MOSES MILDENHALL was born on 24 Nov 1666 in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England. He died on 21 Jul 1739 in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England. He married Elizabeth Bacon on 02 Mar 1690 in Reading, Berkshire, England (Reading and Warboro Monthly Meeting). She was born about 1666 in England. She died on 21 Jul 1739 in Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England.
Moses Mildenhall and Elizabeth Bacon had the following children:
Moses who came over with his sister Margery and her husband and family in 1685 returned to England and conveyed his lands equally among his sibling that remained in America.
"By deed of September 5, 1685, John Ewen of Drayott, Wiltshire, England, conveyed to Moses Mendenhall of Marritch Hill in the Parish of Ramsbury 500 acres of land in Pennsylvania, not then located. By another deed, August 6, 1688, and in the "fowerth [4th] year of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord James II, by Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith &c, between Moses Mildenhall of Marritch Hill in the Parish of Ramsbury, Wiltshire, Yeoman of the one part and John Mildenhall, one of the the brothers of the said Moses, Benjamin Mildenhall, another brother of the said Moses and Margery Martin, Wife of Thomas Martin, and one of the sisters of the said Moses, and Mary Newland, wife of Nathaniel Newland, one other of the sisters of the said Moses, conveyed to his brothers and sisters the above land.".
From the Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. III, and other sources..
Submitted by Jane Osborne Jones.
Here is an abstract of Moses' will:
- To my son Thomas ten shillings
- To daughter Mary, wife of Robert Church £5.
- To daughter Sarah, wife of Nicolas George, £15.
- To daughter Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Butler, £10.
- To son Joseph 100£.
- To my daughter Hannah Watts £10.
- To my son Moses all three enclosed grounds called by several namesusrewood ground, batts ground and Great Paxlett in the parish of Ramsbury except about two acres in parish of Baydon, with the cottage at MarridgeHill now occupied by Hannah Fisher, widow; also to Moses' ground called Little Paxlett at Marridge Hill.
- To son Moses one of my feather beds with bedstead and all furniture belonging, bolster, pillows, rug and blankets etc., and also £10 within 12 months. If Moses refuses to give executors a discharge for the £25 given him in his will by his late grandfather John Bacon which I have already paid him, or if my executor be forced to pay him the same again, then premises given to Moses shall be given instead to son John, and I give instead to Moses one shilling.
- Residue to son John, sole executor.
- Witnesses James Smith, John Edwards (mark) William Baker.[3]
The use of the surname Mendenhall came about by the immigration of Thomas children John and Benjamin Mildenhall to the United States. From that point the spelling of Mendenhall was used for John and Benjamin and their descendants. Moses unlike his brothers John and Benjamin returned to England and continued using the Mildenhall spelling.
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