MILLER, John
1639 - 1720 (80 years)
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Name MILLER, John [1, 2, 3, 4] Birth 7 Aug 1639 Holme, Huntingdonshire, England 
[2, 3, 4] Baptism 17 Apr 1644 Eye, Northamptonshire, England [1] Gender Male Death 18 Apr 1720 Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA [3, 4] Patriarch & Matriarch 
MILLER, Robert, b. 30 Mar 1619, Holme, Huntingdonshire, Englandd. 9 Apr 1672, Holme, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 53 years) (Father) 
WARREN, Elizabeth, b. 1619, Holme, Huntingdonshire, Englandd. 31 Mar 1657, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 38 years) (Mother) Person ID I9669 My Genealogy Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
Father MILLER, Robert, b. 30 Mar 1619, Holme, Huntingdonshire, England d. 9 Apr 1672, Holme, Huntingdonshire, England (Age 53 years) Relationship natural Mother WARREN, Elizabeth, b. 1619, Holme, Huntingdonshire, England d. 31 Mar 1657, Salem, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 38 years) Relationship natural Marriage 24 Aug 1627 Oundle, Northamptonshire, England Family ID F7137 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family CHATER, Hannah, b. 7 Aug 1644, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA d. 1678, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 33 years)
Marriage 1662 Wells, York, Maine, USA [2, 3, 4] Children 1. MILLER, Susanna, b. 1666, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA d. 31 May 1733, Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 67 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]2. MILLER, Jeremiah, b. 1668, Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, USA d. 1722, Rhode Island, USA (Age 54 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. MILLER, John, b. 1663, Westport, Lincoln, Maine, USA d. 1701, Newbury, Essex, Massachusetts, USA (Age 38 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]4. MILLER, Benjamin, b. 1675, Kennebunk, York, Maine, USA d. 30 May 1750, Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA (Age 75 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]▻ FERNALD, Lydia m. 11 Aug 17175. MILLER, Andrew, b. 1670 d. 1715, Rhode Island, USA (Age 45 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]6. MILLER, Hannah, b. 1674 d. 1732, Rhode Island, USA (Age 58 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Photos 
U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 Family ID F7136 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 15 Jul 2024
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Birth - 7 Aug 1639 - Holme, Huntingdonshire, England 
Baptism - 17 Apr 1644 - Eye, Northamptonshire, England 
Marriage - 1662 - Wells, York, Maine, USA 
Death - 18 Apr 1720 - Newington, Rockingham, New Hampshire, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Residence Southeastern Massachusetts pg 126
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Notes - (I) John Miller, a native of England, born in 1624, was a member of the Grand Inquest at Middleboro in 1672. He was among the proprietors of the Twenty-six Men's Purchase (1661-62) at their meeting in 1677. Previous to April 29, 1678, he bought a house lot of Edward Gray. He was the owner of lot No. 154 in the South Purchase (1673), and was one of the owners of the Sixteen Shilling Purchase (1675). Mr. Miller lived on Thompson street not far from the brook near the house of the late Elijah Shaw, in Middleboro. He died May 11, 1720, in the ninety-seventh year of his age. His monument stands in the cemetery at "The Green," where rest the remains of six or more generations of his descendants. The Christian name of the wife of Mr. Miller was Mercy, and their children were: John, Mary and Elizabeth.
Except for two or three minor court actions, little is known about Chater's life at Newbury except an unhappy phase of his matrimonial experience. Sometime in 1652 he was lying seriously ill as was also one of his servants, Daniel Gunn, a Scotchman who had been deported and sold into servitude after the battle of Worcester. Alice Chater, carrying food to Gunn, told him that, if her husband should die, he should be her husband, of which prospect the young man took immediate advantage. Eighteen months later she confessed to her invalid husband in the hearing of William and Isabel Houldred, who were visiting them. Adultery was a capital offense and Gunn and Alice Chater were soon before the magistrates and in peril of their lives. The verdict of the jury before whom they were tried in the county court-whether it was "guilty" or "not guilty" does not appear-was not satisfactory to the judges, and the case was sent to the higher court in Boston as were the prisoners. On May 14, 1654, perhaps hesitating to inflict the death penalty, the governor and council stated that they were not guilty according to law but that, because of her shameful and unchaste behavior, Alice Chater should be severely admonished and stand tied to the whipping post for one hour and then be discharged that she might return to her husband, while Gunn, after Mr. Lunerius, the physician, had restored him to health, was to be whipped.5 The unhappy young Scot did not long survive his ordeal.
In the meantime Newbury gossip was busy with the name of Isabel Houldred who was nursing Chater during his wife's absence, but the magistrates decided that it was unfounded when the usual presentment was made.
- (I) John Miller, a native of England, born in 1624, was a member of the Grand Inquest at Middleboro in 1672. He was among the proprietors of the Twenty-six Men's Purchase (1661-62) at their meeting in 1677. Previous to April 29, 1678, he bought a house lot of Edward Gray. He was the owner of lot No. 154 in the South Purchase (1673), and was one of the owners of the Sixteen Shilling Purchase (1675). Mr. Miller lived on Thompson street not far from the brook near the house of the late Elijah Shaw, in Middleboro. He died May 11, 1720, in the ninety-seventh year of his age. His monument stands in the cemetery at "The Green," where rest the remains of six or more generations of his descendants. The Christian name of the wife of Mr. Miller was Mercy, and their children were: John, Mary and Elizabeth.
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Sources - [S1756] Ancestry.com, Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Northamptonshire Record Office; Northampton, England; Register Type: Parish Registers; Reference Numbers: 121p/1.
Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812 - [S1678] Ancestry.com, U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Genealogical Publishing Co.; Baltimore, MD, USA; Volume Title: New England Marriages Prior to 1700.
U.S., New England Marriages Prior to 1700 - [S1578] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;).
Record for John Miller
http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1030&h=1342621642&indiv=try - [S1578] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Tree.
- [S1756] Ancestry.com, Northamptonshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1532-1812, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;), Northamptonshire Record Office; Northampton, England; Register Type: Parish Registers; Reference Numbers: 121p/1.
