Jacob Miller

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Husband Jacob Miller ¹

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           Born:  - Germany
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           Died: 1782 - Washington Co, PA 1
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Wife

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Children

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1 F Mary Miller ¹

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           Born: 20 Jun 1760 - eastern Pennsylvania 1
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           Died: 15 Oct 1842 2
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         Spouse: Andrew Deeds (1760-1831) 1

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2 M Capt. Jacob Miller ²

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           Born: Abt 1762
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           Died: 20 Aug 1830 2
         Buried:  - Washington Co, PA

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3 M Fredrick Miller ²

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           Born: Abt 1771
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           Died: 27 Mar 1814 2
         Buried:  - Washington Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Miller

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He was of German birth, and, immigrating with his wife to America, was among the early settlers on Dutch fork of Buffalo creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

He and a neighbor, John Hupp, were both killed on Easter Sunday, 1782. They started together to visit a friend, not knowing that a party of Indians had come raiding. They had nearly arrived at their friend's house, when suddenly they were met by the natives in the path that led through the lonely and uncultivated forest, and they were killed and scalped. Soon the news came to the few settlers that the Indians were making a raid among them, and they all left their homes and made a speedy effort to seek safety in the Miller block-house. Soon the few settlers who had succeeded in gaining the blockhouse were surrounded by a party of about seventy Shawanese Indians, and almost without any ammunition, and totally without provisions to eat. The wives of Miller and Hupp were among those who escaped to the fort, and they there prepared ammunition to keep off the Indians. At this moment the raiders, leaping from their concealment, appeared in every direction around the blockhouse, and a hot and continuous firing commenced. The female band, in despair and anguish, were forced to the conclusion that the blockhouse would soon be taken by storm, or envelop them in its flames, and there seemed no hope of a successful resistance. But with daring courage they, nerving their arms and steeling their hearts to the severe duties of the moment, snatched up their rifles, fired at the approaching savages, and then ran from porthole to porthole, protruding the muzzles in different directions to convey the idea of a great force in the house, at each presentation causing the savages to cower behind trees or other objects for protection. This strategy of the pioneer heroines without doubt saved the few inmates from an immediate and horrible death. The Indians, evidently filled with chagrin and disappointment, skulked about the blockhouse till nightfall, and then a few of them left during the night, bearing away with them the scalps of Miller and Hupp. The loss of these two men to the neighborhood was severely felt at a time when men were so much needed; but all hearts in that blockhouse were overflowing with thankfulness and gratitude to a kind and merciful Preserver for vouchsafing to them His aid. With sad and anxious hearts the wives of Miller and Hupp lived in hope that their loving husbands would soon arrive in safety at the block-house, not knowing then that they were massacred by the Indians; so the lifeless bodies of Miller and Hupp remained for several days where they had fallen. By and by some friends and a few settlers, concluding it was safe to leave the fort, with cautious steps and armed with a few guns, set out in search of Miller and Hupp, whose bodies they found less than one-half mile north of the fort, on a ridge in a small path that led through the dense forest. (The field was later owned by Clint Miller). They brought the lifeless bodies to the Miller blockhouse, and prepared them for burial. They were interred in one grave, a few yards from the block-house, and placed side by side, each body being wrapped in a sheet, without any coffin, and some rude puncheons were placed around them in their grave. There was no time for the mourners to prepare a box or coffin for their departed friends, as they did not know how soon the Indians might return.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 531.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 532.