Biographical Sketch of Gayen MILLER (d. 1742); Chester County, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Lew Smedley Copyright. All Rights Reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm ********************************************************* GAYEN MILLER, with Margaret his wife, daughter of Dr. Patrick Henderson, came to Chester county and, by deed of Aug. 17, 1702, purchased 200 acres of land in the Manor of Staineing, now Kennet township, close by the present Kennet Square. It has been thought they came from Ireland, but the evidence is not conclusive. Gayen (as he wrote his name) died in 1742, and his wife in Jan. (11 mo.),1743-4. Issue: JAMES, b.11-5-1696; d.1732; m.Rachel Fred,4-20-1721. WILLIAM, b.8-30-1698; d.1767(?); m.Ruth Rowland,7-30-1724. ROBERT, b.3-3-1703; d.1761; m.Ruth Haines. SARAH, b.9-1-1704; d.6 mo.1749; m.Joshua Johnson,2-23-1724. MARY, b.2-7-1707; m.William Beverly,2,-22-1730. PATRICK, b.12-28-1708; d.1751; m.Patience Haines,9-5-1735. SAMUEL, b.4-14-1711; d.11 mo.1764; m.Margaret Halliday,4-29-1732. ELIZABETH, b.5-7-17I3; m.Joseph Dickinson,8-25-1732. JOSEPH, b.7-14-1715; d.1742; m.Jane Kirk,2-18-1738. BENJAMIN, b.6-4-1717; m.Martha Walter,10-7-1738. JOHN, b.11-6-1720-l; m.Margaret Smith,8-28-1741. GEORGE, b.5-19-1723; m.Susanna Bird. In 1712 Gayen Miller purchased 700 acres of land in New Garden township. On Dec. 9 and 10, 1723, he purchased 500 acres in East Caln, from Elizabeth Webb, and on Sept. 23, 1729, he purchased 500 acres on Pequea Creek, Lancaster Co., which he devised to his sons Benjamin and John. In 1714 he was elected to the Assembly to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John Miller, of New Garden, who certainly came from Ireland and has been supposed a brother to Gayen. Robert Miller was married in 1725 to Ruth Haines, b. 8-23-1709; d. 1797; dau. of Joseph and Dorothy Haines, of West Nottingham. They settled on one-half of his father's land in East Caln, and had seventeen children: MARGARET, b.11-26-1726; m.William Bentley. SOLOMON, b.12-28-1727; m.Sarah Matthews. DOROTHY, b.6-31-1729; m.George Matthews. PATIENCE, b.1-20-1730-1; d.6-6-1813; m.Charles Bishop and James Davis. HANNAH, b.2-17-1733; d.2-22-1733. HANNAH, b.2-7-1734; m.Curtis Lewis,12-17-1760. WARWICK, b.11-30-1735; d.2-8-1777; m.Elizabeth Price. ISAAC, b.1-11-1737-8; d.11-28-1752. JACOB, b.9-13-1739; m.? REBECCA, b.8-13-1742; m.James Allen,2-25-1767. RACHEL, b.8-13-1742 (twin With Rebecca); d.10-25-1743. JOSEPH, b.8-8-1744; m.? RACHEL, b.4-29-1746; m.Joseph Johnson,11-3-1773. SARAH, b.6-13-1748; m.(John Boyd ? and) Solomon Johnson. RUTH, b.4-2-1750; d.2-12-1751. BENJAMIN, b.12-19-1752; m.Hannah Martin,7-30-1771. JAMES, b.10-21-1754; m.Hannah Pim,11-7-1776. Warwick Miller m.1762, Elizabeth Price, b. 6-22-174I; d. 4-24-1790; dau. of Mordecai and Elizabeth Price, of Maryland, and settled in East Caln. He was commissioned a justice of the peace, May 23, 1770. His widow m. 2-25- 1784, Griffith Mendenhall, of East Caln. The family tradition represents that Warwick Miller was so named from some connection with the Earl of Warwick, and this has been generally claimed to have come through his grandmother, Dorothy Haines, whose maiden name is not certainly known, though Leeds is suggested. Children of Warwick and Elizabeth: ROBERT, b.1-27-1763; d.2-23-1847; m.Patience Miller,gr.dr,of Patrick and Patience. He was a justice of the peace in East Caln. MORDECAI, b.9-17-1764; d.4-3-1832. ISAAC, b.5-11-1766; d.8-6-1844. SAMUEL, b.3-13-1768; d.12-279-1842; m.Mary Miller, sister to Robert's wife. He was a justice of the peace at Downingtown. REUBEN, b.9-11-1770; d.1-21-1817; m.Thomazine Valentine. RUTH, b.9-28-1772; d.7-9-1857. RACHEL, twin With Ruth, d.4-25-1857. WILLIAM, b.9-22-1774; d.9-22-1795. ELIZABETH, b.9-3-1777; d.9-6-1872; m.Richard Downing (#410). This file is located at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/chester/bios/m/miller-g.txt