John and Sarah Millikan Mills Families
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John Mills (III) born 1740 probably Virginia died 3/6/1815 Jefferson Co, Tn burial Lost Creek MM |
Sarah Millikan born 1743 Chester Co, Pa died 4/9/1826 Jefferson Co, Tn burial Lost Creek MM |
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Married: 1/28/1761 New Garden Monthly Meeting, Rowan Co, NC
Children: Samuel Mills born 1/24/1762 Rowan Co, North Carolina; married Mary Ballinger(More below) Jane Mills born 9/23/1763 Rowan Co, North Carolina; married John Davis Sarah Mills born 11/7/1765 Rowan Co, North Carolina; married Elihu Swain (More below) Abigail Mills born 12/29/1767 Rowan Co, North Carolina; married Martin Mendenhall, son of Stephen and Sarah Mendenhall William Mills born 1/19/1770 Rowan Co, North Carolina; married Sarah Maulsby Mary Mills born 6/3/1772 Guilford Co, North Carolina; married Joel Smith John Mills (IV) born 7/30/1774 Guilford Co, North Carolina; married Charity Mendenhall, sister of Hannah Zachariah Mills born 10/13/1776 Guilford Co, North Carolina; married (1) Hannah Mendenhall, sister of Charity (2) Ann Woodward (More below) Ruth Mills born 2/23/1779 and died 3/23/1779 Guilford Co, North Carolina Alice Mills born 4/18/1780 Guilford Co, North Carolina; married Mordecai Mendenhall, brother of Charity & Hannah Lydia Mills born 1/1/1784 Guilford Co, North Carolina; married William Morgan (More below) Rachel Mills born 4/25/1786 Guilford Co, North Carolina; married Richard Williams |
The Family in North Carolina and TennesseeJohn and Sarah Millikan Mills probably lived in the southern part of Guilford County near Greensboro as when the Monthly Meeting started at Centre, 10 miles south of Greensboro the records of their children are found there. Prior records are at New Garden Monthly Meeting.On 9/30/1786 a certificate for John and wife Sarah and children William, Mary, John, Zachariah, Alice, Lydia, and Rachel was received back at New Garden Monthly Meeting. The family probably had already moved to the Holston River area as they were one of the pioneer settlers of that area. New Garden had jurisdiction over this settlement as it was quite remote. On 10/29/1791 a certificate transferred the family to Westfield Monthly Meeting in Surry County since Westfield was nearer the Holston River families. John Mills was a weaver by trade, and had a mill on his farm at Lost Creek for fulling his cloth. John left part of his family at a Quaker settlement in then Green County and he and his eldest sons built a cabin about one and a half miles east of a place where Lost Creek sinks under Mahoney Hill, where they cleared 10 acres and planted a crop. William, his son, was a hunter and housekeeper until Sarah came with the younger children. The nearest post office was in Greenville, 60 miles away. The first Quaker meetings in Lost Creek settlement were held at the John Mills cabin. Another source states that John had a land grant for two thousand acres of which he donated three acres for the Lost Creek Meeting House, a school, and the graveyard. When Lost Creek Monthly Meeting was established in 1797, Sarah Mills was elected clerk for the women's meeting, at the same time Abraham Woodward was elected clerk for the men's meeting. On 3/19/1803 John & Sarah were recommended elders of the Lost Creek Monthly Meeting. Son Zachariah Mills is listed as a farmer in the November 16, 1850, Jefferson County, Tennessee, census. Daughters Alice & Elizabeth, age 50 and 34, respectively, are living with him. Also with them is a Lucy A. White, age 12, who probably was a sister of Sarah White, wife of son Parry. Perry & Sarah White Mills are living next door to Zacariah. Perry Mills is listed as a merchant. They have children Margaret, Mary E., & Henry H Mills. Zacariah Mills wrote his will on November 5, 1852 in Jefferson County (Book 5, page 45, probate book 12, page 218). When we obtain copies of the will and probate they will be posted on this page. (More on Zacariah below) More on the Children of John and Sarah Millikan MillsSarah Mills SwainDaughter Sarah Mills married Elihu Swain, son of Nathaniel and Bethiah Swain, 2/21/1782 at Centre Monthly Meeting in Randolph County, North Carolina. Elihu Swain is found in the 1820 census in Wayne County, Indiana, and Sarah Mills Swain died in Wayne County 7/13/1847.Elihu & Sarah Mills Swain were greatgrandparents of Thomas Marshall, editor of William Hinshaw's monumental Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy (Quaker Yeoman, Vol 22, Number 3, page 3 Lydia Mills MorganDaughter Lydia Mills married William Morgan, son of William and Rebecca Mills Morgan, on 2/4/1801 at Lost Creek Monthly Meeting. Rebecca Mills Morgan was daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Harold Mills. Lydia and William were thus second cousins.William and Lydia Mills Morgan had children: Levi (b 10/24/1801 Tn); Seth (b. 11/29/1802 Tn m. Rachel Beals); William (b. 6/14/1806 Tn); John (b. 12/2/1808 Tn); Rhoda (b 2/5/1811 m 2nd cousin Jesse Woodward); Huldah (b 5/10/1816 Tn m. William Beals); Sarah Morgan (b 3/3/1825 d 6/14/1827). William Morgan was appointed Assistant Clerk at Lost Creek Monthly Meeting and would have been assistant to Clerk Abraham Woodward. The children had some difficulty with the Quaker faith. Son Seth made his peace with the Quakers as in 1827 he was granted a certificate to Vermilion MM in Illinois, then accepting certificates for all Quakers settling west of the Mississippi. In 1849 he became a member at Pleasant Plain Monthly Meeting in Jefferson County, Iowa, as did mother Lydia Morgan. Lydia Mills Morgan wrote her will in Keokuk County, Iowa on 4th day 3rd month 1854. Son William and son-in-law Wm Beals were executors. She left $10 to daughter Rhoda and son-in-law Jesse Woodward then living in Hendricks County, Indiana. She also left $10 to the heirs of son John, then deceased, and to her son Seth. Zachariah MillsSon Zachariah Mills married (1) Hannah Mendenhall, daughter of Mordecai and Hannah Marshall Mendenhall. They were licensed to marry 1/21/1798 in Jefferson County, Tennessee. Zachariah was dismissed at Lost Creek on 4/19/1800 and Hannah was dismissed 1/23/1801 for the marriage contrary to discipline. They had children:Alice (b. 11/5/1801 Tn); Rhoda (b 10/26/1803 Tn); Enos (b 8/1/1806 d. 9/3/1807 Tn). Alice and Rhoda were received at Lost Creek Monthly Meeting 3/30/1816 at the request of their father. He had apparently made his peace with the Quakers. These two apparently never married - see 1850 census record above under families in Tennessee.Zachariah married (2) Ann Woodward, daughter of William and Elizabeth Millikan Woodward, and his first cousin, once removed. They were licensed to marry 3/24/1815 at Lost Creek and Ann condemned her marriage contrary to discipline on 7/29/1815. Their children are thus listed in the Quaker records at Lost Creek: Henry Mills (b 3/4/1816 d. 9/11/1845 Tn); Betsey (b 8/26/1817 Tn); Parry (b 3/10/1819 m. Sarah White); Hannah (b. 1/15/1821 Tn m. Henry Hammer). Henry & Hannah Mills Hammer went to Iowa in 1846 with the rest of the Hammer clan. The Reverend Elisha Hammer, Henry's father, led the group. He moved to Iowa so that none of his family would be identified with slavery. The family group consisted of twenty-five adults and children packed into six large covered wagons. They first settled in Richmond, Keokuk County, Iowa, then moved farther west to Jasper County near a settlement called Amboy Switch. Grounds and land for the graveyard of Friends Center Meeting House were given by Henry & Hannah Mills Hammer. Henry's saw mill sawed lumber for the meeting house. Henry & Hannah had children: Zachariah Mills Hammer, Ira Lewis Hammer, Mahlon Hammer, and Enos M. Hammer. Enos served in the Civil War and died in a Military Hospital in Topeka Kansas and is buried there. Henry & Hannah Mills Hammer are both both buried in Friends Cemetery in Jasper County. (source: Ancestors & Descendants 1683-1983 Abraham Hammer of Philadelphia County, Pa & Randolph Co, NC by Harriette J. Hammer.) Samuel and Mary Ballinger MillsSon Samuel Mills married Mary Bell Ballinger, daughter of Moses and Hannah Allen Ballinger, on 19 March 1839 at Lost Creek MM, Jefferson County, Tennessee. Children listed at Lost Creek MM include: John (b 12/6/1796); Nathan (b. 9/30/1799); Lydia (b. 4/20/1802); Hannah (b 8/1/1804); Sarah (b. 3/31/1809); Alice (b 5/24/1811) Rachel (b 3/7/1815).Son Nathan married Sarah Larrance, daughter of Richard and Jane Hammond Larrance on 2/2/1818 in Jefferson County, Tn. They had children: Branson (b 12/7/1818 m. Elizabeth Elmore); Nacy (b. 1821 d 1823); Mary Jane (b 3/26/1823 m. John Elmore); Elihu (b. 1825 d. 1827); Jesse Mills (b. 2/13/1829); John (b.9/11/1831); Richard (b. 2/5/1834); Samuel (b. 3/15/1836); Alice (b. 5/27/1838 m. Lewis Letner); Sarah (b. 8/26/1841 m. George Cook); Nathan (b. 8/24/1844). Daughter Hannah married Israel Patton, son of Samuel Patton 19 Jun 1822 in Jefferson County, Tn. They had son Samuel b abt 1823 in Tn (married Anna Frazier, dau of James and Edith Millikan Frazier 31 Jan 1848 in Il.) Israel and Hannah moved to Vermilion County, Ill about 1827 and had children: William (abt 1827) Nathan (abt 1829 served Civil War); John (abt 1833 served Civil War); Sarah (abt 1836); Louisa (abt 1839); Lydia (abt 1842); Milliken Moore (abt 1844 served Civil War); H (b. abt 1846). Warren Carah helped us with this family and shared a copy of a letter from Hannah to son Milliken in 1862). |