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Mary Dixon[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8]

Female 1679 - Aft 1744  (> 66 years)


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  • Name Mary Dixon 
    Birth 23 Sep 1679  Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4
    Gender Female 
    Will 21 Nov 1744  [9

    •      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
    • Role: Executor
    Death Aft 1744  [7
    Person ID I7566  Duane's Ancestors
    Last Modified 29 Jan 2019 

    Father Peter Dixon,   b. SAY 1655   d. Between 1708 and 9 Apr 1718 (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Mother Mary Remick,   b. 7 Aug 1658, Kittery, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1708 (Age > 51 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1678  [1, 10, 11, 12
    Family ID F2855  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family John Staples,   b. Abt 1677, Kittery, Maine, New England, British America Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 21 Nov 1744 and 16 Jul 1745, Kittery, York, Massachusetts Bay, British America Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 67 years)  [1, 6, 7, 8
    Marriage Oct 1696  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    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
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  • Sources 
    1.  1.  [S991] Old Kittery and Her Families, 752, 00405.

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

    3.  3.  [S988] Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, 656, 00218.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    10.  10.  [S991] Old Kittery and Her Families, 677, 00405.

    11.  11.  [S482] Torrey 1st, 223, 00395.

    12.  12.  [S1364] Remick Genealogy, 22, 00097.