Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41,874, for Martin Miller, Pennsylvania
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(S-1776)

SERVICE:  Penn.
Miller, Martin
NUMBER:  S. 4187
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Pennsylvania 17 154
Martin Miller 2d of Cumbd Coty. In the state of Pennsa – who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Knox, Arty of the Penn line, for the term of 7 years. Enlised in Penna & served under Knox.

Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 22 of Septr. 1818.

Certificate of Pension issued the 29 of July, 1820, and sent to John Williamson, agt, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

Arrears to 4th of March, 1820, $43.43,
Semi-anl. all’ce ending 4 Sept. 1820}    48
$91.43.

5 mos. 9
X 4 30
31}  

{Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818.}

Continued
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Lancaster County, [illegible] Pennsylvania

On the 16th day of September 1824 Before me Thomas Lloyd one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Lancaster personally came Godfray Miller of the Borough of Columbia in the County of Lancaster and State of Pennsylvania. An Old Revolutionary Soldier and pensioner who being duly Sworn according to Law deposeth and Saith that his brother Martin Miller of Mifflin Township in Cumberland County and State of Pennsylvania And who [illegible] before me the said Justice at the taking of this deposition in the Spring of the year One thousand Seven hundred and Seventy seven (1777) enlisted in the Pennsylvania Pack of Artillary Number (three) commanded by General Knox and Collonel [colonel] Lamb and was enlisted by Alexander Turner, in which he served five years. Deponent further states that he saw brother enlisted in Reading Pennsylvania and about nine months – before he himself did, and that he (deponent) and he said brother belonged to the same Pack of Artillary, as mentioned aforesaid commanded by the aforesaid Officers, that they were together at West point, and Stoney Point Fort at the battle of the white plain, and at the Seige of York Town Virginia and that they both got their discharge in the State house
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in Pennsylvania in December Anno Domini One thousand seven hundred and eight years (1781) Deponent further states that he seen his said brothers enlistment and discharge at the time aforesaid and that the papers aforesaid as well as his own were lost in a chest wherein they were deposited belonging to their father -
Sworn and subscribed to on the day and year aforesaid and in the presence of the said Martin Miller

Before me 
Thomas Lloyd
Justice of the Peace

Further saith not
Godfrey Miller X  his mark

Witness at signing
Thomas Lloyd
James Little
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Franklin County ss the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
thirty first day of August one thousand eight hundred and twenty four. Personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for the County of Franklin John Geyer aged sixty and Mary Geyer aged eighty nine both of Metal township Franklin County state of Pennsylvania who being first duly sworn according to law, both on their
oaths make the following declaration, in order that Martin Miller of Mifflin township Cumberland County State of Pennsylvania may obtain the provisions made by the
acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820. That they the said John Geyer & Mary Geyer seen the said Martin Miller at Fort Washington as an enlisted soldier and afterwards the seen him at the valley forge above Philadelphia, and that they know to their certain knowledge that the said Martin Miller served one year and upwards in the revolutionary war as an enlisted soldier-
John Geyer
Mary Geyer

Sworn and subscribed before 
John Witherow Jr .Seal

Franklin County ss.
I do certify that I am well acquainted with
John Geyer and Mary Geyer, the subscriber to the above
deposition and that they are creditable persons to whose oath
due faith and credit may be given, in testimony whereof I
have hereunto set my hand and seal, at Farmetsburg this thirty
first day of August 1824.
John Witherow Jr. seal
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To all whom it may concern, we the subscribers
citizen of the Borough of Columbia in the County of Lancaster and State Pennsylvania Certify that Thomas Lloyd Esq of the Borough of Columbia
aforesaid before whom the aforesaid deposition
of Godfray Miller aforesaid was taken, was at the time of the taking thereof a Justice of the Peace in District No 2. in which Columbia aforesaid is included, that he now continues to act as such and has been acting as a Justice the Peace duly commissioned since the year one thousand eight hundred and fifteen. And that full faith and credit should be given to all his official acts as such.
We are well acquainted with Godfray Miller aforesaid, he resides in this Borough An old Revolutionary Soldier and Pensioner, the understand he lost his certificate several years since, but Government gave him his pension by his proving by witnesses that he was a regular Soldier in the Revolutionary War.
Given under our hands and seals at Columbia Pennsylvania
September Seventeenth, One thousand eight hundred and twenty four
1824
James Hunter Seal
James Little
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Cumberland County and
State of Pennsylvania
Be it remembered that on
the twenty second day of September in the
year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nineteen personally appeared before me the subscriber James Armstrong one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the said County of Cumberland in the State aforesaid personally appeared Martin Miller of Mifflin Township in said County and resident citizen of the United States who on his oath administered according to law doth say and declare that at Rheemstown in Lancaster County in the State aforesaid in the month of March in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy six he entered into the army  of the United Colonies raised for defense of American liberty, by enlistment as a private soldier in a company commanded by Captain Archibald, of the artillery and in the fifth regiment according to the best of his
recollection of the Pennsylvania Line was stationed in the first instance at New Windsor in the State of New York under the command
of General Knox and that he served under
this command against the common any till the end of the Revolutionary where he received his regular discharge That the only battle at which he distinctly recollects of being present was the one battle of York town in the State of Virginia where Cornwallis surrendered - that his
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discharge about two years after he got it was burned with his fathers house at Reemstown in Lancaster County and State aforesaid that he this deponent is by reason of his reduced circumstances in need of assistance from the Country for support and that he hath no pension heretofore allowed him from the United States to his knowledge and if any such exists doth hereby release the same to the United States                
Martin Miller
Sworn and subscribed the day and year above written Before         
James Armstrong             
I James Armstrong one of the Judges of the office of Common pleas in and for the said County of Cumberland that do hereby certify that it satisfactorily appears to to me that the said Martin Miller now residing in Mifflin township in County served in the revolutionary war as set forth in his foregoing deposition against the common enemy, that he is in need of assistance from his country for support and that Eve Houser the within deponent is a credible witness all which together with the within depositions taken before me as also the annexed deposition taken before the Honorable Judge Graham I transmit to the honorable the Secretary of Witness my hand and seal at Carlisle the 24th of October AD. 1819    
James Armstrong [seal]
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Cumberland County and
State of Pennsylvania
Personally appeared before me the
subscriber James Armstrong one of the Judge
of the Court of Common pleas in and for
said County of Cumberland Eve Houser
who on her oath lawfully administered
doth say that she is now intimately acquainted
with the within mentioned
applicant for pension from the United States
Martin Miller and that she has been so
acquainted with him from before the commencement of the Revolutionary war up to the present time, that to her knowledge he served the United Colonies in said war
against the common enemy, but does
said applicant did to serve in the not recollect the length of time which said applicant did serve in the revolutionary war.
Eve Houser her mark
Sworn and subscribed the 22d day of Septem 1819 Before } James Armstrong

CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, ┃
Wm. B. G. J. Underwood, printers.
I, Robert McCoy, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cumberland, in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, Do, by these Presents Certify that James Armstrong & Isaiah Graham Esquire before whom the foregoing
Depositions to were taken and who hack thereunto in their own proper handwriting, subscribed their names at the time of taking such Depositions & Judges of the Court of
Common pleas, in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts as such due faith and credit is, and of right ought to be given throughout
the United State and elsewhere. In Testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Carlisle, in the said county, this 23 day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and nineteen County my and Independence of the United States of America, the forty fourth
ATTEST
Robt McCoy Prothonotary.
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Act 4th 1819          
Cumberland County            
State of Pennsylvany                
On this fourth day of October AD one thousand eight hundred and nineteen before me the subscriber one of the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas in County and State aforesaid,  personally appeared David Bricker of the County and State aforesaid who being by me first duly sworn according to law, doth say that he was well acquainted with Martin Miller (who is about to apply for a pension to the United States). About the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six that he is a man of good moral character. And said deponent believes that he served a number of years in the Revolutionary war against the Common enemy but does not recollect how long but to the best of deponent’s recollection said Martin Miller served about five years 
David Bricker
Sworn and subscribed before me the day and year above mentioned               
Isa Graham          
I do hereby certify that that I am well acquainted with David Bricker the above deponant and that he is a man of good character and full faith may be put in what he has sworn to.   Witness my hand and year above mentioned    
Isa Graham [seal]                     
Cumberland County[seal]   
Personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Cumberland Phillip Duck, who being sworn according to law doth say that he was well acquainted with Martin Miller who served in the Revolutionary war against the common enemy and is now applying for a pension from the United States         
That said Martin Miller Marched from Reams Town in Lancaster County in the spring of one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven with a number of other who had enlisted to serve against the common enemy; that he had been enlisted some time before he marched but deponent does not recollect how long that said Miller continued in the service until after Cornwallis surrendered which deponent believes to the best of his recollection was in one thousand seven hundred and eighty one. And that said Miller was listed by John W Kittery then a quartermaster at the town and County before mentioned in the State of Pennsylvania    
Philip Duck
Sworn and subscribed before me this first of April 1820 Isa Graham
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Cornwallis surrendered which deponent believes to the best of his recolection was in one thousand seven hundred and
eighty one. And that said Millar was listed by John W Kittery then a quartermaster at the town and County before mentioned in the State of Pennsylvania.
Philip Duck

sworn and subscribed before
me this first of April 1820
Isa Graham

I certify that the above deponent Phillip Duck
is a man of good character and veracity and that full faith may be given to his statement as above sworn to give under my hand this 1st of April AD 1820
Isa Graham

before me Isaiah Graham one of the Judges
of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cumberland and State of Pennsylvania came Henry Miller of the County and State aforesaid who being sworn
according to law doth say that he is well acquainted with Martin Miller a Revolutionary soldier, and now an applicant for a petition from the United States that said Martin Millar Listed in the latter end of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy six or the beginning of the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy seven that he was under the command of Major Turner, and said Martin Millar continued in the service fighting against the common enemy and said deponent was with said Martin Millar under General Washington at the taking of Cornwallis at York town in Virginia
Henry Miller

sworn and subscribe before
me this first day of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty - 1820 given under my
hand and seal
Isa Graham
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Cumberland County        
Borough of New Ville           
Newton Township } Ss.     Personally appeared before John Heap Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid Martin Miller of Mifflin Township in the County aforesaid who being duly sworn according to Law deposeth and saith that in the month of May A.D. 1776 he was enlisted for a private Soldier in the United States Army at Rheams Town in Counsel Township in the County of Lancaster Pennsylvania by John W. Kittira then an Officer (Quarter Master) in the aforesaid Army the Deponent was enlisted in Colonel Lambs Regiment of Artillery commanded by General Knox of the United State Artillery, and served in a company of Artillery commanded by Captain Archibald and the Major of the Battalion was Major Alexander Turner the Regiment rendezvoused at New Windsor State of New York and deponent drove a piece of Artillery, and acted also as an Artillerist as occasion required. deponent saith he served in the aforesaid service until a few days before Christmas Day 25 December A.D. 1781 and further this Deponent saith not       
Martin Miller            
Sworn and subscribed at New Ville in Cumberland County Pennsylvania March 25 1820} 
Before John Heap                        
Personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cumberland and state of Pennsylvania Martin Miller the above deponent who being sworn according to Law doth say that the above statement is true            
sworn and subscribed before me this first day of April 2 1820   
Martin Miller                     
Cumberland County,             
State of Pennsylvania } SS  
W. R. & J. Underwood, Printers.             
I, Robert McCoy, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the county of Cumberland, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Do by these Presents Certify that Isaiah Graham Esquire, before whom the foregoing Affidavits was made who, and who hath thereunto, in his own proper hand writing subscribed his name was, at the time of taking such affidavits associate Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and now is an in and for the said county, duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts as such due faith and credit is, and of right ought to be, given through out the United States and elsewhere.     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and free seal of the said Court, at Carlisle in the said county, this fourteenth day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Twenty and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America, the Forty Fifth           
ATTEST Robt McCoy Prothonotary.
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17.654
Martin Miller

Miller 
Pay 133
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Cumberland County 
in the state of Pennsylvania SS. 
On this eighth day of August AD 1820 personally, appeared in open Court being a Court of record for the said county, the same court proceeding according to the course of common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount keeping a record of its proceedings, Martin Miller aged sixty years duly sworn according to law oath, on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows; to wit  in the company commanded by Captain S. Archibald of the regiment commanded by Colonel Lamb in General Knox's Brigade of Artillery called the York park of Artillery, that his original declaration made to obtain the provision made by the act of Congress of the 18th March 1818 was made the twenty second day of September 1819, that he has received a pension certificate dated the 29th of July 1820 and registered in the book 13, volume 7, page 133.     
And 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 of in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitles. An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War passed the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me, any, property or securities, contracts or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed as follows,              
Schedule               
A yearly income after payment of the taxes on the land out of which it issues and repairs of the same of eight dollars in right of my wife being her dowery in a tract of land situate in the township and county aforesaid belonging to her first husband, Jacob George deceased adjoining lands of John Myers and other others of about others of about eighty acres, one cow, one small store, one kettle, two small pots, one half dozen plates, one half dozen knives and forks, one table, three chairs, one chest, two empty barrels that he is by occupation a shoemaker but has not been able to pursue said occupation for a year past on account of severe pains in his back, as to the number and names of his family residing with him that they consist of his wife Susana who has been disabled from rendering herself any assistance whatever, by two paralytic strokes and aged
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fifty three years, a son named Henry, aged fourteen years who is afflicted with the rhematic pains and a daughter named Betsy aged thirteen  years capable of doing the ordinary business of one of her years.
Valuation of the above property exclusive of the yearly income twenty five dollars.... by the court     I. G.   
Martin Miller
Sworn to and declared on the 8th day of August 1820
before James Armstrong
I, Robert McCoy. clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for for the County of Cumberland do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule hereunto annexed are truly copied from the record of said court and I do further certify that is if the opinion of the said court that the value of the above property exclusive of the land is twenty five dollars.
In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said court at Carlisle this 17th day of august 1820.
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Martin Miller
Pensioner
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Cumberland County ss             
Personally came before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Samuel Wise Esquire who after being sworn as the law directs did depose and say that Martin Miller of Mifflin Township Shoemaker and John Irvin then of Newton Township Miller did appear at his Office some time in the month of May in the year 1822 and that the said Martin presented note calling for Six dollars and demanded payment of said John Ervin, whereupon the said Edwin pulled out four franc pieces and offered them to the said Miller for payment, which the said Miller refused saying these were no dollars and threw them against the wall then the said Ervin said to deponent now I tender this money to Martin Miller in your presence and if he will not accept of it as full payment, I will break him of his pension. I am the man that helped him to get it, and I can break him of it and will do it as sure as his name is Martin Miller, and that afterwards on the same day deponent saw the said John Ervin pay the whole amount of said note to the said Martin Miller and further deponent says not.   
Samuel Weise               
Sworn and subscribed the 17th of August 1824 before me Henry D. Daelhousen              
Cumberland County ss I Certify that the above named Samuel Wise Esqr is a man of veracity and that his testimony may be relied on In Witness when of I have hereto set my hand and seal this 17th of August A.D. 1842
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Cumberland County ss
[seal]    
I certify that the above named Samuel Wise Esqr is a man of veracity and that his testimony may be relied on In Witness where of I have hereto set my hand and seal this 17th of August A.D. 1894 at my Office in Mifflin Township County as Henry D. Daelhouser 
Cumberland County,     
State of PENNSYLVANIA, ss.                 
I John P. Helfenstein I, Prothonotray of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cumberland, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do by these Presents Certify that Henry D. Dalhouser Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavitswere taken, and who hath hereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such affidavits and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts as such, due faith and credit is and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Carlisle, in the said county, this twenty ninth of September in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America, the forty eighth              
John P Helfenstein  PROTHONOTARY
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Cumberland County ss
Personally came before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County Henry Miller of Newton Township County
a Shoemaker who after being duly affirmed according to law did depose and say that he saw his brother Martin Miller in the Continental army in the year One thousand seven hundred
and eighty one being then enlisted in public service and that deponent saw the said Martin Miller drive a tumbler or Cart with two wheels loadened either with powder or Canon balls
and that the said Martin Miller had been enlisted and been with the army four years previous to the time aforementioned, but the last year viz A.D 1781. deponent was in the army himself and said then and there the said Martin Miller engaged as as and further deponent says not.
Henry Miller

affirmed and subscribed this 8 of September AD. 1824 before me
 Henry D. Daelhousen

I do certify that the above named Henry Miller, as far as I am acquainted with him is a Man of
veracity and integrity and that his testimony may be relied on thereof I have hereto set my hand & seal this 8th of September AD 1824
Henry D. Daelhousen
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES

C. Calhoun
Sect'y at War
Washington City D. C. 
Miller, Martin
Penn S41874
1826
John Findlay
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November 21 1824
Dear Sir -   I have the enclosed documents respecting Martin Miller the statements, but I think the well as the respectability [unreadable] are in favor of Martin Judge Hondell is a very respectable swears that he would believe Frances Brumbaugh on his oath- Benjamin Childs the same thing
I have made inquiry respecting the character of Philip Ducks that he is very often intoxicated. – 
Mary Green seems in favour of Martin Miller – her character is good. I have made inquiry at her neighbours (such as I could rely on) they say they would believe the old woman on her oath or without it – I would therefore rule in favour of Martin Miller – 
With every sentiment of Esteem your friend
John Findlay
John C. Calhoun
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Cumberland County       
State of Pennsylvania SS  
Personally came before me the subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for Cumberland County Abraham Whisler, John Neagly and Abraham Wise all of Mifflin Township, County of Cumberland, said Abraham Wisler being duly affirmed, and said John Healy and Abraham Wise being duly sworn according to law, did depose and say, that Martin Miller of Mifflin Township County of Cumberland to the best of their knowledge has no real property in this neighbourhood, and that he the said Martin Miller is old and infirm, and also that his wife is likewise old and very infirm and further deponents say not                   
Abraham Whisler 
John Neagly
Abraham Wise
Affirmed Sworn and subscribed before me Henry D. Daelhousen              
Cumberland County ss [seal]    
I do certify that I am well acquainted with Abraham Wisler, John Neagly and Abraham Wise, the subscribers to the above deposition and that they are men of veracity to whose deposition due faith and credit may be given.               Witness my hand and seal at Mifflin Township March the ninth AD. 1824          
Henry D. Daelhousen                     
Cumberland County, State of            
PENNSYLVANIA, ss. -    I, John P. Helfenstein A Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cumberland, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do by these Presents Certify that Henry D. Dalhouser Esquire, before whom the foregoing Depositions were  taken, and who hath hereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such depositions and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts as such, due faith and credit is and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Carlisle, in the said county, this nineteenth day of April in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America, the forty eighth                  
John P Helfenstein PROTHONOTARY
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Cumberland County ss.               
State of Pennsylvania                     
Personally came before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and to for Cumberland County aforesaid Henry Miller of Newton Township in said County of Cumberland who being duly affirmed according to law, saith that he is well acquainted with Martin Miller of Mifflin Township, County of Cumberland, and that he deponent was in the Continental service in the year, when General Cornwallis surrender his army and that he deponent then saw the said Martin Miller in the continental army and that he the said Martin Miller was enlisted, as a waggoner in the service of the continental army, and that to the best of his knowledge he the said Martin Miller had been engaged about four years before the time when deponent actually saw him in the service of the continental army, and that the said Martin Miller was born in the year 1762, and consequently was at the time when deponent saw him in the army about nineteen years of age, and is now of the age of about sixty two years and further deponent states that his father never acted as Sutler, nor even owed part of a horse to the knowledge of deponent, and that consequent 
by said Martin Miller never drove such a Cart or assisted his father in the business of a Sutler 
Henry Miller
Affirmed this seventeenth day of March A.D. 1824 before me 
Henry D. Daelhousen                
Cumberland County ss 
[seal]   I do certify that Henry Miller of Newton Township, County of Cumberland is a man of veracity and credit, and that I am well acquainted with him. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 17th of March A.D. 1824 Henry D. Daelhousen
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41874
OWN
Revy   INVALID.     
File No. 41,874          
Martin Miller                 
Pri Rev War            
Act: 18 March 18"            
Index: - Vol. 5, Page 339 
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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17,178.           
Martin Miller              
Cumberland County, Pa                   
22d September, 1819              
Enlisted in March 1776,           
Capt. Archibald Compy             
5th Penna Regim’t                 
Artill’y commanded by General Knox, served till the close of the war --- 
Service proved by the testimony on oath, of sundry credible witnesses .           
Adm’d  [admitted]     
John Williamson, agt [agent]  Carlisle, Penn’a         
Rec’d 26. July, 1820.
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Susp’d [suspended] on acct of a Caveat    
See letters to M. Miller, 2d     
John Irwin, Newville, Penn.     
and Pres of U. S. Bank, 13th Oct. 
1822- and letters to John Williamson Esqr. Carlisle & Hon. John Findlay, Chambersburg, Penn. Oct. 9. 1824 –
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Suspension removed    
28 Oct. 1824. - See letter to Agent, and John Wm Williamson, of that date               
20 / 60
Cumberland
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Newville Pa
Oct 7th
Mr. Edwards
Caveat
or
Martin Miller
(2 on Roll)
[Caveat]  
Free
John C. Calhoun Esqr
Secy War
Washington City
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Newville Sept 23rd 1823        
Dear Sir   
The enclosed paper will satisfy you Mr. Miller has no just rights to draw a pension from the United States  -  I would wish to know if Francisco Josephus Sardorus has been placed on the pension list or if his name is recorded on the Rolls of the Revolutionary army.  I am not certain which State he served in but believe it was in the Delaware Pennsylvania  Maryland or Virginia line - he was a captain - if his name is found please to write me what State he served under & the description of corps he belonged to with the name of the Book & page when recorded I would also wish to know of John Guyer of Franklin County has been placed on the pension list - Please to direct to Newville Post office Cumberland County Penn’a                 John Irwin
The honourable John C. Calhoun 
Secy War
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Martin Miller 2nd
Evidence to remand suspension
Rec'd 2 Oct 1824
Free
The Honourable The Secretary of War
Pension Office
War Department
Washington City
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Carlisle Sept 29th 1824      
To the Honorable the Secretary of war           
Sir               
I trust the inclosed depositions will be sufficient to satisfy the Department that the charge prefered before it for the purpose of depriving the Pensioner named in them of his pension is without any found-
Owing to the depositions of and Mary Geyer and Godfrey [unreadable]   taken before Justices not residing in County certificates of their official characters have not been procured. I have thought that as there are depositions are corroborative of the principal fact proved by the deposition of Fran Brumbaugh this omission in matter of form would not be a material objection Jno. William                   
P.S. The Department will be good enough to forward to me any communications they to have to make in this subject       
I be O 
Jno Williamson
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Cumberland County   Pennsylvania SS                  
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Cumberland Francis Brumbaugh of the Borough of Carlisle in the said County who on his affirmation lawfully administered doth say, that he was intimately acquainted with Martin Miller of Mifflin Township in the said County  United States pensioner before and during the Revolutionary war and has all along since then continued to be acquainted with him, that to deponents certain knowledge the said Martin Miller served as a soldier in the said was in the Continental establishment and as to the period of the said Martin Millers said service he believes it to have been upwards of [unreadable] years and that the said Martin Miller is in reduced circumstances and stands in assistance need of the assistance of the Government of his Country for support. Deponent also states that he was during the period of the said war acquainted with Godfrey Miller brother of the said Martin that he also served in said war as a soldier in the Continental establishment and that he believes him to be a man of truth and his testimony to be worthy of credit       
Francis Brumbaugh          
affirmed and subscribed the 28th day of September 1824 before 
Archibald Ramsey
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Pennsylvania   
Cumberland County SS:             
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Cumberland Jacob Hendel Esquire who on his oath lawfully administered doth say that he is acquainted with Martin Miller of Mifflin township in the said County United States pensioner and from all the circumstances which have come to his knowledge he believes him to be a poor man and in need of the assistance of the government of his country for support and also that he is acquainted with Francis Brumbaugh of the Borough of Carlisle in said County the within named deponent and believes his testimony to be worthy of belief                  
Jacob Hendel
Sworn and subscribed the 29th day of September 1824    
Archibald Ramsey     
Pennsylvania   
Cumberland County SS   
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County of Cumberland Benjamin Childs who upon his oath lawfully administered doth say that he is acquainted with Martin Miller of Mifflin Township in the said County United States pensioner and from all the circumstances which have come to his knowledge he believes him to be a poor man and in need of the assistance of his Country for his support; and also that he is acquainted with Francis Brumbaugh of the Borough of Carlisle in said County the within named
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Deponent and believes his testimony to be worthy of credit
Benjamin Childs
Sworn & subscribed the 29th Septem’r 1824 Before             
Archibald Ramsey    
Cumberland County, State of 
PENNSYLVANIA, ss.     
I John P. Helfenstein Inn, Prothonotary of the Courts of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cumberland, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do by these Presents Certify that Archibald Ramsey Esquire, before whom the foregoing affidavits were made with; and who hath hereunto, in his own proper hand writing, subscribed his name, was, at the time of taking such affidavits and now is an acting Justice of the Peace, in and for the said County, duly commissioned and sworn, to all whose acts as such, due faith and credit is and of right ought to be given throughout the United States and elsewhere.     In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said Court, at Carlisle, in the said county, this twenty ninth of September day in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty four -- and of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America, the forty eighth                   
John P Helfenstein PROTHONOTARY.
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Martin Miller 2d
Evidence to remove
Suspension
Sept 4 1820
Mr. J. L. Edwards    18
War department
Pension Office 
Newsville Pa
Jany 9th
Rec'd 12 June 1824
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Mifflin Township June 7th 1824          
Honored Sir               
I take the liberty to send the inclosed deposition for your inspection and have the honour to remain with great respect your most obd humble servant 
Martin Miller
Mr. J. L. Edwards
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Cumberland County ss      
Personally came before me the Subscriber a Justice of the peace in and for said County, Samuel Wise Esqr who after being duly sworn as the law directs did depose and say that in the year 1823, sometime in the month of May or June certain John Irwin of Newton Township County aforesaid together with certain Martin Miller of Mifflin Township came to the house of the deponent, they having a settlement between them about a note which said Miller held against said Irwin calling for the sum of six dollars, said Irwin refused to pay the whole amount of said note, but offered and tendered to the said Miller four franc pieces which he the said Miller refused to take, whereupon said Irwin declared that if he Miller would not accept of the offer and tender as payment in full, he would break him of his pension, he was the man that could do it and would do it and the Miller should never make another draw, he Irwin did help him to the pension and he was the very man that could break him of it and further deponent says not                  
Sam Weise
Sworn and subscribed 7th day of June 1824 before me 
Henry D Daelhousen
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Philip Ducks
Deposition
on behalf of the United States Against 
Martin Miller 
[Caveat]
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[seal]   Cumberland County State of Pennsylvania SS   
Personaly appeared Philip Duck an uninterested witness in behalf of the United States before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace for said County aforesaid, who upon his solemn oath deposeth and sayeth that he knew Martin Miller Shoemaker formerly of Reamstown Lancaster County and State aforesaid now of Miflen Township and state aforesaid and the said Martins father was in the American Revolutionary war with a part as suttler and had his wife and four sons with him and the said Martin was imployed by his father to drive the Cart and was hired out by his father at other imployments for wages for his said father Do Certainly believe and to the best of my knowlege from the words of the said Miller that he never was enlisted nor none of them, and at the end of the American Revolution he appeared to be a boy of about fourteen years of age if that and afterwards learned the shoemaking business in Reamstown with Nicolas Witt opposit to Casher Briner in the aforesaid Town - in November 1821 where I live the aforesaid Martin told us the year he was Born in as Samuel Hamilton was Counting up Martin age and as Daniel Knettle was present and Daniel Knettle says to Martin that said Martin was only about eleven years of age at the time of the American Revolution and said that the said Martin was never enlisted and now Drawing a pension from the United States and the said Martin never said that he was inlisted and this took place in my presence - Deponent was raised in and about Reamstown and now lives within two or three miles of said Martin and I deponant went out as a regular enlisted Soldier in the American Revolution at same time and that said Martin Married widow woman for his second wife since that has a legacy coming to her yearly which would the third
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of the rent of a small farm which is rented at about forty one Dollars at the present time and the said Martin is now a healthy Stout man of his years and can yet make one pair of shoes per day and yet works steady at his trade  Further Sayeth Not    
Philip Duck Senior
Sworn and subscribed before me at Frankfort Township the 11th day of January AD 1823 
John Hanna               
I do certify that I have been acquainted with Philip Duck Sen  upward of twenty years and this from what knowledge I have of him I would believe him on his oath     
John Hanna
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United States of America                
Pennsylvania Cumberland County Ss   
I Charles Bovard Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Residing in the Borough of Carlisle & Cumberland County aforesaid duly commissioned and & Sworn & by law authorized to administer oaths &c Do hereby certify and attest unto all to whom these presents shall come that John Hanna before whom the annexed Certificates & Depositions were taken was at the time of taking said depositions & of signing said Certificates and acting Justice of the peace in and for the township of Frankford in said County of Cumberland & to whose acts as such due credit is and ought to be given With Whom & also his hand writing I am well acquainted I further certify that I am well acquainted with the two deponents within mentioned, with their persons & characters to wit John Irwin & Philip Duck & always considered them worthy to be believed on their oaths   In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my Notarial Firm & seal the Sixth Day of August A.D. 1823               
Charles Bovard Notary Public
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Motion against Martin Miller a pensioner of the U. S.
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To all persons whom these presents may concern Greeting Know ye that we the subscribers are well acquainted with Martin Miller Shoemaker of Miflin Township Cumberland County State of Penna now drawing a pention of the united states that from what information we have respecting said Miller we recommend an investigation into the legality of his claim          
February the 24, 1823
Thomas Lusk
Samuel Hamilton
Archibald McKay
Daniel Knettle
Jacob Schlott
William Brown
Wm. Lusk
Daniel W. Loughlin
Cumberland County  
I John Hanna a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Cumberland do certify that I am personally acquainted with the signers of the above petition and know them to be respectable Freeholders of the Neighborhood where Martin Miller lives 
Given under my hand at Frankford Township this 1st day of March 1823        
John Hanna
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rec'd Apl. 22 1824
CARLISLE
APR 20
Martin Miller 2d
Evidence of remand
suspension
Sept 1820
37 1/2
J. L. Edwards Esq
Pension Office
Washington City
D. C.
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Carlisle, April 19th 1824               
Dear Sir
Martin Miller, a pensioner from Cumb’d Co. has been stricken off the roll I believe through spite and malice & I now and send you enclosed, some affidavits, which I expect will reinstate him, I know the persons who have given the affidavits, and they are of the best respectability and veracity, and from my knowledge of Mr Miller, have no doubt of his hand, honestly fairly entitled to a pension    
I have now in my possession, the written evidence of his age, brought by his father from Germany, which could not he sent on to the department or it should accompany this letter, but can Assure you that it is genuine & he was born in April 1762 --- which makes him now 62 years of age of course he must have been at the time he entered the service about 19 years of age. If you shall think proper to replace him upon the pension list, you will please direct to me     
Yours   & 
Andw Boden
 J. L. Edward, Esq
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Deposition of John Irwin in behalf of the United States against Martin Miller a pensioner
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Cumberland County ss               
Personally appeared before me the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in & for Cumberland County Commonwealth of Pennsylvania John Irwin of Westpennsboro Township county & State aforesaid who being duly sworn according to law deposeth & saith that a certain Martin Miller now living in Miflin Township in Cumberland County State of Pennsylvania drawing a pension from the United States for supposed Military services but before & after the revolution lived Reams town & that a certain Henry Miller Brother to the aforesaid Martin told said deponant in July 1820 that in giving evidence of his brothers services he did not say his brother Martin Miller was enlisted but that he was out  
 In 1820 month not recollected Phillip Duck another of Martin Millers evidences of the same  place told him that Martin Miller never was enlisted being but a boy & was out only as a suttler under his father     
In January 14th 1822 he heard Samuel Wise Esquire of the same place say to Martin Miller that he never was enlisted & was not entitled to the pension from the United States the said Martin did not deny it but said he was out   
On April 11th 1822 Henry Miller now of Newton Township near Springfield County aforesaid a brother & evidence for Martin Miller in obtaining the U. S.  pension acknowledged to said deponent that he could not say his brother Martin aforesaid was ever enlisted he further told him the brother gave him a note for ten dollars for on his testimony the condition he got on the pension list of the U States
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All erasures and Interlining done before Swearing and Subscribing
and when the said Martin got on he received first three dollars afterwards some Nickles and the ballance of the note he sold to a son of the said Martin & he further told deponant that on the 27th of the same month in which Cornwallis was defeated he the Henry Miller was only eleven years & that he Martin never drove a cart in this employ of his father & that his brother Godfrey & George were enlisted but not Martin & that there were but the four brothers                
On April 13th 1822 John Guyer of Miflin Township Franklin County State of Pennsylvania near Fannettsburgh also told said deponent that he knew that Martin Miller never was enlisted and was nothing but a caster for his father & that he the said John Guyer was a drummer along with him for his father                 
On April 15th 1822 Mary Houser of Miflen Township Cumberland County State aforesaid told deponent that she lived near Martin Miller the time of the revolution war & that she believes Martin Miller never was enlisted but out in the employ of his father   
On March the 12th & April 15th 1822 deponant warned the said Martin that he would put him of the pension list & that he never was enlisted which the said Martin did not contradict deponant saith that he also heard Martin Miller acknowledge long before the United States known law was enacted at the house of Christopher Wiche  the that he never was enlisted but that he drove
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a cast as suttler for his father                
On April 19th 1822 deponent saith that he warned Mr Williamson of Carlise attorney who was agent for Martin Miller in behalf of the United States not to pay Martin Miller the money untill it was settled whether said Martin was entitled to it that he intended to have it investigated the said Martin being poor & that it would not be gather back but I advised him to put it out to interest till the thing was settled this I did in the presence of Mathew Armor wheeler in Carlisle                    
On April 30th 1822. Abraham Diller of Cumberland County told deponent that he lived near Reams town before & after the Revolutionary war & was well acquainted with all the Millers & believes that Martin afore said was never enlisted but was under his father as a suttler       
On October 26 1842 Jasper Bruner near Millerstown Perry County deponent saith also told him that he was well acquainted with Martin Miller aforesaid the time of the Revolutionary war & all the family & that they were all out two or three summers but never heard of Martin being enlisted the said Martin then being a boy of about fourteen or so that he learned the shoemaking business after the war & lived in Reamstown opposite to him 
All of which deponent deposeth & saith but further saith not             
John Irwin
 Sworn and Subscribed before me at Frankford Township the 1st day of March AD 1823         
John Hanna
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Certificate       
Newton Township February the 10th  1823               
I do hereby certify that I have been well acquainted with John Irvin for a number of years and to believe him to be a man of strict veracity and his word may he believed any where       
Witness my Hand    
John Hanna