Lemuel Milliken (1745)

Born 1745 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine

Ancestors

Husband of Phebe (Lord) Milliken — married 18 Jan 1770 in Scarborough, Maine

Descendants

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Biography

Lieutenant Lemuel Milliken served with 26th Massachusetts Bay Provincial Regiment (1775), Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Lemuel Milliken was born in 1745 in Scarborough, Maine. His parents were Edward Milliken and Abigail (Norman) Milliken^[1].

He married Phebe Lord on 18 January 1770 in Scarborough^[1]. They had issue.

Lemuel Milliken's son Abraham Milliken was born on 16 Jul 1769 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine, United States.^[2]

Second Lieutenant Lemuel Milliken served in Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's regiment in 1779, under Captain Benjamin Larrabee. He served as a sergeant in Capt. john Rice's company in Col. Edmund Phinney's 31st Regiment of Foot in 1775.^[3]

Lemuel Milliken (86) was enrolled in the military pension in 1831, when he was living at Cumberland, Maine, United States.^[4]

Research Notes

Divided loyalties: Lemuel Milliken marched with Jonathan Mitchell's Regiment against the English during the summer of 1779. His brother, Benjamin Milliken Sr., meanwhile, fought with the English, was captured during the attack on Castine, Maine, and was subsequently released. Brother Benjamin later relocated to New Brunswick, as did Lemuel's daughter, Margaret Milliken.

Other children? — insufficient evidence.

• Mary Polly Milliken (1772-1838) m. Amos Parsons
• Samuel Milliken (1780-1841) m. Susanna Beals

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Ridlon, Gideon Tibbetts. 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. 1907. Lewiston, Maine: G. T. Ridlon, 1907. Page 63.
2. ↑ Birth of son Abraham Milliken: "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900"
   citing FHL microfilm: 12223;
   FamilySearch Record: F4C7-XHS (accessed 2 June 2023)
   Abraham Milliken born to Lemuel Milliken on 16 Jul 1769 in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine, United States.
3. ↑ Nathan Goold, Historian, Maine Sociery, Sons of the American Revolution. "History of Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's Cumberland County Regiment of the Bagaduce Expedition, 1779" Press of the Thurston Print, Portland Maine, 1899. The University of Maine; Maine History Documents; Special Collections. (Accessed 5 Jan 2023) https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1564&context=mainehistory
4. ↑ Military Pension: "U.S., The Pension Roll of 1835"
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 60514 #7110 (accessed 17 June 2023)
   Service Description Mass. Continental, Birth Year abt 1745, Rank Serg. and lt., Pension Enrollment Date 4 Mar 1831, Name Lemuel Milliken, Residence Place Cumberland, Maine, USA, Age 86.

• 1800 Census: "1800 United States Federal Census"
  Year 1800, Census Place Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine, Series M32, Roll 6, Page 22, Image 26, Family History Library Film 218676
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7590 #65005 (accessed 17 June 2023)
  Lemuel Millikin in Scarborough, Cumberland, Maine.
• Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, (Boston, 1891), vol 10 p 737, Miliken, Lemuel, Scarborough. Lieutenant, Capt. Benjamin Larrabe's co., Col Mitchel's regt.; marched 9 Jul 1779; discharged 12 Sep 1779; service 2 mos. 3 days, on Penobscot expedition.
• Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder, (S. M. Watson, Publisher, Public Library, Portland, Maine 1887), vol 2 p 205; vol 4 p 34; vol 7 p 49, Queries
• Records of the Second Congregational Church in Scarborough, Maine
• Scarborough Town Records.
• Pension Application S.16963
• Military: "U.S., Revolutionary War Pensioners, 1801-1815, 1818-1872"
  The National Archives, Washington, D.C., Ledgers of Payments, 1818-1872, to U.S. Pensioners Under Acts of 1818 Through 1858 From Records of the Office of the Third Auditor of the Treasury, Record Group Title Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, Record Group Number 217, Series Number T718, Roll Number 8
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1116 #23621 (accessed 17 June 2023)
  Year range 1831-1848, Name Lemuel Milliken, Pension Office Place Maine, USA.
• Military: "U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900"
  Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 1995 #41767 (accessed 17 June 2023)
  Archive Roll Number 1733, Total Pages in Packet 9, Application State Maine, Name Lemuel Milliken, Applicant Designation Survivor's Pension Application File, Archive Publication Number M804, Pension Year 1832.
• Wikipedia. "Penobscot Expedition." (Accessed 1 Jan 2023) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penobscot_Expedition
• Jonathan Mitchell's Regiment - Begaduce Expedition. Maine Historical Society (Accessed 2 Jan 2023) https://archive.org/stream/acg3054.0002.010.umich.edu#page/n163/mode/1up
• Dale W. Burbank, MAJOR, US Army B.S., United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 1995. "WANT OF PROPER SPIRIT AND ENERGY: THE PENOBSCOT EXPEDITION OF 1779" (Accessed 2 Jan 2023) https://web.archive.org/web/20130917085419/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA547183