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I have received the will packet for Benjamin Webster. His will says he was of middle age and enlisted in the His Majesty's service. The handwriting is archaic and difficult to read. Benjamin signed his will with a mark "x" in 1755. The witnesses were Robert Webster, Sam Fairbanks and Hannah Fairbanks. This will was written the same year that he married Sarah Coburn, and she is named as his beneficiary. She would receive the interest on 40 pounds per year as long as she remained a widow. If she bears him an heir that child would receive the whole estate, and if she bore no heir, then his "blood relatives" would receive the estate. The will was filed on July 10, 1759, and accepted for probate on the 17th. Sarah signed with a mark "x" a document that she had no objection to the probate of the will. The Fairbanks appeared as witnesses to prove the will. The executor of the will was [Ens.] Joseph Jewell, who had married Abigail Green of Killingly, CT., on Aug. 5, 1738. Samuel Fairbanks, Jr., married Hannah Corbin on Jan. 1745-6. Both of these marriages were in Dudley. Robert Webster signed an intent to Mollee Burt of Wair [Ware] River on 4-25-1761 in Dudley. Note that Elizabeth Webster married Nathaniel Jewell, 3-20-1739. So the Websters and Jewells were connected by marriage. According to the Jewell Register it appears that Joseph and Nathaniel Jewell, sons of Joseph Jewell and Mary Morris, were probably born in or near Boston, but the family had moved to Plainfield, CT, by 1716, where two younger children were born. The second and third sons of Nathaniel (who married a Webster, as above stated) were Aaron and Moses, so that might be a clue as to the identity of the Dudley Websters.
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