Jane (Williams) Adkins (abt. 1652 - 1690)

Born about 1652 in Hartford, Connecticut Colony

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Adkins — married about 1672 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony [uncertain]

Descendants

Died Mar 1690 at about age 38 in East Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Jane Williams was born about 1652 to William Williams and Jane Westover in Hartford, Connecticut.^[1]

Jane and her future husband, Thomas Adkins, were charged with fornication on 5 September 1672, they having conceived their first child before marriage.^[2]

Jane, as "Goody Atkins," was interred 14 March 1689/90 in Hartford.^[3]

Children:^[4]

• Mary Adkins, b. 1672
• Thomas Adkins, b. abt. 1673
• William Adkins, b. abt. 1675
• Jane Adkins, b. abt. 1678
• Sarah Adkins, b. abt. 1682
• Josiah Adkins, b. abt. 1685
• Benoni Adkins, b. abt. 1690^[5]

Various property records suggest the family had long been living at Podunk (East Hartford by the time of Jane's death).^[6]

Sources

• Harris, Gale I. "William Williams, Cooper, of Hartford, Connecticut, and His Sons-In-Law William Buckland and William Biggs," 69:92-3. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009-.
• Jacobus, Donald L. "The Josiah Adkins Family of Connecticut," 33:243-4. The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009-.

1. ↑ Harris, p. 92, citing medical records of John Winthrop, in which she was aged 5 on 16 December 1657, 9 on 10 January 1660/1 and 15 in June and July of 1668.
2. ↑ Harris, p. 92, citing Connecticut Colonial Probate Records, Connecticut State Library, "Court Side," 3:125.
3. ↑ Harris, p. 92, citing "List of Interments by Wm. Goodwin... Commending 1689," Bulletin of the Connecticut Historical Society 3[Nov. 1936]:3.
4. ↑ Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. Hartford, Conn: R.S. Peck & Co., printers, 1904, 1394. Note: Wanwaring struck his error in associating the 1700 inventory of "Mrs. Elizabeth Adkins" with Thomas Adkins' estate in the errata of Volume 3, as noted by Jacobus. Manwaring, 3:x.
5. ↑ Jacobus, p. 244. Thomas Adkins willed his son Benoni to be raised by "my brother Gabriel" (Gabriel Williams, Jane's brother), giving us confidence that he was Jane's son.
6. ↑ Jacobus, p. 244.