History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . onsists of sandstone, limestone, and all underlaid withcoal. Later on, about the year 1802, preparations were made for building ahomestead more desirable in its character. A brickyard was started withi
History of the families Millingas and Millanges of Saxony and Normandy, comprising genealogies and biographies of their posterity surnamed Milliken, Millikin, Millikan, Millican, Milligan, Mulliken and Mullikin, AD800-AD1907; containing names of thirty thousand persons, with copious notes on intermarried and collateral families, and abstracts of early land grants, wills, and other documents .. . onsists of sandstone, limestone, and all underlaid withcoal. Later on, about the year 1802, preparations were made for building ahomestead more desirable in its character. A brickyard was started withina few hundred yards of where the new home was to be built, and by the year1804 the present mansion was built of brick; the dimensions of the mainbuilding being 60 feet long by 24 feet wide, with 10 feet stories, and cellarunder the main building, the foundation wall being on solid rock except about3 feet. The stone wall was of sufficient height to clear the surface of theground. Then the brick wall started which was 23 inches thick, which thick-ness was carried from the stone wall to the top of the first story; then fromthat to the square of the building was 18 inches. The framework, windows and doors, were of the best selected oak, andthe finish, doors, staircases, and mantles, were made of wild cherry. Two ofthe mantles, one in the dining-room, and the other in the room above, are the. MJLLIKJNS OF AYRSHIRE, SCOTLAND. 457 work of James C. Milligan, beautifully carved, all done with a chisel andpenknife. The dividing walls are all brick on the first story. The kitchen was notcompleted until the next year, its dimensions being 20 feet by 20 feet, built onthe same general principle as the balance of the house, excepting that thefireplace was 8 feet wide, capable of admitting logs 8 feet long, with theswinging iron crane from which were suspended the kettles of all sizes andkinds. The bureau was made in 1806, and remains in its appointed place. Grand-fathers clock, with its dial
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