Ray I hope you have better luck than I, at finding a descendant from the early Boston area. I offered to sponsor a Mills descentant DNA test, but no one responded. I am begining to think there may not be any. John Selwyn Mills > To any and all MILLS researchers: > The DNA project is going very well. A lot has been learned. But, as > with most research, every answer raises many new questions. This is no > exception. There is a hole in our information concerning the "Boston > MILLS" There is also very thin information on the MILLS in eastern > Canada where many loyalist fled to during the second half of the 18th > century. Those who know there ancestors back into the original thirteen > colonies may be surprised to find that they have DNA cousins in Nova > Scotia, New Brunswick and other places. Please do what you can to > encourage any male with the MILLS name to join our quest for the details > of our family tree. I really believe there are a large number of MILLS > living west of the original colonies who will discover their roots pass > through Canada before they get to places like George of Long Island or > John of Connecticut etc. > > Regards, > Ray > > > Re: Mills in Boston, MA area very early on. > > John MILLS is listed as moving on to Braintree. I have some of his > family > on my files, but so far none of them show any living MILLS descendants. > > That was John, Susan/Susannah, Mary, Recompense, Joy, Susannah, John > Jr., > Jonathan, James. > > Some of the George MILLS of Jamaica, LI NY, children are also listed as > > being born in Boston, MA, but do not know if that is correct. Maybe > those > researchers just mixed up the wrong Jonathan, etc., with the wrong John > MILLS > family. > > Also I have on another file, that the above John MILLS, is listed as the > son > of John and Mary MILLS of Lavenham, Suffolk,England. And that one too > has > the George of Jamaica, as their son. I am not much help here. > > Sorry. > > Pat > cw > > The only thing that I can suggest that if you know of any of your > cousins > who are MALE MILLS and would like to participate, ask them to get a DNA > kit and > send it in for comparison to those already listed. Something may > shake out > of that great big MILLS Tree.