Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
Pioneers of St. Clair County, Michigan - Person Sheet
NameGeorge MILLS , 394
BirthBedford, Westchester, New York1826
Death1794, at sea1087,7728
BurialSaint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada1087
FlagsEldest Child
FatherDavid MILLS , 183 (~1730-~1829)
MotherRebecca HOLMES (~1739-1809)
Individual Notes
• George Mills, son of David and Rebecca Mills married Phoebe ___?___. In 1794 George, his wife Phoebe and two children took passage from New York in a vessel bound for Saint John, New Brunswick. George died on the vessel before it landed in Saint John and was buried in Saint John. His widow and children then came to Nova Scotia and lived for some time with her father-in-law, David Mills, and later married a man by the name of ___?___ Crawford and of them have no information. In 1818 Phoebe went to Iona, Ontario.1086

• In 1794 their [David and Rebecca Mills] eldest son, George, his wife Phoebe and children, David and Nathaniel, five and three years of age, took passage from New York in a vessel bound for Saint John, N. B. George Mills died on board before the vessel landed and was buried at Saint John.98

• George, grandfather of Hon. David, with his wife and two children started from New York for Nova Scotia in 1794. He died on the passage and was buried at St. John, N. B. and his wife came to her father’s.6257
Spouses
Deathaft 1818, Iona?, Elgin, Ontario, Canada1086
Marriageabt 1788, Bedford, Westchester, New York1087,1826
ChildrenDavid , 756 (~1789-1829)
 Nathaniel , 757 (1791-1860)
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Updated 19 May 2025
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