Person:Daniel Grinnell (1)

Will of Daniel Grinnell

[Handwritten copy of probate record] At the Court of Probate held at Guilford January y^e 20^th 1740/41
[ ] Samuel Hill Esqr. Judge, Henry Hill Clerk
Paybody Greenell and George Greenell. Two of the Executors of the Last Will and Testament of their father Daniel Greenell Late of Saybrook Dec^d Exhibited s^d Will which being proved was approved in Court and ordered to be recorded and the s^d Executors accepted the Trust therein Committed to them.

"In the Name of God Amen this [obscured by burnt fold in paper] day of November A.D. 1726 I Daniel Greenel of Saybrook in the County of Newlondon & Colony of Connecticutt in New England being advanced in years and under bodily weakness and infirmities but through the Goodness of Almighty God of sound mind & memory calling to mind the mortallity of my body & knowing that it is appointed to all men once to Dye, Do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament that is to Say Principally & first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it, & my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian manner at the Discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and a[s?] touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I Give and Devise & Dispose of the Same in the following manner & form my Just Debts & funeral Charges being first paid out of my personal Estate.
Imprimis I Give & Bequeath to Lydia my Dearly Beloved Wife the use & Improvement Income profits & advantages of all my Personal Estate During the time that She Shall Remain my widow.
Item. I give & Bequeath to my Daughter Mary Lay Such a Sum out of my Estate which together with what She has Received and Shall Receive before my Decease will make up the Sum of Thirty pounds in vallue.
Item. I Give & Bequeath to my Daughter Priscilla Redfield such a Sum out of my Estate which together with what She has Received & Shall Received (sic) before my Decease will make up in Vallue the Sum of Thirty pounds money.
Item. I Give & Bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth Stevens Such a Sum out of my Estate which together with what She has already Received and Shall Receive before my Decease will make up in Vallue the Sum of Thirty pounds money.
Item. I give & Bequeath to the Children of my Daughter Lydia Clark Dec^d Such a Sum out of my Estate which together with what She the s^d Lydia Received in her Life time will make up in Vallue the Sum of Thirty pounds money.
Item. I give & Bequeath to my Daughter Rebecca Doude Such a Sum out of my Estate which together with what she has already Received & Shall Receive before my Decease will make up in vallue the Sum of Thirty pounds money.
Item. I give & Bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Brooker Such a Sum out of my Estate which together with what she has already Recived and shall Receive before my Decease will make up in vallue the Sum of Thirty pounds money.
Item. I Give & Bequeath to my Daughter Jemima Chalker Such a Sum out of my Estate which together with what she has already Received and Shall Receive before my Decease will make up in Vallue the Sum of Thirty pounds money.
Item. To my beforenamed Six Daughters besides what I have before given them I give and Bequeath to Each of them Severally one seventh part of all my Household Goods after the Decease of my aforesaid beloved wife Lydia and the other seventh part of my Said Household Goods I Give & Bequeath to the Children of my aforesaid Deceased Daughter Lydia over & above what I have before Given them and after the Decease of my aforesaid wife.
Item. I Give & Bequeath to my Two Sons Paybody & George after the Decease or second marriage of their mother my aforenamed beloved wife all my Horses Cattle Sheep & Swine together with all my Husbandry Utensils & Implements to be Equally Divided between them my Said Sons all which Estate named in this Paragraph of my will I Give to them as afores^d upon Conditions that they pay the aforesaid Legacies herein particularly Given to Each one of their Sisters & to the heirs of Lydia Clark Deceased & in failure thereof viz. of ye payment of said Legacies as aforesaid my will is that Each & Every of my aforesaid Legatees S^d. Daughters & the Heirs of S^d. Lydia Clark Shall Have their Seven Legacies [Levyed?] out of the Estate in this Paragraph mentioned and I do hereby constitute ordain and appoint my Dearly beloved wife Lydia & my two Sons Paybody and George to be the Executrix and Executors of this my Last Will & Testament and I do hereby Disallow Revoke and Disannull all formers Wills Testaments & Bequests be me made Ratifieing allowing & confirming this & this only as my Last will & testament. In witness whereof I have hereunto [set?] my hand and seal the day & year abovesaid.

the mark of
Daniel D.G. Greenel (seal)

Signed Sealed Published &
declared by the Said Dan^l
Greenel as his Last Will &
Testament In presence of us
Samuel Jones
Sam^ll Willard

1.   Lyon, Douglas R. (Douglas Raymond). Lyon family genealogy: primary family names : Allison, Bailey, Baker, Carnegie, Dawson, Jackson, Lyon, Mercer, Nealy, Shaw, Swearingen, Wilcoxon, Wright, Wishard. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 2001)
   p. 17-18.

   DANIEL GRINNELL, born about 1636, is believed to be the son of Matthew. Whether he was born in New England or France is unknown. He was reared in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and married Mary Waddell, of that place, in 1657. Mary was born in November, 1640, daughter of William and Mary Waddell. Daniel died after 1703. Apparently Daniel and Mary had only one child, Daniel Grinnell, Jr.
   
   DANIEL GRINNELL, JR., born in 1658, at Portsmouth, R. I. In 1683, he married Lydia Peabody, who was the thirteenth child of William Peabody and Elizabeth Alden, and the granddaughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullens. They moved to Saybrook and reared a large family. Daniel, Jr. died about 1740; Lydia on July 13, 1748. Ten children were born of this marriage, the fifth of whom was George Grinnell.

2. ↑ 24. Lydia Pabodie, in Alden Kindred of America Genealogy Database.

   "24. Lydia Pabodie (Elizabeth Alden, John) was born on 3 Apr 1667 in Duxbury, Plymouth Co., MA. She died on 13 Jul 1748 in Westbrook (then Saybrook), Middlesex Co., CT.
   
   Lydia married Daniel Grinnell before 1 Jan 1687/1688. Daniel was born about 1664 in probably Portsmouth, Newport Co., RI. He died on 17 Jan 1740/1741 in Westbrook, Middlesex Co., CT."

3. ↑ Little Compton, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
   Vol. 4, Part IV.

   Grinnell, Daniel, of Daniel, ---, 1668.

4.   Cleaver, William Jessup. The ancestry of Allen Grinnell Cleaver and Martha Irene Jessup: 172 allied families. (Westfield, Indiana: W.J. Cleaver, c1989 (Baltimore, Maryland : Gateway Press))
   pp. 466 - 468.

   See Personal History; Will of Daniel Grinnell

5.   NOT mentioned in the will of grandfather, William Wodell in 1692; but his brother Richard Grinnell was called grandson in the will.