Big error - I was thinking of George Adam Martin - Merle > There was a group of Berks County Amish who lived near the Northkill Creek > area. They came to Somerset County about 1771. Families in this migration > included Miller's, Gnaegi, Lehman, Speicher and Zug, among others, and of > course Peter Livengood. The Miller contingent included Nicholas Miller > (John Miller's brother), and Michael Miller (a nephew of John, and son of > Jacob Miller). > > If you believe Austin Cooper's account, the Brethren were in Somerset County > in 1762. > > I don't know of any connection between this Miller family (which was > definitely Amish), and Jacob Miller who was Brethren. > > -----Original Message----- > From: brethren-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:brethren-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Merle C Rummel > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:31 AM > To: brethren@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BRE] Francis Stump item > > Let me throw another theory into the mess > > from Berks County to Somerset County - in those years > > Elder George Adam Miller - while he moved first to the Antietam before > going on to Brother's Valley - was originally from the general area > including Berks -and we find a number of those who moved to Somerset > were of his Pietistic frame of belief. (The Stony Creek Church had > recorded problems between the Brethren and the Sabbatarians -those > holding more to the Ephrata beliefs.) > > One of the pietist concepts was that of celibacy - "living with" was > used in several of the statements about pietists practicing celibacy - > when a couple men were living together as celibates. Again - ages are > not given -but could we be seeing here a couple men holding to pietistic > celibacy - living together? > > That doesn't mean that it continued forever - but for that period of > time - and - at least with Elder Jacob Miller (who was in Brother's > Valley from 1764-1766) the "living with" (Harshbarger Letter - in the > Miami Valley in Ohio) seems to possibly be a "living nearby" - "living > nextdoor" - "taking care of each other"!! > > Merle C Rummel > >