York County PA Archives Military Records.....Miller, Conrad October 6, 1834
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Conrad Miller, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll #__, Application #R7180
York County, Pennsylvania, October 16th, 1834, Conrad Miller, aged 80 
years: ‘That about the 1st of July, 1776, he volunteered to serve for 3  months 
as drummer in Captain Long’s company at York state of Pennsylvania and was 
attached to Colonel Swope’s battalion and marched through Lancaster and Chester 
Counties, and from thence to Trenton, Princeton and Newark in the state of New 
Jersey, and Amboy, and duly served out the time for which he engaged and then 
was discharged ____ ____ ____ at Newark in the state of New Jersey by Captain 
Long.”

“2nd-That on the 1st of September in the year 1777, he volunteered to serve in 
Captain Zollinger’s company at York in Colonel McAllister’s regiment and 
marched to Lancaster, and was there put under the command of Colonel Morgan 
until we joined the army near Brandywine, and then marched to Brandywine and 
put under the command of Captain Williams in Colonel Rankin’s  regiment and 
that he duly served out the term for which he volunteered ____ ___ ____ that he 
served for 3 months or more during that tour and was then discharged by Captain 
Williams at Valley Forge in the state of Pennsylvania, and that he served at 
least altogether, six months in the army of the Revolution.”

“I have no documentary evidence nor do I know of any person now living whose 
testimony I can get to prove my services except Felix Waggoner.”

Interrogatories:

I was born in York County, PA in the year 1754 to the best of my belief. I have 
no record of my age. I lived in York County when called into service and have 
lived in York County ever since the Revolutionary War. I volunteered each time. 
I was not acquainted with any of the regular officers who were in service at 
the time I served. ___ I recollect . I was acquainted with Captain M. Daniel, 
Captain Spangler and Captain Smyser, militia officers of colonel Swope’s 
battalion. I received 2 discharges, one signed by Captain long and the other by 
Captain Williams,  which I have lost.”

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