Mary (Unknown) Bevins (abt. 1654 - 1712)

Born about 1654 in Vineyard Haven, Tisbury, Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony

Wife of Arthur Bevins — married about 1675 in England [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 18 Dec 1712 at about age 58 in Middletown, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Mary and Arthur Bevan, lived in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, on Martha's Vineyard. Arthur bought land there in 1682, but had been there with his wife by 1677.^[1]

It is unclear when the family went from Martha's Vineyard to Glastonbury. The Annals of West Tisbury sketch on Arthur says "All of his children were born in this town prior to his removal to Glastonbury, Conn, about 1696. He d. soon after arrival there (1697)."^[2] In "Glastenbury [sic] for Two Hundred Years" it says they were there "for some time before it's incorporation" (1693), but received a grant of public land in 1696.^[3] To add to the confusion, Stiles in the Families of Ancient Wethersfield, says that Bevan was in Wethersfield before Glastonbury was "set off."^[4] Glastonbury was part of Wethersfield until 1696.

Widow _____ Bevin died 18 Dec 1712 in Middletown, Connecticut.^[5]

Mary Bevin named her children and gave their birthdates as part of the probate records for her husband Arthur in 1697.^[6]He died intestate in 1697, owning a house, barn, animals and 70 acres of land in Glastonbury. He also owned land in Middletown. .^[6]

These were their (known) children^[2], ^[1]:

1. Jn^o Bevin born November 30 1676
2. Mary was born April 29 1678
3. Grace was born January 31 1679
4. mercy was born March 31, 1681
5. Thomas was born July 15 1682
6. desire was born August 31, 1684
7. Arthur was born April 28 1686
8. Joanna was born February 10, 1687
9. Elizabeth was born February 18 1690
10. Abigail Born March 13, 1692
11. Sarah Born April 22, 1692
12. Anna born September 30, 1696

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Banks, Charles Edward. The History of Martha’s Vineyard, vol. 3, Family Genealogies, (Edgartown, Mass.: Dukes County Historical Society, 1925) p. 521
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Banks, Charles Edward. The history of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts. Volume II "Annals of West Tisbury." Boston : G.H. Dean, 1911. p. 67
3. ↑ Chapin, Alonzo Bowen, Glastenbury [sic] for Two Hundred Years: A Centennial Discourse, May 8th, AS.D. 1853, (Hartford: Tiffany, 1853) p. 195
4. ↑ Stiles, Henry Reed. Families of Ancient Wethersfield Connecticut; Consisting of the History of Ancient Wethersfield, Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to Its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time, with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Families. Vol II. 1904. p. 99
5. ↑ White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002. Middletown. p. 54
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Notes : Probate Packets, Benton, M-Bidwell, 1641-1880. Connecticut County, District and Probate Courts. Images accessed at Ancestry.com. Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records, 1609-1999. Bevin, Arthur. Glastonbury 1697. #483 Hartford Probate District.

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• List of Sources from Torrey's New England Marriages.{Martha's Vineyard 3:521-2; Glastonbury CT 195; Sv. 1:174; Wethersfield 2:99; Hartford Prob. 1:538; Hale (1952) 31; Hubbard 276-7}
• Day, Edward Warren, One Thousand Years of Hubbard History, 866 to 1895: from Hubba, the Norse Sea King, to the Enlightened Present, (New York: H. P. Hubbard, [c.1895]) son Thomas p. 276, & 277