Individual Details
Archelaus MERRITT
(1759 - 1760 - 30 Mar 1824)
1810, Boone Co., KY, Arche'd Merret head:
1 m 26-45
1 f 16-26
1820, Jeffersontown, Jefferson Co., KY, Archilaus Merrett, head:
1 free white male 45 and over, 1 engaged in manufacture
Only one in his household
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KY-FOOTSTEPS/2000-02/0949842366
ARCHELAUS MERRITT
JEFFERSON COUNTY
PRIVATE
VIRGINIA LINE
$96.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$276.64 AMOUNT RECEIVED
NOVEMBER 27, 1821 PENSION STARTED
AGE 64
DIED MARCH 30, 1824
Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters
Pension Application of Archelaus Merritt S36124
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Kentucky
Fifth Judicial District St
On the 13 day of July 1821 personally appeared in open court to-wit, in the Jefferson
Circuit Court being a court of record, with power to fine & imprison and whose proceedings are enrolled & signed Archelaus Merritt, a resident of said County of Jefferson in said District, which said County comprises the Jefferson Circuit, aged about 61 years who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war between Great Britain & the U States as follows: that he entered the company commanded by Captain [William Lewis] Lovely at Chesterfield old Court house in the spring of 1781, that in a short time he marched toward the point of Fork [at the confluence of James and Rivanna rivers, 28 May 1781] & marched to & fro in Virginia till the fall, when the company took up Winter Quarters at Cumberland old Court house, that a short time after he entered the company Capt Lovely left it & Capt afterwards Major Sam’l. Finley [Samuel Finley] took command, and in a short time Captain Abraham Kirkpatrick took command of the Company and commanded it until the deponent was
discharged at Cumberland old Court House in the fall 1782. He states that he served 18 months as aforesaid. He states that it is not in his power to state, to what regiment he belonged, but he states that the field officers by whome he was commanded were first Major [John] Poulson, then Colonel [Thomas] Gaskins, Colo. Tho. Posey [Thomas Posey] and by Colonel Christian Fibiger [sic: Christian Febiger], who commanded at the time of this deponents discharge. He states that his service was in the Virginia line on the continental establishment. He states that he received a written discharge signed by Gen’l. Peter Muhlenberg, but that it is long since lost or destroyed; and he solemnly swears that he was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain person 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 he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him nor has he any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed to-wit a part of a set of Waggon making tools consisting of 5 augers, two good axes, one good plain, three drawing knives, one foot adz; and also one pot & a few dishes & plates, four knives & forks, and timber already gotten out enough to make six or seven wheels.
This declarant states that he is by occupation a farmer, that latterly he has done a little at the Waggon makers business; that his wife the woman with whom he lived 28 years is living, about 48 years of age; that he had by her seven children, three sons & four daughters none of whom are now living with him nor have been for nearly four years – that he never was married to the sd woman that he now lives alone he is feeble in health & has been at intervals lame for many years on account of pains in his hips
[signed] Archelaus Merritt
NOTE: A size roll of noncommissioned officers and privates compiled at Chesterfield Courthouse lists the following: Achiles Merit, age 21, height 5’ 10”, light hair, grey eyes, fair complexion, planter, born and residing in Essex County where he enlisted as a substitute on 10 Apr 1781 for 18 months, having previously served three years in the “2 S Reg’t” (probably 2nd State Regiment). The latter service may not have been mentioned in Merritt’s declaration, because only service in the Continental Establishment counted toward a pension under the acts of 1818 and 1820.
1 m 26-45
1 f 16-26
1820, Jeffersontown, Jefferson Co., KY, Archilaus Merrett, head:
1 free white male 45 and over, 1 engaged in manufacture
Only one in his household
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/KY-FOOTSTEPS/2000-02/0949842366
ARCHELAUS MERRITT
JEFFERSON COUNTY
PRIVATE
VIRGINIA LINE
$96.00 ANNUAL ALLOWANCE
$276.64 AMOUNT RECEIVED
NOVEMBER 27, 1821 PENSION STARTED
AGE 64
DIED MARCH 30, 1824
Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements & Rosters
Pension Application of Archelaus Merritt S36124
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris
State of Kentucky
Fifth Judicial District St
On the 13 day of July 1821 personally appeared in open court to-wit, in the Jefferson
Circuit Court being a court of record, with power to fine & imprison and whose proceedings are enrolled & signed Archelaus Merritt, a resident of said County of Jefferson in said District, which said County comprises the Jefferson Circuit, aged about 61 years who being first sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war between Great Britain & the U States as follows: that he entered the company commanded by Captain [William Lewis] Lovely at Chesterfield old Court house in the spring of 1781, that in a short time he marched toward the point of Fork [at the confluence of James and Rivanna rivers, 28 May 1781] & marched to & fro in Virginia till the fall, when the company took up Winter Quarters at Cumberland old Court house, that a short time after he entered the company Capt Lovely left it & Capt afterwards Major Sam’l. Finley [Samuel Finley] took command, and in a short time Captain Abraham Kirkpatrick took command of the Company and commanded it until the deponent was
discharged at Cumberland old Court House in the fall 1782. He states that he served 18 months as aforesaid. He states that it is not in his power to state, to what regiment he belonged, but he states that the field officers by whome he was commanded were first Major [John] Poulson, then Colonel [Thomas] Gaskins, Colo. Tho. Posey [Thomas Posey] and by Colonel Christian Fibiger [sic: Christian Febiger], who commanded at the time of this deponents discharge. He states that his service was in the Virginia line on the continental establishment. He states that he received a written discharge signed by Gen’l. Peter Muhlenberg, but that it is long since lost or destroyed; and he solemnly swears that he was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that he has not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of his property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring himself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “an act to provide for certain person 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 he has not nor has any person in trust for him any property or securities contracts or debts due to him nor has he any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by him subscribed to-wit a part of a set of Waggon making tools consisting of 5 augers, two good axes, one good plain, three drawing knives, one foot adz; and also one pot & a few dishes & plates, four knives & forks, and timber already gotten out enough to make six or seven wheels.
This declarant states that he is by occupation a farmer, that latterly he has done a little at the Waggon makers business; that his wife the woman with whom he lived 28 years is living, about 48 years of age; that he had by her seven children, three sons & four daughters none of whom are now living with him nor have been for nearly four years – that he never was married to the sd woman that he now lives alone he is feeble in health & has been at intervals lame for many years on account of pains in his hips
[signed] Archelaus Merritt
NOTE: A size roll of noncommissioned officers and privates compiled at Chesterfield Courthouse lists the following: Achiles Merit, age 21, height 5’ 10”, light hair, grey eyes, fair complexion, planter, born and residing in Essex County where he enlisted as a substitute on 10 Apr 1781 for 18 months, having previously served three years in the “2 S Reg’t” (probably 2nd State Regiment). The latter service may not have been mentioned in Merritt’s declaration, because only service in the Continental Establishment counted toward a pension under the acts of 1818 and 1820.
Events
| Birth | 1759 - 1760 | Essex Co., Virginia |  | ||
| Military | May 1778 - Nov 1779 | Virginia |  | ||
| Military | 10 Apr 1781 | Enlisted same date as Major Merritt - Essex Co., Virginia | |||
| Property | 25 Jun 1783 | Rev. War, Private, VA, Bounty Land Grant for 100 acres | |||
| Census | 1810 | Boone Co., Kentucky | |||
| Census | 1820 | Jeffersontown, Jefferson Co., Kentucky | |||
| Death | 30 Mar 1824 | Jefferson Co., Kentucky | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah HARPER ( - ) |
| Child | Judith MERRITT (1803 - ) |
| Child | John MERRITT ( - ) |
| Child | Katherine MERRITT ( - ) |
| Father | Unknown Placeholder MERRITT (1730 - ) |
| Mother | Unknown Placeholder mother ( - ) |
| Sibling | Tapley MERRITT (1751 - 1783) |
| Sibling | William MERRITT (1762 - 1841) |
| Sibling | Major MERRITT (1763 - 1826) |
Notes
Military
Capt Henry Dudley’s Company of 2nd VA State Regiment commanded by Col Gregory Smith. Made it to White Plains NY for sure. U.S. Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783, pages 528 through 583Endnotes
1. ",'" , Virginia Continental Line, Library of Virginia.
2. Pension file.