Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 40,158, for John Miller, Pennsylvania
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SERVICE   Continental (Pa.)
Miller, John
SERVICE  S.40.158
b. [born] 1743
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Pennsylvania 
Luzerne Co / R
John Miller (3d) 
d. Nov 9. 1824 
of Wilksbarre in the State of Pennsylv’a who was a private in the Penna regiment commanded by Colonel Hazen in the Congress Regt.  for the term of 3 years Continental   War
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of Apr 1818 – 
Certificate of Pension issued the 10th of May 1820 sent to Hon. G. Dennison H. Reps U.S. 
Arrears to 4th of March 1820   181.83 
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Sep: 1820. 48.00 
$229.83 
22 Mos 18/30  4/31 – 
{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.} 
Continued 
Luzerne Coy 
Notification sent October 10th 1820 to the Clk of C. C. P. Wilkesbarre, Luzerne Cty Pa.
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John Miller 3d
Con
16888
10 May 1820
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Schedule 
State of Pennsylvania 
Luzerne County SS 
On this day of August Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Record to wit the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne in the State aforesaid John Miller aged sixty seven years resident in the Borough of Wilks Barre in the County and State aforesaid, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows to wit in Capt Seelys Company and Col. Hazens Regiment as more particularly stated in deponents Original declaration.    
And that he the said John Miller is now on the pension list under the act of Congress of the 18th of March 1818 on the roll of the Pennsylvania agency at the rate of eight dollars per month commencing on the thirteenth day of April one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, which is as the deponent believes the date of his original declaration, and that his pension certificate is dated the tenth day of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty and numbered sixteen thousand eight hundred and Eighty eight.  
And I the above named John Miller do further solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war” passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts, or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule
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hereto annexed and by me subscribed to wit 
Schedule of the real and personal estate of the above named John Miller 
Real estate none 
Deponent has lived for the last ten or twelve years in a house belonging to the public on our corner of the burying ground, as tenant at sufferance and has had the privilege of working about two acres of land a part of the public lot used as a burying ground, and for the time aforesaid has ring the bell for and taken care of the academy and meeting house and dug graves and has no other profession. He has now bargained with the Borough of Wilkes Barre for a life lean of the premises aforesaid for which he had agreed to make and keep in repair the fences and the lot and ring the bell for meeting on Sundays, valued at – 50 – 
1 Cow worth 16 – 
1 Pig $2 - 5 
5 fouls 60 cts 1 hat a grubbing hoe 1 axe 1 Spade 5 old chairs 1 old table 1 pot & 1 Kettle 5 or 6 old knives and for a few other trifling articles of furniture
In the whole (per record enter) $28.25 
Lease --                                     50 
$78, 25 
Deponent has no other occupation but that of ringing the Bell for which he receives twenty five dollars a year from the Borough for the meeting house bell and for the academy bell he has a right to send to the same two of his children or grand children. From his age and bodily infirmity he is some times unable to attend to his business and the bells on the rung by his wife.   
His young child named Ephy about sixteen years old is the only one of his children that lives at house with him.   The others work out and get their own living.
His wife is Sixty four years of age.  
John Miller his mark
Sworn to and declared on the 8 day of August AD 1820 in open Court 
A Beaumont Prothonotary
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John Miller (3d) 
John Miller private Hazen's Pa. Regiment 
1780 to 1783 
13th April 1818 
See Roll of Hazen's Reg. Capt. Selin's Co 
Admitted  
Hon. G. Dennison, H. R.
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STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. 
LUZERNE COUNTY, SS.
On this Thirteenth day of April AD 1818 before me the subscriber, President Judge of the Eleventh Judicial district in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, personally appears John Miller aged Seventy five years, resident in Wilkes-barre in the said County of Luzerne in the State aforesaid, 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 and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War ." That he said John Miller enlisted in Little York in the state of Pennsylvania in the spring of 1780 in the company commanded by Captain Ceiley Sealey in the  regt of Genl Moses Hazen Called the Congress Regt 
that he continued to serve in the said corps and in the service of the United States , until the month of June 1783 when he was discharged from service in [unreadable] state of New Jersey  that he was not in any battles of the time guarding Congress 
And 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. 
Sworn to subscribed and declared before me with his mark, John Miller his mark
the day and year aforesaid. 
Th Burnside
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I, Thomas Burnside President Judge of the eleventh Judicial district in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said John Miller did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceeding declaration, against the Common Enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the secretary for the Department of war, pursuant to the directions of the aforementioned act of Congress. 
Th Burnside 
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, 
LUZERNE COUNTY, SS. }  
I Andrew Beaumont  Prothonotary of the court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Luzerne aforesaid do certify and make known that Thomas Burnside Esqr is, and was at the time of signing and taking the foregoing depositions and certifying the same, President Judge of the 44th Judicial district of the State of Pennsylvania, that the signature is his proper hand writing, and that full faith and credit are due to his acts as such.  In testimony whereof I hereto set my hand and Seal of Office, at Wilkesbarre, in the County of Luzerne aforesaid this twenty ninth day of May 1818 
A Beaumont Prot
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Revy  OWN
40,158
INVALID.
File No.  40158
John Miller
Pri Rev War
Act: 18 March 18"
Index: --Vol. 3, Page 339
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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questions
677 -395 272   677
27 27  54
39 5 195
100 81 19
1200  1086  114
721 543 178
45 15 45 135 59 81
240 195 45
365 721  1086
21   32  16 12  81
90846   89049   1797
subtraction of federal money rule
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Sgt Morse Was segrant in Captain Selins Company 
Stanihurer sehergent in vioma
Shergent hisinger 
Shergent loderith 
if you remember the fray that we had in vioma in the old court house that I drove the stage for the Ladary that I was the only one of his regiment 
John Miller
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present anything further on the subject at this time
Nathan Beach
Feby 20th 1820
Affirmed and subscribed Before me one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Luzerne 
Ichabod Shaw Justice of the Peace