Millerd Family Documents
Mandeville Special Collections Library
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Descriptive Summary
Creator:
Millerd Family
Title: Millerd Family Documents,
Date (inclusive): 1712 - 1900
Extent:
0.40 linear feet
(1 archives box)
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.
Repository:
University of California, San Diego. Geisel Library. Mandeville Special Collections Library.
La Jolla, California 92093-0175
Collection number: MSS 0228
Language of Material:
Collection materials in English
Access
Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Information
Not Available
Preferred Citation
Millerd Family Documents, MSS 0228. Mandeville Special Collections Library, UCSD.
Publication Rights
Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.
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.
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.
SERIES 1: SERMON BOOKS
The SERMON BOOKS series contains two manuscript books attributed to Squire Millerd and dated ca. 1712.
SERIES 2: FAMILY DOCUMENTS
The second series, FAMILY DOCUMENTS, contains correspondence, geneologies, debt receipts, certificates of military service,
and other materials. The papers are arranged chronologically.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Millerd family -- Archives
Millerd, Squire -- Archives
Millerd, Nathaniel -- Archives
Sermons, English -- 18th century
Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Sources
Rhode Island -- History -- 1775-1865 -- Sources
Warwick (R.I.) -- History -- Sources
Collection Contents
box 1, folder 3
1740: Nathaniel Millerd's promise to sell and deliver bond
box 1, folder 5
1742: Receipt for payment of debt
box 1, folder 6
1748: Certificate of Nathan Millerd's debt to the colony of Rhode Island
box 1, folder 8
1791: Church note for Squire Millerd
box 1, folder 9
1791: In memory of Welcome Millerd
box 1, folder 10
1800: Nathaniel Millerd's certificate of enlistment in Rhode Island battalion
box 1, folder 11
1800: Certificate of Nathaniel Millerd's election to office of Captain in Rhode Island infantry
box 1, folder 12
1809: Petition to Assembly regarding Amos Kimball
box 1, folder 13
1812: Sheet music - Bonapart's March and President's March
box 1, folder 14
1816: Arrangement to bury Welcome Millerd
box 1, folder 15
1820: In memory of Squire Millerd
box 1, folder 16
1820: Note from Julia Millard to Nathaniel Millerd
box 1, folder 17
1830: Children of Nathaniel and Betsy Millerd - Birth and death dates
box 1, folder 18
1840: Susan Millerd's commonplace book
box 1, folder 19
1844: Notes on the production of the Peach Worm
box 1, folder 20
1887: Children of Richmond Remington and his wife
box 1, folder 21
1900: Millerd family history
box 1, folder 22
Miscellaneous and unidentified documents
