Mills - Bissell Research

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Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Related WikiTree Profiles & Pages 2 Bibiographic Review 2.1 Great Migration Directory 2.2 Torrey NE Marriages 2.3 Other Sources 2.3.1 Mary & John Sources

Introduction

The purpose of this page is to collect sources for the purpose of evaluating the possibility that the first wife of Simon Mills of Windsor was Sarah Bissell, daughter of John Bissell (abt.1591-1677), and other questions:

• What is the evidence that Simon Mills was a passenger on the Mary and John?
• What is the evidence that Simon Mills had a wife prior to Jone/Joan? If there is convincing evidence, what evidence is there that her name was Sarah? Is there any evidence that she was a Bissell?
• Were there two Simon Mills in Windsor (father and son), or only one who married both Jone and Mary Buell?

Related WikiTree Profiles & Pages

• Sara (Bissell) Mills (1619-abt.1637)
• Symon Mills Sr. (1613-1661)
• John Bissell (abt.1591-1677)
• https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/1651373/propose-that-sara-bissell-mills-disconnected-bissell-family

Bibiographic Review

Great Migration Directory

Bissell, John: Unknown; 1639; Windsor [Grant 10, 23; CCCR 1:55; WiLR 1:53; TAG 26:84-94, 185-86, 27:100-1, 232-33; Windsor Hist 2:76-77].

Mills, Simon: Unknown; 1639; Windsor [WiLR 1:75; WMJ 447, 798; TAG 36:127-28, 54:73-75; Goodwin-Morgan 1:111-22; Eunice M. Lamb, The John-Simon Mills Line of Windsor and Simsbury, Connecticut (Burlington, Vermont, 1968)]. Key to sources

• McCracken, George E., and Donald Lines Jacobus. "The Mythical? Simon Mills of Windsor." The American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr 1960) 36:127-28. FamilySearch, Film # 007965618
• McCracken, George E. "William Buell & Early Descendants." The American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Apr, Jul 1978) 54:73-75. AmericanAncestors (subscription required)
• Starr, Frank Farnsworth. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut (Hartford, Conn., 1915) vol 1, p 111-22. Internet Archive Notes: No mention of wife Sarah. Thorough review of original records
• Lamb, Eunice M. The John-Simon Mills Line of Windsor and Simsbury,Connecticut (Burlington, Vermont,1968), https://archive.org/details/johnsimonmillsli00lamb/page/n7 (Borrow)

Torrey NE Marriages

Key to Sources Bolded sources below are duplicates from the Great Migration Directory entries. Links are added when the references are brief, and not responsive to the key questions.

• MILLS, Simon & 1/wf Jone ____ (-bur 5 Jul 1659); 18 Oct 1639; Windsor, CT {Windsor CT VR 194, 302; Windsor CT 2:500; Goodwin-Morgan 1:111; TAG 24:43, 36:120} (Note no additional entry in Torrey 3rd edition)
• MILLS, Simon (-1683) & 2/wf Mary BUEL (?1642-1718), m/2 Samuel BISSELL bef 1697; prob wrong 23 Feb 1656, 23 Feb 1659, [1659/60]; Windsor, CT/Simsbury {Bissell Anc. 163; TAG 9:59, 24:43, 35:23, 36:128; Drake (1933) 19; Hartford Prob. 1:280, 335, 359; Windsor CT VR 46, 194; Windsor CT 2: 179, 500; Goodwin-Morgan 111, 119; Barber 53; Grant 3; Nash Anc. 131; Sv 1:289; Mills (1896) 5; Buell (1881) 29] (Note no additional entry in Torrey 3rd edition)

• Stiles, Henry Reed. The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., Hartford, Connecticut, 1892) v2, p 500 Internet Archive
• Mills, Susan Lawrence. Genealogy of the Mills Family. De Vinne Press 1896. p 5.HathiTrust

Other Sources

• Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England (Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1862) v3 p 215, Internet Archive.
• Mills, Katie R. History of the Simon Mills Family through His Son John Mills and Grandson Joseph Mills of Simsbury Conn. Mills. (1975?) vol 1 https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS8D-ST5Z?i=251&cat=1530
• WeRelate: Simon Mills (1) Good notes on sources reviewing the question of one or two Simon Mills.
• Vera Elizabeth Mills Haege. The Mills family : twelve generations descended from Pilgrim Simon Mills I from Yorkshire (1963) https://archive.org/details/millsfamilytwelv00haeg/page/n41/mode/2up
• "The Mills Family Ventures to America" a personal website, with extracts from History of the Simon Mills Family through His Son John Mills. and The Mills family : twelve generations descended from Pilgrim Simon Mills I from Yorkshire [This website refers to "Ralph Mills in his History of the Simon Mills Family V3" and "Genes book The History of the Simon Mills Family vol. 6" These appear under the same title as Katie R. Mills book, but seem to be later additions and should be treated as separate publications. I also could not find them online. The authors of the website appear to be deceased. Cole-12288 14:15, 24 October 2023 (UTC) ]

Mary & John Sources

• Anderson, Robert Charles. "The Mary & John: Developing Objective Criteria for a Synthetic Passenger List." NEHGR vol 147 (1993) p 148ff American Ancestors (subscription required) [No mention of Simon Mills]
• Kuhns, Maude Pinney. The "Mary and John". A Story of The Founding of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1630. (Tuttle Pub. Co., Rutland, Vermont, 1943) pp 5-6. HathiTrust [Note: no Mills or Bissells appear on the reconstructed passenger list. It looks like Simon Mills does appear in the pedigree though?. Cole-12288 14:15, 24 October 2023 (UTC)]