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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. CAUTION! Exacting proof of Susannah being a Palmer and a child of William Palmer and Judith Feake is deficient; however, it has been widely accepted and published in secondary literature.
2. 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."
3. FHL book 929.273 M625u "A Mills and Kendall Family History…," by Helen Schatvet Ullmann (Boston, 2002), pp. 3-9:
"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
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."
4. Susannah is not mentioned as a childn in the book "One branch of the Miner family...," by Lillian Lounsberry Miner Selleck (New Haven, 1928), pp. 142-43:
"WILLIAM1 PALMER
LIEUT. WILLIAM1 PALMER appeared in Yarmouth, Mass., as early as Jan. 1639, and resided there until 1652. He married JUDITH FEAKE, born about 1620, daughter of James Feake, goldsmith, of London, Eng.
In December 1639, Robert Feake of Watertown, Mass., as guardian of Tobias Feake, aged seventeen, together with Sergeant William Palmer and Judith his wife of Yarmouth, son and daughter of James Feake, deceased, of London, goldsmith, signed a power of attorney to their uncle, Tobias Dixon of London, to sell a house on Lombard Street, London. Robert Feake of Watertown was uncle of Judith and Tobias.
Palmer was a Deputy to the Plymouth General Court, 1642, 1643, 1644, 1648, 1649, and 1650; and was appointed Lieutenant 22 Sept. 1642, under Capt. Miles Standish. In 1653 he moved to Newtown, Long Island, where he was a Magistrate from Mar. 1658 to Mar. 1660. He conveyed property in Newtown, 1 Aug. 1659, and his widow Judith conveyed 29 Nov. 1661, showing that he died between those dates; probably later than 9 Mar. 1660 when he was on the tax list.
Judith married second, Jeffrey Ferris, of Greenwich, Conn., and took her children to Greenwich with her. Ferris died 31 May 1666, and in his will dated 6 Jan. 1664 left ten pounds each to the "four boies" of his wife. Judith married third, John Bowers, who by deed 5 Apr. 1675 conveyed land to his "son Ephraim Palmer." Judith died before her last husband; and Bowers in his will dated 16 Mar. 1693/4, gave property that was her mother's to "my loving daughter-in-law [step-daughter], Judith Reynolds."
John Palmer, perhaps a brother of William Palmer, though usually given as his son, died at Greenwich prior to 26 Oct. 1672. Application was made for settlement of his estate, 24 Apr. 1724, in which it was stated that he died many years ago and that no settlement had been made. The next of kin were stated as William Palmer, Ephraim Palmer, James Palmer, Joseph Palmer, and Judith Reynolds. John must therefore have been their brother or their uncle; and as the "four" Palmer boys specified in their step-father's will are all accounted for, it is more likely that John was their uncle, and brother of William.
Children:
1. William2, m. Mary Tyler, daughter of William and Abigail (Terrill) Tyler of Milford, b. about 1660; they removed to Westchester County, N. Y.
+2. Ephraim2, m. Sarah2 Messenger.
3. James2, of Greenwich, d. 28 Feb. 1717; m. Sarah Denham.
4 Joseph2, m. Elizabeth Tyler, b. about 1663, sister of his brother William's wife; they probably removed to Bedford, N. Y.
5. Judith2, m. John Reynolds."
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}"
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).
-NYG&H Rec V11 & 86.
-7 Gen. of Judith's, by A. Gibson.
-Gen Frangments, by J.J. Latting.
-Feake Fam. Gen, by G. McCrackern (1955).
-Ancient Heads of Fam., by Holmes.
ACTION:
1. Find all 16 children referenced in the obituary above.
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Chris & Julie Petersen's Genealogy
Abt 1640 - Aft 1727 (~ 87 years)