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Evidence
1664 Margery Laver will: bequest "to Jane Gurnet"
Margery Laver of Dorchester's will, dated 4 (6) 1664 and proved 10 (9) 1664, bequeaths 2 shillings "to Jane Gurnet, 2s for a memorandum," among legacies to Braintree's minister William Tompson, Dorchester's minister Richard Mather, and the Wiswall and Preston families.
Date: will dated 4 (6) 1664, proved 10 (9) 1664
Why this conclusion
- Supports Negative result Negative: no true Gurney household at colonial DorchesterThe Laver will's "Jane Gurnet" legacy is one of the two record threads the negative result resolves.
Sources
- "Abstracts of Early Wills," The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 13 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1859), p. 13., p. 13, will of Margery Laver, "to Jane Gurnet, 2s for a memorandum"
Topic file location: Family — colonial collaterals
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000142 - 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.