Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7197, for Henry Miller, Pennsylvania
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Service Penn
Miller, Henry
Number R. 7197
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32882
Henry Miller
Revolutionary Soldier
Ohio
Rejected too young to serve at the period alleged
7191
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The State of Ohio Butler County SS -
On this fourth day of November One Thousand eight hundred and thirty four personally appeared in Open Court Henry Miller a resident of the County of Butler aforesaid aged sixty seven years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832.
That in May seventeen hundred and eighty in the County of Washington in the State of Pennsylvania he [illegible] drafted as a militiaman in the Company commanded by Captain Abner Howell and was immediately attached to a Company of Rangers commanded by Captain Ezekiel Rose, under whom he served one month. -that in June of the same year he served under Captain Lot Leonard another month, and in July succeeding served another tour of one month in duration under Captain Abner Howell under whom he was first drafted. and that also he was again drafted in October succeeding for another term of one month which he served also under Captain Abner Howell -That in May serventeen hundred and eighty one he volunteered again as a private and attached himself to the [illegible] Captain Howells company of minutemen as Rangers and served another tour of six months, all of which time he served under Capt. Abner Howell with the exception of about twenty days of the last part of the tour when he was under the Command of Captain Eleazer Williamson and was by him mardred [martyred] against the Moravian Indians of whom six were taken prioners - Deponent further states that in May seventeen hundred and eighty two he again volunteered and served under Captain Abner Howell another tour of six months in duration and
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in November in Same year was by Capt. Howell discharged at Cat Fish Camp, where Washington, in said County of Washington is now Situate-that at the time he (word crossed out) was dismissed at Cat Fish Camp he received from Captain Howell a written discharge which he left in Pennsylvania in seventeen hundred and eighty six and has since never been enabled to obtain-that during the several periods mentioned he (word crossed through) served as a private soldier and was generally engaged in the perilous service of protecting the frontier settlements-that their range  was principally confined to the waters of Wheeling creek, Grove creek, Fish Creek, Dunkard Creek, Whiteley, and Ten Mile Creeks-Deponent further States that David Ruhle was Lieutenant of Capt. Rose's company when he served under him in May seventeen hundred & eighty-that John Buckingham was Lieutenant in Capt. Leonard's Company (word crossed out) that Daniel Starks was Lieutenant under Capt. Howell during the several tours served by Deponent under Said Howell and that the several Companied in which he served were during the several periods mentioned under Command of Colonel David Williamson also of Washington County. Deponent further states that he now resides in Butler County Ohio and had been a citizen thereof since last May-that for the last twenty years he has principally resided within the State of Kentucky that he is not acquainted with any clergyman of the neighborhood in what he resides by whom he can prove either his age or his reputation as a Soldier of the Revolution but, that he has for a long time been acquainted with Isaac Lindley and Zachariah P. Dewitt, by whom he can prove that he has long been reputed as a Soldier of the Revolution and that his statements are entitled to credit-
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares
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that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State
Henry Miller
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court the day & year aforesaid} 
John Reilly Clerk

The State of Ohio Butler County SS-
Personally appeared in open Court Isaac Lindley & Zachariah P. Dewitt who being duly sworn depose and say that they have been both acquainted with Henry Miller the above declarant for about fifty years that they believe he is of the age he represents and that he is reputed and believed to have been a private soldier at the time and in the service above set forth in his declaration. The said Isaac Lindley further States that he has been acquainted with said Miller since about seventeen hundred and seventy eight at which time he & deponent both resided in Washington County Pennsylvania-that he was acquainted with Capt. Abner Howell & Ebenezer Williamson, & Lot Leonard, Captains named by said Declarant and deponent at the times mentioned by him well recollects to have heard that he was engaged in the services mentioned under the above named Captain's-He further States that he believes this Statement made by declarant to be true and that his statement is entitled to credit-the said Dewitt, further states that about seventeen hundred & eighty seven he was in Service with said Miller in the State of Kentucky and then heard from said declarant the same account as now given by him in the above declaration and that he believes then to be true & entitled to full credit.
Isaac Lindley
Zach. P. Dewitt
Sworn & subscribed 4th Nov 1834
John Reilly Clerk
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And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further Certifies that it appears to them that Isaac Lindley and Zachariah P. Dewitt, who have signed the preceding Certificate are residents in the said County of Butler and are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I John Reilly Clerk of the said Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Miller for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office at Hamilton this fourth day of November One thousand eight hundred and thirty four.
John Reily
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The State of Ohio Butler County SS
Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace in and for said county Henry Miller who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that having no record of his age he may be mistaken in the year that he alleged in his former affidavit that he was born. All he can recollect as to his age is that 1774 in Dunmore's War his mother informed him he was eleven years old and he thinks he was sixteen or seventeen years old at the time of his first expedition under Captain Rose, his colonel's name was David Williamson in that expedition he was out only one month as a Ranger. His next expedition was as a substitute one month under Captain Lot Leonard as a ranger. The next month he was a substitute under Captain Abner Howell, this was in July 1780- Williamson was still his colonel- In the fall of the same year deponent was drafted and went out with Captain Howell again as a ranger one month. In April 1781 Deponent joined a minute company under Captain Abner Howell, and continued under his command in active service until the first of September, finding himself with provisions and ammunition. In September 1781 Deponent left the company of Abner Howell and volunteered in Captain Eleazer Williamson's company (brother of Colonel David Williamson) and proceeded under command of Col. Williamson to the Moravian Towns, and took six indians prisoner, 2 squaws & four men, one of the men [illegible] - in this expedition deponent served one month
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In the summer of 1782 Deponent volunteered again as a minute man under Captain Abner Howell; Williamson was still our colonel, He started out in April of that year and was out as a ranger on the frontier of Western Virginia & Pennsylvania, on the head waters of Wheeling creek, grave creek, fish creek, and fishing creek at the time of Crawford's defeat. He met the remains of Crawford's Army in Cat fish old camp, where Washington Pennsylvania now stand, during the summer of 1782 deponent was out as a ranger under Captain Howell in actual service at least six months  He may have been mistaken as to his age, but from reference which he has since made of the histories of those times he cannot be mistaken as to the period of his service and that it was performed in the years 1780, 1781, & 1782 as alleged in his former affidavit 
And further saith not 
Sworn to & subscribed before me this 1st of September 1835.
Russel Burrows JP [signature]
Henery Miller [signature]
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The State of Ohio, Butler County SS
Before me the undersigned a justice of the peace in & for said county personally came William Bebb of lawful age and made oath due form of law, that He drew the foregoing affidavit for Henry Miller whose name is thereto subscribed that from the manner said Miller tells his story of his campaigns against the Indians, his minute [page folded] incidents, stating dates and naming officers this deponent has no doubt of his veracity. Deponent further states that said Miller is an old man, and that if there be any mistake in the date of his birth in his former declaration it may have been made by this deponent in drawing of his affidavit. Deponent further states that said Miller so far as he can ascertain is a man of good moral character & of sober habits, & in necessitous circumstances & further saith not
Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 19 of Sept 1835 Jonathan Pierson JP [signature]
William Bebb [signature]
The state of Ohio Butler County SS
I John Reily Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County aforesaid certify that Russel Burrows and Jonathan Pierson Esquire before whom the [illegible]deposition herein before stated were taken [illegible]
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Hamilton Ohio-
When the within declarations
are acted on please send the
certificates or decisions to me
at this place-
Dec 2nd 1834
John Woods

[Handwritten on lower half of page, left margin]
1841
1774
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67

1774
11
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1763
1841
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Copy of
original letter
re claim of 
of
James Simpson
N. J. R 9599

War Dept. Pen. Office
Mar. 18, 1835
Sir:
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The declaration of Henry Miller has also
been examined. At the period of his alleged
service in 1780 & 81, 82, he was too young to have
served as set forth, having been only thirteen
years of age in 1780. The probability is that he
was mistaken as to the period of the alleged
service and that it was after the termination
of the revolutionary war. The claim has
been rejected and the papers filed.
XXXXX
John Woods Esq
Hamilton Ohio
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Rejected 32,882
See letter to ohio
John Woods
Hamilton
18, March 1835
let 26 [illegible] W Bebb
act [illegible] June 1812 [illegible]
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Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873. [line crossed out]
7197
[illegible initials]
P. O.
Henry Miller
Service:
Enlisted: , 18 .
Discharged: , 18 .
REJECTED [stamped]
Application filed: , 18 .
Alleges:
Re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P. O.
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. Searched for , 18 .