| Name | Street | Town | State | From | To |
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| Miller, James | Bighton | New York | 1820s | 1830s | |
| Miller, James | Mason Street, home 9 Chesnut Street | Rochester | New York | 1834 |
| Patent | Date | Remarks |
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| 203 | x5525June 11, 1829 | The US Patent Office describes it as "An improvement in rifles, muskets and fowling pieces, etc.
-- the magazine (Cylinder) to contain a number of charges" The Journal of Ordnance Industry lists this patent "for an improvement in the constuction of firearms, rifles, muskets, fowling pieces, ordnance, etc. to James Miller, Brighton, Monroe County, New York, June 11th" view patent |
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It seems that this gun is very similar to Rogers and Wheeler's patent of "Arevolving chamber
containing 7 charges in placed behind the main barrel. Most of the Miller rifles are marked J.J. Miller and a Rochester address on the barrel. J.& J Miller are James and John Miller, Rochester, New York. See Miller, James und John With a little help of David G. Colburn came to be a model for the production of Elija Snell, Auburn, New York Benjamin Bigelow, Marysville, California (former apprentice of Billinghurst Antrobres Edwards, Rochester, apprentice of Billinghurst, took over the Miller shop in 1853 H. Volpous, Cincinnati, Ohio, apprentice of Billinghurst W. Billinghurst (worked in the Miller shop in 1834) Patrick Smith, Buffalo, New York G.A. Brown, who is supposed to have worked for Billinghurst E.S. Ormsby A.S. Sizer G.R. Pierce H.V. Perry, Fredonia, New York C.E. Bunge, Geneva, New York Thomas P. Cherrington, Jr., Catawissa, Pennsylvania W. H. Smith, Rochester, New York, apprentice of Billinghurst and even others 44 gauge, pill lock rifle, 33" octagonal barrel left side right side |
