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Individual Record
Name
Surname:
Mills
Given Name:
Mary
Soundex Code:
M420
Birth, Christening and Other Information
Gender:
Female
Orphan:
Unknown
Position in Parent's Family:
Unknown
Year of Immigration:
1657
Landowner:
Unknown
Literate:
Unknown
Convict:
Unknown
Length of Indenture
Year of Indenture:
1657
Place of Indenture
Town:
St. Clement's Manor
County:
St. Mary's
Colony:
Maryland
Master
Surname:
Cole
Given name:
Robert
Spouse
Surname:
Sheppy
Given name:
Richard
Date of Marriage:
by 1659
Research Notes
Comments:
"Sheppy (Sheppey), Mary Mills (?-?). Born: in England. Immigrated: in 1657 as a servant to Robert Cole. Resided: 'Cole's,' St. Clement's Manor, to c.1661; then in Newtown Hundred. Family Background. Kinswoman: Rebecca Cole (?-1662). Married by 1659 Richard Sheppy. Private Career. Occupational Profile: servant; then planter's wife." (1) "Sheppy (Sheppey), Richard (?-?). Born: in England. Immigrated: before 1656. Resided: St. Michael's Hundred, 1656; on 'Cole's,' St. Clement's Manor, between 1658 and 1661; in Newtown Hundred through 1684. married by 1659 Mary Mills, servant to Robert Cole. Private Career. Occupational Profile: cooper to 1666; then planter. Wealth During Lifetime. Land: patented 100 acres in 1666 and 100 acres in 1684. Additional Comments: left St. Michael's Hundred in debt; Robert Cole may have assisted him with repayment. Indicted for, but acquitted of, hog stealing in 1672. Disappeared from records after 1684." (1)
Source Citations:
(1) Lois Green Carr, Russell R. Menard and Lorena S. Walsh, Robert Cole's World: Agriculture and Society in Early Maryland (Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Published for the Institute of Early American History & Culture, 1991), 7, 38-39, 145, 147, 182, 262-263, 287 n. 24, 288 n. 29, 332 n. 105.