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  • Scottish : metronymic from the female personal name Mille, a derivative of Old English milde ‘mild’, ‘gentle’. Compare Melson.
  • Sander (Alexander) Milleson was one of 150 Scottish prisoners captured in the English Civil War and brought to Boston as an indentured servant in 1652 aboard the John and Sara.