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SARGENT, William

Male 1606 - Abt 1675  (69 years)


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  • Name SARGENT, William 
    Birth 1606  Bath, Somerset, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death Abt 1675  Amesbury, Essex, Massachussetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Will 29 Apr 1675 
    • The following is the will of William SARGENT ca 1606-1675, as recorded in Edwin Everett Sargent's book, "The Sargent Record," self-published in 1899.

      In the name of God Amen. the 24 day of March 1671\72 I William Sargent of ye town of Emefbury in ye County of Norfolk Maffachufettf in Newengland Seaman being in pritty good health of body & of found & pfect memorie (praise bee given to god for ye same) & knowing ye uncertainty of thif life on earth & being Defirouf to fettle thingf in order doe make thif my laft will & teftamt in manner & form That if to fayFirst & principally I comend my soule to Allmighty God my Creator affurdely believing yt fhall recieve full pardon & free remiffion of all my fins & bee faved by ye peciouf death & meritte of my bleffed Savioc & Redemmer Chrift Jefuf & my body to ye earth from whence it waf taken to bee buried in fuch Decent & Chriftian manner af to my Executoed hereafter named fhall be thought meete & convenient.

      And af touching fuch wordly eftate af ye lord mercy hath lent mee my will & meaning if ye fame fhal bee imployed & beftowed af hereafter by thif will & Teftament

      Item I give & bequeath to my grand child William Challis five poundf & to my grandchildren Elizabeth, Lydia, Mary & Phillip watson Challif to each of them twenty fhillings

      Item I give & bequeath unto my grand children Dorothie & Elizabeth Colby to each of them twenty fhillings

      Item I give unto my grand child William Sargent thirty shillings

      Itt I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elizabeth ye wife of Sam Colby five poundf

      Item I give all ye remayndere of my estate (these my legacies & my funeral chargef being firfte paid) unto my daughter Sarah both howfing & landf, chattelf & other movablef wt foever alwayf pvided that if fhe die wth out children that these howfing & landf: to bee equally divided: unto my four children hereafter named, i: e: my fons Thomaf & William & my daughters Mary & Elizabeth

      Item I do conftitute ordaine & appointe my fone Thomaf Sargent & my daughter Sarah Sargent Executors unto thif my will & Teftamt & doe make my loving brother in law Tho Bradbury & my efteemed friend Major Pike my overfeerf to take care that thif my will may bee prformed according to ye true intente & meaning thereof

      And to thif my last will & Teftament I doe hereunto fess my hand & feale ye day & year above named
      William Sargent (Seal)
      Signed, fealed and thto in
      ye prfence uf
      Thomas Bradbury
      The mark of MB Mary Bradbury
      John Bradbury
      Tho Bradbury & Jno Bradbury testified upon oath yt they faw Wm Sargent senr. figne, feale & declare thif to bee hif will before ye court held at Salifbury 13 Aprill 75
      Tho Bradbury rec
      Entered and Recorded in ye County recordf for Norfolk (tit 3d pa 6 ye 29th of Aprile 1675) as attefte
      Tho Bradbury recr

      He died in MAR 1673/74 at Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He will was proved on 13 APR 1675 in Salisbury, Essex County, Massachusetts.
      The inventory of the estate of "Willi. Sargent, Senr.," taken 8 April 1675 by Thomas Sergeant and John Weed, totalled ?196, of which the real estate totalled ?137 10s., including "housing & lands about the house & orchard on both sides [of] the country way," ?85; "half the lot in the tide meadows, ?16; "a Higledee Pigledee lot in the salt marsh" ?25; "a lot lying in ... Lyons Mouth," ?5 10s.; "a lot in the great swamp," ?2; "a lot in ... Bugmore," ?4.

      He has Ancestral File Number 8JD9-XN.
      In the General Court of records of Massachusetts Colony in April, 1633, by an act of the court, protecting certain grantees of land then at Agawam, now Ipswich, Massachusetts, in their rights and "Willm S'jeant" was one of those grantees.. He took the oath of allegiance to the Colony and King in 1639. He was one of the first settlers of Newbury in 1635. He was at Hampton, New Hampshire in 1639, and is taxed in Salisbury New Town, December 25, 1650, 7s.4d. He was next located at same place, now Amesbury and Merrimac, in 1655 where he resided until his death in 1675.
      . From site. [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colby/colbyfam/b406.html], "COLBY FAMILY & OTHERS" by owner Ronald M. Colby. Mar 2011.
    Person ID I8399  Ward
    Last Modified 2 Mar 2011 

    Family PERKINS, Elizabeth,   b. 1611, Hillmorton, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 18 Sep 1670, Amesbury, Essex, Massachussetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 59 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1633  Massachussetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. SARGENT, Elizabeth,   b. 22 Nov 1646, Salisbury, Essex, Massachussetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 05 Feb 1736, Amesbury, Essex, Massachussetts, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 89 years)
    Family ID F2183  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2018 

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