Wills: Abraham Miller, 1805: Allen Twp, Cumberland Co
 
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>From the Last Will & Testament of Abraham Miller proved 26 Oct 1805:

Abraham Miller of the township of Allen, county of Cumberland, state of
Pennsylvania, millwright

4 sons: Joseph, Abraham, Isaac & Jacob
wife Rebecca [Eprecht]
also "another disobedient son of my wife named Andrew Miller"

1/2 a lot in Harrisbourh [sic] with 2 tenements
plantation in Allen twp
land in York county

witnesses: William Jones & Benjamin M. Murray
Geo Kline, Regr
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This Abraham Miller had been a miller in Annville, Lebanon twp (now)
Lebanon county PA. His father was Andrew Miller who received 2 patents for
land which would grow into the town of Annville in 1747/1748.  Andrew died
intestate in 1754 and his eldest son Abraham purchased the shares of his
siblings (Jacob, Christina & Andrew) for this land, plus received a patent
of his own (for land not patented by his dad) in 1762.

I believe it was in the late 1760's that he purchased a mill along the
Yellow Breeches near Mechanicsburg (I've seen that it's now the
Mechanicsburg Water Works), but did continue to be involved in Annville
land until at least the mid-1770's.

 Supposedly father Andrew married Margaret Funk in 1736 or 1738 per Trinity 
Church records, Lancaster Co. Margaret married a ? Burkholder between 1754 
and 1762.