When Mary Mills was born on 20 February 1763, in Jamaica, Queens, New York, United States, her father, Rev. William Mills, was 23 and her mother, Mary Reading, was 26. She married Dr. Robert Halstead on 1 October 1787, in Elizabethtown, Essex, New Jersey, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. She died in 1798, at the age of 35.
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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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