MERRIT
or MERRITT or MERRET, Stephen & Dicey
North Carolina W 25693
Bounty Land
Warrant Number 36198-160-55
Allen County,
10 June 1833 in open court STEPHEN MERRIT
aged 71 deposes that he served 3 months as a
private under CAPTAIN BRINLLEY in 1778; 3 months
under CAPT. POWERS 1779 and 3 months under
CAPTAIN PITTS in 1780.
Was born in
Halifax County, N.C. sometime in 1762. Lived in
that county when called into service. Since that
war moved to Rockingham Co., N.C. thence to Cape
Fear River, N.C. thence to Pendleton County, S.C.
and thence to Barren County, Ky. Thence to Allen
County, Kentucky. He was drafted into service.
Cites ZACHARIAH BRIDGES, URIAH WHITNEY, JOHN G.
WHITNEY, GEORGE W. MANSFIELD, FLEMMING HAINES,
and JOHN WHITNEY, Esq. as neighborhood witnesses.
JOHN BROOKS,
clergyman, FLEMMING W. HAINES, and GEORGE W.
MANSFIELD all of Allen County testify to his age
and character and their belief in his
Revolutionary service.
Allen County,
same date. JOHN WHITNEY deposes that he has
lived near STEPHEN MERITT for 30 years. He
recollects his uncles who were in the
Revolutionary War saying that many years since
that said MERRIT served with them in said War.
Allen County, 1
June 1833. Before JOHN WHITNEY, J.P., and ANN
WHITNEY aged about 75 swears on oath that she and
STEPHEN MERRIT were raised children together in
Halifax Co., N.C. and that she lived within a
mile and a half of the father of the said STEPHEN
MERRIT whom said STEPHEN then resided with. She
recollects said STEPHEN being drafted and saw him
leave the neighborhood to serve against the
British and Tories.
Allen County,
15 Aug. 1855. Mrs. DICEY MERRITT, aged 75,
deposes that she is the widow of STEPHEN MERRIT;
she married him 24 July 1828 and he died 23 Dec.
1843. Sworn before THOMAS HARSTON, J.P.A.C.
Allen County,
same date. SAMUEL HARSTON, aged 75, and
SAMUEL HAINS aged 53 testify to long acquaintance
with STEPHEN MERRIT and his wife DICEY MERRIT who
"according to what we have always heard and
believed were married in Ky. in 1828 and the name
of said DICEY MERRITT before marriage was DICEY
LEVI."
On 15 Aug. 1855,
J.W. FITZGERALD, D.C. for SAMUEL SWEARINGEN C.C.
Certifies among other things that "From the
records of my office it appears that there was
issued by the clerks of the court a marriage
license between said STEPHEN MERRITT and DICEY
LEVI on 26, July 1828 and though said License has
never been returned to said office according to
law yet I believe the rites of matrimony were
consummated by a legal authroized minister but
failed to make return of them."
Covering
Jacket: Kentucky ------- 22,222 Stephen
Merrit, Allen County, Pvt. Company Capt. Powers,
9 months service. Inscribed on Ky. Roll at $30
per year to begin 4 March 1831. Certificate of
pension issued 18 Oct. 1833.
Dicey Merritt,
Kentucky, 15,464. Inscribed on Roll at $30 per
year to begin 3 Feb. 1853. Certificate of Pension
issued 8 Sept. 1855.
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