Person:Henry Miller (93)

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

Contents 1 Disambiguation 2 Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA 3 Records in Augusta County, VA 4 Information on Henry Miller		Welcome to Old Augusta Early Settlers Beverley Manor Borden's Grant Register Data Maps Places Library History Index
	……………………..The Tapestry Families Old Chester OldAugusta Germanna New River SWVP Cumberland Carolina Cradle The Smokies Old Kentucky

__________________________

Disambiguation

Not to be confused with Henry Miller (1736-1784), son of Adam Miller, who married Anna Elizabeth Koger.

Not to be confused with Henry Miller (b. bef. 1740-1783), son of John Miller of Linville Creek, Rockingham County, Virginia, who married wife Sarah _____.

Early Land Acquisition in Augusta County, VA

Land Grant Surveys in Virginia:

• Page 240 - Henry Miller and Mary Byrd, 1,150 acres, Mossey Creek. Adjoining Francis Erwin, Robert Curry, Abel Griffeth. Mentioned Ketrick. Septamber 20, 1774. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 85].

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records: [unless otherwise listed]

• Page 392.--22d November, 1775. David Magget's appraisement (recorded) by Jacob Bare, Henry Millar, Francis Kertley.

• Land Grant Survey: Page O8 - Hugh Diver, 170 acres, Mossey Creek. Adjoining Henry Miller, Ervins, John Davis, McCaumis, Thomas Reads. May 18, 1780. [Abstract of Land Grant Surveys, 1761-1791, Augusta & Rockingham Counties, Virginia, by Peter Cline Kaylor, pg. 99].

• Samuel Miller, John Lewis and Rachel, his wife; James Miller, William, Hannah, Martha and Henry Miller, infants, by Samuel Miller, next friend, heirs and devisees of Henry Miller, deceased, vs. James and Walter Davis-- Caveat, 24th February, 1797. Certificate of location of 590 acres for Henry Miller, 1793.

Information on Henry Miller

Letter from J. Marshall McCue to Lyman C. Draper, August 23, 1884 (excerpts):

It was permitted to me to run down the history of the Miller Iron Works, reared by Henry Miller & Mark Bird of Berks Co. Penna. in 1774, when in 1778 Bird sold his half to Miller for 15,000 pounds, and he became the founder of the prominent family in Shenandoah County. Henry Miller, in 1778, or thereabouts, erected Mossy Creek Paper Mill - no doubt the first south of Mason & Dixon.

Henry Miller married Hannah Winter, & brought her sister Nancy to Augusta, where she married George Crawford. Jane married a Jones, of Pennsylvania., Elizabeth married Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of Abraham; and who with our great gr. father, James Allen, & others, was a member of Courts Martial in this from 1756 to 1783.

I was the guest, for the first time, of Col Jno. Crawford, a gr gr gr son of Paddy Crawford whose son George, married Nancy Winter. Col C when I had said to him, I had lately read a small vol - the most interesting "Life of Boone" I had ever seen - I think of Rev I.M. Peck, as author - a Meth. Minister of Ill -- & in which he spoke of Boones last visit from Ky - to Pa - I happened to refer to, in conversation with Col Crawford. He said the house (brick) we were in, occupied the site of Paddy' cabin, & Danl Boone paying him a visit - I expect on that trip - going - or returning - when his attention was called by Paddy or some of the family, to four or six deer, in sight - took up Paddy' rifle, & brought down the finest - a large buck -- & said to Paddy he could have some steak for breakfast. He went on to say, that Boone made a visit to Henry Miller at Mossy Creek - piloted by "Uncle Sid," a famous negro - who died about two years ago - aged, as all of us have the best reason to believe "one hundred & seventeen - his faculties all perfect - teeth good - like ivory - constitution a wonderful one - had been in the Crawford family near 4 generations - buried at the Old Stone Ch - a large congn mostly white - Sermon preached &c. Uncle Sid would speak of the killing the deer & accompanying Boone to Mossy Cr about 12 miles up to the day of his death, the only home, was the "Cra___" on Naked Cr. - about halfway. I ran down some years ago - having passed it often an old log house -- round poles - midway from my old home & here - on the Gamble farm - in which Col Robt Gamble of the Rev. with Wayne at Stony ___ -- lived & where his two daughters, Mrs. Wm West & Mrs. Judge & Gov Wm Cabell were born - their mother a Grattan -- & Capt Saml Miller - oldest of the 4 boys & 4 girls of Henry Miller - married Peggy Grattan - I think a niece of Mrs Gamble - Col Gamble, after being the largest merchant here, became an importing merchant in Richd - gave name to Gamble' Hill there, was represented in Liverpool by Jas Haggerty - a long time the most prominent Consul we had - could see the Queen ad libitum &c. To conclude - had over 600 subscribers to our proposed history of Augusta - too poor to publish it - was exceedingly anxious to get out the review of Peytons so called History, which has been so successful in misleading Wm. Maxwell - Rev. Wm. H. Toole & every body else but Waddell - who knew him - in perverting our history - I don't think this is an answer to yours to my relative, but may cover some of the ground - Tis hard to know when & where to stop - in writing to you. Fishersville, Augusta Co. is my office.

Sincerely your friend,

J. Marshall McCue

From "Annals of Augusta County, Virginia", pg. 428:

The sons of Patrick and Sally Crawford were:

I. George Crawford, to whom his father left the plantation on which he resided. He was born October 1, 1754, and married Nancy Winter. Mrs. Crawford's parents were William and Ann Boone Winter, the latter an aunt of Daniel Boone. Elizabeth Winter, a sister of Mrs. Crawford, married Abraham Lincoln , the grandfather of President Lincoln; and Hannah Winter, another sister, married Henry Miller, the founder of Miller's Iron Works, on Mossy creek, Augusta county'. (See page 40). It may be mentioned that the grandfather of President Lincoln, then living in the part of Augusta county which is now Rockingham, attended a court-martial at Staunton, March 13, 1776, as captain of a militia company. His name was written "Abraham Linkhorn". (Note: the account above of Elizabeth Winter marrying Abraham Lincoln, grandfather of the President is disputed by other sources and records).

- Note: there are no sources to support an Elizabeth Winter as marrying Abraham Lincoln, the President's grandfather based upon extensive research.

1.   .

   After Squire Boone (Sr) sold his farm in Berks County (Pennsylvania) in 1750, the father of Daniel Boone moved his family to Linville Creek in Augusta County, Virginia. While residing at Linville Creek, “Squire Boone Sr. owned a blacksmith’s shop and employed (Henry) Miller to work in it at blacksmithing and gunsmithing“. Squire Boone (Sr) had Daniel Boone “work in the shop to work with him and learn the trade from Miller”. Henry Miller “was perhaps a year or two or three older than” Daniel Boone and “was full of fun and frolic“. Daniel Boone and Henry Miller once loaded a gun for a customer (George Wilcoxen) with “powder, balls, and shot enough for half a dozen charges” as a prank. After the man left with his gun to go deer hunting, they thought better of it and went after him when “they heard a loud explosion” and found him with “his face cover with blood” and “a gash in his forehead down to the skull“. Although Squire Boone (Sr) moved his family to the Yadkin River Valley around 1752, Daniel Boone and Henry Miller established a friendship that would last the remainder of their lives.[82]
   
   Henry Miller married Hannah Winter and founded Miller’s Iron Works on Mossy Creek, Augusta County. Hannah Winter’s sister (Elizabeth) married the grandfather of President Abraham Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln/Linkhorn); and her sister Nancy Winter married George Crawford. The parents of Hannah, Elizabeth, and Nancy Winter, were William and Ann Boone Winter (the aunt of Daniel Boone). The brother of George Crawford (John Crawford) married Rebecca Allen (daughter of James Allen).[83]
   
   https://wilsonfamilytreealbumblog.wordpress.com/2019/03/29/tracing-millers-migration-from-pennsylvania-to-south-carolina/