Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 21,889, for Nathan Miller, Rhode Island

SERVICE
NUMBER
R.I.
Miller, Nathan
S 21,889
CONTENTS

21.870 Rhode Island
Nathan Miller
Warwick in the State of Rhode Island was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Waterman of the Regt commanded by in the R.I. State line for 23 months Private 3 1 month Sergeant 3
Nathan Miller
Inscribed on the Roll of Rhode Island at the rate of 81 Dollars 67 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8th day of Nov 1833 and sent George H. Howe W. P. Pease New Bedford Mass.
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $264.17 Semi-ant. allowance ending March 4th 10.83 $275.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Henry Wood Clerk, Book 2 Vol. 2 Page 120

Sathan Miller's
11542

On this 29 th day of August A.D. 1832 personally appeared in open court before the justices of the Court of Common Pleas within and for the County of Kent now sitting Nathan Miller a resident of Warwick in the County of Kent and State of Rhode Island he aged Eighty 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 th 1832
That he was born in Rehoboth in the State of Massachusetts on the eleventh day of January 1752 that his age is recorded in said Rehoboth and also in the town of Scituate as he believes that upon the alarm of the Battle of Lexington he was called into the militia service and was on duty under Capt Reuben Whitman five or six days & dismissed. That in May or June he served two days upon alarm and marched with said Whitman to a place called Rocky point to save the men from a brig later by Wallace. That about the first of August of the same year he served upon alarm and as a volunteer five days to save a vessel and cargo on shore at Warwick neck in the town of Warwick from the enemy. That soon afterwards in the summer of the same year he served under General Garmun at Quonesset neck in South Kingston to beat off the enemy from taking stock. That he served there five or six days and that during said service three militia men took a small British sloop and eight prisoners. That about the last of the year 1775 he served one month as a draughted soldier at Warwick neck in the town of Warwick that during said time he was in a company commanded by Capt Reuben Whitman and went upon the island of Pridessee to take off the inhabitants and the few soldiers who were there previously and while there was a skirmish between the British and the Militia from Warren. That from that time to the time the British took possession of Rhode Island he served upon alarm at different times one or two days at a time and frequently during said time. That in December 1776 he volunteered and became a member

of the Chartered Military Company called the Kentish Guards and in early part of said month of December he and immediate entered on duty with said company and served at East Greenwich until the middle of February following when said company was relieved by the Pawtucket Rangers one month that about the middle of March following he again commenced service in said Kentish Guards at said East Greenwich & served there till the first of May following when he was said company was again relieved that he then served as a substitute for Gustin Gerauld in a company of Militia commanded by Capt William Waterman and served one month at Pawtucket in said District that immediately on the expiration of said month he again commenced service with said company at said East Greenwich and served till about the first of January following when said company was dismissed for one month. That immediately afterwards he again commenced duty with said company at said East Greenwich and served there until about the latter of July when said & marched with said company to Rhode Island and continued to serve in Sullivan's expedition until the latter of August when said company returned to said East Greenwich and continued in service there until late in the month of November 1778 that said company was again called upon duty about some time in the month of January following and served about two months that he served with said company during said time
That afterwards in the summer of 1779 he volunteered with about twenty five members of said company in an expedition to the Island of Conanicut under the command Col Christopher Greene and served about fourteen days
That afterwards and soon after the Enemy evacuated Newport he served with said company near the town of Newport at a place called Detention Beach one month

I Ezra Simmons of East Greenwich in the County of Kent do hereby depose and say that Nathan Meiller of Warwick in the County of Kent was a member of the Kentish Guards as early as the beginning of the year 1777 and did duty in said company during the war therein during said time a mem- ber thereof and serving with him according to the best of my recollection and belief Ezra Simmons
I Joseph Marchester of Coventry in the County of Kent do hereby depose and say that during the war of the revolution I was a volunteer in the company called the Kentish Guards and that Nathan Meiller of Warwick was also a member of said company and served therein from about the commencement of the year 1777 to the end of the war 7 th Joseph Marchester
Kentish Court of Common Pleas August Term A.D. 1832
Sworn to in open court by Ezra Simmons & Joseph Marchester the Seventh day of the Term
Witness John Brown Clk

That soon after returning from said Newport he with about twenty five others of said company volunteered and went on an expedition to the Island of Goshanicut to remove stock from said Island under the command of (as this applicant thinks) Col William Arnold and served about fifteen days
That he has no written discharge and he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state.
N. Miller
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 Ezra Simmons & Joseph Manchester  or depositions who have signed the preceding certificate, is a Clergyman, resident in the state and that
who also signed the same are residents in the Towns of East Greenwich & Warwick in our County and are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, JOHN BROWN, Clerk of said Court of Common Pleas, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Nathan Miller for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this eighth day of September in the year 1832
John Brown

11542 Nathan Miller Jamettogan
Pyate 23 months Sargent 1 " 24 adm c 5 11-12 06 CNR May 14 1833
P. 395 81.672 76.69 163 321 5.60 40.85 81.69 204 17
George A Mayton Esq Warwick
E. Reed R 9

BRIEF in the case of Nathan O'Neill of Warwick in the State of R d Island (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? New Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? 80 years  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     Up on the alarm of the Battle of Haverington May & June he served 306 Private Capt. Whitman   5 August 2 " "   Summer same year 80 " Genl. Varnum   Autumn of the year 1775 1 5 or 6 " Capt. Whitman   Winter 1775 to 1776 he was in the trenches 2 Guards " Capt. Waterman   Middle of March following 1 15 " "   6 " "  
He states that he served several other times but does not give the dates or officers under whom he served
 5. In what battles was he engaged? none  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Warwick R d Island  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditional evidence  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? Papers not attested as required? 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Richard Catts Examining Clerk.

State of Rhode Island &c
County of Kent ss
On this 24 th day of October A.D. 1833 personally appeared before me George A. Brayton a justice of the Peace within and for said County of Kent Nathan Miller the within applicant and maketh oath that he served in the war of the revolution the several periods at the several times and under the officers herein after mentioned to wit
On the alarm of the Battle of Lexington on April 1775 he served in the militia under Reuben Whitman Capt 6 days & marches & Proo
6 th That in May or June 1775 he again served upon alarm under said Whitman 2 days at Warwick Neck in the town of Warwick
2 nd That in August 1775 he was called out volunteered in the militia & served 5 days at said Warwick neck to save a Whaling ship closed up by Wal lace's tarsars & ran on shore & served under said Whitman
5 th That in Sept 1775 he served as a volunteer under Gen. Barnum at Quonsett Neck in North Kingstown to beat off the enemy from taking stock as stated in his declaration & served at that time 5 days
1 st mo That in December 1775 he was draughted and served one month under said Reuben Whitman at Warwick Neck aforesaid as stated in his declaration
1 st mo That in the succeeding month of January 1776 he served as he now recollects, distinctly, one month at said Warwick Neck as a substitute for his father Nathan Miller who was draughted & served under Capt Thomas Rice
1 st mo That for the said month of January 1776 to the month of December 1776 he served upon alarms from one to five days at a time & frequently during said time sometimes under said Whitman sometimes under Capt Squire Miller and sometimes under said Rice in the whole not less than 30 days & that said service was in said town of Warwick
That in the month of December 1776 when he became a member of the Chartered Military Company called "The Kentish Guard" as stated in his declaration he entered on duty in said company at East Greenwich under Richard Fry Capt and there served until the 7 th of February 1777 that he commenced service in said company as early as the 20 th day of said month of December that said company was stationed at said East Greenwich for the protection of said town and the

adjacent shores had charge of a small fort called fort Daniel & extended their patrols to Pawtucket neck in Warwick and some times as far as North Kingstown and that said company were at all times while he served in the same under subject to the immediate orders of the Council of War of the Colony of Rhode Island that he served in said Kentish Guards again at said East Greenwich from the 8 th of March 1777 to the 1 st of May 1777 under said Fry said company being stationed as before mentioned and for the purposes aforesaid
1.5 That in May 1777 he served one month as a substitute for Gershom Gerould who was draughted that during said month he served as a sergeant under Capt William Waterman at Pawtucket in Warwick
6.23 That in June 1777 and as early as the 7 th of that month he again commenced service with said Kentish Guards at said East Greenwich stationed as before mentioned and for the purposes aforesaid & served until the 1 st of January 1778 under said Richard Fry when said company was dismissed for one month
5.22 That on the 8 th of February 1778 he again commenced service at said East Greenwich with said Kentish Guards under said Fry as before and there served with said company until the last of July 1778 when he marched with said company to Rhode Island & served with them in Sullivan's Expedition and then returned with said company & continued to serve with them at said East Greenwich as before until the 20 th day of November 1778 when said Company was dismissed that he served with said company from the said 8 th of February 1778 to said 20 th of Nov
1779 That in January 1779 and as early as the 10 th day of said month he again commenced service with said Kentish Guards at said East Greenwich as before and for the purposes aforesaid under said Fry & served with them from that time until the 8 th of March 1779 when said company was dismissed
12.8 That in the summer of 1779 and in the month of July or August he volunteered with about 25 other members of said Kentish Guards in an expedition to the Islands of Connecticut then in possession of the enemy and served 12 days under Col Christopher Greene and had charge of said Greene's boat during said expedition

That in the month of Autumn of the year 1779 and he thinks in the month of November of that year he served one month with said Kentish Guards at a place called Letchinwest Beach near the town of Newport & served under said Richard Fry
and he now recollects that he served one month with said Kentish Guards at the same place in the month of August and Septem- ber 1780 under said Richard Fry
158 That after his return from said last service and in the month of October 1780 he volunteered with about twenty five other mem- bers of said Kentish Guards on an expedition to the Island of So- nament to remove stock under the apprehension that the enemy was about to return, and served 15 day Said Expedition was under the command of Col Archibald Gray that the volunteers from said Kentish Guards were under the immediate command of William that during Arnold then a sergeant afterwards left of said company with the rank of Col.
That during all his service in the militia as distinguished from said Kentish Guards which was a chartered chartered by the General Assembly with certain privileges. John Patnaman was Colonel and that during all his term of his service aforesaid as well in the militia as in said Kentish Guards he was not employed in any civil business
Attest
X Miller mark
Subscribed and sworn to by the said Attest Miller before me this 24 th day of October 1833
Witness Geo A Praytor
Master of the Peace

Kent ss The State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations Clerks Office Court of Common Pleas
I certify that George A Brayton Esq r is a justice of the peace for the Town of Warwick in our County of Kent, that the within is his proper signature, in his own hand writing, that full faith & credit is & ought to be given to all his official acts - In witness whereof I
have hereunto set my hand & seal of said court at East Greenwich this twenty sixth day of October A D 1833
John Brown Clk of said court

State of Rhode Island & County of Kent Is
On this 10 th day of June A D 1893 personally appeared before the Court of Probate of the town of Warwick in said County of Kent Nathan Miller the within declarant and being first duly sworn makes the following additional declaration that during all his service aforesaid in the Kentish Guards he was under the com- mand of Col Richard Fry. Not keeping books was 1 st Lieut Christopher Green 2 nd Lieut and Stephen Green ensign that after the service before mentioned under Capt William Waterman and immediately afterward he entered upon duty in the Kentish Guards company called the Kentish Guards at East Greenwich and that by the terms said company he meant the said Kentish Guards that by reason of old age and loss of memory he cannot state more positively as to the precise length of his service but according to the best of his recollec- tion he served not less than the period mentioned below and in the following grades for two years and six months I served as a private and for one month I served as an orderly sergeant and for such service I claim a pension
Witness Charles Mayhew
Nathan
his mark
Miller
Subscribed and Sworn to in open Court this 10 th day of June A D 1893
Witness Charles Mayhew Probate Clerk

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Edwards, Esq. Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C.

Newport October 31 st 1833
Dear Sir, Permit me to call your immediate attention to the enclosed applications for harbors - they have been a long time pending and the applicants are very poor one of them with his family now in the almshouse and both very meritorious, and although poor, highly respectable men - I wish some of your men, the unspotted may be useful
Yours Dutifully James H. Edwards Esq. Commissioner of Portlands

Revolution
21 889 INVALID.
File No. 21,889
Nathan Miller
Serjt Rev War
Act: June 7 th 82 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 275
[Arrangement of 1870.]

March 17-190 Henry A. Howland
N.Y. City

808 21879
New York City, 6 Mar. 1900.
Dear Sir,
Will you kindly send me "authentic" information in relation to the service in the War of the Revolution of Dute Weaver of East Greenwich, R.I.; Brig. Gen. Nathan Miller of Warwick, R.I.; and Jonathan Andrew of Warwick, R.I. All three of their names are in "A Census of Pensioners" printed by Blair & Rives in 1841, Washington, D.C.,

I think on page 49.
I wish the information in order to join the "Sons of the Revolution", and was informed that I could obtain it in your office.
Thanking you for any information that you may be able to send me,
I am
Very Truly Yours Henry A. Howland, 511 W. 145 St., New York City.
To The Hon. H. Coley Evans.