Deborah (Blake) Elkins (1652 - 1718)

Born 15 Jan 1652 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Ancestors

Wife of Eleazer Elkins — married 31 Dec 1673 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire

Descendants

Died 6 Jan 1718 at age 65 in Hampton, Rockingham, New Hampshire

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Biography

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Deborah Blake was daughter of Jasper and Deborah (Dalton) Blake of Hampton. ^{[1] [2][3]}

Deborah married in Hampton on December 31, 1673, Eleazer Elkins, son of Henry and Mary Elkins, born about 1648, , presumably in Exeter, New Hampshire. ^[1]

Jasper Blake, Deborah's father, wrote his will on July 18, 1673, in it naming daughter Deborah, then unmarried. [Essex Co., MA Probate Files, and Norfolk Co., MA Deeds, Vol. 2. p 324] On Nov. 10, 1679, Deborah's brothers , Timothy and John Blake as administrators of Jasper's estate, affirmed that Deborah, wife of Eleazer Elkins, has received her part and said Eleazor Elkins has provided a receipt for her inheritance. ^[4]

Their children are known through a deed, dated 14 October 1708, in which "Thomas Bigsby of Andover [Massachusetts] in right of my wife Deborah, daughter of Eliazer Elkins, late of Exeter, deceased, and Jasper Elkins and Abiah Elkins, for 10 pounds to each...to our brother Samuel Elkins of Exeter.. .all that part of our father's estate... (Rockingham County Deeds, 14:340-341). ^[2]

1. John Elkins b. 3 Dec 1674, Exeter, New Hampshire ^[5]
2. Samuel Elkins b. 27 June 1677, Exeter, New Hampshire ^[5]
3. Deborah Elkins b. ca. 1679, Exeter

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Anderson, Robert C. et al. The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume II, C-F, NEHGS, Boston, MA 2001. p. 417-9 (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2008.)
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Pepper, Alice Warwick. "Daniel Elkins, First Minister of Jackson, N.H..: His Patrilinear Ancestry and some of his Descendants." The New Hampshire Genealogical Record, July 1993, 133-46. [1]THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GENEALOGICAL RECORD Whole Number 39 July 1993 Vol. 10, No. 3. p. 135-6.
3. ↑ Fullonton, Joseph. The History of Raymond, New Hampshire, Morning Star Job Printing House, Dover, NH, 1875. p. 185.
4. ↑ Batchellor, Alfred S. editor. Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire 1635-[1771], Volume 31, Rumford Printing Company, Concord, NH 1907. p. 143-4
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Bell, Charles H. History of the Town of Exeter, New Hampshire, J. E. Farwell & Company, Boston, MA, 1888

• Sanborn, George. The Dalton Cluster, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 2000) Vol. 154, Page 287.
• Pepper, Alice Warwick. "Daniel Elkins, First Minister of Jackson, N.H..: His Patrilinear Ancestry and some of his Descendants." The New Hampshire Genealogical Record, July 1993, 133-46. Accessed April 19, 2016. [2]
• Fullonton, Joseph. The History of Raymond, N.H. Dover, NH: Morning Star Job Printing House, 1875.[3]