Samuel John Mills Jr. (April 12, 1783 – June 16, 1818) was an American preacher and missionary from Connecticut.
While one of the group that helped form the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Mills served as a missionary in the Mississippi valley.
Mills suggested the formation of a national Bible society as part of the evangelical effort in the South.
[2] Following a brief stay in England, Mills sailed to the west coast of Africa to purchase land for the American Colonization Society.
Their son Samuel Mills Damon (1841–1924) became a wealthy banker in Hawaii and was a beneficiary of the estate of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop for whom he was executor.