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Title: Records of the town of Smithtown, Long Island, N.Y. (electronic resource) : with other ancient documents of historic value
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Smithtown (N.Y. : Town) Pelletreau, William S. (William Smith), 1840-1918
Subjects: Smithtown (N.Y. : Town) -- History Sources
Publisher: Huntington, N.Y. : Long-Islander Print
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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kinson at Elizabethtown, N. J. Notwithstanding his youth, he wasmade a trustee of the College of New Jersey, now Princeton Univer-sity, in 1750, and he also acted as president of the college for aboutone year. His first wife was the youngest daughter of Rev. JonathanDickinson, the first president of the college, His second wife was thedaughter of the honorable Major Foot, of Branford, Conn. His de-scendants are quite numerous, and several of them have been highlydistinguished in their respective callings; among these are the Hon.Henry M. Green, LL. D., late Chancellor of New Jersey ; WilliamHenry Green, D. D., LL. D., professor in the seminary, and who waschosen president of the college in the spring of 1868, but declined ; andthe princely merchant and philanthropist, the late John C. Green, ofNew York, from whom Princeton University has received such munif-icent gifts, in memory of his eminent ancestors. Hills Family. George Mills was one of the earliest settlers in Jamaica, L. I. He
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APPENDIX. 493 left four sons. One of them, Jonathan, married Martha Halstead. Hisson, Timothy Mills, was born in 1667. He came to Smithtown in 1705, and purchased land at Mills Pond. He married first. Elizabeth , second, Sarah Longbotham. His children were Miriam, Deliverance,Timothy, Jonas, Jonathan, Sarah, Samuel, Jacob, Martha, Ruth, wife ofEleazar Hawkins, Mary and Elizabeth. Jonathan Mills was born Oct. 23, 1710. He married Ruth Rudyard,and had a large family, among them a son, Zophar Mills, who settledat Wading River, where he married Deliverance, daughter of JohnMiller. Their children were Zophar. Frances, and Nathaniel. Nathaniel Mills settled on Staten Island, where he had a large estate.He married Huldah Reeve. Their children were Sophia, Mahlon,Frances, George W., Huldah M., Zophar, and Sophronia E. Zophar Mills (son of Nathaniel,) was born at No. 10 Gold Street,New York, Sept. 23, 1809. He entered business life first as office boyand afterwards as partner with Robert M. Bl

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