Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 1212, Michael Brill, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
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Drill Michael
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CONTENTS

1212.
RECEIVED
P. O. Michael Brill
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: List of rejected (or suspended) claims, printed in 1852
Re-enlisted: shows cause of rejection, as follows: "He did not serve six months."
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contra
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

Michael Brice Ohio
Rejected
Per letter 18 th March 1837, to Hon. J. R. Poinsett v (not found in letter book)
del not found six months
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State of Ohio Muskogee County ss. Court of Common Pleas B. Scott: Term 1837
On this 23 rd day of November 1837 personally appeared in open Court, at the Term aforesaid Michael Boyle Archdeacon of said County of Muskogee aged about forty six years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832
That he was drafted as a private in the Militia of Frederick County State of Virginia in the month of January 1781 for a term of three months, and was mustered & incorporated in a company commanded by Capt. John Reynolds William Linking was the Ensign of said Company That he served said three months, and was discharged during his service one month in preparing for leaving of camp at Winchester Virginia, and one month in the neighborhood of Winchester at the Barracks, his next employment was as of one of the guards in marching said Prisoners to the City of Philadelphia, in doing which was passed through Frederick Town Maryland, York and Lancaster Pennsylvania to said City, the Company on the March was command- ed by Ensign Linking Capt. Reynolds not being with the Company. That from Philadelphia said Company was marched back to Winchester by said Ensign Linking where he was discharged having served in all three months. That he was not in

any battle, nor attached to any any other Corps or Company, nor under the command of any other Officer but those he has named He further declares that he knows of no pension also can prove his service except by the presence of Frederick County Va. where applicant is here to attached,
Further that he has a wife (a feeble, old woman of about 80 years of age) living with him, and who is unable to support herself by labor and whom he is, of course, compelled to support. That he is very poor, having no property either real or personal. That he had the misfortune a few years since to have his leg broken, the consequence of which was an amputation, which makes him entirely helpless, being unable to walk without assistance. He further declares that he resided in Frederick County Virginia when he entered the service, that for 6 years past he has resided in Frederick County aforesaid, and that he was a Militia man. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension roll of any Agency in any state whatsoever. He further states he has no acquaintance with any clergyman whom he can get to testify for him in this case.
Michael Brid
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court November 23, 1837. E. J. Cox Clerk
Question. Where and in what year were you born? A. I was born in Pennsylvania in the year 1762.
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? A. I do not know.
3. Where were you living when called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? A. When called into the service I was living in Frederick County Va. I was drafted.
4. Where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, & where do you now live?

4. Since the Revolutionary, I have lived in Frederick County Va. until within the last 6 years, during which time I have lived in Muskingum Co. Ohio.
5. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops when you served?
Answer. Capt. Brinkshank. Capt. Brown. Capt. Sehorn are all I recollect.
6. State such Continental & Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service? I cannot be more particular in answering this question than I have been in my declaration--
7. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it? I had a discharge - It was given to me by Capt. John Reynolds, but I have lost it, thinking it to be of no use.
8. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.
Answer, James Doster. Peter Printz & Thomas Lewis, all of Muskingum County.
Sworn to and subscribed before me about November 23 d , 1837.
Michael Brall
C. J. Cox, Clerk
We, James Doster, Peter Printz & Thomas Lewis, referred to in the above depositions, residing in the County of Muskingum, Ohio, hereby certify that we have been acquainted with Michael Brall, who has subscribed & sworn to the above declaration for about twenty years, that we believe him to be of the age of twenty six years, that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
James Doster
Thomas Lewis P. Printz
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court
November, 27 th 1837.
C. J. Cox, Clerk

And the 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 he stated, and the Court further certifies that it appears to them that the said James Doster; Wm Lewis and P. Shintz, are residents of the County of Muskingum, and are credible persons, and that their statements are entitled to credit.
Gerrington M. Leach President Judge.
William Blackmon (Associate Judges)
Edwin Putnam
James Apponee
I, Ezekiell J. Cox, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of Michael Ball, for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand and affix the seal of said Court, this 27 th day of November, A.D. 1837.
Ezekiel J. Cox, Clerk

Back Creek Valley May 21 st
18 3/4
Mr Michael Brill
Putnam
Muskingum County
Ohio

V34, 301
Michael Brilli Ohio.
1896

Frederick County State of Virginia 14
Personally came before me Josiah Lockhart a justice of the peace in and for the said county The undersigned George Bruner and made oath, That Michael Brill was drafted as a private in the militia of Frederick County and state aforesaid in the year 1798 in the month of January for a term of three months and was incorporated in a company commanded by Capt John Pennells and William Jenkins was the name of the Ensign attached to the company and was engaged in guarding Prisoners one month in Winchester and one month in the neighbourhood of Winchester at a place called the Barracks, and then was employed to march as one of said guard to the Prisoners to Philadelphia passing through Frederick Town in the State of Maryland Little York and Lancaster in Pennsylvania and to Philadelphia - said, The deponent further states that he was a private in the same company and that the Captains Reynolds  and Jenkins did not march with them to Philadelphia That Ensign Jenkins commanded the company and that they were marched back to Winchester and were there discharged having served three months
Test Morton B. Mure
his George Bruner mark
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 20th day of May 1837 by George Bruner given under my hand
Virginia
Josiah Lockhart
I Thomas Allen Isdall Clerk of the County Court of the County of Frederick, hereby certify that Josiah Lockhart Esq. is a magistrate as above and that the foregoing Signature purporting to be his is genuine
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the said Court and subscribed my name this 2 nd day of October 1837. and in the 62 nd year of the Commonwealth.
T. Isdall