Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 7441, for Daniel Merritt, North Carolina
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(3 - 1776) SERVICE N.C. CONTENTS18 sees sitt or in, Daniel Merritt Nancy 15 NUMBER 7441
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pay his age 27. a Pensioner of March 1835 See letter of 1836 to P. Murphy 713) --- --- North Carolina Daniel Merritt of Caswell Co in the State of No Carolina who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Turner of the Regt. commanded by Col. Mealmada in the N. Car for 18 mo: Inscribed on the Roll of North Carolina at the rate of 60 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the day of March Son 1833 and sent to A H Shepperd H Arrears to the 4th of March 1833. $12000 Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept 1833. 3000 --- $150.00 --- ⎨ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. W. L. Will and Clerk, Vol. Page 48 Recorded by Book E
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Reported Date of death not on as North Carolina 1168 Nancy Merritt widow of Daniel Merritt who was a Private in the Revolution Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 60 Dollars Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1843. Certificate of Pension issued the 28th day of July 1843 and sent to Wm. Lea Yanceyville, N.C. Act of March 3, 1843. Recorded in Book A. Vol. Page 203,
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Answer Jus Ans 6 1 Jus A 1 Ans to 6 I knew Genl Lincoln, Genl Butler, Col Henry Dixon Co Lytle, Capt William Lytle & Copt Donoho & others of the Continental troops- Colo Mebane Colo Moore, Col. Sanders Capt Adam Sanders Capt Turner & others of the militia, I will reccolect their regiments the Guol me as circumstances of my service I have before delaited - Did you ever receive a discharge from the service if so by whom was it given & what has become of it Recd but two discharges, one from Captain Turner and the other from Col. Moore. 
Both of which I have long since lost, for the other tours I recd no written discharge, it being unnecessary as he were generally disbanded & sent home. State the names of persons to whom you are known your present neighbourhood, who can testify as your character for veracity and good behaved your services as a soldier in the revolution I am Generally known in my County Coswell To any of whom I would refer for my characters I Will name. James Rainey the Chairman of our County Court, and Dr John Maden & others. both of whom also will prove my services in the revolution and Sworn to and Subscribed in open Court the day year aforesaid Jeremiah Grace Dan Morith
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In in terrogatives propounded by the Court to the applicants and his self Justion 1st Where and in what year were you born? were- I was born in East Chester County in the State of New York on the 12th day of December 1761 --- 2 Have you any record of your age, if so where is it a record of my age in the family Bible of my Father now in the possession of some of the Children which I have not seen for some time Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the revolutionary war & where do non now live I hear in the Western Country (in what is now Washington County State of Virginia), when I was first called into service; being there only for the purpose of making a Cross, I was after words livening in Caswell County and State of North Carolina when called into service I have lived in Caswell County & said State, since the revolutionary War; where I now live- 0 Jus 4
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8 Danl Merritt Born Decr 12th Nancy His Wife Born Octr 18 Married January 27th first Child Born Decr the 9th Merritt Born Decr 17th iney Born Oct 27th Lane Born Sept 23 Bole Nancy Born Oct Born May 2 23d & the 2 Danl Born Now 7 & G 19th 1 43 79 1 7 Boon March 22 18 Born January Susanna Born July 18 4 18 G O O 17 2 to Benjon Born Sept ● Sidney S Born Sept the 1 8 W O merit.
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to 18 By 33 by 19 J M 32 10 18 21 42 Ⓧ 22 4059 1 /22 day of date one Thomas Phelps the sum of four cents full value him received a Seal the the ember 18th
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Declaration of Nancy Merrill in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th July 1838. State of North Carolina Caswell County 1 55. Be it remembered that on this the 8th day of June 1840 personally appeared before John C. Harvey a Justice of the peace & Justice of the Court of pleas & quarter Session for the County of Caswell and State aforesaid Nancy Merrill a resident of the County of Caswell aforesaid aged 78 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 7th 1838 intitled an act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Daniel Merrill who was a pensioner and the owner & identical person named in the certificate herewith transmitted bearing dale 5th March 1833 Signed by Lewis Cass and numbered 731. She further declars that she was married to the said Daniel Merrill on the 27th day of January in the year seventeen hundred and eighty four, that her husband Daniel Morrill aforesaid died on the 22nd day of December 1835, 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 Nancy Merritt and year above written before me John mark C. Hervey & Justice as aforesaid John C. Harvey J.P. & C. I John C. Harvey a Justice of the peace and Justice of the Court of pleas and Quarter Session for the County of Caswell do hereby certify that Nancy Merrill whose certificate appears above, is entitled to credit I further certify that I believe she is not able to
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attend Court from bodily infirmity Given under my hand at the poor house of the of in the County of Carvill this the 8th day of June AD 1840 John C. Harvey G. P. & J.C State of North Carolina Caswell County s I Paul A Haralson Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter Session of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify that John C. Harvey Esq whose Certificate appears above is a Justice of the peace and a Justice of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions of the County of Caswell and State aforesaid that the and that the Signature thereto purporting to be his to genuine. be paid as such due faith & credit should to his official acts. - In Testimony whereof I have hereto ┃ set my hand and affixed my seal of office of said Court this 23d day of June 1840 Paul A Haralson Clk
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M B W to. to S a State of N. Carolina, Caswell County On this 6th day of November 1832 personally appeared in open Court, before His Honor James Martin Judge of the Court of Caswell County, now sitting, Daniel Merritt a resident of said County and State, aged 70 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 act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. 4 
He was born in the State of N. York, East Chester County on the 12th Day of December 1761. In the year of the father removed to North Carolina, into the immediate vicinity where Milton nois, of the place which Milton now occupies, and which has been my principal residence until the present time. The register of age in the parish of 1778 early in my 17th of age & my father sent me to the West under the care of a certain John Robertson, for the purpose of making a crop, expecting to remove to that country the ensuing fall. 
But unfortunately the times became troublesome, the Indians committed depredations on the Frontiers.-- I being a desolate youth, was ordered by the Capt of the District to which I be longed, immediately to repair to Blackamon's Fort on Clinch river, with guns powder & ball my own expense, and early in February with any other of the Inhabitants, we called at the lockhouse on the North fork of Holston River there I was taken under the command of Capt. John Anderson, who marched a company to Depolue,
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the Fort where we were stationed, and we were occasionally Rangers and spies on the Frontiers Sometime in the summer, I was ordered to Car ter valley where I was I continued as a spy, and building a fort until late in November. I was then ordered to prepare for a march to Kentucky, by what authority, I was not allowed to inquire, neither land I refuse to obey. Fortunately there was a young man in the place, who was desirous to go to that country, gave him of small sum, and he consented to take my place, and went on. I then returned home to Caswell. Exclusive of hiring Robt. Kidd to go in my place to Kentucky, I served nine months. In March 1779, it came to my name according to Class. 
There was an immediate call for men to go to South Carolina. I volunteered myself for 4 months and marched on under the command of Capt. Berryman Turner, after being sometime in the South State and in --- the vicinity of Augusta, there was a call for volunteer Register of Infantry to be commanded by Colonel Malmada and Major Moore Continental officers, in which I became one of the number, under the command of Capt. James Carrington, I was in several scouting party engagements, and in the front and centre of the Stone Battle on the 20th June 1779, where my file leaders right & left were shot down, I served under Col. Malmada until nearly the expiration of my time, then returned to my former Capt. from whom I received my discharge in the words following- Stone campment July 26th This may certify that Daniel Merritt has faithfully served his tour of duty agreeably to No. 2 and is at liberty to pass home to
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North Carolina, Caswell County Berryman Turner In the year 1780, I was in the Western Country. Early in 1781 I volunteered for 2 months, which I served principally under the command of Capt. Samuel Johnson and Col. William Moore. Was in the front and centre of the Guilford Battle. Some time in the month of May, I was called on to serve a three months tour accor ding to my number; but being just in inoculation for the Small pox I was excused. Shortly after another expedi tion was called for, in which I served my 3 months un der the command of Capt Adams Sanders, Col. William Moore, and Gen. Butler, in the neighbourhood of Fayette ville & Wilmington in which service, I was, at the time of the Eutaw battle, and also the Capture of Cornwallis, was subsequently discharged by Col. Moore. making in all 9 months in the Frontier of Virginia, then Washington County, Mo. 
in S. Carolina at Guilford, & at Wilmington The above has been drown up by the applicant It is necessary to in suply some deficences dates in In the first place then or February of the year 1778. he commenced his first tour as stated by South and ● was discharged at Henson fort in Washington County Virginia in the month of November of the same year, this second tour of service commenced in March 1779 - and was dischar ged in the month of July following the - 1 gives a copy of this discharge from recollect some time ago. When only having lost it he came back from the western country where he had lived during the year 1780 as he States above. He volunteered in Carmel
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County again for two months in January 7 He was discharged in the month March following after the bout Guilford- 1 In the month of May of ┃ the same year (1781) he was called in con ding to his number as he states, but was excused for the reason assigned in his own statement. In July however following he was called on and served his true months tour and was discharged in November 1781. 
He has no written dischar is in his posession and say that the custom at that period was where he served to give no write discharge because the malitia discharges took place in large numbers and there was no incessity or a writer permission to go home, The reason ● why he happened as he states to get the men discharge a copy of Capt. which he has giver Turner was that he was under the necessity of going above or his own to Augusta in Georgia private
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Mrs. M. M. Reno 5052 Ingersoll Avenue Des Moines, Iowa 
Dear Madam: 

October 25, 1938 BA-J/AWF Daniel Merritt W. 7441 Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Daniel Merrit of Caswell County, North Carolina. The data furnished herein were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, W. 7441, based upon the military service of Daniel Merritt in the Revolutionary War. Daniel Merritt (as his signature is shown in the claim was born December 12, 1761, in East Chester County, New York. 
The names of his parents were not given. His father moved in 1783 to North Carolina , in what was later Caswell County, Early in 1778, his father sent him under the care of John Robertson, to the west, where his father intended to move in the fall of that year. 
The Indians were harassing the inhabitants of that country, and he (Daniel Merritt was ordered by the Captain of that district to go to Blackamore's Fort on Clinch river, and was there put in Captain John Anderson's company, served as ranger and spy, in the summer of that year, he was sent to Carter's Valley, and there assisted in building a fort, and continued to serve as spy until in the month of November, 1778, when he returned home to Caswell County. Daniel Merritt volunteered sometime in March, 1779, served as private in Captains Berryman Turner's
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2- and James Carrington's companies, and in Colonel Malmedy's North Carolina regiment, was in frequent scouting parties, and in the battle of Stono, and was discharged July 26, 1779. He served early in 1781, two months in Captain Samuel Johnson's company , Colonel William Moore's North Carolina regiment , was in the battle of Guilford Court House. He served again in 1781, three months in Captain Adams Sanders' company, Colonel William Moore's regiment. Daniel Merritt was allowed pension on his application executed November 10, 1832, at which time he was living in Caswell County, North Carolina. He died December 22, 1833. Daniel Merritt married January 27, 1784, Nancy, who was born October 18, 1762, place not stated, nor are the names of her parents shown. The widow, Nancy Merritt, was allowed pension on her application executed June 8, 1850, at which time she was living in Caswell County, North Carolina. The following data in regard to the children of Daniel Merritt, and wife, Nancy, are shown in the claim 1st child (name not given) Saley D. (blurred) voiney Lancy Poley Nancy Daniel Lucy M. (blurred) tey Susanna Benjamin Sidney S. born December December October September 2 33 ● 178 1785 1787 1789 May 28 1791 October 28 1793 November 18 March 22 January 1795 1798 1800 July 3, 1800 In 1840 Sidney S. Merritt was of Caswell County, September 17 1804 September 25, 1807.
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North Carolina. 3 of Daniel Merritt. The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible data in regard to the family In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the date of death of the widow, Nancy Merritt, you should apply to The Comptroller Gen- Washington, D. C., and furnish the following data Nancy Merritt, widow of Daniel Merritt Certificate #1168 Issued July 28, 1843 Rate $60.00 per annum Commenced March 4, 1843 eral, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Act of March 3, 1843 North Carolina Agency. Very truly yours A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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997 Declaration of Nancey Storritt Widow $60 per ann Wm Lea, Yanceyville ● 
N. Carolin
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Declaration of Nancy Merrill in order to obtain the benefit of act of Congress of 3rd March 1843 State of North Carolina Caswell County On this 22nd day of April 1843 personally appeared before John C. Brown ┃ Justice of the peace for the County of Caswell Nancy Merritt a resident of the County of Caswell aforesaid aged Eighty 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 act of Congress passed on 3rd March 1843, granting pensions to ┃ widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary War . That she is the widow of Daniel Merritt, who was a private in the army of the Revolution & that said Nancy Merrill was placed on the North Carolina Pension Roll under the act of Congress of July 7th 1838 at the rate of Sixty Dollars per annum for five years. The pension Certificate as was as she now recollects bears date 25th July 1840, No. 5668. she further declars that she is still a widow Sworn to & Subscribed on the day & year above written her Nancy Merrill mark John Brown JP
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I John E. Brown, a Justice of the Peace for the County of Caswell, do certify that Nancy Merritt who made the within declaration is personally known to me and the identical person, who obtained a pension for five years under the Act of Congress of July 7th 1838 and that she is still a widow and that the within declaration was duly sworn to and signed by her in my presence. The Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this the 22nd day of April AD 1843. 

John C Brown JP

State of North Carolina
Caswell County

I A Slade clerk of the Court of Peas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid certify that John E Brown is a magistrate as above.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 22 day of April 1843.
A Slade Clerk
of Caswell County Court
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Nancy Merritt widow of Daniel Merritt who was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832 and who died on the 22d December 1833 of Caswell Co. in the State of N. Carolina who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Turner of the regt. commanded by Col. Malmada in the N. C. Militia line for 18 months Inscribed on the Roll of N. Carolina the rate of 60 Dollars - Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. ┃ Certificate of Pension issued the 25 day of July 1840 and sent to William Lea Yanville, N.C. Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 240.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sep " 30.00 Recorded by D. Brown Book Vol. 2. $270.00 Act July 7, 1838. Clerk, Page 188
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ayle all 1 H I. is on Bridge No 15 Fred James L. Edwards Comr of Pensions Washington C. desist, and
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in Sampson Co. N.C. Aug 13. 1836 I wrote to you several months ago on the subject of the suspended pension of Daniel Merritt and have not received any answer- Deducting the objectionable periods of his service and he is still entitled Please inform me whether the payment of his pension will be resumed for the residue of his services deducting what has been objected to and oblige observt Patrick Murphy on James L. Edward Comr of Pensions Washington D. C
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I James Rainey of the County of Casnelly North Carolina do hereby certify that I have known Daniel Merritt of the said County and State whose whose application of a pension this certificate accompanies for sixty five years the him to be of the age he says he is and that I have a personal knowledge of his having been in the of the revolution and believe that he served as the himself has stated in his declaration there not having served in company with a have no knowledge of the particular nature of his services or of the dates of his discharges Sworn to & subscribed in open court November 1832. 
Samuel John McAdin of the County of Came and all Iof North Carolina do hereby certify that I have know Daniel Merritt. since we were boys together and he the said Merritt and myself served togeth at the battle of Guilford and that I have known him ever since and I do further that I believe the said Merritt served in the of the revolution just as stated by himself the accompanying Declaration Sworn to and subscribed in open court John Mc October 1832, and the said Court do hereby declare their opin after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department, that the above applicant was a that it appears to them revolutionary soldier and served as he sees and the court further certifies that James Rainington who have signed the above certificates are resident of Carmel County and that the said Rains & Main
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are credible persons and that their struments are Entitled to credit. James Chasteen I B Jeremiah Graves Clerk of the Spirits court of Caswell County North Carolina do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Daniel Merritt for a pension In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the This the 7th day of November 1832 Jeremiah Graves of well know that the foregoing paper are all Gennin & are such as were seated to & paped upon by the Court A H She 4. Pension Est of S to by me Declaration for
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Daniel Merritt N C June 7. 1832. 4. 1838 when paid last Paid to 4 Sept. 1833 S. R. C. H H July 24 1840
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M 7194 Nancy Merritt and of Daniel N C Act July 7 1838 1 Married 1784 22 Dec and 1 1835 Allow $80 per Ann. from 4th and 1826 Wm Lea Esq Vancyville A
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Daniel Merritt Nancey 
1835 M 1784 
Pen. Act June 7
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for Yanceyville M Carolina of July 1. 1840. enclose you the papers of Nancy Merritt the widow of Daniel Merrill and Respectfully ask your decission in order to be placed on the pension roll. She now lives at the poor house at County expence. If she has complyed with the requsitions of the act it will no doubt be thankly received & well-disposed Very Respectfully your Obt Servt Wm Lea J.L. Edward 10 City
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Daniel Merritt from 1778 
Private 18 months $60 it I have cited withen Apres Hon A.F. Sheppard
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Daniel Merritt which require I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? 2 III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so? IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? he is entitled? 
V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? June 7, 1832? VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? --- X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal? 1 W
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary
service?
XIII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtain
ing it?
XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one
living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had
XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness
or witnesses as to his service?
If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the
regulations direct?
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XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age,
as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? No
XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And,
if not, which of them is not so answered?
EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how
long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being
duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he
cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; Foryear

months, and days
, I served as a-
For --
and days, I served as a ; and for such service I claim a pension.
months
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about the forman is to indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objection able. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
 QUERE XIV. Proof of Service. In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
FOUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers. In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
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S. State of North Carolina Caswell County --- 
This day appeared before me John C. Harvey a Justice of the peace & Justice of the Court of pleas & quarter session for the County of Caswell and State aforesaid Sidney S. Merrill and made oath in due form of law that this leaf hereto attached is the family record of the family of Daniel Merritt and I believe it to be in the hand writing of the said Daniel Morritt & left by him at his death which did occur on the 22nd day of December 1833 & that the family register has been kept by me, he further declares that Nancy Merritt the applicant in this case has remained a widow ever since the death of her husband aforesaid until the present him 6 Sidney G Merritt Sworn to and subscribed before me John C. Harvey a Justice of 4 aforesaid. On this the day and date above written. 
John C. Harvey J.P. & S.C. I John C. Harvey a Justice of the peace and Justice of the Court of pleas & quarter Session for the County of Caswell do hereby certify that Sidney S. Merrill who certificate appears above, is entitled to the fullest credit Given under hand this the 8th day of June 1840. John C. Harvey J.P. & J. C.
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State of North Carolina ⎬
 J. Paul A Haralson Caswell County Clerk of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions of the County and State afore said, do hereby Certify that John C. Harvey esquire whose Certificate appears within is now and was on the 8th day of June In an acting Justice of the peace & a Justice of the Court of pleas and quarter Sessions of said County of Caswell & State aforesaid: and that the Signature thereto purporting to be his is permine; as such due faith and credit should be paid to his official acts In Testimony when of I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Seal of Office of said Court of June 1840 this 23d Paul A Haralson Clk
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Revy WIDOW, &c. – 
File No. 7441 193 ┃ Nancy Merritt ┃ Wid: ┃ Daniel Merritt Pot. Rev. War Act: Mch. 33 Index: -- Vol. M, Page 42 [Arrangement of 1870.] 25 list to Mrs. Rex S
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Des Moines 
Sept. 14-1938 
Mr. A. D. Hiller 

Executive assistant to the Administrator Veterans Administration 

My dear Geri Please send Revolutionary war record as contained Pension granted to Daniel Merrit 1831, in Caswell Co. N.C. 

Yours truly --- Noud Rene Mrs. M. M. Kent 5052 Ingersoll live Ja. Des Moines, Iowa 35 2