Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7210, for John Miller, Pennsylvania
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33.704
John Miller
Ohio.
M.368
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The State of Ohio          
Carroll County }  
On this second day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six personally appears in the Court before the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of Carroll now sitting John Miller senior a resident of Washington Township in the said County of Carroll and State of Ohio aforesaid aged seventy five years the 16th day of June AD 1885 who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the follow my declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the "Act of Congress" passed June 4th AD 1832.             
He the said John Miller Senior was born in the State of New Jersey about ten miles distant from the City of Philadelphia on the 16th day of June AD 1760 from whence while he was yet a boy he removed to the County of York in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. That he entered the service of the United States under the first engagement under the Command of Captain John McDonald or McDaniel, but does not recollect the name of any other officer under whom he served at this time, nor can he recollect of the number or the order of the Company to which he belonged or of the Regiment to which he was attached.             
That he entered the Service at this time as he believes in the month of July and as he distinctly recollects towards the close of harvest in the year AD 1776 at all events if he is incorrect as to the year; it was the summer before the Battle at Long Island and left the service some time in the September following having served for the time of two months during which time he was not engaged in any battle. That at the time he entered the Service under the first engagement he was a resident of Shrewsbury Township in the County of York and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and engaged in the Militia as a substitute for his father John Miller afterwards Captain John Miller. He marched at this time from Little York the seat of Justice for the said County of York wherein he resided by way of Wrights Ferry through the Town of Lancaster to the City