Squire Millerd of Warwick, Rhode Island.

Squire Millerd was born the son of Nathaniel and Elizabeth (Kingsley) Millerd on January 26, 1749. He married Patience Pierce (Born ca 1745 – died on February 14, 1830) of Providence, the daughter of Jonathan Pierce. They had three children. He served in the Militia in 1776 and was soon raised to the rank of Captian in Col Waterman's 2nd Rhode Island Regiment, the Providence Regiment. He is recorded as helping to defend Pruduce Island from the British, who were stealing livestock off the island. In June of 1780, he was appointed Captian of the Second Warick Company. He was reappointed to the same position in 1781. After the war, it is recorded that he was a member of the Warwick Town Council. He also became an attorney and served as a member of the Rhode Island General Assembly and a State Representative. He died on January 2, 1820, in Warwick, having an estate that included 35-40 acres of land west of the Post Road. He is buried in a private graveyard at the back of the Millerd homestead in Cowesett, Rhode Island. His gravestone is inscribed, "He stedfastly held to the faith and died in the hope of a blessed immortality. "