Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37246, for Asa Miller, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Miller, Asa
NUMBER
S. 372,46
CONTENTS

No. 13,339 Maine Asa Miller of East Headdam in the state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Tupper of the Mass line, for the term of three years. Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25th of April, 1818. Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd of July 1819 and sent to R. C. Vose, Esq. Augusta, Maine. Arrears to 4th of Decr 1819 to mid 10/30 82.66 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819. 48.00 $130.66 { Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. } Continued
13,339
Maine
Asa Miller 11
of East Headdam in the state of Maine who was a private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Tupper of the Mass line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of the District of Maine at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 25th of April, 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 23rd of July 1819 and sent to R. C. Vose, Esq. Augusta, Maine.
Arrears to 4th of Decr 1819 to mid 10/30 82.66 Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4th Sept 1819. 48.00 $130.66
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Continued

Power Examination Papers
Asa Miller
Rolls Maine
act 1818
filed 23 d Feby 1852
act 1818.
H Brown

POWER OF ATTORNEY
For ascertaining whether any increase or arrears of Pension are due the Widow or heirs of Revolutionary Pensioners, &c.*
State of Maine
County of Waldo
Henry Brown
Suviah Dill
} a Justice of the Peace
Be it known that before me
personally appeared Suviah Dill of Northport aged 76 years, who being duly cautioned and then sworn in due form of law, states that she is the Daughter of Asa Miller who was a Revolutionary Soldier, or Pensioner of the State of Maine and that he died on the twenty day of Nov 1835 and that my mother named Mary died on the nineteenth day of March 1817 and that they were married on the 10 day of Nov in the year 1776 and that they were residents of Freeport in the State of Maine and that they resided there twenty years, and that they resides in Partoim and that furthermore BY THESE PRESENTS, constitutes, appoints and fully empowers and authorises irrevocably and with powers of substitution—F. E. Hassler of Washington City, D. C., as my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name and stead, to examine into, to prosecute, to demand, and to receive from the U. S. Government Officers his rights in all and in any manner of claim for increase or arrears of Pension or Land, that may be due him as the heir of Asa Miller who died leaving the same undrawn, as in right of law, custom, or equity he is or may be entitled.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF she has on this seventeenth day of Feb 1852, hereunto signed her name and affixed her seal.
Witness: Nathan Pillsbury  Suviah X Dill mark
Witness: Betsey Pillsbury Signed, Sealed, acknowledged and Sworn to before me, on this 17 day of Feb 1852.
Henry Brown J. P.
At the same time personally appeared before me Henry Brown a Justice of the Peace two credible and disinterested witnesses named Nathan Pillsbury and Betsey Pillsbury residents of the aforesaid County and State, who having been by me cautioned and then duly sworn according to law, do depose and say each for himself, that Asa Miller was a Revolutionary soldier and that Suviah Dill was by him always treated as and is by the witnesses believed to be the Daughter of the said Revolutionary Soldier.
Nathan Pillsbury 
Betsey Pillsbury 
Sworn to before me the day and year first above written.
Henry Brown J. P. State of Maine
County of Waldo } to wit:
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That Henry Brown Esq., before whom the foregoing affidavits and acknowledgment were made, and who has thereunto subscribed his name, was at the time of so doing, a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid, duly commissioned and sworn, and that his signature above written is genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Supreme County Court, this 18th day of February one thousand eight hundred and fifty two
A Paton Clerk.
* If a Widow applies state "the date of marriage, and date of death of her husband."

No. 2.
Asa Miller (13339)
no property. old & poor. unable to work
Can
R. C. Vore argent

No 7 State of Maine.
KENNEBEC COUNTY, ss.
ON this twenty sixth day of July, 1820, personally appeared before Nathan Weston Junior a Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset, being a Court of Record for said State Counties, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having original jurisdiction, unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Asa Miller aged seventyone years, resident in Monmouth in the County of Kennebec within said State Circuit, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on his oath, declare that he served in the Revolutionary war as follows, viz. in the Company commanded by Captain Curtis and Regiment commanded by Colonel Francis of the line of the State of Massachusetts upon the Continental Establishment, for the period of One year
that his original declaration was made before Judge Weston on the twenty fifth day of April 1818; that he is now on the Maine Roll, and that his pension certificate is numbered 13339. And I, the said Asa Miller do further solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States, on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen; and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed.
Attest R.C. Nourse
Asa his X Miller mark
The following is a Schedule of my whole Estate and income, necessary clothing and bedding excepted, viz :
I have no estate, real or personal whatever, except my poor clothing. My wife died about two years since, and I live with my daughter Betsy , a poor Widow, and have no means of support except my pension from government. I am by occupation a labourer; but by reason of my advanced age I am able to do but a very little labor.
Attest R.C. Nourse
Asa his X Miller mark
Subscribed Sworn to and declared both the oath and schedule on the twenty sixth day of July 1820
Before me Nathan Weston Jun. Just S.J. Court.

State of Maine
Kennebec ss:
I John Davis, clerk of all the Judicial Courts, holden within and for the County of Kennebec, do hereby Certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Records, of the said Courts, and that the original was exhibited in open Court, and I do further Certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited, in the aforesaid schedule is nothing. —
In Testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this ninth day of October in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty. —
John Davis } Clerk of the Court, for the County of Kennebec.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
To the Honorable the Secretary of the Department of war of the United States.
I the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts do certify to your Honor, that Asa Miller a citizen of the United States, now resident in Monmouth in the District of Maine, and within the said Circuit, on the twenty fifth day of April A. D. 1818, made application to me to receive his declaration under oath, and such other evidence, as was in his power to produce; and to transmit the same, and the proceedings had thereon, to your Honor that he might be placed on the pension list of the United States, agreeably to the provisions of an act, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war", passed March 18. A. D. 1818, which declaration, and the other evidence produced by said applicant is herunto annexed.
And I do further certify to your Honor that after a careful examination of the said applicant, and a full consideration of the evidence in the case, it appears to me, that the said applicant did serve as a private soldier, in the war of the revolution, against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, for more than nine months, as stated in his declaration aforesaid; and that, from his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the Court in which I preside, to be hereunto affixed.
Nathan Weston Jun r C. Justice C. Court C Pleas 2 d East. Circuit.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I Ezekiel Hacket aged fifty seven years upon oath testify and declare, that being myself a soldier at the time, I know that Asa Miller within named served as a private soldier in the continental service nearly two years, from the Spring of 1780 as he has within stated. I left the service in September 1781 when I left him still serving in the army, and I have no doubt but what he continued to serve through the war.
Ezekiel his X Hacket mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Hancock ss.
On the fifth day of May 1819 Ezekiel Hacket above named being a disinterested and credible witness, made oath to the truth of the above deposition by him signed, it being first read to him. Before me, Nathan Weston Jun. C. Just C. C. C. P. —
I Willard Sears, aged seventy years born of Barnum in the District of Maine do upon Oath testify and declare that I am well acquainted with Asa Miller within named. I have been acquainted with him ever since the year 75. and I knew him as a Continental Soldier in the war of the revolution, — and frequently saw him in the years previous in 1776 and I knew of his entering into the service having seen the said Miller on duty in the year previous I well knew of his serving in Col Francis Massachusetts Regt as he has stated in his declaration. I did not personally know of his serving in Col Tappan's Regt. but having lived a near neighbor to him since the war, and from circumstances he has often related. I fully believe he served as he has stated — Willard Sears Hancock County
July 1. 1819. Personally appeared Willard Sears, above named & he made Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed. and I certify that the said Sears is in my opinion a credible & disinterested witness.
Robert C. Vose Esq. is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Hancock. Nathan Weston Jun.
Robert C. Vose. Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
KENNEBEC, ss.
THE Subscriber, Clerk of all the Judicial Courts, held within the said County of Kennebec, hereby certifies, that the Honorable NATHAN WESTON, Junior, Esquire, before whom the annexed proceedings were held, is Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas, for the Second Eastern Circuit of Massachusetts, embracing the Counties of Lincoln, Kennebec and Somerset ; and that by the direction of the said Judge, I have affixed unto his Certificate bearing his signature, the seal of the said Court in which he presides.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand : Dated at Augusta, in said County of Kennebec, this tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen.
J. M. Davis
over in exists

I Alexander Gray, aged sixty nine years, now of Lisbon in the County of Lincoln, District of Maine - do upon Oath testify and declare that I well knew Asa Miller, a Continental soldier in the War of the Revolution - the said Miller to my knowledge enlisted and served the period by him fully stated, and the said Miller lived in an adjoin- -ing town to me during the Revolutionary, and from my knowledge of said Miller, & going into the family, and from what he has many years since related to me - I fully believe he served as he has stated in his declaration which has been read to me - The said Miller possessed the character of a man of truth - I have known him since the year 1775 -
Alexr Gray
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Kennebec County ss May 20. 1829 - Personally appeared Alexander Gray, above named to me known, and he made Oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed. And I Certify that the said Alexander Gray, is in my opinion a credible Witness & veracious. Before me - Robert C. Vose, Justice of the Peace
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Robert C. Vose Esq is a Justice of the Peace for the county of Kennebec.
Nathan Weston Jr C. Just. C. C. C. Phas

The undersigned Selectmen of Haverhill do hereby certify that, in our opinion Mr. Asa Miller (who now lives in this town) is a very poor man and need support from his Country and who we understand served in the Revolutionary War in the Continental Establishment
Moses Merrill John Harvey
April 13, 1818.
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I Asa Miller, aged Sixty eight years, a citizen of the U. States, born in East Haddam, in Connecticut, now resident in Monmouth in the District of Maine, upon oath testify and declare that in April 1775, I enlisted as a fifer for the term of eight months, the first eight months service, in the war of the revolution against the common enemy, upon the continental establishment, in Capt James Curtis's company, and Col. Cargill's regiment of the Massachusetts line or troops. This period I fully served out and was honorably but verbally discharged at Cambridge, the last of December 1775. The certificate of my Captain is herewith forwarded. In the month of February 1776 I again enlisted as a private soldier, in what remained of the first year's service, then more than ten months, in Capt Samuel Coombes's company and Col. Francis's regiment, Massachusetts line or troops. This period I also fully served out, and was honorably discharged from the army at Peekskill New York the last of December 1776. My discharge I have since lost, and it is not now to my knowledge in existence. In the spring of 1780 I again enlisted as a private in the same service and upon the continental establishment for the period of during the war in Capt Coombes's company, and Col. Tappan's regiment of the Massachusetts line. Under this enlistment I served until June 1783 when I was finally and honorably discharged at West Point. My discharge I kept until within a few years, but it is now lost and not in existence to my knowledge. From my reduced circumstances, I need the assistance of my country for support. And I do hereby relinquish all my claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the U. States, if any; but I am not to my knowledge borne on any pension list whatever. I request that I may be placed upon the pension list for the District of Maine.
Asa his Miller mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Kennebec.
On the twenty fifth day of April, A.D. 1818, the above named Asa Miller, after having been duly and carefully examined made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed, the same having been first read to him. Before me
Nathan Weston Esq Justice of Court C. Plus 2 Eastern Circuit

I Ezekiel Hackett upon oath testify and declare that I know that Asa Miller within named enlisted into the year's service in '76 as he has within stated, and I have no doubt he served out the term of his enlistment. Ezekiel his Hackett mark. Subscribed and sworn to July 12 1819 (the deponent being in my opinion a credible witness) Before me Nathan Weston Junr C Just C C C Plus
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
I John Wade of Monmouth in the District of Maine, aged thirty years, upon oath testify and declare, that I am well acquainted with Asa Miller within named. I have often seen him take from a little box a paper which he said was his discharge from the continental service in the revolutionary war. I did not read it, but have no doubt it was his discharge. I saw it last about seven years ago. It is now gone from the box, and within a few days diligent search has been made for it, but it could not be found. From his reduced circumstances, he needs the assistance of his country for support. He sustains the character of a man.
John Wade
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Know all by me.
On the twenty fifth day of April A. D. 1818, the above named John Wade, having been first carefully examined, made oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition, by him subscribed.
Before me,
I am of opinion that the above named Wade is a credible witness. May 5. 1819 Nathan Weston Junr
Nathan Weston Junr C. Just. C. Court C. Plus 2 d Eastern Circuit.
John Miller
Asa Miller - Monmouth Nathan Weston Junr Col. Francis May 1796 - Reg 1780 to June 1783 Nathan Weston Junr April 25 1818

37 246 Very INVALID.
File No. 87.246
Asa Miller
His Rev. Mr.
Act: 75 March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2, Page 278
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Prof Willard Sears Ezekiel Harkness