Note H00306William Miller was at Ipswich in 1648 and, according to Savage, probably removed with the earliest settlers to Northampton in about 1654. There he was a member of the first board of townsmen, elected 11 Dec. 1655; later elected constable and was one of the original petitioners to settle Northfield, MA (then known as Squakbeag). In 1683, when that area was resettled, he owned 55 acres there. He was a tanner by trade and lived on the east side of King St. where his two acres extended from the highway to the brook on Market St and two acres on the west side of the brook at Park St. William was made freeman in 1690 and died the same year.
Note H00306 His wife was a physician and surgeon, the only doctor serving the towns of Northampton and Northfield. According to Cutter, she was the first and only woman physician of the time in America.
Source S61 Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell, West Virginia and Its People, at Archive.org, (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, NY, 1913), page 148
Source S29 Elbert H. T. Miller, History of the Miller Family (February 8, 1911)
Source S61 Thomas Condit Miller and Hu Maxwell, West Virginia and Its People, at Archive.org, (Lewis Historical Publishing Company, NY, 1913), page 148
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Please note the date of death in the newly added image is July 15, 1690.
There is no "1689/90" in this or the source "Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut" by Cutter, because no such date notations existed for the month of June.
William and Patience Miller three children - John, Mary, and Rebecca, by 1657. They then had the following children at Northampton: Patince, William, Mercy, Ebeneezer, Mehitable, Thankful, and Abraham who was born 20 Jan, 1671.
William Miller did not die in 1656 -- he was too busy having children!
Please change death date to match the sources -- 15 July 1690, according the only two sources I've found so far, (and will post them on this profile).
Thank you!
PS I'm working on finding sources that will help us sort out the differing birth locations, marriage locations, etc. for William MIller. Please jump in if you want to join the fun:)
I've tidied up the gedcom import for William and next plan to work on the discrepancies in the biography, to see if they can be solved, which includes merging the duplicate profile (need to first resolve location of marriage - England or Massachusetts), and difference in birth locations plus widely disparate death dates.
I have an interest in Patience Bacon, wife of William Miller, because she has historically been assigned as daughter of William Bacon, yeoman, of Stretton, Rutland, England. This was mainly because of Gustave Anjou in one of his now infamous fake genealogies.
Because she was the first woman physician of New England, I am fascinated by her history, and wish to establish all that might be discovered in reliable evidence.
I have a theory that her actual father will be found to have been a physician, since that was the most common -- indeed nearly the only -- route for a woman in England in the 1600s to get the training that Patience Miller exhibited as a "skilled physician and surgeon". It will be interesting to see where this may take us.
Miller-16046 and Miller-1013 do not represent the same person because: Birth and death dates are over twenty years different on the two profiles. William Miller is a common name, and these two are not the same person.
There is no "1689/90" in this or the source "Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut" by Cutter, because no such date notations existed for the month of June.
See Double Dating at Vita Brevis, or Dual Dating at Wikipedia or Double Dating at Ancestral Findings, etc.
It was only Jan, Feb and March (to the 25th) which had the dual years, see Wikipedia on Colonial Calendar as to why.
It should say 1690, not 1689 in William's vital section for his date of death. Thank you.
William Miller did not die in 1656 -- he was too busy having children!
Please change death date to match the sources -- 15 July 1690, according the only two sources I've found so far, (and will post them on this profile).
Thank you!
PS I'm working on finding sources that will help us sort out the differing birth locations, marriage locations, etc. for William MIller. Please jump in if you want to join the fun:)
Anyone who wants to jump in , please do:)
Because she was the first woman physician of New England, I am fascinated by her history, and wish to establish all that might be discovered in reliable evidence.
I have a theory that her actual father will be found to have been a physician, since that was the most common -- indeed nearly the only -- route for a woman in England in the 1600s to get the training that Patience Miller exhibited as a "skilled physician and surgeon". It will be interesting to see where this may take us.