Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 6819, for Andrew Merwin, Connecticut
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SERVICE
Conn

Merwin, Andrew
Rhoda

NUMBER W. 6819
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Lee letter to claimant 13th July 1834

Order to suspend payment to agent 
13 Jany '36
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11 mo 14 days private
Hon L. Freede
HR

9023
_____________________
Connecticut
Andrew Merwin
of Brookfield in the State of Connt
who was a Pri in the Com commanded
by Captain Branson of the Regt commanded
by Col Hooker in the Connt
line (for) State Troops 12½ mo
___________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Connt
at the rate 41 Dollars 86 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of Mch 1831
_______________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of March
1833 and sent to Claimant
Brookfield Farfield Co.  Ct
_________________________________
Arrears to the 4th of March 33                 $83.32
allowance ending Sep. 33,                          20.44
                                                                $10376

                                         {Revolutionary Claim,}
                                         {Act June 7, 1832.      }
Recorded by  E.D. Bullock Clerk,
Book E     Vol. 3    Page 27
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                 2618
Connecticut
Rhoda Merwin
widow of Andrew
who served in the Revolutionary 
war, as a private
Conn Line

Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
38 Dollars   18
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 3d February, 1853.

Certificate of Pension issued the
24th. day of October 1853
and sent to
Bryant Smith
Brookfield
Ct.
_______________________________
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act
February 3, 1853, Page 62,  Vol, A
                         (32)
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } ss.
                                        I Hannah Merwin
of Brookfield in the County of Fairfield and
State of Connecticut aged Fifty two years
depose & say that I have from a child
been personally acquainted with Rhoda
Merwin and her late husband Andrew
Merwin, that I was daughter in law
to the said Andrew Merwin, and I have
personal knowledge of the said parties living
together as husband and wife about ten
years, that the said Rhoda Merwin now
resides in said Brookfield and is the
widow of the said Andrew Merwin, that 
the said Andrew Merwin died on the
7th day of March 1840 leaving as his
widow the said Rhoda Merwin, who
still remains his widow
                                  Hannah Merwin

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield.  } ss.    Brookfield July 18th 1853-
                             Personally appeared before  
me a Notary Public duly authorized by law
to administer oaths, Hannah Merwin and
subscribed and made oath to the truth of
the foregoing Deposition, who I certify is a
credible witness-

        Bryant Smith Notary Public
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State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   }  SS.
                               I Fowler Peck of
Brookfield in the County of Fairfield and
State of Connecticut, aged sixty years depose
and say, that I have from a child been
personally acquainted with Rhoda Mer-
win and her late husband Andrew Merwin
and I have personal knowledge of the
said parties living together as husband
and wife about ten years, that during
said time they were my nearest neigh-
bors, that the said Rhoda Medrwin now
resides in said Brookfield and is still
this widow of the said Andrew Merwin -
                                           Fowler Peck

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ⎬ ss. Brookfield July 14th 1853
                         Personally appeared before
me a Notary Public duly authorized by law
to administer oaths, Fowler Peek & subscribed
and made oath to the truth of the foregoing
Deposition, who I certify is a credible
witness

            Bryant Smith Notary Public
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State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield ⎬ ss. Brookfield April 5th, 1853-
                  On this fifth day of April one thousand
eight hundred & fifty three, personally appeared before
the Court of Probate within & for the District of Brookfield
in said County & State, the same being a Court of
Record, Rhoda Merwin a resident of Brookfield in
said District, aged eighty two years, and being first
duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make
the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefits
of the provisions made by the several acts of Congress passed
July 7th 1838. August 23d 1842 March 3d 1843 June 17th
1844, February 2nd 1848 and February 3rd 1853 and all
other acts & Resolutions relative to granting Pensions
to widows of persons who served during the Revolutionary 
war. That she is the widow of Andrew Merwin
late of said Brookfield deceased, who was a private in
the army of the Revolution and served in the Revolutionary 
war as a private soldier in the militia of the State 
of Connecticut under the command of the officers
specified & named in the original Declaration of the
said Andrew Merwin now on file in the office of the
Commissioner of Pensions in the war Department
and for the several terms & periods of time mentioned
in the said Declaration, and in as much as she
has no personal knowledge of the various particulars
relative to his said services of the several times when
his terms of service commenced and ended or the
names of the officers under whom he served of the Country
through which he marched, or of the battles in which
he was engaged, she refers to the said original Declaration
for a more particular description thereof. That the
said Andrew Merwin was a Revolutionary Pensioner
of the United States from the 18th day of March 1833
to the time of his death, which said Pension was
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granted to him for the services aforesaid, and she
refers for the proof of such service to the evidence
accompanying his said original Declaration, who
on file in the office of said Commissioner of Pensions
she has heard the said Andrew Merwin say that 
the amount of his said Pension soon after the said
18th day of March 1833 was reduced, and that he after-
wards drew a less sum than when it was first
granted to him. She further declares that she
was married to the said Andrew Merwin on the
23d day of February 1830 that her husband the
aforesaid Andrew Merwin died on the 7th day of
March 1840, and that she has never intermarried
with any other person since the death of the said
Andrew Merwin, and that she was married to him 
by the Rev. Abner Brundage who was at that time
the Pastor of the Congregational Church in said Brookfield
at the house of the said Mr Brundage - she further
States that she was married to her first husband
Elized Star on the 8th day of March 1792 who
died on the 27th day of July 1825, and that her
maiden name before she was married to her said
first husband was Rhoda Ruggles
                                    Rhoda Merwin

Sworn to and subscribed on the day & year
above mentioned before the said Court of
Probate for the District of Brookfield
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my
hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
5th - day of April 1853.-
Certified by Thomas S Taylor Clerk of the Court
of Probate for the district of Brookfield
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This may certify that Andrew Merwin
and the widow Rhoda Starr both of Brookfield
were lawfully joined in marriage Feby twenty
third, one thousand eight hundred and thirty -
by me-
                                           Abner Brundage 
A true record }
of the original} Attest Bryant Smith Town Clerk

                          The above is a true copy of the
original record with the exception of the
date, which is expressed in the record in
fair legible figures as follows, Feby 23d 1830-
                                 John A Peck  Town Clerk

                   I John A Peck above named depose
and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk
in the town of Brookfield in the County of Fairfield
and State of Connecticut, and that the above is
a true extract from the Record of said marriage -
John A. Peck   --  Clerk of the Town
                             of Brookfield

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County        } ss. Brookfield April 14th 1853 -
                                  Personally appeared before me
a Notary Public duly authorized by law to admin-
ister oaths, John A. Peck and subscribed & made
oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition, who I
certify is a credible witness

             Bryant Smith  Notary Public
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STATE OF CONNECTICUT.            }
COUNTY OF FAIRFIELD                 } ss.  Bridgeport
COUNTY COURT CLERK'S OFFICE, }
                                     I, Wm W Noble CLERK
of the County Court, within and for Fairfield County, and keeper of the
Seal thereof, and of the aforesaid
County, hereby certify -- THAT
Bryant Smith   ESQUIRE,
was on the 14th day of April 1853 and now is
a Notary Public within and for said County, duly appointed, com-
missioned and sworn, having full power and authority by the laws of this
State to take the acknowledgment of Deeds and other instruments, and
to certify the same; also to administer oaths to take Affidavits and De-
positions out of Court and to give certificates thereof; that full faith and
credit may, and ought to be given to his official acts and attestations;
that I am acquainted with his hand writing, and know that the signature
to the instrument hereto annexed, purporting to be his, is his genuine
official signature; and that said instrument is executed, acknowledged
and duly authenticated according to the laws of this State.
In Testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affix the seal of said Court, at Bridgeport
in said County and State, on this 16th day of April A. D. 1853
                                           Wm Hedible Clerk

Bryant Smith
Brookfield
Conn-
Attorney
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State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County       }  ss. Brookfield April 14th 1853-
                                      I John Merwin of Brookfield
in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut
aged Sixty one years depose and say that I
am the son of Andrew Mervin late of said
Brookfield deceased, that I have had
personal knowledge of my said father Andrew
Merwin and Rhoda Merwin, now his widow
living together as husband & wife from the
time they were married untill his death
that my said father Andrew Merwin died
in said Brookfield on the 7th day of March
1840-
                              John Merwvin

State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County       }     SS. Brookfield April 14th 1853-
               Personally appeared before me
a Notary Public duly authorized by law to
administer oaths, John Merwin & subscribed
and made oath to the truth of the foregoing
Deposition, who I certify is a credible witness-
                        Bryant Smith, Notary Public
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Andrew Merwin
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County             S. S.
                            On this 26th day of
July 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before
the Court of Probate for the District of Danbury
in the said County & State, now sitting at Dan-
bury in the said District, the same being a Court
of Record -
               Andrew Merwin of Brookfield
in the said County, aged seventy two years
who being first duly sworn according to law
doth on his oath make the following decla-
ration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act
of Congress passed June 7th 1832.

                 That he was born in Milford
in the County of New Haven in the said State on
the 28th day of April 1760. He has a record of his
age, being an entry made in his family Bible
by himself from information derived from his
Parents. At the age of two years he removed in
the family of his Father to said Brookfield
where he has ever since resided & where he now
resides, and that he so resided in said Brook-
field at each time when he entered the
service as hereinafter mentioned.-
                    That he entered the
service of the United States and service as herein
stated.
   1st That on the 1st day of December 1776, he
enlisted at said Brookfield for the term of two
months, in the Connecticut State Troops, in the
Regiment commanded by Colonel Noadiah
Hooker in the company commanded by Captain
Benjamin Bronson, Shadrack Hubbell, was Lieuten-
ant in the said Company, and Isaac Gray Ensign
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He immediately joined said Regiment then stationed
on the lines near New York, and served the whole
of said term for which he enlisted, on and near
the lines around New York; he was generally em-
ployed during said term of service in scouting
parties and having served the full term for which
he enlisted, he was dismissed at East Chester in
the State of New York about twenty miles from
New York, about the 1st of February 1777. no written
discharge was given him, but he was merely dismiss-
ed as above stated.
   2nd That on the 1st day of June 1777 he enlisted 
in the Connecticut State Troops, for the term
of eight months in the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Enos: in the company commanded
by Captain Solomon Booth, William Trowbridge
was Lieutenant and Martin Warner was Ensign
in the said Company. In pursuance of his said entis-
tment, he served in the said Corps, the full term
of eight months thereafter, as follows, to-wit--
      In the month of June and part of
the month of July he served at Fairfield in
said County, where his said Company was stationed
as a guard. The other companies of said Regim-
ent were stationed at other posts as Guards along
the shore of Long Island sound, in said Fairfield
County -In the latter part of said month of July
the said Regiment marched to a place about
four or five miles west of Peekskill in the State 
of New York where it was quartered about two
weeks then marched to Westchester, remained
one day, and returned to Peekskill. After remain-
ing at said Peekskill two or three weeks, he was
employed with said Regiment in the repair of
the road between said Peekskill and said Danbury
about two weeks, and he was then again stationed 
with his said Company; as a guard, at said
Fairfield -
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He remained there with his company in the
said service, until about the 1st of October 1777
said Regiment was then ordered to proceed North-
ward, up the Hudson River, & to join the American 
Army opposed to General Burgoyne
                                   He marched with his
said Company to Fishkill in said State of New 
York, where all the companies of the said Reg-
iment were to rendezvous, Said Regiment
proceeded no further North, but remained sta-
tioned there, until after news was received of the
Surrender of General Burgoyne & his Army.
                          About the first of November
- it might have been in the latter part of October, he
marched with said Company to Mamaronick and
served there and at Horseneck, the remainder
of his said term - The other Companies of said Reg-
iment after leaving Fishkill, were posted before in
small detachments at the several parts on said
Long Island Sound. He served there, as a guard
after arriving at said Mamaroneck and also
at Horseneck during the remainder of his said
term, for which he enlisted, and on the 1st of February
1778 having faithfully served his term of eight
months he with the whole of said Company was
dismissed, at said Horseneck, he had no written
discharge; but the company was assembled on parade
and the Captain made a short speech in which
he thanked us for our faithful service and dismission
us
  3rd  That about the 15th day of March 1778
at said Brookfield, he enlisted in the service of
the United States for the term of six months, to
serve as a Teamster -- as the substitute of one
Daniel Shore - who had enlisted into said service
for said Term. The Officer under whom he enlisted 
and served, was Amos Stevens, Conductor of Teams in
the Continental Army. He served therein under said
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Stevens, from said 15th day of March 1778 until
the 18th day of September 1778. During this term he
was employed in the team service, with the Continent-
al Army cheifly with the Regiment commanded
by Colonel Samuel Wyllys of the Connecticut line
in transporting baggage, provisions ammunition
and military Stores at Fishkill, White Plains and
Peekskill in the State of New York. At the expir-
ation of his said service, he was dismissed by
said Amos Stevens, but received no written
discharge
 4th  That in the month of July 1778 about
the first of said month, he was drafted to serve
one month as a militiaman. He then belonging
to the Connecticut militia in the company-
commanded by Captain Richard Smith, of the
Connecticut Militia, then about to be stationed as a
guard at Ridgefield, in said Fairfield County
                             A small post was stationed
there at the time, but before he was mustered
for service, the enemy landed at Fairfield in
said County and he proceeded thither and
served there and at Norwalk, about two weeks
under the command of said Captain Smith
                    He was present and personally
engaged in contests with the enemy at both
those places at the time they were burned. After the
enemy left Norwalk and embarked on board
their ships, he proceeded with said Company
under the command of said Captain Smith and served 
the residue of said month, for which he was so drafted
at said Ridgefield, in the said guard when he
was dismissed about the 1st of August 1779 written
discharge was given him.
  5th  Very soon after his return from the last mentioned
tour of service and he believes in the same month
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of August 1779 he belonging to the Connecticut
Militia was drafted to serve six weeks, at Patterson
and Crump Pond in the County of Dutchess and
State of New York in the Company commanded
by Captain Ezra Dibble in the Regiment-
Commanded by Col Joseph P. Cooke of the Conne-
cticut Militia. That was the place of rendezvous, for a
large body of Connecticut Militia under the
command of General Wadsworth, and they
were there stationed as he understood & believed
to watch the motions of the enemy, then at
New York and the county adjacent. He served
there in said Company and Regiment, six
weeks and was dismissed some time in the
month of September in that year, no written
discharge was given him
  5th On the 1st day of June 1780 he belonged to the
Connecticut Militia and was drafted to serve four
months at West Point and served there under Conti-
nental Officers, the said term of four months
and was dismissed on the 1st of October in that
year. All the Continental Officers under whom
he served, and who were there at the time
were strangers to him, and he cannot now
recollect their names, and it is impossible for
him now to prove the said service, no written
discharge was given him at the expiration of his
said service; but he was dismissed verbally.
                    He has no documentary evidence
and knows of no person whose testimony he can
procure who can testify to his said service, other
than those whose affidavits are hereunto ann-
exed. He further says, that on each of his said
terms of service, he entered the service and
served as a Private Soldier-
                                             Andrew Merwin
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IN REPLY REFER TO
Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MVS/ecl
                                          3 -- 1865
                                    UNITED STATES
                    DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
                               BUREAU OF PENSIONS
                                       WASHINGTON         April 9, 1929

Ethel M. Merwin
107 W. 4th Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Madam:
     I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary
War pension claim, W.6819, it appears that Andrew Merwin
was born, April 28, 1760, in Milford, New Hartford County,
Connecticut.
   While a resident of Brookfield, Connecticut, he en-
listed and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops
as follows:
   From December 1, 1776, two months under Captain Ben-
jamin Bronson and Colonel Noadiah Hooker; from June 1,
1777, eight months under Captain Solomon Booth and Col-onel Eno; from March 15, 1778, six months as teamster
under Conductor Amos Stevens, a part of that time he was
under Colonel Samuel Wylly; from about July 1, 1779, one
month under Captain Richard Smith and he was in engage-
ments at Fairfield and Norwalk, Connecticut; from sometime
in August, 1779, six weeks under Captain Ezra Dibble and
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Colonel Joseph P. Cooke; from June 1, 1780, four months,
officers names not given.
    He was allowed pension on his application executed
July 26, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Brook-
field, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
    He died, March 7, 1840, in Brookfield, Connecticut.
    The soldier married, February 23, 1830, in Brook-
field, Connecticut, Rhoda, widow of Elvid Starn, whom she
married March 8, 1792, and who died July 27, 1825. Her
maiden name was Rhoda Ruggles.
    She was allowed pension on her application executed
April 5, 1853, at which time she was eighty-two years of
age and was living in Brookfield, Connecticut.
    In 1853, Hannah Merwin, a resident of Brookfield,
Connecticut, aged fifty-two years, stated that she was a
daughter-in-law of Andrew Merwin.
    John Merwin, of Brookfield, Connecticut, aged sixty-
one years in 1853, was the son of the soldier, Andrew
Merwin. The name of the soldier's first wife is not given.
    The above noted is the history of the only soldier
by the name of Andrew Merwin that is found on the Revolutionary War records of this bureau.
                                     Respectfully,
                                    E. W. Morgan
                                      E. W. MORGAN
                                   Acting Commissioner.
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Connecticut - No. 9023
__________________________________
- Andrew Merwin -
of Brookfield in the State of Connecticut
who was a private in the Compy commanded
Captain Bronson   of the Rgt commanded
by Col Hooker   in the Cont troops
line for 11 Mos & 14 days
(special)
________________________________________
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut
the rate of 38 Dollars 18 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
41.66.
______________________________________
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of May
1834   and
                        Hon S. Trundy 
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. 1834,                     114.54
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sept.                  19.09
                                                                       $133.63
                                                { Revolutionary Claim,}
                                                {Act June 7, 1832.      }
Recorded by R. Burdine Clerk,
Book E. 2. Vol.                  Page 27.
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County       ⎬
             On this 5th day of December
1832 personally appeared in open Court
before the Court of Probate within and for
the Disrict of Danbury the same being a
Court of Record Within Said County and
State, and now sitting at Danbury in the
said district Andrew Merwin a
resident of Brookfield in the said County
of Fairfield aged seventy two years who
being duly sworn according to law doth
on his oath make the following declaration
to obtain the benefit of the Act of
Congress passed June 7th 1832, supplementing
his original declaration made before
the same Court on the 26th day of July
1832  - that previous to making his
said original declaration, he applied
to a great number of persons for the purpose
of obtaining proof of his service in the Army
of the United States at West Point in
the year 1780, he has no persons to
whom he is now known were with 
him in the said service he failed to 
obtain such evidence in this part
obtain evidence he went several
and at eat six days. That he
has only be it more by sundry
parties that he has properly engaged
during the war in the recd his county
but that would not apply to that
particular term of service more than to
his other terms of duty mentioned in his said
original declaration, and therefore he did
not produce it that said the receipt
of the communication from the War Department
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stating the ??? of fresh evidence
??? rejection of the allowance of his
claim he has made further enquiries but
without ??? -- and he has no belief that
????????????????
and he prays that this supplemental
declaration may be annexed to and made
a part of his said original declaration
Sworn in open court     Andrew Merwin
Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

I Edward Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate
for the District of Danbury in the State of Connecticut
do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the
original proceedings of the said Court in the matter
the application of Andrew Merwin for a
pension. In testimony whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and the Seal of my said office this
5th day of December 1832
                 Attest Edward Taylor Clerk

State of Connecticut}
County of Fairfield   } s.s.
I Reuben Booth of Danburyin the said State, Judge
of the Court of Probate within and for the District
of Danbury in the said County and State do hereby
certify that Edward Taylor Squire hath signed
and certified the foregoing proceedings of the said
Court is Clerk thereof duly appointed & sworn
and in such Clerk at the time of certifying the same
that the preceding signature purporting to be the
signature of the said Edward Taylor is in his proper
hand writing: and that full faith and credit are
due to his attestations as such Clerk - December
5th 1832-
                            Reuben Booth Judge of the
                            Court of Probate for the Distant
                            of Danbury Connecticut
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State of Connecticut
Fairfield County       ⎬ S.S. Brookfield April 14th 1853
                         This certifies that I am
the present officiating Clergyman of the
Congregational Church in said Brookfield
and have been for more than nine years
past resident Pastor in this place, do hereby
certify that on examining the Records of
said Church, do find that Rev Abner Brundage
was the officiating Clergyman of the said
Congregational Church, from the 16th day of
May 1821 to the 8th day of October 1839, during
which time he by the laws of said State
was authorized to solemnize marriages-
                                   D. C. Curtiss -
State of Connecticut
Fairfield County       ⎬ ss. Brookfield April 14th 1853-
                           Personally appeared before me
a Notary Public, duly authorized by law to admin-
ister oaths Dan C. Curtiss and subscribed and
made oath to the truth of the foregoing Certificate
who I certify is a credible witness-
                    Bryant Smith Notary Public
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I Ebenezer Blackman of Brookfield in the
County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut
Judge of the Court of Probate within and for
the District of Brookfield in said County and
State, do hereby certify that Thomas J. Taylor who
hath signed and certified the foregoing affi-
davit is Clerk of the said Court of Probate
lawfully appointed and sworn and that the
signature above written purporting to be his
is in the genuine hand writing of the said
Thomas S. Taylor and that the seal affixed to
said certificate is the seal of said Court -
      Given under my hand at Brookfield
this 5th day of April 1853-
                          Ebenezer Blackman Judge
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A Merwin
July 31, 1832
Pension
Office No. 1271.
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The said Andrew Merwin hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension
or annuity, except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State.
Sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid in open Court
                                                                                          Andrew Merwin

We Abner Brundage a clergyman, residing in the town of Brookfield Fairfield County
Connectcut and Philo Merwin residing in the same, hereby certify, that we are well
acquainted with Andrew Merwin who has subscribed and sworn to the above
declaration; that we believe him to be Seventy two years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the
neighbourhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid in open Court
                                                                          Abner Brundage
                                                                         Philo Merwin

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the
interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier,
and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Abner Brundage
who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the town of
Brookfield and that Philo Merwin who
has also signed the same, is a resident in the town of Brookfield and is a credible
person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
                                                       Attest Edward Taylor Clerk


I, Edward Taylor Clerk of the Court of Probate for the District
of Danbury do hereby certify that the foreging contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the appli-cation of Andew Merwin for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of my said Office,
this 26th day of July  1832.
                                                   Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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State of Connecticut}
Fairfield County       }
                          I Reuben Booth of Danbury
in the said County & State, Judge of the Court
of Probate for the District of Danbury in the said
County & State do hereby certify to all whom it may
concern that Edward Taylor who hath signed
& certified the foregoing proceedings of the
said Court is Clerk of said Court of Probate
and was Clerk as aforesaid at the time of
signing & certifying the same, and that the
signatures above mitten which purport
to be the signatures of the said Edward Taylor
are in truth his proper hand writings and
that full faith and credit are due to his
official acts as such Clerk

In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand in said
Danbury this 26th day of July 1882
                               Reuben Booth Judge
                              of the Court of Probate
                              for the District of Danbury
                               in Connecticut -

Andrew Merwin
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I Amos Stevens of New Fairfield, in the
County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut
aged seventy six years, being duly sworn do
depose and say that in the year 1778, I had
orders from a Deputy Quarter Master General
to enlist a Company of men into the team
service of the United States for the term of six
months. In the month of March of that year
Daniel Moue then of Danbury in said County
enlisted under my command in the sd service
for the term of six months. Within a few
days afterwards the said Moue employed
Andrew Marvin of Brookfield as his
substitute the said Marvin served in said
service as such substitute from about
the middle of said month of March until
about the middle of September of the same
year, with the Continental Army, and
under my command. During Said term
he served a part of the time in the Connecticut
Regiment commanded by Col. Willys
and was actually employed in and about
Fishkill, Peekskill and White Plains
in the State of New York. He was dismissed
at White Plains about the middle of said
month of September
                                       Amos Stevens

Sworn and Subscribed in open Court this
26th day of July 1832. and said Court of
Probate certifies that the Deponent sustains
a fair character for truth & is a credible witness
                          Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
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We Elisha Hamlin aged seventy seven years
and David Bostwick aged Seventy one years
both of New Milford in the County of Litchfield in the
State of Connecticut being duly sworn do depose
and say that in the month of December 1776
Andrew Mervin Now of Brookfield in the
County of Fairfield in the said State enlisted
for the term of two months in the Regiment
of Connecticut State Troops under the command
of Colonel Noadiah Hooker in the company
commanded by Captain Benjamin Bronson
and he served in the said Company and
Regiment the whole term for which he so
enlisted. During his said term of service the
said Regiment was employed on the line
near New York. He served as a Private
Soldier, and was dismissed about the
1st of February 1777. We both served in
the same company with him during
the said tour -- Jesse Root afterwards
a Judge of the Supreme Court of Con-
necticut was Lieutenant Colonel of said
Regiment
                                     David Bostwick
                                       Elisha Hamlin

Sworn and subscribed in openCourt
this 26th day of July 1832. And the said
Court of Probate Certifies that the deponent
sustains a good character for truth, and is a
credible witness-
                                      Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
Page 30

I John Peck of Brookfield in the County
of Fairfield and State of Connecticut being
duly Sworn do depose and say that I am
how seventy two years of age. and that
I have known and been acquainted with
Andrew Merwin of said Brookfield ever
since we were children. The said Andrew
Merwin about the 1st of June 1777 enlisted
in Captain Solomon Booths Company
in the Regiment of Connecticut State Troops
commanded by Colonel Enos
The officers of said Company were Lieutenant
Trowbridge and Ensign Warner
Said Merwin enlisted as a Private Soldier
for the term of Eight months. and
was discharged about the 1st of February
1778 at Horseneck in said State of
Connecticut during said tour he served
as a Guard at Fairfield for a part of the time
was employed in August or September in
repairing the road from Danbury in Con-
necticut to Peekskill in New York
and at different places on the Hudson
River --  I served the whole said term
of service in the same company
with him having enlisted therein
at the same with him-
                                      John Peck

July 26th 1832 Sworn and subscribed
in open Court. And the said Court of Probate
further certifies that the Deponent sustains
a good character for truth, & is a credible
witness
                                 Attest Edward Taylor Clerk
Page 31

I John Gregory of Danbury in the County
of Fairfield in the State of Connecticut aged seventy
one years being duly sworn do depose and
say that in the month of July 1779,
Andrew Merwin of Brookfield in the
said County, was drafted into the service
of the United States as a militia man
in the Militia of Connecticut for the term
of one month to serve at a small
Military postas a guard then stationed
at Ridgefield in said County - 
in the Company of Connecticut militia
then commanded by Captain Richard
Smith-- Before he adjoined the troops
as said guard an alarm was made
that the enemy had landed at Fairfield
and the said Merwin proceeded to that
place and joined the troops there he
served at said Fairfield and also at
Norwalk about two weeks, then
proceeded said Richfield and served
the residue of said term of one month
at Ridgefield in said Guard
That in the month of August in
the same year, the said Merwin was
drafted to serve Six weeks at Crumps
Pond in the State of New York - 
he there served the said term in the
Regiment of Colonel Joseph P. Cooke
in the company commanded by Captain
Ezra Dibble. He has stationed there
and Patterson the whole of said term
During each of the said terms he served
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as a Private soldier of the Connecticut
Militia - I served in the same company
with said Merwin on both said tours
to wit at Ridgefield in said Captain
Smiths Company, and at Crump Pond
in said Captain Ezea Dibbles Company
                            John Gregory

July 26th 1832 - Sworn and Subscribed
in open Court and the said Court of
Probate certifies that the Deponant the said
John Gregory sustains a good character for
truth and is a credible witness
       Attest  Edward Taylor  Clerk
Page 33

Andrew Mervin

to claimant

P. 25.
4 mo in 1780 &
Team service not
allowed

12½ mo private

41.66

Claimant
Page 34

BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those
answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Andrew Merwin which require further
proof or explanation.

I.  Does the declaration show where the applicant resides?

II.. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?

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:

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 amount of pension
   he is entitled?

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of
      June 7, 1832?
 
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?
Page 35

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 revo-    
      lutionary service?
             
XII. 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?
it must be shown that he served by enlistment as a Teamster for six months
the presumption being that it was a civil contract merely as no Teamster
are known to have enlisted in so short a period It must also be shown

XIV. If the applicant has produced a witness or witnesses as to his service, has the magistrate who
       administered the oath certified that he, she, or they are persons of credibility?

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?

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 recol-
lelection he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades: For _____
year ____ months and --- days, I served as a----- For ------------- months
and ----- days, I served as a -------; and for such service I claim a pension."
that exertions have been made to obtain proof of the service in 1780
the particulars of which he cannot remember
Page 36

  It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which the 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 three or four months is too
indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.
†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 adminis-
ter the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the affidavits must be properly au-
thenticated, as above directed.
QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
   In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticated 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 end 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.
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                            PHOENIX ASSURANCE COMPANY, LTD.
                                                   OF LONDON

J. A. SPALDING CO., AGENTS
107 W. 4TH STREET
TULSA, OKLA.                                              Tulsa, Oklahoma
                                                                       August 23, 1928

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
                                I understand that the list of Connecticut
pensioners printed in Senate Document First Session 23rd.
Congress, 1833-34, the name of Andrew Merwin appears. He
served in Colonel Canfield's Militia Regiment at West Point,
and his residence was New Milford,
                               The Pension Department requires the names of
the wife and children of the pensioner. Will you kindly
verify the above record, and give me the names of the wife
and children of this man?
                                   Thanking you, I remain,
                                               Yours very truly,
                                                        Ethel M. Merwin

 PENSION                                    CHIEF'S DESK
       F                                                WIDOW
    AUG                                         AUG 24 1928
     24                                             DIVISION
U.   1928  S.                      U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS
    OFFICE


Pension
Page 38

ISAAC BACHARACH                                              HOME ADDEESS:
   20 DIST. NEW JERSEY                                        ATLANTIC CITY

                                COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
                                     HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
                                              WASHINGTON

                                                                  May 25, 1922
Hon. Washington Gardner,
Commissioner of Pensions,
                 City.
My dear Mr. Commissioner:
                                   I enclose herewith a letter from one of
my good constituents who is seeking information regarding
certain soldiers of the Revolution in connection with her appli-
cation for admission to membership in the D. A. R.
                       If it is possible for you to supply Mrs. Stevens
with any information I will very much appreciate it if the matter
will have your prompt attention.
                                              Very truly yours,
                                                  Isaac Bacharach

OFFICE OF
THE COMMISSIONER
MAY 25 1922
U. S. BUREAU OF PENSIONS
Page 39

                                      WAR DEPARTMENT.
                                    Revolutionary Claim.

    I certify that, in conformity with the law of the United States
of the 7th June, 1832, Andrew Merwin
of the State of Connecticut
who was a Private in the Army of
the Revolution
Army of
is entitled to receive Forty one dollars and
Sixty Six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing
on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually on the
4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year
                                     Given at the War Office of the United 
                                         States , this  18th day of
                                     March one thousand
                          eight hundred and thirty Three
                                                               Lew Cass
Examine                                              Secretary of War.    
Countersign
                          J L Edwards
                        Commissioner of Pensions.
Page 40

Payments to be made
at Hartford
by Pres. U .S. Br Bank
Agent for paying Pension-
ers in the Agency of
Connecticut

Cancelled

Recorded in the Pension Of-
fice, in Book E Vol. 3
Page 27 by E.D. Bullock
              Clerk.
Page 41

Brief in the case of Rhoda Merwin, widow of Andrew
Fairfield County and State of Connecticut.
               act 3d February 1853
_______________________________________
Claim original," (of or indeed)

Proof exhibited, (if original.)

Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a pensioner under the
act of June 7, 1832

   Marriage proved by duly verified
Copy of Town Records

(If for increase.)
    Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?


Bryant Smith, Esqr.
                Brookfield,                                         R Geddes
Name and residence of Agent  Connt.           Examining Clerk.
Page 42

Mr Andrew Merwin
Brookfield
Fairfield
CT
Page 43

                                               War. Department
                                                       Pension Office
                                                       January 13. 1834

Sir
              Since your claim to a pension
was admitted it has been ascertained that Col
Roger Eno's Regiment of State Troops for
service in which you was allowed 8 months 
in 1777 in the computation of your pension,
was not raised for so long a period. You
will be pleased to return your pension
certificate in order that the necessary correction
may be made. The pension Agent at Hartford
has been ordered to make you no further pay-
ments, until further instructed from this
office
                                           I am Respectfully
                                            Your Obed Servant
                                                  J. L. Edwards  

Mr Andrew Merwin
       Brookfield
       Fairfield Co
             Connt
Page 44


                                                   Pension Office
                                                        June 27, 1853

Sir,
          Please certify the time to which Andrew
Merwin, a revolutionary pensioner was last paid
or (if the information be on file in your office) the
exact date of his death. He was a pensioner
under the act of June 7 1832, as private, first at
$41.66/100 per annum, and afterwards reduced to
$38.18 - pension payable at the Hartford (Con-
necticut agency
                                                    Very respectfully
Paid to 4th March 1840                     Your Obt Servt
His death not stated on the                    S. Cole
Books of this Office  F. Burt         For the Commisioner
                                Auditor             of Pensions

Francis Burt Esqr          "
Third Auditor
Treasury Department,
Page 45

        Brookfield   October 8th 1853
To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
     I wish to be informed what
has been done with the claim of
Mrs Rhoda Merwin for a Pension
under the act of 3d February 1853 -

              Very Respectfully
                        Byant Smith
                              Brookfield
                                   Conn -
Page 46


                            Brookfield Conn October 20th 1853
    To the Commissioner of Pensions
Sir
      I acknowledge the receipt of the letter
from the Pension office under date of July
12th 1853. requiring evidence identifying
" Mrs Rhoda Merwin as the widow of the
" identical Andrew Merwin, who was a
" revolutionary pensioner inscribed on the
" Connecticut rolls. I immediately after
the receipt of said letter forwarded by
mail, two Depositions, Viz. Fowler Peck
and Hannah Merwins to the Commissioner
of Pensions - and was much surprised to
learn by a letter from the Pension Office
under the date of October 11th 1853 that
they have not been received-- I request
that an examination may be made for
said Depositions and if they are not
found, that I may have immediate notice 
that I may forward to the Commissioner
of Pensions the required evidence-
                    Very Respectfully
                              Bryant Smith
                                Brookfield
                                          Conn-
Page 47


                          Danbury Conn Dec 5th 1832

Hon. Lewis Cass
      Secretary of War
                        Sir,
                                  I herewith transmit
to the war Department a supplementary
Declaration, to obtain the benefit the Act
of June 7th 1832. I have learned that the
claim of Amos Stevens a conductor of teams
under whom I served in 1778 has been
suspended on the ground of the presumption
that it was a civil contract, I shall be
obliged therefore to abandon my claim
for a Pension on the ground of that service
And as I shall not be able to produce
any further evidence of my service in
1780 it is my desire that the Department
would now make a final disposition
of my application, allowing me for so
much of the service stated in my Declaration
so I shall appear to come within the Act
                         Respectfully, your
                         Obedient Servant
                      Andrew Merwin
Page 48

Rev. and 1812
Wars Section
MVS/eel

                                                                          April 9, 1929

Ethel M. Merwin
107 W. 4th Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Madam:
     I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary 
War pension claim, W.6819, it appears that Andrew Merwin
was born, April 28, 1760, in Milford, New Hartford County,
Connecticut
     While a resident of Brookfield, Connecticut, he en-
listed and served as a private with the Connecticut Troops
as follows:
     From December 1, 1776, two months under Captain Ben-
jamin Bronson and Colonel Headiah Hooker; from June 1,
1777, eight months under Captain Solomon Booth and Col-
onel Eno; from March 15, 1778, six months as teamster
under Conductor Amos Stevens, a part of that time he was
under Colonel Samuel Wylly; from about July 1, 1779, one
month under Captain Richard Smith and he was in engage-
ments at Fairfield and Norwalk, Connecticut; from sometime
in August, 1779, six weeks under Captain Ezra Dibble and
Page 49

Colonel Joseph P. Cooke; from June 1, 1780, four months,
officers names not given.
     He was allowed pension on his application executed
July 26, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Brook-
field, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
     He died, March 7, 1840, in Brookfield, Connecticut.
     The soldier married, February 23, 1830, in Brook-
field, Connecticut, Rhoda, widow of Elvid Starn, whom she
married March 8, 1792, and who died July 27, 1825, her
maiden name was Rhoda Ruggles.
     She was allowed pension on her application executed
April 5, 1853, at which time she was eighty-two years of
age and was living in Brookfield, Connecticut.
     In 1863, Hannah Merwin, a resident of Brookfield,
Connecticut, aged fifty-two years, stated that she was a
daughter-in-law of Andrew Merwin.
     John Merwin, of Brookfield, Connecticut, aged sixty-
one years in 1853, was the son of the soldier, Andrew
Merwin. The name of the soldier's first wife is not given
     The above noted is the history of the only soldier
by the name of Andrew Merwin that is found on the Revolu-
tionary War records of this bureau.
                                           Respectfully,

                                          E. W. MORGAN
                                          Acting Commissioner.
Page 50

                                               April 19, 1853
Appl. of Rhoda
Merwin widow of
Andrew
              Fairfield Co.
               Conn:
                9023
Act 3d Feby 1853

                   Revy:
              Admd. $38/18¢ per annum
              Com'd  3d February 1853

Bryant Smith
       Brookfield
            Connt.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
PENSION OFFICE, OFFICIAL BUSINESS
Page 51

No.  1388
Rhoda Merwin
Widow of Andrew
               Connt.

Let to Bryant Smith
        July 12 1853
To same  Oct 11/53

Act February 3d 1853
Page 52

1922 May 27 Hist to
Hon J. Bacharach ???
1929 Apr 9 Hist to
Ethel M. Merwin ???

Revy      WIDOW, &c.
File No. 6819
Rhoda Merwin
Widow 
Andrew Merwin
Pri Rev war
---
Act: Feby 3/53
Index: -- Vol.  M , Page 41 

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Miss Ethel Merwin
107 West Fourth Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Page 54

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Rev. War Section.                                          AW

                                                       May 27, 1922.

Hon. Isaac Bacharach
House of Representatives.


       In re: Soldiers of the Revolution named
                Mervin, etc.

     You are advised that this Bureau is unable to fur-
nish the history of a soldier of the Revolution, unless
a claim for pension or bounty land has been made on ac-
count of his services and a careful search of the records
fails to show such claims on file on account of the ser-
vices of John and Daniel Mervin, described by you, under
any spelling of that name. Herewith is returned the
letter of Mrs. Grace A. Stevens, of 722 Corgie St. Cape
May, New Jersey.
     From the papers in the pension claim, W. 6819, it
appears that Andrew Merwin was born at Milford, Conn. Apr.
28, 1760 and resided at Brookfield, Conn. during the Re-
volution. He was allowed pension on account of his ser-
vices as private, for eleven months and fourteen days, in
the Conn. Troops, War of Revolution.
Page 56

     He married Feb. 23, 1830, Rhoda, the widow of
Eliad Starr, her maiden name was Ruggles, and he died
at Brookfield, Conn. March 7, 1840.  She was also al-
lowed pension as his widow. A son John and a daughter -
in - law Hannah are referred to.
     From the papers in the pension claim, W. 1885, it
appears that Ozias Marvin was born at Norwalk, Conn, in
1763, and resided there during the Revolution. He was
allowed pension on account of his services as private,
for three years and six months in the Conn. Troops, War
of the Revolution.
     He married June 4, 1840, Althea, or Alethea Herrick,
and he died at Kirkland, Oneida Co. N. Y. April 9, 1848.
She was also allowed pension as his widow. There is no
data on file as to children.
     From the papers in the pension claim, S. 15520, it
appears that David Marvin was born at Bloominggrove, Orange
County, N. Y. April 13, 1759, and resided during the Re-
evolution at Wyoming, Penn and Norwalk, Conn. He was
allowed pension on account of his services as private, for
six months in the Conn. Troops, War of the Revolution.
Page 57

He died about 1843, leaving a daughter, Susan
Benedict, name of his wife not on record.
     The spelling of the name of this pensioner, as
David Merwin in the volume Connecticut in the Revolu-
tion is a typographical error, as it does not so appear
in his claim for pension.
                          Very truly yours,
                                Washington  Gardner
                                    Commissioner.