Person Info
- Name: Gilbert WILFORD
- Sex: M
- Birth: England b
- Death: Jul 1676 in Concord, New Hampshire d
Parents:
Family:
Marriage:
- Mary DOW on Abt 1666 at Massachusetts .m1
- Mary DOW
Birth: 26 Apr 1644 in Newbury, Massachusetts
Death: After 1695
Children:
- Mary WILFORD Birth: 18 Nov 1667 in Bradford, Massachusetts
- Martha WILFORD Birth: 18 Jan 1669/70 in Bradford, Massachusetts
Death: 21 Feb 1757 in Hudson, New Hampshire
- Ruth WILFORD Birth: 15 May 1672 in Bradford, Massachusetts
- Nathaniel WILFORD Birth: 20 May 1675 in Bradford, Massachusetts
Death: Oct 1706 in Haverhill, Massachusetts
Bibliography
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Vital Records of Bradford, Massachusetts to the end of the year 1849. Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1907. M-LH #PS25. Available at http://archive.org/details/vitalrecordsofbr00brad Information from this source tagged as [Ref: BradfordMA vitals p[0-9]*].
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Dow, Robert Piercy, The Book of Dow: Genealogical Memoirs of the Descendants of Henry Dow of 1637, Thomas Dow 1639, and others. Claremont, NH: Robert P Dow, 1929. UMI #G1279. LDS Film #1321446#1 (vol 1), #1321126#1-3 (vol 2-4), Fiche #6060589. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/2364454. Also available at https://archive.org/details/bookofdowgenealo00dowr. Also available at http://dowlink.net/pdffiles/bookofdowmodi.pdf. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: DowRP DOW p[0-9]*].
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Holman, Mary Lovering, Ancestry of Charles Stinson Pillsbury and John Sargent Pillsbury, Concord, NH: Rumsford Press, 1938. NEHGS CS71/P643/1938. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/29865. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p[0-9]*].
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Hoyt, David W, The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts. Baltimore: Gen Pub Co, 1982. Available at http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal01hoyt, http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal02hoyt, and http://archive.org/details/oldfamiliesofsal03hoyt. Volume 1 also available at http://archive.org/details/cu31924025963772. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Hoyt S&A p[0-9]*].
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Savage, James, A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England, showing three generations of those who came before May 1692, on the basis of Farmer's Register. Boston, MA: Little Brown & Co, 1860. Available at http://archive.org/details/genealogicaldic01savarich. Reprinted Baltimore, MD, Genealogical Published Co, 1965. Scanned and corrected by Robert Kraft, 1994, and available at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/newengland/savage/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Sav-age [A-Z][A-Z]* [A-Z][a-z]*].
- place:
- prob England [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- [Ref: DowRP DOW p746]
- abt 1675 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
- before 28 Jul 1676 [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1024],
- place:
- [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1024]
Sources with Inaccurate death Information
- place:
- Haverhill, Massachusetts [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
Sources with Information about marriage to Mary DOW
- date:
- abt 1666 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
- first marriage of Mary [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p258, Hoyt S&A p1024],
- place:
- in New England [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511],
- names:
- Gilbert WILFORD & Mary ___ [Ref: BradfordMA vitals p167],
- child:
- [Ref: BradfordMA vitals p167, DowRP DOW p746, Holman PILLSBURY p499,
Holman PILLSBURY p512, Hoyt S&A p1024]
Research Notes:
1664: witness in Court [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
1668: Ipswich [Ref: Sav-age WILFORD Gilbert]
Sep 5 1670: sued Thomas Davis, with whom of evidently shared a farm, but lost
the case [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
lived in Bradford (or "Merrimack"), but is identified more with Haverhill, so
probably lived near what was later an established line between them [Ref:
Holman PILLSBURY p511]
1671: of Bradford [Ref: Sav-age WILFORD Gilbert]
of Bradford and Haverhill [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1024]
witnessed the will of John Gage of Bradford, proved 1673 [Ref: Holman
PILLSBURY p511]
Jul 16 1673: sold to Thomas Dow sixty acres of upland [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY
p511]
1675: had a house in Haverhill [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1024]
widow and children are mentioned in will, but not named [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1024]
since no executor nor administrator was named in will, Captain John
Whipple of Ipswich was appointed 14 Nov 1676 [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
Jul 28 1676: Inventory of estate taken by Henry Palmer and Robert Ford,
attested Apr 10 1677 [Ref: Hoyt S&A p1024]
Apr 10 1677: the estate was insolvent. "The widow had for necessarie
maintenance for herselfe & children before ye administrator entered, 6li;
ye 3d part of ye land wch ye widow challengeth wch ye administrator is
not charged with." [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
A committee was appointed to consider the claims against the estate and they
found some of the bills good and some had no proof. "The court having
considered the return of the committee and finding according to the inventory
of the estate, ye widow's thirds being by it declared to be deducted, that
the estate falls short of the sum that the debts amount unto, it was ordered
Oct 8 1678 that the administrator pay the debts allowed of by the committee
... deducting 2s upon the pound and according to that proportion upon all the
debts allowed of [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
estate record printed in Essex Co Probate, vol 3, p93-93 [Ref: Holman
PILLSBURY p511]
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Essex Co Deed 34:165, partially quoted in Pillsbury Ancestry:
I Gilbert Wilford of Bradford formerly called Merrimack ... with Mary my
wife for ... full satisfaction ... payd Sell ... unto Thomas Dow of Haverhill
... A pcell of Upland about Sixty acres ... 16 Jul 1673. Witnesses Thomas
Stickney, Samuel Gage [Ref: Holman PILLSBURY p511]
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