Person:Andrew Warner (6)

The Estate of Andrew Warner

"In his will, dated 18 June 1681 and proved 31 March 1685, Andrew Warner bequeathed 'my loving wife Easter Werner according to a former agreement signed under my hand one hundred pounds to be paid out of my moveable estate'; to 'my wife one half of my now dwelling house …, the use of half the garden plot adjoining …, the use of half the orchard …, & the use of half the yards adjoining to the house' during her natural life; to 'my son Jacob Werner the one half of my dwelling house and the whole of the said house at his mother's decease with the houselot containing eight acres with all the edifices & buildings thereon'; to 'my son Jacob Werner also ten acres of meadow land lying in the great meadow belonging to Hadley viz: my six acre lot of plowing land & four acres of grassland lying in the swamp or Aquevitie commonly so-called,' he to maintain his mother for the rest of her life; to 'my son Isaack Werner the one-half of my allotment in Hoccanum'; to 'my daughter Ruth Werner four acres of meadow in the great meadow abutting against the middle highway'; to 'my son Andrew Werner' 10s.; to 'my son Robert Werner' 10s.; to 'my son John Werner' 10s.; to 'my daughter Hills' 10s. and to 'my daughter Pratt' 10s.; residue to executors 'only paying out five pounds which I give to Mary Taylor the wife of John Taylor'; 'my dear wife Easter Werner and my loving son Dan[ie]ll Werner' to be executors [HamPR 1:248-49; Goodwin Anc 1:32-34].

The inventory of the estate of 'Andr[ew] Warner Sr. deceased who died December 18, 1684, aged about [88?] years,' taken 22 December 1684, totalled £356 11s. 4d., of which £253 was real estate: '4 acres land in Hoccanum,' £20; 2 acres & a rood at the burying yard,' £5; 'house & homestead,' £65; '6 acres in the great meadow on the south side of the middle way,' £30; '4 acres in the swamp,' £32 [given as £8 for all four acres, but this must be the value per acre to produce the final sum given in the right column]; '4 acres in said meadow,' £24; '4½ acres in Hoccanum,' £20; 'one piece of skirts there,' £2; and '12 acres of land over the river,' £55 [HamPR 1:249].^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13} Andrew Warner, in Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995)
   3:1928-31.

   ORIGIN: Hatfield Broadoak, Esses
   OCCUPATION: Maltster [Goodwin Anc 1:28-29, citing John Pynchon account book].
   CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 14 May 1634 implied by freemanship. Hartford deacon by February 1639[/40] [HaBOP 57].
   ESTATE: … In the inventory of Cambridge lands, on 4 June 1635, Andrew Warner held seven parcels: …
   BIRTH: By about 1599 (based on date of marriage), son of John and Mary (Purchase) Warner [TAG 26:152-53].
   DEATH: Hadley 18 December 1684 (from inventory).
   MARRIAGE: (1) Thaxted, Essex, 5 October 1624 "Andrew Warner of Hatfield Magna married Mary Humfrey daughter of Robert of Thaxted" [ TAG 26:152, 217]; she was baptized at Thaxted 13 February 1602[/3?], and was daughter of Robert and Ann (Holland) Humfrey [ TAG 26:217-19]. She died by 1657.
   (2) By 1657 Esther (Wakeman) Selden, widow of Thomas Selden (inventory December 1693) and sister of SAMUEL WAKEMAN  ; she died by 27 September 1693 when Thomas and Joseph Selden [her sons with her first husband] took out administration on her estate [ Goodwin Anc 1:35, citing HamPR Box 129, File 9].

2. ↑ Sanford, Carlton E. Thomas Sanford, the Emigrant to New England: Ancestry, Life, and Descendants, 1632-4: Sketches of Four Other Pioneer Sanfords and Some of Their Descendants in Appendix, with Many Illustrations. (Rutland, Vt.: The Tuttle Co., Printers, 1911)
   1:40.

   The will of "John WARNER of Hatfeild [sic] Broakoke alias Hatfeild Kings, Co. Essex, yeoman" is dated "16 July, 12 James I (1614)". It gives sons Andrew and Edward yearly allowances, implying that they were minors in 1614.

3. ↑ Warner, Lucien C, and Josephine Genung Nichols. The Descendants of Andrew Warner. (New Haven, Conn.: Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1919)
   page 26.

   '... in the inventory of his estate taken December 23, 1684, it states "who dyed december 18, 1684, aged about 90 years." '

4. ↑ Birth year estimated based on the assumption that he was a minor when his father wrote his will in 1614, on his marriage and death years and age given in the inventory of his estate, and on the marriage year of his parents, assuming that Mary Purchase was his mother.