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Evening Mail 12 March 1828 – Deaths: On Sunday, 2nd instant, at
Bodlendeb, near Conway, Caernarvonshire, in the 79th year of his age, deeply & universally lamented by his relatives & friends, Abraham Mills Esq., F.R.S., late one of the officers in His Majesty's Ordnance department. Dublin.
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