Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16960, for John Merrill, Massachusetts
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SERVICE
Mass.

Merrill, John

NUMBER
S.16960

carded

CONTENTS
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[Handwritten text on left]
Let to Hon Appleton June 8/52
papers of Priscilla Clough inside


Maine
John Merrill
of Gray in the State of Maine
who was a Private in the Company command
by Captain Reed
of the Regt commanded
by Col McCables in the Mass
line for 8 may from May 1781

Inscribed on the Roll of Maine
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 27th day of Sept 1832
and sent to 
S Anderson Portland Maine

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 $39.99
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Mar 1833 13.33
$53.32 


{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}.
Recorded by TJ H Mc Blair Clerk

Book D (or 2?) Vol. 21  Page 71
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John Merrill 
4004
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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

On this Eleventh day of August aforesaid personally appeared in open Court 
before said District Judge John Merrill   a resident of Gray in the county of Cumberland in said Maine District,
aged Seventy one 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 enlisted as a soldier in the
army of the United States in the Revolution War at Portland, then called Falmouth, in all
County in May 1781 in Capt [illegible]
Company Col Cables Regt for eight months & 
& served out the whole eight months at said
at Falmouth now Portland & was honorably discharge
but never had a written discharge- One Patterson was Lieutenant & Amas Lieut Ensign

He was born on the 10th of Feb 1761 in said Falmouth & has now
resided in Gray since he was [illegible] years
and has a record of his age in his Bible
at home. He was employed in doing guard
duty during said eight months in the forts
in [illegible]

he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity
that his name is not on any pension roll of any agency in any State,
Signature of John Merrill

Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid. Before
[name is illegible]
U. S. Judge for the
District of Maine.
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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 Mussey Clerk of the District Court of the United States for Maine, do hereby certify, that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Merrill 
and that John Anderson Esquire who took the annexed depositions of Joseph Thomas & William Tuhey -  is a Justice of the Peace duly qualified that his official attestations one entitled to full faith and credit.
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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
Signature of John Mussey
Clerk of the U. States District
Court for Maine District.
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Ai Waterhouse
Attorney in 
this case, 
address to 
North Pownal
Maine
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State of Maine,
Cumberland County S.S.
Clerks Office Judicial Canto,
Portland February 7, 1852,
I Charles C. Harman Clerk of the Judicial
Courts in and for said County, certify that the
following marriage appears in the list of
marriages returned to this office by Reverend
Ebenezer Williams Minister of the Gospel for
the year 1786, 1787, 1788, and recorded
in the "Marriage Records for said County
to wit,

"John Merrill (Gray) & Mary Adams (Falmo) April
eighth seventeen hundred and eighty eight"

And I further certify that the foregoing
is a true extract from said records of said
marriage, excepting the words "April eighth
seventeen hundred and eighty eight " which
all plainly and legibly expressed
in the
words and figures, following to wit,
Apr. 1788.
In testimony
whereof, I have
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hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said State for said County the day and year fist written, 
Chars. C. Cannon
Clerk aforesaid,