Person:Gilbert Wilford (1)
Gilbert Wilford
b.Bef 1642
d.Bef 28 Jul 1676 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
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  • H.  Gilbert WilfordBef 1642 - Bef 1676
  • W.  Mary Dow1644 - Aft 1688
m. Bef 1667
  1. Mary Wilford1667 -
  2. Martha Wilford1669/70 -
  3. Ruth Wilford1672 -
  4. Nathaniel Wilford1675 - Bef 1706
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Name[1][2] Gilbert Wilford
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1642 Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1667 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child.
to Mary Dow
Death[1] Bef 28 Jul 1676 Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)
Estate Inventory[1] 28 Jul 1676
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Estate of Gilford [Gilbert] Wilford of Haverhill.

" 'The relations of Gilbert Wilford of Haverhill not appearing to take administration of his estate, no executor being appointed by any will of said Wilford's, upon motion of Capt. John Whipple of Ipswich, he was appointed Nov. 14,1676, administrator and was ordered to bring in an inventory to the next Norfolk Court.'

The inventory, taken 28 July 1676 by Henry Palmer and Robert Ford, amounted to £75, 6s. 6d.

The estate was insolvent. 'The widow had for neccssarie maintenance for herselfe & children before ye administrator entered, 6li; ye 3d part of ye land wch ye widow challengeth wch ye administrator is not charged with.' 10 Apr. 1677.

A committee was appointed to consider the claims against the estate and they found some of the bills good and some had no proof. 'The court having considered the return of the committee and finding according to the inventory of the estate, ye widow's thirds being by it declared to be deducted, that the estate falls short of the sum that the debts amount unto, it was ordered Oct. 8, 1678, that the administrator pay the debts allowed of by the committee …, deducting 2s. upon the pound and according to that proportion upon all the debts allowed of.' (Essex Co., Probate, printed, 3: 93-94.)"[1]

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Wilford Line, in Holman, Mary Lovering. Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury. (Concord, New Hampshire: Privately Printed at The Rumford Press, 1938)
    1:511-12.

    Gilbert1 Wilford, born, probably in England, died in Haverhill. Mass., about 1675. He married in New England, about 1666, Mary Dow, born in Newbury, 26 Apr. 1644, died probably in Haverhill after 1688, daughter of Thomas and Phebe Dow. She married secondly, in Haverhill, 2 Apr. 1679, Matthew Clark.

  2. ↑ 219. Gilbert1 Wilford, in Jewett, Amos Everett, [Editor], and George Brainard [Compiler] Blodgette. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts: A Genealogical Record of the Families who Settled in Rowley before 1700 with Several Generations of their Descendants. (Rowley, Mass.: Amos Everett Jewett (Newcomb & Gauss Co., Printers, Salem, Mass.), 1933)
    411.

    219. Gilbert1 Wilford (Willford) was paid by the town of Rowley, in 1665, a bounty for killing foxes. He was then living in that part of Rowley afterward Bradford. He had a wife Mary.

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