Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7195, for Henry Miller, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn
★ Miller, Henry
R 7195
CONTENTS

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
1170. 7190.
P. O.
Henry Miller
Service:
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

V Henry Miller Pennsylvania
Rejected let 16 Dec 36 Hon W. Clark
did not serve six months.
7195
7195-

of the application of Henry Miller for a Pension
On testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fifth day of December A.D. 1836
For D. Buck Prothry
Jas. Conder
V 33, 916 Henry Miller Pennsylvania

State of Pennsylvania } and County of Dauphin }
Personally appeared in the open courts of Dauphin County Common Pleas before his Honor Calvin Blythe Repr President Judge of said Court, and N. Hummel Esq One of the Associate Judges of said Court. Henry Miller a resident of Dauphin County and Soldier of the Revolution who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his solemn oath make the following declarative in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by Act of Congress passed Jan 7 th 1832. That in the year 1776 he was drafted in the Militia of Dauphin County then Lancaster and marched under the command of Capt Crouch or Coylen they first marched to Lancaster, thence to Philadelphia and from thence to Amboy in Jersey, at which place the British lay near (on Staten Island) That having served his term of two months in the Militia he enlisted for six months in what was called then the Flying Camp, after having served some time, was taken sick, and hired one Henry Kinter for to serve in his place, who served out the term. That after the expiration of his term of service in the flying camp which was six months and two months as a drafted Militia man he was brought home by his neighbor and fellow soldier Philip Furbaum where he then recovered and got well — He then went into  then went into a mill on Spring Creek which had been destroyed and taken by the American Army then Lancaster County and kept there grinding for the Army for which service he was paid in Continental money, which was all lost to him afterwards — That he is now eighty one years of age.
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.
Henry Miller
Sworn to and subscribed this 5 th day of December 1836. For S. Duck Prothg. Jas. Lowden

Pennsylvania State Dauphin County 3/3
Philip Fishbourn a citizen of the County of Dauphin Being duly Sworn Saith that he was and is well acquainted with Henry Miller the applicant, that he knows of his own knowledge all the facts which the said Henry has set forth in his application, that he was in company with the said Henry Miller from the time he marched from his home until he this deponent helped him home from the flying camp, in which town he was taken sick and hired a substitute who served the balance of the term in his Miller's place - that after he had returned home and recovered his health he then took a mile on Spring Creek and laboured there for several years, that Henry Miller has lived all his life and now lives in what was Lancaster County at the time of the Revolution, that he is of the age which he says he is about eighty one years Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court
Dec. 5. 1836
For P. Buck Potty Das Condor
Philip Fishbourn
Jacob Earnest Esqr
Being duly Sworn Says that he is and has been acquainted with Henry Miller the appli- cant and also Philip Fishbourn, that from his knowledge of those men they are respectable and entitled to full credit for their statements, that he believes Miller to be of the age which he says he is, and has always been reported to have been a Soldier of the Revolution Sworn &>Sworn & Subscribed in Open Court
Dec. 5. 1836
For P. Buck Potty Das Condor
Jacob Earnest

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 such states - And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Philip Fishbourn and Jacob Earnest who have testified and signed the same are residents of Dauphin County and persons entitled to credit, and that their statements are entitled to full credit for
Calvin Blythe J. W. Edmund JB
Henry Miller Esq.
Pennsylvania Dauphin County ss
I Jacob Duck Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Henry Miller for a Pension
On testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fifth day of December A.D. 1836
For J. Duck Prothon
Jas. Conder