John MILLS, Jr.

1712 - 1794  (81 years)

• Name	John MILLS
  Suffix	Jr.
  Birth	27 Dec 1712	Chester County, PA
  Gender	Male
  History	Member of the "70 Families"
  Death	18 Jun 1794	Guilford County, NC
  Notes	(1) Tracey, Grace L. & Dern, John P., Pioneers of Old Monocacy: The Early Settlement of Frederick County, Maryland, 1721-1743, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1987, p 87: John Mills, Sr. described himself in 1743 as a farmer from Prince George's County, Maryland; his son John Mills, Jr. was a cordwainer. (2) O'Dell, Cecil, Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia, Marceline, MO: Walsworth Publishing Company, 1995, p. 171: On 9 March 1743, John Mills Jr. transferred possession of 165 acres from his 408-acre patent land to John Beals for six pounds. . . . He sold the remaining 243 acres to William Baldwin for 20 pounds on 11 February 1752. . . . Upon selling his land on 11 February 1752, John Jr. received his certificate of Society of Friends membership at the Hopewell Monthly Meeting at ?Opeckon? (dated the 1st day, 6th month 1752). He was in North Carolina two months later on the 1st day, 8th month when his certificate was received at Cane Creek Monthly Meeting in Alamance County. (3) Frederick County, Virginia, Hopewell Friends History [database online], Orem, UT: Ancestry.com, 1997: In the State Land Office at Richmond are to be found recorded in Book 16, pages 315-415, inclusive, the patents issued to the settlers who came to the Shenandoah Valley under authority of the Orders in Council made to Alexander Ross and Morgan Bryan. All bear date of November 12, 1735, and recite that the grantee is one of the seventy families brought in by them, and excepting location and acreage, are alike in wording and conditions, and are signed by William Gooch, Lieutenant-Governor of the Colony at that time. . . . These patents were issued under the seal of the colony and were grants from the Crown, free of any obligation of feudal services to the Fairfax family, who claimed the land as lords proprietors of the Northern Neck of Virginia. The sixth Lord Fairfax, who later established his home at Greenway Court near Winchester, instituted many suits against early settlers in the Shenandoah Valley, but it does not appear that any Friend who claimed under Ross and Bryan was ever ejected from his land. Although it is specifically stated that seventy families have been "by them brought in to our said Colony and settled upon the Lands in the said Order mentioned," only thirty-six patents issued to thirty-four grantees have been found. The names of these grantees are here given, together with sundry information gathered from the minutes of various Friends' meetings, from the records of the counties of Orange and Frederick in Virginia, and Chester County, Pennsylvania. . . . John Mills Jr., 408 acres, in Berkeley County, now West Virginia, adjoining, or near to, his father's patent on Mills' Creek. In the Frederick County records may be found a deed, recorded March 9, 1743/4, from John Mills Jr., of Opekon in Frederick County, Colony of Virginia, Cordwainer, to John Beals of the same place, Farmer, for 165 acres, being a part of this patent of 408 acres.
  Person ID	I9673	Frost, Gilchrist and Related Families
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	John MILLS, Sr.,   b. Abt 1688, England? d. Bef Jul 1761, Rowan County, NC (Age ~ 73 years)
  Mother	--- (MILLS)   d. Bef 27 Oct 1742
  Marriage	Bef 1709
  Family ID	F4698	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sarah BEALS,   b. 29 May 1713, England d. 1800, Guilford County, NC (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1732
  Family ID	F4704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2024