Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,793, Caleb Cushman, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Cushman, Caleb
S 15,793
CONTENTS
Carded

18079 Maine
Caleb Cushman
He drew in the State of Maine who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Shaw of the regiment commanded by Col. Cotton in the Mass. militia time for Israel Difer 11. — " " Private 23. 33
34. 33
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 34 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23. day of July 1833 and sent to T. Clark Paris
Arrears to the 4th of March '33 68. 66 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4. Sept. .. 17. 16
$ 85. 82
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by J. M. Duffield Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 8

9670
Caleb Cushman
April 12 th 1833
Off 16.
P. 332
Adm c
Bons Lifer 11. —
7 th private 23.33
34.33
Thomas Clark Esq
Paris
Maine

BRIEF in the case of Caleb Bach in re  of Hobbie in the State of Maine  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 76 years  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. As a. Gen.     Decemr In 1776 3 x Private Genl Shaw Coll' Heall   October 1777 1 x Genl Simson Col' Cotton   6 x Capt' Sherman  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Plympton Absarock  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By living witnesses  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.
x living witnesses
Richard Coots Examining Clerk.

Caleb Cushman of Hebron. 96/40
Thomas Clarke, agent.

State of Maine } County of Oxford } ss. - On this twenty eighth day of August - one thousand eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Court of Probate, now sitting,
Caleb Cushman a resident of Hebron in the county of Oxford and State of Maine, aged seventy six 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 acts 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: - in the year 1776 he resided in Plympton in the State of Massachusetts, and about the last of Novem- ber or the first of December of that year, viz. 1776 at said Plympton in the county of Plymouth he voluntarily enlisted into a company of State troops commanded by Capt. Nathaniel Shaw for the term of three months and marched directly to Bristol in the State of Rhode Island, and there continued to serve under said Capt Shaw in the Revolutionary army against the common enemy for the full term of three months in the Regiment commanded by Col. Hall, as the applicant believes; That the company was stationed at Bristol during the whole term for the purpose of guarding the shores and preventing the enemy, who then had possession of the Island, from landing on the main and making incursions into the country; - That at the expiration of the three months, which the applicant believes were the three winter months, the company was discharged at Bristol, having served out the full term of enlistment, but this applicant has no knowledge that any discharge was given in writing. - The applicant then returned to his home in said Plympton where he remained until the ensuing October, which was in 1777 when an alarm came and orders for a detachment to be made immediately for one month's service in what was called a private expedition; - The applicant then being an enrolled soldier in a company of militia in said Plympton was detached upon this service as a private soldier, and marched to Tiverton in Rhode Island, where they were formed into company commanded by Capt Thomas Sampson in Col. Cotts Regiment; - That the applicant performed one full month's service under this detachment in the autumn of 1776 in said Sampson's company and was stationed

within the town of Fivertown and along the shore between Howland's and Fogland Ferris; that previous to the expiration of this term of service, and near the close of the month of October 1777 the applicant engaged by voluntary enlistment in the company commanded by Capt. Edward Sparrow which the applicant believes was in the service of the State of Massachusetts Bay, but cannot distinctly recollect to what Regiment the company belonged; - that his enlistment was for a period of six months as the applicant verily believes, to commence after the expiration of the term for which he had been detached as aforesaid; - that he joined said Sparrows company agreeably to his enlistment and performed service in it as required until the expiration of the term for which he had enlisted, when he was discharged at Providence in the State of Rhode Island in the spring of 1778 but the applicant cannot distinctly recollect the precise day or month. - He had no written discharge, but when his term of service had expired, was verbally informed that he might return home. - During this term the applicant was stationed at several places in the State of Rhode Island to prevent the landing of the enemy upon the main land, they then having possession of the Island. - In the first three months service mentioned aforesaid, the applicant was a Fifer and performed duty as such, and in the other service he performed duty as a private. The said Caleb Cushman, the applicant 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. - Caleb Cushman
Sworn to & subscribed, the day & year aforesaid
Stephen Emery, Judge

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, that the applicant of course was a Revolutionary Soldier & served as he states, he having adduced the depositions of Benjamin Barron, Ephraim Barron, Morley Bumsey & Nathaniel Shaw, all under oath duly administered - also the certificate of John Pripp, a Clergyman William Barron & Gideon Cushman Jr., hereto annexed in corroboration of his own declaration - Said applicant & the several witnesses & persons being well known to the Court as persons sustaining good reputations for truth & veracity.
Stephen Emery, Judge
I Joseph G. Cole Register of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Caleb Cushman for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 28 th day August A.D. 1833
Joseph G. Cole Register

15793 INVALID.
File No. 15793
Caleb Cushman
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 85
[Arrangement of 1870.]

STATE OF MAINE.
OXFORD COUNTY, ss.
I, RUFUS KING GOODENOW, Clerk of the Judicial Courts in and for said County of Oxford, hereby certify, that Albion H. Paris whose genuine signatures are annexed to the depositions of Benjamin Barrows, Ephraim Barrows & Morris Bumpus is a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, and that Gideon Lusk whose genuine signature is annexed to the foregoing Deposition of Nathaniel Shaw is a
Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Oxford.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of office, this 28th day of August in the year A. D. 1832
RK Goodenow { Clerk of Oxford County Courts.

This may certify that Mr. Caleb Aspin- man an inhabitant of this town with whom we have been intimately acquainted for more than thirty years, is a person of our undoubted veracity, and full confidence is to be placed in his declaration of any service he per- formed in the Revolutionary war with of the United States with Great Britain.
John Lipp, Pastor of the Bap. Ch. in Gleason.
Gleason, Mr. July 31, 1853
Wm. Burrows deacon in the above Ch.
Gideon Cushman Jr Chairman of Selectmen of said Town.

Affidavit of Nathaniel Shaw
C. Cushman

2. Nathaniel Shaw of Buckfield in the County of Oxford and State of Maine aged eighty seven years, testify and say, that I served in the American Army during the revolutionary war with Great Britain for several periods, among which, was one of six months in the State of Rhode Island, the year eighteen hundred and seventy seven, in Col. Gatliff's Regiment, stationed at Tiverton near Howland's Ferry, and Caleb Cushman of Hebron in the State of Maine was a soldier in said Regiment in Capt. Edmunda Sparre's company, for said term of six months, I have been more or less acquainted with said Cushman from the time above specified to the present time, and I know him to be the man who served during said period of six months.
Nathaniel Shaw
State of Maine County of Oxford July 21 st 1832 The above named Nathaniel Shaw personally appeared and made oath to the truth of the foregoing affidavit by him subscribed before me. Gideon Cushman Jr Justice of the

I, Benjamin Barrows of Hebron in the county of Oxford, and State of Maine, aged seventy four years do on oath declare and depose, that in the latter part of the year 1776 I resided in the town of Plympton in Massachusetts, and that a company was raised by voluntary enlistment under the command of Capt. Nathaniel Shaw to march to Rhode Island against the common enemy, that I enlisted into said company and performed duty therein from the time said company was first raised until it was discharged - The company was raised for three months - While in that service I well knew Caleb Bushman, who then belonged to Plympton; he enlisted when the company was first raised, which was about the first day of December 1776 and continued to perform duty in said company for the full term of three months - He was the fifer of our company, I knew him well both before we belonged to the company and afterwards, and I know him to be the same man who now belongs to Hebron, and is an applicant for a pension - Said Bushman performed the service aforesaid at Bristol in the State of Rhode Island and was discharged at that place at the end of the end of the term for which he was enlisted which was for three months - I cannot distinctly recollect the name of our Colonel but I think it was either Hall or Gotton - State of Maine , July 25. 1832 Benjamin Barrows
Personally appeared Benjamin Barrows above named, to me well known as a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed in my presence
Alcion K. Parsons Just. Sup. Jud. Court of Maine

I, Ephraim Barrows of Norway in the county of Oxford and State of Maine aged nearly seventy years on oath depose and say that in the year 1777 I resided in Plympton in the State of Massachusetts and was a fifer in a militia company in said Plympton, and my brother Benjamin Barrows was also a member of said company, as was also Caleb Cushman now resident in Hebron in this county. That in the latter part of the season of that year, viz. 1777 an alarm came with orders to detach a number of men from our company to serve for one month or six weeks, I do not certainly recollect which. The said Caleb Cushman was one of the men detached, and my brother Benjamin was also detached but I took my said brother's place and went as his substitute. We were not formed into any company until we arrived at Tiverton in Rhode Island, when we were arranged into a company commanded by Capt. Sampson in Col. Cotten's Regiment. I marched from Plympton to Tiverton in company with said Cushman, and served with him during the time for which we were detached, and well know that Caleb Cushman of Hebron, who is an applicant for a pension, is the same person who performed the service aforesaid in the Revolutionary army, which was a period of not less than one month nor more than six weeks. Before the expiration of the term for which we were detached as aforesaid the said Cushman and myself voluntarily enlisted into the company company commanded by Capt. Spaulding for six months. We had a short furlough home after the expiration of our first service, and on our return joined the company at a place called Updeike's Newtown nearly opposite Tiverton. To my certain knowledge the said Cushman served out the full period of his second enlistment which was for six months, and we were discharged together at Providence, Rhode Island and returned home together. I knew said Cushman from a boy, lived a neighbour to him in Plympton and also in Hebron, and am clear in my recollection as to the facts above stated. I performed other service in the Revolutionary army for which I have received a pension for a number of years.
State of Maine Oxford County. } July 26. 1832.
Ephraim Barrows
Personally appeared Ephraim Barrows above named, to me well known as a person of truth, and made oath that the foregoing deposition by him signed in my presence, is true.
Albion H. Parry Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

I Morris Bumpus of Hebron in the county of Oxford, and State of Maine aged seventy five years, do on oath depose and declare that in the year 1777 I resided in Plympton in the county of Plymouth, and State of Massachusetts, and was duly enrolled in a company of Militia in said town, and that I then well knew Caleb Cushman one of Hebron, who is an applicant for a pension - The said Cushman was also in 1777 a resident in Plympton, and belonged to the same militia company that I did - About the first of October 1777 orders came for an immediate draft which was forthwith complied with, and a number were drafted out of the Plympton company to which said Cushman and I belonged. The aforesaid Cushman and myself were both drafted and marched together to Tiverton in Rhode Island where we with others were formed into a company under the command of Capt. Thomas Sampson in Col. Cotten's Regt.
We served one month under this detachment at and near Tiverton, when the term for which we were drafted having expired the company was disbanded - And I testify that to my certain knowledge the said Cushman performed one months service under the detachment aforesaid in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy in the month of October 1777. - And I do further testify that soon after the close of the service aforesaid, about the first of November 1777 said Cushman voluntarily enlisted into Capt. Edward Sparrows company which I understood was in the service of the Massachusetts Bay - I do not certainly recollect who was our Colonel, but I do remember Col. Clapp was Major - I enlisted into the same company - Said Cushman served in said Sparrows company to my certain knowledge

for the full term of six months, as a private soldier, commencing about the first of November 1777 and was discharged at the end of the term at Providence in the State of Rhode Island - I served the whole time in said company and knew said Bushman well, and cannot be mistaken as to his service - During this time we were stationed at a place called Updike's Newtown and also at Providence
State of Maine July 25. 1832.
Personally appeared Mories Bumpus above named, to me well known as a credible witness, and made oath to the truth of the foregoing declaration by him signed in my presence
Albion K. Parris Just. Sup. Jud. Court of the State of Maine