Mary Hopkins (1670 - 1743)

Born 1670 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Samuel Sedgwick — married 1689 in Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 4 Sep 1743 at about age 73 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Mary Hopkins [Stephen Hopkins / Dorcas Bronson] b. 1670 d. September 04, 1743, West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut bu West Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, Ancient Burying Grounds

Will

SEDGWICK, MARY Hartford, inventory taken Nov 25, 1743 by Daniel Webster and Moses Nash. Will dated 20 April 1743

I, Mary Sedgwick, relict of Samuel Sedgwick of Hartford decd., do make this my last will and testament: I give to my son Jonathan all my rights in the lands in Hartford on the east side of the Great River. Also, a meat barrel and a suet tub and 2 meal barrells and my great glass bottle.

To my son Ebenezer I give one feather bed with 3 blankets, and my chest of drawers; also my old great kettle and my little iron pott.

To my son Joseph I give a chest, bed and bedsted, and one blankett; also I give him the L6-10-00 which he borrowed of me some time ago; also a trammell, frying pan, a meat barrel and suet tub and the old worm tub. I give him my cow and 3 chaires: also I give him my iron mortar and pestle; also, one paire of shoes.

To my son Stephen I give the bed on which I have been used to lye, with the bedsted and furniture, one trammell, one paire of hand irons, also ye fire shovel and tongs, and a meat barrel.

To my son Benjamin I give all my right in the still; also my measures, viz., quart, pint and half-pint, he paying 20 shillings to his brother Joseph, old tennor. I give to Benjamin all the cooper's tools and my great Bible. And the rest of my books I would have divided among my children, also all my right in the undivided lands in Farmingtown.

To the children of my daughter Abigail decd., my colliminco frock and Barcelona handkerchief and Druget petticoat.

To the children of my daughter Mary decd., I give my best silk crape frock and sassenet hand-kerchief.

To the children of my daughter Elizabeth decd. I give my other silk crape frock and a gause handkerchief and a paire of red gloves, also a red quilt.

To my daughter Mercy I give my mourning crape frock, my black quilt and green riding hood. My blue cloak I give to my granddaughter Mercy Merrells. I give to my daughter Mercy my scarf and my silk apron, and my largest earthern pott, and my right in the side saddle. And my will is that if my daughter Mercy shall be taken away by death. my granddaughter Mercy Merrells shall have all I have bequeathed to her mother.

To my granddaughter Ann Sedgwick I give my new chest and old box and great chest with one drawer, my silk hood, a paire of new silk gloves, and my box iron and heaters, my great pott, quart skillett, and little brass kettle, also my chafing dish and half a dozen chaires, 4 new chaires and two high table chaires, all my pewter (excepting the measures which I have given to Benjamin), also all that carthenware not before disposed of, my cheese tub and churn and pilion, as also my table and looking-glass. Moreover, my will is that my sons, Jonathan, Joseph, Stephen and Benjamin, have and injoy equally my right in the Farmingtown land butting on Hartford: as is also my will that my syder barrells be divided equally abong my sons. My will further is that my linen and wearing apparrel not already disposed of be equally divided among the children of my three daughters decd. and my daughter Mercy. Further, it is my will that my heifer and stilyards be sold to pay my debts.

I give to the children of my son Samuel decd. 20 shillings old tennor, 5 shillings to each of them, and order my hetchel be sold to pay the same. I appoint my sons, Jonathan and Benjamin, executors.

Mary X Sedgwick Witness: Benjamin Colton, Caleb Watson, Anne X Flower

Source: The New Haven Colony Historical Society Sedgwick Collection Box 6 Folder R.