Jemima (Robbins) Adams (1757 - 1844)

Born 10 Jan 1757 in Walpole, Suffolk, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Joel Adams — married 10 Jan 1781 in Union, Lincoln, Massachusetts, United States

Descendants

Died 1 Jan 1844 at age 86 in Union, Lincoln, Maine, United States

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Biography

Early Years

Mima was part of the first family to settle Sterlington Plantation in 1776 and to found there the town of Union, Maine by incorporation on 20 October 1786.

Mima was an early settler in Union, Maine, She and her family helped to establish the settlement as a town

Jemima "Mima" Robbins was born on 10 January 1757, in Walpole, Suffolk County, in the Province of Massachusetts Bay (now Walpole, Norfolk, Massachusetts), to Phillip Robbins and Jemima (Smith) Robbins, both originally of Walpole.^[1]

Marriage and Children

She married Joel Adams in what was then called the "Plantation of Sterlingtown", on the 10th of October in 1780 or Jan 10 1781 (And on October 20, 1786 the town was incorporated and named Union).

Mima and Joel became the proud parents of ten children, all born in the new settlement Union, Knox, Maine: ^[2].

1. Polly Adams, b. Feb 28 1782, ^[3] d. 1869, m. Rev. Cornelius Bailey Irish
2. Peter Adams, b. 1784,^[4] d. 1793
3. Jacob Smith Adams, b. Jan 14 1786, ^[5] d. 1874, m1. Abigail Heal, m2. Alice Rogers
4. Emma Adams, b. 1787, ^[6] d. 1874, m. Jeremiah Stubbs
5. Alfred Adams, b. 1789, ^[7] d. 1865
6. Mima Adams, b. 1791, ^{[8] [9]} d. 1877, m. Ebenezer Ward Adams
7. James Adams, b. 1794, ^[10] d. 1883, m. Caroline Eddy
8. Esther Adams, b. 1796, ^[11] d. 1879, m. Rev. True Page
9. Joel Adams Jr., b. 1800, ^[12] d. 1877, m. Jane Hunt
10. Ruth Adams, b. 1805, ^[13] d. 1893

Joel and his wife Jemima ("Mima") became the main characters in Ben Ames Williams' historical novel "Come Spring", the fictionalized story of the establishment of a settlement in 1700s Maine ^[14].

Sterlington & Union

Mima was part of the first family to settle Sterlington Plantation, also known as Taylortown, in the area of Lincoln County, Massachusetts. When she arrived with her family in late 1776, it was remote wilderness only accessible by river, but it would become the present day town of Union, Knox, Maine. The Robbins family helped found the town of Union and it was incorporated in 1786. A very detailed account of the whole Robbins family, and many allied and acquainted families of the town, can be found in History of Union by John Langdon Sibley, who was from Union and knew the families personally. He penned the historical account of the town just a few years before he became the Librarian at Harvard, and just a few years before the last living settlers passed away. Much of the information was relayed firsthand from Mima's brother Jessa, her niece Chloe, and family friend Phinehas Butler. The book was the basis for the 1940 historical novel Come Spring by Ben Ames Williams, of which Mima herself is the protagonist. ^{[15][16][17] [14]}

Death & Legacy

Mima passed away on 1 January 1844, in Union, and was interred there at Common Cemetery where she rests beside her husband Joel.^{[18][19] [20]}

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Births and Christenings, 1639-1915", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZ94-5WL : 10 December 2019), Jemimah Robbins, 1757.
2. ↑ Genealogy of John Adams and his descendants, by Adams, Gardner
3. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-M5J : 10 February 2018), Polley Adams, 28 Feb 1782; citing Union, Knox, Maine; FHL microfilm 12,269.
4. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-M5T : 10 February 2018), Peter Adams, 19 Jul 1784; citing Union, Knox, Maine; FHL microfilm 12,269
5. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-M51 : 14 January 2020), Jacob S. Adams, 1786.
6. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-MPX : 10 February 2018), Emma Adams, 12 Aug 1787; citing Union, Knox, Maine; FHL microfilm 12,269
7. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-MRS : 10 February 2018), Alford Adams, 09 Aug 1789; citing Union, Knox, Maine; FHL microfilm 12,269.
8. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-MPJ : 10 February 2018), Maria Adams, 22 Jun 1791; citing Union, Knox, Maine; FHL microfilm 12,269.
9. ↑ J. Sibleys History of Union, Maine, 430
10. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-MR7 : 10 February 2018), James Adams, 15 Jan 1794; citing Union, Knox, Maine; FHL microfilm 12,269
11. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-MP2 : 10 February 2018), Esther Adams, 25 Jun 1796; citing Union, Knox, Maine; FHL microfilm 12,269
12. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-MRH : 10 February 2018), Joel Adams, 30 Jan 1800; citing Union, Knox, Maine; FHL microfilm 12,269
13. ↑ "Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F433-MPP : 10 February 2018), Ruth Adams, 09 Jan 1804; citing Union, Knox, Maine; FHL microfilm 12,269
14. ↑ ^{14.0 14.1} Book Review "Come Spring"
15. ↑ Sibley, John Langdon. A History of the Town of Union, in the County of Lincoln, Maine: To the Middle of the Nineteenth Century; With a Family Register of the Settlers Before the Year 1800, and of Their Descendants. B. B. Mussey and Company, 1851. Retrieved from https://books.google.com/books?id=LWwUAAAAYAAJ
16. ↑ Williams, Ben Ames. Come Spring. Sun Dial Press, 1945.
17. ↑ Fish, George Willoughby. Union, Past and Present: an Illustrated History of the Town of Union, Maine, from Earliest Times to Date. Union Weekly Times, 1895. Retrieved from Google Books https://books.google.com/books?id=4K4TAAAAYAAJ
18. ↑ "Maine Deaths and Burials, 1841-1910," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F48P-SZJ : 11 February 2018), Jamima Adams, 01 Jan 1844; citing reference 131; FHL microfilm 12,269.
19. ↑ "Maine, Faylene Hutton Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1990," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKMB-TJL5 : 16 March 2018), Jemima Adams, 1844; citing Burial, Union, Knox, Maine, United States, Maine State Library, Augusta; FHL microfilm 1,753,004.
20. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 27 March 2020), memorial page for Jemima “Mima” Robbins Adams (10 Jan 1757–1 Jan 1844), Find A Grave: Memorial #39583350, citing Common Cemetery, Union, Knox County, Maine, USA ; Maintained by A (contributor 47095312) .

• Robbins, Dana Watkins. History of the Robbins Family of Walpole, Massachusetts, Descendants of William and Priscilla Robbins (pp. 240-249 digital/152-161 print Philip Robbins and pp. 270-273 digital/182-185 print David Robbins). Oscar Burton Robbins of Loveland Colorado, and the Robbins Genealogical Society of Salt Lake City, Utah, 1949. FamilySearch International. Retrieved from Family Search Library https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/426597-history-of-the-robbins-family-of-walpole-massachusetts-descendants-of-william-and-priscilla-robbins

• DeLue, Willard. The Story of Walpole: 1724 to 1924. Ambrose Press, Norwood, 1925.

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Norma Luke for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Norma and others.
• Thanks to Becky Kimball who worked on the other profile for Mima, Jemima (Robbins) Adams, marked for merge. I tried to combine the two biographies here.Cook-29848 05:29, 11 January 2020 (UTC)

• Come Spring by Ben Ames Williams

• History of Union by John Langdon Sibley

• Union Past and Present by George Willoughby Fish

• The Story of Walpole by Willard DeLue

• Thomaston by Eaton

• Annals of Warren by Eaton

• History of Maine by Williamson

• History of the Robbins Family of Walpole by Dana Watkins Robbins

• 200 Years in Union by Chester Nash and Patricia Kahn (1974)

• Geneology Chart of Robbins to Williamson, Written down by Edith Clara Russell Nadeau and other family members