Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 34,617, Elijah Cummings, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Cummings, Elijah
S. 34,617
CONTENTS

1875
Massachusetts
Elijah Cummings Capt Maynard
Private Mass. Line. 1776. - 39 ens 78/89 in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of Mass. Line at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 th of April 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 th of July 1818 and sent to the clerk of the Circuit Court Com ca Pleas for the County of Franklin  Mass.
Arrears to 4th of Sept m 1818 Semi-annual period ending
4 months & 24/30 the $38.40
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818 }
Concurred Wenchee Franklin Co.
Notarized sent February 1 st 1821 to E. Dwood Greenfield Mass. U.S.

No 1875
Elijah Cummings
1075
Sept 1818
Wife of Gen sent to E. Alvord Esq. Greenfield Mass Feby 1. 1821

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
FRANKLIN ss.
At a Special Session of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Western Circuit, began and holden at Greenfield, within and for the County of Franklin, on Monday the tenth day of July  the second Tuesday of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty, et de die in diem to the fifteenth  seventh day of the same month.
PERSONALLY appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record, within and for said County of Franklin, established as such by the Constitution and Laws of said Commonwealth, Elijah Cummings aged eighty three years, resident in Wendell 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 April 1778 he enlisted in Capt. Hayward's company Col. Brooks's Regiment for three years and again in the Spring of 1781 enlisted for three years in Capt. Allen's company and Col. Brooks's Regiment that he was honorably discharged each time and his discharge sent on with his application for a pension the 11th of April 1818 and that he received his pension certificate No 1875

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 Schedule hereto annexed, and hereinafter described or property whatever and being in the lonely state of a Widow am wholly dependent upon my friends for a support having been unable to labor the last ten years or to leave my dwelling the last five years being confined by rheumatic complaints to my bed
Benjamin X Cummings
Sworn to and declared, on the fifteenth day of July  November A. D. 1820, before the said Court.
Attest, E. Alvord CLERK.
I ELIJAH ALVORD, Clerk of the aforesaid Court, do hereby 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 said Cummings has no property to be exhibited in a schedule
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this fifteenth day of July, 1820.
E. Alvord CLERK.

We the Subscribers Assessors in and for the town of Wendell do hereby certify that Mr Elijah Cummings of this town is a person without any property nor do we know or think he has had any for a number of years past. He is now upwards of eighty years of age quite crippled and dependent on his friends who are in low circumstances.
Wendell August 8. A.D. 1820.
Samuel Brewer } Assessors - Luther Osgood }

Consett 11. 10. 1897
The Ch. of Frankh Map

I Elijah Cummings of Wendell in the County of Franklin & Commonwealth of Massachusetts, now in the Eighty second year of my age, Do testify & state, that I served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as follows, in May 1775. I entered Capt. Grangers company in Col. Larneds regiment & served eight months & was then honorably discharged; In April 1776. I entered Capt. Maynards company in a Regiment commanded part of the time by Col. Brooks, & served three years & was then honorably discharged, In the spring of the year 1781, I again enlisted for three years, & entered Capt. Allens company in Col. Brooks Regiment, & on the 31 st Decem r 1783, was again honorably discharged. as will appear by the annexed discharge. — And by reason of my reduced circumstances in life, I stand in need of assistance from my Country for support. —
Elijah his X Cummings Mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Franklin ss:
Be it known, that on the eleventh day of April A: one thousand eight hundred & eighteen before me Joshua Green a S. Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Franklin in the Western Circuit of this Commonwealth, came Elijah Cummings abovenamed & made Oath to the truth of the foregoing statement by him subscribed
Joshua Green S. J. C. C. C. P.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts —
I the subscriber a S. Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas in & for the County of Franklin in the Western Circuit of this Commonwealth. —
Do hereby Certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the beforenamed Elijah Cummings served in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in the foregoing declaration, & which I now transmit together with his discharge, to the Secretary for the De- partment of War. — Given under my hand, & sealed with the Seal of the Court aforesaid this eleventh day of April A. 1818. —
Joshua Green S. J. C. C. C. P.

34 617 Rev INVALID.
File No. 34,617
Elijah Cummings Rev Rev
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.
Elijah Cummings Soldier the fourth Massachusetts in 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 thirty first Day of December
1783
By the General's Command,
Knox
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Thos Handly Adj. Genl