Of Middle Creek on Opeckan, Frederick Co, Va m. Abigail Brown in Va.
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b. 1-3-1747/48 OS, 3-15-1748 NS New Gardens MM records
b 4-30-1754 NS. d. 9-20-1779
Rebecca was buried in Springfield FBG. Rebecca had seven children by first marriage.
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Sent by Jesse Day. Notes by Jeremiah Mills Jr., Clayton, Reynolds, Beals, Brown and Dec. lines compiled by James Bellarts. The Mills Family are said to be part Welch, though very small part. My mother's family I can not define though I have often heard her say that her great grandmother name was Mary Stafford. That she came from Staffordshire, England, that her grandmother's name was Mary Staliard, that her mother's name was Mary Coppock and one of her grandfathers or great grandfathers was John Beeson. This is all I can say about my mothers race. She had no aunts or Uncles in that country that I know of. Her mother died when but 8 years old, and that she had but little chance of knowing much about her genealogy. And her father put his three children out, quit housekeeping. After my mother was married my grandfather lived with her and tradition says died there sitting in his chair. Went out so easy that he did not fall from his chair, but was found sitting there dead. His complaint was black jaundice.
My grandfather died when my father was about 9 years old, living a weakly
widow in the wilderness, with a family of small children to support. I have no doubt they saw hard times.From book, Mills Family History, Quakers and Other Early Arrivals by Paul Mills. No date given for the book, address of Paul as 808 Corby Street, Woodburn, OR 97071
JOHN MILLS- The immigrant: born cierca 1660-1665 in England and died 1-17-1704 in Philadelphia, Penna. Came to America in 1682. Married Sarah Harrold before 1688. Sarah died 10-17-1759.
Very little information is available about this early arrival in America. We are not positive of his wife's name. James Bellarts has printed an ariticle by a great grandson, Jeremiah, from which the following is taken:
"My great grandfather, I can not tell how many generations back - came from England and arrived in Philadelphia in the early days of that now populous city. There was another young man with him by the name of Harrold. On landing, I suppose that they had nothing but their hands to depend on for a living, and lumber for building being in demand, these two young men bought what was called a "whipsaw" and went to work. How long they continued n this line of work I am not able to say, but it was until they wore the saw out. Then they broke it into and made them hand saws, one of which I remember to have seen as a boy. It was the Mills Family property. How long they stayed in Philadelphia I can't tell but the next account I have of tehm is in Virginia near Winchester on Opekan Creek.
"There my father father - Amos Mills - son of Hurr (Herr) was born in 1752. About this time the Indian troubles came up, what was called "Braddocks War." Our people being Quakers became alarmed and left for North Carolina.
"My grandfather and all of his sons and daughters setteld in Guilford County on the waters of the Deep River. The Beesons, the Beals, teh Venights all came out about the same time and I think from about the same place in Virginia. The most of which settled on the waters of teh Deep River, although some settled on the branches of the Haw River and others on a creek called "Polecat.Hinshaw, W.W., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEOLOGY: THE NORTH; CAROLINA QUAKER GENEALOGICAL RECORDS, Vol. 1, Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor; MI, 1936.
Mills, Paul, "Mills and Related Lines", 808 Corby St., Woodburn, OR, copy; at Clinton Co. OH Historical Society.
FGR from Barbara Chantry Dietz OCT 1992.
Sent by Jesse Day. Henry with six others was hung on a post oak limb near Hillsborough at the Regulation Battle in 1771.
Sent by Jesse Day
It is thought that John settled in Va. in 1733/4, then moved to Cane Creek Monthly Meeting N.C. in 1752. His children, Thomas, John, Hurr, and Henry Followed in 1753.
Found in A Genealogy of Clayton, Reynolds, Beals, Brown, and Descended and Related Lines, compiled and Published by James E. Bellarts. He writes: John was married twice. I think his first wife had five sons, and no more, but I can't tell which was the oldest, but know their names. Here they are: John, Thomas, Hurr, Henry, and William, and by his last wife had had George and Jonathan. About his daughters I can't say how many nor from which wife, two are all I remember to have heard of. One married William Beeson and the other Henry Humphries, he and six others were hung on a post oak limb near Hillsborough at the regulation battle in 1760.As sent by Charity Monroe of Peoria, Ill. 30 Sept. 1992: Quote source of MILLS and RELATED LINES, pg. 6-7.
"John Mills, Sr., of Prince George Co., Md., farmer conveyed or deeded to his first four sons 1315 acres of land in what is now Berkely County, West Va., in 1743. No wife joins John MILLS in these deeds, she, no doubt, being deceased.
"The patent is described as being on a branch of the Opeckon River, near but not adjacent to Lewis DeMoss' land.
"On this track of land stood Mill Creek Baptist Church, the first of that denomination in the Shenandoah Valley and probably the first in Virginia. It stood in what is now the village of Gerrardstown and was organized about 1743."
Further note refered to NC Bible records on pg. 84. and to Deep River MM.From Paul MILLS book, Mills Family History
It is thought that John Settled in VA in 1733/34, then moved to Cane Creek Monthly Meeting, NC in 1752. His children, Thomas, John, Hurr, and Henry followed in 1753. There were 12 children.
Pg. 8 of the above book
Not too many records of these first MIllses are available but we do have the following:Land Grant Office, Raleigh, North Carolina
Rowan Co., NC To whom granted: John Mills. Grant No. 114, issued Feb. 26, 1759, 640 acres.Same, 124. Rowan Co., NC on Wolf Run.
Date 1754, -- To whom granted: John Mills, Sr. 500 acres, James Carter, Surveyor: John Mills, Jr. and Henry Mills chain bearers.Historical Commision, NC
8929 To John Mills No, Vos. 4664 Lb 30.0 Specis
Report no is dated June 1783, 274.
From accounts of U.S. with NC War of Rev. Book A. 282. John Mills furnished supplies to the Militia of NC and SC and VA and for this service his descendants are eligible to the Daughters of the American Revolution."Ibid: 21. John Mills Jr. 408 acres of land in Berkeley County, now West VA, adjoining or near to his father's patent on Mills Creek.
From Hopewell Friends History, 1734 - 1934. Pub. 1936. Mills, pg. 12. In the stae land office at Richmond, VA are to be found records in book 16 the patent issued to settlers who came to the Shenandoah Valley under the authority of the orders in Council made to Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan. All bear the date of November 12, 1735 and recite that the grantes is one of teh seventy families brought in by them and excepting location and acreage are alike in wording and conditions., and are signed by William Gooch, Lt. Govenor of the Colony at that time.
John Mills, Sr. No. 35, 1315 acres of land in Berkley Co., WV
In the Frederick Co. records may be found a deed wherein John Mills Jr. is referred to as "Cordwainer."
In the deeds made by John Mills to his four sons he is desscribed as John Mills, Sr. of Prince George Maryland, Farmer, but his sons are all of Frederick Co., VA.
Hinshaw, W.W., ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN QUAKER GENEOLOGY: THE NORTH; CAROLINA QUAKER GENEALOGICAL RECORDS, Vol. 1, Edwards Brothers, Ann Arbor; MI, 1936.
Mills, Paul, "Mills and Related Lines", 808 Corby St., Woodburn, OR, copy; at Clinton Co. OH Historical Society.
Rebeckah left to Deep River and went to Montgomery Co., N.C. and there
stayed. Notes from Jeremiah Mills Jr. Notes from Paul Mills also states that the surname is not sure, could have been Stefan or Wright.
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William was born in VA, died in NC. He was disowned by the Church for attending the marriage of his sister, Rebeccah to a non member of the church in 1763.