Aaron Miller

1744-1813 · Simsboro LA

Born 1744, Simsbury, Connecticut

Died 1813

Father: Ichabod Miller

Mother: Sarah Holcomb

Children include Phebe

Aaron Miller was born at Simsbury, Connecticut, on 16 November 1744. The date comes from the file the Daughters of the American Revolution keep on him. He was the second of the nine children of Ichabod Miller and Sarah Holcomb, by Abiel Brown's Genealogical History of the early settlers of West Simsbury (1856). Brown lists him as "Aaron, 1744" and adds one line: "He removed to Vermont."

His father had charge of the Simsbury steel works about 1743, the year before Aaron was born. When Aaron was about two, the family moved from the Old Parish of Simsbury to West Simsbury, later the town of Canton. They took up the farm left by Ephraim and Mercy Buel. His father kept a blacksmith's shop there for twelve to sixteen years and then moved on to what is now West Granby.

His elder brother Dudley died at Havana in 1762, aged twenty. A younger brother, born that same year and also named Dudley, was executed in New York in 1787 for forgery. Of the others, Samuel went to New York State and Moses to Hudson, Ohio.

Aaron went north to Rutland, Vermont. There he married Ruth Blanchard, who was born about 1752. Their daughter Ruth was born on 16 December 1773 and Phebe about 1781. A daughter Miriam married Benjamin Bridge.

During the Revolution he served as a private in the Vermont militia, under Captains Samuel Robinson, Simeon Wright and Nathaniel Blanchard. The DAR file cites Goodrich's Rolls of the Soldiers in the Revolutionary War, 1775 to 1783, and Hance's History of Rutland. It also credits him with civil service as a horse brander. Smith and Rann's History of Rutland County (1886) names an Aaron Miller among the earliest town officers of Rutland, as one of the "horse branders". The town branders marked and recorded horses so that strays could be returned to their owners.

In 1805 he and Ruth were admitted to the Congregational church in West Rutland. Ruth died on 2 September that year. He married again, to Elizabeth Cox Ladd, by the DAR file.

Aaron Miller died on 21 February 1813. His stone in the Pleasant Street Cemetery at West Rutland reads: "In Memory of Mr. Aaron Miller, who died Feb. 21st 1813, in the 69th year of his age." It stands in a row with Ruth's stone and the Blanchard stones. A Revolutionary Soldier marker of the Ann Story Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, stands at it. His son-in-law John Daniels was executor of his estate, by the memorial of Daniels's son Nelson.

Parents

Sarah Holcomb 1716-1800 Ichabod Miller 1703-1793

Children

Phebe Miller 1781-1863

Sources

Find a Grave memorial 30826701, Aaron Miller, Pleasant Street Cemetery, West Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont; photograph 2012.

Find a Grave memorial 30826702, Ruth Miller, Pleasant Street Cemetery, West Rutland, Rutland County, Vermont; photograph 2012.

Find a Grave memorial 30826702, Ruth Miller, Pleasant Street Cemetery, West Rutland, Vermont, second photograph; 2012.

Daughters of the American Revolution, Genealogical Research Databases, ancestor A208605, Miller, Aaron.

Abiel Brown, Genealogical History, with Short Sketches and Family Records, of the Early Settlers of West Simsbury, now Canton, Conn. (1856), p. 108; archive.org genealogicalhist00browa.

Find a Grave memorials 30826701 (Aaron Miller, stone photograph), 30826702 (Ruth Miller), 70986160 (Mahala Daniels Farwell) and 71183907 (Nelson Daniels); Daughters of the American Revolution, ancestor A208605; Abiel Brown, Genealogical History of West Simsbury (1856), pp. 108-109, archive.org genealogicalhist00browa; Manual of the Congregational Church in West Rutland (1858); H. P. Smith and W. S. Rann, History of Rutland County, Vermont (1886)

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