BIO: John George MULLER, Dauphin County, PA

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Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, 
Containing Sketches of Representative Citizens, and Many of the 
Early Scotch-Irish and German Settlers.  Chambersburg, Pa.: 
J. M. Runk & Company, 1896, page 171.
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  MULLER, JOHN GEORGE, son of Rudolph Muller (more frequently written 
Miller), was born September 21, 1715, in the Canton of Zurich, 
Switzerland; emigrated with his family to America in 1752, and settled 
in Lebanon township, Lancaster county, Province of Pennsylvania.  He 
took the oath of allegiance October 23, 1752. He had been an officer in 
the Swiss service, and when the French and Indian war broke out he was 
commissioned a lieutenant in Col. James Burd's regiment of Provincial 
forces, May 8, 1760 (see Penn'a Arch., 2d ser., vol. ii, p. 605), 
promoted to a captaincy on the northern frontiers.  October 2, 1764 
(ib. p. 615).  Captain Muller died April 19, 1765, in Lebanon township, 
leaving a wife Barbara Gloninger, who survived her husband several 
years, dying in 1783.