Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 43025, for Asa Merrill, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Merrill, Asa Merrill.
S. 43025-
CONTENTS

Duplicate certificate issued 8. June 1836 in the name of Merrill Colly. sent to Hon. W. Taylor N.Y. Jan'y 31. 1822 atty Genl. opinion sent to B. Litchfield Esq. N. Reps.
2954.
New York
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Merrill Asa Merrill private in the Massachusetts line Capt Maxwell 1777. 3 years In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 6th of April 1810
Certificate of Pension issued the 25 th of Septem r 1810 and sent to James O Wattles Manlius Onondaga Co. N. York
Arrears to 4th of Septem r 1810 } 30.73 4 mo 29/30 Semi-annual acct ending 4 March 1810 } 46.00
77.73
Ref sent to Litchfield Esq. Apr. 21. 1823 { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Onondaga Restored Recd. Vd. 5. p. 14. Book D. Manlius Onondaga Co. N.Y.

Asa Merrill, Application for Pension 2 d Mass: Regt Complain this case after 22 d Nov. EB
Correct.
4 for Jas. O. Wattles Manlius N.Y.

Onondaga County Clerk's office April Ninth 1818
I certify that Sylvanus Townley Esquire is one of the Judges of said County & that the within is his signature Witness the seal of the said Clerk's office the day & year above written
Cutler Leonard Dep. Clerk

State of New York Onondaga County } ss.
On this first day of September 1870 personally appeared Asa Merrill aged fifty eight years, resident in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows for three years from May 1777, to May 1780, that he enlisted to serve for three years, in the Town of Towns and county of Middlesex State of Massachusetts, in Captain Hugh Maxwell's company in the Regiment of Massachusetts Troops, commanded by Colonel Bailey, and served in the said Corps the whole term and was regularly discharged; that he made his declaration and application for a pension under the act of 18 th March 1818 on the 6 th of April 1818 and afterward received a Pension Certificate No. 2954 dated the 25 th day of September 1818, for eight dollars a month which he has since regularly received up to the 4 th March last - The said Asa Merrill further saith on his oath aforesaid that he is, by occupation a Cooper, that in consequence of lameness, a stiff knee, and the Rheumatism, he is unable to labor more than one fourth part of the time that his family consists of six persons besides himself constantly residing with him; his wife Sarah Merrill aged forty three years feeble and unable to labor, Betsey Cooley aged seventeen - Franklin Cooley aged fifteen, Aaron Cooley aged thirteen a cripple, having lost the use of one hand; Mary E. Merrill aged four and Maria F. Merrill aged two years - Betsey Cooley & Franklin Cooley are able nearly or wholly to earn their support & all the others are able to contribute little or nothing to their support -
and the said Asa Merrill 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 whatsoever disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby 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 eighteenth of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property (masonry wearing apparel and bedding excepted) 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 -
Sworn to and declared in open Court
Asa Merrill
on the 1 st day of September 1870 before
J. O. Walter, one of the Judges of our Court

State of New York
Onondaga County ss I Truman Adams Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the said County hereby certify that the fore- going is the said Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the 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 and Debts & Contracts belonging to the said Asa Merrill exhibited in the said Schedule is three hundred and seventy eight Dollars and ninety five cents and that the said Asa Merrill justly owes six hundred Doll- ars & twenty five cents — In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 7 th day of September 1820
Truman Adams Clk of said Court

Schedule of all the property of Asa Merrill taken the first day September 1820
   1 Set Cooper's Tools mostly old 32.50 2 Glass Jars 25   1 Grindstone 4.00 2 Tea pots 50   15 Barrels new & old 11.25 2 Sugar Bowls 31   3 Kgs old 1.00 2 Milk Cups 19   3 Bundles flags 12 2 Pitchers 25   19400 Staves & Shavings for all which 3 platters 88   1000 Hoop poles Samuel Merrill 263.21   1 Spade 1.00 2 Canisters 50   2 Axes 1.00 1 Roaster 50   3 Knives .37 5 tin pans 1.50   1/2 Shovel & Tongs 2.00 1 Grate 1 flame Box 12   1 Brass Kettle 3.00 1 Tumbler 1 Coffee 12   1 Iron doorknob 4.00 2.50 .50 6.00 1/2 Steel Yard 1.00   1 Pat 1.25 1 Waffle 10   1 Crank Frame & Hooks 2.00 3 Wooden Sugar Boxes 50   2 p fin Dogs 2.50 3 Jugs 25   5 Candlesticks & Lamps 2.50 2 Earthen pots 25   1 Lantern .25 1 Tea Kettle 1.00   12 Old Chains 6.00 9 Knives 9 forks 12 Spoons 6.50   1 Table 2.00 1 Stool .25   1 Stand 1.00 1/2 Shears 12   1 Secretary 15.00 1 broom 25   2 Mark Tables 2.00 1 Tin Waster 12   4 Small Tables 1.75 1 Mark Board 12   1 Large & 1 Small Wheel 4.00 3 pails 1.00   6 Old Chests 6 1 Umbrella 0.50   5 Old Trunks 5.00 1 Window Curtain 25   1 warming pan 1.50 1 Wheel Barrow 3.00   1 Frying pan .50 1 Cow 15.00   1 Spider .50 2 Hogs 5 pigs 12   1 Iron Barrow .50 9 Ducks 1.12   1/2 Smoothing Iron .75 Debts due supposed good collectable   2 Saws 2.50 Mehemeth White $3.00   2 Slat 1.25 Abijah Wilson Jr 0.75   1 Sickle .50 Daniel C. Dorr 2.00   30 Books principally School Books 12.00 Edward Boylston 1.00   3 old Packet Books 1.40 Isaac Dorr 0.50   6 Clothes toots & Shoe Brushes .75 Samuel & James Brown 10.00   1 Bot Blacking .12 Nathan Williams 3 rd 1.00   1 Set Razors & Shaving apparatus 3.00 Davis, Hugh 2.00   1 Barrel Soap 4.00 Daniel Dorr 0.40   2 p Cards .50 Daniel Dorr 0.38   12 Glass Bottles 1.50 George Dorr 1.50   20 Medicine vials & Medicine 2.50 Isaac Dorr 1.00   2 Looking Glasses 2 Alvan Marsh 2.44   1 Chamber 2.50 Sanford Palmer 0.50   8 bowls 2.00 Darius Gilmore 0.75   12 tea Cups & Saucers 1.00 Amos P. Grayson 0.88   2 Hf. pt. Tumblers 0.12 Nathan Dorr 1.19   Daniel Rockwell 0.50   Darius O. Merrill 1.00   Nancy Wilcox 1.00   Guy Fox 1.88   Abiah Dorr 1.00   John Watson 1.00   Asa Merrill 0.50   35.77   352.95  

Debts and supposed not collectable and most of them absolutely bad
  Ezra Stonehouse $2.00   John Buckner 9.26   E. Brunkard 7.72   Zephaniah Gats 11.00   Robert Oliphant 5.00   Reuben Spinn 1.53   Daniel Lumbard 3.00   Timothy Dinnick 2.00   Clark W. Brownell 2.00   Jonathan Jones 6.00   William Egan 7.50   Mary Curtis 2.00   Arnold Dexter 0.30   59.31 
1 Rev in Christ Church Manlius 20.00 1 Contract with Sylvanus Tousley for a village lot containing about an acre of land in Manlius village on which is a small house and a cooper's shop for which I was to pay 1000 Dollars & have paid as much as the interest lasting 11 Dollars, as the price of Houses and Lots has fallen since the bargain the contract is of no value
  Garden vegetables 5.00   Cash 1.00   378.95 
I justly owe Thomas J. Gilbert two hundred Dollars, which is secured on all the property I possess
I also owe on note an amount
  Reuben Bennett 72.00   Sylvanus Tousley 30.00   Bradford A. Patten 35.00   Nathan Williams 20.00   W. H. Gardner 80.00   Human Ward 16.00   Nicholas Phillips 11.00   George Eaton 12.00   Ephraim Eaton 7.00   Taylor & Bristol 10   Anny B. Moon 5   Ebenezer Minkok 2.50   David Hubbard 1   Isaac H. Osborn 7   Seth B. Kellogg 1   Hezekiah L. Framp 5.00   Asahel Norton 1.00   Roger Stibbens 1.00   Moulton Avery 5.00   Francis Benjamin 0.75   Jonathan Hubbard 1.00   Jacob Bradbury 1.00   Daniel Clark 1.25   Ebenezer Conner 0.25   Jacob L. Sherwood 2.00   Robert Gilman 1.00   Samuel Edwards 2.00   Elijah Rhoades 5.00   Thomas Moulton 5.00   Mr Brewster 1.50 
& probably others; when the debts in this schedule owing by me are not stated exactly it is believed they are stated left in some instances they may be much less than the exact sum - $542.25 so that I owe in all at least five hundred forty two Dollars & twenty five Cents besides the debt of $1000 due Tousley on contract and also to Morris, Hall & Co for goods 58.00
Total amount of debts $1542.25 Six hundred Dollars twenty five cents
Apa Merrill

H3 025
INVALID.
Rev
No. 48 025
Ida Merrill
Rev Rev Rev
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 366
[Arrangement of 1870.]

The Petition of Asa Merrill a Pensioner Under the Law of 18 March 1818 -
April 29 - 1822 To Lieut -
March 1819
Asa Merrill
Dec 30 - 1822
Ref d to Com. Rev. Pensions.
Delivered 7. Rev Pen:

(Copy.)
Schedule of all the property of Asa Merrill taken the first day of September 1820
 1 Set Cooper's tools (mostly old) 32.50  1 Grindstone 4.00  +15 barrels, new & old 11.25  +3 kegs (old) 1.00  +3 bundles flax 12  19400 Slabs sheathing } pale whitewash I am in debt  400 hoop poles  1 Spade 1.00  2 axes 1.00  +3 hoes .37  +1 pr. Shovel handles 2.00  1 Brass kettle 3.00  1 Iron kettle ea 4.00 1.50 & 50 6.00  1 Crane hummel hooks 2.00  1 pot 1.00  2 pair fire dogs 2.50  5 banditich. stumps 2.50  1 Lantern .25  12 old chains 6.00  1 Table 2.00  1 Stand 1.00  1 Sacram. 15.00  2 wash tubs 2.00  4 small tubs 1.75  1 large + 1 small wheel 4.00  6 old chests 6.00  5 in Trunks 5.00  1 warming pan 1.50  1 frying pan .50  1 Spider .50  1 Iron Broom .50  1 pr smoothing irons .75  2 Scissors .25  2 Skates .12  1 Sickle .50  30 books principally school books 12.00  3 old Pocket books 1.00  6 clothes teeth & shoe brushes .75  1 Set Razors & shaving apparatus 3.00  1 Barrel Soap 4.00  2 pairs Cards .50  12 Glass bottles 1.50  20 medicine vials medicine 2.50  12 looking glasses 2.00  1 Chandlar .25  8 bowls 2.00  12 tea cups & saucers 1.00  2 pf pint tumblers .12  2 Glass Sats .25  2 tea pots .50  2 Sugar bowls .31  2 milk cups .19  2 pitchers .25  3 platters .88 
 12 Canisters 50  +1 Roaster 50  6 tin pans 1.50  1 Greater (flour box) .12  1 Mammal Dipper .12  1 pair Steelyards 1.00  1 Water 10  3 wooden sugar boxes 50  3 Jugs 25  3 ea thin pots 25  1 tin Kettle 1.00  9 knives, 9 forks, 12 Spoons 4.50  1 Steel 25  1 pr Shears 12  1 broom 25  1 tin waiter 12  1 wash board 12  3 pails 1.00  1 Umbrella 50  +1 window curtain .25  +1 wheel barrow 9  1 Cow 10  +2 hogs, 5 pigs 12  +7 ducks 1.12  Debts due supposed good & collectable  Chemical White 3.00  Abijah Melonta Am .75  Daniel Dow 2.00  Edward Hoyt 1.00  Isidral Canville .50  Samuel Johnson Am 10  Nathan Williams 3 d 1  Davis, Hughes 2  Daniel Forre .40  Daniel French .38  George Dufour 1.50  Isaac Dufour 1.00  Alvah Beach 2.44  Samuel Palmer .50  Samuel Gilman .75  Amos M. Gage .88  Nathan Dorr 1.79  Daniel Rathbone 0.50  Dunn, O'Wells 1.00  Henry Miller 1.00  Ezra Fitch 0.88  Abiah Gage 1.00  John Walcutt 1.00  Asa Merrill 50 
 Debts due supposed not collectable & most of them also utterly bad  Ezra Merrill 2.00  John Merrill 9.26  E. Merrill 7.72  Stephen Merrill 11.00  Robert Clifland 5  Nathan Merrill 1.53  36.51 
$263.21
35 77 1/2
352.95
$263.21
over

Mad Debts are 36.51 Daniel Lumbard 3— Timothy Dininck 2— Clark W. Brownlee 2— Jonathan Jones 6— William Roye 7.50 Henry Cutlip 2— and 10 Dts 30 54.31
Henry O. Moon 1493.00 Ebenezer Hulch 2.50 David McCloud 1.00 Isaac H. Osgood 7.— Seth H. Kellogg 1— Hephzibah H. Sawyer 5— Asahel Norton 1— Noyes H. Merrill 1— Jonathan Avery 5— Francis Benjamin 75 Jonathan H. Blandford 1— Isaac Broadbury 1.00 Daniel Black 1.15 Ebenezer Conner 2.5 Jacob Sherwood 2— Robert Gilman 1— Samuel Edwards 2— Elisha Rhodes 5— Thomas Moseley 1.50 Mr. Brewster and also to Maria's Bill etc for food } 58— $600.25
1 New in Christ Church Machine 20— 1 contract with Sylvanus Towsley for a village lot, containing about an acre opened in Wadsworth village, on which is a small house & shop, for which I was to pay 1000 dollars, and have said annuity as the interest lacking 1100 dol- lars, as the sum of house & lot, has fallen since the bargain the contract is of no value 5.00 4 Garden vegetables 1.00 2 Cash $378.95
I justly owe Thomas J. Gilbert two hundred dollars, which is secured on all the property I possess (being in debt) 200 I also owe on note & account 72 Reuben Bement 20 Sylvanus Towsley 35 Bradford A. Pitkin 20 Nathan Williams 80 W. C. Gardner 16 Heman Ward 11 Nicholas Phillips 12 George Eaton 7 Ephraim Eaton 10 Mary in 11 Dts 10 493
Probably others; when the debts in this schedule owing by me are not stated exactly, it is believed they are stated less in some instances they may be much less than the exact sum - so that I owe in all at least six hundred dollars & twenty five cents besides, the debt of $1000 due Towsley on contract
All Me Will
State of New York } On this first day of September 1820 Onondaga County } personally appeared before the judges of the Court of common pleas, said County - Asa Merrill aged fifty eight years resident in said County, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the Revolu- tionary war as follows, for three years from May 1777 to May 1780, that he enlisted to serve for three years, in the town of Townsend county of Middlesex, State of Mass,achusetts, in Captain Hugh Maxwell's company, in the Regiment of Mass,achusetts troops commanded by Colonel Bulkeley and served

in the said Corps the whole term and was regularly discharged, that he made his declaration & application for a Pension under the act of 18 th March 1818 on the 6 th of April 1818, and afterwards received a pension certificate no 2954 dated the 25 th day of September 1818 for eight Dollars a month, which he has since regularly received up to the first of March last - The said Asa Merrill further saith on his oath afore said, that he is by occupation a Cook, that in consequence thereof, a stiff knee & the Rheumatism, he is unable to labor more than one fourth part of the time, that his family consists of six persons, besides himself, constantly residing with him - His wife Sarah Merrill, aged forty three years, feeble and unable to labor, Abigail Cooley aged seventeen years, Franklin Cooley aged fifteen. Aaron Cooley aged thirteen, a cripple having lost the use of one hand, Mary E. Merrill aged four, and Maria F. Merrill aged two years. Nelson Cooley & Franklin Cooley are able nearly or wholly to earn their support, and the others are able to contribute little or nothing to their support. and the said Asa Merrill do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift sale or in any manner whatever disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby to diminish it, as to being my 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 Revolutionary war" passed on the eighteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred & eighteen, & that I have not, nor any person in trust for me any property (real, any wearing apparel & bedding excepted) 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
Asa Merrill
Sworn to and declared in Open Court on the 11 th day of September 1840 Before J. G. Watters one of the Judges of Green Com Pleas
The Court adjudge the whole value of the property contracts & debts due Asa Merrill on the annexed schedule, to be three hundred & twenty eight Dollars & ninety five cents - That the said Asa Merrill justly owes at least six hundred Dollars & twenty five cents -

To the Honorable the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled
Your Petitioner, Asa Merrill a Soldier in the Army of the Revolution humbly representeth unto Your Honorable body, that he served in the Massachusetts line of the Revolutionary Army three years the full period of his Enlistment & was honorably discharged --- On the 6 th April 1818 he applied for a Pension under the Law of the 18. March 1818. which was granted dated 25. September of same year at Eight Dollars per Month which he received up to 4. March 1820 --- That on the 1 st September 1820. he made a schedule of his property under the law of May 2. 1820 a Copy of which Schedule is heret annexed and forwarded it to the War Department and received a Notice from the Pension Office dated in April last that he was stricken from the List of Pensioners --- That he was on the 6 th April 1818 & has ever since been in such indigent Circumstances as to need the assistance of his Country for Support having been all the time on the average unable to labor at his Coppers business or indeed at all more than one fourth of the time as ac- count of Lameness and Rheumatism; that his family have been and continue to be feeble and frequently Sick his Physicians Bills are very great and his necessary Expences of all kinds altogether beyond his income --- That at the time of making his said Schedule having had nearly two years pension paid him, and it being understood that his Pension would continue he had made a contract to purchase a small house and had run in debt for Coppers stuff so that it exceeded the inven- tory above $200. which has been said to be the highest sum allowed a pensioner who is to retain his Pension; Your Petitioner schedule amounting to $378.95 but that he owned at that time $600. leaving him insolvent more than $200 --- That since the 1 st September 1820 Your Petitioner has labored all in his power and disposed of all his property except a few necessary articles of household furniture & tools to pay his debts yet he still owes a large amount and is indebted to the humanity of his Creditors not only for the means to earn any thing; but for his personal free- dom from Gual --- Your Petitioner further Shews that he is not & has not for several months been able to dress or undress himself and should he continue in his present helpless State without your assistance in restoring his pension he must receive from Charity or the Poor Laws that assistance which he Confidently believes it was the intention of the Act of 18. March 1818 to grant in a manner less repugnant to the feelings of the unfortunate & more honorable to the United States when Liberty your Petitioner toiled and fought to Obtain --- Dated March, December 15. A.D. 1821 ---
Asa Merrill

The Undersigned Citizens of Mansfield & the vicinity being acquainted with Asa Merrill the within named Petitioner, and with his circumstances are fully convinced and believe his representations to be correct, and that he is fully entitled to the Pension granted him by the Law of 18. March 1818. Data Mansfield December 15. 1821-
Azariah Smith Sylvanus Loomis Heman Ward Vine Elderton Elisha Damer Nathan Tibbets Robert Loomis Harvey D. Ward W. L. Crippett Harry Moseley Wm Wood
E. Rhoades Alma Smith Stephen Morse J. Smith Aaron C. Hovey Youngs Ledyard R. H. Hopkins Nicholas P. Randle John Shugart Francis W. Taylor Asa Merrill

As to the property of Asa Merrill I know nothing - I have seen him since and he told him to be here.
The gentlemen who have above signed their names are known to me - they are gentlemen of the first respectability
Home of Reps. March 1 st 1823
C. Litchfield

Mansfield, N.Y. May 26. 1823
Sir,
Please to give an early attention to the Case of Asa Merrill (Paper account pursuing) & return answer to Your Obedt Agreeable Servt
Hon J. B. Calhoun

Applicant aged 50 years - - Lame, &c. & cannot labor more than \frac{1}{4} part of his time - - Wife, 48 yrs old - feeble - - 5 young persons in his family, four of them by the name of Cooley, & 1 by name of Merrill) from 17 to 2 yrs old - 2 of the Cooley, are able to support themselves -
Sched: $370.95 - NO Appear to have other property not estimated in the above amount -
Served 3 years.

New York.
Asa Morris, private Served 3 years, 1777, 78 & 79
Aged 61 yrs. By occupation a Cooper "not able to labor more than one fourth part of his time at his trade"
Family. - Wife 46 - "Detsy Cooly - 20" Aaron Cooly, a cripple 16 & 2 children 7 & 5 yrs old. none of them are able wholly to provide for themselves.
Schedule dated 1 st Sept. 1820.
 1 set of Cooper's tools mostly old $32.50  1 Grindstone 4.  19,400 staves & heading { for in 400 Hoop poles 112.  Shovel tongs & Rattles 11.  12 old chairs, $6 - Table & stand 38 9.  1 Secretary 15.  Hubb, wheels, chests & Trunks 18.75  33 Books 13.  1 watch 10.  1 Cow - $15 - 2 Hogs & 5 pigs $12 27.  A variety of articles of house- hold & kitchen furniture 64.93  Debts due to him & supposed good and collectable 35.77  1 Pew in church $20. - vegetables $5. each $4 $ 352.95 26.  Over $ 378.95 
 1. Schedule - Over $378.95  Debts due to him & supposed not collectable $59.31.  He states that he had contracted for the lot on which his house & cooper's shop stand containing about one acre situated in the Village of Manlius & had paid the interest on the money ex- cept $11. but "as the price of Houses & lots has fallen since the bargain the Contract is of no value" he "was to pay - 1000 dollars"  He states that he owed besides the $1200 for the lot the sum of $600: 25 / 100 to a num- ber of persons whose names he has stated  Certified by the Court that the amount in value of his property was $378.95  Debts to him justly owed $600.25 
 2. Schedule - dated 26 th May, 1823.  1 set cooper's tools $15.  A lot of refuse staves, some head- ing & hoop poles 6.  1 Secretary 10.  33 old Books 8  1 old silver watch 10.  1 Cow $10 - Table & chairs $6 16.  A variety of articles of house- hold and kitchen furniture 50.59  Debts due to him $115.59  Debts due to him 2.50  Debts due to him $118.09 
He accounts for the changes made in his property by saying that his cooper's tools "are much worse & reduced in value" that the "19,400 staves & heading 400 hoop poles &c" have been "worked up into barrels by hired labor & disposed of to pay for that labor & support his family" - that his "1 Cow has been killed & broken" - that many of the articles mentioned in first schedule have been worn or reduced in value &c - that the Pew he held has be- come ripe he not being able to pay for it - that his contract for the lot in Manlius for $1000, became forfeited, by the stoppage of his pension & that he had commuted by giving up the improvements he had made on it & paying him $70 a year rent" [I now rent from Isaac Hall"] He also states that the debts owing by him to several persons (naming them) amount- ing to $349: 50 / 100 remain unpaid.
$26.66
Restored 21 June 1823
Isaiah Smith, Esq., Manlius, New York.

Changes made in the property of Asa Merrill since making his schedule on the first day of September 1820 - up to this 26th day of May 1823 - (D. X. ...)
The set of Cooper's Tools are much worn & reduced in value one saw of $1.75 value sold to Samuel Edwards in part payment for pasturing a Cow.
"Grindstone" fell half worn out
"15 barrels" delivered of to Messrs Hull & Morley for necessary family supplies in payment of bills against me
"3 old kegs" gone to decay
"3 bundles flags" } Worked up into barrels by hired labor & disposed 17400 Staves, heading } of to pay for that labor to procure provision 400 hoop poles" support for my family in payment of Debt, due Sylvanus Tinsley, Newton Bennett, Merrill, Hull & Co & the Debt due W. H. Gardner. -
Household articles - some alterations. many articles reduced in value worn out & gone. some lasting articles added -
"1 barrel soap" - used up "1 ax" & "1 wheelbarrow" nearly worn out - lent & lost
"2 Hogs skins" - fatted & eaten
"Garden vegetables" - eaten
"Cash $1.00" - expended in going to Mendota to make schedule - 1820. -
"Debts due supposed good & collectable" settled except Simon Williams - They dispute my demand.
"Debts due supposed not collectable and most of them absolutely bad" nothing received - nothing can be -
"1 pew in Christ Church New Haven" delivered of Sylvanus Tinsley towards a note he held against me for the Pew itself.
"Contract with Sylvanus Tinsley" &c - when my pension stopped in 1820. the contract became forfeited. I commuted with Tinsley by giving up considerable improvements & by paying him $70 a year rent. I now rent of Isaac Hull.
Of the debts owing - That to Thomas J. Gilbert remains unpaid $200 -    I. also owe David Ely 45.00 William Morley 22.75 R. Bennett 19. - 86.75   Smith & Clark 18.00 Daniel Hubbard in Exention 14.00 32. -   Nathan Williams 20.00 Nathan Hubbard 7.00 Ebenezer Ward 3.75 30.75   & sundry other small debts - $349.50 
Asa Merrill

Schedule of all the property of Asa Merrill taken the 26 th day of May 1823. - (6.)
   1 Set Cooper's tool 15.00 1 tub water 104 35   1 Grindstone 2.00 wash board 12   A lot of refuse Staves, some 6.00 3 pails 50   Heading & Hoop Poles 0.50 1 umbrella 50   1 Spade .50 1 Cow 10.00   1 Axe 2.50 $118.59   1 pair Shovels & Lor. gr 2.00 Debts due   1 Brass Kettle 3.00. 1.00, 50 George Stocum 1.50   1 Iron kettle ea 4.50 Nathan Williams 1.00   1 Crane Hammel & Hook 2.00 $118.09   1 pot Crouton .50   2 pair fire Dogs 2.00   5 Candle sticks, Stumps 1.50   12 Chairs 4.50 1 Lantern 25 4.75   2 tables 4.00   1 Stand 0.50   1 Secretary 10.00   2 wash tubs 1.00   2 small tubs .75   1 large wheel 1.50   6 old beds, stumps 6.00   1 warming pan 1.00   1 frying pan 1 Iron Basin .25   1 Spider .25   1 pair Smoothing Iron .37   1 Sewing 1 Skate 1 Sickle .38   30 old books, 3 parcel books 8.00   6 old brushes .37   1 Set Razors & Shaving apparatus 1.50   1 pair Cords .12   4 Glass Bottles .50   20 vials for medicine 1.25   2 Looking Glasses 1.50   1 Chamber .25   3 bowls .38   12 tea Cups & Saucers .50   3 Hf pint tumblers .12   2 salts .25   1 tea pot .25   2 Sugar bowls .25   1 Milk Cup .12   1 pitcher .12   2 Dishes .50   4 wood bowls 1.00   2 clay Plates 1.50   1 Canister .25   6 old tin pans 1.00   1 Water plumet 1 Tumbel .17   1 Dipper 1 pair Steelyard 0.81   1 old silver Watch 10.00   3 Sugar boxes 3 Sugar 3 pats 1.00   1 tea Kettle .50   11 Knives & Forks & 14 Spoons 3.00   1 Steel pair Shears 1 broom .37   104 35  
Asa Merrill

DECLARATION,
In order to be restored to the Pension List, under the Act of the 1st March, 1823.
Court of Common Pleas, State of New York County of Onondaga ss.
On this 26 th day of May 1823, personally appeared in open court, (a) [being a court of record (b) for the district, circuit, county, or corporation, as the case may be,] Asa Merrill
resident in said county, aged sixty one years, who, being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress, of the 18th March, 1818, and the 1st May, 1820, that he, the said Asa Merrill enlisted for the term of three years, on the _____ day of May, in the year 1777 in the state of Massachusetts in the company commanded by captain Hugh Maxwell in the regiment commanded by colonel Bailey in the line of the state of Massachusetts on the continental establishment; that he continued to serve in the said corps until May 1780 when he was discharged from the said service, in West Point in the state of New York
that his name has been placed on the pension list, and dropped therefrom on account of his property; that he is lame & unable to labor more than one fourth part of his time at his trade (cooper's business) that his family consists of five persons usually residing with him & whom he has to provide for, viz Sarah Merrill his wife aged forty six, Betsey Cooley aged twenty, Aaron Cooley & Abigail aged sixteen, Mary E. Merrill aged fourteen & Maria F. Merrill aged five, none of whom are able wholly to provide for themselves.
And, in pursuance of the act of the 1st May, 1820, I do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) 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, necessary to support applicant & his family or securities, contracts, debts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. (c) That, since the exhibition of my first schedule, the following changes have been made in my property. (d)
Asa Merrill
Sworn to, and declared, on the 26 th day of May 1823 before me I, Daniel Moseley clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Onondaga do hereby certify, that it appears, to the satisfaction of the court, that the said Asa Merrill did serve in the Revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding declaration, against the common enemy, for the term of nine months, under one engagement, on the continental establishment. I also certify, that the foregoing oath, (or affirmation,) and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the records of the 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 one hundred & eighteen dollars and nine cents.
William H. Hall, Just Judge, Onondaga Court Pleas.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said court, on this twenty sixth day of May 1823.
D. Moseley Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Onondaga

P. 114 1857 Payable 4 March & 4 th Septm r in each year By Bk. U.S. New York
I issue a certificate in favor of Asa Merrill, in lieu of the certificate; and inform the P. Agt. that the name is Merrill, and not Morrill—,
Hon. W. Taylor H.R.
Recorded.

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim
I CERTIFY, That in conformity with the Law of the UNITED STATES, of the 10 th March 1818
Ezra Norril — late a private — in the Massachusetts line of the Revolutionary Army is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the New York — Agency, at the rate of eight dollars 50 cents per month, to commence on the sixth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
GIVEN at the WAR OFFICE of the UNITED STATES, this twenty fifth day of September one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
J. C. Calhoun Secretary of War

State of New York County of Onondaga ss. Be it remembered that on this twenty eighth day of May 1836 Agassiz Smith personally appeared before the undersigned & made oath in due form of law that he is well acquainted with Asa Merrill of Manlius, and has been constantly since the year 1810 - That Asa Merrill aforesaid early in 1818 made application before Hon James E. Walter, for a Pension & during the same year obtained this certificate, which at the said judge had his office in the store of this deponent, and as this de- ponent was intimately acquainted with him, this deponent saw in the hand of the said judge very soon after its date. The deponent saith also further, that he assisted the said Asa Merrill to make his inventory & statement respecting property in 1820 & of the amount for which he was first struck off & finally restored to the Pension Rolls to take
effect from the 28 th May 1823 which said deponent understood from the enclosure of Hon J. L. Edwards dated 21 June 1823 now before this deponent. This deponent further saith that for at least six or seven or more as three fourths of the said Asa Merrill, Pension Power from 1818 to the present time have been drawn by this deponent or some of his Clerks at each time of making which this certifi- cate was present & a copy made stating in the within that the name of the Pensioner in the certificate was Asa Merrill instead of Asa Merrill, & to the knowledge of this deponent the said Asa Merrill has on his said power drawn his Pension up to the 4 th of September last past, always signing his name Asa Merrill. This deponent further saith that from his knowledge of the said Asa Merrill & his said Pension business, of this certificate, this deponent is certain that Asa Merrill of Manlius, the signers of the annexed affidavit
is the person truly intended by this certificate as the person who served the Country so as to entitle him to a Pension & who made applica- tion & obtained this certificate for his own use. - Agassiz Smith Taken & subscribed before me this 28 th day of May 1836.
Robert Gilmore Justice of the Peace
I certify that I am well acquainted with Agassiz Smith who made the above affidavit, that he is a person of truth & veracity & that full confidence may be seen to his statement
Robert Gilmore Justice of the Peace
(2954.)

State of New York County of Onondaga ss. Asa Merrill of Syracuse, in said County being duly sworn deposes & states that he is of the age of seventy two years or upwards, that his service in the Revolutionary war for three years, & was entitled to a pension under the act of 1818. that he applied for the same to Judge Whittier of Syracuse, who made his findings which were sworn this deponent believes before him Judge Trowbridge of said County & that this deponent soon after received this certificate in which his name was misspelt "Merrill" instead of "Merrill", but that with the exception of a short time when this document was stuck from the roll, he has made his pension from this certificate & has drawn his money up to 4th Sept last past, but understands since then, that the agent at Albany will not pay a draft made in name last because he does not write his name & call himself Merrill .
Taken before me this 28th day of May 1836 before me Robert Gilmer Justice of the Peace Asa Merrill
State of New York } Onondaga County } ss. I Hanson Edwards Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County do hereby certify that Robert Gilmer before whom the foregoing Affidavits purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and qualified and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the per rata of said Affidavits to be his genuine signature. Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 30th day of May 1836 A. Edwards clerk
Asa Merrill hereby makes application for a new certificate in stead of the within in which his name shall be correctly spelt Asa Merrill that his pension draft may be regularly paid for this purpose that the annexed affidavits are set to the Pension Office. Dated 28 May 1836. Asa Merrill
He has one of A. Smith