William Dexter

  General Notes:

[p. 100] On 9 May, 1694, "Stephen Dexter phillip Dexter James Dexter Thomas Dexter John Dexter Benjamin Dexter and moses Barlow" mutually agreed "to abide contented & satisfied with ye settlement and disposition of ye Estate of our Honnored Father William Dexter Lately deceased, in maner and forme following which is according to what he declared to be his mind and will not long before his Death: first that all ye one whole Share of Land which belonged to our sd Father att Rochester shall be Equally devided between ye said James Thomas and John Dexter .... And as for ye housing and Lands both upland and marsh Lying in Barnstable .... it shall be devided between ye sd Stephen phillip and Benjamin Dexter that is to say Stephen shall have ye one halfe of all that peice or percel of upland Lying below and on ye North Side of ye high way or Country Road taking of his half on the west Sid of Sd peice of upland and ye one half of yt Six acre Lott of marsh adjoyning to Sd upland and halfe a four acre Lott of marsh Lying at Scotton .... and phillip Dexter Shall have ye other halfe of ye Sd peice or percel of upland Lying be Low ye Said highway and ye other half of ye Sd Six acres of marsh there unto adjoyning and also ye other half ye Sd four acres of marsh Lying at Scotton : And Benjamin Dexter Shall have .... all ye Housing and ye Remainder of ye afore sd Lands both upland.and marsh in Said Barnestable not perticulerly mentioned and above disposed after his honnored mothers Decease or ye Sd Remaining Land both upland and marsh Shall all of it be and hence fourth Continue Benjamin Dexters provided he give Sufficient Security for ye maintainance of his Sd mother during ye terme of her natural Life or Security to her Satisfaction for her Comfortable maintenance as als Liberty to use and Improve ye now dwelling house which was her husbands, during her Life .... and moses Barlow above Said and our Sister mary his wife Shall have for their portion .... all ye Bedding and houshold Stuff .... after our Sd mother decease .... and further ye Sd Benjamin Dexter Shall have a pair of Loomes and all manner of husbandry Tooles of what Sort So Ever which belonged to our sd Father : And Lastly our .... mother Shall have all ye Stock of Cattel horse kind and Sheep which belonged to our Sd honnored Father .... to be at her Sole dispose .... which Shee Excepts for her Dower with the provition afore sd for her maintinance"
The agreement was signed by Stephen Dexter, Philip Dexter, James Dexter, Thomas Dexter, John Dexter, Benjamin Dexter, Moses Barlow and Sarah Dexter.
The witnesses were Joseph Lothrop and John Otis.
[p. 101] "An Invintory of ye goods .... as also of ye Lands of William Dexter Lately deceased" was taken 8 May, 1694, by John Howland and John Otis, "all ye Housing and Land both upland and marsh In Barnestable" was valued at £190; "one whole Share of Land at Sepecan" £60.
"Sarah Dexter vid Relict of william Dexter" made oath to the inventory, 9 May, 1694.
On 9 May, 1694, "Stephen Dexter Son of william Dexter late of Barnestable deceased Intestate" was appointed administrator.
[The Mayflower Descendant, Volume XXIII, Abstracts of Barnstable County, Mass., Probate Records, Page 64-5]

  Noted events in his life were:

• Alt. Birth, 1630, Sandwich, Barnstable, MA. ¹⁵

• Alt. Death, 1694, Rochester, Plymouth, MA. ¹⁵

William married Sarah Vincent, daughter of John Vincent and Hannah [Unknown], in Jul 1653 in Barnstable, Barnstable, MA ¹⁵.^,34 (Sarah Vincent was born about 1634 in Barnstable, Barnstable, MA ^15,189 and died in 1694 in Barnstable, Barnstable, MA ¹⁵.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Alt. Marriage, Jan 1652/53. ¹⁹⁴