Millerd Family Documents

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library

Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

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Descriptive Summary

Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego

9500 Gilman Drive

La Jolla 92093-0175

Title: Millerd Family Documents

Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0228

Physical Description: 0.4 Linear feet (1 archives box)

Date (inclusive): 1712-1900

Abstract: Documents (1712-1900) of the Millerd family of Rhode Island. Included are sermon books, correspondence, birth and death date information for family members, and records of debt. The collection is organized in two series: 1) SERMON BOOKS and 2) FAMILY DOCUMENTS.

Languages: English .

Scope and Content of Collection

Documents of the Millerd family, 1712-1900, including documents that provide birth and death dates for family members, debt records, documentation of military service, and a set of manuscript sermons attributed to Squire Millerd. The documentation in this collection is fragmentary, comprised mostly of single pieces of paper or short notes at sporadic intervals throughout almost two centuries. The most extensive documents, the sermon books, are also incomplete, with no title pages, dates, or authors clearly identified. Most of the documentation pertains to the Millerd family in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Rhode Island.

The collection is organized into two series: 1) SERMON BOOKS and 2) FAMILY DOCUMENTS.

Biography

The first record of the Millerd Family of Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island appears in 1740 when Nathaniel Millerd signed a promissory bond to Edward Thurber. Either this Nathaniel or his father died the following year in 1741. A Nathaniel Millerd was born in February 1772 and married Betsey Green in 1793. The couple had five children between 1794 and 1806: Augustus, Welcome, Julia, George, and Eliza. In 1800 Nathaniel Millerd was elected to a captaincy in the Rhode Island infantry. There is no record of Nathaniel's death extant.

Publication Rights

Digital copies of this material are intended to support research, teaching, and private study. This work may be used without prior permission. The original manuscripts for this collection are held by Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.

Preferred Citation

Millerd Family Documents, MSS 228. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Acquisition Information

Acquired 1992

Digital Content

Manuscripts from this collection have been digitized.

Items available online

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Sermons, English -- 18th century

Rhode Island -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources

Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources

Warwick (R.I.) -- History -- Sources

Millerd, Nathaniel

Millerd, Squire

SERMON BOOKS

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 1) SERMON BOOKS: Contains two manuscript books attributed to Squire Millerd and dated ca. 1712.

Box 1, Folder 1

Sermon book

General note

Ca. 1712.

Box 1, Folder 2

Sermon book

General note

Ca. 1712.

FAMILY DOCUMENTS

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 2) FAMILY DOCUMENTS: Contains correspondence, genealogies, debt receipts, certificates of military service, and other materials. The papers are arranged chronologically.

Box 1, Folder 3

Nathaniel Millerd's promise to sell and deliver bond 1740

Nathaniel Millerd's promise to sell and deliver bond