Person:Jeremiah Miller (7)

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Dr. Jeremiah Miller
b.Abt 1690 East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States
d.15 Mar 1756 New London, New London, Connecticut, United States
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  • H.  Dr. Jeremiah MillerAbt 1690 - 1756
  • W.  Ann Dudley1684 - 1776
m. Aft 1749
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Name Dr. Jeremiah Miller
Gender Male
Birth[1] Abt 1690 East Hampton, Suffolk, New York, United States
Degree[2] 1709 Yale College
Marriage 2 Mar 1717/18 New London, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Mary Saltonstall
Marriage Aft 1749 New London, New London, Connecticut, United Statesto Ann Dudley
Death[1] 15 Mar 1756 New London, New London, Connecticut, United States
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  • Caution: sources are in conflict about his father's name
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Totten, John R. "Christophers Family", in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
    51:220.

    Jeremiah Miller, s/o Jeremiah Miller and Mary Mulford of Easthampton, N.Y., b. 1690, d. 15 Mar 1756, m. New London 2 Mar 1717-18 Mary Saltonstall, m. (2) [aft first wife d. 17 Feb 1749] Anne (Dudley) Winthrop, widow of John Winthrop.

  2. ↑ Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College With Annals of the College History. (New York / New Haven: Holt / Yale University Press, 1885-1912)
    Oct 1701-May 1745, 83-84.

    JEREMIAH MILLER was the son of George Miller, of East Hampton, Long Island, a magistrate and member of the Assembly of the Province of New York. He studied medicine, and in 1711 settled in New London, Connecticut. To his practice as a physician he added in earlier years the business of teaching, and in 1714 became principal of the New London Grammar School. This position he held for twelve or fifteen years. He was one of the representatives of the town in seventeen sessions of the General Assembly, between 1732 and 1749. From 1735 he was a Justice of the Peace.

    In 1737 he was appointed naval officer of the port, New London being the only port for the entry and clearing of large vessels in the Colony, -and so continued until his death. He was also much employed in other public business. In May, 1749, he was appointed Judge of Probate for the County of New London, but at the next session of the Assembly he appeared and declined the office.

    He died in New London, March 15, 1756, in the 67th year of his age.

    He married, March 2, 1717–18, Mary, second daughter of Gurdon Saltonstall (Harv. Coll. 1684), Governor of Connecticut from 1708 to 1724. She was born February 15, 1691–2. They had six sons and one daughter; one of the sons, Jeremiah, was in his turn a prominent inhabitant of New London.

    The following is from an obituary notice in the Connecticut Gazette for March 27:—

    “He had been in a poor State of Health a considerable Time, during which his Behaviour had the firmness of a good Christian, and good Man. . . . In the various Stations of private Life, he discharged every Duty with Piety and Exactness; he was an affectionate kind Husband; an endearing and loving Father, a sincere and steady Friend; to his Servants a tender and careful Master; to his Associates an easy and often facetious Companion, grave with out severity, and witty without ill Nature. . . The impartial Administration of Law and Justice, and the Good of his King and Country, were the moving Springs of his Actions; his Views neither centered in himself nor his Family, they were dilated universally, and took in the Whole. Threats could not alarm him, Bribes could not allure him.”

    AUTHORITIES.
    Bond, Hist. of Watertown, 925.
    Caulkins, Hist. of New London, 385, 398, 669.
    R. D. Smyth, College Courant, Aug. 15, 1868, 99.

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