Mills Wills

Mills Wills was an American politician, militia officer, and appraiser that represented Isle of Wight County, in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1795 to 1796.

Biography Mills Wills was the son of Martha (née Casey) and John Wills, who is mentioned in their will dated from 1765 and probated in 1772 as "of Newport Parish" in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. In his father's will, it was stipulated that Brewer Godwin was to have the care of his son Mills Wills and two other sons, Emanuel and Benjamin Wills. Wills was also a brother of Thomas Wills, John Scarsbrooke Wills, James Wills, Willis Wills, and Micajah Wills.

On December 4, 1777, Wills was made a second lieutenant in the Virginia Militia and assigned under his elder brother Emanuel Wills, who was made captain in place of their elder brother Willis Wills, who was made adjutant. On April 5, 1781, Mills Wills was made first lieutenant to Christopher Dickinson's company.

In 1792, Wills was required by an act passed by the legislature to appraise the value of a bridge built at the expense of Isle of Wight County over Pagan Creek at the town of Smithfield, Virginia. Wills was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing Isle of Wight County, Virginia, from 1795 to 1796.

He is listed as a subscriber from Nansemond County, Virginia, in John Marshall's The Life of George Washington, published in 1807.

Personal life He is known to have had at least 3 children, Jenny, Juley, and Davis Wills.