Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 16971, for Jonathan Milkollin, Virginia
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(3 - 1776)

SERVICE
Continental
Va.

CONTENTS
Milkollin, Jonathan

NUMBER
S. 16971

carded
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Ohio. 19621

Jonathan Milkollin
of Clarke Co. in the State of Ohio
who was a Private in the Co. commanded
by Captain Bowler of the Reg. commanded
by Col. Williamson in the Virginia
line for 18/2 months and continental
cavalry 15. mot.      62.50
infantry -- 3 1/2      11.67
                                 74.17

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio
at the rate of 74 Dollars 17. Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Augt. 1833 and sent to Saul Henkle, Springfield, Clarke Co. Ohio

Arrears to the 4th of March 1833         148.34
[illegible] allowance ending 4 Sept 33  37.08
                                                                   $185.42

{Revolutionary Claim,
Act June 7, 1832}

Recorded by Wm. R. Palmer, Clerk
Book E. Vol. 8 Page 17.
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The State of Ohio
Clark County Yss

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace within and for said County, Jonathan Millhollen who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the period stated below, and in the following grade; For one month and fifteen days I served as a private under Captain John Boller in the battalion of Major Rolland, For two months as a substitute for Adam Kimberland in Captain Prior's company of militia; and for fifteen months (and more) in Captain Sebrums company of cavalry in Col Armand's corps; that he served during the period aforesaid under the officer named in the declaration to which this is an amendment and in each engagement he served as a private and for such service he claims a pension. Declarant further states that when he was preparing the declaration to which this is an amendment, on its being suggested that the evidence of a clergyman would be required, in respect to his age, and the general
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belief in his neighborhood as to his revolutionary service, the attorney whom he had employed to assist him in preparing his paper, advised that such testimony would not be necessary; and relying on his best information on the subject, declarant made no effort to obtain such testimony. He now submits the certificate of a clergyman, which he returns herewith; and which together with the declaration of John Morris furnishing additional testimony of his service, declarant hopes will complete the evidence required.

Jonathan Millhollin

Sworn and subscribed this 27th day of May 1833 before me
John A. Alexander
[signature]

I Saul Henkle a clergyman residing in Springfield, Clark County, Ohio, hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Jonathan Millhollen who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and amended declaration; that I believe him to be sixty nine years of age; that he is reputed and believed
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in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution and that I concur in that opinion.

Saul Henkle

I John A. Alexander, a justice of the peace of Clark County Ohio, certify that Saul Henkle a clergyman residing in Springfield in said county this day personally appeared before me and was sworn to and subscribed the foregoing certificate. Given under my hand May 27th 1833.

[crossed out: Jonathan Millhollin]
John A. Alexander
[signature]

The State of Ohio, Clerk County
I Saul Henkle Clerk of the Court of common pleas of said county do certify that John A. Alexander Esq. before whom the foregoing affidavits were this day made is an acting justice of the peace within and for said county duly commissioned and sworn into office and to whom official acts as such full faith and credit [illegible] as well in courts of justice as thereout.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the court this 27th day of May 1833.
Saul Henkle Clk
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19621
13198

Jonathan [crossed out: Milkollin]
Milkollin

[Crossed out: Return 5.11.12.14.16]

Adm 1 year 6 months
& 15 days 1 year
& 3 months thereof Car.

Saul Henkle 
C.G.
Springfield P.O.
Clarkel Co.
Ohio.
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BRIEF in the case of Jonathan Millhollin
of Clark County in the State of Ohio
(Act 7th June, 1832.)

1. Was the declaration made before a Court or Judge?
Court

2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?

3. How old is he?
[illegible]

4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.

Period.
drafted Jany. or Feb.
In 1781
May following (1781)
discharged in August
enlisted 10 Augst 1782
discharged Fall 1783

Duration of Service.
Years, Months, Days
[crossed out: 2 m.)   15
not stated
1 - 3 -

Rank.
As a
private 
substitute for
Adam Kimberton
Sergeant Danyoung 

Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.
Gen.
{Capt John Bowler
Col Williamson} Virginia Light Duty

{Capt Pierce

{Capt Lebrien
Gen Armand

5. In what battles was he engaged?
Guilford

6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
Bottetourt [sic] Co. Virginia

7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
a living witness as to the 15 months service & by traditionary evidence

8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
not properly attached

Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.

Chas G Wilard Examining Clerk
19. Feby 1832
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16971
INVALID

File No. 16,971
Jonathan Milkolin
Pri & Sergt Rev War

Act: June 7th 32
Index: -- Vol. 1 Page 239
{Arrangement of 1870.}
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Mr. Jonathan Monhollin
Mad River
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The State of Ohio Jackson county.
Personally appeared before me the subscribed a Justice of the peace in and for said county
Joseph Horton of the township of Jefferson in said county of Jackson, who after being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth, That he the said Horton enlisted in General Armstrong's core of light Draggoons in Staunton, Augusta County
in the State of Virginia under Capt Labrun and Lieutenant Decelature, Court William Moredoch -- and that he served with a certain Jonathan Milhollen in said company fifteen months or upwards, enlisted in the year 1782 and legally discharged in the fall of 1783 at Little York in the State of Pennsylvania 
And further this deponent sayeth not --

Joseph Horton
his mark

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of Sept. A.D. 1832
Sam Carrick
Justice of the Peace

I Samuel Carrick a justice of the peace for Jackson County do certify that the above named Joseph Horton whose deposition above written was taken before me on the 18th of September 1832 is a person of credibility: that I have been personally acquainted with him for years and that during that time he has sustained a good character for veracity. Given under my hand May 20th 1833
Samuel Carrick
Justice of the Peace
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The State of Ohio
Jackson County

I Daniel Hoffman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do certify that Samuel Carrick Esquire before whom the within affidavit appears to have been made and who has subscribed his name thereto was at that time and now is an acting Justice of the Peace
duly commissioned and qualified as such
and all due faith and credit is due ought to be given to his official acts as well in Courts of Justice as thereout

In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 18th day of September A.D 1832

Daniel Hoffman Clerk

The State of Ohio
Jackson County

I Daniel Hoffman Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Jackson certify that Samuel Carrick Esqr. is a Magistrate Justice of the Peace, as above and that the foregoing signatures purporting
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to be his are genuine

In testimony whereof I have affixed my seal of office and subscribed my name this 21st day of May 1833

Daniel Hoffman Clerk of the Court of Com. Pleas for the said County of Jackson
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Jonathan Millhollen
Ad 32 Ohio 19621

Triplett
Dec 24
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Feb. 10. 1852
Inq. relative to
Flood Mitchell deed

[GS Hours?]

Hon. Jno Wilson
Pension Office
D.C.
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The State of Ohio
Clark County

Before me James S. Halsey, President of the town of Springfield in said County personally came John Morris, aged 67 or 68 years, who being by me duly sworn deposeth and saith that Jonathan Millhollen with whom he there was and still is well acquainted, about the commencement of February in the year 1781, entered a company of militia in the service of the United States, under the command of Captain John Bollar; that said Company rendezvoused at Bottetourt [sic] Courthouse
in the State of Virginia, and from thence marched into North Carolina under the command of Major Rolen. Deponent entered said Company at the same time with said Millhollen and was discharged at the same time with him after a service of more than two months as deponent only believes. Deponent was with said Millhollen at the battle of Guilford during this Service. At the time we were drafted we expected to serve three months; and there being no occasion for our service longer we were discharged about a fortnight after the Battle of Guilford. Deponent recollects of hearing that said Millhollen served another tour the[illegible] summer in the militia service, the length of which deponent does not now
remember. He also recollects that said Mill
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Millhollen some time after this enlisted in the Cavalry Service of the United States, and that he continued in the service as deponent believes something more than a year; but the exact length of time deponent cannot recollect. During this service deponent recollects seeing said Millhollen once, he having made a short visit to his friend on furlough, in company with the Lieutenant or ensign of the company in which he served. And further deponent saith not.

John Morris


The State of Ohio
Clark County

I James S. Halsey, President of the town of Springfield in said County, and as such having authority to take depositions and administer oaths, do certify that on this day the above named John Morris personally appeared before me and subscribed and made oath to the foregoing affidavit according to law.

And I further certify that the said John Morris is
and has for several years been personally known to me, and that he sustains a good character for credibility and honesty. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Corporate seal of said town, this 13th day of May A.D. 1833,
James S. Halsey Pres.
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State of Ohio
Clark County

On this 2nd day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & thirty two personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting in & for said County, Jonathon Millhollen a resident of said County and State aged sixty eight years, who being first duly sworn saith and doth on his oath, make the following
declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 --

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated --

In the month of January or February. he is not sure which, in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & eighty one he entered the service as a drafted malitia [militia] man under Captain John
Bowler, of the County of Bottetourt [Botetourt] in the State of Virginia, his Lieutenant's name he cannot now remember, the ensign's name he thinks was Gillispy they were rendered at Bottetourt [Botetourt] Courthouse (now Fincastle) whose they were attached to three other companies of malitia [militia] who were all placed under the command of
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Mayer Holland under whose command we were marched to North Carolina passing through New London in Bedford County, to join the army
under General Greene, and after we had reached the army under General Greene, the four companies under the command of Mayor Rollen were by order of General Greene frequently attacked and sent out on scouts, and on one of those scouts at a place called Alamance, he thinks on the 28th day of February 1781 had a skirmish with a party of British in which six of our men were killed, and twenty six of the enemy as was reported, our party had to retreat and were seamed in our northeast by Colonel Lee's horse who were near at that time & frequently acted in consent with us
This battalion was afterward attached to General Morgan's light Infantry who were then commanded by Colonel Williamson, and on the sixth day of March had a skirmish with a party of British at a place called Reedy Forke
Some companies of the malitia [militia], having been at North Carolina, our party were commanded by Colonel Williamson
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we were beaten and had to flee in this skirmish. Some were killed on both sides but he does not remember to have heard the number. They were constantly on the march and on the fifteenth March were in the battle of Guilford under General Greene but shortly after the commencement of the battle he with some others were detailed as a guard to guard the baggage wagons, and when the Americans [illegible], the baggage wagons were conveyed off safe about twelve miles distance where the army made a stand, and he and his company were discharged and returned home their term of service having expired, but he does not now remember whether the tour was for three months or for two only and in may following he again went out as a substitute for one Adam Kimberton, under Captain Prion and Lietenant James Armstrong, there were some time after marched to Staunton & from thence to Charlottesville, from thence to Richmond, and join the army under General Lafayette between Richmond & Williamsburg, General Wayne was also in command at the same time in
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the same neighborhood or part of the country, but whether he was with General La Fayette at the time or not he does not know.
They were variously [illegible] in scouts & detached service was in the Battle of James Town under General Wayne on the sixth day of July, in which many persons were killed on both sides he thinks on the part of the americans four hundred, General Wayne lost several pieces of his common our army had to retreat and at a distance of a mile or two met General La Fayette with the army under his command, coming to our relief, and that night the army encamped at the hickory nut church, we then crossed James River at a place called Westhorn, and marched thence to Petersburg, General Wayne was along, he was discharged he thinks about the tenth of August between Richmond and Williamsburg, his time of service having expired, he then returned home & on the tenth day of August 1782 he enlisted for three years under Sargeant Seth of Captain
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[illegible] Company, and was attached to General Armond's core of light draggoons, in Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia, this [illegible] marched from Staunton to Winchester
where they remained until bad weather and were ordered from there to Frederickstown, Maryland and from thence to Little Yorke, Pennsylvania where they remained until the fall of 1783 having been fifteen months from the time of his enlistment, when the army was disbanded and all discharged, he with others obtained written discharges, that he has long since lost this discharge & has it not now in his power to produce he thinks that he also received discharge in writing from his officers on the fulfillment of his two tours of malitia [sic] duty as before described but has long since lost them also & he hath no record of his age nor hath he any documentary evidence of his services now in his power to produce
He was born in the County of London, Virginia, lived in Bottetourt [sic] at the time he entered the service and after until the year 1788 from whence he removed to Kentucky, and in the year 1800 removed to the state of Ohio where he now lives, in the County of Clark, though it was then [illegible] County
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He states that he can prove his services by him rendered when an enlisted soldier, by the deposition of Joseph Horton who served with him in the same Company & was also an enlisted soldier as for his deposition here with sent -- He can also prove his first order of service as a malitia [sic] man as he has
noted it by John Morris who now lives in the County of Clarke, and who served with him in the same company, but is now sick as he
is informed & not able to come to town, he further states that Thomas Davis of Green County did also serve with him in the same
core during the time he was out as an enlisted soldier and that his testimony would be, he believes the same as the testimony of Joseph
Horton whose deposition is enclosed -- He states that when in the service he was frequently called by the name of McHallen, and that it may be his name may appear on the records or rolls written McHallen if he hopes this explanation may be sufficient--
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present and declares that his name is not on the
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pension roll of the agency of any state--
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid-
Saul Henkle Clk
Jonathan Millhollin

We Samuel Anderson & John Beamer both citizens & resident in the County of Clark in the State of Ohio--Hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jonathan Millhallen who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be the age he states himself to be, that he is reputed & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution [fold in page obscures a line]

Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Saul Henkle Clk
Samuel Anderson
John Beamer

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 Samuel Anderson and John Beamer who have signed the preceding certificate are resident in the County of Clark and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.

I Saul Henkle Clerk of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jonathan Mill
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Milhollen, for a pension
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Court this 3rd day of October A.D. 1832

Saul Hinkle Clk
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of
Jonathan Willhollan which require further proof or explanation.

I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? 
Yes

II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides?
Yes

III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?

IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served?
Yes

V. Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled?
No +

VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations?
Yes

VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?
Yes

VIII. Has the Court given their opinion?
Yes

IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate?
Yes

X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?
Yes
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XI. Has the applicant obtained the evidence of a clergyman and another respectable citizen as to
their belief respecting his age and the general belief in his neighborhood relative to his revolutionary service?
No

XII. If the clergyman's affidavit has not been produced, is there any reason assigned for not obtaining it?
No

XIII. If the applicant has no documentary evidence, and has not obtained the testimony of at least one living witness, has he stated in his declaration that such proof cannot be had?

XIV. If the applicant's name is not found on the rolls of military service, has he produced a witness or witnesses as to his service?

If he has produced direct proof as to service, has the magistrate who administered the oath,
certified to the credibility of the witness or witnesses?
No

Has the proper officer certified to the official character and signature of the magistrate as the regulations direct?
Yes

XV. Does it appear from any of the papers that the witness was in such a situation, or of such an age, as to have a personal knowledge of the applicant's service?
Yes

XVI. Are the papers authenticated as the regulations direct? 
No #

XVII. Are the seven interrogatories prescribed by the War Department answered satisfactorily? And, if not, which of them is not so answered?

EXPLANATORY NOTES.
QUERE V. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words:
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection
he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades; For ---------- year ---------- months, and ---------- days, I served as a ---------- For ---------- months and ---------- days, I served as a ----------; and for such service I claim a pension.
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It is important in all cases to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the
pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours; the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must in every case be clearly shewn under what officers the applicant served; the duration
of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority; that he was either
in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.

QUERE XIV. Proof of Service.
In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimants entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate
must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.

QUERE XVI. Mode of authenticating papers.
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other paper authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.

In every case where the clerk of the court, or other certifying officer, has no public seal of
office, the certificate of a member of congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.