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| Notes for James RICHARDS | ||||||||||
| Settled in Boston MA and Hartford CT Richards, Hon. James, died at his house in Hartford, on the 29th day of June, 1680. He married Sarah, the daughter of William Gibbons, Esq., of Hartford. He owned land in England at his decease, and was liberal to his wife in his will. She had received of her father Gibbons a handsome estate in lands before, some of which were located in England, and the rents of which her mother in some measure relied upon for support. Mr. Richards supposed it would prove inconvenient for his mother in law to obtain her distant rents, he therefore made an exchange with her, and took her lands in England and gave her £30, annually, for life, and £200, to dispose of as she pleased for her lands there. His children were, Thomas, Mary, Jerusha, Elizabeth, and one not born at his decease. To his son, Thomas, he gave all his lands and buildings in England, and informed him he could call upon Ralph Ingram, a woolen draper in London, for his deeds; he also gave Thomas most of his lands in Hartford. To his daughter, Mary, he gave his farm at Habuck, east of the river in Wethersfield, to be received when married, or 18 years of age, with the buildings, and £300. To Jerusha, all his lands and buildings west of the river in Wethersfield, and £300. To Elizabeth, all his lands and buildings in and about New London, and £450. He gave to his child not then born, £700. To Thomas Bradford, (his nephew) he gave 10 acres of land and £60, if he should build upon the land. To his brother, John Richards, of Boston, he gave his largest silver tankard and his watch. To the church south of Little River, in Hartford, where he had attended meeting, he gave £10 in silver plate for administering the sacrament. To the Latin school in Hartford, £50. To his pastor, Rev. John Whiting, £15. To the poor of Hartford £20. To Mercy Bradford, his kinswoman, he gave £10; and provided like a true Puritan, that whoever thereafter should hold his lands in Hartford, should pay the ecclesiastical taxes upon them to support the south church in Hartford. His wife, Sarah, and son, Thomas, executors. To his brother, John, of Boston, and Capt. John Allen, of Hartford, he gave £10 each, and made them overseers of his will. His houses and lands in Boston, he ordered to be equally divided between all his children who were then minors. Estate £7930 : 15. Mary married Benjamin Alford, of Boston; Jerusha married Gurdon Saltonstall, Esq.; Thomas married Joanna Dodd, sister of Edward Dodd, of Hartford; Elizabeth married John Davie, supposed of Boston, (but in 1709, appears to have been the wife of Jonathan Taylor,) she was the wife of Davie in 1691. The child unborn, mentioned in Hon. James's will, proved to be a daughter, and was named Anne--she died before 1691, and the £700 given her in the will was equally distributed to the other children in Oct. 1691. The £200 given to Ursula Gibbons by Hon. James towards her lands in England, were also divided between the children of Hon. James. Sarah, the relict of Hon. James, in 1691, signed the distribution of the personal estate of Hon. James, as Sarah Davie, with her husband, John Davie, together with the children of James. In 1709 "Dame Sarah," relict of Hon. James, was the wife of Jonathan Tyng, Esq., Gent., of Dunstable, in Mass. She gave up to her son, Thomas, her right as executor of his father's will, and quit to him her dower estate in Hartford, signed by herself and Tyng, her husband. Deed dated Boston, March 30, 1709.365 | ||||||||||
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