OHIO STATEWIDE FILES OH-FOOTSTEPS Mailing List Issue 016 *********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest Volume 02 : Issue 16 Today's Topics: #1 Rev. War veteran: Thomas Miller, 1 ["Ralph W. Cokonougher" To: OH-FOOTSTEPS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: Subject: Rev. War veteran: Thomas Miller, 1760-1821, Ross County Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed The following Revolutionary War biography of Ross County, Ohio, resident Thomas Miller is from "Frederick Findings", Volume 1, No. 4, Fall, 1988, a publication of Lineage Search Associates, P.O. Box 9688; Arlington, Virginia. "Frederick Findings" states, on the reverse of its title page, "Attribution: As it is the desire of the editor and publisher to make more widely available the material and information we publish, we ask only proper attribution of 'Frederick Findings' as a source if it is used in any form." From Page 165: "Roster of Captain William Darke's Company, 8th Continental Line of Virginia. According to 'A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution, 1774-1787, compiled by E.M. Sanchez-Saavedra, this company was raised primarily in Berkeley County, but with at least one of its officers from Maryland, it is likely a significant number of its enlisted men were from that state as well. The following is a compositive of surviving payrolls and musters, followed by an analysis of pensions, land warrants, the records of Berkeley and other counties, plus other miscellaneous sources to confirm so far as is possible the probable identities and residence(s) of these soldiers............" Ensign Thomas Miller : commisioned - 03/18/1777, June 1777 - present on company muster and shown paid on company payroll, July 1777 - shown paid on company payroll, August 1777 - Shown paid on company payroll, October 1777 - present on company muster, November 1777 - absent on leave and furlough, January 1778 - Shown paid on company payroll, March 1778 - Shown paid on company payroll. Pages 187 - 188: "MILLER, Thomas. This soldier was not a Virginian, receiving his commission as ensign by appointment from President (of the Continental Congress) John Jay on 3 March 1777, according to his pension application of 3 March 1818, age 58, Franklin County, Ohio. He initially served as Ensign in Capt. William Darke's company, which was part of Col. (Abraham) Bowman's Regiment and Gen. (Charles) Scott's Brigade. He was transferred to the 4th Regiment in the consolidation of 24 (sic) September 1778 and subsequently promoted to 2nd Lieutenant, although he was never commissioned as such. He was at the Battles of Brandywine and Monmouth as ensign and at Cowpens, Guilford (Courthouse) and Eutaw Springs as 2nd Lieutenant. He stated he was wounded at 96 and Eutaw Springs (Gwathmey reported the date of the wound at Eutaw Springs as 8 September 1781, but did not mention the wound at 96; he also summarized Miller's service as if 2 different men performed it, stating Miller was captured at Brandywine on 11 September 1777 and never rejoined his unit, presumably remaining a prisoner until the end of the war - Miller never mentioned any imprisonment in his pension). He was discharged at Point of Forks on the James River by a general proclamation, but did not state the date. In a second declaration on 21 August 1820 in CHILLICOTHE, ROSS COUNTY, OHIO, age 61, he stated his war wounds prevented his working at any physical activity, so had earned his livelihood as a school teacher. Ann Miller applied for a widow's pension in Pittsylvania (sic) County, Virginia, on 22 October 1838, age 71 years, 2 months, stating her husband had enlisted (sic) as an ensign on 16 May 1777, was promoted to Lieutenant on 4 April 1778 and discharged on 31 December 1781 (According to Gwathmey Miller was transferred to the 1st Virginia Regiment, service that neither Thomas nor his widow mentioned, on 12 February 1782; he gave no date for Thomas' discharge). She said her husband was a native of Cecil County, Maryland, where two sisters - Agnes Williams and Deborah Miller - and a brother John M. still resided near Farmington Post Office and Port Deposit. She had married Miller in Chesterfield County on 7 August 1784, resided in Cecil County for perhaps two years before returning to Chesterfield County and Virginia, then moving to CHILLICOTHE, OHIO, where Thomas had died on 17 July 1821. She further stated she knew of no living witnesses to her marriage except 2 brothers, but the elder Archer Ball was now senile and the younger Isham Ball was at the time of her marriage too young to remember. Ann's application was supported by testimony from Thomas T. Miller and Isham Ball, both dated 10 November 1838. Ball's affidavit stated he was the youngest child of James and Susan Ball of Chesterfield County and a resident of Powhatan County, Virginia. Miller's affidavit mentioned a previous affidavit of 3 January 1825 that established Thomas Miller was the son of Samuel Miller of Cecil County, Maryland, and had died at the home of Stephen Cessna. The pension file (W7454) did not contain the date or place of Ann's death. It did, however, contain letters of inquiry from: 1)Thomas Cecil Miller (7 June 1897); 2) Mrs. H.C. Johnson (4 March 1898); 3)Lynn Chapman (27 April 1903); and 4)Virginia A. Speir (3 October 1920). Miller also received a bounty, issued 19 December 1791, for 200 acres (BLWt. 1516), which he assigned to Daniel Parker. Due to the burning of Washington during the War of 1812 no papers from his application for that land survive and thus no additional information survives." _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com -------------------------------- End of OH-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest V02 Issue #16 ******************************************