Mehitable Smead1

#2135, (2 January 1666/67 - March 1704)
Relationship6th great-grandaunt of William David Lewis
Father*William Smead Jr1 (c 1635 - )
Mother*Elizabeth Lawrence1 (1642 - 1704)

Family 1

Jeremiah Hull Jr. b. 1663, d. 1691
Children 1.Elizabeth Hull+10 (1688 - )
 2.Jeremiah Hull III10 (1690 - 1693/94)

Family 2

Godfrey Nims b. s 1654, d. c 1704
Children 1.Mehitable Nims11 (1696 - 1704)
 2.Mary Nims12 (1698/99 - 1704)
 3.Mercy Nims12 (1698/99 - 1704)
 4.Abigail Nims13 (1701 - )
Her married name was Hull.2 
Her married name was Nims.3,4,5 
Birth*2 January 1666/67She was born on 2 January 1666/67 at Northampton, Hampshire Co., MassachusettsG.1 
Marriage*1688She married Jeremiah Hull Jr., son of Jeremiah Hull and Hannah Baldwin, in 1688.2 
Marriage*27 January 1692She married Godfrey Nims on 27 January 1692 at Deerfield, Massachusetts; or 27 Jun.3,4,5 
29 February 1703/4She was captured in the Deerfield French and Indian raid on 29 February 1703/4 at Massachusetts, and died on the march to Canada.6,7,8,9 
Death*March 1704She died in March 1704 at age 37.9,6 

Citations

  1. [S1020] Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Northampton 1620/1650–1893/1988, unknown repository, unknown repository address, p. 9 in typed version; original [births in 1666] "january 2 Mehitabell Daugh' of William and Elizabeth Smeed was born". Hereinafter cited as Mass. Town and Vital Records: Northampton.
  2. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 2 (Deerfield: E.A. Hall and Co., 1896), p.218, "prob. son of Jeremiah and Hannah (Baldwin), of New Haven."
  3. [S165] James Savage, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, four volumes (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860-1862), III:285 "1692."
  4. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Deerfield Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1920), 215 "Jan. 27, 1692."
  5. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, 250 "June 27, 1692."
  6. [S1512] John Williams, The Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion (Boston: Samuel Hall, 1795). Reprinted Springfield, Mass.: H. R. Huntting Co., 1908, pp. 171-172. Hereinafter cited as Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion.
  7. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield, Massachusetts, Volume 1 (Greenfield, Mass.: E.A. Hall and Co., 1895), 308, 309. Has Henry Nims as age 12. He was 22.
  8. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
  9. [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).
  10. [S289] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield II, p.218.
  11. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, 99.
  12. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, 99, twins.
  13. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, Vital Records of Deerfield, 99 as Nimes.