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From: Merle C Rummel <>
Subject: Re: Miller-Lybrook
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2001 15:55:47 -0500
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010101174355.00ad67c0@mail.vci.net>


>Are the Anna Miller and Phillip Lybrook which I carry the same couple which
>you list? Anna would be extremely young to be having a daughter, Barbara
>Lybrook, born in 1782, using the birth date of 1765 which I seem to have.
>Can you reflect on this point?
>
>0--Miller,Jacob b.1735 d.1815
> s-Goodwin,Mary d.c1801
> 1--Miller,Mary b.1764 d.1822
> s-Darst,Samuel b.1754 d.1791
> 1--Miller,Anna b.1765 d.1833
> s-Lybrook,Phillip
>
>Jacob KINGERY m. 2 Feb 1802 Barbara LYBROOK
>
Anna would have been 17 years old --which in frontier locations is not an
exceptionally young age to have a first child. (We ran into common
marriages at 14 and 15 years old down at the Flat Creek Mission, Clay Co KY
-back in the 60s)

I do take exception to the DAR listing of Mary Goodwin as wife to Elder
Jacob Miller. The following is an argument as I gave it in my paper: "Who
was Elder Jacob Miller" ---

Elder Jacob's wife's name, the mother of his children is not known.
A commonly accepted name is: Mary Goodwin; our source for that name is a
DAR applicant who claims that they were married Dec. 30, 1763, in the St.
Paul's Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. She identifies Jacob as serving as
an Army wagoner in Pennsylvania during the Revolution. I think that this
is an error, based solely on a similarity of names. It must be noted that
Elder Jacob Miller was living in the mountainous back country of Virginia
during the whole of the Revolution, far from any Army engagement. With so
many others named Jacob Miller in Pennsylvania, it is unreasonable to
identify a Jacob Miller, wagoner for the Colonial Army, with a leading
Elder of a Church that is being persecuted for its Pacifist stance, saying
that he left home and active ministry to go hundreds of miles to drive a
wagon in war. This then would automatically negate the name of Mary
Goodwin as his wife. We then must accept the name of Barbara, who is named
in his will. But if she is a second wife, per the Franklin Co Marriage
Certificate, then we have no name for the mother of his children. The only
other name available could be the Elizabeth of the deed in Frederick Co MD.

Merle C Rummel
Church Historian

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