Person:Ambrose Mills (4)

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Col. Ambrose Mills
b.1722 Derbyshire, England
d.1 Oct 1780 Biggerstaff's Farm, Rutherford, NC
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  1. Col. Ambrose Mills1722 - 1780
  2. William Henry Mills1727 - 1807
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m. 1745
  1. William Henry Mills1746 - 1834
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Name Col. Ambrose Mills
Gender Male
Birth? 1722 Derbyshire, England
Marriage 1745 VARIN: MH:FF26
to Mourning Stone
Death? 1 Oct 1780 Biggerstaff's Farm, Rutherford, NCCause: Hung from a tree, convicted of being a Tory
Burial? Kings Mt, Military Park, North Carolina, or VA

White Oak Plantation, located in Tryon, was originally part of a land grant by King George II to the Ambrose Mills family and is steeped in American Revolutionary history.


Loyalist Colonel Ambrose Mills was made a prisoner at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The victors at Kings Mountain immediately marched north with their prisoners, finally stopping at Biggerstaff’s plantation near Gilbertown, NC not far from Col. Andrew Hampton’s home place. There they tried, convicted and condemned to the hangman’s noose thirty-six of the vilest Loyalists, including Ambrose Mills. In the end, only Mills and eight others were hanged.

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