Person:Edward Stoughton (2)

Edward lived at Moat Farm in Ash, Kent. He was the primary beneficiary and executor of his father’s will, suggesting that his older brother Peter was physically or mentally incapable of serving as head of the family. Edward’s children (Francis, Thomas, Alice, Joel, Susan, Sarah and Martha) are all named in his brother Richard’s will.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Edward Stoughton, in Turner, Ethel McLaughlin, and Paul Boynton Turner. The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton, 1588-1661, and His Son Thomas Stoughton, 1623-1684, of Windsor, Conn: His Brother Israel Stoughton, 1603-1645, and His Nephew William Stoughton, 1631-1701, of Dorchester, Mass. (Waterloo, Wisconsin: Artcraft Press, 1958)
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   Will of Edward Stoughton of Ash, Kent, gentleman, dated Mar. 27, 1573; proved Feb. 16, 1573-74. Canterbury Probate Registry Vol. 32, fol. 46.

2. ↑ Edward Stoughton, in Turner, Ethel McLaughlin, and Paul Boynton Turner. The English Ancestry of Thomas Stoughton, 1588-1661, and His Son Thomas Stoughton, 1623-1684, of Windsor, Conn: His Brother Israel Stoughton, 1603-1645, and His Nephew William Stoughton, 1631-1701, of Dorchester, Mass. (Waterloo, Wisconsin: Artcraft Press, 1958)
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   b 1495, being aged 75 in May 1570 [Next page gives the source as Public Record Office: Exchequer Depositions (2 Elizabeth No. 11)]