Three generations of Mills left Virginia for Guilford Co, North
Carolina. John Mills lead his son, Henry and family into the new region.
Henry's son Aaron Mills met and married Charity Mendenhall there.
Aaron & Charity Mills and family were granted certificates from Deep
River Monthly Meeting in North Carolina to Westfield Monthly Meeting on
1/7/1793. Westfield Monthly Meeting in Surry County received certificates
for those moving to the waters of the Holston River in future Tennessee.
Aaron Mills died at Lost Creek, Jefferson County, Tennessee, while his youngest
child was still a baby. He left the following will:
"I Aaron Mills of the County of Jefferson, and Western Territory
South river Ohio, this third day of the eighth month in the year of our
Lord 1794, being in perfect health of body mind and memory, but calling
to mind the mortaility of my body, and knowing that its appointed for all
men to die, I make and ordain this my last will and Testament and as touching
such worldly Estate as it has pleased the almighty to bless me with in
this life, I give and dispose of the same in manner and form following.
I give and bequeath to my loving wife Charity all and the whole
of my Estate during her natural life, for the support, education and bringing
up, of my Children, believing that she will do the best in her power for
their preservation everyway, and what shall remain of my Estate at the
decease of my wife, I will and desire that it may be equally divided amongst
my Children then living, born before, or after this time. And lastly I
do hereby appoint my trusty Friends Elihu Swain and Samuel Mills to be
my Executors jointly with each other to this my lasty will and Testament.
And I do hereby disannul, revoke and make void all other wills by me made,
ratifying this, and no other, to be my last will and testament. Whereunto
I have set my hand and seal the day and year above written.
Published in the presence of us (no names)
/s/Aaron Mills (seal)"
Charity Mills would out live Aaron by 42 years, dying in Wayne Co, In,
on 2/19/1836. |