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Note: . The following was copied from the RootsWeb WorldConnect pages of
Michael Hervey <mike@mdhervey.com>.
Nathaniel Packard's Will:
In the name of God Amen; Aprill ye twenty fourth 1720. I Nathaniel
Packard of Bridgewater in ye County of Plymouth in New England Yeoman
being very sick and weak of body but of perfect mind & memory, thanks
be unto God; therefore Calling unto ye mortality of my Body; and
knowing that It is appointed unto man once to dye, do make and ordain
this my last Will and testement that is to say; Principally & first of
all I give and recommen my soul into ye hands of God that gave it; &
my body I recommend to ye earth to be buried in decent Christian
Buriall at ye descretion of my Executors; nothing doubting but at ye
great and general resurrection I shall Recieve ye same again by ye
mighty Power of God; and as touching my worldly Estate not otherwise
disposed of I give demise & dispose of ye same in ye following manner
and forme. Imprimis; I give & bequeth to my four Beloved sons; Sci:
Samuel, Zachariah, George & fearnstl Packard all my husbandry Tools &
utensils together with my martiall weapons to be Equally divided among
them. Item. I give & bequeath to my beloved daughter Sarah Eight
pounds. Item. To my beloved daughter Faithful five pounds.Item. I give
and bequeath to my beloved daughter Deborh eight pounds. Item. my will
is that ye Remainder of my Estate be Equally divided among my nine
Beloved daughters Sci; Margarett, Sarah, Lydiah, Faithful, Hanna,
Deliverance, Elisebeth, Mary, Deborah att that time, that my youngest
child becomes of age and not till then. It is also understood to be my
will; That if Either ofentioned daughters dye before my youngest child
comes of age; then her Part or portion to be divided among her
children; but if either of them dye and leave no child my will is that
Her Part return to my Male Heirs and I do by these Presents
Constitute, make & ordain my Two sons Zachariah & George Executors of
this my Last Will & Testament & I do hereby Disanull & Revoke all
other & former Wills Testaments whatsoever Ratifying & Confirming this
& no other to be my last Will & Testament. In Witness Whereof I have
hereunto Set my Hand and Seal ye day & Year above written." The will
was signed with a mark and witnessed by Benjamin Webb Jr., Thomas
Washburn and David Turner.
Recorded in the Plymouth County Registry of Probate, Vol. 4, page 412
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There has been a long standing written and oral tradiation in the
Packard and Kingman families that Nathaniel Packard was married to
Lydia Kingman, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Edson) Kingman. There
is considerable evidence that Nathaniel Packard was to married Lydia
Smith, not Lydia Kingman. Lydia Smith's mother was a niece of Rev.
John Eliot, apostle to the indians of Massachusetts Bay.Her father's
second wife was Jael Packard, Samuels tenth child:
Nathaniel & Lydia Packard received deed of land in Taunton, North
Purchase recorded 17 June dated 1703, from the estate of John Smith,
father of Lydia. (Taunton Reg. Deeds)
John Smith signed a petition, to grant them a township. (Chaffin,
History of Easton, pp 73-74) Will dated 24 Apr. 1720, probated 6 June
1722. (Plymouth Probate)
A recent Kingman Genealogy, The Kingman Family, 1964, Sidney Kingman
Eastwood, does not list a Lydia Kingman, daughter of John Kingman.
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Memoirs of the Leonard, Thompson and Haskell Families, COPYRIGHT
1928,AURSEY WARD GOODENOUGH says:
"1. Henry Smith, of Dedham.
2. John Smith, m. Lydia Eliot of Roxbury, dau. of Philip Eliot.
3. Lydia Smith, b. Dedham 1663, family moved to Taunton, m. Nathaniel
Packard."
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NEHG Register, Volume 59, January 1905, Notes & Queries, page 107-108
states:
"PACKARD-SMITH: - Mitchell, in his History of Bridgewater, says of
Nathaniel(2) Packard (Samuel(1)) that he married, probably, a daughter
of John Kingman. Kingman's History of North Bridgewateer and the
"Genealogy of Samuel Packard," 1871 repeat this statement as a fact.
The settlement of the estate of John Kingman, made Mar. 13, 1690-1,
names the eldest sone [John], second son, Henry, third son, Samuel,
and "three daughters."* These were Elizabeth, who married, Jan. 1
1696, Thomas Mitchell, Deliverance, who married Jacob Mitchell, the
dame date, and Susanna, sho married Dec. 6, 1699, Chilton Latham. The
"three daughters" are therefore accounted for.
Below are proofs that Nathaniel Packard's wife was daughter of John
Smith of Taunton:
"In Taunton January the twenty first in the year sixteen hundred
ninety and five or six then I the subscriber Recieved of Thomas
Leonard Executor to the Estate of my father in law John Smith deceased
an Iron pot & hooks and a brase Kettle and a tramill all to the vallue
of twenty four shillings towards my wives due out of said deceaseds
Estate as witness my hand the day and year above written.
ye Marke of Nathaniell T Packard"
(Thomas Leonard Papers, now in the possession of Charles E.
Goodespeed.)
John Smith of Taunton, eldest surviving son of John Smith, late of
Taunton, conveys to Nathaniel and Lydia Packard of Bridgewater, heirs
to the estate of which is one half a right which originally belonged
to John Smith deceased.
Dated Mar. 9, 1702. (Bristol Co. Deeds, vol. 4, p.143)
John Smith was son of Henry(1) Smith of Dedham. He married (1) Lydia,
Daughter of Philip Eliot of Roxbury. They lived at Dedham, Medfield
and church at Taunton, in 1666. There children were:
Elizabeth, b. Dedham, Oct. 18, 1658
Lydia, b. Dedham, Apr. 10 1660
Elizabeth, b. Taunton, Sept. 7, 1663
Henry, b. Taunton, May 27, 1666; d. Medfield, Aug. 30, 1673.
Lydia, the mother, having died July 21, 1672, at Taunton, John Smith
married (2) Nov. 15, 1672, Jael Packard (Samuel(1)), and had, b. at
Taunton:
Deborah, b. Mar. 7, 1676.
Hannah, b. Mar. 22, 1678
John, b. Dec. 6, 1680.
John Smith, the father, made his will June 5, 1690, which was proved
Jan. 12, 1691-2**, in which he named his son AAJohn, under 21, son
Seth (probably younger than John, as the latter received a larger
share of his father's estate), his wife's son Nicholas Jones and "four daughters." He appointed his brother Samuel Smith of Medfiled (who
died Oct. 24, 1691), and Cazpt. Thomas Leonard of Taunton, his
executors."
* The Genealogical Advertiser, vol. 2, p. 60.
**The Genealogical Advertiser, vol. 4, pp. 124-5
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Syl's note: Information about Nathaniel's family supplied to me by the
Packard & Allied Families Assn. Birth order of Nathaniel & Lydia's
children reconstructed by Karle S Packard, Huntington, NY.
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