Matthew Mills (alias John Hill) (c.1763- ) was found guilty on 30 July 1783 at Oxford of stealing clothing, a hoe, and some money in a highway robbery. His death sentence was commuted to seven years transportation. Mills was among the prisoners who mutinied on the convict transport Mercury in April 1784. Recaptured (as John Hill), he was sent to the Dunkirk hulk in June 1784. He was discharged to the Friendship in March 1787 and arrived in Sydney in January 1788 as part of the First Fleet.
Mills was sent to Norfolk Island on the Supply in November 1789. He cannot be positively identified on any Norfolk Island records from that time on. A Matthew Mills left the colony on the Sugar Cane in 1793.
* information from Mollie Gillen, The Founders of Australia: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet (1989), p 246
'Mills, Matthew (c. 1763–?)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/mills-matthew-30835/text38186, accessed 14 September 2024.
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