Ebeneezer and Clarissa Beal Millet

     Artemis Millet was born 1 Sept. 1790 in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, to Ebeneezer and Catherine Dryden Millet.  Westmoreland, a post town on the Connecticut river, is a small village located in southwestern N.H. In a contemporary gazetteer, Westmoreland was described as "a very excellent farming town."  Ebeneezer was a soldier in the British army who eventually became a captain under General Woolf in the French and Indian War.  Captain Millet suffered some injuries while in the service.  Most dramatically, he took nine balls in his right arm in June 1758 and lost the use of it.  After recovering from his injuries, Captain Millet witnessed the famous turning point in the war, the Battle of Quebec. He was on the Plains of Abraham in Quebec City during the battle that won Canada for the English. Years later, as a patriot in the Revolutionary war, Ebeneezer Millet contended against the English in Captain Davis' minuteman march from Holden to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Once there, the field officers chose Millet as their quartermaster.
     When peace ensued, Ebeneezer engaged in profitable commercial trade with American Indians and accumulated considerable wealth. He moved his family from Brooklyn  Vermont in 1794, Then, in the fall of 1800, the family to Stockbridge, Vermont.  Artemus was then ten years old. Here, Ebeneezer Millet became ill and died of apoplexy on his birthday, 22 November, of either 1806 or 1807.  Upon his father's death, at the age of 16, Artemus became the "man of the house."