Hugh Miller

Hugh Miller lived at Blandford, Virginia.

Hugh Miller was a wealthy Scottish tobacco merchant and vestryman of Bristol Parish Church. Around 1735, Scottish merchants in Glasgow sent their factors to live in Virginia and buy tobacco at the best advantage. Hugh probably came to Virginia at this time. He helped establish a Mason's Lodge of Scotland chapter in Blandford (now part of Petersburg), Prince George County, Virginia and became its first Master.

Jane Bolling and Hugh Miller were married sometime shortly before 1742 and made their residence at Greencrofts, a few miles north of Blandford. Their family expanded, starting in 1743 with the birth of their daughter, Ann (Nancy). Robert, Jane (Jean), Lillias and Hugh followed.3

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Hugh and Jane (Bolling) Miller, tobacco grower, merchant, and vestryman of Old Blandford Church of Bristol Parish, Petersburg, VA.;[1][2] Mr. Miller returned to Scotland with his family before December 8, 1760.[3][4]

Will

Will of Hugh Miller, w. 1 Dec 1761, codicil w. 3 Feb 1762. This will was proved at London at the Perogative Court of Canterbury, 2 Mar 1762. Photcopy downloaded from British Records Office.

• I Hugh Miller late of the parish of Bristol and County of Prince George in Virginia _?_ and now of the City of London in Great Britain
• daughter Ann Miller (under 21 and unmarried)
• my other daughters Lillias and Jean Miller (both under 15)
• son Hugh Miller (under 21)
• all my children
• my three cousins in Scotland viz James (Hoebairn ?), Archibald (Hobairn ?), Robert (Hoebairn ?)
• friend Robert Weir now living in Crawfordsdyke in Scotland
• friends Alexander Stark, Bolling Stark, William Stark now in Virginia
• to George McMurdo living in Galloway near Kerkubrigh (sic)
• to Fambo Johnson of Glasgow merchant
• my brothers and sister in law in Virginia viz _?_ RANDOLPH Esq., Alexander BOLLING, John Hall, Robert BOLLING, (Richard ?) EPPES and Elizabeth Bannister and their heirs
• Exrs and guardians of children: friends Alexander BOLLING, Bolling Stark and William Stark in Virginia; John (Will ?) and Fambo Johnson of London; James GUTHRIE and George Muir of Edinburgh, George McMurdo of _?_ in Galloway and Richard Weir of Crawfordsdyke
• Wit: Charlton Palmer, John Lambert

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• Jamestowne Society Magazine | Vol. 41, No 2 Fall 2017 A corrected Ancestry for Anne Cocke Bolling by Lyndon H. Hart, III (page 14), accessed 20 September 2021. PDF
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p57848.htm#i578480
• https://scholarworks.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4013&contex...