Person:Abraham Miller (46)

Abraham Miller was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Land Grant Surveys in Virginia:

• Land Grant Survey: Page 141 - Abraham Miller, 80 acres, Linville Creek, July 25, 1770. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 51]

• Land Grant Survey: Page 169 - Abraham Miller, 200 acres. South side of the Shenandoah. Adjoining Jacob Bear. April 28, 1770. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 62]

• Land Grant Survey: Page O32 - Abraham Miller, 60 acres, Forest. Adjoining Andrew Andrews, Douts. The above entry made by Nathias Dout November 24, 1771, for 100 acres and assigned to said Miller. December 27, 1782. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 108]

• Land Grant Survey: Page O38 - Abraham Miller, 28 acres, Forrest. Adjoining Hites, Browns, Nestrick, Campfield. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 111]

Disposition of Land from Chalkley's:

• Page 153.--22d January, 1776. Abraham Miller and Elizabeth to John Kring, lot 8 on Linvel's Creek, devised to John Bowman by his father, George Bowman, patent to John Scott 21st November, 1765, on McKay's draft, a branch of Linvel's Creek, patented to Abram Miller 1st March, 1773. Teste: Daniel, Joseph and Robert Smith, John Thomas, Cornelius Ruddle.

Records in Virginia

• 23 June 1786, Page 513 "Virginia Supreme Court, District of Kentucky, Order Books 1783-1792: Upon the petition of James Davis and Deborah Davis his wife, and Abraham Miller the Younger, a minor, by the said James Davis his Guardian, it is ord'd that the Sheriff of Rockingham County summon to appear here on the ninth day of the next Supreme Court, John Thomas to prove the will of Abraham Miller the Elder, dec'd, and take upon himself the execution thereof, or show cause to the contrary. And also that the said Sheriff summon the said John Thomas and Jemima Thomas his wife, and that the Sheriff of Lincoln County summon Zachariah Isbell and Elizabeth Isbell his wife, Wm Field and Mary Field his wife, and Hannah Robertson, legatees under the said will, to appear here on the same day to answer the petition of the said James, Deborah and Abraham exhibited against them. And it is further ord'd that the present Admrs do not pay away any legacy or legacies or any part thereof to any person whatever claiming the same until the further order of this court.

• 27 March 1787 - Rockingham County, VA Minute Books, 1778-1878, pg. 557; John Thomas and William Dunlap came into Court & made Oath that Deborah, the wife of James Davis, was always acknowledged by Ab'm Miller Dec'd to be his Daughter by his wife Elizabeth, Daughter of Cornelius Ruddle, and that the said Deborah was born in Lawful wedlock, and said Miller being Brother-in-law to John Thomas.

1. ↑ ROOTS-L.

   Two years later, in 1785, Abraham Miller died in Lincoln County, Kentucky, setting off a lengthy and contentious court battle that went all the way up to the Virginia Supreme Court (Kentucky didn't become a state until 1792). Both John Crow and William Crow gave testimony verifying the validity of the Will being contested by Abraham Miller's children as a forgery. 15 Unfortunately two of the original witnesses, including James Wright, were already dead, and the other was ill in Rockingham County and unavailable. William Crow accused the sole surviving executor John Thomas (husband of John Miller's daughter Jemima) of wasting the estate's assets, and the court appointed William Crow and William Eagan (Agun in the records) to replace Thomas as executors.16 At one point the court also ordered the sheriff to bring in Abraham Miller's half-sisters and their husbands John Thomas and Jemima Thomas, Zachariah Isbell and Elizabeth Isbell, William Field and Mary Field, and Hannah Robinson, to appear in court as "legatees under the said will, to appear here on the same day to answer the petition exhibited against them." The records for this case were destroyed during the Civil War so we don't know the particulars of what the fight was about, but in all probability the battle concerned Abraham Miller's disposition of the estate of John Miller.
   
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