Thomas Miller (abt. 1790 - aft. 1838)

Born about 1790 in Powhatan County, Virginia

Ancestors

Died after 1838 after about age 48 in Powhatan County, Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

Thomas was born about 1790. He was the son of Thomas Miller and Joanna Armistead. He passed away after 1838.

Sources

• Base on statements in Thomas Miller [Sr.]'s Wikitree profile he had a son by the same name who very well could have been the Thomas Miller of Powhatan Co., VA noted in the court case below.

https://books.google.com/books?id=zatAAQAAQBAJ&q=Miller#v=snippet&q=Miller&f=false

Court case, "Alabama Beacon versus James Williams" where a "Thomas Miller, a resident of Powhatan County" gives a written statement.

"Thomas Miller, a resident of Powhattan County, wrote on May 24, 1838, in a answer to an inquiry, that he never heard 'of [McDuffie] visiting any person in Powhatan, or any one from Powhatan visiting him in South Carolina.

More significantly, however, Miller said that he had met McDuffie once, 'in Richmond, in March, 1827.' That would have been at the close of the second session of the Nineteenth Congress, which ended March 3, 1827, when McDuffie would have been traveling from Washington, D. C., home to South Carolina."

The Augustine Neale mentioned below was a lawyer and represented Richmond County, replacing Ellyson Currie, who had recently died:

"Thomas Miller of Powhatan County, Virginia, when asked about the incident between William's owner and Neale, wrote: 'I am pretty certain [Neale] had no quarrel with any person, about slavery or any thing else. I never heard such a report.' He was being asked about an argument in connection with Powhatan County residents, however, and was unaware that William's owner probably lived in Essex [County] instead."