The Register of
Millerd Family Documents
1712 - 1900
MSS 0228
Mandeville Special Collections Library
Geisel Library
University of California, San Diego
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.
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
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.
SERMON BOOKS
Return to Menu| Box | Folder | Oversize | |
| 1 | 1 | Sermon book. Ca. 1712. | |
| 1 | 2 | Sermon book. Ca. 1712. |
FAMILY DOCUMENTS
Return to Menu| Box | Folder | Oversize | |
| 1 | 3 | 1740: Nathaniel Millerd's promise to sell and deliver bond. | |
| 1 | 4 | 1741: Receipt of debt. | |
| 1 | 5 | 1742: Receipt for payment of debt. | |
| 1 | 6 | 1748: Certificate of Nathan Millerd's debt to the colony of Rhode Island. | |
| 1 | 7 | 1750-1790: Legal bill. | |
| 1 | 8 | 1791: Church note for Squire Millerd. | |
| 1 | 9 | 1791: In memory of Welcome Millerd. | |
| 1 | 10 | 1800: Nathaniel Millerd's certificate of enlistment in Rhode Island battalion. | |
| 1 | 11 | 1800: Certificate of Nathaniel Millerd's election to office of Captain in Rhode Island infantry. | |
| 1 | 12 | 1809: Petition to Assembly regarding Amos Kimball. | |
| 1 | 13 | 1812: Sheet music - Bonapart's March and President's March. | |
| 1 | 14 | 1816: Arrangement to bury Welcome Millerd. | |
| 1 | 15 | 1820: In memory of Squire Millerd. | |
| 1 | 16 | 1820: Note from Julia Millard to Nathaniel Millerd. | |
| 1 | 17 | 1830: Children of Nathaniel and Betsy Millerd - Birth and death dates. | |
| 1 | 18 | 1840: Susan Millerd's commonplace book. | |
| 1 | 19 | 1844: Notes on the production of the Peach Worm. | |
| 1 | 20 | 1887: Children of Richmond Remington and his wife. | |
| 1 | 21 | 1900: Millerd family history. | |
| 1 | 22 | Miscellaneous and unidentified documents. No date. |
Finding aid generated: 2005-10-28