Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 36164, for Stayton Morriss, Delaware
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Del
Morriss, Stayton 
or Morris
S. 36164
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Stayton Morris
Capt Moore
Private
Delaware line 1782  1 year
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War

Inscribed on the Roll of Delaware
At the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1st of April 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 24th of Novem, 1818
and Sent to the Hon'ble John Fisher Dover
Del.

Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1818 4 [ ] & 21/30...37.60
Semi-aul. all'ce 4th March 1819  48.__
85.60

Revolutionary claim
Act 18th March, 18128

Delaware District
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36164
INVALID.
Revy

No. 36164
Stayton Morris
Pri Rev War
Act:  18 March 18th
Index: -- Vol. 2,  Page 286
(Arrangement of 1870.)
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To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of War;

The undersigned District Judge of the United States for the Delaware district, prays to certify,

That it appears to the satisfaction of the undersigned, that the foregoing applicant Stayton Morriss, served in the Revolutionary War, as a common soldier in the Delaware regiment against the common enemy and for the term or time substantiated by the foregoing testimony; and that the several witnesses who have testified in favour of the said Applicant, are entitlted to full faith and credit.

The undersigned accordingly transmits the said  depositions to the Secretary of the Department  of War, agreeably to the provisions of an actc 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 18th March 1818.

In Testimony whereof the [illegible] years hereto sets his hand, at Dover, in the District aforesaid, and has caused the seal of the United States court for the said district to be hereto affixed, this twenty-first day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and of the Independence of the United States, the forty-second.

John Fisher, Districtc Judge
Delaware district.
Attest; Thos Witherspoon
Clk Dis Co. D. D.
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Susp’d for
Del’a Rolls
Admitted
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Castle in the State of Delaware under the command of
Captain Peter Jacquet, that the said recruit there joined
the remnant of the old Delaware regiment, which had
come from the Southern States and continued to do duty
therein for a few weeks, when the whole regiment was
disbanded, as this deponent understood, by order of the
Continental Congress, each soldier having full liberty to
return to his home, that the discharge which was received
was verbal and not in writing and this deponent
further saith, that the enlistment of said Stayton Morriss
was for and during the continuance of the war, as this deponent
well remembers, the deponent then being musician to the recruiting
party, who enlisted the said Stayton, as a soldier, and
this deponent further deposes and declares, that by reason
 of the present infirmity of body of the aforesaid
Stayton Morris and of his reduced circumstances
in life he stands in need of assistance from his county
for support, and further this deponent saith not.
John Jackson
Taken, sworn & subscribed
this 15th April 1818
Before
John Fisher District Judge
Delaware district
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United States
Delaware district to wit,
Depositions of witnesses produced sworn
or affirmed and examined before me John Fisher District
Judge of the United States for the Delaware district on
the claim of Stayton Morris, late a private soldier in the
army of the revolutionary war, and a resident and inhabitant
 of the district aforesaid [‘on the claim of’ crossed out] for a pension
in pursuance of 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 March 1818
The aforesaid Stayton Morris, aged fifty-two years and upwards, 
personally appeared
before me and being sworn in due form of law, deposes
and declares as follows viz, that he this deponent enlisted
as a private soldier in the forepart of April 1782, under
Capt James Moore, in the town of Dover in the district
aforesaid, and was placed soon afterwards under the
command of Capt John Wilson of the Delaware Regiment; that
deponent, together with nearly a whole company of recruits was
marched from Dover to Philadelphia where this deponent
and said recruits performed military duty till early in 
the spring of 1783; that then this deponent and others,
as a detachment, were marched to Elizabethtown [first]  to
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to guard a number of English prisoners, who were sent 
Thither for the purpose of exchange and discharge; that 
afterwards this deponent and his fellow soldiers, returned
to Philadelphia to the performance of their usual duty,
and about the last of April were placed under the
command of Capt Peter Jacquet under whom they
continued to do duty till the latter part of May or
first of June following, that this deponent and the
rest of the company who were not on furlough, were
marched down to Newcastle in the State of Delaware
by the said Capt Peter Jacquet about the first of June 1783,
where this deponent and the rest of said company
joined that part of the Delaware regiment, which
had been engaged in the Southern department
of the war, that the whole regiment which remained
at the period now spoken of, continued embodied and
mustered at Newcastle aforesaid, till about the last of
June 1783, when the said regiment was disbanded
by its commanding officer and informed when and
where the soldiers composing it, might receive their pay;
that the enlistment of this deponent was for and during the
continuance of the war, that this deponent never
received any other discharge that the order of disbandment 
aforesaid; And this deponent further declares and deposes
that now by reason of his reduced circumstances in life he stands
 in need of assistance from
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from his country for support; and further this deponent
saith not.
Stayton Morriss
Taken sworn & subscribed
this 14th April 1818
Before
John Fisher District Judge
Delaware district
The deposition of Peter Pursley aged sixty years
in June next, who being sworn in due form of law deposes as follows
viz, that he know Stayton Morriss now and knew him as a
soldier in the revolutionary war; that the first knowledge which
this deponent had of the said Stayton Morriss, was somewhere
about the first of April 1782, that he said Stayton had
just enlisted in the army when this deponent first knew him, and
this deponent and said Stayton marched in company to Philadelphia,
both of them being then new recruits; that they continued
together, except a short interval (when said Stayton went with
British prisoners to Elizabeth town point) until the close of the
revolutionary war, when this deponent and said Stayton were
among the rest of the Delaware regiment discharged at
Newcastle in the State of Delaware, that this discharge
took place somewhere about the 18th or 20th of June 1783 and
was verbal, that the services of the said Stayton in the revolutionary
army continued from April 1782 until the 15th or 20th of June 1783,
that said Stayton was a private soldier and belonging to the
company of the Delaware Regiment commanded by Captain
John Wilson, in the forepart of his service, but lastly under the
command
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command of Captain Peter Jacquet; that this deponent is not to well
acquainted with the circumstances in life of the said Stayton as to
declare any thing in relation to them; and further this deponent saith not.
Peter Pusley his Mark

Taken, sworn & subscribed
this 14 April 1818
Before
John Fisher District Judge
Delaware district

The deposition of John Jackson aged fifty-six years or there
abouts, who being sworn in due form of law deposes and says
that he knows Stayton Morriss and did know him as a
soldier in the army of the United States in the revolutionary
war; that the knowledge of this deponent of said
Stayton commenced about the last of May 1782 when said
Stayton was taken by this deponent to his house (said Stayton
having just had the Small pox,) to recruit his strength;
that said Stayton was then a soldier and had been
recruited among others, to fill up the Delaware Regiment,
that the recruiting party continued in Delaware, till June
following, when orders were received to march the recruits
Philadelphia to be placed under the command of Col.
Hampton, to which place the said Stayton and the other
recruits were marched accordingly and continued to do
duty till June 1783, that in June 1783, the said Stayton
and the recruits aforesaid were marched down to New Castle