Family:William Mills and Eunice Eddy (1)

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Marriage[1][2] 4 Mar 1772 Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
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  1. Oxford, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Oxford, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Worcester, Massachusetts: Franklin P. Rice, 1906)
    p. 207.

    MILLS, William Jr. of Needham and Eunice Eddy, March 4, 1772.

  2. Very few sources that discuss this marriage identify the husband. Source:Crane, Ellery B. Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1, p. 331, identifies Eunice Eddy as the 3rd wife of William Mills, Jr. of Needham, b. about 1725. But its information is clearly lacking input from the Needham Vital Records, which show their William Mills, Jr., was born in 1718 instead of "about 1725", and that he had a son William b. 1746, of which Crane seems unaware. Thus he would not be having another son named William in 1774, as William and Eunice did in Warwick, while at the same time, this son is a more appropriate age go be marrying in Oxford in 1772 Eunice Eddy b. 1746. William the father stayed in Needham where he d. 1801, age 84. In 1772 he was married to 2nd wife Sarah Whittemore and had a child by her in 1772. "Notes from the Account Books of William Mills", found in History of Needham, p. 51, has an entry "November ye 21: 1772 thanksfiven day the weeke before thanksfiven my son william mills Caime down from warwick to borde at my house and to work for himselfe ... my son set of[f] to warwick Apriel ye 13-1772."