Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22,398, for John Miller, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE    Penn.
Miller, John
NUMBER   S.22.398
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25.829 
Pennsylvania 
John Miller 
of Lehigh Co in the State of Penna who was a Pr.  in the Company commanded  by Captain  Ohl  of the Regt commanded Col Belting in the Pennsylvania Militia
6 Mo Private $20.00 
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 20 Dollars Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 9th day of Jany1834 and sent to Hon H King Ho.of Reps.   
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1833 50.00
Semi-anl allowance ending 4 Mch ‘34 10.00  
$60.00 
{Revolutionary Claim, June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by the John T. Sprague Clerk 
Book E  Vol. 5 Page 40 
Copies sent to Clmt
March 15 / 56
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Lancaster City Pennsylvania February 29, 1806, 
Sir -  
My Father John Willer who was a Revolutionary Soldier was pensioned Nov 11, 1832 under act of Congress March 4. 1831 at $20 per annum – 
I am still of the opinion he has not received the full amount of pension that he was entitled -  Please give me a copy of the papers on file relating to his service as I intended to apply to the Legislature of Pennsylvania for relief and oblige Yours 
Respectfully Alizabeth Berntheisel 
To J. Minot Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D. C. 
NB Direct your letter to my address in Care of Wm S. Amweg
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Revolution
22.398
OWN
INVALID.
File No. 22,398
John Miller
Pri Rev War
Act: June 7” 32”
Index:- Vol 2 Page 275
[Arrangement of 1870]
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Adm 6 Months
$20 
Hon. W. Hy. King (Pa.)
H. R. [House of Representatives]
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State of Pennsylvania 
Lehigh County Ss}
On this third day of December in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open Court of Common Pleas, before the Honorable Garrick Mallery President John Fogel and Jacob Stein Esquires, associate Judges of the same court, now sitting. John Miller a resident of the Borough of Northampton in the County of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, aged Seventy one years or upwards, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of June 7th 1832. 
That he the said John Miller is seventy one years of age and upwards was born in the township of Milford in the County of Bucks and State of Pennsylvania aforesaid, where he resided during the war of the Revolution. That he served three tours in the militia, as a private, during the said war, as follows, to wit, In the spring of the year Seventeen hundred and eighty, he was ordered out and marched in the company commanded by Captain Henry Ohl, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Anthony Bitting, from Reeds Town through Sckippack to the River Schuylkill, near Norristown, thence up the said River towards Pottsgrove in the County of Montgomery, that after having served two months, they were dismissed and returned home, That he does not remember any other troops or regiments being with them, nor the names of other officers than the above named – 
That in the summer or fall of the same year, he was again ordered out and marched in the company commanded by Captain Manasses Yost, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Davis, through the County of Montgomery to White Marsh, from thence to Bristol & Trenton on the Delaware and then back again to White Marsh, where they remained until they had served two months, were dismissed and returned home, that he believes there were no other troops with them nor does he remember the names of any of the other officers 
That in the summer or autumn of the year seventeen hundred and eighty one, he was again ordered out and marched in the Company commanded by Captain Elias Ander, in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Keller, to Newton in the County of Bucks, thence to Trenton and back again to Newton where they remained
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until they had served two months, were dismissed and returned home, That he recollects one Valentine Kuder being the Lieutenant of his company and his (deponants) father, Christian Miller, the Ensign that there were no other troops with them and that he does not remember the names of the other field or company officers of his Regiment that this was about the time of the surrender of Cornwallis at York; that he never received a written discharge. That he has no record of his age - no documentary evidence, and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to his service, except Peter Klein, who served one tour of two months with him, that the said Peter Kline is old & resides in Germantown, would be very inconvenient to bring him here and to expensive for this applicant, he being very poor.  
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State 
John Miller
Sworn & subscribed in open Court  this third day of December 1833 
Garrick Mallery Prest Judge 
I, Joshua Yeager, a clergyman residing in the Borough of Northampton in the County of Lehigh, hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with John Miller who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that I believe him to be seventy one years of age; that he is reputed & believed in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that I concur in that opinion. 
Joshua Yeager  P. E.
Sworn and subscribed in open Court, this third day of December AD. 1833 
Ganick Mallery Prest Judge
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Adam Klein being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith, That he is sixty seven years of age and upwards that he resides in the County of Lehigh and State of Pennsylvania, that in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one he resided in the County of Bucks in Milford township, That he was then and is yet acquainted with John Miller, the above named applicant, that they resided in the same neighbourhood, that deponants brother and the said John Miller served together during the Revolutionary war, in defence of our country, in the company of Captain Elias Kinder, that the said John Miller deponants brother returned the same time, the length of the time they served deponant does not recollect, that he knows the said John Miller to be a man of veracity and believe that his statement is true, deponant further says that his brother is still living, but is old and resides in Germantown, that it would be very inconvenient to bring him here and the said John Miller too poor to bear the expence of procuring his testimony 
Adam Klein
Sworn & Subscribed in open Court December 3rd 1833 
Garrick Mallery Prest Judge 
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 and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that Joshua Yeager who has signed and sworn to the foregoing certificate is a clergyman resident in the Borough of Northampton in the said County of Lehigh, and that Adam Klein who has signed and sworn to the above statement is a resident of Salisbury township in the said County of Lehigh, and is a
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credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit, 
Garrick Mallery Prest Judge 
John Fogel a judge of Leigh County Pennsylvania 
Jacob Stein a Judge of Lehigh County Penna   
State of Pennsylvania 
Lehigh County ss } 
I Daniel Kramer Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County aforesaid, Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Miller for a pension – 
In Witness whereof I have here set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, at the Borough of Northampton this Fourth day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three 
D. Kramer Proth