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Thomas Mills

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Exeter, Devon, England
Death: 1671 (39-48)
Wells, York County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Immediate Family:

Son of Richard Mills and Sarah Mary Mills
Husband of Mary Mills
Father of Mary Cloyes; Sarah Cloyes; Susanna Folsom; Martha Grant; William Mills and 4 others
Brother of Mary Norton

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About Thomas Mills

Biography

Thomas1 Mills, fisherman, was born c 1628 in Exeter, Devon, England. He arrived by Aug of 1642 when he and James Gibbins bought 100 acres of land at Winter Harbor. He was in Wells by 1653, and granted land 1659 [York Deeds 12: 336]. In 1664 he was a constable. He died after 12 JUL 1681 in Wells, York, Maine [York Deeds 3:105]. He married Mary2 Wadleigh (John1) in Wells. They had five children: John, Mary, Sarah, Martha and Susanna.[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

References

  1. Noyes, Sybil, Charles T. Libby, and Walter Goodwin Davis, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Me.: Anthoensen Press, 1928–29, reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Company, 1972) 483, 707
  2. Torrey 2:1042 1652 Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts, United States MILLS, Thomas & Mary [WADLEIGH/WADELS?]; by 1652; Salisbury/Saco, ME/Wells, ME {Salisbury Fam. 605; Reg. 69:189-190; GDMNH 483, 707; Fulton Anc. 350; Harmon Anc. 53; Wentworth 1:78; Pillsbury Anc. 229}
  3. Mary Lovering Holman, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury ... 2 vols. (Concord 1938), p. 1:229
  4. Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada: Between 1677 and 1760 during the French and Indian War (Bowie: Heritage Books, reprint 1989) 1:186
  5. Wentworth, John, The Wentworth Genealogy: England and America, 3 vols. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1878) Werner: LI Fam.: Werner, Charles J., Genealogies of Long 1:78
  6. Leonard, Clarence Ettienne, The Fulton- Hayden-Warner Ancestry in America (New York: T. A. Wright, 1923) 350
  7. NEHGR 69:189, 28:158-160 shows that Martha (Mills) Smith's father Thomas1 Mills was born in Exeter, Devon, England

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry Family Trees Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; @R3@

GEDCOM Source

Database online. Record for Susanna Mills

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry Family Trees Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; @R3@

GEDCOM Source

Database online. Record for Susanna Mills

GEDCOM Source

Ancestry Family Trees Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; @R3@

GEDCOM Source

Database online. Record for Susanna Mills

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Thomas Mills's Timeline

1627
October 6, 1627
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
November 2, 1627
Exeter, Devon, England
1640
1640
Wells, York County, ME, United States
1642
1642
Probably, England (United Kingdom)
1648
1648
Wells, York County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1650
1650
Wells, York County, Massachusetts Bay Colony
1653
June 18, 1653
Saco, York County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Present Maine)
1653
1654
1654
Wishanger, Parish of Miserden, Gloucestershire, England