1. Her grandparents on her mother’s side were Oliver Helme (b. June 17, 1731) and Katharine Greenman (b. April 22, 1738), of the well-known shipbuilding family of Westerly and Mystic. On her father’s side her grandparents were Abel Hinckley Sr. (b. April 10, 1743) and Sarah Hubbard (Hobart) (b. ca. 1745).
2. Thomas William Herringshaw, Herringshaw’s Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago: American Publisher’s Association, 1902), p. 206.
3. “One enjoying civil or political liberty; one having the full rights of a citizen.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th ed., s.v. “freeman.”
4. Biographical Review Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of New London County, Connecticut (Boston: Biographical Review Publishing Company, 1898), vol. 26, p. 115.
5. Howard M. Chapin, The Early Records of the Town of Warwick (Providence, R.I.: E. A. Johnson Company, 1926), p. 217.
6. Elisha R. Potter Jr., The Early History of Narragansett (Providence, R.I.: Marshall, Brown and Company, 1835), pp. 250, 255.
7. Lura Woodside Watkins, Early New England Potters and Their Wares (Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1968), pp. 178–82.
8. In his book Genealogy of the States Family (New Haven, Conn., 1913), James Noyes States includes the following information:

Adam, the sixth child, was born at Greenwich, Conn. in 1756, and died at Stonington, Conn., near Westerly, R.I. in 1826, aged 70 years. His grave is in a family burial place not far from Westerly on the west side of the Pawcatuch River, on the west side of the road going north towards North Stonington. In 1909, the place was owned by a man by the name of Hall, whose grandmother, Phoebe C. (States) Bliven, was the daughter of Adam States (3rd) of this paper, and Fanny (Chesebrough) States, his wife. The house was struck by lightning and burned down. It was on the west side of the road about opposite the house of Thomas Hinckley.

9. Harold Staats, Genealogy of the Staats Family (Ripley, W.Va.: National Staats Reunion Association, 1921), p. 204.
10. Ibid., pp. 182, 183.