There is more to establish the connection between Elders Martin and Miller that will not herein be discussed and chiefly deals with the purported activities of Elder Martin into Virginia and the Carolinas. And these activities also encompass others who were likely followers of Elder Martin. This would include those who were put on the bans in the Carolinas (Universalists) and those also influenced by Ephrata. We must understand that Elder Martin was somewhere between what we today call Annual Meeting Brethren and the Ephrata Brethren. There were disputes between Beissel and Martin that are recorded and which most likely was the cause of his not being the leader after Beissel's demise. We can not state for certain what the time spent in Virginia had on Elder Miller's insights into the leadership of the church. There was certainly a less stringent ruling body as his views were not perceived as being detrimental to the church in that place. We do understand that for whatever reason he left Virginia in 1800, as published in various volumes, for Montgomery county, Ohio. It is my belief, but conjecture at this time, that he may have spent a little time in Kentucky, less that a year, before making his way into Ohio. There is a report that indicates that, for whatever reason, Elder Miller was living alone with the "English preacher" while his wife and several of their children were living farther westward in Ohio and Indiana. Friend Merle can better clarify the region where those members of Elder Millers' family were living. Here is where the story gets interesting. We can place Elder Miller in Montgomery county, Ohio in 1800 by documentation. We can also, by documentation, place one Samuel Bolton, aka Samuel Boltin, as coming into the region slightly afterwards. This is important as this one individual is a bridge between the Brethren of Morrison's Cove of Bedford county, Pennsylvania and the Brethren of Elder Miller's ilk. I have been aware of for many years now of marriages purported to have taken place in Jefferson township, Montgomery county, Ohio where Elder Miller spent the remainder of his life. The people were mainly of the German Baptist church and from other sources can be shown to have been married in the aforementioned region. But the marriage records did not exist! They were not married by Elder Miller as those are recorded. Even if it could be stated that they were unrecorded marriages by Elder Miller this is not likely as some of these marriages took place well after his death. Who performed these marriages? Recorded in the Montgomery County, Ohio 1882 history is the brief biographical sketch of Samuel Bolton by his daughter Phoebe who states that her father was a Dunkard minister. Previous to my reading this passage, and being made aware of the unrecorded marriages, he was, apparently on purpose, written out of the Southern District of Ohio book. Whether by intent or by accident I leave others, more qualified to ascertain the reasoning. When I voiced my findings I was politely spoken to that I did not know that of which I spoke. I kept digging. It later came to be found that not only is Bolton mentioned in other county histories in other regions, but also in several Brethren publications. It is now understood that he in fact was a Brethren minister, of English descent, and from a Universalist background. I would also state that he, with Elders Miller and Hart, were the originating ministers of the Twin church in Preble county, Ohio. There is a case of this occurring in Indiana; these three men being the founding ministerial body. It is known that he comes from Philadelphia where he was likely heavily influenced by the 1790 Universalist meeting of that place. At some time he moved west with his father-in-law, Joseph Morrison, and settled in the Cove so named after that person. Either shortly before or after Joseph Morrison's passing he moved to Kentucky. I am of the opinion that he moved to that state with the children of Philip Jacob Miller. Then even later he, Samuel Bolton, moved into the O'Bannon church region before finally settling as a neighbor to Elder Jacob Miller. He eventually purchased that portion of Elder Miller's farm on which Elder Miller had established a cemetery and where Elder Miller passed the remainder of his days. And that Elder Miller died here, and not farther north, is based on the errors made in the Southern District book and by logic. Elder Miller did not die on section eleven as related in that volume. I believe that this error was made because this tract of land was the last of Elder Miller's land that he owned and thus that land sold after his death. An honest error considering the standards of documentation prevalent at the time of the writing of the 1920 book. The proof lies in the deed between Elder Miller and Samuel Bolton. Wayne Webb Wayne Webb