Hi Pat, My maternal MILLS family came from Massachusetts [MA], to Connecticut [CT], to Central New York [NY], and to Vermont [VT]. Sorry, I do not know of a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [PA] connection. Happy searching, Jan Jordan in Vermont <ChekWriter@aol.com> Aug 21 2006 It would seem that some have picked up this family MILLS and made it part of the one of Philadelphia, with John, Thomas, Hur, etc, BATES, HARROLD, MILLIKEN/KAN families. <excerpt> But I have not seen anywhere all the years in my research that the John MILLS of Philadelphia or Chester Co. PA, was related in any way to the MILLS of Braintree, MA.