Re: Robert Blott Eng./Boston 1582 to 1663
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Re: Robert Blott Eng./Boston 1582 to 1663
Stephaun Paul 3/09/02
Whoops!I am sorry it has taken me so long to reply....but I hope this may be able to help you, and everyone else.
From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, January 1861, Vol. 15, No. 1 "Abstracts from the Earliest Wills on Record in the County of Suffolk, Mass." p. 73
"Robert Blott -
I, Robert Blott, Being in perfect memorye, Doe Make this my Last will and testament.I make Edward Ellis, my sonne in Law, Husband to Sarah, my Daughter, my Executor, and give unto him my House and the lot belonging thereunto, with all the appurtenances.Also my will is , that he pay my Daughters Children, whose names was Woodford of Conniticott, 3 (pounds).My will is that my sonne Edward Ellis, shall give to my dau. Tosiors children, 7 (pounds) and 3 bushells of wheate & two of Indyan Corne, besides, to her Eldest sonne, John Green, Cloth to make him a Coate.My will is that the said Edward shall give to my dau. Lovetts Children, of Braintree, 7 (pounds) and 3 bushells of wheate, and 2 bushells of Indyan, also to my sonne in Law, Danil Turins Children, 8 (pounds); - that my dau. Tosior, & my dau. Lovet shall have halfe the house hold stuffe equally Divided betweene them, and the other halfe to my dau. Ellis, also 3 bushells of Maulte to be Divided Between my three Daughters.Also to Daniel Lovett, my sonne in Law I give my Best Coate, in Witnesse whereof I have sett to my hand this 27th of the third Month called May 1602."
I, Edward Ellis by god's helpe shall pay these Legacies, without Fraud or guile at or before twelve months after ye Death of my Father in Lawe.
Robert Hall and Robert Walker, Overseers
Robert Blott.
Witnesse, Robert Saunderson
Alexander Baker.
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Boston, ye 27th of March 1665.Whereas since the time specified in my will on the other side I have through god's Favour & Patience lived to expend the Corne of several Kinds then given by Legacye, my will is therefore that the aforesaid Legacies so far as related to the Corne, Do Cease and Determine.Also my will is that Daniel Lovetts eldest sonne have a remnant of Clothe, that I have my mee, besides that Clothe before mentioned.And further my will is that sicknesse and & Funeral charges be paid for out of my Houshold stuffe, and the Rest to bee as before is said to bee Divided.Lastly my will is that whereas I have given my house and Ground unto my sonne Ellis, my meaning & will is herein only this, that it is for the good & Benefitt of my Dau. Sara & the children of my sonne Ellis by her During their Lives or the surviver of them; but my meaning is not that it shall at all goe from him otherwise then for their Benefitt, & thereby of him in them.I also make my sonne & dau. Ellis Executor of this my whole will & heer unto put my hand being through Favour of competent understanding & memorye.
The marke of Robert Blott
Witnesse hereunto
John Hull, Alexander Baker
Feb 2, 1665.Mr. Jn, Hull, Robert Saunderson & Alexander Baker, Deposed.
Inventory of the estate taken Aug. 22, 1665 by Alexander Baker, William Parson, Theophilus Frarye.
1 Feb. 1665 Edward Ellis deposed."
Then we have
From Tag (The American Genealogist), April 1992, Vol. 67, No,2, "The English Origin of Robert Blott of Charlestown and Boston, Mass" by Penny G. Douglass
".....His will and other Massachusetts records indicate that he had children Mary, married before 1639 Thomas Woodford; daughter, married first a Green, and second a Tosier; Joanna, married 1644-45 Daniel Lovett; Lydia, married before August 1646 Daniel Turin or Turell; and Sarah, born about 1631, married 1652 Edward Ellis."
The TAG article goes on to speculate that Robert may have been the son of an earlier Robert of Harrold, who left a will dated 03 Jan. 1609/10.He mentions a wife Elizabeth, and sons William, John, Robert, Thomas; and daughters Marye, Alice, Edith (or Judith), and Joane.This article, and the subsequent one, "John Black of Charlestown Was Really Robert Blott" by Robert Charles Anderson both concur, by the way, that Robert had only one wife, Susanna Selbee.
If you would like more information on these articles, just let me know - do you have any information on any of this?
Leslie
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