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Millerd Family Documents
MSS 0228
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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.
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.
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.
Millerd Family Documents, MSS 228. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.
Acquired 1992
Manuscripts from this collection have been digitized.
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