Person:William Bellingham (8)

The Will of William Bellingham of Alford, yeoman, 25 August 1606

"To be buried in the church of Alford. To Susan my daughter £10, which my wife shall have the use of until she come to twenty-one years, provided that if my wife happen to marrie in the meantyme then she shall have £20 to her portion, to be put for her best behoofe into the hands of some faithfull frend. To Anne my wife the lease of one messuage in Alford where I now dwell, which I have from my Lord Willoughby of Willoughby and Earsby for twenty-one years; also one other lease of a messuage in Alford now in the use of Richard Hardy; also one other lease of a tenement in Well. Residue to wife Anne, executrix. My good friend Mr. George Esterby, supervisor. Witnesses: Joseph Overton, clark, Will'm Augram, Parsevall Angram. Proved at Lincoln 4 November 1606. (Consistory of Lincoln, 1606, fo. 360.)"^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Sanborn, Victor Channing. The Lincolnshire Origin of Some Exeter Settlers. New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (New England Historic Genealogical Society, Jan 1914)
   68:79-80.

   This Bellingham connection is interesting, although I do not believe that the Alford yeoman was closely if at all related to the morose and aristocratic Puritan, Richard Bellingham, recorder of Boston in England and governor of the Massachusetts Bay.