Butler County PA Archives Military Records.....MILLER, Richard September 11, 1832
  Revwar - Pension 
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  Pension Application Of Richard Miller, Nat'l Archives Series M804, Roll ____ Application #S23808
  State of Pennsylvania, County of Butler}

  	On this 11th day of September, 1832 personally appeared before the 
  judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the county aforesaid, Richard Miller, a 
  resident of Centre Township in the county aforesaid and state of Pennsylvania, 
  aged 78 years of age, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his 
  oath make the following declarationÖ:
  
  	That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1776, 
  early in January, with Sergeant George Stewart and served in the 1st regiment 
  of the North Carolina line under the following named officers: Colonel Nash, 
  Lieutenant Colonel Clark, this applicant believes, Major Davis, Captain George 
  Davidson, Lieutenant Robert Ralston, Ensign David Kerr. He resided, when he 
  first entered the service, at Guilford Courthouse in Guilford County, North 
  Carolina. He left the service about the 1st of September of the same year. 
  
  	His company set out from Guilford Courthouse under Colonel Martin 
  [Lieutenant Colonel and Major not recollected, for this applicant was 
  principally under Colonel Nash; Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Clark and Major 
  Davis]; marched to Salisbury, thence marched down through the country to Cross 
  Creek to keep down the Tories, but they ran off upon their approach; thence by 
  water on Cape Fear River, ___ to Wilmington. Either here or at Cross Creek, the 
  ranks were settled, and this applicant was placed under Colonel Nash, and etc. 
  
  Remained at Wilmington for a considerable time watching a part of the British 
  fleet at Brunswick 15 [?miles?] below Wilmington. His regiment, with others, 
  proceeded by Lockwood's Folly and Long Bay Shore to Charleston, South Carolina. 
  They were employed in barricading the town. Remained there until the 28th of 
  June, when the British fleet came, when they marched on to Hadrell's Point. Lay 
  there some days, marched down to Sullivan's Island to the east end, and 
  remained there two weeks, then back to Hadrell's Point, thence came back to 
  Charleston, where they were discharged by Colonel Nash, which discharge this 
  applicant has not now in his possession, it having been lost long since from 
  want of care in the preservation of his papers. Richard Miller.
  
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