Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 4210, for James Miller, Virginia
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Service
Va

Miller, James

Number
S.4210.

Boruiu Md.
Contents

Barded.
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26/835
East Tennessee
James Miller 
of Claiborne in the State of E. Ten
who was a Pr in the Company commanded 
by Captain  Riekes of the Regt commanded 
by Col Butler in the Virginia
[marked out: line for] Militia

8 c/h Pr $26.66 1/2

Inscribed on the Roll of [?] Tennessee 
at the rate of 20 Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, 
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of June and Sent to - 
1831 Hon. S Bunch HR

Arrears to the 4th of Mch 34- 80.00
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep'r   13.33
                                                      ____
                                                      93 33
{Revolutionary Claim, 
Act June 7th, 1832}

Recorded by J. T. Sprague clerk,
Book 6 1/2 vol. 1 page 69
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Paid at the Treasury under A[ct]
of 6 April 1838  from 4 March
1837 to 4 Sept 1837. Agent no-
tified 30 May 1838

Letter to H. Graham  Esq 3. Auditor
21 Nov. 1838.
Paid at the Treasury under the
Act of the 6th April 1838 from
4 Sept 1837 to 4 March 1838. Agt
Notified 24 April 1839

Paid as above from 4 March
to 4 Sep 1839. Agt notified
30 June 1840

Dead
Letter to Wesley Chittum 6th Oct 1841.
Paid as above from 4th march 1841
to Aug't 26th 1841. Ag't notif'd May 
6th 1842
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State of Tennessee
Claiborne Country SS.

On this the 21st day of April One Thousand Eight hundred and Thirty four personally appeared before me Isaac Vanbibber an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County of Claiborne. James Miller aged Eighty five years. And at the dwelling house of him the said James Miller, who being first sworn according to law 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. That he volunteered in Captain Jacob Rinkers company of militia from Shenandoah county in the state of Virginia in the Month of October or November One thousand Seven hundred and eighty and served five months. George Rinker was first Lieutenant and Joseph Killer was Second lieutenant the Ensigns name not remembered.  rendezvoused at at [sic] Millerstown sometimes called Woodstock. Co. Butler commanded the Regiment of one Millerstown were March to Hillsborough in the State of North Carolina from there to the Cheraw Hills near to Pedee [sic] River in the State of South Carolina. Where we joined the Main Army. Under the Command of Gen'l Greene who commanded the Regulars and Gen. Stephens who commanded the Militia. After being stationed at Cheraw Hills for some time, we were marched to Guilford in the State of North Carolina. where we met the British Army under the Command of Lord Cornwallace [sic]. and After a severe engagement, the
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American Army was defeated. After the Battle we were march to Albemarle Barracks in the State of Virgnia. from there home to Shenandoah County in the State of Virginia. he received a discharge for five months service signed by Captain Jacob Rinker- In the month of May thereafter to wit in the month of May 1781. He again entered the service of the United States as substitute for three months in Captain William Reagans company of Militia in the place of a certain John Nash. We were marched to Winchester barracks in Virginia where we were stationed during the three months engaged in guarding the prisoners Col. John Nethington had commanded at the Barracks during the time said applicant was stationed there.
Applicant recollects Gen'l Morgan and also recollects that there was a number of prisoners brought to the Cheraw Hills while the troops were stationed there.  that it was said was taken by Gen'l Morgan at Campden or 96.  He states that he also received a discharge signed by Captain Reagan for the three month tour of duty last spoken of making all together eight months service in the militia during the Revolutionary war called into service of the United States by legal authority. He states that he left his discharges with his mother (who was a widow) when he left Virginia in order that she might get the pay that was due to him for his services. But he understood afterwards that she never got anything. His discharges he never saw afterwards. He supposes they were lost.
He states that he was born in Baltimore county, Maryland 19th day August 1748. That he has no record of his age at this time. That he was living when called into service in Shenandoah county in the state of Virginia.
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That since the Revolutionary War he has lived a part of his time in Virginia and a part in Tennessee he now lives in Claiborne county in the State of Tennessee. That he first entered the service as a volunteer, and secondly as a substitute as stated in the foregoing part of his declaration. The general circumstances of his service he has stated in his declaration and also the Officers who commanded as well as his recollection now serves him.  That from old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot remember distinctly all the circumstances that transpired at that time.  he received a discharge for each tour of duty but they are lost as stated in the foregoing part of his declaration.  He refers to Major Lea Thomas Lea, Robert Gibson Esq'r Daniel Sowder, Sebaustion Graves and his neighbors and acquaintances generally for his character veracity and truth. 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.  He knows of no person in this Country by whom he can prove services, nor has he documentary evidence of the fact.
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year Aforesaid before me  James  his mark Miller
Isaac Vanbibber
Justice of the peace for Cla

We Thomas Marsee, a clergiman [sic] residing in the County of Claiborne and State of Tennessee and Josiah Marsee living in the County and state aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with James Miller who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be Eighty five years of age that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written
Thomas  his X mark  Marsee
Josiah Marsee

Isaac Vanbibber
Justice of the peace.
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And I the said Isaac Vanbibber a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Claiborne aforesaid do hereby declare my opinion after the investigation or 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 I do further certify that it appears to me that Thomas Marsee who has signed the preceeding [sic] certificate is a clergiman [sic] resident in the County of Claiborne and in the immediate Neighbourhood of said applicant and that Josiah Marsee who has also signed the same is a resident in the County aforesaid and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.  And further that said applicant by reason of old age and infirmity is unable to travel to court.
April 21st 1834
Isaac Vanbibble 
Justice of the peace

I Benjamin F. Cloud Clerk of the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions of the County of Claiborne and State of Tennessee, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the aforesaid Justice of the peace in the matter of the application of James Miller for a pension. And that said Isaac Vanbibber before whom the foregoing proceedings appears to have been taken and sworn, was at the time and yet is an acting Justice of the peace for said County of Claiborne, duely [sic] commissioned to hold the Court of pleas and Quarter Sessions, the same being a court of record.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Court at Office in Tazewell this the 23d day of April 1834.
Benjamin F. Cloud Clk
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January 5, 1934.

BA-J/ILL 
James Miller
S. 4210

Mrs. A. J. Berger
Box 379
Arkansas City, Kansas.

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of James Miller, reported as a pensioner of Knox County, Kentucky, in 1840.
There is no claim for pension on file made to the United States based upon service in the Revolutionary War of a James Miller, who, it is shown, resided in Knox County, Kentucky. There is, however, the record of a James Miller of Virginia, who was born in 1748 and later lived in Tennessee, which might be the record in which you are interested. It is given herein as found in pension claim, S. 4210, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.
James Miller was born August 12, 1748, in Baltimore County, Maryland; the names of his parents are not shown.
While a resident of Shenandoah County, Virginia, he enlisted in October or November, 1780, served five months as private in Captain Jacob Rinker's company, Colonel Butler's Virginia regiment and was in the battle of Guilford; he enlisted in May, 1781, and served three months as private in Captain William Reagan's Virginia company, stationed most of the time at Winchester Barracks.
After the Revolutionary War, the soldier resided a part of the time in Virginia. He stated that he left his discharge with his mother, who was a widow, when he left Virginia. He resided after that in Tennessee.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 21,
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1834, at which time he resided in Claiborne County, Tennessee.
James Miller died August 26, 1841, survived by a widow; her name is not shown and no reference is made to children.
It is shown that Thomas Marsee, a clergyman, and Josiah Marsee, both of Claiborne County, Tennessee, in 1834, made affidavits in behalf of James Miller, the soldier, no relationship to the family stated.
In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, name and address of person paid, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following:
James Miller
Certificate 26835.
Issued June 11, 1834
Commenced March 4, 1831.
Rate $20.66 per annum
Act of June 7, 1832.
Tennessee Agency.

Very truly yours,
A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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Claiborne County, Tennessee, aged seventy yearhttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngs. The nahttps://catalog.archives.gov/images/misc/drag.pngmes
of their children are not on record.
from the papers in the claim, S. 4210, it appears that
James Miller was born August 12, 1748, in Baltimore County,
Maryland.
While living in Shenandoah County, Virginia, he enlisted
in October or November 1780, served five months in Captain
Jacob Rinker's Company, Colonel Butler's Virginia Regiment.
He was in the battle of Guilford,
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He enlisted in May 1781 and served three months in Cape
tain William Reagan's Company of Virginia Militia.
He was allowed pension on his application executed
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April 21, 1834, while living in Claiborne County, Tennessee,
He died August 28, 1841, leaving a widow, but her name is not
stated, nor is it stated whether they had children.
Very truly yours,
sion on her
E. P. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.
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MAJORITY MEMBERS
MARTIN B. MADDEN, ILL.
CHAIRMAN
DANIEL R. ANTHONY, JR., KANS.
WILLIAM S. VARE, PA.
WILLIAM R. WOOD, IND.
LOUIS C. CRAMTON, MICH.
EDWARD H. WASON, N. H.
WALTER W. MAGEE, N. Y.
GEORGE HOLDEN TINKHAM, MASS.
BURTON L. FRENCH, IDAHO
MILTON W. SHREVE, PA.
L. J. DICKINSON, IOWA
FRANK MURPHY, OHIO
JOHN W. SUMMERS, WASH.
HENRY E. BARBOUR. CALIF.
ERNEST R. ACKERMAN, N. J.
GUY U. HARDY, COLO.
FRANK H. FUNK, ILL.
JOHN TABER, N. Y.
MAURICE H. THATCHER, KY.
FRANK CLAGUE, MINN.
ROBERT G. SIMMONS, NEBR.
MINORITY MEMBERS
JOSEPH W. BYRNS, TENN.
JAMES P. BUCHANAN, TEX.
JAMES A. GALLIVAN, MASS.
GORDON LEE, GA.
BENJOHNSON, KY.
CHARLES D. CARTER, OKLA.
EDWARD T. TAYLOR, COLO.
WILLIAM B. OLIVER, ALA.
ANTHONY J. GRIFFIN, N.Y.
THOMAS W. HARRISON, VA.
JOHN N. SANDLIN, LA.
WILLIAM A. AYRES, KANS.
THOMAS H. CULLEN, N. Y.
ROSS A. COLLINS, MISS.
MARCELLUS C. SHEILD,
CLERK
JOSEPH W. BYRNS
6TH DIST. TENNESSEE
MRS. MARGARET M. PERRY
SECRETARY

House of Representatives
Committee on Appropriations
Sixty-Ninth Congress
Washington, D. C.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

My dear Sir:

I am inclosing herewith a letter from Mr. A. P. Foster which is self explanatory. Will you please furnish me with the information which he desires.
Sincerely yours,
Joseph W Byrns

February 12, 1927

[postmark:  U. S. PENSION OFFICE FEB 14 1927]

returned
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Arkansas City, Kansas.
Box 379
Dec. 26th, 1933.

Veterans Administration,
Bureau of Pensions,
Revolutionary War Section,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:
In the 1840 U.S. Census of Knox county Kentucky one JAMES MILLER is
 listed as a Revolutionary War pensioner, and I am desirous of learning the data -- especially family data given in his application for pension or at the granting of same, as I am most anxious to learn if he gives in his pension application or claim the names of his children and if he mentions a son named Joshua Miller.
Thanking you most kindly for any information you may be able to give me regarding the Revolutionary War pension of JAMES MILLER of KNOX COUNTY, KENTUCKY, and trusting that I shall hear from you soon,
Yours truly,
Ruth Norris Berger
Mrs A. J. Berger
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Rev. & 1812 [War]
Section.

February 17, 1927.

Honorable Joseph W. Byrns,
House of Representatives.

My dear Mr. Byrns

In response to your letter of the twelfth instant and the enclosed letter of Mr. A. P. Foster, Assistant Librarian and Archivist of the State of Tennessee, requesting the histories of the pensioners, Martin Miller and James Miller of Claiborne County, Tennessee in 1832, I have the honor to furnish said histories herewith.
From the papers in the claim, W. 7453, it appears that Martin Miller was living in Granville County, North Carolina when he enlisted December 22, 1776, he served as private and musician, was in Captain Cook's Company of the Ninth North Carolina Regiment and was discharged January 27, 1780. He was engaged at the battle of Germantown.
He was allowed pension on his application executed September 17, 1832, while living in Claiborne County, Tennessee, aged seventy-two, or seventy-three years. He died there August , 29, 1838.
He married February 5, 1798, in Wilkes County, North Carolina , Elizabeth Giddens. She was allowed pension on her application executed September 2, 1850, while living in

[written in margin:  I did not use Bob Clark. no such Col. in 9 N.C. & the Col says a field officer (not regimental) No Caps. Alex. Mebane in any N. C. Line Regs so omitted him as Col said he thought was not certain.
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Claiborne County, Tennessee, aged seventy years. The names of their children are not on record.
From the papers in the claim, S. 4210, it appears that James Miller was born August 12, 1748, in Baltimore County, Maryland.
While living in Shenandoah County, Virginia, he enlisted in October or November 1780, served five months in Captain Jacob Rinker's Company, Colonel Butler's Virginia Regiment.  He was in the battle of Guilford.
He enlisted in May 1781 and served three months in Captain William Reagan's Company of Virginia Militia.
He was allowed pension on his application executed April 21, 1834, while living in Claiborne County, Tennessee.  He died August 26, 1841, leaving a widow, but her name is not stated, nor is it stated whether they had children.
Very truly yours,
E. P. MORGAN,
Acting Commissioner.  

[in margin:  did not put Col. who com. at barracks because I am sure name is not correct & he did not command a regt.]
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
April 23d, 1842
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasure of the United States," The widow of James Miller a Pensioner on the Roll of the Knoxville, Tennessee Agency, at the rate of Twenty Six  Dollars and 66 Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1841, to the 26th August, 1841.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K Parris 
COMPTROLLER

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
May 21, 1838
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasure of the United States," James Miller a Pensioner on the Roll of the Knoxville Agency, at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832 has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1837, to the 4th September 1837.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K Parris
COMPTROLLER

To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS,
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
19th March 1839
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasure of the United States," James Miller a Pensioner on the Roll of the Knoxville, Tenn Agency, at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the fourth of September 1837, to the fourth of March 1838.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Second Comptroller's Office,
June 23d, 1840
Sir:
Under the date of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasure of the United States," James Miller a Pensioner on the Roll of the Knoxville, Tenn Agency, at the rate of Twenty Six Dollars and sixty six Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 June 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4th of March 1839, to the 4th of Sept.1839.
Respectfully, yours,
Albion K Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.
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The Hon. Secratary [sic] of the Treasury
Washington City
D.C.

C. 47. Oct 4,
Respy referred to
Secy of War

Mr Evans 
 Pension office
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The Agent at Knoxville will not pay the amount due Mrs Miller unless she is brought to Court.

Please to address
Wesley Chittum
Tazewell, Ten.