Person:George Miller (152)

George's parents are not proven and are probably NOT Johann Georg Mueller and Margaretha Carle as put forth on some member trees on Ancestry.com. These parents do not fit with the little that is proven and surmised about George Miller's father, primarily that he fought during the Revolutionary war and died either during or after that conflict, probably afterwards, because there is oral family history of some communication between George and his father after the war. The Johann Georg Mueller who married Margaretha Carle died in 1768 in Germany. Also, since George Jr. was born in 1760 in Pennsylvania, it is unlikely that his father returned to Germany 8 years later to die. So unless that in an incorrect death date, these are not George Jr.'s parents. On early Census of Canada records many of George's descendants list their race as German. This adds support to the assumption that the original surname was Mueller. However, to date, I have found no evidence of whether his father was actually born in Germany or in Pennsylvania or any record that can be definitely applied to this family with the name Mueller.

The following is an excerpt from a letter by George Miller, Jr.'s 2nd great-granddaughter Jessie Miller Hensel to her grandson written during the 1980s from her own research. It sums up what is defintely known about both Georges during the American Revolution.

"George Miller Sr. joined rifle regiment under Captain Lewis Farmer July 5, 1776; his Colonel was Col. Miles. George Miller, Jr. (son) joined rifle regiment under Captain Lewis Farmer May 2, 1776, missing since Aug. 27, 1776.Captured by British as Long Island. Pennsylvania Archives, 27-Vol. 11 5th series page 417. I found this information at Morristown Public Library, New Jersey.

George Miller, Jr. record is in Archives at Halifax at Delhousie University. It stated he was captured by British and taken to Nova Scotia. He was in the British Army for a few years, given land to settle in N.S. Stated he wanted to return to Penn. but urged to remain. My grandfather told me he had choice of serving in the British army or be shot."

submitted by Tammy Hensel (May 2020)

1.   Family records, photos, letters, research of Jessie Miller Hensel.
2.   Linn, John Blair, and William Henry Egle. Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, battalions and line, 1775-1783. (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: L.S. Hart, state printer, 1880).