Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,879, for Henry Miller, Pennsylvania
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Continental
Penn

Miller, Henry

NUMBER
S. 41879

CONTENTS
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Hon: A. Boden,
14 Decr
Increased
Entered

Admd
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Pennsylvania SS Cumberland County
On this second day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & nineteen, before me the subscriber, President of the ninth judicial District of Pennsylvania, consisting of the counties of Cumberland, Franklin & Adams personally appeared General Henry Miller, aged sixty nine years, in the month of February last past, resident in the County of Cumberland in the said district, 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 & naval service of the United State in the revolutionary war;" That he the said Henry Miller entered into the military service of his country in the month of June in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, as  first Lieutenant in the company commanded by Captain Michael Dowdle. That on the 15th day of October in the same year, he received a commission signed John Nanosch then President of Congress to be Captain of a company of foot in the Regiment commanded by Col. William Thompson - and by a commission dated 12th Novr. 1777 signed by Henry Laurens then President of Congress he was appointed Major of the first Pennsylvania Regiment, and by a special resolve of Congress, of the date of said commission, to rank from the 28th of September 1776 (as is recited in said commission - and that he continued in the service from the said year 1775 - until the beginning of the year 1779 - being then Lieut. Col. of the second Pennsylvania Regiment duly commissioned, but which commission is now mislaid - being in the Line of Pennsylvania State, in the Continental Service, and that he resigned in the beginning of the year 1779. That he was in the Battles of Trenton, Princeton, Germantown, Brandywine and Monmouth, & others. That he is in reduced circumstances, and stands in need of the assistance of his Country for support - and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services but what is notorious in the memory of others, & from public recorded history
H Miller

Sworn to & declared before me the day & year aforesaid
Charles Smith

I Charles Smith resident of the Courts of Common Pleas of the ninth judicial district of Pennsylvania consisting of the counties of Cumberland Franklin &Adams do hereby certify that it satisfactorily appears to me, that the said General Henry Miller now residing in Rye Township in said county of Cumberland in the said district served the United States in the Revolutionary War, as set forth in the foregoing declaration, and that he stands in need of the assistance of his country for support - all which & together with the said declaration I transmit to the Honble. The Secretary of War.
Carlisle Decr 2d 1819
Charles Smith