Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11,067, for Israel Merrimon, Connecticut
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was drafted but thinks it was in the month of June - recollects distinctly it was the year in which New London was burned - This applicants father was drafted into the State troops of Connecticut to serve for the period of two months that applicant took the place of his father the same day he was drafted - that he then resided in the said town of Harrington. He cannot recollect the names of all the officers of the regiment under which he served the Majors name was Bray General Woolcot was the commandant his Captain name was Phelps - does not recollect his Christian name & does not recollect the names of any other officers. Immediately after applicant entered the service as aforesaid he was marched to Stamford passing through Danberry on their route - thinks they stayed there (at Stamford) about a fortnight - From Stamford they proceeded to Horseneck where he stood the remaining period of his service - was employed chiefly in mounting guard & after his service expired he was verbally discharged at Horseneck by his Captain then went home to Harrington - That applicant has no documentary evidence of his service - That he knows of no person alive whose testimony he can procure to his service
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state
And in answer to the interrogatories presented by the War Department the applicant answers as follows
In the first Interrogatory,
He says he was born in the Town of Harrington county of Litchfield & State of Connecticut & in the year seventeen hundred & fifty Eight as he believes
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No. 19.750
Israel Merrimon
Monroe County
New York

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on rolls 8 months and 1 day

Admitted
Private 10 months and 1 day

Horace Gay Agent
Monroe County
Rochester Pension Office
New York
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11.067
INVALID.
Revolutionary War

File Number 11.067
Israel Merrimon
Private Revolutionary War

Act: June 7th 1832
Index: - Volume A, Page 254

[Arrangement of 1870.]