Yes, I knew about the reputation of the Mills book and am not using it to prove something, just to note the use of the name Moses in some of the families. Chandler Eavenson -----Original Message----- From: ChekWriter@aol.com [mailto:ChekWriter@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2006 1:51 AM To: MILLS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MILLS] FW: Moses Mills (ca1747-1833) Re: John MILLS book, "Mills and Related Families, John "The Immigrant". Even in the words of his son, Rodney, the book was just fraught with errors. And no one should use it as a reference or source. Several library's, rumor has it, have pulled it from their shelves. See prior MILLS LIST postings by others, as well as Rodney, the son, himself of his fathers' book. - - - - - - - - - - - - - Since we are on the subject of the John and Rebecca MILLS. See also the interesting similarity between the families and the names of their children. John 1660 and Sarah MILLS - Levi, Thomas, John John 1712 and Sarah MILLS - Sarah, John, Phoebe, Rachel, Mary, Hannah, Joseph, Kezia(h), Jane, Thomas, (Elizabeth) Ann. John 1720/1721/1733/1749 and Rebecca* MILLS 1742/1744 - Sarah 1756, John, Phoebe, Rachel, Mary, Hannah, Joseph, Rebecca, Richard, Parker * It would seem that Rebecca was 14 when her first child was born. Means she got pregnant at age 13? - Hard to take, even in this day and age. John 1686/89 and Rachel** MILLS 1688- Thomas, John, Hur(ry), Henry, Mary, William, Rebecca **Where Rachel seems to have been about 21 when her first child was born in 1709. John 1689 and Rebeckah***1700 MILLS - William, Rebecca, George, Benjamin, Alias(?) (Elias)? Alice, Tabitha, Jonathan, Richard Sr. ***Shows that the age of her first child was born when she was 42 years old? DO not THINK SO. John 1740 and Sarah MILLS - Samuel, Jane, Sarah, Abigail, William, Mary, John, Zachariah, Ruth, Alice, Lydia, Rachel, Ann. And not all of you are sure of their paternity, as Thomas, John, Hurr, and Henry are listed as "Guardian" on their name lines. Others have as "Adopted". We possibly know that the 2 John MILLS and Rebecca and Sarah and Rachel families were all supposed to have been in the area of Philadelphia and surrounding counties at the same time frame. It would have been very easy for John MILLS, of Woodburn, to get them confused. (which apparently he did, as well as other researchers. It has also come to light that all of these families were also in Maryland, too. So I can how easy it would be for them to get garbled.(By the place of birth of their spouses.) So all of you can see how some of the information that was in Mr. Mills' book could not have been correctly reported. Pat cw ==== MILLS Mailing List ==== We have archives! Search for your MILLS information here..... http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=MILLS ============================== 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