Ancestry of
John Brown

American Abolitionist

Gideon Mills Jr.

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• • Grandfather of John Brown — 3rd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 6 
  • Father:
  • Gideon Mills 
  • Mother:
  • Elizabeth Higley   
  • Birth Date:
  • 16 Oct 1749 
  • Birth Location:
  • Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 16 Mar 1812 
  • Death Location:
  • Barkhamstead, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Barkhamsted Center Cemetery, Barkhamstead, Litchfield, Connecticut 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Ruth Humphrey
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1771 
  • Marriage Location:
  • prob. Simsbury, Hartford, Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Ruth Mills (Ahnentafel No:3 )

  • Notes: 

  • Some published sources appear to skip a generation and give Gideon Mills's parents as Peter Mills and Joanna Porter. They are his grandparents and not his parents.

• Sources for Gideon Mills Jr.

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Simsbury, p. 107, Birth record for Gideon Mills.
  • ² Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A079905.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 04/02/2015).
  • ⁴ The American Genealogist, 1959, Vol. 35, pp. 19-20.
  • ⁵ Brown, Abiel, Genealogical History with Short Sketches and Family Record of the Early Settlers of West Simsbury, Now Canton, Conn., Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company (1856), 100.
  • ⁶ Johnson, Mary Coffin, The Higleys and their Ancestry: An Old Colonial Family, New York: D. Appleton and Company (1896), 442.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, "#58 Royal Descents, Notable Kin, and Printed Sources: Elizabeth Boyd Roberts: A Genealogical Tribute with 50 New . . .", (accessed 07/08/2017).