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Individual:
Son of Experience Mitchell and Mary.
SOURCE: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/a/d/Harry-C-Hadaway/GENE3-0006.html
[EDWARD MITCHELL'S WILL]
[From original will] On 4 February, 1716/17, "Edward Mitchel of Bridgwater .... Gentelman" made his will. Bequests were as follows:
To "my Son Edward my homestead wheron now 1 dwell with all my houseing and out houseing being about Seven Score Acres be it more or less by the known bounds of it" also "a tract of Land Lying on the Easterly Side of a Swamp being part of the swamp Called by the name of Center Swamp being about thirty & five acres more or less as also two Lots each Containing twenty acres more or less lying in a place Called Johns bridge neck"
To "my daughter Mary a parcel of Land Lying on the Easterly Side of nathanil Howards part of which being the house and homestead that formerly belonged to Samuel howard being in the whole about fifty acres more or less according unto the known bounds thereof"
To "my daughter Alce a certain tract or parcel of Land Lying near to a pond Called Setuckit pond not- far from where the Indians now dwell being about an hundred acres of the same more or less"
"my will is that if Either of these my three Children Should be taken away by Death before they arrive to lawfull age or are married that then their part be divided Equaly between the Surviving Children"
To "wife Alce (whom I Constitute .... Sole Executrix of this my last will ....) Several parcels of Land .... the one of them being the Second lot in the third devision being thirty acres more or less the other being twenty acres more or less lying near to the lands of mr Hersy of abbingtown the other being twenty acres Lying upon a plain Called Jonathans plane". To "my wife and three Children abovesd to be Equaly improved by them all my right in Cedar Swamps at a place Called Punkin bridge and at a place Calld poor medow Cedar Swamp" To "my wife abovesd all my moveables as also the improvement of all the Lands and houseing abovesd untill my sd Children shall Come to lawfull age as also a Small parcel of Silver money be the Same more or less-as also the fifth part of the Iron works at a place Called Titicut with two small Lots of Land lying near to the Same" "my wife above named Shall have one room in this my now dwelling house during her natural life if She See Cause and that my Son Edward after he Come to age shall yearly pay unto her the Sum of Ten pounds during her natural life if shee demand the Same"
The will was signed "Edward michell".
The witnesses were Benjamin Allen, Eleazer Carver and Solomon Pratt, all of whom made oath to the will on 24 April, 1717, before Nathaniel Thomas, Judge of Probate.
The will was probated, at Plymouth, on 25 April, 1717, by Nathaniel Thomas, Judge of Probate, and administration granted to "Alce Michell sole Executrix". [The will and letter were also recorded, 4: 17.]
[From original inventory] "An Inventory of the personal Estate of Edward Michell .... of Bridgwater .... Gentm who Deced the Fifteenth day of March Anno Dom 1716/17", was taken by Josiah Edson, Joseph Hayward, "Nathanael Brett", and Isaac Johnson, on 9 April, 1717. £440, 1s. were due the estate,
Children of ALICE BRADFORD and EDWARD MITCHELL are:
i. MARY MITCHELL, b. July 19, 1709, Plymouth , Plymouth, MA (Source: Mayflower Births & Deaths by Susan E. Roser); Stepchild.
ii. ALICE MITCHELL, b. December 23, 1714, Plymouth , Plymouth, MA (Source: Mayflower Births & Deaths by Susan E. Roser); d. December 20, 1779, Hingham, Plymouth co., MA (Source: Mayflower Births & Deaths by Susan E. Roser); Stepchild.
iii. EDWARD MITCHELL, b. February 07, 1715/16, Plymouth , Plymouth, MA (Source: Edward Mitchell's will.); d. December 23, 1801, East Bridgewater, Plymouth co., MA (Source: Mayflower Births & Deaths by Susan E. Roser); Stepchild
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