Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File B. L. Wt. 1136-300, for Nicholas Miller, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
★ Miller, Nicholas
B.L.Wt. 1136-300
CONTENTS

Reliance Life Insurance Company, of Pittsburgh.
Hope, Ark. Box 76.
Dec. 6, 1932.
Director of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Gentlemen:
Please advise me if Nicholas Miller who was a Captain of the Revolution (connected with the 12th Penn. Regiment) was the Nicholas Miller who lived at Mountjoy Township, Adams Co., Penn. He died in 1804.
I would like to know of the family of Capt. Nicholas Miller above referred to.
I would appreciate also information about one Ludwick Miller , who was a private in the 3rd. Penn. Regiment in the Revolution. Who was his family? C D
Thanking you very much for your interest in this request,
Very truly yours,
Talbot Feild
Talbot Feild.

Power of Attorney H b Mrs. Searfoss
No. 1136
Col. Watson
1 Oct 1890

State of Pennsylvania ) I Eve Scardop do upon Oath testify and declare that I am a daughter and one of the heirs at law of Nicholas Clifton late of said County and do hereby testify and declare that my said Father was a Capt of the Pennsylvania line in the army of the Revolution and that I have never received from the United States a land warrant due me in right of my said father whether or he since that he ever received it or filed his claim to obtain any manner whatever therefor
Know all men by these presents that I Eve Scardop as aforesaid do hereby constitute and appoint Henry Rothkopf of Zanesville Ohio my true and lawful attorney for me and in my name to demand and receive from the Secreta- ry of War of the United States a warrant for the quantity of land due me and the other heirs at law of the said Nicholas Clifton in virtue of his services as a Captain aforesaid and my said attorney is hereby fully authorized and empowered to constitute and appoint one or more substitutes or attorneys under him for the special purposes above named and the same to revoke at will. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 27th Augt 1825
Witness Geo. H. Clifton
Eve Scardop
District Attorney appeared before me the subscriber a- Justice of the Peace in and for said County the above- named Eve Scardop Signer and Sealer to the above- powers of attorney and acknowledged the same to be her voluntary act and used for the purposes therein named. I have hereunto subscribed and acknowledged be- fore me this 27th Augt 1825
Geo. H. Clifton

State of Pennsylvania ss. On this day personally appeared before me the Subscriber a justice of the peace in and for said County
James Smith and Barbara Smith persons of known credibility and uninterested witnesses who being each duly sworn saith that Eve Scarfok who appear to have signed the within power of attorney is the daughter and one of the heirs at law of Nicholas Wilson late of said County deceased who at the time of signing the within power of attorney was alive and of sound mind They say that the said Wilson had five children to wit the before named Eve and Mary Howell who are both widows also August and Timothy who are both dead and have left families and Nicholas who moved from this county to parts unknown to them the said deponents and whether living or left any children they know not and further they say not sworn & subscribed before me this 27th August 1825
Geo. M. Martin
James Smith Barbara Smith mark
N.B. The above oaths were made before signing
Pennsylvania
Northumberland County ss.
I Samuel J. Packer, Prothonotary for the court of common pleas of said county, do certify that George Martin, whose name is subscribed to the foregoing acknowledgment & deposition, was at the time of so doing a justice of the peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn to all whose acts in such office faith & credit are & ought to be given as well in court of justice as elsewhere. In testimony of which I have hereunto subscribed my name & affixed the seal of said court at Sunbury, the 27th day of August, A.D. 1825.
S. J. Packer, Protho

January 31, 1933
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BA-J/EEL
Ludwick Miller- S.22402
Nicholas Miller- B.L.Wt.#1136-300
Mr. Talbot Feild Box 76 Hope, Arkansas
Dear Sir:
Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Ludwick Miller and Nicholas Miller, soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Their histories follow as found in the papers on file in their respective claims for pension, Ludwick Miller, S.22402 and Nicholas Miller, Bounty Land Warrant, Number 1136-300.
Ludwick Miller S.22402
The date and place of birth of Ludwick Miller are not given.
While residing in Schaefferstown, Lancaster (later Lebanon) County, Pennsylvania, he enlisted at the beginning of the year 1776, served as a rifleman in Captain Walter Stewart's Company, Colonel's Deshaz (evidently meant for Colonel John Shee) and Cadwalader's Pennsylvania Regiment, was taken prisoner at Fort Washington, and held in an old French Church or meeting house in New York until in December, 1776, when he was discharged on parole. Immediately afterward he went in the service and stated that he drove a team for his father (the name of his father not given) and others and hauled provisions for the army; length of this service two months.
Ludwick Miller was allowed pension on his application executed November 12, 1833, at which time he was aged seventy-seven years and resided in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania.
There are no data as to his family.

In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Ludwick Miller, S.22402, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing all of the following data:
Ludwick Miller, Certificate No. 22697, issued December 6, 1833, rate $33.33 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Pennsylvania Agency.
Nicholas Miller B.L.Wt.# 1136-300
Nicholas Miller served as captain in the Pennsylvania Line, War of the Revolution.
He died in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, date not given,
He had children, as follows: Eve Scarfoss and Mary Hamel, both widows in 1825; August and Timothy Miller, both deceased in 1825; said August and Timothy left families, no names are given; and Nicholas Miller, whose place of residence in 1825 was unknown. The name of the soldier's wife and the date of their marriage are not given.
Eve Scarfoss applied for bounty land on August 27, 1825, on account of the services of her father, Nicholas Miller, in the War of the Revolution. Application was made in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, on behalf of herself and the other heirs, their names not designated.
Warrant Number 1136 for three hundred acres of bounty land was issued October 1, 1825, on her application.
In order to obtain the location of the land, you should apply to The Commissioner of the General Land Office, Interior Department, Washington, D.C., citing the following data- Warrant No.1136-300- October 1, 1825.
Very truly yours
A. D. MILLER Assistant to Administrator.

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Miller, Nichols GRADE Private LINE Hazen's Regiment
WARRANT NUMBER 134-70 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED March 11, 1791 To — not shown
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.