Person talk:Mary Canfield (9)

Below I have included the Will of Mary (CANFIELD)(CAMP)LANE presented for probate on 22 Feb 1680. I have to assume that in duplicate years, this is 22 Feb 1679/80. Keep in mind that Remember BALDWIN was born 7 days later on 29 Feb 1679/80, dau of Josiah BALDWIN.

D. Pane-Joyce cites the source as "New Haven Probate Records I: pt 2, 80" Not to cast doubt on D. Pane-Joyce, but if this will was transcribed to the website accurately, the boldened parts below should dispel doubts that a. Josiah BALDWIN married Mercy CAMP, not Mary CAMP. b. that Mercy or Mary CAMP died before the birth of Remember BALDWIN. c. possibly reinforce that Mercy was older than Mary by virtue of the order in which Mary CANFIELD distributed her estate..first to Mercy then Mary.

Mary CANFIELD's second husband was John LANE.

Will: An inventory of her will was presented Feb 22, 1680: (No date for the writing of the will is on the website).

"The last will and testament of Mary LANE, who being very sicke of body but of a sound memory and understanding, doth bequeath as followeth: I will my body to be decently buried and my soule to God that gave it. Amen

Item: To my son Sam'll CAMPE, one cow, one ewe & lamb, & one last years lambe. Item: To my son Edward CAMP, my big iron kettle & one three years old steare. Item: To my daughters Mercy BALDWIN and Mary BRISCOE, all my wearing clothes (except one black searge coate which I bequeath to my daughter-in-law Sarah GUNN), five pairs of bed sheets, two pillows and two pillow-beers, three pewter platters, three porringer, one quart pott and one pint pott, three napkins, three towells & a table cloth, six yards of new linen cloth, and five shifts with all the rest of my wearing cloaths both linen and woollen & equally to be divided between them. Item: To my daughter Mehetabell CAMP, three silksheets, one pillow-beer, one little iron kettle & a brass skillett. Item: To my daughter Mercy aforesd, 2 brass kettles, a two yeare old Heifer, one ram & one swine shoat, one curtaine, one box & one warming pan. Item: To Mary my daughter aforesd, one little iron pot, one curtaine, and one chest. Item: To my son Edward aforesd, one tramell & one sow shoate. Item: To my son-in-law Jobaniah GUN his children, one eye lamb if ye lamb be alive. Item: To my foure children abovesd, Sam'll, Edward, Mercy & Mary, my foure bed blankets, each of them one. Item: Finally my bed & bolster I leave to my son Sam'll & mt daughter Mary equally between them. I leave brother CANFIELD and John FISKE as overseers.

Witnessed by us Thomas CANFIELD John FISKE her mark (top half of a circle) Mary LANE

Could we possible agree that Josiah BALDWIN married Mercy CAMP and that it's possible that Mercy did not die before the birth of the youngest 4 BALDWIN children ? Comments welcome. Neal

Her Identity/Origin [28 July 2012]

How is it we know she was a Canfield and sister to the first Thomas of Milford?--jaques1724 08:47, 26 July 2012 (EDT)

Referred to as brother Canfield in her will, though that term is not always used as "blood" relative. There is an article in NEHGR or another viable source supporting Mary's maiden name as CANFIELD which I've been unable to refind, since loosing all my work several years ago. Can't afford memberships currently; creates a bit of a handicap.--Neal Gardner 13:45, 28 July 2012 (EDT)