Person:Samuel Wilson (1)

The Estate of Samuel Wilson of Windsor

"Probate Records. Vol. VI, 1695 to 1700. Page 23-4-5.

Willson, Samuel, Windsor. Died 3 August, 1697. Invt. £430-13-00. Taken 28 September, 1697, by Timothy Phelps & James Enno. The children: Elizabeth, age 24 years, Mary 22, Abigail 13, Samuel 5, Mindwell, 1 & 1-2 year old. NOTE: Manwaring inadvertently omitted the elder son, John, age 11, from this abstract. He corrected that error in the Volume III errata (page XII).

Court Record, Page 6—12 November, 1697: Adms. to Mary, the Relict. By her request, Lt. Matthew Allyn of Windsor & Deacon John Willson of Hartford were appointed Overseers. And this Court also appoint them to make a Dist. of the Estate.

Page 22—5 April, 1698: Mary, the Relict of Samuel Willson, applying herselfe to this Court for Dist. of her husband's Estate, The Court order that the Debts be first paid, and then to Dist. the Estate as followeth: To the Widow, 1-3 part of the Real Estate during her life, and an equal share of the Personal Estate with the Eldest Child, to be to her and her heirs forever. To the Eldest son, a double portion, both of Real & Personal Estate. To the Rest of the Children, an equal part of the remainder of the Estate. The Court appoint Lt. Matthew Allyn and Michael Taintor, Distributors.

Page 127—7 March, 1700: Mary, the Relict of Samuel Willson, now the wife of Anthony Hoskins sen., presented a further Account of Debts due from the Estate:

Debts, with Loss, £19 15s 05d; Extraordinary Expense about a young child that died, 6-00-00 [total] 25-15-05

Inventory, 434-04-00; Former Debts added, 52-10-00; Debts subtracted, 78-05-05; There remains to be distributed, 355-19-05

To the Widow, 88-19-10; To John, the Eldest son, 88-19-10; To Elizabeth, Mary, Abigail & Samuel, to each of them 44-09-10

Dist. File: 8 April, 1702: To the Widow Mary (married, 2nd, Hoskins), to Mary, to Abigail, to Elizabeth, to John, to Samuel Wilson. By Matthew Allyn & Michael Taintor.

Page 66—(Vol. VII) 5 April, 1705: Mary Willson of Windsor, Relict of Samuel Willson, late of Windsor, exhibited a Dist. of the Estate of Samuel Willson under the Hands of Matthew Allyn & Michael Taintor. Accepted and ordered to be kept on File."^[4]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Samuel Wilson, 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)
   4:588.

   "Samuel (Wilson), Windsor, s. of Robert of the same, m. May 1672, Mary, d. of John Griffin, had Eliz. or Isabel, b. 24 Feb. 1674, to wh. the damnable name of Jezabel is ascrib. by the queer blunder of Geneal. Reg. V. 364; Mary, 5 Aug. 1675; Samuel, 21 Nov. 1678, d. at 11 yrs.; Abigail, 1684; John, 1686; Samuel, again, 1692; and Mindwell, early in 1696; and he d. 3 Aug. 1697, when all the ch. exc. Samuel the first were liv."

2. ↑ Farmington Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   179.

   "Wilson, … Samuell, s. Robbert, b. June 24, 1653 [LR2:329]"

3.   Windsor Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
   293.

   "Wilson, … Samuel, d. Aug. 3, 1697 [1:52]"

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} Willson, Samuel, Windsor, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
   1:598-99.