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- From: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cassb/CASS/i0000425.htm#i425:
He made a will in Hebron, Tolland, CT, 4 Sep 1741.(102) "I, Moses Case of Hebron, in the County of Hartford, do make and ordain this to be my last will and testament: I give to my wife Mary, after my debts are discharged, 1-3 part of my house moveable estate to be to her own dispose forever, whom, with my son Moses Case, I ordain to be my executors. I give to my wife the use and improvement of 1-3 part of my lands during life or while she remains my widow, as also one room in my dwelling house. I give to my two sons, namely, Moses and Josiah, all my houseing and lands in Hebron to be equally divided betwixt them, only my son Moses shall have 10 acres of land more than Josiah. In the division regards shall be had both to quantity and quality, sd. division to be made by indifferent men. Sd. division to be made when my son Moses shall some of full age of 21 years. I give to my 4 daughters, namely, to Patience, Lois, Alice and Hannah, to each of them £100, to be paid to them when or as they arrive to the age of 18 years. And whereas, my daughter Patience has had already near £100, the remaining 2-3 of my house moveables I give to my three younger daughters, Lois, Alice and Hannah, equally to be divided. And as to my debts and charges aforesd., my will is that they be paid out of my cattle, horses, sheep, &c., and not out of my house moveables, having given them to my sd. wife and daughters. And the remaining part of my horses, cattle, sheep and tools for husbandry I give to my sd. sons Moses and Josiah, equally to be divided, and my joiner tools I give to my sd. son Moses. I give to Eliphalet Case, son to my sd. wife, £5, to be paid him out of my estate when my sd. son Josiah shall come of full age to 21 years, &c., whereas I am apprehensive. But if my wife yet bring forth a son and he survive, he shall have out of my estate £600; but if she bring forth a daughter that shall survive until she comes to the age of 18 years, sd. daughter shall be paid £100 with lawfull interest thereon from the day of her birth. I appoint my wife and my son Moses Case executors.
Moses Case, LS.
Witness: Ebenezer Case, Jonathan Case, Nathaniel Phelps." Was admitted freeman at Norwich, CT 13 Sep 1726, but returned to Hebron, CT before 1736.
Will was dated 4 Sep 1741 and taken 21 Sep 1741.
From William Stowell's article in the 1902 New England Historical and Genealogical Register: "Moses Cass left records of himself, which, by correspondence with town clerks and descendants of the family, I have been able to trace. We have his own testimony as to his parentage. Sept. 3, 1730, at Norwich, he gave a deed to John Hutchins, of land 'which I bought of my father, Mr. Ebenezer Cass' (Land Records, Vol. VI., p. 232). In 1722, he bought a hundred acres of land in the 'Pratt Tract,' partly in Lebanon and partly in Hebron. He was admitted freeman at Norwich, Sept. 13, 1726; but returned to Hebron before 1736. There is proof that he married a second wife, Mary. His will (Colchester Probate Records, Book 1, page 77) mentions his wife Mary; sons Moses and Josiah; daughters Patience, Lois, Alice and Hannah; and 'Eliphalet Case, son to my second wife, to have £5.' The will was dated Sept. 4, 1741, and his death occurred two days later. The will was presented for probate Sept. 14, 1741 by Mary Hutchins, 'late widow of Moses Case, of Hebron, deceased.' His last child was posthumous, and, from the fact of his special mention of the son's parentage, it is to be presumed that at the date of the will, Eliphalet was the only child of the second wife. Though long sought, the lineage of his first wife, Mary Haskins, has not been found with certainty. Circumstances would seem to indicate that she was daughter either of Richard Haskins or of John Haskins, of Norwich, who were brothers, and who went to Norwich from Taunton, Mass., whither they had gone from Portsmouth, N.H. with their father, Nicholas, who, Savage says, was a schoolmaster at Portsmouth in 1660. She may, however, have been daughter of Samuel and Mary (Austin) Haskins of Taunton, who were married in 1684."
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1695 - 1741 (46 years)
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