Draft:Edward Milliken

Edward Milliken [1] was the eighth son of John Milliken[2], and Elizabeth Alger[3]. He was baptized at the Brattle Street Church, Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, July 6, 1706, and settled in Scarborough (District of Maine), on the Dunstan lands, in 1729. He married Abigail Norman.[4] 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 Court of Common Pleas in 1760, and was continued in that office until 1771 when he retired. His reputation was that of sound judgment and sterling integrity; a prudent counsellor and useful public-spirited townsman. [5]He was a grantee of Trenton, on Union River, when so many of his townsmen removed to that area. His name appears on a petition to His Excellency, Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet , 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. [6]He played a prominent part in the settlement of Trenton, Maine, and was appointed by the General Court to receive the bonds of the grantees. [7]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. [8]

  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. ^ https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Milliken/6000000000977420572
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ Chamberlaine, John. "Collections of the Maine Historical Society". 1890. P 65
  7. ^ Ridlon, G T (Gideon Tibbetts) 1907. History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy pg 59
  8. ^ Ridlon, Gideon Tibbetts, Saco Valley settlements and families: historical, biographical..., Volume 2 pp 1022-1023