Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,164, for John Miller, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE
Continental (Pa) 
Miller, John 
NUMBER S.40.164 
b.1751
CONTENTS
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2914
Pennsylvania
John Miller, 1st 4
Capt Conen
Washington's aide Sergeant guards
Pennsylvania Line
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War
Continental
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 21st of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 22nd of Sept. 1818
and sent to John Cooper, Esq.
Easton, Penna
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818.  4 mons 14/30.  35. 73
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Mar 1819   . .        48. 00
                                                                       $83.73
{Revolutionary claim,}
{Act 18th March, 1818.}
4 years
18/66
Nazareth North
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40 164
Invalid
Revy
le No. 40,164
John Miller
Serg {illegible}
Act: 18 March 18
Index: -- Vol. 3,
Page 339
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 
Northampton County to wit }  
On this 21st day of April 1818, before me the Subscriber an Associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid personally appears John Miller aged nearly sixty seven years resident in Nazareth township in the said County who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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." That he the said John Miller enlisted at Philadelphia in the Commonwealth aforesaid on the seventh day of December 1779 for during the war in the troop of Cavalry commanded by Captain Bartholomew Vanhare (commonly called Genl Washington's Life Guards) on the continental establishment and that he was appointed quarter masters’ Sergeant of the same, that he continued to serve in the said Corps, in the service of the United States until a short time after the close of the War, when he was discharged at Baltimore in the State of Maryland but his discharge was destroyed with his house by fire. That he was at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, the storming of Stoney Point, Monmouth, Fishkill, Elizabethtown & the capture of Cornwallis that he is reduced circumstances, and by reason of the same and his advanced age stands in need of assistance from his country for support: and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said service 
Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesd 
Johannes Miller
Jno Cooper
I John Cooper Esquire, Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Miller did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony had & taken before me, to the Secretary for the department of War, pursuant to the aforementioned act of Congress 
Witness my Hand and seal at Easton in the County aforesaid the day and year aforesaid 
Jno Cooper
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Admitted 
I Henry Spering Esquire Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Northampton in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Do Certify that the Hon. John Cooper Esquire whose signature is affixed to the within certificate of deposition & and was at the time of signing the same an associate of the aforesaid Court & that due faith and credence to be given to his acts as such – 
Witness my Hand & Seal of office this twenty third day of April 1818 
H. Spering
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51- 12 - 5 - 41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives
NAME  Miller, John   GRADE Private  LINE Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 13469    ACREAGE    100   ISSUED   June 27, 1791 to not shown – 
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of  "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.