Benjamin Miller1

Benjamin Miller||p10133.htm|John Miller|b. s 1639\nd. b 18 Apr 1720|p10112.htm|Hannah Chater|b. 7 Aug 1644|p10110.htm|||||||John Chater|b. c 1619\nd. 19 Sep 1671|p8404.htm|Alice Emery|b. s 1622|p8403.htm|

5th great-granduncle of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
7th great-granduncle of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
     Benjamin Miller was the son of John Miller and Hannah Chater.1 He married Lydia Fernald Harmon in North Church, Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.1 His will was proved on 30 May 1750.1
     
     Benjamin Miller was a laborer, yeoman, butcher and planter, and also appears as a constant trader in Portsmouth real estate. He was a selectman of Portsmouth in 1728.1

Additional Data
Benjamin Miller, yeoman, Jeremy Miller, yeoman, and Daniel Quick and his wife Hannah, all of Portsmouth, released to John Downing Sr., of Newington "in consideration of the charges and expense that he hath been at maintaining and keeping their honored father John Miller late of Cape Porpus" all claims to Miller's real or personal estate at Arundel, 18 April 1720.2

Benjamin Miller left a will dated 27 January 1746.1

Citations

  1. [S909] Walter Goodwin Davis, "Miller, of Arundel," Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966): A Reprinting in Alphabetical Order by Surname, of the Sixteen Multi-Ancestor Compendia, (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1996), Vol. 1, 605, originally published in The Ancestry of Sarah Miller (1939).
  2. [S1065] Walter Goodwin Davis, The ancestry of Sarah Miller, 1755-1840 : wife of Lieut. Amos Towne of Arundel (Kennebunkport) Maine (Portland, Maine: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1939), 5, citing York Deeds XII: 224.