Mills of Lincoln & Wilkes Counties

Alexander Mills was granted 150 acres of land on Pistol Creek in 1773, having come to Georgia from South Carolina with a wife, 5 sons, and 2 daughters. He made his LWT in Wilkes County dated 1777, naming his wife, Alice and 14 children. In 1792, Alice Mills was in Wilkes County Tax Digest. Between 1798 and 1803, she deeded her land on Pistol Creek to her children, viz: James, William and Sallie. Alice Mills deeded to her son, William Mills, for love and affection, both of Lincoln County, land on Pistol Creek :whereon said Alice Mills has for many years resided, 300 acres, on 27 September 1798. (Lincoln County Deed Book B, page 52-53. Alice Mills of Lincoln County deeded to Salley Mills, for love and affection, 90 acres of land on Pistol Creek, bounded by William Mills, John Fullilove, when surveyed, but now by Thomas C. Russell, John Gamble and vacant land, on 25 April 1800 (Wilkes County Deed Book D, page 253). Issue:[1]

• Agnes Mills married Mr. Thompson.
• Abigail Mills married 27 December 1785, Dr. John Mackay.
• Margaret Mills married Mr. Baker.
• Sarah Mills.
• Elizabeth Mills.
• Tone Mills. I. Alexander Mills.
• Gilbert Mills.
• John Mills married Lucy, died 1807. His LWT dated 14 December 1807 in Wilkes County named wife, Lucy and the children. Issue:
  1. Charles Carter Mills married Sarah T. Daniel.
  2. Nancy Mills married Mr. Simons in 1798.
  3. Sarah Mills married on 31 December 1818 in Wilkes County, Elisha Betts.
  4. Matilda Mills.
  5. Polly Mills married Mr. Porter.
  6. Rebecca Mills married Mr. Hart.
  7. Deborah Mills married Mr. Grant.
  8. Lucy Mills married Edward Moore.
  9. Stephen Mills.
• James Mills was born in 1768, died July 1859 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. He married Elizabeth Taylor (born 1770 in North Carolina, died 1853 in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama), the daughter of Charles and Anna Taylor. Issue:
  1. Sarah Mills, born 1797 in Wilkes County married Samuel Johnson.
  2. Absalom Mills, born 1798 in Wilkes County, married Elizabeth.
  3. Martha Mills, born 1802 in Wilkes County, died October 1833, married Abram Berry.
  4. Harriet Mills, born 1804 in Wilkes County.
  5. Benagy S. Mills, born 1808 in Wilkes County, died 1867, married Darcas Fox.
  6. Eliza Mills, born 1811 in Wilkes County, married Samuel Mayfield.
  7. James Milton Mills, born 1814 in Wilkes County, died 25 March 1872, married on 8 June 1837, Unity Hughes.
• William Mills of Washington County married Celah. "On the first Thursday in March next, will be sold at the late residence of William Mills, deceased in Washington County, all of the personal estate. On the same day will be rented till the first of January 1816, the plantation whereon the deceased lived. James and Celah Mills, Administrators." The Georgia Journal dated 18 January 1815.
• Absalom Mills married on 16 November 1799 in Wilkes County, Miss Mary Cash. Jesse Mills. Jesse and David A. Mills of Lincoln Conty deeded to Josiah McCall on 21 March 1803 a tract of land being part of an old survey plat laid out for the heirs of Alexander Mills, registered in Book XXX, Folio 90, beginning at the Northside of Newford Creek at a branch adjoining Alexander Moss and Duncan Bohannon, North to the land of David Mills, etc. (Lincoln County Deed Book C, page 109-110.
• David Alexander Mills. The State vs. David Mills. Grandjury, November Term of Court, 1808. He was charged with stealing a steer from Henry Pears. Found Not Guilty. (The Wilkes County Papers 1773-1833, page 181). On 5 February 1804, David A. Mills and his wife, Mary, deeded to Jesse Mills and Alexander Moss land on Newford Creek, adjoining lands of Alexander Moss, Duncan Bohannon, it being part of a tract granted to the heirs of Alexander Mills on 20 September 1792, containing 150 acres. (Lincoln County Deed Book D, page 164-165).