Samuel MEEKER

  General Notes:

Benjamin Maker, Meaker, will of. Wife Elizabeth. Sons, William, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel, Joseph. Real and personal estate. Executors - the wife and William Meaker. Witnesses - William Looker Junior, John Meekar, John Harriman. Proved 6/10/1707. Lib. 1, p. 181 To his wife, Elizabeth, all movable estate; also house and lot so long as she remains his widow. To son, William, twenty acres where his house now stands joining Jonas Wood. (Old Meeker Homestead) To son, Jonathan, seventeen acres, the rest of the land joining William's twenty acres. To son, Thomas, one hundred acres, joining John Meeker and bought of Samuel Hopkins. To sons, William, Jonathan and Daniel one hundred and fifty acres "lying near the Ash Swamp." To son, Daniel, forty acres lying near to "Daniel Sayre farm." To son, Samuel, the home lot bought of Samuel Hopkins, also nine acres in new field; also thirteen acres of land called "Barbers Ridge." To son, Joseph, all of house and land lying in old field joining Joseph Ogden. To sons, William, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel and Joseph, all the meadow ground that is all ready surveyed to Benjamin. To sons, William, Benjamin, Jonathan, Daniel, Samuel, Thomas and Joseph Meaker "all the rights of land and meadow (supposedly the undivided land owned by the associates from the Indian Purchases of 1664.) Inventory of personal estate 23 June 1707 total 94 pounds and 8 shillings. Live stock: 20 head of cattle, 41 sheep, two sows and six pigs. "A parcel of old books, 6 shillings."Lib. 1, pg 181

Samuel married Mary SEWARD. (Mary SEWARD was born on 5 Aug 1690 in Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut.)