Hi Donna > > Does anyone have access to a copy of George Hubbard's will that I could > get a zerox? or an address where I could write to get one? > > died in Guilford in January, 1683. His will is on file in > Vol 1, pages 96-97 (new numbers) Probate Records Office, New > Haven, and is dated May 23, 1682, with a codicil dated Dec > 30, 1682; inventory, taken May 30, 1683, is œ564. 08. 06. > > Also does anyone have Guilford death records that could lookup to see if > George is listed in Jan 1683 and his wife Mary in September 14, 1675? > > I live in Guilford, and I will look that up for you this week. The death records are very skimpy, just one liners. That is the info. I have listed in my files. I descend thru their Mary who married John Fowler. How do you descend? Here is the info. I have on George: Bishop Genealogy pg. 1 Mr. Hubbard was one of the earliest settlers in Wethersfield, CT, 1635. He was appointed as one of the two men permitted to trade with the Indians. From 1637 to 1640 he was a member of the General Assembly. According to Vol.1, of the Colonial Records of Conn., he was appointed by the General Court "to gather passages of God's providence which have been remarkable since the first of the Plantation". He removed to Guilford in 1648, and represented that settlement as "Deputy of the Colony" in 1657-60, 1662 and 1665. He practiced surveying both at Wethersfield and at Guilford. He was a magistrate from 1670 to 1676. ***** "History of New Haven to it's Absorption Into Connecticut", Atwater George Hubbard was in Wethersfield in 1636, probably came there from Watertown, and was a representative from Wethersfield in the first General Assembly in 1643. He removed to Milford and is recorded on the Milford map of 1646. (there is a map on p 155 of the book). In 1650 he was in Guilford, where his wife Mary died Sept 16, 1676. He d Jan, 1683. From hjis seven or more children,a large number of people have descended. (See the Hubbard Genealogy, 1895, 512 pages, NY) ***** From Arthur M. Hubbard George Hubbard died in Guilford (CT) in January 1683. His will, on record in the Probate Office of New Haven, has a codicil dated May 23, 1682, in which he stated that his life had been prolonged, and devised a room in his house to his daughter Elizabeth. The inventory of his estate was taken May 30, 1683. George Hubbard's wife, MARY, daughter of John BISHOP, one of the original proprietors of Guilford, whom he married in England. She died Sept. 14, 1675. George and Mary were survived by eight children: Mary, John, Sarah, Hannah, Elizabeth, Abigail, William and Daniel. Children: Mary was married in 1647 to John Fowler, a Deputy Magistrate and deacon of the church at Guilford. She died in 1713. Sarah, born in Wethersfield in 1634, was married to Daniel Harrison of New Haven, and went to Newark, New Jersey. Hannah, born in Wethersfield in 1637 married Jacob Melyen, son of Patroon, Cornelius Melyen of New Haven in 1662. They removed to Boston, where she died in 1717. Elizabeth, born in Wethersfield in 1638, was married late in life to Deacon John Norton of Guilford. Abigail, baptized in Milford May 26, 1644, was married in 1657 to Humphrey Spinning of New Jersey. Daniel, baptized in Milford May 26, 1644, married Elizabeth Jordan, and died in Guilford in 1720. His grandson, Daniel, was one of the wealthiest men of New England, and at his death in 1751 left an estate valued at more than 20,000 pounds. (we have no English pound sign on our keyboards, sorry). William, youngest son of George and Mary (Bishop) Hubbard, married Abigail Dudley, and settled in Greenwich, CT. The grave of George Hubbard was in the Guilford cemetery, south of where the soldiers' monument now stands in the center of the Guilford village green. This cemetery was not used after 1817, and the gravestones were removed. An interesting relic of George Hubbard is still in existence (remember, this was pub in 1914) in Guilford and has never been out of the Hubbard family. It is a linen chest brought by him from England. it is made of oak, is about four feet high and two feet deep, with a crude scroll work embellishing the front. The wood, all except the panels, is two inches thick, and is held together with wooden pegs. It formerely opened at the top, but a...... (that's where I run out of this document, sorry.) ***** Hope that helps. I'll get back to you on the probate papers. Tracy