What is Thomas Plummer Sr. correct date of death?

Question

The 12 July 1694 date of Thomas Plummer Srs. (Plummer-271) death on his profile cannot be correct. The copy of his hand written will that I uploaded was signed by Thomas on that date, 12 July 1694. Does anyone have any ideas. The only other death date that I have seen is for him is in February 1694 which certainly is not right.

Answer 1

I edited the date field to make that death date into an "after this date" entry.

The biography on that profile says the will was "written 12 Jul 1694, probate 26 Feb 1694." When I see an incongruous pair of dates like that, my first assumption is that the will was actually proved on 26 February 1695, but someone incorrectly interpreted the old-style date of 26 February 1694/5 as being 26 Feb 1694. Sure enough, on the last page of the handwritten will, the year in the date of probate is 1694/5. The will was proved on 26 Feb 1695 (modern-style date), so he died sometime between 12 July 1694 and 26 February 1695.