Person:Stephen Hollister (2)

The Estate of Captain Stephen Hollister of Wethersfield

"Probate Records, Vol. VIII, 1710 to 1715. Page 40.

Hollister, Stephen, Capt., Wethersfield. Invt. £133-17-05. Taken 30 March, 1710, by Thomas Welles, Sen., James Steele and Thomas Chester.

Court Record, Page 2—2 January 1709-10: Adms. granted jointly to Elizabeth Hollister, the relict, and Ebenezer Seamour of Farmington, son-in-law of sd. decd.

Page 9—3 April, 1710: Nathaniel Hollister, 8 years of age, son of Stephen Hollister, late of Wethersfield, chose Capt. Thomas Wells to be his guardian.

Page 10—3 April, 1710: Samuel Hollister, 15 years of age, son of Stephen Hollister, chose John Curtis, Jr., of Wethersfield, to be his guardian.

Page 12—1st May, 1710: Adms. exhibit an inventory of the estate of Stephen Hollister.

Page 17—3 July, 1710: This Court now grant Adms. unto Elizabeth Hollister, widow, and Jonathan Hollister of Wethersfield. And this Court do order that Ebenezer Seamour, who was appointed Adms. on sd. Estate with the sd. Elizabeth, do render and deliver to sd. Elizabeth and Jonathan Hollister all the money, goods, moveables, bills of credits, books and accompts and estate whatsoever belonging to the sd. decd. that he hath taken into his hands, for the speedy payment of the debts of the decd., and also that he do make a true and plain account of his transactions upon the sd. estate unto this time.

Page 23—6 November, 1710: This Court order and direct Elizabeth Hollister and Jonathan Hollister, Adms., to sell the dwelling house and homelot of the sd. decd., of about 25 acres, to Capt. Robert Welles or him that shall be the best bidder for the same, to produce effects wherewith to pay the debts due from sd. estate to the creditors thereof, according to an act or order of the General Assembly, 11th May, 1710.

Page 24—1st January, 1710-11: This Court order that the Clerk issue forth a writ to cite Elizabeth Hollister and Jonathan Hollister and Ebenezer Seamour, Adms., to appear before this Court on the 1st Monday of February next and render an account of their Adms. thereon, and how they have disposed of the sd. estate hitherto.

Page 27—5 February, 1710-11: Ebenezer Seamour of Farmington, late one of the Adms., being summoned, appeared before this Court and rendered an account of his Adms. thereon, whereby it appears that he hath received into his hands of the moveable part of the estate, £31-09-06. Paid in debts and charges, £16-09-00. And now paid to Jonathan Hollister, present, Adms., £1-07-06. There remains in-his hands the sum of £13-13-00. The Court order him to deliver the above-named sum to Jonathan and Elizabeth Hollister, Adms., and bring the receipt to this Court and take his Quietus Est.

Page 68—7 April, 1712: Ebenezer Seamour, late Adms., having made evidence to this Court that he ought to be allowed 20 shillings more in his Adms. account, this Court do now allow the same in the sd. account. This Court appoint Samuel Wolcott of Wethersfield to be guardian to Gershom Hollister, a minor son of Stephen Hollister, decd.

Page 75—5 May, 1712: Eunice Hollister, 17 years of age, daughter of Capt. Stephen Hollister, chose Ebenezer Deming to be her guardian.

Page 81—3 June, 1712: This Court order the Clerk to issue forth a writ to cite Elizabeth Hollister to appear before this Court 1st Monday of July next, to render an account of her transaction relating to that estate. This Court order and direct Elizabeth Hollister and Jonathan Hollister, Adms., to sell the 2 acres of land that yet remain not sold to Capt. Robert Welles.

Page 154—7 August, 1713: Elizabeth Hollister of Wethersfield, widow, exhibits an account of her Adms. and subscribed by the sd. Elizabeth, and also by Elizabeth Hollister, widow, relict of Jonathan Hollister, who was late Adms. with the sd. former Elizabeth, by which account it appears has paid to the creditors £118-16-10, which amounts to more than the inventory of the moveable estate with the produce of the land and houseing of the sd. estate sold. Account allowed. And now grant the sd. Adms. a Quietus Est

Page 117 (Vol. IX) 2 February, 1719-20: This Court appoint Elizabeth Hollister to be guardian to Anne Reynolds, one of her children. Recog., £50.

Page 122—1st March, 1720: Daniel Hollister, age 19 years, son of Stephen Hollister, late of Wethersfield, chose Ebenezer Seamour to be his guardian. Recog., £50.

Page 58 (Vol. X) 3 November, 1724: Stephen Hollister, a minor 16 years of age, chose Samuel Goff of Wethersfield to be his guardian. Recog., £50.

Page 119.—1st March, 1725-6: This Court appoint Mrs. Elizabeth Hollister to be guardian unto her son Stephen Hollister, a minor."^[2]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} John Hollister, in Jacobus, Donald Lines, and Edgar Francis Waterman. Hale, House and Related Families, Mainly of the Connecticut River Valley. (Hartford: The Connecticut Historical Society, 1952)
   620-622.

   Capt. Stephen² Hollister (John¹), born at Wethersfield, Conn., [say 1658], died in camp [at Greenbush, New York] 2 Oct. 1709. … In May 1692 he was appointed Lieutenant under Capt. Jonathan Bull of a company to respond to alarms in the French & Indian War, and on 6 Mar. 1692/3, Lieutenant under Capt. William Whiting of a company of 64 men sent to join Massachusetts in the expedition to the eastward. He was (as Lieutenant) made chief commander of a troop of 40 men sent to the relief of Deerfield, Oct 1696. On 5 Jun 1697, chosen Lieutenant under Capt. William Whiting of 50 men sent to Massachusetts to join the Newfoundland expedition. He commanded a company in Col. William Whiting's Regiment in 1709 & died in camp of distempter at Greenbush, NY.

2. ↑ Hollister, Stephen, Capt., Wethersfield, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   2:228-29.