Person:Bezaleel Latimer (3)

The Estate of Bezaleel Lattimer of Wethersfield

"Probate Records. Vol. IV, 1677 to 1677. Inventory on File.

Lattimer, Bezeliel, Wethersfield. Invt. £42-17-00. Taken 31 May, 1688, by Jno Wells, Jno Chester. Legatees: Jona: 6¾ years old, and Bethsheba 3 months old.

Court Record, Page 66—(Vol. VI) 17 January, 1688: Whereas Saint Tryon complains that her husband William Tryon hath fraudently conveyed away from her a Writing made between them before marriage, where by she is greatly injured and prays relief from this Court, she producing two Evidences that there was a writing made but not signed until after marriage, viz, the next morning, this Court do order that the sd. William Tryon shall have the Improvement of the Estate of Bezaleel Lattimore, Decd, provided he maintain the two Children of the sd. Lattimore; or only 1-3 part thereof (which is his wive's part of the sd. Estate), and the two children with their part of the Estate be put into their Guardians Hands, viz, Thomas Wickham and Ebenezer Deming; and that he shall have the Improvement of four acres of Land purchased by her after the decease of her husband Lattimore, the right to remain in her to dispose at her death, the sd. Tryon consenting to the same.

Page 67—17 January, 1698-9: Upon the request of Saint Tryon, this Court appoint Cornet Thomas Wickham and Ebenezer Deming to be Guardians to Jonathan and Bathsheba Lattimore, Children of Bezaleel Lattimore, late of Wethersfield, Decd.

Page 46—(Vol. VIII) 7 January, 1711-12: Whereas the Court of Probate did grant Adms. upon the Estate of Bezaleel Lattimore, late of Wethersfield, Decd, to Saint Lattimore, Widow of sd. Decd, and the sd. Saint Lattimore neglecting in her life time to finish her Adms., and she being now dead, this Court grant Adms. to Josiah Atwood, son- in-law to the sd. Decd, on the remaining unadministered Estate of sd. Bezaleel Lattimore, Decd.

Page 69—(Vol. IX) 1st July, 1718: This Court order the Dist. of a parcel of Land in Wethersfield granted by the Town, being the 110th Draught drawn by Saint Lattimore, late of Wethersfield, Decd, as followeth: To the heirs of Jonathan Lattimer, Decd, son of the aforesd. Bezaleel Lattimer, Decd, 2-3 part thereof. To Bathshua Atwood, wife of Josiah Atwood, of sd. Wethersfield, and daughter of the aforesd. Bezzaleel Lattimer, 1-3 part thereof. And whereas the sd. Saint Lattimer in the time of her Widowhood bought 4 acres of Land of Samuel Bowman of Wethersfield and died intestate, this Court order a Dist. of sd. 4 acres, To the Heirs of Jonathan Lattimer a double part, and to the other two children of the sd. Saint Lattimer, Decd, to Bathshua Atwood and Abial Tryon, to each a single share. And appoint David Goodrich, Nathaniel Burnham sen. & Joshua Robbins distributors.

Page 23—(Vol. X) 2 July, 1723: Report of the Dist. by Nathaniel Burnham and Jonathan Burnham."^[2]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Adams, Sherman W. (Sherman Wolcott), and Henry R. (Henry Reed) Stiles. The History of Ancient Wethersfield, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Wethersfield, Rocky Hill, and Newington; and of Glastonbury Prior to its Incorporation in 1693, from Date of Earliest Settlement Until the Present Time with Extensive Genealogies and Genealogical Notes on Their Early Families. (New York: The Grafton Press, 1904)
   2:478.

   Bezaleel (Lattimer), b. (Wethersfield) 26 July 1657; m. Saint (dau. Thos.) Robinson, 18 Aug., 1680; by whom he had a son Jonathan, b. 24 Sept., 1681, who d. 27 Nov., 1711; his wid. prob. m. (2) William Tryon.

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Lattimer, Bezeliel, Wethersfield, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:329.