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Samuel Mills

Male Abt 1632 - 1727  (~ 95 years)


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  • Name Samuel Mills 
    Born Abt 1632  , , , United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 10/10 Mar 1726/7  Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4752  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 Susannah Palmer,   b. Abt 1640, Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft Mar 1727, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 87 years) 
    Married Abt 1657  of Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • ACTION:
      1. Find all 16 children referenced in the obituary above.
    Children 
     1. Abigail Mills,   b. Abt 1658, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1689, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 31 years)
     2. Samuel Mills,   b. Abt 1660, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 12 Mar 1757, Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 97 years)
     3. John Mills,   b. Abt 1661, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Apr 1706, Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 45 years)
     4. Elizabeth Mills,   b. Abt 1663, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Hannah Mills,   b. Abt 1665, Jamaica, Queens, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1727  (Age ~ 61 years)
     6. Andrew Mills,   b. Abt 1667, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Apr 1702, Bedford, Westchester, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 35 years)
     7. Alexander Mills,   b. Abt 1669, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Oct 1732, New York City, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 63 years)
     8. Rebecca Mills,   b. Abt 1671, Jamaica, Queens, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location
     9. George Mills,   b. Abt 1673, Jamaica, Queens, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location
     10. Clemence Mills,   b. Abt 1675, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1709, Bedford, Westchester, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 34 years)
     11. Mary Mills,   b. Abt 1677, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location
     12. Martha Mills,   b. Abt 1679, Jamaica, Queens, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1719, Jamaica, Queens, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 40 years)
     13. Hope Mills,   b. Abt 1681, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 10 Jan 1737/1738 to 8 Feb 1737/1738, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 57 years)
     14. Aurelius Mills,   b. Abt 1683, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 10 May 1758 to 18 Apr 1759, Flushing, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 75 years)
     15. Ephraim Mills,   b. Abt 1687, Jamaica, Queens, New York, British Colonial America Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. From 20 Nov 1766 to 15 Jan 1769, Charlotte Precinct, Dutchess, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 79 years)
     16. Zebulon Mills,   b. Abt 1689, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 28 Mar 1775, Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 86 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F417  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. The obituary of Samuel Mills notes he had 16 children from one wife.
      Another source, Ancestry.com's "A Documentary history of the family of Mills: descended from George Mills of Hempstead and Jamaica...," by Lewis D. Cook, 1937 <https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/61157/46155_b290272-00011?pid=2876556&treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=LNR57&_phstart=successSource#?imageId=46155_b290272-00016>, provides transcriptions of several deeds for Samuel and his wife Susannah. It states it is hard to determine who the 16 children, but the deeds help determine some children as follows:
      22 Jan 1682/3 to "son in law John Smith" inhabitant of Jamaica; 25 Feb 1685/6 to "son in law John Smith and his wife Elizabeth."
      6 Apr 1697 to Samuel Mills, Jr.; 23 Feb 1718 to Samuel Mills, Jun., sadler.
      6 Jul 1698 to "our son John Mills".
      8 May 1718, Samuel and Susannah with Ephraim Mills and Susannah his wife convey land.
      11 Jun 1705 to Hope Mills, both of Jamaica.
      This same Ancestry source lists the 16 children as follows:
      1. Samuel Mills, Jr., mar. Sarah Denton, rem. to Greenw.
      2. John Mills, mar. Susannah ____, rem. to Stamford.
      3. Andrew; 4. Martha; 5. Zebulon; 6. Ephraim.
      7. Alexander Mills of New York City and Jamaica, L.I.
      8. Rebecca (?)
      9. George (?)
      10. Clemence
      11. Elizabeth Mills, mar. bef. 22 Jan 1682/3, John Smith.
      12. Hope Mills, mar. Martha ___, d. 1737.
      13. Aurelius Mills (?) (Perhaps the Aurelius Mills of Flushing, L.I., "joiner" whose will dated 10 May 1758, pr. 18 Apr 1759, names daughter Elizabeth as legatee and appts. Thomas Thorne as exec. Abstract of this will published in "Calendar of Wills" at Albany, 1626-1836, pub. N.Y. 1896, p. 258.)
      14. Mills; 15. Mills; 16. Mills.

      2. Reviewed 13 Feb 2010 all NEHGS online entries for Samuel Mills.

      3. 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.) [See notes of Samuel Mills(3) for full transcript of which the following is a partial excerpt]:
      During the early eighteenth century there were two cousins named Samuel Mills, grandsons of George1 Mills of Jamaica, Long Island, New York (1). One was living in Greenwich, Connecticut, and the other in Elizabethtown, New Jersey. Some electronically-compiled genealogies have merged them into one individual (2). Therefore, to those of us who feel that paper is a more permanent medium, (3) it seems wise to state clearly in print that they were two different men. The following account, focusing principally on Samuel Mills of Greenwich, should eliminate any confusion.
      While there are some large collections of material on this family, (4) no serious work on the descendants of George1 Mills has existed in print until the publication of a small book by this author, A Mills and Kendall Family History: American Ancestry of Herbert Lee Mills and Bessie Delano Kendall, expected to be published by Newbury Street Press by the end of 2002. This includes a line from George1 through his son Jonathan and treats the Samuel of Elizabethtown in more detail than appears here.
      The earliest evidence of a Samuel Mills in Elizabethtown was in a quit-rent list compiled in 1696 (5). Then on 9 June 1702 Eliphalet "Frasey" of Elizabethtown and his wife Margaret sold to Samuel "Miles" of Elizabethtown four acres of meadow near the mouth of the Rahway river (6). On 1 August 1724 Samuel Mills of Elizabethtown bought 100 acres in Elizabethtown from Joseph Morse, and on 31 May 1728 Samuel Mills sold land of the same description "unto my...son," Joseph Mills (7). Finally, on 7 August 1744 Samuel Mills of Elizabethtown, "far advanced in years" signed his will, naming, among many Children, his sons Samuel and Joseph. The will was proved in Essex County, New Jersey, on 16 March 1744/45 (8).
      This was clearly not the Samuel Mills of Greenwich, Connecticut, during the same period of time, who was:
      Samuel3 MILLS, son of Samuel2 and Susannah (Palmer) Mills, and grandson of George1 Mills of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, was born by 1673 [based on his marriage about 1693] and probably earlier, possibly even as early as 1660 (9).
      Samuel3 Mills married about 1693 Sarah Denton, daughter of Samuel and Mary (___) Denton of Jamaica (10). On 13 March 1698 Samuel Denton of Jamaica, planter, aged about 43, named in his will his wife Mary and children including son Samuel Denton and daughter Sarah Mills (11). Dated 25 April 1718, her brother Samuel's will includes bequests to the children of "my sister Sarah Mills," Samuel, Clement and Sarah (12).
      In Palmer Families in America (13), Horace Wilbur Palmer makes the claim that Samuel3 Mills married his first cousin, Susannah Palmer, daughter of Ephraim Palmer. However, no evidence has been found for this claim, and a second marriage for Samuel3 Mills seems unlikely. Even if it did take place, there probably were no surviving children as the voluminous will of his daughter, Sarah (Mills) Mead, mentions only descendants of her brother Samuel and sister Clemence (14).
      Samuel3 Mills was living on 5 August 1751 when his grandson, referred to as Samuel Mills, Jr., along with Denton Mills and Ebenezer and Lydia Fitch quitclaimed on some land to their grandfather, Samuel Mills of Greenwich (15). On 12 July 1754 Samuel Mills, Jr. signed a petition in Greenwich (16), the "Jr." suggesting that his grandfather was still living. However, Samuel3 had died, probably by 12 March 1757, but surely by 19 April 1758 when Samuel5 was referred to without the appellation, "Jr." in deeds with his sister, Sarah Close (17).
      Samuel in Jamaica
      Samuel3 Mills lived at first in Jamaica. On 6 April 1697 Samuel2 and "Sewzannah Milles" made their marks on a deed to Samuel Mills, Jr. of Jamaica. It included four or five acres of land with house, gardens, orchards, fruit trees, fencing, privileges and appurtenances plus half of a ten-acre lot of meadow at the further East Neck, "south to ye bay" and ten more acres of upland in the middle division at Jamaica (18). Called "Jr." or "sadler" and sometimes both, Samuel bought and sold much land in Jamaica and some in neighboring Hempstead (19). On 1 April 1703, 6 April 1708, and 5 April 1709 Samuel Mills, Jr. was chosen constable of Jamaica (20).
      On 13 March 1711 Samuel Clowes of Jamaica quitclaimed to Samuel Mills of the same, sadler, "a certaine slipe of land... whereon halfe ye wall of ye west end of the house & lento of ye said Samuell Mills now stands... allso one certaine parcell of land" in Jamaica, part of which Samuel Mills had lately sold to Clowes (21). On 29 March 1711 Samuel Mills of Jamaica, sadler, and wife Sarah sold "certain tracts" to Samuel Clowes (22). These two deeds would seem to relate to Samuel's final sale of his property in Jamaica, but the year is uncertain. It might be regarded as 1711/12, but the next recorded transaction, dated four days after New Year's Day (25 March) also says 1711. Was the latter simply a case of forgetting to write the new year, or were the deeds both in 1711, not 1712? On 19 March 1711/12 Samuel Mills, Jr. of Jamaica, paid £33-15 "on account of a bond being given by the said Samuell Mills unto Daniell Deane of Maidenhead in west New Jersey which bond beare date ye first day of May 1710 and was given by ye said Samuell Mills unto the said Daniell Dean for money in pay for a little island being sold by the said Daniell Dean unto the said Samuell Mills (23)..." The location of the island is not given. Although this was in Jamaica records, it probably relates to the Philadelphia County deeds mentioned below.
      Samuel in Greenwich
      In the last-mentioned deed, dated in March 1712, Samuel Mills was still said to be of Jamaica. But on 27 February 1710[/11?] Samuel Mills was "chosen to keep a house of publick entertainment and retail strong drinks" in Greenwich (24). Thus Samuel may have moved to Greenwich by February 1710, but it was more likely by February 1711. That the date was actually 1711 is reinforced by deeds in the early "Common Place Book" of Greenwich records. In an indenture dated 10 November 1710, Caleb Peck of Newtown in Queens County sold land in Greenwich to Samuel Mills of Jamaica, sadler, and in another indenture Jonathan Renalls of Greenwich and his wife Rebecca sold land to Samuel Mills of the same place [Greenwich], sadler, on 29 October 1711. Samuel Mills was also called "sadeler" of Greenwich in a 28 December 1711 deed from Daniel Mead (25). Nevertheless, the deed from Samuel Clowes, above, shows that Samuel still had property in Jamaica in March 1711 and perhaps later.
      In another deed, dated 11 June 1712, Samuel Mills, sadler, was said to be "late of Jamaica," when he sold 300 acres in Pasayunk Township in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, to Thomas Thurston (26). Finally he was called "Samuel Mill of Greenwitch in the colony of Connecticut sadle maker" on 14 December 1713 when he bought two houses and land in Jamaica from Abraham Row for £200 (27). It seems likely this transaction was a mortgage.
      Thus by 1711 and possibly by 1710, Samuel was living at Greenwich- at least some of the time.
      While his father, Samuel2 Mills, appears to have stayed in Jamaica where he died on 10 March 1727 (28), it is unclear whether some of the early Greenwich deeds, in which land was laid out to Samuel Mills, refer to the son or the father. On 16 April 1712 Joseph Palmer of Greenwich deeded to Samuel Mills of the same, land "formerly the right of John Palmer." (29) In a Greenwich deed dated 19 March 1716, Samuel Mills, Senior, and his wife Susanna of Jamaica made their marks on a deed to their son Samuel MIls of Greenwich, "in consideration of a mare," conveying one sixth of the right granted by the town to "our brother John Palmer deceased of Greenwich." (30)
      Could Samuel2 have lived in Greenwich at least some of the time? Probably not. Samuel3 Mills is never called "Jr." in Greenwich records. The first time a Samuel Mills, Jr. appears in Greenwich deeds is on 10 August 1722, and this reference is almost certainly to Samuel4 Mills...
      Footnotes
      1. One of the few accounts of the first generations of this family in print is a short line through this Samuel3 Mills of Greenwich by Josephine C. Frost, "Ancestry of Evelyn Wood Keller, wife of Willard Underhill Taylor" (Brooklyn, N.Y.: n.p., 1939), 90-93.
      2. The current edition of the LDS Ancestral File is one example, at www.familysearch.org, but the error is also found on the Ancestry World Tree at www.ancestry.com.
      3. John Hughes, publisher and editor, writes, "What about the latest Ohio State University study that suggests writing is more believable when seen on paper rather than on a computer screen?" (Christian Science Monitor, 16 August 2000, 10).
      4. An extensive collection by James H. Mills, compiled mostly in the 1890s, is at the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society in Buffalo, New York. Another collection is that of Dr. Edward C. Mills, compiled between about 1890 and 1905. It is at the Ohio Historical Society, call number FLM 28, accession no. M90-789, available on two microfilms. A third collection, by William Heidgerd, is at the Orange County Historical Society in Goshen, New York. Lewis D. Cook's typescript is discussed below [note 9].
      5. "New Jersey Quit Rent Book, 1683-1696," a document at the New Jersey Historical Society, Newark, N.J., 32, [FHL 0,946,001]. This first reference to a Samuel in Elizabethtown could possibly refer to Samuel2 Mills of Jamaica.
      6. East Jersey Deeds, C:218.
      7. East Jersey Deeds, G3:516, 518.
      8. Essex County, New Jersey, Probate, Document 1331 [FHL 0,545,457], recorded in Book D, p. 246; abstracted in "Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 13 vols., New Jersey Archives, First Series (1880-1930), vols. 23, 30, 32-42, at 30:340.
      9. Until this year, the best, indeed the only, documented treatment of this family was in Lewis D. Cook's excellent "Documentary History of the Family of Mills" (1939), a typescript at the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society [FHL 1,697,455]. However, Cook did not follow Samuel3 in Greenwich records. The only lengthy treatment of Samuel of Greenwich is in a typescript by Samuel H. Mills, "Samuel Mills Ancestry or George Mills and the Samuel Mills Line of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, and Greenwich, Connecticut," (1958-60), copies of which are at the Greenwich Public Library, the Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, and the Connecticut State Library. While this is probably quite reliable for later generations in Greenwich, the earlier part evidently copies from various secondary materials, which contain errors. Samuel H. Mills clearly consulted Greenwich land records to some extent, but he must not have read all of the early deeds. Most importantly, he missed the daughter Sarah who married Jabez Mead.
      10. Walter C. Krumm, "Descendants of the Rev. Richard Denton," The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, 120 (1989):10-17, 93-97, 159-64 at 161, 222-25; 121 (1990):22-24, 144-49, 221-25, et seq.
      11. Krumm, "Rev. Richard Denton" [note 10], 120:161, citing Record 65 (1934):248.
      12. New York County Wills, Liber 9, p. 42 [FHL 0,874,518]; Abstracts of Wills in the Surrogate's Office, City of New York 17 vols. Collections of The New-York Historical Society for 1892-1908, 2:187, erroneously calls the third child "Susannah." Krumm, "Rev. Richard Denton," [note 10], 120:161, cites the original will as well.
      13. Horace Wilbur Palmer, Palmer Families in America: Vol. 1, Lt. William Palmer of Yarmouth, Mass., and His Descendants in Greenwich, Conn. (Neshanic, N.J.: Neshanic Printing Co., 1966), 20, 24. Pages 9-14, 19-26, need to be read carefully by any researcher.
      14. Stamford District Probate, 7:8. The original will was missing from the file in the Connecticut State Library in January 2002, but a handwritten abstract supplied by Donald Lines Jacobus, dated 26 June 1941, is filmed with the Stamford District Probate packet [FHL 1,018,472]. An abstract appears in Nelson A. Close, "The Will of Sarah Mills Mead," Connecticut Ancestry 6 (Dec. 1963):32-38. Close's article reconstructs this family but without documentation and without recognizing the commonly-accepted errors discussed in the present article.
      15. Greenwich Deeds, 7:285.
      16. Spencer P. Mead, "Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich" (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1911), 61.
      17. Greenwich Deeds, 8:43, 142.
      18. Josephine C. Frost, ed., "Records of the Town of Jamaica, Long Island, New York, 1656-1751," 3 vols. (Brooklyn: Long Island Historical Society, 1914), 2:196-98.
      19. Frost, "Jamaica" [note 18], 2:16, 21, 85-87, 400; 3:49, 95, 98-99, 99-101, 101, 103-05, 106-08, 481, 483; Alexander Lobel, "Abstracts of Deeds in the Queens County, New York, Register's Office" [FHL 0,017,873], B2:8, from the original B2:17; B2:24, from the original B2:59-60; B2:27, from the original B2:69-71, B2:149, from the original B2:406-07.
      20. Frost, "Jamaica" [note 18], 2:36, 3:418, 430.
      21. Frost, "Jamaica" [note 18], 3:103-04.
      22. Lobel, "Abstracts of Deeds," [note 19], C:114, from C:332, recorded 15 February 1722.
      23. Frost, "Jamaica" [note 18], 3:136-7.
      24. Mead, "Historie of Greenwich" [note 16], 50.
      25. Greenwich land records, Common Place Book, 1:27, 28, 29 [FHL 0,185,372].
      26. Lobel, "Abstracts of Deeds," [note 19], B2:312, from the original B2:640-41. Three other deeds for Pennsylvania land appear in Philadelphia County Deeds (E7:233, F5:538, 540), showing that "Samuel Mills of Jamaica on Long Island, Sadler" bought there on 4 September 1705, probably mortgaged 500 acres of it on 4 December 1705 and, still called of Jamaica, sadler, sold it to Thomas Hanlocke on 10 May 1712.
      27. Frost, "Jamaica" [note 18], 3:134-6.
      28. Cook, "Mills" [note 9], 10, from "Boston News Letter," 1727, No. 14; reprinted in "Register" 14 (1860):106. Cook added by hand, "The original Gazette is dated 'from March 6 to Monday, Mar 13th 1726,' i.e., 1726/7- examined in N.Y.C. Public Library, 5th Ave & 42d St L.D.C." A similar obituary notice in the "New York Gazette" was reprinted in Benjamin F. Thompson, "History of Long Island." (New York: E. French, 1839), 164, and in subsequent editions.
      29. Greenwich Deeds, 2:66. Another deed from Joseph Palmer, this time with his wife Elizabeth, to Samuel Mills was for several pieces of land in Bedford, Westchester County, including a right in the West New Purchase, dated 23 March 1719/20 ("Town of Bedford, Westchester County, New York, Historical Records," vol. 3, Land Records, v. II, 1687-1741 [Bedford Hills, N.Y.: by the town, 1969], 182). There are three other deeds from Samuel Mills of Greenwich in this volume.
      30. Greenwich Deeds, 2:236, acknowledged at Queens County the same day, witnesses Jeremiah Smith and Samuel Denten, recorded 6 February 1717/18. Samuel's mark resembled a backwards S and Susannah's a little pie with a piece cut out..."

      4. 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]
      Samuel Mills, supposedly born about 1632 but perhaps a few years later; died at Jamaica March 10, 1726[27] age 95 according to his obituary; married about 1659 Susannah Palmer, born probably at Yarmouth, Mass., about 1640-41, daughter of William and Judith (Feake) Palmer.[28] She was still living on May 8, 1718 when she and Samuel with their son Ephraim and his wife Susannah sold land in Jamaica,[29] and was living at the time of Samuel's obituary.
      The first record of Samuel in Jamaica town records was for a grant of a house lot on Nov. 18, 1660.[30] There were two marriages and two christenings in Samuel Mills family in the seven years preceding 1688.[31] Deeds document only three of his many Children.[32] The son Samuel3 Mills of Greenwich,[31] should not be confused with Samuel3 [Jonathan2, George1] Mills of Elizabethtown, N.J., discussed below.
      "Mills, Jamaica, on Long Island, March 10 (1727). This day died Samuel Mills of this Place, yeoman, who was born in America, aged ninety-five years. He was always a very laborious, honest man, of a very Temperate Life, and was able to do a good day work but a few days before he died. He lived Sixty-eight years with one Wife, who is still alive, by whom he had sixteen children. He has left behind him Nine Children, Eighty Grand Children, and Fifty-four Great Grand Children, and several of his Great Grand children are marriageable. His wife was delivered of a child when she was one and fifty Years of Age.[34]
      ENDNOTES
      26. The Documentary History of the State of New York, E.B. O'Callaghan, ed., 4 v., (1849), 2:519-21. Cook refers to this as 1:509. These volumes were printed in both a large and a small format. It may be that it appears at 1:509 [or perhaps 2:509] in the large format set.
      27. Some, in particular B.F. Thompson and in some places the James H. Mills Collection, have included sons named George and Nathaniel, saying the latter died at Jamaica on 4 November 1728 age 91 (James H. Mills, in several places, e.g. Box 1, Chart 1; Edward C. Mills, 1:3, probably had it from J.H. Mills who in turn had it from B.F. Thompson, published in 1919 in Werner, "Genealogies of Long Island Families," 105. The source of the death record has not been found. No trace of a younger George has been found. Nathaniel was not listed by Cook who discusses the erroneous transcription of a 1678 document by Benj. F. Thompson in his "History of Long Island." Cook said that Thompson dated it 1660 and changed the name of Zachariah to Nathaniel (Cook, 17).
      28. Horace Wilbur Palmer, "Palmer Families in America" (Neshanic, N.J.: Neshanic Punting Co., 1966), 14, 19.
      29. Frost, "Jamaica," 3:220-22, from 3:246-47; Ephraim signed and the others made their marks.
      30. Frost, "Jamaica," 1:9, from 1:10.
      31. "Return of Marriages Christenins (sic) & Burials in the Town of Jamaica F 7 Years Preceding
      1688" in O'Callaghan, "Documentary History," 3:197.
      32. On 22 Jan. 1682/3 Samuel, "sonn of George Mills Inhabitant of Jemaicae," sold 2½ acres of salt meadow to his son-in-law John Smith of Jamaica (Frost, "Jamaica," 1:226, from 2:55; also 3:11-12, from 3:70). On 25 Feb. 1685/6 Samuel and "Susana" made their marks on a deed to their son-in-law John Smith and Elizabeth his wife (Frost, Jamaica, 3:12-13, from 3:71. Samuel acknowledged this at Queens Co. on 19 Dec. 1709). On 6 April 1697 Samuel and "Sewzanah Miles" made their marks on a deed to Samuel Mills Jr. of Jamaica. It included three pieces of land with house, gardens, orchards, etc. (Frost, "Jamaica,' 2:196-98 from 2:401-02). On 6 July 1698 Samuel, Sr., and "Seuzanah" of Jamaica deeded several pieces to "our sone John Miles" (Frost, Jamaica, 2:294-95, from 2:477). In a Greenwich, Conn., deed dated 19 March 1716, Samuel Mills, Senr, and his wife Susanna of Jamaica made their marks on a deed to their son Samuel Mills of Greenwich, "in consideration of a mare," conveying one sixth of the land granted to "our brother John Palmer deceased of Greenwich." Samuel's mark resembled a backwards S and Susannah's a little pie with a piece cut out (Greenwich Deeds, 2:236, acknowledged at Queens County the same day, witnesses Jeremiah Smith and Samuel Denten, recorded 6 Feb. 1717/8).
      33. Helen Schatvet Ullmann, "Samuel Mills of Jamaica, New York, and Greenwich, Connecticut," scheduled for the NEHG Register in April, 2002.
      34. Cook, p. 10, from "Boston News Letter," 1727. No. 14; reprinted in "New England Historical and Genealogical Register," 14[1860]:106. Cook added by hand, "The original Gazette is dated from March 6 to Monday, Mar. 13th. 1726,' i.e. 1726/7 - examined in N.Y.C. Public Library, 5th Ave. & 42d St. L.D.C." A similar obituary notice in the "New York Gazette" as reprinted in Benjamin F. Thompson, "History of Long Island," 1st ed. (1839), 164; 2d. ed. (New York: Gould, Banks & Co., 1843), 1:272; 3rd ed. (1918), 2:48, reports, under date of March 15th, 1727 [i.e. 1726/7], "On Friday last, died at Jamaica, Queen's County, Samuel Mills, yeoman, (who was born in America,)" etc. as above."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Citation Information: "Torrey's New England Marriages Prior to 1700." (Online database. NewEnglandAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.) Originally published as: New England Marriages Prior to 1700. CD-ROM. Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001:
      "Mills Samuel (1632-1727) & Susannah [Palmer]; ca 1659; Jamaica, LI {Keeler-Wood 91-92; Reg. 14:106}"

      DEATH:
      1. NEHGS: "Mills. - Jamaica, (on Long Island) March 10, [1727.] This day died Samuel Mills of this Place, Yeoman, (who was born in America) Aged Ninety-five years. He was always a very laborious, honest Man, of a very Temperate Life, and was able to do a good days work by a few days before he died. He lived Sixty-eight years with one Wife, who is still alive, by whom he had Sixteen Children. He has left behind him Nine Children, Eighty Grand Children, and Fifty-four Great Grand Children, and several of his Great Grand children are marriageable. His Wife was Deliver'd of a child when she was One and Fifty Years of Age. - 'Boston News Letter, 1727, No. 14."

      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 G'Wich, by S.P. Mead (1911).
      -Hist. of Stamford, CT, by E.B. Huntington.
      -G'wich VR's.
      -Fam. of Old F'fld, by D.L. Jacobus.
      -Mass. Col. Rec., Vol. I.
      -TAG Vol. 25, p. 38 (1949)
      -New Haven Co. VR's.
      -NEGHR, v. 14, p. 106.
      -Typescript, Greenwich P.L., Greenwich, CT.
      -Samuel Mills and Descendants, by Samuel Mills IX.
      -Rundle Fam. of Amer. (1992).
      -7 Gen. of Judith's, by A. Gibson
      -CT Ancestry (Dec 1963 and 1986).