Encyclopedia of Connecticut biography, genealogical-memorial; representative citizens; . er, mar-ried Deborah Griswold. daughter of Mat-thew. This gives Herbert J. Mills a lineof descent to four noted Colonial familiesof Connecticut—Mills, Buell, Griswoldand Wolcott. The Mills family dates from SimeonMills, of Windsor, Connecticut, and theyear 1640. Little is known of him, buttradition says he came over with CaptainNewbury, settled in Salem, and marriedSarah Bissell, who came over with son, Simon Mills, was born at Wind-sor, Connecticut, September 3, 1642. andmarried Mary Buell, daught
Encyclopedia of Connecticut biography, genealogical-memorial; representative citizens; . er, mar-ried Deborah Griswold. daughter of Mat-thew. This gives Herbert J. Mills a lineof descent to four noted Colonial familiesof Connecticut—Mills, Buell, Griswoldand Wolcott. The Mills family dates from SimeonMills, of Windsor, Connecticut, and theyear 1640. Little is known of him, buttradition says he came over with CaptainNewbury, settled in Salem, and marriedSarah Bissell, who came over with son, Simon Mills, was born at Wind-sor, Connecticut, September 3, 1642. andmarried Mary Buell, daughter of WilliamBuell. who came to Windsor in 1635 or1636 (q. v.). Simon Mills died in Sims-bury, Connecticut, in 1683. Simon andMary (Buell) Mills were the parents ofsix children: Samuel and Simon, twins,born in 1661 : Mary, born in 1662; Han-nah, 1665; Simon, 1667; and John, inS. The line follows through John,the youngest son. John Mills, son of Simon and Mary(BuelH Mills, was born in Windsor, Con-necticut, in 1668, and settled in , the home of his wife, Sarah 96. t^jvu^/y. Hi^it^ ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BIOGRAPHY Pettibone. whom he married there. Hedied in Simsbury in 1698, and there alltheir children were born: John, Sarah,Mary, Hannah, John, Benjamin and Jo-seph, the two last named being in this branch is traced throughJoseph, called Deacon. Deacon Joseph Mills, son of John andSarah (Pettibone) Mills, was born atSimsbury, December 23, 1697, died inWest Simsbury, in 1776. He was one ofthe first settlers in West Simsbury in1742, was a substantial farmer and adeacon of the Congregational church. Hemarried (first) Hannah Adams, who diedin 1776. Deacon Joseph (2) Mills, son of Dea-con Joseph (1) and Hannah (Adams)Mills, was born in Simsbury, Connecti-cut, February 17, 1728, died in Norfolk,Connecticut, in 1792. He moved to Nor-folk about 1759; he was chosen deacon ofthe Norfolk Congregational Church in1772, and was highly esteemed in thatcommunity as a
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