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the marriage took place in Farmington, rather than in Norwalk, where | the marriage took place in Farmington, rather than in Norwalk, where | ||
Mercy lived. It was very common then for the man to record his | Mercy lived. It was very common then for the man to record his | ||
- | marriage where //he //lived, for | + | marriage where //he// lived, for |
obvious reasons connected with inheritance. The apparent precipitancy | obvious reasons connected with inheritance. The apparent precipitancy | ||
of the marriage of Richard' | of the marriage of Richard' | ||
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dearth of available women, to marry her and bring her back from | dearth of available women, to marry her and bring her back from | ||
Norwalk and her Ruscoe relatives there, with her three younger sons? | Norwalk and her Ruscoe relatives there, with her three younger sons? | ||
- | Can she be blamed if it be considered who he was -"his place in | + | Can she be blamed if it be considered who he was -- "his place in |
- | the sun" - to have made a " | + | the sun" |
if such it was, though we can only speculate on that matter. | if such it was, though we can only speculate on that matter. | ||
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standard spelling of the name seems to have been generally accepted. | standard spelling of the name seems to have been generally accepted. | ||
- | <file> | + | <blockquote> |
- | | + | [The will of Richar]d Semer (1655)\\ |
- | | + | [ ] being very week & sike [ ] gods pon[?]\\ |
- | mercy in [ ] doe leve this as my [ ] doe first | + | mercy in [ ] doe leve this as my [ ] doe first\\ |
- | will and [ ] dust of w< | + | will and [ ] dust of w< |
- | hands of God that gave it [and I doe will and] bequeath unto my Loving wife | + | hands of God that gave it [and I doe will and] bequeath unto my Loving wife\\ |
- | Mercy [Seamor] my whole Estate: viz: my house & Lands Cattle and [all] | + | Mercy [Seamor] my whole Estate: viz: my house & Lands Cattle and [all]\\ |
- | my moveables: Except that it is my Will that [my] Eldest sonn Thomas should | + | my moveables: Except that it is my Will that [my] Eldest sonn Thomas should\\ |
- | have two steeres [ ] year old and upward and my best cartt: | + | have two steeres [ ] year old and upward and my best cartt:\\ |
- | thease [to] receive soen after my decease: | + | thease [to] receive soen after my decease: |
- | It is alsoe my will that my other three sons John & Zachary [and] Richard | + | |
- | receive out of this Totall estate the sum of forty pounds each of them viz: | + | |
- | fourty pounds to John and fourty pounds to Zachary and forty pounds to | + | |
- | Richard: duly and faythiully to be payd to them severally at the age of twenty- | + | |
- | one years: Unles the Executo< | + | |
- | It is alsoe my Will that my loving wife should have the dispose of my three | + | |
- | sons John Zachary & Richard untill such time as they shall be fit to receive and | + | |
- | dispose of ther Estate: It is alsoe my will and apoyntment that my loving Wife | + | |
- | Mercy: togather with my faythfull freind Richard Olmsted be the sole Executo< | + | |
- | and Administrato< | + | |
- | and all Lawfull debts and demands duly discharged by my loving wife Mercy: | + | |
- | It is my will that shee posses and enioy all the rest of my Estate. to this my | + | |
- | will and Testament I have set to my hand this 29th July 1655: | + | |
- | In the presence of us | + | |
- | Thomas Handford | + | |
- | Jno Rescoe | + | |
- | | + | It is alsoe my will that my other three sons John & Zachary [and] Richard\\ |
- | | + | receive out of this Totall estate the sum of forty pounds each of them viz:\\ |
- | therof | + | fourty pounds to John and fourty pounds to Zachary and forty pounds to\\ |
- | | + | Richard: duly and faythiully to be payd to them severally at the age of twenty-\\ |
- | </file> | + | one years: Unles the Executo< |
+ | It is alsoe my Will that my loving wife should have the dispose of my three\\ | ||
+ | sons John Zachary & Richard untill such time as they shall be fit to receive and\\ | ||
+ | dispose of ther Estate: It is alsoe my will and apoyntment that my loving Wife\\ | ||
+ | Mercy: togather with my faythfull freind Richard Olmsted be the sole Executo< | ||
+ | and Administrato< | ||
+ | and all Lawfull debts and demands duly discharged by my loving wife Mercy:\\ | ||
+ | It is my will that shee posses and enioy all the rest of my Estate. to this my\\ | ||
+ | will and Testament I have set to my hand this 29th July 1655: | ||
+ | |||
+ | In the presence of us\\ | ||
+ | Thomas Handford | ||
+ | Jno Rescoe | ||
+ | |||
+ | 25 octobar 1655\\ | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Court haveing examined the will of Richard Seamor they doe approve\\ | ||
+ | therof | ||
+ | |||
+ | William Hill: Secretary | ||
+ | </blockquote> | ||
The top section of | The top section of | ||
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| In bookes | [01-00-00] | | | In bookes | [01-00-00] | | ||
| In armes and ammunition | [03-02-00] | | | In armes and ammunition | [03-02-00] | | ||
- | | | ---- | | + | | | ---- | |
| Totall | [255-09-00] | | | Totall | [255-09-00] | | ||
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\\ | \\ | ||
[[english_origin|(< | [[english_origin|(< | ||
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+ | // | ||
+ | |||
+ | Briefly, about the founding of Connecticut, | ||
+ | for Puritan Nobleman by the Earl of Warwick, via King Charles. | ||
+ | Puritan has been misinterpreted over the centuries. | ||
+ | basically even more anti-catholic than the average Brit during this period, | ||
+ | and Queen Elizabeth, and later King James found their beliefs a little too | ||
+ | radical at the time to be politically acceptable. | ||
+ | problems at the time just breaking away from the Catholic Church and | ||
+ | establishing a more moderate alternative. | ||
+ | |||
+ | **[[wp> | ||
+ | the Colony of Connecticut. He was born in March 1590 in Dinton, Wiltshire, | ||
+ | England. Roger was the second son of Sir Thomas Ludlow of Maiden Bradley, | ||
+ | Wiltshire //(Maiden Bradley is today the home of John Michael Seymour, Duke | ||
+ | of Somerset)// and Jane Pyle, sister of Sir Gabriel Pyle. He matriculated | ||
+ | at Balliol College, Oxford in 1609 or 1610, and was admitted to the | ||
+ | Honourable Society of the Inner Temple in 1612." | ||
+ | |||
+ | According to the Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford | ||
+ | website [[http:// | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Founders of Hartford | ||
+ | |||
+ | {{hartford_founders_monument.jpg? | ||
+ | |||
+ | “Here are the 163 men and women listed in the Book of Distribution of Land as being those who settled in Hartford before February 1640. Their names are on a monument in Hartford' | ||
+ | |||
+ | | Jeremy Adams | William Gibbons | John Pierce | | ||
+ | | Matthew Allyn | Deacon Richard Goodman | Thomas Porter | | ||
+ | | Francis Andrews | Elder William Goodwin | Stephen Post | | ||
+ | | William Andrews | Ozias Goodwin | John Pratt | | ||
+ | | John Arnold | Seth Grant | William Pratt | | ||
+ | | Andrew Bacon | George Grave | John Purchas (Purkas) | | ||
+ | | John Barnard | Bartholomew Greene | Nathaniel Richards | | ||
+ | | Thomas Barnes | Samuel Greenhill | Thomas Richards | | ||
+ | | Robert Bartlett | Thomas Gridley | Richard Risley (Wrigley) | | ||
+ | | John Baysey | Samuel Hale (Hales) | Thomas Root | | ||
+ | | Thomas Beale | Thomas Hale | William Ruscoe (Reskoe, Rescue) | | ||
+ | | Nathaniel Bearding | John Hall | Nathaniel Ruscoe | | ||
+ | | Mary Betts | Stephen Hart | John Sable (Savell, Sables) | | ||
+ | | John Bidwell | William Hayden | Thomas Scott | | ||
+ | | Richard Billing | Hon. John Haynes | Thomas Selden | | ||
+ | | Thomas Birchwood | Rev. John Higginson | **Richard Seymour** | | ||
+ | | Peter Blachford | William Hills | John Skinner | | ||
+ | | Thomas Blackley | John Holloway | Arthur Smith | | ||
+ | | Thomas Bliss, Sr. | William Holton | Giles Smith | | ||
+ | | Thomas Bliss, Jr. | Rev. Thomas Hooker | Sergeant Thomas Spencer | | ||
+ | | William Blumfield | Governor Edward Hopkins | William Spencer | | ||
+ | | James Bridgeman | John Hopkins | John Stanley | | ||
+ | | John Bronson | Thomas Hosmer | Thomas Stanley | | ||
+ | | Richard Bronson | George Hubbard | Timothy Stanley | | ||
+ | | Capt. Thomas Bull | Thomas Hungerford | Thomas Stanton | | ||
+ | | Thomas Bunce | William Hyde | Deacon Edward Stebbins (Stebbin) | | ||
+ | | Benjamin Burr | Jonathan Ince | George Steele | | ||
+ | | Deacon Richard Butler | Thomas Judd | John Steele | | ||
+ | | William Butler | Ralph Keeler | George Stocking | | ||
+ | | Clement Chaplin | Nathaniel Kellogg | John Stone | | ||
+ | | Mss. Dorothy Chester | William Kelsey | Rev. Samuel Stone | | ||
+ | | Richard Church | Edward Lay | John Talcott | | ||
+ | | John Clarke | William Lewis, Sen. | Thomas Thompson | | ||
+ | | Nicholas Clarke | Captain Richard Lord | Thomas Upson | | ||
+ | | William Clarke | Thomas Lord | Robert Wade | | ||
+ | | James Cole | Thomas Lord, Jr. | William Wadsworth | | ||
+ | | Sgt. William Cornwell | Richard Lyman | Henry Wakeley (Walkley) | | ||
+ | | John Crow | John Marsh | James Wakeley | | ||
+ | | Captain John Cullick | Matthew Marvin | Samuel Wakeman | | ||
+ | | Philip Davis | Reinold Marvin | Nathaniel Ward | | ||
+ | | Fulke Davy | John Maynard | Andrew Warner | | ||
+ | | Robert Day | John Moody | John Warner | | ||
+ | | Nicholas Desborough | John Morris (Morrice) | Richard Watts | | ||
+ | | Deacon Joseph Easton | Benjamin Munn | Richard Webb | | ||
+ | | William Edwards | Thomas Munson | John Webster | | ||
+ | | Edward Elmer | Joseph Mygatt | Governor Thomas Welles | | ||
+ | | Nathaniel Ely | Thomas Olcott | William Westley | | ||
+ | | James Ensign (Ensigg) | James Olmsted (Holmsted) | William Westwood | | ||
+ | | Zachary Field | Dr John Olmsted | Elder John White | | ||
+ | | Thomas Fisher | Capt. Richard Olmsted | Samuel Whitehead | | ||
+ | | John Friend | William Pantry (Peyntre) | Major William Whiting | | ||
+ | | Samuel Gardner | William Parker | John Wilcock (Wilcox) | | ||
+ | | Daniel Garret | Deacon Paul Peck | Gregory Wolterton (Wilterton) | | ||
+ | | John Gennings | William Phillips | Thomas Woodford | | ||
+ | | Governor George Wyllys | | | | ||
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