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Lechford's " Manuscript Note Book " " gives articles of agreement
between John Warham, Pastor of ttie church of Windsor, and Jane his
wife, executrix of the last Will and Testament of Thomas Newberry, Gent.,
deceased, and Richard Wright. The editor adds the following note :
" This instrument discloses a fact not previously ascertained, that Jane, the second
wife of Rev. John Warham, and the mother of his children, was the widow of Thomas
Newberry of Dorchester. Mr. Warham's first wife died in the autumn, or early in
December, 1634 (VVinth., i. app. A. 55). Mr. Newberry was early engaged in the
movement for emigration to Connecticut, and had sold a portion of his Dorchester
property with a view to removal, when prevented by death in December 1635, or
January 1636. By his will, made December 12, 1635, he gave his wife Jane ^200.,
and constituted her his sole executrix ; and the rest of his estate was left to his chil-
dren. . . . Mr. Warham and Mr. William Gaylord were named overseers of the
will (Geneal. Reg., vii. 29 ; History of Dorchester, p. 69). It is not certain whether
Mr. Warham married the widow at Dorchester, or after the removal of the family to
Windsor ; but the former is the more probable. . . . [T.] "
The second Plenry (12) Wolcott was an importing merchant, but
much engaged in public affairs both of State and Church, having been
" one of the nineteen gentlemen prominent in the Colony who were named
in the Charter of Connecticut. He was elected a member of the House
of Deputies in 1660, and of the House of Magistrates in 1662, and suc-
cessively after until his death." By a codicil to his Will he devised his
houses and lands in Tolland and Wellington to his eldest son Henry and
his heirs male, on certain conditions ; or, in default of such heirs, to the
heirs male of his other three sons and their heirs forever. It was plainly
his wish and intention to follow the Enghsh law of inheritance of land
but, on the death of his eldest son Henry, without male issue surviving
him, there arose a disagreement in the family, and the English law was
finally set aside by a colonial Court.
' Archaeologia Americana. Transactions and Collections of the Am. Antiq. Society. Cambridge,
1885, vii. 124-25.
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