Thomas Meekins1

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Family

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Child 1.Mary Meekins+1 (s 1645 - )
Marriage*He married ____ _____. 
3 May 1667He was a signer of the Petition of the Residents of Hadley on the West side of the River to form their own Society on 3 May 1667 at Hadley, Hampshire Co., MassachusettsG; the Petition of the Residents of Hadley on the West side of the River to form their own Society.2 

Citations

  1. [S738] James M. Crafts, History of the Town of Whately, Mass. 1661-1899 (Whately, MA: Town of Whately, 1899), p. 391, entry for Samuel Belden. Hereinafter cited as History of Whately (Crafts).
  2. [S290] Sylvester Judd and Lucius Boltwood, History of Hadley, including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley, Amherst and Granby Masssachusetts (Springfield, Mass.: H.R. Hunting and Company, 1905), chap. IX, 78–83: "The petition of us whose names are underwritten, being inhabitants of the west side of the river at Hadley..."
    Thomas Meekins, St., Daniel White, John Allis, Wm. Allis, John Welles, Obadiah Dickinson, John Coule, St., Nathaniel Dickinson, Jr., Samuel Gillet, Isaac Graves, Eleazer Frary, John Field, Richard Billing, Samuel Billing, John Coule, Jr., Wm. Gull, Samuel Dickinson, Ursula Fellows, Samuel Belden, Thomas Meekins, Jr., Mary Field, John Graves, Samuel Kelog, Daniel Warner, Barnabas Hinsdell.
    "John Coleman, Philip Russell, Samuel Allis and Benjamin Wait did not sign the petition;
    perhaps they did not all reside on the west side in May, 1667."