When Sarah "Jane" Emma Mills was born on 11 April 1822, in Livingston, New York, United States, her father, John Heindrick Mills, was 42 and her mother, Elizabeth Dietz, was 40. She married Ora Pearson Farrar on 31 January 1844, in Lapeer, Michigan, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Grand Blanc, Genesee, Michigan, United States in 1850. She died on 9 February 1889, in Atlas, Genesee, Michigan, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Grand Blanc, Genesee, Michigan, United States.
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The Crimes Act was made to provide a clearer punishment of certain crimes against the United States. Part of it includes: Changing the maximum sentence of imprisonment to be increased from seven to ten years and changing the maximum fine from $5,000 to $10,000.
During the years 1799 to 1827, New York went through a period of gradual emancipation. A Gradual Emancipation Law was passed in 1799 which freed slave children born after July 4, 1799. However, they were indentured until 25 years old for women and 28 years old for men. A law passed 1817 which freed slaves born before 1799, yet delayed their emancipation for ten years. All remaining slaves were freed in New York State on July 4, 1827.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .
English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.
Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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