William
Miller
II
Born about in London, England
Ancestors 
Son of William Miller
and Margaret (Dennis) Miller
Brother of
Margaret (Miller) Lovejoy and Mary Miller
Husband of
Patience (Bacon) Miller
— married
3 Mar 1641 in St. Nicholas Parish, London, England
Descendants 
Father of
Mary (Miller) Nims, John Miller, Patience (Miller) Nott, Rebecca Miller, William Miller III, Mercy (Miller) Fowler, Ebenezer Miller I, Mehitable (Miller) Dewey, Thankful (Miller) Alvord and Abraham Miller
Died
at about age 69
in Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Contents |
Biography
Name
- Name: William /Miller/[1]
Birth
- Birth: 21 NOV 1619/20, London, England
Occupation
- Occupation: Tanner and Planter
Marriage
- Marriage: 3 MAR 1640/1, England
Death
- Death: 15 JUL 1689/90, Northampton, Hampshire Co., Massachusetts
- William Miller of Northfield died 15 July 1690, according to R.W. Cutter and T.C. Miller with H Maxwell, as per added sources (see below)
Burial
- Burial: Bridge St. Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts
- Source: #S29
Research Notes
First Settlers of Northampton
- 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.
- "While some settlers visited the land in the fall of 1653, they waited till early spring 1654 to arrive and establish a permanent settlement.[7]:15–16 [24]" from Northampton, Massachusetts - Early Settlement: Wikipedia, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Wife a Physician and Surgeon
- 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.
Sources
- Richard William Cutter, et al., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, New York: Lewis historical publishing company (1911), Volume IV, p 2056
- History of Northampton, Massachusetts: From Its Settlement in 1654, Volume 1, GoogleBooks, by James Russell Trumbull, Seth Pomeroy (Press of Gazette printing Company, 1898), pp 13
- 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)
- Richard William Cutter, et al., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Connecticut, New York: Lewis historical publishing company (1911), Volume IV, p 2056
- 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: S1 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R1 NOTEThis information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
- Repository: R1 Name: Ancestry.com Address: http://www.Ancestry.com
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with William by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with William:
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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.