Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7210, for John Miller, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE  Penn. 
Miller, John       
NUMBER  R.7210
b, 1760
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of Philadelphia. From thence he proceeded by water up the Delaware River to Trenton. From thence he marched to Princeton in the State of New Jersey. From thence to Brunswick and from thence to Elizabeth Town (now called Elizabeths Point about six miles distant from the City of of Philadelphia. From thence he proceeded by water up the Delaware River to Trenton. From thence he marched to Princeton in the State of New Jersey. From thence to Brunswick and from thence to Elizabeth Town (then called Elizabeths Point) about six miles distant from the City of New York where he lay untill his term of service expired and he received a discharge from the said Captain McDaniel but it is since lost or misplaced so that he does not at this time know anything about it. During the time he lay at Elizabeth Town he formed no aquaintance with any other officers except his Captain and Captains Long and Moffit or if he did from the great length of time which has since elapsed and not thinking those matters of any further importance to him he has forgotten their names. That he entered the service under a second engagement under the command of his father Captain John Miller whose Company was attached to a Regiment commanded by Colonel Jefferson but he does not recollect either the number or order of either Company or Regiment to which he belonged. He entered the service at this time on the 23 or 24th day of October in the year AD 1777 as he believes and recollects that it was the autumn after the British took possession of the City of Philadelphia and that they had possession of it during all his second term of service He served at this time as before without being engaged in any battle for the term of two months and was discharged about the 23rd or the 24th of December of the same year: at all events it was a few days before Christmas as he recollects from the keeping of the festival on the way home. At the time he entered the service under the second engagement he resided as formerly in Shrewsbury Township in York County Pennsylvania He entered the service at this time among the militia as a drafted Soldier and Marched as formerly from Little York by way of Wrights Ferry through the town of Lancaster to a small military post about six miles east of the City of Philadelphia
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where he lay until his term of service expired and he received his discharge from his Captain John Miller which discharge he has either lost of misplaced so that he has not seen it for many years.  He does not recollect any remarkable occurrences which took place during this period except that while he lay at that post General Washington with his army encamped between where he lay and the City of Philadelphia and commenced the siege but the City was not taken until his discharge.  He recollect during his services and his Second Engagement Captain Collins Colonels Jefferson & Rankin and General Potter all of whom were engaged in the service at this post.  He has at this time no documentary evidence of his service either under the first or second engagement and knows of no living witness except a brother of the half blood Joseph Miller whose testimony he can procure who can testify to it.  He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension for annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll to the agency of any State.

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Miller

Also at the same time and place appeared in open Court the above named Joseph Miller who being first duly sworn according to law deposit and saith that bring a brother of the half blood to the said John Miller his well acquainted with the circumstances of said John Miller service as a soldier in the Revolutionary War and know that said John left home some time as he believes in the month of July AD 1776 and remained absent for the term of two months as he understood in the army.  He the said John also left home some time in the month of October of the next year and remains absent for the further term of two months; as he this deponent understood in the Army. The first of said  times
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of service he (this deponant) Then understood and believed and still believes to have been rendered by the said John as a substitute for their father who could not leave home at that time; and the second in obedience to a draft which was made at that time at which time he the said John Marched under the command of their (this deponent and said John) father Captain John Miller                  
Sworn and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid               
Joseph F. Miller his mark   
We Jacob Snider a Clergyman residing in the said County of Carroll and Luther Low residing in the same County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Miller Senior who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be seventy five years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that we in concur in that opinion ---                    
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid -                
Jacob Snyder                
Luther Law                
And the said Court do hereby declair their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatories as prescribed by the War Department that the above name applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he States. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Jacob Snider who has signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman resident in the County of Carroll aforesaid & that Luther Lawe who has also signed the same is a resident in said County of Carroll and is a credible person and that their statement is intitled to credit
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The State of Ohio            
Carroll County }    I Daniel McCook Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Carroll do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said Court in the matter of the application of John Miller Senior           
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of said Court at Carrollton this the 16th day of May Anno Domini 1836             
Daniel McCook Clerk
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November 13, 1939
Mrs. Frank T. Kalas           
615 West Upsal Street       
Germantown, Philadelphia               
Pennsylvania  
JOHN MILLER
R.7210
BA-J/MLB              
Dear Madam:         
The data which follow in regard to John Miller were obtained from the papers in pension claim, R. 7210, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.                 
John Miller, son of John, was born June 15, 1760, in New Jersey, about ten miles from the City of Philadelphia, and while a boy, moved to York County, Pennsylvania. The name of his mother was not stated.                    
While residing in “Strawberry” Township, York County, Pennsylvania , John Miller enlisted in July, 1776, before the battle of Long Island, as a substitute for his father who was afterwards captain, and served two months as private in Captain John McDonald's or McDaniel's company in the Pennsylvania troops. He enlisted again October 23 or 24, 1777, and served a tour of two months as private in the company of his father, Captain John Miller, in Colonel Jefferson's Pennsylvania regiment.                
John Miller, while residing in Washington Township, Carroll County, Ohio, applied May 2, 1836, for pension which might have been due on account of his service. His claim for pension was not allowed as he did not render six months military service in accordance with the requirement of the pension law.                      
It is not stated whether John Miller ever married.                    
John Miller had a half brother, Joseph Miller who, in 1856, testified in behalf of John in Carroll County, Ohio; his age and name of his mother not shown.  There are no further family data in the claim.  
Very truly yours               
A. D. HILLER             
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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Wm. Johnston
May 26, 1836
Record Vol 28. P501.
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War Dept. Pen. Office
May 26, 1836

Sir,
    The declaration of John Miller has been ex. Now alleges to have served two tours as a militia man of Penn'a of two months ending in 1776 & 1777.  The Act of 7 June 1832 provides for none who did not serve at least six months.  The claim has therefore been rejected and the papers filed in this office.
 William Johnston Esq
 Carrollton, Ohio
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War Department
Washinton City
District of Columbia
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M368

May 21st, 1838
Pension Office
Ohio
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6th  1836   Canolla
Amt to Case of 
William Johnston
Atty at Law
Caustton Carrol Court  
Tues 
William Johnston
War Department
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33.706

REJECTED

served on four months

7210

Act 7th June 1832
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1939 Nov. 13 – Hist to Mrs Frank T. Kallas (ltr in srv of John Miller B.L.Wt. 2583-300  MLB
7210              
John Miller           
 REJECTED           
1852 printed List of Rejected & Suspended claims – shows all with cause of rejection
“Only four months service”
MLB
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November 13, 1939
OWR
BA-J/MMH7:MLB
R.7210
Mrs. Frank T. Kalas             
615 West Upsal Street          
Germantown, Philadelphia             
Pennsylvania               
Dear Madam:               
Reference is made to your letter of November 2, in further quest of the record of the John Miller in whom you are interested. You state that he died about 1833, instead of 1781 as you had stated. In one of your former letters you stated that the name of his wife was Margaret, also that he served as Captain of Lieutenant of the York County, Pennsylvania Associators in 1756, also as Sergeant in the County, Pennsylvania militia in 1776, and as Captain of York County militia in 1778, and that you want to determine whether or not the citations you have found pertain to the same John Miller who was an Associator in 1756.                   
A real effort has been made to locate the record of your ancestor, John Miller, but oftentimes the pension records do not reveal enough to enable one to determine the record desired. Another search of those records has been made and the record found of a Captain John Miller, Pennsylvania line, who died prior to April 16, 1791, also the record of a John Miller who served from York County, Pennsylvania, a part of whose service was rendered in the company of Captain John Miller, his father. The records of those two persons are furnished you herewith. This office has no further information in regard to Captain John Miller, father of John, then is shown in the son's claim for pension, R. 7210.                        
It is suggested that you refer to the Pennsylvania Archives, 5th Series, Volume 4, page 589, under Pension Applications, which applications were made to the State of Pennsylvania, on which page one John Miller is recorded and may be of interest to you. Those applications are, it is believed, in the Pennsylvania State Library, at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.           
Very truly yours       
A. D. HILLER    
Executive Assistant to the Administrator