Sergeant
Benjamin
Mills
Born in Meadow Plain, Hartford, Connecticut
Ancestors 
Son of Joseph Mills I
and Hannah (Adams) Mills
Brother of
Joseph Mills II, Michael Mills, Hannah (Mills) Field, Samuel Mills, Amasa Mills, Ezekiel Adolphus Mills, Daniel Mills, Simeon Mills, Sarah (Mills) Cowles, Andrew Mills, Thankful (Mills) Wilcox and Ephraim Mills
Husband of
Hannah (Humphrey) Mills
— married
12 Dec 1757 in Simsbury, Hartford CT
Descendants 
Father of
Benjamin Mills Jr., Lois (Mills) Foote, Elkanah Mills, Dudley Mills, Hannah Cyrene (Mills) Humphrey, Cosmilly (Mills) Leete, Thankful (Mills) Slocumb, Thaddeus Mills, Lemuel Mills, Lucretia (Mills) Case, Betsy Mills and Philemon Mills
Died
at age 92
in Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 1 Jul 2011
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Biography
Captain Benjamin Mills served with Col. Philip Burr Bradley's Battalion, Wadsworth's Brigade, Continental Army during the American Revolution.
Benjamin Mills is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A079846.
Benjamin Mills 13 Feb 1737 in Simsbury Township, Hartford County, Connecticut. His father was Joseph Mills. [1] He married Hannah Humphrey. Benjamin Mills died in 1829, at the age of 91. [2]
When aged he was quite deaf and allowed to ascend the pulpit and stand aside Rev. Jeremiah Hallock to hear the sermon. [3]
Sources
- ↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F745-H25 : accessed 8 July 2015), Benjamin Mills, 13 Feb 1737; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
- ↑ Brown, Abiel, Genealogical history, with short sketches and family records, of the early settlers of West Simsbury, now Canton, Conn., p. 92-93, Press of Case, Tiffany, and Company, Hartford,1856; Reprinted, N. Y. 1899.
- ↑ Humphreys, Frederick, The Humphreys family in America, New York, Humphreys Print, 1885.
- Find-A-Grave Virtual Cemetery memorial #83061134 in Dyer Cemetery, Canton, Hartford County, Connecticut, USA
- Tom Bredehoft, Pettibone Registry, page 131, see K. Pontius.
- "United States Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9WB-QHVB?cc=2068326&wc=M61K-NM9%3A355080601 : 21 December 2016), 27-Connecticut (jacket 184-216) > image 161 of 573; citing NARA microfilm publication M246 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1980).
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