Adam Muller (Miller) was born November 17, 1708, in Schresheim, Baden, Germany. He was the son of John Peter Miller and Ann Margaretha Miller, and was baptized on that day by a Protestant evangelical minister. His father, however lived in Lamaheim in the adjacent Palatinate, Adam Miller grew to manhood, living in Germany.
He married in early life to Ann Marie "Barbara" Koger, they immigrated to America and lived in Pennslyvania in 1724.
While in Williamsburg, VA., he heard of the Shenandoah Valley from some of the men who had been with Spotswood in 1716 and crossed the Blue Ridge to spy out the land, which pleased him, In 1726, Strickler and Miller were both interested in the Massanutten Patent and came to Virginia about the same time. Adam Miller's naturalization paper, issued to him by Governor Gooch, states that he came to Virginia in 1726, as a Pennsylvania pilgrim, Adam Miller settled in Massanutten (an old Indian trading post), he and 9 others began, the first white settlement in the Shenandoah Valley. He purchased the land from Jacob Stover (Swiss land agent). In 1726 or 1727 he seems to have located land in what is now known as the Page Valley. This gives him the distinction, so far as now known, of being the first white settler in the upper Valley.
In 1741 he purchased 820 acres, from Joseph Bloodsworth, in what is now Rockingham, including the great lithia spring below Elkton, and was living there, in 1764 he sold 280 acres of his tract to his son-in-law, Jacob Bear. The spring has long been known as the Bear Lithia Spring. In the field near by are the gravestones of Jacob Bear (1724-1780), Barbara Bear (1726-1791), and Jacob Bear (1765-1827), Maria Eva (1726-1791)
Adam & Barbara Miller had the following children:
Charity Christian (1723-1754), Ann Margaretha (1723-1768),
Ana Barbara (1726-1791) married Jacob Baer. Adam gave his son-in-law Jacob and his daughter Ana his farm, based on the condition that he could live out the rest of his days there and that he be supplied with certain provisions including a generous amount of whiskey for which Jacob Baer gained the nick-name Jacob "Whiskey" Baer, Maria Eva (1729),Jemima (1730-1784), Ernest Christian (1732-1798), Christian (1735-1778), Adam Jr (1736-1812), was killed by Indians, which believed occurred during the Roads Massacre in 1764, Henry (1736-1784), who married Elizabeth Cowger (Cogar), Anna Christina (1738-1791), Peter (1742-1821), John, Catherine who married Jacob Bear, Elizabeth, married John Bear, of Brock's Gap & Catherine
The property remained in the Miller (originally Mueller) family from the 1740s through 1936.
In 1745 Adam Miller and William Purce (Pierce) were ordered by the county court of Augusta to "view and mark a way from the top of the Blew (Blue) Ridge at the head of Swift Run Gap to Capt Downs place". This was one of the old roads in Rockingham and later on was called the Mountain Road. Capt Henry Downs lived in 1745 at present Port Republic.
Records show that Adam Miller was a soldier in the French & Indian War (1754-1763). His homestead is a short distance below (northeast of) Elkton. His grave is supposed to be at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, on northwest side of the river, near Shenandoah City.
He married in early life to Ann Marie "Barbara" Koger, they immigrated to America and lived in Pennslyvania in 1724.
While in Williamsburg, VA., he heard of the Shenandoah Valley from some of the men who had been with Spotswood in 1716 and crossed the Blue Ridge to spy out the land, which pleased him, In 1726, Strickler and Miller were both interested in the Massanutten Patent and came to Virginia about the same time. Adam Miller's naturalization paper, issued to him by Governor Gooch, states that he came to Virginia in 1726, as a Pennsylvania pilgrim, Adam Miller settled in Massanutten (an old Indian trading post), he and 9 others began, the first white settlement in the Shenandoah Valley. He purchased the land from Jacob Stover (Swiss land agent). In 1726 or 1727 he seems to have located land in what is now known as the Page Valley. This gives him the distinction, so far as now known, of being the first white settler in the upper Valley.
In 1741 he purchased 820 acres, from Joseph Bloodsworth, in what is now Rockingham, including the great lithia spring below Elkton, and was living there, in 1764 he sold 280 acres of his tract to his son-in-law, Jacob Bear. The spring has long been known as the Bear Lithia Spring. In the field near by are the gravestones of Jacob Bear (1724-1780), Barbara Bear (1726-1791), and Jacob Bear (1765-1827), Maria Eva (1726-1791)
Adam & Barbara Miller had the following children:
Charity Christian (1723-1754), Ann Margaretha (1723-1768),
Ana Barbara (1726-1791) married Jacob Baer. Adam gave his son-in-law Jacob and his daughter Ana his farm, based on the condition that he could live out the rest of his days there and that he be supplied with certain provisions including a generous amount of whiskey for which Jacob Baer gained the nick-name Jacob "Whiskey" Baer, Maria Eva (1729),Jemima (1730-1784), Ernest Christian (1732-1798), Christian (1735-1778), Adam Jr (1736-1812), was killed by Indians, which believed occurred during the Roads Massacre in 1764, Henry (1736-1784), who married Elizabeth Cowger (Cogar), Anna Christina (1738-1791), Peter (1742-1821), John, Catherine who married Jacob Bear, Elizabeth, married John Bear, of Brock's Gap & Catherine
The property remained in the Miller (originally Mueller) family from the 1740s through 1936.
In 1745 Adam Miller and William Purce (Pierce) were ordered by the county court of Augusta to "view and mark a way from the top of the Blew (Blue) Ridge at the head of Swift Run Gap to Capt Downs place". This was one of the old roads in Rockingham and later on was called the Mountain Road. Capt Henry Downs lived in 1745 at present Port Republic.
Records show that Adam Miller was a soldier in the French & Indian War (1754-1763). His homestead is a short distance below (northeast of) Elkton. His grave is supposed to be at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, on northwest side of the river, near Shenandoah City.
Adam Muller (Miller) was born November 17, 1708, in Schresheim, Baden, Germany. He was the son of John Peter Miller and Ann Margaretha Miller, and was baptized on that day by a Protestant evangelical minister. His father, however lived in Lamaheim in the adjacent Palatinate, Adam Miller grew to manhood, living in Germany.
He married in early life to Ann Marie "Barbara" Koger, they immigrated to America and lived in Pennslyvania in 1724.
While in Williamsburg, VA., he heard of the Shenandoah Valley from some of the men who had been with Spotswood in 1716 and crossed the Blue Ridge to spy out the land, which pleased him, In 1726, Strickler and Miller were both interested in the Massanutten Patent and came to Virginia about the same time. Adam Miller's naturalization paper, issued to him by Governor Gooch, states that he came to Virginia in 1726, as a Pennsylvania pilgrim, Adam Miller settled in Massanutten (an old Indian trading post), he and 9 others began, the first white settlement in the Shenandoah Valley. He purchased the land from Jacob Stover (Swiss land agent). In 1726 or 1727 he seems to have located land in what is now known as the Page Valley. This gives him the distinction, so far as now known, of being the first white settler in the upper Valley.
In 1741 he purchased 820 acres, from Joseph Bloodsworth, in what is now Rockingham, including the great lithia spring below Elkton, and was living there, in 1764 he sold 280 acres of his tract to his son-in-law, Jacob Bear. The spring has long been known as the Bear Lithia Spring. In the field near by are the gravestones of Jacob Bear (1724-1780), Barbara Bear (1726-1791), and Jacob Bear (1765-1827), Maria Eva (1726-1791)
Adam & Barbara Miller had the following children:
Charity Christian (1723-1754), Ann Margaretha (1723-1768),
Ana Barbara (1726-1791) married Jacob Baer. Adam gave his son-in-law Jacob and his daughter Ana his farm, based on the condition that he could live out the rest of his days there and that he be supplied with certain provisions including a generous amount of whiskey for which Jacob Baer gained the nick-name Jacob "Whiskey" Baer, Maria Eva (1729),Jemima (1730-1784), Ernest Christian (1732-1798), Christian (1735-1778), Adam Jr (1736-1812), was killed by Indians, which believed occurred during the Roads Massacre in 1764, Henry (1736-1784), who married Elizabeth Cowger (Cogar), Anna Christina (1738-1791), Peter (1742-1821), John, Catherine who married Jacob Bear, Elizabeth, married John Bear, of Brock's Gap & Catherine
The property remained in the Miller (originally Mueller) family from the 1740s through 1936.
In 1745 Adam Miller and William Purce (Pierce) were ordered by the county court of Augusta to "view and mark a way from the top of the Blew (Blue) Ridge at the head of Swift Run Gap to Capt Downs place". This was one of the old roads in Rockingham and later on was called the Mountain Road. Capt Henry Downs lived in 1745 at present Port Republic.
Records show that Adam Miller was a soldier in the French & Indian War (1754-1763). His homestead is a short distance below (northeast of) Elkton. His grave is supposed to be at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, on northwest side of the river, near Shenandoah City.
He married in early life to Ann Marie "Barbara" Koger, they immigrated to America and lived in Pennslyvania in 1724.
While in Williamsburg, VA., he heard of the Shenandoah Valley from some of the men who had been with Spotswood in 1716 and crossed the Blue Ridge to spy out the land, which pleased him, In 1726, Strickler and Miller were both interested in the Massanutten Patent and came to Virginia about the same time. Adam Miller's naturalization paper, issued to him by Governor Gooch, states that he came to Virginia in 1726, as a Pennsylvania pilgrim, Adam Miller settled in Massanutten (an old Indian trading post), he and 9 others began, the first white settlement in the Shenandoah Valley. He purchased the land from Jacob Stover (Swiss land agent). In 1726 or 1727 he seems to have located land in what is now known as the Page Valley. This gives him the distinction, so far as now known, of being the first white settler in the upper Valley.
In 1741 he purchased 820 acres, from Joseph Bloodsworth, in what is now Rockingham, including the great lithia spring below Elkton, and was living there, in 1764 he sold 280 acres of his tract to his son-in-law, Jacob Bear. The spring has long been known as the Bear Lithia Spring. In the field near by are the gravestones of Jacob Bear (1724-1780), Barbara Bear (1726-1791), and Jacob Bear (1765-1827), Maria Eva (1726-1791)
Adam & Barbara Miller had the following children:
Charity Christian (1723-1754), Ann Margaretha (1723-1768),
Ana Barbara (1726-1791) married Jacob Baer. Adam gave his son-in-law Jacob and his daughter Ana his farm, based on the condition that he could live out the rest of his days there and that he be supplied with certain provisions including a generous amount of whiskey for which Jacob Baer gained the nick-name Jacob "Whiskey" Baer, Maria Eva (1729),Jemima (1730-1784), Ernest Christian (1732-1798), Christian (1735-1778), Adam Jr (1736-1812), was killed by Indians, which believed occurred during the Roads Massacre in 1764, Henry (1736-1784), who married Elizabeth Cowger (Cogar), Anna Christina (1738-1791), Peter (1742-1821), John, Catherine who married Jacob Bear, Elizabeth, married John Bear, of Brock's Gap & Catherine
The property remained in the Miller (originally Mueller) family from the 1740s through 1936.
In 1745 Adam Miller and William Purce (Pierce) were ordered by the county court of Augusta to "view and mark a way from the top of the Blew (Blue) Ridge at the head of Swift Run Gap to Capt Downs place". This was one of the old roads in Rockingham and later on was called the Mountain Road. Capt Henry Downs lived in 1745 at present Port Republic.
Records show that Adam Miller was a soldier in the French & Indian War (1754-1763). His homestead is a short distance below (northeast of) Elkton. His grave is supposed to be at St. Peter's Lutheran Church, on northwest side of the river, near Shenandoah City.
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[No grave markings survived] Historical accounts place Adam with his daughter Barbara.
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