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Individual:
James Bishop lived in Duxbury and Pembroke, Massachusetts. He
married Mary Hudson on December 12, 1665. He owned land on
Indian Head River in Duxbury in 1679. Mary's will was dated
August 3, 1732 and was probated on July 7, 1740. It indicates
that she resided in Pembroke and that James had died prior to
its writing. It mention her sons John, Hudson, James and
Ebenezer; her deceased daughters, Abigail Bonney and Mary
Lathley, and her still living daughters, Elizabeth Bonney and
Hannah Simmons. Note: In his book, The Bonney Family, 1898, C.
L. Bonney stated that John and James Bonney both married
daughters of James Bishop, the Deputy Governor of the
Connecticut Colony. THIS IS NOT CORRECT. Part of the confusion
is caused by the fact that both the Pembroke and New Haven James
Bishops had a wife named Mary and daughters named Elizabeth and
Abigail. However the New Haven James Bishop's daughter,
Elizabeth, was born May 3, 1657 (7 years before John Bonney) and
on September 12, 1667 married Eleazer Giles and his daughter,
Abigail, was born October 30, 1659 (12 years before James
Bonney) and she married (1) John Talmage and (2) William
Maltbie. Mary Bishop's will is further proof of the mistake by
C. L. Bonney. _____ WILL OF MARY BISHOP In the name of God
Amen. I Mary Bishop of Pembroke in ye County of Plymouth in ye
Province of ye Massachusetts Bay in New England, Widow and
Relict of James Bishop late of said Pembroke deceas'd being in
good health of Body, and of sound and perfect mind and memory
Praise be therefore given to Almighty God, Do make and ordain
this my present last Will and Testament, in manner and form
following (that is to say) First & Principally I commend My soul
into ye hands of Almighty God, hoping through ye Merits Death
and Passion of my Saviour Jesus Christ to have full and free
Pardon and Forgiveness of all my Sins and to inherit everlasting
Life: And my body I commit to ye Earth to be decently buried at
ye discretion of my Executors hereafter named and as touching ye
disposition of all such Worldly Estate as I shall Dye Seised of
I give and dispose thereof as followeth. First I will that my
just Debts and Funeral Charges shall be paid and discharged out
of my Estate before any division be made of it And as for my
sons John Bishop, Hudson Bishop, James Bishop and Ebenezer
Bishop, and the Children of my Deceased Daughters Abigail Bonney
and Mary Larthley they having had there parts of my late
Husband's estate before. I do give & bequeath that which I have
power to dispose of in Manner and form following (that is to
say) I give and bequeath all my sheep to my two grandsons
Nathaniel Bishop, son of Hudson Bishop, and Joshua Bishop, son
of John Bishop, to be equally divided between them. Item - I
give and bequeath unto my two daughter, Elizabeth Boney and
Hannah Simmons, all my beding & ye Rest of my Stock together
with all that I have without and within doors to be equally
divided between them. Finally I do hereby ordain and appoint
my trusty, well beloved friends, Nehemiah Cushing & Jacob
Mitchel, both of said Pembroke to a full & sole Executors of
this my last Will & Testament & I do hereby Revoke, disanul and
make void all former Wills & Testaments by me heretofore, made.
In Witness Whereof I ye said Mary Bishop to this my last Will &
Testament, do set my hand & seal this third day of August Anno
Domini 1732. her Mary X Bishop mark Published, Pronounced &
declared by ye sd. Mary Bishop to be her last Will & Testament
in Presence of us the Subscribers: Elizabeth Lewes Rachel
Mitchel Dan'll Lewis Junr. Will probated July 7th 1740 at
Plymouth, Massachusetts. _____ Genealogical Register of
Plymouth Families - William T. Davis - page 28: "BISHOP, James,
Duxbury and Pembroke, by wife Mary had John, Hudson, James;
Ebenezer, m. Amy Stetson, 1710; Abigail, m. James Bonney; Mary,
m. a Lathley; Elizabeth, m. a Bonney; and Hannah m. a Simmons.
BISHOP, John, Pembroke, son of above, d. 1756, leaving John."
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