This is the last of a three-book series that includes Mayflower Marriages (see Item 4996) and the two-volume Mayflower Births & Deaths (see Item 4999). It is a compilation of deeds and probate records extracted and transcribed from the renowned Bowman Files. The several thousand deed abstracts provide such information as name, occupation, and residence; date, sale, price, acreage, and location of the land; and witnesses and date of recording. The will abstracts include bequests to friends and family, descriptions of personal real estate, and names of witnesses. The probate records associated with the wills are a goldmine of genealogical information, as they name heirs and their relationship to the deceased, minor children, guardians, and debtors. Researchers will also appreciate that the wills and deeds herein pertain to a number of non-Mayflower families whose lines originate in the counties of Plymouth, Bristol, or Middlesex, Massachusetts. With an index of 25,000 entries!
This volume is also available on our Family Archive CD 7167.
Also by Susan E. Roser:
Mayflower Marriages
Mayflower Increasings
Mayflower Births & Deaths
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
"...a thorough transcription..."--THE AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, Vol. 71, No. 3, (July 1996)
"Susan Roser...has, with this volume, completed the major undertaking of sorting and publishing the Mayflower-related data from the Bowman files in a form which makes it both accessible and convenient to use."--THE MAYFLOWER QUARTERLY (August 1995), pp. 231-232.
"...this book and its companions are indispensable to all researchers of seventeenth and eighteenth New England ancestry."--THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER, Vol. CXLIX (April 1995)