Person:Henry Head (1)

Will of Henry Head page 286. Henry Head of Little Compton. To son Jonathan Head all lands, housing where he now dwells in Coaksett and lands at Barkers neck and Stephens Neck. All in Little Compton, but if he not care for it, forty acres of land I bought of Jonathan Springer in Little Compton After decease of his mother Elizabeth Head. To son Henry Head 60 acres where he hath built a house in a little neck lying between two ponds, one called Quicksand and the other Tunipers pound in Sd Little Compton. To son Benjamin Head land on east side of highway with all improvements with one half of the rooms in my dwelling house. house on said premises and all husbandry tools. To wife Elizabeth Head land on west of road with the other half of rooms in my dwelling house in Little Compton her life. And all that land I bought of Jonathan Springer in Little Compton To daughter Elizabet head 20 pds. To daughter Innocent Head Twenty pds. To daughter Mary Head 20 pds. Negro man called Jeffrey to wife. Negro woman called Rose to my children. Little Negro boy called Scipeo to daughter Elizabeth Head. My wife Elizabeth to be sole executrix. March 24 1708 and the 8th year of our sovereign Lady Ann Queen of England. Witnesses John Peckham Henry Head. Henry Head John Winslow Elias Williams. Proved August 20 1716.(Citation Information:Little Compton, Rhode Island, Wills. (Online database:New EnglandAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society,2003), (Unpublished abstract of original probate records of Taunton, MA,and Little Compton, RI, Benjamin F. Wilbour, "Little Compton, RhodeIsland, Wills," 1945)

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Little Compton Births and Deaths, 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)
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   HEAD, Henry, of Henry and Elizabeth, [born] ___, 1678; died March 4, 1755.