Samuel Milliken and Margaret Foster

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Husband Samuel Milliken ¹

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           Born: 1746 - near Dromore, County Down, Ireland 2
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         Father: James Milliken (      -      ) 2
         Mother: Elizabeth Davis (      -      ) 2

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       Marriage: Jan 1775 2

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Wife Margaret Foster ²

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Children

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1 M James Milliken ²

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           Born: 19 Jan 1776 2
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         Spouse: Ann Cunningham (      -      ) 2

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2 M Samuel Milliken ³

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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3 M David Milliken ³

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         Spouse: [Unk] Steely (      -      ) 3

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4 M Robert Milliken ³

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           Born: 14 Mar 1793 3
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         Spouse: Ann McNitt (      -      ) 3

         Spouse: Sarah B. Johnston (      -      ) 3

         Spouse: Mrs. Rebecca Long (      -      ) 3

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5 M Foster Milliken ³

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         Spouse: Nancy Thompson (      -Aft 1871) 3

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6 M Joseph Milliken ⁴

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Patton (      -      ) 4
           Marr: 1822 4

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7 F Barbara Milliken ^{4 6}

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            AKA: Barbara Milligan 5
           Born: Abt 1780 - Mifflin Co, PA
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         Spouse: James Clemson Whitehill (1771-1841) 4 7 8
           Marr: 6 Jan 1800 - Mifflin Co, PA 6

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8 F Jane Milliken ⁴

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         Spouse: John Cooper (      -      ) 4

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9 F Elizabeth Milliken ⁴

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General Notes: Husband - Samuel Milliken

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He preceded his father, coming to America in 1763, and was the founder of the Milliken name in eastern Pennsylvania. He settled on the Schuylkill river, near Philadelphia, and being imbued with the mercantile spirit of that day, engaged in the manufacture and sale of linen. In the course of his business he made many trips to Ireland, and on returning from one of these trips, was accompanied to America by his father.
Soon after the death of his father, Samuel Milliken, with others who had been friends and acquaintances in Ireland, removed to and located a colony in what is now Brown township, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, in the beautiful and fertile Kishacoquillas valley. This valley was then occupied by Indians, but this early band of settlers, with the very few who had preceded them, soon taught the "sons of the forest," that though they came in peace and desired to live in amity with their red neighbors, they could and would defend their lives and homes from Indian assault and depredation. Samuel Milliken and his associates were "sons of the Kirk," rigid Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, and this early settlement did much towards determining the religious character of the valley, for, early in the history of the settlement, a Presbyterian congregation was formed, and although they continued long without the services of a regular pastor, a log church was erected near the present site of the East Kishacoquillas Cemetery, on the hills above the present village, and for many years the settlers of the entire valley worshiped in this primitive edifice. Samuel Milliken assisted very materially in the formation of this congregation and in the erection of their church, and the name has ever since been continuously kept by his descendants on the records of the congregation then formed.
Samuel Milliken became a farmer, and located a large tract of land. One of the most conspicuous peaks in the ranges of mountains enclosing the beautiful valley bears his name, and a beautiful spring near its base is called "Milliken's Spring," in commemoration of the heroic action of his wife in gathering together and leading to this spot in the mountains, in the absence of her husband, a band of neighbors to rescue a woman, who, unable, to keep up with her party while crossing the mountains, was deserted by them near the spring when they were pursued by Indians. From letters written by him, it appears that Samuel Milliken served for a term in the war for independence. But he was soon recalled, with others from this settlement, to defend his frontier home from threatened Indian incursion. Authentic family history narrates that he afterward, with some of his neighbors, contributed largely to the purchase of stores of provisions and clothing for free distribution in the patriot army, and that many such solid tokens of patriotism they delivered to Washington's army when encamped at Valley Forge and in and around Philadelphia, over a trail through a forest infested with Indians.

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General Notes: Wife - Margaret Foster

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from Lancaster Co, PA

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1043.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 585.

3 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 586.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of the Juniata Valley (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Co., 1897), Pg 587.

5 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 549.

6 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 1042.

7 John Blair Linn, History of Centre and Clinton Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1883), Pg 272.

8 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1913), Pg 549, 696.