Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7213, for Martin Miller, Maryland
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Service
MD

Name
Miller, Martin

Number 
R.7213
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Betters at Frederick Town. He also volunteered in the same county under Capts. Wood, Smith and Haugh or Huff that he recollects said Smith having been in different engagements but was not with him in any of them and recollects having guarded the magazine about a mile from Frederick Town under Capt. Haugh & he remembers having gone into Baltimore the day on which a cargo of ship cargo of salt belonging to [illegible] Stephens not therein overboard. He was while in the service at Annapolis Tawney Town, Lancaster & he has no documentary evidence, nor does he know of anyone now living by whom he can prove his service. That he was unwilling to apply for a pension as long as he could & like mistrust it. He further deposeth and says that by reason of old age & subsequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service or the different durations of times for which he volunteered but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the period mentioned below in the following grades. For two years & six months I served as a private & for such service I claim a pension. He knew Generals Washington & Putnam & Smallwood he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension
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rolls of the agency of any state. To the first inquiry [illegible] to be put as to his birth he answers that he was born in Frederic County Maryland. To the second be answers that he has no record of his age. To the 3rd he says he resided in Frederic aforesaid when he entered the service. That since than he has resided in Montgomery County Maryland & in Rockingham North Carolina where he now resides. To the 4th he says he says he [illegible]. To the 5th he says he knew Generals Washington & Putnam & Smallwood. To the 6th he says he never rec'd a discharge that he recollects. To the 7th he says George Counts & Luke Palmer.

Martin Miller
His X Mark

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.

Aaron P Robertson - JP

Mr. George Counts & Luke Palmer residing in the county of Rockingham & state of North Carolina hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Martin Miller who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ninety years of age, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution & that we concur in that opinion, Said court certifies that many years ago he had different conversations with said Miller & when he had no expectation of applying for a pension, about his services which left on his mind a fixed impression the said Miller had been in the revolution of which he felt himself the better enabled to judge
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from having himself had some participation in the revolutionary service of Maryland of which state he is himself a native but for which he asks no other record than that which the recollection of it affords him.

George Counts
Luke Palmer

Sworn to and subscribed the day & year aforesaid.

And the said A P Robertson Justice as aforesaid does hereby declare his opinion that said Miller is unable to attend court being now prostrated on his bed, he further certifies that there is no clergyman in his immediate neighborhood. He further certifies that George Counts & Luke Palmer are residents of the County of Rockingham that they are credible persons & that their statement is entitled to credit - that it would be inconvenient for them to attend the next court said Counts Being himself 84 years of age & he further certifies that after the investigation of the matter & after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was in his opinion a revolutionary soldier & served as he states.

Given under my hand & seal the day & year aforesaid.

A.P. Robertson JP
SEAL
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33802

Martin Miller
N.C.
Act 7 June 32
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I T.B. Wheeler clerk of the court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions of the county of Rockingham and sate of North Carolina do hereby certify that A.P. Robertson whose name appears to the annexed declaration of martin Miller was at the time of so doing the same and acting justice of the peace for the County aforesaid that the signature annexed is his genuine signature & that full faith and credit are due to his official acts.

Given under my hand & seal of office this 12th day of July 1844.

T.B. Wheeler Clerk of the Court of Rockingham County

In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of my office & subscribed my name this 12th day of July A.D. 1844.

T.B. Wheeler - C.C.C.
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State of North Carolina
County of Rockingham} S.S.

Be it known, that on this the 28th day of September Eighteen hundred and fifty two, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the county and State aforesaid, personally appeared John Miller, a resident in Said county, and made oath according to law, that he is the Son, of Martin Miller, Deceased; who was a Revolutionary Soldier; that the Said Martin Miller, made application for a Pension under the act, of 7th June 1832; And he has been informed , that the Said Pension ought to be allowed; that he is directly interested as a claimant, in Said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence, or arguments, as my Agent may use in prosecuting Said claim.
Sworn to and Subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me, Thos. Roach, J Peace 

John Miller  X his mark  (Sealed)

I, Thomas Roach, a Justice of the Peace, in and for Said County, do hereby certify that John Miller, who executed the foregoing paper, is a respectable resident of the county, and is I, believe, directly interested as a claimant, as therein set forth.  Thos. Roach  J. Peace

I, Thomas B. Wheeler, clerk of the court of Pleas & quarter sessions, for the county & State aforesaid, do hereby certify that Thomas Roach Esquire, before whom,. the foregoing papers were executed, was at the date of the Same a justice of the Peace in and for Said County duly authorized, by law to administer oaths; and the name thereto subscribed is his genuine Signature:
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this the 28th day of September 1832. T B Wheeler  Clerk
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7213

Martin Miller
Discharged: Rejected
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FREE

(stamp) ANNAPOLIS  FEB 20

The Honble. David S. Reid.
House Repts.
Washington City D.C.

Mail
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Land Office, Annapolis, 20th Feby, 1845
Sir,
Your letter of the 18th Last, was received, and In reply, have to inform you, that I have very carefully examined the records of the Revolution in this Office, and they afford no evidence of the services of Martin  Miller.--The records of the Militia troops are very  imperfect, It appears by the Army Legers, that there were officers belonging to the Select Militia of Maryland, by the name of Wood, Smith, Haff &c. but there is no muster or payrolls to be found of either of their companies, and I am therefore unable to furnish any information respecting the service of Martin Miller.
I am very respectfully yr. obt sert, 
George G. Brewer

The Honble  David S. Reid.
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Ho: Rep's,
Feb. 11, 1845.

Sir,
Please read the enclosed letter of Mr. Courts and furnish the information desired by him.  He states that the applicant, Martin Miller, is now dead, and if this is one of those cases where his heirs can not draw let me know so that he may not be at any more trouble about the matter. He wishes me to send him the form of a power of atty for drawing Pensions. If you have such forms furnish me with one for him. Return Mr. Court's letter with your answer.

Very respectfully, Your obt. Sert.
David L. Reid

Hon. J. L. Edwards. 
Com of Pen.
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Reidsville, N.C.
July 12, 1844.

Sir,
I herewith enclose you the Pension Declaration of Martin Miller of Rockingham County. N.B. which you will please examine as soon as you can and let me know the result. I am personally acquainted with Messrs Courts and Palmer whose Depositions accompany the Declaration and they occupy as high standing as any gentlemen in the County.
I am, very respectfully 
Your obt. sert.
David L. Reid

Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Com of Pensions.

PS. David--all correspondence in relation to this case to David W. Courts, Reidsville, Rockingham County, N. C.    D. S. Reid

J. L.  Edwards.
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7213
N. C.

act 7th June 1856
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35802
N. C.
br. to Hon. D S Reid July 24 '44
" " Hon. D. S. Reid Feby. 15 '45
D. M. Courts May 3d 1845

Act Jun 7. 1832