52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2016 WEEK 10: NATHANIEL STOW JR. OF CONCORD, MA.

My 7x great grandfather Nathaniel Stow Jr is another ancestor in the Stow line for whom I have somewhat limited information. I know from the Concord Ma/ Vital Records that he was born there 16Sep 1663, married Ruth Merriam there on 3Dec 1690, and died there on 12Nov 1724. I also know from the same records that he and Ruth had twelve children, nine of whom were sons:

John 8Sep 1691
Joseph 19Feb 1693
Samuel 27Nov 1694
Nathaniel 21Jan 1697
Thomas 25Feb 1699
Benjamin 28Feb 1701
Ruth 25Jan 1703
Jonathan 2Oct1705
Mary 6Sep 1707
Sarah 10Apr 1710
Simon 11Apr 1712
Timothy 16Feb 1714

Most of the children were still living when Nathaniel died without a will and he left a good sized estate. This led to what looks like an agonizing process for whoever was trying to figure out how to divide everything up. My head hurts just looking at the calculations, never mind trying to interpret them

The probate file is one big hot mess. I'll try to decipher some of it in the next post.