Margaret _____

Citations

1. [S1514] W. B. Trask, "Abstracts of Early Wills on Record and on the Files in the County of Suffolk, Mass.: William Cheney", The New England Historical and Genealogical Register XVI (April 1862): 164-166: Mentions "my deare & afflicted wife, Margaret Cheiney." Bequests to sons 1. John, 2. William and his wife Deborah on the condition that they "be reconciled & live together in Meedfeild or ells where to the satisfaction of John Wiswall, of Boston, & Deacon Parke of Roxbury, but not in Prouidence or that Jurisdiction," 3. Joseph and eldest son 4. Thomas and his sons Thomas and William, and 5. to daughters "Ellin, Margret and Mehitobell." Executors "my two sonnes , Thomas Cheiney and Thomas Hasting [husband of Margaret]." Overseers Mr. John Eliot, Deacon William Parke and Edward Denison. Witnesses John Newell and Samuel Scarborow on "Aprill the last, sixty seauen", who deposed 30 Jul 1667.
   Inventory of the estate taken by Edward Denison, Thomas Weld, July 10, 1667. Amt. £886:11:4.
   The land bequeathed is described as (1) "lying on the east side of the great lotts, being with in the great lotts, being twenty accres, more or lesse, being nowe in the possession of the sayd [son] John." (2) "a percell of meadow in the fresh meades being two accres." (3) "one accre of salt marsh." (4) "eight accres of land, more or lesse, lying neare the house of William Hopkinns." (5) " land lying in the third deuission, being thirty seauen accres." (6) all my houses & lands in Roxbury undisposed of before by this will," all of the preceding being part of "all my houses, lands, & orchards, that I die possessed of, either in Roxbury, Boston, or els where."
2. [S166] Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995-2011), III:235-40.
3. [S520] VWH, based on birth year of first child.
4. [S1514] W. B. Trask, "Abstracts of Early Wills in Suffolk: Cheney."