Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2806, for William Mc Millan, Maryland
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(3 - 1776)
SERVICE
Md. 

McMillan, William

NUMBER
S.2806

Carded

CONTENTS
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Copies of papers sent to Benj
L. Gantt, Esq, Mar. 26. 1835
at Bladensburg Md. 
Let. to Hon. J. Henry Apr. 26, 1838
 same June 22. 1838. same July 2, 1838.

Paid at the Treasury under the
Acts of the 6 April 1838
from 4 Sept 1838 to 10 Jan'y
1839 the day of his death
Agts. notified 16 April 1840

Dead
Hon T. M. House
July 17 /52
Let tp S E Hench 26 Nov 52

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Act 7th June 1832.
20 
Pennsylvania
William McMillan
of Mercer Co in the State of Pennsyl'a
who was a Lieutenant in the company commanded
by Captain ___ of the 3rd Regiment commanded
by Colonel Smallwood in the Maryland
line, for the term of 4 years
from April 1779 to April 1783

Inscribed on the roll of Pennsylvania
at the rate of 320 Dollars per annum, to
commence on the 4 day of March 1831.

Certificate of Pension issued the 6th of July
1832 and sent to the
Hon. John Banks H.R.

Arrears to 4th of March 1831. 320.00
Semi-anu'l all'ce ending 4th Sept 1832 160.00
480.00

Recorded D: Vol. 6  Page 7

Revolutionary Claim Acts 7 June 1832
$96 to be deducted from the arrears on [illegible]
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22d CONGRESS,
1st Session
Rep. No. 147.
Ho. of Reps.
WILLIAM McMILLAN.
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JANUARY 10, 1832.
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Mr. DENNY, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, made the
following
REPORT:
The Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, to which was referred the application of William McMillan to be placed on the pension roll, as a Lieutenant in the revolution, report: 
That the petitioner was placed on the pension roll at eight dollars per month,
having satisfactorily shown to the department, that he served as a non-commissioned
officer during the revolution. The petitioner states that he was
taken prisoner on Long Island, put on board a prison ship, and sent to Halifax; that he made his escape, and, after encountering many hardships, reached
Boston, and after some time, joined the troops at that place; was marched
to Monmouth, and participated in that battle. That in August, 1778, he
enlisted in the Maryland line for three years, or during the war; that in the
Spring of 1779, he received a commission of lieutenant, in the 3d regiment
Maryland line, from General Smallwood; that a furlough was granted to
him to enable him to visit his parents, whom he had not seen for near four
years; after which he was ordered to Baltimore to recruit, in which service
he continued until 1780, and was not ordered from Baltimore until the peace.
The petitioner further states that, in consequence of having lost his commission
, and not knowing at the time of his first application for a pension, 
that any evidence could be obtained by which he could establish the fact of
his having held the commission of lieutenant, he was induced, under these
circumstances, and by the advice of the Honorable John Banks, now a member
of this House, to make his application for a pension, as a private or non-
commissioned officer. In this application the petitioner succeeded, since
which he has obtained testimony supporting his claim to be placed on the
pension roll as a lieutenant.
William Reed and James H. Reed, make oath that they knew personally,
that the petitioner held a commission as lieutenant in the continental army
of the revolution, having seen and read his commission; that they knew him
to have been actually engaged in the continental service as a lieutenant and
that he continued therein until the end of the war.
Joseph Smith, esq. declares on oath, that near the close of the revolutionary war, he saw the petitioner, McMillan, in the uniform of an officer, wearing a sword and epaulette; and that some time after, he heard the father of
said McMillan say, that he had gone to Baltimore (to the best of the depo(nent's)
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2
Rep. No. 147.
depo(nent's) recollection) for the purpose of recruiting; and that the said McMillan
was then reputed to be an officer in the army of the revolution, and ever
since, to have been such.
It appears, to the satisfaction of the committee, that the petitioner is old,
infirm, and in indigent circumstances; that his character for truth and integrity
 is unimpeached and good. That William Reed, James H. Reed, and
Joseph Smith, esq., are entitled to full credit from the high respectability of
their characters for truth and honesty.
The committee therefore report a bill.

private bill 226
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20.57.0
William McMillan
Mercer County
Pennsylvania
Act 18 March 1818

Hon. Stephen Barlow
HR
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District of Pennsylvania
Mercer County

Sct.
On this twenty eighth day of January
Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
personally appeared in open Court, being a Court of Record
to wit, a Court of Common Pleas for the County of Mercer
in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, at an adjourned
sitting of the November Term last, of said Court, William
McMillan resident in said County aged Seventy two
years in May next, who being first duly sworn according to
law doth on his oath make the following declaration
in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of Congress
of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st of May 1820. That he the
said William McMillan enlisted as a non commissioned
officer for the term of nine months, about the last of
December 1775 in the State of Maryland in the Company commanded by Captain Thomas Ewing of Baltimore in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Smallwood in the line of the State of Maryland
on the Continental establishment - That when the British
came to New York, part of the Regiment to which he belonged
lay at Annapolis and part at Baltimore, at this time
his Regiment volunteered and turned out to go to New York.
Before his time was up, he enlisted again for
three years, if not sooner discharged; That he was taken prisoner by the British on the 27th day of August A.D. 1776 on Long Island together with Lord
Stirling and General Sullivan and many others
where they endured many severe hardships and privations; That he was afterwards put on board one of the
prison ships and sent to Hallifax in Nova Scotia
On the 27th day of April Anno Domini 1777 he and
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Several others escaped from the british, and suffered the most severe hardships, before he reached Kaskaskia, which he accomplished in about ten weeks, from this place he
proceeded to Boston, at which latter place he waited the arrival of his sick brother whom he had left at Kaskaskia and expected soon to arrive in Boston; that he himself was taken sick at Boston where he lay until May or June AD 1778, when he joined a detachment of men, commanded by Major Scott and performed the duty of Quarter Master until they arrived
at the Gulf Mills in Pennsylvania in June; That he was in the battle of Monmouth on the 28th day of June 1778; then went to New Haven with the Jackson Troops, and in August he joined the Maryland line again. In virtue of the promise of General Smallwood that he should have preferment the first vacancy that took place, that he continued with them until April 1779 when he got a discretionary furlow [sic]
from General William Smallwood to go
home and return when it suited him; that his term of enlistment had expired six months previous to his obtaining the furlow [sic], and the reason of his remaining with the Regiment after the expiration of his term of service was the hope and expectation of his obtaining preferment- That he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension except the present; that his name is not on the roll of any State as a pensioner and that the following are the reasons for not making an earlier application for a pension to wit first, that until now he has been able to live without it, and secondly, that it requires no small degree of exertion to bring an independant [sic]
mind of a man of the least sensibility down to
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the conditions required to obtain a pension, and in pursuance of the Act of 1st 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 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 war" passed the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not, nor has any person for me in trust, 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 to wit Lot No 245 in the Borough of Mercer, one bureau, one book case, and some kitchen furniture. One house and lot in New Philadelphia which he rents for twelve dollars per annum to be laid out in repairs to the premises, two Cows and one horse -
Wm. McMillan
That since the 18th day of March 1818 the following changes have been made in my property, to wit on said day and year I was Seized and was and possessed of Lots No 3 and 4 in the borough of Mercer aforesaid; that on the 18th day of November 1820 he sold five feet front and extending some
distance back off No 3. to Robert Patterson for one hundred dollars, a considerable part whereof was laid out and expended by the said Robert in repairs done to the remainder of said Lot
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that on the same day and year he exchanged part of same lot with the house erected thereon, with Robert Patterson for house and lot No 2 in Mercer aforesaid and one thousand dollars, out of which thousand dollars the said Robert retained, sixty eight dollars, the
amount of an account due him by this applicant for necessaries furnished himself and family and the further same of one hundred and thirty one dollars and seventy eight cents 
which he had assumed and did pay to Sundry creditors of this applicant - (Fifty five dollars were paid in depreciated County Warrants, 
forty four dollars in depreciated Meadville Bank notes, twenty five dollars in trade, and the balance in Cash.) That on the 29th May 1821 he sold another part of Lot No 3 to Robert Patterson for one hundred dollars and that on the 18th day of June 1821 he sold the remainder of No 3
to Thomas Templeton for
one hundred and ten dollars for which said sum of this applicant agreed to take Eighty acres of land in the State of Ohio, that on the 4th day of October 1826 he exchanged these eighty acres of land with Joshua Pepperman for a house and lot in New Philadelphia in Ohio from which he receives a rent of twelve
dollars per annum, payable as before mentioned on which said house and lot there is yet unsatisfied, a lien of about sixty dollars. That on the 24th November 1820 he sold part of Lot No 4 in the borough of Mercer aforesaid to Thomas Rogers for five hundred and fifty dollars, and on the 5th June 1822 sold the remainder of Lot No 4 to James Williamson for three hundred and eighty two dollars. That on the ___day of ___ AD 1824 he exchanged Lot No 2 in the borough of Mercer afore-
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said with Joel B. Curtis for Fifty acres of land in Portage County Ohio and on the ___ day of ___ AD 1825 sold these fifty acres to ___ Rude for seven hundred dollars - This Applicant further declares that he was for several years engaged in the mercantile business with his brother; that his brother failed to a large amount, and was unable to pay him the sum of Fifteen
 hundred dollars which he owed him. That he
was for several years engaged in keeping a Tavern in the borough of Mercer - that the funds raised by the exchange and sale of the before mentioned property has been entirely exhausted in the payment of Sundry Small debts due by himself alone and by the partnership of himself and brother, the evidences of payment of which have been lost or mislaid, and to whom paid forgotten by this applicant; and in the maintenance of himself and family. That for Several years past he has been unable to engage in any business on account of his embarrassed circumstances, that from age and debility of body he is
unable to engage in any mannual [sic] occupation. That his family consists of a daughter, Margaret Patterson aged forty one years, and her two children O.H. Perry Patterson aged thirteen years and Susanna Patterson aged ten years; that they
are unable to contribute much to their or his
support-
Sworn and Subscribed
Wm McMillan
in open Court and declared on the twenty
eighth day of January
Anno Domini 1828 Coram W. Rankin Prot.
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District of Pennsylvania
Mercer County
Set

On this twenty eighth day of January AD
1828 personally appeared in open
Court, being a Court of Record to wit a Court of Com-
mon pleas for the County of Mercer aforesaid at an
adjourned sitting of the November term last of said
Court Robert Patterson the same mentioned in
the foregoing Declaration of William McMillan
who being first duly sworn according to law de-
poseth and saith that the facts mentioned in
said Declaration so far as he is mentioned and
was concerned are correct and true according to
the best of his recollection and knowledge

Sworn and Subscribed
in open court 28th day
of Jany AD 1828.

Robert Patterson

[illegible] Wm S. Rankin
Prothy

District of Pennsylvania
Mercer County
Set.

I William S. Rankin, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas
in and for said, Do hereby Certify
that it appears to the satisfaction
of the Court that the said William McMillan did
serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the
preceding declaration against the common enemy
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for the term of nine months, under one
engagement on the continental establishment. I also certify that the foregoing oath and the Schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the Records of said Court. 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 does not exceed the sum of One hundred and ten dollars. In Testimony
whereof I have hereunto set my hand and 
affixed the seal of the said Court at Mercer
on this eleventh day of February AD 1828.
Wm. S. Rankin
Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas of Mercer
County in the State of
Pennsylvania-
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Second Comptroller's Office,
April 2d, 1840

Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An
act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain
Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury
of the United States." The widow of Wm McMillan
a Pensioner on the Roll of the Philadelphia Agency, at
the rate of Three hundred & twenty Dollars
per annum, under the law of the 7th June 1832, has
been paid at this Department, from the 4th of Sept. 1838.
to the 10th January 1839, the day of his death.

Respectfully, yours
Albion K. Parris
Comptroller.

To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present
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I Nancy McMillen Remark that George Green Has come
my way and seems to have a disposition to do business for
Soldiers widows & orphans, I therefore allow him to be my
lawful attorney to do my business with you Congress &
War Department in & with all the virtues of the Laws of 
the United States therefore I remark that I was Lawfully
married to William McMillen who remarks to me I think
time and again he was a Lieutenant in the Revolutionary War & I
Heard him say he suffered with General Washington's brave
soldiers & was in a number of Battles. How many & what ones
my old Memory now Don't serve me but I think one that of
the Battle of Brandywine the Battle of the Cowpens & the
Battle of Trenton & I think the Battle where Lafeatt was when
Cornwallis was taken and what all his services was I know
not, but I trust you have his services on Record in your
possession for you gave him a pension for several years & I
think you gave him at the first Draw Close on to
one thousand Dollars if not more and after his death
which was about I think four years ago by my testimony
and the Management of Mr Samuel Holstain the Lawyer
of Mercer who sent my Lawful Husband's papers to you
you sent me the [illegible] which belong to me for my
Husband's services. Therefore I allow George Green to have
full access to all the papers you have in your hand to
show the Virtue of my case for his services done to the
United States. Now I Remark I was lawfully Married to
William McMillen in the year of our Lord Eighteen Hundred
and twenty one in the fall now me being close on to forty
five years of age & have been afflicted with the inflammatory [illegible-rheumatism?]
in my head I now don't remember the day & the month.
But was Married in Mercer County Near mercer town
where I now live in Mercer by the Reverend minister of the
Gospel Samuel Tate who dyed not long since in sight of Mercer
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town and I think this week I shall get the qualifications of the
Honorable associate Judge of Mercer County John Findley and
the Esquire Thomas Cunningham the Lawyer who both of them
saw me Lawfully Married to William McMillen by Mr Tate as before described of which testimonies I send with George
Green for your consideration of my Lawful marriage.
Therefore I beg, petition deposee & request Congress and War
Department to give me a pension in money any way you
choose and also Land that was due my Husband for my Children. These things I can affirm and testify given
under my Hand and seal this 27th Day of December A.D. 1843

Nancy McMillen {seal}

Witness present
Joseph Smith
John [illegible]

I authorize George Green to try and get a reward for me for
My Husband's services in the Revolution War any way they
please or see proper from Congress or War Department him
who is now Deceased William McMillen Given under my Hand
and seal this 27th day of December A.D. 1843

Nancy McMillen  {seal}

Witness present
Joseph Smith
John [illegible]

State of Pennsylvania
Mercer County
Mercer town December 27th 1843 - Before me
William McElhaney a justice of the peace in and for
said County personally came the foregoing named Nancy McMillen
signed on & sealed on the foregoing Deposition of a petition of 
power of attorney and made oath that the foregoing was a
Correct Statement. Given under my hand & seal the date
above written.

Wm. McElhaney  {seal}

Sworn to & subscribed this
27th of December A.D. 1843
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the State of Pensylvania  Mercer County ss
I A. A. Douglass Clerk of
the Court of Common [illegible-Pleas?] within
and for the County of Mercer State of Pennsylvania Do hereby
Certify that William McElheney before whom the fore-
going and annexed Deposition was taken is now and was
at the taking of the same Justice of the Peace... within and
for said County and State aforesaid duly sworn and Commissioned
agreeably to the Laws of the State of Pennsylvania and that I am
acquainted with his signature and that the above is genuine
and to all of whose official acts as such Justice full faith and
Credit is and 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 this 27 day
of December A.D. 1843.

A A Douglass Prothy
per I. Galloway Dept
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Claim of William McMillan, decd
Act of 1832 (7th June 1832)
State of Pennsylvania
County of Allegheny
Be it known, That on this Eighteenth day of September A.D., eighteen hundred and fifty one, before the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County and State aforesaid, personally appeared Margaret Patterson, a resident of Allegheny County, and made oath according to law that she is the only surviving child of William McMillan deceased who was a Revolutionary Pensioner of the United States and as she believes, at the rate of three hundred & twenty Dollars per annum; sworn to and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid, before me. Andrew Barclay J. Peace. 
Margaret Patterson

I, Andrew Barclay, Justice of the Peace, in and for said County do hereby certify that Ms Margaret Patterson who executed the foregoing paper is a respectable resident of this County, and is, I believe, directly interested in said claim as therein set forth. 
Andrew Barclay J. Peace. 

I, Daniel Mccurdy Clerk of the Orphans Court in the County and State aforesaid, do hereby certify the Andrew Barclay before whom the foregoing papers were executed, was, at the date of the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized by law to administer oaths; and the name thereunto subscribed is his signature. 
In Testimony Whereo, I have herunto subscribed my name and affixed my official Seal, this eighteenth day of September A.D. 1851.
Daniel McCurdy Clerk.
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Power of Attorney- Revolutionary Pension Claims
W Cole Sept 27 51
Know all Men by these Presents, That I, Mrs. Margaret Patterson only child of William McMillian, deceased hereby constitute and appoint Geo M Phillip of Washington DC my true and lawful Agent and Attorney, to prosecute the Claim of my dead father for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or Increase of Pension, or Commutation any, that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Agent to examine all the papers and documents in relation to said claim, on file in the Departments at Washington City, or elsewhere; to file additional evidence or arguments; and to receive the Certificate which may be issued for said Claim, which Certificate I wish made payable to myself or in case of my death, or other wise, who [illegible] I may designate to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed; and to do all things that I might or could do were that I personally present. Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises. Witness my hand and Seal this 18th day of September A.D., 1851
Margatet Patterson
Signed and Sealed in the presence of 
T L McMillan
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Hon. Thomas Haw
Member of the H N P
Present
Congress U S
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Hon. T Howe, Esq
Sir, The following is a statement of the case of
Margaret Patterson who is the only living Heir &
Child of William McMillan Deceased who resided
in Mercer Borough Pa. and was an officer in the
army of the U. S. in the Revolutionary War and received a pension during the last four years of his life, and died upon the 10th of December 1839 aged 88 years. She states that she believes he received his pension under the [Commution] Bill, the date of which is not now recollected. But she thinks that there was back pay coming to her Father when he died which was never received by any one.
Mr John B. Guthrie States, it could be the act of 1831 that the deceased would receive his pension under, and in as much as Mrs Patterson states that he received his Pension but four years and dieing in 1839 there would be five years, unpaid, at least if the facts existed as Mrs Patterson believes they did. William McMillan was first in the Maryland line in 1776 and was perhaps transferred to others during the war. At the close of the war he was under the
direction of Genl Smallwood of Baltimore. He served generally during the Revolutionary struggle, his Certificate of Pension, and all the papers are on file in the department at Washington. George M. Phillipps of Washington has a Power of Attorney from Mrs. Margaret to act in her case. She has rec’d a letter from him, suggesting some doubt as to some subsequent law having interfered
which might make it necessary for Congress to
take action for Mrs Patterson’s relief. And if so,  she desires you to take her case under your Particular care. She is now growing old and destitute. She has been well raised and Educated, the child of a meritorious Soldier of the Revolution who became needy before his death and a great burden to her and to whom she [devoted] her time, and means untill his death. I think if there is a case remaining connected with the revolution in which
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Congress might manifest their liberality.
By attending to Mrs Patterson’s case you will not
mistake a worthy object, but do justice to one who is not only needy, but meritorious, Please to correspond with me upon this subject, and direct your letters to me in Allegheny City. And in doing so, you will confer a lasting obligation upon your sincere friend
T. L. McMillan
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Rev. & 1812
Wars Section
AWF:MLB
June 17,1930
Lorena Montgomery
P.O. Box 158
Grove City, Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
I advise you from the papers in Revolutionary War pension claim, S.2806, it appears that William Mc Millan was born in May, 1756, place not stated. 
He enlisted in Harford County, Maryland, in December, 1775 and served as sergeant in Captains Thomas Ewing's and Daniel Beouy's ? Company, Colonel William Smallwood's Maryland Regiment. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, put on a prison ship and carried to Halifax, Nova Scotia, from where he made his escape in April, 1777, and after much suffering and many hardships finally reached Boston, having been in the "wilderness" ten weeks. 
He joined the "Boston Troops" and was in the battle of Monmouth, shortly after which he joined the Maryland troops and was appointed in the spring of 1779 lieutenant and served until the close of the war. 
Her was allowed pension on his application executed January 28,1828, at which time he was living in the Borough of Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
He died December 10,1839.
The soldier married in the fall of 1821 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, Nancy Anderson. She was sixty-six years of age in 1845. 
In 1828 the soldier referred to his daughter, Margaret Patterson, as aged fotry-one years, and to her two children, O.H. Perry Patterson, thirteen years old, and to Susanna Patterson, ten years old. In 1851 Mrs. Margaret Patterson was residing in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and was the only surviving child of the soldier. There is no further reference to children. 
For information relative to pensioners of Mercer County, Pennsylvania, it is suggested the you apply to The Librarian, PEnnsylvania State Library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. This bureau has no complete list of any particular section of pensioners.
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The Revolutionary War records of this bureau are arranged alphabetically according the full name of the solders, and not according to their residence.
Very truly yours
E.W. Morgan
Acting Commissioner
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Pennsylvania
William McMillan
of Mercer Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a Non Com Off in the company commanded by Captain Ewing of the regiment commanded by Colonel Smallwood in the Maryland line, for the term of three years from August 1776 to August 1779. 
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 11th day of March 1828.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th of March 182[?] and sent to Hon. S. Barlon House of Representatives. 
Arrears to 4th of Sept. 1828 46.00
Semi-anl. all'ce ending  00.00
$46.00

Revolutionary Claim
Acts March, 18, 1818
and May 1, 1820. 

[right fold torn at top]
[Sixty 89 ?? All?]
10 Jany 18[5]2
To Hon J Banks
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Wm. McMillan (dead)
See letter to Saml. Holstein
Oct. 9 1839
Letters to Saml Jersaw 12  March 1840
Letter to Geo. Green June 29. 1844
resp'g widow's claim. 
Act 7 June 1832
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1828  papers
to be filed
with a'd
OW & Nv
File #
2806
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Wm. McMillan Lieut
Maryland line
Penn-
Papers copied for Hon. J Henry
H.R. June 30 1838.

Ex'd one old Book + Ref
Ex'd Wid & other old book.
A'd [illegible- Inv?] File no. 2.806
Evidence insufficient Act 1828
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Mercer Pa. Mar. 30 1897
My Dear Cousin:
Yours of yesterday relative to the
great grandfather of Mrs. Bidwell at
hand. 
I find in Will Book No. 2 page 183
in the Register’s Office of Mercer Co. Pa.
the will, I believe of Mrs William McMillan,
 dated Janes 11 1837 in which
the following appears:
1st
I give and devise to my beloved
daughter Margaret Patterson all
the ballance of my pension money
which may be due and undrawn at the
time of my decease, to be wholly 
appropriated to her own use.
2d I give and devise all my back
pay and bounties in money or
other property which may be
coming and recoverable from the
State of Maryland or the United
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States on account of my service
in the Revolutionary war entirely
to herself and to be at her disposal
in life and at her decease.”
My uncle remembers him & his daughter
 but knows nothing of value.
He thinks he derived his title as Captain
in the Revolutionary war but does
not know. But this record should
serve as a clue by which the desired
information may be traced.
Our [clan] Mr. & Mrs. Benson are
better. [?] Jessie & Dorothy love
from us all.
Yours
R. A. [Stewart]
W. G. Sargeant Esq.
Meadville Pa
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20
Wm. McMillan
Penn. Roll

Revo. act not known
Report to Hon W
Henry H. R
say whether 
he served to the end of the war
Mr McMillan was an officer
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[original note in faint ink]
Dec 4/57
Sent let to 
daughter of Wm McMillan Pa.


Dec’r 4th, 1837
T. S. McMillan’s
Statem’t rel: to case
of Margaret Patterson

Hon. Th’s. M. Howe
House of Reps

Tms Howe MC

Jas E Heath Esq
Com’r of Pensions
Washington City
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Paid 18 [cents?]
To the honourable Secretary of
the treasury

Mercer
Oct 8th

Rec’d 14 Octr 1828
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To the honour’ble the Secretary of the Treasurey. I am happy to hear of the appointment you have. I had heard heard that Colonel {Sargent?]was a appointed. I never [new] you were appointed till Mr Joseph [?] came lately and brought his little family with him to Mercer to [see] my daughter & myself and he informed me of your appointment. I am in hopes [lest] either of them be appointed that you would be appointed as Secetarey.  & I have Now man in the United States who would wish
before your honour. You have several cases showed your friendship; I need not mention any one in pertickley. But you have done so when ever I required it. We have been acquainted 30 years or more and our friendship has ever remained pure and genuine and I hopes will to the Clous of Life. I am gone in 73 years of Age and I always had good health, but but aboute a year ago I was thrown 
 off my horse and was did for some time. Broke three of my ribs off. I was a long time before I
got well. I was Not Able Scarsely to do any thing-I begun to think aboute my Revolution servises. I joined the services of Revolution war 1775, in the Last of December in Maryland to serve nine months.
I was appointed Sargent and Brother of mine was appointed same time and and the British came to New York and parts of our Redgement lay in [No. illegible] and parts in Baltimore and hand bills was sent in every direction for volunteers and our Redgement turned to a man that was fit to
march. We had aboute twelve hundred men in the Redgement and we marched for New York. I believe we arived there about first August 1776. And the British army consisted of about 40,000 and it
had hassons [Hessians?] to the 15,000. And on the evening of the 26 August, we left New York and landed on [Forge] Island and the next day was
August 27th Battle. Lord Starling Comanded Right wing & [illegible] commanded the Left wing. My Captain was killed. First Lieutenant was killed. Second Lieutenant shot through hand. Two Sargents was killed, one in front of me. Same time my Bayonet was shot of[f] my Gunn. Two corporals killed. All belonged to our Company.  Captain’s name was Samuel [Gauge, Jr.], an Annapolis general & Smith your oldest senator in Congress was
with us that unfortunate day. He remembered me the day of the Battle and give a certificate of that after None [noon?]. My Brother and [substitutes}
50 or 60 of us was taken. We had a pretty severe fite [fight] with [illegible] and it was a draw Battle. There was a good many on each side killed. Others [returned] and we did not pursue them. And we were surrounded by [heal indians?] and did [illegible] hassons on the other and the hassons broke the butts of our guns over their cannon and robbed us of every thing we had, lite their pipes with our money, [caned?] us into meetings and gave us nothing to eat for five days. And then [several illegible words]
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and the British put us on board prison ships and sent us to Halifax and we were till
the nex[t] spring. And [ten] of us run away from Halifax and had likely [?] Been taken two or three times by the British in that [Saint James illegible].
And sever[al] times we had likely to been killed by the Indians had not we had a man that could speak the [Canadian?] lang[u]edge. Several times
out there ware Baynt [bayonet?] [have] guns at us and this [Canadian spake their] Langage well and kind [illegible] and saved us in that way. We ware ten weeks in the wilderness. Some times nothing to eat for days but [illegible-mussels?] that [growed] on the rocks in the Bay, sometimes shellfish & [snakes]. We got so poor we [illegible] and lay a [trap?]-- it would take a quire of paper to give a correct account of our sufferings that we underwent. We suffered everything, But [illegible] I would Not undergo
the same for the United States. But I could Not [stand] it.
I arrived in Boston some time before General Burgoyne was taken and staid there till I got Healthy and well and in the first June 1778, I acted as quarter to provide [illegible] for troops 350 then Comanded by Major Scott. I had horse to ride some the as paymtment [preferrment?] I was offered.  But I expected to get a good one when I joyned the Maryland line when Jackson’s Redgement lay at the gulf mills. And I went with them there and the [army] and
and the British Army was leaving Philadelphia and we got word at Night. And we marched all night got to the City Brake day and General Scott [several illegible words-including ‘By the’ & “to British” ] 
Before we marched to Monmouth [several illegible words] we marched to English town.

 [writing becomes very cramped - unable to make any sense of next twenty lines or so]


 He joined the "Boston Troops" and was in the battle of Monmouth, shortly after which he joined the Maryland troops and was appointed in the spring of 1779 lieutenant and served until the close of the war.

 In the spring he performed his word to me and I  [enlisted?] in Baltimore. And the Maryland line was away in South Carolina and I stayed and [run quarter] till the surrend[er] of Lord Conwallace and I quit and ended as the war was over. After was establish [king?] acknowledged as Independent.
Yours very Respectfully and sincere friend. I have to [illegible] your honor if you please. In the [illegible]  of the election I wish to now [know] your mind. [several illegible words-including ‘honour Wm Clark’]
Wm McMillan
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Dear Sir
I have sent paper two or three times to Colonel Aaron Ogden. The last [of papers] was to 
your honour. I had but one proof and that was Esqr Joseph Smith. When I [came] home on furlow Mr Smith called to see me and [illegible] from the Army.
and i staid home at that time. Better than two mons [months] [illegible] and went to Baltimore. Well I Received a [same] Letter that another witness was to Be Necessary. Well I sent proof of another Man. I expect your honour nows [knows] Hamilton Reed.
I did not not think I would ever want a pension but when it is Just Clame and I am become Needy of.
I have my daughter and family of hers to take care of and I don’t have no [Bissnes]. That I could if I had Small granary store, I could attend it. My papers is better than three weeks sent from here. I wish your - the honorable the Secretary of the Treasury -
would please to see if any other things is Necessary and send me a letter. I allways was on the [illegible] side when I thought it right. And you please to excuse my troublesome kind of a letter [illegible]
of sentiment in to [Sect’y?] now my [illegible]
 to call on your honour.
Your honour Wm Clark

Wm McMillan
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22d Congress
1st Session
H.R. 226.
January 10, 1832.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House to-morrow. 
Mr. Denny, from the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions, reported the following bill:
A BILL 
Increasing the pension of Williams McMillan, a Lieutenant in the army of the revolution. 
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives
2 of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 
3 the pension allowed to William McMillan, who is now on the
4 pension roll at that rate of eight dollars per month, be, and is
5 hereby, increased to the sum of twenty dollars per month,
6 commencing on the first of January, Anno Domini, eighteen
7 hundred and thirty.
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Sir
In filing my power of Attorney from the
heirs of Wm McMillan (on 27th Sept. last),
I should have stated that the claim is
based on his service being to the close
of the War and that a pension should
therefore be granted under the Act of
May 1828.
Mr McMillan was a Pensioner
in Pennsylvania, under the Act of
June 1832
Very Respy
Your obt Servt
Geo M. Phillips

Jas E. Heath Esq
Com’r of Pensions
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Mr. Lambert
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Extract from the declaration of William
McMillan on file in the Pension
Office. War Department

“and in August 1778 he joined the
Maryland line again. In virtue of the promise
of General Smallwood that he should have
preferment the first vacancy that took place
that he continued with them until April 1779
when he got a discretionary furlow from General
William Smallwood to go home and return when
it suited him; that his term of enlistment had
expired six months previous to his obtaining the
furlow and the reason of his remaining with
the regiment after the expiration of his term of
service was the hope and expectation of his obtaining preferment.”
He does not state in his declaration
that he ever received a commission
War Department
Pension Office
B L Beale
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Hon'ble Richard Rush
Sec'y of the Treasury
 Washington City D. C.

Mercer
Feby 18th
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Rec 23 Feb 189
Hon’ble Richard Rush
Sir
This day I have sent inclosed to Hon’ble Mr
Barlow the affidavits of two men proving
that they both saw & read my commission 
&c - which Mr Barlow will hand you. If it is sufficient
a very particular favour will be conferred on me by
getting my pension at as early a
day as possible.  If any defency please
let me know that it may be remedied.
I am Respectfully your obt svnt
Penn’a Mercer February 17th 1829
Wm WcMillan

Hon'ble Rich’d Rush
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Revolutionary Claim
Free
Hon’ble S D Ingham Esq
Sec’y of the Treasury
D.C.

Mercer Pa. May 8th

W. McMillian 1058
Rec’d 13 May  1829
1901
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Penn’a Mercer May 7th 1829
Hon’ble Samuel D Ingham Esqr

Sir I made a declaration and proof of
my having been an officer in the army
of the Revolution and sent it on to
Washington sometime I think in the
month of March last. Since that time
I have heard nothing of my application 
& whether I may be so fortunate
as to be placed on the pension list or
not.  In my declaration I stated that
I had recd 48 dollars which I have not rec’d.
I was placed on the pension list and
gave my papers to a merchant in
Pittsburgh to draw to the amount of
what I stated in the declaration, which
sum I borrowed from him. But he states
he never [rec’d?] the money as it was
to be drawn in Phila and not in
Pittsburgh as stated by me.
May I take the liberty to ask the favour
of you to write me a line as soon as
convenient, that I may know the result
of my prospects and you will confer
an important favor on your obedient
& humble Servant
Wm McMillan
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Rec 34 Jan 1829
Pennsylvania Ss Mercer County ss
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County James Hamilton Reed and being duly Sworn according to law saith that he is personally and for a long time acquainted with William McMillan Esqr of the Borough of Mercer and knew him to be an officer in the Continental army
in the Maryland line. He now understands
he is an applicant for pension under the
act of Congress of the 15th May 1828 and further
saith not. 
James Hamilton Reed 
Sworn and subscribed before me this
16th day of January AD 1829.
Joseph Kirk {seal}


I Wm S Rankin Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of Mercer County certify that Joseph Kirk
Esquire is a magistrate as above and
that the foregoing signature purporting
to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto affixed my seal of
office and subscribed my name on 
this 19th day of January 1896.

 Wm S Rankin Clerk of
Court of Common pleas of Mercer County
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Honored Mr J. L. Edwards
 Sir after my respects to you, please to let me
say that Necessity in a good degree makes me rite. Thus I wish you to know that I am getting old & I Left Home in the winter & had on my winter clothes & Know Honesty makes me wear them Ragged
as they are. I have been a good deal sick since I Came to your City. I Carryed my thick over Coat so I could carry my papers & walkt so much & Sweat so Last night & this morning. I have a sore throat &
Horseness. By what I understood by the Representatives from my County that I would get the loan of money to pay my [board] here & take me home, so I Rite a few lines that I would return it again after a little. For I Look for some Reward for my Walking so much & went to their Bording house yesterday & presented my papers & [Tildon] Read it at the table so he said, where there was several. For [tildon] told me some time ago to come [&] he would see there was something done for me. So when it
came to the pinch & I presented my papers & 4 of them from my own quarter they every one flincht. Mr Edwards I cant well carry my Saddle baggs my books & winter cloths this warm within &
walk Home. Yesterday tildon Returned me 11. [Caps] & said the Committee could not reach them-- the above goes to ask you if you please to allow those that under you to look at my cases you have
in your hands-- Mr Edwards that case of the widow
Bradley a poor Widow which you have not acted on as yet which I gave you who was married in the year of 1783 & her Marriage Nicely proven & I believe Honestly two I have no dispute but you will
allow her her small portion. When I was here before a Sergeants widow
who served in the Revolution war one year I heard you tell a Judge you allowed her 12,000 Dollars. there was a Representative Last year
who said to me old man come with me to the president when I was about getting the president to back you in McGinnis Case to
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Sighn his Name to it. A gentleman I think from the Tennesse said he [I am] about Gitting 600 Dollars for a widow & was aiming to go to the bank here
to get the money to take to the widow-- will you be so kind as to let me do so in the widow Bradley’s Case. Why & wherefore you will find I think the americans nor the people of france will ever trouble
themselves nor you nor me nor that widow. What we do for the allow’d - me one Half & Has an article on me & my heirs for her other half & her
son who is an Honest man. I very believe Build his mother that he would see I got our agreement. Mr Edward I think you will find them & me will act honestly & quietly. I have no doubt but you
have power to fix this so in her case to let me quietly get to the bank & give the money to her & use part of my Lawfull share to not have to walk home & get some thin Close here for truly I think I Have an
Honest family to Deal with. The Report is here there plenty of money in the bank & now the appropriation is made. Please to share it to so for surely me as an Honest man has a right for some Reward for my
Labour. For I never got one cent from the people only that 12 dollars of McGinnis Case. & on Saturday last Mr Blake Gave me to know that McGinnis Has sent to take it from me. You know I & you had trouble in that Case.  McGinnis persuaded my son while I was here last winter was a year
to bye his other half. My son Bought him a milk Cow, bought him meat & bred & gave him money to answer his purposes. & after I got home
I stayed two nights with him & my son gave his son money in my [??]. & McGinnis told me my son paid him all but 7 Dollars-- & now its evident he inclines to cheat me out of the land & my son out of the
money my son gave him - Oh what a shame & my Neighbour for about 20 years. Mr Edwards please to do as above & you’ll find I think that will be the end of it. Sir I Remain your friend and well wisher -
George Green
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House of Reps
Dec. 3. 1851

James E Heath Esq
Com’r of Pensions

Dear Sir 
Referring to the accompanying [
of Mrs Margaret Patterson, I beg to enquire whether
there are any arrears of Pension due to 
her father William McMillan & also
whether there is any pension
of land, under which she as his only child and
heir would be authorized to make any
further claim against the Government.
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Srvt
[illegible signature]
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I do hereby certify to the character of the
Hon John Findley of Mercer County Penn’a.
He is a wealthy and respectable man and is at present an associate Judge of the Court
of Mercer County he has heretofore [fill] several important offices in the County. His character for truth and honesty I believe is unimpeachable.
Sam’l Hays [Penn’a]

I also certify to Genl Thomas S. Cunningham from
Mercer County Penn’a. Mr Cunningham is a practising Lawyer in the town of Mercer & has been often [cited] to the Legislature from that County, and [page torn] four years as Senator of Penn’a of which body he was elected Speaker. He is now Postmaster of the Town of Mercer. He is a man of fine education and a sound Lawyer.
Sam’l Hays

The above is applicable to the case of Widow
McMillan
Sam’l Hays
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J. L. Edwards, Esqr.
Pension Office
Washington D C

[Faron N W. Dann]
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Annapolis Md
March 14. 183[5]
Sir
I have received your letter of
yesterday and beg leave to state that
William McMillan resides in Pennsylvania
near Mr Davis who goes to Washington in
the morning. Will hand you this, be pleased
to send me copies of any papers in your
office touching his cars, As he is anxious
to obtain a pension from the State of
Mayland. The State [close] the present session
of the Legislature some time next
week and will be much obliged to you 
if you will let me hear from you in a day or two.
Very Respectfully
Your Obdn’t
Benj. L. [Gantt]

J. L. Edwards Esq
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June 25
Wm McMillan
[private?]

Hon J. L. Edwards
Commissioner of
Pensions

Hon Tho Henry
H.R.
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H R June 23. 1838
H J L Edwards
Dr Sir
I rec’d your [Com.] last evening, stating
that it was ags’t the rules of your office to furnish
Copies of papers unless you were informed of the
use that was to be made of them.
I was not aware of this rule with members
of Congress, nor do I know that either good or evil
can result from it.
In the case of Lieut McMillan, he has a Petition before a Committee for commutation & 
the object is to lay these papers before the Committee. And I was directed to procure them for that purpose and I respectfully request that they may be [provided] at as early an hour as possible. 
With high regard
Your ob’t srv’t
Thos Henry
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Hon
J. L.
Edwards
Commissioner
of
Pensions
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Washington City 22 June 1838
H. R.
Hon J.L. Edwards
Sir
Will you have the goodness to furnish me with a copy of the papers on which a pension
was allowed to Lieutenant William McMillan
of Mercer County Penn’a, who was an officer in
the revolutionary War. 
your early attention to this matter will
Oblige your Obt Sert
Thos Henry

P. S.
I presume there are two Set of papers. Those
I want are the papers upon which he was placed
on the pension list as a Lieutenant.
T H
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Documents, accompanying 
the Petition
of William McMillan
of Mercer Penn’a

Allowed
L.D

[Apply with Mr Dickens?]

Lt 2  years

Hon Mr Banks

Banks 50 Rev War
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I hereby certify that the following
pages numbered from one to seventeen
inclusive are a true copy of the Original
papers on file in this Department.
Given under my hand
and the seal of the Treasury 
this twenty eighth day of 
December in the year one
thousand eight hundred
and thirty
S. D. Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury
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1.)
Revolutionary Claims
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act
entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers the army of the revolution, approved on the 15th day of May 1828,
I William McMillan of the borough of Mercer, County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby declare, that I was enlisted in Harford County Maryland, in the year seventeen hundred and seventy five, for nine months, and entered as a non commissioned officer. Was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, and conveyed by the British to
Halifax - ran off from them, and in 1778, I joined the third regiment in the Maryland line in the Continental army, received a promise of a lieutenant’s Commission, which I received in the spring of the
year 1779, having enlisted previously to the end of the war: having been long absent from home, received a discretionary furlough. I returned and recruited in Baltimore, until about the close of the war. I also declare that I never received any compensation for my services, except forty dollars, which was given to me by general Smallwood; and I do further declare, that I have received of the United States, since the 3d of March, 1826, forty six dollars, by the agent for paying pensions in the stated Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh. Witness my hand this twenty fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and twenty nine.
Wm McMillan
Before me
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2
Before me, Joseph Kirk, a justice of the peace in
and for Mercer County in the State of Pennsylvania, personally appeared this day William Reed, and James H. Reed, of the said County who did severally make oath, that they are well acquainted with William McMillan (by whom the foregoing declaration is signed, and subscribed
and is generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the army of the revolution, in manner therein stated, and that they knew personally, that he had a lieutenant commission in the Continental
army of the revolution, having read said commission, and that they knew him to be actually engaged in the Continental service as a lieutenant
and that he continued therein until the end of the war. Witness my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of March in the year of ourLord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.
Wm Reed
Jas. H. Reed
Joseph Kirk, {seal}

Mercer County ss
Before me Thomas Templeton, a justice
in and for said County came Joseph Smith Esqr and having been duly sworn, according to law, saith that some time near the close of the revolutionary war with Great Britain, he saw William McMillan,
the above applicant, in the uniform of an officer wearing a sword, and he believes, an epaulette. That some time after he heard the father of the
said William say the said William was gone to Baltimore (to the best of this deponent’s recollection) for the purpose of recruiting; that said William was then reputed to be an officer in the army of the revolution, 
and ever since to have been such for any thing known to this deponent.
Joseph Smith

Sworn and subscribed before me
This 28th March, 1829
Thomas Templeton
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3
I Wm S Rankin, Clerk of the Court
of the County of Mercer, in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby certify that Joseph Kirk and
Thomas Templeton, before whom the foregoing affidavits were sworn, was at the time both acting justices of the peace for the said County
and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, this twenty eighth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine.
Wm S. Rankin, Clerk.
{Seal}
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4. 
(2)
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled
“An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldier of the
army of the revolution"" approved on the 15th day of May, 1828, I
William McMillan of the borough of Mercer in the County of
Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania, do hereby declare, that I was an
officer in the Continental line of the army of the revolution, and
served as such, to wit. I enlisted as a Sargeant about the last of
December 1775 in Col. Smallwood’s regiment of Maryland for
nine months, during which time I was taken prisoner under
command of Lord Sterling, at the battle on Long Island in the
month of August 1778, I entered the army for three years, or
during the war, during which time I received the appointment of
a lieutenancy from general Smallwood in the third regiment of the
Maryland line (but never received a commutation certificate, or pay
except forty dollars from General Smallwood. Witness my hand and
Seal, this 13th day of September A.D. 1828.
Wm McMillan

Mercer County ss
Before me, a justice of the peace in and for said
of Mercer, in the State of Pennsylvania, came Joseph Smith, Esq. and James Hamilton Reed, who on this day did make oath, that William McMillan, Esquire, by whom the foregoing declaration was
subscribed, was in company with these deponents in the latter part of the revolutionary war in full uniform as an officer then in the army and that
he was always reputed then to be and ever since to have been an
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5.
an officer in said revolutionary army as far as was ever known to these deponents.
James H. Reed
Joseph Smith.

Sworn and subscribed this 13 day
of September, 1828, before
Thomas Templeton

I Wm. S. Rankin Clerk of the Court of Common pleas
of the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania
do hereby certify that Thomas Templeton before
whom the foregoing affidavits were had, was at the__ a justice of the peace, and duly empowered to
administer oaths In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said ____ this thirteenth day of September, 1828
Wm T. Rankin, Clerk.
{Seal}
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Dear Sir,
I forwarded my papers relative to my application for a pension to you some time ago, and take the liberty of addressing a few lines in the subject to you. I will give you a short statement of my connection with the army, and my efforts during our revolution, in the cause of freedom. I was one of the Maryland line which was raised in 1775, and volunteered their services for nine months. In July 1776, hand bills were sent to Baltimore, where the troops to which I was attached, were stationed, stating that the British had landed near New York, and soliciting volunteers; our entire regiment volunteered and marched to New York, and were part of the troops engaged in
the memorable battle fought on Long Island. I was there taken  prisoner, put aboard a prison ship, and taken to Halifax; it is in vain for me to describe our sufferings during this period: it forms part of
the history of our revolutionary struggle, but the narrative of the historian falls short of the reality, which can alone can be truly estimated by those who had the hard fortune to participate in the
most exquisite torment there endured. I escaped from Hallifax in the spring of 1777, and after a most painful tour, reached Boston, where I remained for some time. I joined the Boston troops which were [selected] by general See, and marched to the battle of Monmouth. I was in that battle - Shortly after this, I joined the Maryland line at White Plains
and received a Lieutenant’s commission from General Smallwood in 1779, and got my regimentals. And having been absent from my parents for near four years, requested a furlough that I might visit them, which was given me, with orders to return to Baltimore when ordered. I 
was soon ordered to Baltimore to recruit. I immediately went to
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Baltimore, and remained there in the recruiting service until 1782. I was not ordered from that place until the peace was closed. The reason I applied for a pension as a private, was, that I have lost my commission. I did not know any one who could
prove it. In fact it is almost unnecessary that after a period of near 52 years. I should be able to prove the fact of my being a lieutenant; but as it is, and I think sufficiently proven to answer the requisitions of the department - my certificate of Pension is in the
hands of William Bell of [Pitts.], if necessary, I will forward it to you to have it destroyed as you may order.
I remain with esteem Your friend, &c.
Nov . 3. 1828.
Wm McMillan

William Clark, Esq
Treasurer of the United States
Washington City
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8 
Mercer County ss. Pennsylvania
Personally came before me a justice of the peace in and for said County, William Reed, who being sworn, according to law, deposeth and saith, that he was well acquainted with William McMillan, late an officer of the army of the revolution, and that he then  knew him as such, and has known him ever since to have been such, and actually engaged in the service in said revolution; the said William McMillan
has resided a number of years in the borough of Mercer, and still is residing therein.
William Reed
Sworn and subscribed before
me this 3d day of December, 1828.
Andrew Denniston


{Seal}
Mercer County, Pennsylvania, Ss.
I, Wm S. Rankin, Prothonotary of the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County, certify that Andrew Denniston Esq. before whom the foregoing
affidavit was taken, was, at the time thereof, and yet is an acting Justice of the peace in and for said County, and duly and legally authorized to administer Oaths; and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. Witness my hand and seal of said Court this 5th day of December, A.D. 1828.
Wm S. Rankin, Prothy
of the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County.
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9
Council Chamber, Annapolis,
December 22d 1828.
Sir,
The late Auditor (whose office has been
abolished, and its duties devolved upon me,) this morning handed me your letter of the 15th instant, requesting information whether the name of William McMillan as a lieutenant in the Continental army is on the records of the State of Maryland.  
I have carefully examined the very imperfect
records which have been preserved of the services of the Maryland
troops in the revolutionary war, and have not found the name of William McMillan a lieutenant upon them. It is proper, however, to inform you, that none of the muster rolls of a later period than the year 1780, have been preserved, and that the principal records of such service remaining in the archives of
the State, is a roll of pay for arrearages and another of  depreciation.
Very respectfully, your obed svt
Thos Cullbreth, Clerk of
the Executive Council

Hon’ble Stephen Barlow,
House of Represent’s
Washington
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10
Pennsylvania Ss Mercer County ss
Personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County James Hamilton Reed and being duly Sworn according to law saith that he is personally and for a long time acquainted with William McMillan Esqr of the Borough of Mercer and knew him to be an officer in the Continental army
in the Maryland line. He now understands
he is an applicant for pension under the
act of Congress of the 15th May 1828 and further
saith not. 
James Hamilton Reed 
Sworn and subscribed before me this
16th day of January AD 1829.
Joseph Kirk {seal}


I Wm S Rankin Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of Mercer County certify that Joseph Kirk
Esquire is a magistrate as above and
that the foregoing signature purporting
to be his is genuine. In testimony whereof
I have hereunto affixed my seal of
office and subscribed my name on 
this 19th day of January 1896.

 Wm S Rankin Clerk of
Court of Common pleas of Mercer County
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11
Mercer County,
Before me, a justice of the peace in and
for said County came Wiliam Reed and
James H Reed and being sworn according to law
saith that they are well acquainted with William
McMillan of the Borough of Mercer and that they
know him to be a Lieutenant in the Continental
Army of the revolution in the Maryland line and that they have both seen and read his commission as a Lieutenant in said Army. And that they also knew him to be actually engaged in the War of the
Revolution and that have understood he has
applied for a pension under the act of Congress
of 15 May 1828.
James H Reed
Wm Reed
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 12th day of February 1829
Joseph Kirk

Pennsylvania Mercer County ss
I William S Rankin Prothondary
of the Court of Common Pleas of said
County certify that Joseph Kirk
Esquire before whom the above 
affidavits were taken now is and
was at the time of the taking thereof
duly commissioned and acting as a
Justice of the peace in and for said County
and that full faith and credit is
due to all his official acts. Witness
my hand and seal of said Court
at Mercer this 17th day of February AD 1829
Wm S Rankin Proth
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12
Mercer, Feby 4, 1829.
Dear Sir,
I received your friendly communication under date of 20 November, 1828, for which I respectfully tender you my thanks. From the circumstance that the records in the public offices furnish no evidence to corroborate or support my claim, I am constrained to have recourse to the frail recollection of man for evidence of a claim founded in
the strictest justice, and resting upon hardships, privations and sufferings unknown in their true character and intensity - except by my unfortunate fellow soldiers in arms and captivity. This, after such a length of time, connected with the fact of but few
soldiers of that day now surviving, create a difficulty on my part, in laying such facts before the department, as will establish the legality of my claim according to the rules adopted, although liberal
in their terms. This difficulty I have met, and if I am not mistaken, encountered successfully.
I have forwarded proof, in addition to my own declaration. “That I served in the Continental army,” and that I was not only generally reputed and believed to be an officer, but that I was an officer in the army of the revolution.
This is sworn to by those who know the fact.
This appears to me to be proof positive and direct, that my services were such as to entitle me to the benefit of the act, making relief for the surviving
officers and soldiers of the revolution, and accords with the requirements of the department both in letter and spirit. Being well assured that the
department in weighing the testimony which I have exhibited, will give all
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all proper consideration to the difficulties under which I am forced to labour in supporting my claim, I flatter myself that they will be relieved from the painful consideration of further delay in granting
my claim. My papers have been forwarded to the Hon S. Barlow, our member in Congress. I ask of you the favour to look at them, and if there should be any deficiencies or informalities, on your pointing the cases out, I shall have them supplied or corrected.
Yours, Respectfully, &c.
Wm McMillan

The hon.
Richard Rush
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Pennsylvania
Mercer June 10th 1829
Hon’ble S. D. Ingham Esqr
Dear Sir I recd your letters last night of the 29th May
last, by which see my claim has not been allowed.
I would beg your indulgence to read what follows.
First I applied in the early part of last fall to the best
of my recollection. The then Sec’y Mr Rush returned my papers, therein stating they were deficient only for want of another witness. I then proved my service by a second witness. He then wrote that I must prove that I was or had been an officer which was done.  He then stated he could not pass my papers unless I would prove that I was in the service to the end of the war. Under all the circumstances of my application and proof being in so many detached pieces and not knowing whether all had been received at your office and about that time Mr Rush leaving the office and Mr Ingham coming in, I thought the better way would be to apply in the [new]. I did so and as I observe by your letter to me you have acted on my first application. I have thought I could not give the business over untill I had drawn your attention to the last one wherein
I have fully proved that I was a Lieutenant
in the Continental army of the Revolution in
the Maryland line and was actually engaged in
the service untill the end of the war. This has been
proved by two witnesses and corroborated by Joseph Smith Esqr that he understood by my father that I was recruiting in Baltimore at the close of
the war or near that time.   The two first witnesses
prove positively my service and state that they
had read my commission and that they knew
me to be in service untill the end of the war.
They both having been pack horse drivers in the
service of my brother in law Robert Johnsto
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Johnston in said Maryland line,, and were well acquainted with
me.
I have therefore to beg the favour that you would
examine for my last application which was
sent on about the middle of March last if it has
went safe and after an examination of the
proofs & please drop me a line & forever oblige
an old soldier.
Wm McMilllan

I would beg leave to state that the foregoing
statement of Mr McMillan is substantially
correct as I am well acquainted with the
circumstances, having written all his papers
relative to this business. I am Respectfully
your obedient Servant. Wm S Rankin

Hon’ble S D Ingham
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16
Extract from the declaration of William McMillan, on file in the pension office, War Department.
And in August 1778, he joined the Maryland line
again. In virtue of the promise of General Smallwood, that he should have preferment the first vacancy that took place, that he continued
with them until April, 1779, when he got a discretionary furlow from general William Smallwood to go home, and return when it suited
him; that his return of enlistment had expired six months previous to his obtaining the furlow, and the reason of his remaining with the regiment after the expiration of his term of service, was the hope and
expectation of his obtaining preferment.
He does not state in his declaration, that he ever
received a commission
War Department,
Pension office.
B. L. Beall
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17
Mercer, January 27, 1830
Sir,
I have received a letter from you to Mr Banks,
stating that the officers of the pension Department wish to know why McMillan did not apply for a pension as an officer in the first place - all I can say on that subject is, that at the time he did apply as a noncommissioned officer for a pension, he knew of no proof living, but general Smith of Maryland, a Senator of the U. States, but afterwards the news of his application going abroad in the Country, the
two M Reeds, and Joseph Smith, esquire, came to be known as proof for him, as being an officer, as he has proven by them: as to the difference in the declarations, the old man's mind is impaired by age, and I presume that at best his mind has not been the strongest, but his character for truth, is, so far as I have ever heard, been unimpeachable,
and indeed no one acquainted with him, disputes that he has suffered greatly in the revolutionary war: to the above statement I am free to affirm thereto.
Respectfully, your friend,
Wm S. Rankin,

Hon’ble
Thomas H. Sill.
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District of Columbia
WASHINGTON COUNTY, SCT.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I, Aaron Ogden the  Attorney mentioned in the annexed power from William McMillan do hereby constitute and appoint John R Nourse my true and lawful Attorney and substitute, to effect all the purposes for which the power from the said William McMillan
was granted.
Witness my hand and seal this first day of August
1828
WITNESS:
John R. Brightwell
Aaron Ogden [L.P.]

BE IT KNOWN, That on this first day of August
1825, personally appeared before me, MICHAEL NOURSE Notary Public the above named Aaron Ogden and acknowledged the foregoing power of substitution to be his act and deed.

Michael Nourse
Not’y Pub
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Before me Michael Nourse, Notary Public in the County of Washington, in the District of Columbia, personally appeared this day Jno R Nourse substitute for Colonel Aaron Ogden the Attorney named in the foregoing power of Attorney, and made oath that the same was not given to him by reason of any transfer or of any attachment
seizure by any legal process whatever of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power was executed, Witness my hand this Second
day of August in the year one thousand eight
hundred and twenty eight.

Mich’l Nourse
Not. Pub
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on public service
FREE
Honble Richard Rush
Washington City
D.C.

[circle stamp]
MERCER PENN
Jany 20th
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Rec’d 24 Jany 1829. 
Mercer Penn’a January 19, 1829
Hon’ble Richard Rush Esqr
Dear Sir
enclosed is an affidavit of my
actual service in the Revolution.
This, with one of the same import
some time since forwarded to Hon'ble
Stephen Barlow, will be sufficient
to obtain for me the pension under the
act of 15 May 1828 according to
your last letters of instruction.
I would have had the Records
of the State of Maryland examined
had I been able to travel but old age
 renders me unable to do it.
Please let me know the result of my
application as soon as possible as
I am in a great Straight. Your
kind attention will much oblige
your friend
Wm McMillan
NB General Smith of U. S. Senate
knew me at the battle of Long Island
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Mercer Pa
November 4

William Clark Esq
Treasurer of the United States
Washigton City

Rec'd from W Clark
5 Dec 1888
1058
Page 79

Dear Sir,
I forwarded my papers relative to my application for a pension to you some time ago, and take the liberty of addressing a few lines in the subject to you. I will give you a short statement of my connection with the army, and my efforts during our revolution, in the cause of freedom. I was one of the Maryland line which was raised in 1775, and volunteered their services for nine months. In July 1776, hand bills were sent to Baltimore, where the troops to which I was attached, were stationed, stating that the British had landed near New York, and soliciting volunteers; our entire regiment volunteered and marched to New York, and were part of the troops engaged in
the memorable battle fought on Long Island. I was there taken  prisoner, put aboard a prison ship, and taken to Halifax; it is in vain for me to describe our sufferings during this period: it forms part of
the history of our revolutionary struggle, but the narrative of the historian falls short of the reality, which can alone can be truly estimated by those who had the hard fortune to participate in the
most exquisite torment there endured. I escaped from Hallifax in the spring of 1777, and after a most painful tour, reached Boston, where I remained for some time. I joined the Boston troops which were [selected] by general See, and marched to the battle of Monmouth. I was in that battle - Shortly after this, I joined the Maryland line at White Plains
and received a Lieutenant’s commission from General Smallwood in 1779, and got my regimentals. And having been absent from my parents for near four years, requested a furlough
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that I might visit them, which was given me, with orders to return to Baltimore when ordered. I was soon ordered to Baltimore to recruit. I immediately went to
Baltimore, and remained there in the recruiting service until 1782. I was not ordered from that place until the peace was closed. The reason I applied for a pension as a private, was, that I have lost my commission. I did not know any one who could
prove it. In fact it is almost unnecessary that after a period of near 52 years. I should be able to prove the fact of my being a lieutenant; but as it is, and I think sufficiently proven to answer the requisitions of the department - my certificate of Pension is in the
hands of William Bell of [Pitts.], if necessary, I will forward it to you to have it destroyed as you may order.
I remain with esteem Your friend, &c.
Nov . 3. 1828.
Wm McMillan
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Mercer pa
Feby 6th

Free
Hon'ble Richard Rush
Sec'y of
the Treasury
Washington City
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Mercer, Feby 4, 1829.
Dear Sir,
I received your friendly communication under date of 20 November, 1828, for which I respectfully tender you my thanks. From the circumstance that the records in the public offices furnish no evidence to corroborate or support my claim, I am constrained to have recourse to the frail recollection of man for evidence of a claim founded in
the strictest justice, and resting upon hardships, privations and sufferings unknown in their true character and intensity - except by my unfortunate fellow soldiers in arms and captivity. This, after such a length of time, connected with the fact of but few
soldiers of that day now surviving, create a difficulty on my part, in laying such facts before the department, as will establish the legality of my claim according to the rules adopted, although liberal
in their terms. This difficulty I have met, and if I am not mistaken, encountered successfully.
I have forwarded proof, in addition to my own declaration. “That I served in the Continental army,” and that I was not only generally reputed and believed to be an officer, but that I was an officer in the army of the revolution.
This is sworn to by those who know the fact.
This appears to me to be proof positive and direct, that my services were such as to entitle me to the benefit of the act, making relief for the surviving
officers and soldiers of the revolution, and accords with the requirements of the department both in letter and spirit. Being well assured that the
department in weighing the testimony which I have exhibited, will give all proper consideration to the difficulties under which I am forced to labour in supporting my claim, I flatter myself that they will be relieved from the painful consideration of further delay in granting
my claim. My papers have been forwarded to the Hon S. Barlow, our member in Congress. I ask of you the favour to look at them, and if there should be any deficiencies or informalities, on your pointing the cases out, I shall have them supplied or corrected.
Yours, Respectfully, &c.
Wm McMillan

The hon.
Richard Rush
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Payable on the 4th March
and 4th September, of
every year by the
Presd’t U. S. B Bank
at Philadelphia
Penn’a

Inv File 2806

Capt Daniel Boy’n
Infantry
1st Regiment of
Maryland
thirty three years
before that in Pittsburg

Nov 22 1852 the paper 
was handed in by
 Hon. [illegible]

Recorded by
A [G.]Glynn
Clerk, Book C,
Vol. 6, Page 73
Page 84

WAR DEPARTMENT.
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM.
I Certify, That in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th of March 1818, 1 May 1820 and 1 March 1823 William McMillan
late a Non commissioned Officer
in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed
on the Pension List, Roll of the Pennsylvania
Agency, at the rate of Eight dollars per month, to commence on the eleventh day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.

Given at the War Office of the
United States, this eleventh day of March
One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight
James Barbour
Secretary of War

Examined and countersigned:
J.L. Edwards
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William McMillan

[very faint writing includes "wait for" and "proof"]
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[circle stamp]
ANNAP. MD
DEC 22

Free
Hon Stephen Barlow
House of Representatives
Washington
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Council Chamber
Annapolis, Dec'r 22d 1828.
Sir,
The late Auditor (whose office has been
abolished, and its duties devolved upon me,) this morning handed me your letter of the 15th instant, requesting information whether the name of William McMillan as a Lieut in the Continental army is on the records of the State of Maryland.  
I have carefully examined the very imperfect
records which have been preserved of the services of the Maryland
troops in the Revolutionary War, and have not found the name of William McMillan a lieutenant upon them. It is proper, however, to inform you, that none of the [muster rolls] of a later period than the year 1780 have been preserved, and that the principal records of such service remaining in the archives of
the State, is a roll of pay for arrearages and another of  depreciation.
Very respectfully, your obed svt
Thos Cullbreth, Clerk of
the Executive Council
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Juniata Co. Pa
Mifflinton Nov. 23d 1832

Is the name of William McMillan
who served under Col. Proctor, in the Rev
war, on the pension roll in your
Department? I write at the request of his
family.
Yours truly
Samuel E. Hench

To Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.
Page 89

District of Pennsylvania Butler County ss.
Before me the subscriber one of the
Justices of the peace in and for Butler County aforesaid personally appeared Samuel McMillan who being first duly sworn according to law deposeth and saith that about the last of December 1775 he the said Samuel McMillan enlisted as a non commissioned officer in the State of Maryland in the
Company commanded by Captain Thomas Ewing
of Baltimore in the Regiment commanded by Colonel William Smallwood in the line of the State of Maryand on the Continental establishment - That his
brother William McMillan enlisted as a non commissioned officer in the same company & regiment. That he the said Samuel McMillan with his brother William McMillan and many others were taken prisoner by the British on the 27" August 1776 on Long Island. That they were afterwards put on board of one of the prison ships and sent to Halifax in Nova Scotia. That he and his brother William with several others escaped from the British and went to [Kashia] Bay or old Falmouth, that they endured many hardships and suffered many privations on their way. That they were here separated and met again at Boston on the 10th day of July 1777. And this deponent further states that he and his brother William were both engaged in the battle of Monmouth on the 28th June 1778. That he
continued with his brother until they went to New
Haven with the Jackson Troops where they seperated. And this deponent went to Rhode Island and that they did not see each other again until after the peace. And further saith not.
Sam’l H McMillan

Sworn & subscribed this seventh day of Feby 1828
Before me
B. G. Gold

I do certify the above deponent Samuel McMillan
Stands fair as a man of integrity and veracity among
his neighbors and acquaintances.
B. G. Gold
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Butler County
I William Stewart Prothonotary of the
court of Common pleas in and for said
County do by these presents certify that
B. G. Gold Esqr before whom the foregoing
deposition was taken is now, and was at the
time of taking the same an acting Justice of
the peace duly commissioned and that full
faith and credit are due to his official acts as
such. Witness my hand and the seal of said court at
Butler this 11th day of February A.D. 1828
W Stewart Prothy
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Butler County
I William Stewart Prothonotary of the
court of Common pleas in and for said
County do by these presents certify that
B. G. Gold Esqr
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Wm McMillan
Declaration

Power to Ogden
Sub. to Nourse
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1058.
Wm McMillan
Power of atty

to Aaron Ogden
Jno R Norurse Sub.

Declaration sent back
only one witness to his identify
Page 94

Know all men by these presents that I William
McMillan of the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby constitute and appoint Colonel Aaron Ogdon of Elizabethtown New Jersey my true and lawful attorney, with a power of substitution for me and in my name to receive from the United States the amount of pay now due to me under the act entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution"" approved 15th May 1828, as a Lieutenant in the third Regiment of the Maryland line of the money of the Revolution. Witness my hand & seal this twenty fifth day of July AD 1828
Wm McMillan {seal}
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
Wm S Rankin

Before me Thomas Templeton a Justice of the peace in the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania personally appeared this day William McMillan whose name is Subscribed to the foregoing power of attorney and acknowledged the same to be his act and Deed and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer or of any attachment by or seizure by any legal process whatever of the pay therein authorised to be received but that the said pay is intended to [ensure] wholly to his personal benefit.  Witness my hand this twenty fifth day July in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight
Thomas Templeton

I Wm S Rankin Clerk of the Court of Common pleas
of Mercer County in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby certify that Thomas Templeton before whom the foregoing power of attorney was acknowledges is a Justice of the peace. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty fifth day of July eighteen
hundred and twenty eight
Wm S Rankin Proth
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Rec'd 13 Dec 1828
Page 96

Mercer County ss Pennsylvania
Personally came before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County William Reed who being sworn according to law deposeth and saith that he was well acquainted with William McMillan late an officer in the army of the Revolution and that he then knew him as such and has known him ever since to have been such and actually engaged in the service in said Revolution. The said William McMillan has resided a number of years in the Borough of Mercer and still is residing therein. Sworn and subscribed before me this 3d day of December AD 1828
William Reed
Sworn and Subscribed before me this 3d day of December 1828.
Andr’w Denniston

Mercer County Pennsylvania ss
I Wm S Rankin Prothonotary of the Court
of Common pleas of Mercer County certify
that Andrew Denniston Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit was taken was at the time thereof and still is an acting Justice of the peace in
& for said County and duly & legally authorised
to administer oaths & that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. Witness my hand and Seal of said Court this 5th day of December AD 1828.

Wm S Rankin Proth of
the Court of Common
Pleas of Mercer County
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1058
Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
15 Nov 1828

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of William McMillan under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a
request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive, the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental line of the Army of the Revolution; and, if so, whether he became entitled to the same by service to the
termination of the war, or in what other manner.
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
Richard Rush

Departm’t of War
Bounty land Office
I hereby certify that there is no record, in this
Office, from which it appears that William McMillan as an officer of the Maryland line in the revolutionary war, ever received or is entitled to receive bounty land of the united States
Robert Taylor
18 Nov 1828
Page 98

William McMillan, also asks to be placed on the pension list as having been a lieutenant in the revolutionary war. States that he enlisted in the Continental service in the year 1775, in Hartford County Maryland, in Captain Ewing’s Company, Col
Smallwood’s Regiment of the Maryland line. That his company was commanded by Capt [Bury], that he was in the battle at Long Island, where, he was taken prisoner, kept in confinement, placed on board a prison ship and sent to Halifax. That he made his escape, and in 1778 enlisted in Captain Smith’s Company, in the third Maryland Regiment, for three years during the war. That in April 1779 he received a lieutenant’s commission from Genl Smallwood. That he received a furlough, to visit his parents,  having been long absent from home. Tthat he was afterwards ordered to Baltimore and Hartford in Maryland, to recruit, in which he continued until the end of the war, and that he has lost his commission.
He has proved by William Rees and James H Reed (page 2) that they were well acquainted with Him, that he was generally reputed and believed to have been an officer in the army of the revolutions. That they knew personally that he had a lieutenant’s commission in the army of the revolution, that they saw and read his commission. That they knew him to be actually engaged in the continental service as a lieutenant, and that he continued therein until the [close] of the war.
He has proved by Joseph Smith Esqr (page 2) That, near the close of the use of the revolution, he saw William McMillan in the uniform of an officer
wearing a sword, and he thinks an epaulette. That he shortly after this, heard the father of William Say, he had gone to Baltimore to recruit that said William was then, and ever since reputed to have been an officer in the revolutionary army.
When William McMillan was about to apply for a pension, he called on me to prepare his papers. I was so engaged that I could not do it. He then told me, that he have been a Lieutenant, and as such wanted a pension, but that he had lost his commission, and that he did not know, that he was [knowing?] and person by whom he could prove
that he had held a commission.  I then told him, he could apply as a private, if he could not [paid or provide] proof. He did so, not herein of any proof at that time. Mr McMillan states in substance the same (page 17)
I know William McMillan and he is an infirm man, and in very indigent circumstances. His character for truth and iniquity is good. I neve knew it impeached. I am also well acquainted with William Reed and James H Reed, who, if I am not
mistaken, are both dead. Their character for truth and honesty was good, none more so. Joseph Smith Esq lives in the town in which I reside, he is a man
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of unquestioned veracity and integrity. I would suggest that if a pension is granted, it be dated back to Jany 1830, the time at which his petition was prepared. 
W Banks
Dec 26 1831

William McMillan
Page 100

Revolutionary Claim
Free
Hon’ble S D Ingham
Washington City
Secy Treasury
D.C.

[illegible]
July 11

Wm McMillan 1058
1901 3202.3305
Rec’d 21 July 1829
204
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Mercer July 9th 1829
Hon’ble S. D. Ingham
Dear Sir I read yours of the 17th June last.
You will please excuse my importunity
in requesting that you will send me
all the papers respecting my application
for pension. If that would not be proper
will you please send me a copy of all, 
as from your letters to me I am confident
that my last application has not been
received at your office. But least it might
be that I have misconstrued the law of
15 May 1828. I would respectfully request
the favour of you to inform me what
I must prove and in the very form, as
I do not wish to enjoy the bounty of my
Country without complying strictly with
all necessary rules. And I am fully confident
that I can make such proof as
will be necessary. Your friendly compliance
 will be very gratefully remembered
 by your obedient Servant
Wm McMillian
Please give an answer as soon as convenient
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1058
REVOLUTIONARY CLAIMS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
20 September 1828

William McMillan of the Borough of Mercer in the County of Mercer, in the State of Pennsylvania has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled ""An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828. He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, as a sergeant, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Lieutenant being appointed  by Colonel Smallwood in Col Smallwood’s regiment of the Maryland line; and that he never received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars nor commutation, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1826, nothing. 
The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by
the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary
A. Dickins

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE,
24th September 1828

It further appears that William McMillan is now on the pension list of the Pennsylvania agency, and has been so since the 11th March 1828 - at the rate of Eight dollars per month.
The Revolutionary records in this office
furnish no information in relation to the services
of the above named William McMillan
Peter Hagner Aud
Page 103

Rec’d 10 March 1830. 
Mercer January 27th 1830

Sir I have seen a letter from you to Mr Banks Stating that the officers of the pension department wish to
know why Mr McMillan did not apply for a pension
as an officer in the first place. All I can say on
that subject is that at the time he did apply as a
noncommissioned officer for a pension he knew of
no proof living but General Smith of Maryland, a 
Senator of the U States. But afterwards the news
of his application going abroad in the Country
the two Mr Reeds and Joseph Smith Esquire came to be known as proof for him as being an Officer
as he has proven by them. As to the difference in
his declarations the old man’s mind is impaired by
age and I presume that at best his mind has
not been the strongest, but his character for truth
is so far as I have ever heard been unimpeachable and indeed no one acquainted with him disputes
that he has suffered greatly in the Revolutionary war.
To the above statement I am free to affirm thereto
if necessary.
Respectfully your friend
Wm S Rankin

Hon’ble Thomas H Sill
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Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act, entitled ""An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
5 Dec 1858

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of William McMillan under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a
request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether a commission or discharge, and if
So, what commission or discharge, was received at the War Department, from the claimant, on an
application stated to have been heretofore made by him for a pension; or what other evidence has been exhibited at that Department of the claimant’s service
Richard Rush
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.
Letter from the War Department 12 Dec 1828
Page 105

Wm S Rankin
for Wm McMillan 1058
Rec'd 16 June 1829
80
Page 106

Pennsylvania
Mercer June 10th 1829
Hon’ble S. D. Ingham Esqr
Dear Sir I recd your letters last night of the 29th May
last, by which see my claim has not been allowed.
I would beg your indulgence to read what follows.
First I applied in the early part of last fall to the best
of my recollection. The then Sec’y Mr Rush returned my papers, therein stating they were deficient only for want of another witness. I then proved my service by a second witness. He then wrote that I must prove that I was or had been an officer which was done.  He then stated he could not pass my papers unless I would prove that I was in the service to the end of the war. Under all the circumstances of my application and proof being in so many detached pieces and not knowing whether all had been received at your office and about that time Mr Rush leaving the office and Mr Ingham coming in, I thought the better way would be to apply in the [new]. I did so and as I observe by your letter to me you have acted on my first application. I have thought I could not give the business over untill I had drawn your attention to the last one wherein
I have fully proved that I was a Lieutenant
in the Continental army of the Revolution in
the Maryland line and was actually engaged in
the service untill the end of the war. This has been
proved by two witnesses and corroborated by Joseph Smith Esqr that he understood by my father that I was recruiting in Baltimore at the close of
the war or near that time.   The two first witnesses
prove positively my service and state that they
had read my commission and that they knew
me to be in service untill the end of the war.
They both having been pack horse drivers in the
service of my brother in law Robert Johnston in
said Maryland line,, and were well acquainted with
me.
I have therefore to beg the favour that you would
examine for my last application which was
sent on about the middle of March last if it has
went safe and after an examination of the
proofs & please drop me a line & forever oblige
an old soldier.
Wm McMilllan
Page 107

I would beg leave to state that the foregoing
statement of Mr McMillan is substantially
correct as I am well acquainted with the
circumstances, having written all his papers
relative to this business. I am Respectfully
your obedient Servant. Wm S Rankin

Hon’ble S D Ingham
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Treasury Department
Revolutionary Claims

Free
Hon’ble S D Ingham Esqr
Secretary of Treasury
Washington City D.C.

Mercer PO
June 11th
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[top of page is torn]
for said County came Wiliam Reed and
James H Reed and being sworn according to law
saith that they are well acquainted with William
McMillan of the Borough of Mercer and that they
know him to be a Lieutenant in the Continental
Army of the revolution in the Maryland line and that they have both seen and read his commission as a Lieutenant in said Army. And that they also knew him to be actually engaged in the War of the
Revolution and that have understood he has
applied for a pension under the act of Congress
of 15 May 1828.
James H Reed
Wm Reed
Sworn & Subscribed before me this 12th day of February 1829
Joseph Kirk

Pennsylvania Mercer County ss
I William S Rankin Prothondary
of the Court of Common Pleas of said
County certify that Joseph Kirk
Esquire before whom the above 
affidavits were taken now is and
was at the time of the taking thereof
duly commissioned and acting as a
Justice of the peace in and for said County
and that full faith and credit is
due to all his official acts. Witness
my hand and seal of said Court
at Mercer this 17th day of February AD 1829
Wm S Rankin Proth
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State of Pennsylvania Mercer County SS.
Personally appeared before me one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of
Miner, William McMillan who upon his solemn
oath did depose and say that when he called up
on Captain Jonathan Morris, he found confined to his Room by the effects of the wounds received in the Service in the Revolutionary army as he stated. That it was in the Western part of Virginia he lived, he Morris, told this deponent, there was no justice
of the peace in the town where he lived, but observed that Mr Ingham was acquainted with his (Morris’) signature, and that it would answer the purpose as well as if he had been upon oath. He then shewed this deponent his certificate and the amount which he drew &c. That then was the reason why this deponent did not obtain his deposition but took his statement as it is within.
Wm McMillan
 Sworn and subscribed
before me this 24th day of March 1830.
A Brown

Note Captain Jonathan Morris Lives Frederick Town in Monongalia County Virginia 

Mercer County
I Wm S Rankin Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of Mercer County certify that A Brown Esq before whom the above deposition was taken is a Magistrate as within stated and the signature
purporting to be his is genuine. In witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal of office this
24 March 1830
Wm S Rankin Clerk
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March 15th 1830

Being called upon by
William McMillan to know
if I remembered him as a revolutionary Officer in
the Maryland line. And though I cannot at this time
recollect being personally acquainted with him I
am perfectly convinced he was an officer in the
Maryland line by conversation I had with him
as none but an officer in said line could have correctly answered a number of question put to him by me, which he could and did correctly answer.
Jon’a Morris Captain
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Samuel McMillan & William McMillan
[vs] William Wilson
In the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County
August term 1825
Summons [Judgment]
April 19. 1827 tried by a Jury & deduct for Defendant
Costs– $84.25 

Trustees of the North Western Bank of Penn’a
[vs] William McMillan
No May term 1825
Judgment [confessed] by
Defendant for -- $360.60
Int from 20 Aug. 1825 -
Costs 75 

Mercer County I Wm S Rankin Prothonotary &c
of the Court of Common Pleas of said County
certify the above to be the extracts from 
the records of said Court. Witness my hand
& seal of said Court at Mercer February 18th 1828.
Wm S Rankin Proth
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allowed
J. B.
Page 114

I have known William M Millan, an applicant to
be placed on the Pension list, for more than eleven
Years. During that time have had a general knowledge of his business and circumstances and cannot be mistaken in his character-- I consider him a very honest man and believe him statement of his
situation & the sales of his property to be correct.
He is certainly poor and at his advanced time
of life unable to support himself and those
dependent on him by any means now in his power.
He is nominally the owner of a tract of land
not referred to in his schedule - this land he bought
of myself and Henry Baldwin Esq in 1817, initially on
credit for which he gave a Judgement amounting 
to more than eight hundred dollars, a sum more
than double the present cash value of the land. 
He has paid no part of principal or interest
and is wholly unable to do so. He has made
repeated application to us to take back the land
it is our intention to do so. It is bound by the
Judgement & I presume this is the reason he 
has not included it in his statement.
I am perfectly confident he has never made any 
disposition of his property with a reference to his
application for a pension, from my knowledge of
his Debts & circumstances. I can account of the
disposition of the proceeds of any sales he has made for [illegible] purposes & that he is unable to pay his debts. 
March 6 1826
[Steph’n] Barlow M.C.
Page 115

I have known William McMillan of Mercer for twenty
five years and herby concur with Mr Barlow to his
character & circumstances. Mr McMillan was at one time in good circumstances but unfortunately engaged in [Stone Working] in which it is generally understood he met with heavy losses from the [illegible] of this [illegible]. His commissions declined & he was very considerably in debt & for
the last ten or twelve years his means have been
Diminishing. He is now poor and too old to gain a
support for himself & family-
Henry Baldwin
Washington 11 March 1828
Page 116


Washington 21 Feb. 1828
I Samuel Smith, formerly Lt. Colonel Maryland line, do certify that William McMillan was enlisted as a Sergeant in Capt. Thos Ewing's Co. Smallwood's regt in January 1776; that he was in the battle of Long Island Aug. 1776; that the part of the reg to
which he belonged was nearly destroyed in that action; that I believe he was taken prisoner with many others, and I have not the least
doubt but he served more than nine months.
S. Smith
Late Lieut Colonel
4 M. Reg
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Mar 10 1840
Mr Evans

[circle stamp]
MERCER PA
MAR 5

FREE
To J. L. Edwards Esq
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington City D.C.
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Mercer March 5th 1840
J.L. Edwards Esq
Sir
Will the following certificate if made
in open Court, together with a power of atty from MrsMcMillan & a surrender of the certificate enable me to draw the money due Lieut McMillan at his dec?

State of Penn’a Mercer County ss
I A.A. Douglass Prothonotary of the Court
of Common Pleas, holden at Mercer in the said County do hereby certify that Wm McMillan was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of three hundred and twenty dollars per annum, was a resident of said County and state, and died in said County on the tenth day of January in the year eighteen hundred and thirty nine. That he left a widow whose name is ____ McMillan.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & affixed my seal of office at Mercer this …

Will you please inform me whether I can draw
the balance due the widow on the above evidence
together with surender of the certificate & where I can draw it, whether in Phila or at Washington. Also please inform me whether any other steps must be taken inasmuch, as the matter has been delayed more than one year since Lieut. McMillan’s death. Please answer this immediately, as court will meet on Monday two weeks.
Yours &c Sam [Holstein]
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10865
Nancy McMillan
Pa
Act 7. July 38
m 1821.
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We the under Named Do Certify that we knew
that William McMillan and Nancy Anderson was
Married in Mercer County by the Reverend Samuel
Tate and lived together as Lawfull Man & wife given
under our hands and seals this 27 Day of December
A.D. 1843
T S Cunningham
John Findly
Witness Present-

State of Pennsylvania  Mercer County S. S. 
Mercer town December 17 1843
 Before Me Wm McElheney,  A Justice of the peace
in and for said County personally came John Findly
associate Judge of the Court of Common [Pleas] of Mercer County and Thomas S. Cunningham attorney at Law in Mercer County signed on and sealed the foregoing Deposition and made oath that the foregoing was a correct statement. 
Given under my Hand and seal the date above written
Sworn to & subscribed this 27th day of December A.D. 1843
Wm McElheney

the State of Pennsylvania Mercer County S. S. 
I. A. A. Douglass Clerk of the Court
of Common pleas within and for the County of Mercer, State of Pennsylvania Do Hereby certify 
that Wm McElheney Esqr before whom the foregoing and annexed Deposition was taken is now and was at the taking of the same a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid, duly sworn & Commissioned agreeably to the Law of the State of Pennsylvania, and that I am acquainted with his signature and that the above is genuine and to all of whose official acts as such Justice full faith and credit is and ought to be given throughout the United States & Elsewhere. In testimony whereof I Have Hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 27 day of December A.D 1843
A. A. Douglass Prothy
per I Gallway Dept
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[Sill g. Pens] 

Wm McMillan
[Petition & to current]
Mercer Cy
Penn’a

William McMillan
Decr 31. 1830
Ref’d to Com’r - Mil. Pensions
Decr 19, 1831
Ref’d to Com’r -  Rev Pensions
Jany 10. 1832
Bill - No 226
Page 122

To the Honorable the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled. 
The petition of William McMillan of the Borough and
County of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania,  Respectfully sheweth that he enlisted in the continental service in Captain Thomas Ewing’s Company of Colonel William Smallwood’s Regiment of the Maryland line. That he served in said company afterwards commanded by Captain
Daniel Brown and was at and in the battle of Long
Island in which his company officers, and a large portion of the privates were killed, and that your petitioner was taken prisoner, kept in confinement and put on board a prison ship and sent to Halifax, where he remained a prisoner untill the last of April following, when your petitioner with seven other prisoners escaped and travelled to the Bay of Fundy. There purchased a French canoe and came in it to St. John’s, Thence, after many difficulties came to Boston, after having been ten weeks in the wilderness, having endured every thing except death. That he enlisted in August 1778 in
the third Maryland Regiment in Captain Smith’s Company for three years or during the war. That he received a Lieutenant’s commission (that had been previously promised) from General Smallwood in April 1779. That he had a discretionary furlough to visit his friends having been long from home. That he was afterwards directed to engage in the recruiting service in Baltimore and Hartford in Maryland in which service he was engaged
until the end of the war. That he has lost his 
commission & he therefore prays your honorable bodies to grant him relief by passing a law directing him to be placed upon the pension list or in some other way which you in your wisdom may think proper and your petitioner will ever pray &c.
Wm McMillan
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W McMilllan 1058
6 April 1899
Application
for
Pension
Wm McMilllan esq
Recd 6 April 1829
Page 124

(1.)
Revolutionary Claims
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act entitled “An act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution"" approved on the 15th day of May 1828.  I William McMillan of the Borough of Mercer County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby declare that I was enlisted in Hartford County Maryland in the year seventeen hundred and Seventy five for nine months as a non-commissioned officer. Was taken prisoner at the Battle of Long Island and conveyed by the British to Halifax. Ran off from them, and in 1778 I joined the third Regiment in the Maryland line in the Continental army, Received a promise of a Lieutenant’s Commission which I received in
the Spring of the year 1779 having enlisted previously to the end of the War.   Having been long absent from home, I received a discretionary furlough. I returned and recruited in Baltimore, untill about the close of the War. I also declare that I never received any compensation for my services except forty dollars which was given to me by General Smallwood and I do further declare that I have received of the United States since the 3d of March 1826 forty six dollars by the agent for paying pensions in the State of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh
Witness my hand this twenty fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and twenty nine.
Wm McMillan

Before me Joseph Kirk a Justice of the peace in and for Mercer County in the State of Pennsylvania personally appeared this day William Reed and James H Reed of the said County who did severally make oath that they are well acquainted with William McMillan (by whom the
foregoing declaration is signed and subscribed),  is generally of reputed and believed to have been an officer in the Army of the Revolution in manner therein stated and that they knew personally that he had a Lieutenant’s commission in the Continental army of the Revolution having read said commission and that they
Page 125

knew him to be actually engaged in the Continental
Service as a Lieutenant. And that he continued therein untill the end of the War. Witness my hand and seal this twenty fifth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine. 
Joseph Kirk {seal}
Wm Reed
Jas H. Reed


Mercer County ss Before me Thomas Templeton a Justice of the peace in and for said County came Joseph Smith Esqr and being duly sworn according to law saith that some time near the close of the Revolutionary war with great Britain he saw William McMillan the above applicant in the uniform of an officer wearing a sword and he believes an
Epaulette.  That some time after he heard the father of said William Say he said William was gone to Baltimore (to the best of this deponent’s recollection) for the purpose of recruiting. That said William was then reputed to be an officer in the army of the Revolution and ever since to have been such for any thing known to this deponent. 
Joseph Smith
Sworn and subscribed before me 
this 28th March 1829

Thomas Templeton
I W S Rankin Clerk of the Court of the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby
certify that Joseph Kirk and Thomas
Templeton, before whom the foregoing
affidavits were sworn was at the both acting Justices of the peace for the said County and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and affixed the seal of the said Court this twenty
eighth day of March in the year one thousand eight
hundred and twenty nine
Wm Rankin Clerk
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[circle stamp]
MERCER PENN
Sept 14th

1058
Free
Secretary's
office of the
Treasury United States
Washington City D C.
Page 127

For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of an act
entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution"" approved on the 15th day of May 1828.  I William McMillan of the Borough of Mercer in the County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania do hereby declare that I was an officer in the continental line of the Army of the Revolution and served as such to wit. I enlisted as a Sergeant about the last of December 1775 in Colonel Smallwood’s Regiment of Maryland for nine months, during which time I was taken prisoner under command of Lord Sterling at the battle on Long Island, in the month of August 1778. I reentered the army for three years or during the war during which time I received the appointment of Lieutenant from General Smallwood in the third Regiment of the Maryland line (but never received a commutation certificate or pay except forty dollars from General Smallwood) Witness my hand and seal this 13th day of September AD 1828 William MCMillan

Mercer County Ss Before me a Justice of the peace in and for said County of Mercer in the State of Pennsylvania came Joseph Smith Esqr and James Hamilton Reed who on this day did make oath that William McMillan Esquire by whom the foregoing declaration was subscribed was in company with these deponents in the latter part of the Revolutionary War in full uniform as an officer then in the army. And that he was always reputed then to be and ever since to have been an officer in said Revolutionary army as far as was ever known to these deponents.
James H Reed
Joseph Smith
Sworn & Subscribed this 13th
day of September 1828 before me
Thomas Templeton

I Wm S Rankin
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
of the present of Mercer in the State of
Pennsylvania do hereby certify that
Thomas Templeton before whom the
foregoing affidavits were had was
at the a Justice of the peace and duly
empowered to administer oaths. In
testimony whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of the said
this thirteenth day of September, 1828
Wm S Rankin Clerk
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OLD WAR & NAVY FILES U S P D
APR 10 1897

[circle stamp]
PENSION OFFICE U S
APR 8 1897
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The Pittsburg Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co.
W. G. SARGEANT. GEN'L PASSENGER TICKET AND PURCHASING AGENT

Meadville Pa
Apr 7.97

Dear Sir

Mrs. Genl. Bidwell
of [Pala?] family of Washington
wished me to ascertain some 
information about her great grand-
Father, Capt William McMillin,
a Revolutionary Soldier who deed
at Mercer Pa. about 1838-
His Will cites that he leaves
his unpaid pension due from 
State of Maryland & the U.S. States
to his daughter Margaret Patterson.
Kindly give me his record as a
Rev. Soldier - I think it is easily
found, he having been a Rev. Pensioner.
Yours very truly
W. G. Sargeant

To the Pension Bureau
Washington D. C.
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The Pittsburg Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co.
W. G. SARGEANT. GEN'L PASSENGER TICKET AND PURCHASING AGENT

Meadville Pa. Apr 14.77

My dear Sallie
Yours Apr 12 received yesterday. 
If your mother mentioned her Aunt
Patterson, she unquestionably meant
Margaret Patterson, the daughter of old
Capt. William McMillin, so I fancy you need go no further, as I send you a transcript of his file.
Without doubt I think William was your Great Grand Father. His pension money was certainly
sent to Mercer, so [I enquire] at the
Pension office for his Revolutionary 
Record, also with the Atty Genl., State of
Maryland, Annapolis for his State
record in the Revolution War.
Mrs Patterson took care of him
his latter days. I send you something about the Morrisons from a Young friend, relation of the Church family here. They may be distantly connected with your Mother [& Father}.
Sheakleyville is only a few miles from
Mercer. Churchs & Morrisons all came
from there.
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The Pittsburg Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co.
W. G. SARGEANT. GEN'L PASSENGER TICKET AND PURCHASING AGENT

I will send your letter from Miss
McMillan to Rob Stewart my lawyer
Consin. He will interview her - and
return it to you. We are all well.
Gaston is in Boston.

I want to help you in this matter
so do not hesitate to write me. I sent
Annie blank application [“Sons’]
for the Genl. to fill out.
Message from Hartstown this P.M.
[Ships] are thick so I go tomorrow A.M.
Yours most affectionately
W. G. Sargeant

#20
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Grove City, Pa.
April 2, 1930. 

Revolutionary War Records, 
Pension Bureau,
Washington, D.C.

Gentlemen, 

Do you have any record of Revolutionary service of William McMillan, who came to Mercer county with his brother, Thomas, about the close of the 18th century. 

According to a Mercer county history William received a pension, and they were both Revolutionary soldiers but we have no record of their service. 

Will you kindly let us know, also, if there is any record available giving a list of Revolutionary soldiers who received a pension while living in Mercer county?

The General Hugh Mercer Chapter, D. A. R. is compiling a list of Revolutionary soldiers who lived in this country and if such record can be found it would be of great help to us, as we hope to have this record as nearly complete as possible. 

Yours very truly, 

ELM.LP    Lorena Montgomery 
Chairman, Historical Research Com. General Hugh Mercer Chapter, D. A. R. 
P.O. Box 158
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Noblestown Road
Pittsburgh Pa
Crafton Sta
Nov 9, 1938

Dear Sirs:
I am compiling our family
genealogy and need some proof concerning
a gentleman by the name of Samuel
McMillan. Do you have among the early
records of 1776 in Thos. Ewing regiment
and Col. Smallwoods Co. in the Maryland Line
a pension for Samuel McMillan William
McMillan his brother? Where in Washington D.C.
 can I find out where these two men enlisted or lived before the revolution. Any help you can give me
concerning these brothers will be greatly
appreciated by all McMillans.
Very truly yours
Virginia Mac Millan

{circle stamp}
RECEIVED 
NOV 12 1938
MAIL  SUB-DIV
VETS ADM
READER # 16
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December 28,1938
Samuel McMillan, W. 1908
William McMillan, S. 2806
BA-J/MLB
Virginia MacMillan
Noblestown Road
Crafton Station
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of recent date, in which you requested the records of Samuel McMillan and of his brother, William McMillan, who served under Captain Thomas Ewing and Colonel Smallwood in the Maryland Line, War of the Revolution. 
The records of Smuel and Williams McMillan are furnished you, as follows:
Samuel McMillan
W. 1908
The data which follow in regard to Samuel McMillan were obtained from papers in the claims for pension and bounty land under File No. W. 1908, based upon his service in the Revolutionary War. 
The date and place of birth of Samuel McMillan and names of his parents are not shown. 
Samuel McMillan enlisted about January 1,1776, in Harford County, Maryland, served as a noncommissioned officer in Captains Thomas Ewing's and Daniel Bowie's companies, Colonel Smallwood's Maryland regiment, was in the battle of Long Island where he was captured, carried to Halifax, held until April 27,1777, when he with others made his escape and on reaching Boston, reenlisted, served in Captain Trescott's company, Colonel Healy's regiment, and in Colonel Henry Jackson's Regiment, was in the battles of Monmouth and Rhode Island, and was in service until in the winter of 1780, when he received a furlough and did not again enter the service.
Samuel McMillan was allowed pension on his application executed April 30,1818, at which time he was aged sixty-five years and a resident of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He had lived, also, in Butler County, that state. He died September 24,1831, in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.
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Samuel McMillan married July 8,1818, in Plum Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, about fourteen miles from Pittsburgh, Esther Parsell. They were married at the home of her father, Peter Parsell, by the Reverend Nathaniel Tibbatts.Samuel McMillan had been previously married, but there are no data in regard to his former marriage. 
Esther McMillan was allowed pension on account of the service of her husband, Samuel, on her application executed August 20,1853, at which time she was aged seventy-two years and a resident of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. 
Esther McMillan, while still living in Allegheny City , Pennsylvania, applied April 15, 1855, four bounty land which was due, also, on account of the service of her husband, Samuel, and was granted one hundred sixty acres of bounty land on Warrant No. 26849, under the Act of March 8, 1855.
In 1853, Samuel McMillan, son of the soldier by his first wife, was living in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, his age and name of his mother are not shown, nor was any other reference made to children. 
In 1818, William McMillan, Samuel's brother, made affidavit in support of his brother's application for pension, in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He did not give his age but stated that he served with him in the Revolution and was captured at the same time. 
If you desire information in regard to location of the land which was granted Samuel McMillan's widow, Esther, you should apply to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, this city, and furnish that official the number of the warrant, the acrage and date of the act under which issued. 
In order to obtain date of last payment of pension, the name of person paid and possibly the date pf death of Esther McMillan, soldier's widow, you should write to the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Dividion, this city, and cite the following data: Esther McMillan, widow of Samuel, certificate #2318, issued October 6, 1853, rate $96 per amum, commenced February 3, 1853, Act of February 3, 1853, Pennsylvania Agency.
William McMillan
S. 2806
You are furnished herein the record of William McMillan as found in pension claim, S. 2806, based on his service in the Revolutionary War. 
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William McMillan was born in May, 1756; the place of birth and names of his parents not stated.
Her enlisted in Harford County, Maryland, in December, 1775, and served as sergeant in Captains Thomas Ewing's and Daniel Bowie's companies, Colonel William Smallwood's Maryland regiment. He was taken prisoner at the battle of Long Island, put on a prison ship, carried to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he made his escape in April, 1777, and after much suffering and many hardships finally reached Boston, having been in the "wilderness" ten weeks. He joined the "Boston Troops" and was in the battle of Monmouth, shortly after which he joined the Maryland troops and was appointed in the spring of 1779 lieutenant and served until the close of the war. 
William McMillan was allowed pension on his application executed January 28, 1828, at which time he was living in the Borough of Mercer, Mercer County, Pennsylvania. He died December 10, 1839.
William McMillan married Nancy Anderson in the fall of 1821 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. She was sixty-six years of age in 1843. 
In 1828, the soldier referred to his daughter, Margaret Patterson, aged forty-one years, and to her two children - O.H. Perry Patterson, thirteen years old, and Susanna Patterson, ten years old. In 1861, Mrs. Margaret Patterson was residing in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, and was the only surviving child of the soldier. No further reference was made to children. 
Very truly yours
A.D. Hiller
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator
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Afr. 29.1897. History
to Mrs. Sallie K. Alecander
1207- "1"st N.W. City -
May 6, 1897 - History to Mr. 
W.G. Sargeant, Meadville- Penna
1930 June 17 - history Lorena
Montgomery County
1938 Dec, 28 Hist to Virginia McMillan - MSO

Rev War
2806
Invalid
File No. 2806
Willam McMillan
Lieut., Rev War
Act: June 7,1822
Index:-Vol. A, Page 243
[Arrangement of 1870.]