Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 15931, for Billy Munger, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Munger, Billy
Deborah
NUMBER  W. 15931
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4962    A.  
New York
Deborah Munger dec’d 
widow of Billy Munger who died in the year 1822 of Cortland Co. in the State of N.Y. who was a private in the Compy command by Captain Kirtland of the Regt command by Col. Meigs in the Conn line for 2 years 
Conn 
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 80 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831 & end 27 April 1839 when she died  
Certificate of Pension issued the 19 day of June 1850 and sent to Hon. H. S. Conger H. R. 
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending 
Payable to only surviving children Calvin Munger &  Billy Munger 
Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the } 
Recorded by J. P. Chase Clerk 
Book D Vol. 2 Page 358 
Reported
Of 
N.V.S.A.
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7047   
Deborah Munger dec 
wid of Billy 
NY 
act 4 July 1836  A
Dec 14 1778  on Duty at Reading – July 1779 with the [unreadable] 
Enlisted Mch 14 ‘78 
Disch. Jany 10 ‘82 
Col Meigs Corps
Rev War
Medad Numee Mn.
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Billy Munger born Dec. 16th 1754 
Deborah Acley born March 9th 1754, and were Married Dec. 4th 1778. 
A  8
Calvin Munger born April 3d 1788. 
Billy Munger 3d born Dec. 21st 1790 
Zadab Munger born Jany 25. 1792 B
Bezaleel Acley Munger born May 9th 1796 and Died Jany 19th 1801. 
Bille Munger Died December 11th 1822 aged 68 years – 
Deborah Munger Died April the 27 1839 1839
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State of New York 
County of Cayuga} SS Calvin Munger whom I certify is a respectable person, aged Fifty one years of said county after being duly sworn according to law depose and says that he is a child of Billy Munger and late widow Deborah Munger; that application is about to be made for a pension due to the Deborah Munger at her decease that this deponent depose and says as above, that he is a son of the said widow & that the attached old family record of the marriage of this deponents said father & mother, is the original life time record kept in the of his said parents as the true record of their marriage and of their family except, that it does not contain the names, nor date of the birth of the first six children of this deponents said parents, that this deponent is the seventh child of his said parents as he has at all times been informed by them that the first six children all died in extreme infancy & that they were none of them named, nor was there any entry made of their birth or death, that this deponent has known the said record for fifty years or more 
Calvin Munger
Subscribed and sworn before me this 17th day of January 1848}  
Harvey Heath Justice Peace 
No 9. 
Note the word "said” in the ninth line from top interlined before execution 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
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State of New York 
Cayuga County Clerk's Office SS 
I E B Cobb Clerk of said County and of the Courts aforesaid thereof  as hereby certify that Harvey Heath before when the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in & for said County duly elected & qualified to take the same that I am acquainted with his hand writing and that the signature to the forgoing purports to be is his genuine signature 
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of Office the same being the seal of said County & the Court of record thereof this January AD 1848. 
E. B. Cobb Clerk
1836
78
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No 1 
Declaration 
In order to obtain the benefit of the third Section of the act of Congress of the 4th July 1836 
State of New York 
County of Cortland} SS. On the 29th day of September 1847 personally appeared before the Court then in Session holden at Cortlandville in and for said County the same being a Court of Record Calvin Munger of Summer Hill in the County of Cayuga and State of New York, aged fifty nine years in April last 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 July 4th 1836.  
That this deponent is a son of the late Billy Munger late a private in the war of the Revolution and who resided at the time of his performing the service in Litchfield County Connecticut, that the said Billy Munger died in December 1822 eighteen hundred & twenty two, leaving a widow, viz Deborah Munger, this deponents mother, who remained a widow till her death and that this deponent said father and mother were married in 1778 Seventeen hundred and Seventy eight that this deponent was born in 1788 and was the seventh child of his said father & mother, that the said Deborah Munger his said widow died on the 27th day of April 1839 eighteen hundred & thirty nine, being his widow at her death and that at her death she left the following named children her surviving being her only children her surviving and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit Calvin Munger & Billy Munger of the County of Cayuga and State of New York this Declaration and application is made for the purpose of obtaining for the surviving children of the said Widow Deborah Munger the pension due to her at her decease under the act of Congress passed July 4th 1836. 
Calvin Munger
Subscribed and Sworn in open Court the day and date last above written before me 
D. Hawks Judge of Cortland County Courts
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I certify that the within named Calvin Munger is a respectable person D. Hawks 
Judge of Cortland County Courts
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No 2
State of New York 
Cortland County }  SS  
On the 29th day of September 1847 Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Mead Merrill of Cortlandville in said County aged Eighty five years who being duly sworn according to law deposes and say that before the war of the Revolution he resided in Canaan Litchfield County and State of Connecticut, a Town adjoining Salisbury in said County of Litchfield that this deponent was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and served in the Regiment commanded by Col Mieggs [Meigs] of Connecticut and that he was personally acquainted with Billy Munger who resided at that time in Salisbury in Litchfield Co Connecticut that the said Billy Munger was a soldier in the War of the Revolution and served in the same Regiment with this deponant Two and a half years or more. 
Mead Merrill
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year first above Written before 
E W Edgcomb 
Justice of the Peace 
I Certify that the above named Mead Merrell is a reputable Person 
E W Edgcomb 
Justice of the Peace
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State of New York 
Cortland County } SS 
I Daniel Hawks County Judge of said County do hereby Certify that Satisfactory Evidence has been exhibited to said Court that Deborah Munger late Widow of Billy Munger whose surviving children are making application for the Pension due the said Deborah Munger at the time of her death died on the 27th day of April 1839 - and at her death she left the following named Children her surviving whose names and places of Residence are as follows to wit:  Calvin Munger and Billy Manger of Cayuga County and State of New York and that Each of them is of the age of Twenty one years and upwards – 
D Hawks 
County Judge &c
W3
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State of New York 
Cortland County 
Clerks Office SS. I Samuel Hotchkiss Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Daniel Hawks Esqr by whom the annexed affidavit of Calvin Munger purports to have been taken was on the day of the date thereof Judge of the County Court in and for the County aforesaid also that Eleazer W Edgcomb Esq before whom the annexed affidavit of Mead Merril was taken was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County also that the said Daniel Hawks & Eleazer W Edgcomb were duly authorized to take the aforesaid.  Also that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said Judge & Justice respectively and verily believe their signatures to the Jurats of the affidavits aforesaid are genuine. 
Witness my hand and the seal of said County at Cortlandville this 5th day of Nov AD 1847 
Saml Hotchkiss Clerk
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N 7047
Deborah Munger dec
NY
Let to Hon H. S. Conger
March 8th ‘48
2
Act 4 July 1836
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Rev WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 15931 
Deborah Munger 
Wid of Billy Munger 
Pri Rev War  
Act July 4th 1836 
Index: Vol. M, Page 72  
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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May 14. 1850 
Hon H.S. Conger 
Enclose a letter from Th Lumpkin, relative to the Case of Deborah Munger on appeal
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Deborah Munger dec  
widow of Billy 
New York  
Cortland Co.
H [husband] d. [died] Dec 1822
Admitted
Private 2 yrs  $80. 
Com . 4 March 1831 
to 27th April 1839 when she died; 
Calvin Munger & Billy Manger Children  
act of July 1836 
Cap Kirtland Col. Meigs 
Conn Ser 
Hon. H.S. Conger H. R.
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I do not make myself responsible for the within but I presume it meets the case. I have not the time to examine the case to the extent to which this paper goes 
H.S. Conger
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Washington D.C 
May 14th 1850 
Dear Sir
In the case of Mrs Deborah Munger widow of by Billy Manger, upon which an appeal has been taken by me to the Department of the Interior, there is record evidence of service for more than three years. The objection that is urged to this claim is that a witness Mead Merrill, stated that he served with him the said Munger in Col. Meigs’ Regiment, "two and a half years”. It is attempted by the Clerk who made the brief to shew a discrepancy between the service which is shown by the record amounting to three or four years, and this witness statement upon an examination of this witness testimony you will find he expressly says that he served with the said Munger two years and a half or more.  The marriage is proven to have taken place on 4th December, 1778, see record. The declaration asserts that they were married in the year 1778. Another attempt is made to prove a discrepancy, by saying that at the period which it is asserted they were married, he was then in service. He might have been married in December 1778 and no doubt he was, and again return to his duty by furlough. This claim is believed to be made out, and I ask that it may be allowed.   I have the honor to your with great respect 
Th. Lumpkin
Hon. Th. Ewing 
Secy of the Dept of the Interior
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Department of the Interior 
June 15. 1850 
Sir
I have examined the papers in the case of Deborah Munger, deceased which are herewith returned, and an of opinion that the claim should be allowed for two years service, under the act of July 4, 1836. 
I remain respectfully 
(Signed) 
T. Ewing
J. L. Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions
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No 4
State of New York 
County of Cayuga } ss Personally appeared before the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in & for said County Thomas Chipman of said County aged Sixty three years after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that fifty to fifty five years ago he became acquainted with Billy Munger and his wife Deborah in Middlebury, Addison County Vermont that at that time he understood & believed that the said parties had removed there from Salisbury Litchfield County Connecticut & that the said Billy Munger had the reputation of having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that the said Billy Munger died in 1822 leaving his widow Deborah who remained his widow till her death.  That after the death of the said Billy Munger his widow the said Deborah Munger removed to Cayuga County New York & resided in the same neighborhood with this deponent till she died & that she died on the 27th day of April 1839 eighteen hundred and thirty nine, leaving at her death the following named children her surviving being her only children her surviving & that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards, to wit Calvin Munger and Billy Munger of the County of Cayuga and State of New York. 
Thomas Chipman
Subscribed and sworn before me this 4th day of October 1847 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace 
I certify that the above named Thomas Chipman is a respectable person 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
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No 5
State of New York 
County of Cayuga } ss. Personally appeared before the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Reuben Saxton of the County of Tompkins aged Seventy eight years after being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that forty five to fifty years ago he became acquainted with Billy Munger and his wife Deborah in Middlebury Addison County Vermont that at that time he understood and believed that the said parties had removed there from Litchfield County Connecticut & that the said Billy Manger had the reputation of having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that the said Billy Munger died in 1822 leaving his widow the said Deborah Munger who remained his widow till her death & that she died on the 27th day of April 1839 eighteen hundred and thirty nine leaving at her death the following named children her surviving being her only children her surviving & that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and few and viz Calvin Munger and Billy Munger of the County of Cayuga New York.
Reuben Saxton
Subscribed and sworn before me this 4th day of October 1847 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace 
I certify that the above named Reuben Saxton is a respectable person 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
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No 6
State of New York
County of Cayuga } ss  David Chipman of said County being duly sworn, deposes and says that he was personally acquainted with Deborah Munger late widow, of Billy Munger whose children are making application for a pension for the amount due to their said mother at her death in 1839 and that he was called upon to dig a grave for the said Deborah Munger when she died and that he dug such grave and on refering to his book he finds it entered on his book as having been dug on the 28th day of April 1839, eighteen hundred and thirty nine, that the said Deborah Munger died on the 27th day of April 1839, eighteen hundred and thirty nine, and that at her death she left the following named children her surviving being her only children her surviving and that each of them is of the age of twenty one years and upwards viz Calvin Munger and Billy Munger of the County of Cayuga and State of New York 
David Chipman
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 4th day of October 1847 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace 
Note the word "he" in the third line from top interlined before execution 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace 
I certify that the above named David Chipman is a reputable person 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
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No 7 
State of New York 
County of Cayuga } SS. 
Personally appeared before the subscri ber a Justice of the peace in & for the said County Naamah Heath of said County aged Seventy eight years who being duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that Fifty to Fifty five years ago she became acquainted with Billy Munger and his wife Deborah in Middlebury Addison County Vermont that she understood & believed that the said parties had removed there from Litchfield County Connecticut & that the said Billy Munger had the reputation of having been a soldier in the war of the Revolution, that after the death of the said Billy Manger his widow the said Deborah Munger removed to the County of Cayuga New York & resided in the same town with this deponent till she died and that she died on the 27th day of April 1839, eighteen hundred and thirty nine, being his widow at her death & that at her death she left the following named children her surviving being her only children her surviving & that each of them is of the age of twenty one years & upwards to wit Calvin Munger and Billy Munger of the County of Cayuga and State of New York 
Naamah Heath
Subscribed and sworn before me this 5th day of October 1847 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace 
I certify that the above named Naamah Heath is a respectable person 
Harvey Heath Justice Peace
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State of New York 
Cayuga County Clerks Office I hereby certify that - Harvey Heath whose name is subscribed to the forgoing proof was at the time of taking the same a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly qualified to take the same that am acquainted with the hand writing of said Justice and verily believe the foregoing to be his genuine Signature 
In Testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix my seal of Office this Sixth day of October 1847 
Edwin B Marvin 
Dep Clerk of said County the Courts thereof