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| Notes for Sylvester STOVER | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1003With partners Ball, Way and Powell had a grant of a neck on the south side of Cape Neddick river for a fishing stage 3 Jul 1649. The neck where he dwelt was mentioned in 1650. Grants 1653, 1665. Exempted from training as a ferryman in 1661. Absent from meeting in 1664, he and wife in 1666. Censured in 1673 for over-indulging his daughter. O.A. Mar 1679/80. Lists 273, 275-277, 24, 25, 33, 75b. His will was bound to old England, 21 Jul 1687 - 14 Feb 1689/90, names with 4 sons, 'the rest of my ch.' 1004At York Court on 28 June 1655 "We present Sylvester Stover & his wife for complaining one of another on a Lord's day in the morning in saying his wife did abuse him & bade him go to Thomas Crockett's to his bastard & carry some bread & cheese, & the said wife of Stover said that her husband did commonly call her whore" 1005He first appears in New England on 13 July 1649, when, with three other men, he received a grant of land at Cape Neddick, York, consisting of a neck of land on the south side of the river. Subsequently he acquired all the rights of his associates in this land, and built a fortified house on it, which he made his home. In 1653 thirty acres of land were confirmed to him, which had been granted to him some years previously by Edward Godfrey. He added to his holdings either by grant or purchase, and at the time of his death owned many acres. In his will, dated 21 July 1687 and proved 14 Feb. 1689/90, Sylvester Stover named his wife Elizabeth and his sons John, Dependence, Josiah, and George, and mentioned "the rest of my children." He bequeathed to his son Dependence Stover threescore and ten acres of land where his house was, up the river, in "Cape Nadick," and to his son George "the houses and the rest of my land that is not disposed of ... and if my sone John Stover please he shall have that Libertie for to change with my son George Stover for what land and house which he have at cape neck for that which my sone George Stover have here after the decease of my wife." 1006The inventory, as presented by Elizabeth Stover, widow, 17 Feb. 11689/90, showed that the estate was appraised at pounds 731.7s. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Notes for Elizabeth (Spouse 1) | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1003Elizabeth's mother's presence in their home evidently caused many of the troubles of their early married life. Elizabeth petitioned (Doc. Hist. V:432), stating that she lost her husband the beginning of the war, indicates he returned from overseas. She remained in York until forced off, possibly to Scituate. Her will at Scituate, 7 Dec 1714, gives to all ch., liberally to her negroes; the three execs., incl. Michael Wanton, decl. to serve 4-17 Swp 1722. 1007That Elizabeth Stover, widow, was of high courage and tenacity is shown by the records of the General Court of Massachusetts. Her home at the Neck was in an Indian-haunted region, and from 1688 to 1712 the Indian wars made life hazardous for the families there. Elizabeth Stover, being of stern stuff, did not leave her home fort readily, but finally she was obliged to yield to fate, as the following petition shows: "Feb. 26 1695/6 James Convers in behalf of Elizabeth Stover petitioned the General Court saying that said widow in the beginning of the present Warr lost her husband, and she with much difficulty and charge maintained her fort at Cape Neddick about two years. But in the year (1691) she was neglected, he neighbors left her, her sone removed, she was forced to quit the (then) best fort in the Eastern parts which was within one week seized by the Enemy; her houses one of stone and the other of wood within the walls burnt, during the timeof her abode there she was very ready and forward to supply soldiers with beef and other provisions upon the march and otherwise as need required. She obtained a ticket from your Petitioner and other commanders for her disbursements and had a debenture signed to the Treasurer for fiftenn pounds and seventeen shillings (according to the best of my remembrance) sent to her son-in-law of Scituate, and her sd. son lost it by the way. The books have been searched and no payment thereof found. She hath made as many journeys up to Boston with a man she hired to come with her (about it) as cost her above three pounds in money, and always met with disappointment, through our late honored Govr promised she should be paid yett she being weary left the matter to your Petitioner." [The Court voted to pay her pounds 15.18s.] Her will, dated 7 Dec. 1714, when she was living at Scituate, Mass., was proved at Plymouth, Mass., 4 Sept. 1722. In it she named her children John, Dependence, George, Josiah, Elizabeth Walfoot, Sarah Lancaster, Deborah Sawyer, Mary Wanton, and Hannah Bryant. | ||||||||||||||||||
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