Jabez BURSLEY

1681 - 1732  (50 years)

• Name	Jabez BURSLEY  [1]
  Birth	21 Aug 1681  [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Will	5 Jan 1731  [5, 6]
  Death	15 Jan 1731/2  [1, 4, 5]
  	Cause: Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
  Burial	Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States   [5]
  	Address: West Barnstable Cemetery
  		BURSLEY_Jabez_b1681_grave_001
  Person ID	I2657	Stanwood Family
  Last Modified	10 Oct 2021

  
  

  Father	John BURSLEY,   b. 1652   d. 5 Aug 1726 (Age 74 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth HOWLAND,   b. 17 May 1655, Marshfield, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States d. Aft 30 Jan 1695 (Age > 40 years)
  Marriage	Dec 1673  [2, 3, 7]
  Family ID	F29	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah FULLER,   b. 17 Nov 1681   d. Aft 5 Jan 1731 (Age > 50 years)
  Marriage	1705  [4, 8]
  Children	1. Benjamin BURSLEY,   b. 21 Jul 1706   d. 12 Mar 1779, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States (Age 72 years)   2. John BURSLEY,   b. 1 Sep 1708   3. Elizabeth BURSLEY,   b. 1 Feb 1710/1   4. Abigail BURSLEY,   b. 25 Feb 1713/4   5. Hannah BURSLEY,   b. Nov 1715   6. Joanna BURSLEY,   b. Jun 1719   7. Mary BURSLEY,   b. Aug 1723   8. Barnabas BURSLEY,   b. 16 Jan 1724/5   d. Aft 1800 (Age > 76 years)
  Family ID	F463	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2024

  
  

• Photos

  BURSLEY_Jabez_b1681_grave_001

  
  

• Notes

  Event Memos from GEDCOM Import... *New [WILL] Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Heir, Executor, Heir, Barnstable Probate Records V, p20-21: [5:76] I Jabez Bursley of Barnstable in ye County of Barnstable, Yeoman being under weakness of body yett through Gods goodness of sound memory & Judgement Do make this my Last will & testament in manner following: First. I willingly resign my soul to God who gave it whenever he shall in his over Ruling Providence think fat to put an end to my Life in this world hoping to obtain forgiveness from him all my Sins Through the Mediatioin of his Son Jesus Christ and my body I will that it be decently buried at ye discretion of my Executor and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give demise & dispose of the same in ye following manner & form: Imprimis: I order & desire that my Executors sell so much of my Lands or Meadows as will amount to sufficient to pay all my Just Debts and to give Deeds of Conveyance of the same and with the Produce to pay all my Just Debts af’d. Itm. I give and bequeath unto Hannah my dearly beloved wife the free & full use of all ye Remainder of my Real Estate (that shall remain when enough is sold to pay ye Debt as af’d) Together with all the Use and Improvement of all my Personsal Estate (Excepting ye Loomes & Tackling belonging to it during her continueing my widow. Item: I give and bequeath unto my Son Barnabas one acre and half of my Land being part of my homestead bounded and described as followeth beginning at ye Highway next my Brother Josephs and extending westerly by sd way to the first post westward after it crosses the fence on the Easterly side of the Cow yard thence extending northerly (keeping the same distance from my sd Brothers Land) until it comes four Rods and an half below sd Cow Yard, there with a sett att westerly upon a square four Rod thence Northerly Running an equal Distance from my sd Brothers Land so as to Include one acre and half in the whole To him the sd Barnabas his heirs and assigns for ever. Item. I give and bequeath to my son John Thirty pounds To be paid in manner hereafter express’d. Item. I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth my Loome and all the Tackling Belonging thereunto. Item, I give and Bequeath unto my five Daughters viz. Elizabeth, Abigail, Hannah [5:77] Joannah and Mary: To each of them Tenn Pounds to be paid in manner as hereafter express'd and to my sd five Daughters I also give all my household goods that shall be remaining at my wife's decease or marriage to be divided equaly among them or so many of them as shall then be Liveing. Item: I give and bequeath unto all my Children equaly to be divided among them all the Residue of my Personal Estate that shall be remaining at my wife's decease or Marriage excepting only the husbandry utensils which I give and bequeath unto my son Benjamin viz. what remains of them at my wife's decease as aforesd or marriage. Item. I give and bequeath unto my Son Benjamin and to his heirs and assigns for ever all my Real Estate in housing Lands or meadows whatsoever & wheresoever it is or may be found in Barnstable or elsewhere which is not in this will already disposed of or ordered to be disposed of otherwise (reserving the [unreadable] in sd estate given to my wife as above expressed) he the sd Benjamin his heirs & assigns paying unto my Son John Thirty Pounds given to him as above mentioned in money as it shall pass in Common Dealing within four years after my wife's term is ended to the estate given herein to him sd Benjamin and also paying unto each of my live Daughters above named ten pounds in like money within the same time as he sd Benjamin his heirs & assigns is to pay John as af’d. But my will & meaning is that if it so happen that any of my Daughters decease and leave no children surviving at ye time when my sd Son Benjamin is to pay them as above then that Payment to cease as to ye Deceas'd Child or Children and in case any of them decease and at time of Payment have surviving Child or Children it or they to receive instead of the deceased Parents and Benjamin's obligations good to pay in like manner. Item. My will and meaning is that if it so happen that my Son John decease Leaving no heir Lawfully begotten of his body at ye time when my Son Benjamin is to pay him ye Thirty Pounds as above mentioned Then sd Barnabas shall stand in John's stead and Receive accordingly and so in Like manner his sd Barnabas's child or Children if he decease and leave any at time of payment Lawftilly begotten as aforesd but if neither John nor Barnabas nor children of niether of them be surviving at time of Payment then the obligation on Benjamin to that Payment shall cease and furthermore my will is that if it so happen that Barnabas my Son Decease leaving no Issue of his body Lawfully begotten Then the one acre and half of Land given to him as abovesd shall accrew to John my Son and to his heirs and also if my sd Sons John and Barnabas Decease leaving no Issue of their Body's Lawfully begotten Then sd Land shall accrew to my Son Benjamin and his heirs; and if it so happen that my Son Benjamin Decease without Issue of his body Lawfully begotten then all the estate given to him as above mentioned in this will shall accrue to my son Barnabas and to his heirs & assigns forever he sd Barnabas his heirs or assigns being obliged to pay out the several sums of money to the several Children In case It falleth to him in the same manner that my Son Benjamin is to do if the Estate continues to be his. I do also hereby declare it to be my mind and will and my true Intention yt the Estate which I have in Reversion by my Late Decd Fathers Last will & testament being Land now in my Brother John's Improvement & to be mine If he decease without male heir now this Estate is [5:781] Included in the bequest made to my Son Benjamin as on the other side & always so to be understood. And I do hereby constitute and appoint my well beloved Brother John Bursley and my beloved Son Benjamin Executors to this my Last will & testament. In testimony of this Instruments being my Last will and Testament I have hereunto sett my hand and seal this fifth day of January Anno Domini 1731. Note the words (shall be remaining) Interlined between the 26th. & 27th. Lines from ye top and the words (and Barnabas) between the 8th & 9th line from ye bottom on ye other side were entered before my signing and sealing hereof as also the Rasure upon one line & 2 parts of lines was made before the Signing & Sealing hereof (on this side) Jabez Bursley (seal) Signed Sealed Published Pronounced & declared by the sd Jabez Bursley to be his Last will & testament In presence of Joseph Smith. Mary Smith. Silvanus Bourn.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1166] Find A Grave, 28 November 2013; memorial page for Jabez Bursley ( - 1731/2), Find A Grave Memorial no. 5,761,654. Citing West Barnstable Cemetery, West Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts; the accompanying photograph by Kevin Murphy not provide a legible image of the inscribed data. [S1675] DB: Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988, 28 November 2013; family record for John Bursley and Elizabeth Howland, citing Barnstable, Massachusetts, Transcript of Records, 1643-1714, 1:347. BURSLEY_Jabez_b1681_birth_001 [S1478] BOOK: John Howland of the Mayflower Vol. 2, p. 31. [S1452] BOOK: Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families: Being a Reprint of the Amos Otis Papers Originally Published in the Barnstable Patriot, 24 November 2013; 1:134. Genealogical-Notes-of-Barnstable-Families-by-Otis-1888-90-Vol-I-and-II.pdf [S1478] BOOK: John Howland of the Mayflower Vol. 2, p. 67. [S1576] DB: Barnstable, MA: Probate Records 1685–1789, 28 November 2013; Jabez Bursley, will dated 5 Jan 1731. Citing Records of Barnstable, Mass. CD-ROM, published in 2002 from the Gustavus Adolphus Hinckley papers, 1883-1905. [S1452] BOOK: Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families: Being a Reprint of the Amos Otis Papers Originally Published in the Barnstable Patriot, 24 November 2013; 1:133. Genealogical-Notes-of-Barnstable-Families-by-Otis-1888-90-Vol-I-and-II.pdf [S1478] BOOK: John Howland of the Mayflower Vol. 2, p. 65.