Merritt Families of North Carolina Lynne Slater Turner

Built-in 1 Mar 1755 in Essex County, Colony of Virginia

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Died 22 May 1831 in Anderson, Due south Carolina, United States

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Private James Merritt served with Surry County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

James Merritt was built-in in 1755 in Essex County, Virginia. He married Sarah Foster.^[1] In 1830, James Merritt was living in Anderson County, South Carolina. His son, Josiah, was living adjacent door.^[2]

Note

Note: Abbrev: Rev. war pension awarding

Title: Rev. war pension awarding

Material from Allen Hargrove: Annotation:At that place is no documentation in file to bear witness that James is the father of Allen. Date and place of birth: 1 March 1755, Essex Canton, Virginia, from awarding 10 June 1833 for a pension based on Revolutionary State of war. He is the merely James Merritt with a Revolutionary War Service pension. Also, same information from form D-2856, Revolutionary War Records Department, Section of the Interior, Bureau of Pensions, Washington, D. C. listing battles and other information, including date and place of birth. Copies in file.

Apr 1997: The records of James Merritt b. 1 March 1755 Essex Co. VA - Died: 1833 Anderson District, SC who married Sarah Foster are confused with data on James Merritt b. ca 1744 d. 8 ? 1796 NC who married Nancy Coggin in the National Archives. The DAR has finally admitted that. See below.

Update September 1996: Mildred Stephens: DAR Mag, May 1995. Corrections

Letter of the alphabet to Grace Youngblood of Missouri who was seeking documentation for her

Note: There is a DAR line from a James Merritt (who was married to Nancy Coggin) who died in N Carolina and whose record appears to have been virtually identical to our James Merritt. We know our James was awarded a alimony and that his married woman was Sarah. There are questions regarding the other i. According to the National Archives, at that place records of just one James Merritt from North Carolina in the Revolutionary War files.

Will: Anderson Canton, Due south Carolina; Vol. ane-A, page 422, 1832.

Spousal relationship: The only record found is a matrimony bond for a James Merritt & a-------(stop)

US Demography M32 Roll 50 1800 S Carolina, Colonel Brown's District

Dr. Bobby Moss, PATRIOTS AT KINGS Mount. Meritt, James, b 1 March 1755, d(terminate)

Per Louise Merritt: "James joined the North Carolina troops. His war alimony.

Every bit administrator of diverse South Carolina estates, a James Merritt brought suit every bit executor of wills and collected debts owed to the estates in a number of cases. Copies in file. In several of the cases, he is listed every bit James H. or James Harvey Merritt; in the remainder and in all other known documents, he is listed as James Merritt. There is no proof that this is our James Merritt, simply the proper noun Harvey is plant in every generation of his descendants. His middle name may have been Harvey. All of the higher up material was received from Allen Hargrove in Fall of 1997.

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Birth,Marriage & death: Lynne Turner's book "Descendants of Edward Merritt" Vol I page 22. Also Vol II page 284. At that place is a annex to Vol II page 27.

Temple:B,Due east,SP:IGI Virginia page 22,040 Piece of work done twice.1st with appointment 1755 1985 in Ogden Temple. 2nd done with ane Mar 1755 in IFALL temple 1978. SS: not done in SC or NC.

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DATE 1774 PLAC Surry County NC Tax List

Sources

• Beginnings.com. U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Country Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original information: Revolutionary War Pension and Compensation-Country Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Section of Veterans Affairs, Record Group xv. National Athenaeum, Washington, D.C. [1]
• South Carolina Volition Transcripts, 1782-1868; Author: Brimelow, Judith Grand.; Probate Identify: Anderson, South Carolina Ancestry.com. South Carolina, U.S., Wills and Probate Records, 1670-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, The states: Beginnings.com Operations, Inc., 2015. [2]

1. ↑ Slater Turner, Lynne. The Descendants of Edward Merritt 1714-1989 Volume 1, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1989.
2. ↑ United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:i:XHGY-427 : 18 Baronial 2015), James Merritt, Anderson, South Carolina, United States; citing 155, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 173; FHL microfilm 22,507.

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