Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22401, for George Miller, Maryland
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE | | NUMBER
Md | Miller, George | S.22401
Penn | |
CONTENTS
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for Eight months - he got no discharge
nor has he any documentary evidence
nor any witness whom [illegible]
to prove his services.

He hereby relinquishes any claim to any
pension or annuity whatsoever except 
the present and declares that his name
is not on the pension roll of the 
agency of any State

In answer to the
interrogatives required to be [illegible]
by the Court
he is answers as follows viz

1.  That he was born the 9th day of May 
1751 in [illegible] in Germany that he came 
to America in 1773
2. His age is recorded in a German
bible at his home
3. He lived in Phila County PA & Frederick Maryland
when he went into the service where he
lived till 1797 when he returned to [illegible] 
of PA where he still lives
4.  He entered the service as a volunteer &
as a drafted militia man
5. His officer & service [illegible] stolen.
6. He received no discharge
7 Revd Barnet Whitlach & Andw. Louts will certify for hm.

Sworn and subscribed
in open court June 10 1833
Enos Hook Prothy
50 cts paid
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The Barnet Whitlatch a Clergiman resident of Greene County
Pennsylvania, and Andrew Louts of the same place
do hereby certify that we are well acquainted
with George Miller who has sworn to subscribed 
the foregoing declaration. that we believe
him to be Eighty two years of age,
that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood 
where he resides to have been a soldier
of the revolution & we concur in that
opinion & further that he is a man
of excellent character for truth and
honesty
Barnet Whitlatch
Andrew Louts 

Sworn & subscribed
in open Court June 10th 1833
Enos Hook
Prothy

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the
investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories
prescribed by the war Department that the above named
applicant was a revolutionary soldier & served as he
States. And the Court further states that it appears to them
Barnett Whitlatch who has [illegible] the above, is a clergyman and resides in Greene
County PA and that Andrew Lantz who has also signed
the foregoing certificate is a resident of the same County
and a credible person and their statement is entitled
to credit.

I Enos Hook Prothonotary of the Court
of Common pleas of the said County of Greene do hereby
certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings
of the said Court in the matter of the application of
George Miller for a pension.

In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand & seal of the said Court
this 17th day of June AD. 1833
Enos Hook
Prothy
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Rev.&1812 Wars Section.
March 5, 1928.
H. H. Rose,
Home Savings Bank Bldg.,
Fairmont, West Virginia.
Sir:
I advise you from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, S. 22401, it appears that George Miller was born
May 5, 1751 in Germany and came to America in 1773.
While residing in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania,
he enlisted in September 1777, and served four months as
private in Captain Jacob Bishop's Pennsylvania Company and
was in the battle of Germantown.
While residing in Frederick, Maryland, he enlisted in
the spring of 1778 and served two months as private in Captain
Edward Soloman's Maryland Company, and enlisted in 1781
and served two months as private in Captain William Miller's
Maryland Company.
He also stated that he served in Captain Fleming's
Company no details given.
He was allowed pension on his application executed June
10, 1833, while a resident of Greene County, Pennsylvania.
Heirs of soldier are referred to in 1853, no names
given.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT
Commissioner.
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M. Morris Green Co Penn
11th Decr 1855.
Sir
Enclosed I send you
Circular, & note from a pension
Agent in Washington in relation
to a claim due the heirs of the
late Geo. Miller, Revy. pensioner, of
this County.
If any claim is one the
hers you would oblige them to
confirm them through me. They
are all adults, and have no
claim to Bounty land
very respectfully
Your obt serv
J. V. Boughner
Hon J Minor
Comm Pensions
Washington City
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1883
$3175.88 amt due [illegible]
D A [illegible]
August 2nd1857
Amt $3193. 88
Oct
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Harrisburgh 
Harrisburgh Pennsylvania ss
Harrisburgh

Mr Henry

Miller's heirs do safely [illegible] that I am much in need of assistance

[illegible]
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Washington City Oct 6.1853
The heirs of George Miller will find it to their advantage to forward the undersigned 
all the information in their possession relative to the date of his
death the number & names of his heirs, whether he left a widow and if so
does she now draw a Pension &c and whether there is an administrator
on his estate &c. I am of opinion that I can recover something further for them for
them from the U.S. by proper exertions _ Address Post-Paid 
(I send here with one of my circulars)
RWBates
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3d Auditors Office
Jan'y 1856
Sir,
The within named pensioner has been
paid in full to 4 Sept 1839
very Respectfully
Your obt servt
Robt Jamison
Auditor
Pension Office
J. Minot Esq.
Commr of Pensions
Pension Office Jan. 5, 1856
The third auditor will
please certify the date to which within named pensioner was paid.
Very Respectfully
R. McRae
[illegible] Commissioner
Eddy
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22401
INVALID.
Revolution
---
File No. 22401
George Miller
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7th 32"
Index: --Vol. 2, Page 275
Arrangement of 1870.]
1921 Nov. 23. Hist. to H.H. Rose
1928 Mch 5 "" "" [illegible]
H.H. Rose Esq
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HERSCHEL H. ROSE
W. KENNETH BARNES
LAW OFFICES
ROSE & BARNES
HOME SAVINGS BANK BUILDING
FAIRMONT, WEST VIRGINIA
November 5, 1921.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Revolutionary War Section,
Washington, D. C.
Sir: --

Kindly let me have the revolutionary war
record of GEORGE MILLER, of Greene County,
Pennsylvania, S. File 22401, as indicated
in your letter of the 3d inst., herewith
returned.

Very truly yours,
H.H. Rose
H. H. Rose.
HHR/RH