General Notes

Some information from the will of Mrs. Ann Bishop, made 12 June 1673, in which she gave twenty shillings to her grandchild Elizabeth Hubbard. Mrs. Bishop gave her eldest son John Bishop 5 pounds above "his equal proportion with my other Too children," and she willed that the residue of her estate should be divided "Betwixt my three children, viz., John and Steuen Bishop and James Steele." Further she called James Steele her son-in-law, and the inventory mentioned property in Mr. Steele's hands "which his wife claims as given to her by her Mother."
The terms used in the will prove conclusively that Mrs. Bishop had but three living children in 1673: John, Stephen, and Bethia wife of James Steele