Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40176, for John Morley, Connecticut
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(3-1776)
SERVICE |NUMBER
Continental (Conn.) Morley, John S.40176
CONTENTS
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19,043
Ohio
John Morley
of Trumbull in the State of Ohio,
was a private in the company commanded
by Captain Wright of the regiment commanded by Colonel Willis [Wyllys] in the Connecticut line, for the term of 1 year in 1776.

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25th of June 1823.

Certificate of Pension issued on the 31st of July 1823 and sent to George Parsons, Esq.
Warren, Ohio

Pension of Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 Sept. 1823 $18.66
2 month & 10/30 
$18.66
{Revolutionary claim,
Acts March 18, 1818
and May 1, 1820, &}
March 1823
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John Morley
723
Warren O
June 3

Free

Hon J.C. Calhoun
Secretary for the War Department
City of Washington
Informal 
File the enclosed 
Blank

John Morley
Bristol

One case 
Judge Quinby
Recd. 16th June 1818
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The State of Ohio Trumbull County SS
On this first day of June Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and Eighteen before me the subscriber one of the associate Judges of the Court of the Common Pleas for said County personally appears John Morley aged sixty five years resident in Bristol in the County and State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of congress entitled an "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war. That he the said John Morley enlisted for one year in Glossenbury [Glastonbury] in Connecticut in the Company commanded by the Captain Samuel Wright Lieut. Buckley & Ensign Miller of the Regiment Commanded by Colonel Willis [Wyllys] that he continued to serve in said corps the full Term of one year from ["the" crossed out] about the first of December 1775, when he was discharged from service in Picks Hill [Peekskill] on the North River in the State of New York and that he was in the battles on Long Islands and in the vicinity of New York - And that that he is in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his County for support.
And that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services -
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Sworn to and declared before me the day and year aforesaid.
I Ephraim Quinby one of the associate Judges of the Court of Common Please aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Morley did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary of the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of congress.
Eph Quinby
The State of Ohio 
Trumbull County
I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for Said County do hereby certify that Ephraim Quinby Esq whos [whose] Signature is affixed to the foregoing Certificate which signature is in his own proper hand writing as one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County duly Commissioned and sworn agreeable to the Laws of said State and as such his official Acts are entitled to full faith and credit in Court and Countery [Country].
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren the first day of June 1818
Geo P[illegible]
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County
Bristol township March 28th 1820-
Personally appeared Aaron Fenton and
Abraham [illegible] both of Bristol township and after being duly sworn according to law, doth depose and say that they are intimately acquainted with John Morley of said township named in a Declaration made by him before Ephraim Quinby Esquire one of the Associate
Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Trumbull County Ohio ["and who is" crossed out] not now in office the Certificate on which Declaration the said Judge omitted or did not know to Certify that the said John Morley was in indigent and needy Circumstances and that he was satisfied he stood in need of his Country assistance for support  - and well[illegible] know that he is a poor man that he has not property nor means without the aid and indulgence of the benevolent to support himself, and therefore in our
belief is a proper subject for Charitable donations from his Country and from the humane and benevolent -
Aaron Fenton
Abraham Kagyi(?)
Sworn and subscribed before me this 28th March 1820. I also certify that the
abovenamed [illegible] are men of truth  and credit ---- Lyman Potter Justice of Peace
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The State of Ohio
Trumbull County SS
I George Parsons Clerk of the court of common pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that Lyman Potter Esquire whos [whose] signature appears to be affixed to the within Certificate is and was at the time of subscribing the same a Justice of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn agreeable to the Laws of said state and as such his official acts are entitled to full faith and credit.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren the 1st day of April 1820
George Parsons
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I George Goodrich of Glastonbury in the State of Connecticutt [Connecticut] testify & say that John Morley formerly of Greenfield in the County of Franklin in the State of Massachusetts but now of the Town of Bristol in the County of Trumbull in the State of Ohio, belonged to the Army of the United States in the revolutionary war. In Decr. 1775 he joined the Army, at Roxbury in the State of Massachusetts, as a soldier in the Company of Capt Samuel Wright of the Regiment of Colo. Samuel Wyllys of the Connecticut Line & Continental establishment, & continued to serve in said Company as a good & faithful soldier untill [until] January 1777, when he was honorably discharged at Peekskill in the State of New York. These facts I know to be true because I served in the same company during the whole of said term - Dated at Greenfield this 28th day of Janry AD 1820 - And I have no interest in said Morley's application for a pension - 
George Goodrich
State of Massachusetts
Franklin ss. Janry 28th 1820- The above named George Goodrich made Oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed
is true, before me the subscriber one of the
Judges of the Circuit Court of Common
Pleas Western Circuit in sd State-
Jonathan Leavitt-
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I Azel Hills of Guilford in the County of Windham & State of Vermont testify & say that I know the facts to be true which are stated in the within Deposition of the within named George Goodrich, for I served as a soldier in the same Company with him & the within named John Morley during the time within mentioned. And I have no interest in sd. Morley's application for a pension - Dated at Greenfield this 28th day of Janry AD 1820- Azel his X mark Hills
Attestd.
S. Wells Jr
Elijah Ballard

[illegible] State of Massachusetts
Franklin ss- Janry 28th 1820- The abovenamed Azel Hills made Oath that the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed is true, before me the Subscriber. And I hereby certify that the sd. George Goodrich & Azel Hills are credible Witnesses.
JL Leavitt Judge CCC Pleas

The official character of the Judge who administered the oath to the witnesses should be attested by the clerk under his seal of office.
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State of Massachusetts
Franklin ss- August 12th 1820-
I the Subscriber, Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Common Pleas in & for sd. County
of Franklin do hereby certify that Jonathan Leavitt is one of the Judges of said Court, & that the Signatures subscribed to the Oaths, taken by George Goodrich & Azel Hills named in the Depositions to which this Certificate
is annexed, are the proper handwriting
of the said Jonathan Leavitt-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the Seal of said Court the day year aforesaid
Elijah Alvord
Clerk of the Circuit
Court of Common Pleas
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Schedule
The State of Ohio 3d Circuit Court of Com. Pleas for Trumbull County ss
on this tenth day of December 1820 Personally appeared in open Court (being a Court of record for said County by the constitution and laws of said State) John Morley aged sixty seven years on the 25th day of October last past resident in Bristol Township in the County of Trumbull & State of Ohio who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows "That I the said John Morley enlisted for one year in Glossenbury [Glastonbury] in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Capt. Samuel Wright Lieut. Buckley and Ensign Miller of the regiment commanded by Col. Willis [Wyllys] of the Connecticut line on the continental establishment in the United States service I continued to serve in said Corps the full term of one year from about the first of December 1775 and was discharged from said service at Peekskill on the North river in the State of N.Y. some time in the month (as I verily believe) of December 1776 and that I was in the battles on Long Island and in the vicinity of New York, &c
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 intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision of an act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not ["since that time by gift sale or in any" crossed out] nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
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Viz I own 65 3/4 acres of beach and maple land held by a deed from John Barnes being encumbered by a mortgage to the State of Connecticut as I am informed for its proportioned amount as part of 786 acres
to secure the payment of 856 dollars from John Barnes to said State
There is on said 65 3/4 acres about ten acres with a cabin and out buildings of logs partly cleared not sufficiently to fit it for plowing
appraised by meat at $230.50
Due me on a note of hand agains [against] Thos Howe 28. 00
I own 1 Yoke of Steers valued at 35. 00
" " Small Cow 10. 00
" " 2 Small Swine $4.00 & 2 small pigs $2.00 6. 00
" " do Copper Kettle $450 & 3 iron Kettles $11.50 16. 00
" " 1 Small bake(?) pot 0.50 1 bake kettle $2.00 & 3 old pails 50 $3. 00
" " 3 tin pans $075 & 2 other Crocks 12½ 0. 87½
" " 1 old tea kettle 257 tea cups & saucers 25 & 12 earthen plates 67 $1. 17
" " 1 earthen mug & tea pot 50- two old tin basons 12½ 0.62½
" " 6 old knives & forks 40- two old broken chests 50 0. 90
" " 1 old shovel & tongs $1.00 1 broken frying pan 25 1. 25
" " 1 trammel & 3 hooks, 75 one old wooden clock $3.00 3. 75
" " one old spinnen [spinning] wheel & reel & 1 great wheel broken 1. 12½
" " one old family bible $1.75 six small books $1.25 3. 00
" " one gridiron 50- one small looking Glass & old sickle 50. $1. 00
" " one axe 75 two old hoes. 50. two old chares [chairs] & three stools 137½ $2 62½
" " two flat irons 50 four pewter plates 87½ four bands & [illegible] $1.25- 2 62½
" " ten bushels corn $2.50 2 small chains $1.75 one horse collar $075. 5.00
" "14 lb old iron $1.00 & part of a set of Coopers tools in use for 42 years $5.50 6.50
" " one loom & tacklines for plain work only 7.00
Total amount of Property at its just valuation $365.94½
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I owe the following debts viz
To John Barnes a balance due on the aforesaid 65¾ acres of land included in two notes of hand for $79 dollars each due first about first of April 1821 second about first April 1822 on interest since the Spring of 1818 the 9th day of April 1817 date of said deed and notes Interest to Decr. 9th 1820
$181.28
I owe to Joel Morley for cash Borrowed of him to complete my first payment made on my land so as to enable me to obtain a deed and unpaid 
35. 00
also I owe to sd. Joel Morley for labor done in clearing building me a log cabbin [cabin] and out buildings fencing and improving the
aforesaid ten acres
181.00
I owe to Elijah Ballard Enoch Hale Ephraim Brown Major Churchill William Barb and Sundry other persons small balances the whole together amounting to about the sum of 47.75
The total amount of debts due by me is $445.05
The amount of debts exceed the amount of property the sum of 79.00½
and I the said Declarant am by occupation a Cooper and have also laboured on a farm but on account of a rheumatic complaint my right shoulder and arm is much disabled so that I have not been able to labour at my trade for almost a year past I am also much afflicted with the stone in the bladder and it is with great pain and difficulty, that I can discharge my urine so much so that in voiding it comes off as slowly as the dropping from a sap tree by these and other infirmities old age and decrepitude I am not able to do much labour
My wife aged about 65 or 66 years infirm and affected with the rheumatism and Cramp which much afflicts her though at other times tolerably healthy for a woman of her advances [advanced] age I have but one child a son now living with me aged 25 years
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by whose kindness and indulgence I the said Declarant have been enabled to gain a subsistence but now after so many year [years] care of me I cannot justly, claim from him a support by his labour and thereby deprive him of the necessaries of life In testimony ["where" crossed out] of the truth and correct of all and every of the foregoing matters and things I the said John Morley have hereunto subscribed my name
John Morley
Sworn to and declared on the 10th day of December 1820 before ["me" crossed out]
George Parsons Clerk
Lyman Richards a resident of Bristol Township aforesaid being acquainted with the circumstances of the within named John Morley do believe that he has no other property than that herein before enumerated in the schedule by him exhibited and subscribed and due [do] upon my oath say that the value of the aforesaid property is not more than $365.94½ and that the debts due from said John Mobley to others are as stated by him ($445.05) in the schedule as I verily believe justly due from him
Lyman Richards
Sworn and subscribed the 9th day of December 1820
before me Martin Smith Justicpeace [Justice of the Peace]
The State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss 
I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record, of said Court and I do further certify that it is opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property is 365 dollars 94½ cents In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 30th day of December 1820
George Parsons Clerk of the Court for the County of Trumbull

John Morley

not [illegible]
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October 17, 1933
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Ezekiel Morley-R.7393
John Morley-S.40176
BA-J/AWF

Mrs. Fred L. Dunlop
1106 Vineyard Square
Jefferson City, Missouri

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letters in which
you request the Revolutionary War records of Ezekiel, John and Thomas Morley, Benoni W. Williams, Silas, Jacob and Levi Wellman.

Because of the great demand for Revolutionary War data and the limited clerical force available for furnishing such information, it has not been possible to comply with each request, which requires
so much much time and research. The records of Ezekiel and John Morley are given herein as found in the respective claims for pension, based upon their service in the War of the Revolution.

Ezekiel Morley-R.7393.

Ezekiel Morley was a native of Glastonbury,
Connecticut, date of his birth not stated, nor are the names of his parents shown.

While working as an apprentice to Gideon Morley (no relationship shown), in West Springfield, Massachusetts, Ezekiel Morley served three months in the militia, no dates of service given. He enlisted January 10, 1777 and served three years as private in
Captain Samuel Flowers' company, Colonel John Greaton's Massachusetts regiment, and was at the taking of General Burgoyne. He served in the summer of 1780, three months in the militia, and after which he was a
privateer, three months and assisted in capturing a schooner and about thirty men. Names of the officers under whom he served in the militia were not stated.

Ezekiel Morley was allowed pension on his appli-
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cation executed, September 24, 1832, then aged seventy-three years "and upwards" and a resident of Caledonia, Livingston County, New York.

The soldier, Ezekiel Morley, married, July 25,
1826(?), Rachel, her maiden name not stated, nor is it shown where they were married. In 1834 he had moved to the state of Ohio, and stated that "his children all removed to that country". He died August 6, 1852 at Chester, Geauga County, Ohio. The widow, Rachel Morley, in 1853 was living in Caledonia, New York, then aged eighty-two years.

Thomas Morley, brother of the soldier, Ezekiel
Morley, in 1831 was a resident of Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio, he served in the Revolution in the Connecticut militia, and was at the taking of Burgoyne.

In 1831, Ebenezer Morley was seventy-four years old and living in Onondaga County, New York, he was also at the taking of Burgoyne; he stated that he known the soldier "from his youth up"; his relationship to the family not shown.

John Morley,-S.40176

John Morley was born October 25, 1753, place not given, nor are the names of his parents stated.

He enlisted in Glastonbury, Connecticut, in
December, 1775 and served one year as private in Captain Samuel Wright's company, Colonel Samuel Wyllys' Connecticut regiment, and was in the battle of Long
Island and in the engagements in the vicinity of New York.

John Morley was allowed pension on his application executed, June 1, 1818, at which time he was living in Bristol, Trumbull County, Ohio,

In 1820 his wife was about sixty-six years of
age, he at this time referred to children, one a son
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twenty-five years of age, he did not give any names. In 1823 a granddaughter, Clestina Barns, was nine years of age.

Joel Morley was referred to in 1820 and John Barns referred to in 1823; their relationship to the family not shown. 

Very truly yours

A.D. Hiller
Assistant to Administrator
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Certificate of a Judge as to the reduced circumstances of the Applicant as required by the Department-
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the State of Ohio
Trumbull County
This 15th day of October AD 1820 personally came John Barnes & Elijah Ballard and made Oaths that they were personally acquainted with John Morley of Bristol Township, named in a declaration made by him before Ephraim Quinby an associate Judge of the Court of Common pleas for the County of Trumbull Ohio on the first of June one thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen and that they have known him for a number of years and that they believe him ["to be in" crossed out] the applicant for a Pension, to Be in reduced Circumstances in life and stands in need of his Country's assistance for support
John Barns
Elijah Ballard

The State of Ohio Trumbull County, Ss [illegible] the 15th day of October 1820 the above named John Barnes and Elijah Ballard made Oaths & subscribed to the forgoing deposition Statement, and I hereby Certify that I am well satisfied that the said John Barnes &
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Elijah Ballard are entitled to full Credit & belief
Reuben S. Clarke an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas Trumbull County, Ohio

The State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss
I Ebenezer R. Thompson Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common pleas within & for said County do hereby certify that Reuben S. Clarke Esqr. whose name appears on the foregoing certificate is & was at the date thereof an associate Judge of said Court duly qualified & sworn and as such all his official acts are entitled to full faith & credit both in Court and Country
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court on this 18th day of October 1820 at Warren-
Ebenr. R. Thompson
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16,788
John Morley
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State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss
On this 25th day of June 1823 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of record for said County with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and which proceed according to the cours[e] of the Common law and keep a record of their proceedings John Morley aged seventy years resident in Bristol township in said County who first being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows he enlisted in the
fall or fore part of the winter of 1775 in Captain Samuel Wrights company in the regiment commanded by Col [blank space] Willis [Wyllys] in the Connecticut line on the continental establishment for the term of one year which term he served as a private soldier according to his original declaration dated in June 1818 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 intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring 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 on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
Schedule
1 Iron 13 Gal. Kettle 2.50 1 do do 1.  350
1 " bake pan 2. 1 do pot broken .25. 225
1 Copper kettle 3.50 1 Tramel [trammel] & hook 1.50. 500
3 tin pans .33 1 do [illegible] 25 58
1 old frying for 12½ 1 pr [illegible] irons 75. 87½
2 porringers 10 1 do tunnel .06 1/4. 16¼
2 plates 18[illegible] 3 do basons 30 [illegible]
1 pt(?) cup(?) 6¼ 1 do Dipper 6¼  13
a quantity of old pewter .75 7[illegible]
1 foot glass .06¼(?) 1 tumbler 12½ 18[illegible]
1 old bible 1. sundry other books 1. 2-
1 old chest & table 1.25 1 loom 5.50  6 75
2 old wheels 3. 3 Chairs 1. 4-
5 buckets 1.25 3 Kegs 87½ 4 barrels 1.50. 3 62½
1 old wooden clock 3.50. 3 50
Sundry articles of crockery mostly broken 1 75
1 jug .25 1 small looking glass 18¾ 43¾
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1 earthen pan 25 3 pieces of draught chains 1.50  175
1 staple & ring to an ox yoke  50
1 pair old shovel & tongs 150
1 ax 1.50 1 hem collar 1.50  3
8 old Weavers reeds  5
1 Cow & Calf 14. 1 steer & heifer 10  24
part of set Coopers tools  6
5 iron wedges .60 2 do Cleves(?) 1.50 2 shotes(?) 4.  610
Dolls. 8383
Debts which I owe are  
To Alexander Sutherland about 20.
to Lucinda Hillman say 4.50
to Barnabas Churchill say 4-
28.50
Debts due to me
from Solomon Fansler 62½
from [blank space] Cummins 60 1.22½. 27.27½ 
Leaving a balance of 56.55½ 
The changes in my properly since my first schedule have been as follows
property in the [illegible] not [illegible] schedule 
33 acres of land
1 pair oxen
33 acres land
names of persons to whom sold
Joel Morley
John Barns
John Barns
Time of sale
Apl 19, 1822 
Sept 20, 1822 
April 29 '23
Amt of money or description of property received in return
Discharge of a debt I owed him 4 years service being $180
Indorsement [Endorsement] of 50$ made on my note to sd Barns dated April 1 1818 for 79 dollars
My two notes to said Barns dated Apl 1 1818 one for 79$ & one for 79.35 on both of which was due on the sd(?) 29th April 1823 a balance of $141.62 not being able to pay for it 
and I do further state on oath aforesaid that my family consists of my wife aged sixty nine years and Clestina Barns my granddaughter aged nine years that I am a Cooper by trade but by the infirmities of old age and a grave complaint with which I am afflicted I am unable to pursue said trade or to but verry [very] little business of any sort which would in any way contribute to the support of myself & family that my wife is quite infirm and afflicted with a rheumatick [rheumatic] complaint and that I have no children who
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are able or bound to support me therefore stands in need
of the help of my Country
John Morley

Sworn to and declared, on this 25 day of June June [sic] 1823 in open Court before me
George Parsons Clerk

The State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss
I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the files of said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is not greater than is therein set forth. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this 28th day of June 1823 George Parsons Clerk
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Documentary Evidence for the support of John Morley's claim-

Recd 22 may 1821
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State of Ohio Trumbull Co
Recorder's Office Warren May 9th 1821
An abstract of Certain Deeds from the Records of Deeds &c in the office of Recorder for the County of Trumbull in the State of Ohio relative to an incumbrance by a Mortgage to the state of Connecticut on lots No. 36 & No. 45 in Bristol or Town No. 6 in the 4th Range of Townships (in the Connecticut Western Reserve) and with said County of Trumbull by which Mortgage a proportionate incumbrace [incumbrance] rests on the 65 3/4 acres of beach and Maple land, named in the Schedule made by John Morley and particularly mentioned in a letter signed "J. L. Edwards" dated Deptmt War Pension Office April 28, 1821 Addressed to Mr John Morley care of A. Sutherland --
By which Mortgage Abraham Boughman by his Deed of Mortgage dated November 10th 1806 and Recorded September 3d, 1807.
by John S. Edwards Recorder in Book E of said County Records, pages 256, 257 & 258. conveyed for the consideration of Eight
hundred seventy one dollars and sixty four cents to the State of Connecticut, the whole of lots number thirty six and forty-five in Town number six in the fourth Range of Townships in the Connecticut Western Reserve in the State of Ohio, and which is also in the County of Trumbull and in the Township of Bristol and contains seven hundred and eighty six acres and fifty hundredths of an acre agreeably to the original survey of said town (as mentioned in said Mortgage ) be the same more or less. Conditioned for the payment of eight hundred
and seventy one Dollars and sixty four cents on demand with interest of six percent per annum from and after the 2 day of September last (to wit 1806) and the interest annually after the last mentioned period until the
principal sum should be fully paid and discharged- which payment was by said condition to be made to Andrew Kingsbury Treasurer of the State of Connecticut or his
successor in Office- with a proviso that a part may be redeemed at $1.50 per acre
The said Abraham Boughman by his Deed dated July eighteenth eighteen hundred and sixteen and Recorded in the records of Trumbull County in the State of Ohio
January 1st 1817 by A. Sutherland Recorder in Book N. pages 231 & 232. for the consideration of thirty two hundred dollars
conveyed to John Barnes (now of Bristol) Samuel N. Barnes, Lyman Richards and Rollin Dutton (as tenants in common and not as joint tenants) the whole of lots numbers thirty six, and forty five in Town Number six in the fourth Range of Townships in the Connecticut Western Reserve in the State of Ohio and in the County of Trumbull aforesaid, containing
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seven hundred and eighty six and a half acres be the same more or less- Conveyed subject to the Mortgage to the State of Connecticut aforesaid as appears by the Deed of the
said Abraham on Records as aforesaid reciting in substance the condition of said Mortgage and excepting the Warranty of the
premises against the incumbrance aforesaid-
And the said John Barnes by his Deed dated April 9th 1818 and Recorded in said Trumbull County Records December 11th 1820 by A Sutherland Recorder in Book Q pages 185 & 186 conveyed for the consideration of three hundred Dollars to the said John Morley sixty five acres and one hundred and thirty four rods of land being two hundred and twenty nine rods long North and South and forty six
rods wide East and West and being in Lot number forty five in Township Number six in the fourth Range and is a part of the land described in the Mortgage to the State of Connecticut and also a part of the land in
the Deed to the said John Barns as appears in and by the Deeds aforesaid on Record in this office-
I Alexander Sutherland Recorder within and for the County of Trumbull aforesaid do hereby certify that the abstract of the foregoing Deeds contain an accurate and correct statement of the situation of the tittle [title] of the aforesaid sixty five and three forths [fourths] acres claimed by the said John Morley
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office the date first herein before written
A Sutherland Recorder
for Trumbull County Ohio
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I Simon Perkins of Warren Ohio agent for the State of Connecticut do hereby certify that the above or within first described is still incumbered with the debt due to the State of Connecticut, and that the whole sum of the bond as stated in the Mortgage is yet due and about one Hundred dollars in
part(?) the interest & that the bond is in
hand, Warren May 12 1821
1821
Simon Perkins

Sworn and subscribed this 12th day of May 1821 before me Joshua Henshaw Justice of Peace

The State of Ohio
Trumbull County ss
Warren Township May 12th 1821-
I do hereby certify, that the above named Simon Perkins, who appeared before me, and
subscribed & made Oath according to law to the facts, set forth in the above Deposition, is a man of high Respectability, and justly esteemed for truth & integrity.
Joshua Hinshaw Justice of the Peace

the State of Ohio 
Trumbull County
I George Parsons Clerk of the Court of Common pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Joshua Henshaw Esquire whos [whose] Signature appears to be affixed to the foregoing Certificate is a Justice of the peace within and for said County duly commissioned and sworn agreeable to the laws of said State
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office at Warren the 12th day of May 1821
George Parsons
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Warren O
Novr 29

Hon. J. C. Calhoun
War department
City of Washington

Free

Mr Edwards 

Recd. 10 Dec 1822
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Bristol Trumbull County State of Ohio
Sir-
your Honor will readily see by papers which you have before you, that four years ago Last June I sent in my declaration as an old soldier in the Revolutionary army- those papers have several times been sent back as being deficiant [deficient] in some Respects I have always complyd [complied] with what was cald [called], for and Now for more than 12 months I have heard Nothing from the War department Sometimes I am led to think that the papers have miscarried or been mislaid- two private letters have been sent to your department but I have Recd No answer- do Sir be good Enough to answer this Letter, and if there is any thing more for me to do I want to know what it is. I am Now in a Very destresst [distressed], Situation my Children have Left me, here I am alone an old decriped [decreped] man in the wilderness- and my Wife an old Lame Woman - my Clothes are Reduced to wrags [rags] and I have No means in my power to Render my Life Comfortable- and unless I obtain a pension I see No Alternitive [alternative] but to throw myself upon the mersy [mercy] of the Town for support- which in this Country would be very Little to be prefered [preferred] to death itself my old messmates and Companions who was in the same Company and Regiment with me are injoying [enjoying] there [their] pensions and I am sure sir that None of them can be in more Reduced Circumstances than myself... I wait with patience a Result & which I hope and humbly trust will Relieve my abject situation.
I am Sir your HS 
John Morley

Hon JC Calhoun War department
November 25 1822
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Warren O
Sept. 21

Free

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Washington City
D.C.

Recd. 30 Sept. 1822
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State of Ohio Trumball Coty.
Warren Sept. 20, 1822-

Hon. John C. Calhoun
Secretary at War
Sir on the 22d Decr 1821 I was assured by a note from the Hon Benjamin Ruggles of the U.S. Senate, enclosing a reply to my enquiries respecting the claim & John Morley and John Meloney (or Melone) addressed to him
"That in the course of the next week" they would be examined and the result made known The old veterans from that time to this have been weekly asking for information but no answer has yet arrived at the Post Office-
I have written to Mr Ruggles who knows
nothing further about the business but refers
me to the Honl Secy at War-
Permit me Sir to request a report of the decision in those two cases if any have been 
made, or the time when it may be expected
I am most respectfully
your obedient
Humble servt
A Sutherland
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Warren O
Sept 5

Free

Hon J.C. Calhoun
Secretary of War
Washington City
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Warren Sept 5th 1822
Sir
A long time since I made application for a pension as a Revolutionary soldier and have furnished all the evidence that has been required as far as I know Mr Alexander Sutherland has been my agent in making the application, and I have not now an opportunity of seeing him but lately understood that he had recd no answer- And as I am now fast approaching to absolute want I am induced to write you in hopes to receive a certificate, or to learn whether I can
do any thing further to obtain one
I am sir
Your Obt Servt
John Morley

Please direct to Warren Trumbull Co Ohio
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John Morley
Ohio revo:

Suspended
May 23 1821.
The S. of W. to decide on this case.

Consider this & report to Hon B. Ruggles, of Ohio, Senate
U.S. - See letter to him of 22d Dec. 1821-

John Melony's case to be considered at the at the same time.
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John Morley
Suspended. See letter 28 April 1821.

A. Sutherland
agt.

Warren, Ohio

Recd 8 Jan: 1821.

Admitted under act of 18th March 1818- & referred to Mr E for his decision on Schedule
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(16,788)
John Morley, Private.
Original claim
served from Decr. 1775
to January 1777
Admd. [illegible]
1st Schedule, dated Decr. 1820.
Runs thus: 65¾ acres of Land which is mortgaged to the State of Connecticut for its proportional amount, a part of 786 acres, to secure the payment of $856.
(evidence of Mortgage within, duly authenticated- and Genl Perkins, Agent for the State of Cont. sworn May 12, 1821 that the Land is still encumbered with the Debt due to the State of Connecticut that the whole sum of the bond is yet due, & about $100, interest, & that the bond is in his hands.)
The above 65¾ acres of Land, with a Log Cabin & improvement is valued in schedule at- $230.50
A note of hand due applicant 28.00
Steers $35. Cow $10 pigs $6 51.00
Sundry articles of furniture 56.44
Amount of Schedule $365.94
He owes for the said 65¾ acres of Land $158, in two Notes of Land for $79, each, bearing interest from Apl 1818
He owes to various individuals na[illegible] given) $263.75
over/

2d Schedule, dated
June 25, 1823.
A Cow, calf, steer & Heifer, valued at - $24,
Sundry articles of furniture - 59.83
Total - $83.83
The changes in his property since his 1st Schedule have been as follows-
-
33 acres of Land, sold  Apl 19 1822, to Joel Morley, to discharge a debt due him for 4 years services, being $180-
-
1 pair of oxen, sold Sept 20, 1823 to John Barnes for $50, indorsed(?) on a Note Barnes holds against(?) me(?) for $79, dated Apl. 1818
-
33 acres of Land, sold April 9, 1823, to John Barnes, for my two notes to said Barnes, dated April 1. 1818, one for $79 & one for $79.35, on both of which was due on the 29 April 1823, a balance of $141.62, not being able to pay for Land-
His age 70-a Cooper, by occupation- unable to pursue his trade-
Wife 69 - & a Grand Daughter aged 9 years-
George Parsons Esqr(?)
Warren
Ohio
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John Morley
Original claim
Service from December 1775 to January 1777 proved by two witnesses
Ruggles
Real estate, 65¾ acres of Land which is mortgaged to the State of Connecticut for its proportional ["part" crossed out] amount as part of 786 acres to secure the payment of $856 see evidence relative to mortgage within. On the said 65 ¾ acre there are about ten acres party cleared, with a Cabin and outhouses built of logs. He owes for the said 65¾ acres $158, in two notes of hand for $79, each, bearing interest from the(?) [illegible] of 1818. The real & personal property
valued by the Court to(?) 365 94/100- Wife 66 years old and one son 25 years old.-
applicant 67 years old.-

A Sutherland
Warren Ohio.

35
181
47 75
------
263.75

no

Rejected, on acct. of property. See letter
to Hon. B. Ruggles 18 March 1823.

365.96
309.50
--------
56.44.
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Bureau of Pensions
Dept of Rev and War of 1812
Gentlemen: Data on
John Melony and
John Morley
soldiers from Trumbull County Ohio will be much appreciated. Thanking you for the favor of a reply I am 
Very Respectfully
Grace M. Winnagle

Mrs R Winnagle
267 Belmont St N.W.
Warren Ohio
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This Bureau can furnish the military
record of only such Revolutionary soldiers
as were pensioned or whose widows were
pensioned for their services.
Such of the original muster and pay rolls of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 as are now in the possession of the Government are on file in the Record and Pension Office, War Department original rolls and other records pertaining to service in the Revolutionary War may also be found on file in the archives of many of the original States.
O. W. & N. DIV.
REVOLUTIONARY

L.W.B.
I. 2047
I. 40176

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, D. C.,

June 16th, 1899.

Sir:-
In response to your recent communication you are advised that John Morley made an application for pension on June 1st, 1818, at which time he was 65 years of age and residing at Bristol, Ohio, and his pension
was allowed for one year's actual service as a private in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war. He enlisted at Glossenbury [Glastonbury], Conn., and served under Capt. Wright and Col. Willis [Wyllys].
John Barnes made an application for pension on June 1st, 1818, at which time he was 59 years of age and residing at Bristol, Ohio, and
his pension was allowed for three years' actual service as an artificer in the Conn. troops, Revolutionary war. He enlisted at Watertown, Conn., and served under Capt. Lewis and Col. Douglass.
Very respectfully,

Commissioner.

Mr. Marshall W. Weir,
Belleville, Ills.
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Belleville, Ill., April 14, 1899.

Hon. Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

[illegible] 2047
Dear Sir:-
John Morley and John Barnes were on the Pension Rolls of the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary War. I have learned the first name was placed on the Rolls July 31, 1823, and the other Nov. 2, 1832. As a lineal descendant of these two men I would be gratified to receive such information as your office may be able to
furnish concerning the services for which the pensions respectively were granted- nature of service, dates, whence they entered the service, where they lived at time pension was granted, reference to volume of Record- in short, any and all facts shown in the premises. They were both born in Connecticut, as I believe, and both lived later in Massachusetts, and later still in Trumbull County, Ohio, where they died. An answer to this will be highly appreciated.
I remain, Very Truly Yours,
Marshall W. Weir

PENSION OFFICE
U.S.
H
APR 17
1899
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1 
JMD
Corry, Pa. Mar. 7- 1915
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: Will you kindly send me the military history of John Morley, to be found in file S.7.40176 Rev. War. also any notes concerning his family which may be on record.
Yours & oblige
Mrs. J. Karl Slemmens
125 Maple Ave
Corry, Pa

Pension Office
O
US
Mar 9 1915
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40.176
Invalid
Revy

File No. 40,176
John Morley
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18
Index:- Vol.3, Page [illegible]-
(Arrangement of 1870.)

June 16'9[9 - text continues on far left panel]
M W Weir
Bellevil[le, Ill. - text continues on far left panel]
March 1 Mrs Mabel Morley
history Letter in W.F. 4.559
Chas(?) a Osborn
[illegible] Mch 19 Hist to Mrs J Karl Slemmens V.L.M.
[illegible]- feb 7- Hist to Mrs. K Winnagle awf.
[illegible] Oct 17 [illegible] letters
[illegible] L. Dunlop See [illegible] letter in Ezkiel [Ezekiel] Morley R.7393 awf.
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Rev. & Wars Section
AWF:MLB

Mrs. K. Winnagle
267 Belmont Street, N.W.
Warren, Ohio

Dear Madam:
You are advised that it appears from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 40176, that John Morley was born October 25, 1753, place not stated.
He enlisted in Glastonbury, Connecticut, December 1, 1775 and served in Captain Samuel Wright's company, Colonel Samuel
Wyllys' Connecticut regiment, was in the battle of Long Island and served until January, 1777.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June 1, 1818, at which time he was living in Bristol, Trumbull County, Ohio.
In 1820 he stated that his wife was sixty-five or sixty-six years old, and referred to children, one a son twenty-five years old, but he did not give any names. In 1823, a granddaughter Clestina Barns was nine years old.
There are no further family data.
Very truly yours
E. W. MORGAN
Acting Commissioner
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3-525
Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington, D.C., [blank space], 19[blank space]

S.7.40.176

In reply to your request of [blank space], received [blank space] for a statement of the military history of John Morley a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
DATES OF
ENLISTMENT OR
APPOINTMENT.
Dec. 1 1776
LENGTH OF
SERVICE.
Jany 1777
RANK.
OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
Samuel Wright
COLONEL.
Samuel Wyllys
STATE.
Conn.

619(?)

Battles engaged in, Long Island
Residence of soldier at enlistment, enlisted at Glastonbury, Conn.
Date of application for pension, June 1, 1818 he cl was al
Residence at date of application, Bristol, Trumbull Co. Ohio
Age at date of application, born Oct. 25, 1753
1818
65
1753
Remarks. [illegible] his wife was 65 or 66 yrs. old. Children are referred to, one a son 25 yrs. old. no names are stated. In 1823 a granddaughter Clestina Barns was nine years old. No other family data.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.
6-2856