Elihu MIGHILIS

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Excerpt from "The Whitney Family of Connecticut": Elihu Mighilis, a farmer, who was born at Templeton, Mass., in 1745, and came to Stockbridge when twenty-one years of age. Family traditions vary, one making his father a Frenchman, another saying that he came from England. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and tradion asserts that while he was in the army in 1776, she with three small children to care for, cleared a piece of new land, sowed it to wheat, and raised a good crop. They dwelt in Stockbridge, where he died, 28 Apr. 1788, and is buried in the old cemetery. His descendants spell their name "Miles, and say that he spelled it "Mighles". The records at Stockbridge have it Mighills, Mighles, and Migles.

Elihu married Hannah ST. JOHN on 28 Mar 1771 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Hannah (daughter of Mark ST. JOHN and Ann GAY) was born on 25 Sep 1749 in Sharon, Connecticut; died in Covington, New York. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]