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Analysis
Which John died at Mendon in 1675: G13's son, not Richard G12's son
The 1675 Mendon casualty is John Gurney Jr., son of the emigrant John Gurney-1 (G13), not the identically-named eldest son of his brother Richard Gurney (G12). Richard's own son John was still living on 27 October 1691, when he declined to administer his father's estate — a record that rules him out as the 1675 casualty and resolves a confusion that had attached the Mendon death to the wrong generation.
Date: 27 October 1691 (the administration record that resolves the question)
Qualifications and conflicts
- Qualifies Finding John Jr. and Ruth's Mendon household, 1671-1676The two-Johns disambiguation confirms which same-named cousin the household finding's Mendon casualty refers to.
Sources
- FamilySearch Full-Text Search, AI-transcribed manuscript image collections (deeds, probate, parish and borough records)., Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Probate Records 1636-1766 (registry copy volume), image 448 of 585, ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9Y5-GKGB, administration entry for Richard Gurney late of Weymouth, County Court at Boston, 27 October 1691.
Topic file location: Family — Mendon: John Jr. and Ruth Bundy
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000129 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
/assets/g13-graph/findings/G13-RI-000129.json
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.