Person:James Tappan (3)

Watchers
m. 16 Nov 1628
  1. John Topping1636 - 1686
  2. James Tappan1642/43 - 1712
  • HJames Tappan1642/43 - 1712
  • WAnna _____Bef 1642 - 1731/32
m. Bef 1662
  1. Anna Tappan1662 - 1712
  2. James Tappan1665 - 1742
  3. Mary Tappan1668 - 1740
  4. Elizabeth Tappan1670 - 1675
Facts and Events
Name[1] James Tappan
Gender Male
Christening[2] 12 Feb 1642/43 Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesFirst Congregational Society
Marriage Bef 1662 Estimate based on date of birth of eldest known child (Anna).
to Anna _____
Will[4] 11 Jun 1712 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Death[3] 6 Aug 1712 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[4] 27 Aug 1712 £315-15-05. Taken by Israhiah Wetmore, Joseph Rockwell and William Ward.
Probate[4] 1 Sep 1712 Will proved.
References
  1. James Tappan, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    4:254.

    "James (Tappan), Milford, by w. Ann had Ann, b. 18 or 29 Sept. 1662; James, 19 Aug. 1665; Mary, 15 or 18 Aug. 1668; Eliz. 3 Aug. 1673, d. 18 Feb. foll.; and he d. 6 Aug. 1712; and his wid. d. 7 Feb. 1732. Ann m. 6 Dec. 1683, Thomas Ward of Middletown, where all the ch. exc. the first were b. He was in May 1661 one of the three men appoint. by the magistr. to make search for the regicides Whalley and Goffe; and their ret. on the precept, aft. three days, was that they had made dilig. search, and so easi. satisf. the author. He was in 1667 propound. to be freem. but Middletown ret. is lost in the list of 1669."

  2. Volume 071 Milford, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
    376.

    "Topping, … James, bp. Feb. 12, 1642 [43] [1:2]"

  3. Middletown Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    447.

    "Tappin, … James, Sr., d. Aug. 6, 1712 [LR1:20]"

  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Tappin, James, Sen., Middletown, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    2:310-11.

    "Probate Records. Vol. VIII, 1710 to 1715. Page 169.

    Tappin, James, Sen., Middletown. Invt. £315-15-05. Taken 27 August, 1712, by Israhiah Wetmore, Joseph Rockwell and William Ward. Will dated 11 June, 1712.

    I, James Tappin, Sen., of Middletown, do make this my last will and testament: My will is that my wife Anne Tappin have the whole possession and improvement of all the estate that I stand possessed of, deeds of gift excepted, during her natural life. It. I give to my son James Tappin, after my own and his mother Anna Tapping decease, all my houseing and lands lying in the Township of Middletown; also to my son James Tappin I give all my tooles and materials for my trade as a felt maker and all my tools and utensils for husbandry. I give to my daughter Anna, after her mother's decease, the one-half of my household goods, that is to say, brass, pewter and beding, only it is to be considered, and my will is, that my daughter Mary have my best feather bed, ruggs and boulster. It. My will is that my daughter Mary Barnes have, at mine own and my wife's decease, the other half of my household goods equal with her sister Anna. The rest of my remaining living stock shall be equally divided between my three children, namely, James Tappin, Anna Ward and Mary Barnes. I appoint my wife Anne Tappin and my son James Tappin joynt executors.

    JAMES X TAPPIN, LS.

    "Witness: Thomas Foster, Richard Turner, Joseph Rockwell.

    Court Record, Page 88—1st September, 1712: Will proven."