Johann Ludwig (Mueller) Miller (1721 - 1792)

Born 5 Apr 1721 in Lambsheim, Kurfürstentum Pfalz, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Anna Barbara (Meyer) Miller — married 1747 (to 1792) in York, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 26 Jan 1792 at age 70 in Frederick, Maryland, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

• Fact: Christening (10 April 1721) Kallstadt, Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany
• Fact: Naturalization (3 October 1727) Immigration British Colonial America
• Fact: Naturalization (October 1747) Naturalization Colony of Maryland, British Colonial America
• Fact: Religion Church of the Brethren
• Fact: http://familysearch.org/v1/LifeSketch Johann Ludwig Mueller (or Lodowich Miller) was born on 1721 Apr 05 in Bavaria's town of Lambsheim, and was christened there on 1721 Apr 10. He relocated on 1721 Jun 04 to Lambsheim with his parents Johann Michael Miller and Susanna Agnes Berchtol. He also migrated from Bavaria to America with his parents, arriving on 1727 Oct 03 in Philadelphia's port aboard the ship "Adventurer," and then settled in Pennsylvania's York County. He was naturalized in 1747 Oct in Maryland through an affirmation not an oath (due to his religious principles). He served in the Church of the Brethren. He was married about 1747 somewhere to Anna Barbara Meyer. They had 11 children, Jacob, Lodowich, Abraham, David, Margaret Elizabeth, Daniel, Susannah, Christian, Nancy, John, and Franes Miller. They resided in Maryland's Frederick County at Pipe's Creek. He bought numerous acres of land there. He died on 1792 Jan 26 in Maryland's Frederick County.
• Fact: Occupation doctor

The family's name has generally been listed as Miller. However, they are unlikely to have changed the spelling from Mueller to Miller prior to migrating to America. They are known to have arrived in 1727. ^[1] Therefore, children, including Lodowich, born before 1727 would have been christened as a Mueller.

Lodowich, the son of Michael Miller and Susanna Agnes Berchtol, was probably born in Lambsheim, Palanitate, Germany, where his father became a citizen in 1721. He was christened Johann Ludwig Muellern on 10 Apr 1721 at the Evangelical (Lutheran) Church in Kallstadt (about 10 km west of Lambsheim).^[2]

It is generally assumed that Lodowich came to America with the rest of his family in 1727, arriving at Philadelphia aboard the Adventure on 2 Oct 1727,^[3] but there is a strong possibility that he remained in Germany for eleven more years until he was 17 y.o. There was a passenger with his name on the Thistle which arrived in Philadelphia on 19 Sep 1738; other passengers included Lodowich's fellow "Dunkers" Walther von der Burg (Walter Funderburg) and Johannes ("Hans") Dieterich (John Teeter).^[4] Lodowich was apparently very good friends with Walter, since he bought 100 acres from Walter in 1754 which evidently became his homestead for several years.

Lodowich married Anna/Joanna Barbara Meyer around 1747, and initially they settled close to his father near Maugensville MD. He bought a tract of 150 acres called "Toms Chance" for ₤160 from John Toms in 1751, but sold it for ₤200 to Peter Tysher just four years later.^[5] In the meantime he bought two adjacent parcels in the "Germania" tract some 14 km west of his father's homestead: 100 acres for ₤100 from Walter Funderburg and 25 acres for ₤25 from Stephen Ulrich.^[6]

Lodowich then bought land near Taneytown^[7] (about 60 km east of Maugensville), starting with "Wills Forrest & Shear Spring" (157 ac) in 1761^[8]. This transaction was followed by a mysterious repeat purchase of "Wills Forrest" (92.2 ac) and a "Resurvey of Shear Spring" (63 3/4 ac) in 1773.^[9] (Note: a different Ludowich Miller of York Co. PA bought a one acre lot near Tawney Town MD in 1767.^[10])

In Nov 1782 Lodowich sold his 125 acres of Germany (Germania) to Daniel Ulrick, again for a total of ₤125, but he reported himself as living in Frederick Co.^[11] (Germania now lay in the newly created Washington Co., while Taneytown remained in Frederick Co.) A year later, in Dec 1783, Lodowich sold his share of his father Michael Miller's estate to his brother Philip Jacob Miller for a nominal 5 shillings.^[12] Lodowich moved to Rockingham County, Virginia about 1782 [or perhaps a couple years later]. It is likely that he died there in 1792. ^[13] A Lodowich Miller is recorded in the 1790 census living in Frederick Co. MD with 4 males under 16 y.o. and 3 females, ^[14] but this is evidently a different, much younger individual, possibly his son Lodowich (Jr).

Sources

1. ↑ Brethren Encyclopedia, Vol II, page 895.
2. ↑ Deutschland Geburten und Taufen (1558-1898), entry for Johann Ludwig Muellern, chr. 10 Apr 1721.
3. ↑ "Pennsylvania German pioneers; a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808", by Ralph Beaver Strassburger, ed. by William John Hinke (Norristown, Pa., Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), pp. 14, 15.
4. ↑ ibid, pp. 373-5.
5. ↑ Maryland Land Records, Frederick County, liber B , folio 429; E 943.
6. ↑ Ibid, E 483, 484.
7. ↑ Johann Michael Miller (Mueller) the Second (1692-1771), Brethren Immigrant (52 Ancestors #104), by Roberta Estes (27 Dec 2015).
8. ↑ MD Land Records, Frederick Co. G 258.
9. ↑ Ibid, U 377, 384.
10. ↑ Ibid, K 1135.
11. ↑ Maryland Land Records, Washington Co., C 306.
12. ↑ Ibid, C 563.
13. ↑ Estes 2015.
14. ↑ United States Census, 1790. Entry for Lodowick Miller, residing in Frederick, Maryland, United States.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 16 October 2017, 00:41), entry for Johann Ludwig Miller Or Mueller(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LK9T-KGG); contributed by various users.
• The Michael Miller and Susanna Bechtol Family Record, compiled by Floyd and Kathryn Mason, 1993.
• http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/Miller/home.htm