Person:Hannah Bushopp (1)

Estate of Hannah Cowles

"Vol. IV. 1677 to 1687 Page 116-117. Cowles, Hanna, Hatfield & Hartford. Died 16 March, 1683. Invt. £107-05-02. Taken by John Marsh, Daniel Clarke. Will dated 27 October, 1680. I Hanna Cowles, Late of Hatfield, now resident in Hartford, in the Colony of Connecticut, being Stricken in years, doe make this my Last Will and Testament : I doe give unto my son Samuel Cowles £6. I give unto my son John Cowles £6. I give unto my daughter Hannah Standly Tenn pownds. I give unto my daughter Ester Bull fower pounds. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Lyman £12. I give unto my daughter Mary Dickinson the sum of £10. I give unto the children of my daughter Sarah Goodwin, that shall be surviving at my decease, £6, to be devided equally amongst them. My will & pleasure is that the Legacy of £8 given unto my daughter Goodwin by my husband John Cowles in his Last Will, bearing date II December, 1676, be payd by my son John Cowles unto the Children of my daughter Sarah Goodwin, Deed, that shall be living at my decease, equally to be divided amongst them; & this is also my will concerning the rest of those Legacies given by my husband in his Last will unto any other of my daughters, which dispose I thus order, being whole & soale Executrix unto his last Will. I give unto my grand children Hannah & Elizabeth Stanly one payre of sheets. I give unto my three daughters. Ester, Mary & Elizabeth, all my wearing apparell & Lining, to be equally divided amongst them. I give unto my daughter Hannah Standly the value of one fourth part of all my apparell & Linnine given to my Three daughters, out of any other of my Estate that she shall choose before it be divided otherwise, in stead of apparell, & doe also give her the flock bed that I had of my son Stanly, at the price my husband bought it of him, as part of the Ten pownds given her above. I doe also desire my daughter Elizabeth Lyman may have the Feather bed in her Keeping, as part of what is given her in this my Last Will. I appoint my son Samuel Cowles and Caleb Standly to be Executors. I doe give them the remaynder of my Estate, if any should be that is not given away. -- Hannah X Cowles. Ls."^[2]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Cowles, Calvin Duvall, and Cowles Family Association. Genealogy of the Cowles Families in America. (New Haven, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Co., 1929).

   After the death of John Cowles, his widow Hannah Cowles, whose maiden name is unknown, returned to Connecticut and took up her residence with her son-in-law, Captain Caleb Stanley at Hartford where she died March 17, 1683, aged about [above] 70 years (Gravestone, Center Churchyard, …). Court Record says she died March 16, 1683, (see Inventory of her Estate).

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Hanna Cowles, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:295-96.
3. ↑ Hannah Cowles, in Find A Grave.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Hannah Bushopp Cowles, in Find A Grave
   [1].