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Facts and Events
References
- Hadley, Samuel Page. Genealogical record of the descendants of Moses Hadley and Rebecca Page of Hudson, N.H: together with some account of George Hadley, of Ipswich, Mass., and his descendants. (Lowell, Mass.?: unknown, 1986)
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- Massachusetts. Probate Court (Suffolk County). Probate records, 1636-1899. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969-1971)
File 1510.
George Hadley's will probated November 4, 1686 and filed in the Probate Records of Suffolk County, MA , file number 1510 , mentions wife Deborah, son Samuel Hadley, daughter Mary Page, daughter Martha Hadley, son John Hadley, son Joseph Hadley. The will dated "this eighteenth day of September Anno Dom: One thousand six hundred & Eighty & four (18 Sept. 1684), is eleven days before his death
The Last Will & Testament of Georg Hadley of Ipswich in Ye County of Esses
in New England
I Georg Hadley being through God's Goodness of sound understanding &
of Good health yet being with respect to my age & other Infermities put
in Continual mind of my dissolution therefore not knowing how soone my
chang may be that I may not be In this regard unprepared I have
made this my Last Will & Testament as followeth:
Imp: I Comitt my Soule into the hands of God that Gave it & my
body to a desent burial in hopes of a happy & blessed Ressurection
through the power & strength of my Lord & Savior Jesus Christ.
And as for my Outward Estate which God hath Given me I disspose of
it as followeth:
Imp: To my beloved wife Deborah my will is that the Covenent
I made with her upon our marriage be duly & truely fullfilled by my
Executors: the sum is according to Contract Fourty & five pounds
thirteen shillings & having paid her some houshold stuff bedding
etc it shall be deducted out of the said sum & what more she may
receive between the making of this instrument & my decease shall
also be paid as part of the said sum Contracted with her before marriage
or upon marriage; & that my beloved wife may not be left desti
tute of provision for her supply upon my decease my will is that
iff she desires it five pounds of the remainder of the forty five
pounds shall be paid in Corne & other provisions: the rest as
wee then contracted as will thereby appear.
Also My will is that all my Just debts be honestly paid by my Executors before
any of the Legacies which I have hereafter given: which being done:
and what I am Engaged to John Warner to allow for what the buildings &c;
may be Judged worse then when I Sold them to him being deducted
the remainder which I account Clear Estate I dispose of it as Followith:
to any other child
To my son Samuell Hadley I Give a double portion ^ of the next
payment which shall be due to me in the bill from John Warner
when the aforementioned payments are made that is to say the
one half of his double portion. The other half in the Last pay-
ments due to me from John Warner.
To my daughter Mary Page I give a single share to be payed
by my executors of what shall be due to me by bill next to what
Samuel receiveth.
To my daughter Martha Hadley I give a single share of what
shall be nextly due from John Warner when the above said
payment shal be first made to Mary.
To my son John Hadley I Give a single share of what payment
shall be nextly due from John Warner when the above legacies
are payd: & whereas I had a pair of steers of his, my will is that
what I ordered John Kimball to pay him shall be his payment for them.
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And My will is that my son Joseph Hadley shall have half one
single share of what payment shall be nextly due from John
Warner when the other payments & Legacies are payed
And My will is that all the aforesaid Legacies shall be paid to the
Legatees in the township of Ipswich & my executors not put
to any trouble for the transporting of the same.
Lastly, I do appoynt my beloved son Samuell Hadley, Symon
Chapman & John Warner my Loving friends my Executors
to this my Last will & Testament allways allowing that
my Executors have Reasonable satisfaction out of my Estate
for what trouble and pains they may be att about the
Trust I have here Comitted to them.
In wittness that this is my Last will & Testament & that I
have & doe hereby Null all former Testaments I have
hereunto putt my hand & Seal this Eighteenth day of September
Anno Dom: One thousand six hundred & Eighty & four.
Signed sealed & Delivered
As bee his Last will & Testament
In pressence of wittnesses.
Nehemiah Jewett
Simon Stacy
John Warner
(Signed by) Georg Hadley
Boston November 4 1686
Common ___________
This will being presented by John Warner &
Simon Chapman __ the within named Executors,
Nehemiah Jewett. Simon Stacy & John Warner
also personally appearing made oath that the
said George Hadley signed and publicly ____
____________ his Last Will and Testament
and that when he so did he was of sound mind &
memory.
Jurat and signed Attested
(signed) Daniel _____ ______
The inventory is badly damaged on the right side, or the copy was badly made. The following is a summary using the legible information. It is not complete.
- Indian Corn 8 bussles 24 ___ 002
- Symon Chapmans bill due 043
- John Warners first bill 074
- John Warners 2nd bill 040
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Total 159 = ____ = ____
Estate ___ To several persons
- To Mr John Appleton
- To Doaton Goodhue
- To John _____ _____
- To Abraham Foster June
- To John Smith of Topsfield
- To John Warner for payment to widow Hadley
according to engagement 4- 10-
& time he spent about funerall _____
- To Symon Chapman for payment to widow Hadley
according to engagement __________
about funeral & payments ____
- To Samuell Hadley Executor _______expended
about the Estate
- To __ E_____ G_____ to ________________
& __ clerks fees _______________________
(amounts not legible)
The above so Inventine was taken the ________
above written by us as ______ our hands
David Warner ___
Nehimiah Jewett
(The bottom, right corner of the document is missing, losing the
right 1/3 of the following:
Boston November 4 1686
John Warner & Simon Chapman _____
of the Last Will and Testament of_____
personally appearing made oath that _____
above confirmed and ____
Estate of the said George Hadley which ______
their hands and that whom now ____
will Cause it to be added.
Jurat ____________
Obtained from Suffolk Probate. No. 1510
Hadley - George
Ipswich
1686 - Nov. 4
Will
- Felt, Joseph B. History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton. (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Printed by C. Folsom, 1834)
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- Hadley, Willis Dean. A history of American descendants of George Hadley, Reydon Parish, Suffolk Shire, England and Leo George Hadley, Sr., St. Louis, Missouri. (St. Louis, Missouri: W.D. Hadley, c1986).
- Proctor, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
2:5:542.
Mary Proctor bp Assington, Suffolk, 17 Oct 1633 m by about 1655 George Hadley
- Blodgette, George Brainard, and Amos Everett Jewett. Early Settlers of Rowley, Massachusetts (1981). (Somersworth, New Hampshire: New England History Press, 1981)
63.
link GEORGE HADLEY, from Ipswich, settled in that part of Rowley now Bradford, 17 Dec, 1655. He bought of William Wilde the grantor's house, barn and lands in Eowley, near Haverhill (Essex Deeds, 1 Ips.: 497). 9 Oct., 1660, he gives a mortgage of his farm in Rowley to Thomas Dickinson (54), "which I purchased of William Wiles of Ipswich" (Essex Deeds, 2 Ips. : 14). In 1665, he was of Rowley (Essex Deeds, 2 Ips.: 451451). He may have lived a short time in this parish.
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