Person:Richard Saxton (1)

Richard Saxton's Estate

"On page 69 of the Mathew Grant Church Record is written

'Richard saxston dyed, maye 3. 1662.'

A similar entry appears on folio 55 of volume 1 of the Colonial Land Records in the office of the State Secretary.

September 11, 1662, an inventory of bis estate was presented to the Particular Court and administration granted to his widow. The appraisal of the estate was made June 3, 1662, and showed the total value of the property to be £107-14-00.

Among the items are these: 'Inpmis we finde due on bill from Jonathan Gillett a hundred and tenne pound of hops ffrom ffrancis Ackerton by bill - 01-10-00 ffrom will: williams on bill for a Cowe forty barrels: ffrom Jonathan Gillett junj^r due to y^e estate: - 01-00-00 ffrom Edward messenger for 2 Ancors of Liquors and 2 Barrels of cyder 12-00-00 ffrom James Enos 2 barrels of cyder only the estate to finde barrels - 01-08-00 Howse orchard & homelott valued at - 20-00-00 nine Acres of Land part of it planted by Indiansat halfes valued at - 18-00-00 A little spott of land about a quarter of an Aker wth some Apple trees on it valued at 02-00-00 A muskett and sword valued at - 01-05-00 Land at podung supposed to be his - 18-00-00

On the original inventory is this list of 'The next relations to Richard Saxton Sara his widow children Sara daughter of age 14 years and halfe John son 12 years and halfe Mary daughter 10 years and halfe Richard son 7 years and halfe Patience daughter 3 years and upward'

The Court does not seem to have passed any order regarding division of the estate."^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Richard Saxton, in Starr, Frank Farnsworth. Various Ancestral Lines of James Goodwin and Lucy (Morgan) Goodwin of Hartford, Connecticut. (Hartford, Conn.: The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press, 1915)
   1:133-39, Accessed 1 May 2021.
2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Richard Sexton, in Stiles, Henry R. History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut (1892): including East Windsor, South Windsor, Bloomfield, Windsor Locks and Ellington, 1635-1891. (Hartford, Connecticut: Press of the Case, Lockwood & Brainard Company, 1892)
   2:677.

   The Sextons of the Conn. Colony. On the 17th of July, 1635, Richard Sexton embarked at London on the ship Blessing, Capt. John Lester, bound for New England. He was, as appears from the official register of persons allowed by the Government to embark for New England (Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., viii, 3d Series, 270), only 14 years of age. Hinman says he was in Windsor as early as 1643. He m. 15 Apl., 1647, Sara Cook (16 Apl., 1646, O. C. R., and whom Savage thinks was a sister of Nathaniel Cook). Richard Sexton d. 3 May, 1662; she d. 13 June, 1674."

3.   Richard Saxton, 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)
   4:32.

   "Richard (Saxton), Windsor 1643, not early eno. to have been at Dorchester, yet said to have come in the ship Blessing, but the more important fact would have been a date, m. 16 Apr. 1646, Sarah Cook, perhaps sis. of Nathaniel, had Sarah, b. 23 Mar. 1648; John, 4 Mar. 1650; Mary, 27 Feb. 1652; Richard, 1 Mar. 1655, wh. fell in the gr. battle of Narraganset, 19 Dec. 1675; Patience, 28 June 1658, or Jan. 1659; Francis, 11 or 17 Jan. 1662, d. at 4 yrs. He d. 3 May 1662, and his wid. d. 13 June 1674; but in Stiles's Hist. 770 [first edition], the ds. of h. and w. are exchang. in date. Sarah had bef. the latest date, perhaps Oct. 1668, Robert Roath of Norwich; and Mary m. George Saunders."

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Sexton, Richard Sen., Windsor, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:150.

   "Probate Records. Vol. II, 160 to 1663. Page 167.
   
   Sexton, Richard Sen., Windsor. Invt. £107-14-00. Taken 3 June, 1662, by Benjamin Newberry & John Moore. Also due to ye estate, £15-10-00; also 110 lbs of Hops and Fourty Barrels.
   
   Court Record, Page 179—11 September, 1662: Court of Assistants at Windsor: Invt. Exhibited. Adms. to the Relict, and John Macord was desired to assist her. This Court having seen ye order sent to Deac. John Moore by good wife Lynsley, do order that £10 be paid out of Richard Sexton's Estate to make up what is due upon a Mortgage to the said Sarah Lyndsley."