Person:Samuel Stocking (7)

Watchers
m. 27 May 1652
  1. Hannah Stocking1654 - Bef 1668
  2. Samuel Stocking1656 - 1697
  3. Bethia Stocking1658 - 1732
  4. John Stocking1660 - Bef 1725
  5. Lydia Stocking1662 - Aft 1727
  6. George Stocking1663/64 - 1713/14
  7. Ebenezer Stocking1666 - Bef 1697/98
  8. _____ Stocking1669 -
  9. Stephen Stocking1673 - Bef 1697/98
  10. Daniel Stocking1677 - Abt 1733
Facts and Events
Name[1] Samuel Stocking
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][3] 19 Oct 1656 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United StatesAlso recorded at Hartford.
Will[5] 5 Jan 1691/92 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United StatesNuncupative.
Death[1][5] 2 Dec 1697 Middletown, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[5] 4 Mar 1697/98 £306-10-09. Taken by Nathaniel White, John Warner & John X Clarke.
Probate[5] 4 Mar 1697/98 Will not allowed; administration to Samuel's brother George Stocking.
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bethiah Hopkins2, in Hopkins, Timothy. John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1932)
    8.

    "Samuel (Stocking), b. 19 October 1656; d. 2 December 1697; unm."

  2. Middletown Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    434.

    "Stocking, … Samuell, s. Samuell & Bethya, b. Oct. 19, 1656 [LR1:41]"

  3. Hartford Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    311.

    "Stocking, … Samuel, s. Samuel, of Middletown, b. Oct. 19, 1656 [D:9]"
    "Stocking, … Samuel, s. Samuel, of Middletown, b. Oct. 19, 1656 [FFS:5]"

  4.   Volume 070 Part 2 Middletown, in Connecticut, United States. Church Record Abstracts, 1630-1920. (Ancestry.com (database on-line), 2013)
    541.

    ""Stocking, … Samuel, one of the six children of Mr. Stockin listed as covenanter Jan. 21, 1668 [1:111]""

  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Stocking, Samuel, Middletown, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:587-88.

    "Probate Records. Vol. VI, 1695 to 1700. Page 44-45.

    Stocking, Samuel, Middletown. Died 2 December, 1697. Invt. £306-10-09. Taken 4 March, 1697, by Nathaniel White, John Warner & John X Clarke. Nuncupative Will, dated 5 February, 1691-2.

    The Testimony of Capt. Nathaniel White, aged 60 years or thereabouts, and of Bethia Steele, 57 years of age or thereabouts, testifyeth and saith: That when Deacon Samuel Stocking made his Will we were present, and he fearing that his son John Stocking might be cut short of what he expected to be his Due and Right by Virtue of his Father Stocking's Will, that then his son John should have the of his Lott or Division of Land lying on ye Et Side ye grt River, next Haddam Bounds. [NOTE: Deacon Samuel Stocking's will was made on 13 November 1683. This appears to refer to the codicil to that will dated 25 December 1683.]

    Samuel Stocking personally appd and owned it, as sworn before me.
    Nathaniel Stanly, Assistant.

    George Stocking, Daniel Stocking, & Thomas Stow in Right and behalf of his wife Bethia, did before this Court, on the 4th day of March, 1697-8, each one voluntarily declare that they are willing their Brother John Stocking shall possess and enjoy the Land mentioned given him by his Father.
    Test: William Whiting, Clerk.

    (See Vol. IV, Page 168-70—Will of Samuel Stocking sen., who Died 30 December, 1683.)

    Court Record, Page 17—4 March, 1697-8: Whereas, there was a paper or Writing presented to this Court that was called the last Will & Testament of Samuel Stocking of Middletown Deed, the Court, having well considered the same, do not see Cause to allow it as a Will, but do order that the Estate be equally divided amongst his brethren and Sisters, Debts due from the Estate being first paid. An Invt. of Samuel Stocking's Estate was presented in the Court by Thomas Stow and George Stocking. Adms. granted to George Stocking, who recognized in £150 to faithfully administer upon the Estate of his Brother Samuel Stocking Decd."