Joshua Cook
M
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Capt. Ebenzer Higgins
M
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William Proctor
M
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Ambrose Homan Atkins
M, b. 6 June 1813, d. 13 June 1840
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Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 2:479.
Joseph Homan Atkins
M, b. 7 August 1825
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Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
Martha Atkins
F, b. 28 June 1818
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Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
Mary Homan Atkins
F, b. circa September 1815, d. 1 or 2 jan 1817
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Citations
- She was age 15 months when she died at the beginning of Jan 1817.
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 2:479.
Nathaniel Homan Atkins
M, b. 6 March 1808, d. 13 August 1840
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 2:479.
Sarah Homan Atkins
F, b. 31 August 1806
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Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
Hannah P. Power
F
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Thomas Power Atkins
M, b. 7 February 1843
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Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21.
Sarah Jones
F
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Ambrose Jones Atkins
M, b. 23 May 1813, d. 13 June 1840
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Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 2:478.
Benjamin Homan Atkins
M, b. 5 April 1789, d. 5 October 1824
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 2:478.
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 2:479.
Betsy Atkins
F, b. 6 August 1803
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
Joseph Atkins
M, b. 27 August 1809
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| Baptism* | Joseph Atkins was baptized on 27 August 1809 in Marblehead, Essex County, MassachusettsG.1 |
| He might be the Joseph who was an unmarried fisherman when he "Drowned near Sable Island" on the Schooner Salus on 19 Sep 1846, aged 40 years. Sable Island is a small island far off the coast of Nova Scotia. This was caused by the Great Gale of 1846 in which 11 vessels and 65 men were lost.2 |
Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 2:478.
Thomas Atkins
M, b. 27 August 1809, d. 26 July 1855
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 1:21 (From Church records).
- Massachusetts Vital Records, Deaths, 1855, v.93, p.151, no.75 [Record says he was 44y, 5m, 4 days old, which calculates to 22 Feb 1811, not matching the birth date of our Thomas, but as the parents' names on the death record were Joseph and Sarah it doesn't seem like it could be anyone else].
Martha Atkins
F, b. circa 31 December 1811, d. 21 January 1812
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Citations
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), She was 3 weeks old when she died.
- Vital Records of Marblehead, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. (Salem, MA: Essex Institute, 1903), 2:478.
Mary Green
F
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Thomas Dismore
M
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Abigail N. Freeman
F, b. circa 1820, d. 25 August 1842
This research is a work in progress, taken from sources of varying reliability. The information should be verified before being relied upon.
Citations
- She was 22 years old when she died in 1842.
- Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.com, (Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Provincetown Births, Marriages, Deaths, 1620-1845; Vol. A, scan of original record, p.31 of scanned images, p.57 of original record.).
- Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.com, (Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Provincetown Births and Deaths, 1795-1913; Vol. III, scan of original records, p.8 of scanned images, p.11 of original record).
- AmericanAncestors, https://www.americanancestors.org, ("Provincetown and the Boston Post Canes," by Amy Whorf McGuiggan, Vita Brevis, <https://vitabrevis.americanancestors.org/2019/12/provincetown-boston-post-canes>).
William N.F. Atkins
M, b. 12 June 1842, d. 5 August 1842
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Citations
- Ancestry, http://www.ancestry.com, (Massachusetts, U.S., Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, Provincetown Births and Deaths, 1795-1913; Vol. III, scan of original records, p.15 of scanned images, p.23 of original record.).
- Massachusetts Vital Records, Deaths, 1842, v.2, p.13 [Death is also recorded in Provincetown].
William Thomas Atkins
M, b. 30 June 1853, d. 26 February 1902
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Elizabeth Ellsworth Beaver
F, b. 1861, d. 1931
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Ralph Ellsworth Atkins
M, b. 1889, d. 1956
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| Birth* | Ralph Ellsworth Atkins was born in 1889. |
| Death* | He died in 1956. |
Lillian Russell Atkins
F, b. 14 April 1894, d. 31 August 1898
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| Birth* | Lillian Russell Atkins was born on 14 April 1894 in Provincetown, Barnstable County, MassachusettsG.1 |
| Death* | She died on 31 August 1898 in Provincetown, Barnstable County, MassachusettsG. At the age of 4 years, 4 months, and 17 days old at around 9 o’clock on the morning of Wednesday, 31 August 1898. She set off to explore Provincetown's Central Wharf, which was right across the street from her home, at 162 Commercial Street. Lillian had made it just as far as the sail loft when she stepped through an opening in the wharf deck where a plank was missing. Lillian plunged entirely through the deck and into a high tide below. Shortly after noon, her body was recovered.2 |
Mary Atkins
F, b. 29 August 1733
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Silas Atkins
M, b. say 1720, d. before 18 December 1778
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| Birth* | Silas Atkins was born say 1720.1 |
| Marriage* | He married Mary Gyles, daughter of Charles Gyles and Mary Cruft, on 30 March 1742 in Boston, Suffolk County, MassachusettsG.2,3 |
| Death* | Silas Atkins died intestate before 18 December 1778, the date his son Silas was appointed administrator of his estate in Boston.3 |
| The parentage of Silas Atkins is uncertain. Silas' parentage is unproven. His placement in the family of Nathaniel Atkins and Mary Crowell is based on the following:
- Two old family genealogies, one on the Giles family and the other Farwell, provide a connection to Truro. Both books rely on communication with family members for some of the information presented. In the Giles genealogy it states that he is "supposed to be a native of Truro," which is likely information provided by a descendant based on their own personal knowledge. In the Farwell genealogy there is a more significant fact. Silas' great-grandson Oliver Atkins Farwell, who provided much helpful information to the author, was said to have in his possession a silver snuff box that was used by Mrs. Winifred (Chick) Atkins in 1741. Winifred being the purported grandmother of Silas, if his placement in the family here is correct.
- The Farwell genealogy also states that Silas was a grandson of Nathaniel and Winifred. Many ancestry family trees state that Silas was born in 1711 as the last child of Nathaniel and Winifred, but his placement there seems unlikely. Their children are all documented together in Eastham, Mass. vital records as a family group of six children born between 1694 and 1709. Other families on the same page of records have children born well past 1709, so the idea that they might have had one more unrecorded child born in 1711 seems very unlikely. It's far more likely that he was a grandson, as stated by the Farwell genealogy. The idea of his being a child of Nathaniel and Winifred has been found as far back as an article in The American Genealogist in 1939 ("Notes on Some Immigrants from Ottery St. Mary, Devon, England," by Mary Lovering Holman, TAG, 16(1939), p.206.)
- If he was a grandson of Nathaniel and Winifred, putting him in the family of Nathaniel and Mary Crowell seems to make the most sense. The younger siblings Joshua and Isaiah have well-documented families. The second son Henry is also a possibility, as discussed below. The family of Nathaniel and Mary (Crowell) Atkins has a gap in the recorded births of their children between 1717 and 1730 which would be a perfect fit for a child who married in 1742, as Silas did. A purported brother Nathaniel, also unproven in this family, is also being placed in that 13 year gap.
- The names of the fourteen children of Silas and Mary (Gyles) Atkins include several names from this family, including Nathaniel, Winifred, Henry, Joshua and Isaiah. Other names like Charles, Edward, Robert and John are included in the Gyles family. So it appears that the couple were naming their many children after family members, meaning that the inclusion of names like Nathaniel, Winifred and Henry make it very likely that they belong to this Truro branch of the family. Whether he is specifically a child of Nathaniel and Mary (Crowell) Atkins is the biggest conjecture. The other most likely father would be Nathaniel's brother Henry.
- It is also possible that he is an unrecorded son of Henry and Deliverance (Sears) Atkins, who were married in Boston in 1722 but whose first child (of twelve) was recorded in 1725. Silas could have been their first child born in 1723 or so and just not recorded. The names of other children in the family are mostly names from the family so it does seem odd that they would name their first child Silas when there were no other Silases in the family to this point. So while he might be part of this family, it seems more likely that he belongs with Nathaniel and Mary (Crowell) Atkins.
Silas was a master mariner and owned multiple properties in Boston. Their house was on Princes Street, very near to the Charlestown Ferry. At the back of the house was Copps Hill, and from the top of the hill the Battle of Bunker Hill could clearly be seen. Another of his houses right near to the ferry was demolished by the British to be used as fuel for troops. Silas, Mary and all of their children but Mary were out of the city during the siege of Boston. She stayed home to watch the house and take care of a British officer and his family who bunked there for the duration. Because of the kindness the family extended to the officer and his family, Mrs. Atkins was allowed to visit Silas when he arrived in a neighboring port with his ship, which was a concession not always granted to Boston residents during the siege. After the war Silas' financial success allowed him to retire early and for many years he was a leading citizen of Boston.3,2 |
Citations
- Based on his marriage date of 1742.
- Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, volume I, A History of Henry Farwell and his Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass. 1605-1927, With Twelve Generations of their Descendants, also Lineages of Many Allied Families (n.p.: Frederick Henry Farwell and Fanny (Barber) Farwell, 1929), p.279. Hereinafter cited as Farwell Family.
- John Adams Vinton, The Giles Memorial: Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison, Leonard, Lindall, Curwell, Marshall, Robinson, Sampson, and Webb (Boston: Henry W. Dutton and Son, 1864), p.134. Hereinafter cited as Giles Memorial.
Mary Gyles
F, b. 26 March 1720
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Citations
- John Adams Vinton, The Giles Memorial: Genealogical Memoirs of the Families Bearing the Names of Giles, Gould, Holmes, Jennison, Leonard, Lindall, Curwell, Marshall, Robinson, Sampson, and Webb (Boston: Henry W. Dutton and Son, 1864), p.134. Hereinafter cited as Giles Memorial.
- Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, volume I, A History of Henry Farwell and his Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass. 1605-1927, With Twelve Generations of their Descendants, also Lineages of Many Allied Families (n.p.: Frederick Henry Farwell and Fanny (Barber) Farwell, 1929), p.282. Hereinafter cited as Farwell Family.
- Jane Harter Abbott and Lillian M. Wilson, The Farwell Family, volume I, A History of Henry Farwell and his Wife Olive (Welby) Farwell of Boston, England, and Concord and Chelmsford, Mass. 1605-1927, With Twelve Generations of their Descendants, also Lineages of Many Allied Families (n.p.: Frederick Henry Farwell and Fanny (Barber) Farwell, 1929), p.279. Hereinafter cited as Farwell Family.
Deliverance Sears
F, b. 23 October 1703
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Citations
- Sameul P. May, The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Mass., 1638-1888, with an Appendix Containing Some Notice of Other Families By the Name of Sears (Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1890), Appendix p.567-8. Hereinafter cited as Sears Genealogy 1890.
- A Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston containing the Boston Marriages from 1700 to 1751. (Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1898), p.104.