I now receive the
New England Historical and Genealogical Register, published by the New England Historic Genealogical Society, on the online website AmericanAncestors.org. It is much easier to read and I can save it in a file folder in digital format every quarter. My challenge is to remember to capture it when each issue is released (AmericanAncestors does send me an email as a reminder).
The Table of Contents for the Fall 2020 Issue (Volume 174, number 4) is:
The only item that affected my family tree was the addition of Francis Dudley as a brother of governor Thomas Dudley. Some of the other articles were interesting in terms of the records found and the methodology used to solve the question at hand. How I wish I had in my ancestry Agnes Spencer, wife of Thomas Higginson of Berkeswell, Warwickshire, Ancestor of Nine American Immigrants, Cousin to Diana, Princess of Wales, Sir Winston Churchill, President George Washington, and Others.
Made Oath that they were present & saw
Rebeccah Kirby the subject ????? ????? did
signe seal & heard her Publish & Declare sd
Instrument as her Last will and Testament and
that she was of a sound and disposing mind &
memory when she sodid and they with
Daniel
same time and all in the presence of the Testator.
George Leonard
Geo. Leonard JR
The source citation for this probate case file is:
Bristol County, Massachusetts, Probate case files, Volume: Bristol 14000-15999 - Estate File #15226 (13 images),Rebekah Kirby estate, 1773; Bristol County (Massachusetts) Probate Records, 1636-1899, digital images, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2017,
American Ancestors (https://www.americanancestors.org: accessed 19 December 2020); Digitized mages provided by FamilySearch.org from original records at Probate Registry, Taunton, Mass.