Peter Troutman (1741-1820) was born in Germany, He came to Pennsylvania in 1762
and married Anna Maria Miller (1740-1819) in Maryland around 1763. Maria was born on
December 10, 1740 in Frederick County Maryland to the parents of Abraham and Frances Miller
(also MueIler). Peter and Anna Maria lived near Creagerstown, Maryland; a town which
supplanted old Monocacy. They had eight children that survived them, including John Jacob
Troutman. Through his purchases and his wife's inheritance, Peter's landholdings were
considerable. Peter bore arms in the American Revolution. He was a corporal in 1775 in the
Frederick County militia in Maryland under the command of Robert Wood. His name is in the
Memorial tower of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
He was a trustee of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Creagerstown in 1787 when a site was
purchased for a new building. The move of Peter Troutman's family to Kentucky was piecemeal.
The older children led the way in 1790. In the autumn of 1791, two boats bore the Troutman
family and their possessions down the Ohio as far as MaysviIle where they disembarked and
went overland to Paris, a town in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Peter operated a tannery in
Bourbon County for a while, bought a farm, and ran a large gristmill in Fayette County in 1793.