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John Staples[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Male Abt 1677 - 1745  (~ 67 years)


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  • Name John Staples 
    Birth Abt 1677  Kittery, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [1] 
    Gender Male 
    Will 6 Jun 1718  [2, 10] 


    •      In the Name of God Amen The Sixth day of Iune 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 Massachusetts 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.
           Imp r 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 moveable goods together with the one Third part of the Produce or Income of that my farm and Stock of Cattle which I have heretofore given and alienated to my Son Peter Staple for her Comfortable Support during her Natural life and if the abovesaid Income Shall not be Sufficient to maintain her She hath by these Presents 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 & 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 Iohn & Iames Staples to be Equally Divided betwene them or those that Shall legally represent them.
           Item I do by these presents Confirm unto my Sons Peter Staple Iohn Staple & Iames 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 [n]eat 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 Iohn and Iames Staples their proportion.
           Item I do hereby Constitute make & ordain my three well beloved Sons Peter Iohn & Iames 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 Executors by me in any ways before named And Willed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal the day and Year above written
      his
      Signed Sealed Published Peter P Staple (Seal)
           Pronounced & Declared by mark
           the Said Peter Staple as
           his last Will and Testament
           In the Presents of us
           the Subscribers.
           Iohn Newmarch
           Pavl Wentworth
           Nicolas Weeks
    • Role: Executor
    Will 21 Nov 1744  [11] 
    •      In the Name of God Amen. I John Staple of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of Maine in New-England Yeoman being of Sound Mind and Memory, But knowing the Uncertainty of this transitory Life do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in Manner and form following, that is to Say, First I commend my Soul into the Hands of Almighty God and my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently burried by my Executors herein hereafter named; and as touching the Disposition of all my temporal Estate I give & dispose thereof as followeth vizt.
           Imprimis, I will that my Debts and funeral Charge be paid out of my Estate by my Executors.
           Item, I give my Sons Hezekiah & Solomon, whom I have advanced already, each of them Five Shillings.
           Item, I give my Son Samuel Four pounds.
           Item, I give my Son Thomas's three Children Four pounds to be paid thus Forty Shillings to the Eldest, and Twenty Shillings to each of the other Two.
           Item, I give my Daughter Hannah Whitehouse, and my Daughters Annah Brooks and Elizabeth Tomson each of them Four pounds.
           Item, I give my Daughter Mary Hanscomb Four pounds to be paid her if living when the time of paymt hereafter mention'd comes.
           Item, I giue and bequeath to my well beloved Wife all my personal Estate Goods and Chattels within Doors and without and also the one Third of the Income of my Real Estate, and the Easterly End of my dwelling House from Ridge pole to the Bottom of the Cellar, and a Convenient part of the Barn and out Houses if She desires it.
           Item, I give and bequeath to my Son Mark Staple all my Real Estate, that I now have or ought to have in Kittery or elsewhere to him his Heirs and Assigns for ever : he paying the Legacies I have herein before given to his Brothers and Sisters and his Brother Thomas's Children and to pay them within two or three years after my Decease, and to Such first as he Shall think hath most need, and so on One after the other. And to pay his Mother the one Third of the Income of my Place Yearly during her Life. And I do hereby nominate and appoint my well beloved Wife and my Said Son Mark Staples Executrs to this my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby revoake disannul and make Void all former Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made by word or Writing.
           In Witness whereof I the Said John Staple hath hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the twenty first Day of November in the year of our Lord Christ One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty four.
      Iohn Staples & a Seal.
      Signed Sealed published & declared by the Testator to be
           his last Will and Testamt in the presence of us whose
           Names are Subscribed as Witnesses and Signed by us in
           the the [sic] presence of the Testator.
           Ioseph Fernald
           Iames Fernald Junr
           Timothy Brown
    Death Between 21 Nov 1744 and 16 Jul 1745  Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [12] 
    Probate 16 Jul 1745  [12] 
    Inventory 31 Oct 1745  [12] 
    totalling £808: 16: 4
    Alternate Name John Staple  [13]
    Occupation carpenter  [1]
    Person ID I2924  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 16 Jan 2020 

    Father Capt. Peter Staples, Jr.,   b. SAY 1643   d. Abt 1719, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 76 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth Beedle,   b. 1641   d. Aft 6 Jun 1718 (Age > 77 years) 
    Marriage Bef 1670  [1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 14, 15] 
    Family ID F1896  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mary Dixon,   b. 23 Sep 1679, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1744 (Age > 66 years)  [4, 8, 9, 13] 
    Marriage Oct 1696  [1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 13, 16] 
    Children 
     1. John Staples,   b. 30 Sep 1700, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. young
    +2. Hezekiah Staples, Sr.,   b. 11 Feb 1702, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
     3. Solomon Staples,   b. 20 Jun 1705, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
     4. Samuel Staples,   b. 11 Apr 1707, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
     5. Hannah Staples,   b. 8 Feb 1709/10, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
     6. Thomas Staples,   b. 9 Jan 1711/2, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 21 Nov 1744 (Age < 32 years)
     7. Mary Staples,   b. 21 Jan 1714, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location
     8. Anne Staples,   b. 10 Mar 1716, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 21 Nov 1744 (Age < 28 years)
     9. John Staples,   b. 2 Jan 1717/8, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 21 Nov 1744 (Age < 26 years)
     10. Elizabeth Staples,   b. 11 Feb 1719/20, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 21 Nov 1744 (Age < 24 years)
     11. Mark Staples,   b. 31 Oct 1725, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1782 (Age 56 years)
    Family ID F2854  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 4 Apr 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1677 - Kittery, Maine, New England, British America Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - Between 21 Nov 1744 and 16 Jul 1745 - Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 
    Pin Legend  : Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 656, 00218.

    2.  2.  [S66] Saco Valley Settlements and Families, 1159, 00464.

    3.  3.  [S706] Robert C. Brooks, 00706.

    4.  4.  [S991] Old Kittery and Her Families, 752, 00405.

    5.  5.  [S363] Vital Records of Kittery, ME, 32, 00590.

    6.  6.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 682, 00218.

    7.  7.  [S482] Torrey 1st, 702, 00395.

    8.  8.  [S1336] Torrey Online, 2:1435, 00153.

    9.  9.  [S1108] TEG, 29:136, 00961.

    10.  10.  [S455] US ME Wills 1640-1760, 215-216, 00349.

    11.  11.  [S455] US ME Wills 1640-1760, 498-499, 00349.

    12.  12.  [S455] US ME Wills 1640-1760, 499, 00349.

    13.  13.  [S1364] Remick Genealogy, 23, 00097.

    14.  14.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 216, 00218.

    15.  15.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 87, 00218.

    16.  16.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 197, 00218.