** DAR has flagged this Patriot (Patriot Number A079637 Miller, Wendell) and several of his children, for unverified and/or inaccurate information on lineage - please check your documents before adding to your ancestor tree.
THERE ARE UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN ATTACHED TO THIS MEMORIAL THAT ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THIS WENDEL MILLER!
DO NOT ATTACH CHILDREN OR WIVES TO THIS MEMORIAL - THANK YOU!
By: CL Hileman 2009
Born Johann Wendle Müeller, in Dörrenbach, Germany, the son of Johann (Hans) Michael Müeller (the progenitor of this Miller family in America) and Anna Maria Linxweiler. August of 1739 Michael, Maria and their seven children boarded the Ship Samuel, immigrating from Dörrenbach Germany to the Port of Philadelphia, later moving to Berks County, Pennsylvania. These children are documented at the Kirchenbuch of Evangelisch-Lutherischen at Dörrenbach, Germany; the seventh being Johann Wendel Muller 12 October 1733. In 1753, a Land Grant is issued to Wendel in Rowan County, North Carolina (refuting his arrival in 1754). He is one of the earliest settlers in Rowan County, and at the age of 22 takes a Native American to live as his common-law wife. She was called "Indian Lady" and given the Christian name Elizabeth. (No documentation to date confirms her tribe affiliation. The Saponi and Tuscarora lived in this area and most likely her ethnicity would be either and not Cherokee or especially Fox and Sauk Tribes of the mid and western US. (The Sauk Leader, Chief Blackhawk is erroneously named her father. He was neither Cherokee or born before her existence) They were located on the Canadian boarder and west, and the Cherokee were in the south west Appalachian, Kentucky and Tennessee and not Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, the route this Johann Miller took in his era of travel and settlement. Also the marriage to a NA was legally prohibited in NC at this time and no marriage record exists. They later have several documented children. Frederick, John Philip and John Jacob Miller. At the age of 37 Wendel marries the widow Christina Biese Fisher; they have at least the following documented children, Peter, Sarah, George, Henry, David, Christina, Rachel and twins not surviving. Church Records exist to substantiate this as do both their Wills. November 11, 1775, Wendel is nominated for Lieutenant by the Rowan County Committee of Safety and recommended by the North Carolina Provincial Congress for confirmation. (North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume 10 page 320) Wendel served as a Lt. in Berger's Militia then Captain in the Continental Army until about 1781.
Wendel Miller's Last Will and Testament, verifies the union with his common law wife by naming these children. Interestingly, all the daughters received the same sum, regardless of mother.
The Miller DNA Project substantiates this lineage from Germany to Berks County, Pennsylvania to Rowan County, North Carolina.
NOTE: Although his headstone shows 1730 as date of birth - and DAR approximates this as his date of birth, his actual date of birth is DOCUMENTED at Kirchenbuch of Evangelisch-Lutherischen at Dörrenbach, Germany; "the seventh child being Johann Wendel Muller 12 October 1733".
§ information as found in multiple resources and substantiated for his descendants. DNA evidence is available on this lineage.
NOTE: My extensive research on the "Indian Lady".. Her father was NOT Chief Black Hawk (a Sauk Indian and not Cherokee) from what is now Illinois of the famous Black Hawk War, died October 3, 1838 in Davis Co., Iowa; different time, different place, different person! Her father was most likely a Saponi Indian from or near Fort Christianna (an established refuge for Saponi and Iroquoian tribes) in Brunswick, Virginia where Wendel would likely come in contact during his travel from PA to Rowan, NC. Saponi were sometimes called "Blackfoot", possibly causing the confusion with the name Chief Black Hawk as the lore passed down through the generations.
"Of Record Children"
Children with unmarried Elizabeth (RedFern Na Me Qua) : Frederick Miller, John Philip Miller, John Jacob Miller.
Children with wife Christina: Susannah, Sarah, Christina, Elizabeth, Henry, David, George.
Elizabeth (RedFern Na Me Qua) died in 1780 of smallpox which her eldest son Frederick Miller, brought home from the (Revolutionary) War. SOURCE: The year of her death and cause of death are documented on Frederick's Revolutionary War Pension Application. Elizabeth and one of her grandsons are buried together. (when I locate my document I will post the location of her burial here)
By CL Hileman §
THERE ARE UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN ATTACHED TO THIS MEMORIAL THAT ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THIS WENDEL MILLER!
DO NOT ATTACH CHILDREN OR WIVES TO THIS MEMORIAL - THANK YOU!
By: CL Hileman 2009
Born Johann Wendle Müeller, in Dörrenbach, Germany, the son of Johann (Hans) Michael Müeller (the progenitor of this Miller family in America) and Anna Maria Linxweiler. August of 1739 Michael, Maria and their seven children boarded the Ship Samuel, immigrating from Dörrenbach Germany to the Port of Philadelphia, later moving to Berks County, Pennsylvania. These children are documented at the Kirchenbuch of Evangelisch-Lutherischen at Dörrenbach, Germany; the seventh being Johann Wendel Muller 12 October 1733. In 1753, a Land Grant is issued to Wendel in Rowan County, North Carolina (refuting his arrival in 1754). He is one of the earliest settlers in Rowan County, and at the age of 22 takes a Native American to live as his common-law wife. She was called "Indian Lady" and given the Christian name Elizabeth. (No documentation to date confirms her tribe affiliation. The Saponi and Tuscarora lived in this area and most likely her ethnicity would be either and not Cherokee or especially Fox and Sauk Tribes of the mid and western US. (The Sauk Leader, Chief Blackhawk is erroneously named her father. He was neither Cherokee or born before her existence) They were located on the Canadian boarder and west, and the Cherokee were in the south west Appalachian, Kentucky and Tennessee and not Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, the route this Johann Miller took in his era of travel and settlement. Also the marriage to a NA was legally prohibited in NC at this time and no marriage record exists. They later have several documented children. Frederick, John Philip and John Jacob Miller. At the age of 37 Wendel marries the widow Christina Biese Fisher; they have at least the following documented children, Peter, Sarah, George, Henry, David, Christina, Rachel and twins not surviving. Church Records exist to substantiate this as do both their Wills. November 11, 1775, Wendel is nominated for Lieutenant by the Rowan County Committee of Safety and recommended by the North Carolina Provincial Congress for confirmation. (North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume 10 page 320) Wendel served as a Lt. in Berger's Militia then Captain in the Continental Army until about 1781.
Wendel Miller's Last Will and Testament, verifies the union with his common law wife by naming these children. Interestingly, all the daughters received the same sum, regardless of mother.
The Miller DNA Project substantiates this lineage from Germany to Berks County, Pennsylvania to Rowan County, North Carolina.
NOTE: Although his headstone shows 1730 as date of birth - and DAR approximates this as his date of birth, his actual date of birth is DOCUMENTED at Kirchenbuch of Evangelisch-Lutherischen at Dörrenbach, Germany; "the seventh child being Johann Wendel Muller 12 October 1733".
§ information as found in multiple resources and substantiated for his descendants. DNA evidence is available on this lineage.
NOTE: My extensive research on the "Indian Lady".. Her father was NOT Chief Black Hawk (a Sauk Indian and not Cherokee) from what is now Illinois of the famous Black Hawk War, died October 3, 1838 in Davis Co., Iowa; different time, different place, different person! Her father was most likely a Saponi Indian from or near Fort Christianna (an established refuge for Saponi and Iroquoian tribes) in Brunswick, Virginia where Wendel would likely come in contact during his travel from PA to Rowan, NC. Saponi were sometimes called "Blackfoot", possibly causing the confusion with the name Chief Black Hawk as the lore passed down through the generations.
"Of Record Children"
Children with unmarried Elizabeth (RedFern Na Me Qua) : Frederick Miller, John Philip Miller, John Jacob Miller.
Children with wife Christina: Susannah, Sarah, Christina, Elizabeth, Henry, David, George.
Elizabeth (RedFern Na Me Qua) died in 1780 of smallpox which her eldest son Frederick Miller, brought home from the (Revolutionary) War. SOURCE: The year of her death and cause of death are documented on Frederick's Revolutionary War Pension Application. Elizabeth and one of her grandsons are buried together. (when I locate my document I will post the location of her burial here)
By CL Hileman §
** DAR has flagged this Patriot (Patriot Number A079637 Miller, Wendell) and several of his children, for unverified and/or inaccurate information on lineage - please check your documents before adding to your ancestor tree.
THERE ARE UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN ATTACHED TO THIS MEMORIAL THAT ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THIS WENDEL MILLER!
DO NOT ATTACH CHILDREN OR WIVES TO THIS MEMORIAL - THANK YOU!
By: CL Hileman 2009
Born Johann Wendle Müeller, in Dörrenbach, Germany, the son of Johann (Hans) Michael Müeller (the progenitor of this Miller family in America) and Anna Maria Linxweiler. August of 1739 Michael, Maria and their seven children boarded the Ship Samuel, immigrating from Dörrenbach Germany to the Port of Philadelphia, later moving to Berks County, Pennsylvania. These children are documented at the Kirchenbuch of Evangelisch-Lutherischen at Dörrenbach, Germany; the seventh being Johann Wendel Muller 12 October 1733. In 1753, a Land Grant is issued to Wendel in Rowan County, North Carolina (refuting his arrival in 1754). He is one of the earliest settlers in Rowan County, and at the age of 22 takes a Native American to live as his common-law wife. She was called "Indian Lady" and given the Christian name Elizabeth. (No documentation to date confirms her tribe affiliation. The Saponi and Tuscarora lived in this area and most likely her ethnicity would be either and not Cherokee or especially Fox and Sauk Tribes of the mid and western US. (The Sauk Leader, Chief Blackhawk is erroneously named her father. He was neither Cherokee or born before her existence) They were located on the Canadian boarder and west, and the Cherokee were in the south west Appalachian, Kentucky and Tennessee and not Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, the route this Johann Miller took in his era of travel and settlement. Also the marriage to a NA was legally prohibited in NC at this time and no marriage record exists. They later have several documented children. Frederick, John Philip and John Jacob Miller. At the age of 37 Wendel marries the widow Christina Biese Fisher; they have at least the following documented children, Peter, Sarah, George, Henry, David, Christina, Rachel and twins not surviving. Church Records exist to substantiate this as do both their Wills. November 11, 1775, Wendel is nominated for Lieutenant by the Rowan County Committee of Safety and recommended by the North Carolina Provincial Congress for confirmation. (North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume 10 page 320) Wendel served as a Lt. in Berger's Militia then Captain in the Continental Army until about 1781.
Wendel Miller's Last Will and Testament, verifies the union with his common law wife by naming these children. Interestingly, all the daughters received the same sum, regardless of mother.
The Miller DNA Project substantiates this lineage from Germany to Berks County, Pennsylvania to Rowan County, North Carolina.
NOTE: Although his headstone shows 1730 as date of birth - and DAR approximates this as his date of birth, his actual date of birth is DOCUMENTED at Kirchenbuch of Evangelisch-Lutherischen at Dörrenbach, Germany; "the seventh child being Johann Wendel Muller 12 October 1733".
§ information as found in multiple resources and substantiated for his descendants. DNA evidence is available on this lineage.
NOTE: My extensive research on the "Indian Lady".. Her father was NOT Chief Black Hawk (a Sauk Indian and not Cherokee) from what is now Illinois of the famous Black Hawk War, died October 3, 1838 in Davis Co., Iowa; different time, different place, different person! Her father was most likely a Saponi Indian from or near Fort Christianna (an established refuge for Saponi and Iroquoian tribes) in Brunswick, Virginia where Wendel would likely come in contact during his travel from PA to Rowan, NC. Saponi were sometimes called "Blackfoot", possibly causing the confusion with the name Chief Black Hawk as the lore passed down through the generations.
"Of Record Children"
Children with unmarried Elizabeth (RedFern Na Me Qua) : Frederick Miller, John Philip Miller, John Jacob Miller.
Children with wife Christina: Susannah, Sarah, Christina, Elizabeth, Henry, David, George.
Elizabeth (RedFern Na Me Qua) died in 1780 of smallpox which her eldest son Frederick Miller, brought home from the (Revolutionary) War. SOURCE: The year of her death and cause of death are documented on Frederick's Revolutionary War Pension Application. Elizabeth and one of her grandsons are buried together. (when I locate my document I will post the location of her burial here)
By CL Hileman §
THERE ARE UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN ATTACHED TO THIS MEMORIAL THAT ARE NOT CHILDREN OF THIS WENDEL MILLER!
DO NOT ATTACH CHILDREN OR WIVES TO THIS MEMORIAL - THANK YOU!
By: CL Hileman 2009
Born Johann Wendle Müeller, in Dörrenbach, Germany, the son of Johann (Hans) Michael Müeller (the progenitor of this Miller family in America) and Anna Maria Linxweiler. August of 1739 Michael, Maria and their seven children boarded the Ship Samuel, immigrating from Dörrenbach Germany to the Port of Philadelphia, later moving to Berks County, Pennsylvania. These children are documented at the Kirchenbuch of Evangelisch-Lutherischen at Dörrenbach, Germany; the seventh being Johann Wendel Muller 12 October 1733. In 1753, a Land Grant is issued to Wendel in Rowan County, North Carolina (refuting his arrival in 1754). He is one of the earliest settlers in Rowan County, and at the age of 22 takes a Native American to live as his common-law wife. She was called "Indian Lady" and given the Christian name Elizabeth. (No documentation to date confirms her tribe affiliation. The Saponi and Tuscarora lived in this area and most likely her ethnicity would be either and not Cherokee or especially Fox and Sauk Tribes of the mid and western US. (The Sauk Leader, Chief Blackhawk is erroneously named her father. He was neither Cherokee or born before her existence) They were located on the Canadian boarder and west, and the Cherokee were in the south west Appalachian, Kentucky and Tennessee and not Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, the route this Johann Miller took in his era of travel and settlement. Also the marriage to a NA was legally prohibited in NC at this time and no marriage record exists. They later have several documented children. Frederick, John Philip and John Jacob Miller. At the age of 37 Wendel marries the widow Christina Biese Fisher; they have at least the following documented children, Peter, Sarah, George, Henry, David, Christina, Rachel and twins not surviving. Church Records exist to substantiate this as do both their Wills. November 11, 1775, Wendel is nominated for Lieutenant by the Rowan County Committee of Safety and recommended by the North Carolina Provincial Congress for confirmation. (North Carolina Colonial Records, Volume 10 page 320) Wendel served as a Lt. in Berger's Militia then Captain in the Continental Army until about 1781.
Wendel Miller's Last Will and Testament, verifies the union with his common law wife by naming these children. Interestingly, all the daughters received the same sum, regardless of mother.
The Miller DNA Project substantiates this lineage from Germany to Berks County, Pennsylvania to Rowan County, North Carolina.
NOTE: Although his headstone shows 1730 as date of birth - and DAR approximates this as his date of birth, his actual date of birth is DOCUMENTED at Kirchenbuch of Evangelisch-Lutherischen at Dörrenbach, Germany; "the seventh child being Johann Wendel Muller 12 October 1733".
§ information as found in multiple resources and substantiated for his descendants. DNA evidence is available on this lineage.
NOTE: My extensive research on the "Indian Lady".. Her father was NOT Chief Black Hawk (a Sauk Indian and not Cherokee) from what is now Illinois of the famous Black Hawk War, died October 3, 1838 in Davis Co., Iowa; different time, different place, different person! Her father was most likely a Saponi Indian from or near Fort Christianna (an established refuge for Saponi and Iroquoian tribes) in Brunswick, Virginia where Wendel would likely come in contact during his travel from PA to Rowan, NC. Saponi were sometimes called "Blackfoot", possibly causing the confusion with the name Chief Black Hawk as the lore passed down through the generations.
"Of Record Children"
Children with unmarried Elizabeth (RedFern Na Me Qua) : Frederick Miller, John Philip Miller, John Jacob Miller.
Children with wife Christina: Susannah, Sarah, Christina, Elizabeth, Henry, David, George.
Elizabeth (RedFern Na Me Qua) died in 1780 of smallpox which her eldest son Frederick Miller, brought home from the (Revolutionary) War. SOURCE: The year of her death and cause of death are documented on Frederick's Revolutionary War Pension Application. Elizabeth and one of her grandsons are buried together. (when I locate my document I will post the location of her burial here)
By CL Hileman §
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