James Milligan Born at Sea Pension Application

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th1832. 
State of Tennessee, Cocke County
On this 28th day of August1832, personally appeared in open court before the justices of the Court of pleas and the same time the Court of R(??????) Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid now sitting. James Miliken a citizen of Newport in County and State aforesaid, aged 78 years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following declarations in order to obtain the benefits of act of congress passed 7th June 1832.That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and sworn as herein after states. He states that he was born on the 19th of Augst 1754 (records of which he is in possession as he is informed and as appears (??????) onboard a vessel on her voyage from Londonderry in Ireland to New Castle on this Continent. That he entered the service of the United States on the 8th day August 1776 as a volunteer under Gen. William Christian in Rockbridge County State of Virginia where he then lived and under Major Crockett and Capt. Samuel Wallace & Lieutenant Edmonson, Ensign Trimble and that he messed with Jonathan Skeen, Thomas Cooper, Daniel Fallon and others, That he marched Rockbridge to Long Island of Holston and then to the bend of Nolichukey thence by the Long Island in French Broad to Tuskega in the Cherokee Nation where they rescued a Ms, Bean who had been taken capture in North Carolina after which General Christian (?????)tated) with the Cherokees to meet at the Long Island of Holsten where a treaty was to be concluded which place he then marched and where he was discharged on the 27th of December making a term of four months and 19 days. He also states that he entered the service of the United States as an enlisted soldier sometime in April 1775 under Felix Walker Lieutenant, that he enlisted in Washington County in Virginia and was discharged in Washington Co., (Tennessee crossed out) North Carolina sometime in May following, one day and one month. And that afterwards on the 17th of April 1777 he again entered the serviceof Uniied States at Robinson's Fort at Sycamore Shoals on Watugua under command of John McNabb, Captain, Commandant, under Col. John Carter where he was stationed to guard the frontiers against the Cherokees and from where he was discharged about the middle of September following at which place he messed with David McNab, James McNab and others making 5 months. And that afterward in spring of 1780 he entered service under General Charles McDowel in Washington Co, NC where he then resided the precise time he does not recollect that he marched from there to South Carolina under John McNab and Col. Shelby & Maj. McDowell against the British & malcontents & Tories and encamped near Thickety Creek where they had a skirmish with the British under the command of Dunlap in which Christopher Cunningham and Soloman White were taken prisoner from the American Army and Maj, (?)uirth of Georgia was killed. From which place they marched near to Beckenstaff Farm where we had another skirmish in which the enemy was commanded byas he believes by Col. Moore and the Americans by Cols. Shelby, Clark and Williamson and after having served seventy days in the sd. state of S.C. he was discharged at the Cherokee Ford on Broad River about 200 miles from his residence making as he supposes to three months service. Applicant further states that he again entered the service as a volunteer in the State Troops of North Carolina under Col. John Sevier, Major John McNab, Capt David McNab and marched from Washington County N.C. about the first of September1781 and joined General Marion below Nelsons Ferry on Santee River from where they marched to a place called White Oaks from which place sd applicant was one of a thousand who marched under Col. Markham by the order of Gen. Marion to the quarter house six miles from Charleston where they took a British outpost of ninety men. He states that in the campaign William Job he recollects was a soldier also Wm. Coleman who is now alive and by whom he expects to prove service. And was discharged at the mouth of White Oak Creek on Santee about the 13th of December 1781 having 12 days allowed to return home making a term of 3 months & 25 days. And that afterwards on the fth day of August 1788 he again entered the service as Captain of a draft ordered by Col. Danniel Kenedy and marched from Green County , Northwestern Territory, where he then resided, (?) Houston's station in Nine Mile Creek, now in Blount County against the Cherokees and from sd. station he marched his company to a place caAlledthe Orchard on Little Tennessee River where he buried a number of dead who had been killed by the natives when gathering apples. And was discharged about the tenth of September following. Whole service 1 month and 12 days. And then afterwards on the first day of April 1794, he again entered the service by order of Govenor Blount as a volunteer under Lieut. Nathan Doack and served as an Indian spie being stationed alternately at the Warm Springs in N.C., the Burnt Cane Brake in the Territory and Huff's Stationand was discharged the last of May following, making two months. Making in the whole, a term equal to twenty months and twenty days.He states that he has no documents or any evidence by which to support his claim, nor does he know of any person now living who's testimony he can now procurewho has personal knowledge of his services except such as he herewith transmits. He staes that his name is not on pension rolls of the agency of any State. He hereby relinquishes all claim to every pension (?????) except the present. He states that he had his discharge and other documents but supposes them to have been burnt with his dwelling house (???) place (????) (????) risides in Newport in Cocke County, Tennessee, in which County he has chiefly resided since the Revolution.
Signed James Milliken