Thankful (Meiggs) Fish (1701 - 1788)

Born 25 Sep 1701 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Fish — married after 7 Jun 1719 in Falmouth, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

Descendants

Died 22 Oct 1788 at age 87 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States [uncertain]

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Biography

Thankful Meiggs was born on 25 September 1701 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of Ebenezer and Mercy (Weeks) Meiggs.^[1]

She was named in her grandfather's will: John Meigs' will dated 30 May 1712, made bequests to wife Lydia, eldest son John Meigs, three daughters Hannah Foster, Sary/Sarah Meigs, and Mindwell Cruttenden, son Janna, to his three grandchildren Ebenezer, Ruben and Joseph Meigs, two granddaughters Thankful & Mercy Meigs, daughter-in-law Mercy Meigs for her use and improvement the lands given to Ebenezer, Ruben, Joseph and Thankful Meigs during her remaining a widow or until they shall become of lawful age. He gave to his deceased daughter Sarah Bartlett's son Daniel, his granchild, his mother's portion. Executors John and Janna Meigs, cousin Andrew Ward of Guilford to keep his will after his death to present to court. Witnesses Abraham Fowler & Andrew Ward. Will presented at New Haven 21 Dec 1718 [sic]. Inventory of the estate taken 01 Dec 1713.^[2]

She married Samuel Fish, the son of Nathan^[3][4] and Deborah (Barrows) Fish.^[5]

She died a widow on 22 October 1788, recorded in Benjamin Percival's diary:

Wednesday, 22 October, 1788, the Widow Thankfull Fish died this morning about 2 oclock.^[6]

Children born Falmouth:^[7][8]

1. John, b. 11 Sep 1720, d. 1811, Edgartown; m. Sarah Fish 1751.
2. Thomas, b. 09 Oct 1722, d. aft 1800; m. Hannah Fish 1751.
3. Mary, b. 08 Oct 1724.
4. Mary/Marcy/Mercy, b. 23 Dec 1726, d. aft 1765; m. Benjamin Chadwick 1742.
5. Bethia, b. 26 Mar 1729.
6. Thankful, b. 29 Jun 1731, d. 22 Oct 1788; m. Thomas Fish 1758.
7. Samuel, Jr., b. 1734, 03 Jan 1816; m. Sarah Dimmock 1760.
8. Phineas (possibly), b. ca. 1740, d. aft. 1783; m. Mercy Palmer 1767.

Sources

1. ↑ Jacobus, Donald Lines, "Guilford, CT, Vital Records" The American Genealogist Vol. 15:186 (citing Town Records Vol. 1:6, births).

   "Meiggs, Thankfull da. Ebenezor & Mercy b. 25 Sep 1701."

2. ↑ Meigs, Henry Benjamin, Record of the Descendants of Vincent Meigs who came from Dorsetshire, England to America about 1635 (Baltimore, MD: John S. Bridges & Co., 1901), pp. 177-181
3. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Barnstable > Falmouth > Birth, marriage, death, and town record index 1686-1753 > image 146 of 215; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. Falmouth 1668-1753 Births, marriages, deaths, publishments, etc., Vol. 1:134.

   "Samuel fich the son of Nathan fich was boren the 2 day of feburey 1692."

4. ↑ Oliver B. Brown, Vital Records of Falmouth, Massachusetts to the Year 1850 (Soc. of Mayflower Descendants in RI, RI: 1976), p. 48.
5. ↑ Robert E. Bowman, "Nathan and Deborah (Barrows) Fish of Falmouth, Mass.," The American Genealogist Vol. 80 (Jan. 2005):55
6. ↑ C.L. Kardell & R.A. Lovell, Jr., Vital Records of Sandwich MA to 1885 (NEHGS, Boston, MA: 1996), p. 1624, citing Benjamin Percival's diary (location not indicated)
7. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Barnstable > Falmouth > Birth, marriage, death, and town record index 1686-1753 > image 163 of 215; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. Falmouth 1668-1753 Births, marriages, deaths, publishments, etc., Vol. 1:163.
8. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (20 May 2014), Barnstable > Falmouth > Births, marriages, deaths 1668-1753 > image 18 of 99; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. Falmouth 1668-1753 Births, marriages, deaths, publishments, etc., Vol. 1:97.

   "John Fish the son of Samuel Fish and Thanful his wife was born the eleven day of September in the year 1720

   Thomas Fish the son Samuel Fish and Thankful his wife was born the 9 day of October in the year 1722

   ___ Fish dafter to Samll Fish and Thankful his wife was bourn october the 8th 1724

   Mary Fish dafter to Samll Fish and Thanfull his wife was bourn December 23d 1726

   Bethiah Fish dafter to Samll Fish and Thanful his wife was bourn March the 26th day in the yer 1729

   Thankfull dafter to Samll Fish and Thanfull his wife was born June the 29th 1731"

• Massachusetts: Vital Records, 1620-1850 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2016). Falmouth VRs p. 49 (Thankful Fish was born 29 June 1731 to Samuel Fish and Thankful (Meiggs) Fish).