1624 - 1677

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• Birth	1623/1624	Rowington, Warwickshire, England
  Christened	4 Jan 1623/1624	Rowington, Warwickshire, England
  Gender	Male
  Died	27 Apr 1677	Middletown or Cromwell, Middlesex, CT
  Buried	27 Apr 1677	Middletown, Middlesex, CT
  Person ID	I111629	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	15 Nov 2003 00:00:00
  Father	Humphrey KIRBY, b. 1592, Rowington, Warwickshire, England
  Mother	Marjorie WHITE, b. 1596, Rowington, Warwickshire, England
  Family ID	F34890	Group Sheet
  Family	Elizabeth HINDS, b. 1624, Bury, Lancashire, England
  Married	1643	Wethersfield, Hartford, CT
  Children	1. Mary KIRBY, b. Abt 1644, Hartford Co., CT   2. Elizabeth KIRBY, b. 8 Sep 1646, Hartford, Hartford, CT   3. Hannah KIRBY, b. 2 Mar 1648/1649, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT   4. John KIRBY, b. 18 Dec 1651, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT   5. Eunice KIRBY, b. 18 Dec 1651, Wethersfield, Hartford, CT   6. Esther KIRBY, b. 1652, Middletown, Middlesex, CT   7. Sarah KIRBY, b. 16 Jan 1653/1654, Middletown, Middlesex, CT   8. Joseph KIRBY, b. 17 Jul 1656, Middletown, Middlesex, CT   9. Bethiah KIRBY, b. 14 Feb 1658/1659, Middletown, Middlesex, CT   10. Susanna KIRBY, b. 3 May 1664, Middletown, Middlesex, CT > 11. Abigail KIRBY, b. 6 Mar 1665/1666, Middletown, Middlesex, CT
  Family ID	F34887	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Emigrated from London, England on the Hopewell, 11 Sep 1635 "Jo. Kerbie aged 12 years." [The Kirbys of New England] Will of John Kirby I, John Kirby of Middletown in the County of Hartford, in His Majesty's Colony of Connecticott in N. England, being weak in body and not knowing how soon it may please God to leave me to my dust, but yet through mercy of perfect understanding and memory do therefore make this my last will and testament. In the first place I do will my soul unto the hands of Jesus Christ my Lord and God, and will my body to be decently buried and for the outward estate which God hath given me, I do dispose thereof in manner following. First of all to the intent that my loving wife may not be destitute of a comfortable subsistence while she shall live, I do give and bequeath unto her the possession and use of all my estate, whether houseing or lands, or other estate, as exists in my possession during her natural life; excepting only what shall afterwards be particularly mentioned. I do also give her liberty if she see herself necessitated so to do to sell any such part of my estate as aforesaid for her necessary living. Item: I do give and bequeath to my son Joseph and to my daughter Mary each of them a portion double to the portion of any of the rest of my children; and to the rest of my children (all of which are daughters) I do give each of them a portion equal to one another. I will also that in case Joseph shall marry before his mothers decease that then he shall have the use of that house and lot which Jno. should have had if he had lived, and in case (and as long as) his mother can spare it together with whatever else his mother can and shall see cause to accommodate him withal yet not exceeding his said portion. Item: My will is that my lands (excepting what my wife may be necessitated and see cause to sell as is above said) as well as my other estate shall be divided among all my children according to the proportion aforesaid, and inasmuch as some of my children are deceased and have left children behind them, my will is that the portion of these my children which are already deceased, or which shall decease and leave children surviving before this distribution of my estate be fully made; and which cannot be made while my wife shall live; I say the portion of any of my children so deceased, or deceasing, shall fall to the children of the deceased or to such of those children as shall be living when this distribution shall be made. Also, forasmuch as some of my children have received something in part of their portion already, I will that what they have received be accounted as part of their portion and said portion which I now give to them, and that the rest which have yet received nothing have a portion equal to them, both as to what they have already received and are yet to receive, that is Joseph equal to Mary and the rest one to another equal as is aforesaid. Item: As for that parcel of my land which lyes near to Daniel Harris his farme on the West of Connecticut River and contains about three hundred acres, and another parcel of my land containing near or about two hundred acres and lying at or about Pipe-stem swamp on the West also of Connecticut River my will is that to whichsoever of my children or children's children these parcels of land or any part thereof shall fall, they shall not at any time be sold out of the blood, but in case any of my children or their children see cause to sell any part thereof it shall be only given one to another of them, that so these two parcels of land may pertain to some of my children or children's children to the end of the world. Item: As for my said portion in such lands as are not yet but may be hereafter divided, I do bequeath the same to the use and disposal of my wife as aforesaid during her life in case they be divided while she lives, and whether they be or no my will is they be distributed among my children as my other lands are. Lastly: My will is that notwithstanding any apprisall of my estate that may according to useful custom be made at the taking of the inventory yet that a distribution thereof among my children may be made according to justice and equity. (I say my will is that) when the full and final distribution shall be made then all my estate so distributed whether formerly received or then to be received by my children or children's children shall be given again at the then just value thereof. Finally: I do make the worthy Capt. Jno. Allyn of Hartford (craving pardon for my boldness in requesting him to undertake the trouble) and Deacon Allyn of Middletown and my son in law Emanuel Bucke of Wethersfield, the executors of this my last will and testament and for confirmation hereof I do hereunto set my hand and seal this Sixth of Aprile in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and seventy seven. JOHN KIRBY. (seal) Signed and sealed in presence John Niatt. Elizabeth Niatt. [The Kirbys of New England]