"… The second wife of Thomas Adkins was mentioned but not named in his will, made on 23 Oct. 1694, the day of his death; and the claim that she was named Elizabeth is based on an error in Manwaring's Digest, 1:394, which was later corrected [3:x], Thomas Kilbourn, son-in-law of William1 Hills, received land by gift from his father-in-law, and later bought land which had belonged to his brother-in-law, John2 Hills; and on 1 Nov. 1698 he bought from William Buckland and Elizabeth his wife land which a close study of the bounds indicates had been land of John2 Hills. Under the last deed is a notation that "Mary Adkins Widdow" relinquished all her interest in this land. [Conn. Hist. Society Collections, 14:248-9.] It is concluded that Elizabeth was the heiress of this land, and that Mary Adkins was her mother, signing off her dower right."
