Dunker's Spring, Mill Creek

" Finally, the fraud against which I warned them so honestly and continuously has come to light, and this Miller publicly went over to the dissolute Seventh-day Tumpler sect and had himself baptized Tumplerwise in the Canestoka, in the month of April, 1735. He took out ten families, Reformed and Lutheran, from the Tulpehocken congregation, who did as he did." (said Rev. Boehme) [see German Sectarians by

"Peter Miller selected as a place for his voluntary retire, raent a secluded spot on Mill Run, a tributary of the Tulpe- hocken. As nearly as can be judged at the present time it was either at or near what is now known as Illig's Mill, and it may be that the spot still known as Bunker's Spring designates the place where the Tulpehocken Brethren were immersed."

See: CHAPTER XV. THE AWAKENING ON THE TULPEHOCKEN in The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania, 1708-1742, a Critical and Legendary History of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers by Julius Fridrich Sachse, 1842-1919; Philadelphia, 1899.

Google Maps shot of Mill Creek in Millbach behind the Miller House.