MILLETT, Samuel L.[1, 2]
1801 - 1863 (62 years)-
Name MILLETT, Samuel L. Birth 6 Apr 1801 Norway, Oxford, Maine, United States [2] Gender Male Graduation May 1823 Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States [3] Address:
Bowdoin CollegeImmigration Apr 1831 Republic of Texas [4] Misc 20 Nov 1832 Texas [4] Granted land in Austin's second colony Military 21 Apr 1836 Harris County, Texas Republic, United States [5] Served as a Private in Co. D, First Regiment Texas Volunteers lead by Capt. Mosely Baker Will 12 Aug 1863 Seguin, Guadalupe, Texas, United States [2] Death 11 Nov 1863 Seguin, Guadalupe, Texas, United States [2] Burial Seguin, Guadalupe, Texas, United States [2] Address:
Riverside CemeteryPerson ID I11256 Pickel_Bartlett Last Modified 23 Feb 2016
Father MILLETT, Solomon, b. 24 Dec 1769, Gloucester, Essex, Massachusetts Bay, British America d. 18 Dec 1857, Norway, Oxford, Maine, United States (Age 87 years) Mother DINSMORE, Elizabeth, b. Dec 1773, Minot, Massachusetts Bay, British America d. 24 Jul 1849, Norway, Oxford, Maine, United States (Age 75 years) Marriage 21 Nov 1795 Minot, Androscoggin, District of Maine, Massachusetts [6, 7] Family ID F3307 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family BARTLETT, Clementina, b. 29 Dec 1815, Knox County, Tennessee, United States d. 1 Feb 1907, Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas, United States (Age 91 years) Marriage 17 Jan 1833 Texas [1, 8] Residence 4 Sep 1850 New Braunsfels, Comal, Texas, United States [9] Hotel Keeper - Listed as Saml. and Ementine Millett
Residence 30 Jul 1860 Seguin, Guadalupe, Texas, United States [10] Farmer - Listed as S. and Clementine Millett
Children 1. MILLETT, Capt. Eugene Bartlett, b. 25 Apr 1838, Washington County, Republic of Texas d. 18 Nov 1916, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States (Age 78 years) 2. MILLETT, Mary Bartlett, b. 20 Jan 1839, Republic of Texas d. 30 Sep 1916, Millett, LaSalle, Texas, United States (Age 77 years) 3. MILLETT, Capt. Alonzo, b. Nov 1842, Bastrop County, Texas Republic, United States d. 25 Feb 1907, San Juan Valley, Colorado, United States (Age 64 years) 4. MILLETT, Leonidas, b. Nov 1842, Bastrop County, Texas Republic, United States d. Abt 27 Jun 1862, Gaines' Mill, Hanover, Virginia, United States (Age 19 years) 5. MILLETT, Almira E, b. 26 Aug 1843, Bastrop County, Texas Republic, United States d. 23 Oct 1857, Seguin, Guadalupe, Texas, United States (Age 14 years) 6. MILLETT, Hiram W., b. Nov 1845, Bastrop County, Texas Republic, United States d. Mar 1926, Douglas, Cochise, Arizona, United States (Age 80 years) 7. MILLETT, Laura, b. Abt 1848, Texas d. 3 May 1922, Los Angeles County, California, United States (Age 74 years) Family ID F3301 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 16 May 2022
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Documents Samuel L. Millett
This document was sent to Bowdoin College for their records by F.B. Streeter, Librarian of Fort Hays Kansas State College, for the records that they maintain on every student who has graduated Bowdoin.
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Notes - " Samuel L. Millett was a member of Captain Moseley Baker's San Felipe Company at the Battle of San Jacinto, and on May 22, 1838 he received Donation Certificate No. 222 for 640 acres of land for having participated in the battle.
Mr. Millett was born in 1799, in the State of Maine. He arrived in Austin's Colony in April of 1831, and received title to one league of land, in what are now Fayette and Bastrop Counties. When making this application, Mr. Millett stated his Texas arrival date was 1831, yet his gravestone claims it was in 1827 and the Harrisburg Board of Land Commissioners recorded the year as 1834, when issuing his Headright Certificate for one labor of land. The actual date, I'm sure is forever lost in time.
The deed Records of Harris County, show Mr. Millett and his wife,living in Harris County February 13, 1840, when Mr. Millett deeded certain of his slaves to his wife, Mrs. (Clementina) Millett formerly of Washington County.
Mr. Millett moved to Seguin where he died November 4, 1863. He signed his will August 12, 1863. Mrs. Millett and Eugene B. Millett were appointed administrators of his estate January 25, 1864. He is buried in a marked grave in Riverside Cemetery, Seguin, Guadalupe County. Mrs. Clementina Millett was living in Ellsworth County, Kansas, on July 18, 1885, when she applied for a Veteran's Donation Certificate. She died in Fort Worth, February 1, 1903 at the age of ninety-two.
Children of Mr. And Mrs. Millett were Eugene; Alonzo and Leonidas, twin brothers; Mary; Lottie; Allie; Hiram; and Almira Millett. Allie died at the age of sixteen. Leonidas was killed at the Battle of Gains Mill in Virginia while a member of Company D, Fourth Texas Regiment, Confederate Army.
Miss Jennie Hollamon, writing for the Seguin Enterprise years ago, stated that Mr. Millett, a small quiet man, was a good citizen and lived with his family in a two story concrete house on the present site of the Lutheran Church. A few years later he died with cancer. His home in town was burned in 1867 after the Millets' had moved to their farm seven miles north of town."
- " Samuel L. Millett was a member of Captain Moseley Baker's San Felipe Company at the Battle of San Jacinto, and on May 22, 1838 he received Donation Certificate No. 222 for 640 acres of land for having participated in the battle.
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Sources - [S109] Find-a-Grave website, Memorial# 106885045.
- [S109] Find-a-Grave website, Memorial# 8708930.
- [S114] Miscellaneous, Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Bowdoin College, Feb.-May, 1823.
- [S114] Miscellaneous, Original Source: Houston & Kemp, "Heroes of San Jacinto" page 196.
- [S114] Miscellaneous, Original Source: Houston & Kemp, "Heroes of San Jacinto" page 179.
- [S109] Find-a-Grave website, Memorial# 38420681.
- [S109] Find-a-Grave website, Memorial# 59394887.
- [S102] Cer, Bartlett (1) Family Tree.
- [S76] 1850 Federal Census, New Braunsfels, Comal, Texas, Ancestry Page 12 of 29, Dwelling 110.
- [S316] 1860 Federal Census, Seguin, Guadalupe, Texas, United States, Page 59, Dwelling 451.
- [S109] Find-a-Grave website, Memorial# 106885045.