Mehitable Nims1

#9847, (16 May 1696 - 29 February 1704)
Relationship1st cousin 7 times removed of William David Lewis
Father*Godfrey Nims1 (s 1654 - c 1704)
Mother*Mehitable Smead1 (1666/67 - 1704)
Birth*16 May 1696She was born on 16 May 1696 at Deerfield, Massachusetts.1,2 
Death*29 February 1704She died on 29 February 1704 at the Indian Raid, Deerfield, Massachusetts, at age 7 burned to death in the cellar of the house.1,3 
29 February 1703/4She was killed in the Deerfield Raid and Massacre on 29 February 1703/4 at Massachusetts, poss. burned to death in the cellar of their house; Deerfield French and Indian raid.4,5,6,7 

Citations

  1. [S762] Thomas W. Baldwin, compiler, Vital Records of Deerfield Massachusetts, to the Year 1850 (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Company, 1920), 99.
  2. [S1229] Massachusetts Town and Vital Records: Deerfield 1675–1898, Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook), compiler, Provo, UT and Oxford, MA, transcript, p. 149, img 99/481, dau. of Godfrey and Mehitable.
  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.
  4. [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.
  5. [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.
  6. [S741] George Sheldon, History of Deerfield I, p. 304-05.
  7. [S1230] Emma Lewis Coleman, New England Captives Carried to Canada between 1677 and 1760. Two volumes (Portland, Maine: The Southworth Press, 1925).