Person:Elizabeth Unknown (3406)

Will of Elizabeth (______) (Carpenter) (Orvis) Brunson

"Farmington Probate Records, Vol. V., 1687-1695. Page 184-5.

Elizabeth Brunson, Farmington. Inventory, £69-14-08. Taken 26 April 1694, by Thomas Porter & Samuel Hooker. Will dated 6 April 1694.

The last Will & Testament of Elizabeth Brunson: I give to my son Samuel Orvis my Lott in Paquabuck Meadow, which Lott lyeth between Captain John Stanly’s Land & Samuel Gridley’s, and a Chest & a Anchor or small Cask. I give to my son Roger Orvis one acre of Land in my Lott in Pequabuck Meadow, and one Cow. I give unto my daughter Mary, the wife of Samuel Scott, a brass Morter & Pestal, and 2 Hatts, and a small Chaire, & a young Steer. I give to my son David Carpenter a great Bible, and to his daughter Mary I give a silver Bodkin, and to his daughter Elizabeth I give my white worked Sampler. I give to my daughter Mary Hinman a desk, and a sermon Booke I give to her son Joseph Heacox. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Hill my Bed and Boulster & Pillow which came from England, with Sheets & one pillow Beere & a black Apron. I give to my grand Child Mary, the wife of Thomas Barnes, a silk Scarfe in her possession already, with my old Clothes and Hose & Shoes and an Iron Pott & a Trunke. I give to my grand Child Experience Chapell a heifer, a box, a skillett, pinte Pott and a Basin & Porringer. I give to Martha Orvis a brass Pan, and to Deborah Orvis a pewter Plate, and to my grand Child Samuel Orvis my rope Hooks, and to my grand Child Martha Scott a brass Candlestick and painted Box. I give to Hannah Hough, my grand Child, a brass Box with pott hooks, when she comes of age. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Hill and Mary, the wife of Samuel Scott, and Mary Barnes and Experience Chapell all my Lining. I make Thomas Barnes my sole Executor, & Sergeant Thomas Porter & Sergeant John Hart to be Overseers.

ELIZABETH X BRUNSON

Witness: Thomas Porter, John Wadsworth.

A Codicil dated 14 April 1694.

The following joint receipt and acknowledgment also appears: Know all Men by these presents: That we the Underwritten, the Children and Legatees of the Widow Elizabeth Brunson of Farmington, late Deceased, have received of Thomas Barnes, Executor, whatsoever was willed to us by the aforesaid Elizabeth, and doe hereby bind ourselves and heirs to rest satisfied with what we have received, and do hereby discharge the said Thomas and his heirs forever.

Signed: SAMUEL X ORVIS, ROGER X ORVIS, ELIZABETH X HILL, MARIE X SCOTT, EXPERIENCE X CHAPPELL.

Witness: Roger Orvis, Moses Ventruss, Nathaniel Wadsworth.

Court Record, Page 71–6 September 1694: Will proven. Inventory exhibited and approved by the Court."^[3]

1. ↑ Carpenter, David, Farmington, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:103.
2. ↑ David Carpenter, in Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
   1:336.

   Eldest known child born 1644.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} Brunson, Elizabeth, Farmington, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:414-415.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Coddington, John Insley. The Brownson, Bronson, or Brunson Family of Earl's Colne, Essex, England, - Connecticut, and South Carolina. American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (1962-1963)
   38:206.

   'The will of Elizabeth Brunson of Farmington, widow, was dated 6 Apr. 1694. ... Inventory … was taken 26 Apr. 1694 [citing Manwaring, Probates, 1:414-415].'