Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9570, for George Miller, Maryland
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Service                             Number
Md  Miller, George          W9570
Penn          Judith
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[illegible] 1566

Judith Miller widow of George Miller who died on the 15th June 1830 in Franklin Co in the State of Mifsouri, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Rawlings of the [illegible] commanded by Col Stewart in the Penns line for three years from 1776.

Inscribed on the Roll of Mifsouri at the rate of 80 dollars-- cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1837.
Certificate of Pension issued the 21 day of November 1837 and sent to [illegible] John Miller [illegible].
Arrears to the 4th Sept 1837 $520--
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 match 28 60--
$560.00
Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836 Setion 3f

Recorded by Millegible]  Book F vol 2 Page 190
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18,988 From Mifsouri to Mifsouri George Miller of Crawford Co in the State of Illinois, who was a Private in the company commanded by Captian Rawlings on the Regiment commanded by Colonel Stewart in Penn line, for the term of 3 years on roll.
Inscribed on the roll of Illinois at the rate of 8 Dollars per month,to commence on the 14 of May 1893.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 of June 1823 and [illegible] /edward H. Piper Esq, Palestine, Illinois.

Arrears to the 4th Sept 1823 29.70
Semianl,all'ce ending. $29.00
3 mo 18/31 4/30
8
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24
   4.64
   1.06
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29.70

Revolutionary claim, Acts March 18,1818 and May 1,1820 & March 1,1823

[illegible]Let 4 Oct 1836 to Samue; Rule{
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County of Franklin
The State of Missouri
Remembered that on this 15th day
of November in the year of our Lord Eighteen
hundred and thirty six personally came
and appeared Frances William Long Late
of the grand dukedom of Husia and for
the last four years of the United States
and after being duly sworn on the Holy
Evangalest of Almity God to well and
truly interpet and Translate in to English
certain writing on the blank leaf of
a book shown and here present as the
family Record of Judith Miller and
her late Husband George Miller on
his oath says the said book is printed in
the Girman language and is of the fourth volume of the new Christain religion and wrote by Johannem Arndt General Superintendent
of (unclear) Lensbery and printed
in the City of Frankfort on Main in the year
1664 that on said leaf at the end 
of said Book among other things he finds wrote in the German Language the following (unclear) Anno. 1780 the second day of March
is born to me a daughter and her name shall be Elizabeth and this deponent saith further not 
Francis W, Boing
Sworn to and subscribed 
 before me this day and date first
above written
Jeff McDonald
of Franklin County
Missouri
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County of Franklin 
the State of Missouri
This day personally appears Robert Patten
who after being sworn on the Holy Evangalist of Almity God says that he is forty three years of age and has been acquainted with Judith Miller and her late Husband  George Miller deceased and there family for about twenty five years and have known
the book here presented and described in the oath of Frances W Boing and here present to have been in the family of of the said Judith Miller and know they
claimed the Book as her own property and
as a Record of the age of the Family in
past further when I first became acquainted with the family they usually conversed in German & the said Judith was a  german  Schollar as well as her Husband that they have no other sort  of Book, and I always understood them and the there oldest children to be German schollars I would here say
I have often heard the said Judith and her
husband say they had been married some
years before they had any children and
I have hath also heard the old people Judith ┃
and George Speak of his Revolutionary
services Long before there was any provision
made by Government for them, and them
speak of occurrences that took place after
there marriage in the absence of the said
George Miller Deceased in the service of the
United States I have always understood from
them them marriage took place during the
Revolutionary war
Robert Patten
Sworn to and subscribe
before me this 15 day of 1836
Jeff McDonald
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In at-
Hon. J. Miller
M.C
Pri
nor 20
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County of Franklin Set
the State of Missouri
Be It Remembered that on this twenty ninth
day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally came and appeared before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Franklin aforesaid Francis William Boing and after being duly sworn deposeth and sayeth that the leaf here taken and marked on the back with his name with the North of George & Judith Millers first child Elizabeth and there tenth Child David is the leaf and the birth of Elizabeth both the one he translated sometime in December Last and which was then proved to be the property of the late George Miller and Judith Miller
by the oaths of witnesses to be the Book and property
Francis W Boing
Sworn and subscribed
to before me the day and
year put above written
Jeff McDonald
Justice of Peace
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County of Franklin at
The State of Missouri
This day personally appears Katherine Potter and after being duly sworn says she is forty one years of age that she has been acquainted with the late George Miller and his widow Judith Miller for thirty five years that she knows the book describe by Boing in his affidavit has been in the house claimed as a family Record during that time that she has heard the said George and Judith
hath say they had been married several years before the birth of their first child Elizabeth  that she has often heard both
the old people speak of the Services of George Miller after his marriage I Infact concur
in the affidavit of Robert Pullen fully
and in every part which has here been
Signed and held by him in my hearing
Katharine Patten
Sworn to and subjected
this 15th day of Nov 1834
Jeff McDonald
Justice of the of Peace of
Franklin County

County of Franklin
the State of Missouri
I Jeff McDonald a Magistrat of the County aforesaid do certify that the foregoing witnesses were line Sworn and that they subscribed the same in my presents that the said Frances W. Boing Robert Patten and Katharine Patten are Citizens of this
County and of my neighbourhood and that they are people of Good Standing in the County of them aguaintance for them moral Integrity and is bethavior when on oath where ever they are known   in his
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Seal this 15th day
testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal 5his 15th day of Nov 1836
Jess M Donald

State of Missouri
County of Franklin C. S.
 I Jeffery Clerk of the
County Court for said County State aforesaid do hereby certify that Jesse McDonald before whom the foregoing affidavits were made is and acting Justice of the peace in & for said County duly commissioned & qualified
& the signature purporting to be his is genuine In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at office in Union the Sixth day of December in the year of our lord  One Thousand Eight hundred & thirty six
C,S. Jeffries Clerk
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(partially burned wrapper               0

(appears to be in German)
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(partially burned wrapper)


(nothing readable)
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1224
Judith Miller
Missouri
1838 and that
The twenty fourth day of February 1838
and that his signature within written is Genuine
Given under my hand and the seal of
said County Court this Eighth day of
September  AD 1836
C S Jeffries Clerk
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State of Missouri
County of Franklin
on this sixth day of September in the
year 1836 personally appeared before the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid Judith Miller a resident of
the County of Franklin and State of Missouri
aged Seventy five years who being first 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 July 4th 1836 That she is the widow of George Miller who was a private soldier of the Revolutionary war that he was a private in the regular position for some time She thinks four years or thereabouts that after
wards he served in the Militia (and thinks
under the command of one Captain Adam (unreadable) of Hagerstown I do not recollect how many months a part of the tour was after our marriage I think three or four that her husband
was a pensioner for several years before
his death that he was put on the pension
List in the State of Illinois when he was a
resident (as I think of Crofford County of that
State and afterwards he was transfered to
the agency of Missouri, that she has no
documentary evidence except what is in the
Pension office of the United States his certificate
of Pension is misplace since the death of
her husband or given to the agency of
Missouri or returned to the war office of
the United States She further declares
that she was married to the said George Miller in the month of may in the year seventeen
hundred and seventy seven that her husband
and the aforesaid George Miller died on
the fifteenth day of June Eighteen hundred
⎬
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and thirty and that she has Remained a widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by Refferenc to the evidence and proof hereto annexed

Judith Miller her mark

Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written before me a justice of the Peace of Franklin County

Jesse McDonald Justice of the Peace

The State of Missouri
County of Franklin Sct

This day personally came and appeared before me the undersigned one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Franklin aforesaid Samuel Rule and Benjamin McDonald who are Residents of the County of Franklin in the State of Missouri and of the neighbourhood of the Residence of Judith Miller who made the above and foregoing declaration and after being duly sworn according to Law say they have [illegible] with the Law Judith for twelve years and do believe her to be a man of morrel and Respectable deportment & that the oath and word is to be credited and is believed wherever she is know that her Husband George Miller was always Reported to have been a Revolutionary soldier that we were enformed and so believe that he was a pensioner of the united states at the time of his death we know that the above named Judith Miller was his wife that they Lived together as such and from the age of there children which we are acquainted with or have no doubt but they were married at the time she sets forth in her declaration that she is now a widow now has been and remained a widow ever
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since the Death of George Miller her Husband and Samuel Rule says he has acted as the attorney of George Miller in drawing and paying him his Pension

Samuel Rule
Benjamin McDonald

Sworn and subscribed to before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace this 6th day of September 1836
Jesse McDonald jp

State of Missouri
County of Franklin

I Judith McDonald a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Franklin Do Certify to all whoom their presents may come that the above mamed Samuel Rule & Benjamin McDonald whose names are subscribed to the foregoing proof and affidavit are personally known to me and any[?] men of Respectable standing and there Evidence is to be credible wherever they are known

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixth day of September 1836

Jesse McDonald Justice of [illegible]

State of Missouri
County of Franklin

I Joseph McDonald a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Franklin do certify that from the great age and debility in my opinion it would be a great inconvenience[?] for her to travel to a court of [illegible] and there is no Judge of a court of [illegible] that Resides near the place of Residence of Judith Miller

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 6th day of September in the year 1836

Jesse McDonald a justice of the Peace
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State of Missouri
Franklin County [illegible]

I C.S. Jeffrey Clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid, do hereby Certify, that Jesse McDonald the person whose name is subscribed to the within is a Justice of the peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified, that his commission was dated on the twenty fourth day of February 1834 and will expire on the twenty fourth day of February 1838 and that his signature within written is Genuine

Given under my hand and the seal of said County Court this Eighth day of September AD 1836

C.S. Jeffrey Clerk

[sideways] V224
Judith Miller
Missouri [/sideways]
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State of Illinois
Crawford County

Crawford Circuit Court
May term 1823
This day personally appeared in open Court 
Being a Court of Record, having unlimited Jurisdection of causes civil & criminal
and keeping a regular record of all its proceedings) George Miller aged sixty seven years, who being first duly  sworn according to law make the following declaration his oath
in order doth on to attain the provisions
certain acts of Congress made by of the 18th of March 1818 & first May 1820 that he the said George Miller enlisted for the term of one
year (unless sooner discharged, in the month of July or August One thousand seven hundred and Seventy five in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Capt Michael Chrisap under whom he marched to Boston where Capt Chrisap died and was succeeded in the command by Capt
Rawlings by whom he was discharged at the end of his enlistment at Staten Island, that afterwards about the month of August or September Seventeen hundred and seventy six, at Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, he enlisted for two years and nine months, in the Company
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commanded by Capt. Farmer in the Regt. of Pensylvania regulars commanded by Col Miles in the line of the State of Pensylvania on the continental establishment soon after on the Capture of Col. Mils at Long Island, he was transfered into the company commanded by Capt. Nise in the Regt. of the same line, commanded by Col. Stewart -- afterwards at the end of the term for which he had enlisted in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine, he was regularly discharged from the said service at Valley Forge in the State of Pensylvania

That he was in the following Battles to wit, of Long Island of White Plains, York Island Fort Lee and Fort Washington, Monmouth Trenton Brandywine & Germantown, and has no other evidence of his services in his power

And in pursuance of the act of the first of May 1820, I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on 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 intent so to diminish it as to bring myself within the Previous act of Congress entitled an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or navel service of the United States in the Revolutionary passed on the 18th March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts
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or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed

The Shedule of Property owned by George Miller applicant for a Pension from the the United States
One horse fifteen years old
One Cow
One small two horse waggon
eight hogs
No income
No debts due him except Seventy Dollars on persons unable to pay.

George Miller his mark

That his occupation is that of a carpenter until wholly disabled by age and infirmity, to pursue it about one year ago, his family resident with him, Consist of a wife, Juda[?] about fifty nine years of age, one Daughter Twenty years of age, & one Son fifteen years of age who is a cripple and has been two years & a half a resident citizen of this State & in the said County of Crawford
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State of Illinois
Crawford County Sct.

I Edward H. Piper clerk of the Circuit Court of Crawford County aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing [illegible], and the schedule thereto annexed, are hereby copied from the Records of the said; and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the Property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fifty nine Dollars

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court, done at the Courthouse in Palestine this 14th day of May AD 1823

Edward H. Piper clk
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In reply to your request of [blank], received [blank] for a statement of the military history of George Miller a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
M.[?] 9570

[table] DATES OF ENLISTEMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
July or Aug 1775
Aug. or Sept. 1776
dis. at Valley Forge.
[check mark]

LENGTH OF SERVICE.
1 year
2 yrs. 9 m.
1 mo.

RANK.
[blank]

OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.
CAPTAIN.
{Michael Cresap
Rawlings
Farmer
Nice}
Adam Utt
COLONEL.
[check mark]
Miles
Stewart
[check mark]

STATE.
Md.
Penn.
Md. [/table]

Battles engaged in, Long Is., White Pl., York Is., Fort Lee & Washington, Monmouth, Trenton, Brandywine, and Germantown.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Enl. 1st in Md. 2d at Phila.
Date of application for pension, May 14, 1823.
Residence at date of application, Crawford Co., Ill. 1825 Missouri
Age at date of application, sixty-seven yrs.; he d. June 15, 1830
Remarkts: Sol. mar. Hagertown, Md., May 1777 Judith Wiener of Funkstown Md., & she was allowed [illegible] on her applic. exec. Sept. 6, 1836, while 75 yrs. of age & a res. of Franklin Co., Mo. 1st child, Elizbaeth b. Mch. 2, 1780 and 10th child, David b. [blank] 179- only children whose names are stated.

Respectfully,
[blank]
Commissioner.

6-2856
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Kaskaskia Ill
March 31st
Free

The Honble
The Secretary of War
Washington City,
District of Columbia

[sideways] For transfer
Recd. 21 Apl 1825 [/sideways]
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State of Illinois
Randolph County Sct

On this twenty sixth day of March Eighteen hundred and twenty five before me the subscriber an acting Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Randolph personally appeared George Miller who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company, commanded by Captain Michael Crissop in the Maryland Regiment in the service of the United States in the Revolutionary war and that his name was placed on the pension Roll of the State of Illinois, from whence he has lately removed, that he now resides in the State of Missouri where he intends to remain and wishes his pension to be there payable in the future.

George Miller his mark

Sworn to and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid.
M. Hotchkiss J.P. seal

State of Illinois
Randolph County Sct

I, William C Greenup clerk of the Circuit Court for Randolph County aforsaid, do hereby certify that Miles Hotchkiss Esquire whose signature is affixed to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of executing the same, an acting Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforsaid duly commissioned and sworn and to whose official acts as such, due faith and credit and ought to be given

Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court at Kaskaskia this 20th day of March in the year of our Lord 1825 and of the Independence of the United States the forty-ninth
Wm. C Greenup
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County of Franklin Sct
The State of Missouri

Be it remembered that on this 16th day of August in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally came before me the undersigned one of the Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Franklin aforesaid Judith Miller and after being duly sworn on the Holy evangelist of Almighty God on her oath says she is the widow of George Miller Late of this county [illegible] who in his Lifetime was a revolutionary pensioner and that she at this time is an applicant under the acts of Congress for a pension and that she was married to the said George Miller in the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven [illegible]th of may in that year (and in the sixteenth year of her age) that she had no children until she had been married three years that she was married to the said George in Hagerstown in the State of Maryland (at the time of the marriage my parents lived in a small place called Funks Town about two miles from Hagers Town we were married by the Rev Wymer -- who presided in our church at that time -- that [illegible] my application for a pensions I had a note addressed to Howard Kennedy postmaster at Hagerstown whose answer I have enclosed, that the Record of Marriages of Mr Wymer could not be found I further state that I am not certain of any person being now who were present at my marriage. I had a Brother in Brown County State of Ohio Jacob Weiner tho I have not heard of him for the last seventeen years tho I have write to that [illegible] to procure his affidavit but have got no answer as yet, that I have used all the [illegible] that my circumstances would permit and so far [illegible] and do belive from the letter of Howard Kennedy [illegible]
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to the office, that my record of my marriage is lost, tho the truth is that I was married to the said George Miller in the year 1777 in the month of May

Judith Miller her mark

Sworn and subscribed to before me the undersigned Justice of the Peace this day and date [illegible] above written
Jesse McDonald jp

State of Missouri
County of Franklin ss

I C.S. Jeffrey Clerk of the County Court within and for the County aforesaid, Certify that Jesse McDonald whose name is subscribed to the above as a Justice of the peace, was at the time of signing & takeing the foregoing affidavit an acting Justice of the peace duly commissioned and qualified, and that full faith is and ought to be given to all his acts as such

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of said court at office the 17th day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & thirty seven
C.S. Jeffries Clerk
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Newport Mo
Sept. 16th
Free

U.S. War Office
Washington City

application for pension (answer to Newport Missouri)

[sideways] Oct 3
Mo
4 July 1836 [/sideways]
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Newport Mo
Sept. 16th
Free

U.S. War Office
Washington City

application for pension (answer to Newport Missouri)

[sideways] Oct 3
Mo
4 July 1836 [/sideways]
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Free

JL Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City
DC

Newport Mo.
Augt 25

[sideways] AR
224 Sept 11
[illegible]
Judith Miller [/sideways]
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Newport Mo. August 25th 1837
JL Edwards Esqr (Commissioner of Pensions)

Dear Sir

I herewith submit further evidence of the justice of my claim hoping it is amply sufficient

Yours Respectfully
Judith Miller
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Howd Kennedy [illegible]
FREE

[stamp] [illegible]
JUN 19 [/sideways]

Mrs Judith Miller
care Jesse McDonald Esq
Newport
Franklin County
Missouri
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Hagerstown June 19th 1837

Dr Madam

Yours of May 15th came duly to hand, and in accordance with your request I made every exertion to obtain an evidence of your marriage. I called on the officiating minister of the church over which the Revd Wymer formerly presided and with him searched the records, but unfortunately the one in which he kept his marriage records could not be found, and I of course could not procure you an evidence from that source -- I then called on several of our oldest inhabitants, many of the recollected Mr Wymer but could not recollect either your marriage or your family -- Still in hopes of aiding you, I wrote to the war department to ascertain the smallest amount of proof requisite, when the sheet which accompanies this was sent me -- under the Law of 1836, would not your own oath of your marriage be sufficient -- that you were married I feel certain from the minuteness with which you describe the minister, church &c. and it will indeed be a hard case of yours [illegible] be
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deprived of your pension for want of other evidence.

As to my compensation for aiding you, I will observe that the opportunity of serving those who shed their blood and risked their lives for the blessings which I now enjoy, is ample remuneration for any trouble I may take for them or their family -- and I only regret that in this instance I have not been more successful in aiding you in your attempts to obtain that which you are to justly entitled

With respect
I remain yours
Howard Kennedy
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December 16th
Newport Mo
Free

War Department
U.S. Pension Office
Washington City

[sideways]Jan 16
Mo.
[illegible] [/sideways]
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Newport Mo December 12th 1836
To J.L Edwards Esq.

In answer to yours of the 4th of October Last Informing me that my Claim was suspended for further proof as to the period of my marriage I herewith send you additional proofs I with Candour Direct my neighbor who writes for me to say to they department that I have not the opportunity of the best proof being as well as my Late Husband of German Decent and our humble education being of that Language I have not the Date of our morning set down, tho we have the birth of our children and have sent the best traditional and Record Evidence in this County at my Command we were married by a clergaman of our Church and Languge in Hagerstown when there has been so much Change Even the name of the town I have seased to have any acquaintance in that part of the country that an old and Feeble woman without means cannot hardly help but dispare of Gitting the Best Evidence and must hope that the circumstances being known to the Department they will Take Secondary Evidence in the Consideration of my claim please communicate to the postmaster at this place
S Rule

I am Respectfully your obedient Servant
Judith Miller
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18,847
George Miller
Illinois

Edward H. Piper,
Palestine, Illinois.

Recd 7 June 1823.

[sideways] Palestine
17 May
free

Secretary of War
Washington City [/sideways]

[illegible inverted]
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From Jesse McDonald Esqr, of Franklin County Mo containing property relative to Judith Millers claim to a pension
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Newport October the 27th 1837

Dear Sir

I have seen Mrs Judith Miller and shewn her your communication of Sept 22d past and requests me to write Her an answer and thank you in her name for the kind attention you have Given her Claim to a pension for the services of her husband in the Revolutionary war and she Herewith finds the [illegible] Containing the Birth of her first and tenth child with the affidavit of Mr Boing who [illegible] the first birth and was sent on to the pension office (she did not get the Clerks Certificate annexed she [illegible] it to all her other prooffs and the proofs being taken, I belive before the Law Justice and mostly in his handwriting it was deemed not necessary) If it is indispensable the favour is asked of you to transmit it Back to have it done -- The Commissioner of Pensions still insists on Record [illegible] she made the attempt as the Letter of Howard Kennedy Esq of Hagerstown shew that the Church Records of that plain[?] was Last of the days of the Rev Mr Wimer who married her and George Miller (which letter) and her own oath was sent in august Last to the Pension Office of this humble sheet of her Family Record does not do her Frends will be at a Loss what course to advise her her Church membership as she Informs me was in the Church at Funkstown
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but that they were married in Hagerstown
about 2 miles from her residence is Frankstown
and that the area Mr Winner spoke of in  i Mr Kenerlys Letter attend the Frankstown
Church If the Frankstown Church Record
is not lost we could show her membership
as a make wait evidence to convince the mind
of the pension commissioner that this old woman is of age to be what the pretends (She say she marred in her 16th year) and that she was early adopted in a religious Church and I have known she did  belong to a Church for the last15 years then proofs would only show her moral character

Mrs Miller Willie desires me to ask you
you to write to her on your (illegible) (illegible)
 and if the govt should not on 
this Grant her pension prays the further
trouble of you to look into her papers and
advise her how further to (illegible) her
ca e your Answers shall be forward to him
with the greatest (illegible)
your obedient Svt
Jeff McDonald

Hon John Miller
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[Postage written] Free
Newport
October 27th 1837
Hon John Miller
House of Representatives
Washington City, D.C.
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Newport Mo
Oct 20thof Co
1837

The House of Represent


Hon John Miller
Washington City
District of  C--
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Newport October the 16th 1837
Dear Sir
I received your favor of the 20 Sept past on the subject of the claim of Judith Miller by last mail the old woman lives some ten miles from me and the post on the pulpit of the Claim of Judith till post office I will inform her aaual 
of the Content of yours and the Secretarys 
 of war  and  will get the leaf  that contains the birth of her first child and will have it (illegible) and sent to you. you mention the affidavit of her self It was sent (illlegible) to the pension office  and  not to you.  The Affidavit was to the truth of the period of her marriage and that she had made an effort to get record evidence from Hagerstown in Maryland and with him appalent she sent the Letter in answer to the Postmaster of Hagerstown which  informed her that he had made search with the minister that now resided ov er the Church where the reverend where Mrs Miller formerly resided  in formerly resided and her marriage 
record could not be found-
Mrs Miller was not a resident of Hagerstown but of a Small place in her days in that country
at Frankstown about two miles from Hagerstown, which is perhaps the reason
that the to inhabitants that could recollect the Recorder  could not recollect her family-- I approve the affidavit of her and the letter of the Postmaster  has reached the pension office by this time If you were to be the evidence she has entitled to
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to the department you most agree that it is
most conclusive it is true there is no person to
Swear to the period of her marriage or
Record Evidince as the ministers record can
not be found as you will see by the (illegible) Interest taken by the postmaster as is shown
By his Letter
 I cannot Close this without expressing my (illegible) that this meritorious old person (illegible) get her right and I think that the same desire in General with all her acquaints as I have not heard of one resenting voices or doubt of the merits of her claim by any person since the law was past
I will here take the liberty on the part of Mrs Miller and her friends to thank you for the Interest you have taken & (illegible) to the on her behalf
yours with the best Respt
and esteem
Jess M Donald
Hon John Miller
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Judith Miller
Missouri
Suspended
let [letter] 4 Oct 16 Sent
Rule
do. 17 Jan 1837
let to Jan 3 76[?]
W. N. Ashley
let 18 Sept. 1837
[illegible] J. R. Poinsett
let. 27 Oct. 37 to claim
[illegible]
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George Miller Missouri Oct 18 March 18
to what time last paid?
Pen office
Died 15 June 1830 p F. Jan 17 '37
that passed
JH
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[Written on left side of paper]
1913 Oct. 30. History to Herman G. Kiel, letter in S.15826 Jesse Evans.
Revy WIDOW, &C.
File No. 9570
Judith Miller
Wid. of
George Miller
Priv. Pa. Line
Act: July 4[?]736, Sec, 3
Index:- Vol. M, Page 80
Arrangement of 1870.]