John Jacob MILLER

                   JACOB MILLER (MUELLER) AND HIS WIFE, CATHERINE CHARLOTTE AND TWO CHILDREN EMIGRATED TO PENNSYLVANIA FORM THE PALATINATE DISTRICT OF GERMANY IN 1732. THEY SETTLED IN BERKS COUNTY, PENNS, WHERE JACOB ACQUIRED A FARM AN SET UP A TANNERY.  THEY WERE LUTHERANS AND ATTENDED THE LITTLE TULPECHOCKEN CHURCH AND BOTH ARE BURIED IN THAT OLD CEMENTERY. A LARGE MARKER IS VISIBLE FROM THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, (BETWEEN GROFF ROAD, ON TANNERY ROAD) ITS ABOUT 20 FEET FROM THE ROAD AND SITS SOMEWHAT IN A VALLEY (REVENE) AND IS LOCATED ON THE 5 ACRES OF LAND USED FOR THE TANNERY.  FOUNDATION WALLS CAN BE SEEN IF YOU WALK DEEPLY ONTO THE PROPERTY.  WINTER IS BEST TIME TO SEE THINGS.  VERY OVERGROWN.  USE A MAP FOR LOCATING THE MARKER.  THEY CAME TO AMERICA THROUGH THE PORT OF PHILDELPHIA ON THE SHIP JOHNSON, FROM LONDON.  SEE BOOK PAGE 75 30,000 NAMES OF IMMIGRANTS BY DANIEL RUPP AND HIS WIFE CHARLOTTE.  IT ARRIVED IN PHILIDELPHIA, ON THE 19 SEP 1732. THEY SETTLED IN TULPEHOCKEN CREEK ABOUT THREE MILES FORM BERNVILLE, PA.  GOV. LESLIE MILLER A 3RD GREAT GRAND SON OF JACOB MILLER, WROTE A BOOK ENTITLED, "OUT OF THE MELTING POT", AND IS LOCATED IN THE BERKS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AT READING, PA.  (I, M. M. SCOTT, TRIED TO GET A COPY AND THEY GUARDED WELL).