Person:Sissilla Covel (1)

From the Bartlett Society

On 21 Jan. 1678 Benjamin Bartlett Sr. of Duxbury sold land to Seth Pope, wife Sissillia consented to same. On 12 Feb 1683 Benjamin Bartlett Sr. of Duxbury gave son Samuel three lots in Little Compton.

On 1 Sep 1691 Sicilla Bartlett widow of Benjamin Bartlet late of Duxborough signed a receipt for her share of her husband's estate.

From Benjamin Bartlett's will

... first whereas when I Married this my Present WIfe Sissilla I Promised her to Give her forty pound in Case he should Survive me, and she had a Writing thereof before our Marriage which shee Did accept of and agree to as her joynture in full Sattisfaction of her Dower of and into all my Estate : now my WIll is that the said forty pounds shall be Duly paid her in convenent time after my Decease And that twenty pounds thereof Shall be paid in money and the other twenty pounds our of my Stock And moreover I Giver her the Bed We usually lye upon with all the furniture thereunto belonging as it now is and one pair of sheets more that is to say two pair in all . and also the vallue of forty Shillings in houshold Goods. And also She Shall have the Chamber over my Bigges Roome to Dwell in for her own personal use During her Widowhoode anf priviledge of putting her Cattel into the Pasture where my Son shall put his into the same whilst she shall Dwell here.

1. ↑ BARTLETT: The Bartlett Society.
2. ↑ George E. Bowman, Editor. Mayflower Descendant
   Vol. 3, p. 116 (marriage).