Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42990, for John Miller, New York
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(3-1776) 

SERVICE 
New York

Miller, John 

NUMBER 
S. 42990

CONTENTS 
served under Philip Van Cortland
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5548    4
New York Roll 
John Miller 
Capt Hallett Private – NY In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War 

Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of Eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 15th of April 1818 

Certificate and Pension issued the 19th of Jany 1819 and sent to Case and Humphrey’s Newburgh N.Y.

Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818. 4 Ms & 18/30    36:80 
Semi-anl, all'ce ending 4th March 1819.  48: $84:80 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 

1777 -  6 yrs
was Continued 
30 May 29
Marlborough, Ulster Cy.

May 30-1829   AB.

Notification sent Nov. 3d 1820 to Henry Butterworth New Burgh N.Y.
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John Miller
Ulster County, N.Y.

5548
March 1819
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State of New York Ulster County Common Pleas ss:
On the 4th day of July 1820 personally appeared in open Court of Common pleas being a court of record for the said County of Ulster proceeding according to the course of the common law and having a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of their proceedings in the State of New York, John Miller aged sixty three years the 5 day of last April and a resident in the County and State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows - That enlisted in Capt. Jonathan Hallett’s Company in the 2d New York Regiment commanded by Colonel Philip Van Cortland and served in the same five and a half years or thereabouts, the date of his original declaration is dated on the 15th day April 1818 and the number of his pension of certificate is 5548 - And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818. and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an 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 passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has
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any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed 
Schedule - He possesses no property. What little he had was sold by a constable about eight weeks ago - His occupation has been that of a labourer in years past - at the present time he is unable to labour owing to a wound he received at the taking of Cornwallis at York-town in the Virginia - his wife is sixty seven years old – very infirm owing to the dropsy and unable to labor owing to the above complaint and old age - he has no other person living with him in his family, [signed] Joh Miller  + his mark
Sworn and subscribed in open Court this fourth day of July 1820 before me 
[signed] Lucas Elmendorf first Judge of the said Court 
I Christopher Tappen Junior Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in in Ulster County & State of New York do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed of John Miller are truly copied from the originals on file in this office And that it is the opinion of said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is nothing - And that the said John Miller is dependent on the aid of his Country for support  Witness the seal of said Court & my hand July 4th 1820 
[signed] Ch. Tappen Junr
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John Miller private 
Van Cortland N York reg. 
1777 to 1783  15 April 1818 

Correct

John Miller
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State of new York
Orange County } ss:  On the 15th day of April in the in year 1818 before me the subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Orange personally appears John Miller resident in the town of Marlborough in the County of Ulster aged fifty nine years, who being by me first duly sworn according to Law doth on his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision of the 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, in the County of Ulster and State of New York in the fall of the year 1777, in the company of Captain Jonathan Hallett in the second New York Regiment commanded by Col Philip Van Courtland to serve during the war - and that he continued to serve in the same company and Regiment until June 1783 when he was discharged at New Windsor in the County of Ulster aforesaid - that his discharge was Honorable and signed by General Washington - That he was in the Battle at Fort Stanwix and at York Town when Cornwallis was captured - That he is now in reduced circumstances and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support –
[signed] John Miller  + his mark
Sworn and declared to the 15th day of April 1818 before me –
[signed] Joseph Morrell one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Orange State of New York 

State of New York 
Orange County ss:  Jacob Lawson of the town of Marlborough in the County of Ulster being duly sworn doth depose and say - that he was
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a drummer in Capt Thomas Markins Company of the 2d Regiment of Artillery. during the two last years of the Revolutionary war - that he knew him two years in service in the 2d New York Regiment as a soldier - and saw him in service at the Capture of York Town 
[signed] Jacob Lawson + his mark
Sworn before me the 15 day of April 1818 
[signed] Joseph Morrell one of the Judges of the Courts of Common pleas in and for the County of Orange State of New York 

I Joseph Morrell one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in the County of Orange aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Miller did serve in the revolutionary war as stated in the within Declaration against the Common enemy. And I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me to the Secretary for the Department of war pursuant to the directions of the within mentioned act of congress 
[signed] Joseph Morrell 
State of New York 
Orange County - } I David M. Westcott Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Orange - do Certify that Joseph Morrell is one of the Judges of the Court aforesaid - and that his name set to the above affidavit and Certificate is the proper hand writing of the said Joseph Morrell - In witness whereof I have
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hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court the sixth day of May 1818 
[signed] D.M Westcott
I do hereby certify that I am acquainted with the above named John Miller and that he is in reduced circumstances and in need of the assistance of his Country for support – 
[signed] Joseph Morrell Commissr &c
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February 18, 1939 
BA-J/AWF 
John Miller S. 42990 
Mr. Irving K. Woolfe 
102 West 33rd Street 
New York City 
Dear Sir: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to John Miller who served in the Second New York Regiment, under Colonel Philip Van Cortland, in the War of the Revolution.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 42990, based upon service of John Miller in the War of the Revolution. 
The date and place of birth of John Miller, and names of his parents were not stated. 
John Miller enlisted in Ulster County, New York , in the year 1777, served as private in Captain Jonathan Hallett's company, in Colonel Philip Van Cortland's Second New York Regiment; he was in the battle of Fort Stanwix, and at Yorktown when Cornwallis surrendered, where he received a wound, nature of wound not given, and was discharged, in the month of June, 1783.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 15, 1818, at which time he was aged about fifty-nine years, and living in Marlboro, Ulster County, New York. 
In 1820, John Miller's wife was sixty-seven years
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old; her name was not stated, the papers on file this claim contain no further discernible data in  regard to the family of the soldier, John Miller. 
John Miller died May 30, 1829. 
In order to obtain the name and address of the person who received the last payment of this pension, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, this city, and furnish the following data –
John Miller 
Certificate # 5548 
Issued January 19, 1819 
Rate $8.00 per month 
Commenced April 15, 1818 
Act of March 18, 1818 
New York Agency. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant 
to the Administrator
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42.990 
INVALID. Revy
File No. 42,990 
John Miller 
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18 
Index: -- Vol. 3,  Page 399 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 

1939 Feb 18 hist to Irving K. Woolfe  [illegible initials]
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Feb. 7, 1939. 
102 West 93rd Street 
New York City, N. Y. 
The Veterans Administration, 
Washington D.C. 
REVOLUTIONARY WAR. 
Dear Sir:  
I am very much interested in securing the Military record of a one 
JOHN MILLER, whom I believed served with The 2nd New York Regiment - the Line - under Colonel Philip Van Cortlandt, and whose captain Was Johnathan Hallock. 
I know the muster rolls on these men contains a limited amount of information. But what I would like very much to secure is; 
I. The age of JOHN MILLER, in any given year while in the Federal Service. 
2. Where he was born 
As an aid to you, it may be possible that he served with the Dutchess County Minute Men prior to being mustered with the 2nd Regiment. I do know that his first child was born in 1755. So that the John Miller I am interested in must have been over forty years of age when the Revolution began. 
Very truly yours, 
[signed] Irving K. Woolfe 
Irving K. Woolfe.

[stamped Received Feb 8 1939]