Hi Audrey and Helen and Interested Others, too No, the John MILLS of which the READING family history is speaking is in the time frame before William MILLS and Mary READING got married. It is 1703. William and Mary READING MILLS were married, it says, WFT est 1753-1771. On one of the researchers list for their children, the first one is born about WFT Est 1756-1771. Mary READING is listed as being born about 1736. William, her husband is listed as being born about 1738/1739. So the John MILLS as referenced would be the generation before them. So WHO is this John MILLS and what family is he associated with? We do know from the information posted onto John MILLS - Rebecca SMITH family pages by Richard DILTS, that a John MILLS signed an agreement dated 1697 to purchase some acreage from the West Jersey Society on June 10, 1697. Is this that John MILLS. It referenced on those copies of the pages 619-620 as being from Fairfield. It did not say, CT or NY. Was that part of Fairfield, in NY at that time frame, or was it in NY. Any insight appreciated. It is said on the MILLS SMITH family page that John was born in Sussex Co. NJ. There is another web site, with small blurbs about the land, and that it was later part of Sussex. Have I solved the mystery as to MILLS - SMITH parents? Or???? Pat cw