by Dennis F. Daniels Research Branch, NC Office of Archives and
History, 2005. See also: Thomas Miller, Dictionary of North
Carolina Biography Thomas Miller (d. ca. 1685) served as
Albemarle’s governor for about six months in 1677, during which
time his government was overthrown in an uprising known as
Culpeper’s Rebellion. Miller originally resided in Ireland
working as a merchant and apothecary. By 1673 he had settled in
Albemarle and become a leader in the proprietary faction. In
1676 the anti-proprietary faction led by John Jenkins, regained
partial control of Albemarle from proprietary leader Thomas
Eastchurch. They indicted Miller for treason and blasphemy and
for speaking disparagingly of the Lords Proprietors. Miller was
imprisoned and later sent to Virginia in May 1676 for trial. The
Virginia Council acquitted Miller; he left for London where he
joined Eastchurch. Miller and Eastchurch met with the
proprietors in the fall of 1676. They presented their version of
the events in Albemarle to the proprie