John Blankenbaker's Germanna History Notes

Note 1116

Gene Dear was the source of more information from Revolutionary War pension files.  In the case of this note, it is file W8774 for John Swindle, who was the son of Timothy Swindle and Rebecca Crees (Greys in Germany).  John married Hanna Weaver, the daughter of Peter and Elizabeth Weaver.

John Swindle was born ca 1746, and married Hanna Weaver, b. ca 1753, in 1770 (no month or day given), in Culpeper Co., Virginia.  They had three sons and three daughters.  During the Revolutionary War, Samuel Rouse, a soldier himself, was a witness to the service of John Swindle.

Only two daughters were identified in the file.  Elizabeth was born ca 1774, and married Peter Daniels.  Mary, baptized 7 Jul 1776, married, in 1795, Michael Rouse in Madison Co.  These families moved from Virginia to North Carolina about 1797, and about 1809 they moved from North Carolina to Boone Co., Kentucky.  John Swindle died there on 20 Aug 1839.  Hannah was living in September of 1843, but beyond that date no further information is known.

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There was a request for the children of Henry and Susanna Miller.  A short sketch follows.

  1. An unknown child.  A child is placed here because tradition has stated that the following child was the second oldest.
  2. Mary, b. 17 Sep 1756, m. Isaac Haines,
  3. Sarah, b. 7 Nov 1757, no further information,
  4. Henry, b. 4 Jan 1759, d. 7 Jan 1833, m.1 Achsah Warner, m.2 Margaret ___
  5. John, b. 5 Feb 1762, d. 3 Aug 1841, m. Nancy Hitt,
  6. Susanna Catherine, b. 4 Dec 1763, no further information,
  7. George (twin) b. 6 Feb 1766, little known about this person,
  8. Margaret (twin), b. 6 Feb 1766, no further information,
  9. Elizabeth, b. 8 Dec 1767, m. Francis le Campion (in Philadelphia),
  10. Adam, b. 17 Dec 1768, d. 5 Jul 1813, m. 11 Nov 1790 Mary Wilhoit,
  11. Sophia, b. 23 Oct 1771, baptized in Lancaster, m. 15 Oct 1792 Burgess Rogers,
  12. Anna, b. 27 Jan 1773, m. 5 Jul 1790 Jesse Berry, nothing more known of them.

There are dates in the German Lutheran church register which have obvious inaccuracies.  Either Sarah, Susanna, or Margaret married Jesse Backster (Baxter).  Most of the family history came from John Wesley Miller, the son of Adam and Mary (Wilhoit) Miller, who was born in 1809 and lived for 96 years.  He knew many of his Miller uncles and aunts and had access to the family Bible.
(15 Mar 01)

We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.