From the rootsweb genealogy for Brian L. Lightfoot http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brianlightfoot&id=I4298:
'Peter Houser had three sons who migrated to America as young men and settled near Hagerstown in Washington County, Maryland. The sons were: Abraham (born in 1740), Jacob (born in about 1742), and John (born in about 1744). Abraham Houser and a Jacob Rohrer landed in Philadelphia 30 Aug 1749. They had sailed from Rotterdam aboard the ship Crown, landing in Philadelphia. Abraham married Nancy Rhorer in 1770. They had 9 sons and 3 daughters, all born in Washington County, Maryland. The entire family moved to Jessamine County, Kentucky and the town of Nicholasville, Kentucky in 1795.
Abraham was a miller and also a Dunkard preacher. In 1794 the family left Washington County, Maryland, for the new state of Kentucky. Their route is reported to have been across the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, then down river, on boats or rafts they built, several hundred miles to the mouth of the Kentucky River. They then followed the Kentucky River upstream to Jessamine County, Kentucky. They settled near what was eventually to become the towns of Nicholasville and Wilmore.
They bought a large tract of land from the government at the fork of the two Jessamine Creeks. It is told that Abraham was so anxious to have neighbors for himself and his family that he offered a German friend 160 acres of land provided he would bring his family and live near him - which he did.
He was a Dunkard (small German Baptist sect), and he refused to accept any pay or remuneration for his service as a preacher of righteousness, saying that the gospel is and must always be free. At the time he owned and operated a grist mill which had a whiskey still attachment. That mill was located on Town Branch on Short Shun Pike. It was the relief custom of his church to provide a charity fund for the relief of their members who needed assistance. One of the methods for providing funds for this purpose was for the members to contribute corn, which Abraham Houser would grind and distill, making whiskey which he would sell and put the receipts into the charity fund.'