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The Whitney Family of Connecticut
by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)
Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.
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The Whitneys of England.
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his wife's brother, to be the overseer of "this my last will and testament."a
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The will of Anne Roberts, "of Borrington, in the County of Hertford, widdowe"--signed 4 Oct. 1655, and proved at Hitchin 25 Dec. 1655--distributes her estate among her daughters, Sarah Welles and Julyan Ettridge, wife of Thomas Ettridge, her grandchildren, Thomas Welles and Anne Ettridge, her god-child, Anne Pleasaunce, daughter of her kinswoman Julyan Pleasaunce, Thomas, John and Robert, "sonnes of my brother Thomas Whitnee"; gives "unto Henry Whitnee, one other of the sonnes of my brother Thomas Whitnee, now living in New England, the somme of fower poundes he did borrow of my late husband", and unto Jane Cottle "the fower pounds her father oweth unto my late husband, Owen Roberts"; and appoints her two daughters executresses.b
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a That document was fabricated.
b That document was fabricated.
