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Margaret Wells

Female 1590 - 1660  (~ 69 years)


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  • Name Margaret Wells 
    Relationshipwith Robert Alan Roy
    Birth
    • Father: Richard Wells [3]
    Christening 31 May 1590  Boxted, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    History say 1645 to death  Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • On 8 April 1647, she made her will:

      I being at this time capable in regard of memory & understanding; unto my Sister Mary Rogers Widow her children (in old England at Boxstead in the Coun of Essex or else where) one Sixt p[ar]t of my whole estate. of houseing, land, chattels, debts, & all moveable goods reall & personall, to be divided among them as followcth, vizt to my Sister aforesaid if liveing at my decease two fift parts of the aforesaid Sixt & her Heyres & I will & bequeath the other 3 fifts the aforesaid sixt to her Sonne Jno Rogers, & Eliz: Rogers to be equally divided between em to them & their Heyres, if my Sister be not liveing at my decease, then my Will is that t aforesaid Sixt should be divided between John & Elizabeth aforesaid, vizt three fifth to Jn & two fifts to Elizbt & the Heyres of their bodys borne; to Jno Stone of Sudbury in New Engl: two sixth pts of my whole estate; to Nathaniel Tredaway the other three sixts of my 'hole estate; if my kindred in old England, or their Heyres intended by this my Will, be not r 'eing at my death, then my will is that the sixt pf ar]t bequeathed to them sli.a!I return to Nath. Tredaway & Jno Stone, to be divided three fifts of it to Nath. & two fifts p[ar]ts to Jno. Also my Will is that the sixt p[ar]t of my estate bequeathed to my kindred in Engla shall be payd by my Executor one halfe of it, one year after my decease, & the other half two year after my decease; mr Brian pendlton & Nathaniel Tredaway Executors of this y Will & Jno Shcrrm::m. overseer to sec it p[er]forrned
      Sealed & Subscribed in the pr[e]sence of us
      Jno Coolidge
      Jno Knowles
      Also my Will is that the sixt part of my estate bequeathed to my Kindred in England shall be payd in that p[ar]t of my estate that is best to be transported.
      Proved 18 December 1660
      [1, 3, 4, 6, 7]
    • On 18 July 1658, she was admitted to the Charlestown Church.
    • On 18 December 1660, he will was proved. Her inventory,
      house and lot, in the occupancy of Nathaniel Treadway, and 10 other lots amounted to £216. [2, 4, 6]
    Death 1660  Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Person ID I23700 
    Last Modified 12 Jan 2020 

    Family 1 Elder Edward Howe,   c. 1 Jan 1587/88, Boxted, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 Jun 1644, Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 56 years) 
    Marriage 16 Aug 1610  Boxted, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3, 7
    Age at Marriage She : 20 years and 3 months - He : 22 years and 7 months. 
    Children 1611  [3, 7
    Family ID F8260  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 25 Jul 2021 

    Family 2 George Bunker  [1, 3, 4, 6, 8
    Marriage Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F8261  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Jan 2020 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsChristening - 31 May 1590 - Boxted, Essex, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 16 Aug 1610 - Boxted, Essex, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsHistory - say 1645 to death - Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 1660 - Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - - Charlestown, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S1561] Davis, George Arthur. Davis and Fifty Allied Colonial Families of New England, (Augusta, Maine: Kennebec Journal, 1956).

    2. [S1780] Elliot, Ella F. "Treadway, Haynes, Howe", (Boston: The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume LXV, 1911).

    3. [S576] Smith, Dean Crawford and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. "The English Origins of the Howe and Treadway Families of Watertown, Massachusetts" , (New Haven, Connecticut: The American Genealogist, volume LXX, 1995).

    4. [S1027] Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May 1692 on the Basis of Farmer's Register, volume II , (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860).

    5. [S2000] ------------- Sources Below not Reviewed -------------.

    6. [S463] Bond, Henry. Genealogies of the Families and Descendants of the Early Settlers of Watertown, Massachusetts including Waltham and Weston, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1860).

    7. [S1145] Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, volume II (G-O), (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 1995).

    8. [S72] Pope, Charles Henry. The Pioneers of Massachusetts , (Boston: Charles H. Pope, 1900).