Person:Margaret Hulins (7)

HOLMES V1 202

CAUTION: various sources have this person and Margaret LAWRENCE stirrred together, as probably do I. [d place and date uncertain]

TORREY: only as w/1 _________ TORREY SUPP I: p 22: Margaret HULINS, 18 Oct 1621 St Nicholas, co Glouchester [Eng]; also shows her dates as 1595-1684 [so where does m/2 fit in? He d 1651]

TAG 52:193, TAG 60:202 - support as HULINS ANC OF THE CHILDREN OF ROBERT CROLL STEVENS 5:130 - as HULINS

GEN O BLISS FAM (A T BLISS, 1982) p 27-30: as HULINS

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Bennett, Anne Selene. The First Wife and Older Children of Thomas Bliss of Gloucester, England, and Hartford, Connecticut. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (Jan 2019)
   91:45.

   "… Margaret Hulins, born say 1600, died in Hartford, Connecticut, 28 August 1684, daughter of John Hulins of Rodborough, Gloucestershire."

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Thomas Bliss, 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)
   476, 79.

   "… Margaret _____, born in England, died at Springfield, Mass., 28 Aug. 1684."
   
   "The widow, Margaret, whose maiden name has sometimes been stated as Lawrence, apparently for no better reason than that she had a son Lawrence—a common enough given name from which the surname was derived—moved not long after her husband's death to Springfield, where she was granted land as 'Widdow Bliss' on 22 Jan. 1651/2. Her house lot there was purchased from Thomas Tomson. She proved herself to be a woman of capacity, raising the younger children, outfitting some of them at marriage, and yet leaving an estate appraised at £278 when she died. She survived her husband a third of a century, never remarried, and left property more than three times the value of what he, wisely as the event proved, had left to her care when he died. She vigorously defended her daughter, Mrs. Parsons, when under suspicion of witchcraft in 1656, but in 1674 a formal charge was made, resulting in the trial and acquittal of Mrs. Parsons.
   
   The will of Margaret Bliss, dated 25 June 1684, speaks of the testatrix as 'aged & not knowing how soone the Lord may Call me out of this world' and continues, 'I thought It my Duty to settle my Estate that soe I may the freelyer Leave this World, when God shal Cal me hence.' She gave £20 to her son John, to whom she had already given considerable; seven acres to her grandson Samuel, child of her son Lawrence, obligating him to pay £2 to each of his sisters; to her grandson Nathaniel Morgan, £3; to her daughter Parsons and daughter Scott her clothing and household stuff, 'only my bason I give to son Samuel's daughter Hannah'; £5 to her daughter Scott and a cow to her grandson John Scott; the residue to her son Samuel."

3.   Stott, Clifford L. Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts to 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002)
   1:66.

   "widow Margarite Bliss was Sick & died Aug: 28. 1684"