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 )