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Individual:
!Florence SHEARER KUESPERT says will dated; of Upwey, Dorset, England
Evidently a man of force & ability, as he acquired an extensive estate with
lands in Upwey, Marshwood, Whitchurch Canonicorum & Chardstock, etc, all in
Dorsetshire. In a Chancery suit it was variously claimed that his estate was
worth from 2000lbs.to 6000lbs. a very large estate for a yeoman of that period.
In 1625 he bought a lease of an estate called "Coweleyes" in Marshwood, the
lease to run for 99 years of during his life and the lives of his grandsons,
Joseph and Benjamin NEWBERRY, apparently as part of a marriage portion for his
daughter Jane who married Thomas NEWBERRY, who occupied the estate nearly
9 years until his removal to New England in 1634. The will of Christopher of
Upwey, Dorsetshire dated 1 July 1637. "To be buried in the church there
beside my wife." (Only the armorial & landed gentry & the wealthiest of the
yeomanry could secure sepulture inside the rural churches; all others were
buried in the church-yards. The burial of this DAVINOT family inside of
churches indicates their substantial position in the community.)
(The above from Florence SHEARER KUESPERT, with minor corrections. According
to the Complete Atlas of Britain, Chardstock is in Devonshire, very near the
common border of Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire.)
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