"Probate Records. Vol. VII, 1700 to 1710. Page 30.
Way, Mrs. Mary, widow, Hartford. Invt. £54-13-00. Taken 3d September, 1701, by John Blackleach and Ciprian Nickols.
Page 151—20 October, 1703: This indenture between Ebenezer Way of Southold, on Long Island, of the first part; Ichabod Welles of Hartford and Sarah Welles, his wife, 2nd part; Elizabeth Welles of Hartford, widow, 3d part; and Lydia Way of Hartford, 4th part; witnesseth: That it is agreed for a division of several parcels of lands, goods, etc., being part of the inheritance and estate of Mr. Eleazer Way and Mrs. Mary Way, late of Hartford, deceased, as heirs and legatees of the said Eleazer and Mary Way.
Signed: EBENEZER WAY, LS.; ICHABOD WELLES, LS.; SARAH WELLES, LS..; ELIZABETH WELLES, LS.; LYDIA WAY, LS.
Witness: John Wadsworth, John Lattimer.
At a Prerogative Court held at Wethersfield, 26 October, 1703, John Chester, Esq., Judge; John Haynes, Esq., and James Treat, Esq., Justices. At this Court appeared Mr. Ebenezer Way, Mr. Ichabod Welles and Sarah his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Welles and Mrs. Lydia Way, and each of them acknowledged the partition entered, signed and sealed by them, to be their voluntary act and deed, and this Court accepts and allows the same. And the Clerk of the Prerogative Court is hereby ordered to make record of said instrument.
Pr. Caleb Stanly, Clerk."
