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Source: Robert Winchell in the Hartford, Connecticut Probate Records, 1639-1700

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Title Robert Winchell in the Hartford, Connecticut Probate Records, 1639-1700

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George Phelps

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Ancestry.com. Hartford, Connecticut Probate Records, 1639-1700 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000.

Original data: A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records, Hartford District, 1635-1700. Vol. I. n.p., 1906.

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Name: Robert Winchell
Date of Will: 23 Jan 1667
Page: 50-51
Full Text: Invt. œ61-17-01. Taken 23 January, 1667-8, by Deacon Moore, Capt. Newbery, John Loomis & Matthew Grant. Will Nuncupative, dated 20 January, 1667-8.We the Underwritten doe witness that, being with Robert Winchell that night in wch he died, desired us to take notice that if he lived not till the next morning, and soe could not have it written, that this was his Will: That before anything was meddled with all his Debts should be payd, and that his two sons Jonathan and David should have ye Lands that is on the North west of the Highway, this being all the Lands he had left, only Jonathan should have the North side and David the South Side. Sister Randall says, "What shall yr daughter have?" He answered, "I have done for her already. And for my eldest son, he is in my Debt; I acquitt him that, yet let them have something." And sayd also, "I desire yt you two and Brother Phelps would be my Overseers." To this we set our Hands.Memorandum: He expressed yt wt was left of his Estate besides his Debts his 2 sons Jonathan and David should have.Signed: Abraham Randall, Mary X Randall, Walter ffyler.Court Record, Page 74--5 March, 1667-8: Invt. Exhibited. Adms. to Jonathan & David Winchell. He had an older son & a daughter.

[In this document his Sister Randall and Brother Phelps are mentioned, and Mary Randall and Abraham Randall are witness this spoken Will.]