Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13929, for Thomas Millan, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass.
Millan, Thomas
S. 13929
CONTENTS
carded

2825 New York
Thomas Millan
of Madison in the State of New York who was a Sergt in the Compy commanded by Captain Gray of the Regt commanded by Col Brewer in the Massachusetts line for 12 1/2 months increased from $36 11/100 to $62 50/100 8 July 1833.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 62 Dollars 50 Cents per annum. commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 8 th day of July 1833 and sent to Millan Jr. Madison N.Y.
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 33 — $25.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 Sep 33 31.25
$156.25
{ Revolutionary Claim, { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by S. Cromwell Clerk
Book D Vol. 5 Page 126
Certificate sent to J Millan Jr Madison NY 8 July '33

E. Springfield August 13
10
Mr Thomas Millum
Madison, Madison County N.Y.
adm 12 1/2 mos. long
11/4
Thomas Millum
7011

In order to obtain the benefit of an act of Congress, passed June 7th 1832 State of New York Town & County of Madison
On this thirtieth day of 1839 June or July, before me James Breckridge First Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in & for the aforesaid County of Madison, Thomas Mullen Aged eighty years on the third day of April last who being first duly sworn, according to law deposeth on his oath that in the following decla- -ration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832 that he enlisted or rather turned out, with others, as a minute man, so called at the time in the Town of Pelham County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts, & embodied with the company so formed, at Pelham aforesaid, under the command of Captain Isaac Gray of said Pelham who was elected by said company, and Ensign Wilson of Greenwich, in the same County elected in like manner, & a Lieutenant Willington, elected in like manner the given names of the Lieutenant & Ensign he does not remember, and they commenced their march for the vicinity of Boston in April 1775 about 21 st or 22 nd day of the said month, immed- ately after hearing of the battle of Lexington, & in their march passed through Greenwich, Hartwick Braintree & through Worcester direct to Cambridge Watertown, where they were mustered into a Regiment of Provincial Co. commanded by a Colonel Brown of Waltham, in the same County in which was situated Watertown & Cambridge, his given name he does

1 forgotten, he does not recollect the name of the Major. The Lieutenant resided in Watertown afore- said, where he joined the company with his recruits of Minute men. Some time in May of the same year their Regiment marched from Watertown to Cambridge, and on the morning early, of the Seventeenth, I were following Col. Brecons Regiment and a Regiment commanded by a Col. Woodbridge of South Berkely in the County of Hampshire in said State were ordered to march, & did march to reinforce the Troops who had taken post on Bunker hill the night previous; he was engaged in said battle during the whole of the conflict, and afterwards was Stationed with their Regiment for the rest of of the residue of the campaign, on prospect hill in or near Cambridge, & before Boston & there remained, until the time the engagement expired, which was eight months. He did not receive any discharge, nor do he members that any one at that time did receive a discharge He knew Gen. Putnam, of Connecticut, & General Percy of Northampton, & saw General Putnam during the Battle of Bunker hill & also saw him in the retreat from the hill. He also knew Gen. Green and General Washington, after the latter had arrived & taken command of the army. He does not know of any except two, now living in this State, who were with him in the battle of Bunker's & in this campaign hill, I went; John White now a resident of this Town & John Wood who now resides in the Town of Springfield in the County of Hays in this State. He served during this campaign as first Lieutenant He again volunteered for three months service under a requisition made from the State authorities under Capt. Hooker of Greenwich in the County & State aforesaid; a company was formed from several

Their Company & as all the Regiment supposed & understood at the time furnished their own provisions & bore their own expenses from the time they mustered, through the whole march to Puskills; while there they had rations, & when they left Morristown to return home they were furnished with four days provision, & a sum of money computed at two pence a mile for each mile they had to travel, in returning home, after the allowance of the four days provision, was expended. This is all the pay or compensation he has received for the services in this campaign. He has no remembrance of receiving any discharge. He does not know of any one now alive, who was out with him during this campaign, at least not in this State,
He again volunteered about the first of July of the same year, & being then a resident of the same place as before, under Lieutenant Holbart of the same residence, & served a month and an half; the volunteers, with which he was associated marched through Amherst, Hadley, Northampton, & crossed the Green Mountains by way of Patridgefield, & passed through New Lebanon in this State, to the Hudson River at or near the present site of Troy, & passed up the east side of said River through Cassineburgh to Fort Edward, General St Clair, & General Schuyler, had the command of the army stationed at Fort Edward, the army soon after retreated down to Fort Miller & there crossed the Hudson to the west bank & retreated down through Saratoga, & the main Army encamped

On Schuyler's farms. He was with the rear guard, on this retreat, & when the army encamped at Schuyler's farms, the rearguard was encamped about three miles above, and were surrounded in the night by a body of Indians and attacked, early in the morning, & driven & pursued to the main army, where they encamped. The rearguard was at this time commanded by a Maj. Hull, the loss of the guard in this attack in killed & captured was generally reported to be one fourth of its number. He left the army, about the middle of August of the same year, to return home, He did not receive a discharge, & in leaving going to the army & in returning home he furnished his own expenses, & has never received any pay — John Hood of Spring who now resides in Springfield in the County of Otsego, in the State of New York, was a Volunteer, with him was also in the Indian battle or skirmish above named, He served in this war also as the first sergeant of the company
He was born in the town of Pelham in the County of Hampshire & State of Massachusetts on the third day of April 1752 as he has been informed & believes; there is no publick record of his age, that he knows of — He Resided after the Revolutionary war in the place of his birth until the year 1793 when removed into this State, & settled in the place

Where he now resided to wit in the Town & County of Madison & State of N. York He has no documentary evidence,
He is well acquainted with  or more has been for thru thirty years last past with Captain Samuel White Doctor Eliab Putnam, Capt. Lucas Hatch Col. Enactus Cleveland John Lucas all of this Town and many others to whom reference can be had.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present & declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State
Subscribed and sworn to Chas. Miller before me August 13th 1832
James B. Walbridge first Judge of Madison Co.
We Seth Blair Samuel H. Bates Presidents of the Town of Madison in the County of Madison and State of New York do certify that we are well acquainted with Thomas Miller who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration and that we believe him to be eighty years of age, that he is respected and beloved in the neighbourhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Rev- -olution and that we can say in that opinion and if the said Samuel White do further certify that resided in the Town of Pitsburg Massachusetts and was well acquainted with the said Thomas Miller during the Revolutionary war, and from common report at that place at that and from what I then learned from the said Millers family he was repeatedly in the Army as a soldier.

and must have served as its fourth in said dis- tation or nearly so.
And that from so long and intimate acquaintance with the said Mellen we do further certify that he is a man of unimpeachable character for truth and veracity and has ever been a man of respectable standing on that which we have always heard reported, and from our knowledge of the character of the said Mellen we have full confidence in the facts set forth in his said declaration.
Subscribed & sworn to before me this 13 th of August 1832
Samuel White Seth Blair
James Breckridge first Judge of said County.
And the said Judge do here by deliver my opinion after investigating the matter and putting the interrogate -res prescribed by the War Department, that the above nominal appointment was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states, & I further certify that I am acquainted with Seth Blair and Samuel White who have subscribed and sworn to the foregoing affidavit and with John White who has sub- -scribed and sworn to the affidavit here to annex and that they are generally men of good character for truth and veracity and entitled to full credit.
James Breckridge first Judge of Madison County.
I the said Judge do also further certify that the said Thomas Mellen is entirely unable to attend in Court to make his declaration being so feeble and so far disabled that he is confined to his own house and unable to depart there from for any purpose whatsoever.
August 20 th 1832
James Breckridge first Judge Madison Co.

New York Madison County Clerk's Office
I, Andrew S. Sloan, Clerk of the said County, do certify that James B. Eldridge before whom the two preceding Affidavits purport to have been sworn and also whose name appears to the two within Cer- -tificates was, at the dates of the same, the first Judge of the Court in and for the said County - And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavits and Certificates to be his proper hand writing and signature - Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 24 th day of Novem- -ber 1832.
A. S. Sloan Clk.

State of New York } County of Madison } ss
John White of the Town & County of Madison having been duly sworn according to law, do depose & say, that he is well acquainted with Thomas Miller, of Madison aforesaid, & has been of his  his early years, having been born in the same resided in the Town of Pelham County of Hampshire & State of Massachusetts, he was personally knowing to the services rendered by the said Thomas Miller during the first year of the war, at or near Cambridge & Boston, as he states in the foregoing declaration, having him self entered the same service, & from the same Town, but not of the same company, or Regiment. He was in the habit of seeing him frequently, during the campaign, while he was stationed at Prospect hill in or near Cambridge, & always understood that he entered the service for eight months. He has no doubt but that he served in said campaign as he states; he has always been reputed to have been in the Battle of Bunkerhill, he knows of him & his company to which he belonged to have been at Cambridge near Boston, a few days after the battle of Lexington, & saw him frequently until the close of the said campaign with the army at Prospect hill. He believes no doubt but that he is the age he states, and that he the deponent now resides in the Town of Madison in said County and is thirty one years of age. & further this deponent saith not.
Sworn to and subscribed before Mon August 13 th 1832
John White
J. B. Walbridge post judge
Wood. Co.

State of New-York Madison County Clerk's Office
vs. I, Andrew S. Sloan, Clerk of the said County, do certify that James B. Eldredge, before whom the three preceding affidavits purport to have been sworn, and whose name appears to the preceding Certificate was, at the dates of the same, the first Judge of the County Courts in and for the said County, and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavits and Certificate, to be his proper hand writing and signature - Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 14 th day of August 1832.
State of New-York Madison County ss
A. S. Sloan Clk
I James B Eldredge first Judge of said County do certify that I am acquainted with John White who has subscribed and sworn to the within affidavit and that said White is a man of good character for veracity and that his statement is entitled to credit. James B Eldredge first Judge.
State of New-York Madison County Clerk's Office
vs. I, Andrew S. Sloan, Clerk of the said County, do certify that James B. Eldredge before whom the within Affidavit purports to have been sworn, and also whose name appears to the above Certificate, was, at the date of the same, the first Judge of the County Courts in and for the said County - And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said Affidavit and Certificate to be his proper hand and signature - Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 24 th day of November 1832 -
A. S. Sloan Clk

State of New York } Otsago County ss. }
John Wood of Springfield in said County aged seventy eight years being duly sworn says, that in the year 1775 this deponent & Thomas Millan both lived in the town of Pelham Massachusetts, that in the months of April or May according to this deponent's recollection, the said Thomas Millan enlisted in Captain Gray's company in Col: Brown's Regiment and was marched to Cambridge near Boston & served eight months & was dismissed. That in July 1777 the said Thomas Millan marched as a volunteer under Lieutenant Holbert to Fort Edward in the State of New York and continued in service about one month & a half & was dismissed.
That this deponent was in the service at the times above mentioned, with said Millan & knew him at those times & saw him almost daily in the service & was discharged at both times with him & has known him ever since, & further saith not.
Sworn & subscribed this 10th day of July 1832 before me
John Wood
James O. Moore Flint Judge of Otsago County
I certify that I have known John Wood for many years & that he is a man of truth & that I believe the facts he has stated in the foregoing affidavit.
James O. Moore
James O. Moore

State of New York } Otsego County ss } I Horace Lathrop Clerk of said County do certify that James B. Moore is the true Judge of said County, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & believe that his signature to the foregoing affidavit is genuine. In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the Courts of said County this eleventh day of August 1832.
Horace Lathrop. Clerk.

costs of this after $1. color book 2/ you pay costs of stationery & send me $1.

Revised
13.929 INVALID.
File No. 13, 929
Thomas Millan
Sergt: Boer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 258
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Thomas Mellen Madison Private Col. Brewer's Mass.
11 months
36.66
18.33
54.99

2825 New York
Thomas Millan
of Madison in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Gray — of the Regt commanded by Col Brewer in the Massachusetts line for 11 months
increased
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1834 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 7 th day of December 1832 and sent to claimant Madison N.Y.
Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832 — $ 54.99 Semi-annl. allowance ending 4 Mar 33  18.33 $ 73.32
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Ino Cromwell Clerk. Book D Vol. 5 Page 126
For Thomas Millan. Pension. Pay to June 1833

Payments to be made at New York by the Rev. D. B. B. K. Agent for paying Pension- ers, in the Agency of
New York
Recorded by Ino Cromwell Clerk, in Book D Vol. 8 page 126

WAR DEPARTMENT.
Revolutionary Claim.
I certify that in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 7th June, 1832, Thomas Millan of the State of New York who was a Private in the Revolutionary Army " " " " " is entitled to receive Thirty-Six dollars and Sixty-Six cents per annum, during his natural life, commencing on the 4th of March, 1831, and payable semi-annually, on the 4th of March, and 4th of September, in every year.
Given at the War Office of the United States, this 7 th day of December one thousand eight hundred and thirty- two .
Isaac P. [?] Secretary of War.
Examined and } Countersigned. }
J. Edwards

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Millar, Caspar GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7508 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED Aug. 24, 1790 to Glenn & Beecher, Ad rs .
*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.