Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 11,073, for Adam Miller, New York
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(3 - 1776) 
SERVICE 
New York 
Miller, Adam  
Miller Adam
deceased
NUMBER
S. 11.073 
carded 
CONTENTS  [blank]
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8261 New YOrk 
Adam Miller of Root in the State of N. York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Clute of the Regt. commanded by Col. Yates in the New York line for 2 Years - . 
Inscribed on the Roll of N. York at the rate of 80 Dollars ["Cents" is crossed out] per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. 
Certificate of Pension issued the 26th day of March 1833 and sent to V V Berry Johnstown N. Y. 
Arrears to the 4th of Mar. '33 $160 
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4 Sep. '33 40 
[total] $200 
[ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. } 
Recorded by Geo. C. Stiles Clerk, 
Book E. Vol. 4. Page 26 
March 3.1839 AB.
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11.633 Adam Miller Admitted 14 
10 Dec 1832 
John V Berry Johnstown N. Y. P 143.
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BRIEF in the case of Adam Miller of Rook
in the State of New York (Act 7th June, 1832.) 
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Open Court 
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? [blank] 
3. How old is he? Seventy seven years 
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 

Period. enlisted In 1777 March 
Duration of Service. [blank] Years, 9 Months, [blank] Days. 
Rank. As a [blank] 
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen. [blank] 
Capt John Clute, Col Yates 

Period. " [enlisted] 1778 March 
Duration of Service. [blank] Years, 9 Months, [blank] Days. 
Rank. As a [blank] 
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen. [blank] 
Capt. Simon Degraff - " [Col Yates] 

Period. enlisted year not recollect volunteer } 
Duration of Service. says that he was out at least one year under this affary
Rank. As a 
Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served. Gen. [blank] 
Capt M Col Fisher 
Same Comp'y others except " [Col Fisher] who was slain in Battle 

5. In what battles was he engaged? Saratoga, Overskany [Oriskany}. 
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Johnstown, N.Y. 
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? A Clergyman & Robt Leonardson certify to traditionary evidence Abraham Gardener a living witness proves 18 months service all in open Court.
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? [blank] 
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
[signature:] D Kintz Examining Clerk.
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Stat_ [smeared, illegible] New York Montgomery County } SS: Personally appeared before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace of the Town of Johnstown in the county of Montgomery Adam Miller, who being duly sworn, deposeth and Saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot Swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grades: For 18 months I served as a private under Captains John Clute, & Simeon Degraff in the years 1777 & 1778. in the nine months service: I served in the militia occasionally under Cap John Davis & others for one year, and for such service I claim a pension; He says he knows no ["one" is crossed out] regular officers that served with him at any time when he served there were no other Regiments or if there was he does not recollect them except those already stated by him in his declaration and knows of no other circumstances then has been stated by him in his declaration He has no written discharge The ["last" is crossed out] years Service was performed by him during the first part and also the latter part of the war and during the whole of the war; but the particular years he cannot state. his X mark Adam Miller 
Subscribed & sworn to this 31st day of Decr 1832 Before Aaron Haring a Justice of the Peace of Montgomery County 
The word & others interlined the word last erased before sworn to [signature:] Aaron Haring 
State of New York Montgomery County, SS: I, George D. Ferguson, clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, do hereby certify that Aaron Haring, Esqr. before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn, was on the date thereof a Justice of the Peace of said County; And that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of said Justice & verily believe that the name of said Justice subscribed to said affidavit is Genuine. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of my office this 4th. January 1833. [signature:] Geo: D. Ferguson
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Admitted Private 2 years $80-
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11633 See certificate of clerk of credibility. Direct to Jno. V Berry Johnstown M c N Y
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Montgomery County SS: On this 19th day of Septemb__ [obscured by the seal] personally appeared in open Court, before the Court of Common Pleas of MOntgomery County Abraham Gardinier of Root, who being duly sworn doth depose and Say that Adam Miller enlisted in the New York State Troops under Captain John Clut belonging to Col Yates regiment: That the said Adam went with him in the same company from Johnstown, then Tryon County, now Montgomery, to the City of Albany & ten up the Hudson River to Fort Edwards and was with him at the time that Burgoyne Surrendered He says that the said Adam enlisted for nine months in the year 1777 and went out as above stated on the first of March and was discharged in January and served the full term of nine months to his certain knowledge 
And he further says that he enlisted again in the year [crossed out character] 1778 and this deponent knows that the said Adam did serve the nine months under Captain Simon De Graff Lieutenant Nicholas Schermerhorn and that he went from the place aforesaid to West Point and that he knows of his personal knowledge that the said Adam served the full term of nine months at this time: [signature:] Abraham Gardenier 
Subscribed & Sworn in open Court the day & year aforesaid [signature:] Geo: D. Ferguson, clerk
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State of New York Montgomery County } SS: I George: D Ferguson clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County do hereby certify that at the September Term of this Same court in 1832 personally appeared in Open Court before the Judges thereof Abraham Gardinier and made oath to and Subscribed the preceeding affidavit to which his name appears to be Subscribed And at the December Term of fhe said Court in 1832 in Compliance with the regulations of the War Department and declare their opinion that the Said Abraham Gardinier [crossed out word] is personally known to said Court & is a person of respectability and credibility & entitled to credit and the Said Court  at the Said December Term did Order him to certify the Same to the War Department: 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of my office this 4th January 1833 Geo: D. Ferguson
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State of New York Montgomery County } SS: On this NIneteenth day of September in the year of Our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two personally appeared in open court before the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery, now sitting, Adam Miller a resident of the Town of Root in the County of Montgomery and State of New York aged seventy seven years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein Stated: Your applicant says that he enlisted as a volunteer in the nine months service under Captain John [crossed out letter] Clute the other officers names belonging to this company he your applicant does not recollect, the Regiment was commanded by Colonel Yates that at the time he enlisted in said company he resided in Johnstown Tryon County now Montgomery County & State of New York that he went from this place to Albany and from Albany up the Hudson River to Fort Edward and from thence to Saratoga, whence the Battle was fought between Generals Yates & Burgoyne, Your applicant says that he was in this engagement: Your applicant says that when he went out as above stated, in the month of March in the year 1777: the day of the month he does not recollect that he was discharged on the last day of December of that year that he was verbally discharged and has no written discharge Your applicant further says that he again enlisted as a volunteer under Captain Dion De Graff the other company officers he does not recollect, the Regiment was commanded by the same Colonel as above mentioned, that he lived at the same place as above mentioned and went from there under the above named officers to West Point, that he enlisted for nine months Your applicant says that this last time was in the year 178 that he went out sometime in March and was discharged
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about the first of January following, this service of your applicant was done in the Militia service or rather State Troops That he has no written discharge of this Term of service: Your applicant says that after this he again enlisted in the militia service, the year he does not recollect, under Captain John Davis Lieutenant Abraham Veeder Ensign Nicholas Dockstader, that he went as a volunteer this Company belonged to Colonel Frederick Fisher & Lieutenant-Colonel Volkert Veeders Regiment, that he went up from his place of residence aforesaid to Oriskany and was in and at that Battle fought at that place, that he received a wound in that Battle in his right hand, in his little finger which is entirely useless to this your applicant: Your applicant further says that he again enlisted as a volunteer during the latter part of the Revolutionary War, that he served under the above named officers, except his captain above mentioned who was slain at the last mentioned Battle, that he was out frequently during those years, and that he was out under those last mentioned officers at least one year in all: Your applicant says that he was born in German Flatts in Tryon County, now Herkimer County & State of New York and was born in the year 1755: Your applicant has no record of his age: Your applicant say that he has always resided at his last place of residence. You applicant says that he is acquainted with Colonel John Leonardson Jr Robert S Leonardson & Abraham Van Horn, a minister of the Gospel, all living in his neighborhood, who can testify as to the Character of your applicant for truth and veracity and belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution Your applicant says that he has no documentary Evidence and knows of no person by whom he can prove all these services 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
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his X mark Adam Miller 
Sworn * Subscribed in open Court the day & year aforesaid [signature:] Geo: D, Ferguson, Clerk 
We Abraham Van Horn a clergyman residing in the Town of Johnstown and Robert S Leonardson residing in the town of Root hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adam Miller who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy seven Years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion [signature:] Abraham Van Horne V. D. M [or Y. D. M] 
[signature:] Robert S Leonardson 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid [signature:] Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk 
And the said Court hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and served as he States: And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Abraham Van Horn who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Johnstown and that Robert S Leonardson is a resident of the town of Root and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit 
I George D. Ferguson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the Said Court in the matter of the application of Adam Miller for a pension 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal of office this 28th day of September 1832 [[signature:] Geo: D. Ferguson
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March 14, 1939 
BA-J/AWF 
Adam Miller 
S. 11073 
Mrs. Orson Spurr 
Cambridge 
New York 
Dear Madam: 
Reference is made to your letter in which you request the Revolutionary War record of Adam Miller of New Jersey or Cayuga County, New York. 
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in claim for pension, S. 11073, based upon the military service of Adam Miller in the Revolutionary War. There is no claim for pension on file on account of the service of Adam Miller in the New Jersey troops, and this is the record of the only Adam Miller who served with the New York troops, found on file in the Revolutionary War records of this office.
Adam Miller was born in the year 1755, in German Flatts, Tryon (the part which was later Herkimer County, New York; the names of his
parents are not given. 
While residing in Johnstown, Montgomery County, New York, Adam Miller enlisted sometime n March, 1777, served nine months as private in Captains John Clute's and Davis' companies, Colonel Yates' New York regiment, and was in the battles of Oriskany, and Saratoga; he was wounded in his right hand in the battle of Oriskany. He enlisted sometime in March, 1778, served nine months in Captain Simon DeGraff's company, Colonel Yates' regiment. He also
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served about six months in Colonel Frederick Fisher's New York regiment, dates of this tour not given. 
The soldier, Adam Miller, was allowed pension on his application executed September 19, 1832, at which time he was living in Root, Montgomery County, New York. He died March 3, 1839. 
The papers on file in this claim contain no discernible data in regard to family. 
In order to obtain the name and address of the person who received the last payment of this pension, you should apply to The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and furnish the following
data- 
Adam Miller 
Certificate #8261 
Issued March 26, 1833 
Rate $80.00 per annum 
Commenced March 4, 1831 
Act of June 7, 1832 
New York Agency. 
Very truly yours 
A. D. HILLER 
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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[circular time stamp, with arrow pointing to approximately 10:30] RECEIVED FEB 3 1939 MAIB SUB-DIV VETS ADM. READER_  [end of word obscured] 14 
Veteran's Administration Bureau: Washington D. C. 
Dear Sirs: 
[note added later:] now of N. J. rely of N. Y. 
I should like to know if your records of the revolutionary war Soldiers, show the name of Adam Miller ? of N. J. If so, did he ever receive any landy [sic] Bounty in Cayuga co for his services? 
Thanking you for this information I am respectfully, Mrs Orson Surr Cambridge N. Y.
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Rev War 11.073 INVALID. 
File No. 11.073 Adam Miller Pri Rev War 
Act: June 7th 32 
Index:-Vol. A, Page 258 
[ Arrangement of 1870. ] 
19 [blacked out and illegible] 14. hist. to Mrs Ors [blacked out] Spurr aws [initials?]