Obadiah Miller, Jr

Obadiah married Benedicta Lawton on 15 Jun 1683 in Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts. Benedicta was born about 1657; died after 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Obadiah married Dorothy Chapin about 1678. Dorothy was born about 1658 in of, Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts; died after 1679. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Bef 1654, Taunton, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
• Property: Jun 1654, Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts
• Other-Begin: Mar 1655, Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts
• Other-Begin: 23 Mar 1655, Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts; Oath of Fidelity

Notes:

Obadiah is probably the immigrant sometime before 1655, but from where needs to be researched.

Obadiah Miller and his brother, Thomas Miller, were among the earliest settlers of Springfield, Mass., which was founded in 1636 by William Pynchon and seven other men. Pynchon, whose home was in Springfield, England, was one of the original 27 patent holders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony that received land grants from King James in 1629.
The early records of Springfield, Mass., contain many references to Obadiah and Thomas Miller. Obadiah's name first appears in June, 1654, when John Pynchon granted to him a homelot of three acres and other land. Many more land transactions involving Obadiah followed over the next 40 years. Obadiah's attendance at the Springfield Meeting House sessions, where he served as a Selectman, was noted in the records, as well as several fines for missing meetings. He was appointed a Fence Viewer and also a Hayward, civic posts. The dates of Obadiah's birth and death are not known, but he was likely born in England, possibly to Robert and Elizabeth Miller, about 1624 and likely died in Springfield between May 8, 1697 and March 14, 1699.
Obadiah Miller married Joan, or Joanna, Cogan of Taunton, Mass., following the death of her husband, Thomas Cogan, in 1654. Obadiah and Joan had three children: Lazarus Miller, born Sept. 23, 1655, and died Aug. 4, 1697, and married Mary Burbank of Suffield, Conn., Dec. 2, 1685; Obadiah Miller Jr., born March 26, 1658; and Joanna Miller, born July 6, 1659. In addition, Joan, or Joanna, had four children by her first husband: Bathsheba Cogan, born about 1645 and died in Springfield 1688, who married John Barber and had four children; Mary Cogan, born about 1647 and died May 19, 1676 at Windsor, Conn., who married Samuel Barber; Martha Cogan, born about 1648 and died May 22, 1686, at Simsbury, Conn., and married Peter Buel; and Ruth Cogan, born about 1650-52, married Samuel Taylor June 24, 1675

Property:
Obadiah's name first appears in June, 1654, when John Pynchon granted to him a homelot of three acres and other land. Many more land transactions involving Obadiah followed over the next 40 years.

Other-Begin:
In March of 1655, Obadiah Miller complained in court that Joane, his wife, abused him with reproachful terms or names as calling him fool, toad, vermine, and threatening him; also she fell upon him and beat him and scratched his hands and face. John Lamb testified that he heard her say she would knock him on the head and she did often call him fool and other reproachful terms; Thomas Miller testified that when his brother, Obadiah, and his wife lived with him he often heard her call him names and she said she did not love him; but she hated him. For her vile behavior towards her husband she was taken forth to the whipping post to receive so many stripes on the naked body as the commissioners should see cause to inflict upon her. She was brought forth, but made earnest protestations for better carriage toward her husband and so the punishment was remitted but she was told that for the least miscarriage toward Obadiah she should be brought forth again to receive a good whipping on the naked body. In 1692, Samuel Barnard (prentice to Obadiah Miller) was in court for throwing stones at glass windows. He denied it and was admonished and discharged.

Obadiah* married Mrs. Joane* (..) Cogan (Coggin), (immigrant) about 1654. Joane* was born in 1619 in England; died in Nov 1695 in Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1635, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
• Other-Begin: Mar 1655, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
• Other-Begin: 6 Mar 1654/5, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts; Plymouth Colony Records
• Property: 4 Mar 1661, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
• Property: 1 Oct 1661, Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts
• Other-Begin: 1665, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Other-Begin: Aug 1665, Massachusetts Bay Colony
• Property: Between Jan 1666 and Mar 1666, Cold Spring, West Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts
• Property: 28 Mar 1666, Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts
• Property: Apr 1668, Springfield, Hampden Co, Massachusetts
• Research Notes: 8 Jul 2012; her husband's ancestry?

Notes:

Cogan family seems to be traced back to
Miles Cogan (1149-1181) of Bampton, Devon, England
http://www.smokykin.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I45930&tree=smokykin

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source for Joan's events:
New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register, Page: 34, Vol 123
see Shurtleff's Plymouth Colony Records 4:4.
and County Court by Pynchon

http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/PCR.htm
IV. References to land dealings
Appendix
Plymouth Colony Court Records

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/15260906/person/18417094270/story/e3f0e398-4737-472d-a2f8-b43c20a9d4c1?src=search
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Immigration:
same Joane Cogan? if so, newly married.
Passenger and Immigration Lists Index 1500s-1900s

All ResultsPassenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s

about Joane Cogan Name: Joane Cogan
Year: 1635
Age: 16
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1619
Place: Massachusetts
Source Publication Code: 6799.25
Primary Immigrant: Cogan, Joane
Annotation: Most are date and port of arrival; some are date and place of settlement in Massachusetts. Name of ship, place of origin, occupation, and other genealogical data pertaining to will administration may also be provided.
Source Bibliography: POPE, CHARLES HENRY. The Pioneers of Massachusetts, A Descriptive List, Drawn from Records of the Colonies, Towns and Churches, and other Contemporaneous Documents. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1998. 550p.
Page: 263



Other-Begin:

BIOGRAPHY: In March of 1655, Obadiah Miller complained in court that Joane, his wife, abused him with reproachful terms or names as calling him fool, toad, vermine, and threatening him; also she fell upon him and beat him and scratched his hands and face. John Lamb testified that he heard her say she would knock him on the head and she did often call him fool and other reproachful terms; Thomas Miller testified that when his brother, Obadiah, and his wife lived with him he often heard her call him names and she said she did not love him; but she hated him. For her vile behavior towards her husband she was taken forth to the whipping post to receive so many stripes on the naked body as the commissioners should see cause to inflict upon her. She was brought forth, but made earnest protestations for better carriage toward her husband and so the punishment was remitted but she was told that for the least miscarriage toward Obadiah she should be brought forth again to receive a good whipping on the naked body. In 1692, Samuel Barnard (prentice to Obadiah Miller) was in court for throwing stones at glass windows. He denied it and was admonished and discharged.


Other-Begin:
March 6, 1654-5 (PCR [Plymouth Colony Records] 3:75)
It, wee psent Joane, the wife of Obadiah Miller, of Taunton, for beathing and reviling her husband, and egging her children to healp her, biding them knock him in the head, and wishing his victals might coake him.

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Women in Plymouth Colony 1633-1668
http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/PCR.htm

Property:
New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register,

Page: 34, Vol 123
March 4, 1661-2 (PCR 4:10-11)
Wheras, by an order of Court bearin date the first of October, 1661, libertie was graunted vnto Jone Miller to make sale of a quarter pte of the land of Thomas Coggen, deceased, and that what it should bee sold for should bee improued for the releife of Bathsheba Coggen, att youer descretions, these are therfore to signify vnto you, that the Courts order farther is, that whatsoeuer shalbee improued of the said land sold for the releife of the said Bathsheba Coggen, that you take sufficient securitie of the said Jone Miller, in the behalfe of the Court, for the same before it be let goe out of youer hands.

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IV. References to land dealings

In the 34 references to land dealings involving women in the first four volumes of the Plymouth Colony Court Records, the vast majority of the women mentioned are widows. Most references involve a grant or transfer of ownership of land (PCR 2:26 and PCR 1:40-41). In these cases, as before, widows have control over land and its use as allowed by their vaguely defined gender roles. The few references involving land that mentioned married women invariably mention their husbands, who had control over the land and its use as well (PCR 2:6).

However, even widows were not always allowed full rights or responsibilities concerning the disposal of land. For example, Jone Miller had to ask permission of the court to sell land from her recently deceased husband's estate for the benefit of their daughter (PCR 4:4-7). Even though Jone Miller was probably not the executrix of her husband's will, and did not have full control over his property, as a widow, she should have been allowed to dispose of it as she saw fit. In the end, the court allowed her to sell the land, but only for "the releife of her said daughter," and not for her own benefit.

The Plymouth Colony Archive Project
Women in Plymouth Colony 1633-1668
http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/plymouth/PCR.htm


Property:
New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register, Page: 34, Vol 123

October 1, 1661 (PCR 4:4-7)
In answare vnto a petition prefered to the Court by Jone, the wife of Obadiah Miller requesting that shee may haue libertie to make sale of some of the land that her deceased husband left vndisposed of, the Court, haueing considered that her request is in the behalfe of her daughter, whoe shee saith is weake and stands in need theof, do giue libertie that one quarter pte of the said land, and of what is left by her said deceased husband, may beesold for the releife of her said daughter; and what it shalbee sold for shalbee carfully disposed of to the vse of Bathshebah Coggen, att the descretion of Richard W x and Walter Deane, of Taunton, and the resedue of the said lands, &c, bee reserued by them for the vse of the rest of the children of the deceased Thomas Coggen, prouided that the said Jone Miler doe put in sufficient cecuritie that the said estate shalbee soe disposed of.

Other-Begin:
New England Historical and Genealogical Society Register, Page: 34, Vol 123

1665 "Obadiah Miller complaynes against Joane his wife for abusing him with reproachfull tearmes or names as calling him fool, toad & vermine and threatninge him; as also for that yesterday shee fell uppon him indeavoringe to beat him at which tyme shee scratched his face and hands. The case being examined it was found that Joane the wife of Obadiah Miller was guilty of very evill behavior towards her said husband; it beinge proved by the testimony of John Lamb and Thomas Miller. John Lambe testifyed he heard her say shee would knock him on the head; and that shee did often call him foole and other reproachfull tearmes. Thomas Miller testifyed that when his brother Obadiah and his wife lived with him, she did comonly call him foole and vermine and he doth not remember he ever heard her call him husband and that she said shee did not love him but hated him; yea shee here said shee did never love him and shee should never love him. For which her vile misbehaviour towards her husband shee was adjudged to be taken forth to the whippinge post; there to receive soe many stripes on the naked body as the commissioners should see cause to inflict on her; whereuppon shee was brought forth; but by her humiliation and earnest protestations for better carriage towards her said husband the punishment was remitted and this sentence passed, that for the least miscarriage to her husband after this tyme shee should be brought forth agayne to receive a good whipping on the naked body well laid on".


Other-Begin:
1665 August they were bound over to the County Court by Pynchon 'haveing had sad bickeringe and strife between themselves'. Upon their appearance they owned they had not carried it well with each other formerly but asserted that, since being bound for their appearance, they had lived in peace and quietness. After being admonished by the court they werre released of their bond upon promises of better carriage". -- see Pynchon Court Record.


Property:
1666 Joan and Obadiah had problems paying their bills at Pynchon's company store and in 1666 gave him six acres of their land in Cold Spring in West Springfield to pay their debt to him.

Property:
1668 March 28 they gave Pynchon nine more acres abutting the Great River.

Property:
1669 April - Pynchon wrote: "Goodwife Miller came to mee with her husband and said she was willing that I should have the land but she thought I gave too little and in further discoursing and owning my debt to have been long due, she was willing to agree to the sale if I would allow her 11 shillings she owes for kersey, which I yielded to, and so both of them were willing and the price for the land is 18 pounds 1 shillings."


Research Notes:
nickname "Joan Boridge" found online, unsourced.

search for Boridge, yielded:
http://www.theharmons.us/harmon_t/b187.htm

Joan (Johane) BORIDGE was born in 1569 in Taunton, Somerset, England. She died after 27 November 1612 at the age of 43 in Taunton, Somerset, England. Parents: Mr. BORIDGE.

Spouse: Henry COGAN. Joan (Johane) BORIDGE and Henry COGAN were married on 30 November 1590 in Taunton, Somerset, England.

Henry Cogan b. 1565, d. 1 Dec 1612
son of: Henry Cogan was born in 1540 in Chedzoy, Somerset, England.1 He married Elizabeth Carye on 1 July 1565 in Chedzoy, Somerset, England. 1 Henry Cogan died after 1565.

Elizabeth Carye was born in 1544 in Taunton, Somerset, England.1 She was christened in 1544 in Taunton, Somerset, England.1 She died after 1565. She married Henry Cogan on 1 July 1565 in Chedzoy, Somerset, England.1


Children of Henry Cogan and Joan Boridge:
?Johan Cogan3 b. c 1591, d. date unknown
?John Cogan3 b. 16 Apr 1593, d. date unknown
?Elizabeth Cogan3 b. 13 Mar 1593/94, d. date unknown
? Judith Cogan+4 b. b 13 Jun 1594, d. 6 Feb 1661/62
?Mary Cogan3 b. 22 Nov 1595, d. date unknown
?Jane Cogan3 b. 25 Mar 1599, d. date unknown
?Grace Cogan3 b. 9 Oct 1600, d. date unknown
?Richard Cogan3 b. 17 Jan 1601/2, d. date unknown
?Marian Cogan3 b. 10 Aug 1603, d. date unknown
?Frances Cogan3 b. 24 Feb 1604/5, d. date unknown

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Mr. BORIDGE was born about 1543 in Taunton, Somerset, England.

Children were: Joan (Johane) BORIDGE.

http://www.gulbangi.com/5families-o/p141.htm#i3517

Robert* married Elizabeth* Nicholson on 14 Dec 1623 in Tynesmouth, Northumberland, England. Elizabeth* was born about 1595 in Tynesmouth, Northumberland, England; died after 1630. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

potential parents of Obadiah and Thomas.