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out his share and invested in lands next to the lands purchased from
William Maxfield on the Union River, and made that locality the seat of his lumbering business. He had lost his lands and other property in Scarborough by foreclosure of a mortgage held by Wheelwright & Althrope of New York, and in 1764 made Trenton, Maine his headquarters. 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 on a small stream that empties into Union River. The condition 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. 2 and Oct. 12 of that year, he fulfilled his contract.
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Elizabeth Banks in 1754, only ten years before the mill was built, and would not have had a daughter by her fourteen years of age at that time. Abigail Milliken, daughter of Sarah Smith, Benjamin's first wife, was b. in 1750, and was just fourteen when the mill was erected, and if the statements and dates are correctly given— and there are excellent authorities to verify them—this daughter was the first to prepare food in Trenton, now Ellsworth.
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whole or sold the rights to the western bank, and the settlers on the west side of the Union River, John Murch and
Benjamin Joy built a mill. The Ellsworth hydro-electric dam begun in 1907 is located at the site of one of the original Benjamin Milliken Union River dams.Afterwards they built a double saw-mill on another water power, and there the Millikens carried on their lumber business successfully many years. They owned vessels, and shipped much of the manufactured lumber to Connecticut and sold it.
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her hand upon the latch of the door, the officer drew his sword and nearly severed her fingers, she stood firm holding up her dripping hand before her face, saying, "There, sir, is better blood than runs in your veins". The rebels ransacked the house and then drove the cattle belonging to the
Milliken estate into the kitchen and slaughtered them, leaving the offal in the floor.
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160:; but when the boundary line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was run out and established, these lands were found to have been in the latter province, and he, with other petitioners, was granted, in 1761, a township seven miles square, east of the Saco River, in lieu of that of which they had been dispossessed.
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As there were thirty-two workmen employed on the mill, a large quantity of food must have been consumed; and as
Ephraim Dyer said two women went down from Scarborough in the vessel with the builders, it has been assumed that one of them was the mother of the maid who first put the kettle on: but the
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Benjamin and Thomas Milliken built a double saw-mill on the Union River at what became the Union River Settlement ( now Ellsworth, Maine) of which City Benjamin Milliken is acknowledged the founder. When the second dam was built by the Millikens, they were either unable to build the
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In his deposition, given in 1796, Ephraim 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 fortnight, during which time the men made use of his vessel to live in until they had built a house. This
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Honourable Edward Milliken (born 1706 Boston), a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (retired 1773) in the Province of Massachusetts Bay and his wife Abigail Norman (1710–1751), "Collections of the Maine Historical Society" John Chamberlain 1890 p
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History of the Families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, Comprising Genealogies and Biographies of Their Posterity Surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, A. D. 800-A. D.
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New Brunswick and their farm lots under separate grants included several tracts extending from Bocabec westerly along the coast to St. Stephen, with an additional tract on the
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