Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 38208, for Levi Merritt, New Jersey
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New Jersey

Merritt, Levi
Merrit

S. 38208
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Wheeling 19,012       R

Pennsylvania
Levi Merrit

of Green County in the State of Pen -
who was a Private in the Comp'y commanded
by Captain Wyman of the Regiment commanded by Colonel Shreeve in the New Jersey line, for the term of two years.

Inscribed on theRoll ofPennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per moth, to commence on the 16th June 1823

Certificate of pension issued the 5 of July 1823
and Sent to Wm. T. Hays Esq;
Waynesburg, Pen.

Arrears to 4th of (crossed out)
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1823.     $21.6
                                                                  ________
                                                                    $21.6

March 1, 1823

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Order to pay May 13, 1837
Weber Kendall & Co.  "  "

-?- transfer of letter to HOn. W.S. Morgan - 30 Jany 1838

-?- to Pen Agt 13 March 1838
To Wheelking from 4 Sept 1837
23 March 1838 - notification sen to Hon. W. S. Morgan H.R.

Died April 28 - 1838 - A.B.  I.L.L. (initials?)
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Western Division of Pennsylvania
Greene County

On this 16th day of JuneA.D. 1823 Personally came into open Court being a Court of record proceeding to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in account, and keeping a record of its proceedings in and for the said County Levi Merritt aged sixty two resident in Greene County aforesaid who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary was as follows:  that he enlisted in the month of September, he thinks in the year 1781 in the Company of Capt. Waymon with the 2nd New Jersey Regiment commanded by Col. Barber was marched from near Point West about the 1st of March following to Wyoming remained as a guard for the ponturs of Wyoming, till the faul following when he marched to head quarters over West Point, four companies of us where he remained during the winter and the next spring until as deponent thinks the month of June when he was honorably discharged at New Windsor on the North River. While at head quarters near West Point deponent was placed in the 1st New Jersey Regiment the 2nd Regt. being reduced to a battalion.  Deponent was in no battle, except some skirmishes with Indians while at Wyoming.  that he is reduced in circumstances and stands in need of his country's assistance and that he has no other evidence of his  service than that herewith presented.  And I  do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. And that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with interest thereby so to diminish it as to being myself within 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 the 18th day of march 1818., and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, my property and property securities contracts of debt due t me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
                 Schedule of Property
200 (20?) acres of land on the head branches of Grave Creek Ohio County Virginia mountainous and stony with 25 cents per acre $51.25 This land is forest land without any improvements, 49 acres of land near the former very mountainous and poor with an old cabin and a few acres of cleared ground much overgrown with second growth of timber and from which the applicant receives benefits worth 25 cents per acre and  -?- disputed.....
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an old spade           .50 cts.
a Bible                      .75
an old axe                1.00
an old trunk.            1.00

Due deponent from George Lampson.   1.50 cts.
"                "         " James Knox                 1.75

Debts due from Deponent.       When due
     to Benj. Todd note. 16th April 1842 $20.00
    to Stephen Scott 7 Sept 1814           $10.00
    to Jacob Kimmel 9th March 1819      $5.00
    to Mary Manning Feby 17th 1820       $2.00
    to Mary Howard April 8th 1820           $2.00
    to David Bonn                                        $1.00
    to John Hammers Jany 10th 1821       $1.50
    to Tiothy Adams Feby 3rd 1821           $3.00
    to Elizabeth Baldwin May 1821            $2.00
    to Geo Howard March 11 1822             $.50
    to Ronbery Bire May 23 1823              $2.25
    to Geo Fowler of Virginia June 1822   $85.00
     to Samuel Harvey                                $100.00

     he deponent is not married nor has family is a farmer and -?-  unable to work more usually in consequence of Rheumatism particularly in the left knee and right arm and otherwise hail in body.
Levi Meritt his X mark

Sworn and subscribed 
in opne Court the
16th June 1823
-?- Wm. T. Hays Prothy
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Greene County
 I    William T. Hays Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Greene do certify that the annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further certify that the whole amount in balance of the schedule hereto annexed is in the opinion of said Court Seventy Dollars.
       In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this 26th day of June AD 1823

Wm. T. Hays Pronothy
Prothonotary Clk
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Application for a Transfer

County of Marshall
     On this 27th day of February 1838 before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace for the said County of Marshall personal appeared Levi Merrit who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly  belonged to the company commanded by Captain Wayman in th Regiment commanded by Col. Cummins in the service of the United States, that his name was place on the pension roll of the State of Pennsylvania from when he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of Virginia where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in future - the following are his reasons for removing from Pennsylvania to Virginia - he has purchased land in Virginia where he has resided for some time past and where he now resides and he received his pension from Pennsylvania by an Attorney which was attended with much delay and difficulty in obtaining it and that it will be much more convenient for him to receive  his pension in Wheeling than in the manner in which he has heretofore received it.
Levi Merritt

Sworn and subscribed to before
me the day and year aforesaid
   Robert McConaghy J.P.
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County of Marshall to wit -

On this 27th day of February 1838 personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace for the said County of Marshall Benjamin Blodgett who I certify is a man of truth and veracity who on his oath declares that Levi Merrit who has taken the foregoing oath is the identical person described in the affidavit herewith connected.
Benjr. Blodgett

Sworn and subscribed to before
me the day and year aforesaid
    Robert McConaghy J.P.

County of Marshall to wit -

   I James D. Morris Clerk of theCounty court of theCounty of Marshall do hereby certify that Robert McConaghy is a Justice of the Peace duly commissioned and qualified and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine.  In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal of office this 3rd day of March - 1838.
     James d Moris Clk.
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December 8, 1933.
BA-J/ILL
John Phillips-S. 38302
Levi Merritt-S. 38208

Mrs. C. E. Washburn
City Public Schools
Nelsonville, Ohio.

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the
Revolutionary War records of Caleb, Abraham and Levi Merritt from
Burlington County, New Jersey, also the record of John Phillips of
Frederick County, Maryland.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained
from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land
based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
A search of the records has been made and no such claims found
based upon service of Abraham or Caleb Merritt, under any spelling of
herein as shown in the papers on file in their claims for pension,
the surname. The records of Levi Merritt and John Phillips are furnished
numbered as above.
JOHN PHILLIPS-S, 38302.
John Phillips enlisted in 1776, the place not stated, and served
six months as private in Captain Smyth's and Wilmerson's (possibly meant
for Williamson) s) companies of the Maryland Flying Camp, during which he
was in the battle of White Plains. He enlisted February 5, 1777, served as
private in Captain Conden's company, Colonel Richardson's Maryland regiment
, was in the battle of Brandywine, in which he received a slight flesh
wound in his leg was in the battles of Germantown and Monmouth, and in
skirmished during the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British, and served
until February 5, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 10. 1818
at which time he resided in Campbell County, Virginia; he was then about
sixty-eight years, the date and place of his birth not shown.
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 In 1820, John Phillips stated that his wife, Sarah, was then
sixty-two years of age, and that his daughter, Margaret, aged twenty
two years, was living with him; the maiden name of his wife and the date and place of their marriage are not shown. In 1828, William Phillips, the soldier's son, was living two miles from his father, who resided in Campbell County, Virginia.

The above record is that of the only soldier named John Phillips who served in the Maryland troops, found on the Revolutionary War records of this office

LEVI MERRITT -- S. 38208.
claim in files
Levi Merritt was enlisted in September 1781, by Joseph Mingin, a
recruiting officer of Burlington County, New Jersey, served as private
in Captain Weyman's company, Colonels Cumming's, Barber's and Ogden's
New Jersey regiments, was in skirmishes with the Indians on the frontiers,
and was discharged in June 1783, at New Windsor on North River,
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 16, 1823
at which time he resided in Greene County, Pennsylvania; he was then
sixty-two years of age, the date and place of his birth and names of
his parents not shown.

In February 1838, Levi Merritt was a resident of Marshall County,
Virginia; he had moved recently from Pennsylvania to the State of
Virginia.

He died April 28, 1838.

The names of wife and children of the soldier are not shown

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER,
Assistant to Administrator.

2.
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Sir,
     the enclosed has just come thank. It will afford me pleasure to hear oof the success of the application of my friend Mr. Merite for a transfer from the Pennsylvania agency for paying pensions to that of Virginia at Wheeling.

        Very respectfully yours
                 W.S. Morgan


James L. Edwards Esq.
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H.R. Jan 29th 1838

J.L.Edwards Esq.
     Sir    I am requested by one of my constituents to endeavor to obtain for him a change of the place at which he may receive his pension.
     His name is Levi Merite, he says his pension has been paid formerly, and is now, at Waynesburgh in Pennsylvania.   Please instruct me what will be the proper course  to be pursued to accomplish the wishes of Mr. Merite.       Very truly yours,
       W.S. Morgan
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(vertically at left)
      illegible word - Mar 17

post marked Philadelphia Mar 16

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington D.C.
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Girand (?)  Bank
Phila. March 15, 1838

Sir
     I answer to your letter the 13th last I have to state that Levi Merritt a pensioner under theAct of 18 March 1818 at $8 per month was last paid at this Agency to Sep. 4 1839. No further payments will be made him at this Agency and his name is noted on the the Bank as being transferred to the Wheeling Va. Agency from and after that rime, agreeably to your request.

I am very respectfully
      Your Obt. Servt.
          James Schett -?-   
                 by H Okne Pension Clerk

J.L. Edwards Esq.
Comm. of Pensions
Washington
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18,880 (2?)

Levi Merritt
Greene Co. PA

Wm. T Hays
Waynesburg Greene Co. PA

Rec'd 3 July 1823

(written vertically)
Waynesburg
June 27

(written upside down)
Rec'd July 3. 1823
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Supplementary Testimony concerning Levi Merrit
Burlington County

Personally appeared before me Edmund Darnel one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for said County of Burlington in the State of New Jersey Joseph Minion aged about sixty eight years who being conscientiously scrupulous (?) of taking an oath, doth affirm and say that he was well acquainted withLevi Merrit from a boy, and that in the year 1781 this affirmant was, and acted as a recruiting sergeant under Lieutenant Conn of the 2d New Jersey Regiment during which period he enlisted the above said Levi Merrit for during the then Revolutionary War, this being about the fall of the year 1781 and that this affirmant and the said Levi Merrit shortly after joined the said Regiment at Battle Hill in Morris County N.J. where they remained together that winter and after some time an arrangement took place and they was both transferred into the 1st New Jersey Regiment and that this affirmant well recollects the said Merrit at their different movements and encampments until they was discharged at New Windsor on the North River which was at the Head Quarters in June `11783 and ythsty the said Levi Merrit behaved himself and done duty as a faithful soldier during the period and was honorably discharged.
    Affirmed and subscribed the twenty fourth day of April eighteen hundred and twenty three 1823 before me
Edm. Darnel
Joseph Mingin
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Burlington County
     Samuel J. Read of Mount Holly in the County of Burlington official age being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he was well acquainted with Richard Cox late of Mount Holly afsd. that his acquaintance  with the said Richard Cox commanded during the Revolutionary War and continued until the death of said Richard - and that after the death of the said Richard Cox this deponent was called upon by the widow of the saidec'd to examine some of his papers and that upon that occasion he see a Book which this deponent believes was a regimental Book of the first Jersey Regiment commanded by Colonel Ogden and kept by the said Richard Cox or under his directions the said Richard then being a Major and as this deponent believes Brigade Major of the JerseyBrigade -  the same book is now produced to this deponent and he verily believes it to be the same which he found among the books and papers  of the said Richard cox after his decease as afsd. - that this deponent is well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Richard Cox and that much his writing is contained in the said Book and among the names of the privates of the several companies composing the said first Jersey Regiment  is the name of Levi Merrit who appears to have belonged to Captain Wayman's company and who was furloughed in the Month of February seventeen hundred and eighty three - and this deponant doth further deposed that he was well acquainted with the said Levi Merrit and that he well recollects his being a soldier of the Revolution.
Sam'l. J.Read
 Sworn and subscribed the
1srt day of May 1823 before
    Edm/.Darnel
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State of new Jersey
Burlington County

Personally appeared before me Edmund Darnel one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Burlington William Erwin a person to me well known who being conscientiously scrupulous of taking an oath doth affirm and say that he was in the Revolutionary Army under the command of Captain Nathanial Bowman and that in the fall of the year 1781 after the taking of Lord Cornwallis he returned with his fellow troops near Morris Town in New Jersey at which time and place he became acquainted with Levi Merrit who was then an enlisted soldier in the United States service but in whose company he does not recollect but remembers that he continued in said service of the United States the following winter and the next summer but the said Merrit not being in the same company with his affirmant and that they often transferred into other companies and sometimes on fatigue that he disremembers of any further acquaintance with him until after the peace but he well recollects said Merrit being in said Revolutionary army more than one full year and further saith not.
Taken and subscribed the tenth day of May AD 1823
before me
Edm. Darn

Wm. Erwin
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I Jozeph W. J. Weinses (?) Esquire clerk of  Court of Common Pleas of the County ofBurlington in theState of New Jersey do hereby certify that Edmund Darnel Esquire whose name is within written is one of the Judges of said Court duly commissioned to act as such - Given under my hand and seal of Office the first day of May eighteen hundred and twenty three.

J.W. (lastname illegible)

   I Edmund Darnel one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of CommonPleas of the County of Burlington in the State of New Jersey do certify to the Honorable Secretary of War that the affirmants within named Joseph Minion and William Erwin and also the deponent within James J. Read named are all persons of credibility and in no wise interested in the application of the within named Levi Merrit for a pension was a Revolutionary soldier.
10th May 1823

Edm. Darne;
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38208

Revy INVALID

File No 38208

Levi Merrit
Pr. Rev. War

Act: 18 March 18--
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 269

 1933 Dec. 4 - Hist to Mrs. C.E. Washburn - ILL
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[letterhead]
BOARD OF EDUCATION
D. B. LOWDEN. PRESIDENT
C. C. SHARP, VICE PRESIDENT
C. E. WASHBURN, CLERK
C. W. MONKS
R. W. PARKS
REGULAR BUSINESS MEETING
FOURTH THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH
E. J. ARNOLD, SUPERINTENDENT
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING
FAYETTE STREET
LELAND T. POWELL PRINCIPAL
City Public Schools
Nelsonville, Ohio

[stamp] RECEIVED NOV 22 1933 MAIL SUB-DIV. READER 16 VETS. ADM.

Nov. 20, 1933

Department of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Gentlemen:

the names of Caleb, Abraham and Levi Merritt as serving
in the war of 1775 from Burlington County, New Jersey
.
In my search for family records, I find in
the publication, Strykers' " Jerseymen in the Revolution " the names of Caleb, Abraham and Levi Merritt as serving in the war of 1775 from Burlington County, New York.

I also have the name of John Phillips as
serving in the same war from Frederic County, Maryland.
Will you kindly advise what record your department
has of the service of these men, and if the
record contains any mention of their respective families.

Thanking you for the information, I am

Very sincerely,
Mrs. C.E. Washburn

If there is a charge for
this service, please advise
amount of the fee

[stamp] DEPT OF THE INTERIOR SECY'S OFF-APPTS.MAILS & FILES
FORWARDED NOV 21 1933
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Merritt,Major         Private            Virginia 

12368                         May 7, 1793
                                  to Francis Graves, assignee