A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name and Family of Stetson: From the Year 1634, to the Year 1847

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author, 1847 - 116 pages
 

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Page 10 - To BE HELD of us our Heirs and Successors as of our Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 6 - ... an hundred inch sawn ; but in case the men of the town do not supply the mill with timber to keep it at work, the owners of the mill shall have liberty to make use of any timber upon the Common to saw for their benefit."2 The mill, which stood on "the third Herring Brook, "was destroyed by the Indians in 1676.
Page 13 - Be null and void further itt is my Will that my sd Eldest Son Shall not alien or Sell any of the Lands above Given him unles to his children or one of them. Item. I Give And Bequeath to my Son Benjamin ten pound out of my moveable Estate. Item. I Give And Bequeath to my son Thomas five pound to Be paid him out of my Moveables. Item. I Give And Bequeath to my Son Samuel the sume of Eight pounds out of my moveable Estate. Item. I Give And Bequeath to my Daughter Eunice Rogers ye sume of ten pounds...
Page 13 - Rogers ye sume of ten pounds out of my moveable Estate. Item. I Give And Bequeath to my son Robert my Wearing Cloaths which with what I have formerly Given him I judge Convenient for him.
Page 14 - Declare the same to be his Last Will and Testament, and that he was then of a Sound...
Page 6 - Town that doth bring any timber to the mill to be sawed shall want any boards for his particular use, the owners of the mill shall sell him boards for his own use so many as he shall need, for the country pay at 3s.
Page 14 - Cloaths which with what I have formerly Given him I judge Convenient for him. Item. I Give And Bequeath to my Daughter in law Abigail the Relict and widow of my son John Deceast the sume of ten pounds to be paid out of my moveable Estate. Item. I Give unto my Grand Children yet are now surviving to Each of them Six Shillings.
Page 14 - In testamony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my seal this twenty fourth Day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine.
Page 5 - America, was Robert Stetson, commonly called Cornet Robert, because he was Cornet of the first Horse Company raised in Plymouth Colony, Mass., in the year 1668 or 9.
Page 1 - A Genealogical and Biographical Sketch of the Name and Family of Stetson; from the year 1634 to the year 1847.

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