Elizabeth Howland

Elizabeth Miller

• Birth: 18 Feb 1689 in Middleboro, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Death: Aft Mar 1731/32
• Parents: John Miller and Mercy Barden
• Siblings: John Miller II [half], Mary (Miller) Dexter [half], Hannah (Miller) Pratt [half], Mercy (Miller) Redding and Deborah (Millar) Rickard
• Spouse: Nathan Delano — married 7 Jul 1709 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay
• Spouse: Seth Howland - married 24 May 1728 Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Elizabeth Miller was born February 18, 1688/9, the daughter of John and Mercy Miller of Marlborough, Massachusetts[1] [2]

On July 7, 1709, she married Nathan Delano, the son of Jonathan and Mercy (Warren) Delano of Dartmouth, Mass[3] [4] [1]

Their children included:

• 1. Meribah (Delano) Dexter b. 18 Sep 1709 • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts. This profile shows Elizabeth (Miller) Delano died before her father-in-law Jonathan prepared his will, on December 17, 1720, as her daughter Meribah is named in the will, but her parents are not.[12][13][2] [12], who married Constant Dexter[14] m. Constant Dexter, in the year 4 Aug 1731 • Rochester, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• 2. Ann Delano b. 1712 • Middleboro, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts
• 3. (Delano) Holton b. 1714 • Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusett m. Samuel Holton, in the year 1742 • Northampton, Hampshire, Massachusetts

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References

1. https://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Elizabeth_Miller_%28292%29 cites
   1. Seth3 Howland, in General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass. December 1620. (New England - United States: General Society of Mayflower Descendants., Various) 1:23:50-51.
   2. Elizabeth (Miller) Delano who was born at Middleborough 18 February 1688/9 and died after March 1731/2, daughter of John and Mercy (_____) Miller. … At the March 1731/2 session of the Court of Common Pleas, John Taylor … sued "Elizabeth alias Betty Howland" widow and relict of Seth Howland … for seventy five days of work.
2. WikiTree contributors, "Elizabeth (Miller) Delano (1689-1730)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Miller-3263 : accessed 07 December 2024). cites
   1. Page 81 Middleborough Mass Vital Records published in Volume 8, page 28 of the Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), which states: Meribah Delano the Daughter of Nathan Delano and Elizabeth his wife was born September ye: 11th 1709. The mother's birth is inserted in the line above, which states Elizabeth Miller: the Daughter of John Miller and of Mercy his wife was born: February ye 18th, 1688/9
   2. Volume 3 of Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts: Containing Historical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens and Genealogical Records of Many of the Old Families by J.H. Beers & Co; Publisher J.H. Beers & Company, 1912; Original from Harvard University; Digitized 4 Mar 2008
   3. "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FHG1-L9Z : 3 November 2017), Nathan Delano and Elizabeth Miller, 07 Jul 1709; citing Marriage, Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States, , town clerk offices, Massachusetts; FHL microfilm 945,015.
   4. Middleborough Births, Marriages and Deaths published in Volume 2, page 158 of the Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), which states: Nathan Delano of Dartmouth and Elizabeth Miller of Middleborough were married together by Justice Brett July 7, 1709
   5. Jonathan Delano's Will published in Volume 23, page 148 of the Mayflower Descendant: A Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy and History.Boston, MA: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899- . (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), which states that Jonathan Delano, who married Mercy Warren left an inheritance for his granddaughter Meribah Delano in his will. The will was dated December 17, 1720
   6. Volume 18 : RIchard Warren, Part 3, page 132 of the Mayflower Families Fifth Generation Descendants, 1700-1880 (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017). From Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620. Plymouth, MA: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975-<2015>.
3. https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/LH12-6GD/elizabeth-miller-168...
4. https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LH12-6GD