I am so happy to have found this site. My 3rd grt grdfather, Marquis D. MILLER was born in Clinton County, NY on the shores of Lake Champlain, 23Aug, 1810. The family moved soon after, (approximately 1814) to Onondago County. Marquis worked as a raftsman on the Erie Canal as a teenager, but his father was a cooper and a farmer. It has been suggested that the father may have been a seulter. Marquis, (Marcus, as he later called himself) lived in the Syracuse area until manhood, then left his family behind, and walked to Fulton County, IL, where he married and raised a family. Marquis's son, Lafayette MILLER, wrote an article about his father, saying that he voted for Andrew Jackson, and saw the first railroad built in the US. There is a deed on the orig. sheepskin, made out to Marquis D. MILLER, and signed by then president , Martin Van Buren. I wish to know who his parents were? Where are they buried? Were they Jewish, as the Clinton County historian believes? Who were his siblings? I have so much information for someone out there who may be connected. Please respond.....Marquis's first born was named George, then William Henry (my 2nd grt grdfather), Oliver F., Lafayette, Daniel W., Daniel W., and Mary Ann and Sarah Ellen MILLER. If anyone has any information, no matter how trivial, pls e-mail me. This is my life's work. Thank you so very much for ANY help you can give me.....Regards, Judy Goodwin Orlando, FL