Notes for NICHOLAS COTTRELL:
Nicholas Cottrell is first mentioned in the list of inhabitants of Newport, Rhode Island on May 20, 1638. He was admitted a freeman in 1655. He represented the Town of Westerly in the Colonial Assembly in 1670. He is one of the signers of the Misquamicut (Westerly) Purchase Contract. He afterwards bought a tract of 700 acres of Plymouth Colony in that part of Taunton now called Freetown, Mass. Here he died in 1680. He left a will probated in Taunton in which he mentions 8 children. His son, Jabez, was executor.
Nicholas was twice married. The name of his first wife is unknown; but his second wife was Martha. After Nicholas' death, she married Walter Morey (Merry).
Nicholas Cottrell's will was admitted to probate in Plymouth Co., Mass. Feb., 1680. He gives his oldest son Nicholas 5 shillings, he having received a sufficient portion of me before; to son John 100 acres of land which he now liveth upon at Skonomicutt by Narragansett; to son Gershom one hundred acres at Sconomacut that he now liveth upon; to son Elizer 5 shillings; to daugher Mary two pounds; ten shillings to grandchild Hannah Crowe to be payed at her marriage; to daughter Hannah 8 shillings which her husband owed me and my warming pan; to grandchild Nicholas Osburn 100 acres upon the lott I now live on by the Taunton River not to receive it until after the decease of his fther and mother; to wife Martha 100 adjoining the above, to be hers during her life and after her decease to fall to son James; also to wife three cows, one mare, one breeding cow, one pott and kettle, one bed and bedding and if it please God to take me away now, she is to have as much provision as will serve her own spendings until next harvest. Also she shall have libertee to cut as much Grasse of my meadow as will winter her three cows two years; to son James all the rest of my land, cattles, hogs, and horse kind and household stuffle. My son Jabez is to be sole executor.
Inventory -- house and land which sot 100 shillings, tools, one little horse and colt; cattle and pigs 32 shillings.
Nicholas Cottrell is first mentioned in the list of inhabitants of Newport, Rhode Island on May 20, 1638. He was admitted a freeman in 1655. He represented the Town of Westerly in the Colonial Assembly in 1670. He is one of the signers of the Misquamicut (Westerly) Purchase Contract. He afterwards bought a tract of 700 acres of Plymouth Colony in that part of Taunton now called Freetown, Mass. Here he died in 1680. He left a will probated in Taunton in which he mentions 8 children. His son, Jabez, was executor.
Nicholas was twice married. The name of his first wife is unknown; but his second wife was Martha. After Nicholas' death, she married Walter Morey (Merry).
Nicholas Cottrell's will was admitted to probate in Plymouth Co., Mass. Feb., 1680. He gives his oldest son Nicholas 5 shillings, he having received a sufficient portion of me before; to son John 100 acres of land which he now liveth upon at Skonomicutt by Narragansett; to son Gershom one hundred acres at Sconomacut that he now liveth upon; to son Elizer 5 shillings; to daugher Mary two pounds; ten shillings to grandchild Hannah Crowe to be payed at her marriage; to daughter Hannah 8 shillings which her husband owed me and my warming pan; to grandchild Nicholas Osburn 100 acres upon the lott I now live on by the Taunton River not to receive it until after the decease of his fther and mother; to wife Martha 100 adjoining the above, to be hers during her life and after her decease to fall to son James; also to wife three cows, one mare, one breeding cow, one pott and kettle, one bed and bedding and if it please God to take me away now, she is to have as much provision as will serve her own spendings until next harvest. Also she shall have libertee to cut as much Grasse of my meadow as will winter her three cows two years; to son James all the rest of my land, cattles, hogs, and horse kind and household stuffle. My son Jabez is to be sole executor.
Inventory -- house and land which sot 100 shillings, tools, one little horse and colt; cattle and pigs 32 shillings.
Notes for NICHOLAS COTTRELL:
Nicholas Cottrell is first mentioned in the list of inhabitants of Newport, Rhode Island on May 20, 1638. He was admitted a freeman in 1655. He represented the Town of Westerly in the Colonial Assembly in 1670. He is one of the signers of the Misquamicut (Westerly) Purchase Contract. He afterwards bought a tract of 700 acres of Plymouth Colony in that part of Taunton now called Freetown, Mass. Here he died in 1680. He left a will probated in Taunton in which he mentions 8 children. His son, Jabez, was executor.
Nicholas was twice married. The name of his first wife is unknown; but his second wife was Martha. After Nicholas' death, she married Walter Morey (Merry).
Nicholas Cottrell's will was admitted to probate in Plymouth Co., Mass. Feb., 1680. He gives his oldest son Nicholas 5 shillings, he having received a sufficient portion of me before; to son John 100 acres of land which he now liveth upon at Skonomicutt by Narragansett; to son Gershom one hundred acres at Sconomacut that he now liveth upon; to son Elizer 5 shillings; to daugher Mary two pounds; ten shillings to grandchild Hannah Crowe to be payed at her marriage; to daughter Hannah 8 shillings which her husband owed me and my warming pan; to grandchild Nicholas Osburn 100 acres upon the lott I now live on by the Taunton River not to receive it until after the decease of his fther and mother; to wife Martha 100 adjoining the above, to be hers during her life and after her decease to fall to son James; also to wife three cows, one mare, one breeding cow, one pott and kettle, one bed and bedding and if it please God to take me away now, she is to have as much provision as will serve her own spendings until next harvest. Also she shall have libertee to cut as much Grasse of my meadow as will winter her three cows two years; to son James all the rest of my land, cattles, hogs, and horse kind and household stuffle. My son Jabez is to be sole executor.
Inventory -- house and land which sot 100 shillings, tools, one little horse and colt; cattle and pigs 32 shillings.
Nicholas Cottrell is first mentioned in the list of inhabitants of Newport, Rhode Island on May 20, 1638. He was admitted a freeman in 1655. He represented the Town of Westerly in the Colonial Assembly in 1670. He is one of the signers of the Misquamicut (Westerly) Purchase Contract. He afterwards bought a tract of 700 acres of Plymouth Colony in that part of Taunton now called Freetown, Mass. Here he died in 1680. He left a will probated in Taunton in which he mentions 8 children. His son, Jabez, was executor.
Nicholas was twice married. The name of his first wife is unknown; but his second wife was Martha. After Nicholas' death, she married Walter Morey (Merry).
Nicholas Cottrell's will was admitted to probate in Plymouth Co., Mass. Feb., 1680. He gives his oldest son Nicholas 5 shillings, he having received a sufficient portion of me before; to son John 100 acres of land which he now liveth upon at Skonomicutt by Narragansett; to son Gershom one hundred acres at Sconomacut that he now liveth upon; to son Elizer 5 shillings; to daugher Mary two pounds; ten shillings to grandchild Hannah Crowe to be payed at her marriage; to daughter Hannah 8 shillings which her husband owed me and my warming pan; to grandchild Nicholas Osburn 100 acres upon the lott I now live on by the Taunton River not to receive it until after the decease of his fther and mother; to wife Martha 100 adjoining the above, to be hers during her life and after her decease to fall to son James; also to wife three cows, one mare, one breeding cow, one pott and kettle, one bed and bedding and if it please God to take me away now, she is to have as much provision as will serve her own spendings until next harvest. Also she shall have libertee to cut as much Grasse of my meadow as will winter her three cows two years; to son James all the rest of my land, cattles, hogs, and horse kind and household stuffle. My son Jabez is to be sole executor.
Inventory -- house and land which sot 100 shillings, tools, one little horse and colt; cattle and pigs 32 shillings.
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