32-1Invalid PensionsOn the Case of P. Miller. [656] Spy on Indian frontier in 1792.1852-

House of Representatives Report No. 8, 32nd Congress, 1st Session (1852)

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32d CoNGREss, 1st Session. Rep. No.8. PHILIP MILLER. [To accompany bill H. R. No. 55.] JANUARY 6, 1S52. H. oF RE;ps. :Mr. MARTIN, from the Committee on Invalid Pensions, made the following REPORT: The Committee on In-valid Pensions, to whom was referred tlte petition of Philip .jltfiller, report: That the Committee on Invalid Pensions, of the Thirtieth Congress, and also the same committee of the Thirty-first Congress, each of whom made a favorable report on the petition of the said :Miller, accompanied by a bill for his lelief, which has, to this time, failed to receive the action of Con-gress, your Committee adopt the former report, and report a bill for th relief of said Philip Niiller. The Committee on Invalid Pensions, to whom was referred the petition of Ph-ilip .]~filler, have had the sarne ·under cons·iderat·ion, and repm·t: That according to the declaration of the petitioner, made on the 26th of January, 1846, he was then seventy-five years of age, and that in February or :March, 1792, in 1\'Iontgomery, Virginia, he enlisted as a spy or soldier, to defend the frontier from the depredations of the. Indians, in the company commanded by Captain Robe!t Crockett. :Between the 1st and the 15th of ~larch, he was marched to Clinch river and there inspected, and joined to a bouy of four hundred or five hundred wen, commanded by General Nathaniel Tate, Colonel Andrew Lewis, and Major :Maxfield. From thes there was detached two companies-; the one, in which was your petitioner,. was commanded by Lieut. James Taylor. These two companies marched together to App's Valley, where Taylor's company remaine<l stationed as spies or guards for that section of country, until about the 1-5th or 18th of December, 179~, when your petitioner, having been in-service nine months and three days, was, with Lieutenant Taylor's company, marched about thirty miles to Clinch river, and received his discharge ti·om Lieutenant Tay-lor, in the name of Captain R. Crockett. This discharge he kept until the yem• 1793, when General N athanicl Tate paid him up, and "lifted " his discharge as a receipt. In the month of June, 1792, \V:hile at App's Valley, and engaged in a hunt for Indians, in company with John Burgess and Ralph Stewart, on the way towards the mouth of Rich creek, and having only moccasins on his feet, he trod his Hamilton, pr£1;t. .2 Rep. No. s.· whole weight on a snag or thorn, which run into his heel, to the bone of his right foot ; with this he was confined about a month, and was after-wards able to travel, though his foot has been ever since sore, with a burn-ing or tingling sensation, until about twenty-six years since, the wound broke out into a running sore, from which he has since become wholly dis-abled to work for a living. He is very poor, and dependent on the charity of his friends, having no means of support, and begs a pension from the government of the United States. From the best information he can get, all the officers under whom he served are dead, and he kne\\-. of no surgeon belonging to the corps in which he served, nor is there any surgeon of the army within one hundred miles of his residence. All the facts relating to the enlistment and marches, and hunting for Indians, and the wound received during such hunt, which are detailed in the foregoing declaration, with the receipt of the discharge, are confirmed in their depositions by Ralph Stewart and · John Burgess, ·who were com-rades of :Miller in the company, and in the hunt, as it is called; and Henry Burgess, also a comrade, but not in the hunt, confirms by his deposition all the circumstances attending the infliction of the \\~o ·und. P. Randall and S. J. Yates, surgeons, by affidavit, declare that with the disease of the foot, the ancle and leg are involved and rendered useless to him, ·with an indolent ulcer which has nearly surrounded the leg, which they consider incura~le ; rendering him an entire cripple, and '\\:holly disabled from obtaining· ·his :~ubsistence. . Your committee deem him a proper object for relief, and have t·eported a hi! I for that purpose . . l O• 

Philip Miller. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 55)

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Philip Miller. (To accompany bill H. R. no. 55)

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