Person:Mark Sension (2)

Last Will & Testament of Marke Sension (St. John)

(From Alexander, Orline St. John. St. John Genealogy, p. 19-20, citing Fairfield Probate Records, vol. 1689-1701, p. 87)

The Last will and testament of Marke Sension of Norwake aged aboute 59 years I being by the providence of god weak of body by reason of sicknes Attending but through the goodness of God yett of perfect understanding & memory: and being Desireous to dispose of that temporall Estate that God hath Blesse me with so as may be for peace and unity: and I do first bequeath my Soul to God & my body after Death to be Decently Intered; & Buryed and do Declare thias as my Last will and do dispose of my Estate as followeth: Desireous that my first Just Debts be discharged.

Imprimis: I do Give and Bequeath unto my Son Joseph Sension my Homested with all Apurtinances therto belonging; and also all the rest of my Lands & medows Ecept that Lott which I perchased of Thomas Tailer & also all the Indian field Land and medow; and also ye Last Division of Land not yet Layd out these Excepted not Given to my Son Joseph; also I do Give to my son Joseph Sension his choice of my two yaok of oxen; to take one yaok of them also one horse allso one mare and colt also two cows allso one 2 year old heifer his choice; also 2 calves; also 12 sheep 8 Ews; 4 withers; And the Bed which is a fether bed which he useually Lyeth upon and also all my husbantry tooles.

I do Give and bequeath unto my Daughter Loess Sension & my Daughter Rachil Sension that Lott which I perchased of Thoams Tayler and Dry hill Lott Equally Between them with all Appertenances therto Belonging also I do Give to my Daughter Annah Sension all my upland and medow and medowing Land Lying in the Indian feild-- Also I do give unto my three Daughters Bz: Loess Rachil and Annah thirty pound Each of them out of my moable Estate And also what movable Estate shall remaine not allredy given to my three daughtesr Nemly Elizabeth Sarah & Rhoda are to be Equal till they have Each of them twenty pounds: Except Roda she is to be five pounds short of Elizabeth & Sarah: and in case anything shall yet remaine then to be Equally Divided amoungst my Six Daughters.

Also my will is that what Lands I have Given unto my Son Joseph Sension; that if God in his providence so order it that he Shall Die without Surviving Issue; then the said Lands to be to ye Eldist Sons of my Six Daughters also my will is that my Son Shall have Liberty for to Leave the homsted in case he shall mary & Decese & Leave A widow with her Dureing the time of her widowhood She to keep and maintaine all things in as good repaire as they may be in at the time of his decease: And also my will is that what Lands I have Given to any of my Daughters if they Shall Die they or any of them before they Shall marry or Shall have any Issue Surviving; then the Land to be and Returne to the Surviving Daughtesr; And also as to my Daughters not yet Marryed: if they Shall Die before they have any Issue or Maryed then their Estate Given them to be & returne to the Surviving Children. Also I do Give to Joseph Lockwood my Sisters Son ten Acres out of Lands of the Last Devision; and the rest of the Sd. Last Devision to be Equally Devided amoungst my Children Dwelling in Norwalk also I do Give my negro Servant unto my Son Joseph Sension.

Also I do Desire Authaurize & appoint my three Sons viz: Joseph Sension Samuell Galpin and Samuell Keeler the Administrators to this my Last will and testament To the Confermation herof I have herunto Set my hand and Seal.

In presents of us Witnesses -- Marke Senion (Seal)

James Olmsted
Joseph Kechum

The Will and Inventory of Marke Sension of Norwalk Deceased was Exhibited to the County Court held in fairfeild 7th of Novembr 1693 for probation this Court do accept of and approve sd. will and Inventory and order them to be Recorded. Nathan Gold, Clark.

Other Notes

May have had a daughter, Sarah, who married Samuel Keeler, son of Ralph Keeler, formerly of Norwalk, on 10 Mar 1681/82. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctfairfi/pages/norwalk/norwalkgr.htm, chapter 5.

Chapter 6, p. 192 of Ancient Historical records of Norwalk, CT: Marke Sention's children Elizabeth Sention, born December 6, 1656. Sarah Sention, born January 18, 1659.

p. 47 of same source mentions him as having attended the Mar 5 1657 town meeting where with Matth. Sention and others and the consent of the town, undertook to make and provide and good and sufficient wolf-pitt upon the other side in some convenient place.

1. ↑ Data (Mostly Negative) on the English Origins of Matthias St. John
   Accessed 19 May 2015.
2. ↑ Hall, Edwin. Ancient Historical Records of Norwalk, Connecticut: with a plan of the ancient settlement, and of the town in 1847. (Norwalk, NY: James Mallory & Co.; Baker & Scribner, 1847)
   Chapter 6, p. 195.

   Mr. Mark Saint John died or deceased Aug. 12, 1693.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Matthew Sension, 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)
   VI:231-232.

   Mark Sension, bp. St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, London, 10 June 1633 [TAG 53:241].

4. ↑ Alexander, Orline St. John. St. John Genealogy: Descendants of Matthias St. John of Dorchester, Massachusetts, 1634; of Windsor, Connecticut, 1640; of Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1643-1645; and Norwalk, Connecticut, 1650. (New York, NY: Grafton Press, 1907)
   20.
5.   Mark Saint John, in Find A Grave.