Connecticut General Court Reviews Joshua's Will

Connecticut General Court Reviews Joshua's Will

Joshua's Legatees go to the General Court in Hartford to request advice on executing Joshua's Will. The court orders the Legatees, "to make a plantation of, in such suitable distribution and proportions for number of persons and accommodations as is consistent with plantation welfare, according to a committee's judgment (appointed by the Court) for manner and value."

J. Hammond Trumbull, ed., The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, May 1678-June 1689 (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood & Co, 1859), 34-5.

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