Richard Mills of Stratford, Connecticut; or is it New Haven, Long Island, or Westchester?

by John A. Drobnicki
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Primary Sources

(1)Unpublished Documents:

Court Records of the Town of Newtown, Queens County, 1658-1690. 2 vols. Copied by Leland Fielder (WPA Project). Typescript, 1940. Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library. [Cited above as Newtown Court Recs. Page references above are to the typescript volumes, not to the original manuscripts that Fielder transcribed from.]

Milford Vital Records, 1640- 1850. Barbour Collection, Connecticut State Library.

Records of the Town of Newtown. 2 vols. Copied by Leland Fielder (WPA Project). Typescript, 1939-40. Long Island Division, Queens Borough Public Library. [Cited above as Newtown Town Recs. Page references above are to the typescript volumes, not to the original manuscripts that Fielder transcribed from.]

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Stamford Land Records. Vol. A: 1666-1709. Vol. B: 1709-1750. Manuscript. Microfilm copy, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. [Cited above as Stamford Land Recs.]

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(2) Published Documents:

Brookhaven Town Records, 1662-1679. Ed. Archibald C. Weeks. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1924. [Cited above as Brookhaven Recs.]

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"Hertfordshire Emigrants in 1636." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, LIV (July 1900), 352. [Cited above as NEHGR.]

The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut. 15 vols. Ed. J. Hammond Trumbull and Charles J. Hoadly. 1850-90; rpt. New York: AMS Press and Johnson Reprint Corp., 1968. [Cited above as Ct. Col. Recs.]

Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, from 1638 to 1649. Ed. Charles J. Hoadly. Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1857. [Cited above as New Haven Recs., I.]

Records of the Colony or Jurisdiction of New Haven, from May 1653 to the Union. Ed. Charles J. Hoadly. Hartford: Case, Lockwood and Company, 1858. [Cited above as New Haven Docs., II.]

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"Stamford (Conn.) Town Records." The American Genealogist, X (Oct. 1933), 110-118.

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Vital Records of New Haven, 1649-1850. Hartford: The Connecticut Society of the Order of the Founders and Patriots of America, 1917.
 

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Abbott, Susan Woodruff, comp. Families of Early Milford, Connecticut. Ed. Jacquelyn L. Ricker. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1979.

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Bolton, Robert. The History of the Several Towns, Manors, and Patents of the County of Westchester. Revised ed. 2 vols. Ed. C. W. Bolton. New York: C. F. Roper, 1881.

Calder, Isabel M. The New Haven Colony. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1934.

Dexter, Franklin Bowditch, comp. Historical Catalogue of the Members of the First Church of Christ in New Haven, Connecticut (Center Church), A.D. 1639-1914. New Haven: n.p., 1914.

Holmes, Frank R., comp. Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700. New York: The American Historical Society, 1923.

Howell, George Rogers. The Early History of Southampton, L.I., New York, with Genealogies. 2nd enlarged ed. Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1887.

Huntington, Elijah Baldwiin. History of Stamford, Connecticut, 1641-1868. Stamford: The Author, 1868.

Jacobus, Donald Lines, comp. Additions and Corrections to History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield. Issued as a supplement to The American Genealogist, Oct. 1943.

________, comp. The Families of Ancient New Haven. Vols. I-VIII (1922-32) of New Haven Genealogical Magazine/American Genealogist.

________. "Francis Nichols of Stratford." The American Genealogist, IX (July 1932), 9-12.

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Mead, Spencer P. Ye Historie of Ye Town of Greenwich, County of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, with Genealogical Notes. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1911.

Moore, James W., comp. Rev. John Moore of Newtown, Long Island, and Some of His Descendants. Easton, Pa.: Chemical Publishing Co., 1903.

Nicholls, Walter. Sergeant Francis Nicholls of Stratford, Connecticut, 1639, and the Descendants of His Son Caleb Nicholls. New York: The Grafton Press, 1909. [This book incorrectly traces the ancestry of Francis Nichols, having confused him with the Nicholls/ Nicolls family.]

Nichols, Leon Nelson. The Nichols Family in America. New Haven: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1919.

Orcutt, Samuel. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut. 2 vols. New Haven: Published under the auspices of the Fairfield County Historical Society by Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1886.

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Ullmann, Helen Schatvet. "Richard Mills, Seventeenth-Century Schoolmaster in Connecticut and New York." New England Historical and Genealogical Register, CLIV (Apr. 2000), 189-210. [Note: Ullmann's article was not yet written when this article was originally published.]

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Wilcoxson, William Howard. History of Stratford, Connecticut, 1639-1939. Stratford: Published under the auspices of the Stratford Tercentenary Commission, 1939.


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