Will of Henry Head page 286. Henry Head of Little Compton. To son Jonathan Head all lands, housing where he now dwells in Coaksett and lands at Barkers neck and Stephhns Neck. All in Little Compton, but if he not care for it, forty acres of land I bought of Jonathan Springer in Little Compton After decease of his mother Elizabeth Head. To son Henry Head 60 acres where he hath built a house in a little neck lying between two ponds, one called Quicksand and the other Tunipers pound in Sd Little Compton. To son Benjamin Head land on east side of highway with all improvements with one half of the rooms in my dwelling house.
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Will of Henry Head continued. house on said premises and all husbandtry tools. To wife Elizabeth Headland on west of road with the other half of rooms in my dwelling house in Little Compton her life. And all that land I bought of Jonathan Springer in Little Compton To daughter Elizabeth ead 20 pds. To daughter Innocent Head Twenty pds. To daughter Mary Head 20 pds. Negro man called Jeffrey to wife. Negro woman called Rose to my children. Little Negro boy called Scipeo to daughter Elizabeth Head. My wife Elizabeth to be sole executrix. March 24 1708 and the 8th year of our sovereign Lady Ann Queen of England. Witnesses John Peckham Henry Head. Henry Head John Winslow Elias Williams. Proved August 20 1716. Total of Inventory 609- 09- 08. Four negros 40 pds. 32 head of cattle 100 pds. Inventory taken August 20 1716. Will of Jonathan Blackman. page 313 Jonathan Blackman of Little Compton. To wife 200 pds. To my honored mother during her life 12 pds yearly. If the child that my said wife is now big with, be a son then he to have my lands and housing and shop. That my children be decently brought up. My honored mother and my uncle John Church Executors.
Oct 4, 1716. Proved Dec 21 1716.
Witnesses Thomas Gray Jonathan Blackman. Edward Richmond William Pabodie.
Will of Elizabeth Head. Page 37
Elizabeth Head of Little Compton Widow June 9, 1739.
To two beloved sons Jonathan and Henry Head one certnain
tract of land 43 acres bouded, south and west on land
of Joseph Wilbur, North on William Willbur, East on the
highway. Land that was given me by my honored husband
Henry Head of Little Compton dec.
To son Jonathan Head 5 shillings.
To grandson William Head son of my son Benjamin 5 shill
ings.
To daughter Elizabeth Willbur 5 shillings.
To daughter Mary Cudbuth 5 shillings.
To daughter Innocent Church 5 shillings.
To grandson Lovet Head and daughter granddaughter Amey
Head his wife. all house hold goods my side saddle and
pillion.
To grandson Benjamin Cuthbert 33 pds.
To son Henry Head all rest and residuet. Elizabeth XHead.
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The will of Elizabeth Head continued.
Witnesses Elizabeth x Head her mark
Jonathan Records.
Richard Brownell Proved July 11, 1748.
Rescom Sanford.
9. JOHN WILBORE (Joseph,3 Nicholas,2 Thomas ?), of Braintree in 1642 and admitted that year to land called Hollis Grove with brothers, Nicholas and William, married in Felsted, Co. Essex, 6 Aug. 1616, JOAN DRANE. They were the parents of William Wilbore of Portsmouth, R. I.
It was probably this John who, in 1631, signed his name to the agreement with several other Braintree men to join the settlement at the Isle of Old Providence, which is off the coast of South America. In 1641 the Spaniards drove the English from the two Islands of Providence, and this is probably why John Wilbore and his two brothers were admitted the next year to land called Hollis Grove, which was partly in Braintree and partly in Bocking.
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by tradition a native of Scotland
Will of William Pabodie page 193. May 13, 1707 To wife Elizabeth Easst end of house at Little Compton and part of land given formerly to son William. That is the use of. But if she choose her thirds my land and house at Duxbury. and make us of them and then to my son William. To son William after the death of his mother the whole of lands and housing in Little Compton. To three grandsons Stephen Southworth son of daughter Rebecca and John and William Pabodie sons of son William land at West Quad naug purchased by son in law William Fobes of Shubael Painter and assigned to my son in law Ichabod Wiswall. To son in law Edward Southworth. T To daughters Mary, Mercy, Martha Priscilla, Ruth, Sarah Hannah and Lydia each one shilling and to heirs of daughters Elizabeth and Rebecca one shilling. To To daughter Lydia Grinnell a set of Green curtains. Witnesses John Woodman, Peter Taylor, Samuel Wilbore. Inventory 407 pds 14 s and 70 acres at 315 pds dwelling house half a barn etc.