, and my name subscribed this twenty third day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen .
James Glover Clk