John was at Dorchester in 1636. He removed to Roxbury, where with wife Lydia he belonged to Eliot's church. He was an elder of the church, "bred at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, where he took his A.B. 1627". He was freeman 22 May 1639. In 1639 he went to be minister at Rowley, and was also the first town clerk there. He was invited to go on the mission to Virginia in 1642 but declined, and soon after accepted the call to Yarmouth on Cape Cod. He was not long there, returning to Roxbury. He appears to have moved a lot, perhaps preaching wherever there was a need. He died at Groton 12 June 1663 and his son John was named administrator of his estate 3 July 1663.
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Mr Miler's name appears in the list of grantees of Newbury, December 7, 1642. A lot of land in Rowley was granted him in January 1643-44, which indicates that his ministry may have still continued in that town. From Rowley he moved to yarmouth, where his was the settled minister, thought the exact date of his removal is not known. His daughter, Susannah, was born at yarmouth, May 2, 1647; and his undoubtedly was living there at this time. He was probatly the Mr. John Miller who was made a freeman of Plymouth colony, June 1, 1658. In the summer of 1662, he was a member of the council that convened at Barnstable to consider the case of John Smith and others who had seceded from the Barnstable church. It is not known exactly when Mr. Miller came to Groton; but probably some time during 1662, as in that year the town voted to build a house for the minister.
His wife, Lydia, had previously died in Boston, August 7, 1658, leaving a large family of children, one of whom John was born in England. Mr. Miller was a man of decided literary attainments, and a devoted servant of Christ.
Source: An Historical Address Delivered at Groton, Massachusetts, February 20, 1880 By Samuel Abbott Green, Page 12
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Rev John Miller came to New England 1634 with wife Lydia and son John grad. Gaius Coll., Cambridge A.B .1627 included in Mather's Magnalia in his "first classis" was an elder in the Roxbury church with Rev John Eliot who labored in converting the Indians and translated the Bible into the Indian language. Mr Miller was an assistant from 1639 to 1641 to the Rev Ezekiel Rogers at Rowley Mass and was also town clerk in this place. In 1641 he received and declined a call to become the minister at Woburn. In 1646 he was called to Yarmouth to succeed the "famous Marmaduke Mathews". His wife Lydia died in Boston at the home of Thomas Bumstead Aug 7 1658. Boston Records. After the death of his wife he was settled in Groton whither he seems to have gone with the first settlers. A vote passed in Groton March 18 1662- 3 requested Rev John Miller to continue with them if he was moved to do so. Land was granted to him in this same year. He died in Groton June 12 1663 and was succeeded by Rev Samuel Willard son of Major Simon who was ordained July 13 1664. Mr Miller is said to have been a man of high literary attainments.
Source: One line of descendants from Dolar Davis and Richard Everett: Including ... By Eleanor Francis Davis Crosby ("Mrs. W. S. Crosby, "), Page 55