Elizabeth Atkins, daughter of John Scammon, is mentioned in the 1682 will of her aunt Elizabeth Saffin.[5] "Elizabeth wife of Peter Lidget, and afterwards of John Saffin, of Boston, and (probably) Anne, the second wife of Major Richard Waldron, were sisters of Richard Scammon. The former (that is, Mrs. Saffin) in her will dated 14th April 1682, makes bequests to her brothers John and Richard Scammond, her sister Anne Waldron; her cousin Elizabeth Atkins daughter of her brother John Scammond; her cousin Jean Scammond daughter of her brother Richard Scammond, and her cousin Hannah Gerrish. (Suffolk Prob. Rec. X. 189-94.) Jane was eldest daughter of Richard Scammon, and Hanna Gerrish may have been the eldest daughter of Anne Waldron. Anna, daughter of Major Waldron, m. Rev. Joseph Gerrish of Wenham."[6]
It appears that Elizabeth Saffin had two children born in Barbados around 1650, by her first husband Peter Lidget, who was born in 1629.[7]
This would place Elizabeth Scammon's birth around 1630 or maybe a couple years later (child born in 1650). If her niece Elizabeth Atkins was indeed the wife of Thomas Atkins of the Kennebec area in Maine, then it appears that Elizabeth Atkins would have been too young to have been the mother of most Thomas's ten daughters, who seem to have been born starting around 1645.
Presumably Elizabeth was a second wife, too young to have been the mother of Thomas's elder daughters. Could she have been the mother of ANY of his daughters?
