Meakins, Mary

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BIRTH: "Births, Marriages, and Deaths [Hampshire] County Court," entries for Hatfield, p. 96 (FHL #760648).
MAR: No mar rec found. Mary is called the wife of James Lewis in the distribution of her father's estate, 3 Nov 1693, Hampshire Co. Probate, 3:15 (FHL #879184).

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BEPS: IGI

Family/Spouse: Lewis, James. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIRTH: Braintree vital recs, "Records of Boston," NEHGR, 3(1849):127 (FHL #974 B2ne).
MAR: No mar rec found. Sarah, John, Thomas, and Mehitable Meakins, all proved children of Thomas and Mary Meakins of Hatfield, are called grandchildren in the will of Sarah Bunce of Hartford, 19 Aug 1689, no probate act (died 1693), Hartford District Probate, abstracted in Charles W. Manwaring, ed, DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, 3 vols. (Hartford, 1904-1906), 1:416 (FHL #974.6 P2m). For children of Thomas and Mary Meakins, see "Births, Marriages, and Deaths, [Hampshire] County Court," entries for Hatfield, 105, and Hadley, 70 (FHL #760648).
DEATH: "A List of the men slain in the County of Hampshire,"Massachusetts Archives, 68:33, photocopy of original document in Winifred L. Holman, "The Meakins Lineage" (typescript, 1958-60; NEHGS, Boston), 16a. An account of Thomas Meakins' death at the hands of the Indians during King Philip's War is found in Daniel White Wells and Reuben Field Wells, A HISTORY OF HATFIELD (Springfield, MA, 1910), 79-80 (FHL #974.423/H2 H2w). It is incorrectly stated that Thomas's death occurred in Sep 1677 in "Births, Marriages, and Deaths [Hampshire] County Court," entries for Hatfield, p. 110 (FHL #760648). This date is disproved by the adm/inv of estate of Thomas Meakins, Jr, [of Hatfield], 29 Mar 1676; also see settlement of estate 30 Mar 1680, distribution 3 Nov 1693. (Hampshire Co. Probate, 1:165, 206; 3:15 [FHL #879184]).

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BAPT/ENDW: TIB (FHL #1263219-R).
SEAL P: FGRA
SEAL S: FGRA

Thomas married Bunce, Mary. Mary (daughter of Bunce, Thomas and Sarah) was born on 17 Sep 1645 in Hartford,Hartford,CT; died before 4 Mar 1717/1718. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: "Early Hartford Vital Records," COLLECTIONS OF THE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 14(Hartford, 1912):575 (FHL #897073).
MAR #1: No mar rec found. Sarah, John, Thomas, and Mehitable Meakins, all proved children of Thomas and Mary Meakins of Hatfield, are called grandchildren in the will of Sarah Bunce of Hartford, 19 Aug 1689, no probate act (died 1693), Hartford District Probate, abstracted in Charles W. Manwaring, ed, DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, 3 vols. (Hartford, 1904-1906), 1:416 (FHL #974.6 P2m). For children of Thomas and Mary Meakins, see "Births, Marriages, and Deaths, [Hampshire] County Court," entries for Hatfield, 105, and Hadley, 70 (FHL #760648).
MAR #2: "Births, Marriages, and Deaths [Hampshire] County Court," entries for Hatfield, p. 105 (FHL #760648).
DEATH: No death rec found. Mary was dead by 4 Mar 1717/8 when the distribution of the estate of her sister, Elizabeth White of Hartford, gave to Mary's heirs. See abstract from Hartford District Probate in Manwaring, DIGEST, 2:449-50.

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BEP: IGI

Notes:

BIRTH: No birth/chr rec found. That he is a son of Thomas and Katherine Meakins is shown by the burial rec of Katherine Meakins, "mother of Thomas," on 3 Feb 1650 (VITAL RECORDS OF ROXBURY, 2 vols. [Salem, MA, 1925-26] 2:591 [FHL #974.46/R2 V2r]). Thomas and Katherine "Mekins," apparently Thomas's parents, were admitted to the Boston church on 2 Feb 1633/4 ("Records of Admissions in the First Church Boston, 1630 to 1687" [transcript, n.d.], 13 [FHL #856694]). Date and place of birth are approximations.
MAR #1: No mar rec found. "Sarah wife of Thomas Meakins" died in childbirth and was bur at Roxbury, 25 Jan 1650/1 (VITAL RECORDS OF ROXBURY, 2:591).
MAR #2: VITAL RECORDS OF ROXBURY, 2:277.
DEATH: "Births, Marriages, and Deaths [Hampshire] County Court," entries for Hatfield, p. 110 (FHL #760648).
OCC: Miller, millwright.

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BEPS2: IGI
SEAL S1: FGRA

Thomas married Sarah about 1638. Sarah was born about 1615 in England; was buried on 25 Jan 1651 in Roxbury,Suffolk,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIRTH: Date and place of birth are approximations.
MAR: No mar rec found. "Sarah wife of Thomas Meakins" died in child birth and was bur at Roxbury, 25 Jan 1650/1 (VITAL RECORDS OF ROXBURY, 2 vols. [Salem, MA, 1925-16], 2:591 [FHL #974.46/R2 V2r]). She is called "Sarah [Beardsley]?" in Charles A. Torrey, NEW ENGLAND MARRIAGES PRIOR TO 1700 (Baltimore, 1985), 501 (FHL #974 V2t). No evidence of Sarah's maiden name has been found in primary sources.
BUR: VITAL RECORDS OF ROXBURY, 2:591. Died in child birth.

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BAPT/ENDW: IGI
SEAL S: FGRA

Notes:

BIRTH: Date and place of birth are approximations.
MAR: No mar rec found. A wife Sarah is identified in his own will, below.
DEATH: No death rec found. See the will of Thomas Bunce of Hartford, n.d., proved 6 Sep 1683, codicil 2 Aug 1683, inv 3 Aug 1683, Hartford District Probate, abstracted in Charles W. Manwaring, ed, DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, 3 vols. (Hartford, 1904-1906), 1:283-84 (FHL #974.6 P2m). Thomas apparently died on 2/3 Aug 1683.
OCC: Pequot War soldier (1636).

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BES: IGI

Thomas married Sarah. Sarah was born about 1615 in England; died in Jan 1693/1694 in Hartford,Hartford,CT. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

BIRTH: Date and place of birth are approximations.
MAR: No mar rec found. A wife Sarah is identified in the will of Thomas Bunce of Hartford, n.d., proved 6 Sep 1683, Hartford District Probate, abstracted in Charles W. Manwaring, ed, DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS, 3 vols. (Hartford, 1904-1906), 1:283-84 (FHL #974.6P2m). Sarah's own will, below, confirms she was "late wife of Thomas Bunce, senr of Hartford Deceased."
DEATH: Death date is found in probate recs of Sarah Bunce. See the will of Sarah Bunce of Hartford, 19 Aug 1689, no probate act, inv n.d. (died, Jan 1693/4), Hartford District Probate, abstracted in Manwaring, DIGEST, 1:416.

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BES: IGI

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BIRTH: No birth/chr rec found. Mar rec, below, states that Thomas was of Oundle, a parish near Thorpe-Achurch. Date of birth is an approximation.
MAR: Thorpe-Achurch par reg (FHL #6129050).
DEATH: No death rec found. Thomas is last mentoned in a 1646 petition located in Massachusetts Archives, 45:11-11a, cited in Winifred L. Holman, "The Meakins Lineage" (typescript, 1958-60; NEHGS, Boston), 2. The bur rec of his wife Katherine at Roxbury suggests that he was now dead: "Katherin Meakins, mother of Thomas, an aged woman," bur 25 Jan 1650/1. Typically, death and burial entries include the name of the spouse of married women. Hence, it is believed that Thomas died 1646-51. It is likely that he died in Braintree. After his death, Katherine went to Roxbury to the home of her son Thomas, who is cited in her bur rec.

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BAPT/ENDW: IGI
SEAL S: IGI

Thomas married Greene, Katherine on 27 Jan 1607/1608 in Thorpe-Achurch,Nhants,Eng. Katherine (daughter of Greene, Henry and Eleanor) was born about 1586 in of Thrope-Achurch,Nhants,Eng; was buried on 3 Feb 1650/1651 in Roxbury,Suffolk,MA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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BIRTH: Date and place of birth are approximations. Mar record identified father as Henry Greene.
MAR: Thorpe-Achurch par reg (FHL #6129050).
BUR: VITAL RECORDS OF ROXBURY, 2 vols. (Salem, MA, 1925-26), 2:591 (FHL #974.461/R2 V2r).

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BAPT/ENDW: IGI
SEAL S: IGI