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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
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)..
iii. Sarah MILLS, b. ca. 1704; d. 4 April 1787 age 83, bur. Union Cemetery, Greenwich; (71) m. by 6 Feb. 1730 (72) JABEZ MEAD, b. Greenwich 10 June 1700 (73), son of Ebenezer Mead (74). Jabez Mead's will, dated 27 Feb. 1769 and proved 3 April 1769, named his wife Sarah, mentioned land which he had purchased of his father-in-law Samuel Mills, deceased, and gave bequests to numerous nephew (75). Sarah's own will, dated 28 June 1786 and proved 3 May 1787, names a long list of kinsmen, kinswomen, nieces and nephews which confirms that she was a daughter of Samuel3 Mills (76)...
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46. See Close's article in "Connecticut Ancestry" [note 14] for information on many grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
71. Charles R. Hale, "Charles R. Hale Collection [of Cemetery Inscriptions and Newspaper Notices of Marriages and Deaths]," (1933-34), Greenwich, 199, at the Connecticut State Library.
72. Mead, "Abstract of Church Records" [note 58], 9.
73. Barbour Collection, from Greenwich Land Records 1:450 and "Book of Early Records" [note 53], 144.
74. Ebenezer Mead's wife is shown as Sarah Knapp in several sources cited here, but she is not mentioned in Knapp, "Knapp" [note 55].
75. Stamford District Probate, 3:354.
76. Stamford District Probate, 7:8."
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