Samuel Mills enlisted into the Army (Continental Line of New Hampshire) at Walpole, New Hampshire and served from 16 February 1781 to 25 December 1783. He was 18 years old at enlistment and held the rank of Private. He fought in the Battle of Yorktown and and participated in the capture of General Cornwallis and his British Army.
In a document from Samuel’s Military Record, he states that: He joined the Army at the Highlands of the state of New York, from thence marched to Kings Bridge and being in the Commissary General’s Guard was detached to go to the Southard, and went to King’s Ferry on the North River and from thence to Philadelphia. From thence, to the head of Elk River, thence shipped on board a schooner, went down to the mouth of James River, thence up said river, landed and marched to Williamsburg, and from thence to York Town, and was through the whole siege and capture of Cornwallis. About the 10th of November, returned back to his Regiment, stationed on the Mohawk River, from thence marched to Newburgh and from thence to West Point where he was discharged on Christmas day 1783.
After his release from duty, Samuel resided in Vermont. This may have been in Chittenden County, but I tend to think that Samuel, at one time, lived in Sunderland, Bennington County, Vermont. For more information on this subject see “A Mini-History of Burlington and some of Its Early Inhabitants” by Lilian Baker. This describes how the early inhabitants left the towns in Chittenden County during the Revolutionary War when the British invaded this area. After the war these inhabitants returned to their homes.
Samuel Mills birth documentation is his cemetery headstone and census records of Shelburne, Vermont. From the census, Samuel’s occupation was a farmer.
Samuel Mills was a Revoltionary Soldier who fought at Bunker Hill and is buried in Webb Cemetery, Shelburne, Vermont. He came to Shelburne in 1785/8 and was the son of ROBERT MILLS, who came from England and is also buried in Shelburne near the Gage Meeting House.
References and Notes
Cassidy, Mrs. J. M., of Richmond, Vermont.
Church Records (Vermont), LDS Film #6594 part 1, 2nd part, page 116).
Samuel served in the American Revolutionary War enlisted in Walpole, New Hampshire. (Doc. #M004) American Rev. War Pension Application (U.S. #W.7450).
Vital Records (Marriages) of Vermont to 1870, Burial Records of Shelburne, Vermont. Samuel Mills to Eunice COMSTOCK(1), 27 June 1785.
Marriage Record, Sunderland, Vermont, Volume 3, Page 6, “Sunderland Land Records”. Phoebe Howard CHAPPEL(2), 10 February 1813 Marriage Record.