Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29742, Josiah Cummings, Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
Mass.
Bunnings, Josiah
NUMBER S 29742
CONTENTS

Maine 18.207
Josiah Cummings.
of Portland Co in the State of Maine who was a forst Capt. in the Company, commanded by Captain Barker of the 2nd Regt. commanded by Lt. Little in the line for Bunker Hill Mass 3rd Corp
Inscribed on the Roll of Maine at the rate of 54 Dollars 33 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of July 1834 and sent to E. Mussey Portland
Arrears to the 14th of March 1833 $108.66 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. - 27.16 $135.82
Revolutionary Claim, Not June 7, 1832.
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book E Vol. 1 Page 9

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
MAINE DISTRICT SS.
At a Special District Court of the United States begun and holden at Portland, within and for said District, on the eleventh day of August A. D. eighteen hundred and thirty- two before the Honorable ASHUR WARE, Judge of said Court.
ON this eleventh day of August — aforesaid, personally appeared in open Court before said District Judge Josiah Cummings — now a resident of Albany lately of Portland — in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District, aged about seventy seven 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 provision made by the act of Congress passed June 7th, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as here in stated viz that upon the alarm given of the expected fight at Lexington he belonged to Capt. Perkins company of Massachusetts Militia & marched to Lexington from Sofield where he then lived & arrived on the ground immediately after the skirmish & followed the enemy on their retreat to Boston; that he remained in the vicinity of Boston a few days & about the last of April or first of May 1775 he enlisted as a private for eight months in the company commanded by Capt. Baker, Colonel Sibley's Regiment of the Massachusetts Line; that he faithfully served until the first of January 1776 when he was honorably dismissed at Cambridge. That in September 1776 he volunteered as a private & joined Capt. Perkins company Colonel Cogswell's Regiment & marched from Sofield & joined the army at New-York where he served two months & was dismissed. That again in the winter of 1777 & 1778 he enlisted as a private for three months in Capt. Dodge's company Colonel Gerrish's Regiment & was stationed at Winter Hill in Charlestown & was employed in guarding prisoners & that he served said term of three months & was then discharged — That again in September 1778 he enlisted into Capt. Davis' company Colonel Cogswell's Regiment & a few days afterwards received the appointment of Corporal from the Colonel, which paper is hereto annexed, for the term of three months & served as corporal during that period. That the whole of his said services amounted to nineteen months .
That he was born in Sofield in Massachusetts on the twelfth day of January A. D. 1756 of which there is a record in the Family Bible — That he resided at said Sofield at the time he first entered the service & returned there afterwards & remained in that vicinity until the year 1787 when he removed to Freeport near Portland in which place he lived until the year 1805 when he moved into said Portland & continued to live in said last place until within a few months when he went on account of his health & circumstances to reside with his brother at Albany in this State
he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the agency in the State of
Josiah Cummings
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before,
Ashur Ware
} U. S. Judge for the District of Maine.

We John Anderson, Nathaniel Mitchell & Eben Webster of Portland in the county of Cumberland do testify & say that we are and have long been well acquainted with Josiah Cummings who subscribed & made oath to the foregoing declaration. That we believe him to be of the age he has represented, that he is reputed and believed in this City and in his neighborhood to have been a revolutionary soldier & to have served as he has stated & that we concur in that opinion & belief. That he is esteemed to be a man of undoubted veracity & unimpeachable character
John Anderson Nathaniel Mitchell Eben Webster
Signed & sworn to before me Aug. 11 1831
John Ware
Judge of the District Court for the District of Maine
I certify that the above named John Anderson, Nathaniel Mitchell & Eben Webster are credible persons & worthy of credit
John Ware
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatives prescribed by the War Department) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states
I, John Mufsey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine District, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Josiah Cummings for a pension.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eleventh day of August A. D. one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two
John Mufsey Clerk of the U. States District Court for Maine District.
Maine District
District Clerk's Office April 27. 1833
In testimony that Moses Mason Junr, Aaron Cummings and Joseph Sofre are Magistrates and that the several signatures to the annexed documents purporting to be theirs are genuine, I have hereto set my hand and seal of Office the day and year last above written.
John Mufsey Clerk U. S. Dist. Ct.

29 742 INVALID.
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File No. 29,742
Josiah Cummings Colt Rev Vol
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 94
[Arrangement of 1870.]

CUMMINGS, JOSIAH (MASS.) S- 29742
a Coffinville Warrant

For the 11th Inf ry the Commence Sept 25 1775
By Virtue of the Power Vested in the Foot
By Council and appointed you Colonel
in the Company Commanded By Capt
Davis in My Judgment and you are required
to Do all the Duty of a Colonel as in
in leading those under your Care and Command
Obeys the Commands of your Superior
Officers Given at Boston this 25 th of Sept 1775
Jon: Cogswell Colo: [Signature]

I Asa Cummings of Albany in the County of Oxford and State of Maine, Do testify and say that Josiah Cummings thereof enlisted as volunteers in the first eight seven months Under Capt. John Baker in Collo Littles Regiment and served the term out at Cambridge the first part of the Revolution -ary war in 1775; and he was out three times afterwards as I have been creditably informed and have no doubt of the truth of the case, altho I was not personally knowing to it myself at the time Asa Cummings
Oxford W. August 11 th 1832 then personally appeared the above Asa Cummings and made oath to the truth of the above certificate before me
Mas. Mason Justice of the Peace

I Thomas Baker of Portland on oath declare & say that I am well acquainted with Asa Cummings of Albany & that he is a man of respectability, & of truth & veracity & has been repeatedly elected a member of the Legislature of this State
Th. Baker
Subscribed & sworn to
Before me John Mufsey Clerk D.C. Maine
I hereby certify that the above named Thomas Baker is well known to me to be a man of truth and veracity
John Mufsey Clerk D.C. Maine

I David Chaplin of Waterford County of Oxford and State of Maine do testify and say that I was acquainted with Josiah Cummings late of Portland now residing in Albany in this County and that I was with him in the service during the Revolutionary war, in the year 1775, that I served with him during the term of eight months in a Company commanded by Capt John Baker in the Regiment commanded by Col. Moses Little. David Chaplin.
Oxford ss July 31 1832. Personally appeared the above named David Chaplin and made affirmation under the pains and penalties of perjury that the above instrument by him subscribed is the truth and nothing but the truth before me Aaron Cummings Esq. of Peace

State of Illinois, Cumberland County, April 27, 1873 I hereby certify that I know David Chaplin who signed the within deposition and that he is a person of truth & veracity, and a credible witness
Joseph Pope Jus: of the Peace