Birth: ABT 1640 New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut
Marriage: 27 JAN 1672/73
First Congregational Church, New Haven, New Haven Co, Connecticut
Birth of Daughter: 11 SEP 1676
Name: Mary Ford
Birth of Daughter: 19 FEB 1678/79
Name: Elizabeth
Ford
Birth of Daughter: 18 May 1682
Name: Hannah Ford
Birth of Son: 31 AUG 1683
Name: Samuel Ford
Will: NOV 1707
Details: New Haven Probate Records, volume 2, pages 53-54, made 20/28 November 1707,
proved 20 June 1712. Att a Court of Probate Held at New Haven June 20th 1712 Present John
Alling Esqr Judge Warham Mather Abraham Bradly Esqrs Justices quorum John and Mary Thomas
Executors of ye Last will and Testament of Samuell ford Late of New Haven Deceased,
Exhibited ye said Instrument which was proved in Court and approved for Record // Thomas
Accepted ye -mnt of Executors before ye Court --- I Samuell fford of New Haven in ye
Colony of Conecticut do leave this as followeth as my Last will I Commit my Soule to God -
I give my homestead to my Daughter Mary and fourty acres of Land lying between ye Land of
John Beecher and ye Land yt is Nathaniell Heatons: Eight(y?) acres Lying by Derby Road
fronting upon ye sequestred Land = more six acres of sequestred Land = more I give her a
third of the Land that is to be Layed out this I give to her and her heirs for Ever = and
then mary shal have liberty to take out thirty pounds out of the moveables and then ye
Rest to be Equally divided among the three sisters = To my Daughter Elizabeth Perkins I
give ye Rest of ye Land lying in Darby Road, and more I give her Lying at ye upper end of
my lot Lying upon hay cock plain, more I give her my half Division being Eighteen acres
more a third of ye sequestred Land Also I give her Joseph my gun and Sword To my Daughter
Hannah Perkins I give ye lower end of my lot upon hay cock plain being ten or twelve acres
also I give her a third of the sequestred Land Also I give a third of the land yt is to be
layd out with her sisters = And Mary shal have all ye Linen yt is in my hous and al yt
provission yt is in being yt is Raissed of from ye Land And I do Leave my son John Thomas
and his wife to be Administrators of my Estate to pay al Lawfull Debts and this I do Leave
as my Last will and Testament Having forgot to put in upon or above that my two Daughters
should have a part of ye fruit of my orchards I do hereby signify yt they shal have
Liberty for yt space of ten years If the trees bear anythig Like twenty Buslls. of apples
a piece Novr. 20th 1707 (no signature) {seale} Signed and Sealed in ye presense of ye
witnesses Witnesses Joshnah Culver Sarah Culver Joshnah and Elizabeth Culver both of
Wallingford appeared before ye Court and made oath yt they heard Samuel ford Late of New
Haven Decd. publish this Instrument as his Last will and Testament and yt he was
(According to ye Best of their understanding) of Sound mind and memory at ye doing of it.
Test. Jos Whiting Clerk. Sarah Thompson formerly Culver made oath in Court yt Samel. ford
Late of New Haven Deceased desired her to set to her hand as witness to this instrument as
his Last eil and Testament yt he was of Sound mind and memory at ye doing of it According
to the best of her understanding Test. Jos. Whiting Clerk (date is 1712 or 1717). Stephen
and John Perkins Desireing an Appeal from the Probate of the will of Samuel ford Late
Deceased to ye Superior Court to be held at New Haven on ye 2d tuesday of Sept next which
is granted upon their Giving sufficient bond to prosecute ye same. Stephen Perkins and
Peter Perkins principal and Jonathan Perkins surety of New Haven in ye County of New Haven
Acknowledge themselves Joyntly and Severally Bound in a Recognizance of 50lb Lawful mopny
of this Colony payable to ye treasurer of New Haven County If they ye sd Perkinses shal
not prosecute their said Appeal to Effect and answer at Damage in Case they make not their
plea Good.
Death: 02 JUN 1712 New Haven, New
Haven Co, Connecticut
Click to see parents: Timothy Ford and Eliza
Gordy