Person:Robert Wilson (118)

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Identity & Marriages

The genealogical record of Robert Wilson d. 1681 is confused with that of his son's and other Wilsons in the colonies at that time. Torrey's lists five Robert Wilsons (3 of Salem, 1 of Windsor, CT, another from Cambridge/Sudbury). For Robert Wilson ( - 1681), it provides one wife, Anna/Ann Trask (1654- ). However, the probate record clearly indicates Robert (d. 1681) had two wives and at least six children (2 of 1st wife - who are due from the estate of Tamsen Buffum; and 4 of wife Ann).

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Robert Wilson of Salem, in Massachusetts, Probate Court (Essex County). The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1916, 1917, 1920)
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   Administration upon the estate of Robert Wilson, intestate, was granted 28 :4m: 1681, unto Ann, the relict, who brought in an inventory amounting to about 150 li., and whereas there is some legacy or something of an estate of Tamsen Buffum's which of right is to belong to Robert and Deborah, children of the deceased, the court ordered that Ann should pay out of this estate in the inventory, to Robert the eldest son 14li. and to Deborah aforesaid, children by his first wife, and to Anna, John, Mary and Elizabeth children by Ann, 7li. each, at age or marriage, the house and land to stand bound for security.
   
   Inventory of the estate of Robert Willson of Salem, taken May 8, 1681, by William Traske and Daniell Southwick