Person:Jasper Clements (1)

Jasper Clements
b.Cal 1613
  • HJasper ClementsCal 1613 - 1677
  • WEleanor WattsEst 1625 - 1703
m. Est 1660
Facts and Events
Name[1] Jasper Clements
Gender Male
Birth[1] Cal 1613
Marriage Est 1660 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (probably)to Eleanor Watts
Will[1] 13 Oct 1677 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Death[2] 16 Oct 1677 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[1] 7 Nov 1677 £243-04-00, by William Cheeny, Nathaniel Bacon, John Hall sen.
Probate[1] 7 Mar 1677/78 Will & Invt. Exhibited in Court.

The Estate of Jasper Clements of Middletown

"Probate Records. Vol. IV, 1677 to 1687. Page 3.

Clements, Jasper, Middletown, age about 64 years. Invt, £243-04-00. Taken 7 November, 1677, by William Cheeny, Nathaniel Bacon, John Hall sen. Will dated 13 October, 1677.

The last Will & Testament of Jasper Clements: Imprimis: I give to Eleanor my wife all my Cows & all Cow Kind whatsoever, only a 12 Moneth after my decease to give to John Brown a Cow and a Calf, And Benoni Brown a Cow & a Calf. I give to John & Benoni the new Room & the Sheep House and my Lott at Two Sticks. I give to Nathaniel Brown 17 acres of Swamp in Long Meadow Swamp, & 15 acres of Upland near the south End of the Town. My two great Lotts on the West side of the Great River I give to Nathaniel Brown & John Brown & Benoni Brown, to be divided equally amongst them. I give to Nathaniel Browne two Sheep, & to John Browne 3 Sheep, & Benoni Browne 3 Sheep; and I give to Hanna Lane, the younger, 2 Sheep. I give to my wife all my Household Goods of all sorts, only my Will is that after her decease my great Kettle & my Great Chest shall be my cousin Hanna Lane's. And moreover I give to my wife all other of my Estate which is not herein mentioned, makeing her soale Executrix. I freely give to the Benefit of the Schools in Middletown all my Divisions of Land on the East side of the Great River & which was to have been divided in the year 1674 by the List of 1673, to be disposed of at the Discretion of Mr. Giles Hamlin, Mr. Nathaniel Collins, Mr. William Southmayd, Mr. William Harris, Thomas Allyn & John Hall senior. I do request my trusty friends, William Harris, Thomas Allyn & John Hall, to be Overseers.

JASPER X CLEMENTS. LS.

Witness: Thomas Allyn, William Harris, John Hall.

Court Record, Page 3—7 March, 1677-8: Will & Invt. Exhibited in Court."

References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Clements, Jasper, Middletown, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:291-92.
  2. Middletown Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    106.

    "Clement, Jasper(?), d. Oct. 16, 1677 [LR1:20]"