"… Susannah _____, her given name from Samuel's will dated 20 Dec. 1685, proved the 2nd Tues. in March 1685/6 [9 Mar 1685/86]. In spite of what has appeared in print in numerous places, her maiden name was probably not Mills. When Samuel gave to his daughters Alice and Susannah five acres of land 'I bought of my brother Zachariah Mills,' he was referring to the husband of his own sister Abigail. On 26 March 1686 Zachariah Mills sold land to Susannah Messenger and on the same date Susannah confirmed an exchange of land 'made betwene my deseaced husband Samuell Mesinger and Zachariah Mills.' … Cook [Lewis D. Cook, A Documentary History of the Family of Mills, Descended from George Mills of Hempstead and Jamaica, Long Island, 1656, ms. at New York Genealogical and Biographical Society (FHL 1,697,455), 15n.] does not claim Susannah Mills as a child of George1 Mills; nor does it seem that Richard1 Mills who lived for a short time in nearby Newtown (now in Queens) had a daughter Susannah."
