 - Bef 1676
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| Name |
Sarah Baker |
| Gender |
Female |
| Migration |
Abt Aug 1634 |
From England  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7] |
| To Boston |
| aboard Griffin |
- The ship arrived on 18 Sep with about one hundred passengers and cattle for the plantations.
- Role: Family3member
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| Will |
20 Jan 1664/5 [8] |
The twentieth day of January 1664, I Zechariah Symmes of Charlestown,
New England, being at present, through God's free mercy, in some
competent measure of health, yet daily wayting for my change, have revised
the last former draught of my will, but revoking it, do establish this following
as my last will and testament, and do hereby appoint my dear and faithful
wife Mrs. Sarah Symmes sole executrix thereof.
First, I commit and commend what I am and have into the hands of my
most loving Father and Gracious God in Christ Jesus : my soul immediately
upon my death to be received into those heavenly mansions which my
blessed Saviour hath prepared for me ; my body to be for a time, in a comely,
but not over costly manner, interred, in assured faith and hope that my
Saviour will in his time raise up my vile body and make it like his glorious
body, and, uniting it to my soul, will continue them forever with himself in
perfect blessedness and glore.
For my temporal estate wherewith the Lord hath blessed me, it is already
in good parte disposed of by reason of the mariage of my eldest sonne
William, and of six of my daughters, viz., Sarah, Marye, Elizabeth, Huldah,
Rebeckah, Deborah. To each of these seven I have already given
such a portion, as our own necessities would permitt, and that without any
partialitie farther than a legacy given to my daughter Brock, and daughter
Savage did equity require ; therefore my earnest desire and will is that
none of them grudge at any of the other, or trouble their mother in the
least wise any further demand, or motion about what is already disposed of.
For Ruth, my wife hath already set by for her such a portion as with
a very small enlargement (which I leave to my widow's discretion) may
equal her portion with her sisters.
For my two sonnes Zechariah and Timothy, to the former upon his
going to Rehoboth I gave some books, with some household stuff, and to
make up his first dividend, I assign unto him all my library, except what is
after mentioned, and provided that soone after my death he oblige himself
in a bonde of eighty pounds, together with his heirs and assigns, to pay unto
his brother Timothie fourty pounds sterling in money, or merchantable goods
at money price, within one year after my decease, or in case his brother
Timothy dye before the year expired, then to pay it to my other children
surviving, in equal portions, reserving a double portion to my eldest sonne
William.
Other legacies doe some of my dear friends deserve, and therefore may
probably expect, but considering my dear widos probable necesseties, and
that farr most of our first estate came by her, I trust they will take it well
though I do dispose of the remainder of my estate in the manner following.
First, my debts being discharged (which are none that I know of but what
my wife is privye unto) and one legacy of five pounds to my dear brother Mr.
William Symmes, to which I know my wife will be as willing as myself, it
being but a small remembrance of his very great love and costs to us and
ours, I then give and bequeath to my faithful and dearly beloved wife,
the whole use and benefit of all my temporal estate, consisting in lands,
houses, cattell, moneye, plate, with all other goods and moveables which the
Lord hath given, to her own proper use, to have, hold and enjoy during the
whole time of her widowhood. In case she shall see good to marry, which
I suppose she will never do without good advice, then I take it for granted
that it will be with one that may bring some comfortable outward estate
with him, and therefore in case she shall marry I give a third part of my
whole estate to be equally divided among my children then living, only a
double part to my eldest sonne, and at her death the other two thirds to be
alike divided, only I give her liberty and power at her decease to dispose
of fifty pounds sterling to any of her children or any other of her relatives
or friends as she shall see mete. Further, out of my books and papers, I
give her that large English Bible wch was her mothers, also such books as
I have of Doc Sibs or Doc Prestons, also a book of Baynes letters, and
about comfortable walking with God. Also all my notes of my sermons,
one book in octavo upon 16th Mat. 24 and 17 cap of John, 2 small books
of my latter sermons, one in decimo sexto, the other hath yet but a few
sermons. Also I give to my eldest sonne Fulke on Rhem. Test, with 4
books in quarto of Mr. Bolton's works, as also a fourth part of such manuscripts
either mine owne or my father's sermons, as are in papers or sticht,
but not bound up. All my written books besides I give to Zech: with the
rest of the manuscripts, yet so as upon their requests not to deny the lending
of them for a small time to any of their brethren or sisters to peruse
for their owne private use onely, for I never intended nor prepared anything
of mine to be put in print.
Item. At my wives death I give my farm neere Woburne and land at
Nottimos to my eldest sonne, provided that he bynde it over to pay unto
the rest of my children a hundred pounds in equall portions in two years
time : 50 pounds per annum.
Item. I give to all my sonnes in law, at the death of my wife, to each
of them thirty shillings for a ring, or any other meanes of remembering my
love to them ; and to each of my grandchildren, by nature or by law, thirteen
shillings four pence for a spoone.
Witnesses. Francis Norton, Joshua Teed [Tidd].
- Role: Executor
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| Death |
Bef 28 Dec 1676 [1, 2, 9] |
| Probate |
28 Dec 1676 [10] |
| Person ID |
I33651 |
Duane's Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
7 Feb 2020 |
| Family |
Rev. Zachariah Symmes, b. 5 Apr 1599, Canterbury, Kent, England d. 4 Feb 1670/1, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America (Age 71 years) [1, 2] |
| Marriage |
13 Aug 1622 |
Southwark, Surrey, England [1, 2] |
Church:
St. Saviour |
| Children |
| | 1. Capt. William Symmes, b. 1626/7, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England d. 22 Sep 1691, Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay, British America (Age 64 years) |
| | 2. Sarah Symmes, b. 1624/5, London, Middlesex, England |
| + | 3. Elizabeth Symmes, b. 1629/30, Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England |
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| Family ID |
F10786 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
15 Apr 2020 |
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| Sources |
- 1. [S1151] Ancestors of American Presidents, 26, 01001.
- 2. [S576] TGMSP, Zachariah Symmes, 00516.
- 3. [S1137] Planters of the Commonwealth, 113, 00988.
- 4. [S1409] Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, 77, 00159.
- 5. [S1409] Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650, 93, 00159.
- 6. [S1430] Symmes Memorial, 2, 01154.
- 7. [S1438] Cobb Family, 5, 01162.
- 8. [S1430] Symmes Memorial, 13-15, 01154.
- 9. [S1430] Symmes Memorial, 12, 01154.
- 10. [S1430] Symmes Memorial, 16, 01154.
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