Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 7174, for Aaron Miller, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
mass.
Miller, Aaron
R 7174.
CONTENTS

James Merico July the 31th 1783
Clara Miller was born
June the 6th 1784 Sabbath
Laura Miller was born
Dec r the 20th 1785 Wed Tuesday
Devey Miller was Born
Oct r 8th 1787 Monday
Aaron Miller was Born
Feb d the 9th 1789 Thursday
Ruby Miller was Born
March 9th 1792 Thursday
Beulah Miller was Born
Sept r the 3th 1793 Tuesday
Alva Miller Born
Aug t 8th 1795
Miller Area

John M c Cluskey Miller Born June 17 th 1797 Sabbath
Nov r the 25 th 1797 then Laura Miller Died our second Child
Laura Miller Born June 5 th 1799 wednesday
July the 19 th 1801 then Jonathan Miller was Born this was our tenth Child on a Sabbath
July the 19 th 1801 then Elizabeth Miller was Born on Tuesday our eleventh Child

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Miller, Aaron Mass R7174

Aaron Miller was Born Febry 17th 1752 Bethiah Miller was Born Febry 12th 1763

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March the 4th 1804 Mary Elizabeth Miller Died on a Sabbath Day She was four months and sixteen days old 1805 June the 11th there was Born Amos Miller My twelfth child on a Sabbath
Mother Amos Miller Mass 3

State of New York Chenango County ss
Declaration of John C. Miller of Smyrna Chenango County (NY) in order to draw a pension for the services of his father Aaron Miller in the War of the Revolution -
John C. Miller the applicant above named being duly sworn according to law doth depose and say, that his father Aaron Miller (now deceased) while living in Cam- bridge in the State of Massachusetts enlisted and entered the service of the United States in the War with Great Britain in the year 1775 and continued in the service of the United States in said War from time to time until some time in the year 1781 as this deponent was informed by his said father while living and verily believes to be true - That deponent has no means of knowing how long his said father Aaron Miller served in said War at what periods and under what officers he served and does not know of any living witnesses by whom he can prove the same, and therefore refers to the deposition of the said Aaron Miller hereto annexed and which depo- sition has (as deponent is informed & believes) been once presented to the pension office and the claim denied on the ground that as the law then stood, there must be a service of nine months at one time in order to entitle the applicant to a pension as will appear by a memorandum

on the back of said deposition - This deponent therefore refers the Com- missioner of Pensions to the annexed dep- osition of the said Aaron Miller as con- taining a true history of the said Aaron Miller's services in the War of the revolution as well as the rolls in the Post Office Depart- ment at Washington, in the Massachusetts line believing all the services of the said Aaron Miller in said War will be found on said records, that this deponent has the only record of the marriage of the said Aaron Miller which he knows or has heard of, that said Record is hereto attached and is in the hand writing of the said Aaron Miller and was kept in the family of the said Aaron Miller as a family record of the marriage of the said Aaron Miller & the births of the said Aaron Miller's Children, which deponent believes to be true - from which record it ap- pears the said Aaron Miller was married to Bethiah Dewey on the 31 st day of July 1783. which this deponent believes to be true, that deponent does not know of any evidence by which he can prove said marriage except by the said family record hereto annexed as aforesaid. That the names of the Children of the Aaron & Bethiah are Clara Dalrymple, Dewey Miller, Aaron Miller, Ruba Brown, Bethiah Wheaton, Olin Miller, John C. Miller, Laura, Lewis, Fanny, Overton  Outlaw & Amos Miller which are all the heirs left by the said Aaron Miller at the time of his death

except Clara, Ruba, Bethiah & Olive and all of whom are still living and are all of full age - That the said Bethiah the wife of the said Aaron Miller and the mother of the Children aforesaid, died at the town of Byron in the State of New York on the 24 th day of September 1823, and the said Aaron Miller the father of the aforesaid Children died at the town of Brookfield in the State of New York on the 14 th day of June 1829. That this deponent is the same person mentioned in the annexed family record as John Mc. Cluskey Miller and is a son of the said Aaron & Bethiah and was aged fifty five years on the 17. day of June last past at the time he died deponent was at his father the said Aaron Miller, atten- ded the funeral and saw him buried and further says not.
Subscribed & sworn to before me Feb.
12. 1833
John C Miller
Roswell Judson County Judge
Note the words
"except Clara, Ruba, Bethiah and Olive"
and " At the time he died " and " Notow "
were interlined in the above deposition by me before the same was subscribed and sworn to
R. Judson County Judge

State of New York } Chautauqua County p. 1
On the 13 th day of February 1853 before me personally appeared the above named John C. Miller with whom I am personally acquainted and who being by me duly sworn made solemn oath to the foregoing deposition by him subscribed: And I further certify that the said John C. Miller is a respectable man of truth and veracity and his statements are entitled to full credit —
February 12, 1853
Roswell Hudson County Judge of Chautauqua County

Aaron Miller
Declaration
April 28 th 1818
Aaron Miller joined Did not serve 9 months under one enlistment in the Continental establish- ments.
Inadmissible 28 th April 1878

State Third District
On this twentyeighth day of April 1818 before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for Franklin County, personally appeared Aaron Miller aged Sixty years Resident in the Town of Warren in said County Who being by me first duly Sworn, according to Law, doth as He saith make the following Declaration in order to obtain the Pension made by the late 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, That the said Aaron Miller, enlisted at Cambridge on the first of May 1775 into Captain David Noble's Company Col. Patterson's Regiment Massachusetts line seven months was regularly discharged on the first of January following (1776) at Cambridge as above, That He served three months as a Volunteer on the White Plains Don the Sound in the Summer of 1776 but Has forgotten what Officers He served under, That He enlisted in the month of May 1777 into Capt. Aaron Noble's Company Col. Brown's Regiment Massachusetts line for three months but continued in the service until He had served five months was present at the taking of Burgoyne was Verbally discha- rge, That He enlisted at Pittsfield in June 1781 as an Artillerist (He was a Black Smith) that He served Six months, Was at the taking of Cornwallis, & Discharged at West Point, in the state of New York That His Discharges are lost. That He is in pecuniary Circumstances and stands in need of the Assistance of His Country for support; and that He has no other Pension now in his power of his said Pension.
Sworn to and Dulanced before me the day and year first above written
W. H. G. [Signature]
I David Wilson Judge etc as aforesaid do certify that it Appears to my Satisfaction that the said Aaron Miller did serve in the Revolutionary War, as stated in the foregoing declaration against the Common enemy; and I now transmit the Proceedings and testimony taken before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War, Pursuant, to the directions of the aforesaid Act of Congress.
Balarue 28 th April 1818
W. H. G. [Signature]

State of New York Genesee County } ss } I Simeon Cummings Clerk of the County aforesaid do certify that David McCacken before whom the within proceedings appear to have been taken is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for said County acting under the Authority of this state and that the within are his signatures
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Affixed the seal of said County this 12. day of May A.D. 1818 S. Cummings

State of New York County of Chenango
I Horace Read Clerk of said County of Chenango & Clerk of the County Courts of said County do hereby Certify that at a County Court held in and for said County held at the Court House in Norwich in said County on the third Monday of December 1852 Satisfactory Evid- ence has been Exhibited to the said Court that Aaron Miller now deceased was married to Bethiah Dewey at Pittsfield in the State of Massachusetts on the 31 st day of July 1783. that the said Bethiah wife of the said Aaron Miller died at the town of Byron in the State of New York on the 24 th day of September 1823. and that the said Aaron Miller died at the town of Brookfield in the State of New York on the 14 th day of June 1829 and that the said Aaron Miller at the time of his death left the following Children Survi- ving him who are all of full age and are still living to wit Clara Dalrymple Dewey Miller Aaron Miller Ruba Brown Bethiah Wheaton Olive Wilson John C Miller Laura Lewis Fanny Norton & Aaron Miller

In testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal of Office at Norwich this 21 st day of December 1852
James H. Fox Supt Clerk of Chautauqua County

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston :
March 11 1852.
I hereby Certify, That, from an examination of the Books and Documents relating to Military Services in the War of the Revolution, which remain in this Department, it appears that the name Aaron Miller is borne on a roll of Capt. David Nobles' Co. from Pittsfield. Apl. 22. 1775. 7 days as private.
On rolls of 8 mos. service 1775. Capt. D. Nobles' Co. Col. Patterson's Regt. as private of Pittsfield from Apl. 29. Ingers Coast roll of Co. Oct. 26.
On an account of services rendered from Pittsfield - Capt. Wm. Francis' Co. Marches to Albany + were discharged Jany. 19. 1776. 5 days as private.
On roll of Capt. Enoch Nobles' Co. Col. Brown's Regt. from Berkshire Co. from June 29. 1777. 24 days as private.
On roll of Capt. John King's Co. Col. Ashley's Regt. from Berkshire Co. as private from July 21. to Aug 15. 1777. 25 days 7 1/2 miles from home.
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On rolls of Capt Rufus Allen Esq. Secretary of Metrop Col. Rossetter's Regt. as from Pittsfield from Oct. 14. 1780. 3 days + from Oct. 18. 1780. 3 days.
And I further Certify, That, before search made for evidence of said facts, the application hereto annexed was filed in this Office, in the form in which the same now appears; that the search was made by myself and my clerks alone; and that said application, and the certificate above set forth, contain all the facts and circumstances within my knowledge, pertaining to the case.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
Ebenezer D. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

In the matter of the Application of John C. Miller for Certifi- cate of the Services of Aaron Miller in the War of the Revo- lution
Sent post July 16
Please return Certificate to - R. Madison Sherburne Chautauqua County (N.Y.)
Cash money order
8918

Application for Certificate of Revolutionary Services - made by John C. Miller the son of the party who rendered the service -
State of New York Chenango County Town of Sherburne
The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is hereby requested to furnish evidence from the Rolls in his office of the service of Aaron Miller in the War of the Revolution;
He was a native of Pittsfield or Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts, he enlisted in Cambridge in the State of Massachusetts in the year 1775 as a private in the Company commanded by Captain David Noble, Col. Pattersons Regi- ment Massachusetts line served eight months discharged at Cambridge in January 1776 - served three months as a volunteer on the White Plains and on the Sound in the Summer of 1776, names of officers not ascertained, Enlisted in May 1777 into Captain Enoch Nobles Company Col. Browns Regiment Massachusetts line for three months and served five months, was at the taking of Burgoyne - again enlisted at Pittsfield in June 1781 as an artificer (Blacksmith) served six months was at the taking of Cornwallis and was discharged at West Point in the State of New York. I am now fifty five years old and my memory does not enable me to state the services of the said Aaron Miller more fully than

I have above stated there Witness my hand this 12 th day of February A.D. 1833 — Signed by said John C. Miller my witness — Ralph Hudson County Judge

In the matter of the application of John G. Miller on behalf of the heirs at Law of Aaron Miller late of Brookfield in the State of New York deceased for a pension for the revolutionary services of the said Aaron Miller in the war of the Revolution -
State of New York } Chautauqua County ss:
Silas Ames and Betsey Ames his wife of Sherburne in said County being duly and severally sworn say that the said Aaron Miller mentioned in the affidavit of John G. Miller, died in the town of Brookfield in the State of New York in the month of June 1829. the particular day in said month of June that said Aaron Miller died these deponents do not recollect & cannot state. That the funeral of the said Aaron Miller took place at the house of these deponents in Cohasset  Brookfield near Brookfield aforesaid, in the month of June aforesaid that these deponents both saw the corpse of the said Aaron Miller at said funeral and assisted in the ceremonies of the burial of the said Aaron Miller, & further these deponents say not -
Subscribed & sworn to before me March 15 th 1833 -
Silas Ames Betsey Ames
Roswell Johnson County Judge

State of New York } Chautauqua County p: } I hereby certify that on the 15. day of March 1853 before me person- ally appeared the within named Silas Ames and Betsey Ames with whom I am personally acquainted and who being severally sworn by me according to law made solemn oaths to the foregoing dep- osition by each of them subscribed and I further certify that the said Silas Ames and Betsey Ames are respectable persons of truth and veracity and their testimony and statements are entitled to full credit. Dated March 15. 1853
Roswell Johnson County Judge of Chautauqua County

State of New York Genesee County ss: Dewey Miller of the town of Byron in the said County of Genesee being duly sworn says that he is the son of Aaron Miller and Bethiah his wife both now deceased, that the said Aaron Miller died in Brookfield in the State of New York and the said Bethiah Miller mother of this deponent and wife of the said Aaron Miller died died at Byron in the State of New York on the 24: day of September 1823, deponent attended the funeral of the said Bethiah and saw her buried and further this deponent saith not sworn to before
Dewey Miller
Me. April 2 nd 1833
Daniel F. Smith Justice of the Peace in and for said County
State of New York Genesee County ss: Sally Miller of the town of Byron in said County being duly sworn says that she is the wife of the above named Dewey Miller, that she this deponent was well acquainted with the above named Bethiah Dewey the wife of the above named Aaron Miller both of whom are now deceased, that she this deponent was present at the death attended the funeral of the said Bethiah Miller at the time of her decease and saw the said Bethiah buried, that the said Bethiah died at

Byron in the said County of Genesee on the 24 th day of September 1823 and further this deponent saith not Sworn before me April 2 nd 1833. Sally Miller Daniel J. Almile Justice of the Peace in said county
I hereby certify that on the 2 nd day of April 1833 before me personally appeared Devey Miller and Sally Miller his wife and being severally duly sworn made solemn oath to the depositions by them severally above described, and I further certify that the said Devey Miller and Sally Miller are persons of respectability, truth and veracity and their statements are true.
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. Genesee County Clerk's Office,
I CERTIFY, that D. J. Merrill before whom the annexed Instrument in writing was proved or acknowledged, was, at the time of taking the same, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly authorized to take the same; and that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe that the signature to said certificate is genuine, and that the annexed Deed is executed and acknowledged according to the laws of this State.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my Official Seal, at Batavia, in said County, this 4 th day of April 1833.
M. B. Soper Clerk.

Byron in the said County of Genesee on the 24 th day of September 1823 and further this deponent saith not Sworn before me April 2 nd 1833-      Sally Miller David F. Almill Justice of the Peace in said county
I hereby certify that on the 2 nd day of April 1833 before me personally appeared Dervey Miller and Sally Miller his wife and being severally duly sworn made solemn oath to the depositions by them severally above described, and I further certify that the said Dervey Miller and Sally Miller are persons of respectability, truth and veracity and their statements are en- titled to full credit Dated April 2 nd 1833
David F. Almill Justice of the Peace

James Cady Church of Sherburne in said County being duly sworn says that he is aged ninety one years and is a pensioner of the United States, that he was well acquainted with Aaron Miller and Bethiah his wife while they were living, that they are the same persons described in the foregoing affidavit of John G. Miller as the father and mother of the said John G. Miller, that deponent resided near the said Aaron & Bethiah while they lived in Brookfield  Burlington in the State of New York during many years and well knows that the said Aaron Miller and Bethiah lived together as husband and wife and raised a large family of children among which the said John G. Miller is one of said children, that deponent knew the said Aaron Miller and Bethiah his wife lived together as husband and wife more than thirty years previous to the death of the said Aaron Miller
witness present Roswell Judson Record Marks
his James Cady X Church mark
Note the word "Brookfield" erased and the words James "Burlington" interlined before execution. R. Judson Co. Judge
Sworn before me April 20 th 1833- Roswell Judson County Judge

I hereby certify that the within named James Cady Church is personally known to me to be a person of respectability, truth and veracity, & his statements are entitled to full credit, and I further certify that by reason of the loss of eyesight, he was unable to see to write his name, that said deposition was carefully read to said Church before the same was sworn to - April 20. 1853
Roswell Hudson County Judge

State of New York } County of Chenango } ss
I Horace S. Read County Clerk of the said County of Chenango, hereby certify that Roswell Judson Esq. before whom the foregoing depositions purport to be taken and sworn, and who has subscribed his name to the foregoing certificates, was at the dates thereof and at the time and times of so doing, County Judge in and for the said County of Chenango, duly elected, and sworn, and that his signature above written to all of the depositions by him taken and the several certificates by him subscribed is genuine -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Chenango County Court this 23 d day of April 1853
H S. Read Clerk of Chenango Co.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
7174.
P. O.
Harm Miller
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18 .
Discharged: _____, 18 .
Application filed: _____, 18 .
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No 38,555. Aaron Miller dec d NY
R Hudson April 27 1853
Rejected
7174
Act June 7 1852

State of New York Genesee County ss.
Eleazar bowles being duly sworn - deposes and saith that he has for the term of three years been personally and intimately acquainted with Aaron Miller and that from general report and personal knowledge is convinced that the said Aaron Miller is incapable from old age and ill health of obtaining a comfortable subsistence from manual labor. and this deponent further states that in that time the said Aaron Miller has sustained a character unimpeachable. and further that the said Aaron Miller has very little property and is by common report account- -ed a very poor man. and further this deponent saith soe
Eleazar Bowles
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 29th Day of December 1819 and I certify the deponent is a credible witness.
Samuel Luggart Commissioner for taking oaths
State of New York Genesee County ss.
on the 29th day of December 1819 personally came before the Subscriber one of the Commissioners appointed

in and for the said County to take oaths acknowledgements to William Shepherd who being duly sworn deposes and saith that he has been personally and intimately acquainted with Aaron Miller for and during the term of twenty four years, and that from personal acquaintance he is confident that the said Aaron owing to ill health and old age is incapable of obtaining a comfortable support from manual labor and that the said Aaron has very little visible property and that the said Aaron has during said term sustained a character unimpeachable for honesty and sobriety and further this deponent saith not
Wm Shepherd — signed —
Taken and subscribed this 29th day of December 1819 before me —
James Saggart Commissioner of the
Peace