Abiathar MILLARD & Tabitha HOPKINS

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Dr. Abiathar MILLARD, Sr.
Tabitha HOPKINS

Husband: Abiathar MILLARD, Sr.
Birth: 22 Jun 1744, Rehoboth, Bristol Co., MA
Death: 24 May 1811, Penfield, Ontario Co., NY
Occupation: physician
Military Service: Revolutionary War: Minuteman at Lexington
D.A.R. Patriot Number: A078916
Father: Rev. Robert MILLARD
Mother: Hannah EDDY

Marriage: 30 Sep 1761, South Amenia, Duchess Co., NY

Wife: Tabitha HOPKINS
Birth: 7 Oct 1745, Harwinton, Litchfield Co., CT
Father: Ebenezer HOPKINS, Jr.
Mother: Susannah MESSENGER

Children:

1. Abiathar MILLARD, Jr., b. 6 May 1763, Quaker Hill, Dutchess Co., NY
2. Tabitha MILLARD, b. 1765
3. Lydia MILLARD, b. 1768
4. Huldah MILLARD, b. 1773
5. Sarah MILLARD, b. 1775; m. Jabez EATON
6. Olive MILLARD, b. 5 May 1778
7. Phoebe MILLARD, b. 12 Aug 1781, Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., MA
8. Jesse MILLARD, b. 1784
9. (Son A) MILLARD, b. 1784-90
10. Almon Hopkins MILLARD, b. 1788; m. 1808, Bloomfield, NY, Mary "Polly" BRACE

Sources:

1. 1790 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1790 VT Rutland Co. Pittsford p. 249 Abiathar Millard 1-3-5-0-0

The numbers are very faded and hard to read. The list has been alphabetized, so no neighborhood reconstruction is possible. These data indicate:

Gender and Type Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

1 free white males 16 or over in or bef. 1774 = Abiathar (b. 1744)

3 free white males 15 or under 1774-1790 = Jesse (b. 1784)
= Son A
= Almon (b. 1788)

5 free white females all ages in or bef. 1790 = Tabitha (b. 1745)
= Huldah (b. 1773)
= Sarah (b. 1775)
= Olive (b. 1778)
= Phoebe (b. 1781)

2. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1800 (Broderbund CD-312). Please see my WARNING regarding use of this database (the numerical data have the genders switched).

1800 Millard, Abeathar VT Rutland Co. Pittsford 00001-0300100

These data should read:

03001-00001-00

which indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

3 males 10-15 1784-1790 = Almon (b. 1788)
= Son A
= Jesse (b. 1784)

1 male 45 or over in or bef. 1755 = Abiathar (b. 1744)

1 female 45 or over in or bef. 1755 = Tabitha (b. 1745)

3. 1810 Census.

4. Timothy Hopkins. 1932. John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA. On p. 45:

Tabitha, b. 7 October 1745; m. at Amenia, New York, 30 September 1761, Dr. Abiather Millard, b. at Rehoboth, Massachusetts, 22 Jun 1744, son of Rev. Robert (Nehemiah, Robert, John) Millard, b. at Rehoboth 20 April 1702, and Hannah Eddy. (New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 47: 250.) He d. at Penfield, Ontario County, New York, 1811.
Soon after marriage they moved to Dutchess County, New York, where their first child was born. Subsequently they lived in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Bennington and Pittsford, Vermont, and Penfield, New York. He bought land in Pittsford, 11 April 1788, which he cleared and on which he built a house and was a subscriber for the library in 1796. (Caverly's
Pittsford, p. 226.) Millard Fillmore, thirteenth President of the United States, was their grandson.

5. G.B. Roberts & W.A. Reitwiesner. 1984. American Ancestors and Cousins of The Princess of Wales. Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD, p. 38.

6. Gary Boyd Roberts. 1995. Ancestors of American Presidents. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston.

7. WorldConnect (online at RootsWeb.com).

8. Messages in the Millard Family Genealogy Forum (online at GenForum.com).

9. Messages posted to the Litchfield County, Connecticut, Board (online at Ancestry.com).

10. D.A.R. Genealogical Research Database (online at http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/).

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