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Evidence
1659 Baxter estate: witness and inventory-taker
John Gurney witnessed Gregory Baxter's Braintree will in 1659 (with Moses Payne and Richard Brackett) and helped take the estate inventory on 7 July 1659.
Date: will June 1659; inventory 7 July 1659
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding Recognised standing in the Braintree communityServing as will witness and appraiser evidences trust.
Sources
- Anderson, Robert Charles. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633. Vol. 1. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012, Gregory Baxter profile, p. 138., Gregory Baxter profile, p. 138 (Suffolk Probate Records 1:323; 3:146)
John Gurney … witnessed the will … inventory taken 7 July 1659 by John Gurney, Moses Paine, and Edmund Quinsey
Topic file location: Colonial Braintree community
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000015 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.