William Lamson

WILLIAM LAMSON ~

William bought land 5 February 1637 in Labor-In-Vayne Creek.
He bought land again in 1640. Photograph of the Lamson House in Ipswich, Massachusetts

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Research done by W. H Whitmore, " The Ayres and Ayer Families", in the NEGHS, 1863,17:307-310, states the following; A John Ayres was known to have lived in Ipswich in 1648 and 1672. In 1661 he and William Fellows jointly petitioned the county clerk on behalf of the minor children of Sarah, who was described as "our sister". Sarah had been married to William Lampson, who died Feb 1, 1658. She then wanted to marry Thomas Hartshorne, this being opposed by the petitioners, "her brothers". This is taken to mean that John Ayres was a true brother of Sarah and that William was married to the sister of Sarah and John Ayres. Thus the maiden name of Ayres for Mary

Immigrated 1630.

Full text https://archive.org/details/descendantsofwil00lams/page/15 "Descendants of William Lamson of Ipswich, Mass 1634-1917" by Dr.Dr. William Judson Lamson, M.D. pp. 15-21

William Lamson was born in England, but his exact birthplace has not been found. He arrived in Ipswich about 1634. In 1637 and 1640, he was granted farmland in Ipswich. His house lot was on the bank of the Ipswich River, in an area known as Turkey Shore. For some reason, the lots there were never utilized, and his home was built elsewhere. No record of his marriage has ever been found, but there is little doubt that he married, about 1640, Sarah Ayers, who was born about 1620. William and Sarah had eight children between 1642 and 1658 in Ipswich.

William died on February 1, 1658-9 at Ipswich, apparently without a will, as he was still a fairly young man. His estate was appraised at 111 Pounds. On the back of the inventory is written, "fowr sonns....fowr daughters....he left eight children....the eldest sonne of the age fifteen yeare last November....the eldest daughter 14 years....the 2 sonn 9 years thre....2 daughter 7 years of age....3 daughter....4 daughter--4--years age....3 sonn--2 years last Novem....yongest sonn 24 weeks old". The court granted administration of the estate to his widow and ordered that she pay to the children, as they came to 21 or the age of marriage, the oldest son 12 Pounds, the others 6 Pounds apiece.

Sarah married, before 1661, Thomas Hartshorn of Reading. Her brother, John Ayres, and her brother-in-law, William Fellows, were against the marriage and petitiond the court, claiming that William's children were being cheated out of their inheritance. Accordingly, Hartshorn put up his home in Reading as security, which satisfied the Probate Judge. The estate was finally settled in 1720, by William's only surviving son, Joseph.

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William/1 Lamson was born in England, and came to this country in 1634.

Of his arrival we know nothing, but he went to Ipswich soon after he landed, and the records show that on Feb. 5, 1637, there was "granted unto Will'" Lampson six acres of planting ground, between Paul Williamson's meadow and Goodman Andrews ten acres near the upper end of Labour-in-vayne Creek." In 1640, too, he received another grant of land, and in that year it was voted that "the highway to Chebaco beneath Heart Break Hill forever be repayred by the benefit of the grass yearly growing upon the same," and John Leigh was to enjoy all the profits for "maintaining the highway from Rocky Hill to William Lampson's lot."

On the bank of the Ipswich River, on a point jutting out into the stream at the end of the road leading to Labour-in- Vayne meadows, William Lampson was granted a house lot "in the beginning" and it was expected that this attractive locality, called the Turkey Shore, would become a compact neighborhood; but the houses disappeared, however, and some lots were never utilized. William Lampson and William Story, who owned adjoin- ing lots there, sold their property, now owned by Mr. Benjamin Fewkes, prior to 1644, and the neighborhood evidently did not prove popular. He also had a grant of about one and a half acres a little further up the rwer on the Turkey Shore, bordering on Hunt's Cove, and this was sold to Deacon Whipple. It is now owned by Dr. William E. Tucker. In 1649 there was also granted to "Wm. Lamson 6 acres of salt marsh neare Hog Island by John Dane his Island." There is a hill in Ipswich named Lamson's Hill since 1678, and jjerhaps earlier. His fann is still owned by his descendants.

Thus we see that William Lamson was early a man of property, and from the extracts from the town records we find him to ha\e been a man of considerable standing in the community and interested in town affairs. His name appears on a list of I">ee- nien of Ipswich, May 17, 1637. This shows that he was a mem- ber of the church in good standing and thereby entitled, after taking the oath of allegiance, to vote for the officers of the Colony and take part in town affairs.

In 1641 he was entered as a Commoner on the Town Book of Ipswich, which showed that, owning a house and land within the bounds of the town, he was entitled to the right of pasturage for his cattle in the wide domain beyond the Common fence. These Commoners, from the very beginning, met in Commoners' meeting, had their own records and legislated with reference to all the duties and privileges of Commoners and voted on all questions relating to the common lands. In 1657 it was "ordered that Wm. Lamson (and others) pay 12d. y head to the cowe keeper for their cowes going on the Comon according to an order made m March last."

One of the earlier offices which he held was that of Pounder, and the duties were to care for stray animals, shut them up in the public pounds and collect the fines due. It was ordered "that Mr. Wilson . . . and William Lamson, and they only, shall have power to impound Swyne off the Common."

Another office held by him was that of Fence Viewer, which was of the highest importance in those early days, as any break in the fence around the Common might involve great loss in growing crops at a time when a scarce harvest was a very serious menace to the health and comfort of the little community.. So it is no wonder that men of the greatest sobriety and carefulness were chosen for the responsible duty of viewing and having charge of this rude fence. In 1640 "William Lampson was appointed to look that the Common fence on the South side be sufficient."

The right of Commonage did not carry with it the right to cut wood in the dense forests on the Common, and the privilege of cutting down trees had to be obtained from the town, under penalty of a fine. In Sept., 1641, there is a record that "Willi Lampson hath liberty to fell 300 trees on the other side of Che- bacco so it be not in the limits of any town."

In 1648 he was again on a list of Freemen and paid tax of 2 shillings.

The military life of the early settlers was of great importance to the community and the fear of attacks by Indians was ever present. Every adult male above the age of eighteen years was liable to military service. The training of the military bands was constant and arduous, and breaches of military etiquette and neglect of training were punished by fines. Thus we find, in Oct., 1643, a "List of such as have forfeited for not returning their powder according to an order of the Towne, . . . ii-0-0. Willm. Lampson."

Among the early leaders of the military companies was Cap- tain, afterwards Major Denison, who became so valuable as a commander that the people of the town in 1645 voted to pay him every year £24-7-0 for his "military helpfulness to them" m order to retain his services. This was apportioned among the towns- men, and in 1648, in a subscription list "to our leader, Major Denison," we find that William Lamson gives two shillings.

The General Court at times assumed extraordinary authority over the private affairs of the citizens in those early days. A scarcity of materials for clothing led to statutes increasing the number of sheep in each town to relieve the lack of woolen cloth, and in 1656 it was ordered that "all hands not necessarily employ'd on other occasion, as women, girls and boyes shall & are hereby enjoined to spin according to their skill & abillitie." The Select- men were directed to rate each family and the amount of time that might be given to spinning. The usual amount of spinning that a spinner could do in a day was to be the standard, and each family was to be assessed so many "spiners," or fractions thereof. Thus we find on the town records for 1656, "The Selectmen hav- ing considered the severall families of this Towne & their employ- ment have, according to the order of the Court, assessed them spinners as is underwritten for the year ensuing. . Wiliam Lamson died about January i, 1658/9, at Ipswich, Mass His estate was appraised as follows :

AN INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE OF WiLLIAM LAMSON

(see pp' 18-19 of this book)

The Court grants administration to the widow Lampson and order that she pay or cause to be payd to ye several children as they come to 21 years of age or their marriage w* her consent viz. the eldest son ii2 ye rest £6 apeice and that the house & land stand ingaged to make good ye legacies. The other security be given ye satisfaction of ye Court if any of the children dye before they come to age then to be devydcd equally to ye survivers."

When William Lamson died his widow Sarah was appointed adm' of his estate, March 29, 1659, and presented the above inven- tory of his estate, which was made Feb. 11, 1658, by William (joodhue and Robert Ford, showing the net amount iiii-10-2. According to the Probate Records of Essex County, Mass., he left four sons, the eldest aged 16, the second aged 9, the third 2 years the previous November, and the youngest 24 weeks old ; and four daughters, the eldest 14 years, the second 7 years, the third — years, and the fourth 4 years old.

Sarah Lamson, the widow, had married previous to Nov., 1661 (Savage's Gen. Diet, gives April 10, 1661), Thomas Harts- horn of Reading, Middlesex County, Mass., and at the Probate Court, Nov., 1661, John Ayres and William Fellows, calling Wil- liam Lamson and Sarah his widow, their brother and sister, peti- tioned that their brother Lamson's children may not be cheated out of their share of the estate, stating that the children had been put out to live in other families, and that the estate of said brother Lamson had not been valued near so high as it was esti- mated by them. Accordingly, Thomas Hartshorn made over as security his house and homestead of fifteen acres in Reading, and bounded by lands of James Pike and Walter Fairfield and the common lands of Reading, etc., on the nth of 12 mo., 1661, which satisfied the Judge of Probate.

Savage says that Thomas Hartshorn already had several children by his former wife, Susan, and that by Sarah, the widow of William Lamson, he had a son Timothy, born Feb. 23, 1662.

On Jan. 20, 1720, Joseph Lamson, the only surviving son of William Lamson, was appointed admn de Bonis non of his estate.

Children of William/1 and Sarah (Ayers) Lamson:

+2 John,/2 b. Nov. — , 1642, Ipswich, Mass.; d. 1717,
Topsfield, Mass.

3 Sarah/2, b. 1645, Ipswich ; m. Cornelius, b. 1645 ; and d. 1701, son of Nicholas and Elizabeth Brown, at Reading, Mass., June 6, 1665. Their children, all born in Reading, were:

Nicholas/3, b. April 7, 1666. ; d. 1666.

Cornelius/3, b. June 3, 1667.

Sarah/3, b. Dec. 23, 1668; d. y.

Sarah/3, b. , 1670.

John/3, b. Aug. 8, 1671 ; d. 1674.

Hannah/3, b. , 1673 ; d. 1673.

Abigail/3, b. March 5, 1674 ; d. 1674.

Samuel/3, b. Sept. 13, 1675.

Susan/3, b. , 1677.

Mary/3, b. Jan. i, 1679.

Hannah/3, b. Aug. 28, 1680; m. Abraham Wood, of Concord, Mass.

William/3, b. Feb. 14, 1682; d. May 2, 1768, Natick, Mass.

+4 Samuel, b. Nov. — , 1649, Ipswich; d. 1692, Read- ing, Mass.

5 Phebe/2, b. 1652, Ipswich ; m. John Towne. (Brother of Rebecca Nurse neé Towne, hung for witchcraft in 1692)

6 Mary/2. (?), b. about 1653, Ipswich, Mass. The

Paine Genealogy says that Thomas Paine, son of Thomas, m. (i) Rebecca Peck, April 25, 167 1 ; m. (2) Margaret — , 1684; m. (3) Mary Lam- son, Aug. 20, 1689; b. prob. 1656; died April 5, 1718, aged 62. By her he had, Mary, b. Oct. 16, 1693.

7 Hannah/2, b. 1655, Ipswich; m. Henry, son of Henry and (___ ) Colhns, Jan. 3, 1682, at Lynn, Mass., who was b. Oct. 2, 1651. She died Dec. 16, 1682. She had a child, Henry, b. Nov. 30, 1682. He m. (2) Sarah (Heires), June 24, 1685.

+8 Nathanie/2l, b. Nov. — , 1656, Ipswich.

+9 Joseph/2, b. Aug. — , 1658, Ipswich; d. 1722.

Feb 7 1612
Terling, Essex, England, United Kingdom Christening: Feb 7 1613
Terling, Essex, England Immigration: 1630
Agawam, Later Ipswich, Mass Residence: Agawam, Later Ipswich, Mass Agawam, Later Ipswich, Mass 1632 Residence: Durham, England Before 1634 Immigration: 1634
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Emigration: LAMP389: Lamson, William, came from Durham, Eng., in Winthrop's fleet, freeman at Ipswich, Mass, 1637|LAMP018: "(probably Essex Co. Eng.)"|LAMP018: "arrived from England about 1634"||He was one of the first settlers in New England, coming to this country form England in 1534.||Filby index - Passenger and Immigration Lists:||1982-85 supplement:||William Lampson (no age) Ipswich, Massachusetts, 1637||- both in John A Farmer: "A Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England", (Lancaster,|Massachusetts, 1829, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Company 1976)||1991-95 supplement:||Lampson - years 1607-57 - in Meredith B Colket junior:|"Founders of Early American Families; Emigrants from|Europe 1607-1657" page 171 1634
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Land: Soon after William Lamson came to America, he settled at Ipswich, Massachusetts, where land was granted him...and more land in 1640. Feb 5 1637
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Land: bought land Feb 5 1637
Labor-In-Vayne Creek Occupation: Stone carver May 17 1637
Freeman At Ipswich Public Service: He had liberty from Gem Court 7 Sept, 1641, to fell trees on the other side of Chebacco, not within limits of any town. May 17 1637 Land: bought land 1640 Land: Lambson, Lamson, Lampson, William, Ipswich, propr., frm. May 17, He had liberty from Gen. court 7 Sept., 1641, to fell trees on the other side of Chebacco, not within limits of any town. Sep 7 1641
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Immigration: Captain John Ayres, immigrant anncestor, was born in England, and settled as early as 1648 at Ipswich, Massachusetts. he was accompanied by two brothers-in-law, William Lamson and William Fellows, who married his sisters. Ayres married Susanna, daughter of Mark Symonds, of Ipswich. 1648

Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Photograph: Lamson House Name: Although only one of the authorities who has studied the background of William Lamson, the American progenitor, places him as of the Lambtons, rather than of the Lamsons, since his name is so recorded, the history of both names will be of value.||Lambton was a locality or parish name in England. Lamson, Lambson, Lampson, etc., is a surname derived from the English nickname or contraction, Lamb, of the occupational name Lambert, lamb-herd. Lamson, in turn, became a baptismal name signifying "the son of Lamb or Lambert." Various forms of the name are as follows:|Godwin Lambesune is recorded as living in Berkshire during the reigns of Henry III and Edward I, Johannes and Ricardus Lambeson resided in Yorkshire in 1379, while Thomas Lamson appears in the Court Rolls in the reign of Edward IV and William Lampson in the time of Queen Elizabeth.||It is probable that the Lamson family is of the same lineage as the Lambert family. However, no positive connection or proof has been found linking the American Lamsons with any records of names similar in England. The name was recorded in Berkshire and Yorkshire, England, in the fourteenth century, and in Norfolk County in the seventeenth century. In America the family of Lamson is widespread and their contribution to the development of this country along the lines of science, invention, medicine, the ministry and other channels has been most creditable.
England

RELATIVES: supposed to have been a relative of Barnabas Lamson England

Occupation: held office of Pounder and Fence-viewer; large land owner.
Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Ancestral File Number: 8TCC-RL Comment: William Lamson was born in England, but his exact birthplace has not been found. He arrived in Ipswich about 1634. In 1637 and 1640, he was granted farmland in Ipswich. His house lot was on the bank of the Ipswich River, in an area known as Turkey Shore. For some reason, the lots there were never utilized, and his home was built elsewhere. No record of his marriage has ever been found, but there is little doubt that he married, about 1640, Sarah Ayers, who was born about 1620. William and Sarah had eight children between 1642 and 1658 in Ipswich. William died on February 1, 1658-9 at Ipswich, apparently without a will, as he was still a fairly young man. His estate was appraised at 111 Pounds. On the back of the inventory is written, "fowr sonns....fowr daughters....he left eight children....the eldest sonne of the age fifteen yeare last November....the eldest daughter 14 years....the 2 sonn 9 years thre....2 daughter 7 years of age....3 daughter....4 daughter--4--years age....3 sonn--2 years last Novem....yongest sonn 24 weeks old". The court granted administration of the estate to his widow and ordered that she pay to the children, as they came to 21 or the age of marriage, the oldest son 12 Pounds, the others 6 Pounds apiece. Sarah married, before 1661, Thomas Hartshorn of Reading. Her brother, John Ayres, and her brother-in-law, William Fellows, were against the marriage and petitiond the court, claiming that William's children were being cheated out of their inheritance. Accordingly, Hartshorn put up his home in Reading as security, which satisfied the Probate Judge. The estate was finally settled in 1720, by William's only surviving son, Joseph. Probate: PROBATE: LAMP333: "Inv. of his est. was taken 14 Feb 1658. Admin. March 29,|1659; widow Sarah and 8 children; bros John Ayres and Wm. Fellows. The widow being about to marry Thomas Hartshorne of Reading, he gave security 11 (10)|1659, for the payment of the children's portions.||LAMP399: The Probate Records of Essex County, Massachusetts, Vol I|1635-1665, Pub 1916 by The Essex Institute, pp 282 -284, Copied by South|Dakota State Historical Society, Pierre, SD: Lampson spelled with P:|Administration on the estate of William Lampson of Ipswich, granted Mar. 29,|1659, to widow Sarah. (Names inventory of belongings); He left eight|children, four sons & four daughters...."|November 1661 Petition of John Ayres and William Fellows Where as Or Brother william Lampson late of Ipswich dyed|intestate and Administration granted by the Honored Court at Ipswich to his widdow our sister Sarah Lamp-son (writer's|underscore) and devided the estate about halfe to her & halfe to the children being eight in number and whereas shee|being about to change her estate to one Thomas Harteshorne of Redding It was agreed that before marriage|| [30]|||he should signe and seale a wrighting to give our sayd sister power & liberty to dispose of the one halfe of the estate she|brought to him by way of will (of wch there is sufisient witness besydes ourselves) but by poidence that wrighting being|neglected to be finished before marriage (though then pmised it should be done after) but it is now refused and thereby the|children of or Brother william Lampson like to suffer And where as the estate in the Inventory delivered into the court was|underprised espeshally the Land wch now ap-peareth to be worth eighty pounds wch was then prised but forty foure|pounds.||Now it is necessary for us to prove that our ancestress was the sister of John Ayres and not a sister of his wife, in order|to have the wife of William Fellows an Ayres. Mr. W. H. Whitmore, writing for the N. E. Hist. Gen. Reg., Vol. 17, p. 307, says|he personally had examined old wills and records and that the wife of John Ayres was Susanna Symonds, one of the|daughters of Mark Symonds, and that John Ayres had not married a second time. Mark Symonds died April 28, 1659. He|left a will in which he named his wife and four daughters, naming daughters by married name. He had had a daughter Mary|who married Edward Chapman, and she had died before her father. Susanna was named Susanna Ayres, wife of John|Ayres. This will of Mark Symonds proves that the wife of William Fellows was not a Symonds, and so she must have been|the sister of John Ayres; and Sarah Lamson or Lampson was a sister of John and of the wife of William Fellows. Mar 29 1659
Essex, Massachusetts Marriage: Marriage to: Sarah Ayers Hartshorn / Lambson (born Ayers) Apr 10 1661
of, Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts Land: THE OLD BAY ROAD FROM SALTONSTALL'S BROOK AND|SAMUEL APPLETON'S FARM AND A GENEALOGY OF THE IPSWICH DESCENDANTS OF SAMUEL APPLETON||| PUBLICATIONS OF THE IPSWICH| HISTORICAL SOCIETY| XV.|| BY| T. FRANK WATERS|| PROCEEDINGS AT THE ANNUAL MEETING|| DECEMBER 3, 1906.|| Salem Press:| THE SALEM PRESS CO., SALEM, MASS.| 1907||Thomas Hartshorne of Reading and Sarah, his wife, who was relict of William Lampson, late of| Ipswich, sold to Anthony Potter,|| "our dwelling house & other outhousing with the orchard & a parcel of upland & meadow containing sixteen acres on the South side of the river within the common fence bounded with mile brook towards the west the Mill River towards the North John Danes land toward the East the comon South."|| December 11, 1661 (Ips. Deeds 4:437).|| The lot is the same in both records beyond question, though its area is 6 acres in the grant and 16 acres in the deed, and diverse compass directions appear in the bounds. Potter soon enlarged his modest farm. John Appleton, son of Samuel, the immigrant, sold him 16 acres, having the Mile brook on "the east Mill River on the North the land of Lieut Samuel Appleton west and other land of Potters formerly William Goodhues toward the south."|| Dec. 22, 1664| (Ips. Deeds 2:221).|| Dea. Goodhue's deed of sale of the lot mentioned in the above deed is not recorded, but a later deed records another conveyance by Dea. Goodhue to Potter for œ35 "of 11 acres together with 7 acres which was sometimes Wm Lampsons in the whole 18 acres," bounded by Lieut. Appleton's, his own land and the brook, March 12, 1671 (Ips. Deeds 3: 220).|| This completed his estate, which included the farms, now owned by the Oliver Smith heirs and George E. Barnard. Strangely enough, ten years later Samuel Appleton Sen., executed a deed of sale to Anthony Potter Sen., for œ110, 5s. of the same lot already sold him, 18 acres and 62 rods, "a part of my farm lying between the Great River and Myle brook bounded from the gate post at the highway to Boston to a small oake by the great River which are two bounds having the land of the sd Appleton on the Southwest and from the small oake to the great River coming to sd Potters land on the northwest and the land of sd Potter on the northeast on the east by myle brooke from sdPotters land up to the gate post at the highway to Boston,(???)" "provided it was always intended that what damage the sd Anthony Potter shall sustain by water that comes from the sd. Appletons dam upon any of the above land that the sd Potter and his suscessors shall bear it and that the sd Appleton and his successors shall have the liberty of a highway to the Towne by the great River through the sd land as heretofore," with provision for fence etc. 10-11-1681 (Ips. Deeds 4: 486).|| The original grant to Samuel Appleton was bounded by the River and by Mile Brook, and the Appleton title seems not to have been extinguished||| Page 9 1664

 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Land:	Deed to son for land Dec 27 1681

 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Rsrch. Note:	Research notes of Roger Lamson May 2004

 North Sutton, Merrimack, New Hampshire Death:	Jan 1 1659

 Ipswich, Essex Co., Massachusetts Bay Colony Alternate Death:	Jan 2 1658

 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Alternate Death:	Circa Feb 14 1658

 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Alternate Death:	Jan 1 1659

 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Alternate Death:	Feb 1 1659

 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Alternate Death:	Dec 1 1659

 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Alternate Death:	Died intestate 1661

 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, United States Burial:	Jan 1 1659

 Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts, USA

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William Lamson was born in England, but his exact birthplace has not been found. He arrived in Ipswich about 1634. In 1637 and 1640, he was granted farmland in Ipswich. His house lot was on the bank of the Ipswich River, in an area known as Turkey Shore. For some reason, the lots there were never utilized, and his home was built elsewhere. No record of his marriage has ever been found, but there is little doubt that he married, about 1640, Sarah Ayers, who was born about 1620. William and Sarah had eight children between 1642 and 1658 in Ipswich.

William died on February 1, 1658-9 at Ipswich, apparently without a will, as he was still a fairly young man. His estate was appraised at 111 Pounds. On the back of the inventory is written, "fowr sonns....fowr daughters....he left eight children....the eldest sonne of the age fifteen yeare last November....the eldest daughter 14 years....the 2 sonn 9 years thre....2 daughter 7 years of age....3 daughter....4 daughter--4--years age....3 sonn--2 years last Novem....yongest sonn 24 weeks old". The court granted administration of the estate to his widow and ordered that she pay to the children, as they came to 21 or the age of marriage, the oldest son 12 Pounds, the others 6 Pounds apiece.

Sarah married, before 1661, Thomas Hartshorn of Reading. Her brother, John Ayres, and her brother-in-law, William Fellows, were against the marriage and petitiond the court, claiming that William's children were being cheated out of their inheritance. Accordingly, Hartshorn put up his home in Reading as security, which satisfied the Probate Judge. The estate was finally settled in 1720, by William's only surviving son, Joseph.