Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
Assorted rogues - Person Sheet
NameEdward (ii) Jessup 
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28Birth1663, West Farms, Westchester, New York28
Death1732, Stamford, Connecticut28
FatherEdward (i) Jessup (1620-1666)
MotherElizabeth (-ca1690)
Spouses
Birth23 Aug 166928
Death2 Oct 1747, Stamford, Connecticut28
FatherJohn Hyde (1642-)
MotherElizabeth Harvey
Marriage169228
Notes for Edward (ii) Jessup
From [JB]28:
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Edward Jessup was born in 1663 in either Newtown or West Farms, N.Y., either just before or soon after his father had crossed the East River to his new plantation on the north shore of Long Island Sound. He was but three years old at his father’s death, and removing thus early with his mother to Connecticut on her second marriage, he was more a citizen of the latter colony than of New York. In due time he became a freeman of the town of Fairfield, acquired property, and established a home and family in the ancient parish of Green’s Farms. ...
About 1720 Edward removed from Green’s Farms to Stamford, and lived there the rest of his life. ... His younger children went with him to Stamford, six of them in fact, which accounts for their settling in that part of Fairfield county, or emigrating still farther west into the colony of New York. ...
The Stamford Records say: “Mr Edward Jessup died Dec. 28, 1732”, and the inscription on his toubstone adds “in the 70th year of his age”. His will, as recorded in Stamford, was dated Aug., 17, 1731, provedn by witnesses in Norwalk, Jan 5, 1732-33, and probatd at Stamford February 5th of the same year. His son, Joseph Jessup of Stamford, is appointed sole executor. The inventory was about £650.
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[JB] gives the text of Edward’s will.
[JB] also relates how Edward was involved in a curious incident in Sept, 1692, when he (aged 29) gave witness against a supposed witch, saying how food on her table had changed its appearance so unaccountably that he was afraid to eat it; that he couldn’t read from the woman’s Bible, that he couldn’t control his horse afterwards, etc. Sounds to me like he was just a drunken sot. Anyway, the woman was convicted but not punished, apparently.
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Edward Jessup was born in 1663 in either Newtown or West Farms, N.Y., either just before or soon after his father had crossed the East River to his new plantation on the north shore of Long Island Sound. He was but three years old at his father’s death, and removing thus early with his mother to Connecticut on her second marriage, he was more a citizen of the latter colony than of New York. In due time he became a freeman of the town of Fairfield, acquired property, and established a home and family in the ancient parish of Green’s Farms. ...
About 1720 Edward removed from Green’s Farms to Stamford, and lived there the rest of his life. ... His younger children went with him to Stamford, six of them in fact, which accounts for their settling in that part of Fairfield county, or emigrating still farther west into the colony of New York. ...
The Stamford Records say: “Mr Edward Jessup died Dec. 28, 1732”, and the inscription on his toubstone adds “in the 70th year of his age”. His will, as recorded in Stamford, was dated Aug., 17, 1731, provedn by witnesses in Norwalk, Jan 5, 1732-33, and probatd at Stamford February 5th of the same year. His son, Joseph Jessup of Stamford, is appointed sole executor. The inventory was about £650.
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[JB] gives the text of Edward’s will.
[JB] also relates how Edward was involved in a curious incident in Sept, 1692, when he (aged 29) gave witness against a supposed witch, saying how food on her table had changed its appearance so unaccountably that he was afraid to eat it; that he couldn’t read from the woman’s Bible, that he couldn’t control his horse afterwards, etc. Sounds to me like he was just a drunken sot. Anyway, the woman was convicted but not punished, apparently.
Notes for Elizabeth (Spouse 1)
[JB]28 says:
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Her will is dated 15 Sept, 1747, and her son Joseph is appointed executor; inventory about £200, all personalty. ... She bequeaths to Joseph the family Bible, the records of which would now be invaluable, if in existence. This book doubtless shared the fortunes of her son’s family, was taken by them to Canada, and has since disappeared.
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Nine children. Details given in [JB].28
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Her will is dated 15 Sept, 1747, and her son Joseph is appointed executor; inventory about £200, all personalty. ... She bequeaths to Joseph the family Bible, the records of which would now be invaluable, if in existence. This book doubtless shared the fortunes of her son’s family, was taken by them to Canada, and has since disappeared.
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Nine children. Details given in [JB].28