Thomas Milton FSP

Name: Thomas Milton FSP [uncertain]
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Research Notes

Thomas was previously connected in WikiTree as the son of Richard Milton and Elizabeth Haughton. He was detached by the England Project after which the profile for Richard Milton was designated as Project Protected. Thomas Milton was determined not to be a confirmed son of Richard Milton.

Son of Thomas Milton was Richard "The Scrivener Milton"

Richard, the firstborn son of Thomas Milton, was baptised on 31 August 1594 and was named after his grandfather, Richard Milton. He was trained as a scrivener through an apprenticeship with his uncle, John Milton. Richard immigrated to the Virginia Colony in 1620 aboard the ship Supply

The primary source for establishing Richard Milton, son of Thomas Milton of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, as the nephew of John Milton, Sr., scrivener and father of John Milton, the Poet, is an entry in the book Scriveners' Company Common Paper 1357-1628 With A Continuation To 1678, ed. Francis W Steer (London, 1968).

In 1621, John Milton, the scrivener, entered William Bower, son of Joseph Bower, and Richard Milton, son of Thomas Milton of Cheltenham, Co. Glos., yeoman, as scriveners after serving their apprenticeships with John Milton.

On 6 Apr. 1621 was entered William Bower, s. of Joseph Bower of Donhead, co. Wilts., gent., app. to John Milton [1599],

On 20 Sept. 1621 was entered Richard Milton, s. of Thomas Milton of Cheltenham, co. Glos., yeoman, app. to John Milton [1599],

Source. The Common Paper: Subscription to the oath, 1613-28', in Scriveners' Company Common Paper 1357-1628 With A Continuation To 1678, ed. Francis W Steer (London, 1968), pp. 54-62. British History Online [accessed 30 April 2023.]

Source The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time, Volume 1 David Masson Jan 1881 · Macmillan Page 338, Footnote 1

1 The evidence as to the date of the partnership between old Mr. Milton and his former apprentice Bower will be produced hereafter; meanwhile, this may be the place for some facts in the history of old Mr. Milton's scrivenership in the Bread Street premises additional to those already mentioned in these pages. The facts are supplied by an interesting communication by Mr. Henry J. Sides of the Bodleian Library, Oxford, to the Athenæum of May 1, 1880, and by a sequel by Mr. Hyde Clarke in the Athenæum of June 10 following: - In the Bodleian, it appears, there is an MS. volume (Rawl. Miscell, 51) consisting of collections made in the latter part of the seventeenth century from the official records of the Scriveners ' Company of London; and Mr. Sides, having examined this volume for traces of the scrivener Milton, gives the results as follows: -Under date “ 1599, 42 Eliz.

” the admission of John Milton to the freedom of the Company is duly entered, with the addition, as in the entry in the Scriveners' Books found long ago by Mr. Hyde Clarke, that he had been apprenticed to “James Colebron.” From that date, there is no mention of him in the Bodleian MS. till 1621 when a WM. BOWER and a RICHARD MILTON are noted as admitted to the Company after having been apprentices of his. This RICHARD MILTON, who is found in business as a scrivener as late as 1633, is ascertained to have been the son of a Thomas Milton. He was very probably one of our scrivener's kin, and it is, at all events, interesting to know that there was a Richard Milton practicing as a scrivener in London from 1621 to 1633, by the side of John Milton, after having been his apprentice. Indeed, from 1629, there was a third Milton among the London scriveners, one James Milton, whom Mr. Sides finds admitted in that year as having been an apprentice of Francis Strange. Apprentices of John Milton, reported by Mr. Sides as mentioned in the Bodleian volume, besides the above Wm. Bower and Richard Milton, are JAMES HODGKINSON and THOMAS BOWER, both admitted of the Scriveners' Company in 1624, and JOHN HATTON, admitted in 1628

IMMIGRATION

Richard, child of Thomas Milton, was baptised on 31 August 1594 in Cheltenham, St Mary, Gloucestershire, England.^[1]

In 1977, Mr. Richard Milton, of the American Embassy in Warsaw, wrote saying that his ancestor, the above Berkely survivor, had been baptized at St. Mary's Church, Cheltenham, in 1594.

From Charlie Cook: family page: I've included below everything I've collected on Richard Milton/Melton of the Berkeley plantation: 1593 RICHARD MYLTON, Male, Christening: 29 MAY 1593 Staverton, Gloucester, England, Father: WALTER MYLTON. Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date. Batch No.: Dates: Source Call No.: Type: Printout Call No.: Type: C031751 1539 - 1784 0423306 Film 6911804 Film Sheet: 00. NOTE: RICHARD WAS NOT THE SON OF WALTER MYLTON.

1615 He was married to Margaret Ross in 1615 in England. Children were: William I Melton, Mary Melton.

1619 Richard Milton immigrated 1619 - transported by John Smyth, From Smyth of Nibley Papers, 3(31) pp. 131-336, Document in New York Public Library, List of Records No. 205.M.

1620 The "Supply" was the companion ship to the Mayflower. It left three weeks late from England, unlike the Mayflower, the "Supply" found its way to Virginia. This information comes from Records of the Virginia Company; Page 426.

Cliv. Sir George Yeardley. Certificate to the Council and Company of Virginia of the arrival of Planters at Barklay: January 29, 1620. [Seal] These are to certifie the right Honorable Right worshipfull, and others of the Counsell and Company for this first Southern Colony of Virginia, that there arrived at Barklay in the same country, for the account of that Society, and the Plantation for the said hundred, upon the 29th of January 1620, these fifty persons underwritten. Visit. A Richard Milton is listed among the passengers arriving in Virginia.

1620 The "Supply" was from Bristol; the founders of the Berkeley Company had tried to find a ship in London but were unable to do so in time to sail. There were to be "a party of fifty-four 'or thereabouts' to increase the strength and viability of the plantation" at Berkeley. There is very little detail about how these persons were selected, or their background.

The "Supply" was to return to London after Virginia, rather than returning directly to Bristol. The "Supply" left Bristol on 18 Sep 1620, but apparently only sailed down the river to Crockhampill and anchored there until the 25th. The book cites a letter from October 1620 which has the "Supply" in Kingford, Ireland due to a leak. 29 Jan 1621, the ship arrives at Berkeley.

1620 From: Charlie Crook I managed to obtain a copy of the book "George Thorpe and the Berkeley Company". Most of the book is devoted to George Thorpe, one of the co-founders of the Berkeley Company, and to the history of the colony itself. It has quite a bit of detail about the voyage of the Supply, which carried the 2nd group of settlers sent from Berkeley, Gloucesteshire to the Berkekely Hundred settlement along the James River ( about 5 miles from Jamestown ).

The book has quite a bit of detail suggesting that most of the settlers sent to the Berkeley Hundred were from the local area around Berkeley; there was extensive unemployment from the local clothing industry which gave a reason to risk the voyage. The "Supply" was from Bristol; the founders of the Berkeley Company had tried to find a ship in London, but were unable to do so in time to sail.

There were to be: a party of fifty-four 'or thereabouts' to increase the strength and viability of the plantation" at Berkeley. There is very little detail about how these persons were selected, or their background.

The "Supply" was to return to London after Virginia, rather than returning directly to Bristol. The "Supply" left Bristol on 18 Sep 1620, but apparently only sailed down the river to Crockhampill and anchored there until the 25th. The book cites a letter from October 1620 which has the "Supply" in Kingford, Ireland due to a leak. 29 Jan 1621, the ship arrives at Berkeley.

1621 In the list of those who sailed on the "Supply" under the command of William Tracy in Sept 1620: Richard Milton, with a note: "became a 'planter' after the sale of Berkeley Plantation." The "Supply" left Virginia for England in Apr 1621 with a cargo of tobacco.

Between 350 - 400 settlers were killed in the "Indian Massacre" of 22 March 1622, although only 11 were killed at Berkeley. Berkeley was deemed unsafe afterward, and its people and cattle were moved to Jordans Journey and then to the Shirley Plantation.

On 1 Aug 1622 John Smyth compiled "A List of Servants remaining to us in Virginia". This list includes "Richard Milton." John Smyth also records that in Jun 1622 he sent over four more "servants", including one named "Clement Melton," on board the "Furtherance." On 28 June 1624, in the minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, when considering the disposition of George Thorpe's esteate ( he having been slain in 1622 ), ordered that Thorpe's goods 'shall pay seven barrels of good Indian Corn unto Mrs. Frances West, widow'. Richard Milton gave witness and said that he knew that Thorpe had borrowed two barrels of corn from a Capt. Thomas West.

1622 Between 350 - 400 settlers were killed in the "Indian Massacre" of 22 March 1622, although only 11 were killed at Berkeley.

Berkeley was deemed unsafe afterward, and its people and cattle were moved to Jordans' Journey and then to the Shirley Plantation.

1622 On 1 Aug 1622 John Smyth compiled "A List of Servants remaning to us in Virginia." This list includes "Richard Milton." John Smyth also records that in Jun 1622 he sent over four more "servants," including one named "Clement Melton," on board the "Furtherance."

1622 A third entry: (John Smyth) A LIST OF SERVANTS REMAINING IN AMERICA, August 1, 1622 - Richard Milton.

1624 On 28 June 1624, in the minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia, when considering the disposition of George Thorpe's estate (he having been slain in 1622), ordered that Thorpe's goods 'shall pay seven barrels of good Indian Corn unto Mrs. Frances West, widow'. Richard Milton gave witness and said that he knew that Thorpe had borrowed two barrels of corn from a Capt. Thomas West.

1625 The minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia for 3 Jan 1625, which contains the last known attested list of Berkeley Plantation personnel, do not include a Richard Milton, though many of the names from 1622 are still present. On 17 Jan 1625, the minutes of the same Court read: "it is ordered that Richard Milton shall live at Shirley and look unto the cattle of Berkely hundred for which he shall be allowed fifty pound weight of tobacco and the milk of the said kine. Provided that he carefully look unto them." This last note had an additional footnote: McIlwaine, H. R. ed., Minutes of the Council and General Courts of Colonial Virginia, 1622-1632 and 1670-1676, (Richmond, 1924), p. 43.

1625 In the muster roll taken the same month, Milton is registered as of "Jordans Journey", Charles City County. His holdings - obviously personal and not of the Company - were 4 bushels of corn, a firearm with 2 lbs of powder and 50 of lead, 3 pigs, 2 fowls, and 2 horses. He is now an embryonic planter.

1632 Richard Milton, with John Gibbs, is still tending the kine (cattle) in June of 1632, the herd is being kept at Western Shirley Hundred Island.

The Governor of the Virginia colony was proposing the disposal of the cattle, owned by the Berkely family back in England. He apparently confiscated part of the herd at before the 1630s.

1634 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 2, Page 165: John Cawsey, Planter, of Chas. City in Va., unto Walter Auston, Gent. of Causes Cleare, by estimation 200 acs. neare Sherley hundred, S. upon Henry Watkins Cr., N. upon the mainland, E. upon the Company land & W. upon land of Robert Brown. Consideration: 1,000 wt of Tobacco & 1 cowe already to him delivered. Feb 7, 1634, Page 78. Signed: John Cawsey. Witnesses: Richard Milton, Daniell Lluellin.

1635 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 1, Part II, Page 119: "Richard Tisdall, 200 acs., Feb 10 1635, page 697. At the head of Merchants Hope Cr., 2 1/2 mi. from the dwelling house of Rice Hoe. Due by conveyance from Peter Hull, of Blunt Point, & due sd. Hull for the trans. at his own costs of 4 eprs: John Mowser, James Lowden, Christopher Medcalfe, Manus Zacher (or Lacher). This patent renewed by Sr. Wm. Berkeley Aug 23, 1643 in the name of Thomas Wheeler having been purchased by him & a patent for 400 acres purchased of Richard Milton added. (By Capt. John West, Govr.)

1636 Richard settled in Westover and, on Nov. 19, 1636, purchased 75 acres from Thomas Stagg. On May 16, 1637 he purchased 75 acres more from Stagg. On Oct. 3, 1638 he received 400 acres from a transfer by 8 others. ("75a South upon the main river joining East upon John Clay, West upon the land of William Thompson." Patents 1, 1623-43, vol. 1, page 432 (from Joan Bartay Melton).

1636 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 1, Part I, Page 52: Richard Milton, 75 acs. at Westover, Chas. Citty Co., 29 Nov. 1636; p. 404. S. upon the maine river, joyning E. upon John Clay, W. upon land of William Tompson & N. upon Herring Cr., which land is one halfe part of a plantation formerly belonging to John Davis & John Clay in equall portions, with all buildings & howseing thereupon & sold by sd. Davis unto Thomas Stephens, Merchant. The sd. 75 acs & his due share of building thereunto belonging being due unto sd. Milton by deed of sale from Thomas Stegg, Merchant, extend upon record. In 1637, the charter of the Berkeley plantation was sold to a new group of investors.

1637 Richard I Melton was born in 1595 in England. He died before 1690 in Charles City, Virginia. See notes about his coming to America on page 16 of Michael Melton Leisure's book. There are several pages about him in this book. He also seemed to own 75 acres of additional land in 26 May 1637 in Charles Citte County, 75 acres south upon the main river joining east upon John Clay, west upon the land of William Thompson. (Patents 1, 1623-43, vol. 1, page 432.) Father: Thomas Melton.

1638 The Virginia patents between 1636 and 1650 confirm that within fifteen years of the sale of the Berkeley Plantation (in 1637, Gibbs and Milton were planters in their own right, with estates of around one thousand acres each).

1638 Col. Richard Hill (or Edward Hill?) used his headright for WILLIAM MELTON to acquire a tract of land in Virginia in 1638. This means that William was transported to Virginia by Col. Hill. RICHARD MILTON was transported in 1619 by John Smyth. Smyth would have had a headright for this Richard Milton and could have been given land for it. Headrights were not transferrable, therefore, only Smyth could have claimed land based on Richard Milton's transport. Should John Smyth have obtained land for Milton (and maybe he did, we do not know) then a transfer of that land to Hill would have been by deed from the property owner (Smyth) to a second party (Hill). So it is not possible that WILLIAM MELTON who was associated with Col. Edward Hill, could have been the son RICHARD MILTON. of

1638 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book 1, Part II, Page 98: "Richard Milton, 40 acs. Chas. Cittie Co., 3 Oct. 1638, p. 602. Bounded N. by W. upon land of Serjeant Richard Tysdell & s. by E. upon great Weynoake Towne. Due for trans of 8 pers: Andrew Parker, Christopher Stanton, Henry Palmer, William Deakes, Henry Foster, John Hammond, Eade Adams, Hanna Mawe. Note renewed 23 Aug. 1643 & patent of 200 acs. of Richard Tisdell of 10 Feb. 1635 added & 400 acs. more added to both these, all of which are in the name of Thomas Wheeler."

1638 Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, Surnames, A-B, Page 6 "Adams, Eede, 1638, by Richard Milton, Charles City." Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, Surnames, C-D, Page 92 Deakes, William, 1638 by Richard Milton, Charles City. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, Surnames, E-F, Page 118 Foster, Henry, 1638 by Richard Milton, Charles City. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, Surnames, G-H, Page 144 Hammond, John 1638 by Richard Milton, Charles City. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, Surnames, M-N, Page 219 Marve, Hanna 1638 by Richard Milton, Charles City. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, Surnames, O-P, Page 248 Palmer, Henry 1638 by Richard Milton, Charles City. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, Surnames, O-P, Page 249 Parker, Andrew, 1638 by Richard Milton, Charles City. Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, Surnames, S-T, Page 311 Stanton, Christopher, 1638 by Richard Milton, Charles City.

1733 From "A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled by William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918: On his mother's side of the family, Mr. Cunningham is descended from one of the oldest families in America, and one which originated in England. A Richard Milton is mentioned in land grants recorded in the State Land Office of Virginia, for the years 1636 and 1638, given to him at Westover, in Charles County, on the James River, and it is possible and even probable that this early settler was the grandfather of Richard Milton, the great-great-great-grandfather of Mr. Cunningham. This latter Richard Milton and his wife, Eliza, were living in Richmond County, Virginia, about the year 1720. On August 10, 1725, a tract of 454 acres in "Stafford county on Buck Hall ranch of Occaquan," was granted to "Richard Melton of Richmond County." This part of Stafford County soon afterward became Prince William County, and Richard Milton's death occurred here about the year 1733.

1715 Richard Milton, son of Richard and Eliza Milton, was born about 1715. He inherited from his father a tract of land "adjoining Couper's Cabin Branch" in Prince William County, Virginia, where he lived and reared a family of nine children. His wife, whose name is mentioned in deeds along with his, was Margaret Ross, and it is said that she came of a Scotch family of that name in Pennsylvania. Her grandchildren remembered her as being tall, spare and very neat in dress and appearance. She lived to be about ninety-five years of age, and when a very old lady was still able to ride on horseback to the home of her son, Elijah, making the distance of forty miles in one day. She was born about 1716 and died in 1811. Shortly after the Revolutionary war, Richard Milton removed to Kentucky with his wife, his son, Moses, and his married daughters, and settled on the Chaplin Fork of Salt River, in Nelson County. There he died about the year 1800.

1755 Elijah Milton, son of Richard and Margaret (Ross) Milton, and great-grandfather of Mr. Cunningham, was born in Prince William County, Virginia, December 23, 1755, and died in Fayette County, Kentucky, November 10, 1833. He was married at Green Hill, Frederick County, Virginia, January 28, 1794, to Catherine Taylor, who was born at Green Hill, June 9, 1776. She died in Fayette County, Kentucky, July 29, 1828. Elijah Milton is said to have served as master of army wagons during the Revolutionary War, being closely associated with General Rochambeau during the latter part of the struggle for American independence. When he removed to Kentucky, in about 1792, he took up lands on Elk Horn Creek, in Fayette County, about eight miles west of Lexington, and there passed the remainder of his life as a farmer.

1637 From Sheri Millikin" Here is the info/sources that I have on this Richard Melton -- See notes about his coming to America on page 16 of Michael Melton Leisure's book. There are several pages about him in this book. He also seemed to own 75 acres of additional land in 26 May 1637 IN Charles City County. 75a South upon the main river joining East upon John Clay, West upon the land of William Thompson. Patents 1, 1623-43, vol. 1, page 432 (from Joan Bartay Melton)

1662 Richard Melton was about 18 years old when he arrived in Jamestown, Virginia, New World. From the records: A LIST OF SERVANTS REMAINING IN Virginia (John Smyth) August 1, 1662, Richard came to the New World as an indentured servant and was left in Virginia when the ship the "Supply" left port. After serving his time in service, Richard settled in Westover, on Nov. 19, 1636, and purchased 75 acres from Thomas Stagg. On May 16, 1637 he purchased 75 acres more from Stagg. On Oct. 3, 1638, he received 400 acres from a transfer by 8 others. (from Leslie Ferguson) Sheri Millikin.

1620 In the list of those who sailed on the "Supply" under the command of William Tracy in Sept 1620: Richard Milton, with a note: "became a 'planter' after the sale of Berkeley Plantation." The "Supply" left Virginia for England in Apr 1621 with a cargo of tobacco.

1625 The minutes of the Council and General Court of Colonial Virginia for 3 Jan 1625, which contains the last known attested list of Berkeley Plantation personnel, do not include a Richard Milton, though many of the names from 1622 are still present.

On 17 Jan 1625, the minutes of the same Court read: "it is ordered that Richard Milton shall live at Shirley and look unto the cattle of Berkely hundred for whichhe shall be allowed fifty pound weight of tobacco and the milk of the said kine. Provided that he carefully look unto them." This last note had an additional footnote: McIlwaine, H. R. ed., Minutes of the Council and General Courts of Colonial Virginia, 1622-1632 and 1670-1676, (Richmond, 1924), p. 43. In the muster roll taken the same month, Milton is registered as of "Jordans Journey", Charles City County. His holdings - obviously personal and not of the Company - were 4 bushels of corn, a firearm with 2 lbs of powder and 50 of lead, 3 pigs, 2 fowls, and 2 horses. He is now an embryonic planter.

1632 Richard Milton, with John Gibbs, is still tending the kine (cattle) in June of 1632, the herd is being kept at Western Shirley Hundred Island. The Governor of the Virginia colony was proposing the disposal of the cattle, owned by the Berkely family back in England. He apparently confiscated part of the herd before the 1630s.

1637 In 1637 the charter of the Berkeley plantation was sold to a new group of investors. The Virginia patents between 1636 and 1650 confirm within fifteen years of the sale of the Berkeley Plantation (in 1637, Gibbs and Milton were planters, with estates of around one thousand acres each.

Jmeltonno1 wrote: Years ago, someone sent transcriptions they had made or received from somewhere else, of some 14th to 17th century marriages, baptisms and wills. Where they go it, they did not say, but I saved the list anyway. At least we can see that Richard didn't rise from the sea like Aphrodite or dropped here by a space ship.

One was for a baptism at St. Mary's Parish, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, dated Aug. 31, 1594 for Richard, son of Thomas. Another son is listed for Thomas baptised Dec. 12, 1595 was named Thomas. Earlier up the list is a Thomas Milton marrying Margaret Gought, same parish, on May 13, 1593. Now whether this was the same Richard who came to America, is anybody's guess There were other Richard Melton/Miltons in Britain.

Other tidbits saved over the years from this List: Richard Milton immigrated 1619 - transported by John Smyth, From Smyth of Nibley Papers, 3(31) pp. 131-336, Document in New York Public Library, List of Records No. 205.M, pp. 296/70 - A LIST OF MEN SENT FOR PLANTACON IN Virginia SEPTEMBER 1620- Richard Milton.

Another entry in the RECORDS OF THE Virginia COMPANY, 1607-1622, indicates that the ship Supply landed at Jamestown on 20 Jan 1620/1, onboard Richard Milton.

1802 John Milton, son of Elijah and Catherine (Taylor) Milton, and maternal grandfather of Mr. Cunningham, was born in Fayette County, Kentucky, March 24, 1802, and died at Baltimore, Maryland, on November 18, 1860. He was married in Frederick County, Virginia, September 7, 1826, to Louisa Ann Taylor, his first cousin, who was born in Loudoun County, Virginia, September 5, 1807, and died at Louisville, Kentucky, April 6, 1869. Mr. Milton was a cashier of the Northern Bank of Kentucky, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church.

From: Robert Hume: Early Child Immigrants 1618-1642 - copied from Records of Bridewell Royal Hospital in Beckenham, Kent, England, and COLDHAM: Complete Book of Immigrants 1607-1660 & quot, p. 12. ?Names of the Boyes and Wenches that were appointed to goe to Virginnia?: 67 William Melton, 1619 to Virginia. ?There were 88 names listed on the photocopy (of the children being transported to VA).....In four cases, the place of birth is mentioned, but not for William Melton. There is included the list one Walter Hill (remember Col. Edward HILL was associated with William Melton and used William as a headright). Two of those transported are listed as being from St. Bride's Parish, the same parish where Richard Milton was baptized in 1695. Probably just a coincidence....?

Could Thomas Milton [Milton-2189] and Henry Milton [Milton-2507] be brothers?