John Straw

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John STRAW was born on 1 JUL 1688 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. He signed a Will on 6 NOV 1750 in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.
John Straw
In the Name of God Amen
The sixth Day of November ano Que Domini 1750 I John Straw of kingstown in the provence of Newhamshire Being very sick ans weke of Body * * *
Iprmis I give and Bequeath to Elidea Straw my well Beloved wife the whole and sole Improvement of all my whome sted that I now live upon During hur natural Life; and all my Stock and Household goods to be at Hur Disposeall as she see Cause.
Item: I give to my well Beloved Son Willum Straw That pease of Land that he Now Lives upon being about Thirty acres to use of Dispose of as see Cause.
Item: I Give to David and John my other two sons all My whome steed Land and Buildings whom I Constetute and Appoint Make and ordaine my sole Executors of this my Last will & testement all and singular my lands and Buildings By them to Be possesed and Enjoyed Emediately after my own and my wifes Desease I Do likewise order These my Exectors to paly all my Debts that are or shall Be Lawfully Brought agains my Estate and pay out all these Legises that I shall order and provide for me and my wife a Decent Burial at our Disease memorandom what I give to David & John is to be equaly Divided betwixt them and to pay Equaly alike and John to pay David for half the Charge of his . . . . & clearing
I Do Likewise Give all my implements or utencials to David and John imedatly after my Dissease
item I give to my three Dughters Metebel the wife of David Colby and Mary the wife of Peter Colby and Rachel the wife of David Peasley Twenty pounds to Each of them old tenor to be payd to them Emediately after my own & my wifs Desese by my Exectors
Item I Do Likewise give to my Daughter Elisabeth Straw fifty pounds old tener to Be paid to her Emediately after my own & my wifs Desese By my Exetors &c
and I do Hereby Ratifie and Confirm this and no other To Be my Last will and testement in witness whareof I Have herento set my hand and seal the 6th sixth Day of november and twenty thurd year of his majasties Reins &c
his (Winesses)
Thomas Wels X his mark
Stephen Batchelder
Moses Tucker
John Straw + his mark
(Proved Nov. 28, 1750)
(Inventory, Feb 15, 1750/1; amounty, £2132. 6. o; signed by Samuel Emerson and Ephraim Hazeltine.)
(Account of David Straw, executor, of the settlement of the estate; receipts, personal estate, £432. 6. o.; expenditures, £299. 14. 3.; allowed Aug. 29 1759.)
He will was proved on 28 NOV 1750 in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire.

According to a Will of November 6, 1750 only the following children are named. Sons William , David and John...daughters Metebel (Mehitable) now married to David Colby, Mary now married to Peter Colby and Rachel now married to David Peasley and Elizabeth unmarried..Judeth is not mentioned... Judeth may have died prior to the drawing up of the Will...
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Other sources for this information are Biographical review; genealogy of Ellen Straw Thompson of 1897 and kindredkonnections and Gendex and familytreemaker on the internet.
The following children were all baptized 2 June 1728 per Amesbury records:
David, Elizabeth, Rachel and John.

John married Lydia Sargent, daughter of William Sargent and Mary Colby, on 20 Apr 1710 in Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts. (Lydia Sargent was born about 1690 in Kingston, Rockingham County, New Hampshire and died after 1750.)