Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40150, for Jesse Merrill, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental (Mass)
Merrill Jesse
S.40150
CONTENTS

12.4.53 Pennsylvania New York
Jesse Merritt
Williamstown in the state of New York who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ward of the Massachusetts line, for the term of one year
on the roll of New York at a rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 11 of May 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 14 of July 1819 to Benjamin Johnson Rome New York
Arrears to 4th of March 1819  10m  $180.25 Semi-annual all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819  48.
20  $128.25
Death not on A.B { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
W.H. Smith after May the 21 st 1819. James Hiram Smith the

100554-00524 State of New York — } On this 4 th day of May 1808, Onida County } before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of Onida Common Pleas in said State, Personally appear Jesse Merrill, aged 65 years, resident in Williamstown in the County of Onego and State of New York, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth, in his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land & Naval Service of the United States in the Revolutionary war." That the said Jesse Merrill enlisted at Arkfield in the State of Massachusetts in December 1775, for one year, in the Company commanded by Captain Samuel Bartlett, in a Regiment commanded by a Colonel Ward of the Massachusetts Line, and that he continued to serve in said Corps, or in the Service of the United States until December 1776, when he was discharged from Service at Peks Kill in the State of New York, but received no written discharge, as the Company were discharged together. That he was in the Battle of Flatbush, Long Island, and in New York when evacuated by the American army, and in the Battle at the White Plains, he was stationed on Dorchester point near Boston, at the commencement of his term, and ended it at Peks Kill where he was discharged, as aforesaid.

That he is in Reduced Circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services —
Sworn to and declared } Jesse Merrill before me the day and } year aforesaid. — }
Joshua Hatheway one of the Judges of Onida Common Pleas
I Joshua Hatheway Judge as aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said Jesse Merrill, did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the foregoing declaration against the Common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings & testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the Department of WAR pursuant to the directions of the before mentioned act of Congress & that I believe from his reduced circumstances he stands in need of his country's assistance for support. Home Onida Co. May 4 1818
Joshua Hatheway
Clerk's Office of Onida County P.
I certify that Joshua Hatheway was a Judge for this County at the time of making the above affidavit and Certificate, & that his signature to the same appears to be of his own proper handwriting. Witness the seal of said County the 23 day of May 1818 J. M. Woodgood Clk

100554_00526 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Warren County ss
On this fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun- dred and twenty personally appeared in open court of common Pleas and for the county aforesaid being a court of record for said county proceeding according to the course of the common Law with a jurisdiction un- limited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings. Jesse Morritt aged sixty seven years and upwards resident in the township of Conewango in the county aforesaid and late of Williamstown in the county of Orange and State of New York who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows: That is to say he hereby entered at Newfield in the State of Massa- chusetts in the month of December in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy five as a private soldier in the company of Captain Samuel Bartlett in the regiment commanded by Colonel Ward in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment for one year; that he continued to serve in the said company until January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seven- ty six when he was honorably discharged at Peekskill in the State of New York that he was in the battles of Long Island and York Island; That as he believes on the fourth of May one thousand eight hundred & eighteen he made a declaration in conformity to the act of Congress of the eighth of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen setting forth his services and applying for the benefit of the provisions of the said act; that he has received a pension and that the number of the pension certificate which he has

105-1-20-27 united is twelve thousand four hundred and five (19405) And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen 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 to diminish it as to being any -self 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 Revo- lutionary War passed on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any prop- -erty 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. The declarant also states that he is by occupation a farmer and owing to a lameness with which he has been a long time afflicted he is unable to do much; that he has no family residing with him excepting his wife Rhoda who is about fifty nine years of age who being a woman of very feeble constitution is unable to do much for her support. This declarant also further states that he is in a measure dependent upon the charity of his son in law Adamum Gannestark for support
Ysef Merrill
Sworn to and declared on the fourth day of December
A 1820 in open court Lansing Wetmore Proth.
3 A schedule of all the estate real and personal of Ysef Merrill of the county of Warren Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and an applicant for a pension

under the act of Congress of the 16 th of March 1816 and the 18 th of May 1820
Real Estate
I have no real estate either in law or in equity Personal Estate
one Bible, one Psalms book, one sermon book containing seven sermons by Washburn, one Bradley on Revival, one Scythe, one Sickle, one Rasp, one pair of Nippers, six small baskets, one chest, one hammer, two razors, one pair of compasses, one iron hook, one pocket knife, three grindstones, one inch auger, two pewter plates, three pewter plates, one pair of shears, one warming pan, one shovel, one pair stayards, one Pewter Basin, one Quart cup, one Tin Stove, one glass bottle, one Quart jug, one Umbrella, one pair of old saddlebags, two traps, one looking glass, shovel and tongs, — Jesse Merrill
sworn to and subscribed this fourth day of December 1820 in open court.
Lansing Wetmore Probate
The board is of opinion that the total amount in value of the property returned in the schedule of the said Jesse Merrill is twenty four dollars seventy four and half cents. By the board.
Lansing Wetmore Probate
he made a declaration in the Congress of the eight th of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen setting forth his services and applying for the benefit of the provisions of the said act; that he has received a pension and that the number of the pension certificate which he has

under the act of Congress of the 16 th of March 1816 and the 1 st of May 1820
Real Estate
I have no real estate either in law or in equity Personal Estate
one Bible, one Hallelujah book, one sermon book containing seven sermons by Washburn, one Bradley on Revival, one Scythe, one Sickle, one Rasp, one pair of Sippers, six small baskets, one chest, one hammer, two razors, one pair of compasses, one iron hook, one pen knife, three gimblets, one inch auger, two pinto platters, three pinto plates, one pair of shears, one Marming pen, one shaver, one pair staylards, one pinto Basin, one Quart cup, one tin stove, one glass bottle, one Quart jug, one umbrella, one pair of old saddlebags, two traps, one looking- glass, shovel and tongs, — Jesse Merrill
sworn to and subscribed this fourth day of December AD 1820 in open court,
Lansing Wetmore Prothonotary
The court is of opinion that the total amount in value of the property returned in the schedule of the said Jesse Merrill is twenty four dollars seventy five and half cents. By the court.
Lansing Wetmore Prothonotary

Warren County ss
I Lansing Wetmore Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Warren in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that the foregoing call and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is twenty four dollars seventy four and half cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court on this 13 th day of December A D 1820
Lansing Wetmore Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas for Warren County
to the master of chancery allow a censure.
Can. J. L. E. H.

June 22, 1938
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Jesse Merrill, S. 40150 BA-J/MCS Am
Mrs. Ethel C. Darrow Ashville New York
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to Jesse Merrill who served in the Revolutionary War and died in Busti, Chautauqua County, New York, March 15, 1833, aged eighty years.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 40150, based on the military service of the only Jesse Merrill that is found in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
The date and place of birth of Jesse Merrill and the names of his parents were not given.
He enlisted at Ashfield, Massachusetts, in December, 1775, and served one year in Captain Samuel Bartlett's company in Colonel Ward's Massachusetts regiment; he was in the battle of Flatbush, Long Island, was in New York when it was evacuated by the Americans and was in the battle of White Plains.
He was allowed pension on his application executed May 4, 1818, at which time he was sixty-five years of age and was living in Williamstown, Oswego County, New York. In 1820 he was living in Conewango, Warren County, Pennsylvania, having moved there from Williamstown, New York.
In 1820 Jesse Merrill stated that his wife, Rhoda, was about fifty-nine years of age and he referred to his son-in-law, Aidanus(?) Comstock.
There are no further data relative to the family of Jesse Merrill.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

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File No. 40,150
Jesse Merrill His Her Law
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8, Page 331
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jan-28/98. Miss A. B. Klum - Pension Berlin
1938 June 22. List to Mrs. Ethel C. Darrow was

In the Matter of Jesse Merrill a Pensioner, &c. }
Sep. Merrill transferred From New York to Pennsylvania 21 May 1824. From 4 March 1826.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Warren County ss.
On this 3 rd day of February 1841 before me, the subscriber, a justice of the Peace for the said county of Warren, person- ally appeared Jesse Merrill, who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who for- merly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Samuel Bartlett, in the regim- ent commanded by Colonel Ward, in the ar- my of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York, from whence he has totally removed; that he now resides in the state of Pennsylvania where he intends to remain, and wishes, his pension to be then payable in future. —
I sworn and subscribed to before } Jesse Merrill me the day and year aforesaid }
Isaac Jones J.P.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Warren County ss
I Lansing Witness Proth- -onotary of the court of common pleas in & for the said county, do hereby certify that Isaiah Jones Esq. who appears to have taken and subscribed to the foregoing deposition, was at the date thereof, and now is, an acting Justice, in and for said county, duly commis- sioned and sworn, and that all due faith & credit are due, and ought to be given to his official acts. I also certify that the subscription to the Jurat of

The said deposition is in the proper hand writing of said Justin -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Warren this thirteenth day of February A.D one thousand Eight hundred and twenty one
Lansing Wetmore Proth.

25 Dipr. Church finia. Ward clerg. Reg. 1775 to 1776 (4 May 1818)
Noton
John Church clerg.

State of New York Oneida County. - } 1s
On the 26. May, 1819. before me came Luther Washburn and Abiezer Perkins (who are both in my judgment credible Witnesses) who being duly sworn did each one for himself depose and say, that he was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution, on the Continental Establishment: that he served a year in Capt. Bartlett's Company Ward's Regiment and Massachusetts line, and knows that Jesse Merrill was also a Soldier in the same Company, Regiment and line, and that he the said Perkins Jesse Merrill enlisted for a year and served out his time - and that he was regularly discharged. The service of the said Jesse Merrill was from the beginning of the year 1776. to the beginning of the year 1777. And further saith not
Luther Washburn Abiezer Perkins
Sworn 26. May 1819
Before me
H. J. Miller
First Judge of Oneida.
State of New York Clerk's Office } p Oneida County }
I certify that Morris Miller was a First Judge of this County at the time of taking the above Affidavit & that his signature to the same is of his own proper hand with the seal of said County this twenty sixth day of May 1819
Samuel H. Woodgood Clk

Warrenton Feb. 19 th 1821
Me
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Secretary of the Department of War
Washington City.
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Warren, Warren Co. Penn a
Feb. 16, 1821—
Sir,
I herewith transmit the schedule of the property of Simon Mumm, his application for a transfer &c. The evidence of his being continued on the Pension List (should that be the case) be pleased to transmit to me.
I am, sir, yours with respect
Oliver Haxtine.
Hon. J. C. Calhoun. —

Rome Oneida Co. NY. Aug 1. 1879
The enclosed Certificate, is concerning the applicant Wishes transferred to the New York agency, as he is now a resident of this county, and it would be considerably in convenient to oblige him to send to Boston.
Respectfully, Yours very Benj o B. Johnson
Secy

Ashville, N.Y.
June 1-1938
U. S. Bureau Pensions Washington, D.C.
gentleman! Will you kindly furnish me with any information you may have in regard to record of Revolutionary soldier Jesse only Mariel who died in town of Busti, Chautauqua Co. N.Y. March 15, 1833 aged 80 years. I wish this for genealogy. Thanking you,
I am,
Very truly (Mrs) Ethel Cole Darrow Ashville, N.Y.