A Milks Family Genealogy

Introduction
I wanted to include these for those who do not have access to our Milk Family History book, I encourage you to try to get a copy, as it is a good source of information on our Milk-Milks family. I have heard that an updated version is in the works, I don't know who is working on it or when/if it will be out. I know I want a copy if and when it does.
You can order a copy of Ms. Croft's book at Higginson Books.

HOME OF JOHN MILK IN BOSTON
(there is a sketch on pg3, ch.1) "On the corner of sun Court stood until within a few years one of the most primitive looking houses in Boston, with a prodigious chimney and an over-hanging second story, diamond-shaped window lights, and a quaint outside staircase. In the annexed cut we have a peep through gateway leading to the old house of the Milk family, once a fine residence..." (Rambles in Old Boston, by Rev. Edward G. Porter, 1887, p. 288)

A block north of the Milk home site is the Old North Church, in the tower of which lanterns were hung to warn Paul Revere of the approach of the British during the Revolution;....To the southwest, some three blocks, is Faneuil Hall, known as the "Cradle of Liberty" and the scene of many fiery debates over events which led to the Revolutionary War. A short distance farther south, leading into Atlantic Avenue which borders the harbor, is "Milk Street", named after John Milk of Salem-1662).
About two blocks north of the Milk home site, is Copp's Hill Burying Ground, where several of John Milk's descendants are interred.

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(pg.5, Ch.1)

JOB MILK (1694) In 1756 Job Milk appears at Crom Elbow township, and later he is listed at Amenia (Amenia, from Latin signifying "pleasant," was a township divided from Beekman).
The township was organized in 1762, and at the first town meeting, Job Milk was chosen as one of the overseers of highways. In 1772 Job was chosen as an overseer of the poor who were to serve for nothing.
Job Milks was named as a juror in a suit against Thomas Beadle, founder of Beadle Hill or Easton. Having a suit brought against you, in those days, did not imply an unwillingness to pay, it was the custom to do this in order to straighten out accounts.
Job's death of death is calculated by using the appearance of the name of his widow listed on the tax list of 1778. The title of his farm was transferred to his grandson in 1774 or 1775 and the latter sold it in 1796.
pg.6, ch.1

James Milk (1710/11)
son of John Milk III From Journal of Smith and Dean, 1849: "James Milk was born in Boston in 1711 and was here (Falmouth, Me.), previous to 1735, when he married Sarah Brown. He was by trade a boatbuilder, and of such industrious habits and provident management as to have accumulated a large estate for that day, and at the same time acquired a more sterling capital in the character of an upright man. He commanded a company of scouts in pursuit of Indians in 1756. He was a selectman of the town 16 years and Deacon of the First Church more than 21 years, from 1751 to his death. he owned the two Hog Islands in the harbor and the large tract on the east side of Exchange Street from near Middle Street to low water mark, including the flats on which Long Wharf stands. He lived on this lot fronting the present passage on to Long Wharf in a two-story house afterward acquired by his son-in-law, Mr. Ingraham, which was burnt in the destruction of the town in 1775. The children who survived him were James, who died the year after his father, aged 29; Mary, married Moses Little, then of Compton, N.H., afterwards of Newburyport; Eunice to John Deering; Abigail to Joseph H. Ingraham; and Lucy to John Nichols, all of Portland. His wife died Sept. 7, 1769, aged 58. All his children are dead and the name is now extinct here, having expired with his son James, but his posterity is numerous through his several daughters. Mr. Milks married for his second wife Mrs. Deering of Kittery, Me., the mother of Nathaniel Deering and thirteen other children by her first husband. Two of her sons by the first marriage, viz: Nathaniel and John, married two of Deacon Milk's daughters, Dorcas and Eunice; and her daughter Mary married Deacon Milk's only son James. By his purchases of tracts of land in different parts of the city and his innate business sagacity, he (Deacon Milk) laid the foundation of the present Deering estate.
Among those purchases was the beautiful Grove of Oaks, later given to the city of Portland by the Deering heirs and immortalized by Longfellow's poem, 'My Lost Youth.' Mr. Smith preached a funeral sermon on the occasion of the death of Deacon Milk from the text--'Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.' This alone is a sufficient commentary upon his character."
pg. 8, Ch. 1

FROM PORTLAND TIMES SUNDAY OCT. 28, 1900
JAMES MILK John Deering Jr., sea captain, died at sea 1758. Three of his 14 children died young. Nathaniel became the support of his mother and the 11 children. All came to Portland. In 1762 James Milk married Mrs. Deering. James Milk had 11 children by his first wife. In 1763 James Milk Jr. married Mary Deering.
According to Babson Colonial Families of America, 6:118, James Milk and Sarah Brown had 7 children. Ms. Croft's research disclosed the names of 9 children, b. Falmouth.
Note: If anyone has evidence of more than 9 please let me know.
I am in the process of entering all descendants listed in the book into a PAF file and will make it into a gedcom available for download, minus information on living or possibly living individuals unless they want that information included.

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JONATHAN MILK (1751)
son of Job (1725) Jonathan Milk, b. 1751, of Alford, Mass.; m. Phebe, b. 1753. He is credited with the following services in the Revolutionary War:
Private, Capt. George King's Co., Col. Hopkins' (Berkshire Co.) regt.; entered service July 15, 1776; discharged Aug. 2, 1776; service, 18 days; company made up of detachments from four companies and marched to the Highlands, New York; also Corporal, Capt. Sylvanus Willcox's Co., Col. John Ashley's (Berkshire Co.) regt.; entered service Sep. 19, 1777; discharged Oct. 17, 1777, service 28 days, with Northern Army; also same Co. and Regt.; enlisted Oct. 15, 1780; service 2 days, on an alarm; company allowed horse rations. (Reference: Mass. Soldiers and Sailors of the War of the American Revolution.

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