♂ Samuel Boggs Miller Sr.

1760 - 1846

 

Sam

Samuel Boggs Miller Sr.
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Parents
Henry Miller
Henry Miller
1726 - 1798
Rebecca Boggs
Rebecca Boggs
1736 - 1816
Spouse
Margaret Lackey
Margaret Lackey
1767 - 1854
Children
Samuel Miller
Samuel Miller
1805 - 1891

Samuel Miller was described as having had black hair and blue eyes, and came with his parents to Rockbridge when he was ten years old. Like his father Henry, Samuel served in the Revolutionary War, and him and his wife Margaret lived on his father's homestead in Rockbridge.  In their later years the old home passed into the hands of their son Samuel II, and wife, Janetta Wilson, who cared for his parents until their death.  Their house was always open to the numerous relatives who came from Timber Ridge, Kerr's Creek, Collierstown, and other parts of the county, to visit "Uncle Sam" and "Aunt Peggy."

1760


Nov 1

1770


Age: 9y
1770 • First voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook determines that New Holland (Australia) is not contiguous with New Guinea and claims the whole of its eastern coast for Great Britain, later naming it all New South Wales.

1805


Apr 6
Age: 44y
1805 Beethoven's only opera Fidelio in its original form (known retrospectively as Leonore) is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, which at this time is under French military occupation.

1846


Apr 26
Age: 85y
1846 • Acting on instructions from Washington, DC, Commodore John Drake Sloat orders his troops to occupy Monterey and Yerba Buena thus beginning the United States annexation of California.

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