Benjamin Miller was the son of Thomas Miller, who came from Birmingham, England, and was one of the first settlers of Matabeset, now Middletown, Connecticut. Benjamin Miller was the first settler in Cochinby, now Middlefield, Connecticut; he was called "Governor" from some old Indian custom.
Eliakim Stow owned the land from a point east of what is now known as Lee's Mill, west to the top of the mountain. He had a sawmill, and later a mill for carding wool.
Eliakim Stow and Lydia (Miller) Stow lived in Middlefield, where he built a house on a hill above the brook Besek, near the present Baileyville. When he selected the site for the house it was on such a steep hillside that his father-in-law, Benjamin Miller, refused to come to the raising, there being a beautiful level building spot higher up the hill and further south, which Benjamin Miller preferred, but Eliakim Stow would not occupy.
A Genealogical History Of The Kelley Family: Descended From Joseph Kelley Of Norwich, Connecticut (1897)
December 31, 1732- Jemima Doolittle is born to Thomas Doolittle & Sarah Abernathy in Wallingford, New Haven, Connecticut.
(Eliakim Stow is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Deacon Thomas Whitmore & Sarah Hall.
Jemima Doolittle is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestor is Abraham Doolittle.)
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