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Evidence
SPR #338 - the 1663 'Quinapaug wch we know not' estate line
John Gurney's 1663 Braintree probate inventory (taken 16 March 1663; total 55 pounds 14s 6d) records a land-interest line reading 'an estate layd out in land at Quinapaug wch we know not' - an interest the appraisers could not value.
Date: 16 March 1663 (old style, 1662/3)
Why this conclusion
- Synthesized by Finding Record coverage: a continuous 1641-1663 civic/land/court/probate footprintThe 1663 estate inventory is the closing record of the footprint (cross-topic: frontier-rights).
- Supports Finding Finding: Quinapaug line = unrecorded Providence-jurisdiction frontier shareThe inventory's 'Quinapaug wch we know not' line is the primary evidence for the unvalued frontier interest.
Sources
- New England Historic Genealogical Society. "Suffolk Wills." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 12 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1858), p. 53., NEHGR vol. 12 (1858), p. 53 (estate abstract, 55 pounds 14s 6d; Quinapaug line not carried in the abstract)
- Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records, Case #338, John Gurney Senr probate inventory, Braintree, 16 March 1663; manuscript image supplied by Allen Gurney, file 102840311_00516.jpg., Suffolk County Probate Records, Case #338, inventory 16 March 1663
an estate layd out in land at Quinapaug wch we know not
Topic file location: Colonial frontier rights
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000027 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.