Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 15,520, for David Marvin, Connecticut

SERVICE
Marvin, David
NUMBER
Conn.
S. 15,520
carded
CONTENTS

30226 Connecticut
David Warner of Hartford in the State of Connecticut who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Remore of the reg't commanded by Col. _____ in the Connecticut line for 6 months service
Inscribed on the Roll of Connecticut at the rate of 20 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22 day of Oct 1835 and Dearth Beyer Isaac Morrall
Arrears to the 4th of March 1835 $80.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 11 Sept 10.00 $90.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Dan Boys Clerk, book 82 Vol. 3 Page 27
Roll rec'd in A. B.

State of Connecticut } County of Fairfield } ss. On this 27 th day of August 1832 personally appeared in open Court before the Court of Probate within and for the District of Norwalk in said County now sitting David Mason a resident of Norwalk in the County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut aged seventy three years who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7. 1832. That he intends the service of the United States under the following officers and services as herein stated. That on or about the first of August 1776. I enlisted in Wyoming in the County of Westmoreland State of Pennsylvania into Capt. Samuel Ransom Company Lieut. Asa Spalding & Wells and George Swift it being a frontier town and much exposed to the enemy and we constituted a fort in said town for the protection of the Inhabitants and we was in Garrison and on Guard and after the Capture of the Harbor by Genl. Washington we was ordered by Genl. Washington and we marched on the first day of January 1777. from said Wyoming to Morristown State of New Jersey The British Genl. Howe was at that time stationed at New Brunswick and our Company was located on the lines at Penetate Bridge near the Great Mills between the two Rivers On the 20 day of Jan y we attacked a foraging party of the enemy took a number of Prisoners and a large number of Waggons which were sent to Head quarters to Morristown & Genl. Washington complimented us for our bravery we continued on the lines until Spring when Howe moved his forces off we then went to Morristown where we remained for the small pox and took our Medicines on Pudding we continued there during the Summer occasionally going to Newark & Elizabeth town as the Snow made it necessary In the fall Howe crossed the Delaware River Genl. Washington met the enemy at Brandywine our Company was ordered to join the Army which we did soon after the Battle at that place in the State of Pennsylvania

our Company was first joined to a Regiment under the Com- mand of Col: Durger Major Simon Adjudant Marvin and Sergeant Major Booms we mustered at that time in Pennsylvania How was in possession of Philadelphia our Regiment was detached in a division of the Army to Germantown to drive the enemy out of that place Gen: Stevens (afterwards cashiered for his mis- conduct on this occasion) and under him Gen: Mc Dougall commanded. I was in the battle and we lost the Day Major Simmons had his horse shot under him on the retreat our loss was about 700 killed &c we then returned to our Camp and drew rations for three days and under Orders to march at a moments warning we then marched up the Delaware & crossed the River at Burlington & marched down on the New Jersey side to Red Bank. I was detached from our Company and sent to Mud Fort and remained in it until it was torn into pieces by the enemy shipping & artillery on the opposite shore those of us that survived were taken off in the night in boats to Red Bank and we crossed the River at Burlington & went into Winter quarters at Colley Forge at which place in the Month of January my Father sent my Brother Ulrich Marvin to take my place that I might go home & repair my clothes. I had then become very ragged I received a furlough & discharge from Capt: Ransom which I have lost and I was in said service over one year and six months . I then returned to Wyoming where my Father and Mother lived I remained with my Father until the 3 rd day of July 1778 when the Indians and Tories attacked our Settlement at that time Capt: Ransom was at home being his place of residence I volunteered my services we had all returned to the fort and we marched out. 360 of us and only 60 returned to the fort and Capt: Ransom was among the killed I escaped from the battle ground and our whole settlement was burnt and destroyed we then left the fort and descended the River about sixty miles to Sunbury where my Father and Mother both took the small pox and died I was in this service about one month. I then came to the open field town of Nanticoke and was in the battles when Fairfield and Nanticoke was burnt under

Capt Byers Mason after which I turned out when no one was gone and was only on guard in said North and on the first of April 1782 I enlisted under Capt Ebenezer Fitch in said North for six months in said North and was cruised Long Island Sound and in guarding the coast during said six months and I was then discharged in said North. I further declare I do not know a surviving Witness that can be found to testify to my first service or herein stated I have no written discharge nor any documentary evidence of my service.
Born in Blooming Grove in the County of Orange State of New York 13 day of April 1759 Recorded in my Family Bible I lived in said Blooming Grove until I was about four years old. I then moved with my Father to Wallkill County of Sussex State of New Jersey and lived there until I was about 12 years old I then moved with my Father to the aforesaid town of Wyoming where I lived until it was destroyed by the Indians & Tories. 3 July 1778 and my Father & Mother both dying with the small pox I came into the aforesaid town of North in the fall of the year 1778 where I had a Brother then living and I have lived in said North ever since and now live there that the said David Mason hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a Pension or annuity except the pension 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
David Mason

We Absalom Day a Clugymen residing in Stoneville and Thaddeus Pitts residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with David Mearns who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy three years of age. That he is respected and beloved in the neighborhood where he resides. To have been a Soldier of the Revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Absalom Day Thaddeus Pitts
They and your respondents
and the said Court do hereby declare therefrom after the investigation of the Matter and after putting the entire gators prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states and the Court further certify that it appears to them that Absalom Day who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clugymen residing in the town of Stoneville and that his Honor Thaddeus Pitts who has also signed the same is a resident in the town of Stoneville and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Benj. Isaac Judge
I Charles Isaac Clerk of the Superior Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Court in the Matter of the application of David Mearns for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Probate office this 27 th day of August. 1832
Chas. Isaac Clerk

Know all Men by these Presents, THAT I Susan Benedict a resident of South Norwalk Fairfield County and state of Connecticut
have made, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, constitute, and
appoint Mrs Edwards Smith of Washington D.C.
my true and lawful Attorney for Me and in My name, place and stead,
To examine each and every paper now on file at Washington in the Pension department relating to My Father, David Marvin who was a United States pensioner and placed on the Pension rolls of the state of Connecticut and died about 10 years ago
giving and granting unto My said Attorney full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises, as fully, to all intents and purposes, as I might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution, and revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that My said Attorney or his substitute shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.
Witness My hand this 12 th day of March in the year one thou- sand eight hundred and fifty Two
Sealed and delivered in presence of
Thuback Edwood
Susan Benedict
Acknowledged before me, this 12 th day of March in the year one thou- sand eight hundred and fifty Two
XXXX  XXXX Jas Stevens Notary public

November 8, 1937
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David Marvin, S.15520 BA-J/MCS
Mr. Charles R. Hale 30 Oak Street Hartford, Connecticut
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter requesting the Revolutionary War record of David Merwin who is recorded in the 1840 Census of Pensioners as a resident of Norwalk, Connecticut.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.15520, based upon the military service of David Marvin. He signed in person as Marvin.
He was born April 13, 1759, in Blooming Grove, Orange County, New York. The names of his parents were not given. When about four years of age he moved with his father to Wallpack, Sussex County, New Jersey, and when he was about twelve they moved to Wyoming, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, which town was then under the jurisdiction of Connecticut.
While living in Wyoming, David Marvin enlisted about the first of August, 1776, as private in Captain Ransom's Connecticut company and aided in constructing a fort at Wyoming for protection of the inhabitants; the first of January, 1777, they left Wyoming and marched to New Jersey and on January 20, 1777, attacked a foraging party and took a number of prisoners and wagons and the company soon afterward joined Colonel Durkee's Connecticut regiment (one Marvin was adjutant, relationship to David not shown), was in the battles of Germantown and Mud Island Fort and in January, 1778, went into winter quarters at Valley Forge and while there David Marvin's father sent Uriah Marvin (soldier's brother) to take his place and David Marvin returned to Wyoming, having served one year and five months. On July 3, 1778, the Indians and Tories attacked the settlement at Wyoming and David Marvin volunteered under Captain Ransom and served about one month. With his father and mother, David Marvin escaped and went down to Sunbury where both his father and mother died of smallpox. David

Marvin went to Norwalk, Connecticut, in the fall of 1778 where he had a brother (name not given) living. At the time of the burning of Fairfield and Norwalk, David Marvin served under Captain Ozias Marvin and served on various alarms, relationship of soldier to Ozias Marvin not shown. On the first of April, 1782, David Marvin enlisted under Captain Jabez Fitch at Norwalk and served six months cruising on Long Island Sound in a whale boat called the Coffin.
He was allowed pension on his application executed August 27, 1832, at which time he was living in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut.
Susan Benedict of South Norwalk, Connecticut, stated in 1852 that her father, David Marvin, "died about ten years ago". There are no further data relative to soldier's family.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension of David Marvin, the name and address of the person to whom it was paid and possibly the date of death of the soldier, it is suggested that you address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, Washington, D.C., giving the following data:
David Marvin, Certificate 30226, issued October 22, 1835, rate $20 per annum, Act of June 7, 1832, Connecticut Agency.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Connecticut Rev
David Mervin
Suspended
let. B. Isaac, 27
Aug. 33
Ans. do. do. March 24. '33
Admit 6 mo for $20.
Act. 7 June 32

In the case of David Marvin, Sur. File No. 15,520, the date of death is not shown, although in 1952 his daughter Susan Benedict approximates it at ten years previous thereto.
For the date of last payment of his pension and to whom paid, application should be made to the Auditor for the Interior Department, U. S. Treasury Department, citing the following data: "David Marvin, Ctf. No. 30,326, issued October 30, 1880, under the Act of June 7, 1832, at the Connecticut Agency".
Very respectfully,
June 26, 1911
to Rev. Horace Salem Hayden, Wyoming Historical Soc - Wilkes-Barre, Pa -
Commissioner.

HEADQUARTERS COMMANDERY-IN-CHIEF SONS OF UNION VETERANS OF THE CIVIL WAR CHARLES R. HALE, CHAIRMAN COMMITTEE ON MARKING GRAVES 30 OAK STREET HARTFORD, CONN.
November 1, 1937
Mr. A. D. Hiller Executive Assistant Veterans Administration Revolutionary and 1812 War Record Department Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir:
Please send me Revolutionary War record of David Merwin who was on the 1840 pension roll from Norwalk, Connecticut. We would like to get him a Connecticut headstone.
Yours very truly,
Chas. R. Hale
CRH:ME

Washington, D.C. 1/7/1901
Hon. H. Clay Evans, Chairman of Pensions Dir:
I have the honor to state that Mr. J. E. Benedict, Asst. Curator, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. desires for family historical purposes - such information as the records may afford relative to the history, military or otherwise, of his grandfather, David Marvin, late of Capt. Jabez Fitch's Co. Conn. Vols Rec. War. Mr. Marvin may have served in other commands, but Mr. Benedict has no additional data.
Very respectfully, Geo. C. Thomas, Asst. Chief, Law Div.

 PRESIDENT: ALBERT EDGERTON, St. Paul.  VICE-PRESIDENTS: GEO. K. SHAW, Minneapolis. S. J. R. McMILLAN, St. Paul.  HONORARY VICE-PRESIDENTS: ALEXANDER RAMSEY, St. Paul. RENSSELAER R. NELSON, St. Paul. HENRY P. UPHAM, St. Paul. DANIEL R. NOYES, St. Paul.  SECRETARY: EDWIN S. CHITTENDEN, St. Paul.  TREASURER: WILLIAM P. JEWETT, St. Paul.  REGISTRAR AND HISTORIAN: WILLIAM H. GRANT, 194 Pleasant Ave., St. Paul.
BOARD OF MANAGERS.
John B. Sanborn, St. Paul. Nath. F. Warner, Minneapolis. James H. Weed, St. Paul. Albee Smith, Minneapolis. Douglas Putnam, St. Paul. Henry S. Goff, Minneapolis. Daniel D. Merrill, St. Paul. Samuel E. Adams, Minneapolis. Alfred S. Tallmadge, St. Paul. Elwood S. Corser, Minneapolis. William H. Lightner, St. Paul. William M. Prindle, Duluth. Hiram F. Stevens, St. Paul. Rev. E. P. Chittenden, Winona. William D. Cornish, St. Paul. Thos. E. Clark, Stillwater. Nath. P. Langford, St. Paul. Calvin L. Brown, Morris. Rev. Edwin C. Mitchell, St. Paul. Jas. H. Baker, Garden City. Giles W. Merrill, St. Paul.
St. Paul, Minn.,
Dec. 18th,
189
Hon. Wm. Lochran, Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
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Dear Sir:-
I would be much obliged to you to have sent me, at your early convenience, the certificate or statement as to the Revolutionary service of David Merwin, who was a United States pensioner, residing in Connecticut at the time of the census of 1840. I would like the details of his service so far as furnished by your department as a matter of identity between him and another soldier of the same name, residing in Connecticut and desire to have it for a publication to which I have heretofore referred and which is now nearly complete.
Hoping to hear from you and thanking you for previous favors,
I remain,
Yours Respectfully,
 E. S. Chittenden Secretary.

to inn. Mr. age
15520 INVALID.
No. 15520
David Merwin
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7" 32
ex: Vol. 1 , Page 245
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1895 Jany. 2. His E. S. Chittenden, St. Paul, M
Feby. 17. 1897. History to W. L. Marsh, S. E. Div.
Jany - 9 - 1901. Hist to Geo. C. Stewart - Law. Divn
Aug 12 - 1901 - Hist. to J. E. Benedict - Asst. Curator Smithsonian Instn.
1911 June 26. Rev. Horace E. Hayden ref. to Aud. for last paymt of pension
1922 May 27. Hist. to Hon. J. P. Pacheco (secor. in Andrew Merwin MS 819) aw
1937 Nov. 8. Hist. to Mr. Charles T. Hale. (Mrs.)

David Morris
Suspended
9389

State of Connecticut
County of Fairfield } ss. Probate Court District of Norwalk. Personally appeared before said Court Stephen Morhouse aged 71 years and being duly sworn according to Law in open Court depose and say that he is well acquainted with David Mearns of said Norwalk. That in the month of April. I believe the first. in 1882 I embarked with said David Mearns under Capt. Ebenezer Fitch in a six hundred ton boat and we sailed together under said Capt. Fitch in barring in Long Island sound and said six months. and discharged in said Norwalk sworn and subscribed
the 18 day of Augt. 1882 and that said Stephen Morhouse is a credible Person
Stephen Morhouse
Benj. Loers feeder

State of Connecticut } Fairfield County } Probate Court District of Knoweth in said County March 13 1834 Personally appeared before said Court David Mason of said Knoweth aged seventy four years and being duly sworn in open Court before me and say that his Declarations made before said Court and now on file at the War Office of the United States is in every part and parcel a just and true statement of his services during the Revolutionary War for the United States. That he has made diligent search to find proof of his said services in Continental Army and can not find nor does he know of a single person living that can testify to his said services. That in the Battle of Wyoming there was but four persons that returned from the Battle alive from the town in which he belonged. One was named James Roberts, Daniel Owen Asahel Nash, and myself which is more than Fifty years ago and I presume they are all dead. Sworn and Subscribed.
David Mason
in open Court and that I am well acquainted with said David Mason and that he is a respectable and credible Person
Brng. Isaac Judson

We the Subscribers Inhabitants of the town of Norwell hereby certify that we are well acquainted with the within named David Morris and have known him for a number of years and believe him to be a Man respectable and a very creditable Person Norwell March 13. 1834
Thaddeus B. Adams - Charles Francis A. Clark
Joseph W. Hubbell James Benedict John B. Dull Jacob Smith H. B. Butler L. A. Nica Schuyler T. Lake Charles Thomas Samuel W. Knapp
W. S. Sweet Samuel Gray James Seymour Jr. James Finney Geo. G. Bishop E. Bennett
David Morris

State of Connecticut } Fairfield County. }
Personally appeared before me, Isaac Judson of the Peace in and for said County, on the 15 day of Sept. 1835. Eliphalet Dikeman of Weston in said County and being duly sworn according to law, made solemn Oath that he is twenty four years of age that he is well acquainted with David Mear of Norwalk in said County, and knows that in the month of April 1782 said Mear enlisted with Capt. Jehu Fitch who commanded a Six Pound Battery under the State of Connecticut, and served Long Island and had a number of skirmishes with the enemy and was in said service six months. The Regiment belonged to the same Battery and enlisted at the same time with said Mear and was discharged at the same time said Battery called the Coffin and was constantly in said service for the full time of service.
Sworn and subscribed
Eliphalet Dikeman
the day and year aforesaid
and that I am acquainted
with said Eliphalet Dikeman
and that he is a credible Witness.
Benj. Isaac Judson of Peace

David Marvin
No 9389
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State of Connecticut Fairfield County. In Probate Court District of Norwalk April 12. 1834 Personally appeared before said Court David Mason of said Norwalk and being duly sworn in open Court depose and say in explanation of his former declaration by him made in order to obtain a Pension under the Act of Congress of June 7. 1832 - hereby states the facts of his services for the United States during the Revolutionary War owing to the length of time his age and loss of memory he may not state the exact date of his said services.
That in the Spring of the year 1776 there was two Companies ordered to be raised as I understand by Congress in the frontier towns of Milford Kingston Plymouth Wyoming and on other towns which I am not now recollect for the purpose of guarding the frontier against the enemy. That in August 1776 being then about 17 years old I enlisted in said Town of Wyoming at that time under the jurisdiction of Connecticut in one of said Companies under the command of Capt Samuel Rowson Lieut. Spalding & Wells Ensigns except the other Company was under the command of Capt Dungee in which Hollowback, & Bucke, were officers I am understood at the time I enlisted that one company was to be stationed at said Wyoming for the protection of that place we were immediately put upon duty exercised every day and in a short time ordered up the River Susquehanna to a place called Wyolamie about sixty Miles and kept a Guard near an Indian village at that time described where we continued until we were then ordered down the River and joined the other Company under Capt. Dunkee and we continued there until after the capture of the Hudson by Genl Washington in New Jersey when both of said Companies were ordered to Morristown in that State and we left Wyoming on the first of January 1777 for that place Genl. Howe of the British

Army was stationed at New Brunswick & Amboy and our Company was located on the line between the two places. On the 20 day of January we attacked a foraging party of the enemy took a number of prisoners and a large number of Waggons over thirty which were sent to head quarters at Morristown & Genl: Washington complimented us for our bravery. we continued on the line until Spring when Howe moved his forces off we then moved to Morristown where we was encountered for the small Pox and took our Medicine on Parade we continued there during the Summer occasionally at Newark & Elizabethtown during which time Genl: Washington met the Enemy at Brandywine after which and immediately our Company was ordered to join Genl: Washington Army which we did soon after that Battle at the Battle of the Clouds of Pennsylvania where our Company first joined the Regt under Col: Durkee Major Sumner Adjutant Major Sergeant Major Loonis was encamped at that time in Pennsylvania. Howe was in possession of Philadelphia Our Regt was detached in advance of the Army to Germantown and Mechlen close to Genl: M c Dougall's Home and we attacked the British at that place and by some mischance as I then understood of Genl: Howe we lost our day and on the retreat Major Sumner Howe was shot and I extracted him from his horse and saved him and we then returned to our former encampment where we continued some time we were then ordered up the River Delaware on the New Jersey side to Red Bank and was put in the fort at that time called M c Dougall's Fort and a severe battle with the enemy they bombarded the fort with their Shelling and Batteries from the Pennsylvania side in the night we retreated out out of the fort and crossed the River in Boats to Red Bank from there to Burlington and went into Winter quarters at Belly Forge where we made our huts. That in January 1778 my Father at that time living at Wyoming sent my Brother

Ulrich Marvin to take my place in the Company in which I was enlisted and Capt. Ransom excepting him as I had become very ragged and destitute of clothing and Capt. Ransom gave me an Honorable discharge which discharge I have lost. I then returned to my Father's home at Wyoming making the term I was in Belated service for the United States up to this time of one year and four months. That on the 3 day of July 1878 the Indians and Sioux attacked the town of Wyoming at that time Capt. Ransom & Capt. Dunker were both home at Wyoming this place of Ransom's on a visit I was in said Battle as a volunteer under my former Capt. Ransom when we was defeated was near Capt. Ransom when he was killed and saw the Indians kill him also Capt. Dunker was killed in the same battle they massacred all they could get hold of but the town I returned into the fort in the night and but four persons out the Company in which I belonged that was saved the remaining part of my services for the United States is fully and I hope satisfactory detailed in my original and supplementary declarations and I earnestly pray that your honor will take my case into immediate consid- eration and place me on the Pension list agreeable to my said declarations.  Sworn and Subscribed in open Court this day and year aforesaid and that said David Marvin is a very credible Person
David Marvin
Benj. Lucas Judge