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Zachariah Mills

Male Bef 1644 - 1696  (> 52 years)


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  • Name Zachariah Mills 
    Born Bef 1644  of Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died From 9 May 1696 to 17 Sep 1696  Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4767  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father George Mills,   b. Abt 1605, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 17 Oct 1694, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 89 years) 
    Mother Rebecca,   b. Bef 1612, , , England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 24/24 Mar 1681/2, of Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age > 71 years) 
    Married Bef 1632  of, , , United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F460  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Abigail Messenger,   b. Abt 1644, of Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft May 1696, of Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 52 years) 
    Married From 13 Dec 1676 to 10 Jun 1680  of Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1694  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. FHL book 929.273 M625u "A Mills and Kendall Family History…," by Helen Schatvet Ullmann (Boston, 2002), pp. 3-9:
      "A "List of the Town of Jamaica Anno 1683" included:
      Jonathan Mills, 2 horses, 2 oxen, 6 cows, 3 swine, 16 acres, I head, £119
      Zachariah Mills, 1 horse, 2 oxen, 2 cows, 0 swine, 19 acres, 1 head, £83
      Samuell Mills, 1 horse, 2 oxen, 4 cows, 0 swine, 30 acres, I head, £105
      George Mills, 0 horses, 0 oxen, 2 cows, 0 swine, 4 acres, 1 head, £34[26]
      Zachariah Mills, will made May 9, 1696 and proved Sept. 17, 1696;[35] married between Dec. 13, 1676 and June 10, 1680 Abigail (Messenger) Darling[36] who was living on the date of Zachariah's will. On Dec. 12, 1662 he was granted a home lot in Jamaica.[37] Zachariah was town clerk in Jamaica for many years. There were no marriages or christenings in his family 1681-87, but there was one burial.[38]
      ENDNOTES
      35. Abstract in NYGBR, 65:246; also abstracted by William Applebee Eardeley, in "Records in the Office of the County Clerk at Jamaica, Long, Island, New York, 1680-1781, Abstracts of Wills and Administrations, Guardians and Inventories," typescript (Brooklyn, 1918), 32 from Queens Co. Deeds, A:114, which is on FHL #0,017,715.
      36. Cook, 16, cites a deed of 1 Sept. 1674 when Abigail Darling of Jamaica sold her house and land (from Frost, "Jamaica," 1:127-28) and a petition of Abigail Mills quondam Darling, dated 10 June 1680, "praying for a remission of a fine for cohabiting with her present husband before marriage" ("Calendar of Historical Manuscripts in the office of the Secretary of State, Albany, N.Y.," Part II, E.B. O'Callaghan, ed. [Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1865-66], 89). A recent transcription of the Andros Papers gives further detail: on 13 December 1676 Abigail Darling and Zachariah Mills had been bound over by the last Court for having a bastard. Abigail claimed that "your Peticioners remisness in that kind was chiefly occasioned by her former Husbands unkindness, hee going away from her, and her three children, and Leaving them in a desolate and deplorable condlicion." Even though their neighbors recommended leniency, on 13 Aug. 1680 the Governor denied their petition for relief from the fine of ₤5 each. ("The Andros Papers, 1674-76," Peter R. and Florence A. Christoph, eds. (Syracuse University Press, 1989), 487, 1679-80 (1991), 312). For evidence that Abigail's maiden name was Messenger see Ullmann, "The Three Messengers," Register 152[1998]:362.
      37. Cook, 16, from Frost, "Jamaica," 1:18, from the original 1:19.
      38. O'Callaghan, "Documentary History," 3:197."

      2. The periodical "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," 152(July 1998): 358-63, "The Three Messengers: Clearing the Decks," by Helen S. Ullman:
      "ANDREW1 MESSENGER was born in England, probably before 1618 as he was probably at least 21 years of age when he signed the New Haven Fundamental Agreement. He died, probably at Jamaica, Long Island, New York, before 12 April 1681 (see below). He married, perhaps about 1641, RACHEL ___, who died at Jamaica after 1688, when "Widow Messenger" was listed as remembering no marriages, christenings or burials in her family during the last seven years.[23]...
      Children, actual order unknown...
      ii. ABIGAIL MESSENGER, b. say 1644; m. (1) 1662 RICHARD DARLING of New Haven; they were divorced 7 July 1674;[59] she m. (2) between 1 Sept. 1674 and 10 June 1686, ZACHARIAH MILLS, son of George1 Mills of Jamaica.[60]
      iv. SARAH MESSENGER, b. say 1648; m. (1) ca. 1668 EPHRAIM PALMER, of Greenwich,[62] who d., prob. at Stratford, as the probate file for an Ephraim Palmer of Stratford contains an inventory saying he died 19 April 1684, leaving a widow Sarah, seven children, and land;[63] m. (2) bef. 15 Oct. 1699, ___ GREGORY, prob. JOHN, b.1638-40, d. ca. 1720.[64]
      Footnotes:
      23. "Return of Marriages, Christenins [sic) & Burials in the Town of Jamaica for 7 years preceding 1688," The Documentary History of the State of New York, E.B. O'Callaghan, ed., vol. 4 (Albany, N.Y.: Weed Parsons & Co., 1849-51), 3:197.
      60. Cook, Mills ms. [note 54], 15, 18, citing several documents from Frost's Jamaica records.
      62. Hickok [note 8], 386.
      63. Fairfield District Probate File 4802.
      64. Hickok [note 8], 386; Grant Gregory, Ancestors and Descendants of Henry Gregory (Provincetown, Mass.: the author, 1938), 54."

      SOURCES_MISC:
      1. FHL book 929.273-K727kf: "Knapp's N' Kin, The Ancestral Lines of Frederick H Knapp and Others," compiled by: Frederick H Knapp, Rt. #2, Box 438C, AB Hwy, Richland, Missouri, 65556; 1987; Revised/Updated 1991. It notes the following sources, none of which I have yet reviewed:
      -Hist. of Greenwich, by S.P. Mead (1911).
      -7 Gen. of Judith's, by A. Gibson
      -NEGHR, v. 14, p. 106.
      -CT Ancestry (Dec 1963 and 1986).
      -Samuel Mills and Descendants, by Samuel Mills IX.
      -Rundle Fam. of Amer. (1992).