Jesse Miller (1747 - 1812)

Born 3 Oct 1747 in Bedford, Westchester, New York Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Keziah Miller — married about 1770 in Bedford, New York

Descendants

Died 9 Apr 1812 at age 64 in Tioga County, New York, United States

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Biography

Ensign Jesse Miller served with 2nd Regiment, Westchester County Militia, New York Militia during the American Revolution.

Jesse Miller is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A079108.

Jesse and Keziah were first cousins once removed.

This person is an ancestor of President Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.^[1]

Jesse Miller was born 3 Oct 1747 in Bedford, Westchester County, New York. He moved to Tioga County in the winter of 1786/87 with his sons Jesse and Amos, aged 16 and 14. They came from Bedford, Westchester county by horseback with all of their possessions. They stopped first in Nichols and then crossed over to Tioga and built a cabin between the hamlets now known as Tioga Centre and Smithboro. The Settlement that grew up around the Miller cabin became known as New Bedford. The Miller house was the stopping place for traveling ministers, the local place of workship, and the Baptist Church of New Bedford was organized there. The family included wife Keziah, sons Jesse, Amos, Ziba and Ezra and daughters Jerusha, Lucy and Polly. Another son William died before the family moved.

He and Lodowick Light, Thomas Thomas and Enos Canfield purchased from the state 2,745 acres of land from which Jesse gave to each son 150 acres. He died 9 Apr 1812.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Roberts, Gary Boyd; Ancestors of American Presidents. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.
2. ↑ Kingman, Leroy, ed., Our County and Its People, A memorial history of Tioga County, New York, WA Fergusson & Co., Elmira, 1897 , p 448-49 [1]

Ancestry.com, including

• Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book Volume 091 : 1912, #90032 (through son Ezra)
• Daughters of the American Revolution, Lineage Book Volume Volume 113 : 1914, #112156 (through son Amos)
• Historical gazetteer of Tioga County, New York, 1785-1888 - Part I, page 462