Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 25,689, for William Miller, North Carolina

SERVICE
NUMBER
NC
Miller William
S 25,689
CONTENTS

order to pay 5 Nov. 1836 Transf'd Cir. sent 4 Oct 1837 in letter to H. Ruff
1870 Ap 30 Letter to Genl Spier
Death not in A.B.
Georgia 23.850 William Miller in the State of Ga. was a pr. in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by Col. Hargett in the _____ line for 8 months.
scribed on the Roll of Georgia the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum commence on the 4th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of Ap. 50 and sent S. F. Miller Marion Ct. Ga
arrears to the 4th of March 34 79.98 Semi-ant. allowance ending Sept. 1 13.33 93.31
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Chas. Price — Clerk. Book E Vol. 6 Page 97

1 Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7 th 1832.
State of Georgia, Ware County. } On this the thirty first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable Pat Warren, Pres t of the Superior Court for the Southern District in said State, and for the county aforesaid, now sitting, William Miller, a resident of the County of Ware in said State, aged twenty four years, who being first duly sworn acc- ording to law, doth, on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June Seventh eighteen hundred and thirty three.
That he intends the service of the United States under the following named officers, and serves as herein stated.
In or about the year nineteen hundred and fifty nine, the said William Miller volunteered under Captain Frederick Hargett (afterwards Colonel) in the County of Craven (after Jones) in the State of North Carolina, the Senior General Caswell being chief in command of the Militia in which he served: That he marched to the Town of Wilmington, North Carolina, was stationed there about a month under the officers aforesaid, when he received a verbal discharge and returned home to the County of Craven aforesaid.
That within a few months thereafter he was drafted in the North Carolina Militia for a four months term, in the said County of Craven, for the purpose of marching to the defence of Charleston, South Carolina, in the company under Captain Blanks in the Second Regiment of Brigadier General Smith's Brigade. He marched through Fayetteville, North Carolina, Camden, South Carolina, and arrived on the River Santee in South Carolina, advancing to the relief of Charleston, when the Regiment aforesaid while at said River heard of the capture of Charleston, South Carolina, by the British, whereupon the said Regiment instantly retreated to Cross Creek, near the River Cape Fear, North Carolina, where he was stationed about three

2 weeks, when the Term expired for which he was drafted, whereupon he received a written discharge which is hereto attached.
After the British had taken Wilmington, North Carolina, General Forster of the enemy and his Army, joined and aided by the Tories, marched to Newbern in the State of North Carolina, on a plundering expedition, passed in going to and from Newbern, through the said County of Craven and the neighborhood in which the said William Miller was born, committing outrages and depredations upon the persons and property of the citizens of North Carolina. He served as a drafted soldier four months, as required by law, as will be seen by his written discharge; and he also served three months as a volunteer, one month as first stated, and two months after his written discharge, under Captain William George, (Col Hargreaves in command) in skirmishing and scouting parties against the Tories. The Tories almost daily killed some of the whigs and citizens; for so doing the Tories were often and severely punished by the whigs, many of them put to death. The said William Miller was present as one of the company under Captain George, when a party of seven or eight Tories surrendered to Captain George, and complied with the law. He was never in a regular battle.
The said William Miller has the Record of his age as he received it from his parents, from which it appears (and he has no doubt of the fact) that he was born on the eighth day of April Seventeen hundred and fifty nine, in the County of Craven (Dixon County) in the State of North Carolina. From the time of his birth he resided in said County until he removed to the State of Georgia between or about the year Seventeen hundred and eighty five and Seventeen hundred and ninety, in company with David Blackburn, a native of the same County with the said William Miller. Coming directly from North Carolina as aforesaid the said William Miller first settled in Burke County, State of Georgia, and resided ten or fifteen years in Burke County aforesaid: about twenty or twenty five years in the County of Bullock Dutton in the State last aforesaid, and upwards of

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four years in the County of Ware in the State of Georgia where he now resides. 3 The said William Miller was known from his youth by the said David Black- heir (at present General Blackheir of Laurens County, Georgia,) by whom alone as any person living so far as he knows or believes, he could prove any of his revolu- tionary services. The said William Miller served all the while as a Private.
He states that to the best of his knowledge and recollection a law was passed by the Legislature or General Assembly of North Carolina ordering a draft of militia for the revolutionary service, in pursuance of which the said William Miller was drafted to serve a term of four months, which he completed as before mentioned, and that he was not engaged at any time of his service aforesaid in any civil pursuit. The other three months service was exclusively as a volunteer. He is known in his neighborhood, who can testify to his truth and veracity, to Mark Addison a clergyman and James Jones and others. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any agency in any state.
Wm Miller
Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid in open court
Scott Warren Judge Superior Court Southern circuit Georgia
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And the said court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named Applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states.
Scott Warren Judge Clerk
Mark Addison a clergyman residing in the County of Ware, and James Jones residing in the same, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with William Miller, who has subscribed and sworn to the above and foregoing declaration that one of his sons to be twenty four 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.
Mark Addison J.P.
James Jones
Sworn and subscribed this day and year first aforesaid in open court.
Scott Warren Judge Superior Court Southern circuit Georgia
And the said court do 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 Mark

Addison who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the county of Ware aforesaid, and that Janey Jones who has also signed the same is a resident in the county of Ware aforesaid, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Scott Warren Hedge Superior Court Lowther Circuit Georgia
State of Georgia, } I David J. Miller clerk of the Superior Court of Ware County. } said County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court, in the matter of the application of William Miller for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and put to seal, there being no seal of office, this thirty first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three. David J. Miller Clerk
State of Georgia, }
Barlow County }
The undersigned, one of the Representatives elect of said State in the Congress of the United States, hereby certifies that David J. Miller, whose name appears to the foregoing and above certificate, was at the time of signing the same, to wit: on the thirty first day of October in the year eighteen hundred and thirty three, and is now clerk of the Superior Court of Ware County in said State, and that full faith and credit are due and ought to be had and given to his official attestation. This 8 th November 1833
Samuel Jones

October 15, 1935
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BA-J/MCS William Miller, S.25689
Mrs. L. H. Herrin Box 1483 Savannah Georgia
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your letter of October 6, 1935, requesting information in regard to Revolutionary War soldiers, Nathaniel and William Miller.
Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon the military service of soldiers in that war. A careful search of the records fails to show such claim on file on account of the service of the Nathaniel Miller described by you.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S. 25689, based upon the military service of William Miller.
He was born in Craven County in that part which later became Jones County, North Carolina, April 8, 1759. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Craven County, North Carolina, he enlisted and served as private with the North Carolina troops as follows: in 1779, one month in Captain Frederick Harget's Company; in 1780, four months in Captain Blanks' Company in the Second Regiment of Brigadier General Caswell's Brigade and was discharged in June; he next served two months in Captain William George's Company in Colonel Frederick Harget's Regiment.
Between the years 1785 and 1790 he moved to Georgia where he lived in Burke, Bullock and Ware Counties.

SECTION He was allowed pension on his application executed October 31, 1933, at which time he was living in Ware County, Georgia.
In 1837 the soldier was living in Macon, Mississippi.
In 1833 one David J. Miller was clerk of Superior Court of Ware County, Georgia, and one Stephen F. Miller was living in Marion, Twiggs County, Georgia, but it was not shown that they were related to the soldier and the papers in this claim contain no further data relative to the soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator

Letter.
Admiral a Private 8 mo Feb 11 [Signature]

Macon, Twiggs County, Georgia,
23 rd December 1833.
Sir,
At the request of the applicant, Mr. William Miller, I have the honor to enclose herewith his papers with a view to obtain such an allowance under the recent Pension act of Congress, as his services and declaration may deserve. You will perceive attached to the record submitted, his original written discharge as a Revolutionary Soldier. Should any additional written testimony or forms be required, you will please advise me of it as soon as you possibly can, and also notify me what disposition you shall have made of the application after duly considering it.
I am Sir, with high respect,
Your ob t . serv t .
Stephen F. Miller.
J. S. Edwards Esq.
Com r of Pensions.

Pension Agency Planters Bank Savannah 15 Oct 1836
Sir
Enclose pension Vouchers of William Miller whose application is for two years pension, for your approval and authority to pay.
Respectfully Mr. Off. Secy
J. G. Edwards
Commissioners of Pensions Washington
M c G. Floyd Casting Pres. tm

LB
B Ruff Esq Macon November 6. Miss

Pension Agency Planters Bank Savannah 26 June 1837
P Ruff Esq Sir
Your letter of the 13 th inst relative to Mr William Miller's pension is received, in reply I would say, that in order to obtain a transfer from this to any other Agency, the pensioner must address J D Edwards Esq Commissioner of Pensions, Washington City, making known his desire, and naming the agency, who will in answer notify him of the act of transfer, and direct the agent to pay him, upon the production of the usual Voucher (the form you have) properly executed. Mr Miller was paid up to the 4 th Sept r 1834, his pension is now due from that time to 4 th Mar 1837, Amounting to One Hundred and twenty five dollars.
Respectfully
Mr O. S. Kent
Marshall Cushing Pens. Ag t

Macan Notabu City Mississippi Sept. 12 th 1887
J. L. Edwards Esq.
Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir: Being on the List of United States Pensioners under the agency at Georgia, and have migrated some time since to this State, I still sent on my Vouchers to the Pension office in Savannah which were rejected for informality whereby the government is in arrears to me from the 4 th Sept 1834. Owing to this difficulty coupled with the distance, trouble & expense attending it at that office, I must request that I be transferred to the agency of Mississippi. I watch, said transfer to authorize the payment of the arrears due me. If any thing further is required on my part, to authorize the transfer, I ask the favor of your office to inform me, at this place. I enclose to you a letter from the P. agent at Savannah, to R. Ruff, my Attorney here. That I may be favored in this is the demand of my present pressing wants.
Respectfully
Yours Obed Servt.
William Milner Per R. Ruff

Mr. Miller
Epo. 30.3H8

Camp near Croft Creek June 1880
This Certifies that William Miller — a soldier in the 2 d Regiment of Brigade General Caswell's Brigade has Perfomed his Honor of Duty agreeable to Law & is therefore Discharged by order of Major General Caswell
John Sittington Q.M. D.C.
Depot. Miss R. C. H.

Macon Miss } Sept 14, 1839 }
Oct 3
Mr Evans
Paid (Double only) 50
J. L. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington City—
mail

Prostitution
25689 INVALID!
No. 25,689
William Miller
Pr Ga Mil
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index: —Vol. 2 , Page 276
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1919 May 28. History to Mrs. D. C. Stephens. ad 1921 Oct. 3. — " " Mrs. J. S. Lowrey — ad 1935 Oct. 15. Hist. to Mrs. J. H. Herrin. mcd 1938 Sept. 3. hist. to Mrs. James Bone mcd

Prostitution 25689
INVALID
No. 25689
William Miller
Rev. Geo. Neil
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Act: James Sn 22
Index: Vol. 2, Page 276
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1919 May 28. History to Mrs. L. C. Stephens. aw 1921 Oct. 3. " " Mrs. J. S. Lourey - Em. 1935 Oct. 15 Hist. to Mrs. L. H. Herrin, mcd 1938 Sept. 3. hist. to Mrs. James Bone mcd.

W.H.
415-Lee St. Dawson, Ga - Sep. 9, 1921-
Commissioner of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir:-
Will you please give me the full pensions record of William Miller, who drew a pension in Ware Co, Ga. in "1834 aged 75-yrs."
This information

is desired for historical and genealogical purposes. Thanks. I am,
Yours truly, Mrs. J. S. Lowrey, Sr.

Rec'd Tennille Ga.
May 9-1919 -
The Commissioner of Pensions, Washington D.C. Dear Sir, -
Will you please look up and send me the record of William Miller's service in Rev. olutionary War. His name is listed with Ga. Pensioners from Ware County Ga. bpt 1836. I wish to get all family records contained in his application papers for the pension.
If there are any charges for this trouble please let me know

and I will send my check for same. I am very anxious to get this information to com- plete or form a H. C. R. record.
Thank you very much.
Very truly yours.
Mrs. L. C. Stephens.
Tennille, Ga.

Box 1483, Savannah, Ga.
Oct. 6, 1935.
Veterans Administration, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:
I wish to obtain the Revolutionary Record of Nathaniel Miller, whose services as soldier were certified by Col. James McKay. As a patriot, he was made Magistrate for lower section of St. George Parish, July, 2, 1776, and xxxxx Justice of Peace, 1783. His wife was Mary Neil. The Miller family came to Georgia from Marion County, S. C., but first settled in Newbern, N. C. He is supposed to have been in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War. I also wish to obtain the Revolutionary Record of one William Miller, who served in the War in N. C. Militia. He was born in Newbern County, N. C. on 8th day of March, 1759. He was placed on Pension Roll, Apr. 10, 1834. He married Amy Barker.
Any information will be greatly appreciated, as I am writing a history of this family.
Sincerely,
Mrs. L. H. Herrin,

VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
WASHINGTON
August 24, 1938
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IN REPLY REFER TO: BA-J/MCS
Mrs. James Bone Way Cross Georgia
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for a copy of the pension that William Miller drew for service in the Revolutionary War.
As means of identification of the record of the particular William Miller in whom you are interested, it is essential that you furnish as much as possible of the following data: approximate date of birth and death, place of residence at enlistment and after service and first name of widow.
Very truly yours
A. D. Hiller
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator
William Miller was born April 8 1759 died 21 st Nov 1837 he died near Warrenton Ga he was born in Craven Co N.C. And I think it was there he enlisted His wife was Amy Barker Miller, He came to Ware Co. & lived after the War, Mrs Bone And M

Pension Dept. U.S.A. Washington D.C.
Way Cross Ga. Aug. 19-38.
Dear Sir,
Will you please give me a copy of the pension William Miller died for service in Revolutionary war. Thanking you
I am Yours very truly, Mrs. Jas. Bone.
9 yrs wk Co.

825689
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of William Miller a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     1779 1 mo Pvt Fredk. Harget N.C.   1780 4 " Blank   " 2 " Wm George Fredk Harget        
Battles engaged in, none stated.
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Craven Co. N.C.
Date of application for pension, Oct. 31, 1833. His claim was allowed.
Residence at date of application, Ware Co. Ga.
Age at date of application, in Craven Co. N.C. Apr. 8, 1759.
Remarks: There is no data on file as to his family
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

September 3, 1938
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BA-J/MCS Am William Miller, S.25689
Mrs. James Bone Way Cross Georgia
Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request for information relative to William Miller who served in the Revolution and was born April 8, 1759, in Craven County, North Carolina.
The data which follow were obtained from papers on file in the pension claim, S.25689, based on the military service of William Miller.
He was born in Craven County in that part which was later became Jones County, North Carolina, April 8, 1759. The names of his parents were not given.
While living in Craven County, North Carolina, he enlisted and served as private with the North Carolina troops as follows: in 1779, one month in Captain Frederick Harget's Company; in 1780, four months in Captain Blanks' Company in the Second Regiment of Brigadier General Caswell's Brigade and was discharged in June; he next served two months in Captain William George's Company in Colonel Frederick Harget's Regiment.
Between the years 1785 and 1790 he moved to Georgia where he lived in Burke, Bullock and Ware Counties.
He was allowed pension on his application executed October 31, 1833, at which time he was living in Ware County, Georgia.
In 1837 William Miller was living in Macon, Mississippi.
In 1833 one David J. Miller was clerk of Superior Court of Ware County, Georgia, and one Stephen F. Miller was living in Marion, Twiggs County, Georgia, but it was not shown that they were related to the soldier and the papers in this claim contain no further data relative to soldier's family.
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER Executive Assistant to the Administrator