Person:John Meakins (1)
John Meakins
b.Bef 1640
d.6 Jan 1705/06 East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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  • H.  John MeakinsBef 1640 - 1705/06
  • W.  Mary BidwellEst 1647 - 1725
m. Bef 1665
  1. Lieutenant John MeakinsEst 1665 - 1739
  2. Joseph MeakinsCal 1669 - 1724/25
  3. Mary Meakins1671/72 - 1739/40
  4. Sarah Meakins1674 - 1741
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Name[1][5] John Meakins
Alt Name[2] John Meekins
Alt Name[4] John Meakin
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1640 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1665 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)Based on estimated date of birth of eldest known child.
to Mary Bidwell
Will[4][5] 22 Nov 1702 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Death[2][4] 6 Jan 1705/06 East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Probate[4][5] 22 Jan 1705/06 Will proved.
Estate Inventory[5] 1 Apr 1706 £480-08-00. Taken by Joseph Olmsted and Roger Pitkin.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Thomas Meakins, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
    2:1247.

    "The claim has been made that John Meakins of East Hartford (d. 1706) was a son of Thomas Meakins the elder [Boardman Anc 137-39, 208-09]. Since John's oldest son was born about 1663, he was probably born about 1640, much too young to be a son of Thomas the elder; but Thomas the younger had son John born in 1649, who could not be the father of the John born about 1663. The connection of John Meakins of East Hartford to either Thomas Meakins remains problematic."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 John Meekins, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
    395-96.

    "John Meekins s of Thomas & Mary (Bunce) died 1706 mar Mary Bidwell … dau of John Bidwell."

  3.   John Meakins, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    3:191.

    "Meakins, or Meekins, John, Hartford, is in the list of freem. 1669, d. 1706, leav. wid. Mary, ds. Mary Belden, Sarah Spencer, beside Rebecca, and Hannah, unm. when his will of 1702 was made, and three s. John, Joseph, and Samuel. Of these, John was. a lieut. d. 1739, aged 76; Samuel was a lieut. d. 1733, in 60th yr. The wid. wh. may have been sec. w. was d. of John Biddle, and she d. 1725 in 78th yr."

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 1. John Bidwell, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
    462.

    "… John Meakin (also spelled Meekin and Meakins), who d. at East Hartford, 6 Jan. 1705/6. His will, dated 22 Nov. 1702, proved 22 Jan. 1705-6, …"

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Meakins, John, Sen., Hartford, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:93-94.

    "Probate Records. Vol. VII, 1700 to 1710. Page 137-8-9.

    Meakins, John, Sen., Hartford. Invt. £480-08-00. Taken 1st April, 1706, by Joseph Olmsted and Roger Pitkin. Will dated 22 November, 1702.

    I, John Meakins, Sen., of Hartford, do make and ordain this my last will and testament: I give to my wife 1-3 part of all my moveable estate, she to have her choice of the same, and 1-3 part of my housing and lands during her natural life only. I give to my 2 sons, John and Joseph Meakins, my homested, that is to say, that part of my houselot where my dwelling house now standeth, John to have that house that he built and Joseph to have my dwelling house. And my will is that my barn, orchard, garden and all that part of my lot up to the country highway east of my dwelling house shall be equally divided between them. To my son Samuel Meakins I give the 1st of the 3 parcels of land lying on the east side of the country highway. The rest of my upland lot lying eastward of that given to my son Samuel, as well that that is improved as that that is not improved, I give to my three sons, John, Joseph and Samuel Meakins, to be equally divided betwixt them, as also my interest in the undivided land. To my three sons, John, Joseph and Samuel, I give that part of my lot that lyeth westward from my dwelling house as it buts on my brother Daniel Bidwell north and land belonging to the Olcotts west. To my son John Meakins I give my half of that meadow lot that was given me by my honoured father-in-law John Bidwell, as by his will may appear. Sd. land lyeth between the lands of William Goodwin on the north and lands sometime of Richard Case on the south. To my two sons, Joseph and Samuel, I give my meadow lot commonly known by the name of Disbrow's lott. To my son Samuel Meakins I give my three acres of land that I bought of Mr. Eleazer Way. To my daughter Mary Belden I give £20 besides what she hath already had. To my daughter Sarah Spencer I give £20 besides what she hath already received. To my two daughters, Rebeckah and Hannah Meakins, I give £40 to each of them. I make my wife Mary executrix, and my son John executor, and my brother-in-law Daniel Bidwell and my friend Roger Pitkin overseers.

    JOHN X MEAKINS, LS.

    Witness: Daniel Bidwell, Sen., Roger Pitkin.

    Court Record, Page 74—22 January, 1705-6: Will proven."

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