Sarah GILBERT

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• Fact: Daughter of Josiah Gilbert of Wethersfield

Sarah married Capt. Jacob WILLIAMS on 10 Dec 1685. Jacob (son of Thomas WILLIAMS and Rebecca WATERHOUSE) was born on 7 Mar 1664/5 in Wethersfield, Hartford Co., Connecticut; died on 26 Sep 1712. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Capt. Jacob WILLIAMS was born on 27 Feb 1689 in Rocky Hill, Connecticut; died on 29 Jan 1751 in Connecticut.

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• Baptism: 27 Nov 1625, Yardley, Worcestershire, England
• Death: Abt Sep 1688, Wethersfield, Connecticut

Josiah married Elizabeth BELCHER about 1651. Elizabeth (daughter of Gregory BELCHER and Catherine ?) was born about 1632; died on 17 Oct 1682 in Wethersfield, Connecticut. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mr. Homer W. Brainard of Hartford, who has made an exhaustive study of Thomas Gilbert, states that the cumulative evidence shows that he was the father of Jonathan, John, Josiah, Obadiah, Thomas Ezekiel, Brothers, and Sarah Judkins, wife of Joel Judkins of Braintree, Mass., a sister. They all shared in his estate. Some of the children were young at the time of their coming to Connecticut and there was no other Gilbert there at the time to whom they appear to belong. he bought a house and lot in Windsor of Francis Stiles, Jan. 24, 1644, and seems to have cultivated Stiles' farm. No mention is made in the Windsor Records of him or children as such. the house be bought in 1644, he sold to John Drake and his son Jacob. In a deed from Francis Stiles to Robert Saltonstall, it is specified that the house and land are "at present in the occupation and tenure of Thomas Gilbert and John Bancroft." He continued to live at Francis Stiles' as late as 1651. he bought part of the home lot of Thomas Gunn on the west side of the street and built on it; this last he had sold Thomas Bissell by 1658, and removed to Wethersfield, (Glastonbury Society), where he died. It is thought by some good authorities that his wife was that Lydia Gilbert who was condemned to be hung as a witch Dec. 7, 1654, but from the fact that the funeral expenses of his wife were paid out of his estate in 1659, it would seem that this is either a mistake or that the sentence was not executed.

Thomas married Lydia ?. Lydia died before 1659. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Gregory Belcher, born about 1606, was in New England as early as 1637, and on Dec. 30, 1639, was granted a lot of 52 acres at Mount Wollaston (Braintree) for thirteen heads, paying three shillings per acre for the same. (Boston town Records). Here he settled, was admitted freeman on May 15, 1640, and was made selectman in 1646. He deposed in June, 1665, aged about 60 years. (Essex Co. court Files.) By occupation he was a farmer. On July 14, 1664, he purchased of John Smith 9 acres of land in Milton, which he gave to his son Joseph Belcher for a marriage portion (Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol. 4, p. 204a.) On Jan. 6, 1657/8, he obtained a lease of the Salter farm in Braintree from the estate of William Tyng of Boston; and on Jan. 15, 1666/7, Gregory Belcher and others bought the Salter farm for L1,900, Belcher's interest being one-eight. (Suffolk Co. Deeds, vl. 5, p. 229.) On Mar 26, 1671, Gregory Belcher and his son-in-law Alexander Marsh purchased the iron works with 200 acres of land, in Braintree; and on May 18, 1671, the same parties bought 40 acres in Braintree plain of Henry Crane. (Suffolk Co. Deeds, vol. 7, p. 172.) He died Nov. 25, 1674. The inventory of his estate, showing a total of L629-5-0, was presented by his widow Jan. 29, 1674/5. (Suffolk Co. Probate.) His wife Catherine survived him, and died in the spring of 1680. Her will, dated Sept. 3, 167, proved July 20, 1680, gives to son Josiah a cow "if he molest not my son Moses in his present dwelling and possessions;" to son John a cow and a horse; to daughters Elizabeth Gilbert and Mary marsh, and granddaughter Mary Marsh, some household effects; to son Moses (who hath all his life carried himself so dutifully to myself and his father) the great Bible and the whole house and land he now possesses which I declare his father gave him." Sons Moses Belcher and Alexander Marsh, executors.

On July 9, 1680, Josiah Belcher of Boston entered a caveat against the probate of any will said to be made by his late mother, Catherine Belcher, of Braintree, widow, deceased, until he be present. (Suffolk Co. Probate.) It does not appear, however, that any contest was made over the estate.

Gregory married Catherine ? in 1631 in England. Catherine died in 1680. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]