Frances Tough Genealogy

Record modified: 2023-01-19
This is my ancestor 12 generations back.

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Born: 1596-00-00 Braintree, Essex England
Died: 1673-11-12 Hartford, Hartford Co, Connecticut USA
Marriages:
1. Edward Stebbings

Children of Frances Tough and Edward Stebbings:
*Elizabeth Stebbins b. 1624-00-00


Notes:

last name might be Tuff or Tuffe
d/o Ralph Tough c1570 Leicestershire ENG + Susan (unknown)

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"A Digest of the Early Connecticut Probate Records"

p119
Mrs Frances Stebbing
Location: Hartford
Invt. L82-11-02. Taken 23 December 1673, by Thomas Bull & Robert Webster.
will dated 1670-05-20:
I ffrances Stebbing, Living in Hartford, in the colony of Connecticut, Widdow, being aged and under many weaknesses of body, but having my perfect memory and Understanding, Doe make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament, wherein I give to my Dear and beloved son Mr John Chester, now living in or neer unto London in old England, the fful and Just some of Twenty and four pouds Starling; or, if deceased, to his wife and two Sons John and Sampson Chester, in equal portions, to be paid in Hartford.
I give unto my ffowr grand children, Thomas, William, Matthew and Mary Cadwell, fower pounds a pece, to be paid in Currant Country pay into the hands of my Son Thomas Cadwell.
I give to my daughter Cadwell all my wearing apparell, both Woolen and Linen.
I Constitute Lt Thomas Bull and James Ensign Executors.
20th May 1670.
ffrances Stebbing (her mark)
Witness: Thomas Bull

Codicil, wherein is given 7 Acres of Land in the South Meadow not before disposed of, it being four score Rod Long and about fourteen Rod and a quarter wide, bequeathed to Thomas, William and Mary Cadwell. And 4 acres more I doe give, two acres of ye said fowre to ye now two youngest children of my son and daughter Matthew and Abigail Cadwell, and the other two acres I leave to the dispose of my two friends in trust, Lt Bull and Lt Robert Webster, whom I ordain Executors.
I ffrances Stebbing doe now Rattify the within specified will, dated 20th May 1670; only the Executors, which I now ordain Lt Bull and Lt Robert Webster.
And also I now doe bequeath to my daughter Cadwell only my wearing goone, and the rest of my apparell to be divided betwixt ye wife of John Wilson, Mary Day and Mary Cadwell.
12 November 1673. Also I give to Mr John Whiting 40s, and my husbands cloak to John Wilson.
Witness: Eliazar Way, John Wilson.
Ffrances Stebbing (her mark)

Court record, p136 -- 20 January 1673/4: Will exhibited. Proven.

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