Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7127, for Solomon Merrill, Connecticut

SERVICE
NUMBER
Conn.
Merrill, Solomon
PP. 7/27
Merrill,
Jerusha.
CONTENTS
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Acts of July 17, 1862, and March 3, 1865.
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18
REJECTED

M 7700
Jerusha & Merrill wid. of Solomon N.Y.
Act 4 th July 1830.
To Miss P. Hanged. Oct 29 - 1857
7127

July 30. 1857
Asst of Jerusha Berrill widow of Solomon
Cap DePlett
Miss P. Granger Morrisville N. York Heath Sq Home of Princess Washington J. G.
Free
Off. and business

Morrisville, Madison County N.Y. July 24. 1857
Sir
Enclosed I send you the Application of Jerusha Merrill, widow of Solomon Merrill, for a Pension. Respectfully yours Otis A. Granger
Comm. of Pensions

State of New York
Madison County On this 23 rd day of April 1857 personally appeared before James W. Nye Judge of the County of Madison aforesaid, Jemima Merrell , a resident of the town of Nelson in the County of Madison & State of New York, aged ninety three years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836. That she is the widow of Solomon Merrell who was a private in the revolutionary war. She further declares, that she was married to the said Solomon Merrell in Harrington in the State of Connecticut by Daniel Catherin Esq in the month of February in the year 1777: that her husband the aforesaid Solomon Merrell, died in the town of Smithfield in said County on the 18 th day of March 1818 & that she has remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.
That the said Solomon Merrell after the marriage aforesaid & in the fall of the year 1777 entered the service in the war of the revolution under Capt. Uriah Seymour of New Hartford in the State of Connecticut & went to New York & served about four months. The said Solomon Merrell was also in the service in the year 1778 under Capt. Seymour aforesaid but how long he was in the service during that year she cannot positively state, but thinks he was in the service at New York in 1778 three or four months. She has never before been able to obtain proof of her husband's services, is the reason of not making an earlier application for a Pension.
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year first above written before me Certify that the said Jemima Merrell cannot from bodily infirmity attend court.
James W. Nye
her Jemima X Merrell mark
Judge of Madison County in presence of Simon Graham

STATE OF NEW-YORK, Madison County Clerk's Office,
ss. I, LORENZO D. DANA, Clerk of said County, do hereby certify, that James M. Arze whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly elected or appointed, and qualified, and authorized by the laws of said State, to take the same; that I am well acquainted with his handwriting, and verily believe the signature to the said certificate is genuine; and that said instrument is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of said State.
County Judge
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official seal, the 24 th day of July 1851.
Lorenzo D. Dana Clerk.

Writs of Summons of Roger Merrill of the Township of Northumberland & of Waldenburgh in the County of Northumberland Durham
in the Province of Canada, being duly sworn deponeth and saith that he this deponent was a Soldier in the Revolutionary War that he served in the Years 1775, 76, 77, 78, 79 he first served in Col. Willis Regt and afterwards in Col. Webb and that he now receives a pension for the said services.
That his brother Solomon Merrill late of Madison County in the State of New York deceased was born in West Hartford in the State of Connecticut in the Year 1752 that the said Solomon Merrill served in the Revolutionary War in the American Army in the Year 1776 & 77 in Captain Uriah Seymour's Troop of Cavalry that he served four months and later in the Year 1776 in the latter part of Summer & Fall months and that he served at least four months in the Winter & Spring of 1777 that the said services were performed in or near New York and that the said Solomon Merrill performed other services during the Revolutionary War. That this deponent saw him several times while he was in the service he saw him once or twice at New York some at Esopus. This deponent was in the service at the same time his brother was and only saw him occasionally but heard of him frequently.
That the said Solomon Merrill was married to Judith Highton in the Month of February 1777 in the Town of Harrington in the County of Litchfield in the State of Connecticut by Daniel Cattle Justice of the Peace for the aforesaid Place that he this deponent was present at the wedding (that this deponent got leave of absence from his duty to attend the wedding). That the services performed in the Army by Solomon Merrill in 1777 was after he was married.
Sworn before me at Waldenburgh this 9th day of July 1857. James H. Hovey Jr.
Roger Merrill Mark

I hereby Certify that the within name Roger Maville is a Man of Truth and veracity and that he made the foregoing statements before me in a most Conscientious and Careful Manner
Walden and 9 th July 1851.
James G. Rogers
I hereby Certify that the within name James G. Rogers is one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the united Counties of Northumberland and Durham and that he is also a Commissioner of the Peace Bench for the said Counties
Clerk of the Peace Office
Port Hope July 15 th 1851.
Geo. H. Ward
Deputy Clerk of the Peace
United Counties of
Northumberland and Durham.
No. 7755
Jerusha Merrill wid of Solomon
N. H.
Oct 4 July 1836
Rev. S. Sprague agt Morrisville Madison Co. N.Y.
Jerusha Merrill affidavit for Pension