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From: "Patricia Hickin" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Jacob Miller of Germantown
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:26:34 -0400 (EDT)
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The message I just sent got set before I was quite finished with it, but
am not sure that I had much of importance to add.

I really appreciate your response--I'm thinking they may have been cousins??

Pat

On Sat, October 14, 2006 15:19, D E Miller wrote:
> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bapster&id=I1588
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> Johannes/John, born 25 Mar 1726 in PA. We base his parentage on the
> following: Conrad Beissel's letter of 1756 to Johannes Muller in Dunker's
> Bottom in Virginia indicates that Johannes had a brother Henry. The Saint
> Adventures of the VA Frontier p 23 indicates that Henry Miller (Heinrich
> Muller) was a brother of solitary Sister Paulina (Maria Muller) in Ephrata
> and was very unhappy at Mahanaim and despised the life on the New River
> and
> the Ephrata Cloister Archives indicates that the father of Heinrich and
> Maria was Heinrich/Henry Muller/Miller. He married Maria Magdalena Faber
> circa 1749, either in Lancaster Co VA or the New River area of VA (no
> marriage record has been found). John was residing in Augusta Co VA in
> 1745
> and built the first mill at present-day Fincastle. He bought property in
> Augusta Co VA on 14 Jan 1754. John Miller was in possession of parts of
> the
> bottom land, and a roadside store site of 37 acres which he purchased from
> Peter Shaver. On 3 Oct 1769 in Botetourt Co VA (formed from Augusta), John
> Miller and wife Mary of "Roan [Rowan]" Co NC, sold this 37 acres on the
> southwest (sic) side of the New River at the head of the Mill Creek,
> formerly patented to Peter Shaver, to John Cloyd. The deed is signed
> "Jahannes Muller" and "Marie Muller." He was residing in Augusta Co VA on
> May 17, 1756, when Conrad Beissel (a leader of the Ephrata Society)
> addressed the following letter to Johannes Mueller:
>
> "Love and joy, blessings and salvation from God and his rich plentiful
> grace. It cannot be denied that a certain memory lingers on with me since
> you were with us the last time, but since the opportunities for spiritual
> action have been out of our hands, very little could be done between us.
> This opportunity to write presented itself for several causes both from
> letters from you and from others as well as my mental disposition. If I
> can
> shed light on your distress with my words my letter is well served. My
> affection remains unchanged towards all the souls who were originally
> enlightened . . . but were frightened to flee into a strange land by the
> sinking sun dwelling in darkness of bad dreams and nocturnal ghosts,
> although you were reminded: remain in the land make an honest living. You
> have physically and spiritually suffered ill fortune through a deviation
> from the eternal goodness and because you turned your countenance from
> Jerusalem to Jericho and fell among murderers and thus you will again turn
> your eyes from Jericho back to Jerusalem . . . . P.S.S. It is a tremendous
> burden on my heart concerning the grace of your wife, because her physical
> mother left something with me when she still lived here and since she was
> very young then it has been with me until now. I think if she could be
> brought to be baptized I could be relieved of my oath, she could attain
> her
> grace and be saved. Please give my regards to her mother and tell her that
> she has not been forgotton. . . .As far as your brother (Heinrich Muller)
> is
> concerned though he is on very friendly terms with the congregation he has
> not regained his brotherly rights. . . . "
>
> John Miller registered to pay taxes in Rowan Co NC 1759 and bought
> property
> there in 1762. He was in Rowan Co as early as 1757 when his line was
> mentioned in a deed. A notation in the Moravian Diaries on 15 May 1758
> indicates tha his wife's parents the Fabers went to live with their
> son-in-law John Muller.
>
> # Change Date: 25 Jul 2005 at 14:32:03
>
> Father: Henry Miller b: ABT 1697 in Hesse-Nassau, Germany
> Mother: Clara b: ABT 1707 in Germany
>
> Darrell Miller notes;
> With Conrad Beissel writing a letter as indicated above to Johannes
> Mueller,
> could a person surmise that Johannes Mueller could be related to the John
> Peter Miller in the following?
>
> "The title of a Father (spiritual father) was bestowed upon Beissel, whose
> monastic name was Friedsam, to which the brethren afterwards added
> Gottrich,
> implying together Peaceable, God-Right. Onesimus (Izard Eckerlin) was
> constituted prior, who was succeeded by Jaebez (John Peter Miller). The
> latter, on the death of Beissel, became father and head of the monastery.
> This society, which had its origin at Muhlbach, "
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> (John Peter Miller was born before 1681 in Germany. He married Ann
> Margaretha about 1701 in Germany.)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> On Behalf Of Emmert F. Bittinger
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2006 8:56 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [BRE] Jacob Miller of Germantown
>
> To D. E. Miller,
> Hello, D. E., I just discovered your message regarding Anton Jacob
> Henckel, Heinrich and Jacob Miller of Germantown, and I thank you for
> sending it along to me. I got way behind in my email processing, and had
> failed to relate to your message until just now.
> Thanks so much for taking the time to share this with me.
> Emmert F. Bittinger
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "D E Miller" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 3:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [BRE] Jacob Miller of Germantown
>
>
>> Emmert,
>> I believe I can help a little. It concerns the family of Anthony Jacob
>> Henckel Aka "Reverend Anton".
>>
>> Sixth Generation: http://www.fmoran.com/hinkle.html
>> Anton (Anthony) Jacob Henckel, a Lutheran pastor from the northern
>> region
>> Kraichgau area east of Heidelberg, was almost fifty when he arrived in
>> 1717.
>> Most of his children were christened at the Evangelical Lutheran Church
>> in
>> Daudenzell, Germany. He had been ordained in Germany and had served 25
>> years
>> as a pastor with various congregations in the upper east Heidelberg. He
>> was
>> probably responsible for organizing the first Lutheran congregations in
>> Pennsylvania. He lived at Falkner's Swamp in today's Montgomery Co., PA
>> and
>> served the German communities throughout present-day Philadelphia and
>> Montgomery Counties. He died in a fall from horseback in August, 1728 at
>> the
>> age of 60. Anton Jacob and Maria Elizabeth are buried at St. Michael
>> Evangelical Lutheran Church, Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.)
>>
>> His wife was Maria Elizabeth Dentzer and their son wss
>> JOHANN GERHARD ANTHONY7 HENCKEL, born 1698 in Daudenzell, Mosbach,
>> Baden,
>> Germany; died 1736 in Ephrata Cloisters, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
>> see
>>
> http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/i/l/Glenn-W-Miller/GENE2-0006.h
>> tml
>>
>> A daughter of Johann and his wife Anna Catherina "Unknown",
>> Susanna Margaret Henckel was born 1734 in Germantown, Philadelphia
>> County,
>> Pennsylvania, and died 1809 in Ephrata Cloisters, Lancaster County,
>> Pennsylvania. She married HENRY EPHRATA MILLER 1752 in New Hanover
>> Lutheran
>> Church, Pennsylvania, son of HEINRICH MUELLER and CLARA UNKNOWN. He was
>> born
>> 1728 in Ephrata Cloisters, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and died 1778
>> in
>> Ephrata Cloisters, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
>>
>> Note; American Genealogical Research Institute, THE MILLER FAMILY
>> (1972),
>> (Arlington, Virginia, 1972), 62, HEINRICH MILLER; born 1728, died 1778;
>> married to Susannah Margaret Henkel; corporal in a Pennsylvania unit.
>>
>> He was born 1728 in Ephrata Cloisters, Lancaster County,
>> Pennsylvania, and died 1778 in Ephrata Cloisters, Lancaster County,
>> Pennsylvania. He married SUSANNA MARGARET HENCKEL 1752 in New
>> Hannover Lutheran Church, Pennsylvania, daughter of JOHANN HENCKEL
>> and ANNA UNKNOWN. She was born 1734 in Germantown, Philadelphia
>> County, Pennsylvania, and died 1809 in Ephrata Cloisters, Lancaster
>> County,
>> Pennsylvania. Susanna Henckel Miller married a second time to Johann
>> Peter
>> Leiss b 17 Apr 1725 and died 1 Jan 1806. Susanna died 4 Jan 1806 at
>> Ephrata,
>> Lancaster County, PA.
>>
>> This does not answer who Jacob Miller was but maybe he was a brother to
>> Heinrich Henry Miller??
>>
>>
>> D E Miller
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> [mailto:]
>> On Behalf Of Emmert F. Bittinger
>> Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 1:47 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: [BRE] Daniel Wolf
>>
>> Jacob Miller history.
>> A Jacob Miller lived in Germantown in the first half of the 1700s.
>> His
>> occupation was Wheelwright. His wife was Mary Magdalena.
>> This Jacob signed his will on Feb. 8, 1755 and it was probated April
>> 9,
>> 1755. (K-283) The will names two sons, John and Jacob. The witnesses
>> were:
>>
>> Philip Martin, Jacob Herman, Christian Lehman (Men-nonite). The
>> Executors
>> were his wife and brother-in-law, Sassmanhauren [?], and John Dewald
>> Endt
>> (Endt, a Dunker). John married Sybilla Endt, daughter of John D., and
>> they
>> both joined the Ephrata Society (Dunker) at Ephrata. The other son,
>> Jacob,
>> has always intrigued me. And I wonder if he wasn't the Jacob of 1735
>> (or
>> father of) who went to Coventry and became the Dunker Elder.
>> I always intended to follow through on this issue, but now it is too
>> late and I am too involved in other tasks. So, my question is this:
>> does
>> anyone on the list know more about the family of Jacob Miller of
>> Germantown,
>>
>> the home of the first Brethren in America, and/or is interested in
>> following
>>
>> up with additional research?
>> Emmert F. Bittinger
>>
>>
>>
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