NYSUFFOL-L Archives

Archiver > NYSUFFOL > 1999-11 > 0943625138


From: "Edward Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [NYSUFFOL] John Harrud / Harwood > Elizabeth (__) (Harrod) Howell
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:05:38 -0500


-----Original Message-----
From: Norris <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, November 25, 1999 10:59 PM
Subject: [NYSUFFOL] John Harrud / Harwood > Elizabeth (__) (Harrod) Howell


[Snip]
>Will of a Henry Clarke gives a clue back to Islington, England... if
>we have the same folks. I don't recognize any of the names, but most
>of these might be Virginia names. This will was entered and probated
>in New York. He says his brother in law was in England, but doesn't
>say where the eldest son of his brother-in-law, John Harwood is.
>
>
>
>Abstracts of New York Wills Vol I 1665-1707
>Pg 54
>
>
>Page 216.--HENRY CLARKE, of Poynig Creek, Virginia, May 26, 1679. "I,
>Henry Clarke, of New Yorke, late come from Virginia, being sicke," my
>will is that the money in my best pocket being 3 shillings and a pair
>of large buttons shall be put in the pocket of my best suite, and sent
>home to England to my brother-in-law John Harwood, his eldest son,
>living in Islington." ....."After debts
>are paid all the rest is to go to the eldest son of his brother-in-law
>John Harwood.


The way I read the transcript it was the eldest son of John Harwood who was
in Islington...i.e. the "John Harwood, his eldest son, living in Islington"
means "John Harwood's eldest son, who is living in Islington"

Ned Smit

This thread: