Person:Thomas Nowell (3)

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Thomas Nowell
b.Est 1620
d.Bet 3 Nov 1648 and 22 Feb 1648/49 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)
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Name[1] Thomas Nowell
Gender Male
Birth[1] Est 1620 Rough estimate.
Marriage Bef 3 Nov 1648 Before date of husband's will.
to Elizabeth Unknown
Will[1][2] 3 Nov 1648
Death[1] Bet 3 Nov 1648 and 22 Feb 1648/49 Windsor, Hartford, Connecticut, United States (probably)Between date of will and date of inventory.
Estate Inventory[1][2] 22 Feb 1648/49 £368-11-01. Taken by Henry Clarke, David Wilton, John Moore.
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Thomas Nowell, 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)
    3:295-296.

    "Thomas (Nowell), Windsor, an early sett. tho. it is not thot. that he had been at Dorchester, had w. Eliz. but no ch. and in his will of 3 Nov. 1648, aft. small gifts to his kindr. Robert Wilson, and Isabel Phelps, devises a compet. est. to w. for life, remained. in fee to Christopher Nowell, s. of Edward of Wakefield, Yorksh. yet he calls neither his br. Both the will and inv. of 22 Feb. foll. are in J. H. Trumbull's Conn. Col. Rec. I. 506, 8. A reasonable conject. may arise, from the moderate distance betw. Wakefield and Clitheroe, less than 40 miles, that the stock of this Windsor wayfarer and our Secr. of Mass. was in the sixteenth cent. the same, tho. we find no evid. of their ever meet. in our country."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nowell, Thomas, Wyndsor, in Manwaring, Charles W. A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records. (Hartford, Conn.: R. S. Peck & Co., 1904-06)
    1:25.

    "Probate Records. Vol. 1, [270] Page 506-7 (This Will was copied from File.)

    Nowell, Thomas, Wyndsor. Invt. £368-11-01. Taken 22 February, 1648/9, by Henry Clarke, David Wilton, John Moore. Will dated 3 November, 1648.

    I, Thomas Nowell, of Windsor, on Connecticutt, being right in understanding and of perfect memory in regard of my age and weakeness, desyring to sett my howse in order, as my Last Will and testament and as a token of my Love and respect, doe bequeath unto Robert Willson, my Kinsman, one Steere and one Cow; and unto Isable Phelps, my Kinswoman, one cowe; and in Case my wife shall, after my decease, marry agayne, then it is my will and testament that at the time of marriage fore specified the sd. Elizabeth, over and above my foresd. gifts, shall pay to the sd Robert and Isable, each of them, tenne pounds a peece.

    It. As a token of my lowe, I bequeath unto my wife Elizabeth all the rest of my Estate in goods, debts or dues, of what kind soever, to her full and finall dispose as shee shall see best, as allso I bequeath unto her my dwelling howse, with all my Lands thereto prtayning, in Windsor aforesd, for and during the terme of her life; and after her decease, as a token of my Love, I bequeath my sd. howse and land unto Christopher Nowell, sone of Edward Nowell, of Wakefield, in Yorkeshyre, in England, deceased; to him and his heyres forever; & to this my last will and testament Witness my hand subscribed this prsent November, 3d, Anno domm. 1648.

    THOMAS NOWELL.

    Witness: Isable X Phelps. Bray Rosseter."

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