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Benjamin Milliken (b. 1728 Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay d. 1791 Bocabec, New Brunswick) was an American Loyalist,〔he was the son of the Honourable Edward Milliken (b. 1706 Boston), a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas (retired 1773) in the Province of Massachusetts Bay and his wife Abigail Norman (b.1710 d.1751), "Collections of the Maine Historical Society" John Chamberlain 1890 p 65〕 major landowner, mill and ship owner〔http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=4109137&qryID=c58850cd-db67-4b77-97b1-0cd50a6b3c84 "Markham 1793-1900" Isabel Champion, Markham Historical Society Markham, Ont. 1979 p.74〕 in Maine in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, British North America. He was the founder of Ellsworth, Maine (first called the Union River Settlement) in 1763,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Archaeologists dig up Surry homestead belonging to family among earliest European settlers )〕 laid out and received the land grant for the Township of Bridgton, Maine (originally called Pondicherry) in 1765 and was one of the first settlers in Bocabec and St. Andrew’s, New Brunswick in 1784.〔His son Norman Milliken (b.1771 Trenton, Maine d.1843 Markham Township, York County, Canada West, Province of Canada), and in 1807 founded Milliken, Ontario (originally called Milliken Corners).http://schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/milliken/History.aspx,See Isabel Champion, ed., ''( Markham: 1793-1900 )'' (Markham, ON: Markham Historical Society, 1979), pp. 74, 75 276f; 74f (Milliken family).http://www.ourroots.ca/page.aspx?id=4109137&qryID=c58850cd-db67-4b77-97b1-0cd50a6b3c84〕 ==Business career== He began his business career in Scarborough, Maine where he had a store on the Dunstan Landing Road. He was an owner of lands in Rowley-Canada ( now called Rindge, New Hampshire) which had been granted to soldiers who had served in the Canada Expedition of 1696 ( which included the Raid on Chignecto and the Siege of Fort Nashwaak) which he lost in a boundary line dispute between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. As a result of losing these lands he and 2 others were granted, in 1761, a township named Pondicherry, now Bridgton, Maine, seven miles square, east of the Saco River. He was one of three who proceeded to lay out the township and received the land grant for the entire township on June 25, 1765. Finding the timber on these lands too remote from a market Milliken sold out his share and invested in lands adjoining other lands owned by him on the Union River that he bought in 1769 from William Maxfield 〔"Along the Union River" By Connie Jellison, Arcadia Publishing, New Hampshire 1997 p.7〕〔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,-Posterity of Edward Milliken, G.T. Ridlon, Maine , 1907, pp. 59-61 https://archive.org/stream/historyoffamilie01ridl#page/194/mode/2up/search/benjamin〕 He had business reversals, lost his lands and other property in Scarborough, Maine and in 1764 made Trenton, Maine his headquarters. He was granted a mill privilege there with timber lands adjoining. He and his brother Thomas Milliken built a dam and mill on the Union River at or near the head of the tide, close to where the Bangor Hydro Dam exists.〔 Ellsworth American, 19 Dec. 1900, Albert Davis's History of Ellsworth, Maine, and Ava Chadboume's Maine Place Names〕 It may have been tidal powered but proved a failure was called the " Folly Mill," and was soon abandoned.〔Ellsworth History, No. 11" Ellsworth American, 26 Dec. 1900. Ava H. Chadboume, Maine Place Names and the Peopling of its Towns (Bangor: Furbush-Roberts Printing, 1955)267-268〕〔 Afterwards the Benjamin and Thomas Milliken built a double saw-mill, at the Head Tide Dam〔"Along the Union River" By Connie Jellison, Arcadia Publishing, New Hampshire 1997 p.11〕 on the Union River at what became the Union River Settlement ( now Ellsworth, Maine) of which City Benjamin Milliken is acknowledged the founder.〔THE MAINE HISTORICAL MAGAZINE. Vol. VIII. Bangor, Me., Oct., Nov., Dec, 1893. Nos. 10, 11, 12〕When the second dam was built by the Millikens, they were either unable to build the 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.〔“History of Ellsworth,” from extracts from a lecture by Dr. Calvin Peek of Ellsworth in 1837-8, printed in Ellsworth American, Nov. 19, 1869, and reprinted in 1888, Maine Historical Magazine 1885-1894, p.1080. “Materials for a History of Ellsworth, Maine,” Bangor Historical Magazine 1885-1894, pp.1993-94, citing Lincoln County Deeds, 16:206 and 18:74-75.〕 The Ellsworth hydro-electric dam begun in 1907 is located at the site of one of the original Benjamin Milliken Union River dams. Milliken also owned vessels, and shipped lumber to Connecticut. In 1773 the first schooner built at Ellsworth, Maine, on the Union River was named the ”Susan and Abigail〔daughter Abigail Milliken b.1750 d.1832〕”, after the daughters of its two most prominent citizens, Benjamin Milliken and Benjamin Joy. The vessel carried pine shingles and oak staves in annual voyages to the West Indies. This trade was the township's primary business for some time. A British cruiser destroyed the "Susan and Abigail" during the American War of Independence.〔Albert H. Davis, History of Ellsworth, Maine (Lewiston, Maine: Lewiston Journal Printshop, 1927) 114〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Milliken」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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