William
SARGENT
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1598
- 1673/5
Father: Richard SARGENT
Mother: Katherine STEVENS
Family 1 : Judith PERKINS
1. Mary SARGENT
2. Lydia SARGENT
Family 2 : Elizabeth
PERKINS
3. Elizabeth SARGENT
4. Thomas SARGENT
5. William SARGENT
6. Elizabeth SARGENT
Family 3 : Joanna PINDOR
___Richard
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| (1576 - ....) m 1602
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- William SARGENT
| (1598 - 1673/5) m 1632
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|__Katherine STEVENS__|
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From Rich Holmes's Website:
"His parents, supposing him to be dead, gave the name William to a child of subsequent birth. This William afterwards came to Charlestown, in this country."
From Mary Wheeler's Website:
"One of the original settlers of Ipswich in 1633; went to Newbury soon after and in 1638-39, commenced a settlement in Hampton, New Hampshire and eventually settled in Amesbury."
Came to America in 1632. Freeman 22 MAY 1639.
His will, written when he was in perfect health:
"In the name of God Amen. the
24 day of March 1671\72 I William Sargent of ye town of Emefbury in ye County
of Norfolk Maffachufettf in Newengland Seaman being in pritty good health of
body & of found & pfect memorie (praise bee given to god for ye same) &
knowing ye uncertainty of thif life on earth & being Defirouf to fettle
thingf in order doe make thif my laft will & teftamt in manner & form
That if to fayFirst & principally I comend my soule to Allmighty God my
Creator affurdely believing yt fhall recieve full pardon & free remiffion
of all my fins & bee faved by ye peciouf death & meritte of my bleffed
Savioc & Redemmer Chrift Jefuf & my body to ye earth from whence it waf
taken to bee buried in fuch Decent & Chriftian manner af to my Executoed
hereafter named fhall be thought meete & convenient. And af touching fuch
wordly eftate af ye lord mercy hath lent mee my will & meaning if ye fame
fhal bee imployed & beftowed af hereafter by thif will & Teftament Item
I give & bequeath to my grand child William Challis five poundf & to my
grandchildren Elizabeth, Lydia, Mary & Phillip watson Challif to each of
them twenty fhillings Item I give & bequeath unto my grand children
Dorothie & Elizabeth Colby to each of them twenty fhillings Item I give
unto my grand child William Sargent thirty shillings Itt I give & bequeath
unto my daughter Elizabeth ye wife of Sam Colby five poundf Item I give all ye
remayndere of my estate (these my legacies & my funeral chargef being
firfte paid) unto my daughter Sarah both howfing & landf, chattelf &
other movablef wt foever alwayf pvided that if fhe die wth out children that
these howfing & landf: to bee equally divided: unto my four children
hereafter named, i: e: my fons Thomaf & William & my daughters Mary
& Elizabeth Item I do conftitute ordaine & appointe my fone Thomaf
Sargent & my daughter Sarah Sargent Executors unto thif my will &
Teftamt & doe make my loving brother in law Tho Bradbury & my efteemed
friend Major Pike my overfeerf to take care that thif my will may bee prformed
according to ye true
intente & meaning thereof And to thif my last will & Teftament I doe
hereunto fess my hand & feale ye day & year above named
William Sargent (Seal)
Signed, fealed and thto in
ye prfence uf
Thomas Bradbury
The mark of MB Mary Bradbury
John Bradbury
Tho Bradbury & Jno Bradbury testified upon oath yt they faw Wm Sargent
senr. figne, feale & declare thif to bee hif will before ye court held
at Salifbury 13 Aprill 75
Tho Bradbury rec
Entered and Recorded in ye County recordf for Norfolk (tit 3d pa 6 ye
29th of Aprile 1675) as attefte
Tho Bradbury recr"
LINKS: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rsholmes/fg03/fg03_017.html, http://www.gendex.com/users/rtwgen/mwheeler/d0008/g0000021.html, http://www.weymouthtech.com/Genealogy/ps26/ps26_271.htm