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Deacon John Easton
b.Cal 1639
Facts and Events
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joseph Easton, 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)
2:395.
"John (Easton), b. about 1639 (aged 18 on 5 March 1657/8 [WMJ 91]); …"
- ↑ John Easton, 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)
2:94.
"John (Easton), Hartford, had Sarah, b. 18 July 1670; Mary, 26 Dec. 1672; Sarah, 15 Nov. 1675; John, 10 Jan. 1679; Mary, 1 Oct. 1681; Mehitable, 17 Jan. 1683; Abigail, 16 Mar. 1687; and John, 22 Oct. 1689."
- ↑ John Easton, in Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
228-29.
"John Easton s of Joseph died Nov 2, 1716 (1 Ch Rec, Hartford Town Record) … John Easton owned cov 2 Ch Feb 22, 1670, rec'd 2 Ch Aug 28, 1670. … Hfd; surveyor of highways 1671; townsman 1693."
- ↑ Hartford Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
102.
"Easton, … John, d. Nov. 2, 1716 [D:33]"
"Easton, … John, d. Nov. 2, 1716 [FFS:38]"
- John Easton, in Find A Grave.
This burial is not documented in the Hale Collection. There appears to be no evidence of his actual place of burial.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Easton, John, Sen., Hartford, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
2:380-81.
"Probate Records. Vol. IX, 1715 to 1723. Page 108-109.
Easton, John, Sen., Hartford. Invt. £756-10-11. Taken 28 December, 1718, by Daniel Merrells and Joseph Mygatt.
This 3d day of December, 1712, I, John Easton, Sen., of Hartford, in the County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticutt, in New England, being at the present in reasonable health but aged, and being now of sound mind and memory, do by these presents make and ordain this to be my last will and testament, in manner and form as followeth, vizt.: First, I desire to committ my soul into the hands of God my Creator and Jesus Christ my Redeemer, and my body to the grave to a decent buriall, there to rest in hope until the glorious resurection. I also do dispose of that part or portion of worldly goods which God has graciously given me, as follows: After my funeral charges are defrayed and all my just debts paid: Item. I give and bequeath unto my loveing son John Easton of Hartford, in the County and Colony aforesd., to him and his heirs forever, my dwelling house and barn and all the buildings, trees, fences and land thereunto belonging, namely, all my land at home and also all my land in Hartford, my two lotts at Rocky Hill, and all my land in the south meadow in Hartford, and also all my land lying on the east side of the Great River, and all my land at the West Division in Hartford. I do hereby give him my son John Easton all my lands in Hartford and elsewhere that I now stand possessed of, or may of lawfull right ever hereafter have right unto, with all the profits, priviledges and appurtenances that do or may at any time hereafter belong to them or any part of them. The butts and bounds of all my land herein given may and will fully appear on record. Further, I give unto my son John and his heirs forever, all my moveable estate, both without doors and within the house, of whatsoever nature or kind, in particular all my arms and amunition, and also my great Bible, and divinity books of Mr. Thomas Goodwin's works. I say all my estate, both real and personal, I give to my said son John and his heirs forever, he paying all the legacies hereafter by me appointed and named in this my last will. Item. I do hereby give and bequeath unto my four daughters, Sarah Goodwin, Mary Butler, Mehetabell Merrold and Abigail Easton, to them, that is to each of them, ye heirs, &c, the full sum of £40 in or as current money of the Colony, which said sums or legacies I do hereby appoint my son John Easton to pay or see paid and completed. And it is always hereby to be understood, and I do appoint, that whatsoever any of my daughters have already received shall be excepted and accounted as part of their portion, and John to make it up to them to £40 herein given to them and each of them. Further, I do, as a token of my love to my daughters, give to each of them, besides their portion above named, the sum of £4 as money, and do appoint my son John to pay the same unto each of them within the space of two years after my decease. Further, I do hereby constitute and appoint my loveing son John Easton to be the sole executor of this my last will and testament. The whole of all written I do declare to be my last will and testament. And in confirmation of all and every part of the premises, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 3d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eleven, and in the eleventh year of the reign of our sovereign Lady Queen Anne, Queen of Great Brittain, &c.
JOHN EASTON, SEN., LS.
Signed and sealed in presence of us: Caleb Bull, Edw. Alleyn.
Court Record, Page 26—1st January, 1716-17: Will now exhibited with inventory. Approved and allowed."
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