John Nott - Greybeard's Ghosts

Family

Claim	Detail	Evidence
Spouse	Ann (Nott) (e1601-)
Child +	Elizabeth Nott (e1633-) [S3013:474]	research

Attributes

Claim	Detail	Evidence
Gender	Male
Name	John Nott [S3013:474] [S3014:150]	research

Timeline

Claim	Date	Detail	Age	Evidence
Birth	est 1600 (1587-1606)

Sources

Index	Title
[S3013]	Lucius Barnes Barbour, "Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut" (1977).
[S3014]	Charles William Manwaring, "A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Vol. 1" (1904).

Note

His will was dated 10 Feb 1679 and proved 27 Feb 1681/2. His inventory was valued at £533-15-10.
The will:
I John Nott of Wethersfield, aged and infirm, but of perfect understanding & Memory, being desirous to settle things in order, doe make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following:
Item. I give and bequeath to my wife Ann Nott Convenient and necessary house roome In my dwelling house where I now live, & also £6 pr annum to be payd to her yearly out of the proffits & rents of my estate, & also the free use of so much of my household goods as she shall have need of to enjoy the sayd comfortable houseroom, together with the yearly payment of £6 pr yeare, & also the free use of my household stuffe as aforesayd for & during the full terme & time of her natural Life. I give and bequeath to my sayd wife a good milch Cow, to take her choyse of all the Cowes I have.
Item. I give to my daughter Elizabeth Reeves £30, to be paid to her out of my moveable Estate. I doe also give to my sayd daughter the one halfe of my houshold Stuffe, to be delivered to her after the decease of my wife.
I give to my daughter Hanna Hale Tenn shillings.
Item. I give & bequeath to my son John Nott all my houses & Lands that I have here in Wethersfield or els where, together with all my goods, Chattells & debts, that is to say, all whatsoever which I now have or shall have & stand possessed of or have good & Lawful right to at the time of my decease, the legacies only excepted before given to my wife & to my two daughters, & my sayd sonn paying to my wife out of the proffitts of my estate the yearly Rent of £6 pr yeare, year by yeare, for and during the full term of her natural Life. I ordain my son John Nott sole Executor of this my Last Will & Testament.
John Nott
Witness: Eleazer Kimberly, Ruth [X] Kimberly.
Proven 27 Feb 1681. before me, John Chester, Comissioner. John Nott, Elizabeth Reeve, Hanna Haell.
Ann Nott appeared and made oath to the Inventory.
Court Record, Page 51 -- 2 Mar 1681/2: Will Presented in Court.