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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Simon Smith |
| Gender |
Male |
| Christening[2] |
1 Jan 1628 |
Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, England |
| Marriage |
Bef 1659 |
Based on calculated date of birth (from gravestone inscription) of eldest known child.
to Elizabeth Bateman |
| Living[1] |
1684 |
Age 56. |
| Will[3] |
11 Nov 1687 |
Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States |
| Residence[1] |
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Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States |
| Death[3] |
Bet 11 Nov 1687 and 8 Mar 1687/88 |
Haddam, Middlesex, Connecticut, United States (probably)Between date of will and date of probate |
| Probate[3] |
8 Mar 1687/88 |
Will proved. |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Simon Smith, 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)
4:133-134.
"Simon (Smith), Hartford, br. of Christopher of Northampton, adm. freem. 1677, may be the same wh. in 1646 was fin. for a misdemean. prob. then a youth, perhaps serv. of William Gibbins. Hinman, 236, says he was one of the 28 orig. sett. of Haddam, and had s. Simon, but tho. he copiously tells of the descend. to fourth generat. the only date in his paragr. is 1830, when one of the 4th d. aged 93, leav. 250 descend. Still it is true, that he liv. at Haddam, in 1684 call. hims. 56 yrs. old; and Dr. Field thinks he had Benjamin, Simon, Joseph, and John."
- ↑ transcribed by Richard Savage, in Savage, Richard, Transcriber, and Church of England. Parish Church of Stratford-upon-Avon. The Registers of Stratford-on-Avon, in the County of Warwick. (London: Parish Register Society, 1897-1905)
Baptisms, 1897.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Smith, Simon, Haddam, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
1:508-09.
"Probate Records. Vol. V, 1687 to 1695. On File. (Not found on Record.)
Smith, Simon, Haddam. Will dated 11 November, 1687: I Simon Smith senior of Haddam, being aged and being sensabell of my mortalyty, and at This time being visited with sickness, doe give my body to the dust in hopes of a Glorias reserecktion, and my Spirit to God that gave it. Doe make this my Last will and Testament, being sound in meamorie: I give to my Loveing Wife The use of my dwelling houss and two rowes of Apples Trees in my horchard, she takeing her choyes, and five poundes per yeare during her Widowhood, to be paid bv my sonns according to their proportions That they shall have of my Estate, and one Cowe to be kept yearly by my Sones, and fowr Shepe to be kept yearly for her use, and fowr poundes in good marchantabell Corne, Rie and Indian, to be paid her the next spring, and as much of the houeshould stores as she hath need of. I give to my sonn John my Lott by his in the Comon fild, and five pounds out of my Estate as it shall be inventoried. I give to my son Simon my upper Lott in the upper meadow. I give to my son Joseph my Cow, meadow Lott, and my swamp on the east side of the great River, and my Lott in the equall deuishon, and all my right at Machamoodas. I give to my Sonn benjamin my hows and barn and all my homested, and my meadow Lott in the horn medow, swamp and upland. I give to my daughter Elizabeth eaighten pounds, and to my daughter Susanah Sixten pounds, and to my daughter Mary Sixten pounds. And my Will is that my two Lottes in the upper medow be left for part of their portions. And if any of my Sonnes will take the above said Lotes as they shall be inventoried, and pay my daughters, they shall have Liberty; and the rest of their portions shall be paide out of my Estate as it shall be inventoried. And if their be any over pluss, it shall be equally disposed of amongst them. Also my Will is that my sonn benjamin be my Executor to se This my Will full filed.
SIMON SMITH.
Test: George Gates, John Bayle.
Hartford, 8 March, 1687-8: At a Court of Common pleas there held, George Gates & John Bayley, upon their Corporate oathes, Testified that Simon Smith in their prsence signed and declared the above written to be his Last will & Testament, and that he was of good memory when he did the same."
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