REFN: 5740
Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records
(Hartford District),
Charles W. Manwaring,
Hartford, 1902,
Vol 3, p 242
CHAPMAN, Lydia, EastHaddam. Invt. £414-01-06. Taken 31 August, 1738
, by Joshua BRAINARD, John SPENCER and Bezaleel BRAINARD.
Know all men by these presents: That we, the subscribers, being the o
nly surviving heirs of our sister Lydia CHAPMAN, late of East Hadda
m decd., according to the statue of this Colony as it is explained i
n page 330 of our Law, do, with the approbation of his Honr., the Gou
ernourand Judges of the Court of Probate for the County of Hartford
, agree that the land andmoveable estate that did belong to our decea
sed sister aforesd. shall be divided equally according to the qualit
y thereof into five parts, and that the children of our sister Elizab
eth CHALKER, late of Saybrook decd., shall hold, possess and enjoy 1-
5 part to them, their heirs and assigns forever,and the rest to be h
eld by us the sd. subscribers in equal proportion. And in confirmatio
n of the written agreement we have hereunto sett out hands and seal
s this 7th day of November, Annoque Dom. 1738, and the 12th year of H
isMajestie's reign.
Jabez CHAPMAN, L.S.
Samuel CHAPMAN, L.S.
Ann SELDEN, L.S.
John WARNER, L.S.
Mehetabell WARNER, L.S.
Signed and Sealed in the
presenceof us: Edward SCHOVILL, Esther TALCOTT
Court Record, Page 31 -- 1st Augusts,1738: Adms. to Jabez CHAPMAN. R
ecog. £200, with John FISH.
Page 35 -- 7 November, 1738: Account exhibited and allowed.
Page 36 -- 7 November, 1738: An agreement by the heirs to divide th
e estate now exhibited and accepted.