Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7199, for Jacob Miller, Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania 
County of Adams 
ss
On this 16th day of February 1857 personally appeared in the open Court, before the court now sitting Samuel Miller a resident of Adams County State aforesaid aged about 64 years who being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say that he is the son of Jacob Miller dec who was a soldier in the war of the revolution, as he has often heard him say, and served as follows [illegible] the first enlistment was in 1776 at which time he served one year as he has often heard him say, that he afterwards enlisted and served to the end of the war as he also frequently heard him declare, that his first tour of service was under a Captain James Taylor and Lieutenant Kimmel, who was commanded by Gen or Col Anthony Wayne, that this declarants father had made an attempt to get a state pension in 1819 and had taken the depositions of Jacob Meyers Stoffer Sipe which depositions will accompany this declaration but upon getting to know that he must make oath that he was poor and in necessitous circumstances, he withdrew the application, and prosecuted it no further that this declarent knows of no person, by whom he can prove his fathers service, unless it is the depositions above referred to and Adam Wolf, who is an aged man still living who knew him when he returned from the service, and has continued to live in the same neighborhood ever since. This declarent makes this declaration in behalf of himself and the surviving children being Michael, Catherine who is now the widow of David Harman, and Lydia who was married to David Sowers that his father left no widow, that his father died on the 22 of June 1832, that he does not recollect the names of the officers under whom he served to the close of the war, after his first tour, that he makes the above
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declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of the
15th day of May 1828 and the act of the 7th of June1832

Samuel Miller
Affirmed & Subscribed
in open Court, Feby
16th. 1857
John Picking, To
State of Pennsylvania
Adams County
of June
Is
I
John Picking, Prothenotary of the Court of Common
Pleas
in and for the County
and State aforesaid the same
being a Court of Law
& Record do certify that the
foregoing proceedings were had
in said Court of Common
Pleas on the day as above set forth.
In testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and affixed
the seal of said Court at Gettysburg
in said County this second day of
March A.D. 1857
John Picking, Pro
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7199
P.O. 1828 Pen
Jacob Miller
Service: Adams Co
1776 - 12 mos Capt Jas Taylor Col Wayne
tried 1819 to get a pension but withdrew 
died June 25th 1832
Enlisted:
Discharged:
Application filed: Rejected
Alleges:
re-enlisted:
Attorney:
P.O.:
Recognized.
Contract.
Cert. of Dis. 
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