The Pettibone Registry

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Kay Sharp was born in 1918, daughter of my father's sister. We share a grandmother, Cora Experience Pettibone. Cora's great-great-great-great-grandfather, John Pettibone was the first Pettibone on the North American continent, coming sometime before 1658. [Revision to this statement needed and coming, patience, please]

Kay's mother died before she was an adult and she (Kay) came to live with my parents for a while. She married Jim Pontius in 1938 and they settled in Schenectady, NY, where Jim worked for GE.

Kay became interested in her ancestry and began studying the Pettibone family. In 1970 she self-published (and copyrighted) a 64 page booklet entitled "The Pettibone Registry. Descendants of John Pettibone, 1633 - 1713." The introduction to this booklet reads:

The Pettibone Register is a listing of known descendants of John Pettibone, C. 1633-1713, freeman of Windsor and an original proprietor of Simsbury, Connecticut. Many other old Simsbury families are represented herein, for Simsbury is the place where Pettibone History begins and the thread of the family has been woven closely into the fabric of the Simsbury story. As an example, twenty of the fifty homes described in "Historic Simsbury Houses: were built either by Pettibone men or by husbands, sons, grandsons, or fathers-in-law of Pettibone women. Included in the Register as well are many pioneer families of later generations in Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio Michigan, Missouri, and points west, north and south.

The Pettibone Register is presented on the occasion of the Simsbury Tercentenary Celebration in a spirit of neighborliness and affection. It may well be that many of those joining in the celebration are more closely related one to another than is generally realized.

Kay continued her research, in 1980 she and Jim bought their first computer, an Apple II and thought they had entered the computer age. Some of the pages I have scanned are dated in the early 1990s, but are simply printed on paper. Kay and Jim never realized the full potential of the computer nor did they experience the internet. Their computer was an elegant typewriter, well suited to formatting pages. During this period, Kay and Jim traveled all over New England and the Midwest visiting libraries and other record repositories, finding and verifying birth, marriage and death information of the Pettibones and their descendants. They also traveled to England, visiting Scrooby Manor in search of Wm. Brewster's family, connected through the Humphrey family.

Kay survived Jim by a couple of years, but passed in 2007, leaving a over a ream of paper. Her children, my cousins kept the document, but weren't involved in the research and didn't really understand what they had. After a year of trying to straighten out my family, I asked them about their mothers' work and was told they had it, didn't quite no what to do with it.

I told them about WikiTree and showed them what I had done. They said I could post the information from Kay's research, and I have suggested scanning the original document and presenting that and a searchable PDF on DVD to anyone interested in having a copy.

To date, 10 Sep 2013, I have entered all 7 generation of the Registry and have it in PDF form on my computer. It takes 36 MBytes of space, Perhaps can be emailed. If you are interested in a copy, leave your profile name/number in the comments box on this page and I'll be in contact.

As of 31 December 2014, I've mailed out 12 copies of the Pettibone Registry to individuals who've requested them and sent copies to the DAR, the Simsbury Historical Society and the New England Historic and Genealogical Society. This document is available to any who wish to have a copy.

PETTIBONE REGISTRY First Generation Formatting lost, some problems may occur. THB

J 1JOHN PETTIBONE SARAH EGGLESTON 1633-1713 ca. 1643-1713 J John Pettibone, b. ca. 1633, d. Simsbury Cf 15 Jul 1713 ae. 80 [Barbour, Index to Connecticut Vital Records in the Barbour Collection; Simsbury Town Acts 2:31]; m. Windsor Cf 16 Feb 1664 Sarah Eggleston, b. Windsor Cf 28 Mar 1643, d. Simsbury Cf 8 Jul 1713, dau. of Begat and Sarah (Talcott) Eggleston of Windsor cr. Children born in Windsor CT Married: 1 John 15 Dec 1665- 18 Sep 1741 Mary Bissell 2 Sarah 24 Sep 1667- 3 Apr 1748 1 )John Mills 2)John Humphrey 3 Stephen 3 Oct 1669- Nov 1750 Deborah Bissell Children born in Simsbury CT 4 Samuel 2 Sep 1672- 11 Feb 1747 Judith Shepard 5 Rebecca 19 Mar 1675- 13 Oct 1731 Thomas Holcomb 6 Henry 20 Jun 1677- ca. 1706 7 Ann 11 Mar 1679- 12 Jul 1753 John Holcomb 8 Benjamin 28 May 1882- 12 Mar 1706 d. ae. 25 9 Joseph 11 Mar 1689- 14 Sep 1763 1)Thanks (Shepard) Adams 2)Hannah Large [Henry R. Stiles, The History and Genealogies of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, 2: 198.) On a spring day in 1658 John Pettibone, some twenty-five years of age, stood before two magistrates in the town of Windsor, Colony of Connecticut, New England, and swore the oath of a freeman: I, John Pettibone, being by the Pruidence of God an Inhabitant within the Jurisdiction of Conecticott, doe acknowledge myselfe to be subjecte to the Gouernmente thereof, and doe sweare by the great and fearefull name of the euerlieuing God, to be true and faythefull unto the same, and doe submitt boath my prson and estate thereunto, according to all the holsom Iawes and orders that there are, or hereafter shall be there made, and established by lawful authority, and that I will neither plott nor practice any euel ag' the same, nor consent to any that shall so doe, but will tjmely discouer the same to lawfull authority there established, and that I will, as I am in duty bownd, mayntayne the honner of the same and of the lawfull magestratts thereof, promoting the publik good of Yt, whilst I shall soe continue an Inhabitant thereof, and whomsoeuer I shall giue my voate or suffrage touching any matter which conserns this Comonwelth be cauled thereunto, will giue Yt as in my conscience I shall judge may conduce to the best good of the same wthout respect of prsons or favor of any man. Soe help me God in or Lord Jesus Christe. (J. Hammond Trumbull, The Public Records of the Colony of Connec· ticut 1 :62-3). 2 John Pettibone's name on a list of seventy names of men who were "made free" by a General Court of Elections in Windsor on 20 May 1658 is the earliest evidence of his existence in America [Trumbull, 1:315]. The event, although it tells little about him, provides all we know of his personal characteristics as a young adult. In the Colony of Connecticut in May 1658, there were three qualifications for becoming a freeman: namely, (a) that a man be over sixteen years of age; (b) that he swear the Oath of Fidelity before two or three magistrates; and (c) that he obtain an affidavit from all or a majority of the deputies of his town affirming his "peaceful and honest conuersation" [Trumbull, 1:139]. Within less than a year, the General Court had ordered two additional requirements: (a) that a candidate for freeman should be twenty-one years of age instead of sixteen, and (b) that he should have £30 of proper personal estate or have held office in the Commonwealth [Trumbull, 1:331); but John Pettibone had already been elected before this ruling took effect. Thus the known facts were that John Pettibone was over sixteen, was willing to swear allegiance to the Colony of Connecticut, was considered peaceful and honest by his peers, and was admitted to voting by membership by the ruling elders. Since he was about twenty-five years old when he took the oath, John Pettibone may have been at that time a recent immigrant to the colony. However, the main inference to be derived from the event is that he was accepted at a relatively early age as an equal by the majority of the townsmen of his . time and place. Beyond that nothing is known of his parentage, childhood, or youth. The tentative year of his birth is derived solely from the fact that his gravestone in the Simsbury cemetery was engraved with his death date, 15 July 1713, and his age at death as eighty. When John Pettibone married Sarah Eggleston he joined ranks with a founding family of Connecticut. Sarah's father, Begat (or Bigod) Eggleston, of Exeter, England, was a minister who came from England to Massachusetts Bay in 1630 with the Winthrop fleet, became a freeman in Dorchester in 1631, and journeyed by foot through the forested wilderness with Reverend Warham's pioneer settlers in 1635 to the site of Windsor on the Connecticut River [Stiles, 1:52). Sarah, Begat Eggleston's fifth child, was born in Windsor in 1643 when it was still a tiny outpost which had to maintain a constant defense against wolves, bears, and possible Indian attacks; and whose inhabitants were often hungry to the point of starvation. The first shelters in Windsor were dugouts, dug into the side of a hill (facing east, if possible) with walls formed from the dug up dirt, roofs of tree limbs and hand-hewn rafters covered with wild-grass, and front wall and floor made of hand-hewn planks and short logs, cloven or split. The dugouts were replaced as rapidly as possible by frame houses made of clapboards, each one sawn by hand in a sawpit and nailed together by nails pounded out one by one on an anvil. Sawmills did not supplant hand sawing in Windsor until 1665, so replacement of the dugouts was slow and laborious [Stiles, 1:33). The Dorchester men from Massachusetts who founded Windsor in 1636 earned the right to do so only by winning a three-way race for the right of settlement. Plymouth Colony, which had bought the land three years earlier from several Indian tribes who wanted protection from the fierce Pequot Indians, had established a trading post near the Connecticut River on which it had fortified a small house brought by boat from Plymouth and manned by a small garrison. The garrison had already successfully defended itself against a Dutch sortie from New Netherland. When the Dorchester men occupied the land cleared by Indians along the river, the resident agent of the garrison, Jonathan Brewster, eldest son of Elder William Brewster of Plymouth Colony, protested bitterly, citing Plymouth's claim to the land [Stiles, 1:25) .. Further complications arose when a group of some twenty noblemen who had been granted a vaguely-worded patent by the Plymouth Council in England arrived to stake a claim. This group was persuaded to tum back to the fort they had begun of the mouth of the Connecticut River at Saybrook, named for two of the noblemen, Lord Say and Seal and Lord Brook; but the original dangerous dispute continued, with the Dorchester men insisting not only that Massachusetts Bay Colony had jurisdiction, but that the land should be settled and that the men, women, and children from Dorchester were ready and willing to take on the task. Nter more than a year of dispute, Plymouth Colony sold most of its land to the Dorchester settlers, keeping only 43 3/4 3 acres of meadowland on which the trading house stood. The remaining 656 acres, just over one square mile of land, were the nucleus of the common lands of Windsor proprietors [Hayden, "The Settlement of Windsor," in Stiles, I:29-52]. In the next four decades huge outlying areas were acquired from various Indian sachems by agents of the town as well as by private individuals. One such acquisition was a series of deeds granting all of a large area known as Massaco (pronounced Mas-saw'-co) to one John Griffin of Windsor by its Indian owners in return for the release of an old Indian held by Griffin on the charge that he had destroyed a large supply of Griffin's tar and candlewood by fire. The original deed was given to Griffin in 1648 and its validity reaffirmed in 1661, at which time John Griffin conveyed the entire property to "the Committee appoynted fer to dispose the lands at Massaco for the use and benefit of f plantation of Windsor. . . " [Lucius I. Barber, A Record and Documentary History of Simsbury, p. 22] Even before the formal conveyance, Windsor had granted large plots of land at Massaco to various citizens. In 1663 a committee was appointed by the General Court of Connecticut Colony to "lay out all those lands. . . yet undivided at Massaco, to such inhabitants in Windsor who desire and need it." [Barber, 32] John Pettibone, whose marriage took place in Windsor in 1664 and whose first three children were born there, was one of twenty-five men granted land at Massaco, 29 April 1667. The location of each man's land was decided by lot, with distribution to "begin at t uper end of Nod Meadow, and so to go downward." John Pettibone drew lot #4 and was assigned the fourth lot from the beginning of the meadow [Barber, 34-35]. In notes taken from the Simsbury Town Acts, Book I., John Pettibone's lot was "17 rods by the river and run westerly 40 rods." [Ellsworth, "D.AR. Notebook," in Simsbury, Connecticut, Public Library.]. The terms of settlement were simple but arduous: those who wished to secure their grants had to agree to: (a) plow, mow, fence, and build a habitation on their property within two years; (b) promise to live upon their land for three years before they could sell any of it; and (c) agree to allow a highway across their land if it should be needed for the good of the community [Barber, 33-4]. In the next year, on 5 October 1668, the proprietors of the Massaco lands met again in Windsor, and all twenty-five agreed to take uplands varying in quantity from forty to eighty acres apiece. Each further agreed to fence his own land by the first of May 1669 or forfeit £5 to the Colony [Oliver Seymour Phelps, History of Simsbury, Granby, and Canton, 1682-1845, 14}. By the end of 1669 thirteen settlers had taken possession of their lands and had settled in parallel rows along opposite sides of the Farmington River, John Pettibone on the western bank. By order of the Assembly of Connecticut Colony, a return was made in 1669 showing the names of those who were then "stated inhabitants of Massaco and have been freemen of Windsor." Listed were: Thomas Barber, John Case, Samuel Filly, John Griffen, Micall Houmfery, Joshua Holcom, Thomas Maskell, Luk Hill, Samuel Pinney, Joseph Phelps, John Pettibone, Joseph Skinner, Peter Buell [Barber, 38]. Within the next three generations descendants of each of these men except Thomas Maskell and Joseph Skinner married into the Pettibone family. The settlers built their homes in Massaco of logs covered with thatch or bark, without windows and often without flooring. But the meadows--long cultivated by Indians--were cleared and fertile, Colony taxes were remitted for the first three years, and Indian problems had lessened. In 1670 the inhabitants petitioned the General Court for town privileges. The request was readily granted and the name of their settlement was changed from Massaco Plantation to Town of Simsbury. Its boundaries were set to run ten miles west from Windsor and ten miles north from Farmington [Barber, 40]. All the land within this huge area not already granted to individual owners became the common property of the proprietors as a whole, according to the custom of the times. Over the ensuing years there were periodic divisions of the "outlands" among the original proprietors or their heirs, althouh strong opposition to this practice rose almost immediately. As early as 1672 a 4 town meeting voted to distribute a small portion of the outlands to all the inhabitants of the town. This action was rescinded by a subsequent town meeting in 1680, as were several later similar attempted actions. The original proprietors held firmly to their rights except for one major breakthrough in 1723 (for which see 11 John Pettibone), some years after which they regained exclusive power over remaining common lands until all were distributed at a final proprietor's meeting in 1820 [Phelps, History of Simsbury, 80-82). In the summer of 1675 a savage conflict between settlers and Indians, later called King Philip's War, broke out in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and immediately threatened Connecticut as well. Simsbury was particularly exposed to attack, unprotected from the wilderness on the north and west and bounded on the east by the wide, deep Farmington River. Twice, in October 1675 and again in March 1676, all Simsbury inhabitants moved into Windsor or Hartford by order of the General Court. Each time they carried with them what goods they could, herding their cattle and leading their families on narrow footpaths through the forests and hills, fording the river at its only shallow spot "above the falls." John Pettibone's family at the time of its second march to Windsor in March 1676 consisted of himself, his wife Sarah, and his five children: John, aged 10; Sarah, 8; Stephen, 6; Samuel, 3; and Rebecca, born March 9 in that very month. The attack expected in October 1675 never occurred, and the Simsbury people returned to their homes during the winter; but the March exodus six months later turned out to be a narrow escape from total destruction. On Sunday, 26 March 1676, the abandoned village of Simsbury was savagely attacked by an Indian war party. After general looting during the day, provisions, produce, furniture, fences, and farming utensils were collected in heaps and burned. That night the forty homesteads of the community, with their houses, barns, and other buildings of the community spread over seven miles were put to the torch. The result was utter desolation. Phelps says that no destruction of any English settlement before or after that time was more extensive than the burning of Simsbury (Phelps, 24]. The town remained deserted for over a year until in March of 1677 the Council of War gave the inhabitants permission to return to their lands, and the town of Simsbury ordered the following men to build at Weatogue (the southwestern section of Simsbury], on the west side of the river: John Pettibone, Sr., John Case, Benajah Holcombe, and Samuel Wilcoxson [Simsbury Town Acts, 1:24, in Ellsworth, "D.AR. Notebook," n.p.]. John Pettibone, expecting a sixth child to be born in June that year, returned to Simsbury in March to start life anew. Two months later, in May, he signed with nine others a petition to the General Assembly stating that he lived in Simsbury and requesting that town taxes be levied only on land for the next three years and that Colony taxes be forgiven entirely for that period. This request was granted [Phelps, 27]. Rehabilitation was slow and painful, nevertheless. No representatives to the General Assembly were elected from 1675 to 1689, and no Colony tax was levied until 1689. The one evidence of progress was the erection of a sawmill on Hop Brook in 1689, enabling the still returning settlers to build more substantial homes. The small home built of hand hewn timbers by John Pettibone in 1679 before the advent of the sawmill was so sturdy that it still stood and was in good condition more than 200 years later. It has been described from eyewitness accounts as a story-and-a-half house, with an overhang, that had been used as a blockhouse. It was torn down near the turn of the twentieth century by Mrs. Horace Winslow [J44441 Charlotte (Pettibone) Winslow] because she considered the old house an eyesore which destroyed the view from the large Victorian home she was building farther back from the road on the original Pettibone homestead [verbal reminiscence of J44441*12 Lillian Winslow Smith, 1966]. The Winslow home still stands on Hopmeadow Street on the first allotment awarded to John Pettibone in 1667. Inventories of estates in 17th-century Simsbury show but a few plain and cheap pieces of furniture then in use. Stools and forms (narrow benches without backs) were used instead of chairs; candlewood (made of dry pine knots or heavy pine limbs saturated with pitch and split into 5 convenient sizes for burning) was the chief source of light. Clothing was generally made of homespun and was handed down for years as long as it was usable [Phelps, 76) For many years after the reconstruction of Simsbury's farms, the inhabitants had so little manpower and capital that it was impossible for them to maintain, or often even to install, fencing around their pastures and croplands. This led to a vicious circle of circumstances; livestock roamed for forage at will, destroying crops indiscriminately and reducing the ability to solve the problem of everyone involved. A petition presented by the Selectmen of Simsbury to the General Court in 1687 conveys a sense of the passions aroused by the problem: ... Whereas we the inhabitants of Simsbury ... by the blessing of God upon our labors have bin from year to year in good hopes and expectation of a Considerable harvist ... by the fair and promising show upon our lands ... when we have bestowed our Labours--yet then to be destroyed and devoured, one by his Neighbour: and every man of & by another without reliefe, it is a most grievous and perplexing consideration ... and seeing that it is wondered at, why Simsbury men are so poor, the Judicious may easily discerne the reason of the same ... [Barber, 101). Throughout John Pettibone's later life, controversies about fences between neighbors were being argued in courts. Much earlier, though, in fact from the very inception of Simsbury, lively dissension became a way of life for Simsbury people, largely through force of circumstance, for in the town's first year a raging controversy over where to build a meeting house arose. The population of the town was almost equally divided between those who lived on the east and west sides of the Farmington River. There was neither a bridge nor an established ferry across the river, and during winter and spring it was extremely difficult to ford. Since religion was of first importance to this Puritan-bred second generation of Americans, and since there was a law requiring every able-bodied person to attend public worship on the Sabbath Day, it was seen by those of both east and west as absolutely vital to have the meeting house on their own side of the river. From 1671 until 1681 successive town meetings voted first one way, then the other, in a chaotic succession of measures passed and then rescinded. During this decade Simsbury was unable to persuade a minister to settle in town, but Mr. Samuel Stone of Windsor was hired to preach on a fairly regular basis, and whether he came or not the people continued to gather for public worship. Finally on 1 December 1681 a town meeting voted to commit the question of the site of the meeting house to arbitration and asked the Honorable Major Talcott and Captain Allyn of Windsor to make the choice for them, stating that they would abide by the decision. The two men accepted the responsibility. In a conciliatory report submitted two months later they stated that they had interviewed the people of both sides, had reviewed the town meeting votes on the issue, and had come to a firm decision that the meeting house should be set upon the west side of the river. They further proposed that the town should build a bridge or provide free passage by ferry on the Sabbath Day for those on the east side and that the east side should be represented by at least one selectman at all times. Instead of accepting this solution as promised, the majority still felt it was the wrong one; the town meeting put it to a vote. Faced with a final decision, on 2 February 1681 the arbitrators' ruling was rejected 17 to 12. The whole bitter problem was raised anew and boiled to a fiercer pitch than before. Finally, more than a year later, it was proposed that the town cast lots to decide the matter. On 7 May 1683 a paper was drawn proposing that there should be appointed " ... a day to meet together in a solemne manner to cast lott for 'f place where the providence of God by lot shall cast it" [Barber, 152]. Thirty-two men signed the paper: Joshua Holcomb, John Case Sen', Michall Humphry, Simon Mills, John Moses, John Pettibone Sen', John Terry, Joseph Phelps, Nicholas Gozzard, Nicholace , Eveens, Andrew Hillyer, Jere Gyllet, Eliezer Hill, Samuall Humphry, John Williams, Georg 6 Sanders, William Persons, Samuel Willson, Arthur Hanbery, John Slater, John Humphry, Luke Hill, Daniell Adams, John Griffin, Samuel Persons, Edward Pearce, Ebenezer Persons, Thomas Griffin, Richard Segar, Joseph Persons, Elias Gyllett, Josiah Owen--all, or nearly all, the voters then residing in the town. Major Talcott and Captain Allyn approved the plan, and the record of the outcome reads as follows: At a solemne Meeting of May the 24m 1683 Whereas there is papers put into 1 hat, the one east and the other for the west side of the river, for the decision of the Two places formerly nominated it is now agreed that the first paper that is drawn shall be 'I !ott. this vatted. the lot that came forth was for the west syd the river. (memorandum) those papers that were drawn for 1 lot were written by Joshua Holcomb y• lot which drawn which was the decision of the controvercie, was drawn by William persons men liveing both on 'I east syde the river [Barber, 154]. Once this solution was handed down from the court of last resort, the decision was accepted without question. The meeting house, the 28' by 24' frame for which was already built on the strength of a contract let twelve years before and renewed in 1682, was promptly set up in front of the "burying ground" on the west side of the Hopmeadow, a site now occupied by the central entrance of the cemetery, and was completed in 1783. [Barber, 145-156]. The church itself was not formally organized until fourteen years later, however. The congregation's original minister, Mr. Samuel Stone, had meanwhile been excommunicated for being an unrepentant drunkard and had, in fact, fallen into a small river in Hartford and had drowned after a round at the tavern. Three other candidates initially answered the call but moved on without accepting a final settlement before the town found a minister. In 1697 twenty-year-old Mr. Dudley Woodbridge of Wethersfield accepted the call in consideration of a yearly salary of sixty pounds (twenty pounds of it in silver), a parsonage and lot plus ten acres of meadow and fourteen acres of pasturage, a barn, a pledge by fifty-seven church members to work for the church for three days annually for four years, and a guaranteed supply of firewood. On 10 November 1697 Mr. Woodbridge was ordained in a ceremony that was following by the organization of the church body. The organization was accomplished by the public avowal of the Church Covenant, shown below, by all those who would promise to be tried and examined by the elders of other churches: You do all here, Solemnly here in the feare of God all presence of this Congregation, avouch God in Jesus Christ to be your God; and you do give up your selves and yours to be the Lords to submit to his rule and gouernment in his church, to obey his commands walke in all Religious duties towards God; in love towards your Neighbours; and that you will do your duty in bringing up your children in the knowledg and fears of God According to the Scriptures [Barber, 175]. Of the twenty-five men (one of whom was an Indian) and the seventeen women who were the first members of the Simsbury church, three were Pettibones: John, Sr., Sarah, and John, Jr. Simsbury had been in existence for twenty-seven years, and of the original list of "Freemen of Windsor Now at Massaco" only three were still alive, John Pettibone, John Case, .and Peter Buell. As it happened, John Pettibone outlived all but one on the list. John and his wife Sarah lived well into the eighteenth century in the town he had help to found and in whose often stormy affairs he had taken full part. He died 15 July 1713 at the age of 80, and Sarah preceded him in death by just one week, 8 July 1713, aged 70. John Pettibone's will, dated 2 December 1707, and a codicil dated 1 November 1711, are filed in the Connecticut State Library, as is an inventory of his estate, taken 22 July 1713. The inventory added up to the respectable sum of £417-10-10, of which 262 represented the value of 7 his 120 acres and 27 rods of land. His property included his homelot, situated along 28 rods of road (now Hopmeadow Street), accounting for £100-9-0 of his estate, and the following land: 10 acres 1!2 land Nod Meadow; 6 acres 1!2 land Hazel Meadow; 22 acres in Pettybone swamp; 2 acres on minister's brook in great swamp; 11 acres 1!2 land on Salmon Brook; 3 acres cobbler's lot; 3 acres upland within ye meadowland; 40 acres land at west river; 13 acres on second brook. His will reads as follows: Pettebone, John, Sen., Simsbury. Died 15 July 1713: Invt. £417-10-10. Taken July 1713, by Joseph Phelps, Joseph Case, and John Slater. Will dated 2 December 1707: I, John Pettebone, Sen., do make this my last will and testament: give to my wife Sarah, I will and give to her, my household goods that belongs to the house within doors, to be for her comfort while she lives, and at her disposal when she dies. I give to my eldest son John Pettebone, besides what I have formerly given him, all that land joining to Samuel Wilcockson, Jr. I give him my land at Brickiln swamp. I give to my son Stephen Pettebone, besides what I have already given him, the 1/2 of my 40-acre lott; also my land which I have at Bam Door Hills. I give to my son Samuel Pettebone, besides what I have already given him, the other half of my lot at the West River with his brother Stephen, and my lot in Hazel Meadow, and the half part of my lotment of land at Second Brook. I give to my son Henry Pettebone the 1/2 part of my house and homestead, with the lands that are mine adjacent thereunto; also 1/2 of my lot in Nodd Meadow. I give to my son Joseph Pettebone the other half of my house and homested and the land adjacent, the other half of my Nod Meadow lot, and the other moiety of my lot upon Second Brook. I give to my daughters, besides what they have already received: to Sarah, 20; to Rebeckah, £3; to Anne, £20; also to my grandchild Sarah Mills, that lives with me, £5; and in case of her decease this £5 to go to the other grandchildren by the name of Mills. I appoint my sons John Pettebone and Samuel Pettebone executors. Witness: Dudley Woodbridge, John X Pettebone, LS. John Higley, Sen., Samuel Wilcockson A codicil added to the will bearing date 1st November 1711. Witness:Samuel Wilcockson John X Pettebone, LS. Timothy Woodbridge, Jr. Court Record, Page August 141-3 1713: Will proven. [Manuscript room, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut. )2

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