Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 36138, for John Miles, Maryland
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Md.  Miles, John  S 36/38
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14.872 R
Kentucky
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John Miles 2d
of Green County in the state of Kentucky
who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Gest of the Maryland line, for the term of Three years
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Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
the 2 of May 1818
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Certificate of Pension issued the 22 of Sept 1818
and sent to John Barret
Greenburg Kentucky
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Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819  128.80
Semi anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1820  48.00
15 mo30/31 4/30 $176.80

{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818}

Handwritten on right side of document
Died Mar. 17-1827-A.B.
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John Miles (141)
2d
Affidavit

14,872
Mar '20

14872

John Barret
Greensburg, Kentucky
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District of Kentucky Green Circuit Court Set 
On this 31. day of August 1820 personally appeared in open court It being a Court It being a Court of record for the County of Green John Miles aged 88 years resident in said County and district, who being first duly Sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary was as follows "in the Regiment Commanded by Col. Sullivan in the State of Maryland in Capt John Baileys Company which will more fully appear by an affidavit under date 2d May 1818 as which a pension certificate Issued Number fourteen Thousand Eight hundred and Seventy two
and I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States in the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions 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 was paper on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in Trust for any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me, nor have I any income other than that is  contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed, So wit - Two head of horses,  Eight head of Cattle, Sixteen head of hogs, Eleven head of Sheep, Pots, ovens, Pails, Basons, farming utensils, auger, drawing Knife & handsaw of the
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aggregate value of $150 that he the said miles is Eighty Eight years of age, is Blind, and has a Rupture so as to prevent his leaving his house, he has a wife Seventy Eight years of age and not capable of laboring for a support. 
John [his x mark]

Sworn to and declare in open Court on the 31st day of August 1820.
[signed] John Barret [?]

Kentucky Set Green Circuit Court August Seven 1820
J.J. Barret Clerk of the Court aforesaid certify, that it is ordered to the certified by said Circuit Court to the Secretary of War that it is the opinion of said Court from the oath of John Miles and others, that the Total amount of value of said Miles property exhibited in Court in the Scheduled annexed and subscribed by him is reasonably work one hundred and fifty dollars.

In Testimony of the foregoing being truly taken from the records in my office. I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 
7th day of September 1820 and 29 years of the Commonwealth

[signed] John Barret
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Left Side Page

Andr L.M. will you be so polite as furnish any evidence his office may contain relative to service of this claimant

Pension Office
April 28th

Right Side Page

John Miles
Private
77 to 79

Ger Maryland 
Regt

Admitted 

Greensburg Kentucky
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District of Kentucky Sct
On this 12th day of June 1819 before me. The Subscriber, one of the Judges of the County Court for the said District personally appeared John Miles aged 86 years resident of Green County in the said District who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath in addition to his former affidavit make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late act of congress entitled An act [illegible] for certain pensions engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War that be the said John Miles enlisted for the term of three years on the day of February in the year 1777 in Frederick County in the State of Maryland, in the Company Commanded by Captain Jarret Briscow or John Bailey[he believes the latter] and then joined a Regiment Commanded by Col. Gist in the line of the State of Maryland on the Continental Establishment. And that he continued in the Service of the United States until about the 25th of October 1779 when he was discharged from Service in Baltimore State of Maryland, that he was in the following Battles [?}  at the Peyola under Col. Gist, Germantown under Genl.
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Sullavin. The Yellow Banks on the Schoolkill under General Smallwood, and that he is in reduced circumstances I entirely blind & that he is in reduced circumstances & entirely blind & needs the assistance of his country for support and that he has not other evidence now in his power of his said Services.

Sworn to & declared before me the day and year aforesaid -Robt Barret

I Robert Barret Judge as aforesaid do certify that it appears to my satisfaction the the said John Miles did service in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding Declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months at one time, in the continental establishment and I now transmit the procedings and testimony taken & had before me to the Secretary for the department of war persuant to the aforementioned act of Congress.

I am also satisfied that he needs the assistance of his country for support. Given under my hand this 12th day of June 1819. 
[signed] Robt. Barret
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Kentucky Green County Seal

I John Barret clerk of the County Court of the County aforesaid certify that Robert Barret who signed the foregoing affidavit of John Miles is an war at the time of taking the same one of the pages of the Green Court dully commissioned and qualified as such and that full faith and credit is due to all his official acts

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of the office this 30th day of July 1819.
[signed] John Barret cse
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Bottom Half Page

Andr L.M. will you be so polite as furnish any evidence his office may contain relative to service of this claimant

Pension Office
April 28th

Top Half Page

John Miles
Private
77 to 79

Ger Maryland
Regt

Admitted

Greensburg Kentucky
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BA-J/SWF
John Miles-S. 2827
John Miles-S. 36138

Mrs. Pearl Wilson
903 Barnes Building
Muskogee, Oklahoma

Dear Madam:

The data which follow relative to this John Miles were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 2827, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War.

John Miles was born March 28, 1755 in Anne Arundel County, maryland. The name of his parents are not given. 

While a resident at Elkridge Landing on the Patapsco River, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, John Miles enlisted sometime in April, 1778, served one year in Captain James Walker's company, Colonel Thomas Dorsey's Maryland regiment.

After the close of the Revolution, John Miles lived in Pennsylvania, then moved to Knox County, Ohio, then to Licking County, Ohio.

He was allowed pension on his application executed October 29, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Eden Township, LIcking County, Ohio.

The papers on file in this claim contain no discernible data in regard to family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment
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of pension, name and address of person paid, and posisbly the date of death of this pensioner, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city and furnish the following data:

John Miles
Certificate #7963
Issued April 26, 1833
Rate $40.00 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Ohio Agency

John Miles-S. 36138

The data in regard to this John Miles were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 36138, based upon his service in the War of the Revolution, and are shown as follows.

The date and place of birth of John Miles and names of his parents were not stated.

John Miles enlisted in Frederick County, Maryland, sometime in February 1777, served as private in Captain John Bailey's company, Colonel Gist's maryland regiment; he was in the battles of Paoli, Germantown, "Yellow Bands of the Schuylkill", and was discharged October 25, 1779, in Baltimore, Maryland.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 2, 1818, at which time he was eighty-six years, and residing in Green County, Kentucky. He stated in 1820 that his wife was then seventy-
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2-
of pension, name and address of person paid, and possibly the death of this pensioner, you should
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3-

eight years of age, but he did not give the name
of his wife, and there is no reference to children.

John Miles died March 17, 1827, place not stated.

The papers on file in this claim contain no further discernible family data.

In order to obtain the name and address of the  person who received the last payment of this 
pension, you should use the same address as given herein, and furnished the following data:

John Miles, 2d [as he was pensioned]
Certificate #14872
Issued September 22, 1819
Rate $8.00 per month
Commenced May 2, 1818
Act of March 18, 1818
Kentucky Agency

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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October 25, 1939

BA-J/AWF
John Miles-S. 2827
John Miles-S. 36138

Mrs. Pearl Wilson
903 Barnes Building
Muskogee, Oklahoma

Dear Madam:

Reference is made to your letter in which
you request the Revolutionary War record of John Miles, who served from the State of Maryland, died "a very old man in State of Arkansas," drew a pension for years.

You are furnished herewith the Revolutionary War records of two soldiers name John Miles, both of whom served from Maryland. These are the records of the only John Miles found on file in the Revolutionary War pension records of this office, who served with the Maryland troops.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator

[hand signed] see her letter in 
John miles S2827
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Dear Sir:

Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Jesse Miles and John Miles, pensioners of Kentucky.

The records of these two soldiers are given herein as shown in the papers on file in pension claims, based upon service in that war.

JESSE MILES - S. 1235

Jesse Miles, the son of Richard Miles, was born July 1, 1763 in Prince George's County, Maryland.

While a resident of Berkeley County, Virginia, he enlisted and served two tours, amounting to a little more than nine months, as private in the Virginia troops; the first tour of three months, he served in Captain John Vanmetre's company; the second tour was rendered in that same company as substitute for his father, and during, this period, he was with the main army at Yorktown under General George Washington until after the surrender of Lord Cornwallis.

After the war, he resided for some time in Berkeley County, Virginia, then moved to Nelson County, Kentucky.

He was allowed pension on his application executed August 19, 1833, at which time he resided in Bullitt County, which county was formed from part of Nelson County, Kentucky. He had lived in Kentucky them forty years or more.

Jesse Miles died April 11, 1838

In order to obtain the name of the person to whom the last payment
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of pension was paid, you should apply to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following:

Jesse Miles
Certificate 19593
Issued September 25, 1833
Rate of $30 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act of June 7, 1832
Kentucky Agency.
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JOHN MILES -S 36138.

John Miles enlisted in February 1777, in Frederick County, Maryland, served as private in Captain John Bailey's company, Colonel Gist's Maryland regiment, was in the battle of Paoli (crossed out "under Colonel Gist, in the battle"] [hand written "next time"] Germantown  [crossed out " under General Sullivan and"] the "Yellow Banks on the Schuylkill" [crossed out "under General Smallwood"  and was discharged October 25, 1779, in Baltimore, Maryland.

He was allowed pension on his application executed May 2, 1818, at which time he resisted in Green County, Kentucky; he was then aged about eighty-six years, the date and place of his birth and names of his parents not shown. In 1820, the soldier stated that his wife was then seventy-eight years of age, but he did not give her name; there is no reference to children.

John Miles died March 17, 1827.

For information in regard to the name of the person to whom the last payment of pension was paid, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following: John Miles, 2d (as he was pensioned). Certificate 14872, issued September 22, 1819, commenced May 2, 1818, rate $8 per month, Act of March 18,1818, Kentucky Agency.

Very truly yours,

A. D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.

2.
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In reply to you request of -------, received-----, for a statement of the military history of John Miles a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (crossed out "or his widow's") application for pension on file in this Bureau(hand written - S.F.36138.)

Dates of Enlistment 
Feb 1777 
Length of Service
to Oct 25, 179
Officers Under Whom Service Was Rendered
Captain 
{Jarrett Briscow) - (not found ?)
or John Bailey
Colonel
Gist
State
Md
Colonel
-ok 3: Md with Col. Gist-

Battles engaged in, Paoli, Germantown
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl in Frederick Co. Md.
Date of application for pension May 2, 1818, Cl al
Resident at date of application, Green Co., Ky
Age at date of application, 86 yrs
Remarks: In 1820 his wife, name not stated was 78 yrs. of age.

Very respectfully

Commissioner

Paoli- Sept 20,1777
Germantown Oct 4, 1777
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[stamp]
RECEIVED
APR 25 1934
MAIL SUB-DIV
READER 18
VETS, ADM

[on right side]
Fort Wayne, Indiana
April 23, 1934.

Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.

Revolutionary War Pension Dept.

Kindly send me the pension and family record given in the declaration papers of JOHN MILES of Green County, Kentucky, who died along about 1827 and was of the Maryland Line during the Revolutionary War.

In addition, please send me the pension record and family statistics given in the declaration papers of Jesse Miles of Bullitt County, Kentucky who was also a Revolutionary War pensioner of 1832.

I will say for your information that I am trying to identify my ancestor by means of the pension record. 

Yours truly
Everett E. Miles
#4126 Arlington Ave.
[signed] Everett E. Miles

EEM


[return address attached]
EVERETT E. MILES
4126 ARLINGTON AVE.
FORT WAYNE, IND.
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, Sept 3rd, 1819

I hereby certify that it appears from the muster-rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office, that John Mills enlisted as a Capt. in the Sixth Maryland Regiment on the Second day of June 1777 and was on the 1st Jany 1780 present.

Thos Karney - Aud. S.M.
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Left Side Page

1934 May 9 - Hist to Everett E. Miles - ILL
1939 Oct 25 - List to Mrs. Pearl Wilson - see her letter in John miles S.2827

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36138
Revy
INVALID

File No 36138
John Miles
Pri Rev War

Act 18 March '18

Index Vol 2 Page 278

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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John Miles
Affidavit

[illegible] to which he survid must be mentioned and the Judges certificate of indigent circumstances wanting

Kentucky Green County
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Kentucky Green County
Personally appeared John Miles before the County Court of Green County and made oath that he served as a private soldier in the continental army at least nine months commenced in the year 1777 under Captain Jarret Briscow the Regiment he does not recollect he has lost his discharge he believes he was discharged in the year 1779 his memory is failed and so reduced in his circumstances that he needs the assistance of his country for support he is helpless and poor and states the he belonged to the Maryland line in the Revolutionary war against great Britain and claims the benefit of the act of Congress allowing a pension [?]

John [his x mark] Miles

John Barret makes oath before the court that he has been acquainted with John Miles for a long time
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and knows him to be verry poor, and an old man nearly Blind, and also that his memory very much impared from old age, and that he actually needs the assistance of his country for a support.
[signed] John Barret

Kentucky Sct.
At a County Court Continued and held for Green County at the Courthouse in Greensburg the 2nd. day of May 1818.

The within affidavit of John Miles preparatory to his application for a pension under the act of Congress paper 18th March 1818 was subscribed and sworn to, as also the accompanying affidavit of John Barret and ordered to be certified to the Secretary of the War department which is done. In testimony a here of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of office this date above written.
[?] John Barret c[??]

J. Miles
affidavit