Packard, Mary

Mary married Edson, Abiezer on 15 Nov 1744. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel married Leach, Anne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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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Packard's Progress says his will dated June 5, 1721 and probated March 12, 1723 devises only personalities----deeded to son, Samuel 1719----to sons Zachariah, George, and Fearnot April 25, 1720.[gpackard.ged]

Packard's Progress says his will dated June 5, 1721 and probated March 12, 1723 devises only personalities----deeded to son, Samuel 1719----to sons Zachariah, George, and Fearnot April 25, 1720.

Nathaniel married Smith, Lydia about 1682. Lydia (daughter of Smith, John and Eliot, Lydia) was born on 10 Apr 1660 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA; died on 15 Nov 1720. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Samuel Packard the immigrant, early of Weymouth and Hingham came on the ship "The Diligent" and ultimately settled in Bridgewater. He and his wife, Elizabeth ______ had numerous children. For Packard descendants, of course, his will should be of interest, but it is also interesting to note that she late in life married John Washburne, son of John and Margery Washburn and the husband of Elizabeth Mitchell, Mayflower Descendant. He died within a few years of the marriage, being then about 65. Note the interesting comment as it relates to a bequest for dau. Jael, current wife of John Smith, in which he seems to, but perhaps not necessarily, expresses some distaste for Smith

Samuel Packard Will:

[4:2:96] (MD 15:4:253+)

On 29 October, 1684, "Samuell Packer senir of Bridgwater .... yeoman" made his will.
Bequests were as follows:

"unto my loveing wiff Elizabeth all that my farm in the said Towne of Bridgwater which I now Dwell upon Containing" 36 acres "with all the houses Lands and Meddowes belonging to the said farme, During the tearm of her Naturall Life;" also "all my Share of Meddow Lying att a place in Bridgwater Called Bulls hole" for life; "end alsoe all my goods and Cattles" for life; also £40 in money for life.

"unto Samuell Packer my eldest son" 64 acres of land in Bridgewater "which his Dwelling house Now stands upon .... buting upon West meadow brook on the east side of the said brooke and Runing east & west"; also 25 acres of land in Bridgewater "which is not yett Layed out"; also "one Lott of Meddow" in Bridgewater "in the West meadow on the south east syde of .... the west meadow Brooke"; also "one Lott of Meddow" in Bridgewater "in the Great Meddow on the North east side of the pond Joyning to the pond"

"unto my son Zacheus Packer .... the house wherin hee my said son Zacheus Packer Dwelleth in with the Land therunto belonging which is" 24 acres lying in Bridgewater; also "my Lott of Meddow" in Bridgewater "in the west meddow on the Norwest syde of the brooke"; also "a Lott of" 50 acres in Bridgewater "by the Bay. Path bounded on the south side by Marke Laythorpes Land"; also "one Lott of Meddow" in Bridgewater "in the Great meadow on the southeast side of the River"

"unto my son John Packer" 70 acres in Bridgewater "on the Eastward side of the River; alsoe .... one lott of Meddow in "Meddow Called Poor Meddow Lying in the said Bridgwater, alsoe .... all my lott of Land att Teticut;"

"unto my son Nathaniel Packer .... two third prtes of my aforsaid farm lying in Bridgwater which I Now Dwell upon Containing" 36 acres of land more or less "That is to say of
all the houses Lands and Meddowes belonging to the said farme, to enter upon it emediately after the Decease of my said wife;"

"The other third prte of my said farme that I Dwell Now upon in the said Towne of Bridgwater; That is to say one third prte of the houses Land and meddowes belonging to the said farme I give & bequeath unto my Grand Child Israell Agur and to his heires .... hee or they to enter upon it Imediately after the Decease of my said wife;"

"unto my said son Nathaniell: Packer .... the one halfe of my lott of" 50 acres in Bridgewater lying "Next to Joseph Bassetts lott Neare to the Pond; alsoe I Give .... unto my said Grand Child Israell Augur and to his heires .... the other halfe of the said Lott of fifty acrees of land; to be equally Devided between the said Nathaniel Packer My son and the said Israell Augur; they and both of them to enter upon it Imediately after my Decease;"

"unto my said son Nathaniel Packer and To his heires and assignes for ever the one halfe of my Share of meadow in Bridgwater lying there att a place Called Bulls hole; hee or they to enter upon it after the Decease of my said wife; alsoe I give and bequeath unto my Grand [p. 97] Child Issraell Augur and to his heires and assignes for ever, the other halfe of my said Share of meadow lying att Said bulls hole, hee or they, to enter upon itt after the Decease of my said wife ;"

"I Give and bequeath unto the said Elizabeth Packer my wife and to her heires and assignes for ever all my Lott Containing twenty Acrees of land lying and being in Bridgwater; between the Land of mr James Keith on the one side and the Land of Joseph haward on the other side, buting upon the pond Called Satuckett pond;"

"unto my fouer sones (viz) Samuell Packer Zacheus Packer John Packer and Nathaniell Packer; and to my Grandchild Issrael . Augur .... all my Right & title of Comons and Comonage which I Now have in the Townshipp of Bridgwater to be equally Devided betwixt them them five excepting som prticular prsells of land already Given by will and are not yett Layed out

and alsoe my will is that my five Daughters Mary Phillips the wife of Richard Phillips and hannah Randall The wife of Tho: Randall Jaell Smith the wife of John Smith and Daborah Washburn the wife of Samuell Washburn and Deliverance Washburn The wife of Thomas Washburn with my Grand Child Deliverance Augur shall have equally Devided amongst them six all what mony or Chattles shalbe left after the Decease of my said wife Elizabeth Packer;

alsoe my will is That as Concerning my Daghter Jaell Smith the wife of John Smith that the prte of the Mony and Chattles above Named that shalbe Due to my said Daughter Jaell after the Decease of my said wife Elizabeth Packer shall not be Delivered to the said John Smith; but shalbe Desposed of to my said Daughter Jaell for her Comfort by the executors of my said
Will; alsoe my will is that my Grand Child Deliverance Augur shall have a heifer; when shee my said Grandchild is of age; and alsoe I Give unto my Grandchild Deliverance Augur one bed; with such furniture to it as is now in the house; I Doe mean a feather bed after the Decease of My said wife, Elizabeth Packer"

"my said son Nathaniel: Packer shall pay unto my Executors heerafter mencioned" £10 in money "when hee .... shall Come to Injoy his prte of the farme that I have before mencioned and Given him in this My will"

"to my two Grandchildren Samuell Packer, and Daniell Packer the son of my son Samuell Packer ten shillings apeece in Mony; ,

"to my Grandchild Issraell Packer; the son of my son Zacheus Packer: ten shillings in Mony"

"to my Grandchild Caleb Phillipes the son of Caleb Phillipes ten shillings in Mony"

"To my Daughter Deliverance the the wife of Thomas Washburn ten acres of land" in Bridgewater, "which said ten acrees is agreed on by the Towne; to lay it Conveniently to the Lott not yett layed out"

"my beloved wife Elizabeth Packer and my son Samuell Packer; to be Joynt executors"
"I Desire that mr James Keith and William Brett should be overseers to this my last will"

The will was signed by a mark and witnessed by John Field, John Ames, Jr., and Shadrack Wilbore. John Field and John Ames, Jr., testified on 3 March, 1684/5, and at the same time" Declared upon the oath they had taken as abovewritten that the said Samuell Packer senir Declared att the time hee signed and sealed this Will .... that hee Intented Thomas Washburne to be a Joynt executor of his Last will & Testament with the other two that in the said Will are Mensioned; and accordingly are alowed of by the Court"

"An Inventory of the estate of Samuall Packer of the Towne of Bridgwater Deceased the seaventh of November 1684 "No real estate is mentioned and the total is £133, 6s., 6d. "A true and faire apprisall .... taken by us the eleventh of Novem: 1684 as witnesseth our hands Marke Laythorpe John ffeild" "Samuell Packer Junior made oath to this Inventory before the Court held att Plymouth" on 5 March, 1684/5.
He had an estate probated on 29 Nov 1684 in Plymouth Colony, MA.

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Source: A Mayflower and New England Study, http://www.mayflowerfamilies.com/wills/samuel1_packard.htm[epackard.ged]

See Packard's Progress, Feb 1991, for analysis by K. S. Packard, Jr., of the birth order and marriages of Samuel and Elizabeth's children.
Birth order of Samuel's children has been established of the basis of Samuel Packard's will and Records of Baptism from Rev. Peter Hobart's Journal.[gpackard.ged]

See Packard's Progress, Feb 1991, for analysis by K. S. Packard, Jr., of the birth order and marriages of Samuel and Elizabeth's children.
Birth order of Samuel's children has been established of the basis of Samuel Packard's will and Records of Baptism from Rev. Peter Hobart's Journal.

Samuel married (Packard), W/S Elizabeth in 1632 in England. Elizabeth (daughter of Unknown) was born about 1614 in Wymondham, Suffolk, England; died on 27 Oct 1694 in Bridgewater, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

[Plym. Co. Deeds, 10: 1: 333]

"Elizabeth Washburn Widow of the Town of Bridgewater" for £5 current money "paid unto me by an Indian known by the name of Sam James of sd Bridgewater" sold to him "All that my twenty acre Lot of Land being Situate within the Confines of sd Bridgewater and at a Place called & known by the name of Setucket Pond and being about Fourty Poles in breadth and about eighty Poles in Length & on the Southern Side of said Pond It being the Sixth Lot from Pimkin Bridge of that Division of twenty acre Lots & lying between the Land of mr James Keith and the Land of Thomas Hayward Senr .... and I sd Elizabeth Washburn .... Covenant ., . . yt I at the time of making over & Passing away the sd Land .... Stood truly & lawfully Seized & Possessed with the Same .... by vertue of my first Husband viz: Samuel
Packard his Will" The deed was dated 27 October, 1694, and signed by a mark, and was acknowledged the same day before Thomas Hayward, Justice of the Peace.

It was witnessed by Samuel Packard, Thomas Washburn and Edward Fobes, and was recorded 22 October, 1713.

John married Eliot, Lydia. Lydia died on 21 Jul 1672. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]