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Subject: Re: [GM-L] John, Richard & John Smith of Lancaster MA
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 13:52:37 EDT

Subject: John Smith, Lancaster
Source: Birth, Marriage and Death Register, Lancaster, by Henry S. Nourse 1890

p.11
John the sonn of Richard Smith & Johanna his wife, was born Nov 20, 1655

p.12
Mary, wife of of Richard Smith died March 27, 1654

p.12
Mary, wife of John Smith, died Oct 27, 1659

p.13
John Smith died July 16, 1669

p.18
John Smith & Martha Butler were married by Justice Houghton Dec 14, 1719

Early Records of Lancaster by Nourse
p.286
John Smith was father to Richard and to Ann the wife of John Moore. He came
[to Lancaster] from Sudbury with wife, Mary, who died Oct 27, 1659. In
1660 he
gave the intervale lot from his lands to John & Mary Moore and March 18,
1663, he
deeded to Adam Waters "all my dwelling house in aforesaid Lanchaster wherein I
lately lived," with the house lot. Adam Waters died A.D. 1670 and his
brothers
Stephen Waters and John Skeath, sold the Smith lot to Thomas Ross, a weaver
from Woburn. On the 5th of February, 1669, John Smith transfers all his then
estate to John Moore with this condition: "Now in my old age and infirme &
not able
to improve land, nor to maintayne myself by my labours, nor to pay publique
charges
for my land, therefore in consideration of my aforesaid son John Moore & his
wife
are to keepe mee duringe my naturall life." He died July 16, 1669. His will
mentions
children: John Smith, Richard Smith, Ann Smith and Alice Smith
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Transcribed by Janice Farnsworth

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