Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7,217, for Michael Miller, Other
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(8-1776)
SERVICE                                                NUMBER
French                 Miller, Michael           R. 7,217
                              Ohio res.
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Pleas at Dayton Before the Honorable Joseph H. Crane
Esquire President and his Associate Judges of the Court of
Common Pleas for the County of Montgomery in the State
of Ohio, of the twenty second of October in the year of our Lord
One thousand eight-hundred and twenty seven
Michael Miller
Application for a Pension.
Montgomery. Be it remembered that at a Court of
Common Pleas holden at Dayton in the County of Montgomery
and State of Ohio on Monday the twenty-second day of
October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight-hundred
and twenty seven before the Honorable Joseph H. Crane Esquire
President- and his associates for the County aforesaid, came
Michael Miller and produced his application for a pension, in
the words following, to wit.
"On the twenty seventh day of October A.D. one 
thousand eight-hundred and twenty seven personally appeared
in open Court being the Court of Common Pleas for the County
of Montgomery and State of Ohio, and a Court of Record in
said State, Michael Miller aged seventy one years, who
being duly affirmed according to Law, doth on his solemn
affirmation make the following Declaration in order to obtain
the provision made by the Act of Congress of the eighteenth of 
March A.D. one thousand eight-hundred and twenty
That the said Michael Miller embarked for America
at Brest in France on the second day of May A.D. one thousand
seven hundred and eighty, as a private in the force of Five
thousand foot and five hundred Horse, being four Regiments
of French and one Regiment of Dutch Troops Commanded
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by General Rochambeau and landed at Newport, Rhode
Island, in July of the same year. The declarant belonged to
the Company of Captain Fierstenwerter, in the Regiment
commanded by Colonel Christian Tuepring and continued
in the American service until the close of Revolutionary War.
This claimant was engaged seventeen days in the siege
of Yorktown and the taking of Cornwallis in October A.D.
One thousand seven hundred and eighty one. This claimant
was on board of the Bordeaux a ship laden with Military
Stores belonging to the French Fleet under M de Teonay, which
sailed from Rhode Island in March A.D. One thousand seven
hundred and eighty-one, and was intercepted by and stood an
egagement with the British Fleet in their passage to the Chesapeake.
This declaimant received a discharge from Colonel Tuepring
which he believes was signed by General Rochambeau. This
declaimant had his house burned in Bedford County Pennsylvania
in the year One thousand seven hundred and eighty eight and
his discharge and all his papers of every description were
consumed on this account - he cannot state the precise date of 
his discharge. This declaimant has no evidence now in his
power to prove his service, and in pursuance to the Act of the
first of May A.D. one thousand eight-hundred and twenty, I do
solemnly affirm that I was a resident Citizen of the United
States on the eighteenth day pf March, one thousand eight
hundred and eighteen, that I have not-since that time, by
gift, sale, or any manner disposed of my property or any
part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it so as to bring
myself within the Act of Congress, entitled, an act to
provide for certain persons engage in the Land and Naval
service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed
the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight-hundred
and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in
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[illegible] for me any property or securities, contract or debts due
me, nor have I any income other than what is contained
in a schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.
One quarter section of Land in Dark County Ohio,
the rate valued by the Assessor for Taxation at $1.25
per acre, about 15 acres partly cleared with a log
house about 22 feet by 20 feet. I believe two dollars an acre
is a fair valuation.  $320

LIST OF ITEMS AND VALUATIONS

My occupation is that of a farmer.  I am not able to do one fourth of a days work in a day, being quite decrepid, and my hearing is greatly impaired; myself, my wife Dorothy and my son Henry who is almost an idiot and who requires more care than his labour is worth, and a daughter who is permanently a cripple compose my family.  My wife about two months since broke her leg and it is believed she will never recover from her lameness, she is old and feeble and sixty nine years of age

(signed )  MICHAEL MILLER
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Affirmed and subscribed to in open court, October 13th 1827  C.R. Greene, clk
Thereupon, on the above application of Michael Miller for a pensions, under the several Acts of Congress.  It is ordered by the Court that the petition, Declaration and schedule of the applicant be entered of record.

The State of Ohio, Montgomery County

I Charles R Greene, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County aforesaid, do hereby Certify that the foregoing transcript is a tru Copy of the Original Petition, declaration and schedule and of the proceedings thereon had as Recorded in my Office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of our said Court of Common Pleas at Dayton this 20th day of March A.D. One thousand eight hundred and twenty eight.
C. R. Greene, Clk

The State of Ohio First Circuit
I Joseph H Crane President of the Court of Common Pleas in the first Circuit in the State of Ohio certify that Charles R Greene is Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County in the fact first circuit, and that his forgoing attestation is in due form of law.
Given under my hand March 28 1828    Joseph H Craner
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Rcd 7 April 1828
Michael Miller
Montgomery County, Ohio
Out 18 March 1878
Rejected
See letter 11 April 1828 to
Hom W McLean
HR
See letter 20 Feb 1830 to Hon J H Crane H R

7217
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House of Reps
6th April 1828

Sir,

I enclose you the application of Michael Miller for a pension, please examine it and inform me of the result.

Your Obdt Servt.
Wm McLean

J L Edwards Es
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Acts of July 145, 1862

7217

MICHAEL MILLER

rejected
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Capt. Furstenwaerther
Col. Christian Deux Ponts

Rel French Combatants in Amer. Rev.

page 301-302
History of Regiment & names of officers
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MICHAEL MILLER's application for Pension
A Troxell's Disposition
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The State of Ohio
First Judicial Circuit

Personally came before me George B Holt, President of the first Judicial circuit of the Courts of Common Pleas in said state, Abraham Troxell Esq a citizen of Montgomery County within said circuit and being duly affirmed, upon his solemn affirmation doth dispose and say: That about thirty years ago one Michael Miller now and for many past a resident citizen of this county, and this deformant were citizens of the State of Pennsylvania residing in the county of Bedford; deformant residing about two miles distant from said Miller had his house burned at that place as he was present when the misfortune happened; and deformant also knows that but little of the property or furniture was saved.  Deformant cannot say of his own knowledge that said Miller had any desk in which his papers were kept, but he is confident that no desk or other piece of furniture containing writings was
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saind from the conflagration as deformant was there until the house was consumed with its contents, except the few articles which were rescued.

Deformant also lives a neighbor to said Miller in this (Montgomery) county about the same distance that he lived from him in Pennsylvania; and deformant knows that his wife who is now old and infirm within the last two years had her leg badly broken so as still to maintain a cripple; Deformant also knows that said Miller has an idiot son who is incapable of taking care of himself and requires the constant assistance and attention of of some person to take care of him.  Deformant is well acquainted with said Miller and has been for upwards of thirty years.  He has always been an industrious and hard working man, and a man of unquestionable character for honesty integrity and truth.  Said Miller owns as this deformant is informed an unimproved quarter section of land in the county of Dark in the state, but deformant states without hesitation that said Miller laboring as he does under the infirmaty of old age and worn out by hard labor could not by and industry or other means within
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his power to cultivate or use said land as to furnish a decent support for himself & unfortunate family.  And further saith not -
Sworn and subscribed before one this 29th day of September A.D. 1829  Geo B Holt
Abraham Troxell