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surveyor and assisted the United States engineers in establishing the base line which the government located in Cherryfield and Columbia.
Judge Milliken was genial, kindly, and conversational. While he was a fearless advocate of his religious, political, and legal views, he courte- ously conceded to his opponents their rights to their opinions. He was a man of strict integrity and tireless energy ; a diligent student, strong in reasoning and able as an advocate. As a citizen he was very useful and highly esteemed; as a home-maker, husband, and father an emi- nent model.
7. CALVIN P.," b. Nov. 8, 1820; m., first, Maria S. Kimble, by whom one child; second, Anne Kimble Ridgeway, by whom three children.
8. MARY J.,6 b. March 10, 1821; m. William J. Sanborn, Oct. 17, 1854. He entered the Union army in Aug., 1862, and was discharged Oct. I, 1864; d. of disease contracted in the service, Jan., 1866. Two children.
9. ALMIRA C.,6 b. Apr. 22, 1824; m. Wales E. Packard. Eight children.
IO. WHITTIER D.,6 b. Dec. 16, 1835; m. Mary A. Frazer, and d. Mar. 10, 1893. Five children.
II. REBECCA M.,6 b. August 19, 1838; m. Alfred J. Maxwell, and had six children.
12. WENDELL P.,6 b. July 10, 1840; d. June 5, 1842.
SEVENTH GENERATION.
CHILDREN OF WILLIAM AND LUCY PERRIGO:
I. HON. SETH L.,7 b. Dec. 12, 1831, in Montville, Me .; was m. Dec. 8, 1857, to Lizzie S. Arnold, b. in Sidney, Me., Oct. 3, 1839. His resi- dence when at home is in Belfast, Me. A graduate from Union Col- lege, Schenectady, N. Y. in 1856, he entered upon the study of law. He was representative in the Maine Legislature from Camden in 1857 and 1858; afterwards clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court of Waldo county. He was elected as representative to the 54th Congress, and has been elected seven times in succession from James G. Blaine's old district to a seat in the House. In Sept., 1894, he was re-elected by 10,227 plurality. He took a prominent part in the New York campaign, speaking every night for three weeks and at times for the space of three hours. He has traveled more than 30,000 miles during the last twenty years, making speeches for the Republicans, and has proved himself an eloquent speaker and able statesman. Two children, namely:
I. MARY M.,8 b. Sept. 27, 1860, in Augusta, Me.
II. SETH M.,8 born Dec. 28, 1874, in Belfast, Me .; now a cadet in West Point Military Academy.
2. FRANKLIN,7 b. Dec. 15, 1834, in Montville, Me., and d. Oct. 1, 1835.
3. FRANK,7 b. Sept. 2, 1836; m. Ellen Porter, of Camden, Me., and has one dau., Mrs. Samuel Lemley, whose husband is Judge Advocate Gen- eral in the United States navy. Mr. Milliken served in the 26th Maine Regiment until his term expired; he then re-enlisted and served in Maryland and Virginia to the close of the war. He is now chief of a division in the office of the supervising architect of the treasury at Wash- ington.
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4. NOEL B.,7 b. July 17, 1838 ; m. Miss St. Clare, of Ohio, and resides at Washington, D. C., his aged mother having a home in his family. He served in the 26th Regiment Maine Volunteers; now holds a position in the pension department; has two children, William S.8 and Florence.8
CHILDREN OF JOHN AND JEMIMA B. MINOT:
I. JOHN M.,7 b. Feb. 8, 1821, in Lubec, Me .; went to California in 1850, and d. in Sacramento, Mar. 13, 1891. He m. Sarah A. Leavitt, of Lim- erick, in Portland, Me., June 1, 1853 ; she b. July 8, 1829. He was a dealer in general merchandise and groceries for many years, but latterly in the insurance business. Seven children.
2. THEODORE J:,7 b. in Lubec, Me .; went to California and had sons who are now in business there.
3. GEORGE M.,7 d. at the age of 13 years.
4. SUSAN S.,7 d. in infancy.
5. SUSAN S.,7 d. in infancy.
6. FRANCES,7 m. George R. Skolfield, of Brunswick, Me., and is the only surviving child of John.
CHILDREN OF JOSIAH AND ELIZABETH FREEMAN:
I. MARY F.,7 b. in 1827, in Poland, Me., and became the wife of Daniel W. True, long a merchant in Portland, where she now resides.
2. WESTON F.,7 b. Sept. 28, 1829, in Poland, Me. He m., first, Martha F. Haskell, of New Gloucester, Me., June 22, 1854. She d. at Portland, Aug. 16, 1870, and he m. second, Feb. 28, 1882, at Orono, Me., Mary Webster Palmer. He received his education in the common school and Lewiston Academy and taught school four terms. He became a clerk in a Boston business house when twenty-one, and two years after- wards engaged in general merchandising for himself in the town of Minot, where he continued four years. He went to Portland in 1856, and has since carried on the wholesale grocery business on Commercial street. His brothers, Charles R. and George, have been associated with him in trade, but the firm is now known as the "Milliken-Tomlinson Company." For the last twenty years he has also done a considerable lumber business, exporting to South America. He was a director of Cum- berland National Bank, and for some time its president; trustee of the Portland Savings Bank over fifteen years, and was one of the Building Loan Commissioners after the great fire of 1866; has been director and president of the Portland, Bangor, and Machias Steamboat Company ; also stockholder in the Maine Steamship Company, and was one of the incorporators of the Lloyds Maine Insurance Company. He was elected by the Republicans to a seat in the State Legislature for 1872-74, and for the last two years was chairman of the committee on banking and a member of the finance committee. Mr. Milliken is one of the solid business men of Portland, whose reputation for square dealing and ability is widely known. He has been a notable success in the various depart- ments of his extensive business enterprises and has served with eminent ability in the many responsible positions of a more public character to which he has been called. One daughter, Anna II.,8 b. Jan. 29, 1865, at Portland, and d. Dec. 14, 1890.
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3. WILLIAM H.,7 b. Jan. 17, 1831 ; m. Julia Wyman, of Webster, Me., Oct. 28, 1851 ; d. in Portland, July 25, 1890. He was a merchant associated with his brothers in Portland, where his widow now resides. Two chil- dren :
1. MINNIE M.,8 wife of T. P. R. Cartland, shoe manufacturer of Portland. WILLIAM H., 8 in wholesale dry goods business in Portland.
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4. CHARLES R.,7 b. Dec. 12, 1833, in Poland, Me .; m. Elizabeth Roach, dau. of Isaac and Margaret Fickett (b. May 22, 1833), in 1857. He removed to Portland in 1854, and after clerking two years went into business with F. A. Shaw, under firm name of F. A. Shaw & Co .; dis- solved after little more than a year and carried on the wholesale grocery business under name of C. R. Milliken for about two years; then went into business with his brother Weston under firm name of W. & C. R. Milliken, which relation continued until 1889. While they were together they bought the Glen House at the White Mountains. Charles R. took the personal charge of that well-known and popular establishment from the date of purchase until July, 1893, when it was burned down and has not been rebuilt to this date. He is at present president of the Port- land Rolling Mill and treasurer of the Poland Paper Company,* whose plant is at Mechanic Falls, Me. Mr. Milliken is considered to be one of the most enterprising and successful business men in Portland, and possesses the distinguishing characteristics of his family, sterling integ- rity and reliability, which have been evinced in the various relations of his life ; and as a successful business manager he holds the confidence and esteem of his fellow-citizens.
5. SETH M.,7 b. Jan. 7, 1836, in Poland, Me .; m. in Dover, N. H., Oct. 14, 1874. Margaret L., dau. of Dr. L. G. Hill, of that city, who d. Jan. 14, 1880, leaving three children, Seth MI., Jr.,8 Gerrish H.,8 and Margaret L.8 Mr. Milliken was at first a miller in Minot, Me .; then taught school at Mechanic Falls and in Poland, about a mile from his home. He engaged in trade in May, 1856, in Minot, Me., where he kept a variety store. He went to Portland in 1861, and went into the wholesale grocery business with his brother-in-law, Daniel W. True, under the firm name of True & Milliken. In July, 1865, he went into the dry goods busi- ness under the firm name of Deering, Milliken & Co., and has contin- ued in that relation until the present date, but giving it but little atten- tion. In 1867 he went to New York cityt and engaged in the dry goods commission business, in connection with the Portland house, having become identified with mills and manufacturing. Mr. Milliken is a man of remarkable foresight and business energy, whose good judgment and careful management have won success. He is now a man of wealth, residing in New York.
6. GEORGE," b. Jan. 18, 1840, in Minot, Me., and was m. Sept. 28, 1864, to Henrietta A. Barbour, dau. of John and Catherine Barbour, of Port- land, Me. He came to Portland in 1858, and entered the firm of Blake & Jones as clerk for ten years, when he changed and clerked for Milli- ken & Shaw. In 1863 he entered the partnership of W. & C. R. Milliken,
*The paper stock for both editions of this book was made by this company.
t The first time he saw New York city he went there with a cargo of potatoes to sell.
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where he remained until 1888, when he retired from that firm and went into the commission business in Portland for himself, where he remains to the present under the name Milliken & Co. Mr. Milliken has dis- played the same foresight and business capacity that is characteristic of his family, and the result has been marked success. There are three children, whose names follow :
I. FRANK B.,8 b. Oct. 9, 1867.
II. GEORGIETTA, 8 b. June 7, 1869.
III. ALICE M.,8 b. May 27, 1872.
7. ADDIE,7 b. in 1846, in Poland, Me .; m. Leonard Short, now a member of the firm of Loring, Short & Harmon, book-sellers, Portland.
CHILDREN OF JOHN AND ROSILLA COATS:
I. HENRY,7 b. Sept. 9, 1830, in Hancock, Me. ; m. Mary S. Marshall, b. in Springfield, Me., Jan. 14, 1837, and had issue, as follows:
I. JOHN M.,8 b. Nov. 17, 1858; m. Minnie A. Lewis, of Springfield, Me.
11. JULIA V.,8 b. in 1862.
III. ELBRIDGE,8 b. Oct. 11, 1864 ; m. Agnes D. Wood, Nov. 19, 1890.
IV. MINERVA W.,8 b. June 7, 1867.
V. FRED,8 b. Oct. 3, 1872.
VI. HENRY C.,8 b. Jan. 19, 1875.
VII. MARY L.,8 b. Sept. 3, 1880.
2. SUSAN S.,7 b. June 16, 1834, in Hancock, Me. ; m. Richard A. Heath, of said town, Mar. 7, 1858, and had two children.
3 MARY E.,7 b. in 1840; m. James Evans, of Lowell, Mass., Aug. 6, 1866, and d. there May 17, 1893, leaving three children.
1. ELBRIDGE M .. 7 born June 1, 1842, died Nov. 5, 1861, at Camp Griffin, Lewinsville, Va .; a soldier in Co. B, 6th Regiment Maine Volunteers.
5. MARGARET A.,7 b. August 25, 1844; m. J. Watson Young, of Lamoine, Me., June 20, 1866, and has four children.
6. MARTHA W.,7 b. June 6, 1848; m. William N. Bartlett, of Lowell, Aug. 16, 1872.
7. ROSILLA,7 b. Jan. 25, 1853 ; m. George E. Norris, of Hancock, Jan. 20, 1879, and has two children.
CHILDREN OF THOMAS AND SALLY N. GODFREY :
I. NAPOLEON,7 drowned at the age of 3 years.
2. ALEXANDER,7 b. in 1835; d. in 1860.
3. JOSEPHINE B.,7 b Feb. 22, 1839 ; m. William H. Jones.
4. MARY A.,7 b. Feb. 13, 1841.
CHILDREN OF JOSEPH L. AND SUSAN M .:
I. BENJAMIN F.,7 b. June 15, 1852, at Wautage, N. J. He m. Lucy R. Navle, June 15, 1874; d. Nov. 7, 1890, at Wellsboro, Pa., as the result of an injury to one of his limbs by a falling box. He removed from Elmira, N. Y., to Wellsboro, in 1869, and was for several years a clerk for L. A. Gardner, grocer, and became one of the firm. He was also
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identified with the bakery and restaurant business. He was an Odd Fellow, and the members of his lodge attended his funeral in a body. One dau., Susan C.,8 b. Mar. 27, 1875, m. Carrol A. Schmaud, Nov. 12, 1892.
2. SARAH E., b. Dec. 4, 1853, in Wautage, N. J .; was m., May 21, 1872, to Edwin H. Watson, who d. Feb. 5, 1875, leaving a son, and she m. second, Apr. 22, 1877, Harry Rella, by whom issue.
3. JOHN E.,7 b. Jan. 11, 1856, in Horseheads, N. Y., and d. Oct. 31, 1859, at Elmira.
4. JOHN H.,7 b. Jan. 4, 1860; m. Eliza H. Couse, Dec. 28, 1884, and re- sides at Wellsboro, Pa., where he is engaged successfully in the bakery, confectionery, and caterer business, having the largest establishment in town. He is known as an affable, progressive citizen, who has won esteem by his uprightness and urbanity; has manifested an interest in this work, and furnished his father's portrait and the records of the family. Two children : Joseph O.,8 b. Oct. 11, 1885, and Marjory M.,8 b. Feb. 21, 1889.
5. JOSEPH H.,7 b. August 17, 1862, at Elmira, N. Y .; m. Nettie A. Hall, Dec. 23, 1891, and is now a clerk in office of Fall Brook R. R. Co., at Newberry Junction, Pa. One son, Blair H.,8 b. May 12, 1894.
6. ULYSSES G.,7 b. May 25, 1865, at Elmira, N. Y .; m. Bertha M. Hazlett, Oct. 5, 1887, and was killed by a railroad wreck at Sherwood's bridge, Wellsboro, Pa., Nov. 7, 1890. He was a genial young man held in high esteem.
7. GRACE C.,7 b. Oct. 22, 1869, in Corning, N. Y .; was m., Apr. 9, 1886, to Archie J. Hazlett, and has issue.
CHILDREN OF NATHANIEL AND FANNIE:
I. CLARA,7 b. Apr. 14, 1853; m. Frank Davis, of Ellsworth, Sept. 9, 1873, and has issue.
2. FRANK,7 b. May 23, 1855 ; m. Etta Drake, of Stoughton, Mass., Jan. 2, 1884, and has Edith G.,8 b. March 24, 1887.
3. SARAH,7 b. June 5, 1858 ; m. Preston Chavis, June 16, 1880, and had issue; second, H. H. Waugh, of Whitman, Mass., May 23, 1894.
4. FANNIE,7 b. Sept. 23, 1862 ; m. Fred Fowler, Jan. 8, 1893, and lives in Stoughton, Mass.
5. IDA,7 b. Apr. 28, 1866; m. Elbridge Hayward, and has issue.
CHILD OF HON. JJAMES AND LUCRETIA B. COFFIN:
I. DR. CHARLES J.,7 b. Aug. 24, 1843, in Machias, Me. ; m. Oct. 22, 1879, Elizabeth M. Dolloff, b. July 26, 1851.
SAMUEL BRANCH.
THIRD GENERATION.
Samnel Milliken,8 sixth son of John and wife Elizabeth Alger, was bapt. in Brattle Street church, Boston, Sept. 21, 1701. According to Boston records he married Martha Fyfield. Another account names his wife Martha Dodge, of Rowley, Mass. He was admitted to the First church by letter from a church
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in Boston, Sept. 17, 1732, the year after his settlement. He was a saddler by trade, and carried on his business in Boston as old letters prove. He served in the French war, and on the return from Louisburg, in 1745, died while singing a hymn of praise to God. His widow was living in Scarborough, Mar. . 22, 1764, and kept a tavern, where public meetings were held. This house was near the corner of the Dunstan Landing road, and an old apple-tree long marked the spot. Children's names will follow :
FOURTH GENERATION.
I. ELIZABETH,4 bapt. in Boston, Mar. 30, 1729.
2. MARTHA,4 b. in Boston, Sept. 16, 1731 ; bapt. Sept. 19th.
3. JEMIMA,4 b. April 10, 1734, in Scarborough, and d. when a child.
4. SAMUEL,4 b. July 8, 1736, in Scarborough, and d. at the age of 18 years.
5 JOHN A.,4 b. Sept. 13, 1738; m. Abigail Smith, of Truro, Mass., April 21, 1763, and settled in Scarborough. He was a grantee of Trenton, Me. Six children, of whom more.
6. JEMIMA,4 b. Sept. 15, 1740; m. Simeon Fitts, in Scarborough, Jan. 5, 1764.
7. JAMES,4 b. Nov. 7, 1742.
FIFTH GENERATION.
CHILDREN OF JOHN A. AND ABIGAIL:
I. SAMUEL,5 m. Ann Andrews, June 30, 1785, and had four sons.
2. ISAAC,5 was drowned when young.
ALEXANDER,5 b. July 17, 1771 ; m. Sally Munson Milliken, daughter of Robert, son of Nathaniel. He lived in Frankfort, Me., but d. at Fal- mouth in 1855, aged 84 years; wife d. in Jonesport Feb., 1834, aged 60.
4. DORCAS.5 5. JEMIMA.5 6. RACHEL.5
SIXTH GENERATION.
CHILDREN OF SAMUEL AND ANN:
I. JOHN,6 d. young.
2. ISAAC,6 b. April 2, 1785 ; m. Betsey Hight, of Scarborough; had issue.
3. AMOS,6 b. Feb. 22, 1788; m. Sally, dau. of Nathaniel Milliken, Dec. 18, 1809, and settled in Eaton, N. H., where children were born. He probably moved back to the Saco valley.
4. ARTHUR,6 b. Aug. 25, 1789; m. Elizabeth Hayes, who d. at Schoharie, N. Y., May 19, 1833. He m., second, Apphia Milliken, widow of Joseph Fogg. He d. in Buxton, Jan. 9, 1864. He was a blacksmith, and of him Hon. Isaac L. Milliken, mayor of Chicago in 1854, learned that trade. Nine children, all by first wife.
CHILDREN OF ALEXANDER AND SALLY :
I. JOHN,6 b. Sept. 23, 1796.
2. ALEXANDER,6 b. May 16, 1799.
3. SAMUEL,6 b. Oct. 15, 1802.
4. MARTHA,6 b. Aug. 15, 1805.
5. CHARLES A.,6 b. April 27. 1808; m. Emily Ann, dau. of Richard and Maria Wilkins, of Brantford, Ont., Sept. 1, 1842.
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6. WILLIAM G.,6 b. June 10, 1810; lost at sea in 1831.
7. ISAAC H.,6 born Sept. 24, 1812; m. in Charleston, Me., and settled at Kayson, Dodge county, Minn.
SEVENTH GENERATION.
CHILD OF AMOS:
I. HON. ISAAC L.,7 b. in Biddeford, Me., Aug. 29, 1813, and spent some early years in Eaton, N. H., where his father had settled. At the age of fourteen he went to Troy, N. Y., and of his uncle learned the black- smith's trade. He moved to Chicago in 1836, when it was but a strag- gling village, and established himself in business; meanwhile studied law, and took a prominent part in public affairs. He was elected mayor March 13, 1854. He had served two terms as alderman, and was a member of the board of health while mayor; was assistant county judge during part of 1853. He had been a Democrat, but an ardent Aboli- tionist, and at the breaking out of the war of the Rebellion joined the Republican party and became a firm supporter of its principles. He d. in Chicago, and his funeral was attended by the city government. He was a man of candid judgment, great sagacity, and excellent executive parts. No children.
CHILDREN OF ARTHUR AND ELIZABETH:
I. SARAH A.,7 b. Dec. 27, 1811, at Saco; died at Schoharie, N. Y., July 27, 1831.
2. JOHN H.,7 b. Sept. 12, 1813, at Saco; d. at St. Augustine, Fla., Aug. 28, 1839.
3. ELIZABETH,7 born April 10, 1817, at Troy, N. Y .; m. Dr. George W. Churchill, at Troy, Jan. 1, 1838 ; d. at Saco, Dec. 17, 1844.
4. ARTHUR,7 b. Feb. 11, 1819, at Troy, N. Y. ; d. Apr. 21, 1819.
5. MARY,7 b. Sept. 18, 1820; m. Alpheus A. Hanscomb, Esq., of Saco, Sept. 20, 1843; living at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1885.
6. SAMUEL A.,7 b. Aug. 16, 1822, at Troy, N. Y .; d. Nov. 15, 1822.
7. CHARLES S.,7 b. July 15, 1823, in Troy, N. Y. ; d. at Saco, Mar. 18, 1844.
8. JANE U.,7 b. Apr. 20, 1825, in Troy, N. Y .; m. Capt. Henry Libby, of Saco, Aug. 13, 1850; d. at Chelsea, Mass., Nov. 27, 1855.
9. CATHERINE,7 b. Sept. 13, 1832, at Schoharie, N. Y .; d. Mar. 3, 1833.
EDWARD BRANCH.
THIRD GENERATION.
Edward Milliken, Esq.,8 son of John Milliken and Elizabeth Alger, was baptized at Brattle Street church, Boston, July 6, 1706, and settled in Scar- borough about 1729. He married Abigail Norman; was admitted to the First church in Scarborough, Oct. 31, 1736. He was known as "Justice Milliken," having been appointed a judge of the Inferior Court in 1760, and continued in that office until 1771. He was widely known as a man of sound judgment and sterling integrity; as a useful townsman of public spirit, who was con- sulted as a wise counselor. He was a grantee of Trenton. His name appears on a petition to His Excellency, Francis Benard, dated Jan. 3, 1762, in which the petitioners stated: "We, the subscribers, having been soldiers at Fort
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Pownal, and now settled at a place called Magebaggadeuce on the eastern side of Penobscot bay," &c. He acted an important part in the settlement of Trenton; was appointed by the General Court to receive the bonds of the grantees. He was moderator of a meeting held by the proprietors of the townships on Union river, Aug. 1, 1764, at the tavern of Capt. Sam Skillings in Falmouth. We have not found record of his death. He had a family of fourteen children, whose names will follow :
FOURTH GENERATION.
I. BENJAMIN,4 bapt. in Brattle Street church, Boston, Feb. 1, 1727, and d. a child.
2. BENJAMIN,4 b. Aug. 5, 1728 (bapt. May 29, 1729, in Scarborough) ; was m. three times; first, Nov. 17, 1746, to Sarah Smith, of Scarborough ; second, Sept. 9, 1754, to Elizabeth Banks, of said town; third, to Phebe Jordan, Dec. 3, 1766. By these he had eighteen children; four by Sarah, five by Lizzie, and nine by Phebe. He began his somewhat re- markable business career in his native town, where he owned a large, gambrel-roof house, and store in which he traded, on the Dunstan Landing road. He was an owner of lands in Rowley, Canada, which had been granted to some of those who had served in the expedition of 1696; but when, by running the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, these lands were found to be in the latter prov- ince, he, with other petitioners, was granted, in 1761, a township, seven miles square, east of the Saco river, in lieu of the one of which they had been dispossessed. He was one of three who proceeded to lay out the township (now Bridgton, Me.,) and on presenting a plan of the same to the General Court they obtained confirmation of their grant June 25, 1765. Finding the timber on these lands too far from a market, Milli- ken sold out and invested in lands adjacent to other lands owned by him on Union river in eastern Maine. He had lost his lands in Scar- borough by the mortgage held by Wheelwright and Althrope, of New York, and in 1764 made Trenton the seat of operation. He was granted a mill privilege there with timber lands adjoining, and with his wife and daughter and thirty men went down in a vessel owned by Ephraim Dyer and built a saw-mill there on a stream that empties into Union river. The conditions of his grant required him to have his mill fit for service within six months from the date, Aug. 1, 1764, and as it was raised between Sept. 2d and Oct. 12th of that year, he evidently ful- filled his agreement. In his deposition of 1796, Mr. Dyer testified that he carried down about four hundred pounds' worth of provisions and other stores; that he remained and helped the Millikens near a fort- night, during which time the men made use of his vessel to live in until they had built a house. This "house " was a camp built against a huge boulder named by an early surveyor the " Punch Bowl," and a daughter of Benjamin Milliken, then only fourteen years of age, afterwards Mrs. Lord, cooked the first meal there ever prepared by a white woman in the township. As there were thirty-two workmen employed on the mill a large quantity of food must have been consumed, and as Ephraim Dyer stated that two women went down in the vessel with the builders, it has been supposed that one of them was the mother of this lassie; but this could not have been the fact, for her father married Elizabeth
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Banks in 1754, only ten years before the mill was built, and would not have a daughter by her fourteen years of age at that time. Abigail,* daughter by the first wife, Sarah Smith, being born in 1750, was just fourteen when the mill was erected, and if the statements and dates were correctly given-and there are excellent authorities to verify them -she was the first white girl to put the kettle on in Trenton. This first saw-mill built by the Millikens-for Thomas Milliken was part owner- was unwisely located and did not prove a success; it was known as the "Folly mill" and was abandoned. They afterwards built a double saw- mill on another site, and here, in old Trenton, Benjamin Milliken car- ried on his lumber and milling business successfully for many years. He owned a vessel and shipped much of his manufactured lumber to Connecticut.
As Mr. Milliken had expressed Tory sentiments, and as feeling was running high when the Revolutionary war broke out, fearing for his safety and that of his family, he was persuaded by friends to join the English at Castine. When peace was declared he removed to New Brunswick, and Aug. 12, 1784, with about one hundred Royalists, known as the Penobscot Association, received a grant of land from the government, said grant comprising the town plot of St. Andrews, the now famous summer resort, and extending westerly up the St. Croix river, the bound- ary between Maine and New Brunswick, to the town of St. Stephen. His son Benjamin received a lot in the same grant; the numbers of these lots were, respectively, 129 and 131, fronting on the St. Croix river, about a mile east of the present town of St. Stephen. Shortly after the location of these lands he left St. Andrews and went to a place ten miles westward, on the shore of St. Andrews bay, called Bocabec. Here he built a house, the cellar of which is still visible, and a ship- yard, where he built vessels, the remains of which may now be seen. Here he passed the remainder of his eventful life, and here his grave is pointed out in a spot where some of his family were also interred.
When we contemplate the history of this man we are moved to feel- ings of pity, for the unconquerable courage and spirit of enterprise dis- played by him in the unfavorable vicissitudes he experienced were worthy of greater success than he achieved. He must have been a person of great force of will and almost unlimited resources, for, undaunted and undismayed, he grappled with formidable obstacles which he either out- flanked or overcame. He was possessed of an ample supply of that kind of stuff of which, under proper opportunities, great generals are made; and had he espoused the cause of the colonists as warmly as did some of his kindred, he would have won his epaulets in our struggle for independence. But he was not, unfortunately for him, on the winning side. His estate in Maine was confiscated and he was, evidently, com- paratively poor when he began the "struggle for existence" the third time. He was a pioneer of old Scarborough ; a pioneer of Trenton and founder of Ellsworth, and a pioneer at St. Andrews. Many misleading statements concerning this man and his children have been made, but we have derived our data principally from authentic sources and an in-
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