Family:John Miller and Mary Pylston (1)

The author discusses the English Origins of Thomas Miller and the relationship of the Millers to other New England Families such as the Chandlers, Johnsons, Heaths, Jacobs and other families. This article has been cited and further information provided by William Wyman Fiske in TAG 79:6 (chart) and by Douglas Richardson in TAG 73:57. This information was not presented by Jewett, Holman or Savage. Thomas¹ Miller, the immigrant, was bp 7 Nov 1609 in Bishop's Stortford one of 11 children of John and Mary (Pylston) Miller. His father married second to Agnes widow of Henry Chandler. One of Agnes' children was William Chandler who married Alice Thorowgood of Farnham and second to Annis Bayford and immigrated to Roxbury, MA. The author traces several generations of the family in England. relatives, the Denisons, had been residents of Roxbury, Mass., for two years. William Denison of Stortford married Margaret Chandler (bapt. 1577), a daughter of Tobias and Joane (Momford) Chandler, an own cousin of William Chandler, a stepbrother of Thomas Miller. Elizabeth (Miller) Heath of Roxbury after 1635 was a second cousin of Thomas Miller, son of "Long John" Miller (Father of Thomas Miller). That there was a close relation between Capt. Isaac Johnson of Roxbury and the Millers of Stortford and Roxbury is proven in the wills of both Elizabeth (Miller) Heath r664, and Margaret (Miller) Waterman in 1670. Both called
Capt. Johnson, " my cousin." Some years later two granddaughters and one grandson of Capt. Isaac Johnson (children of Nathaniel) married two sons and one daughter of Thomas Miller of Middletown.

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link Henry^A Chandler m Anne/Agnes ___. She m (2) Bishop's Stortford 8 Jul 1622 (as his 2nd wife), John Miller of Bishop's Stortford, the son William Miller of same. His first wife was Mary Plyston. Richardson cited the NYGBR above for this family being the origins of both William¹ Chandler of Roxbury, MA and John¹ Miller of Middletown, Connecticut.