Martha Adams

Biography

Jacob Hewins married in Dorchester, Massachusetts Bay Colony, on 24 February 1681 Martha Trescott [1] who was born 8 February 1660[/1?], the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Dyer) Trescott. They removed from Dorchester to Boston, where he was a brewer. He died intestate in 1691. His estate, consisting only of furniture, was inventoried at £22, and presented 10 September 1691 by James Thornbury, administrator. His widow then married Henry Adams, and was in her second widowhood, 11 September 1711, when she presented to the court an account of her first husband's estate, amounting to £4, as all that remained.[2]

Children:

1. Mercy, b. 28 Jan 1681/2, m. Andrew Coams, mariner of Boston.
2. Martha, b. 01 October 1687, m. Ralph Mayar, shipwright of Boston.
3. "Jacob Hewens, ye son of Jacob & Martha Hewens, aged 4 days, died Oct ye 7 1673" buried Copp's Hill Burying Ground

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1. ↑ Boston Record Commissioners, A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston Containing Dorchester Births, Marriages, and Deaths to the End of 1825 (Boston, MA: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1890), Vol.1:24."HUENS, Jacob Huens & Martha Trescot were Married by the Worshipfull Humphrey Dave Esqr. February 24th. 80."
2. ↑ Morse, Abner, The genealogy of the descendants of several ancient Puritans (Boston, MA: H.W. Dutton, 1859), Vol. 2:165-6.
3. ↑ Inscriptions from Copp's Hill Burial Ground

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