Col Ambrose Mills

• Birth Notes
  • The area Ambrose settled into was Bladen which became Anson circa 1749, by the 1750s, NC and SC existed, but there was a dispute along the southern border of NC. Parts of NC became SC. The Mills could have been any where in this area. However, I did read of a Mills Creek, a sure sign early Mills settled that creek.
    
    Mourning Stone (Wife) b. 1725 in James City, Williamsburg, VA
    Marriage:    Abt 1745 in VA 5 Apr 2002 16:16
    Children:    
    
       1. William Mills b. 10 Nov 1746 in James River, Albermarle, VA
    
    Anna Brown (Wife)
    Marriage:    Bef 1769 5 Apr 2002 16:16
    Children:    
    
       1. Ambrose Mills JR b. 1769 in Rutherford Co, NC
       2. Thomas Mills b. 1771 in Rutherford Co, NC
       3. John Mills b. 1772 in Rutherford Co, NC
       4. Amelia Milly Mills b. About 1773 in Rutherford Co, NC
       5. Mary Polly Mills b. Between 1773-1774 in Chester, SC
       6. Pamela Mills b. 1775 in Rutherford Co, NC
       7. Anna Mills b. 1777 in Rutherford Co, NC 

• Death Notes
  • Burial: Kings MT, Military Park, NC

• General Notes
  • Marriage:
        1745, Virginia, USA
    Was a Tory Loyalist to Britan.
        
    Individual:
    White Oak Plantation, located in Tryon, was originally part of a land grant by King George II to the Ambrose Mills family and is steeped in American Revolutionary history.
    
    Loyalist Colonel Ambrose Mills was made a prisoner at the Battle of Kings Mountain. The victors at Kings Mountain immediately marched north with their prisoners, finally stopping at Biggerstaff’s plantation near Gilbertown, NC not far from Col. Andrew Hampton’s home place. There they tried, convicted and condemned to the hangman’s noose thirty-six of the vilest Loyalists, including Ambrose Mills.In the end, only Mills and eight others were hanged.