James Miller, Sr.

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From Marge Lawson's Family Treemaker Website:

JAMES MILLER, SR OF HANCOCK COUNTY, GA WAS THOUGHT TO BE A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA.JAMES MILLER'S WILL WAS SIGNED IN HANCOCK COUNTY, GA FEBRUARY14,1821; THE WILL WAS PROBATED IN HANCOCK COUNTY MAY 13,1822.SIXTEEN CHILDREN WERE NAMED IN THE WILL ALONG WITH HIS WIFE, LEANNAH....MILLER.THE NAMES LISTED ON THE FAMILY PAGE WERE TAKEN FROM HIS WILL WHICH EXPLAINS THE VARIOUS LAST NAMES OF THE DAUGHTERS WHO WERE PROBABLY MARRIED AT THE TIME THE WILL WAS WRITTEN.BASED ON THE ORDER OF LISTING OF NAMES IN THE WILL, THE OLDEST CHILD WAS ELIZABETH MILLER WITH ELIJAH MILLER BEING THE FIFTH CHILD.

WITNESSES WERE:WILLIAM C. SMITH; EDWARD LATIMER AND LITTLETON BELCHER.EXECUTORS WERE MARK GONDER, HENRY W. LATIMER, SOLOMAN MILLER AND THOMAS L. LATIMER.

TO EACH OF HIS FIRST SEVEN CHILDREN, JAMES MILLER GAVE 100 POUNDS, NORTH CAROLINA CURRENCY, WHICH THEY HAD ALREADY RECEIVED.TO THE OTHER NINE CHILDREN, HE GAVE EACH ONE 500 DOLLARS, MONEY WHICH THEY HAD ALREADY RECEIVED.CERTAIN PROVISIONS WERE MADE FOR HIS WIFE, LEANNAH MILLER, DURING HER LIFETIME.AT HER DEATH, WHATEVER PROPERTY WAS LEFT WAS TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THE HEIRS.

INFORMATION LOCATED IN BOOK OF WILLS SHOWS THE FOLLOWING:

THE PROGENITOR OF THE MILLERS OF LANCASTER CO., S. C. AND HANCOCK CO., GA WAS JAMES MILLER, LISTED ON 1790 LANCASTER CO. CENSUS.THE MISSIONARY, 4/29/1822:"DIED SUDDENLY AT HIS RESIDENCE ON DRY CREEK IN THIS COUNTY, ON THE 11TH INST., MR. JAMES MILLER, IN THE 99TH YEAR OF HIS AGE.HE WAS BORN IN NORTHERN NECK OF VIRGINIA, AND REMOVED TO THIS COUNTY (HANCOCK) SOON AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR.HE WAS TWICE MARRIED, AND HAS RAISED TWENTY CHILDREN..."HIS LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT DATED 2/14/1821 PVD 5/13/1822, HANCOCK CO., GA NAMES W., LEANNAH AND 16 CHILDREN.EXRS, MARK GOUDER, HENRY W. LATIMER, SOLOMON MILLER, THOS. J. LATIMER.ONE S., ALEXANDER, DECD, BEFORE HIS FATHER.ISSUE:RHODA CAUTON, KEZIAH AVERETT, LUCY COOK; SUSAN BLOUNT; ELIZABETH; POLLY TOWNSEND; SUSANNAH; NANCY WAD; JAMES; JOHN; ELIJAH; THOMAS; SOLOMON; HIRAM; WILLIAM; ROLLEY.

INFORMATION LOCATED ON IGI AT FAMILY HISTORY CENTER SHOWS JAMES MILLER MARRIED LEANAH HORTON 11/29/1785.THIS MAY ACCOUNT FOR THE SECOND WIFE SINCE MILLER HAD CHILDREN PRIOR TO HIS MARRIAGE TO LEANAH HORTON.NOTE:DIFFERENT SPELLING FROM THAT IN WILL.

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James Miller760 was born Abt. 1723 in Northern Neck, Virginia761, and died April 11, 1822 in Hancock County, Georgia761.He married (1) Agnes Nevins.
The name of his first wife is Agnes his first child was born by 1750. He married second, Leanna Horton in Casswell County, NC. He was first buying land in Hancock County, GA. in the 1790's. Most of the land in that area was opened by land bounty for those who served in the Revolutionary War originally part of Washington County. James is listed as reporting for muster for August - September 1738 in Virginia for duty at fifteen years of age. James fathered 17 children and died at 99 years of age
More About James Miller and Marriage: Casswell County, North Carolina. Children of James Miller and Agnes Nevins are:

+Mary Mollie Miller, b. 1756, Edgefield District, Saluda, South Carolina761, d. Aft. 1818, Jefferson County, Missouri761.

Children of James Miller are:

+Mary Mollie Miller, b. 1756, Edgefield District, Saluda, South Carolina761, d. Aft. 1818, Jefferson County, Missouri761.

James Miller Person ID I39285 Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest Last Modified 12 Jan 2001

Children + 1. Mary "Mollie" Miller, b. Edgefield County, South Carolina Family ID F14348 Group Sheet

Notes Reference: "Huskey Family Group Sheets," Beverly G. Martin, 1994, 4HUSp2.