He was not named in his mother's will, but he was known (or believed) to be living then, because when the inventory of the estate of Grace Porter was prepared on 8 July 1662, a note about the division of the estate between her other two children states: "in case their brother in England shall legally obtain against the estate, that they joyntly and equally do tender estate for satisfying the same … (NEHGR 51 [1897]:315).