Elihu MIGHILIS

1745 - 1788  (43 years)

• Name	Elihu MIGHILIS  [1]
  Birth	1745	Templeton, Massachusetts   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	28 Apr 1788	Stockbridge, Massachusetts   [1]
  Notes	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.
  Person ID	I39628	Main Tree

  
  

  Family	Hannah ST. JOHN,   b. 25 Sep 1749, Sharon, Connecticut d. Covington, New York
  Marriage	28 Mar 1771	Stockbridge, Massachusetts   [1]
  Family ID	F22258	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S01702] S. Whitney, Ancestry.com: "The Whitney Family of Connecticut, and its Affiliations", (Name: Name: New York: Privately Printed 1878;;).