Deborah Mills (Lewis) - Reuben Mills and Deborah (Lewis) Mills

Started by Rev. Dr. Jonathan Mills on Sunday, December 5, 2021
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There are two birth dates for Reuben Mills; 1735 and 1751. While I have not yet been able to find documentary evidence to prove it definitively, Deborah Lewis was married to Reuben Mills of 1751. He arrived in Nova Scotia in 1785 with the United Empire Loyalists and settled in Moncton, New Brunswick. His children were born between 1787 and 1802 which makes it highly unlikely Reuben was born in 1735 (having at child at age 62). See Wikitree profile for Reuben (WikiTree contributors, "Reuben Mills (abt.1750-1822)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Mills-3147 : accessed 05 December 2021))

Similarly, Deborah almost certainly is not born in 1777. This date is apparently from an 1860 census document from New York that includes a Deborah Lewis born 1777 and living in Queesbury, Warren, New York (see source document in FamilySearch ID GML4-KQ2). But this Deborah would have been too young to have been among the United Empire Loyalists, and she could not have given birth to a child in 1787 (at the age of 10 or 11). Further research is required.

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