Edward Milliken Esq. (bef. 1706 - aft. 1771)

Born before 6 Jul 1706 in Boston, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts

Ancestors

Husband of Abigail (Norman) Milliken — married 29 Jul 1726 in Newbury, Essex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

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Biography

Edward Milliken, a baker, and Abigail Norman, both of Boston, married on 29 July, 1726.^[1][2][3]

Edward was born in 1706^[4] in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, of the part which later became the state of Maine.^[5]

The Honourable Edward Milliken, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, retired 1773 in the Province of Massachusetts Bay.^[6]

Third Generation^[7]       Edward Milliken³ (1), eighth son of John² (1), and Elizabeth Alger, was baptized at the Brattle Street church, Boston, Mass., July 6, 1706, and settled in Scarborough (District of Maine), on the Dunstan lands, in 1729. He m. Abigail Norman.* Was admitted to the First Church in Scarborough, Oct. 31, 1736. He was widely known by the title "Justice Milliken," having been appointed a judge of the Inferior Court in 1760, and was continued in that office until 1771. His reputation was that of sound judgment and sterling integrity; a prudent counsellor and useful. public-spirited townsman. He was a grantee of Trenton, on Union River, when so many of his townsmen removed to that section of the now State of Maine. His name appears on a petition to His Excellency, Francis Benard, of date Jan. 3. 1762, in which it was stated as follows: "'We the subscribers, having been soldiers at Fort Pownall, and now settled at a place called Magebaggadeuce on the eastern side of Penobscot Bay," etc. He acted a prominent part in the settlement of Trenton, and was appointed by the General Court to receive the bonds of the grantees. He was moderator of a meeting held by the proprietors of the townships on Union River, Aug. i, 1764, at the tavern of Capt. Sam. Skillings. in Falmouth. We have not found a record of his death, nor that of his wife. These had a family of fourteen children, as will presently appear, and their posterity is very numerous, far exceeding in numbers the other branches of the Scarborough family.

Sources

1. ↑ The Essex Institute, comp. Vital Records of Newbury Massachusetts To the End of the Year 1849. Vol. II. - Marriages and Deaths. Salem, MA: Newcomb & Gauss, 1911. Print. p 329.
2. ↑ Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, comp. Massachusetts, Marriages, 1633-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
3. ↑ Edmund West, comp. Family Data Collection - Marriages [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2001.
4. ↑ Stearns, Ezra S., William Whitcher F., and Edward Parker E. Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People in the Making of a Commonwealth and the Founding of a Nation. Vol. 4. New York: Lewis Pub., 1908. 598. Print.
5. ↑ Wikipedia contributors. "Massachusetts Bay Colony." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 24 Sep. 2016. Web. 26 Sep. 2016.
6. ↑ Chamberlaine, John. "Collections of the Maine Historical Society". 1890. P 65 (This source lacks proper citation format and therefore cannot be found for verification.)
7. ↑ Ridlon, G T (Gideon Tibbetts) 1907. History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy: comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken, and Mullikin, A.D. 800-A.D. 1907, containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents. [Kezar Falls, Maine?]: Published by the author. pg 59 [1]

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Acknowledgments

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