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Dance Macabre in Glen Falls, NY [src]

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Glen Falls Hike in the Blue Ridge Mountains

We didn’t quite make it all the way to the 200 ft cascading waterfall - our friend who hiked on, said we were almost there when we thought Artie was going to have a melt down... hiking with babies is hardddd (as is most other things).  

No meltdown ensued after we began our decent. Artie hiked the entire way up and down pretty much on her own while I carried TR on my back because we are badasses. https://www.hikewnc.info/besthikes/nantahala-ranger-district/glen-falls

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Along New Hampshire Route 16 The Ellis River at Jackson, New Hampshire. Photo by Bruce Stambaugh There’s a lot to like about driving on Pinkham Notch Road, which is New Hampshire Route 16....

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American Auto Trail-Glen Falls Lake Champlain Route (Hudson Falls to Middle Granville NY)

American Auto Trail-Glen Falls Lake Champlain Route (Hudson Falls to Middle Granville NY) https://youtu.be/wm-FO42QN9c This American auto trail explores along the routes of the Champlain Canal and the Delaware & Hudson Railroad, from Hudson Falls to Middle Glanville, New York.

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From Glens Falls to Chester: John Mills, farmers, and living in Warren County

This was originally the second chapter in my family history on the Mills family, but has been adapted and changed for this blog. All the sources are noted in a bibliographic essay at the end of this post, with maps and other photos throughout. Enjoy! This was originally posted on the WordPress version of this post. It has been split in a few posts so it is more readable on here.

By 1850, John Mills had been living in Warren County, New York for twelve years. He was a US citizen and married to a person, considered an “alien” by US immigration law, named Margaret Bibby. Both John and Margaret were born in Ireland as was noted in the last chapter. The first signs of the Mills family from this writer, and many others descend, was clearly shown.

The Mills family was living in Glens Falls in a dwelling, which was described  in census documents as "dwelling 123." John was a carpenter, listed as 44 years old, and his wife Margaret was said to be age 26. They had five children who were: Hetabella (age 9), Joseph (age 5), Thomas (age 4), Edward (age 3), and Dorothy A (age 1). The latter daughter, Dorothy or Dora Ann, would become the mother of RBM II in later years. This age-range would seem to say that John and Margaret were married sometime before 1841. However, as noted in the previous chapter, a land deed shows them together by 1845 while family lore says they married in 1839. Hetabella’s death certificate is no help here as it misstates her year of birth as 1850. What is clear is that, by this time, the John Mills in Ballysheehan Civil Parish in 1827 was not listed in Griffth’s Valuation of land owned in 1850 as noted by ConnorsGenealogy. After all, John Mills had moved from Ireland with his roots beginning to grow stronger in Warren County.

As noted by the 1850 census itself, Glens Falls village, within the town of Queensburg, was a primarily agricultural and working-class community. This evident because on the same page of the census as the Mills family are five marble sawyers, two laborers, a teamster, a boatman, a sawyer, a shoemaker, and a quarryman. Many of these laborers also seemed to be from Ireland, undoubtedly affecting the cultural and social scene in the area. One of these laborers, either named Ewell Fobes or Ewell Nabe, John Mills attested on his behalf since this individual was possibly his neighbor.

Five years later, the Mills family had moved to Bolton (figure 2.1), about 19 miles from Glens Falls (and even more if one went around Lake George). This would be one of the many movements of the Mills family over the years, not moving very far (figure 2.2). It seems to say that the exact location of where they lived did not have permanence, perhaps due to the occupation of John Mills.

Figure 2.1. Mills families in Bolton in 1855

Figure 2.2. Movements of Mills family over the years (all in Warren county except Minerva). From 1835-1841 they lived in Chester, from 1842-1849 also presumably Chester. From 1849-1854? in Glens Falls and from 1855-1860 in Bolton. Later, from 1865-1875 in Chester. And finally ending in Minerva, Essex Co in 1876. Graphic produced using Google Earth Pro.

The Mills family, in Bolton, in 1855, was headed by John Mills, age 50 and a miller, and his wife Margaret, age 30. While this census unfortunately only has initials for everyone except a few (such as John and Margaret’s 12-year-old daughter, Hatabella or Hattie), it does show that they had six other children including: 9-year-old J. B. (Joseph B.), 8-year-old T (Thomas), 6-year-old E (Edward), 4-year-old D.A. (Dora A), 1-year-old M.A. (Margaret A), and a baby who was half-a-month old, J C (John C). While the ages of all of the individuals should not be completely trusted with face value, especially in the 18th century, as census takers made mistakes, they do give a general picture of the family. First off, consider that they were only one of the many Mills families in Bolton at the time.

When the Mills family was there it was mainly was dominated by farmers. Other occupations of the populace were teachers, carpenters, merchants, blacksmiths, and millwrights. So the town was like Glens Falls but also different. All have wood structures had homes, including the Mills family. The same year, a naturalization law passes saying that “the rights of citizenship shall not descend to persons whose fathers never resided in the United States” but that “any woman who might lawfully be naturalized under the existing laws, married, or who shall be married to a citizen of the United States, shall be deemed and taken to be a citizen.” This will become important later.

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