Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B.L.Wt. 40794, for Amos Merritt, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Merritt, Amos Lydia
B.L. No. 40794.
CONTENTS

170320
Act March
June 16/55
Set Claimant July 19/56 Bands Aug 22
Lydia (Merrett) wife Amos Merrett, pres.
Capt H. Peirce
Col T. Hall
R.L. Mil
Ent Dec 1976 —
Dis March 1977 —
Inmate Rev. War.
Mass. Mil
Mass No Papers
Ad. 16 Dec Sept 8/56
Dis Sep
Claimant North Scituate, Mass
Vol. No. 10.

State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth Town of Scituate
I hereby certify that I hold the Office of Clerk in the Town, County, and State aforesaid and have examined the records of said Town and find that Amos Merritt born May 1 st 1755 is the only person by that name except his son Amos who was born March 6 th 1783
Amos the elder married Lydia Bailey June 20 th 1779 she is the person who is an applicant for bounty land under the Act of Congress of March 3 1855
James L. Merritt Jr. Town Clerk of Scituate
Scituate Sept 1 - 1856
Then personally appeared the above named James L. Merritt Jr and made Oath to the above certificate before me
Shadrach B. Merritt } justice of the Peace
Additional to Application 170320

STATE OF Massachusetts COUNTY OF Plymouth }
We, Ebenezer Bailey and Lydia Bailey residents of Saturn in the State of Massachusetts upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed and acknowledged by Lydia Merritt in our presence, and that we believe from the appearance and statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be.
Ebenezer Bailey Lydia Bailey
The foregoing declaration and affidavit were sworn to and subscribed before me on the day and year above written; and I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons; that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be, and that I have no interest in this claim.
Shadrach B. Merritt
Justice of the Peace.
STATE OF Massachusetts COUNTY OF Plymouth ss. }
I, William H. Whitman Clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for said County & State certify that Shadrach B. Merritt whose genuine signature appears above, is, and was at the time of signing the same, a Justice of the Peace for the County and State aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified; that his Commission is dated on the _____ day of _____ A. D. 185_____, that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit.
Given under my hand and the Seal of said Court this second day of May A. D. 185____. W. H. Whitman Clerk

APPLICATION FOR BOUNTY LAND.
(By the Widow of a deceased person who has not had a Land Warrant.)
STATE OF Massachusetts COUNTY OF Plymouth }
On this twenty-seventh day of April A. D., one thousand eight hundred and fifty- five personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, Lydia Merritt aged Ninety two years, a resident of Satuate in the State of Massachusetts , who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the widow of Amos Merritt deceased, who was a Soldier in the company commanded by Captain Hayward Peirce in the campaign at Rhode Island in the Regiment of Militia commanded by Colonel Jeremiah Hall in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June, 1812,  Revolutionary War of the United States with Great Britain in the year 1775 that her said husband Enlisted at Satuate on or about the tenth day of December A. D. 1776 for the term of Three Months and continued in actual service in said war for the term of Three months and two days , and was honorably discharged as she thinks , at Satuate on the twelfth day of March , A. D. 1777 .
She further states that she was married to the said Amos Merritt in Satuate on the twentieth day of June A. D. 1774 , by one Ebenezer Groveson a Minister of the Gospel and that her name before her said marriage was Lydia Bailey that her said husband died at Satuate on the fifth day of January A. D. 1829 and that she is now a widow.
She makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3d, 1855. and she prays that a warrant for her may be sent to North Satuate Post Office Mass, directed to her
Lydia Merritt

State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth. We Asa Merritt & Elizabeth C Litchfield Both of Scituate in the aforesaid County having been duly sworn, depose and say that we well knew Amos Merritt who was a soldier in Revolutionary war of the United States with Great Britain in Seventeen hundred and ninety six - seven & 80 whose Widow now applies for bounty that we knew him for more than twenty years before his death which occurred at Scituate about the fifth day of January Eighteen hundred and twenty nine that we know that he died about that time because we visited him in his last sickness and were at his funeral that we have known his said Widow from his death to this time and that she has remained unmarried and that we are disinterested
Asa Merritt. Elizabeth C Litchfield
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me this Eleventh day of June A D 1855.
Shadrach B Merritt justice of the Peace It is hereby certified that satisfactory proof has been exhibited before me the undersigned a justice of the Peace by the affidavits of Asa Merritt and Elizabeth C Litchfield of Scituate in said County and State who are personally known to me who are entitled to credit and who swear that they have no pecuniary interest in the result of the annexed application that the said Amos Merritt was a soldier as above stated and that he died at the time above stated and that the said Lydia Merritt is his Widow In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Eleventh day of June A D 1855. Shadrach B Merritt justice of the Peace

State of Massachusetts County of Plymouth Town of Scituate
The following persons were married together by the Rev. Ebenezer Grosvenor Minister. Amos Merritt & Lydia Bailey both of Scituate married June the twentieth one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine
I certify that the above is a true copy of the record with the exception of the date and figures which are expressed in the record in fair legible date and figures as follows: "June 20: 1779"
James L. Merritt Esq.
Town Clerk of Scituate
I James L. Merritt Esq. above named depose and say that I hold the office of Town Clerk in the Town, County, and State aforesaid, and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town, with the exception above named as certified by me.
James L. Merritt Esq.
Town Clerk of Scituate
Subscribed and duly sworn to before me this first day of June A.D. 1855. and I certify that I have no interest whatever in the prosecution, or result of the annexed claim
Shadrach B. Merrill
Justice of the Peace

No Scituate Mass Sept 1
Official Business
J Cole Esq Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
D.C.
Paymaster
170320 M rs M ary H. Linn
Additional to 170320

n 40.794
S New Camp

J. M c Intosh Esq. Com d of Pensions,
Sir we presume the enclosed is sufficient
I was well acquainted with Amos Merritt the husband of Lydia Merritt this application fifty years since and until his death and have known no other except his son Amos Barn after 76 in this Town.
this has reference to application No 170320 under March 3 d 55
No. Scituate Aug 18 - 56 Mass
Yours Respectfully J B Merritt

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston. Aug. 18. th 1856.
I Hereby Certify, That from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name of Amos Merrill is borne on pay roll of Capt. Hayward Prince's Comp. Col. Jeremiah Hall's Regt. raised from Scituate and Hanover, N. Island Service, from Dec. 10. 1776 3 Mos. 2 days, as private.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Francis D. Mitchell Secretary of the Commonwealth.

Pension Office,
July 19, 1886
Madam
Your application for bounty land N o -170320, under the act of March 3 d , 1855, has been examined and suspended.
If you can prove by the Certificate of the Secretary of State of Mass., which I presume you already have procured, that Amos Merritt served as you have stated, and, by the records of Scituate that no other person of your late husband's name performed the service a warrant for bounty land will be issued to you.
I am, Very respectfully,
Your ob't Servt.
C. H. Rhetts.
for Commissioner.
Mrs Lydia Merritt,
North Scituate,
Mass.
Wodge