William
Turner
Miller
Born in Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island
Ancestors 
Son of Nathan Miller
and Patience (Turner) Miller
Brother of
Betsey Miller and Nathan Miller
Husband of
Lydia (Cockram) Miller
— married
2 Nov 1766 in Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island
[children unknown]
Died
at age 78
in Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island, USA
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Biography
William was born in 1745 at Warren, Rhode Island, the son of Nathan Miller and Patience Turner.[1]
William married Lydia Cockram in 1766 at Warren.[2] She died on 27 March 1816.
William married second on 18 May 1817 Lydia Cochrane, niece of his first wife.
William died in 1823 at was buried at the North Burial Ground at Warren.[3] The will of William Turner Miller of Warren, esquire, is dated 7 February 1818 and was proved 4 August 1823. In it he leaves all of his property to his wife Lydia.
Research Notes
William appears as head of household at Warren in the 1774 Census of Rhode Island[4]. His household distribution and inferred attributions are:
- three white males over 16: William and unknown
- one white male under 16: unknown
- one white female over 16: wife Lydia
- one black male under 16: unknown
Sources
- ↑ Arnold: Vol. 6, Warren Births, Page 81
- ↑ Arnold: Vol. 6, Warren Marriages, Page 31
- ↑ Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries Commission, gravestone image online
- ↑ 1774 Census
- Arnold, James Newell. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 (Narragansett Historical Pub. Co. , Providence, R.I., 1891)
- 1774 Rhode Island Census, Warren, Page 2, Entry 45 -- William T Miller; citing transcription by Annie Austin in Rhode Island Roots 33 p.25, March 2007.
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