Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7193, for Henry Miller, Pennsylvania
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Service                                    Number

Penn          Miller, Henry           R.7193
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7193

P.O.  1818, Penn
Henry Miller
Service:
Enlisted: 
Discharged: York Co. 1775 Phil Capt Wilson Col Anderson


REJECTED
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(copy)

Henry Miller's Petition

Colonel Anderson
was not of the
Continental Establishment


Rejected
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District of Pennsylvania
York County ss

   On this seventh day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, personally appeared in open court/viz. the Court of Common Pleas of said County, being a Court of Record inasmuch as it proceeds according to the Court of the Common Law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, and keeps record of its proceedings Henry Miller aged ninety four years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions made by the acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and 1st of May 1820 that he the said Henry Miller during the continuance of the war some time in the year 1775, in Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania in the Company Commanded by Captain Wilson of the Regiment called the Second Pennsylvania line under Col. Anderson on the continental establishment.  That he continued to serve in the said corps, or in the service of the United States until the termination of the Revolutionary War when he was discharged from said service in Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania; that he was in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown in which he received two wounds; and that he has no evidence now in his possession of his said service, and in pursuance of the act of the 1st of May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale or any manner dispensed of my property with the intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provision 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 the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any property or annuities contracts of debts due me, nor have I any income other that what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed viz.  Real property none - personal
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property - none - Mixed property none - My occupation is that of a collier but cannot work in consequence of disability arising from old age.  I live with my son who is poor and has to maintain himself by hard work. I have no other friends who are able to afford my any relief.

Henry Miller

Sworn and subscribed & declared
this 7th day of August 1821 before

Geo. Barnitz
York County ss

I, William Barber Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid, do certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court.  In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court on this first day of November A.D. 1821

W. Barber
Clerk Court Common Pleas
York County Penna.