Person:Mary Ward (16)

Children

In her 1677 will she names the following families:

• dau. Mary Stevens (gr. Child Rebeckah Stevens)
• dau. Rebeckah Warner (gr. Child Mary Warner)
• dau. Chittingdon (gr. child Elizabeth Chittingdon)
• son-in-Law Elnathan Bochford (gr. child Elizabeth Bochford)
• son-in-law John Standly and my daughter Sarah (gr. child Abigail Standly, Elizabeth Standly)
• dau. Abigail Fletcher (is she unmarried?)

(note: at the close of her will, she names "my four daughters, Mary [Stevens], Rebeckah [Warner], Sarah [Standly] & Hannah [Fletcher]." Is Hannah a Chittingdon? How is Bochford connected?

The Will of Mary (Ward) (Fletcher) Clarke

"Vol. IV., 1677 to 1687 Page 14-15-16

Clarke, Mary, Farmington. Invt- £273-05-06. Taken 26 February, 1678, by Thomas X Tibbetts sen., Samuel Burwell, Samuel Newton, Elezer Rogers. Invt. at Farmington, £32-16-00. Taken 14 February, 1678, by John Norton, Thomas X Barnes, John Woodruffe. Will dated 28 November, 1677.

I Mary Clarke of Farmingtown do make this my last Will & Testament: I give to my daughter Mary Stevens £16, to my daughter Rebeckah Warner £16, to my daughter Chittingdon £15-15. I give unto my son-in-Law Elnathan Bochford 5 Shillings, to my gr. child Elizabeth Bochford £5. I give unto the Rev. Pastor Newton 5 Shillings. I give unto my brother John Ward of Newark 20 Shillings. I give unto my gr. Child Rebeckah Stevens a pewter platter. I give unto my gr. Child Mary Warner a pewter platter. I give unto my gr. child Abigail Standly a featherbed. I give unto my gT. child Elizabeth Chittingdon a bason. I give unto my gr. child Elizabeth Standly my Chest. I give unto my son-in-law John Standly and my daughter Sarah his wife the 54 of all my Lands in Milford, woodland, earable and Meadow, except my Homestead, to be equally divided. My Will is that my soon Standly shall have £4-10 by the year paid to him out of the Rent of the Lands at Milford during die Lease of Nathaniel Farrand. I give unto my daughter Abigail Fletcher my House, Barn & Homelott, & the of all my Land in Milford, to be equally divided, that is to say, woodland, Earable Land & Meadow, that is to say, to her & her natural heirs. My Will is that if she dyes without Issue, that the ½ of the aforementioned house & Lands shall return to be equally divided betwixt my 4 daughters. And further I give unto her all my Household Goods that is at Milford that is not divided or disposed of; & if she dye, the forementioned Estate Willed to her shall be divided equally between my four daughters, with this proviso, that my daughter Rebeckah Warner shall have £10 more than any of the rest of my daughters. My Will is that what of my Clothing, Woolen or Lynen, that is at Farmington, that is not disposed of at my decease, that my four daughters, Mary, Rebeckah, Sarah & Hannah, it shall be divided equally amongst them. I appoint my daughter Abigail Fletcher to be my whole and sole Executrix. And I do desire Honoed Major Robert Treate & Mr. Samuel Eales to be Overseers.

Mary X Clarke, Ls.

Witness: Robert Porter, John Loomis. Court Record, Page 12-6 March, 1678-9: Will proven."^[6]

1.   Gay, Julius. A record of the descendants of John Clark of Farmington, Conn. : the male branches brought down to 1882 : the. (Ancestry.com, Utah, 2006).
2.   Hinman, Royal R. Compendium of New England Pioneers: A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Co. (Archive CD Books USA, Columbia, Maryland, 2006, Original Date, 1852)
   p. 612.
3. ↑ Gay, Julius. A record of the descendants of John Clark of Farmington, Conn. : the male branches brought down to 1882 : the. (Ancestry.com, Utah, 2006).
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Hinman, Royal R. Compendium of New England Pioneers: A Catalogue of the Names of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Co. (Archive CD Books USA, Columbia, Maryland, 2006, Original Date, 1852)
   p. 608.
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Unknown. Ward and Allied Families: A Genealogical Study with Biographical Notes. (New York: The American Historical Society, Inc., 1930)
   21.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4} Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   I:288.
7. ↑ The assessors were all Farmington men.
8. ↑ The assessors were all Milford men (there was no Thomas Tibbetts in Milford in the 17th century, so that man must have been the elder Thomas Tibbals).