Lucretia Williams1

Lucretia Williams||p8010.htm|Thomas Williams|d. a 4 May 1682|p8305.htm||||NN Williams||p8306.htm||||||||||

6th great-grandmother of Ruth Minerva Fairfield.
8th great-grandmother of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Fairfield and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Ruth Minerva Fairfield
     Lucretia Williams was the daughter of Thomas Williams.2 She married Lieut. Richard Hitchcock by 1653.1,3
     
Additional Data
Lucretia Williams was mentioned as co-heir and appointed executrix, though not by name, in her husband Richard Hitchcock's will dated 6 June 1670: "I giue & bequeath one third part of all my estate, to my dearly beloved wife, the Wch shee shall haue & possess at & vpon my decease."1,4 Click to view image

Lucretia Williams attempted to marry second George Garland. On 10 September 1672,
whereas information is given to this Court that Geo[rge] Garland hath lately published an intent of marriage with the widow Hitchcocke of Sacoe notwithstanding he hath lately owned himself to be the husband of another woman called Saraih Mills, these are therefore in his Majesty's name to will and require [the constable of Saco] to forbid the publication & to give notice unto the said Garland & to the widow Hitchcocke that they do henceforth forbear any further proceeding therein, & that they do not frequent the company of each other until authority take further order.5
The couple continued to be prosecuted for this same offense in 1673 and 1674.1,6

Children of Lucretia Williams and Lieut. Richard Hitchcock

Citations

  1. [S749] Charles Thornton Libby, compiler, Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire (Portland, Maine: The Southward Press, 1928), 339.
  2. [S749] Charles Thornton Libby, Libby, 377.
  3. [S763] "Richard Hitchcock", The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, online <http://www.greatmigration.org/>, printout dated 2005. Bonus biographical sketches (Boston: NEHGS, 14 Feb 2003). Hereinafter cited as "TGMB Hitchcock."
  4. [S751] Maine Historical Society, compiler, Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (n.p.: Maine Historical Society, 1887), 21, 22, Court Records E, 62.
  5. [S763] TGMB Hitchcock, online, 2:461-62.
  6. [S763] TGMB Hitchcock, online, citing MPCR 2:252, 260, 268, 288, 468.