Mary Mills

Also Mary Hawkins

Probably the daughter of John Mills, who came in the Winthrop Fleet, and Catheryn Scotson, born in England about 1616/7. Probably the wife of James Hawkins of Boston and the mother of Mary Hawkins, who married John Kneeland. As a widow she deeded a Boston house in 1671; she probably died at Boston in 1692, aged 75, and lies in King's Chapel Burying Ground.

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Life

  1. c. 1616
    Born
  2. 1692
    Died
    12 Mar 1692, Boston, Massachusetts

    Her gravestone, as given by Dunkle and Lainhart (via WikiTree): "Here Lyes Buried Ye Body Of Mary Hawkins Aged 75 Years Died Ye 12 Of March 1692" (1692/3). Sumner reports Savage's reading as aged 76.

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    Buried
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Family

Father
John Mills d. 1678

His will of 12 Jan 1678 names "ds. Mary Hawkins and Susanna Dawes."

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Mother
Catheryn Scotson

John Mills married Catheryn Scotson in Feb 1615/6 and had married again by 1628/9; Mary was born about 1616/7.

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Spouse
James Hawkins d. 1670

Savage, "had w. Mary." Sumner has him marrying Mary, daughter of John Mills, before 1638.

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1 child

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Pedigree

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Notes

Wife of James Hawkins of Boston. Her father, of Boston and later Braintree, came in the Winthrop Fleet with his wife and five children (Sumner, p. 178).

“James of Mary Hawkins,” “Elizabeth of Mary Hawkins” and “Sarah of Mary Hawkins” were baptized at Boston’s First Church on the same day as three children of her daughter Ruth Marshall (Boston RC 9; Sumner gives the date as 29 Apr 1666). As a widow she transferred to her son James, on 15 Apr 1671, “a legacy from his kinfolk in Rhode Island,” and in May 1671 she deeded a Boston house and land to John Scottow (Sumner, p. 139).

Open questions

  • Her father: the colonial tree marks the link to John Mills as compiled (from Savage’s abstract of the will); the page has documented, probable.
Mollie's typescript· 1 passage · 1 claim checked

What Mollie wrote about her in The Holbrook and Low Families, and her claims about her checked against the records.

  1. Mollie names her as the daughter of John Mills of the Winthrop Fleet and the wife of James Hawkins.

    Mary Mills was a daughter of John Mills who came in the Winthrop Fleet, and was number 33 of the First Church, his wife Sussannah Mills being 34.
    p. 129 →

Checked against the records

  • Possible
    Mary Hawkins was a daughter of Col. James Hawkins and Mary Mills

    Probable: Torrey and the Great Migration make her a daughter of James Hawkins, and John Mills's will (1678) names his daughter "Mary Hawkins". James was a Boston bricklayer (will 1669), and nothing shows he was a colonel. His parents Richard and Jane Hawkins are supported by the sons' petition of 1651.

    Read it in the book, p. 129 →
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