their children
Daniel Wilcox
Mary Wilcox
Hannah Wilcox
Joseph Wilcox
Eliphal Wilcox
A summary of the will of Hannah Cook Wilcox Briggs; submitted by Carolyn Dennis Kress
Hannah Cook Briggs, widow, made her will 14 June 1734 "for the preventing future trouble in my family." It was proved 8 November 1736.
... to my daughter Abigail Butts one bedsted & Cord a feather bed the Ticking thereof of Country linnen, now standing in the south chamber of the house wherein I now dwell, a bolester and two pillows, two coverlets on made of Toe the other of woollen, two blankets, and one pair of sheets, a suit of white linnen curtains and valens, and a head-cloth, one gown of blew warp fill'd with moss colour & blew twisted together, and a strip'd flannel coat, my chest with drops, one silver spoon, six earthen plates, three of them commonly called stone plates aond one cow to be by her ... possessed immediately after my decease.
.... to my grand-daughter Hannah Wilcock daughter to my son Daniel last decd my white chest which was my own before I was married.
All the Rest and Residue of my Personal Estate whatsoever & wheresoever it is to be obtained, not herein or otherwise disposed of I give and bequeath to my two daughters namely Sarah Briggs and Susanna Cook equally to be divided ... Of this my last Will and Testament I do appoint ... my lving son in law William Cook my Executor ...
Witnesses were John Cook, Job Sisson and Wm Sanford. The inventory, taken 8 November 1736, totalled £501:12:6 and included such detailed household items as a pair of speckled callico curtains, Earthenware on a Mantle tree shelf, and a dozen pattipans. An agreement was signed 13 November 1736 by William Cook and Sarah Briggs, who made her mark, that since Sarah claimed part of the inventory of her mother Hannah as her personal estate, "Sarah shall have and enjoy all the wooll, the cyder, the apples, the cheese, the black mare and turkeys all excepting 10 turkeys which the said executor reserves to himself with the old horse." The rest of the estate was to be divided equally between the executor and Sarah, all depbts of Enoch and Hannah Briggs to be paid equally by them (Portsmouth TC 3:178-179,58).
Daniel Wilcox
Mary Wilcox
Hannah Wilcox
Joseph Wilcox
Eliphal Wilcox
A summary of the will of Hannah Cook Wilcox Briggs; submitted by Carolyn Dennis Kress
Hannah Cook Briggs, widow, made her will 14 June 1734 "for the preventing future trouble in my family." It was proved 8 November 1736.
... to my daughter Abigail Butts one bedsted & Cord a feather bed the Ticking thereof of Country linnen, now standing in the south chamber of the house wherein I now dwell, a bolester and two pillows, two coverlets on made of Toe the other of woollen, two blankets, and one pair of sheets, a suit of white linnen curtains and valens, and a head-cloth, one gown of blew warp fill'd with moss colour & blew twisted together, and a strip'd flannel coat, my chest with drops, one silver spoon, six earthen plates, three of them commonly called stone plates aond one cow to be by her ... possessed immediately after my decease.
.... to my grand-daughter Hannah Wilcock daughter to my son Daniel last decd my white chest which was my own before I was married.
All the Rest and Residue of my Personal Estate whatsoever & wheresoever it is to be obtained, not herein or otherwise disposed of I give and bequeath to my two daughters namely Sarah Briggs and Susanna Cook equally to be divided ... Of this my last Will and Testament I do appoint ... my lving son in law William Cook my Executor ...
Witnesses were John Cook, Job Sisson and Wm Sanford. The inventory, taken 8 November 1736, totalled £501:12:6 and included such detailed household items as a pair of speckled callico curtains, Earthenware on a Mantle tree shelf, and a dozen pattipans. An agreement was signed 13 November 1736 by William Cook and Sarah Briggs, who made her mark, that since Sarah claimed part of the inventory of her mother Hannah as her personal estate, "Sarah shall have and enjoy all the wooll, the cyder, the apples, the cheese, the black mare and turkeys all excepting 10 turkeys which the said executor reserves to himself with the old horse." The rest of the estate was to be divided equally between the executor and Sarah, all depbts of Enoch and Hannah Briggs to be paid equally by them (Portsmouth TC 3:178-179,58).
their children
Daniel Wilcox
Mary Wilcox
Hannah Wilcox
Joseph Wilcox
Eliphal Wilcox
A summary of the will of Hannah Cook Wilcox Briggs; submitted by Carolyn Dennis Kress
Hannah Cook Briggs, widow, made her will 14 June 1734 "for the preventing future trouble in my family." It was proved 8 November 1736.
... to my daughter Abigail Butts one bedsted & Cord a feather bed the Ticking thereof of Country linnen, now standing in the south chamber of the house wherein I now dwell, a bolester and two pillows, two coverlets on made of Toe the other of woollen, two blankets, and one pair of sheets, a suit of white linnen curtains and valens, and a head-cloth, one gown of blew warp fill'd with moss colour & blew twisted together, and a strip'd flannel coat, my chest with drops, one silver spoon, six earthen plates, three of them commonly called stone plates aond one cow to be by her ... possessed immediately after my decease.
.... to my grand-daughter Hannah Wilcock daughter to my son Daniel last decd my white chest which was my own before I was married.
All the Rest and Residue of my Personal Estate whatsoever & wheresoever it is to be obtained, not herein or otherwise disposed of I give and bequeath to my two daughters namely Sarah Briggs and Susanna Cook equally to be divided ... Of this my last Will and Testament I do appoint ... my lving son in law William Cook my Executor ...
Witnesses were John Cook, Job Sisson and Wm Sanford. The inventory, taken 8 November 1736, totalled £501:12:6 and included such detailed household items as a pair of speckled callico curtains, Earthenware on a Mantle tree shelf, and a dozen pattipans. An agreement was signed 13 November 1736 by William Cook and Sarah Briggs, who made her mark, that since Sarah claimed part of the inventory of her mother Hannah as her personal estate, "Sarah shall have and enjoy all the wooll, the cyder, the apples, the cheese, the black mare and turkeys all excepting 10 turkeys which the said executor reserves to himself with the old horse." The rest of the estate was to be divided equally between the executor and Sarah, all depbts of Enoch and Hannah Briggs to be paid equally by them (Portsmouth TC 3:178-179,58).
Daniel Wilcox
Mary Wilcox
Hannah Wilcox
Joseph Wilcox
Eliphal Wilcox
A summary of the will of Hannah Cook Wilcox Briggs; submitted by Carolyn Dennis Kress
Hannah Cook Briggs, widow, made her will 14 June 1734 "for the preventing future trouble in my family." It was proved 8 November 1736.
... to my daughter Abigail Butts one bedsted & Cord a feather bed the Ticking thereof of Country linnen, now standing in the south chamber of the house wherein I now dwell, a bolester and two pillows, two coverlets on made of Toe the other of woollen, two blankets, and one pair of sheets, a suit of white linnen curtains and valens, and a head-cloth, one gown of blew warp fill'd with moss colour & blew twisted together, and a strip'd flannel coat, my chest with drops, one silver spoon, six earthen plates, three of them commonly called stone plates aond one cow to be by her ... possessed immediately after my decease.
.... to my grand-daughter Hannah Wilcock daughter to my son Daniel last decd my white chest which was my own before I was married.
All the Rest and Residue of my Personal Estate whatsoever & wheresoever it is to be obtained, not herein or otherwise disposed of I give and bequeath to my two daughters namely Sarah Briggs and Susanna Cook equally to be divided ... Of this my last Will and Testament I do appoint ... my lving son in law William Cook my Executor ...
Witnesses were John Cook, Job Sisson and Wm Sanford. The inventory, taken 8 November 1736, totalled £501:12:6 and included such detailed household items as a pair of speckled callico curtains, Earthenware on a Mantle tree shelf, and a dozen pattipans. An agreement was signed 13 November 1736 by William Cook and Sarah Briggs, who made her mark, that since Sarah claimed part of the inventory of her mother Hannah as her personal estate, "Sarah shall have and enjoy all the wooll, the cyder, the apples, the cheese, the black mare and turkeys all excepting 10 turkeys which the said executor reserves to himself with the old horse." The rest of the estate was to be divided equally between the executor and Sarah, all depbts of Enoch and Hannah Briggs to be paid equally by them (Portsmouth TC 3:178-179,58).
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