My Maine Heritage - June 2023 - Person Sheet
My Maine Heritage - June 2023 - Person Sheet
NameDorothy Dolly Shattuck
Birth Date14 Apr 1764
Birth PlaceAndover, Essex Co., MA
FatherZebediah Shattuck (1736-1826)
MotherElizabeth Abbott (1740-1780)
Misc. Notes
www.oxfordcounty.org/pdf/asbtract%20Oxford%20Co.%20probate%20records.pdf -
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.”
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.”
Spouses
Birth Date24 Jun 1753
Birth PlaceAndover, Essex Co., MA
Death Date1 Jan 1808 Age: 54
Death PlaceAndover, Oxford Co., ME
Occupationfarmer
FatherDept. Sheriff Thomas Bragg (1720-1788)
MotherDorothy Ingalls (1725-~1788)
Misc. Notes
Came here from Andover, MA in 1795 with a family of seven children. He was one of the original proprietors of the town, and one of the earliest settlers.
Bragg, Ingalls, Andover. Private, Capt. Thomas Poor's co. of Minute-men, Col. James Frye's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service to April 25, 1775, 7 days; reported enlisted Jan. 31, 1775; also, return of men in camp at Cambridge, May 17, 1775; also, Capt. Benjamin Farnum's co., Col. Frye's regt.; company return dated Cambridge, Oct. 6, 1775; also, list of men [p.432] who received money from the public treasury for losses at battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill; allowed in Council, June 13, 1776.
Bragg, Ingalls, Andover. Private, Capt. Thomas Poor's co. of Minute-men, Col. James Frye's regt., which marched on the alarm of April 19, 1775; service to April 25, 1775, 7 days; reported enlisted Jan. 31, 1775; also, return of men in camp at Cambridge, May 17, 1775; also, Capt. Benjamin Farnum's co., Col. Frye's regt.; company return dated Cambridge, Oct. 6, 1775; also, list of men [p.432] who received money from the public treasury for losses at battles of Lexington and Bunker Hill; allowed in Council, June 13, 1776.
Marr Date2 Nov 1803
Marr PlaceBethel, Oxford Co., ME
ChildrenWilliam (1804-)
Washington I (1808-1843)
Birth Dateabt 1760