Individual Details

John Mighill

(Abt 1696 - 16 May 1775)

John Mighill Jun. sold his ten-acre share of Killingly land on Dec 19, 1721. By 2 Dec 1722 he was living in Brimfield as he signed a petition concerning the layout of the lands there on that date. In Sept 1730 his name was among those reported as receiving a fifty acre lot by the Brimfield land grant committee. John Mighill of Brimfield, Miller, quitclaimed for £300 to his brother Thomas of Killingly, husbandman, any rights he held in the 120 acre farm in Killingly on 3 Dec 1750, which was "originally of my Honored Father John Mighill of Killingly deceased." On 12 Sept 1757 John was assigned the "fore seat below" the pulpit of the Brimfield meeting house.



Events

BirthAbt 1696
Marriage8 Feb 1731/32Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, British America - Submit Munger
Death16 May 1775Brimfield, Hampden, Massachusetts, British America

Families

SpouseSubmit Munger (1710 - )
ChildDorothy Mighill (1732 - 1736)
ChildJohn Mighill (1734 - )
ChildStephen Mighill (1736 - 1753)
ChildSamuel Mighill (1738 - )
ChildLt. Aaron Mighill (1740 - 1791)
ChildSubmit Mighill (1743 - 1810)
ChildThomas Mighill (1745 - )
ChildJames Mighill (1748 - )
ChildTimothy Mighill (1750 - )
ChildAbner Mighill (1752 - )
FatherJohn Mighill Jr. (1660 - 1743)
MotherElizabeth Ferman (1674 - )
SiblingThomas Mighill (1698 - )
SiblingEzekiel Mighill (1700 - 1742)
SiblingSamuel Mighill (1702 - 1750)
SiblingElizabeth Mighill (1704 - 1773)
SiblingSarah Mighill (1706 - 1750)
SiblingJames Mighill (1708 - 1746)
SiblingHannah Mighill (1715 - 1797)

Notes

Birth

"eldest son"

Marriage

Database: Full Context of Massachusetts Town Marriage Records
MUNGER, Submit
Spouse: John Mighell
Marriage Date: Feb. 8, 1731
Marriage Place: Brimfield
Source: Vital Records of Brimfield

Submit and John Mighell, Feb. 8, 1731-2.Intention not recorded.



Endnotes

1. Swift, Katharine Whitin., The Swift family : historical notes. (Whitinsville, Mass.: E.K. Swift, 1955, 177 pgs.), p. 163.

2. Gale Ion Harris, "John Mighill of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 158 (July 2004): 255-279.

3. Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com/ Copyright © 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries.), Massachusetts Town Marriage Records.

4. Gale Ion Harris, "John Mighill of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 158 (July 2004): 255-279.

5. Gale Ion Harris, "John Mighill of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Connecticut," New England Historical and Genealogical Register 158 (July 2004): 255-279.