52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2017 WEEK 50: JOHN DANE OF IPSWICH AND ROXBURY, MA. PT2

As I mentioned in my last post, I found the Probate File for my 10x great grandfather John Dane. The images were over at AmericanAncestors.org.  Here's the will:

Suffolk County, MA: Probate File Papers.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017 

Suffolk Cases 1-1999

PAGE 196:4

As you can see the writing is a bit difficult to read, but luckily I found an abstract on Googlebooks:


John Dane.—[On file in his own handwriting.] Vpon the sevth day of the seventh month in 1658.—To son John Dane, ten pounds out of my now dwelling house, which will appear in deed, dated 2d. feberi in fift one [1651.]—To son Francis my wood lot, about two & twentie ackers, mor or les, as it doth appear in Town-book.—To dafter Elizabeth How, a black cow now att Andiver in the hand of Georg Abet [Abbot] to be deliuered to her after my deseas emediatly.—To Son John Dane, on feather bede &, on feather boster &, two fether pillows &. a yellow rugg, & also a pewter platter.—To son Francis, on great ketle, also on flaxen sheet & a saver. —To dafter Elizabeth How, a litl kittle, &, on pewter candlestick.—To Son Frances, my old black cow, now at Roxburie, 6s my bible.—To louing wiff Anic, whom I mak sooll exseekitrix all my movable goods that is not expressed
In witnes heer vnto I hav set my hand this
seventh day of the seventh month 58 By me  John Dane
Isaac Heath,
John Johnson, Isack Morrell.
At a county court held at Boston 16 Oct. 1658, Mr John Johnson deposed that he saw Jn° Dane sign & publish it as his last will, &c.
-p37

the new england historical and genealogical register for the year 1855  Volume IX, Samuel  G. Drake,Publisher, Boston, Ma. 1855


Two points of my family history interest in the will. First, John Dane's second wife Anic/Annis, is my 10x great grandmother through her first marriage to my ancestor William Chandler,

And the George Abbot mentioned in the will as having the black cow is my 9x great grandfather.

I wish I could decipher the crossed out part. It looks to be something John had left his wife's daughters from her first  marriage and then he changed his mind.

52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2017 WEEK 50: JOHN DANE OF IPSWICH AND ROXBURY, MA.

My ancestress Hannah (Dane) Phelps  was descended from my immigrant ancestor(and 10 ggf) John Dane. While his family would play a prominent part of Andover, Ma., John spent most of his life in Ipswich and then Roxbury, Ma.

Here's his entry in one of William Richard Cutter's books:

John Dane (1), of Berkhamsted. Bishop’s Stortford, Herts, England, and of Ipswich and Roxbury, Massachusetts, died at Roxbury, September 14, 1658, married first, ———-: married second, July 2, 1643, Agnes Chandler, widow of \Villiam Chandler,  of Roxbury; she married third, August 9, 1660. John Parminter. of Sudbury, Massachusetts. Children: 1. John, see forward. 2. Elizabeth, died at Ipswich, Massachusetts, January 21, 1693. married James How, who died at Ipswich, May 17, 1702. 3. Francis, minister at Andover, Massachusetts, died there February 17, 1696-7; married first, Elizabeth Ingalls, who died at Andover, June 9, 1676; married second, September 21, 1677, Mrs. Mary Thomas, who died February 18, 1688-9; married third, 1690, Mrs. Hannah (Chandler) Abbot. who died June 2, 1711.-p29

Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts, Volume 1, Lewis historicak Publishing Company, New York, New York 1908

I've found his Probate File and will discuss that next.