Millidge, Thomas, Senior

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: Carol Anne Janzen, “MILLIDGE (Millage, Milledge), THOMAS (d. 1816),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 5, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/millidge_thomas_1816_5E.html#citations
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Surveyor, office holder, politician, judge, and militia officer; b. c. 1735 in Hanover, N.J., son of John Millidge; d. 8 Sept. 1816 in Granville, N.S.
    • By November 1776 he had committed himself to the loyalist cause and had joined the British army. He was commissioned major of the 5th battalion of the New Jersey Volunteers on 11 Dec. 1776 and served in the regiment with that rank throughout the war.
    • Receiving grants in the fertile Annapolis valley of Nova Scotia, he settled first in Digby, and then in Granville, and became a substantial landowner, amassing 900 acres in Wilmot and Digby townships. He also became a deputy surveyor for the provincial government, and in this capacity laid out lands for black loyalists in Annapolis County in 1785.
  • Proven United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=5894
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/153345246/thomas-millidge