re: #371 Barefoot Grin

Perhaps he knew Thomas and Rebecca Mix.

Thomas (he spelled his name “Meekes” in early records) came to New Haven, Connecticut sometime before 1647 when he is first mentioned in town records. Thomas and Rebecca married when she became pregnant and were called before the court July 3, 1649 “to answer to their sinful miscarriage in matter of fornication, with sundry lies added thereto by them both in a gross and heinous matter.” Thomas was ordered severely whipped and fined 5 pounds, and Rebecca was fined 10 pounds.

ref: “Records of the Colony and Plantation of New Haven, from 1638 to 1649”, transcribed and edited by Charles J Hoad ly, Hartford CT (Case, Tiffany and Co) 1857, p 480.

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