Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,239, for Briant Milliman, Massachusetts
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Service
Mass

Milliman, Briant
Susan

Number 
R. 7.239
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The weight of [illegible] of a [illegible]
Six pounds and ten [illegible]
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Dates of ages set down according to birth

Eleeta Milliman was born December 17th 1791
Abraham B Milliman was born October 11th 1793
Niram Milliman was born November 3 1796
Amon Milliman was born July 29th 1797
Jamor Milliman was born August 2 1799
Elizabeth Milliman was born January 27 1802
Amhus Milliman was born January 20th 1806
Sarah Milliman was born April 4th 1808
Abigail Milliman was born September 29th 1810
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State of Ohio Huron County 
Before the Court of Common please now in Session 
in her walk within and for said County on 24 February 1840 
Personally appeared David Goodall aged Fity eight years 
Eliota Goodell aged Forty eight years 
Amon Millman son of Briant Milliman deceased aged Forty two years and on their Oath declare way that they have attended to and read the foregoing annexed Declaration of the & mostly Widow Susan Milliman and believe & have personal knowledge from being unnected in the Family of said Susan that the facts stated from the former declarations information, formerly made by the said Briant Milliman in his lifetime respecting his revolutionary services are the substantially and what they have often heard him respecting his service at the north particularly the affair in taking Frasier his condemnation execution and they fully agree to the Statement in declaration respecting the brown paper purporting to be a record of the List of the births of the Children of said Bryant & Susan as to the date of their births and that was taken out of an old writing Book and in the opinion that it was originally taken out of an old Bible which has been lost and is now missing and that said Paper has ever since the death of said Briant been in the possession of the said Susan and that the paper is of the color of the writing of said writing Book according to their best are collection of its do and that said List of Births the dates is in the proper hand writing of said Brant deceased
David Goodall
Leta Goodall  her mark

Amon Milliman
Sworn & subscribed the 24 day of February 1840 
D Gibbs Clk H C P
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State of Ohio Huron County
Personally appeared Jabez Deming
of Bronson in said County aged about Fifty years and
that being duly sworn before the Court of Common Pleas
on his oath declares and says said Court now sitting
in Norwalk within and for said County on this
24th February 1840. That he has been for many
years acquainted with Paine Clerk John
Milliman, Elizabeth Rathburn & Edmond
Rathburn the several persons and Deponents
whose deposition are hereto annexed and by
them signed & sworn to and respectable credible
persons of truth & veracity.
Jabez Deming
Sworn & Subscribed
this 24th February 1840
D. Gibbs Clk H.C. P.
and the said Jabez Deming also testifies & says that
he has also a long time been well acquainted with
the Widow Susan Milliman and that she is a person of truth and veracity
Sworn & Subscribed the
24 February 1840
Jabez Deming
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State of Ohio Huron county SS
On this 24th February A. D. 1840 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas at Norwalk within and for said county the widow Susan Milliman a resident in Townsend of said County aged Seventy years who being firstly duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed the 7th of July 1838 entitled and act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows. That she is the widow of Briant Milliman deceased, a Revolutionary Soldier formerly of Tyrington County of Berkshire Massachusetts who was a private and served during the War of the Revolution. That she was born on the 20th of July 1767 in Exeter in the State of Rhode Island and was seventy years of age the 20th of July 1839. that her memory has extremely failed her in consequence of her old age and infirmities and is obliged to depend in her declaration on the information of others for the facts hereafter stated rather than her own declarations recollections. The following facts will appear from the depositions and other testimony accompanying this declaration. It appears from the depositions of Paine Clark and John Milliman that they were acquainted with the said Briant & Susan as husband and wife. That he was an enlisted soldier and that he served in the Revolutionary war six or nine months. Edmund Rathburn testifies that he was acquainted with said Briant & Susan as Husband & wife and that he served as an enlisted soldier for mar as many as nine months in the Division of Genl. Stark. The declarant understood from her said Husband that he served in said Division. She do not now remember the name of his Capt. Col. or any other officers. The following
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facts & circumstances however appear from the testimony annexed. The accounts he has give of his services are substantially as follows. That he was in the division of General Starks & were stationed at the North near a Fort--a militia Captain named Dunham lived near the Fort about a mile distant. There were six Torries who were in the practice of coming over from Canada to Steal Cattle to carry to Cananda their object was to take said Dunham to Canada who was an (illegible) to them. On his application to General Starks the General (illegible)as a company upon his Division of which her husband was one, as a guard against the (illegible) and deportation of these Torries. Said Dunham frequently took out eight or ten men of the Company to go in search & pursuit of the Torries and in one of their pursuits some two or three went up to a house supposed to be friendly to the Torries & when they supposed the Torries were leaving the rest of the Company behind. Those who went on the search did not find them while the said Briant her said husband who was not one of those who went upon said search, looked and at the distance of about forty or fifty rods where the Torries were encamped near a swamp he said one of the Torries stretch upon his arms. Captain Dunham (illegible) to him to said Briant and said there were at least six of the Torries and asked the ones if they would go with him to take them. The said Briant said for one he would & accordingly went and also an other said he would go & accordingly did. They having discovered a tract of the Torries they found & took Five of the torries & among them was one named Frasier a (illegible)  to Tory. They tied & bound them and took them to Dunhams house about a day break in the morning they met Genl. Starks as they were about entering the Fort. The General asked them if they three had taken the five and they told them "yes". the General then said they should each of them have a British Gun in the possession of the five which were taken by them. Frasier was after this tried & convicted by a
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Court Martial was convicted & condemned and executed, and the said Briant was present at the execution.
It appears that said Briant started as a Soldier at the earliest part of the Season for making maple sugar say in April and it is supposed Frasier was executed sometime in December following which probably will appear by referring to the archives of the War Department. If so it is reasonable to suppose that he served as much as ten months at least. And the declarant further states that she was married to her said Husband in the year 1790 the month and day she dont recollect. They were married in the Town of Tyrington Berkshire County State of Massachusetts by the Reverend a Mr. Avery a Presbyterian clergyman his Christian name she dont receollect. It is so long a stime since she removed from that county that she dont now remember a single person of her acquaintance to whom she can apply for evidece of any kind.
*The old brown paper hereto annexed purporting to be a record of the Births of the Children of said Briant & Susan has been always in her possession and was cut out of a writing book which writing book is now lost or destroyed-It is genuine & what it appears to be of the same paper as her book from which it was taken from which it appears that her eldest daughter was born in December 17th A. D. 1791 which is about one year after her said marriage in the year 1790 as before mentioned. She further states that the said paper & the record thereon is in the proper hand writing of her said Husband.
She cannot with certainty say but she believed the said paper upon said writing Book was originally taken from an old Family Bible which is lost. This is the opinion of many of the Family.
Under the Circumstances of her situation it is impossible upon her to obtain any other record of her marriage
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stated in the foregoing Declaration and that said Susan Milliman - David Goodell Lester Goodell and Amon Milliman are credible persons and said Susan is now the Widow of said Briant and has remained unmarried ever snice the death of said Briant and also that said Jabez Deming is a credible person.
O. Bowen
Prest Judge

State of Ohio Huron county SS
I David Gibbs Clerk
(paper folded or torn)

6870 Susan Milliman
of Briant
Ohio
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She says that her said Husband died eleven years ago last August. that she was not married to him prior to his leaving said service but the marriage took place previous to the first of January seventeen hundred and ninety four viz at the time above stated.
That she is now the widow of said Briant & has never been married since his death.
Sworn and subscribed in open Court the 24th day of February AD 1840
D. Gibbs Clk.H.C.P.
Susan  X Milliman
her mark
Witness Lewis B. Stringer

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter that the said Briant Milliman was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as stated in the foregoing declaration and that said Susan Milliman-David Goodell, Lester Goodell and Amon Milliman are credible persons and said Susan is the widow of said Briant and has remained unmarried eer since the death of said Briant and also that said Jabez Deming is a credible person.
O. Bowen
Prst. Judge

State of Ohio Huron County ss
I David Gibbs Clerk of the court of common Please within and for the county of Huron in said State do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of the widow Susan Milliman for a pension and I also certify that the (blocked by seal) able O. Bowen is President Judge of said court (blocked by seal) stated.
(Seal w/ ribbon--County of Huron, Ohio)
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of office this 24th day of February A. D. 1840 
D. Gibbs Clk H. C. P.

6870 Susan Milliman
of Briant, Ohio
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(Post mark Norwalk Apr 29)
Free

James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington

May 5 1840 
Arnott & Milliman
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Sir
I have rec'd no answer to the Pension papers which I forwarded to you in the cases of the Widow Susan Milliman & Christian Arnott. If you can conveniently attend to those applications & give me an answer you will much oblige.
Yours respectfully
Lewis B. Sturgis
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James L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
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Sir
The enclosed papers contain an application in favor of the widow Susan Milliman whose Husband was Briant Milliman a soldier of the Revolution. Your attention to them will oblige.
Yours respectfully
Lewis B. Sturgis

Norwalk (illegible) Ohio
6 March 1840
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Susan Milliman
of Briant
Ohio
Suspended
see let 6 May 1840
L. B. Sturges
7239
Act 7 July 1838
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7239  REJECTED
Susan Milliman

(Balance of form blank)
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Edward Rathburn's
Deposition
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State of Ohio Cuyahoga
County SS
Newburgh Township

Personally came before me Wileman White a Justice of the peace for said Township, Edmund Rathbun who being duly sworn deposeth & sayith that he was acquainted with Briant Milliman the Husband of Susan Milliman & that they were married in the Town of Tyringham County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts, that this said Briant did serve as a Listed Soldier in the Revolution he thinks in the Division of Genl. Starks & that he served Nine months according to the best of his knowledge.
Edmond X Rathbun
his mark
Sworn to & subscribed this 14th day of Nov. 1838

State of Ohio
Cuyahoga County SS
I Harvey Rice clerk of the Court of Com. pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that Nileman White Esqr. before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken, and who has thereunto subscribed his name officially, in his own proper hand writing, was at the date of the said affidavit and now is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified, and to all whose official acts full faith and credit are due and ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere.

In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the Seal of said Court at Cleveland, this 16th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight.
H. Rice Clerk

fee .50 cts pd.
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State of Ohio Cuyahoga
County SS
Newburgh Township

Personally came before me Wileman White a Justice of the Peace for said Township, Edmund Rathbun who being duly sworn deposeth & sayith that he was acquainted with Briant Milliman the Husband of Susan Millman & that they were married in the Town of Tyringham County of Berkshire & State of Massachusetts that the said Briant did serve as a Listed Soldier in the Revolution as he thinks in the Division of Genl. Starks & that he served Nine months according to the best of his knowledge.
Edmond X Rothbun
his mark
Sworn to & subscribed this 14th day of Nov. 1838
Wileman White Justice of Peace
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Elisabeth Rathburn's 
Deposition
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Genesee County SS
Elizabeth Rathburn of Grangeville in said County being duly sworn saith she was present at the Marriage of Bryant Milliman and saw him married to Susannah Rathburn. There were married in the town of Tyringham in Berkshire County she thinks, in the State of Massachusetts in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety as near as this deponant can recollect but is certain they were married very near that time the month and day of the month this deponant does not recollect and they were married by a Presbytarian Clergyman or minster named Avery, his given name this deponant does not recollect and further this deponant saith not
Elizabeth  X Rathburn
her mark
Sworn and subscribed this 26 day of December 1839 before me
Paul Richards Justice of the peace

State of New York
Genesee County
I certify that Paul Richards Esq. was a Justice of the peace at the time of taking the foregoing affidavit and that his name subscribed to the certificate of taking the same is his hand writing. Witness my hand and official 
seal the 9 Jany. 1840
H. M. Sofur Clerk
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Justice and verily believe his signature 
annexed affidavit to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 19th day of October A. D. 1838.
William H. Stanley Clerk
Pr. Wm. H. Whiting Dep.

Paine Clark & John Milliman's depositions
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Livingston County SS
Town of Avon
Pain Clark of said Twon being duly sworn deposeth that he was aquainted with Briant Milliman the husband of Susan Milliman that they was married in the Town of Tyringham & county of Burkshire state of Massachusetts that the said Briant Did serve as a Listed Soldier in the Revolution served six or nine months according to the best of his knowledg
Paine Clark (signature)
Subscribed & sworn this 18th day of October  1838
Abiram Milliman Justice

Livingston Couonty
Avon Town SS
John Milliman of Genesee in said County Being duly sworn deposeth that he was aquainted with Briant Milliman the Husband of Susan Milliman that they was married in Tyringham Burkshire County Massachusetts that the said Briant Milliman did serve as a Listed Soldier in the Revolution served six or nine months cant say which further this deponant says not
John Milliman (signature)
Subscribed & sworn this 18th day
of October 1838
Abiram Milliman Justice
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State of New York
Livingston County Clerks Office SS
I William H. Stanley Clerk of said County do hereby certify that Abiram Milliman Esq. before whom the annexed affidavits purports to have been taken was on the 18th day of October A. d. 1838 a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly sworn and authorized to act as such and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe his signature to the annexed affidavit to be genuine.
In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the Court of Common Pleas of said County this 19th day of October A. D. 1838
William H. Stanley Clerk
Pr Wm. H. Whiting Dep

Paine Clark & John Milliman Depositions