‘Lutheran’ Mary Miller

Not the wife of Elder Jacob Miller, minister of the Brethren Church or "Dunkards"

She had been erroneously connected to Phillip Jacob Miller. Not the daughter of William Goodwyn of Connecticut. Not the wife of Elder Jacob Miller, minister of the Brethren Church or "Dunkards" - his wife is unknown.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Miller-16691

MARY GOODWIN COULD NOT HAVE BEEN JACOB'S WIFE OR HE WOULD HAVE BEEN EXCOMMUNICATED.

"Elder Jacob's wife's name, the mother of his children is not known. A DAR applicant says that she was Mary Goodwin, that they were married Dec. 30, 1763, in the St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. This can only be based on the similarity of names and that one of his daughters, probably his eldest, is named Mary. This does not hold true to custom: the Dunkers were strong on marriage within the faith and this would violate even early concepts of this tradition..."[1]

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Disputed Spouse

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Miller-16691

Not the wife of Elder Jacob Miller, minister of the Brethren Church or "Dunkards"

From Patrick Burke on familysearch.org

"NOTE: There several problems with the stated relationships for Mary Goodwin in the associated genealogy tree and the Life Sketch as written above: (1) There is no primary evidence that the Jacob Miller who married a Mary Goodwin in St. Paul's Church in Philadelphia in 1763 is the same man as Elder Jacob Miller (1735-1815). The surname Miller was common as was the given name Jacob. (2) Elder Jacob Miller (1735-1815) is known to have had at least 12 children. The mother or mothers of these children remain unknown. See the genealogy, "Elder Jacob Miller (1735-1815), A Founder of the Brethren Churches and Dunkard Settlements in Franklin County, Virginia (1775), Ohio (1800), and Indiana (1810) and Some of His Descendants" by Patricia Givens Johnson, Silver Hill, MD: P S Enterprises, Inc, 1977 (Lib. of Congress card catalog #77-86485). See also the writings of Merle C. Rummel, Brethren historian, which are online, e.g., here: https://www.genealogycenter.info/search_invirginiacolony.php and here: https://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/hyperkitty/list/brethren@rootsw...

Notes

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Goodwin-3971
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH58-MSJ
• Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Mar 4 2018, 2:13:25 UTC
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Goodwin-3971
• Saint Paul's German Lutheran Church. Northeast Corner of Brown and Saint John Streets, Philadelphia.