Misc. Notes
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Oxford County Probate Records, 1805-1820
Abstracted by Jean F. Hankins, Dec. 2003
Bragg, Ingalls. Of East Andover. 1808. Inventory. Dolly Bragg, widow, declines to be adm., requests that her late husband’s son, Thomas Bragg, be adm. She has two small children, oldest of which is three years last October, youngest is three weeks. She writes probate officials, “How am I to pay my nurse? I have employed a nurse nine weeks–at 67 cents per week. Can I be
allowed some wool and flax to cloth myself and children and how much?” Widow’s dower is set out with specific rights to pass and repass through the house. Includes petition for division of real estate, signed William Bragg and Washington Bragg, 1830. A document of this division
shows real and personal estate set off to “children and heirs,” namely James F. Bragg; his brother Ingalls Bragg; his sister Mary Holt, wife of Stephen; his sister Dolly, wife of Moses Merrill; his sister Pamelia Bragg whose guardian is Silvanus Poor; James Russell, guardian of Washington Bragg; and James Russell, guardian of William Bragg. Eliza Bragg is a signatory of this document, as are “Dorothy Merrill” and “Moses Merrill.”