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In the Name of God Amen. This Eighth Day of January In the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred & forty six, and in the Twentieth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Second, King of great Brittain etc., I Stephen Emery, of Newbury in the county of Essex, and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Gen. Being in comfortable health of Body, and of sound mind & memory (Thanks be to God Therefor) but calling to mind my Own mortallity, Do make and Ordain this my Last Will & Testatment.
Principally & first of all I Humbly Recommend my soul Into the Hands of God who gave it, and my Body I commend to the Earth to be Decently buried at the Discretion of my Execr. assuredly hopeing that at the general resurection, They shall be again united in compleat happiness thro: the merritt & power of Jesus Christ, the Resurection and ye Life and as to the worldly goods therewith it Hath Pleased God To bless me with in this Life, I Give, Devise and Dispose of them, In the following Manner and Form, vizt.
Imprs. I Give and Bequeath to my Dearly & Well beloved wife Ruth Emery The One third part of my Real Estate of what kind or Nature soever (During Her Natural Life). I also give unto her my Household goods of Every sort and all the Provisions that may be in my Possession at the time of my Decease of Every kind and the one halfe of my stock of cattle, horses, sheep & swine, To be wholly at her Dispose Forever.
I Give and Bequeath unto my Daughters, Ann Little, Sarah Dole, Ruth Moulton, Judeth Hale, Abigail Bartlett, Elizabeth Moody, Lydia Emery To Each of them the sum of twelve Ounces & an halfe of silver or bills of Creditt Equivalent thereto to be Paid by my Execr. within seven years after my Decease (Besides what I have already given them)
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my Daughters Hannah and Meriam Emery To Each of the[m] the sum of One Hundred Eighty Seven Ounces & an halfe of silver or Bills of Creditt Equivalent Thereto To be paid by my Executor (The One halfe of sd. sum Immediately after my Decease, and ye Remainder within Three years, not succeeding [it)?] and my will is That these my two Daughters Last mentioned shall have Liberty to Dwell in the South West Lower Room in my Dwelling house and have convenient cellar Rooms therein untill marriage.
Item I Give and Bequeath unto my two Grand sons Thomas & Stephen Noyes, sons of my Daughter Mary Noyes Decd. To Each of them the sum of Eighteen Ounces & three quarters of silver, or Bills of Creditt Equivalent thereto, To be paid by my Execr. when they shall successively arrive To The age of Twenty One years and if Either of my sd Grand sons shall Die Before he arrive to [that?] age Then the survivor shall have ye whole sum as above mentioned.
Finally I Give and Bequeath unto my Only son Stephen Emery his heirs & assigns forever all my Estate Both Real & Personal of what kind or Nature soever or wherever it lies (Except what I have Before Disposed of in this my Last Will He my sd son Paying all my Just Debts Funeral Charges and the Respective Legacies mentioned in this my Will and I Do constitute & appoint my sd son Stephen Emery To be sole Executor of this my Last Will & Testament, and I Do Hereby annull all former Wills by me made, and Rattify & Confirm this to be my Last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal the Day & year above written.
Signed sealed published & Declared by ye above [___]ed Stephen Emery To be his Last Will & Testamt. In ye presence of [us?] witnesses
John Emery Junr.
Joseph Merrick
Thomas Barnard
Stephen Emery (s) | Emery, Ens. Stephen (I9682)
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In the Name of God and by his Assistance. I Elizabeth Knight of Newbury, Relict & widow of Richard Knight decd. Do Humbly Committ my Soul, Body & Spirit Both in Life and Death into The Everlasting arms of God Alsufficient, my Heavenly father and to Jesus Christ my alone Saviour and Blessed redeemer Through the power & presence of his Eternal Spirit, my body To the Earth to be Decently buried, whence it Original was Taken In hopes of a happy & Glorious Resurection In the Great Day of the man Christ Jesus, to whome Be Glory Forever Amen; And for Such good things of this World, as it pleased God to bless me withall, I Give and Dispose off In manner Following.
Imprimis. I Give to my Son Henry ye Sum of Ten pounds to be Paid by my Executor in good passable bills of Credit Old Tenor and also one pewter platter.
2ly; I Give to my Son Moses one feather bed & Bolster and Curtains and one Coverlet to be delivered to him By my Executor & also two pewter platters.
3ly; I Give to my Daughter Elizabeth the wife of Samuel Dole, ye Sum of five pounds to be paid out of my moveables, or household goods by my Executor. Also all my Clothing or wearing apparril both linnen & wollen.
4ly; I Give to my Grand Son Richard ye Son of Richard Knight Decd. one Bedsted & [brass skillet?] & two Sheep; and to my Grand Daughters Eunice & Ednah, ye Daughters of my Said son Richard Decd. I Give five Shillings to Each to Be paid by my Executor Old Tenor.
Lastly I Give to my Son Edmond my Dwelling House And all my Stock of Cattle, and all my moveables of what kind Or Nature whatsoever, Excepting Such as I have Otherwise Disposed of in manner as abovesaid, Constituting & appointing him my Executor, of this my Last will & Testament, ordering him to pay all my Debts and funeral Charges, In Witness to what is above written I have hereunto sett my hand and Seal this fifteenth Day of December Anno Domini 1742 and in ye Sixteenth year of his Majesties Reign George the Second King of Great Brittan &c.
her mark
Eliza. Knight (seal)
Signed Sealed and Acknowledged in presence of John
Rolfe Jr. Enoch Rolfe Stephen Jaques Jr. | Jaques, Elizabeth (I16003)
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In the name of God ye 21 Day of May, 1730, I Walter Philbrick of ye parish of Greenland in ye Township of portsmth in ye province of New Hampshire in New England, Blacksmith, Being weak in body and full of paine, but of perfect mind and memory, and calling unto mind the mortality of my body, and knowing y't it is appointed for all men once to die, Do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, yt is to say, principally and first of all I commit my soul into ye hands of God yt gave it, and my body I recommend to ye earth to be Decently Buried, at the Discretion of my Executrix, nothing doubting but at ye General Resurrection, I shall Receive ye same again, by ye mighty power of god; and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it has pleased god to bless me with in this Life. I dow in manner following will and dispose thereof. -- Imprimis, I give and bequeath unto my Dear and faithful wife, Eliza, all my estate, both real and personal, to be by her improved for ye good of my children; she remain my widow till my son Robert Tuften, comes to ye age of twenty-one years, and then my son, Robert Tuften to be fully possessed of and to enjoy (Injoy) as his proper Estate which I bequeath unto him, and to his heirs, yt is to say, my home place where I now dwell, with all ye Buildings, Lands, Trees, orchard and fences and w't ever belongeth unto ye same, as Real Estate, and all my Marsh at Hampton, and all ye lands I bought of uncle Jno. Philbrick, commonly called ye old field, and all yt land I bought of my Brother Jona. Philbrick, adjoining to ye old field, my sd. Wife yet having ye one halfe of the same so long as she remains my widow, and if she should marry again, then to her but ye one third part of my home place, and one third part of my lands I bought of my uncle Philbrick, and my brother Jonth Philbrick before mentioned, to improve on ye income of it. I also give to my said wife all my moveable estate, within dores and without, for her to dispose of among my children, as she shall think best. I also order my son, Robert Tuften, to pay to Eliza, my youngest Daughter Thirty pounds, as her portion at her marriage, or at the age of twenty-one years, being my principal heir.
Item, I give and bequeath to my son, Simon and my son Walter all ye land y't I bought of ye Wiggins and of Sinkler, Where Thoas Avery now lives, and my Common Right of land, and my Right of lands yt may hereafter appear or occur to me, and all my Debts of money Due by Bills and bonds to be equally Divided between them or their Heirs, when they come to the age of twenty-one years.
Also excepting thirty pounds a piece to my Daughters, Mary and Deborah at their marriage or at ye age of twenty-one years; also excepting so much as will pay ye Doctor. I have empowered them. I constitute and make and ordain Eliza my well beloved wife to be my executor of this my last will and Testament, an my well beloved son, Robert Tuften, when he comes to ye age of twenty-one years to be joint executor with her; and I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and disanull all and every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies and Bequests, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last will and Testament, in writing whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal ye day and year above mentioned. Signed, Sealed, published pronounced and Declared by the Said Walter Philbrick, as his last will and Testament, in ye presants of as ye Subscribers,
SAMU'L NEAL
WALTER (his mark) PHILBRICK
ELIZA (her mark) NEAL
WILLIAM ALLEN
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In the name of God, Amen. I, John Kilbourn, Sen'r., of the Town
of Glastenbury, in the County of Hartford, in the Colony of Connecticut,
in New England. Knowing that it is appointed for men once to die, and
considering the uncertainty as to the time of death, withall knowing it to be
the Will of God, who in his tender visitation calls upon me to set my house
in order before I die, and I being (though weak in body) yet of perfect and
sound understanding and memory,and of disposing mind. Praise be to Almighty
God,Do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in
manner and form following. I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty
God, hoping through the merits of Christ to obtain free pardon of
all my sins and to inherit Eternal Life, and my body I commit to the Earth
to be decently buried atthe discretion of my Executors hereafter named;
and concerning my outward Estate, since the Earth is the Lord's and the
fullness thereof, to him therefore belongs the Praise that I possess in this
kind, and as for the portion thereof that he hath given me, it is my mind
and Will that after my decease, the same may be disposed of as followeth.
Imprimis. I Will that my just debts and funeral charges, be well and
truly paid and discharged. Item. I give and bequeath to my beloved Wife,
Elizabeth Kilbourn, the sole benefit and improvement of my Dwelling
House, and the improvement of three quarters of my Barn, as also the use
and improvement of three quarters of my meadow and uplands, with the
use and benefit of my Orchard, all being in Glastonbury aforesaid, and she
to have the use of the same during her natural life. I also give unto my
said Wife, the one half of my movable estate, also all the Estate that was
her own before I married her, to be forever at her own use and disposal,
I also give to my said Wife, one Cow, also so much of my provisions of all
sorts whatsoever, as may be for her comfortable subsistance the year ensuing.
Item. I give unto my son, John Kilbourn, all my Land that is
Eastward of the Land that I give to my son David, That is to say, the East
End of my farm in Glastenbury aforesaid, bounded upon my said son David's
land West, and undivided land East, lauds of Thomas Kilbourn,Sen.,
South, and lands of Samuel Hale,North, to be to him my said son John,
and to his heirs and assigns forever. 1 also give unto my said son John,
Mr.Perkins' Book, with a share of my other small books, lo be at his own
disposing forever. Item. I give unto my son, Ebenezer Kilbourn, Mrs.
Taylor's book on Titus, a share in the small books, a share of the moveables,
to be at his own disposing forever-having regard to what moveables
he hath already had. Item.I give unto my son, Jonathan Kilbourn,
all my labor which I laid out upon the lands in Colchester, which he now
possesses and enjoys, vizt., the clearing of three acres of land, with all the
Posts and rails, and a Frame, to be to him and to his heirs and assigns forever.
Also Mr. Elton's Sermon book, with a share of my small books and
remaining moveables, having regard to what moveables he hath already had.
Item. I give unto my son, Benjamin Kilbourn, my pasture land, butting
East upon a highway lately laid out by the Town, if said Highway is improved,
but if not, to butt upon my said son David's lot, and West upon my
upland field, North upon the said Samuel Hale, and South upon Joseph
Hill, Sen.—Provided he returns home to settle upon it, and if he return
not home, and settle as aforesaid, then the same shall be equally divided
between my four sons, viz., John, Ebenezer, David and Abraham, to be to
them and their heirs forever. I also give unto my said son, Benjamin, Mrs.
Hooker's book, with a share of my moveables, to be at his disposal forever.
Item. I give unto my said son, David Kilbourn, one half mile in length of
my said Farm in Glastenbury, to butt West upon said Highway lately laid
out by the Town as aforesaid, if said Highway be improved, if not, then to
butt upon my said pasture hereby given to my said son Benjamin, and to
extend Eastward half a mile, butting East upon land I now give to my said
son John, North upon said Samuel Hale, and South on said Thomas Kilbourn
and partly upon said Joseph Hill, to be to him and to his heirs and
assigns forever. I also give my said son David, my Great Bible and a
share of my moveables, to be to his disposing forever. Item.I give to
my son Abraham Kilbourn, my Dwelling House, Barn and Orchard, with
all my meadow land within said Town of Glastenbury, and my upland from
the pasture aforesaid to the meadow, to be to him and to his heirs forever,
after my said Wife shall be deceased, he having the use of one quarter part
of my said House, Barn, Orchard, Meadow and Upland, during her natural
life, if she needeth it not for her comfortable subsistance.I also give unto
my said son Abraham, Mrs. Fox's book of Time, &c., and Mrs. Doolittle's
book of the Lord's Supper, with a share of the moveables, to be at his disposing
forever, and also my Horse Colt, tobe to him forever. Further, it is
my mind and Will, That such of my Children as have their share of my
Housing and lands, may sell their shares to none, save to other or some
other of their Brethren. Further it is my mind and Will that my Debts
be paid by my Executors in manner following, (viz..) one half of my moveables
being set out to my beloved Wife, in such things as may be most for
her comfort and subsistance, my debts to be paid out of the remaining part or
half,and when my debts are paid, what remains of moveable Estate to be
equally divided between my aforementioned sons, Ebenezer, Jonathan,
Benjamin,David and Abraham,always accounting that what estate my
said Wife brought with her when I married her, be not deemed my Estate.
And further, it is my Will, that my said sons, Benjamin, David and Abraham,
shall yield a convenient way for Horse and man, to, and from, and
through,each others' Land, as well for their advantage as for the advantage
and ease of my said son John, that he may pass to his Land, which in
this my Last Will and Testament, I have given unto him, unless the
aforesaid Highway laid out lately by the Town shall be improved for that
end,and then if the Town shall make use of that Highway, myson David
shall only and alone be obliged to yield to John a convenient way for horse
and man, to his own land as aforesaid. Further it is my Will, that my son
John shall not deter or hinder any of my other sons from cutting and carrying
off of wood from his land, so long as the same shall lie unfenced.
Lastly,I appoint my beloved Wife, and my beloved son Abraham Kilboum,
to be my Executors of this my last Will and Testament* In testimony that
this is my last Will and Testament, I have hereunto set my hand and seal
this fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and ten, and in the ninth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lady
Anne, Queen over England, &c. JOHN KILBORN, Sen.[seal]
Signed and Sealed in the presence of
Samuel Smith, Mary Smith, Philip Alcock. | Kilbourn, John (I21395)
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In the summer of 1676, Ensign John Beebe on New London, with Captain George Denison, was with a company which was raised in New London County for the Indian War. There was once a dispute between the New London and Lyme people over the right to mow grass on debatable land. When the Lyme people came with a constable who began to read a warrant for the apprehension of another ensign, Sergeant Beebe interruped him crying "we care not a straw for your paper." There was a struggle between the two parties which did not result seriously to either side. In 1671-2, he was brought before the court, with many others in New London, "for an attempt to drive Mr. Matthew Griswold and Lieut. William Waller by violence off their lands, resistance to authority and assault." Very likely he had been for some time on the plantation of New London in the service of John Winthrop, the founder. There are records of several land purchases in 1651 and 1652 by John. In 1707, he deeded 31 acres to his son Benjamin. This deed was recorded 28 April 1714 but he was probably dead at that time. He was called a "Leather Dresser" in a deed dated 1660. In 1675, he was appointed Ensign by the general court. During King Philip's War in June 1676, he went on several expeditions against the Indians to Rhode Island, Taunton and beyond Westfield, MA on the way to Albany. On one of these expeditions, the company ascended the Connecticut River to Northampton, where they joined Major Talcot with supplies of which the army was in urgent need. In 1690, he was commissioned a lieutenant. | Beebe, Lt. John III (I8976)
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In the will of Samuel Ladd, dated 23 Sep 1634 "To sister Rebecca Beebe, 5 pounds. To her son Samuel, my grandson, 5 pounds. To each of her other children, viz.: to John, Thomas, and Rebecca, 10 shillings, being 1 pound, 10 shillings in all." | Ladd, Samuel (I8983)
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Inscription of tombstone:
President of Shaaray Torah Synagogue for 40 years. Pioneer Member for 70 years. Recipient of 1941 Metro Club Honor Award. | Woroshilsky, Abraham Shabtai (I6038)
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Inscription:
HERE LYES THE BODY
OF MR SAMUEL KNOWLES
FORMERLY REPRESENTATIVE
FOR THE TOWN OF EASTHAM
WHO DIED JUNE Y 19
1737 IN THE 85
YEAR OF HIS AGE | Knowles, Samuel Esq. (I9195)
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Intention of marriage published 17 October 1666. On the "Town Rate of Newbury, Mass. 1668" Benjamin Lowle was set for "1 Head, 1 horse, 2 cows, 8 sheep, 1 hogg." May 19, 1669, Benjamin Lowle was made freeman. 1695 he was called "Sergt," and in a deed at
Newbury, Mass. 1697, he was called "blacksmith." He, with others, had a long law suit over his parent's estate, which is on the records of the clerk's court, Mass. Rec., 3:125, Salem, Mass., also in Boston Court House, Case No. 1791, estate Vol. 1.
(D. R. Lowell. 1899. The Historic Genealogy of the Lowells of America from 1639-1899) | Lowell, Sgt. Benjamin (I5418)
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ISAAC COUSINS, born about the year 1613, an expert gunsmith and locksmith, was living in Rowley, Massachusetts Bay in 1647, when it was recorded that Samuel Fogg was apprenticed to him.(+) His ability at his trade is several times commended and he seems to have been a man of education, writing a firm clear [Image for The Ancestry of Lydia Harmon 1755-1836 ]
hand, an accomplishment which his wife, Elizabeth Cousins, shared, but a wandering spirit and a fatal propensity for litigation makes the sum of his career in New England a sad record of continuous failure.
Cousins was offered inducements to settle in New London, Connecticut, in 1651,?? but he remained in Rowley until the following year when he sold his land, house and shop to John Pickard and removed to Haverhill. The court records at this period give evidence of his uniform ill-luck at horse-trading. He participated in the divisions of land in Haverhill in 1652 and 1653, but he soon transferred his business to Ipswich, remained there a short period, and in the autumn of 1656, after selling his Ipswich house and shop º he continued his migrations to Boston.
At this point his wife, Elizabeth Cousins, died, on October 14, 1656. In the succeeding year he married Ann Hunt "formerly wife of John Edwards" in Boston, and disposed of his Haverhill real estate. He left several law suits behind him in the Ipswich court, figuring both as plaintiff and defendant, in one of which he is sued by the town for bringing in an old woman and leaving without providing for her.**
On December 16, 1659 Cousins was "received as a tradesman" at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where John Webster sold him an acre of land at Great Island in 1661. How long this venture lasted is not determined, but he was again in Boston in 1668. For the next ten years his name appears only occasionally in the records. His wife Ann had apparently died before 1660, when the name of the mother of his daughter Rebecca is given in the birth record as Rebecca Cousins. This may be a clerical error, however.
In 1677 he had again married, this wife being named Martha Priest.
In 1678, when he was quite advanced in age, he seems to have become identified with the proprietors of North Yarmouth in Maine, and during that year he witnessed for them several deeds executed in Boston. This connection led to a further attempt to better his fortunes in a new community, and in 1681 the committee of that town was directed to lay out a tract of land to him "hee or his sonn Ingaging to come & dwell yr, & to accomodate the inhabitants by ye work of his Trade."(*) Continued Indian hostilities, however, robbed this plan of fulfillment.
During his latter years Isaac Cousins fell into real poverty. In 1691 he was warned out of Dorchester "having a long time bin an inhabitant of Boston and now being aged." In 1696, in seeking to enter a law-suit without fees, he states that he is "an ancient inhabitant of this country ... fallen much into decay and waxen soe poore" etc.(+) This suit was against Richard Priest of Boston for withholding household goods which "were in the house where the plaintiff and Martha his late wife lived next the mill bridge on the north side thereof." Finally, in the record of his death, on July 23, 1702, we find the old man, eighty-nine years of age, a town charge.??
There is no documentary evidence available to prove that the first four names given in the following list are those of children of Isaac Cousins. There is strong circumstantial evidence, however, that the bearers were sister and brothers, and in seeking to prove their parentage the theory that their father and mother were Isaac and Elizabeth Cousins seemed most plausible, the supposition being that after the death of their mother they were placed in the care of relatives in Charlestown and Wells. | Cousins, Isaac (I6171)
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JACOB TURNER, the sixth child (third son) of John Junior and Ann (James) Turner, was born March 10, 1667. He was not twenty-one, though over eighteen, when his father's will was made and in it he was not called, as were his two younger brothers, not yet of age. He married in 1692 Jane Vining (born July 7, 1672, daughter of John and Mary (Reade) Vining of Weymouth). He made Weymouth his home and was the first of four generations of Turners in the town. He died November 29, 1723, in his fifty-sixth year; called Deacon Turner in Weymouth records. His widow married, June 12, 1728, Samuel Allen of Bridgewater.
| Turner, Deacon Jacob (I8397)
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JOHN TURNER, (Young son John), second son of Humphrey and Lydia (Gamer) Turner, was born in England and given the same name as his elder brother, "at the instance of godfathers," tradition says. In Plymouth Colony records the elder is called John Senior and the younger John Junior. In Colonial days those terms were not restricted, as in ours, to the father-and-son relationship, but were used to distinguish between any two of the same name, usually uncle and nephew, or cousins, though lack of kinship made no difference in the custom. Occasionally one finds mother and daughter or mother-in-law and daughter-in-law so termed.
John Junior must have been born not later than August 1627 since both Johns are on the list of those able to bear arms (ages 16-60) in Plymouth Colony in August 1643. The elder brother married Mary Brewster, granddaughter of William Brewster of the Mayflower, and the younger brother married in Scituate, April 15, 1649, Ann James (believed to be the daughter of Philip and Jane James of Hingham). They had a family of six sons and three daughters. John Junior was about sixty years old when he died. An inventory of his estate was taken February 24, 1686/7. A few months earlier, October 25, 1686, I, John Turner Jun Sonne of Humphrey Turner Late of Scituate Deceased made a will in which were named daughters Miriam Turner, Ann Green and Sarah Turner, sons Jacob, David and Philip; the latter two called not yet of age. Sons Japhet and Israel were appointed executors.
The will was exhibited at the Inferiour Court of Common Pleas in Plymouth June 8, 1687, proved and allowed; but actual probate was not completed until the 23rd of December the same year, in Boston. Sir Edmund Andros was then in power and the only court of probate for the entire region under his jurisdiction was in the city where he made his headquarters.
The death of Ann (James) Turner is not on record. She is not named in her husband's will nor is the youngest child, Ichabod, who had been born the 9th of April 1676 when King Philip's war was raging. The Indians were repulsed in their assault on Scituate the 21st of April and a few weeks later (May 20, 1676) their last desperate attack was made, an all-day fight, and a great part of the town left in flames.
| Turner, John Jr. (I8406)
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John Webber had been a partner with his brothers in various enterprises. He received a town grant in York in 1702, and subsequently received a portion of his father's estate at Bald Head where he lived all his life. In 1730, he conveyed his interestin the Arrowsic lands, in 1747, they sold part of their homestead at Bald Head. | Webber, John (I388)
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LOWELL, PERCIVAL.
Percival Lowell, with his two sons, John and Richard, and one daughter,came from Bristol, England and settled in Newbury in 1739 [sic]. JOHN had eight children. The sixth was Benjamin born September 12, 1642. Benjamin married Ruth Woodman, October 1666, and had eight children. The seventh, Joseph, was born September 12, 1680; he married Mary Hardy, December, 1707, and had six children, of whom the fifth was Joseph, who probably removed to Penobscot in 1762. Joseph married Mary Hones February, 1745. They had eight children born in Newbury and two in Penobscot. There names are as follows: -
1. ANN, born February, 1746, - married Reuben Grindle and had seven
children. She was the ancestress of the Doctors Grindle of Bluehill and Mount Desert.
2. ELIPHALET, born August 1747. He married Elizabeth Haney in 1777 and
settled at North Penobscot at what is now called Lowell's Corner. They had ten children. She was the daughter of Archibald Haney.
3. HANNAH, born February, 1749. Died August 9, 1759.
4. FRANCIS, born November, 1751. Died at Penobscot, March 28, 1763.
5. MARY, born May, 1754 - married Joseph Webber and had seven children.
6. STEPHEN, born July 1756. - Supposed to have been captured at sea by
Algerine pirates.
7. HANNAH, born January, 1760, - married Reuben Grindle and had
thirteen children.8. LYDIA, born January, 1762. - - -
9. JOSEPH, born at Penobscot December 13, 1765. Married Judith Freeman
in January 22, 1802 and had three children. The youngest one, Hannah, died at North Castine in 1867.
10. NANCY, born April 7, 1769. She married Captain David Jenkins.
Eliphalet's children were: -
1. Josiah, born June 26, 1775. 2. Mary, born May 10, 1778. 3. Nancy, born in 1780. 4. George, born October 3, 1782. 5. William, born October 23, 1785. 6. Stephen, born September 8, 1787. 7. Lydia, born February 2, 1789. 8. Marcy, born February 15, 1791. 9. Robert, born June 15, 1796.
10. Harry, born September 23, 1798.
Harry, the only survivor (in 1875) lives on the old homestead at North
Penobscot. He married Sarah Emerton of Bucksport in 1834 and has had
seven children. He was at one time a captain in the Penobscot Company of
Militia. Josiah was an ensign in the same company, when the English took
Castine in 1814. George was the father of William Lowell, of Portland and learned his trade - that of a tailor - off Jimmy Scott of Castine.
(Letter of William Lowell, August, 1875.)
The LOWELL family is very numerous in Penobscot, - so much so that a
settlement in North Penobscot has for many years been called colloquially as Lowelltown. | Lowell, Joseph (I5412)
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Lydia Perkins who perhaps as much as any other individual invested the name of Wardwell with memorable interest. She and her husband were both sympathetic with the work of the Quaker cause. As their activities in this direction weakened and Lydia in particular absented herself from the service.
In the year 1663, the Elders called upon her to appear before them and explain. Lydia paid no attention. The Elders repeated the request. Again she ignored the call. Then the request became an order. This time she responded in a most startling fashion.... Into the Newbury meeting house she marched without a stitch of clothing.
She intended this act to be taken as a sign of the native innocence of men and women, enforcing her protest against the treatment her husband had received at the hands of the priests and rulers in attempting to curb his Quaker sympathies. Her own rationalization of the incident is not easy for the mind to the present day to follow but we may be sure there was only sincerity, not wantonness in her decision to create a crisis in her relations with the church. George Bishop, in his "New England Judged" fully vindicates her as "A Young, tender chaste woman" who withdrew from the church for what seemed to her compelling reasons.
Lydia was now arrested, taken to Ipswich and tried at a quarterly Sessions Court of Essex County. The trial was held in the White Horse Tavern on High Street. Lydia, still determined, was forcibly re clothed, fined ten shillings and costs and sentenced to be tied to the horse rail in front of the tavern and given thirty lashes on her bare back. | Perkins, Lydia (I785)
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Marselles Prison November. 11th. 1778
Honoured Sr.
As a subject to the united states of America & Origanlly from Marblehead in the Province of Massachusets, have a wife & four children, induces me to Sollicit your Excellency on this present Occasion, imploring your protection in my unhappy situaition, having been taken by the fate of War by the ambuscade frigate & carried to Hallifax were I made my escape with some others, But meeting with the Visisitudes of fortune in endeavouring to get to my family but to no Effect, was unluckily on Board a Ship Bound to Barcelonia as chief Mate but to be Dismissed the first oppurtunity that presented to my View, But of Alicant unluckily was taken by a privateer of Marselles & brought to this Port, have made application of the above to the commissary but Was advised to Address you of the above narrative, hoping by your Excellencies distinguished & Extensive, Character & Power, will be Pleased to Mediate for my Releasement.
Should be Exceeding happy to be on Board any of our Cruizers if any in france, or Otheways As Your Goodness shall think most Expedient, Have Been in the Character of Master of a Vessell, these ten Years past out of Piscataqua in the province of New Hampshire, Your compliance with the above & a Line by order of your Excellency Will be Gratefully Acknowled by Sr. With profound Respect Yr. Very Humble Servant
Wm. Kentisbear
Should you honnour me With an answer please to direct for me at Mr. andrew Chester Interprete du Roy á Marseille
Notation: Prisoners
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Mildred "Millie" Hunter
August 20, 2016
Mildred "Millie" Hunter, 78, of Bainbridge, Ga., passed away Saturday, August 20, 2016 at Bainbridge Memorial Hospital.
A graveside service was held at 11 a.m. on Monday, August 22, 2016, at Bethany Baptist Cemetery. The family received friends from 4 to 5 p.m. on Sunday, August 21, 2016 at Ivey Funeral Home. Online visitors may sign the guest register at
www.iveyfuneral.com. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to the Lighthouse Children's Home, 7771 Mahan Dr., Tallahassee, FL. 32309.
Mrs. Hunter was born February 06, 1938 in Bristol, Connecticut, the daughter of Louis Ledwick Rock and Ethel Alice Irene Wooster Rock. She was a resident of Mobile, Ala.. for many years before moving to Bainbridge 17 years ago. She loved her church family at Liberty Baptist Church and enjoyed serving her community as a volunteer at Memorial Manor Nursing Home.
Survivors include her daughter, Kim Boyett of Thomasville, Ga.; her sons, Mark Hunter and his wife, Tonya, and Tab Hunter, both of Bainbridge; her step-sons, Timothy Hunter and Terry Hunter and his wife, Elaine; 12 grandchildren; and her siblings, Bobby Rock and Shirley French, both of Connecticut.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Teddy Arnold Hunter; a step-son, Tommy Hunter; and her siblings, Leonard Rock and Arthur Rock. | Rock, Mildred Rosemond (I5938)
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NAME: INKERSALL
CREST: A griffin's head gules gorged with a fess dancettee ermine between two wings displayed or.
BLAZON: Gules, a fess danccettee ermine between six trefoils slipped or.
SOURCE: Burke, Sir Bernard : GENERAL ARMORY OF ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND AND WALES Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1969.
Inkersall : English: habitation name from a place in Derbyshire, recorded in the 13th century as Hinkershil(l) and Hinkreshill. The final element is OE (Old English) hyll Hill; the first may be the ON personal name Ingvarr (see Inger) or an OE byname meaning 'Limper' (cf. Hinchcliffe and Hinckley). Ekwall suggests that it may represent a contracted version of OE hingna aecer monks' field (cf. hine and Acher).
First Known Record of : Ingersoll, Inkersall, Inkersole: Roger de Hynkersul 1321 from Inkersall, Derbyshire, England: Shef = T.W. Hall and A.H. Thomas, Descriptive Catalogue of the Charters... forming the Jackson Collection at the Sheffield Public Reference Library, Sheffield 1914.
Inger : English (Nottinghamshire) from the ON (Old Norse) personal name Ingvarr . Variation : Inker (Somerset) Patrs : Inkerson, Ingwers, Engwers, Inger(t)sen
Ing(e) : English : habitation name from a place in Essex, recorded in Domesday Book as Inga and Ginga, apparently from an OE tribal name Gigingas 'people of Giga'
Inger, Inker, Ingerson: Ingeuuar, Imgarus 1066 Domesday Book; Roger Inger 1255 RH (W); Peter Ingarson 1546 FrY.
Ingvar Old Danish, Old Swedish , Yngvarr Old Norse | Ingersoll, George (I7197)
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NEWCASTLE A.K.A GREAT ISLAND. 1ST OF LINE IN COUNTRY. LIVED EXETER,NH 1639; DOVER, NH 1648; PORTSMOUTH, NH 1662. FINED FOR SWEARING IN 1638. WILL PROCESSD 9-MAR-1685.
GEORGE AND ALICE HAD ONE MORE CHILD WHO DROWNED IN THE RIVER ON 5 MAY 1657.
HIS WILL IS UNDER NEWCASTLE, NH LIBRARY-STATE PAPERS VOL 1, 1635-1717 P 299.
IT IS ALSO IN FOUND IN OTHER SOURCES. ON 4 DEC 1638 HE WAS HELD BY A BOSTON COURT FOR SWEARING. ON 5 JUN 1639, LIVED IN EXETER AND SIGNED THE EXETER COMBINATION. 1648 GRANTED 6 ACRES OF COCHECO MARSH IN DOVER, AND GOT A LICENSE TO KEEP AN ORDINARY IN DOVER. IN 1651 SUED HUMPHREY CHADBOURNE BECAUSE THE HOUSE HE BUILT FOR WALTON WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH. THIS SAME H. CHADBOURNE BUILT THE GREAT HOUSE IN STRAWBERRY BANK IN 1631. IN 1651 WALTON WAS "ADMONISHED" FOR TAKING BOARDS (LUMBER) TO THE ISLE OF SHOALS ON SUNDAY. IN 1659 WAS ON THE GRAND JURY. 1663 TO 64 HE AND ALICE CONVICTED AS QUAKERS. HE SUPPOSEDLY REMOVED TO KITTERY, ME, AND BOUGHT LAND ON BACK COVE ON 16 AUG 1659. ABISHAG WALTON WAS A WITNESS TO THIS DEED. IN 1662 HE APPEARS AS A VINTNER IN PORTSMOUTH, NH BUT ON 1 AUG 1662 HE SOLD HIS HOUSE AND LAND TO HENRY ROBIE AND TOOK OUT AN ORDINARY ON "GREAT ISLAND". THERE IS A LEGEND OF LITHOBOLIA OR THE STONE THROWING DEVIL, A STORY ABOUT ROCKS BEING THROWN BY UNSEEN HANDS AT G. WALTON'S HOUSE. IN 1643 G.W. FIRST APPEARS IN RECORDS REQUESTING A LICENSE TO
RUN A FERRY FROM DOVER POINT TO CHAMPERNOWN'S KITTERY POINT. 1649 G.W. WAS AFTER PERMISSION TO SET UP A HOUSE WHERE THE FORT WAS LATER. 2 ACRES WERE LAID OUT AND HE BUILT A HOUSE, BUT WAS DISPOSESSED WHEN HE LAID CLAIM TO FORT POINT 1652 RECEIVED DIFFERENT LAND, WAS ORDERED TO TAKE DOWN A FENCE HE HAD SET UP, GOT IN A FEUD WITH THOMAS WALFORD AND HIS WIFE WHICH STARTED THE ROCK-THROWING
G.W. WAS A VERY AGRESSIVE AND FORCEFUL MAN WHO EMPLOYED MAN MEN, INDIANS, NEGROES, WHITES, HAD MANY SLAVES. HAD A LUMBER BUSINESS, BUILT ROADS, A CAUSEWAY OVER THE SWAMP, WAS OFTEN IN COURT FOR ENCROACHMENT. LOST HIS ORDINARY LICENSE IN 1662 FOR NEGLIGENCE. BY THIS TIME, HE OWNED THE NORTHWEST PART OF GREAT ISLAND LATER KNOWN AS CLARK'S NECK, ABOUT 120 ACRES. ALSO HAD 150 ACRES AT HEROD'S COVE IN GREAT BAY AND 40 ACRES IN THE LONG BEACH / NEWINGTON, OPPOSITE BOILING ROCK, PROBABLY WHERE THE POWER PLANT IS NOW.
INNHOLDER 1649-1662, VINTNER 1662, TAILOR 1669, MERCHANT AND TRADER. | Walton, George (I6460)
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NICHOLAS DANFORTH of Framlingham, Suffolk, England, was a man of position, with influence in civil and church affairs. Though a Puritan with religious convictions, there is nothing on record to indicate that he was persecuted because of them. He was a church warden and a generous tither. Cotton Mather said of him, "He was a gentleman of such estate and repute in the world, that it cost him a considerable sum to escape the knighthood which King Charles I imposed on all of so much per annum". He was the founder of the Framlingham Lecture in Suffolk "where he had a fine mannour".
The wife of Nicholas is believed to have been Elizabeth, daughter of William Symmes, a minister of Canterbury, and sister of Rev. Zachariah Symmes, the long-time minister of Charlestown, Ma. Together on the Griffin in 1634 coming to New England were Rev. Symmes, his wife and six children; Rev. John Lothrop and family, later minister at Scituate; and William and Anne Hutchinson and their family. Nicholas, now nearly fifty years of age, may have been influenced by them to leave his comfortable home in East Anglia where his wife Elizabeth had recently died, in 1629, and join them on the Griffin, bringing with him his six young children. The Griffin was a ship of some 300 tons carrying "about 100 passengers and cattle for the plantations", arriving in Boston September 18, 1634.
Although not sworn a freeman until March 3, 1636, Mr. Danforth was chosen a "townsman" (selectman) of New-Towne and re-elected in 1636 and 1637, serving until his death in April, 1638. In December, 1635, he and two others were appointed to build a bridge or causeway at the southerly end of present Dunster street "down to the low water mark" to accommodate the patrons of the ferry, and to set up a broad ladder on the farther side of the river for convenience in landing. He often served as surveyor for the town and colony, helping to "sett out the bounds" of Concord, of Roxbury in 1636, and in 1637 to establish the boundary between Dedham and Dorchester. He resided on what is now Bow street near Mount Auburn street, New Towne, and served as a deputy to the General Court, attending five sessions in 1636 and 1637. These sessions gave the town its present name of Cambridge and made the first recorded appropriation for public education in New England, Å“400 for the establishment of Harvard College. He was selected as one of eleven men given the responsibility of selling at retail "strong water", an early effort to place the sale of liquor in the hands of leading citizens.
Historians have been generous in their praise of Nicholas Danforth and his noted sons. One wrote, "He was the progenitor of a family in New England ....... more than ordinarily distinguished in their day and generation, and whose name, honorable alike in Church and State (has been) the ornament and the oracle of each of the learned Professions in turn." Another called him the "founder of a veritable dynasty."
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October 19, 1650, grants of land were made by the townsmen of New London to "Mr. Richard Blynman, Obadiah Bruen, Hughe Calkin, Hughe Roberts, John Coite, Andrew Lester, James Averye and Robert Isbell." Mr. Blynman was a minister at Gloucester, Mass., engaged to become the minister at Pequot Plantations as New London was then called. The others were a party of his friends from Gloucester and Salem who purposed to come with him and came on to make preparatory arrangements. Early in 1651, New Street, in rear of the town plot, was opened for the accommodation of the Cape Ann Company, as this little group was known. This was designated as "beyond the brook and the ministry lot." It was made into houselots and called Cape Ann Lane, nine lots on this street of six acres each. Beginning at the lower end Hughe Calkins had the first lot by the Lyme Road, or highway to Nahantic, next him, his son-in-law, Hughe Roberts, then John Coite, Andrew Lester, James Averye, Robert Allyn, William Meads, William Hough and Robert Isbell. Later, lands near New London, were laid out to Robert Isbell, Capt. John Avery and John Pickett, near Jonathan Brewsters in Poquetannock, and those were called the "Poquetannock Grants." December 1659, his house on New Street was sold to William Hough, and in 1665 the farm in the northern part of the town in what is now (1943) Ledyard and on which he had lived, was bought by George Geer.
From "The Descendants of Robert Isbell in America" (on line @ GenealogyLibrary.com), p. 3 | Calkins, Deacon Hugh (I12238)
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On list of passengers leaving Weymouth, England 30 Mar 1635 on the ship Susan & Ellen for New England (NEHGR v25 p13) with Rev. Joseph Hull's company. Settled in Wessaguscus which was quickly renamed Weymouth. Richard is probably brother of John
Porter who settled in Hingham (some 3 miles from Weymouth) in 1635. | Porter, Richard (I8442)
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One clue about the relation of the Elys and Bordens:
Daniel Ely, John Griswold, and John Ely, selectmen of the town of Lyme, presented a memorial to the Assembly in October, 1742, relative to certain property belonging to William Borden, a cripple, which land the selectmen desired authority to sell for the benefit of said cripple. The Assembly authorized the sale of Borden's land to the amount of Å“17 10s. od. (page 507.)
This Daniel would have been his brother-in-law.
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Pilgrim. He came from London, England, to Plymouth, MA, in the ship "Fortune" on 11 Nov 1621. His wife and two children followed on the ship "Anne" in July or August 1623. There was granted to him "one acre lying to the sea, eastward", and to his wife and children "three acres butting against the swampe and reed ponds". Prior to 1627, he removed from Plymouth and settled on the Piscataqua River near Dover. He was Deputy to the General
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Proved in Salem court 28:9:1672 by Mr. Samuel Symonds, and the court was informed there was something more added verbally to be left to the court's further consideration.
Inventory.........
Copy of will and inventory, Essex County Probate Records, vol. 301 pgs 6 & 7.
Sarah Story and Mary Fellows testified in Ipswich court 24:7:1672 that being at Goodman Procter's house, they asked him what should be done with his wife's clothing and he answered that it should be disposed of among his daughters and Martha Hadley, both woolen and linen, also her horse & all the wool that was in the chamber, about one or two pounds. He also said that he had given his son James White one pair of oxen which were not entered in his will. Copy made Oct 3, 1672 by Robert Lord, cleric. The court at Salem 26:4:1673 ordered the above written to be annexed to the will.
Source: Printed "Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts;
1635 - 1681," In three volumes,The Essex Institute; Salem, MA; 1916
Essex County Quarterly Court Files, vol. 20, leaf 147 | Proctor, John (I18536)
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Questionable Information. This comes from an unconfirmed web source... My thoughts are, if anything, Marmaduke and Edward may be brothers.
Virkus claims he is the probable father of Edward. | Barton, Marmaduke (I10217)
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Robert had a grant in Kittery, ME adjoining John Simmons from Thomas Gorges in 1641 (- "Gen. Dict. of ME & NH", p. 87). The surname Beedle or Beadle refers to an attendant. | Beedle, Robert (I6471)
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Samuel Blanchard's will:
The Last will & Testament of Samuel Blanchard of Andover Aged, about seventy & five - I Samuel Blanchard being in bodily health through the goodne∫s of god to me, Do make and ordaine my Last Will & Testament as followeth - AND In the first place I humbly commit My soul into the hands of almighty god, who gave it me, and my body to the earth to a decent buriall att the di∫cretion of my executor and friends and as for my outward estate that god hath graciously given me, I do Di∫po∫e of it as followeth - - In the first place my Will is that my beloved Wife shall have an honorable & ∫ufficient Maintance out of my estate, (with her owne labour) as long as she shall remaine my widow. I give to my eldest sonne Jo∫hua Blanchard all my part of that farme which he now Dwelleth upon; lying in Charlestowne bounds, to gether with my two lots that fell to me on Charlestowne Commons, & I give to him all that he hath of mine in po∫∫e∫ion.
To my Sonne Jonathan, I give to him all my land on the esterly & on ye Northerly side of a line marked from a pond hole, (where my paster fence joyneth) a straight line to the stone wall end, joyning to the highway, untill it comes to Abram Moores land Southward
Al∫o I give to him all that part of my home Meadow (so called) which I have long since po∫∫e∫∫ed him of. and all my Meadow Called halfe moon meadow which lyeth eastward of the Town of Andover. Also I give to him a parcel of land Lying on the South side of the Town highway, lying length wi∫e by Said highway. Which land shal be forty pole wide at each end. the length of which land is now fenced on the southside said highway. All the rest of this land between this and Stephen O∫good, I give to Thomas Blanchard. I give to my Daughter Stratton fifteen pound, I give to my Daughter O∫good, Twenty pounds. I give to my Daughter Dorothy Storer (which is my grand child) tenne pound which shal be paid to her by my son Jo∫hua when she Comes to be eighteen years of age. ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶
All that part of my home-meadow which I have yet re∫erved for my selfe, Shall be Equally Divided between Jonathan & Thomas - ye Dividing Line to run cro∫s the meadow untill it Comes to Stephen O∫goods land. ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶
My Sonne John Shall enjoy what I have given him by a ded of gift, and what el∫ of my Estate he hath in his hand To my Sonne Thomas I give all that land at the east end of my home Meadow by a straight line from a white oake on the South side the meadow to a marked pine on ye North side; until it Comes to Stephen O∫goods land, all that upland and meadow, hou∫es and fences upon that land, I give to him my son Thomas. Al∫o he shall Enjoy all that of my estate in his hand and that I have po∫∫e∫∫ed him of, be∫ides what I have here given him In this my will .— My right on the commons belonging to six acre lot, (which rights may appear by deeds from Henery Jaquith & Marke Graves) I give an equal right in them to Jonathan, Thomas & Samuel ̶ ̶
AND all my other moveable estate, both of the hou∫e & of the field I doe give to Jonathan Thomas and Samuel — My two Cowes I give to Thomas in Ca∫e they outlives mee & my Youngest hou∫e. But My Black-hor∫e I do give to My dear wife. — I Doe order my Son Samuel to pay the two legicies to my Daughters Stratton & O∫good, and his Mothers Maintenance according to this my order, before he be po∫∫e∫∫ed of that land and estate which I have given him, which is all ye rest of my farme not Di∫po∫ed of as aforsd - and all that Meadow which I bought of Billerica men, And in ca∫e my son Samuel Shall refu∫es to do; that is to pay those legicies to his two Sisters as aforesaid, á´›hen my Will is, that á´›homas shall pay his brother Samuel twenty pound for his full portion. and Jonathan shall have the remainder of the farme that was a∫∫igned to Samuel, and said Jonathan shall pay the∫e Legicies, and provide his mothers Maintenance, which Samuel Should have Done. No Debts shall be Demanded of my ∫onne Jo∫hua after my Decea∫e, and all my Debts and legicies Shall be payed in ∫uch ∫pead(?) as my estate is found in. Lastly, I do Nominate, ordaine, & fully Impower my son Jonathan to be my Sole Executor to this my last will and testament, Witne∫s my hand and seale. Novembr. 21. In the year of our Lord GOD. one thousand and Seven Êœundred and four, being the third year of ye Reigne of our Sovereign lady ANNE by ye grace of god, of England, Scotland France and Ireland Queen ̶ ̶ ̶
Signed Sealed & Declared
In the pre∫ence of us Samuel Blanchard -&(Seal)
James Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson
Ambrose Blunt
his ࢼA mark
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Samuel Blanchard's will:
The Last will & Testament of Samuel Blanchard of Andover Aged, about seventy & five - I Samuel Blanchard being in bodily health through the goodne∫s of god to me, Do make and ordaine my Last Will & Testament as followeth - AND In the first place I humbly commit My soul into the hands of almighty god, who gave it me, and my body to the earth to a decent buriall att the di∫cretion of my executor and friends and as for my outward estate that god hath graciously given me, I do Di∫po∫e of it as followeth - - In the first place my Will is that my beloved Wife shall have an honorable & ∫ufficient Maintance out of my estate, (with her owne labour) as long as she shall remaine my widow. I give to my eldest sonne Jo∫hua Blanchard all my part of that farme which he now Dwelleth upon; lying in Charlestowne bounds, to gether with my two lots that fell to me on Charlestowne Commons, & I give to him all that he hath of mine in po∫∫e∫ion.
To my Sonne Jonathan, I give to him all my land on the esterly & on ye Northerly side of a line marked from a pond hole, (where my paster fence joyneth) a straight line to the stone wall end, joyning to the highway, untill it comes to Abram Moores land Southward
Al∫o I give to him all that part of my home Meadow (so called) which I have long since po∫∫e∫∫ed him of. and all my Meadow Called halfe moon meadow which lyeth eastward of the Town of Andover. Also I give to him a parcel of land Lying on the South side of the Town highway, lying length wi∫e by Said highway. Which land shal be forty pole wide at each end. the length of which land is now fenced on the southside said highway. All the rest of this land between this and Stephen O∫good, I give to Thomas Blanchard. I give to my Daughter Stratton fifteen pound, I give to my Daughter O∫good, Twenty pounds. I give to my Daughter Dorothy Storer (which is my grand child) tenne pound which shal be paid to her by my son Jo∫hua when she Comes to be eighteen years of age. ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶
All that part of my home-meadow which I have yet re∫erved for my selfe, Shall be Equally Divided between Jonathan & Thomas - ye Dividing Line to run cro∫s the meadow untill it Comes to Stephen O∫goods land. ̶ ̶ ̶ ̶
My Sonne John Shall enjoy what I have given him by a ded of gift, and what el∫ of my Estate he hath in his hand To my Sonne Thomas I give all that land at the east end of my home Meadow by a straight line from a white oake on the South side the meadow to a marked pine on ye North side; until it Comes to Stephen O∫goods land, all that upland and meadow, hou∫es and fences upon that land, I give to him my son Thomas. Al∫o he shall Enjoy all that of my estate in his hand and that I have po∫∫e∫∫ed him of, be∫ides what I have here given him In this my will .— My right on the commons belonging to six acre lot, (which rights may appear by deeds from Henery Jaquith & Marke Graves) I give an equal right in them to Jonathan, Thomas & Samuel ̶ ̶
AND all my other moveable estate, both of the hou∫e & of the field I doe give to Jonathan Thomas and Samuel — My two Cowes I give to Thomas in Ca∫e they outlives mee & my Youngest hou∫e. But My Black-hor∫e I do give to My dear wife. — I Doe order my Son Samuel to pay the two legicies to my Daughters Stratton & O∫good, and his Mothers Maintenance according to this my order, before he be po∫∫e∫∫ed of that land and estate which I have given him, which is all ye rest of my farme not Di∫po∫ed of as aforsd - and all that Meadow which I bought of Billerica men, And in ca∫e my son Samuel Shall refu∫es to do; that is to pay those legicies to his two Sisters as aforesaid, á´›hen my Will is, that á´›homas shall pay his brother Samuel twenty pound for his full portion. and Jonathan shall have the remainder of the farme that was a∫∫igned to Samuel, and said Jonathan shall pay the∫e Legicies, and provide his mothers Maintenance, which Samuel Should have Done. No Debts shall be Demanded of my ∫onne Jo∫hua after my Decea∫e, and all my Debts and legicies Shall be payed in ∫uch ∫pead(?) as my estate is found in. Lastly, I do Nominate, ordaine, & fully Impower my son Jonathan to be my Sole Executor to this my last will and testament, Witne∫s my hand and seale. Novembr. 21. In the year of our Lord GOD. one thousand and Seven Êœundred and four, being the third year of ye Reigne of our Sovereign lady ANNE by ye grace of god, of England, Scotland France and Ireland Queen ̶ ̶ ̶
Signed Sealed & Declared
In the pre∫ence of us Samuel Blanchard -&(Seal)
James Johnson
Elizabeth Johnson
Ambrose Blunt
his ࢼA mark
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SETH TURNER, second son of Jacob and Jane (Vining) Turner, was born April 7, 1695 and married, March 26, 1720, Sarah Shaw (born February 15, 1700/1), daughter of Ebenezer and Hannah Shaw of Weymouth). Their children were Benjamin, Sarah, Jane, Seth and Miriam. Seth Turner, Senior, died October 21, 1730, aged thirty-five, the year after his daughter Miriam's birth. His widow married Samuel Burrell of Weymouth, September 21, 1735.
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She had two daughters and a son. She died Easterday, 1610 . In her will (which was of the type given verbally) the Memorandum states "that on Easterday last in Anno Dom 1610 immediately after morninge prayer Mary Ffoscutt of great addingtion in the diocese of P'boro widowe being sicke in body yet of good memory beinge & demanded how she would bestowe her goods made ansere to this effect. I have a sonne and two daughtors and I would have that that I have equally divided amongst them . . . " Crossed out in the will were several names including "Elizabeth Bibbie wife of Alexdr Bibie." Foscutt wills later in the century mention Beeby relatives. Thomas: Thomas described himself as a husbandman of Great Addington in his will 2 Nov 1609. He also mentioned his wife Mary and his brothers-in-law John and Alexander Beeby. | Beeby, Mary (I8994)
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Source: Maine Wills; Probate Office, 3, 14; Pages 215-216.
In the Name of God Amen The Sixth day of June in the Year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighteen I Peter Staple of Kittery in the County of Yorke in the Province of the Massa-chusetts Bay in New-England Yeoman being aged and weak in Body but of perfect mind and Memory thanks be given unto God Therefore Calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to Say Principally and first of all I give & Recommend my Soul into the hands of god that gave
it. And for my Body I commend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian like and Decent manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named, And as Touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the Same in the following manner and form. Impr I give and bequeath to Elizabeth my dearly beloved wife her dwelling in and Improvement of my dwelling house during her Natural life
and also all my household Stuff and other my move-able goods together with the one Third part of the Produce or Income of that my farm and Stock of Cattle which I have hereto-fore given and alienated to my Son Peter Staple for her Comfort-able Support during her Natural Life and if the abovesaid Income Shall not be sufficient to maintain her She hath by these
Pre-sents Liberty to dispose of and Sell So much of my household goods or other moveables as Shall be Sufficient to Support her and what Household Goods & and other Moveables Effects Shall remain at her Decease not disposed of by her for the aforesaid use I give the Same to my two Sons John & James Staples to be Equally Divided betwene them or those that Shall legally repre-sent them.
Item I do by these presents Confirm unto my Sons Peter Staple John Staple & James Staple their Heirs and Assignes forever the Lands which I have heretofore given them I do also give unto my Said Sons either Eighteen pounds in money or Six heat cattle between three and four years of age to be equally divided between them or those that Shall Lawfully represent them upon Condition of their defraying my funeral Charges and Obliging of
themselves decently to bury my abovesaid wife Elizabeth their mother after her decease. The abovesaid money or Cattle to be paid by my Said Son Peter to my other Sons John and James Staples their proportion.
Item I do hereby Constitute make & ordain my three well be-loved Sons Peter John & James Staples my Executors of this my Last Will and Testament And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & dissanul all and Every other former Testaments Wills and Execu-tors by
me in any ways before named And Willed Ratifying and Con-firming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal the day and Years above written
his
Signed Sealed Published Peter Staple (Seal)
Pronounced & Declared by mark the Said Peter Staple as
his last Will and Testament In the Presents of us the Subscribers.
John Newmarch Pavl Wentworth Nicolas Weeks
Probated 1 April 1719. Inventory returned, 3 April 1719, at 18
[pounds]:16:6, by John Dennit, and Joshua Remick, appraisers. | Staples, Capt. Peter Jr. (I6449)
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The 28th of ye 8th mo (1651) This is ye last will: of John Bayly sen: being on his sick bed he being yett in his right minde & senses.
ffirst I giue vnto my Soone John Bayly my house & land lijing & being in ye Towne of Salsibury during his life; & after my sonnes death his second Sonne Josepth Bayly is to enjoy it & if Josephth doth not live to enjoy it, then his younger brother is to enjoy it, And when Josephth Bayly or his younger brother cometh to enjoy this land he is to pay to his eldest brother John Bayly the some of forty pounds as his Grandfathers guift.
And I do likewise make my sonne John Bayly sole Executor of all that ever I have only my Executor is to pay to my wyfe his mother ye some of six pounds a yeare duering hir life pvided she cometh over hither to New-england, likewise my Executor is to pay to my Daughters his sisters ye some of Tenn pounds a peece pvided they come over hither to new-england butt in case they doe not come over hither butt doe sende by any messenger for their portions, they are to haue fiue shillings a peece for their portions whither sonne or daughte[r]s & all these simes are to be payed according as it can bee raised out of my land & stocks & likewise it is to bee payd to every one of them according as ye Executor & the overseers shall see cause,
And farther my Executor is to pay for ye passages of those yt doe come over hither, of them whither it bee wyfe or children or any of them
And farther I doe giue to my Sonne John Baylys Childeren either of tem a young beast as soone as maybee wth conveniency, & my Sonne their father is to breed these beasts for eve[r]y of his Childeren till these beasts groeth to cowes or Oxen & then the childeren are to haue the proffitt of them
And I doe make my brother John Emery sen of Nubery & Mr Thomas Bradbury of Salisbury overseers to see as this to been performed. In wittness herof I doe sett to my hand ye day, & yeare aboue written
his mark
Jno Jb Bayly Senior
Witness: william Ilsley
John Emry Jun.
[apparently added] likewise I doe giue to ||willi|| Huntingtons wyfe & childeren yt house & land yt I bought of vallentine Rowell & do desier my overseers to see it made good to hir & hir childeren.
Source: Proved in Salisbury court 13:2:1652 by the witnesses
Copy of will, Norfolk Deeds, vol 1, leaf 15. | Bayley, John (I11221)
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THE DOWN EAST ENTERPRISE + + July 1965
Maine's Last Revolutionary War Soldier
On the Fourth of July, just a century ago, Maine paid tribute to its last surviving Veteran of the Revolutionary War --William Hutchings of Penobscot, then 100 years old. As a boy of fifteen in 1779, He was present when American forces laid siege to Castine, then called Magabagaduce, and was forced by the British to help build the defenses at Fort George. Following destruction of the American fleet, he fled with his family to Newcastle and there enlisted in a Massachusetts regiment. At the close of the war he returned to Penobscot and engaged in farming and lumbering and the coastal trade. On July 4, 1865, on the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, William Hutchings was the guest of honor at the special celebration conducted by the city of Bangor. In the History of Castine, Penobscot and Brooksville, historian, George Augustus Wheeler, thus describes the occasion:
"A revenue cutter was detailed for his conveyance, and as he passed up the Penobscot River, the guns of Fort Knox fired a salute of welcome. The ovation, which was bestowed on the occasion, exceeded that ever before given to any person in the State. "Multitudes rushed to catch a glimpse of the old man, and the sincere and grateful plaudits which constantly greeted him as, surrounded by a guard of honor, he was escorted through the streets, constituted the marked feature of the day. His strength and power of endurance, under the excitement, were remarkable. "At the close of the oration, which was delivered by Senator Hamlin (Hannibal Hamlin, former Vice President of the United States under Abraham Lincoln), he responded at some length to a toast. "'My friends told me,' he said, 'that the effort to be here might cause my death; hut I thought that I could never die any better than by celebrating the glorious Fourth.'"
Mr. Hutchings died the following May and was buried on the farm which had been his home for most of his life. The house has long since been demolished.
excerpted from "Hugh Hutchins of Old England" by Jack Randolph Hutchins
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The first day of the third Month one thousand six hundred forty six I William Teffe of Boston in the Massachusetts doe make this my last Will and Testament First I give my daughter Lydia the summe of twenty pounds partly the discharge of seaven pounds which I received for her in England being a Lagacie given unto her by one Robert Elvinge deceased and partly as a Legacie from myselfe so as shee make other demands of the said Legacie given by said Robert Elvinge and so she doe not marry without her mother lawe's Consent or the consent of such friends as her said Mother shall leave her vnto To be payed in fours of the youngest Cattle at due prices except the least of all and in of the household goods and mon ies as indifferently shall to the making up thereof according to the proportion of excepting the feather bed whereon I now lye and vppon the of the goods within two months after my decease hcr portion to be putt forth for her best advantage vntil her age twenty years or day of marryage with consent as aforesaid if shall live therevnto even either of them.
Itm I give my least Steere Calfe vnto the Eldest child of my brother John Teffe to be delivered vppon demand after my deLcase if it be then living paying for the charge of the keeping of it after my decease vntil it be demanded All the rest of my goods and chattells whatvoever together with my dwelling house and garden and grounds vnder and about it and all the buildings therevppon and fences about them and also together with my land at Long Island and the barne and fruites growing vppon the said ground both vnder my house and at Long Island I give and bequeath vnto my beloved wife Anne Teffe whom I make sole Executrix of this my last will to her and to her heires and Assignes forever and in testimonial thereof I have herevnto sett and putt my hand
WILLIAM TEFFE
In presence of Tho Leverett John Harrison John Ingolsby
Testified before the Governour (Mr No)well and Mr Hibbins by Mr Tho Leverett and John Harrison 2 (9) 1648 Copiavera
Mass Archives Vol 15 B p 69 This will is recorded at Suffolk Probate office Lib VII fol 266 That record contains also the deposition of John Harrison on June 19 1661 and of John Ingolsby November 23 1672 each in regard to an interlineation made in the latter part of the above will The said will was Entered and Recorded November 23 1672 twenty four years after the instrument was proved | Teffe, William (I21002)
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THE INVENTORY OF ye ESTATE OF LEONARD HARRIMAN, DECEASED, TAKEN BY ye SUBSCRIBERS ye FIFTH OF JUNE, 1691
Imprims, half ye house & half ye homestead & barne and shopp - 30 00 00 (pounds, shillings, pence)
It. 1/2 Hunsley hill lott and 1/2 ye acres nere it 6 acres 1/2 - 12 00 00
It. 1/2 ye 1 acre 1/2 at newplaine - 1 10 00
It. 1/2 ye oxpasture marsh, ye whole 3 acres - 7 10 00
It. 1/2 ye plowing land and ruff land at ye farme 14 acres ye whole - 14 00 00
It. 1/2 ye two acres of marsh at Oyster poynt - 05 00 00
It. 1/2 ye acre at Wicom's spring - 03 00 00
It. 1/2 y. 2 acres at Sandy bridge - 05 00 00
It. 1/2 y. acre at stackyard - 03 00 00
It. 1/2 ye acre below Jackson's ile - 01 00 00
It. 1/2 ye highway marsh whole about 1 acre - 02 00 00
It. 1/2 ye acre of gate marsh - 02 00 00
It. 1/2 ye marsh in partnership with Todd all about 1 acre - 02 00 00
It. 1/2 ye acre and 1/2 bought of Thomas Nelson - 03 00 00
It. 1/2 ye planting lott and pasture in Bradford street Lotts - 20 00 00
It. quick or liueing stock - 17 00 00
It. 2 feather beds & bedding furniture, linen wearing clothes chest and pewter - 22 17 00
It. armes books brass iron wooden earthern and glass vessels and household vtensills and cloth - 07 05 00 It. Loomes and tackling and implements of husbandry - 05 08 00 It. debts due ye estate - 02 04 02
Total - 172 04 02
It. debts oweing to be paid out of ye estate and funeral charges - 10 14 08 (pounds, shillings, pence)
And to prizing proving ye wil & recording - 01 00 00
The above sd apprizement made by us ye day and yeare above written as witnesses our hands.
Nathaniel Jewett
Newhemiah Jewett
Source: Essex County Probate Records 304:385 (copy only) and transcribed for the Harriman Family Association, courtesy Lois Ware Thurston. Original will (pp. 359-361) missing from docket; docket envelope noted as empty at Essex County Probate. | Harriman, Leonard (I15487)
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The Last will & testament of Henery Dow Senr of Hampton Beinge Sick & weeke of Body butt firme of understanding and memory Itt I Give and bequeth unto Margrett my loving wife my House lott being by Estamation ten Acres more or less & Six acres of fresh meddow att the springs & one sheare of the lower Cowes Comon ; Three of my Cowes : & the Dwelling House upon the lott above sd : and att my Househould stuff Excepting whatt shall be other waies Disposed of Itt I Give and bequeath unto my sonn Henry Dow all the planting Ground thatt is in my Hands in the East field, and my seaventeen acres of Salt marsh and . . . one sheare of the Cow comon and a sheare of the ox Comon and all my Cattell Excepting the three Cowes abovesd
Itt to my Sonn Henery, one fether bed wch Hee useth to ly upon and all the Bed Cloathes thereunto Belonging and the middelmost Iron Pott : and I Due by these presents make and appoint my sonn Henery my sole Exequetor to this last will and testamentt Itt I Doe Give and Bequeath unto my sonn Joseph the some of thirty pounds to bee payd when Hee shall Arive to the age of twenty and one yeers. Itt I Doe Give and Bequeath unto my sonn Danill and to my Daughters mary and Hannah five pounds apeece to be payd to them when they shall Arive to the age of twenty and one years Itt : I Give unto my sonn Thomas & my sonn Jeremiah five pounds a peece to bee payd to them att the age of one & twenty yeeres And after my wives Decease the House & House lott and the six acres of medow to Returne Into the Hands of my Excequetors ; In Cause thatt Hee please to Resigne up the House and fifty Rods of ground which was sometime posesed by Thomas Sleeper Into the Hands of my sonn Joseph and Pay unto my five yongest Children above sayd five and twenty pounds thatt is to say five pounds a peece : to bee Payd five pounds to the eldest the yeere after my wives Decease and so five pounds a yeere to the next yonger untill the some of five pounds bee payd to the . . .fter and still with this proviso thatt in Cause my sone Henery bee nott willing to leave the place wheare Thomas Sleeper lived & to take the lands above sayd After my wives Decease upon the Conditions above named then the sd House & House lot with the Six acres of medow are to Returne to my sonn Joseph who upon the takeing possesion of them is to undertake for the paying of the twenty five pounds above sd to my five yongest Children according to the times above mentioned : Itt I Give unto my wife two of the best of my swine & so much of the Corne in the House as may maintaine Her & my Children untill Harvest & all the Crop on the House lott att Harvest & the Corne till Harvest to bee twenty bushels To this my last will & testament I sett my Hand & Seale ye 16 : 2 mo 1659
Henrye dow
Wittnes:
Robert Page
His X marke
Samll Dalton | Dow, Henry (I12815)
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The last will & testament of James Wall of Hampton in the County of norfolke I James Wall being very weake of Body but of Good understanding & memory Due by these prsents Comend unto all unto whome they shall Come the true Intent of my mind Conserning the setteling of my Estate after my Decease viz Conserning the Deeds formerly made to my two Eldest Daughters (Elizabeth & Sarah Wall) of my farme which lyeth westward of Robert Pages Land & bounded with the River Call Taylors River towards the South & Likewise Six Acres of Salt marsh lying on the south side of the falls River being bounded with the marsh of will Marston now in the Hands of John Cram towards the south the which lands above mentioned I Doe Conferme unto them my two Eldest Daughters Having made and appointed Henery Roby as a feffer in trust for what I Have Given unto my two Eldest Daughters & to whatt is already Given them the Land is to be Eaqually Devided between them two : & I Doe farther Give & bequeath unto Elizabeth Wall A Horse Coltt of two yeer & the vantage old : & I Give unto my Daughter Sarah A Horse Coltt of this yeere & A peese of stuffe between them to make Each of them a Goune the stuffe is a peese of mixt stuff of a sad Culler of a boutt twenty-five yards : & I Have Given them a fether bed with a fether bolster with a payer of blankets & a Red Rugge Itum to my Daughter Elizabeth my best Hatt & a Carsey westcot to Each of them===
Ittum I give and bequeath unto mary Wall my Loving wife & to my two Children which I Had by Her viz Mary & Hannah Wall my Dwelling House & the House lott lying between the lott of Robert Tuck towards the south and the lott of Thomas webstur somtimes will Howards towards the north and Six acres of Salt marsh lying on the north sid of the falles River bounded with the marsh of Gilles ffuller towards the north Ittum I Give my wife & Her two Children my fower oxen & fouer Cowes & my mare and all the moveable Goods Excepting whatt is a bove mentioned & Given to my two Eldest Daughters Itt a Debt of fifty pounds Due unto mee from mr Samuell Dudly & Humphrey willson & thirty pounds Due from John Godward & a bill of twenty two pounds from nicolas smith : & these lands & moveables Given to wife & my yongest Children are to bee Improved by my Excequetor for the maintenance of my wife & the bringing up of my two Children and att my wives Death or mariage whatt is left is to Returne to my two yongest Children mary & Hanna wall and I appoint Henery Robey as a feffer in trust to take noties of what Estate is left & in Cause my wife should marrie or dy whilest the Children are under Age Henery Robey is to take Care of the Estate which shall bee left to settell Itt to the Children when they shall a Rive to the Age of Eighteen yeers & for the Cearfull bringing of them up in Cause God should take a way my wife by Death sooner : & I Doe make & appoint mary wall my loving wife to bee my lawfull Excequetor to this my last will & tesment which I Doe Conferme with my Hand & seale thearunto affixed the twenteth of september Anno Dm one thousand Six Hundred & fifty nine
James [Seal] wall
Signed Sealed & Confermed
in the prsents of
Samuell Dalton
John X Cass
His marke | Wall, James (I13143)
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The Last Will and Testament of John Cooper of Barnstable late deceased, exhibited to the Court held att Plymouth the fift of March 1683/84 on the oathes of John Finney and Job Crocker as followeth.
I John Cooper haveing Reason to expect my Great Change neare do make this my Last Will and Testament wherin I freely Resigne my spiritt to God that Gave it and my body to the dust by decent buriall when the Lord shall put an end to mydayes heer, in Comfortable hope of a future happy estate in Glory for the merritt sake alone of my Blessed Redeemer as for what estate the Lord hath given mee my will is that all my debts being justly and in Conscience due to any person shal be honestly payed; and then what is left shal be wholly at the disposal of my loveing wife Priscilla for her Comfortable support during her life, and what of it shal be att her death left I thuse dispose of it to be divided into three partes.
The Church of Barnstable shall have one third parte, and the Survived Children of my sister Mistris Allice Bradford another third parte, and the surviveing Children of my sister Lydya Morton the other third part thereof, also I doe Request and appoint my Loveing Friends William Crocker, Barnabas Laythorp and Thomas huchens Jun.r to be executors to this my Last will as witness my hand and seal this 28th of December 1676.
John Cooper (and a seal)
Signed and sealed in the prescence of
John Finney Jr. Job Crocker
Job Crocker and John Finney took oath that they did see John Cooper signe and seale and declare this Instrument above written to be his last will and Testament this 25 of february 1683.
Thomas Hinckley Gov.r
John Thacher, Assistant
Barnabas Laythorpe Assistant | Cooper, Deacon John (I10812)
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The last will and testament of John Hussey, of the County of Newcastle on Delaware, altho wake in body, yet competent and rasonable in memorie and understanding. I do give and bequeath to my respective children hereafter mentioned, viz.: I do give to my son, Christopher L00.s10.d00.
I do give to my son Jedidiah, 0L.10s.0d. I do give to my daughter Rebekah, wife of Samuel Collins, 5L.0s.0d. I do give to my daughter, Mary, wife of Moses Swett, 5L.0s. 0d. I do give to my daughter, Susanah, relict of Richard Otis, L5.s0.d0. Daughter, Bathesba, wife of Thomas Babb, 5L.0s.0d. Daughter Charity, wife of Samuel Garetson, 10L.0s.0d. Daughter, Content, wife of Henry Laud, L10.s0.d. To be paid at the town of Newcastle by my executory to this my will in curant money of the aforesaid county to my aforesaid children, being demanded to them or their order within three years after my death (deces). All the residue and remainder of my estate I do give to my son, John Hussey, and him do I make full and sole executor to this my last will and testament. And for the full configrmation of all the
above mentioned I do hereunto set my hand and affix my seal, this 8th day of the month called May, in the year 1707.
Signed, sealed and declared in the presence of:
Henry Swett, William Dowgeres, Sarah Swett.
| Hussey, John (I13097)
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The Last Will and Testament of Richard Austin
(Source: Xerox of Actual Will at the Hampshire Records Office in Winchester, England)
Transcription and scan of will courtesy of Jim Carlin of the Austin Family Association of America
"In the name of God, Amen. I Richard Asten of Titchfield being possessed of good and ? memory do commit both to God that gave it, my body to the ground, my goods to my wife and children in trust payment (?) as have all mentions (?). I make my wife Anes my sole executor. I give to the Cathedral Church of Winchester, 3 shillings, 4 pence. I give to my son Daniel one bullock of one year old to be paid at the end of my lease. I give to my son Peter one bullock of one year old to be paid at the end of my lease. I give to my son Richard twenty pounds to be paid at the end of my lease. I give to my daughter Joan five pounds to be paid at the end of my lease. I give to my daughter Emlen five pounds to be paid at the end of my lease. I give to my daughter Elizabeth twelve pounds to be paid six months after my decease, to the years of her she not having the use of it her ? (phrasing ?), my executor shall have the disposing of it to her use. I give to my daughter Anes a cow and a bullock to be paid at the end of my lease. I give to my son Daniel's son Richard two sheep. I give to
his son Francis two sheep. I give to my son Peter's two children a sheep each. I give to my daughter Joan's child a sheep, all of these sheep to be paid within six months after my decease. I give to my daughter Anes' three children three bullocks two years old to be paid at the end of my lease. I give to my son in law Edmond Littlefield a colt of three years old. I give to my man John Shackleford five shillings in money. I give my man William Hocraft 3 shillings in money. I give my boy John Lodgyer a sheep. I give my maid Catorn a sheep. To all my god children six pence apiece, all these small legacies ? to be paid six months after my
decease. I make my son Richard one of my overseers and my neighbor Peter Faithfull also, and I give them for their pains 3s 4d apiece and for ?
this my last will and testament.
Richard Astin his mark
(A jiggly vertical cross)
Signatures (?) of the Witnesses
Richard Asten
Peter Faithfull
Edmond Littlefield"
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The Methodist Episcopal Society of Wellfleet, was organized in 1802. Rev. Robert Yallaley Provincetown, visited the town in 1797 and preached several times. Reverends Rickhow, Weeks, Broadhead, Snelling, Willard and others followed, and in 1807 this was made part of the Harwich circuit. Rev. Joel Steele was the first minister to travel the circuit; he was succeeded by Rev. E. Otis; he by Rev. Joseph A. Merrill up to 1810. In 1811 this church was made a circuit with Truro, which continued to 1827, when it was made a station by itself. The society was organized with three members-Abigail Gross (mother-in-law?), Thankful Rich and Lurana Higgins (sister-in-law). Ephraim Higgins was the first-class leader. Accession to the membership followed, and in 1816 a church edifice was erected on the hill north of the village, which was the first house of this denomination in the town. From 1817 to 1824 the society grew, and in 1829 their house was enlarged to thirty-eight by sixty feet, with seventy pews on the floor, and galleries on both sides. In 1842-3 great revivals occurred and all the churches received large additions of members. The old house being too small for the worshippers, a new one was erected and dedicated December 5, 1843. This was the most elaborate church edifice on the Cape at that time, the site being changed from near the burying ground to the present one in the village. Rev. Paul Townsend preached the dedicatory sermon.
.......The following list indicates what pastors have served the society, and the year they came: In 1812, Robert Arnold; 1813, Elias Marble; 1814, B. Otheman: 1815, Thomas C. Pierce; 1816, Orin Roberts; 1817, Benjamin Keith; 1818, Ephraim Wiley; 1820, Edward Hyde; 1822, L. Bennett; 1824, J. G. Atkins; 1825, Lewis Bates; 1827, Joel Steele; 1829, B. F. Lombard; 1831, N. S. Spaulding; 1832, Squire B. Haskell; 1833, H. Brownson; 1834, W. Emerson; 1836, B.F. Lombard; 1837, H. Perry; 1839, J. M. Bidwell; 1840, Paul Townsend; 1842, J. Cady; 1844, G. W. Steams; 1846, John Lovejoy; 1848, Cyrus C. Munger; 1849, Samuel Fox; 1851, John Howson; 1853, J. E. Gifford; 1854, Erastus Benton; 1856, E. K. Colby; 1858, E. H. Hatfield; 1860, James Mather; 1862, [p. 803] John Howson; 1863, A. N. Bodfish; 1865, William V. Morrison; 1867, Charles Nason; 1869, Walter Ela; 1870, A. J. Church; 1873, C. S. Macreading; 1875, A. P. Palmer; 1878, Edward Edson; 1881, Samuel M. Beal; 1883, Samuel McBurney; 1884, George A. Moss; 1886, Angelo Canoll; 1888, Charles S. Davis.
.......In 1819 a Methodist camp meeting was held in South Wellfleet, and from 1823 to 1825 it was held on Bound Brook island, then was removed to Truro. These meetings rapidly increased the early membership.
(bold text added by Duane Barton)
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The will of "Roger Brownson of Aldham in the County of Essex, taylor," was dated 4 Aug. 1635. "To Margeret my wife, £6, furniture, and all that was hers before marriage. To my daughter in law [stepdaughter] Mary Brewer, 20s. To Edith my daughter, wife of John Evered of Cogshall, £3. To Susan, daughter of John Evered of Cogshall [Cogshall, co. Essex], my grandchild, 20s. at her age of 21 or marriage. To my two sons John and Richard Brownson and to my daughter, 12d. each if ever they come to demand the same. Residue to Cornelius Brownson my son, he to be executor." Signed by mark. Witnesses: William Adams, John Brownson. Proved at Colchester 22 Oct. 1635 by Cornelius Brownson, the executor named [Commissary Court of London for Essex and Herts, D/ABW.53/47, Essex County Record Office, Chelmsford]. | Brownson, Roger (I8691)
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The Will of Henry Tomlinson copied from The Fairfield Probate Records.
"March 15, 1680-81.
"In the name of God Amen. I Henr. Tomlinson of Stratford in the county of Fairfield and in the Colloney of Connecticut being weak in body but I bless God for His mercy and goodness unto me. I am in good understanding. I doe make this my last will and Testament in mauer and form as followeth:
"Imp'mes. I give my soul into the hands of my Merciful Father Almighty God; and unto Jesus Christ in whom I doe believe that he hath redeeneed my soul from sin death and hell by his own merits and blood shedding: notwithstanding all my unworthyness, and hath prepared a rest for my soul in heaven to live with him and remain with him in joy unto all oternity.
"Item. I give my body after death to a decent burial in the earth from whence it came and thereto remain till the great day of the rosurrection.
"Item. As concerning my worldly goods I am possessed of under God at my death after my debts are payd and my funeral accomplished. I doe dispose of them as followeth:
"Item. I give unto my loving wife Allice Tomlinson and to my sonn Agur Tomlinson all my housing and buildings with all my lands in Stratford during her natural life. And yf my wife incline to live alone by herself then my will is that shee shall make her choyce which end of the house and what of the sellars she will reserve for herself. And yf my wife shall see cause to change her condition after my death then I leave her to the thirds of my estate and the other two parts to remain to my son Agur; and after the death of my wife then the land to return unto my son Agur Tomlinson for him and his heirs to enjoy forever provided as followeth:
"I have given unto all my children that are married my sonn Jonas, my daughter Harger, my daughter Mary Pierson, my daughter Tabatha Worster, my daughter Phebe Worster, and my daughter Bashua Stiles already such portions as God did enable me and as I saw cause yet this is my will that my son Agur after the death of me and my wife shall pay unto my daughter Margaret five pounds the next year after our death, and four pounds to my son Jonas Tomlinson the second year after our death, and five pounds to my daughter Mary Pierson the third year after our death, and five pounds to my daughter Tabetha Worster the fourth year after our death, and five pounds to my daughter Phebe Worster the fifth year after our death, and to my daughter Bathshua the sixth year after our death. Yf any of these my children should be taken away by death before payment be made then it shall be to the children of the deceased. Yf God in his providence should take away my son Agur by death and leave no heirs or heir to inherit this land then it is my will it shall return to Jonas my sonn and his heirs to enjoy forever my sonn Jonas paying unto Margaret Harger my daughter twenty pounds the first year, and to my daughter Tabathy Worster twenty pound the second year after his decease and to my daughter Mary P??irson twenty pound the third year; to my daughter Phebe W??ter twenty pound the fourth year and to my daughter Basshua Stiles the fifth year after our decease.
"I give to my two sons and the Longer Liver of them my Indian purchases of Wyantenuck. I give to Jonas and Agur my two sons all my guns to be divided between them as they best can agree. Moreover I give to my soun Agur a horse fit for draught. two young oxen, one bed and furniture, all husbandry Tackling, that my wife hath not occasion to use and what also my wife sees cause to give him.
"Moreover I give to my grand child Timothy Worster if he continue with my wife or Agur four years one mare. and likewise to Abigail Harger I give one mare yf she continue with my wife four years; And my wife to add what she please; and I make my wife executrix of this my last will and Testament. And I do request my loving friends Richard Blaklidg and Joseph Hawley to joyn with my son Ephraim Stiles to be my overseers of this my last will: and I declare this to be my act by subscribing my name.
"Witness "HENRY TOMLINSON.
"JOSEPH HAWLEY.
"RICHARD BLACKLIDG. | Tomlinson, Henry (I617)
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The Will of John Huckstepp the elder of Tenterden in the County of Kent, Yeoman, 4 Nov. 22 James I (1624).
"To my kinswoman Lydia Tilden, wife of Nathaniel Tilden, 5 pounds. To Thomas son of my brother Stephen Huckstepp 5 pounds. To my brother Stephen Huckstepp 3 pounds. To John son of my brother Stephen Huckstepp 10 pounds. To my kinswoman Susanna Witherden, wife of Henry Witherden, 10 pounds, and to their son Richard 20 pounds at twenty-one.
"Residue of all my goods and chattels to my son Lawrence at twenty-one, my executor to have the use of said goods until that time, paying to my son for the use thereof 6 pounds for every 100 pounds worth, the money to be used to buy lands for my said son. If my son die before said age, reversion of said lands or money to John Huckstepp, whom I make my executor.
"My last will concerning my lands and tenements in Tenterden and Snargate, which I give to my son Lawrence at twenty-one, and if he die without lawful issue, reversion to brother Stephen's son Thomas.
"(Signed) The m'ke of John Huckstepp.
Witnesses: Garret Haffenden and Robert Haffenden.
Proved 17 Feb. 1624/5 by John Huckstepp.
The will was contested, but upheld 5 Apr 1625. Archdeaconry of Canterbury, vol.66 fo.381. | Huckstep, John (I23654)
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The will of Samuel Hosier of Watertowne mentions wife Ursilla Hosier sole executrix, to Charles Sternes, to Steephen Payne & his children, to my Brothers sonne in England, to my sister if living, to Mrs. Prout, to my wives children to be equally divided, to my sonn Hollands children, Joseph and Sarah; Samuel Thather, Brother Beers and Charles Chadwicke overseers. | Hosier, Samuel (I19751)
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This 5 of May 1670 I John Knight of Newbury Sen. being oftened pained in my body and know not how sudenly I may be desolved and leave this world and being desirous while my memoree is good to setl my outward Estat acording to my desir and therfor do hear make my Last will and Testament as followeth
first I Comitte my soule to God that gaue it: and my body to the Earth to be buried to Rest untill the Resurecion by my Saviour Jesus Christ
Itm: I give unto my beloued wiffe Eleven pounds a yeare for hir maintainanc while she liveth and that she my dwell in one End of my house while she liveth and to use anie of my goods what she hath need of for hir selfe in the house.
Itm: I giue and apoint fourtie pounds after my wifs deseace and In Convenient time as my overseers Judg best for my daughtr Sarah bartlets use while she liveth: (and) with hir husband John Bartlet and after hir decease the fourtie pounds to be made good unto the Child or Children of hir body surviving to Injoy: If she have none then the fortie pounds to Return unto my sonn John Knights Children Equaly unto all accept Josep Knight: and my will is that If my daughter Sarah Bartlet have a sonn or daughter Living after hir decease my will Is that my sonn John Knight or his asigns shall pay for the Childs use tenn pounds more which will be in all fiftie pounds: and my will is that when my son In law John Bartlet or anie other for hir Coms to demaund or Recieve the fortie pounds before mentioned that then sufficient bond in land be given unto my overseers or my Executor for the payment of it acording to my will.
Itm: I give unto my daughter marie douner and hir husband Josep douner fourscore pounds to be paid one fortie of it in a yeare after my wifs decease and the other fortie pounds the next year after that: and Likwise I give unto my grand Child Josep Downer twentie pounds to be paid by my Executor when he is on and twentie years of aige: Likwise I give unto my gran Child marie Downer twentie pounds to be paid by my Executor when she is Eighteen years of age.
Itm: I give unto my daughter Marie Douner and hir husband during ther livs four acers of marish Land out of the marish I have on the south sid of John Piks land that they Call the 8 acers: after my wifs deceas and four acers of medow Joyning unto that 4 acers I gave my daughter Sara Bartlet on the north: and likwise I give my daught marie Douner & hir husband during ther lives that pece of marish our the pond to the Creek on the East by henri Jaquises land on the north & John piks on the south and my lot at Plum Iland and two akers wher they have built and that one aker of (plow) land in the feeld on the west sid of the way going to new toune joyning to my son Johns two akers he bought of Nicholas noic and my freehold or Comanag in Newbery all which land and Comanag to Injoy during ther livs and afterward to Return unto my grand Child, Josep Downer to Injoy for Ever or if he dy before he Injoys It then to Remain unto my granchild Marie Downer and If Josep Douner do Injoy the land then my will is he shall pay unto his sister marie Downer twenti pounds besid that her porcion be fore. Likwise I give unto my daught marie Downer after my wifs decease my great new kitl and puter Candlestick & a plater.
Itm: I give unto my wifs grand Child Thomas hains ten pounds to be paid after his time out.
Itm: Besid that portion of land and other Estat I gave my sonn John Knight for manie years sinc as my brother & (other) do know I now give unto my sonn John Knight my howse and land I dwell upon with barn and orchard and my land next the ox comon both plow land and pastur and medow: as with all the ffences both of plow land and pastur and medow which is my part by agreement to do and likwise about 4 or 5 akers of marrish joyning to the Creeke by the Comon on the south East and likwise another parcill of marish on the north of John Piks land tourds litl Pin Iland & henri Jaquises and the Creek on the west: And my desire is that my sonn John would let his sonn Josep Knight have and Injoy all this land and housing when he is of aige for Ever Likwise I do make my sonn John Knight my Executor and do give him all my goods accept the three things before mentioned to my daughter marie and likwise all my stocke of Cattell and horse and sheep and swine and I do Ingaig him herby to pay all the legacies and Charg that may a Rise for funerall or debts and to Receive all that is du unto me from anie person Likwise my will is that If my sonn John Knight will make over by a deed (given) unto Josep Downer and his wife marie douner that three acers of land joyning unto that he dwells on by henri Jaquishes and that two ackrs of plow land by my on acker on the west sid of the Ridg which was Nicholas noices then my will is that he shall pay but ffortie pounds of the fourscor unto Josep Downer & his wife and this land Josep and his wife to Injoy during ther livs and afterwards to her sone as the other before Likwise I desier my thre frends my brother Richard Knight and Thomas Halle sei and Nicholas Noice to be my overseers to see this my will performed and I do give them tenn shillings apeece to be paid by my Executor.
John Knight
Witness: Richard Knight Thomas Hale. Proved June 23, 1670 by the witnesses before Mr. Samuel I Symonds and Maj. Gen. Denison. | Knight, John Sr. (I7120)
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Thomas Gardner, the Planter, is remembered as the primary leader of the Cape Ann Colony of Massachusetts. He founded the English fishing station at Gloucester in 1623-1624. By some sources, he first sailed over on the ship Charity, and was later joined by his three sons George, Richard and Joseph who came over on the Zouch Phoenix.
Gardner was chief-in-charge of a mostly male fishing station and saltworks at Cape Ann before Roger Conant came in and moved the operation here to Naumkeag. English records show Conant was a professional salter (or salt manufacturer or dealer), needed for the fishing industry, before he sailed west to Massachusetts. From overseas, Rev. John White also helped the colony transition to Naumkeag/Salem. | Gardner, Thomas Jr. (I21314)
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Thomas lived in Great Addington, Northamptonshire, England and is mentioned in records in 1551, 1559 and 1561. On 19 May 1551 he is cited in a list of 11 names in a Manor Court Roll as a Manorial tenant and serving on a Manorial Jury. On 10 May 1559 he witnessed the will of Alexander Bolney of Great Addington. And on 21 Jul 1561 he witnessed the will of Agnes Bate of Great Addington. While no proof has been found that he is the father of Alexander, John and Mary, he certainly appears to be the most likely candidate. Most of the information that follows for the the first four generations of the family in England is based on research of documents on file in Northampton, Leicester, Warwick and London, England. | Bebe, Thomas (I8986)
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Thomas Lygon, second son, born at Madresfield Court, first appears in the records in 1461 (Patent Rolls 1461, p. 98) when "Richard, Earl of Warwick, John Beauchamp of Powyck, Knight, and Thomas Lygon were to array the men of Worcester against the king's enemies." The king at the time was Edward IV. and this definitely places Thomas Lygon as a Yorkist in the War of the Roses. This arraying of the men of Worcester was just before the battle of Towton, fought in March 1461, in which the Yorkists led by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, the "Kingmaker," obtained a decisive victory over the Lancastrians. Before the battle, Hume says (Vol XI, p. 311), "the Earl of Warwick dreading the consequences of disaster at the time when a decisive action was every hour expected, immediately ordered his horde to be brought him, which he stabbed before the whole army, and kissing the hilt of his sword, swore that he was determined that day to share the fate of the meanest soldier."
Thomas Lygon was a commissioner of the peace for Worcester in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd years of Edward IV, whose reign began in 1461 and was on various commissions and inquests until 1470 when he was again called upon to array the men of Worcester against the king's enemies.
This was before the battles of Barnet and Tewkesbury. In 1472, Thomas Lygon, Esq., was granted lands of the king's enemies and was on commissions to collect taxes. In 1475, he was on an inquisition to determine what lands Richard de Beauchamp had left in Warwick. He was on various commissions until 1484-85, when he was again called upon to array the men of Worcester. Richard III was king at that time, and the array was probably for the battle of Bosworth Field fought in 1485.
The succession of Henry VII, of the House of Lancaster, did not seem to vary the fortunes of Thomas, for he kept on serving the reigning monarch, as he was commissioner of array for Worcester in 1488 to oppose the rebellion in the north. He was a Member of Parliament for Worcester in 1477. In 1491 he was custodian of the Castle of Gloucester, probably sheriff. He was commissioner of Oyer and Terminer in 1495 and in 1496 was commissioner of array against the Scots preparing at Berwick. He last appears in the records about 1499, when he, together with Richard and William Grevyle, had royal license to enfeoff John Grevyle and Joan, his wife, in the manors of "Milcote super avon and Miolcote super Stowe" in Warwick. Thomas Lygon is first mentioned in the settlement of 1456, and again in 1460, in a deed which may possible imply that he was a lawyer. He probably succeeded to the original Lygon lands; for in1470, he was made an enfeoffment of his lands at Hightington, Stanford, Pensax, Foxley, Wyke Episcopi, and St. John in Bedwardine in Worcestershire and Wulfirlowe in Herefordshire, which lands were next year confirmed to him and his wife, and to the heirs of his body, with remainder in default to his son, William Lygon. This was presumably on the occasion of his marriage to Anne Gifford; believed to be the daughter of Nicholas Gifford, and seems to have brought her husband the manor of Bradwell.
In 1478, he acquired the messuage called `Childes' at Powye, and held the Manor of Nether Mytton, 1479. He apparently succeeded his brother William, at Madresfield, about 1484, and acquired lands at Madresfield in 1485. The first mention of him as `Thomas Lygon of Madresfield' occurs in 1495, and the latest mention of him in the Muniments, occurs in 1497. He died on April 10, 1507, when he must have been well over 70 years of age. He and his wife had two children as follows:
1. Jane Lygon, married Thomas Salwey (Salway), and there was issue.
2. Richard Lygon. | Lygon, Thomas Esq. (I5991)
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