Demolition of Milliken House on Coleman Road, Montgomery, NY

I wrote previously of the historic home on Coleman Road whose location seemed to coincide with my early estimates of the location of the ancestral farm of Samuel Campbell from about 1770-1793.

Further research showed that the Campbell farm actually sat to the South of of this location. The Coleman Road parcel to the north was referred to in the 1793 deed (Campbell siblings to Thomas Barkley) as "land belonging to the heirs of Alexander Millikin deceased."

This agrees with the writings of Mildred Parker Seese, who stated that Coleman Road parcel was the pioneer farmstead of Alexander Milliken, an early settler in the area. Three of his sons died in the Revolutionary war on the day the British took Fort Montgomery.

Sadly, this home was razed in the past few weeks. Evidence obtained during the demolition confirm that parts of the structure dated to the 1760s.

Prior to demo in 2019.

Milliken Home after "newer" adddition demolished.

Thanks to Bob Williams for photos of demolition.