I don't know if this is any help or if this is something you have already seen but I did a google search on > +"A. D. Miller" +"New York" +Assistant +administrator and came up with this page. Scroll to the bottom and you will find another letter signed by Miller. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~berta/ipg/gmp.html Good luck, Margaret On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 08:00 PM, NY-HUDSONRV-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: [HudsonRV] Questions: Rev. War Pension > > Questions pertain to Rev. War pensioner, NY Line 1777. > I hope someone knows the answer to these questions. > > 1. Did this Act require a petitioner for a Revolutionary War pension > to > return to the state/county in which he served in order to file the > petition? > 2. A 1937 letter written to an inquirier about a petition, told her," > in > order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and > address of > person paid...you should address The Comptroller General, General > Accounting > Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data: > Name, > Certificate No 463 > Issue date, June 20, 1843 > Rate, 37.77 per annum > Commence date, March 4, 1843 > Act of March 3, 1843, > New York Agency." > This letter is signed by A. D. Miller, Executive Assistant to the > Administrator. > > The problem is, there is no letterhead address, no referral address and > unfortunately no envelope. This letter was included with the copy of > a Rev. > War pension that was granted and copied for me at the NARA, Washington. > > The other problem is, the applicant became a widow of the pensioner in > 1835. > She gives that date in her petition. By "commence date, 1843" she > would have > been 82 and that is a long interval to take to file for continuance of > a > pension following decease of the pensioner in June 1835. > > My questions: > Who would Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records > Division be > today? What city? New York, where they lived? Albany, the capitol > of the > State where they lived? or Washington, DC? > Any known reasons for the interval? (My records tentatively note she > died > 1843.) > > I would appreciate help from someone better versed in the military > legalities > of pension procedures. thank you > > Jan