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From: "Stephen T. Squires" <>
Subject: [DISBROW] William Hobson's Will Abstract, 1661...
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 18:44:34 -0400


Well gee, I all but missed an obvious one in my enthusiasm to post to
you. We do have a "JOHN GOLDEN/Goldin" listed it seems, existing directly
then! At least on the 1698 Hempstead LI census list I just posted to you.
You will recall THAT is the name of our speculative "accomplice" who
accompanied Thomas "Desborow" on the CROWN MALLIGOE in 1677, 22 years before
(Hempstead is across & down the Sound from ye olde Fairfield, opposite
Stamford/Rye). OK, so I'll settle for a John "Golden" spelling at
Hempstead. How 'bout you?
BTW, for wild speculating: a "Mrs. Eldred" appears on the 1643
census list of New Haven planters with my Arthur "Halbridge". Is 'Eldred' a
variant of Eldridge, also at New Haven I believe, and is "Halbridge" (also
most often spelled "Halbich", "Holbich" and such variants, but rarely on
records as "Holbridge"---as Rev. Gershom Bulkley authoritatively wrote
it,---Arthur Holbridge made NH Records a lot, btw, with few such "correct"
spellings. Could this, in fact, be some 'perverse' variant of Rose
Disbrowe's will referencing her kinswoman "Aldrich", or her own variant
"Aldridge"?? Well now, that just could explain some things (far too
conveniently for such sparse knowledge!) as to the convergence of one Mercy
Holbridge with one Thomas Disbrow, her distant kinsman based on this and the
New Haven network connections,.... also might better explain that marvelous
and bafflingly marriage of Rev. John Jones to the "much put upon" Susanna
Holbridge (what a woman!), Mercy's mother (I'd love to know that woman's
maiden-name, for a bit of "name-magic" fun). Too wild I suppose, you be the
judge....
Two more corrections, one is dearly owed to my dear gggm EMMA Louisa
Brown Squires Young (whew!) of Stony Brook, ....I just today got her name
wrong in earlier post as simply "Louisa Brown, etc, etc". Also a small
typo in Rose Disbrowe's Will (same e-mail) requires correction: "To said
granddaughter her grandfather's picture [of Samuel Dsibrowe himself, picture
apparently still existed not too long ago since his countenance is described
in a "modern" history via two such pictures exactly, Steiner's HISTORY OF
GUILFORD, p. 66, ....as of round pleasant face and "loose" hair at his lower
lip, or something a bit odd like that] set in gold and if she die without
heirs of her body my grandchild Samuel Mills Esq. shall have the SAME [my
empahsis, not "some" as I typed] after her decease." Probably other
corrections too, though TRIED to avoid, but that is all I can stand for now
(& prob you too!).
William Hobson's Will Abstract, per Henry Waters' "Gen. Gleanings in
England", p. 161, NEHGR April 1891:
WILLIAM HOBSON of Hackney, Middlesex, Esq., 13 November 1661, proved 13
March 1661. Aged and infirm. Personal estate very small and inconsiderable
[the snobs]. Daughter Anne. Son Joseph. Christ's Hospital. The poor of
St. Martin Ludgate. The poor of Great Glen where I was born. The poor of
Hackney. The company of haberdashers [his profession?].
"Also I give to my daughter Desborow Tenne pounds to buy her a peece of
plate." To my daughter Bolton the like sum. My daughter Sarah White the
wife of Jasper White. My daughter Ward. The two children of my daughter
Bannister at eighteen or days of marriage. My daughter Sarah White's four
children at eighteen or days of marriage. The six children of my daughter
Rebecca White, late deceased wife of William White, the sons at twenty three
and the daughters at one and twenty years or days of marriage (?). My
sister Alice Wickes. My daughter Mary Sherwood. Farm in Hendon, Middlesex.
My manor of St. John in Jerusalem in Hackney. My sons in law William White
and Patience Warde. Son Nathaniel. Grandson William White. My son in law
George Robins. My son in law Thomas Moore. My son in law Alderman William
Bolton [OK, so that explains "Lady" Bolton]. My loving friend Robert
Yarway. Nathaniel and Anne to be under guardianship.
Laud, 38 (?)


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