Hannah (Adams) Smith (abt. 1639 - bef. 1663)

Born about 1639 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Wife of Jonathan Smith Sr — married 1660 (to 1663) in Wethersfield, Hartford, Connecticut

Died before 1663 before about age 24 in Connecticut

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Biography

Hanna Adams, daughter of Hartford founder Jeremy Adams and Rebecca (Taylor) Adams, was perhaps born say 1639.^[1]

Thomas Greenhill, half brother of Hannah Adams, was heir to his father's lands. His will dated 16 July 1653, names his heirs: his sister Rebeckah Shepherd, his mother, and "her Children, that is to say, to her son John Addams & to her 3 daughters, Hanna, Hester & Sarah,"^[2]

Hannah married by about 1660, Jonathan Smith. John Winthrop mentions in his medical journal that he treated the wife of Jonathan Smith, who was Jeremy Adams' daughter.^[3] A Jonathan Smith had been made a freeman 21 May 1657, but there is the possibility it is another Jonathan Smith.^[4] They lived in Wethersfield.^[5]

Hannah must have died shortly, because Jonathan married 1 Jan 1663/4 Martha Bushnell. Her father's estate does not mention her or any surviving children.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Anderson, Robert C., 1995 The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. AmericanAncestors.org accessed 22 May 2016, (Vol I-III, Pages 6-11).
2. ↑ Manwaring, Charles William. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records.Volume 1. Hartford District 1635-1700. Hartford, Conn., R.S. Peck & Co., Printers, 1904. p. 119
3. ↑ “Genealogical Items from the Medical Journal of John Winthrop.” TAG 9:54 1932/3. Text: Adams, Jeremy’s dau. Hannah m. Jonathan Smith. Adams p 363 of the Journal
4. ↑ Trumbull, J. Hammond. (transcriber). The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony May 1665. Hartford: Brown and Parsons, 1850. AKA Colonial Records of Connecticut. Volume I. 1636-1665 p. 297 Google Books
5. ↑ "Richard Smith of Wethersfield. The American Genealogist 25:129

• Genealogies of Connecticut Families (Genealogical Publishing Company, 1983) Vol. 1, Page 6
• <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~amorrow/fg05/fg05_342.html />
• Jacobus, Donald Lines. Richard Smith of Wethersfield, The American Genealogist (New Haven, Conn., 1949) Vol. 25, Page 129

There is a record of Hanna Adams sister of Jeremiah Adams marrying a John Fisher on March 6 1673 or 1674 in Medfield Connecticut.