Mills 6 JOHN, Black Point, wit. deed to Winter 12 July 1638 and depos. in 1640 that he had kn. Casco Bay 13 or 14 yrs. List 21. Long after, Francis Robinson depos. that ± 1643 he bounded out the Cammock patent, one bound being on E. side of river called Mills river and near Mills’ ho. on other side of river. See also Y. D. 4: 43; Doc. Hist. vol. 3 (by index). Scarb. wit. 1664 (Y. D. 2: 139). Geo. Knight’s est. owed one J. M. in 1671. Adm. 7 Oct. 1673 to Walter Gendall on behalf of John (jr.). His w. Sarah was appar. called Mary in 1667 (Me. P. & Ct. i: 334). Poss. John d. long bef. 1673, as in 1665 one Sarah was sued for the minister’s stipend. The wid. wit. in the Gendall case and Wm. Lucas depos. about Gendall meeting Sarah and her s.-in-law Winnock on the Neck. Turning Quakers, the fam. was often prosec. for abs. from meeting, and “Mary and Sarah became ‘vagabond’ ‘travelling’ Quaker missionaries. Ch: Mary, claimed Salem as her home in 1661 when exam, in Mass, as Mary Miles of Black Point, Quaker, but in Me. at later periods, and called of Bl. Pt. in Suff. ct. 1677; in 1719 she was wid. Mary Gifford of Sandwich (Y. D. 9: 170). Sarah. See George Garland (2) whom she may have mar. By 1676 she m. Joseph Winnock whom her bro. John unsuc. sued in 1686. James.
Garland GEORGE, tenant at Nonesuch under Jordan, best kn. for his marital dime, with Sarah Mills and Wid. Hitchcock. Found first in Ct. 2 July 1662, for freq. Sarah Mills’s ho., when susp. of having a w. in Eng.; both indicted for liv. together in Nov. 1665, again in Sept. 1668, when ord. to mar. within a mo. Sarah G., ‘a kn. vagabond Quaker coming from Black Point,’ ord. whipped from town to town, Boston to Scarb., Aug. 1668. He was oft. abs. from meeting. Sued by John Parker for debt 1667. His intended mar. with Lucretia, wid. of Lt. Richard Hitchcock, was forbidden 10 Sept. 1672, he still owning hims. Sarah Mills’s husb.; despite Ct. proceedings and his flogging, their relations contin. until her death, when he disapp., poss. k. at the same time. P. & Ct. ii. Ch. by Lucretia: Jabez.
Garland 3 JABEZ (2), Dover, witn. deed of br.-in-law James Emery (3) 2 Jan. 1694, and appar. liv. early at Berwick. An attempted ret. to his mo.’s old home ended in Aug. 1703 when his garri. at Winter Harbor was taken. In N. H. he sued Wm. Frost in Sept. 1705. K. by Ind. 1710, called by rumor Jacob. List 96. W. Dorcas Heard (5). Ch. rec. Dover: Jabez, b. 19 Feb. 1693-4, m. one Abigail who was liv. 1736. List 358d. Ch. rec.: Reuben, b. 20 Feb. 1723. Dorcas, b. 3 Apr. 1698, m. Ephraim Bicker. Rebecca, b. 25 Jan. 1699-1700. One Rebecca of Biddef. m. (int. 22 Aug. 1736) Walter Murch. Ebenezer, b. 14 Mar. 1703-4, m. 2 Mar. 1720-1 Abigail Powell, who d. 28 Feb. 1770. Will, of Somersw., 1777-1778. 5 ch. Nathaniel, b. 12 Apr. 1706, bp. on sick bed 8 Mar. 1740-1; adm. 27 Apr. 1742 to wid. Sarah. Ch. Lydia, b. 17 Feb. 1707-8. Presum. unrec. ch: ?Elizabeth, m. 16 Nov. 1720 Jos. Bicker. ?Hannah, m. bef. 1717 John Bicker. ?John, m. Elizabeth Downes (Tho. 6 jr.). 3 or m. ch.
