Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 23798, for Peter Miller, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Miller, Peter
S. 23798
CONTENTS

4448 New York
Peter Miller
of Albany in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Tupper of the Regt. — commanded by Col. Miles in the New York — time for 11 months 10 days private
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 37 Dollars 76 Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued on the 14 th day of Jan y . 1833 — and sent to S. Lawrence Esq. Clerk —
Arrears to 14th of Sep. 1832 $6.64 Semi-ann. allowance ending 4 th mo 33 18.88 $75.52
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by G. S. Siler Clerk, Book D. Vol. 5. Page 175

1 st Brief
No. 10705
Peter Miller
4. 107.
15 Sep 1832 5 Dec. " "
P 25.
L. Lawrence Syracuse N.Y.

No 10705
BRIEF in the case of Peter Miller of Manlius County of Onondaga in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?  In Open Court.  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?   3. How old is he?  76. Years.  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1776. 2. 15. private Gen. Capt. Schuyler. Col. Paulding   1. 10. " Capt. Skinner   about. 4. " Col. Miles.   2. 3. Capt. Skinner.   6. private.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged?   6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?  Woodstock, Ulster County. New York.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  By one living witness & traditionary evidence.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?  They appear to be in due form. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Ord
Examining Clerk.

Peter Mitter
10,705.
Handwritten text (faint and mostly illegible)

State of New York Onondaga County } P. George Edell of the town of Marbles in said county being duly sworn doth on his oath say, that he was taken a prisoner in Herkimer County in said State, by the Indians and was taken to Niagara in the year 80. and that during the time of his imprisonment and shortly after he arrived at Niagara one Peter Miller who now resides in Marbles aforesaid and with whom this deponent is acquainted, was brought to Niagara aforesaid a prisoner by the Indians and Louis and that he was well acquainted with said Miller, he thinks two and a half years and they were prisoners together during the whole time
Subscribed and sworn before me this 11th day of September 1832
George I. Edell
Oliver R Strong Justice of the Peace
State of New York County of Onondaga } I Alanson Edwards Jr. Deputy Clerk of the said County do hereby certify Oliver R. Strong before whom the preceding Affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name also subscribed to the foregoing certificate above subscribed to be his proper handwriting and signature. Witness my hand and the seal of said County this 13th day of December 1832. A. Edwards Jr. Dep. Clk.

I the within named Justice of the Peace do hereby certify that the within named George Edie who subscribed & swore to the within affidavit appeared to me to be a reputable person, and a man whose statement is entitled to credit.
Oliver R Strong

be the proper hand writing and signature of the said Justice Witness my hand and seal of Office this 21 st day of December 1832.
Ro. L. Heps Clerk Pr. H. Edwards Jr. Dep. Clerk.
Peter Miller
No 10705
admitted
11 mo. 16 days from date
Capacity disallowed
  33373      11      36.63      36.66      1.10      37.76          11      11      110  

Declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1882
State of New York
Onondaga County } ss: On this 14 th day of Sep- -tember in the year 1882 personally appeared in open court before Daniel Moseley Esq. Vice Chancellor of the 7 th Circuit of at a court of chancery now sitting at Onondaga. the State of New York, Peter Miller of the town of Menands in said County and State, age, 76 years, who being first duly sworn doth according to law doth on his oath make the following de- claration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1882
That he volunteered in the town of Woodstock in Ulster County in said State he thinks in the year 1776. as a private soldier and served on the frontier one month under one captain Timpney,
and that immediately after he volunteered and was placed under one Moses h captain captain, one Newkirk was lieutenant, that he went to White Plains and from thence to Peekskill, and served two and a half months, in Col. Paulding's Regiment
and that immediately after every this men was drawn out to serve 40 days and that he served the first 40 days and that he was placed under captain Skoon- maker and went to Fort Montgomery and remained there the forty days,
and then returned home, that soon after he volunteered and was placed under some officer whose name is not recollects that he belonged to one Col. Smith's Regiment and served on the frontier about four months, and went from there to Fishkill

when he served three months longer under Captain Schronmakin, after about three months he return home
and that shortly after he volunteered and was placed under Captain Vanawake and went to the frontier and on sunday obtained leave of the Captain to go to Church at Kingston in Ulster County in said state near where they were stationed and on his return back from Church he was taken a prisoner by the Indians and Tories, and that he was stripped of his clothes and taken to Fort Niagara, from there to Montreal, from there to Prison Island in the River St. Lawrence, & then back again to Montreal, and from there to Quebec, and then was put on board a ship which sailed near Salem in Massachusetts, and that he and the rest of the prisoners rose and compelled the Captain of the ship to let them land that they .
and that from the time he was taken prisoner until he got away was two years and six months,
and that he was in the year 1780 that he was taken prisoner, and that he cannot give dates and years in partic- ular for the want of recollection,
that he never had any written dis- charge, and has no document any evidence of his services and that he knows of no living witness that he can prove anything more than what is contained in the annexed affidavit of George Edul, that he has no documentary evidence of his said services that he was born in the town of Woodstock

in Ulster County in the State of New York in the year 17 1756. That he is acquainted with Henry Bogardus and Jacob Ryder who can testify for him for truth and accuracy,
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 army of any State. That after the Revolution he moved to Saugerties and from there to Marlinton 16 years ago.
Sworn to this 14 th Sept r . Peter his Miller 1832 before me
Daniel Massey Corr d Judge
Mr Henry Bogardus and Jacob Ryder Residents of the town of Marlinton hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Peter Miller who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration, that we believe him to be 76 years of age. That he is upright and believed in the neighborhood when he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn this 14 th Sept r 1832 Henry Bogardus Jacob Ryder
Daniel Massey Corr d Judge
And the said Board after investigating the matter and putting the questions required by the War Department do hereby declare its opinion that the above named applicant was a revolu- tionary soldier and served as he states And the board further certifies, that,

Henry Bayardus residents of the town of Mansfield  Mansfield , and that Jacob Ryder residents of the aforesaid town, who have signed the abovementioned cer- tificate are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit —
Daniel Moseley Vice Chancellor
I Daniel T. Moseley Deputy Clerk of the Court of Chancery of the Seventh District for the state of New York do hereby certify that the fore- going contains the original pro- ceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Peter Miller for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 14 th day of September one thousand eight hundred and thirty two
Daniel T. Moseley Deputy Clerk
State of New York Onondaga County, ss. Peter Miller of the town of Mansfield in the County of Onondaga being duly sworn doth on his oath say, that he is the identical person who has subscribed and sworn to the foregoing declaration, that the reason, he did not produce in court the testimony of a clergyman at the time of making his said declaration

was that, there was none living in the neighborhood of this applicant, nor any who were so well acquainted with him and the duration of his said services as the two witnesses produced, to wit, Henry Bogardus and Jacob Rider, and he further saith that by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the particular periods of the war in which he served But according to the best of his recollection he served one month as a soldier , Eleven months and ten days as a private soldier and that after that he volunteered again and was while in service taken a prisoner and detained as such two years and six months, and that all of his said services and imprisonment, was forty one months, and twenty days, and that he cannot state the length of the time or the periods of the war which he served any more particular than that he has stated, and that he claims a pension for the time above stated, But he further saith according to his best recollection, that the the first of his said services, was in the summer of 1776. one month, and that the second period of his services was in the fall of the same year two months and a half— and that the third period of his said services was in the spring of 1777. forty days: and that the fourth period of his said services, was in the fall summer & fall of the year 1777. Seven months, and that after the including four months which he served on the frontier and three months at Shkillkill, and that the last time which he volunteered as stated in his declaration above, was in the spring of 1778. and that he was taken a prisoner in June of the same year, that

he is very infirm, and cannot be sworn as the periods of his said service are correctly stated, but they are according to his best recollection and belief
Sworn And Subscribed to before me
Decem r 21 st 1832
John Dunnford, Justice
his
Peter H Miller
mark
State of New York } County of Onondaga } p: I Reuben S. Heps Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that John Dunnford before whom the preceding affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said County and that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the Jurat of said affidavit to be the proper hand writing and signature of the said Justice Witness my hand and Seal of Office this 21 st day of December 1832.
Re. S. Heps Clerk
Pr A. Edwards Jr. Dep.
Clerk.

Resolutions
23798 INVALID.
File No. 23798
Peter Miller
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32 nd
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 276
[Arrangement of 1870.]