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1. NEHGS Register, vol. 156, April 2002:
"Samuel Mills3, Sadler, of Jamaica, New York, and Greenwich, Connecticut" Helen Schatvet Ullmann (Helen Schatvet Ullmann, CG, is Associate Editor of the Register. She may be reached at hsu@world.std.com or 713 Main Street, Acton, MA 01720-4802.) The following is a partial excerpt of the full transcript in the notes of Samuel Mills:
"...Children of Samuel and Sarah (Denton) Mills: (46)
i. Samuel4 MILLS, b. say 1695; d. before 30 Aug. 1735; m. Lydia Reynolds, daughter of John and Lydia (Ferris) Reynolds. (47)
Children of Samuel and Lydia (Reynolds) Mills:
1. Sarah5 Mills, b. probably 29 Jan. 1722; (48) d. by 28 June 1786; (49) m. (1) 21 June 1742 (50) Jonathan Close of Greenwich, son of Benjamin Close. (51) She possibly m. (2) after 3 Aug. 1762 Jacob Smith, probably of Ridgefield; (52) however, the 1786 will of her aunt, Sarah (Mills) Mead, names "sons of my deceased niece Sarah Close who was wife of Jonathan Close of Greenwich, deceased."
2. Samuel Mills, b. Greenwich 23 Dec. 1724; (53) m. by 1747 Abigail Holmes, b. 6 March 1730, daughter of Isaac and Abigail (Mead) Holmes. (54)
3. Susannah Mills, b. 1726; d. 27 July 1815; said to have m. (1) ca. 1751 Jonathan Knapp, son of Jonathan and Mary (Husted) Knapp; (55) m. (2) Benjamin Close, son of Benjamin Close, and brother of Jonathan Close who m. Sarah Mills (see above). (56) She was not mentioned as mother of any of the Knapp or Close kin in Sarah (Mills) Mead's will. Nelson Close speculates that Sarah (Mills) Mead may have left SUsannah out of her will because Benjamin Close was a Tory. (57)
4. Denton Mills, bp. Second Congregational Church, Greenwich, 5 June 1729; (58) d. Ridgefield, Conn., 9 Nov. 1791; (59) m. Ridgefield 29 Feb. 1760 Sarah Cornwall. (60) On 7 July 1747 Denton Mills, son of Samuel Mills late of Greenwich, chose his brother Samuel Mills as guardian. (61)
5. Lydia Mills, b. say 1731; d. by 28 June 1786; (62) m. Norwalk, Conn., 20 Dec. 1750 Ebenezer Fitch (63) of Norwalk, son of Gov. Thomas and Hannah (Hall) Fitch. (64)
6. Clemence/Clements Mills, b. ca. 1733; d. Ridgefield, Conn., 13 March 1828 age 95; (65) m. Ridgefield 29 Oct. 1751 John Smith, (66) b. Ridgefield 14 June 1730, d. there 28 Feb. 1779 age 48, son of Ebenezer and Sarah (Collins) Smith. (67)
Footnotes...
46. See Close's article in "Connecticut Ancestry" [note 14] for information on many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
47. Marion H. Reynolds, "The History and Descendants of John and Sarah Reynolds" [Brooklyn, N.Y.: Reynolds Family Association, 1924], 49; Captain James S. Ferris, "A Ferris Genealogy," 5 vols., typescript at NEHGS (1980), vol. 2 #12, #129. The will of John Reynolds, cooper, late of Greenwich, dated 11 November 1732 and proved 26 March 1732, mentions his daughters, including Lydia, and son-in-law Samuel Mills (Stamford District Probate, 1:30; annotations to gravestone records in Francis F. Spies, "Greenwich, Conn., Epitaphs, Part I," typescript [Mt. Vernon, N.Y., 1931], 95). The will does not make it clear which daughter married Samuel; the Reynolds genealogy says it was Judith. However, Samuel's father's power of attorney, detailed above, makes it clear that his son's wife's name was Lydia. Arthur K. Gibson also discusses this in his article, "7 Generations of Judiths," "Connecticut Ancestry" 29:1 (Sept. 1986):1-3.
48. Samuel H. Mills, "Samuel Mills Ancestry" [note 9], 13.
49. Will of Sarah (Mills) Mead [note 14].
50. Josephine C. Frost, "Keeler" [note 1], 93, which does not give a source.
51. Mead, "Historie of Greenwich" [note 16], 527.
52. Samuel H. Mills, "Samuel Mills Ancestry" [note 9], 1, 13. Greenwich Deeds, 7:286, 8:142 and 9:130, confirm her first marriage, but not the second. This Jacob Smith was probably the Jacob Smith of Ridgefield who was a widower after 6 June 1759 ("Sergt. John Smith of MIlford," "The American Genealogist" 25 [1949]:102-16 at 112).
53. Samuel H. Mills, "Samuel Mills Ancestry" [note 9], 13-14, says 28 December. The Greenwich "Book of Early Records, 1640-1754," 233, as extracted in the Barbour Collection of Connecticut Vital Records, says he was born 23 December, as does Spies, "Greenwich, Conn., Epitaphs," [note 47], 95.
54. Samuel H. Mills, "Samuel Mills Ancestry" [note 9], 13-14, says she was born in 1730, Spies, "Greenwich, Conn., Epitaphs" [note 48], 95, says 1736, which is too late, considering the birth of the first child. The marriage date is based on the birth of their first child Abigail on 12 February 1747[/48?] (Barbour Collection, from "Book of Early Records" [note 53], 233). For the Holmes family, see Paul W. Prindle, "Ancestry of Elizabeth Barrett Gillespie" (New Orleans: Polyanthos, 1976), 283.
55. Samuel H. Mills, "Samuel Mills Ancestry" [note 9], 1, 13, probably from Alfred Averill Knapp, "Nicholas Knapp Genealogy" (Winter Park, Fla.: by the author, 1953), 45-46.
56. Knapp, "Knapp" [note 55], 46; Mead, "Historie of Greenwich: [note 16], 526.
57. Close, "Will of Sarah Mills Mead" [note 14], 36.
58. Spencer P. Mead, "Abstract of Church Records of the Town of Greenwich," manuscript at the Connecticut State Library (1913), 38.
59. Barbour Collection, from Ridgefield Vital Records 1:206.
60. Barbour Collection, from Ridgefield Land Records 1:252 and Vital Records 1:155; "Records of the Church of Christ in Salem, Westchester Co., N.Y.," "The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record," 31 (1900): 86.
61. Stamford District Probate, 1:310.
62. Sarah (Mills) Mead's will says her niece Lydia Fitch of Norwalk was to pay Sarah's nephew Denton Mills of Ridgefield a certain sum, but later in the will she names sons of "my deceased niece Lydia Fitch." There are many nieces named in the will, some of whom must be grandnieces. Thus the living niece Lydia Fitch must be a grandniece.
63. Barbour Collection, from Norwalk Land Records 4:0 [sic}, which says she was the daughter of Samuel, Jr. of Greenwich, deceased.
64. Samuel H. Mills, "Samuel Mills Ancestry" [note 9], 1, 13; Greenwich Deeds, 7:285-86, 309, confirm her marriage; Roscoe Conkling Fitch, "History of the Fitch Family," 2 vols. (Haverhill, Mass.: Record Publishing Co., 1930), 2:131-32.
65. Barbour Collection, from Ridgefield Vital Records, 1:226.
66. Samuel H. Mills, "Samuel Mills Ancestry" [note 9], 1, 13; Greenwich Deeds, 7:15 and 9:83, confirm her marriage which is found in the Barbour Collection, from Land Records 1:234; called "niece Clemence Smith, widow of John Smith, late of Ridgefield" in Sarah (Mills) Mead's will.
67. "Sergt. John Smith" [note 52], 104-05, 113.
68. Sarah (Mills) Mead's will named many children and grandchildren but not Clement herself."
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