Jonathan MILLS

  Noted events in his life were:

• Biography: Delaware County, IN. ³As to the first settler in Monroe Twp. Del Co IN, there can be not doubt. It was Jonathan Mills who came with his family from Wayne county to Monroe Twp. in the fall of 1821. .....Mr. Mills seems to have been a perfect type of the woodsman and hunter, never clearing more land than was needed for raising grain and vegetables for home consumption, depending on the chase for his exchangeable commodities. It is said of him that whenever he could hear a neighbor¹s chickens crow, the neighborhood was too crowded for him, and he at once broke camp and went in search of more retired territory. He remained in Monroe Twp only a few years (about 1830) when he moved on westward, locating near Anderson. Mr. Mills never entered land in Monroe Township, but remained only until the settlers began to get thick and the game scarce.²
[John Ellis, OUR COUNTY (Muncie, IN , 1989) pp 123-124]
³The first white resident of what is now Monroe township is said to have been Jonathan Mills, a Tennessean, who come over into Indiana from Greene County, OH, and had gradually pushed westward, hunting and trapping, until he was found here, a squatter, in 1821. Two or three years later he was joined here by his kinsmen, the three Gibson brothers.²
[Frank D. Haimbaugh, HISTORY OF DELAWARE COUNTY INDIANA,(Indianapolis:Historical Publishing Company, 1924) vol. I, p 108.]

Jonathan married Anna GIBSON, daughter of Garrett GIBSON and Prudence SUMNERS, on 12 Sep 1809 in Jefferson County, TN. (Anna GIBSON was born about 1794 in Surry County, NC.)

  Marriage Notes:

Lost Creek, Jefferson County, Tennessee