----- Original Message ----- From: "Kathryn Payne" <kpayne@nyc.rr.com> To: "Mal Humes" <mal3@mal.net> Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 9:49 AM Subject: Re: [PaOldC] more Millers >I don't really have much on Mary and James Graham, but I will tell you what >I know. > Mary is the daughter of John and Esther Miller. > Esther Miller is the daughter of James Moore. > John and Esther had three children: John married Margaret Craighead, Mary > married James Graham and Abigail married James Bradshaw Whitehill around > 1750, then John Culbertson of E. Caln. John Miller Sr. lived in > Salisbury. > > John Miller Jr. also lived in E. Caln, but moved to and died in > Philadelphia. His daughter Esther (who seems to have been an only child) > married John Mease. > > Mary and James Graham have daughters Margaret, Mary, Esther and Abigail > and sons Micheal, John, James and Samuel. > > Abigail and James Whitehille had Margaret, Jane and John. John marred > Mary Middleton of Donegal Twp., and Jane married Col. Andrew Boyd, son of > Janet Craighead and Rev. Adam Boyd. I don't know about Margaret. > > Anna Brown very kindly posted the wills of James, Mary and Mary's daughter > Mary who married Joseph Darlington. > > It is hard to figure out the Millers and Moores because they were > Protestant and there are so many Quaker Millers and Moores living in the > same area, and of course they all have names like James, John and William. > And also some of the Quaker Moores and Millers left to marry Protestant or > Catholic partners and vice versa. > > Kathryn > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mal Humes" <mal3@mal.net> > To: <PA-OLD-CHESTER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 3:31 PM > Subject: RE: [PaOldC] more Millers > > >> Do you have any more info on Mary m. James Graham? I'm very interested in >> the Graham lines in the era and area. >> >> This will below relates to the Samuel Miller m 4-29-1732 to Margaret >> Halliday in the previous Wm Miller posting: >> >> HALLIDAY, WILLIAM. New Garden. >> 4/l/1741. October 1, 1741. B. 91. >> To daughter Rachel Moore 6 wains cot chairs. To daughter Margaret >> Miller £5. To daughter Deborah Linley my big pott I brought from >> Ireland. To daughter in law Mabel Halliday one cow. To son Robert my >> plantation where I dwell containing 200 acres and remainder of personal >> estate, he paying above legacies. Executor: son Robert. >> Witnesses: Mathew Miller, Thos. Hutton, Benj. Fred. >> >> The Halliday and Moore names might be of interest for tracking down the >> "other" John Miller. >> >> To confuse things further I might as well bring up the Mary Miller I'm >> trying to identify who married James Hamilton and had daughters Elizabeth >> and Jane Hamilton. The daughters married James Humes and William Humes >> circa >> 1780s. At that time the Hamiltons were associated with Leacock, thouhg I >> have notes suggesting earlier associations with I think Conewego >> Presbyterian, and possibly Middle Octorara. >> >> James HAMILTON >> 1724 - 3 Nov 1807 >> >> * BIRTH: 1724, PA >> * DEATH: 3 Nov 1807 >> * BURIAL: OLD LEACOCK PRES CHYD, LANCASTER, PA >> >> Mary MILLER >> 1733 - 2 Aug 1798 >> >> * BIRTH: 1733 >> * DEATH: 2 Aug 1798, LANCASTER, PA >> * BURIAL: OLD LEACOCK PRES CHYD, LANCASTER, PA >> >> Family 1 : James HAMILTON >> >> * MARRIAGE: 1749, CA >> >> 1. William HAMILTON >> 2. Margaret HAMILTON >> 3. Jennet (Jane) HAMILTON >> 4. +Elizabeth HAMILTON >> >> JAMES SETTLED IN LEACOCK TOWNSHIP (LANCASTER CO) IN 1760. HE WASPROMINENT >> IN >> CIVIC AFFAIRS - OVERSEER OF THE POOR IN 1773 & 1776,APPOINTED CONSTABLE >> 1779, SUPERVISOR OF ROADS 1781. EGLE'S NOTES &QUERIES, 3D SERIES VOL 3, >> PG 8 >> JAMES & MARY WER E MEMBERS OF LEACOCKPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, LANCASTER CO, >> PA. >> Per James C. Humes book on Humes family James Hamilton was a Sherriff. He >> gave land west of Lancaster to daughter Elizabeth and husband James Humes >> that he received as a grant as a Revolutionary War officer. Elizabeth and >> James moved there in 1803. >> >> The daughters were married at Trinity Lutheran in Lancaster but it >> doesn't >> appear to be a German Miller line. I've looked a little at some of the >> Jacob >> Miller lines as they seem close in proximity to some of my lines but it >> doesn't seem to fit, and I'm at a loss as to why the Hamilton girls >> married >> Presbyterian Humes brothers at at Lutheran church. The Hamiltons get very >> confusing, and that church was actually on land that originally belonged >> to >> a James Hamltion, but that appears to be the James Hamilton son of Andrew >> who were both Lt.Governors and associated with policits in Philadelphia. >> That Andrew Hamilton line owned the land Lancaster was founded on, and I >> think also Carlisle, and owned property all over but doesn't appear to be >> my >> line. >> >> Anyway, I suspect that this below is a later related Miller line to my >> Mary >> Miller, and I have some business associations between James Humes, a >> later >> James Hamilton and a Miller. >> >> Here's a will that could be related to my Humes/Miller/Hamilton line. >> Note >> that this will cites something like 12 other children. Those Millers sure >> did have a lot of kids. This will has a John, and a Moor connection, but >> is >> apparently a later generation than the last post was asking about. >> >> MILLER, JAMES. Sadsbury. >> April 1, 1795. September 8, 1795. >> >> Provides for wife [not named]. To son John £91, having previously >> >> advanced him. To daughter Rachel £226. To daughter Mary £152. To >> >> daughter Sarah £222. To son James tract of land and new stone tenement, >> >> containing 74 acres [des], being part of the plantation on which I now >> >> live, also 6 acres of mountain land. To son William 1/2 of the >> >> remainder of my home place, containing 122 acres, also 35 acres of >> >> mountain land. To daughter Jane £210. To son Joseph the other 1/2 of >> >> home place, and remainder of mountain land, about 12 acres. To son >> >> Caleb £469. To son Jesse £500. To daughter Phebe £206. To sons Samuel >> >> and Warrick £500 each. Remainder to 12 younger children, Rachel, Mary, >> >> Sarah, James, William, Jane, Caleb, Jesse, Phebe, Joseph, Samuel and >> >> Warrick. 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