Person:Prudence Unknown (41)

Prudence _____

b.Est 1574

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m. Abt 1594

Facts and Events

Name	Prudence _____
Gender	Female
Birth^[1]	Est 1574	Estimate based on approximate date of marriage
Marriage	Abt 1594	Hertfordshire, Englandto John Bird
Will^[1]	14 Sep 1638	Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England
Death^[1]	Bet 14 Sep 1638 and 2 Oct 1638	Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England
Probate^[1]	2 Oct 1638	Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Prudence (---) Bird, in Hyde, Myrtle Stevens. The Ancestry of Prudence Bird, wife of Martin Kellogg of Braintree, Essex, England: (who had descendants in New England). American Genealogist (D.L. Jacobus). (April 1996)
71:91.

Prudence lived as a widow for thirteen years. She remained in the parish of Bishop's Stortfod, and in her will, dated 14 September 1638 and proved 2 October 1638, gave to the poor prople of the parish 6s. Next she named son John Bird, to whom she gave "All my Tubbs & oth(e)r househould stuffe of myne w(hi)ch he hath now in his possesion...Prudence also bequeathed "to my sonne in lawe Martin Kellog my new chest, a good p(ai)r of sheets & a flaxen smoke." She appointed "John Rowell my sonne in lawe" executor and gave him the "rest & residue of my goods".