A FIRST SETTLER OF Marlow N.H.

1a) Nicodemus was born on 16 Feb 1715

in New Lyme, New London, CT.. He married

Phebe Huntley (daughter of Aaron Huntley

2nd, and Deborah DeWolf, on 13

Mar 1740 at New Lyme, NL, CT,

and Nicodemus died 14 Jun 1781

at Marlow, Cheshire, NH.

1b) Nicodemus' Birth, marriage,

and death, are recorded in;

"John Huntley of Lyme, CT, Vol

1, p 73", by Virgil Huntley, 1978:

2) According to the Lyme New London

CT. Vital Records Vol L-2 PAGE

167 Nicodemus is listed as the son of

Robert Miller.

3) In VOL L-2 PAGE 167

Nicodemus is also called Nicholas.

4) Nicodemus was a

Captain in the NH Militia.

5) Nicodemus Miller is among

those signing receipts along with

Lydia, heir of Aaron Huntley.

6) Nicodemus recieved a large

land grant from the King of England,

in Marlow N.H.

7) Nicodemus was a Selectman

for the town of Marlow, Cheshire,

New Hampshire.

8a) Recorded in "History of Marlow,

NH" edited by D. Hamilton Hurd (1886)

"The township of Marlow was granted

on October 7, 1761, to William Noyes and

sixty-three others, at which time it received

it's present name. ...The grantees were residents

of CT, principally in the vicinity of the towns

of Lyme, and Colchester. "At the Province of

New Hampshire, April 26, 1773, County of

Chesire, personally appeared Nicodemus

Miller and Samuel Canfield, Selectmen of

Marlow and made Solomn oath that

the above Inventory by them taken

and signed by them as above is just

and true as there set down taken."

8b) Also in the History of Marlow, NH:

There is record of a sworn oath to the court

regarding a land dispute between the towns of

Marlow and Stoddard, Nicodemus signed

as Selectman, along with Abisha Tubbs,

March 4, 1777

8c) Nicodemus was a country store owner;

p-321; "The mercantile history of the town (of

Marlow) is a varied one. The first dealer in country

store commodiities was Nicodemus Miller, who

it seems was a merchant in CT, and brought

his stock of goods with him to this town,

though it consisted principally of

Rumbe and melases, (Rum & Molasses)

if we are to believe an old account book."

9) Recorded in the Lyme Land Records

as having purchased land; Vol 9 Pgs

141,149,541, Vol 8 P 106, Vol

6 Pgs 309, 310, Vol 10

Pgs 51, 52, 53 with 1756

being his last land purchase.

10) He sold land in Lyme Vol 6 Pgs

176, 254, 297, along with Hannah Bates,

his wife Patience's sister. (She was his

first wife, and died in 1738). Vol 8 Pgs 46,

164, 301 Vol 9 Pgs 323, 505, 543, Vol

10 Pgs 139, 155, 157, 299, 537, Vol 11 Pgs

286, 304, 344, 368, Vol 12 Pgs 90, 112, 199

11) Gazeteer, NH, P 313 states: "It is

reasonable to suppose that very few

of the grantees of the town ever intended

to endure the hardships incident to the

settlement of a new township, for only three,

William Noyes, Samuel Gustin, and

Nehemiah Royce, ever became actual residents.

Some of the proprietors sold their rights

to the Tubbses, Millers, Huntleys, Lewises,

Gees, and Macks, while others, retaining

theirs, realized little, if anything from them.

The first to begin their preparations for a

home in Marlow, were Samuel and John

Gustin, brothers who built their log hut on

the farrm now owned by Willard Lane in

1764-65, the spot being but a short

distance from the pond which bears

their name. Previous to the Spring of 1767,

they were followed by fifteen families, a

portion of whom located as follows; Joseph

Tubbs, on Isaiah Davis's farm, Abisha Tubbs,

where Charles Elliott lives, Nehemiaah Royce

at Lauren Tinker's, Nathan Huntlley,

on Marlow Hill, a few rods East from

M.G. Priests, Eber Lewis, in Rufus Winham's

pasture, West from the Hill, Nicodemus

Miller, where Eli Washburn resides, Samuel

Canfield, on the road leading from G.H.

Priest's to Acworth, Jonathan Royce,

on the Meisser farm, and Solomon

Gee on the Dr. Baker farm."

12) Nicodemus's log house was the

first in town on the road from Fay

Corner to Bakers Corner.

13) Nicodemus and Phebe had nine children.