Excerpt from Miller Family History, 1795-1927In commencing this work we found that possibly we have waited too long, for the older generations have passed away, and that much valuable information has been lost that might have been interesting for us and for future generations to know.This little volume is not as complete as we would like to have made it, owing to the fact that many live in dis tant states and not being able to trace some of them, also a few that did not respond to questionnaires sent them.Samuel Mueller, our first ancestor in America, came from the Canton of Berne, Switzerland, emigrated to America in the ship Chance, Charles Smith, Captain, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes, with one hundred and ninty-three passengers, landing at Philadelphia, Novem ber 1, 1763.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.