Probate records of the Province of New Hampshire Vol. 1 1635-1717, Part 2

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The Cranfield commission authorized the Lieutenant-Governor to constitute courts and appoint judges. Under this authority there is evidence that Cranfield established a court of probate, and that he, and after him, Barefoote, assumed the office of ordinary, with. Chamberlain, the province secretary, as register of the court.


An attempt was made in the winter of 1682-3 to construct a body of local statute law for the province, but there was a rupture be -. tween the Lieutenant-Governor and the assembly when the under- taking had proceeded to the 26th article. He was not able to- obtain the attendance of the assembly for legislation after this time, except on one occasion, at the special instance of the King for the enactment of one bill especially desired by the home government. (I N. H. Prov. Laws, 48, 807.) In the fragment of a body of statute law, the construction of which appears to have been begun in the first year of the Cranfield administration, there is no refer- ence to the probate law. The Lieutenant-Governor, after his. rupture with the assembly, avowed his purpose to govern the prov- ince by the laws of England. The history of his administration, however, shows that all his attempts to govern them failed, and. that his administration was broken down by the antagonism of the people, by his own incompetency, by his personal interest in the Masonian claim, by his alienation of the support of Randolph, and by the want of confidence towards him which developed in the


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home government. His attempt to resort to the laws of England, and to impose them upon the province as embodying the rules by which they were to be governed, if practicable in any degree with a competent and discreet administrator, was out of the question with this executive. (Farmer's Belknap's Hist. of N. H., chap. 8. F. B. Sanborn, Hist. of N. H., chap. 4. Memoir and cor- respondence of Edmund Randolph, edited by Robert Noxon Toppan, passim.)


It was in the time, of this administration that the first charter of the Massachusetts Bay colony was vacated on scire facias in the court of chancery in England. It was formerly the opinion of the Massachusetts courts that the annulment of the charter wrought a repeal of the laws enacted under it. (Storer v. Freeman, 6 Mass., 438.) This opinion seems to have been adopted by Judge Bellows in the case of Clement v. Burns, 43 N. H., 619.


The current of later opinion is very strongly against this theory. (See article by Prof. E. N. Washburn on the effect of the vacation of the charter upon the laws enacted under it, 13 Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceed., 451 ; argument of the Attorney-General of New Hamp- . shire in the case of Percy Summer Club v. Astles before the U. S. Circuit Court for the District of New Hampshire, pp. 80, 95, 156; Commonwealth v. Alger, 7 Cush., 76; reporter's note, 9 Gray, 17 ; 66. N. H., 25.) There is, on the whole, little basis for the supposition that either in Massachusetts Bay or in New Hamp- shire the preference of the people for their own laws relating to the descent and distribution of property and the making and ad- ministration of wills had been removed or affected to any consid- erable extent by the abrogation of the charter, the validity of which was denied here and disputed in Parliament, and by what tran- spired in New Hampshire in the Cranfield regime, which had been almost farcical in the attempted exercise of governmental powers, and from every point of view obnoxious to the great majority of the people.


The next period in the constitutional history of the province is.


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covered by the Dudley-Andros administrations under the commis- sion of King James II constituting the Dominion of New England. The powers of government conferred by the commissions and in- structions, first by the preliminary commission to Joseph Dudley and Council, and second in the more elaborate commissions and instructions to Sir Edmund Andros, resulted for the time being in a radical change in the structure of the colonial organizations in New England. This involved the discontinuance of separate province and colonial governments in Massachusetts, Plymouth, New Hampshire, and several other colonies. In the Judicial His- tory of Massachusetts Professor Washburn says, (p. 86) " The president [Dudley] took upon himself the probate jurisdiction as Supreme Ordinary, but to save the trouble of parties attending at Boston he appointed judges of probate and clerks in the remote counties to act in his stead." Continuing in the same volume, the author says, (p. 95) " He [Andros ] assumed to be the Supreme Or- dinary, and though it became extremely oppressive for all persons having any business of this kind to come to Boston, as by his orders they were compelled to do, and although the fees to be paid by the parties were greatly increased, yet it ought to be acknowledged that he did much to introduce a regular system of forms in the proceed- ings in probate courts, which before that had been loose and uncertain. He personally attended to the administration of estates exceeding fifty pounds, and the ordinary fee for the probate of a will was fifty shillings." Several orders relating to probate affairs were passed in the brief time of the administration of President Dudley and his Council, occupying only six months, between May and December, 1686. These are reproduced in I N. H. Prov. Laws, 92, 142, passim, particularly 105, 124, 125.


In the time of the Andros administration, which commenced Dec. 20, 1686, and was terminated by a popular uprising April 18, 1689, the subject of probate affairs was taken up in a formal act of date June 1, 1687, entitled “ An Act for probate of wills and granting letters of administration." The full text appears in I N. H. Prov. Laws, 206.


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The people of Massachusetts have been very generally disposed to regard the Dudley-Andros administration of 1686-89 as a usur- pation. The Bay colony, immediately upon the downfall of the An- dros government, resumed the government which was in existence at the time of the inauguration of the Dudley administration in May, 1686. The laws by which they had formerly been governed were revived by an express act. This, of course, included the laws relating to wills and probates. (I N. H. Prov. Laws, 294. See Smith's reports, 503.) The deposition of Andros left New Hampshire without a colonial government. The people were un- able to unite upon a government for themselves. Government was relegated to the town organizations. This status continued during a period of about ten months. A union was effected between the towns and people of New Hampshire and those of Massachusetts Bay. This is commonly described as the second union. The exact status of probate jurisdiction in New Hampshire at this time is somewhat problematical. (I N. H. Prov. Laws, 259-399.)


The period of the second union extended from Feb., 1690, to the time when this relation was terminated by new commissions for a province government in New Hampshire and a new charter for Massachusetts. The probate jurisdiction had reverted in the time of this second union to the counties. Its exercise, according to the records now accessible, was in pursuance of the same rules, methods, and forms as had prevailed in the time of the first union. This statement, of course, applies to New Hampshire as well as to Massachusetts Bay. The promptitude and facility with which both colonies readapted themselves at this time to the laws which they had established, and which were in conformity to their own polity, are significant as to the deep root which the jurisprudence of the time of the first union had taken in the statute law and in legal usages. The first colonial period for both New Hampshire and Massachusetts Bay was concluded at this time by the interpo- sition of a new charter in the one, and under a new commission permanently re-establishing a province for the other. The enact- ment of colonial statute law was resumed, with results which had


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the effect on the whole rather to rehabilitate and confirm the ancient local statute law than to supersede it by important or extensive in- novations. (See Oliver's Puritan Comm., 78, 79, 80 ; Adams's Emancipation of Mass., 197 ; arg. of Att'y-Gen. cited supra, 26 and 46.) It might be expected that probate jurisdiction would be provided for by the erection of a court performing its functions without very much variability from 1692-1775. Allen's commis- sion and instructions, as Usher claimed, invested the Governor or his Lieutenant with power to erect courts and make appointments for them. (I N. H. Prov. Laws, 505.)


It appears as early as 1693, by the act entitled " An act for the settling and distribution of intestates' estates and such as prove in- solvent," that the court of probate was already established. (I N. H. Prov. Laws, 566.) This fact is again recognized in 1701, in the act entitled " An additional act passed for the settlement of intestates' estates, thereto added insolvents' estates, how to be dis- posed of," Id. 683. In the Laws, ed. of 1716, p. 4, " Act for the settlement and distribution of the estates of intestates," the judge of probate is again referred to as then in the exercise of an appar -. ently settled jurisdiction. In the Laws, ed. of 1771, p. 104, the same act reappears. During this period, that is from 1692-1775, the Governor and Council constituted a supreme court of probate. (3 N. H. Prov. Papers, 683, 717.)


Referring to Usher's letter Jan. 11, 1696-7 (2 N. H. Prov. Papers, 209), it would appear that Story had an appointment from the home government as judge of probate ; that Usher desired to have the commission returned, and that he assumed the right to · appoint. This would indicate that the Governor was claiming the right to appoint the judge of probate, and that possibly there was an issue of authority on this point between the Lieutenant-Gov- ernor and the home government. On p. 207, same volume, it ap- pears that Packer was removed from the office of lieutenant-colonel and judge of probate by John Hinckes, President of the Council, acting as Governor, and the Council. It appears further, same vol- ume, pp. 242-243, that Nathaniel Fryer had been appointed ordi -


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nary, inasmuch as Hinckes and his Council were turning the pro- bate records over to him by an executive order. In the absence of anything but fragmentary minutes of the proceedings of the Governor and Council as an executive body it may be difficult to trace, especially in the official probate records and files, the per- sonnel of this court, but there is probably data among the records and files of the probate court by which the judges and registers from 1692 to the revolution may be identified with substantial accuracy.


ALBERT S. BATCHELLOR, Editor of State Papers.


LIST OF ESTATES


Abbott, -, I7II 670


Walter, 1667


96


Walter, 1675 169


Aborn, George, Hampton, 1654


25


Adams, Charles, Durham, 1694/5


405


Charles, Durham, 1695


412


Peter, 1672


I33


Alcock, Job, Portsmouth, 1712 .


690


Samuel, Portsmouth, 1704


524


Almary, Robert, Portsmouth, 1711/12


679


Amazeen, John, Newcastle, 1700


467


Ardell, William, Exeter, 1709 . .


64J


Atkinson, Joseph, 1678 .


227


Austin, Joseph, Dover, 1662/3 Joseph, 1680


242


Avery, Thomas, 1681


·


256


Ayers, William, Portsmouth, 1716 .


.


791


Babb, Philip, Isles of Shoals, 1671


125


Backway, Benjamin, Newcastle, 1699


445


Baker, John, Portsmouth, 1697 John, Portsmouth, 1709 .


635


Joseph, Isles of Shoals, 1672


I38


Banfield, John, Portsmouth, 1707


322


Barefoote, Walter, Newcastle, 1688 Batchelder, Alexander, 1660 .


46


Ann, Portsmouth, 1660 .


50


Stephen, 1673 . .


J41


Beal, Edward, Newcastle, 1706 .


.


·


563


.


.


.


.


.


.


.


.


56


.


.


.


.


.


-


433


·


.


608


.


xxiv


LIST OF ESTATES


Beard, Joseph, Dover, 1703/4 .


· 519


Thomas, Dover, 1678 .


.


227


William, 1676 . .


176


Beck, Caleb, Portsmouth, 1694/5 Henry, Newcastle, 1686 .


405


302


Bennick, Arthur, 1683 ·


263


Berry, -, 1654


25


William, Rve, 1717


800


Bickford, John, Isles of Shoals, 1662


55


John, Durham, 1685/6


296


John, Newington, 1715


773


Temperance, 1694


391


Thomas, Dover, 1706


569


Binmore, Philip, Dover, 1676 . Rebecca, 1680


241


Bishop, -, 1679


234


Blagdon, James, Star Island, 1715/16


785


Blake, Jasper, Hampton, 1673 John, Hampton, 1715/16 . Timothy, Hampton, 1715


I42


786


Boone, John, 1680 .


242


Boulter, John, Hampton, 1703


509


Nathaniel, Hampton, 1695


406


Nathaniel, Jr., Hampton, 1689


328


Boyes, Richard, 1677/8 .


206


Brackett, Anthony, 1691


357


Braddock, Robert, 1677 .


201


Bray, Richard, Exeter, 1666


86


Brewster, John, Portsmouth, 1691


364


Broad, William, Portsmouth, 1665 William, 1677/8


209


Bronson, George, 1657


34


Brooking, Godfrey, Isles of Shoals, 1682 William, Portsmouth, 1694


258


403


Broughton, John, Portsmouth, 1706 .


554


.


.


83


.


777


17I


LIST OF ESTATES


XXV


Brown, Henry, Portsmouth, 1696


419


Buckley, Richard, Portsmouth, 1706/7


575


Bullard, Augustine, Portsmouth, 1706 Bunker, James, Durham, 1697


567


432


Joseph, Durham, 1717


806


Burnell, Tobias, 1674/5 .


160


Burnham, Robert, Durham, 1691


.


360


Button, William, 1693


. 387


Canney, Joseph, 1690


339


Thomas, Jr., 1677


I86


Carpenter, Lawrence, 1677


184


Cass, -, Hampton, 1712


682


John, Hampton, 1674


147


Cate, James, Portsmouth, 1677


·


201


Cator, Edward, 1670/I


. 124


Edward, Newcastle, 1691


353


Champion, Claude, Isles of Shoals, 1687


317


Chapman, John, Hampton, 1705/6 . Chase, Abraham, 1676 ·


180


James, Hampton, 1703/4 .


.


522


Joseph, Hampton, 1704


.


526


Thomas, Hampton, 1652 .


23


Thomas, Hampton, 1712 .


685


Chesley, George, Durham, 1710 Philip, 1695 .


413


Samuel, Durham, 1708 ·


627


Thomas, Durham, 1697/8


434


Thomas, Durham, 1704 ·


535


Church, John, Jr., Dover, 1711 Churchwood, Gregory, 1670/I Clapham, Arthur, 1678 .


123


Clark, Edward, 1675 ·


167


John, Portsmouth, 1694


391


John, Newcastle, 1700 .


.


.


·


460


.


·


546


·


.


665


.


.


.


.


672


.


.


225


.


.


·


.


.


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LIST OF ESTATES


Clark. John, Exeter, 1706


. 547


Samuel, Portsmouth, 1686


.


.


· 303


Clement, Job, 1682


· 259


Job, Dover, 1716


793


Clifford, Bridget, Hampton, 1679


.


234


Cloutman, Edward, Dover, 1717


SIO


Coffin, Robert, Exeter, 1709


645


Colcord, Edward, Jr., 1677


190


Cole, Isaac, Exeter, 1706/7 William, Hampton, 1662 .


579


Combes, Alexander, Portsmouth, 1707 Cotton, John, Hampton, 1710 .


656


John, Portsmouth, 1714


736


Seaborn, Hampton, 1684 .


274


Thomas, Portsmouth, 1689/90


326


William, 1678 .


229


Cowell, Agnes, Portsmouth, 1681


253


Edward, 1677


203


Edward, 1692 .


370


Cox, Moses, Hampton, 1682


261


Cram, Benjamin, Hampton, 1707/8 Jonathan, Hampton, 1703/4


618


Crawford, Mungo, Newcastle, 1712 Susan, 1649


17


Cromwell, Philip, Dover, 1708


624


Crowder, John, Portsmouth, 1652


24


Cuddington, Stockdale, Hampton, 1650


20


Cummings. Richard, Portsmouth, 1678


219


.


631


Currier, Richard, Isles of Shoals, 1708 Cutt, Eleanor, Portsmouth, 1684


282


John, Portsmouth, 1680/I


245


Richard, Portsmouth, 1675


161


Samuel, Portsmouth, 1698


.


438


Ursula, Portsmouth, 1694


395


.


.


.


53


598


.


.


520


.


699


·


.


.


LIST OF ESTATES


xxvii


Dalton, Philemon, Hampton, 1656


33


Ruth, Hampton, 1665


.


.


.


.


84


Samuel, Hampton, 1681


257


Timothy, Hampton, 1657/8


36


Timothy, Jr., Hampton, 1662


53


Dam, John, Dover, 1687


316


Daniell, Thomas, Portsmouth, 1683


266


Davis, David, 1699/1700


454


Hopkin, Portsmouth, 171I .


670


John, Durham, 1685


290


John, Durham, 1702


493


William, 1697 .


·


426


Dearborn, Godfrey, Hampton, 1680


243


Thomas, Hampton, 1710 .


657


Demashaw, Hector, Isles of Shoals, 1677 Dennett, Alexander, 1698 ·


437


John, Portsmouth, 1709/10


·


·


653


Joseph, Portsmouth, 1714 ·


.


748


Derry, John, Durham, 1697


·


427


Deverson, Thomas, Portsmouth, 1705 Dew, John, 1674 ·


152


Dimond, Thomas, Star Island, 1707


593


Doe, Nicholas, 1691 .


355


Dole, Benjamin, Hampton, 1707


589


Dolloff, Christian, Exeter, 1708


.


626


Dore, Richard, Portsmouth, 1715/16 Dow, Henry, Hampton, 1659 .


783 38


Joseph, Hampton, 1703


502


Samuel, Hampton, 1714 ·


.


·


734


Simon, Hampton, 1707


. 601


Downes, Thomas, Dover, 1711


. 669


Drake, Abraham, Hampton, 1714 Robert, Hampton, 1663 ·


58


Drew, Francis, Durham, 1694 Francis, Dover, 1717


.


· 40I


.


· 799


.


·


186


.


.


.


542


.


.


.


.


·


.


.


.


728


.


.


·


.


·


.


.


.


.


xxviii


LIST OF ESTATES


Drew, James, 1674 ·


160


Samuel, 1669 .


· .


II5


Thomas, Durham, 1694


394


William, Durham, 1669


II5


Dudley, Samuel, 1682/3 .


262


Theophilus, Exeter, 1713


706


Durgin, William, Dover, 1702


494


Duston, Thomas, 1678 .


225


Edmunds, John, 1696


419


Thomas, 1696 . ·


419


Elkins, Gershom, Hampton, 1714


732


Henry, Hampton, 1667 Henry, Kingston, 1707


608


Ellins, Anthony, 1681


253


Elwell, Joseph, Newcastle, 1701


484


Estow, William, Hampton, 1655


30


·


30I


Evans, Ebenezer, Portsmouth, 1686 Robert, Dover, 1696/7


.


424


Fabes, Elizabeth, Newcastle, 1711 .


669


John, Newcastle, 1696 .


418


Fabyan, George, Portsmouth, 1692/3


38I


Fellows, Samuel, Hampton, 1707


599


Samuel, Jr., Kingston, 1715


776


Fernald, Joanna, 1660


44


Thomas, Portsmouth, 1711


671


Ferryman, William, 1700


468


Field, Darby, 1651


23


Joseph, Dover, 1690


338


Fifield, Benjamin, Hampton, 1706 .


560


William, Hampton, 1714/15 Fletcher, John, Portsmouth, 1695 Fogg, Samuel, Hampton, 1671/2 Foggett, Philip, 1664


.


.


753


410


129


78


Follett, Nicholas, Portsmouth, 1700


.


461


.


·


.


.


95


.


.


.


.


·


.


.


LIST OF ESTATES


xxix


Follett, William, Durham, 1690


339


Folsom, Ephraim, Exeter, 1709


646


John, Exeter, 1692/3 .


·


380


John, Exeter, 1715 .


780


Samuel, Exeter, 1701/2


.


493


Footman, Thomas, 1667 .


.


105


Foss, John, Dover, 1699


450


Frost, John, Star Island, 1713


710


· 507


537


142


Furber, Jethro, Portsmouth, 1686 Jethro, Newington, 1715/16


785


Joshua, Portsmouth, 1708


622


· William, Dover, 1699


451 :


William, Dover, 1707


604


Gale, John, Portsmouth, 1687


319


Garland, John, Hampton, 1671


127


George, James, Portsmouth, 1716 Gerrish, John, Dover, 1706 .


795


Richard, Portsmouth, 1717


.


808


Gibbons, Ambrose, Durham, 1656


32


Giles, Matthew, Durham, 1667 Gilman, Daniel, Exeter, 1683/4


269


Edward, Exeter, 1655


29


Edward, Exeter, 1690


. 335


John, Exeter, 1700 .


462


Moses, Exeter, 1701/2


489


Stephen, Kingston, 1712 ·


689


Goddard, John, 1667 John, 1672 ·


137


Godfrey, Isaac, Hampton, 1710 .


. 663


John, Hampton, 1697


· 426


William, Hampton, 1667 . .


.


108


·


·


Fryer, Joshua, Newcastle, 1703 . Nathaniel, Newcastle, 1704/5 Fuller, Giles, Hampton, 1673 . William, Hampton, 1690/I


. 35 I


304


.


.


.


·


554


IOI


.


.


.


.


100


1


.


LIST OF ESTATES


Goodwin, Robert, 1677/S ·


.


.


· 208


Gordon, Alexander, Exeter, 1697


.


·


430


James, Exeter, 1714 .


.


. 744


Gore, William, 1686


308


Goss, James, 16SS .


320


Gove, Edward, Hampton, 1712


680


Graffam, Samuel, Portsmouth, 1715


· 777


Graffort, Bridget, Portsmouth, 170I


. 473


Green, Edmund, 1668


.


109 465


Isaac, Hampton, 1712/13 ·


703


Gresham, Noah, 1677/8 .


206 662


Grout, Gabriel, Portsmouth, 1707


600


Grubb, Gabriel, 1677/S .


208


Hall, John, Greenland, 1677 .


195


John, Dover, 1700 . 459


Joseph, Greenland, 1685 .


293


Ralph, Dover, 1706/7


583


Samuel, 1690 .


336


Hallwell, Henry, Durham, 1663


60


·


140


388


265


85


Thomas, Dover, 1710 .


. 659


Harford, William, Dover, 1717


800


Harris, John, Portsmouth, 1710 Thomas, England, 1667 .


667


98


Harrison, Nicholas, Dover, 1707/8 .


620


Hart, John, Portsmouth, 1664/5


81


Harvey, Joachim, 1678 .


226


Onesiphorous, Isles of Shoals, 1672 Richard, 1678 .


.


137


216


·


Henry, Hampton, 1700


.


Griffith, Caleb, Portsmouth, 1710


1


Ham, William, Portsmouth, 1672 William, Portsmouth, 1693 Hanson, Isaac, 1683 Thomas, 1666.


LIST OF ESTATES


xxxi


Haskins, William, 1712 .


.


682


Hatch, John, Portsmouth, 1701


.


.


481


Hatherly, Henry, 1676


. ISO


Hayward, Hugh, Bristol, Eng., 1713/14


· 720


Heard, James, Kittery, Me., 1677


188


John, Kittery, Me., 1677 .


. 188


John, Dover, 1687 ·


312


John, Dover, 1707 ·


588


John, Dover, 1716/17


.


.


797


Samuel, Dover', 1697


. 43I


Hearle, William, Portsmouth, 1689


327


Herbert, Sylvester, Newcastle, 1683 Hill, Richard, 1677/8


206


Valentine, 1662


55


Hilliard, Benjamin, Hampton, 1677


. 199


Emmanuel, Hampton, 1657


35


Timothy, Hampton, 1712


682


Hilton, Catherine, Exeter, 1676


· .172


Edward, 1670/1


124


Edward, Exeter, 1699


443


William, Exeter, 1690


344


William, 1700 . ·


.


.


470


Winthrop, Exeter, 1710


668


Hinger, Marker, 1660


46


Hinkson, Thomas, Portsmouth, 1664


75


Hobbs, Henry, Dover, 1698


437


James, 1680


242


Morris, Hampton, 1706 ·


.


798


Hobby, Sir Charles, Boston, Mass., 1716/17 Hockaday, Nathaniel, Isles of Shoals, 1664 Hoddy, John, Portsmouth, 1684


78


. 280


Holdridge, Isabel, Exeter, 1689


328


Holland, Edward, Star Island, 1684 .


.


.


·


286


Roger, 1677/8 .


.


· 207


.


.


·


.


.


·


.


.


·


·


.


559


.


.


.


·


265


.


.


xxxii


LIST OF ESTATES


Horne, John, Dover, 1710 ·


. 659


William, Dover, 1691/2 ·


.


. 365


Hoskins, William, Newcastle, 1713


·


·


710


Howard, James, Portsmouth, 1708 . Howell, Abraham, Portsmouth, 1699


45I


Hudson, John, Newington, 1717 Huggins, John, Hampton, 1670 Robert, Dover, 1705 ·


.


118


Hull, Dodavah, 1682


258


Dodavah, Portsmouth, 1716


796


Reuben, Portsmouth, 1689


331


Hunking, Hercules, Star Island, 1659 John, Portsmouth, 1681


254


Mark, Portsmouth, 1667 .


102


Hunkitt, John, Hampton, 1670/I'


125


Huntress, George, Newington, 1715 765


Hussey, Christopher, 1684/5 .


287


Jackson, Clement, Portsmouth, 1708 621


John, Portsmouth, 1660


46


John, Portsmouth, 1690/I


346


Nathaniel, Portsmouth, 1715


769


Thomas, 1691 .


353


Walter, Durham, 1697/8 .


436


William, Portsmouth, 1672 136 .


Jaffrey, George, Portsmouth, 1706/7 581 James, Thomas, 1671 I26


Jenkins, Henry, 1670


120


Stephen, Durham, 1694


394


Jenness, Francis, Hampton, 1714


738


Joce, Christopher, Portsmouth, 1676 Jane, Portsmouth, 1689 .


330


John, Portsmouth, 1694 ·


. 392


Richard, Portsmouth, 1707/8


· 613


Johns, Catherine, 1660 .


·


46


.


628


.


.


545


.


40


.


.


.


177


.


803


LIST OF ESTATES


xxxiif


Johnson, Edmund, Hampton, 1650 .


20


James, Newcastle, 1678


213


Peter, Hampton, 1674


157


Thomas, Durham, 1661


5I


Jones, Francis, Portsmouth, 1713


712


George, Exeter, 1694/5


.


406


James, I686


·


302


John, Portsmouth, 1667


107


John, Dover, 1706


553


Thomas, Newcastle, 1712/13


.


702


Jordan, Robert, Newcastle, 1678/9


23I


Keais, Samuel, Portsmouth, 1716 .


796


Kelly, Abraham or Andrew, Newcastle, 1709


635


Kendrick, Joshua, 1662 . ·


56


Kennard, Edward, Portsmouth, 1712


700


Kenniston, John, 1677


19I


Kent, Oliver, Durham, 1670


.


120


Kimming, John, Exeter, 1708


625


King, Richard, Portsmouth, 1653 Thomas, Exeter, 1666/7 .


93


William, Isles of Shoals, 1664


75


Knight, John, Dover, 1694 ·


397


Knowles, John, Hampton, 1693/4


.


390


Ladbrook, Thomas, Portsmouth, 1684 Lang, Robert, 1715/16 .


· 285


·


785


Langdon, Tobias, Portsmouth, 1664 Larriford, John, 1672 · ·


8I


.


·


133


.


·


649


.


423


.


IIO


Lear, Tobias, 1677/8


· 204


Leavitt, Hezron, Hampton, 1702/3 . Isabel, Hampton, 1698/9 . .


· 499


.


· 449


·


·


.


.


·


.


·


25


.


Lavers, George, Portsmouth, 1683/4 Lawrence, David, Exeter, 1709/10 . Leach, James, Portsmouth, 1696/7 Leader, Richard, 1668 · ·


268


iii


Xxxiv


LIST OF ESTATES


Leavitt, Nehemiah, Exeter, 1715 .


· 763


Samuel, Exeter, 1707 .


· 594


Thomas, Hampton, 1692 .


370


Leggett, John, 1665


83


Leighton, John, Dover, 1712


693


Thomas, Dover, 1671


· I26


Thomas, 1677 .


200


Lemon, William, 1660


45


Lewis, John, Newcastle, 1700/I Philip, Greenland, 1700. .


468


Libby, James, 1678


.


. 227


Light, Henry, 1677/S .


207


John, 1685/6


. 300


Lines, John, Isles of Shoals, 1674


153


Lissen, Nicholas, Exeter, 1714


· 749


Lloyd, Allen, Portsmouth, 1672


· I37


·


492


Allen, Portsmouth, 1701/2 Edward, 1663 .


60


Locke, John, Hampton, 1706/7


584


Lovering, John, Dover, 1668 .


IIO


Lowe, John, Portsmouth, 1713


709


Ludecas, Mrs., Dover, 1664 .


75


Lux, Audrey, Portsmouth, 1688 William, Newcastle, 1684


·


280


Mann, Michael, Portsmouth, 1687 .


318


Mansfield, Henry, 1678 .


227


Manson, Richard, Portsmouth, 1702 Robert, Isles of Shoals, 1677


185


Marden, John, 1698 Rachel, 1706/7


440


Marsh, Henry, Durham, 1715


768


Marshall, Robert, 1663 .


60


Marston, James, Hampton, 1705


540


John, Hampton, 1699/1700


457


·


321


495


.


·


580


·


472


·


LIST OF ESTATES


XXXV


Marston, Thomas, Hampton, 1690


337


William, Hampton, 1672 .


· I4I


William, Hampton, 1701 .


485


Martin, John, 1664 . ·


·


72


Martyn, Matthew, 1677 .


182


Richard, Portsmouth, 1692/3


.


376


Richard, Jr., 1691 .


353


Mason, Elizabeth, Hampton, 1697


·


429


John, London, Eng., 1635


.


I


Robert Tufton, Portsmouth, 1692


. 372


Matthews, Benjamin, Durham, 1710/II


669


Francis, Durham, 1704


533


Isaac, Portsmouth, 1716 Walter, 1678 .


2II


Maud, Daniel, 1654/5 ·


27


Maverick, Antipas, Exeter, 1678


.


226


Meader, Nathaniel, Durham, 1705 .


. 539


Melcher, Edward, Portsmouth, 1695 Mills, Ann, Portsmouth, 1716


. 409


788 -


Richard, Portsmouth, 1715


.


782


Mingy, Jeffrey, Hampton, 1658


37


Moody, Joshua, Portsmouth, 1693 Moore, John, Jr., 1677


.


184


William, Exeter, 1700


·


47I


Morgan, William, Exeter, 1712


·


701


Morrill, Nicholas, Portsmouth, 1697


434


Morris, Thomas, 1701


487


Moses, Aaron, Portsmouth, 1713 Moulton, Daniel, 1671 .


716


Henry, Hampton, 170I


483


John, Hampton, 1649/50


18 585


William, Hampton, 1663/4


66


Mussell, Robert, 1663/4 .


·


61


·


·


790




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