Person:Archelaus Courser (1)

Archelaus Courser

b.Bef 1637

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m. 1661

Facts and Events

Name^[1]	Archelaus Courser
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Bef 1637	Based on estimated date of marriage.
Marriage	1661	Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United Statesto Rachel Roper
Death^[2]^[3]	1679	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Corser, Samuel Bartlett Gerrish, and E. S. Corser. Genealogy of the Corser family in America: embracing many of the descendants of the early settlers of the name in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, with some reminiscences of their trans-Atlantic cousins. (Concord, N.H.: Ira C. Evans, 1902)
17-18.

ARCULAS (or ARCHELAUS) COURSER, as appears from Savage's Genealogical Dict., resided for a while at Cambridge, Mass., and subsequently at Lancaster, where his children were born; nativity unknown; m. Rachel -----.
↑ Lancaster, Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Vital records of Lancaster, Massachusetts, 1642-1895. (Microfilm of typescript and manuscript records: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969)
20.

Archelaus Courser, (Died) in Boston, -- --- 1679.
↑ Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971)
vol. 6, p. 317.

Will of "Archelaus Corser of Boston ... potter. Sick & weak of body", dated 30 Oct 1679, proved 27 Jan 1679[/80], names son John Courser; daughter Rachel Course [all the remainder of her mothers wearing apparrell]; to my children John and Rachel Course all my land at Lancaster, house and land in Boston which I now live in may be sold. Friends William Gibson & Edward Drincker both of Boston to be executors, friends Mr James English & Thomas Dewer Senior of Boston to be overseers.