Following these early Quakers is both difficult and confusing since the same first names are used repeatedly in succeeding generations. Further complicating matters, siblings of one family often married siblings of another Quaker family from the same meeting house. I, too, am trying to untangle this branch of the
Mills family and have come up with the following possibility: Robert
Mills Sr. b. abt 1701 in Ireland, m. Mary
CARLETON in 1725. Their children were Sarah, William (m. Susanna
WILKESON 4 Jan 1762), Phebe, Susanna (m. 23 Nov 1763 Thomas
JENNINGS in
York Co, PA - it was a second marriage for Thomas; his first marriage was to Anna
BORTON on 30 Aug 1731 and their daughter Anna later (13 Apr 1776) married John
Mills, son of Robert
Mills Jr.), Anna, Robert
Mills Jr., John, Thomas, and James. The first witness (usually the father) at Susanna
Mills' and Thomas
JENNINGS' marriage was Robert
Mills. The second witness was Robert
Mills Jr. (probably her brother) and the third witness was James
Mills (another brother.) The lack of Mary
Mills (nee
CARLETON) suggests that Susanna's mother had already died by 1763. Robert
Mills Jr., birth date unknown but presumably after 1725, married Susanna
STEDHAM (b. 14 Apr 1729 in
York Co, PA). Robert Jr's will (written 4 Jun 1777, proved 29 Jan 1779) names James
Mills (presumably his brother)and John
Mills (his brother or son) as executors. It names his children as: Mary, Susanna, Elizabeth, and John. John
Mills, b. abt 1752 in
Warrington,
York, PA, married Anna
JENNINGS 13 Apr 1776 and their children were Thomas (b. 27 Aug 1778, married Lydia
PACKER 7 Sep 1801, d. 9 Jan 1829), Rachel (b. 20 Sept 1783, married William
WICKERSHAM 17 Apr 1805, d. 23 May 1867),Robert (will written 16 Sept 1808, proved 12 Jan 1809 names as one of his legatees his mother Ann who had married James
WICKERSHAM Jr, father of Robert's sister's husband William ), Mary (married John WALL), and Esther. Please let me know if this is consistent with information you have.