Person:John Searle (2)

Will of John Searles

"I John Searles being very sicke in body doe make my last will & testament in manner & fourme followings. First I give to my brother-in-law William Warriner my best coate & my cullord hatt: & whereas in some reckinges betwixt him and me he owes me betwixt three and fower poundes: if he pays fortie shillinges thereof I am content that all the rest shall be remitted: the rest of my estate I divide betwixt my wife (Sarah) & my child (John) equally: & I doe appoint that my wife shall have for use till my child come of the age of 20 yeares that portion belonging to my Sonn John Searle in consideration of his maintenance & education. Provided that before she marry again she shall give or in her behalf cause to be given sufficient security for the payment of my childes portion wch security shall be given to Mr. Moxon, my brother Tymothy Baldwin and Samuel Wright whom I doe intreat to be overseers for the performance of this my last will."Witnesses: Henry Smyth & Elitzur HolioakeMr. Wright’s notes:The signatures of the witnesses are autographs.The only child of John Searle was John Searle, Jr.William Warriner married Joanna Searle, sister of John Searle.Tymothy Baldwin, brother-in-law of John SearleJohn Searle married Sarah Baldwin.

2) Source: Some New England Ancestors, Edwin Noyes Searl (1990). FHL US/CAN 929.273 Se17se JSMB, Salt Lake City, reviewed 1/2003. "John Searl landed at Boston in 1634 and the next spring joined an expedition of six or eight men to found a colony named Agawam on the bank of the Connecticut river. They selected a spot where the city of Springfield now stands, made a clearing and erected their cabins. They at once organized themselves into the town of Agawam by electing officers and framing some simple laws for their government. Searl was made constable of the town and also its surveyor. The little community grew rapidly by accessions from the east and in 1639 he aided in the first effort to build a meeting-house.....was married the same year (1639) to Sarah Baldwin but he did not long survive. His death, which was the first in the settlement, occurred a few months after the birth of his son, John. He had made his will in July, 1640, but he left no record of the date or place of his birth, nor of his parents or other relatives."

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 John Searles, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
   300.

   "Searles, John: [Origin] Unknown; [Emigration] 1637; [Resided] Springfield; [SpTR 161, 162; Pynchon Court 204, 205, 208, 211-14; SpVR 9, 19, 60; Warner-Harrington 562-64]."

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Baldwin, in Holman, Mary Lovering, and Harriett Grace Scott. The Scott Genealogy. (Boston, Mass., 1919)
   249.

   "Sarah Baldwin … married (1), in Springfield, Mass., 19 Mar. 1639, John Searle, who settled in Springfield, in 1638, and died there 11 Aug. 1641. He was granted a houselot 13 Sept. 1638 and his widow was granted another in 1641. He was probably that John Searle, son of James Searle, who, with his brother William, was baptised 20 Aug. 1613, Bledloe, Bucks."

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Howk, Harry A. The Searles family. (Shiloh, Ohio: H.A. Howk, 1962 (Breckenridge, Tex. : ABC Press))
   13.

   "John Searle, born perhaps in Warwick, England about 1610. Landed in Boston, 1634, appears in Springfield, Mass. town records in 1637. His was the first marriage in Springfield."

4. ↑ Stott, Clifford L. Vital Records of Springfield, Massachusetts to 1850. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2002)
   1:60.

   "John Searle buryed the 7 mon: 6 day 1641 [September 6, 1641]"