Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22908, for Stephen Millard, New York
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Pension Office, 

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, shewing the service of Stephen Millard Warren County New York

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Period when the service was rendered  |  Duration of the service Years. Months. Days.  |   Rank of the claimant.  |  Names and Rank of the Field officers under whom he served.  |  Age at present, and place of abode when he entered the service.  |  Proof by which the declaration is supported.  |
Enlisted 1775  |  9 Months  |  private  |  Cap Hunley, Colonel Varnum, Gl. Green  |  82 years Westerly Rhode Island  |  Traditionary evidence & two witnesses, one certified credible the other not. papers not property attached  |
Enlisted 1776  |  9 Months  |  private  |  Cap Webb, Col Noyes  |    |    |
Draft Winter 1777  |  3 Months  |  private  |  same officers  |    |    |
Draft May 1777  |  not stated  |  private  |  ap Bently, Col Schuyler  |    |    |
Draft Sprg. 1778 or 1779  |  not stated  |  Sergt.  |  Cap Brown, Col Clinton  |    |    |
2 Years 8 Months Sergt
1 Year 4 Months Private
2 Years +8 Months
Battle of Bunker Hill, Bemis Heights
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I am, respectfully 
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.

+ This was for 8 months - Witness states that applicant served this time as a Sergeant
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Warren County Ss  I John Rice of Bolton in said County and State of Newyork do swear that Stephen Millard was a Sergeant in Joseph Hawleys Company in Colonel James M Varnums Regiment and General Nathaniel Greens Brigade at Boston in the State of Massachusetts and that the said Stephen Millard served in said Company as such Sergeant eight months in the year 1775 and that the said Stephen Millard was in the said Company when this deponent was discharged and further saith not 
[signed] John Rice
subscribed and Sworn November 23d 1832 before me 
[signed] David Woodward Justice of the peace
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I Samuel Shaw of Berlin County of Rensselaer and State of New York was a resident of the same place in the year 1777 I was then a lieutenant under Capt. Caleb Bentley and Colonel Stephen J Schuyler of the New York Militia by whose orders the militia of this place of whom Stephen Millard then of this place was one was called into the service (the said Stephen Miller is the same who now requests this affidavit according to the best of recollection and belief) according to the best of my recollection was some time in May 1777 called into service and continued in the service untill after Surrender of Burgoin in October following 
[signed] Samuel Shaw
Sworn before me this 31st day July 1832 
[signed] Wm Jones Justice Peace 
I certify that the above named Samuel Shaw is a person well known to me and that his reputation for truth and varacity stands fair and unimpeachable so far as I know
December 14th 1833   Wm Jones Justice Peace
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Washington Decr 30th 1833 
Sir
I enclose you for reexamination and allowance the claim of Stephen Millard for a Pension, just recd – it is believed that the defect in the papers on account of which the Certificate was devised, has been supplied 
If allowed please enclose the Certificate to me and I would respectfully remind you of the Certificates in the cases of John Guy and Solomon Emmons which have not yet been received 
Very Respectfully yours &c
[signed] Henry C. Martindale

J. L. Edwards Esqr
Comr of Pensions

John Guy 
Solomon Emmons