I've got a John Miller with a 1745 land warrant; is this who you are looking for. Hold your breath - the book is coming. Dr. Hively -------------------------------------------------- From: "Miller, Floyd" <fmille@unf.edu> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:40 AM To: <paadams@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [PAADAMS] John MILLER > John MILLER (and Mary) settled up in the Huntington Twp area but with so > many MILLER's in Adams County I can't locate him. He had ten sons and 1 > dau which I found...Any ideas about Dr. Hively's book? > Tks > Floyd A. MILLER > www.unf.edu/~fmille/miller.htm > MILLERs of Adams County, PA > > ________________________________ > > From: paadams-bounces@rootsweb.com on behalf of Dr. Neal O. Hively > Sent: Thu 11/20/2008 3:02 PM > To: paadams@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PAADAMS] Smith, John, William and George > > > > Adams Co. Original Land Records, Vol. 2 is in its final stages prior to > publication, including original + colonial records for SEVEN townships: > Berwick, Oxford, Hamilton, Reading, Tyrone, Latimore and Huntington. I > expect that book will go to the printer within a few weeks, or by year's > end. > > Your Smith's are in there, and the accompanying connected survey map > shows > where their properties were located. I'll send out a publication notice > when > the time is right. > > Dr. Neal O. Hively > http://www.paland.us <http://www.paland.us/> > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: <gjsmith58@comcast.net> > Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2008 1:17 PM > To: <paadams@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [PAADAMS] Smith, John, William and George > >> Mike, >> I really, really do appreciate this. Searching for a John and William >> Smith is like looking for a needle in a haystack. >> Possibly the most difficult would be finding the surnames of Margaret, >> wife of John;, and Elizabeth, wife of William. The maiden name of >> Margaret may start with an R, as her son Hugh named his first daughter >> Margaret R. Smith. He also named the youngest daughter, Ann R. Smith. >> On >> Elizabeth, I have no idea, as I have found no middle names in the >> children >> of William and Elizabeth. >> I believe John Smith may have been born around 1720, no idea where, >> just that the earliest land record I have is his warrent for land in >> 1743, >> in later York, and Adams Counties, probably the Tyrone township area. I >> don't know if they belonged to any church, no record, but Margaret, wife >> of John, did join the Christ Anglican church {aka White church} near York >> in 1777. >> I also would really like to find out about the two men named George >> Smith, one of which stayed on his father {William} property in York >> County, Huntington Township, property of about 200 acres. William >> possibly was manufacturer of whiskey, as he had 300 kegs listed in his >> probate. >> The other George Smith was a miller, possibly in Tyrone township. One >> of the two George's married a Sarah Brandon, daughter of Thomas Brandon. >> One of them died before 1810 and the other before 1820. I would like to >> know children if possible, one or two of which probably was named George. >> >> Anything of any nature would be helpful. >> Thank You again. >> Judy Smith/Colorado >> >> -- >> People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a >> confession of character. >> Ralph Waldo Emerson >> >> >> >> >> ********* >> Visit the threaded archives of this list: >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PAADAMS >> ********* >> Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry PAADAMS Message Board are >> gatewayed to this Mailing List. 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