ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION    

Title
Samuel Hopkins Miller Collection 

Collection Number
SC 473

OCLC Number
1037020141

Creator 
Various

Provenance 
Donated by Willis H. White in January 2018.

Extent, Scope, and Content Note 
The Samuel Hopkins Miller Collection consists of 26.5 linear ft. of account books, diaries, ledgers, correspondence, and land deeds dating from 1705 to 1967 that document several generations of the Miller, Tuthill, and Tillotson families on Long Island, New York primarily in the areas of Miller Place and Rocky Point in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York. Andrew Miller (1634-1717) of East Hampton settled in “Miller’s Place,” later named “Miller Place” on Long Island in 1679.

Arrangement and Processing Note
Processing of the collection was completed in January 2018 by Kristen J. Nyitray and Lynn Toscano.
The numbering schema used by the donor to inventory the items was retained.
The collection was kept in the order it was received. 
Finding aid updated and revised by Kristen J. Nyitray in April 2019.

Language
English 

Restrictions on Access
The collection is open to researchers without restriction.

Rights and Permissions 
Stony Brook University Libraries' consent to access as the physical owner of the collection does not address copyright issues that may affect publication rights. It is the sole responsibility of the user of Special Collections and University Archives materials to investigate the copyright status of any given work and to seek and obtain permission where needed prior to publication.  

Citation 
[Item], [Box], Samuel Hopkins Miller Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Stony Brook University Libraries.

Historical Note
Samuel Hopkins Miller (1853-1937) was born in Miller Place, New York and married Alilah Young Tillotson (1857-1936) on September 18, 1878. They had two children: Grace Julia Miller (1879-1967) and Alila May Miller (1881-1960). Diaries of Alila May Miller and Ebenezer Miller (1762-1768), subjects of scholarly works written by donor Willis H. White, are represented in the collection. Captain Ebenezer Miller (1733-1785), a farmer, was born at Miller Place, Long Island, New York, the son of William and Deliverance Mills Miller. He married Sarah Strong (1740-1836), daughter of Benajah and Martha Mills Strong. They had seven children; four of children were living at the time the diary was written. Active in church and in town affairs, he was one of two elected representatives for Suffolk County to New York’s Legislative Assembly in 1768 and 1769. In September 1775, he was chosen as Captain of the 2nd Brookhaven Company in Colonel Floyd’s First Regiment of the Suffolk County militia. In 1781, his fifteen year old son William was shot from outside of the family’s house in Miller Place by raiders infiltrating from Connecticut. Descendents of the family also served in the Civil War. Additional surnames part of the family papers are: Blydenburgh, Brown, Chappell, Davis, Halleck, Hedges, Hopkins, Jones, King, Marshall, Mott, Norton, Prout, Reeve, Rowland, Satterly, Schlim, Skidmore, Smith, Snow, Stanton, Terry, Thompson, Tuttle, Wells, Woodhull, Youngs.  

Willis H. White is the author of four books that draw upon the source material in the collection. Copies of these volumes are located in the Main Stacks and in Special Collections at Stony Brook University Libraries.

Miller, Ebenezer, Margaret Davis Gass, and Willis H. White. Diary of Ebenezer Miller of Miller Place, Long Island, New York, 1762-1768. [United States]: W.H. White, 1996.

White, Willis H. The Tillotson Family of Long Island, New York: Three Generations of the Descendants of Samuel Tillotson. Herndon, VA: W.H. White, 2002.

White, Willis H. The Ancestry of Alila May Miller (1881-1960) of Miller Place, Long Island, New York. [Herndon, VA]: [W. White], 2007.

White, Willis H. The Tillotson Family, Long Island Cordwood, and the Decline of East Coast Sail. Herndon, VA: W.H. White, 2008.

Subjects
Miller, Samuel Hopkins, 1853-1937.
Miller, Alila May, 1881-1960.
Miller, Grace J.
Tillotson, Alilah Y
Miller, Nathanael
Miller, Charles, 1797-1867.
Miller, Edwin Nathaniel
Tuthill, Sylvester D.
Tuthill, Isabel H.
Miller family.
Tillotson family.
Tuttle family.
Mount Sinai Congregational Church (Mount Sinai, N.Y.)
Families -- New York (State) -- Brookhaven (Town)
Schools -- New York (State) -- Miller Place -- History.
Miller Place (N.Y.) -- Genealogy.
Miller Place (N.Y.) -- History.
Miller Place (N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Rocky Point (Suffolk County, N.Y.) -- Genealogy.
Rocky Point (Suffolk County, N.Y.) -- History.
Rocky Point (Suffolk County, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs.
Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town) -- Genealogy.
Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town) -- History.
Brookhaven (N.Y. : Town) -- Social life and customs.
Real property -- New York (State) -- Brookhaven (Town)
Suffolk County (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources.
Long Island (N.Y.) -- History -- Sources
Families.
Manners and customs.
Real property
Schools
New York (State) -- Brookhaven (Town
New York (State) -- Long Island
New York (State) -- Miller Place.
New York (State) -- Rocky Point (Suffolk County)
New York (State) -- Suffolk County

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