Witches, Madames, and Turncoats: Comments

Comment on "I Still Love the "Leg Work""

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:24:33 -0500

Betty, glad to be your legs on this one. Email me privately at ndw1@psu.edu and I can get you contact info for your cousin, "S"

- NANCY WELSH HALLBERG

Comment on "I Still Love the "Leg Work""

Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:38:45 -0500

What excitement this was for me to read your blog!! Anna Swartz Frey is my ggg-grandmother as well. Your friend and I are related. It was like you were my legs. Your friend has the exact approach I would take in researching something like this if I was physically in the area, but I was just lucky enough to let my fingers do the walking.

- Betty Wagner

Comment on "Indian John or Wounded John Miller"

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 07:55:45 -0500

Stumbled onto this blogg. I grew up on the "Hannes" Miller farm. My father still has the sheepskin deed. The family cemetery is on this farm with rude fieldstones for gravemarkers except for two: one crudely rounded and marked with 18MM17 and another, more smoothly rounded, but, unfortunately without text or dates. I remember helping Paul Hostetler and Virgil Miller when they "discovered" all of this in the 1970's.

- Thomas Irvin Maast

Comment on "Indian John or Wounded John Miller"

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:05:46 -0500

Matthew, Thanks for your comments. A careful reading of the note in DJH about Daniel Miller says he obtained the information from the Mast Genealogy. " A Brief History of Bishop Jacob Mast and other Mast Pioneers" by C. Z. Mast was published in 1911. So it appears that Hostetler was just repeating the info researched by Mast. It is important to note that the wife's name and children's names and birth orders attributed to Daniel Miller by C.Z. Mast are EXACTLY the same names and birth orders as listed in the will of Christian Miller of Cumru twp., Berks County, PA in 1777. That's why Gingerich & Kreider attribute this family to Christian and not Daniel. Could they be one and the same? Possibly, but I doubt it. I think it's more likely that Mast made an error and Hostetler perpetuated it. Also, your Abraham's oldest son is named Christian, which by tradition he would be named after Abraham's father. Although if this family were in total keeping with traditional naming patterns the second son would be John not Daniel, so who knows...

- NANCY WELSH HALLBERG

Comment on "Indian John or Wounded John Miller"

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:00:01 -0500

Several genealogies I've found online suggest that the original Miller came across on the ship Patience on August 11, 1950. There is no "Christian" on the manifest, but perhaps he changed his name from Daniel Müller. A note in "Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler, the immigrant of 1736", by Harvey Hostetler, says that a Daniel Miller who came on that ship married Veronica Mishler and had children Christian (b1760), Elizabeth (b1762), Jacob (b1764), Abraham (b1776), Susanna (b1767), Fanny (b1769), Barbara (b1774), Magdalena (b1776).

And the genealogy of that Abraham connects to my family -- he married Anna Hochstetler.

Possibly, some or all of the children traveled separately on the Phoenix on September 15th, 1749 -- those names certainly appear on that list. But that would be several decades too early. It's also possible several families are getting mixed together somehow.... there's no Hannes or John in Harvey Hostetler's list.

Anyway....

- Matthew Miller

Comment on "Breaking through the Brick Wall - Cynthia L. Webb"

Thu, 19 May 2011 21:12:45 -0500

I'm hoping this e-mail will somehow get to you Nancy, I am also the 3rd great grandaughter of Cynthia L Webb Connig Putnam and have been searching for Cynthia's parentage for over 20 years. I have the original picture you have posted here, I had sent it to Andrea a year or so ago, along with other info. I am in possession of Cynthia's small bible which she read every day and it contained information handwritten by Isaac Connig (he gave her the bible) as well as some other items which belonged to her. I descend through Abbie Putnam & David Haley and I am originally from Leominster, MA where Cynthia is buried alongside Abbie and Abbie's son, both died at his birth.
I would very much like to be in contact with you as to the Kittery info etc... I have personally gone to Westbrook, ME, Kittery & Portsmouth NH and came up with very little. Also had NEHGS do a couple of searches for me but they came up empty as well, but luckily you had better results.
Hope to hear from you...
Jane Cote

- Jane Cote

Comment on "The Story of Ella Welsh Kennel Wilhelm Kemp"

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:06:57 -0500

I am really Glad i found this web site.Added www.personal.psu.edu to my bookmark!

- icepeFlaxia

Comment on "I Still Love the "Leg Work""

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 20:35:34 -0500

Corrine,
Thanks for the comment. If you haven't found my genealogy database yet at http://www.personal.psu.edu/ndw1/gene/ged4html/index.html you may want to take a look. There are something like 11,000 names maybe you'll find a connection as you research your family.

- NANCY WELSH HALLBERG

Comment on "I Still Love the "Leg Work""

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:53:24 -0500

This sounds like SUCH fun, and what a great return on your day! I'm glad I found your blog; I'm in the midst of researching family history m'self. :) Good Hunting!

- Corinne

Comment on "Indian John or Wounded John Miller"

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 15:13:08 -0500

Larry, Indian John was probably Christian "Schmidt" Miller's uncle. Gingerich & Kreider in "Amish and Amish Mennonite Genealogies" use wills and land records to piece together what they consider to be Indian John's siblings. While they aren't 100% sure, I believe they probably have this family sorted out pretty well. As such they propose the children of original immigrant Miller (whose first name was probably Christian) as follows:
[all children born in Europe]

?? a daughter who married Benedict Lehman

? Indian or Wounded John

Peter who married Anna Zug

?? Nicholas married Barbara

Christian married (1) a Gnaegi (2) Veronica Mishler

Samuel married Barbara

? Abraham married Anna

?? Issac married Barbara

The question marks were the degree of the authors certainty in placing those people in the family.

And Christian "Schmidt" Miller (born Berks Co., PA 1763 and died in Somerset Co. in 1847) is the son of the above-mentioned Samuel who married Barbara.

- NANCY WELSH HALLBERG

Comment on "Indian John or Wounded John Miller"

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 11:43:19 -0500

Christian "Schmidt" Miller was my first ancestor in America. Was "Indian John" his son?

Larry Miller

- Larry Miller

Comment on "Researching the HOWARDs- Part 1: Don't be afraid to ask the locals!"

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 13:55:36 -0500

My Great great grandfather was names James Enos Howard from Pennsylvaina. I have a book he wrote called IN THE BEGINNING. I know he was a doctor and gave the book to my grandmother in 1934 because he autographed it too her. I am wondering if they are the same person. I am trying to find out more information for my family tree.

- Kristina

Comment on "Indian John or Wounded John Miller"

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:02:19 -0500

Indian John Miller is my ancestor...loved reading what you found though I already had most of it. Thanks for your involvement as a volunteer.

- Sue Brown

Comment on "The Ride of Dr. Samuel Prescott"

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:32:14 -0500

Greetings!

I too am a relative of Dr Prescott through my mother's family, (They were Townsend's, sometimes spelled Townshende in the 17th and 18th centuries)although, at present I cannot give you the exact lineage.

I just wanted to compliment you on your posting. It is well done.

Best regards,

David M. Lamb
Des Moines, Iowa

- David M. Lamb

Comment on "The Ride of Dr. Samuel Prescott"

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 07:08:22 -0500

Greetings!

I just wanted to compliment you on your posting. It is well done.

Best regards,

David M. Lamb
Des Moines, Iowa

- David M. Lamb

Comment on "I Guess I Should Start with the Witch"

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:40:20 -0500

Sharla,
Great to see someone is enjoying my post. If you need documentation for any of the information I refer to, just let me know. I'll be happy to get it to you. Also, I highly recommend the book "Devil in the Shape of a Woman," it gives some great insight into all the female "witches" of Salem.
Nancy

- NANCY WELSH HALLBERG

Comment on "I Guess I Should Start with the Witch"

Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:18:51 -0500

Hi,
Susannah North Martin is one of my ancestors also- 7th Great Grandmother. A very interesting story.

- Sharla