Person:Mehitable Miller (7)

Biography

Mehitable, daughter of John Miller and Lydia Combs, was born 12 July 1638 in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Mass. Bay Colony.^[1]

She is mentioned as Mehetabel Crow, along with her siblings, in the will of the Widow Susanna White of Charlestown, dated March 25, 1681, proved March 29, 1687, in which Susanna devised to cousins Jacob [H]ewins of Dorchester, John Miller of Yarmouth, Mehetabel Crow and Mary (wife of John Whittemore); to Elizabeth, wife of Samuel Frost of Billerica; to Lydia Fish of Sandwich; Faith Winslow; to children of Joseph Frost, 1/2 to the 3 eldest, half to 3 youngest, amongst others.^{[2] [3]}

She is named in her husband's probate records, see his biography.

"The widow Crow of Nobscuset died on the 23rd day of February 1714/15."^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ Essex Institute, compiler, VRs of Roxbury, Massachusetts to the End of the Year 1849 (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1926), Vol. 1, p. 245."Miller, Mehittophell, d John, July 12, 1638."
2. ↑ Thomas Bellows Wyman, compiler, The Genealogies and Estates of Charlestown, (etc), MA, 1629-1818 (Boston, MA: David Clapp and Son, 1879), Vol. 2, p. 1015.
3. ↑ Suffolk Co. Probate, docket #1537, (o.s.) 11:66-68 (FHL #584130)
4. ↑ Robert M. Sherman and Ruth Wilder Sherman, compilers, Vital Records of Yarmouth, MA to the year 1850 (Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1975, second printing 1993), Vol. 1, p. 133