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From: Emmert Bittinger <>
Subject: Re: Millers at Antietam
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 10:50:30 -0400
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reply from Emmert Bittinger;
Ceder and Stone, you are absolutely correct. The battlefield church is not
the Antietam Church, but the Mumma church. It is sometimes called the Antietam
Battlefield Church, which is an accurate designation, but one not derived from the
Brethren. Also, not well known on this board is the fact that the Mumma Church was
a preaching point and under the administration of the MANOR CONGREGATION, in which
territory it was located, and which meeting house is one of the "classic" stone
churches of the of Germanic style. The old Brownsville Church also was constructed
of stone, but is now removed and replaced by a new brick structure at Brownsville,
5 miles from Burkittsville and Pleasant View. The Antietam Congregation originally
included the Brethren populations along the Antietam Creek in northern edge of
Washington Co., Md. down to and including Beaver Creek and the Antietam settlements
across the line in Pennsylvania, centering at the Prices Church which still stands,
near Waynseboro, md. and which is only a couple miles from the "Snow Hill" Cloister
which was an extension of the Ephrata Cloister. All very ancient Brethren
settlements. Emmert

Cedar & Stone wrote:

> Antietam Church is called Mumma's around here. It is referred to as the Little
> Dunkard Church that withstood the big battle--Battle of South Mountain on
> Antietam Creek. This battle took place Sunday, September 14, 1962. The land
> belonged to Samuel Mumma and Elizabeth. Washington Co deed = purpose of a
> church of worship, Joseph Wolf, John S. Rowland, Samuel Fahrney, Jacob
> reichard, Samuel Emmert, John W. Stouffer and Valentine Reichard, deacons of
> the church, calling themselves Brethren. It is the same church as in the Act of
> 1816 called Dunker. ((This from History of Church of the Brethren by
> Henry.))
>
> Merikay Mestad wrote:
>
> > I have another family of Millers that lived in the Antietam area at one
> > time as well.
> >
> > "Peter" Johannes Petrus MILLER s/o Johann Peter and Anna Timothea (Fischer)
> > Müller
> > b. 11 Sep 1739 Altenkirk, Helmeroth, Germany
> > bap. 13 Sep 1739 Helmeroth
> > d. 13 Jan 1829 Frederick Co., MD
> > m(1) 10 Jul 1760 Frederick Co., MD
> > Elizabeth GAVER d/o Johannis Peter Gaver
> > b. d. 1770 Frederick Co., MD
> > ch: David, John, Rebecca, Abigail
> > m(2) 1770 Frederick Co., MD
> > Rebecca GAVER d/o Johannis Peter Gaver
> > b. d. ca. 1775/6 Frederick Co., MD
> > ch: Elizabeth, Mary, Jonathan, David
> > m(3) ca. 1776 Frederick Co., MD
> > Catherine ROTHROCK d/o Johannes Ludwig and Catherine ( ) Rothrock
> > b. ca. 1752
> > d.
> > ch: Peter, Catharine, Jacob, Anna, Daniel, Samuel, Susanna, Hannah
> > Peter Miller arrived in America on 25 Sep 1749 with his parents. "The
> > Battle of Antietam was fought on 17 September 1862 over the farms that
> > Peter Miller had owned. The Dunkard church near which some of the heaviest
> > fighting took place was probably a place of worship of members of this
> > family."
> > Peter Miller purchased tracts of land in Frederick Co., MD, known as
> > "Unckles Gift" from Daniel Arnold, "Dawson Purchase" from Andrew Arnold
> > (23 Nov 1770) and part of the old Gaver tract "I Got it At Last" from
> > Daniel Arnold about a mile south of Burkittville. (23 Nov 1770). In his
> > will he also leaves part of "Millers Farm," where he now lives, (part sold
> > to Joseph Huffer) and part of "Gavers Recovery" to his wife, Catherine.
> > Peter was fined because he refused to enroll as a soldier in the
> > Revolutionary War. Peter Miller freed a negro slave, Margaret, on 25 May
> > 1819.
> >
> > Does anyone know the name of the church refered to here and if the records
> > are available? Would they go back into the 1700s?
> >
> > Kay
> >
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