Person:John Stickney (1)

Lieutenant John Stickney's Will

"Lieut. John Stickney died in the year 1700, leaving the following Will.

'Will of John Stickney of ye Town of Rowley, In ye County of Essex In New-England, being Weak of body but of Sound Understanding doe make this my last Will and Testament. In manner and form following.

First, I committ my Soul that gave it Mee In hopes of a happy resurrection thro' ye power & Meritts of Jesus Christ my Dear Redeemer, and my Body to be decently Interred In ye earth, and as for yt. outward estate yt. God hath given me I dispose of as followeth.

First, I doe give my Wife power to sell the Wood Lott by Deacon Palmores field for and toward finishing of new house.

To my beloved wife Hannah I doe give her one half of all my lands and housing to improve during her Widowhood and one half of all my Moveable estate to be att her dispose.

And to my Eldest son Samuell I doe give ten pounds more yn. my youngest son John if he liveth and carry on his Mother's husbandry, until he come of the age of twenty-one years.

And to each of my two sons Samuel and John I doe give them one third more yn. any of my daughters, and to all my daughters I doe make them equall one with another, and I doe make my beloved wife Hannah my Whole and Sole Executrix to this my Last Will and Testament.

In witness hereof I have Sett my hand and Seale this Twenty Sixth day of February, Seventeen hundred and eight, nine (1708-9).

Signed Sealed & Declared to be his Last Will & Testament.

In presence of us, Robert Greenough, Nathan Barker, Samuel Platts.

John Sticknee [mark & seal].

Proved Aprill 4, 1709, before ye Hon'ble Jn'o Appleton, Esq., Judge of ye probate, &c. The Adm's exhibited an Inv. which is on file with this Will.' [Essex Prob, 10:50.]

'Inv of the estate of Leutt. John Stickney of Rowley, dec'd … Real Estate Amt. £292 5 0, Personal Est. Amt. £80 4 9.

Ezekiel Jewet, Nathan Barkar, Samuel Platts.'

Sworn to, &c., Aprill 4, 1709.'"^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} 189-4. Lieut. John² Stickney, 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)
   365-66.

   "189-4. Lieut. John² Stickney (William), born 14 : 1mo. 1640 [March 14, 1640]; married 9 June 1680, Hannah, daughter of Capt. Samuel Brocklebank. He was a carpenter, and died 1709. His will, dated 26 Feb., 1708-9, proved 4 Apr., 1709, mentions himself as of Rowley; wife, Hannah, eldest son, Samuel; youngest son, John; 'all my daughters' (unnamed); wife, Hannah, executrix (Essex Probate). The record of the division of his real estate, dated 13 Oct., 1712, mentions widow (unnamed); sons Samuel and John; daughters Hannah Sawyer, Mary Palmer, Elizabeth Dole, Sarah Stickney, Jane 'y^e youngest daughter' (Essex Probate, 10:234.)"

2. ↑ 4. John Stickney, in Stickney, Matthew Adams. The Stickney Family: A Genealogical Memoir of the Descendants of William and Elizabeth Stickney, from 1637 to 1869. (Salem, Mass.: Printed for the Author by the Essex Institute Press, 1869)
   22-27.

   "… Jan. 16, 1673, he was appointed Overseer for the west end of the town. He was one of the twelve men impressed from Rowley, Nov. 29, 1675, by Capt. Samuel Brocklebank to serve in King Philip's War. He was in the bloody action of Dec. 19, 1675, and assisted in the capture of the Narragansett Fort. … He was also in the fight with the Indians at Sudbury, Apr. 21, 1676, where his Captain, Samuel Brocklebank, (whose daughter he afterwards married, was slain by the Indians. In 1733 there was granted to John Stickney and others, for their service in King Philip's War─'Narragansett No. 1,' now Buxton, Maine. … Dec. 10, 1678. He took the 'Oath of Allegiance before the Honored Major Gen'll Denison, Esq'r.'"

3. ↑ John Stickney, 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)
   4:192.

   "John (Stickney), Rowley, s. of William, m. Hannah, d. of that capt. Samuel Brocklebank, which was k. in Philip's war, had John, Samuel, and five ds."

4.   Rowley, Essex, Massachusetts, United States. Vital Records of Rowley, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849. (Salem, Massachusetts: Essex Institute, 1928-1931)
   1:209.

   STICKNEY, John, s. William and Elizabeth, [born] 14: 1m: 1640 [March 14, 1640].