Jan and Carol A very interesting paper on the John Mills' of Braintree and Scarborough. 1, I am wondering, do you, (or others), have a connection to either of these Johns? 2, and who, what, or where is, "Trelawny Papers"? John Selwyn Mills ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan J." <jnrose@webtv.net> To: <MILLS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:49 AM Subject: [MILLS] Mary MILLS 1616-1692 Boston, MA m. James HAWKINS > Thanks to Carol for this lookup below. > Jan Jordan in VT <jnrose@webtv.net> > > JOHN MILLS > ORIGIN: Unknown > MIGRATION: 1633 > FIRST RESIDENCE: Richmond Island > REMOVES: Scarborough > EDUCATION: Witnessed deed by mark [ YLR 2:153]. > ESTATE: On 12 February 1693/4 "John Mills now resident at Boston" deeded > to "my natural brother James Mills now resident in the town of Sandwich > ... fourscore acres of my upland & forty acres of salt marsh ... at a > place called Black Point alias Scarborough ... & is part of that land & > meadow ground or marsh which formerly did belong unto my honored father > John Mills late of Scarborough now deceased" [ YLR 9:4-5]. > BIRTH: By about 1610 (assuming he was a young servant when he made his > early voyage to New England). > DEATH: By 8 March 1664 (when "widow Mills" was name as an abutter to a > piece of land on Black Point River [ YLR 2:23]). (If George Garland was > consorting with the elder Sarah Mills [see COMMENTS below], then John > Mills had died by 1662.) > MARRIAGE: By about 1642 Sarah _____. > CHILDREN: > i MARY, b. say 1642; m. Sandwich 16 July 1683 William Gifford of > Sandwich [ NEHGR 128:247-50]. > ii JOHN, b. say 1644; m. by 1686 Joanna (Alger) Oakman, daughter of > ANDREW ALGER and widow of Elias Oakman. > iii JAMES, b. say 1646; d. at Sandwich between 14 October 1720 > (date of will) and 9 February 1720/1 (date of inventory), single man [ > NEHGR 128:249, citing BarnPR 3:607]. > iv SARAH, b. say 1648; m. by about 1676 Joseph Winnock. > > COMMENTS: On 8 September 1640 John Mills deposed that "he hath known the > river which runs by Mr. Arthur Mackworthe's house called by the name of > Casco River for some thirteen or fourteen years gone or thereabout" [ > Trelawny Papers 231]. On 25 June 1641 John Mills deposed that "he came > out of England with Mr. Winter some 8 years since or thereabout as his > servant, and that Mr. Cleeve was then paling the field at Spurwinke" [ > Trelawny Papers 266]. (We assume here Mills was present in New England > in 1626-7 on a fishing or trading expedition, and that his residence did > not begin until he came with JOHN WINTER in 1633.) > On 2 July 1662 George Garland was presented for "frequenting Sarah Mills > her house after warning given," and Sarah Mills was presented for > "entertaining George Garland after sufficient warning given" [ MPCR > 2:119]. On 7 November 1665 "George Garland & Sarah Mills" were indicted > for "incontinency, living together without being lawfully married, and > the said Garland being suspected of having a wife in England" [ MPCR > 1:238], and on 1 October 1667 they were ordered to be married within one > month [ MPCR 1:333-34]. These records are more likely for the widow of > John Mills than for his daughter of the same name, as the unmarried > daughter would be less likely to have a residence of her own. > > Braintree 5 July 1678 [ BrVR 656]. > MARRIAGE: By about 1622 Susanna _____; "Susanna Mills aged 80 years" > died at Braintree on 10 December 1675 [ BrVR 640; NEHGR 37:169]. > CHILDREN: > i SUSANNA, b. say 1622; m. by about 1642 William Dawes [ Dawes-Gates > 1:11-18]. > ii MARY, b. say 1625; m. by 1645 JAMES HAWKINS (eldest child b. > Boston 3 February 1645[/6?] [ BVR 21]). > [Births recorded to James and Mary Hawkins: it is possible > there were two couples by that name, though I'd think unlikely or they > would have identified them with a middle initial or something. > Susan Dec 16 1645. > Peleg Jan 9 1648 > James July 3 1652 > James Mar 18 1653 [This is possible if the first one > died] > Sarah Mar 18 1655 > Will lists daughters as 5; Mary, Ruth, Damarus, > Elizabeth and Sarah, in 1670. Lists only James as son. 10 > grandchildren] > iii JOY (daughter), bp. Boston in October 1630 [ BChR 277]; no further > record. (Although baptized together Joy and Recompense were not > necessarily twins, and one or both of them may have been born in > England, partially filling the gap between 1625 and 1630.) > iv RECOMPENSE (daughter), bp. Boston in October 1630 [ BChR 277]; no > further record. > v JOHN, bp. Boston 3 June 1632 (corrected from 1631 [ BChR 278]); m. > Braintree 26 April 1653 Elizabeth Shove [ BrVR 672, 715]. "John Mills > senior the son of old John Mills who was sometimes the keeper of this > book departed this life upon the 27th day of February 1694/5 aged 62" at > Braintree [ BrVR 661 (cited incorrectly in Dawes-Gates 1:444)]. > vi JONATHAN, bp. Boston 30 August 1635 [ BChR 279]; no further record. > vii JAMES, bp. Boston 3 June 1638 [ BChR 283]; no further record. > > COMMENTS: Ferris suggested Lavenham, Suffolk, as an origin for this > family, for which there is no documentary evidence, but an origin in > southwest Suffolk seems likely, as so many of the early Boston settlers > were neighbors of Winthrop in England. The statement in his will that he > came from a long line of ministers should assist in finding his English > home. The request in his will that one of his grandsons be brought up to > the ministry was partially fulfilled, as Edward Mills, son of the > younger John, did graduate from Harvard in 1685, although he spent his > life as a schoolteacher and not a minister [ Sibley 3:337-38]. > An oddity in the records of this family is the failure of John Mills to > appear in Boston town meeting records until 1639, even though he had > been residing in the town for nine years with a growing family. > BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: John Mills was treated by Mary Walton Ferris [ > Dawes-Gates 441-44], but she went astray by combining the records of > John Mills of Braintree with the records for a John Mills of Boston who > did considerable trading with various merchants from the Canary Islands > and died in 1651 [ SPR 1:62, 2:40]. It is his business recorded by > Aspinwall and not that of John Mills of Braintree [ Aspinwall 127, 179, > 180, 181, 400]. > > Sources were: > "Beginning The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England > 1620-1633, Volumes I-III" > [BVR] Boston Births, Baptisms, Marriages, and Deaths, 1630-1699, Ninth > Report of the Boston Record Commissioners (Boston 1883=semi rpt. > Baltimore 1978) > [YLR] York Deeds, 18 volumes (Portland, Maine, 1887-1910) > [Aspinwall] 'A Volume Relating to the Early History of Boston Containing > the Aspinwall Notarial Records from 1644 to 1651,' in Reports of the > Record Commissioners of the City of Boston< /I>, Volume 32 (Boston 1903) > [MPCR] Province and Court Records of Maine, 6 volumes (Portland > 1928-1975=semi volumes 1-3 rpt. Newburyport, Massachusetts, 1991) > [Trelawny Papers] The Trelawny Papers, James Phinney Baxter, ed., in > Collections of the Maine Historical Society, 2nd Series, Volume 3 > (Portland, Maine, 1884) > [BarnPR] Barnstable County, Massachusetts, Probate Records > [NEHGR] New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1 > through present (1847 ) > > > > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx