Benoni Mills

Based on Census Records, he was born from 1750 to early 1760's.
Married 9 April 1789 to Mary Thompson.
Benoni Mills was the illegitimate son of Thomas Mills & his niece, Charity Mills--Charity was the daughter of Rachel Harrold & Hur Mills who was a brother of Thomas Mills. (See Thomas Mills site.)

Benoni & Mary Thompson Mills Children:

1. David Mills,
2. Eli Mills,
3. Charity Mills,
4. James Mills,
5. Peter Mills,
6. Ann Mills,
7. Achsa Mills and
8. Hugh Mills.

Death: 9 AUG 1834 in Wayne, IN

1824, 10, 2. Benoni & family was granted a certificate to remove from Deep Creek MM, NC to Springfield MM, Wayne County Ind. H-I, p 993

NOTE: The name Benoni is of Hebrew origin, meaning "son of my sorrows".
Quakers used this name for births at a sad time or occasion.
The name Benoni sometimes is changed to Benjamin.

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Further Information: Index: 1830 Federal Population Census for Indiana (Indianapolis:
Indiana Historical Society, 1981) p. 152
Beonia Mills Wayne Co, IN p. 240

I don't know of any record of Benoni Mills's birth. I notice that on the 1810 Guilford County census he is aged over 45, which means that he was born before 1765.
And in 1830 in Wayne County, Indiana, he is between 70 and 80,which would put him born between 1750 and 1760.
Birth in 1759 or early 1760 would be consistent with both, and with the disownment of Thomas and Charity Mills.
~Tom Hamm

http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=s ktaylor47&id=I13382
Death: 9 AUG 1834 in Indiana
Title: Abstracts of the Records of the Society of the Friends in
Indiana , Part One , Edited by Willard Heiss
Page: Springfield MM records

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 9 2022, 16:26:21 UTC

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New Garden records show that Charity, daughter of Hur Mills, married at New Garden in 1786 Peter Dillon, who was born in 1725. That means that she had regained her membership in Quaker Church, but the loss of the New Garden Monthly Meeting women's minutes before 1790 makes it impossible to know when. Charity was still living when Peter Dillon made his will in 1796, which Benoni Mills witnessed.
per https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92512589/charity-dillon