Person:Daniel Kittredge (1)

Personal History

Daniel Kittredg(e), third son of John Kitteridge and Mary Littlefield, was born 22 5mo. [July] 1670, in Billerica, colony of Massachusetts Bay.^[1][2] A deacon of the church, he died 8 March 1741/2, in Tewksbury (formerly part of Billerica).^[3][4]

Daniel Kittredge and Elizabeth Foster were married 19 December 1694, in Billerica. The town records record the births of their children Mary, Daniel, Elizabeth, Sarah, Hannah, Mehittabel, and Abigail.

In his will dated 28 November 1741,^[5] Daniel Kittredg, of the town of Tewksbury, husbandman, “being very weak in body”, bequeathed to Elizabeth, his wife, household goods, one third of his real estate during her lifetime to be maintained by his son Daniel, and the west half of his dwelling house. He bequeathed the use of one fire room to his daughter Hannah Patten so long as she remains Thomas Patten's widow; other real and personal estate to his son Daniel (and ordered him to pay to each of his sisters £50 apiece for the whole of their portions); £20 to his daughter Mary Peacook; £28-12 to his daughter Elizabeth Manning; £27-10 to his daughter Sarah Patten's children (she being deceased); £17-4-10 to his daughter Hannah Patten; £27-5-7 to his daughter Mehetibel Haywood; £18-14-6 to his daughter Abigail Frost; certain military items to his son Daniel and grandsons, Daniel Kittredge (jr.), Daniel Peacook, and Samuel Kittredge. He appointed his cousin Joseph Kittredge as sole executor. The will was proved in Middlesex Co. court 5 April 1742.

The inventory^[5] of Daniel's estate included “the Home place with two meadows namely Shaw Shin and Strongwater ajoyning” valued £700, two lots on the east side of Strongwater Brook (originally of Daniel Rogers and John Dunkins) valued £275, and a lot on the east side of Shawshin River (originally of William Patten) valued £86. The sum total of the real and personal estate was £1117-17-6.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 “Billerica births”, in Foster, F. Apthorp (ed.). Vital Records of Billerica, Massachusetts, to the Year 1850. (Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1908)
   p. 119.

   “KITTREDG, Daniel [dup. Kitteridg], s. John and Mary, July 22, 1670. [Kitterige, May 14, Middlesex County record, East Cambridge.]”

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Billerica (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records and indexes, 1653–1910. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972, 2001)
   FHL 901881 (Births, marriages, deaths 1627–1834); vol. 1, p. 32, and vol. 2, p. 80.

   Digital record with image viewed in “Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626–2001,” database, FamilySearch, DGS 7009657, image 42 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4V4-PZB : accessed 1 Jan. 2017).
   
   The original record in the first volume appears as follows:
   “Daniel son of John & Mary Kitteridg was borne 22 [day] 05 [mo] [16]70 [year]”
   
   Digital record with image viewed in the same, image 178 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F4VH-JHW : accessed 1 Jan. 2017).
   
   The transcribed record in the second volume appears as follows:
   “Daniel son of John and Mary Kittredg was born, July 22, 1670.”

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 “Tewksbury deaths”, in Vital Records of Tewksbury, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1912)
   p. 220.

   “KITTREDGE, Daniel, Dea., Mar. 8, 1741[–2. Congregational Church records.].”

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Tewksbury (Massachusetts). Town Clerk. Vital records, 1738-1897. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1972)
   FHL 771075; Births, deaths 1738–1852, p. 56.

   Digital record with image viewed in “Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626–2001,” database, FamilySearch, DGS 7010701, image 45 (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH5V-2LM : accessed 1 Jan. 2017).
   
   “Decⁿ. Daniel Kittredge died March 8, 1741.” (The next record gave the death of his widow, Elisabeth.)

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Massachusetts. Probate Court (Middlesex County). Probate records, 1648-1924. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1964-1967)
   first series, 1648–1871, file no. 13347, Daniel Kittredg, 1742; FHL 416786 (Probate papers 13312–13415), image nos. 395–401 (DGS 7553489, starting at image 418).

   (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9DP-RQ9K : accessed 8 Jan. 2017)
   
   The will of Daniel Kittredg, of the Town of Tewksbury, husbandman, dated 28 Nov. 1741, proved 5 April 1742; sole exor. cousin Joseph Kittredge; wit. by Joseph Kittredg, Stephen Osgood, Joseph French. Inventory £1117-17-6, dated 27 May 1742, returned 31 May 1742.