Isaac Miller (1777 - 1857)

Born 5 Feb 1777 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States

Husband of Mary (Stewart) Miller — married 1 Jan 1804 in Warren County, Ohio

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Died 5 Jan 1857 at age 79 in Clinton County, Ohio, United States

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Isaac Miller served for Ohio in the War of 1812
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Biography

Isaac and his siblings were "bound out" after his father was killed as an American soldier in the Revolutionary War. Isaac's benefactor was John McKibben (probably McKibben-13 on WikiTree), who took Isaac to Kentucky when he was 10 years old. Isaac and a son of Mr. McKibben moved to Clinton County, Ohio, in 1801.

From the History of Clinton County, 1915 (punctuation and clarification added): "Isaac and Polly Stewart Miller were both natives of Westmoreland county Pennsylvania, the former born on February 5 1777 and the latter in 1787. Isaac Miller was the son of Peter Miller, who married Catherine Rhodes. Peter was born in Wales in 1740 and his wife in the United States. They were the parents of five children: John, Jacob, Abraham, Isaac, and Elizabeth. Peter Miller came to the United States when a young man and was married near Philadelphia. He and his wife moved to Westmoreland county Pennsylvania and he served in the Revolutionary War. Although he died in the war, the place of his burial is not known nor is the place of his wife's burial known. Isaac Miller was bound out to John McKlbben and when ten years old went to Kentucky. In 1801 he came to Clinton county with a son of Mr McKibben, and they kept a bachelor's house. John McKibben was the owner of one thousand acres in Clinton county, and he gave one hundred acres to Isaac Miller, who bought one hundred acres from Mr McKibben. Isaac Miller cleared most of the land, and John Fletcher Miller his son now owns a part of it. He was a Democrat in politics, and he and his wife were members of the Methodist Episcopal church, joining the first church in the county at Snow Hill. He married in Warren county near Morrowtown about 1803 and lived in Clinton county until his death on January 5 1857. His widow survived him but twenty one days, her death occurring on January 26 1857. They were the parents of eleven children: William, Elizabeth, Polly, Isaac, Jane, Catherine, Hannah, James, John, Fletcher, Milton and Margaret. Polly Stewart, the wife of Isaac Miller, was the daughter of William and Jane Armstrong Stewart, the former of whom was born in County Tyrone Ireland in 1757. He attended the public schools in Dublin Ireland, and when a young man came to America, locating at Philadelphia. He was pressed into the service during the Revolutionary War and was wounded by a bayonet. He was taken to the hospital at Philadelphia, where he met Jane Armstrong who was his nurse and whom he later married. They proceeded in a wagon to Fort Pitt now Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and later to Columbia a suburb of Cincinnati in Hamilton county. He bought a farm in Warren county near Morrow and there they both spent their last days. To them were born eight children: Samuel, William, Mary, Elizabeth, Sarah, Anna, Jane, and Hannah. William Stewart's wife soon after their marriage was captured by the Indians. She was taken to Detroit Michigan and there exchanged and returned to her husband after being gone one year."

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Sources

1. ↑ Entered by Karen Cardinale Wait, Tuesday, December 3, 2013.

"Biographical Sketch of Isaac Miller," 1894, privately published. "1915 History of Clinton County," available at Clinton County Historical Society, see http://books.google.com/books/about/History_of_Clinton_County_Ohio.html?id=6dYyAQAAMAAJ.

Acknowledgments

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